#Low key Bumbleby

[nightshadebee]

I feel like we don’t talk about Blake’s tech skills. We all know and love the line from volume 6, but girl was confident in her abilities and so was everyone else. When the tower didn’t turn off Yang knew immediately that something else must of happened. And then in volume 2 when she’s in her spiral, shes doing research about the white fang. Sure that doesn’t add much to her hacker skills, but she still obviously knows her way around computers. I don’t know if this adds much to it but in volume 8 she is the one recording Ruby’s speech to remnant, she probably isn’t the one who’s actively ensuring it works. But with Penny and her dad being on Amity, someone has to be working down on the ground (unless it’s stated otherwise and I just forgot). There may be other moments I’m forgetting but Blake knows books and computers.

Wow, look at her go she’s dual wielding that knowledge as well.

[chittychittyyangyang]

Important Bumbleby question!

Who would propose and why, how, when??

Man, I remember when a lot of people were theorizing about this! I've seen good arguments for both, but I think the one I like best is both at the same time lol.

Now that we have the confession, I'd love a mirror to that. I think it'd be really sweet for them both to be ready to do it, but Blake being the one to do it first with Yang right after. As to when, it would depend on when the show would end for me. Imo I'd be in the future/some distant epilogue. And how? I'm not a really creative person, but it would probably be pretty low key between just them or MAYBE with Ruby and Weiss there (cause I could totally see them helping but then Weiss and Ruby leaving to give the bees more space).

[aspoonofsugar]

What are your favorite ships involving Sun Wukong? (Feel free to name more than just one)

Hi!

Sorry for the super late reply! Tbh, there is only a Sun ship I am currently low key invested in and that is VelvetXSun.

Just to be clear, I have no problems with other Sun ships, like SunXNeptune or BlackSun (I still prefer Bumbleby, though). Still, I am not much of a shipper, so I don't tend to focus too much on ships in general.

That said, I like Sun and Velvet because of the focus they get together in Before the Dawn.

The novel makes clear Sun and Velvet are opposite in basically everything.

Sun runs away from his past because he is scared to form long terms attachments. Velvet instead lingers on the past too much (photographic memory) and gets stuck in her comfort zone. Sun has to step up as a leader and not to push his teammates away. Velvet has to step up as a Huntress and to impose herself with her teammates.

Sun is "selfish even when selfless" and Velvet is "selfless even when selfish". This is precisely why they are able to help each other and even balance each other out.

Sun encourages Velvet to grow more independent from her teammates and Velvet calls Sun out on his tendency to run away from deep confrontations. Sun is the one who immediately guesses why Velvet is going to the Mirage alone and Velvet is the one who goes with Sun to meet his cousin.

At the same time, Sun acts before thinking and does what he wants (heart), while Velvet sometimes thinks too much and often sacrifices her feelings for others (mind). They are complementary and the book shows they have the potential to help each other grow, which is the best starting point for any ship.

On a more superficial shippy note, the novel clearly parallels Sun running after Velvet to him running after Blake and it makes clear Velvet is Sun's type. She is quiet and looks frail, but is actually pretty strong. Differently from others, Sun immediately recognizes this strength and has no problem with Velvet taking charge. On her part, Velvet is fond of Sun and realizes he has a good heart behind his air-headedness and impulsiveness. She states they are friend at Beacon and while at Shade their bond only grows stronger.

Thank you for the ask!

[littlestfallenangel]

Let's get cringe with Bumbleby fankids!

Rose Xiao Long

First born

She/Her

Birth mother: Yang

Yang and Blake agreed they wanted more than one child, but Yang wanted a lot. After being pregnant with Rose, she decided once was enough.

Girly girl, gets along great with Auntie Weiss

Loves shopping, buys way too much stuff

Loooves jewelery

Black hair, red eyes with slitted pupils, light brown skin (takes after Raven and Kali)

Eyes turn lavender when she's comfy and content

Since lots of animals have slit pupils, no one is really sure what kind of Faunus she is

Yang insists she's a dragon Faunus, even though that's not possible. Blake plays along with this.

On a related note, Semblance: Comeback (Yang calls it Breath Weapon) - Rose can literally eat energy and spit it back out. This can apply to attacks such as Dust bullets, but she more commonly uses bracelets loaded with small Dust vials, making her more of a mage-type fighter. She can eat raw Dust, but doing so is considerably more dangerous and harder to control than refined Dust.

Ironically, she's actually really bad at verbal comebacks

Weapon: Prismatic Punishment - the aforementioned bracelets

Somewhat strained relationship with Yang, who isn't quite sure how to handle such a sensitive and feminine girl, but Rose knows she can rely on Yang when it comes to the important stuff.

Goes to a huntsman academy, member of Team DRRQ

Opts to work solo after graduation

Literary allusion: Smaug from The Hobbit and other dragons

Darcy Belladonna

Second born

He/Him

Birth mother: Blake

Quiet, seemingly prideful and rude but actually quite shy

Can and will emotionally destroy you with a single word

Favorite pastime is quietly reading a book while others in the room do their own thing

Gets along wonderfully with Mama Blake, somewhat awkwardly with Mama Yang

Doesn't appear to have a Faunus trait

"That you know of," he jokes

Black hair, amber eyes, light brown skin (somewhat takes after Tai)

Semblance: Blackout - can block a target's senses for a fraction of a second; just long enough to make an escape or get a cheap shot in

Weapon: Shut Up and Sit Down - Shut Up is a seemingly simple set of brass knuckles laced with gravity dust to make them heavier and hit harder; Sit Down is a revolver that can use Dust bullets

Attends a huntsman academy where he leads Team DRRQ

Continues to lead Team DRRQ (renamed DARQ) after graduation

Literary allusion: Fitzwilliam Darcy from Pride and Prejudice

Akane Belladonna-Xiao Long

Eldest child, third to join the family

She/Her

Adopted

Red hair, blue eyes, small black horns, pale skin

Never knew her father, mother hated him and resented Akane for even being born

Akane left her mother to attend combat school

Angry, troubled, vindictive child

Blake brings up adopting her. Yang, triggered by the eerie similarity to Adam, is resistant until her better nature wins out

Doesn't quite know how to handle the positive environments she now lives in

Gets along better with Darcy than she does Rose; would still kill for either sibling

Is perhaps a bit too eager to kill for either sibling

Gets called the baby of the family all the time despite technically being the eldest child.

Hates it

(Low-key kinda loves it)

A work in progress (aren't we all?)

Semblance: Zangetsu - visibly similar to Adam's Moonslice; however, Zangetsu is fueled by Akane's emotions. The more she hates her target, the stronger the attack; and the more it drains her aura. The black and red aura of the attack become visibly darker as the attack grows stronger

Akane eventually manifests an alternative version of Zangetsu that taps into the desire to protect, similar to the Silver Eyes. This version is gold and black instead of black and red. It drains her considerably less with no loss in power

Weapon: Wilt and Blush - found washed up on the shore near Argos, Akane managing to restore and use this weapon earned her a spot in combat school

2nd Weapon: Grow and Flourish - a gold and black version of Wilt and Blush

Does not formally attend a huntsman academy, but earns a license via other means

Replaces Rose in Team DRRQ (renamed DARQ)

Literary allusion: The Beast from Beauty and the Beast, Pearl from The Scarlet Letter

[captaindarksword]

"

This page from an Artbook from Rwby that was released around V4/V5 is pretty interresting to me. It Says that Arryn Zech (Blake's VA) Talked this about Illia: "that's something a Lot of gay Kids Go through, pining after their Straight friend". She was talking about Blake. If that's the case, Arryn thought that Blake was a Straight girl. Which tecnicly means that Arryn didn't knew about Bumbleby or Blake sexuality, só everthing About them knowing Bumbleby since the beginning it's Unlikely.

"Oh but maybe she lied"

Does that mean that people who brought this book recieved a Straight up Lie?? They spent money Into something that isn't true? Isn't this lack of Profissionalism?

What you Guys Think?

"

reddit comments

to be frank arryn has always been far too vocal on how she shipped bb , so I couldnt imagine her being able to lie like this and say that

CRWBY Made a excuse saying that Sun was suppose to bê Just a crush for Blake. BUT Jesus Christ you don't Work and Focus on a character for 5 Years If he is Just a crush

you don't give years of mutual attraction teasing and development for just a crush ( while bb got nothing until a while after sun left

at which point they had been teased harder then

not to mention bb got nothing until v6 finale at best v7 at worst ( to be honest given the nonexistent stuff from v1-v6 its okay not to see v6 finale or the plane scene as romantic. ( some bb shippers argue that if you saw the renora scene as romantic you need to see the bb scene ignoring the subtle differences ( head on shoulders scene song about noras love, and a scene focused on them. yang holding blakes hand can be seen as her comforting . ) and renora getting years of buildup).

from v7 onwards they started pushing it harder than Blacksun without having the time to have romantic moments without happening at some inappropriate moments

its literally nothing more than a deflection

For perspective, Belle and Edward from Twilight was planned from the beginning and that romance is memed about how bad it is

vice versa, Dana Terrace from Owl House admitted she didn't initially plan for Luz and Amity to be a thing, but felt that was the naturally progression of her story. And it became a well received lesbian romance

The one and only reason the "Bumblebee was planned from the start" take is echoed so constantly is because it so obviously wasn't. Deep down even the bee fans know it wasn't, they know it was woven into the story because the fans obsessed over it so much. So when you criticize elements of the show where Bumblebee made things worse because of how unearned and shoe horned in. The gaslighting take was that "Bumblebee wasn't shoe horned in, it was always meant to be a thing"

I have no other reason than to believe it was solely because the characters were attractive together

I mean I've heard so many Bee fans, literally so many, claim they "knew" with so much certainty Blake and Yang were gonna hook up as early as volume 1 when Yang and Ruby went to go talk to Blake the night before the emerald forest

and it baffles me for 2 reasons. 1) Yang and Blake barely even had any kind of chemistry in that scene. Or even the volume general

and 2) There was far more chemistry building up between Ruby and Blake.

Now obviously I'm not saying the writers intended any sexual or romantic connection between Ruby and Blake

but when you look step by step. How Blake stood up to Weiss for Ruby prior to that scene, Ruby kinda low key admiring Blake saying "That girl", calling her all mysterious in the Emerald Forest

its at least something

Frankly volume I felt like Blake and Yang were kind of the 2 kids in class that didn't have a partner so the teacher partnered them up together. But ever since volume 1, I remember very vividly how absolutely certain Bee fans were of these two. And I remember Barbara talking about Bumblebee when it was only volume 1 and how big the ship was even then

And I can only surmise it has to be because people found them attractive.

[almea]

[kizzycannon]

Bumbleby Week 2020 Day 8: Bonus Day/VA Appreciation Day

Rounding it off with a little imagining of what the characters might say to their voice actresses if they got the chance XD

[otp-bumbleby]

RWBY cast on Always Open

( ✧ ͜ʖ ✧ ) beautiful- heyyyyy wait

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(╭☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )╭☞

[shepardyke]

Might I interest you in some

On

[everafterfrisk]

I'm low key getting annoyed seeing comments like "Sun deserved better", "Pour the drink for my boy" "All those Black Sun moments are meaningless now" from Antis of the show or Antis of bumbleby

Like bruh

Sun is also Blake's friend and the most dependable ally she's got that isn't from her own team

Treating sun like this paints him as only seeing Blake as "a price to be won" than a person that he wanted to make happy even if it's no longer romantic but platonic between them

He would be happy that blake found happiness with Yang and support them

Yall antis treat him like that someone who's not only the possessive type but entitled to a fault

Also Bi-Erasure much? Like can Blake not like both a man and Woman?

Anyways that's my Ted talk everyone

Bumbleby Nation rise

Antis keep coping that and seething lol

[shimanamii]

If Rooster Teeth wanted me dead, why didn’t they just say so

[paeeje]

Does anybody have any active discord servers for just gay losers like me?????? I hyperfixate on wlw in animation (bumbleby, catradora, lumity, korrasami, etc.) and other media and love cats and lizards and am autistic and low key annoying. But I’m looking for a place with a group of people I can give my love to 😭😭 18+ please

[mikotyzini]

I absolutely love your stories. Rush is how I got into fanfiction.

Do you ever plan on any non-WR/BY stories like Freezerburn or Ladybug? How about any poly stories like Bees Schnees or Newspaper?

I'm a low-key freezerburn and bees schnees shipper, but I don't know that I'll ever write a story for them. Whenever I consider it, I find myself preferring to write bumbleby or white rose instead 😂

Also, writing 3 main characters must be so difficult...I don't know how people do it!

[kittyprincessofcats]

RWBY Volume 6

So, I pretty much binge-watched this one in a few days because I really needed to know how things go on after Volume 5 and it was just so good! Lots of messy thoughts to come!

[There will be spoilers for RWBY up to Volume 6 in this post (duh). Please don’t leave any spoilers for anything after Volume 6 on this post, or I will block you.]

Thoughts under the cut because this ended up getting a little long.

- The character short for Adam was really cool! It was cool to see how the White Fang began, to see Sienna, Ghira, Ilia and Adam in action, to see the irony of Sienna being a mentor to Adam and encouraging his ways when you know he’ll end up killing her, and to see a glimpse into Adam and Blake’s past relationship (and how the stuff he said to her was textbook emotional abuse). However, I do have one criticism, and it’s something that really bothers me: There’s a continuity mistake with Ilia’s age. Let’s think about this: Ilia was always implied to be the same age (or around the same age) as Blake. In the part of this short where Ghira was still leader of the White Fang, Ilia appears and doesn’t look younger than in canon. But we know Ghira stepped down at least a few years ago. If Blake is meant to be a teenager in volume 1… there’s just no way Ilia could have been there and already been an adult. She’s supposed to have still been a kid when Ghira was leader, unless she’s at least a few years older than Blake – which I don’t think she’s meant to be? Yeah sorry, this kind of stuff just bothers me. I get that timelines can be hard to keep track off, but that was a really obvious mistake and it ruins my immersion a bit.

- I loved the whole opening fight on the train and just seeing team RWBY fighting together again.

- I’ve got to say, I do feel bad for Weiss: After everything she went through to leave Atlas, she now suddenly has to go back there. I mean, that must suck.

- I’m a bit sad they just but Ilia on a bus, but I get that her main conflict is pretty much over and they had to go back to focusing on the main characters’ quest. I still wish we’d have at least gotten a scene of her interacting with the other members of team RWBY, though.

- I really liked Ilia and Blake’s goodbye at the train station, though. (And the whole “wrong tree” moment with Neptune really made me laugh 😂)

- Also just wanted to say I love Ilia’s new outfit (and the fact that she has spots on her belly – this is really important information, okay?)

- There’s a certain irony in the Faunus becoming more accepted because they STOPPED Adam’s attack on Haven.

- I think Jinn and the whole concept of how asking her questions works is super cool.

- I totally get why everyone’s pissed at Ozpin both before, during and after Jinn revealed his and Salem’s backstory. He has been hiding an awful lot from everyone, even after promising not to anymore, and he actively tried to stop the team from finding out the truth. Plus, the whole fact that he doesn’t have a plan for defeating Salem and is potentially risking everyone’s lives for nothing. (That said, can they not take it out on poor Oscar, please? None of this is his fault.)

- Oscar fighting Ozpin from within and telling them how to summon Jinn was a really badass scene. And I feel super bad for Oscar overall. Not only is he kind of at war with someone who lives in his brain now, but he also just found out that he’ll eventually only become a part of Ozma. And on top of that, people are punching and blaming him for stuff that’s not his fault. That’s super harsh.

- I’m kind of glad Cinder’s alive, because as I said, I was hoping they’d develop her more and make her a more interesting villain… but I don’t feel like this volume did that. Right now, she’s still pretty superficial, unfortunately.

- And now, time to get into one of the highlights of this volume for me: Salem’s backstory! Because holy shit, that was one hell of a backstory! When I said back in my post about volume 5 that I hope Cinder’s alive because I would like to see them make her a more interesting villain, I didn’t expect them to do just that, but for Salem. I love villains that are interesting, but I didn’t expect Salem, the literal big bad of the show, to be the interesting one here! I am pleasantly surprised by this, though! (And just to be clear, because some people love to misunderstand this: When I say “interesting”, I don’t mean “She has a sad backstory, this excuses everything she’s doing”, I mean “She has a sad backstory, this makes her more compelling as a villain”.)

- So, about that backstory: Do we all agree that the gods are major jerks, or what? I mean, initially not bringing Ozma back to life was fair, death is a part of life, they can’t upset the balance, I get that – but making him repeatedly disintegrate in Salem’s arms after she just thought she’d gotten him back? And then making her immortal just to make sure she couldn’t be with him? And then killing ALL of humanity just because of the actions of a few? But still not letting Salem die? And then bringing Ozma back after all (because now it suddenly doesn’t ‘disrupt the balance’ or what?) and kind of tricking him into that whole relics task because he wanted to be with Salem? The god are jerks, I rest my case - and I’m not sure if bringing them back is a good idea.

- Also… I get that she’s like… evil and all… but am I the only one who thought Salem got way sexier after jumping into the pools of grimm? Is that just me? Because damn… I’m kinda into that version of her. (Come on, she’s a sexy goth witch and I’m a simple lesbian, what do you expect?)

- So yeah… in an unexpected turn of events, Salem might be one of my favourite characters now? Oops? (*insert obligatory ‘this does not mean I condone her actions in any way’ disclaimer here*)

- I feel super bad for Salem and Ozma’s kids, though. I hate kids getting hurt in media in general. (I imagine the grief over them stayed with Ozma forever. And I like the theory that he gave the original four maidens their powers because they reminded him of his daughters. In general, I don’t consider him to be the bad guy in this backstory at any point. His only mistake is not being honest with the people who are helping and protecting him in the present.)

- I am now convinced that this entire show has to end with Salem and Ozma dying. That’s the only way all of this can end. Salem will have to either be killed somehow or learn the lesson the gods tried to teach her and die. Ozma will have to fulfill his task and die as well – either through Oscar dying with him (😢), through only Ozma dying but Oscar getting to live without him, or through the reincarnation cycle ending and Ozma/Ozpin recognizing that Oscar is going to be his last life. Something like that would be my prediction.

- Speaking of interesting villains: This volume also did a great job with Emerald and Mercury! With those two, I’m actually hoping for a redemption now. (And Hazel is a great guy as well. The fact that he was willing to take the blame for their failure at Haven to protect Emerald and Mercury is something I really respect.)

- I also I want to say I find Tyrion super entertaining.

- It was great to see Neo again! (I’ve gotten so used to Chibi!Neo it was almost weird to see regular Neo again.) Her fight with Cinder was EPIC.

- (I basically feel like this volume did a great job on all villains except for Cinder. But hey, maybe that’ll still happen.)

- This was an interesting volume for Qrow. On the one hand, I get why hearing Oz’s backstory drove him into a sort-of depression and made his drinking habit worse and I feel bad for him, but from the point-of-view of Ruby and the others, it must have also been super frustrating that the one proper adult in the group couldn’t keep it together and everyone else had to keep doing the hard work.

- Maria is a super cool and epic character! I really hope she sticks around with the team for Volume 7 because she’s amazing and I love her. She was super badass in her backstory (that moment where she lost her eyes was painful just to watch), I love the fact that she was Qrow’s hero growing up (and that he based his weapon on hers!), that we finally met another character who has (well, had) silver eyes, and that she’s that funny, cranky, but also wise old lady now who mentors Ruby and is just super funny all around. Good stuff, I hope we see more of her!

- The Apathy are the creepiest grim yet. The whole concept of them draining you of your will to live without you even noticing is just SO scary – I love it, but I’m also low-key terrified. The crew’s trip to that farm estate could have easily gone very wrong. Pretty much nothing but Ruby’s silver eyes even worked on them. I like how those episodes set the whole thing up – Team RWBY having emotional conversations while they were in the house, everyone having doubts (which makes sense at that point in the story, so you don’t really question it at first), and then the sneaking realization of what’s going on. Also, the guy who sealed in those Apathy grim in in the first place was just so dumb. How could you think that was a good idea? Good job getting everyone killed, dude.

- I’m glad this volume gave us more on Ruby’s silver eyes! I like that she finally got to use them before the season finale (though I loved that joke on RWBY Chibi), and I also like that she first used them to protect Blake. (I don’t ship them as much as Bumbleby, but I feel like Ruby and Blake’s ship/friendship is super underrated.) It was also nice to learn more about how the Silver eyes work in general and how they came to be. (If they came from the god of light, I’m assuming all the people with silver eyes are the descendants of Ozma’s past lives? TV Tropes kind of helped me out here: Apparently if you freeze the picture where you see one of his past lives with his kids, you can see the kids have silver eyes.) People with silver eyes being hunted also comes as no surprise to me, that’s kind of what I was assuming already. (Which raises the question: Just how did Summer Rose die?) Also, interesting fact that they only work on the Grimm...

- That moment where they reunite with JNR in Argus was really sweet. I also loved the design of Argus as a whole.

- I LOVE Saphron, Terra, and their son!!! I love that we got to meet one of Jaune’s sisters, I love that we got some more LGBT+ representation, and their baby is adorable!! (I loved that scene of everyone cooing over the baby. Also, that moment where Ruby realized Jaune and Saphron were siblings. Also, that moment where the baby helped them distract the guards by crying.) Basically, I just love the Cotta-Arcs. (Also, I just want to say that Saphron is super pretty.)

- Cordovin and her two goons are hilarious. I mean, I also hate them because they’re overly patriotic Atlas-people and Cordovin was racist to Blake – but they’re also super freaking hilarious. Every little line of Maria and Cordovin’s beef with each other had my dying with laughter 🤣 (mainly it was Maria’s lines that had me dying with laughter).

- That whole scene with the statue of Pyrrha was such a tearjerker 😢. First the leaf, then the sad music, then Jaune talking to that red-haired lady (I’m guessing she’s either Pyrrha’s mom or sister?), and then Ren and Nora joining and giving Jaune a pep-talk 😭 😭. I think this was a really important moment for Jaune, not just to get closure, but also to stop blaming himself and putting himself down. I’m glad Ren and Nora told him they don’t want to lose him too, and that the red-haired lady said she’s “glad Pyrrha was surrounded by such amazing people”. Gosh, now I’m tearing up again writing this 😭. I miss Pyrrha 😭 😭.

- I love Oscar’s new outfit. It was time for him to finally drop the farm boy look.

- I love how Jaune is so down for crime that his plan is just “They only let Atlas airships though, so we steal an Atlas airship.” I mean, makes sense.

- I think their whole plan to steal the airship was super cool and although I get why things can’t be that easy in shows like this (and I love that we got the showdown with Adam), I still kind of wish it had worked just because it was a really cool plan and everyone had their part to play in it. Heck, even the baby got to help (and it was awesome)! But yeah, Adam just had to ruin everything, nothing new there.

- So, about Adam: First of all, he’s a major creep for victim-blaming Blake (again) and stalking her. I like how creepy his behaviour is from a story-telling perspective (and from an angst-loving “I like seeing my faves suffer” perspective), but his story was getting a little old, so I’m not too sad they killed him off now. It was a good point in the story to do it. (That said, holy shit is he a creep! “I wouldn’t have to be doing this if you just behaved”? Wow. I get that he’s meant to be abusive and controlling; that’s the point of his character (and like I said, I’m here for the angst), but… yikes, poor Blake.)

- And then we had Blake and Yang’s rematch with Adam. EPIC STUFF. First of all, I like that Blake was able to hold her own against him for a bit (and same for Yang later). I also love the whole dramatic setting by the waterfall and the fact that Blake lost her coat (this is important, okay? it symbolizes vulnerability – and also it just looks cool), the scar on Blake’s belly (from their fight at Beacon, right?), the face reveal of Adam – I just love how all of this was set up in such an epic, dramatic way. But the most epic moment, at least from the start of the fight, has got to be Yang just jumping down there with her motorcycle hitting Adam and that amazing music. I’ve said before that Yang is just too cool for words and I will stand by that. The fight itself was epic too, though I was so stressed the whole time I couldn’t completely pay attention. Blake and Yang fighting Adam together was definitely the best part, though. And I loved the irony of Yang’s metal arm saving her. In general, I like that Yang and Blake got to fight and defeat (and kill) Adam together because he’s been a demon for both of them, and I like that they clarified they’re doing it as equal partners. “We’re protecting each other” was a nice callback to earlier when Blake tried to reassure Yang she’d protect her, and to even earlier when Yang was protecting Blake at Beacon.

- Let’s talk about my other highlight of the volume: Bumbleby! Because sorry not sorry, there’s no way you can deny their romantic subtext anymore at this point. Early in the volume, there’s the conflict of things being weird between them, and Blake not knowing how to deal with her guilt and thinking she needs to protect Yang (and do stuff like getting her bag down for her) – while Yang feels insulted by this and thinks that Blake sees her as being incapable of doing anything now that she lost an arm. Then, when Blake first leaves to disable the comms, they give each other those really sweet, loving looks. And of course, it all leads up to them confronting their nightmare together, holding hands, and declaring that they’re protecting each other. Add Adam’s jealousy to that (He was making comparisons between himself and Yang and asking “What does she even see in you?” – that’s not a sentence you just say to your ex’s friend) and you’d have to be willfully ignorant to not see the subtext. And those soft moments after the fight just killed me: Blake breaking down crying, Yang immediately running to hug and comfort her, Blake’s promise not to leave, Yang reassuring her and wiping away her tears – I LOVE hurt/comfort stuff and I’m so soft for these two! They love each other so much!

(Pretty much the only downside of all this is that a few major parts were spoiled for me in advance. Look, it’s pretty impossible to follow lots of blogs that post wlw ships and not see that picture of Bumbleby holding hands, or the one of them hugging (or the one of them killing Adam) at some point. So yeah… I’d seen all three of those pictures before and knew this would happen. But it was still really nice to see it all come together and see how we got there!)

- The fight against Cordovin and her giant mecha was also pretty cool! It reminded me a bit of the Legend of Korra finale. Ruby going inside the arm canon was an especially epic moment. And I also liked that small moment when they were flying on the Queen Lancer and Ruby had her arms around Weiss’ waist (a bit of White Rose, yay!).

- I like that moment when the Grimm attack and the team first realizes they just destroyed the only thing capable of stopping them – but to be honest, that was mostly Cordovin’s fault. She brought out that mecha for something it wasn’t meant for and started the fight that attracted the Grimm in the first place. Also, how exactly did she think the people of Atlas would take it if she had actually hurt Weiss? So yeah, most of that mess was on her, tbh. I’m glad she at least came though to help in the end, though.

- Back to Bumbleby: Honestly, the strongest romantic undertones weren’t even in the fight with Adam or directly afterwards for me, but in the last episode when they’re all on the ship together. So, Blake is blaming herself for the plan going wrong, and Yang has an arm around, her, still half holding her and reassuring her. And then – and this one really gets me – Ruby hugs Blake and gives Yang that knowing look over her shoulder while Yang suddenly looks away shyly. They’re communicating without words and Ruby totally knows what’s up. She’s basically saying “So you and Blake, huh?” and suddenly Yang – YANG – is feeling shy. This isn’t subtle. And then later Bumbleby hold hands again and look at each other like that… they’re in love, I don’t make the rules.

- And finally, we of course have Ruby’s epic silver-eyed moment in the finale, which was AMAZING. I loved all the flashbacks and how they’re drawn pictures and not just stills from the episodes, I love how the memories of her friends motivate her, I love how much of Penny there was in there (bit of Nuts and Dolts, yay!), I loved seeing adorable little!Yang, and of course the first look at Summer Rose! (I still want a Team STRQ backstory episode at some point.) Also, the music during that scene was so good!

Gosh, now I’ve talked for way too long again, but there was just so much to say about this volume! Long story short: Loved it, can’t wait to continue! (I know exactly 1 major spoiler for volume 7 because it was unavoidable on social media, but that’s it. And it’s a spoiler I really didn’t mind knowing, so…)

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(hey yo low-key if someone wants to send me prompts for bumbleby I kinda wanna write and I haven't written in a year so I can take a whack at it)

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I love you for posting this vid, but buddy, you need to charge your devicw xD it's at 8%

Chad: So are Blake and Yang a couple?

Kerry: you have to watch to find out. Would it be worth it for me to just say. No, it’s going to be in the show. Watch the show. Watch the show. Need to experience it…need to experience it. It seems like whatever is going to happen is going to be more worth it if you see it in the show.

“It’s going to be in the show…more worth it if you see it in the show.”

^^ kinda sounds like a round about way to confirm…