#all that matters rwby

[lumastoybox]

The shows that awakened something in us.

[rwby-confess]

Honk mi mi mi zzzzz

Final prompt for Qrowin week 2024, I had fun drawing my faves even though I rushed through with these ♡

[lacependragon]

You know, the longer I think about it, the more I realize that it actually makes perfect sense that an online company so incredibly pro-military and pro-veteran (RoosterTeeth) would write the worst black-and-white, unbelievable, morally bland, and utterly boring and worldbuilding breaking anti-military story I've ever seen.

It's like they thought if they even slightly tried to make it realistic, even slightly tried to make it believable, we'd all realize how similar it was to the US military and go "you hate veterans!"

But instead we got a military that makes no sense. A story that relies on you not paying any attention to the worldbuilding. And a bunch of dead people who didn't mean anything because by the end they were just fucking caricatures. James is the evil general. Clover is the too-loyal right hand. Vine is the self-sacrificial meditative type. And they aren't anything else.

All of Atlas is flat and cardboard and cartoon-y and bad. And I genuinely think so much of it is the inability of these fuckers to stop sucking off the US military long enough to understand something called nuance. Because they fired so completely in the opposite direction to their on-camera shit (we love veterans! we love soldiers! fight the bad guys!) as opposed to RWBY (all military evil there is no nuance no middle ground nope just evil! James is as bad as SALEM!) that they lost every discussion and every interesting detail in the sprint between the two podiums.

This isn't the real world! We can have discussions about stuff we wouldn't approve of in real life but make interesting stories! We can have discussions about redemption and revenge and making choices!

But nah let's just have them all be evil evil people and then save Winter (maiden, sure), and Elm, Harriet, and Marrow (and I'm not going to lie here. I genuinely think the reason Harriet lives instead of Vine is because RT was TERRIFIED of another Sienna Khan backlash.)

Atlas was bad.

It was rushed. It was sloppy. It broke characters. It broke worldbuilding. It broke the internal logic of the universe.

And we still learned fucking nothing about its people, its culture, or its history. Just like in Mistral.

Setpieces. Empty destructible setpieces. Only this time there was nothing else to prop up the building facades.

Truly, the only good thing Atlas gave us was Penny.

And look how that turned out.

[voltdragoon]

Crazy how especially in the earlier seasons RWBY would just casually drop some of the sickest fight scenes of all time on you just genuinely kinda out of nowhere and you just had to move on from that. Forget about the insane big raven kill fight. now we're back at school.

[angele-midnight]

Why are so many people on Tumblr/Twitter claiming Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are bad shows??? "They're not mid shows guys they're just bad" can y'all give me one concrete reason they're bad besides debunked "controversies" or things that other people told you were bad about em?

Like I'm halfway convinced all of these people claiming these are such bad shows and are annoyed about em haven't actually watched them - "I don't need to watch a show to know it's bad" pretty sure you do if you want to have an informed opinion, that goes for everything actually.

If you're annoyed by the hype and the fan culture?? That's fine we all got our things but that doesn't make the shows themselves bad I think y'all just like having someone to poke fun of without feeling like a bully and honestly?? That seems like a miserable way to live.

[strqyr]

either tai has nothing to do with the crown of choice or anything related to it, in which case he's at home with zwei all "this is fine."

OR

he does have something to do with the crown of choice, which immediately turns the mood into "[chuckles] i'm in danger" once there's nothing left of vale and patch is the next logical location to raze to the ground.

these are my two, completely serious, no joke options /j

[instruwen]

One of my fav songs from RWBY!

This is my 1st time doing a cover with multiple instruments, it was a fun challenge.

[little-lion-man-self-ships]

Small Vent

So fucking upset right now. Rooster Teeth is shutting down. Not a Rooster Teeth fan but I’m a HUGE fan of RWBY which is one of the shows they have and now I’m heartbroken cause RWBY may never be finished 😭😭😭

[yangfanbb]

Absolutely love this song 🖤💛

[fandomflotilla]

Things Beacon Students are No Longer Allowed To Do: Rule 52

52. The game “Jetpack Joyride” is now banned on campus.

52 a. Jetpack Joyride is now banned from being spoken of on campus. Stop telling freshmen the machine gun powerup is “based on real events” or “instructional”.

52 b. While we were all impressed by how high Ms Adel got, and it may eventually be a useful tactic against Grimm in specific situations, the method of testing she used was unacceptable. Anyone who tries to replicate her stunt is getting automatic detention and kitchen duty. (What on earth were you thinking???? You did so much damage, the Beacon repair teams are now on suicide watch, and you traumatized half of campus! Even with my semblance we could barely clean that mess up. - Prof. Goodwitch) (Okay, but you have to admit it was badass. - Coco) (You now have two more weeks of kitchen duty, Ms Adel. - Prof. Goodwitch) (…fuck. - Coco)

52 c. To all students: Recoil is not an acceptable form of aerial propulsion. (… - Ruby) (… - Yang) (… - Nora) (Glynda, could you please come to my office - Ozpin) (…*sigh* - Prof. Goodwitch)

52 c i. Edit: Recoil is not an acceptable form of aerial propulsion outside of training areas and combat. (Better? - Prof. Goodwitch) (Quite. Thank you Glynda. - Ozpin)

Extra Context:

In case anyone is wondering what on earth I’m referencing, here’s a clip from “Jetpack Joyride”

In case it’s not clear what Coco did, that is a machine gun strapped to his back.

[i-hear-a-sound]

not to be RWDE 😦but can I just… get something off my chest

the chunk of the fndm that scream about how progressive RWBY is and will go out of their way to harass anybody who says otherwise… 90% of the time are the same people who try & justify a fictional fucking child slave of a minority group being branded as property and blinded by his superiors because, yknow, he miiiiiiiight’ve deserved it, right?

[thepalestrose]

What are we gonna do? It just… feels like there’s a hole now. Fuck. I shouldn’t be getting this emotional over a cartoon.

Well, if there's anything the epilogue was about, it was about keeping hope in the darkest of times. So that's what I plan to do. Hope that this isn't the end, and that we'll see them again.

[rwby-confess]

Confession #89

[nightmare-foundation]

...I just realized.

After Oz reincarnates in Oscar.

He technically is actually 14 now

I mean. He's in the body of a 14 year old boy, one whose brain isn't fully developed yet, meaning he feels and processes things like a 14 year old boy would

That makes this whole thing so much worse. Ow

[bridgyrose]

Now that I'm home and can actually write out my thoughts, I have a lot to say with this episode.

And for starters, this post isnt here for anyone to start arguments, these are just my thoughts on the episode and theories to come for the last 2.

Let me just say that that episode was pretty fucked up and I enjoyed every moment of it. The way Ruby was framed running, not quite sure where she was after leaving in a fit of rage, the way she starts succumbing to her depression as she realizes that people near her get hurt while also recognizing that she was just not ready for any of this.

Her fight with Neo was not what I expected for visuals, the way Neo's semblance was used to air our her own grief and pain, and the way she tormented Ruby with people that she knew and, in her mind, failed. Pyrrha, the friend she couldnt save, Penny, someone who meant the world to her and couldnt save twice, Ozpin, the headmaster that she hadnt been able to live up to, Lionheart, the headmaster who's trust was betrayed, Clover and Ironwood, essentially the two halves of Atlas that she failed in different ways, none of which were her fault.

And then the way Neo just... broke after Ruby was "killed", the way that once she had gotten the revenge she wanted, she started questioning herself if this is what she really wanted.

The way everything was written and animated was beautiful to showcase just how broken these two individuals were in their own ways. Ruby having a burden thrust onto her shoulders, not ready and constantly feeling like she needed to be there for her team and everyone else because she's the leader. That she's kept pushing everything down and bottling it up because she never learned how to do anything else. Between Taiyang shutting down, Yang picking up the pieces where she could, her mother dying, watching two schools get destroyed and nearly dying at another, feeling like she's failed after letting two relics get into Salem's hands and not being able to save another friend.

And Neo, consumed by despair and loss of the only person that truly understood her, betrayed by someone who said she could help and then breaking once she realizes that her revenge didnt fix anything. Roman didnt come back, her semblance starts to break as her old home started to collapse around her, suffering all the consequences of single minded revenge because just like Ruby, she never knew how to cope with her own pain.

These are two girls, two sides of the same coin, dealing with the pain and the hurt that they carry in their own, self destructive ways.

And if the cat really is telling the truth that nothing in the Ever After actually dies, that ascension is what replaces it, Ruby may use that to her advantage once she's able to "ascend" to who she really is as Ruby Rose. Especially after the way broke down saying she doesnt want to be herself anymore. With the way the Tree loomed over as Ruby was taken down into the ground, its going to help her in the only way it'll know how: by letting her choose who Ruby Rose is meant to be.

And god, the cat. The curious cat, cursed with curiosity to gain knowledge and utterly broken by their creators leaving. If the Brothers of Light and Dark did actually end up creating the Ever After, I wonder if that was before or after they split into two separate beings. Or if its possible that they werent involved at all and it ended up being Oz and Salem. Next two episodes is definitely going to give us a lot of answers, a lot of questions, and show us the way out of the Ever After, only to let us stew on where our heroes will end up.

[nthmetalrose]

i took a break from rwby five years ago bcs of drama and bullshit both in fndm and in crwby writing. then i got into SG for all five of those yrs i was away and nothing in the world can tank so fucking HARD as cws writing/character death and absolute raving retarded stupidity that is sc fandom. so coming back to rwby?

its not bad actually

rwby is so barebones i can legit just grab what i want and do my own thing with fic or art, maybe make a small following outa that and have fun. i can read rewrites/canon divergence fics from people who are waaay more creative and into worldbuilding and have fun with their version and guess what!!!! its canon! bcs rwby is now part of dc and dc canon is arbitrary and everything and anything goes!!!

like if ya hate rwby/rt/crwby, valid, but like, why waste ur time and breath on raging abt it. just do ur own thing, make ur own hcs and aus and whatever the fuck at this point lol