#That happens with all good media you can't blame the show/manga itself for it

[dandunn]

If you hate dunmeshi cause it got popular I'm sorry you hate fun and life in general get well soon I guess

[snowembrace]

You know, I feel like whatever route CRWBY takes with the BB/Blacksun ship, we can't deny that it's pretty shitty stringing shippers along. If Blacksun ends up canon, which I know it will, that's so shitty to the Bb shippers and they can claim queerbaiting because it is. And if Bb ends up canon, yikes, that's so fucked up for Blacksun shippers. There is no win-win scenario here.

i agree with everything here except one thing you said, which is

they can claim queerbaiting because it is

at the end of the day, when you look at the show itself, queerbaiting is nowhere to be found. but allow me to explain.

so far everything we’ve been shown concerning b/lake and y/ang has been platonic at best. think about it. blushing? none. kissing? none. almost kissing? none. they’ve danced for literally one second on-screen before y/ang allowed sun to step in and spend the entire evening/night with b/lake.

so my question is: if you didn’t actually ever get into the fandom, if you watched the show without knowing about the b/b vs bs controversy, would you honestly say that rt has queerbaited anyone, specifically with b/b?

all the stress that our blacksun fandom is currently going through is only caused by the rabid shippers and the rabid shippers only. not the show. we are all here now saying that “we most likely lost, next week we better turn our anons off and stay away from social media” only because y/ang and b/lake might team up against a/dam.

like, that was going to happen. sooner or later, it just had to happen. b/lake and y/ang need to get back to be on good terms for the sake of the whole team. they might not be as close as they used to be, but they have to AT LEAST be able to stand each other. y/ang is finally starting to appreciate b/lake’s efforts, she realized that b/lake wasn’t a selfish asshole who left only for her own good. seeing that a member of her family (albeit not related by blood) came back to her, unlike her mom did, obviously made her happy. her own team, her family, came back to her, and that’s all that matters to her.

plus, i also don’t find it realistic to think that she could be ready to face a/dam yet, but that’s another story. the point is, that people are romanticizing two girls working to fix their broken friendship. even cas/ey said that sometimes friendships that end badly can be even worse than romantic relationships ending badly, specifically referring to b/b. 

so the only reason we get scared is because we are so influenced by the fandom that we too tend to view many moments as romantic when they actually are not. i do however think that rt has done some pretty questionable things so far, but they’ve always tried to fix them… somehow. so do they really count as queerbaiting? like

- b/mblb? not canon

- the manga? not canon

- the anthologies? not canon

- chibi? not canon, also stopped having b/b skits after the first season

- the vas can’t really be blamed since they are people and can do whatever they want. although they should sometimes refrain from saying certain things, they are just shippers that behave like some. hell the vol/tron fandom got it even worse - some storyboard artist actually drew k/lance pics once! lol

so all this to say that at the end of the day, only rabid shippers would actually go after rt. those who are so blinded by their own hypocrisy and shipping goggles that they deny the evidence. now the writers are people too and because of that they might switch from one idea to the other at any moment, but so far i still don’t feel like giving up yet.

sorry this came out so long! i just try to reassure my fellow blacksun shippers as best as i can!