#coco adel critical

[konnoiseur]

even beyond the whole NAZI thing coco has going for her, what is there even to like about her

she doesnt do anything interesting in the show, she gets her shit rocked 2 of the 3 times shes in the show, she doesnt do anything interesting in the books, shes not even explicitly confirmed as a lesbian in the show, her outfit is mid at best, her semblance is dumb as fuck and never shows up, she doesnt even have anything interesting to add in terms of basic dialogue

like literally i genuinely dont even understand what about her is So Interesting to the point of disregarding her whole ass Nazi Influence to this degree lol

[tecnestheim962]

I just started reading the second book of RWBY: After the Fall, and I don’t know about any of you, but I am in love with Professor Rumpole. And every time I look at any new content from this show, I am reminded of the many reasons why I love it.

She has such a fascinating and wonderful view of history. And I believe a lot of what the professors say in the show and in these books, or any small, subtle statement about their society is a reflection of how the writers see things in our own world.

And what a beautiful perspective they have.

I lovvee professors like this, ones that facilitate discussion, ones that don’t necessarily present the things we have been told as facts, ones that recognize that everything in this world is subjective and prone to misunderstanding without context. Ugh the writing!

[howlingday]

Matinta Pere-Rose

As requested by @brunossan

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"Out of the way, losers!" Cardin Winchester, former bully of Beacon Academy, shoved his way past Team RWBY. Well, not as much of a bully as he used to be, but he was still kind of a jerk. As he shoved open the door to the cafeteria, a paint bucket fell on his head, knocking him to the floor and covering him in dark gray. He groaned as one hand rubbed his sore head and the other attempted to flick paint from his fingers.

"You said you're not bad anymore, but that doesn't mean you have to be so gray!" Yang Xiao Long teased as she walked by.

"...What?" Weiss Schnee blinked a couple of times, eyes darting this way and that as she tried to make sense of Yang's joke.

"I think she's making a pun out of black and white being extremes and gray being the middle ground." Blake Belladonna reasoned.

"That's hardly a pun." Weiss critiqued.

"Ah, everyone's a critic!" Yang waved her hand at her teammates.

"Should we... help him?" Blake turned back to see Jaune already helping his former tormentor to his feet, uncaring that paint was sticking to his wolf-like fur. She had a soft smile on her face, comfortable in knowing that this supposed monster was less a savage beast and more of a good-hearted teen.

"He should have kept his end of the deal." Blake's smile faded as her ears picked up Ruby Rose's words. It was soft, muttered so low that nobody else seemed to hear it.

"Did you say something, Ruby?"

"N-No!"

Ruby definitely said something. Blake and her leader had been together long enough for her to recognize the red-caped girl's voice. But as Jaune Arc and his team arrived behind her, Blake chose to ignore it. Arguing with each other before lunch never made the food taste better anyways.

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At around midnight, there was a shuffle in Team RWBY's dorm. Weiss and Yang were fast asleep, with the latter snoring like some kind of barn animal. Blake turned to the noise, opening the eye closest to her pillow, and found Ruby sneaking out the window. Both girls were still as they looked at each other, though to Ruby, Blake didn't look like she was awake. When she rolled over in her bed, Ruby let out a sigh and then jumped out.

Blake used her semblance to make it look like she was still in bed as she rolled out of the covers. Quickly and quietly running to the window, she couldn't find Ruby. What she could find, however, were black feathers fluttering from the window. Looking up, she found a black bird squawking outside of another dorm on another level. Judging by the amount of fancy things flying out of the window in an attempt to hit the bird, Blake assumed it was Coco Adel of Team CFVY who was being bothered. The bird fluttered about, dodging expensive handbags and designer shoes.

Though it was a good distance away, Blake's cat-like ears could pick up Coco shouting. "I've already thrown everything I don't care about at you! What more do you want?!" At this, the bird landed on the windowsill and barked.

"What in the world?" Blake whispered. Was that... a crow? What was a crow doing harassing students late at night? And where did Ruby go? Could it be that Ruby...?

The bird squawked and then took off, flying down from the window. Blake hurried away as it made its way down to her window, leaping into bed as she dispelled the clone. There was a flutter of wings before the sound of boots tapped against the dresser by the window. It couldn't be...

"Stupid feathers..." Ruby quietly groused as leaned down and plucked black feathers from the floor. She turned and dropped them from the window, watching them flutter and drift away into the winds of the night. She then shut the window and softly chuckled to herself. "And nobody's the wiser~."

That Blake could confirm was untrue.

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"Ruby."

"Gah!" Ruby jumped in her seat, coffee nearly spilling onto her hand. "Oh, hey, Blake! You scared me."

"I know what you've been up to."

Ruby looked around, her sister on one end of the room shadow boxing with headphones on, while Weiss was out doing some shopping. Looking to the scowling girl, she gave a smile as she set her coffee aside. "I don't know what you're talking about~."

"I don't know how you're doing it, but I know you've been turning into a bird and harassing students."

"Psh, n-no, I'm not..." Ruby lied, looking away from her teammate. "W-Why would I even do that?"

"I don't know." Blake folded her arms. "That's why I came to you as a friend. Your friend."

Ruby winced at that. Friends didn't keep things from friends. After all, Blake was very upfront about her past with the White Fang. Not at first, but she was still open about it when she did. Now she was asking Ruby to do the same. With a sigh, she turned, fully facing Blake.

"Okay, you got me. I'm a... What was it called again? A... matinta perera?"

Blake blinked. "A what?"

"It's this weird bird thing that I can turn into." Ruby pulled out a notebook and began drawing pictures to get her point understood. Every night, around midnight, I go outside, and I turn into a bird. Then I go to people's room and bother them until they promise me things.

"What 'things'?" Blake raised a brow.

"Usually coffee." She gestured to her mug. "That's what I usually do, anyways. I've heard other people ask for food, money, or whatever, but I like coffee the best."

"How do they know it's you?"

"That's the neat part; they don't!" She drew herself in a hood. "I come up to them early in the morning and ask them for coffee with my hood on. And like magic, they give it to me~!"

"What if they don't have coffee?"

"Then they get what Cardin got." Ruby drew Cardin with a paint bucket on his head. That's what Blake assumed she was drawing. The bird looked like a hairy V, Ruby in a hood looked like a partially colored number 8, and Cardin was a circle-person blob with a square on his head. "I dunno how it works, or how I even got this ability, but bad luck just follows them around all day!"

"That sounds incredible dangerous. What if something happens to them?"

"Relax, Blake~!" Ruby waved off. "I don't do this to teams about to go out on missions. And besides, I'm saving lien on coffee anyways~!"

"Ruby," Blake slapped her hand to the desk, giving a serious glare to her leader, "people are going to get hurt if you keep this up. You need to stop!"

"Only if they don't give me what I want." Ruby shrugged. "Don't tell me you actually feel sorry for Cardin."

"This isn't right!"

"Everything okay over there, guys?" Blake turned to see her partner, Yang, looking at the two with concern. "Sounds like things are getting heated over there. And not in the fun way."

"We're fine! Just having a discussion about coffee!" Ruby answered. "Right, Blake?"

"Yeah, but-"

"Oof! I don't wanna get involved in this then." Yang held up her hands and walked out of the dorm. "I'll let you two settle it your way. I'm not getting between Rubes and her coffee." With that, the door shut.

"Does she know?"

"About me turning into a bird? Kinda." Ruby answered. "She doesn't know about the deal part, though."

"If you won't stop, then I'll tell her."

"Yeah, you're right, and maybe I'll tell her about those books you've lent me~."

"Books?" A chill shot up Blake's spine. THOSE books. They weren't inappropriate for Ruby, technically speaking, but if Yang found out that her baby sister was getting into something intended for readers 16 years or older, it would be Blake's head! Yang might even burn all of Blake's other books just to be safe! "You wouldn't."

"You're right, I won't," she smiled, her lips curling into a sinister grin, "so long as you don't."

Blake gritted her teeth and clicked her tongue, stepping away and out of the dorm. Ruby leaned back in triumph as the door shut behind her. The girl had picked up a mean streak from somewhere all of a sudden and it was up to Blake to cut it short! But how if she couldn't tell Yang? Telling the professors would likely yield the same results. Was there anyone at Beacon who could help her out?!

"Hey, Blake!" She looked up to see Jaune looking down at her. When did she get down on the floor? "You okay? You look kinda sad."

"I'm fine, it's just..." She sighed, resting her head on her folded arms. "Something to do with Ruby and coffee."

"Ah, I getcha!" Jaune wagged his finger at her. "Yeah, Ruby gets pretty protective of her coffee. I'm glad we each have our own separate coffee makers. I wouldn't want Ruby to get ahold of my chocolate beans!"

"Can you eat chocolate beans?" Blake asked, looking up.

"Why not? I mean, I wouldn't recommend eating them, though. They're more the brewing kind of beans."

"Brewing?" Blake stood up. "Wait, you mean they're chocolate coffee beans?"

"Yeah! Isn't that what I said?" At this, Blake got an idea, and she grinned. "Blake?"

"JAUNE! COULD I GET SOME OF THOSE CHOCOLATE COFFEE BEANS YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT?!" Blake shouted, loudly towards the young werewolf.

"Shshsh! Not so loud, Blake!" He waved his hands towards her, trying to quiet her down. "The last thing I want is for Ruby to break down my door and take my coffee! I spent most of my birthday lien to get this bag!"

"Oh, excuse me, Jaune. Let's talk about this further in your room."

"Okay." Jaune sighed. "Don't scare me like that, Blake. You never know who might be listening in."

As the two entered the dorm, Blake looked back to her dorm and noticed the door cracked open a bit. She smiled as his door came shut. Though it was hard to hear through the door behind her and Jaune's voice explaining how and when he got his bag of beans, but she could have sworn she picked up something her leader said.

"Chocolate coffee beans~?"

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Ruby flew around the building to the other side, just outside of Team JNPRs dorm. She looked inside to find everyone was fast asleep. She grinned internally, since birds can't smile, and began her typical routine of being annoying. She squawked and barked. There was a sound from inside, though Ruby couldn't hear it.

Suddenly, a figure rose and opened the window. Before Ruby could get even louder, she noticed the silhouette was still rising. And their piercing blue eyes had an... inhuman intent behind them. Sensing danger, she tried to fly away but was snatched from the air by its massive hands. She gazed in horror as it looked down with long, dagger-like teeth. Of all the times to be without her weapon!

The creature shut the windows and turned away, letting Ruby go. She changed back and ran through the JNPR door. She even used her semblance to keep her well and ahead as she ran. However, the beast was not only just as fast, but tricky, too, as it outpaced and practically guided Ruby down the path it wanted. All the way up to the roof.

She shut the door behind her and backed away, hoping against the hopelessness of her situation. Maybe it got bored. Maybe it found something else to do. Maybe it decided Ruby wouldn't be that tasty anyways? Maybe-

Tak! Ruby whirled at the sound. Did that thing get up here before her?!

"Ruby."

"Blake?!" Sure enough, the girl's teammate was right behind her, arms folded. "Blake, you have to help me! There's a monster coming after me!"

"A monster? Well, Ruby, what will you give me?"

"Huh?!"

"You like to make deals, Ruby, so why don't I make my own?" She pointed a finger at her. "You stop this extortion racket and I'll help you."

"What do sponges have to do with anything?!"

"Not absorbent, extor- The taking coffee from people thing!"

"What?! No way!"

"Then I guess I won't help you. In fact..." Faster than Ruby could react, Blake held a tight grip on the team leader. Forced to face the door, which was pounding.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Ruby struggled, but she couldn't break free.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

She kicked the gravel, but only pebbles moved freely.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

"OKAY, FINE!" Ruby cried, tears from her eyes. "JUST LET ME GO AND I WON'T DO IT ANYMORE! I PROMISE~!"

The door came open. Ruby shut her eyes as a large, furred claw emerged from the building. Her heart thundered against her chest as her life flashed before her eyes. At least she'd be able to see her Mom...

"Blake? Can we stop?" She opened her eyes to see the monster. And he looked... worried? And he sounded a lot like... "I think Ruby's had enough."

"Jaune?" Blinking, she suddenly noticed the familiarity of his blue eyes. "Jaune?! Wha- What is going on here?!" Blake released Ruby and stepped back. "Blake, did you know about- Wait, are you ACTUALLY a werewolf?!"

"Yeah, what did you think I was?"

"I thought you were just a really hair Faunus!" She turned to Blake. "Er, n-no offense."

"I thought the same thing at first, too." Blake admitted.

"Well, since we're all here and talking, why don't we talk about what you've been up to, Ruby." Jaune said, looking down at Ruby.

"You told him?"

"You said not to tell Yang or the professors." Blake gestured to Jaune. "He's neither."

Ruby pouted. "I can't believe you told on me to your werewolf boyfriend."

"HE'S NOT MY-"

"Ruby!" Both girls quieted Jaune's bark. Not like an actual animal bark, but a- You know what I mean! "Stealing is wrong. Even if you don't think it's stealing, you're still abusing your powers to get things from other people by tricking them. That's wrong. That's not why we're at Beacon."

Ruby was quiet for a moment. Jaune was right. She shouldn't have been doing this kind of stuff, especially since she's trying to become a huntress. "I know. I just remembered hearing someone had coffee and I got excited to have some, but they said no, so I-"

"Wait, who's the someone?" Blake asked. "The only person you ever asked for coffee from was-" Blake's eyes widened. "So that was YOU outside of our dorm a few weeks ago?"

"Weiss only buys coffee for herself! And I really wanted a cup for myself."

"Oh, Ruby..." Blake shook her head.

"Weiss stopped sharing after the first week!" Ruby pleaded. "She told me to get my own, so... I did. I'm sorry."

"Well, Ruby, do you want some coffee?"

"Huh?" Ruby looked to Jaune, confused.

"What?!" Blake looked, too, even more confused. "Jaune, she just confessed to committing a crime. Multiple times!"

"And she said she was sorry. So, coffee?"

"Uh... Yeah!" Ruby perked up. "I'd love some coffee!"

"I can brew you a cup! BUT," Jaune held up a clawed finger, "you have to promise not to do this ever again."

"I promise!"

"Pinkie promise?" Jaune held out his clawed pinkie.

"Pinkie promise!" Ruby immediately hooked her tiny pinkie in response and shook with him. "It's a deal!"

"How about you, Blake? Coffee?"

Blake stood in disbelief at how easy it was for Jaune to get Ruby to stop her crime spree. The only thing more disbelieving was that Ruby and Jaune were both... not human. Not like Blake was not human, because they weren't Faunus, either. It was such an odd coincidence that Blake wasn't sure she'd be able to sleep soundly tonight. So...

"Coffee sounds great, actually."

[biglisbonnews]

Wife Guy Ice-T Defends Coco Austin From Dress Size Discourse Ice-T wants everyone to remember this about his wife Coco Austin: "We NEVER attack... But we RETALIATE."The rapper and famous wife guy went on the offensive Wednesday when a random woman on Twitter named Maureen criticized Coco for wearing dresses "three sizes too small." She wrote: "I see Adele at the Grammies. She looks fabulous. When she was heavier, she was classy, that is a woman who knows her beauty doesn't have to be wrapped in a dress 3 sizes too small."Well that's certainly not very nice. What did Coco ever do to anyone? \u201cTo those of you who thought my opinion of a woman named Coco (don't know who she is..don't care)\nI see Adele at the Grammies. She looks fabulous. When she was heavier, she was classy, that is a woman who knows her beauty doesn't have to be wrapped in a dress 3 sizes too small.\u201d — Maureen McCall (@Maureen McCall) 1675824447 It's important to note that Maureen tweeted this on February 7, and Ice-T didn't respond until nearly a week later. He retorted: "Maureen.. When was that last time you had some Dick.. That's the problem. Lol." Did he find the tweet himself, did Coco name-search, or did followers alert him via some sort of wife guy hotline? There's a mystery fit for Law & Order: SVU.He later responded again, telling Maureen that she looks "Hot as F," and "We NEVER attack… But we RETALIATE." He shared other words of wisdom, like: "Ya know what Kills people that Hate you the most?? That OTHER people Love you." \u201cFLTG: We NEVER attack\u2026 But we RETALIATE. \ud83d\udca5\ud83d\udca5\ud83d\udca5\ud83d\udca5\u201d — ICE T (@ICE T) 1676320182 For what it's worth, this is not Ice-T's first foray into the wife guy thunderdome. Throughout 2021, he defended Coco's choice to give their daughter acrylic nails and her decision to continue breastfeeding, while more recently, he's picked the sword back up to fight back against stroller trolls and tell Tamron Hall she's "the most incredible person I've ever met."Adele, meanwhile, probably just turned to her assistant to ask why the Google Alerts were going off. ​​Photo via Getty/ Amy Susan https://www.papermag.com/ice-t-coco-austin-2659414725.html

[kitkatopinions]

Out of curiositu. What's wrong with Port, robyn and hazel? I do know that you hate coco because of her relation to nazism and you don't like her character overall but what is with remainning three?

I have some silly/not very valid reasons to dislike the characters, but some reasons that I think are pretty valid.

Lots of anti-Port, anti-Robyn, and anti-Hazel under the keep reading.

Peter Port His design looks dumb to me. His moustache is even worse than Jacques' and Watts' moustaches, his outfit is lame, and his weapon is even worse. His Chibi appearances? Never funny once. His voice acting? Cringe. Out of all three of the men written by toxic-masculine men to laugh their heads off at having ‘tricked a man who didn’t know any better into wearing something traditionally feminine - and therefore seen by them as embarrassing - so everyone could laugh at him for doing something that wasn’t gender conforming,’ Port is the only one who never got much depth to his character, and therefore this is harder for me to just headcanon out of here. The dude literally like, leered at Yang when she was underage? Like he was like "Huntsman" and then he makes a face and like, lowers his voice and looks at Yang and is like "HUnTrEssEssss" and then clicked his tongue in that flirty way, and Yang looked visibly uncomfortable and annoyed and gave a forced and very awkward chuckle (I’ve been there.) And I've heard people be like "no, he wasn't flirting, he was just teasing, see Yang laughed." But that's purposefully pretending to not get it. If any man talked to any woman he didn't know like that, I'd consider him mega creepy and gross, let alone a man older than Yang's father, when she was either sixteen or seventeen, doing it in class!

Robyn Hill I also hate her design. I don't know what's up with her hair. Kudos to the writers for designing a woman that doesn't look like a teenager, but there is too much going on with her outfit, I hate it, and also it's so dull. She ate up tons of screen time with Qrow, whatever friendship they had felt forced, and for someone who really had been looking forward to seeing Qrow interact with other characters he already had some level of connection with like Ironwood and Winter, this was personally annoying. Like Clover, she annoyed me because I was waiting for things I cared about and instead got them. XD Robyn was a somewhat late addition, originally her role was as a cheesy mayor (literally they called her "Mayor McCheese") and later on they made her role bigger and different. I think it's easy to tell that she was a late addition, her character doesn't seem super fleshed out, and she doesn't have a very good role imo probably because it was thrown together. The role that she does have in volume seven wound up being centered around opposing people. Since I was a fan of Ironwood and he was one of the people she opposed, this made me biased from the start the same way that when Ironwood first came in during volume two, I was biased against him for going against Ozpin. However, Ironwood wound up not really working against Ozpin, never did anything worse than informed the Council of events and being assigned as the head of security for an event, and wound up openly trusted by the Inner Circle by the end of his second season. Robyn never wound up able to co-exist with James. Her role in volume 8 was literally just playing support to Qrow, who got benched the whole season as it was. She started the whole plane fight despite Clover and Qrow both being willing to talk about solutions and figure things out. Robyn seems very hotheaded and rash, which alone doesn't make for a bad character, but in a story where I'm already wishing that less people relied on anger and impulse and would actually talk things out and compromise, she's just all that more frustrating. Yang and Blake trust her for no real reason, just because the writers wanted people in Team RWBY to ‘display trust,’ but they were also writing for all of them to continually lie to and show mistrust to James already. On top of that, we as an audience never see Robyn do anything with the supplies that she steals. I could talk more about this point in another post, but not seeing anything done with these supplies makes her efforts look ineffective and unnecessary, and it makes it all the more frustrating that the same people who act accusatory to Ironwood at the end of volume seven because Amity isn’t finished yet have absolutely zero problem with the person who was causing the delay. Robyn has the problem of only being a character during the height of my frustrations with the series. She acts as a mouthpiece for whatever the writers want the audience to think, she carries the hivemind group think of most of the 'good' mains, she tells us how terrible Clover actually was and how much better Qrow is after Clover's death despite the fact that she doesn't know the guy and was arguably partially responsible for his death by starting the whole plane fight... A lot of characters are the same way. But they have the benefit of having existed outside of the Atlas arc. Ruby was arguably three times as frustrating in the last two seasons than Robyn was, but I remember when I liked her. With Robyn, all I have is some of the most frustrating and worst written moments in the history of the show. This is the big one for me - She called Marrow Wags. She doesn't know him. She threw his status as a Faunus and her doing the bare minimum of not being Jacques Schnee in his face and then called him Wags. If the writers hadn't ever dipped their toes in their dreadfully done fake-Racism story, this wouldn't be a problem. But it is, and it seems wildly inappropriate and insensitive for her to nickname a Faunus by their Faunus trait, especially one she doesn't know. It was horrible and clearly offensive when Roman Torchwick called Blake 'Kitty,' but we're supposed to be one hundred percent on board with and never blink our eyes at a politician running a "I'm not that bad guy" campaign that calls Faunus offensive nicknames? Yeah, no thanks.

Hazel Reinhart Again, his design is lame, but especially his volume eight look. I don't know who thought it looked good, but it haunts me. It's so badly done. His dialogue also often feels forced, which is a complaint I have for other mostly villains like Cinder and Adam. The man literally beats children, and then his wiki page says he has a soft spot for kids lol. Not only does he beat children, but both times he started trying to beat up on Oscar, he was also ranting about how it was Ozpin's fault, blaming Ozpin for his actions like Ozpin was puppeteering his actions and he just couldn't help himself. It's ridiculously that no one ever was like "Hey maybe stop with the 'why are you hitting yourself' routine and stop victim blaming Ozpin for your issues?" He likely was hunting down and murdering hunters in Mistral. Many of them were Qrow's friends and he looked so sad! This guy literally said "My sister made a choice and the person who 'let her' do it is going to get all my anger forever, instead of the person who makes Grimm for fun." He literally said "I'm going to say he deserves torture because my sister wanted to help people and then died doing an incredibly dangerous job and I need someone to blame." I can understand that he was grieving, but again, there was so much misguided blame. And this wouldn't be as big of a deal if not for... The narrative of the show painted Hazel as at least partially right. His badly done death-equals-redemption, rushed and stupid turn to the light side was accompanied by the "no more Gretchens" line and the fact that Hazel's view of Ozpin never really was challenged. The way the story went basically implied that Hazel was right and that Ozpin really was responsible for the death of his sister, and had to be careful in the future not to let anyone else die... As if the entire series isn't centered around young fifteen-to-nineteen year olds fighting a war and insisting they’re ready and the narrative all but saying everyone has to not only let them do whatever they want, but that they aren't good people if they don't help them do it.

Sooo... Yeah. XD That’s why I hate them. There are other people I absolutely hate too, including Cinder, Jacques, the gods, Salem, and Junior, but they’re all people I feel like I was already supposed to hate. Granted, I hate some of them for reasons I don’t think I was supposed to, but I was still meant to hate them. For characters like Robyn, Hazel, Port, and Coco, I was actually supposed to like them at least by the end of their time so far, and instead I wish they’d never existed.

[doomalade]

TIER 7: THE DEPTHS

“Blake should be branded in Atlas so Yang can save her”

This was a post made by a Bumblebee shipper before V7 basically saying that Blake should be branded like Adam and then saved by Yang. This has been criticized for belittling Blake’s character and coming off as a white savior mindset.

“Rooster Teeth”

Rooster Teeth is the name of the company behind RWBY. Their name has been debated whether it was a joking reference to a line in early seasons of RvB or a homophobic term to describe gay men.

“Yang x Sage = Yang Gangbanged by Black Men”

This is a take on the Yang x Sage ship (Wise Dragon) that says that since Yang is with a black character, she wants to be gangbanged by black men. This take is clearly one made by someone who has their mind rotted by porn and is extremely racist.

“Ironwood should try to kill himself but run out of bullets”

This was a take on Ironwood saying that the show should have him trying to kill himself but not have bullets in his gun. This has been called out for being extremely messed up and suicide-idealization.

“Ruby’s Cuts (DO NOT RESEARCH)”

In Volume 9 Chapter 8, Ruby is beaten up by Neo’s clones and becomes bruised and cut. One of the cuts is direct on one of her breasts despite her being canonically 17. This has received backlash for not only sexualizing a minor but sexualizing a suicidal and beaten up minor.

“Just let him have it”

This is a quote from Miles Luna himself. As a head writer of RWBY, Miles was talking about Adam in a Writers’ Commentary for Volume 6. When Adam’s branded face is revealed, Miles begins to talk about his personal head canon about how it happened. Now this isn’t 100% set in stone canon, but Miles went on to say that Adam got into a fight with his boss at the SDC Mine and his boss “just let him have it.” This has been criticized for Miles saying the branding of a minority character was justified.

“Adam was a child slave”

This is reference to the fandom trying to figure out the timeline and coming to the realization that Adam was child slave before he left to join the White Fang.

“White Man’s Burden”

White Man’s Burden is a piece of racist literature from the author of The Jungle Book. This connects to RWBY due to Ghira, Kali, and Sienna having allusions to The Jungle Book.

“Penny’s First Choice”

This is in reference to Penny’s decision for Jaune to stab and kill her on the bridge instead of him healing her by boosting her aura. It has been criticized for seemingly like an unneeded decision and how Penny was killed for the second time.

“Ironwood photoshopped with Stalin”

This is in reference to a photo made during V8 of Stalin that had Ironwood photoshopped in with him. This has received backlash for comparing a real world genocidal dictator to a fictional character.

“Coco’s Allusion”

Coco Adel’s allusion is to Coco Chanel. Coco Chanel is known for being a Nazi collaborator and would often spend days with people close to Hitler.

Alright, and now onto the final tier:

THE VOID

“Penny Polendina”

They killed her, twice. They killed my baby girl twice. They brought her back just to kill her again. They took my baby from me. THEY TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME.

this is hell. i am in hell.

badly cropped versions of each tier below:

i would’ve added more, but I figured this was enough shitty takes, problematic canon and uncomfortable implications for one day. :)

[saltwukong]

What he says: Why did you do CFVY dirty like that?

What he means: Why did you introduce CFVY as one of the strongest teams and part of the upper classmen, and show Coco with a gatling gun utterly shredding through armored murderbeasts the size of buildings--an accurate show of just how much speed and force is put behind bullets from a gatling gun--and then have them mercilessly Worfed by Emerald and Mercury? I wouldn't have minded so much if Coco and Yatsuhashi were beaten, but it's how much Rooster Teeth goes out of their way to make them look helpless in the hands of Mercury and Emerald that bugs me. Coco's gatling gun is the prime example--it's been weakened so much that it can't even put dents in trees, when you would think that Coco would just shoot down the entire forest if she couldn't find Emerald. It's similarly useless against the Paladin Mechs in the climax, so what is she even here for? And no, we still don't know what Fox does.

[imaginerwbyscenarios]

D F I J M with Coco?

Coco Adel: 

D = Dates (What are dates with them like?): 

Coco favors the more popular date places in the area but she’s not above finding a little niche shop for the two of you browse, sometimes treasures were just waiting to be found in little places like that. She liked to frequent cafes as long as she knew their coffee was good and high quality boutiques were also a must as your power couple status was amplified by your matching threads. She loved to dress you up so it wasn’t unusual that she wanted to go on a shopping spree though she was quite critical of the clothing you tried on, only wanting you to look your best and hoping you’d deliver the same honesty to her (even if she simply said ‘I know’ every time you gushed about how beautiful she looked).

F = Feelings (When did they know they were in love?): 

Coco didn’t want to admit to her feelings for a long time. She wasn’t the one to fall head over heels, her significant others were, she was the one who was cool, calm, and in control. And yet she didn’t want to bury herself so deep in denial that your relationship suffered because she felt so weak when it came to you, knowing you would never be the type to use that to your advantage. There’s no specific moment that really stood out to Coco as being the one where she fell in love with you as it was an accumulation of all the little things that were special about you that managed to steal her heart while she wasn’t looking.

I = Impression (What was their first impression?): 

Coco’s first impression of you was that you were cute, beautiful even, but she certainly wasn’t looking for a significant other at that point in time. Or that’s what she told herself to keep her growing feelings at bay, your daily interactions quickly weaseling your way past the carefully placed barriers around her heart. She liked your personality from the start as well, you weren’t too needy but you knew how to give compliments, you weren’t ashamed that she had the upper hand in being the cool and calm one, you didn’t push yourself on her or come on too strong. You were treating her like someone you admired but not placing her on too high a pedestal to step down from and she found herself falling quick and hard the longer the two of got to know each other. She keeps these feelings to herself of course and doesn’t tell you even after you’re dating that she knew she’d make you hers from the start. 

J = Jealousy (Do they get jealous?):

Coco is a little too self-assured and confident in herself to get jealous over trivial things, knowing people likely flirted with you just in an attempt to get a rise out of her. Even if it did annoy her she’d never let on that it did, biting her tongue and acting like she always did when your attention is given back to her. She’s not a fan of being purposely made jealous as it’s one of her most hated feelings in the world, knowing that she cared about you so deeply she’d be somewhat crushed if you were to leave her for that poorly dressed loser who wouldn’t know the first thing about keeping you happy.

M = Memory (What’s their favourite memory together?): 

Coco’s favorite memory was the very first time you went shopping together. It was before you were actually together but she felt comfortable defining it as a date as you’d gotten coffee and sat together in a cute little café beforehand, discussing fashion and the like until Coco invited you to come shopping alongside her. She had a great eye for tops that suited you as well as accessories and she had more fun than she wanted to admit picking out the perfect outfits for you. It helped that getting to see you dress up for her gave her the chance to ogle you openly without you thinking it was weird and she can very clearly remember the smile on your face as you modeled for her.

[vevehoshizora]

Headcanon > [Team RWBY] Seeing their s/o’s childhood pictures

r e q u e s t e d “If it's not too much trouble, may I request a head canon of team rwby, coco and emerald seeing their s/o's pictures when they were younger. Then the s/o trying to hide his face due to embarrassment?”

I went with a gender-neutral reader, hope you enjoy despite the long wait!

Masterlist

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Blake Belladonna

Blake has a pretty good imagination, so she would already have tried to picture her s/o when they were younger.

She would be amazed to see how you changed throughout the years.

She would constantly look between the pictures and her s/o in order to compare them. 

Which would result in her s/o being a blushing mess at all the attention and trying to hide behind one of Blake’s books. 

She won’t really comment on the differences she finds, mostly just humming every time she finds something that interests her. 

When her s/o meets her family, it will definitely be her turn to be embarrassed about the large quantity of smol kitty Blake pictures there are. 

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Coco Adel

Coco Adel is excited to see more of her s/o when they were younger. 

As a fashionista, she can’t help analyzing her younger s/o’s outfits. 

She won’t really criticize because she respect the fact that her s/o might not have the same fashion sense as her.

But she will laugh if she finds any clothes that does not fit with one another. 

Of course, her s/o, embarrassed, would try to defend themselves by saying that they were younger then. 

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Emerald Sustrai

As Emerald didn’t have any family growing up and mostly lived off of stolen goods, she didn’t have the chance to build up an album. 

The closest she had to family was Cinder and Mercury and they were not, to say the least, keen on photography.

As such, she is amazed to see the pictures her s/o collected over the years of their life and is very happy to take a look at them. 

She knows her s/o is embarrassed, having picked up emotional cues in her line of work and the way they are trying to hide their face from her, so she will thank them for allowing her to see the pictures.

She vaguely remembers her own appearance when she was younger, so she can try her best to show her s/o an image through the use of her semblance.

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Ruby Rose

The Rose-Xiao Long family is the biggest picture takers ever. As such, they have many albums filled to the brim with various photographs of the family and probably have some hidden throughout the family house.

Unless her s/o’s family is as enthusiastic about pictures as them, her s/o’s album collection will appear small compared to Ruby’s. 

Ruby still enjoys taking a look at all the pictures even if her s/o keep insisting that it’s not necessary.

This bean will probably not notice her s/o’s embarrassment until she starts commenting on various things like the changes in hair and sees her s/o’s flushing face.

She will immediately comment that they are good changes and would comment less.

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Weiss Schnee

The Schnee family has never been one for keeping albums. Many portraits can be found throughout the Schnee Manor, but otherwise, not many pictures can be found. 

She do knows of a few pictures in her mother’s bedroom of her and her siblings as babies. 

As a result, she is really happy to go through her s/o’s albums. She is happy that her s/o was able to collect many pictures during their childhood, which she wasn’t. 

She takes note of her s/o’s embarrassment but tells them that they should not be and should be proud of the changes they went through. It shows their evolution throughout the years. 

As a Schnee, her father expected her to keep up with her appearance, so she remembers somewhat how she looked and can easily describe it to her s/o. 

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Yang Xiao Long

As the Rose-Xiao Long family takes so many pictures, they have many albums filled with them. 

Of course, Taiyang being Taiyang, he obviously will pull out the albums the second Yang’s s/o has set foot in the family house in order to embarrass Yang.

In return, Ruby will propose that the s/o show Yang their own childhood pictures. Which ended up with Yang cooing at every pictures and her s/o hiding their face in their hands. 

She will pick up her s/o’s embarrassment and will tease them a little about it, but will lay off if she notices that she is going too far. 

Through the whole ordeal will encourage her to take even more pictures of s/o. Sometimes with herself in them, others not.

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[55cdfc-f7a8b8-ffffff-f7a8b8-55cd]

coco adel’s sunglasses are prescription sunglasses but she hasn’t been to an eye doctor since the fall of beacon and really needs to get them updated. no i do not take constructive criticism. 

[runephoenix6769]

Chapters: 11/? Fandom: RWBY, CROSSHARES - Fandom Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Coco Adel/Velvet Scarlatina Characters: Coco Adel, Velvet Scarlatina, Ciel Soleil Additional Tags: photographer velvet, Fashion Designer Coco, Explicit Language, Fluff, Developing Relationship, Eventual Smut, Eventual Romance, Recreational Drug Use, Implied Escort Service Series: Part 4 of FIELDS OF GOLD Summary:

FIELDS OF GOLD SPIN OFF

It’s been 9 years since Carrie Mortimer packed a dressmaker’s mannequin, sewing machine and a rucksack into her battered truck, waved goodbye to a Golden Cowgirl and left behind the sleepy backwater town of Clearwater, sights firmly set on the bright lights of New York City.

It’s been 8 years since Coco Adel made her big debut on the catwalk at New York Fashion Week. It’s been 4 since she dropped her first collection garnering her critical acclaim.

9 long years of bitching fashion designers, models, the whirlwind of parties with the same conversations and people. Coco, never thought she would see the day that she would be jaded, tired and uninspired .

That is until she meets a timid but talented photographer, who reminds her of her hometown and who she used to be.

Sometimes it's good to remember your roots, so you can stand tall and reach for the sky.

[formerlyrunephoenix6769]

Bumbleby Fanfic Masterpost.

Ive been working on a Bumbleby South Western Beehaw AU. Some folks wanted to know the score so here goes.

Suggested reading order: FIELDS OF GOLD:

On the run from her abusive ex boyfriend, Blake takes off on a road trip across America only to have an unexpected encounter. 

  https://archiveofourown.org/works/18295511 (One chapter to add)

FIELDS OF GOLD: THE CLEARWATER CHRONICLES.

After a chance encounter, Blake finds that she's now stranded in the small town of Clearwater, Oklahoma for the unforeseeable future and decides to accept her fate. (Well, for at least the next 6 months or so.)

It's been two months now and she can't avoid the charming and warm group of young women that seem so hell bent on making her like the place so much.

Nor can she ignore the palpable tension that's been building between her and the golden cowgirl she met on the side of the road!

Things are hurtling towards a breaking point and someone is going to have to make the first move. https://archiveofourown.org/works/18331343/chapters/43395209

(Fluff and Smut. One chapter to add.... COMPLETE.. 

Might continue on?)

FIELDS OF GOLD: ROLLING THUNDER.

Occurs after 'FOG and FOG:CWC. Can be read straight after FOG.

Choosing to stay for now in the sleepy town of Clearwater, Oklahoma, after a chance encounter with a charming cowgirl, Blake begins to get complacent, relaxing into country life.

But unbeknownst to her, there's a storm a brewing on the horizon, one she cant avoid. The life she thought she left behind in New York is about to collide with the local towns folk.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/18303509 (COMPLETE)

(Considering a Crosshares spin off. Set in New York.) 

‘CONFESSIONS OF A FASHIONISTA. 

It’s been 8 years since Carrie Mortimer packed a dressmaker’s mannequin, sewing machine and a rucksack into her battered truck, waved goodbye to a Golden Cowgirl and left behind the sleepy backwater town of Clearwater, sights firmly set on the bright lights of New York City.  It's been 7 years since Coco Adel made her big debut on the catwalk at New York Fashion Week. It's been 5 since she dropped her first collection garnering her critical acclaim.

8 long years of bitching fashion designers, models, the whirlwind of parties with the same conversations and people. Coco, never thought she would see the day that she would be jaded, tired and uninspired . 

That is until she meets a timid but talented photographer, who reminds her of her hometown and who she used to be. 

Sometimes it's good to remember your roots, so you can stand tall and reach for the sky.  

50,0000 words in 7/8 days.  17,549 on today’s upload alone... 

Phew, it's been a few crazy days but I got there!

Anyways. Don't have a kofi or Patreon, so its free. Please be so kind as to comment or kudo if you have read and liked ...

 It's a simple click or a simple few words that let content creators know that their hard work, effort and time has been well spent and is appreciated. :)

[kitkatopinions]

No one cares about how much you hate a popular lesbian character in the series and want LGBT rep removed from RWBY.

You know, I don't ask this of just anyone, but uh, put your blog to your opinions, there, champ. Come off of anon. Because this particular ask is in response to this post and this one where I say that Coco Adel is based off of a fucking Nazi and that therefore, she should be removed from RT's line up, and here's the part of one of those posts where I explicitly say that they should canonize the bees and include actually important queer rep, and then confirm that I'm queer myself.

And if you had ever looked at any of my content, you would see that I've been pushing for the bees to be canon for a while as well as pushing for more rep outside of that in the main cast, that I've praised MKEK for May and actively like her, and that I'm literally a bisexual woman who ships tons of LGBTQ+ ships that I'd love to see become canon or that sadly can't be canon now, but could've been great. However, this isn't actually about me proving my queer credentials to you, random coward, this is about you being the exact kind of person I called out in that post about Coco.

See, everyone can see you prioritizing the crumbs MKEK has thrown at you over Jewish RWBY fans and Jewish people in general. Everyone can see that you'd rather shut others up about anti-semitism and a character that reads like an homage to a fucking Nazi, because you don't want to lose this one character. You need to be asking for and demanding fucking better than LGBTQ+ inclusion that comes at the cost of other people, marginalized people who we should be standing up for. Ask for the bees to be canon. Ask for other rep especially among the main cast or other important characters in RWBY. Realize that it's actually pretty sus that one of the only characters who have gotten confirmation (although it's outside of the main show and therefore not actually canon) is based off of a Nazi. You need to fix your priorities and realize that this one character isn't more important than actual real Jewish people.

[faunusrights]

join velvet server and you too can join me as i have a Critical Revelation abt Coco Adel

[transcript below]

bombe de terre i keep thinking to myself that like  i cant draw coco adel because as the person who based velvet's taste off MY OWN TASTE theres not a chance in a hell i can draw anyone fashionable and then i remember that most famous fashion lines sell just  the tackiest shittiest potato sacks for a billion dollars?????????????

Class C Controlled Substance there’s a difference between fashionable and stylish and that difference is knowing that expensive doesn’t mean it looks good

bombe de terre literally i can dress coco in anything and justify it via pricetag dsfghsdfhgjk i could put coco in toeless socks and just say hey it cost like a hundred lien

bombe de terre so yeah that was todays big brain energy technically coco can have a WORSE FASHION SENSE THAN VELVET... WHILST STILL BEING... FASHIONABLE...

assigned pyrrha kin coco is just Like That

bombe de terre coco: god velvet why cant u dress yrself B/ velvet: yr wearing assless shorts rn??????????

bombe de terre !!!!!!!!! 90s fashion resurgence!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD WHAT IF what if velv and cocos circle ALIGN IN THE RAREST VENN DIAGRAM

assigned pyrrha kin: [reaction image of Jake Gyllenhaal at the ‘Life’ interview bringing his hands to his head as though experiencing some grand revelation]

bombe de terre 80s/90s fashion resurgence and velvet finally. Finally. is the one who Knows Things, WHILST YOU FUCKED AROUND WITH L50,000 POTATO SACKS I WAS LEARNING BAD COLOUR THEORY, AND NOW THAT THE FASHION SHOW IS NEXT WEEK AND YOUR MOTHER'S SCREAMING DOWN YOUR EAR YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO COME TO ME FOR HELP?

assigned pyrrha kin 'velv. velv my bestest buddiest buddy chum pal. u wouldn't leave ur best ho out to dry w fashion ideas for the resurgence would u ;)'

bombe de terre velvet attempts to fuck her over w/ the craziest shit she can think of but instead coco is heralded as a visionary trendsetter and accidentally starts like five new fashion lines out of it velvet: yet again the humans exploit us,

[ryoshan]

after the fall spoilers /

when u wanna liveblog but ur the first person you know to start/finish reading: a collection of disorganised and contextless thoughts by an excitable brit

book: mentions weiss and ruby 

me: SCREAMING

fox is from vacuo!!!!!! i am VINDICATED 

ADA ADA ADA ADA 

split point of view per chapter is sososososososoososos GOOD SO GOOD DO GOOD 

nothing will beat novels for their ability to drop explicit details in a short period of time 

VELVET HAS A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY 

coco adele? was that a typo? or is adele her middle name? stylistic choice? hmm 

what a fucking show off our boy fox is 

tiny criticism: pls stop knocking on about coco’s fashion sense we get it you’re doing that thing where you boil her down to one trait, hopefully this will happen less as the book goes on 

FOX CLAPPED HIS HANDS TO HIS EYES. “OH NO!” HE SAID. “WHYYYYYYY?” 

this initiation is some juicy fucking lore my guys 

y.. yatsuhashi CAN FUCK WITH MEMORIES???

dyou think when fox stutters over a word in team cfvy’s mental group chat, coco, yatsuhashi and velvet repeat his mistake back at him 

i am supremely interested to know how fox’s semblance interacts with rens

i literally fucking winded myself at the start of chapter 5 gasping so hard 

“she looked like she had a mortal wound in her side” OH HAHA VERY FUNNY I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE 

coco mentoring ruby has given me more life than anything so far

WEISS DONT BE MEAN TO YATSUHASHI 

oh im not comfortable with weiss calling fox red that sounds very weird and not at all in character it sounds too much like torchwick and im not about making that association 

WHY WOULD HER HAND GO TO MYRTENASTER ARE YOU REALLY GONNA FIGHT FY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HALLWAY WEISS?

i really did forget how much of an ego weiss has right in the beginning ive been writing her post development for too long 

BLAKE N VELVET BLAKE N VELVE T once again i gasped so hard my lungs hurt 

wow huh okay blake being violent is..... a surprise 

“I don’t believe in fighting prejudice with violence” jess is vindicated im so proud of my wife

COCO WAS GOING TO LIKE HER, VELVET THOUGHT you’re damn right she does

i dont like velvet and coco fighting ):

fox as the hardcore realist i am once again, VINDICATED

velvet employing the same words to gus as blake did to her..... aaa.....

yatsuhashi’s semblance makes me sad cause imagine if he made someone he thought cared about him forget him and it turned out to be really easy

UGH THE THEME IN THIS BOOK IS LEARNING LESSONS AND ITS SO APPARENT AAAAAA

fox and ruby interacted...... thank you for my life............

the inclusion of not only yatsu asking velvet to guide him so he can be better in terms of his language but also an active example of this happening is really pleasing to me 

as the player of a dnd character who always splits off from the group i can say with complete confidence fox splitting off from team cfvy in the sands of vacuo will almost certainly not go well

“she kept waiting for the others to see it” ;___;

PYRRHAAAA ;____________;

literally all it takes is her name and i am sad . 

this TEAM make my heart SURGE 

coco genuinely is the big explicit wlw i’ve been hoping for 

jesus christ coco hold urself together. 

fox vc alexa play darude: sandstorm 

OK BUT CYRANO IS MCFUCKING COOL MY DUDES I COULDNT HAVE IMAGINED SOMETHING LIKE THIS 

- as long as her remembered to charge his scroll. i knew it, boy’s gonna run out of battery . 

IF MY BOY GETS KILLED I’LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU ROOSTERTEETH

i love when things connect with canon i love it i love it 

why is coco of all people picking on velvet ): 

VELVET BITING BACK THO aaaaaa yay but also ):

uhg i love this fuck ign fami ly 

im.... emotional,,,,,

the cairn mission......... no wonder it was so hard..... im ): 

COCO FINALLY LETTIN VELVET DO SHIT YASS

I KNOW ITS JUST THE INDLUENCE OF GUS’ SEMBLANCE BUT IT MAKES ME SO SAD WHEN THEY FIGHT 

also im getting serious shadow of the colossus vibes

FOX BETTER NOT DIE BERTIE NEEDS TO GET FUCKED 

i love my son he’s so strong and smart 

theres so many death flags here i dont even know who they’re on anymore

lol jk he’s fine

i really love how sure of himself fox is and so he should be he’s fought really hard to be confident

it is REALLY cool seeing an actual scene from the show written from velvet’s perspective, im all about this 

moro is gonna be happy about glynda i know it she’s fab 

“we just need you to tell us everything” “ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING” ozpin still putting tremendous amounts of pressure on teenagers i see

“we prefer to speak with you individually so we can separate you from your support system while tugging on your vulnerabilities” 

yatsu getting mad ):

im not too fond on how blithely ‘coco never picked up on that’ regarding the finer points of velvet’s tendencies when coco has been established already as a people watcher and observational thinker.,

CFY TO THE RESCUE 

what the FUCK these adults???? hello????? “i deserved that” NO YOU DIDNT???? what did glynda think he was gonna do, stab ozpin??? 

“haha we broguth her here alone to TEST you!!! you passed because you came to her!!!! hahahahahah!!!!!!” fuck you ozpin 

no explanation as to WHY she had to be brought alone as if her ‘keen observational skills’ couldnt have been asked about in the presence of her team or indeed pulled fro the written report she’ll be making 

this is such a formative mission for them and i like it but damn ozpin really up here ruining it all 

the death flags were yatsu’s ALL ALONG 

oh god the impact of velvet using some of these weapons has not been lost on me and it must be devastating for her 

“if this didnt qualify, what did?” me when i get to the end of a game with 3468758976495 different things hoarded and dropping them all on the final boss

why are coco and velvet having a conversation like they’re about to die noones dying NOONES DYING 

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

FUCK RIGHT OFF WITH SHIFTING TO A FLASHBACK YOU WANKERS

thumbelina peach...? really???? but hey looks like beacon has more than 4 professors now

“noone knew what had frozen that beast there” interesting . 

its interesting to me that so far its been atlas thats been shown to be the least accepting of faunus but now its becoming clear mistral is worse, worse enough that velvet wont even consider going there

“velvet waited for someone to ask her what she wanted, but they never did” :( 

anyway i cant wait to see how coco is gonna make the blind worm her bitch

yatsu is so shy about his semblance im sad for him, 

I CANT BELIEVE I THOUGHT YOU WERE CUTE 

coco getting edward to help ;_____;

its both funny and depressing that sssn are here and sage and scarlet are still yet to have any actual fuckin lines or DESCRIPTORS for that matter 

fox tapping that @ everyone command and getting chewed out for it 

COCO YOU BITCH THAT WAS ART 

u kno whats getting me most? 

BOOK #2 WHEN???????????

[lightsaroundyourvanity]

@neurolingual replied to your post “i know none of us want to admit it, but coco adel was a horse girl as...”

i will absolutely beat your ass...... she won best show girl several times over

she keeps all her blue ribbons on her bedroom wall and does not accept constructive criticism