#also i'm obsessed with rw's laugh

[microfascist]

Literally laughing knowing that you’re poor, awww poor little rw larper can’t afford to live, broke ass fiance can’t even support her. Every reply you make to that anon about your living and financial situation has me laughing so much. You’re so pathetic I love it

"That anon" It's very transparent that it's one weirdo sending me these.

Also, I've never claimed to be poor lol I've only said rent in my city is too obscenely high for me to live alone.

The only pathetic one is you, I'm quite happy despite my "situation" and don't feel the need to obsess over a stranger online and send them hate because I'm a miserable loser. I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish, but you should get a hobby or try to find some sort of fulfillment in your life, your silly little messages are a bit amusing at most and don't affect me in a negative way.

[lacependragon]

Like I'm sorry but if someone (me) complains about the cisheteronormativity of a series and you proceed to go:

What about these incredibly gender conforming lesbians and these two people who are only gay in a book most people didn't read (and also the other lesbian was grossly sexualized by a man (author) clearly obsessed with lesbianism in young women)?

Hilariously they forgot May in their little "gotcha". Which says so much about what they think queernorm means and that it inherently doesn't include gender. Wow. Way to show your ass.

Like you're an idiot. You're an uneducated idiot and you are challenging someone who knows so much more than you it's like I'm trying to talk to a pet. Or a toddler.

Queernorm is so much more than a couple of gender conforming gay couples. It's about gender and sexuality and gender roles and the destruction of toxic masculinity. It's about people being able to act and dress in non-conforming ways without it being strange. It's about the invasion of trans people (a joke, but if you saw how many people would be trans if there were no consequences, I think most cis people would call it an invasion). It's about a society that doesn't JUST HAVE MEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER and doesn't kill the ONLY WOMAN in power as a one-off scene for no good reason other than "it sets up Blake's parents retaking the White Fang without having to deal with Sienna".

And if you can't take the time to actually google it and understand how it would affect society as a whole rather than some non-reactions to gay people and one whole trans person who is clearly quite alone in her community...

Then idk man I'm just going to point and laugh. Don't join a fight when you can't define the terms.

Like I wasn't even insulting RW/BY. I was just pointing out inconsistent worldbuilding that I wish was consistent, one way or the other. Either make it queernorm or not. The limbo is frustrating.

[zztmms]

affection

[kitkatopinions]

What do you think RWBY stans will do once the series is over, I bet the series will end up being forgotten and the fandom will die while the most diehard fans of the show will go on the streets and force people to watch it at gunpoint.

Tbh, I think the RW//BY fandom will wind up like a smaller version of the Sherlock fandom. There will be a lot of people who did once like the show but recognize its many flaws who every now and again will engage in conversations about it (either to criticize or to praise,) and then there will be the die hards still insisting the show is genius and still doing things like sending people death threats for disliking and/or criticizing the show.

Despite reports of RW//BY's popularity, I really haven't seen that reflected... Anywhere except for in the messages of anons insisting that it's true. There's a chance that IQ will carry its own following and who knows what'll happen with that, but as for the main show, I suspect that any casual fans will die out after the show is over. The fandom is is so split and so hot and cold with a lot of insistence that fans conform (for instance, targeting anyone and dismissing them as toxic haters the second that they criticize anything to do with RW//BY or even how MK//EK and R//T are,) and unlike bigger mainstream things like the MCU or... Idk what's popular anymore, Star Wars maybe, they don't have sheer numbers to make that sort of thing less likely or more easily brushed aside. That probably won't make for an environment where people feel welcome or want to stick around. So yeah, I'm predicting that there will be way less casual fans.

But tbh, I don't think the diehards are gonna spend their time convincing random people to watch RW//BY. I think they'll spend more of their time insisting to themselves and their fellow die hard followers that it was a huge success that millions of people adored and that the fandom would be huge and vibrant and full of outcroppings of love towards the genius writers if the vile, obsessed HT//DM hadn't driven people out.

I think the fandom at least here on Tumblr will end with three relatively small groups.

The people who really cared about RW//BY, who really liked parts of it but are more than willing to admit that the show also messed up a lot and had big problems, who just want to talk about something that was or still is pretty important to them, but have also moved on to focusing on other things as well (meaning less RW//BY specific blogs.)

The die hard fans who (much like in the Sherlock fandom) insist the show was great, that it still has endless supporters, that the show is definitely coming back, and that anyone who doesn't like the show is a stupid lying hater, and any flaws that they can't just pretend away or anything they'll admit didn't sit right with them are totally gonna be fixed once the show gets renewed for another season or gets a movie or something. I can imagine that some of these diehards might do that thing where they tell someone that because they watched a show where fighting and killing happens, they know how to kill people and should therefore be taken very seriously.

The people who engage with the fandom for laughs and trolling, who like to stir the toxic pot and make fun of people.

As for me, I don't intend to stick around long after the show ends, unless IQ really manages to grip me. Although I never fully lose my attachments to anything I've happened to hyperfixate on, I usually... Fizzle out? It gets to where I'll still rant for hours about something and still be passionate about it and might still come back to something to read a few fanfics when I'm in the mood, but for the most part, I just kind of have it in the back of my head (and probably as at least a small part of my personality lol) but no longer feel the need to talk about it a lot or engage with new content. I imagine that after RW//BY ends, it'll join other shows like... Well, like Sherlock, and become something I genuinely care about still, but no longer want much to do with.

[icemankazansky]

Hi friend!! I’d love to hear about the TG hooker & TG Dirty Dancing AU WIPS for Top Gun! (Regarding that WIP ask)

And I’ve never seen Thunderheart but your obsession with it has convinced me to watch it sometime this week, so if it’s not too much to ask I’d love to know more about the RW runaway prince AU, the TH war bride AU, and whatever undercover2 is! 👀

(Also I just scrolled through your list of works for Thunderheart and now I am very excited for whatever Those Two have going on in the source material to warrant 114 works, a lot of those fic summaries look like they’ll be right up my alley!)

Ah, hello! I love your enthusiasm. You know, you are not the first person who has said that to me concerning Thunderheart lol. I really hope you enjoy it. It's such a good movie, and I love those boys so much.

I am going to put these behind a cut, because it's going to be a lot.

TG hooker: The Top Gun hooker AU! This was based on a prompt something like, you're a sex worker and I hired you for a night, but wow I actually like you a lot as a person do you maybe want to go out sometime?

Goose clapped his hand on Maverick's shoulder and said, "Mav, you're my brother and I love you. You crashed and burned with Charlie, but it's time you got back on the horse. And I'm here to help you with that."  "Here?" Maverick asked. They stood just outside a brothel called The Lucky Rabbit, which had an animated neon sign of two bunnies going to town on each other.  "What you need is a sure thing," Goose said, steering him inside. "Something fun and easy, with no strings attached."  A lady with pink curls and a very short skirt appeared behind the counter. "May I help you, gentlemen?"  "This is my best friend, Pete Mitchell," Goose said. "He has a reservation."  Maverick's eyes widened. "I do?"  The pink-haired girl smiled. "You sure do, sugar. Everything's paid for. If you'll follow me?"  "I'll pick you up in the morning, Mav," Goose said. "Enjoy yourself!"  And then he disappeared before Maverick could argue.

Icemav, explicit. There's a lot of sex. Like a lot.

Top Gun Dirty Dancing AU: What it says on the tin.

Ice smiled. He set his empty cup on the buffet table, then crooked his finger at Maverick, the international sign for get your cute butt over here. Maverick just stared at him for a minute, then Goose took the beer out of his hand and gave him a little push towards Ice.  Ice pulled him onto the dance floor, pulled him close, his hands on Maverick's hips.  "Jesus, you're stiff," he said. "Loosen up. This isn't the foxtrot." He swayed his hips, moving his pelvis against Maverick's. Ice's hands were on his hips, moving him in response. "Come on, baby; move with me."  Maverick felt like he couldn't breathe. Was this really happening? He tried to loosen up, mirrored the way Ice was moving.  "That's it," Ice purred. "Move with me."  "Where do I put my hands?"  "On me."  Maverick put his hands on Ice's shoulders. Ice laughed a little, but not meanly. "Okay, that'll work. Just keep loose, Maverick. You're doing great."

RW runaway prince AU: Ray is the only son of the king of a country I have not thought up a name for yet. He has come of age, and his father, the current king, is trying to prepare him to take the throne, but Ray does not want to get married, and he most definitely does not want to be king. So he leaves. Ray's father calls in Walter, the fifth son of the king of a neighboring kingdom and a fine hunter and tracker, and offers him a deal: Find Ray and bring him home, and Ray will marry Walter whether he likes it or not, and Walter will then be king of this unnamed country.

Walter considered. He didn't know much about Raymond. He was young, more than a decade younger than Walter. Rumors painted him as an intelligent, accomplished young man, good at his studies and at sport. Walter recalled hearing Raymond was introverted, gentle, kind … and a rare beauty. And he must be more resourceful, strong, and gutsy than rumor had it if he'd managed to live on his own undetected for four months.  That's what tipped the scales. Raymond would be a challenge, not just in finding him, but in marriage.  "You have a deal," Walter said, and shook the king's hand. 

Ray is going to be Very Unhappy when Walter tracks him down, until he isn't.

TH war bride AU: Ray's king gives him as a gift to the king of a neighboring kingdom to buy peace. Ray, newly of age, finds himself married to a man he can't even speak to, because they don't share a language. (Spoiler alert: They fall in love.)

An excerpt:

Ray felt himself shrink back. The king looked at him, but it was a kind look, and Ray allowed himself to relax a little. The king came to him, and gestured with an open hand. Ray shook his head; he didn't understand. The king gestured again, this time showing Ray the key to the shackles with his other hand. Ray nodded, and held out his wrists. The king unlocked the shackles, taking them from Ray's wrists and throwing them aside.  And then he took Ray's wrists in his hands, and he gently massaged them with his blunt fingers. Ray was surprised by the gesture, by the gentleness and care of the touch. It felt good, and that surprised him, too. The king lifted Ray's wrist to his mouth, pressed a kiss there, and then one to his palm. He spoke softly. Ray didn't need to know the language to understand what was being said. The king spoke in the same tone one would use with a spooked horse or a kicked dog. Everything's all right now. You're safe.  I won't hurt you.

undercover2: I am obsessed with Ray's deep cover work, and I've written about it here or there, but this story is, "What if Ray and Walter went undercover together?" (Shit gets real.)

Roth tells him to sit. He pulls the freezer door shut, locking them in. Roth's back is to him for a moment; Crow Horse sits, watches as Roth turns around, walks slowly to the table, stands while Crow Horse sits. Roth is looking at him, his jaw set, and then his expression changes and his tongue runs over his teeth--Ray's oral tic--and Roth's eyes change--the cruelty leaves them, and Crow Horse could swear they change color. Suddenly it's Ray again, his hands grasping the back of the chair opposite Crow Horse, and there's a pause where Crow Horse can't think of what to say, and Ray’s jaw jerks and his mouth softens, and he says, “Hey.” Crow Horse exhales sharply, pushing out the tightness behind his breastbone.  “Jesus, Ray,” he says, “what the hell are you doing here?” Ray's brow raises a bit, like he's surprised Crow Horse doesn't know.  “I'm here to pull you out,” he says. “Things are getting too dangerous for you here.” Crow Horse is caught between anger and relief. “And it's not too dangerous for you?” Ray's fingers clench on the back of the chair. “Different animal,” he says.

#drama