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Ok I finally got it. Natsume had the book, either he created it or it was given to him or he found it, then he gave it to Oda (the third installment of the series that’s so rare because it’s literally the book) then Oda gives up the book when the kids die by telling Dazai about it (or at least giving him enough information to figure it out there by making Dazai the new owner). But Oda had written in the book, created an opportunity for Dazai to have a better life and do good. But he left it at his own death so Dazai would still be making the choice himself. Dazai finds the book among Oda’s belongings and tries to bring Oda back and give him happiness and then BEAST happens. He creates a world in which Oda is happy, uses Akutagawa as the protagonist and creates Atsushi using the Book to be the antagonist/shapeshifter, bases his ability on Natsume’s and lets the story unfold. But because of a singularity caused by his ability interacting with the Book instead of changing his own realities past he creates an alternate reality that only he is aware of. In that alternate reality he cannot die until the story is completed and he passes the Book on to the next Author/Authors. So he passes it to Akutagawa and Atsushi and kills himself knowing there is a reality in which Oda is happy. Back in the main universe Dazai struggles to continue the story/find a successor, because he can’t die unless he doesn’t own the book but he can only alter the future, not the past or present. So he writes a story about 6 organizations vying for the book beginning 2 years in the future, it takes him 2 years to write. He uses Atsushi as the protagonist this time and sets him up to inherit the book with a heroes journey to prepare him and Dazai as his mentor to guide him.
Dazai will die at the end, no doubt about it. The entire story is written by Dazai, which is why he always knows what’s going to happen. He gave the single page to the special operations division to set up the decay of angels arc. He and Fyodor are so similar because Dazai wrote him. Well, he wrote his actions and how it played out, but the DoA existed before he got the book.
I think maybe his suicide attempts, at least serious ones, stopped while he was in the Mafia. He was searching for meaning in life and he caught a glimpse of it in the Mafia. He wasn’t invincible while he was there, he was just not trying to die. But after Oda died his suicidal tendencies came back in full force, but Oda had made him unable to die without writing a story with narrative consistency so he couldn’t just say “then Dazai Osamu died painlessly in his sleep.”
Btw if anyone else came up with the same thing I swear I didn’t steal it. I didn’t look at any theories currently in circulation. Mostly because I’ve been focusing on canon but also because so many people just don’t understand the fundamentals of the story or characters so I knew if I did I would be sifting through endless painful misinterpretations. (Yes I’m a bit of a bitch and a lit snob im not gonna deny it. But I took an advanced accelerated college lit class at 17 so I would say my confidence is warranted)
#bsd#bungou stray dogs#bsd dazai#dazai osamu#analysis#bsd theories#bsd analysis#bsd book#the book bsd#bsd book theory#bsd odasaku#oda sakunosuke#bsd natsume#i finally made sense of it#im actually pretty confident that this is at least partially accurate#details may be off#i got carried away#but it makes sense
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Felt like some Elden bling
#fromsoftware#fromsoft games#elden ring#I’ve been really feeling these weird little borders#cuz when I trim off a painting of its little ragged edges I feel like it looses some of its peripheral details that added to it#it’s like when u take a photo and even tho u may use a wide lens it’ll still lose some things u were able to see out of the corner of ur ey#which added to the scenery#yknow
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#pokemon#crochet#amigurumi#hydreigon#pokemon crochet#art#artists on tumblr#dragon#plush#foth#fresh off the hook#that means i just made this one!#poll#this took me several hours over two days#there's so many little bits#also for your convenience and my desire for praise here are some pre selected compliments that you may bestow upon me#anonymously even#did i mention it took me many hours and has lots of fiddly bits#it's so much more detailed than pictured#frayed off looking tail and wispy six segmented wings#flower crown eight petal looking things around the head and both hand heads#flat atrophied looking legs (is there a lore reason for that? will check later)#definitely a contender for coolest fucking individual crochet i've made yet
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I guess this might be why the UK seemed to go so antisemitic so quickly
I'm researching the 1947 pogroms in the UK. (Actually, I'm researching all the pogroms and massacres of Jews in the past 200 years. Which today led me to discover that there were pogroms in the UK in 1947.)
From an article on "The Postwar Revival of British Fascism," all emphasis mine:
Given the rising antisemitism and widespread ignorance about Zionism [in the UK in 1947], fascists were easily able to conflate Zionist paramilitary attacks with Judaism in their speeches, meaning British Jews came to be seen as complicit in violence in Palestine.
Bertrand Duke Pile, a key member of Hamm’s League, informed a cheering crowd that “the Jews have no right to Palestine and the Jews have no right to the power which they hold in this country of ours.” Denouncing Zionism as a way to introduce a wider domestic antisemitic stance was common to many speakers at fascist events and rallies. Fascists hid their ideology and ideological antisemitism behind the rhetorical facade of preaching against paramilitary violence in Palestine.
One of the league’s speakers called for retribution against “the Jews” for the death of British soldiers in Palestine. This was, he told his audience, hardly an antisemitic expression. “Is it antisemitism to denounce the murderers of your own flesh and blood in Palestine?” he asked his audience. Many audience members, fascist or not, may well have felt the speaker had a point. ...[The photo of two British sergeants hanged by the Irgun in retaliation for the Brits hanging three of their members] promptly made numerous appearances at fascist meetings, often attached to the speaker’s platform. In at least one meeting, several British soldiers on leave from serving in Palestine attended Hamm’s speech, giving further legitimacy to his remarks. And with soldiers and policemen in Palestine showing increasing signs of overt antisemitism as a result of their experiences, the director of public prosecutions warned that the fascists might receive a steady stream of new recruits.
MI5, the U.K. domestic security service, noted with some alarm that “as a general rule, the crowd is now sympathetic and even spontaneously enthusiastic.” Opposition, it was noted in the same Home Office Bulletin of 1947, “is only met when there is an organized group of Jews or Communists in the audience.”
The major opposition came from the 43 Group, formed by the British-Jewish ex-paratrooper Gerry Flamberg and his friends in September 1946 to fight the fascists using the only language they felt fascists understood — violence. The group disrupted fascist meetings for two purposes: to get them shut down by the police for disorder, and to discourage attendance in the future by doling out beatings with fists and blunt instruments. By the summer of 1947, the group had around 500 active members who took part in such activities. Among these was a young hairdresser by the name of Vidal Sassoon, who would often turn up armed with his hairdressing scissors.
The 43 Group had considerable success with these actions, but public anger was spreading faster than they could counter the hate that accompanied it. The deaths of Martin and Paice had touched a nerve with the populace. On Aug. 1, 1947, the beginning of the bank holiday weekend and two days after the deaths of the sergeants, anti-Jewish rioting began in Liverpool. The violence lasted for five days. Across the country, the scene was repeated: London, Manchester, Hull, Brighton and Glasgow all saw widespread violence. Isolated instances were also recorded in Plymouth, Birmingham, Cardiff, Swansea, Newcastle and Davenport. Elsewhere, antisemitic graffiti and threatening phone calls to Jewish places of worship stood in for physical violence. Jewish-owned shops had their windows smashed, Jewish homes were targeted, an attempt was made to burn down Liverpool Crown Street Synagogue while a wooden synagogue in Glasgow was set alight. In a handful of cases, individuals were personally intimidated or assaulted. A Jewish man was threatened with a pistol in Northampton and an empty mine was placed in a Jewish-owned tailor shop in Davenport.
And an important addendum:
I've read a whole bunch of articles about the pogroms in Liverpool, Manchester, Salford, Eccles, Glasgow, etc.
Not one of them has mentioned that the Irgun, though clearly a terrorist group, was formed in response to 18 years of openly antisemitic terrorism, including multiple incredibly violent massacres. Or that it consistently acted in response to the murders of Jewish civilians, not on the offensive. Or that at this point, militant Arab Nationalist groups with volunteers and arms from the Arab League countries had been attacking Jewish and mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhoods for months.
I just think the "Jewish militants had been attacking the British occupiers" angle is incredibly Anglocentric.
Yeah, they were attacking the British occupiers. But also, that's barely the tip of the iceberg.
Everyone involved hated the Brits at this point. If only al-Husseini and his ilk had hated the Brits more than they hated the Jews, Britain could at least have united them by giving them a common enemy.
#jewish history#jumblr#fascism#antisemitism#when anti-zionism IS antisemitism#seriously if you declare that something is never ever antisemitism we know you're writing yourself a blank check to be antisemitic#like. you may not consciously be aware of it#but the more you're emotionally invested in the idea that anything said or done in the name of anti-zionism isn't antisemitic#the more you will ignore or fail to notice or outright defend things that other anti-zionists do that ARE antisemitic#not to mention things that YOU do or say or believe that are antisemitic#especially because most people aren't very aware of the details of different antisemitic tropes#you're not an expert on what is antisemitic and why to begin with and now you're buying into a belief that muffles your perception of it#and gives you motivation to disbelieve and deny it#and there's already psychological motivation to disbelieve and deny it when it's coming from you or your peers or people you admire#and then there's the belief that jews just cry antisemitism to silence valid criticism#aka the exact thing that we always say marginalized groups don't do. and that it's offensive to claim marginalized groups do. that one.#the entire discourse has been set up to protect and propagate antisemitic beliefs from the start#which is not particularly progressive nor is it necessary if you actually want to support palestinians but go off etc#wall of words
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Can you talk about trans!Curly a little bit more? I'm curios if you have any headcanons and the like
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It's just such a thing in my mind because it adds a truthful sadness and differing aspect to mouthwashing.
If Curly was trans it adds the horror of the horribly selfish thought he could have easily been in Anya's situation. It could've been him but it wasn't and he so conflicted on the pit it put in his stomach that brings and the shameful relief it wasn't. In this scenario he is friends with Jimmy for a long time still. Jimmy likely knew him pretransition. Maybe he gave Curly weird looks then, maybe they never stopped after, maybe they seemed meaner. They are guys now, bros, both of them are. He doesn't really have to worry what those looks mean anymore, Jimmy just has that face with him sometimes. It's recontextualizing a lot of things for him that he was in denial about or too ashamed to admit. How naive he was being and how he let that get another person hurt.
Specifically with Anya, it's he knows the dread and fear she's feeling. He can understand it because he had to live with it for a good portion of his life, he knows it cause he still does, just in a slightly different way. It makes him think of all the times he's been alone with Jimmy, all the times he's been way more drunk off his ass and not remember the night, Jimmy was always with him the next day. Makes him think of the comments he would laugh off both because that's what guys do but because that part of being a girl says to laugh so Jimmy doesn't do something. It's the selfish realization that he was never safe and he's uncertain now too. Mad at himself for forgeting that feeling, espcially since for a long time he would've been considered the only woman on a crew (with all that implies) for a long time.
He should've taken those blinders off, step back into that position for just a moment and it's so much more painful that Anya likely came to him because he should've gotten it. Those thoughts don't leave his mind after the crash when he's in an even more vulnerable position than she was...
#this is less headcanons and more my thoughts of the intersectional horror this brings to mouthwashing which is also a thing it#already has but more directly in the mix vs just the class gender and positional struggle. like the idea he waited to confront Jimmy becaus#he could conceptualize the crime better because of experience with womanhood and also how it would've destroyed him in terms of being trans#like its weird to word as a comparison but thats kinda how empathy works as in an understanding and ability to project through aspects#like you found out your friend who has always had weird feelings about and relating to you is a rapist and got one of your other friend#pregnant and is now being openly hostile and aggressive towards you. You have only a few days to really think on all of this all the years#with him and how many oppurtunites he had that you blame yourself for giving him both in life and to do to you. You are starting to#realize that he may have done what he did to Anya because it was no longer viable with him or because of weird transphobia/homophobia#from Jimmy and god its so much and he should've know better and what did Jimmy do then - c r a s h#he is at such a small amount of mercy to Jimmy now and he can't protect Anya and it's terrifying because i know and you know that Jimmy is#giving him those weird looks again...#like it adds another layer of horror to things and while I don't think Jimmy would do anything to Curly it's heavily implied he targeted he#because of relatively more important position and getting Curly to have doubts about him as a power play and Curly knows Jimmy well enough#that him immediately exerting his authority and power would set him off after already having been mad about it and even when doing#damage control it still set him off. like its the horror of accidenlty siding with your oppresser and hurting other like you only to then b#stabbed in the back again by the person who took advantage of your nature like its so complext but my actual trans curly headcanons#are just a little bit happier like i imagine he was the first on the boys soccer team and a star player. maybe he and jimmy even picked ou#his first offical “boy” clothes and Jimmy picked most so he looked like the grungiest white boy but she was a boy so it didn't matter cause#it was with his friend who accepted him and I bet on the bed he looks back at all those moments and notices the little details that his#friend wasnt actually so happy but he can't be certain when he started looking so bitter or hes just imagining out of paranoia cause he jus#cant know and even if he could he wouldn't want to ask like god thinking about Anya and probably being a little glad if not heartbroken#that she did get out of it in the end like trans curly and anya destroy me even more its so upsetting like he didn't realize how much he go#you girl and waited to act like it was cowardice but then would she not realize what hes realizing? should that be a grace or more of a#condemnation in her mind like what are her thoughts? espically during the scene Jimmy hits Curly like she had to hear and what did she thin#they are tormented in a similar hells with the same demon and its fascinating#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#anya mouthwashing#curly mouthwashing#jimmy mouthwashing
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I finished posting the unabashedly educational Sword Fic.
It includes a detailed (but hopefully beginner-friendly) explanation of all the steps of making a Nichirin blade from a sunny mountain like Mt. Youkou, a touch of swordsmith and metalworker folk lore (including demons), meta about what must make Kimetsu no Yaiba's swordsmithing methods different from real life methods, some character exploration for Haganezuka and his polishing method, vocabulary and additional resources in the chapter notes, and hopefully, an endearing, silly POV character to learn this all through.
#my fics#SWORDS SWORDS SWORDS#would you like a story about the years of background of this fic?#I was not very well-versed in metallurgy until recent years but my study of the Japanese language goes back to#well#longer than some of you may have been around#I always liked samurai and swords for the aesthetic but started to take more of an interest when I lived in Shimane#and on a day when I had a friend taking me around to rural sites associated with a legendary monster she was like#let's go see the sword museum while you're out here#but that museum was closed (it comes back into this story though)#so we went to a different one that no longer exists but that was my first encounter with how much work it takes to make the sword ore#fast forward years later#I am writing this blog and it becomes known as a fun place to read about Japanese culture as seen in KnY (thanks glad you enjoy)#I decide that I must tell people how hard it is to make the ore and finally visit that main museum on a trip back to Shimane#I collect material and struggle to do more research and wrap my head around it#and I write the first version of Teppi's story that focused mostly on the smelting and glazed over the forging and polishing and stuff#meanwhile I am in a job situation I have already long since wanted out of and soon I want out a lot more desperately#job searches were disheartening but then I found THE ONE I WANTED#and on that first interview when I was already like PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE#they asked if there's a Japanese cultural topic I could suddenly explain in great detail if asked#and without mentioning this blog I said I had recently written up something for fun about tatara smelting methods (and they forgot this)#fast forward again and I very happily got the job and was very nervous as I got the rundown on a very large annual nerd project#and when they announced the topics for that year I saw that tatara smelting methods in the region I knew them from was on the list#and I was like#asudyaiusdyuasdyuahduahduhsdhuPLEASE GIVE ME THAT#and i got it and when I went out there for research people were like#...why do you know all this...???????#and since I dared not mention my KnY blog I was like#...I lived in Shimane...#it seems I broke the tags because the rest of the story got cut off but hi yes you get the idea
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I redid his jacket
#IT WAS JUST SLIGHTLY OFF I COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE#plus i got to draw out the back detail#.... and his piercings#i don't wanna hear it he would#ALSO I KNOW I SAID NERO WAS SOON THEN KEPT DRAWING HIS UNCLES#SOON I PROMISE HE NEEDS GLAZING#devil may cry#dmc fanart#dmc5#dmc#dante sparda#dmc dante#tony redgrave#dante devil may cry#devil may cry 5#devil may cry dante
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hello!! hope you're having a good day :D
since you're doing the pride flag challenge, I hope you don't mind me requesting the lithromantic/sexual flag!
left is lithsexual and the right is lithromantic, idm which one you pick :]
(it means to feel romantic and/or sexual attraction to someone but doesn't want the feeling reciprocated or stops once it is :>)
Day 297 of posting Jevil every day
#pride palettes#lithromantic#I wanted to go with the Lithromantic palette because I thought the green and red was interesting and also because it feels familiar#five colors.. mostly black? this is the closest I’ve gotten to drawing Jevil in his actual color palette since we’ve started this!#this whole June Pride event has been so exciting and it makes me really happy to see you all getting happy when you see yourself reflected#in a palette. But I do miss drawing regular Jevils!!!#I may get my chance though. Day 300 is coming up fast and it’s gonna be during June. do I do a regular Pride jevil or a special normal#palette Jev? I guess we’ll see how I’m feeling day of.#hmmm. hey if you’ve read this far- want some Dailyjevil lore?#when I started dailyjevil.. Jevil wasn’t even my favorite Deltarune character#It was Rouxls Kaard actually. Actually had a big crush on him- crazy right?? I don’t get those often.#Anyways I started Dailyjevil on a whim in the middle of my 5th period English class. I noticed there wasn’t a daily jevil art blog and#thought I could try it for a month or two. By the way- I had drawn Jevil like twice before this. Never could’ve seen it lasting this long!#Now I have around 300 Jevils in my camera roll. I didn’t think it would last once my Deltarune fixation wore off.#I’m probably gonna go in detail of it all later once this is all over in a big thank you post#I’m starting to plan what I’m gonna do for the final day#gah!!!!! I can’t believe I’ve almost made it!!!!!#dailyjevil#deltarune#deltarune jevil#jevil#jevil deltarune
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So @retrobee drew a Ruby Spears take on an absolutenutcase162 comic...
#Star's Voicework#Star's Memes#absolutenutcase162#Mega Man#Rockman#Ruby Spears Mega Man#Mega Man Ruby Spears#Cut Man#Proto Man#Blues#Guts Man#Pharaoh Man#Ice Man#Voicework#Coolness#It's not incredibly often I do voice acting nowadays...#... but once I happened upon this in the Mega Man tag I knew what had to be done#And in the process learned that I can pull off a half-decent Ruby Spears Cut Man voice#Coming from a transfem no less. Who would have guessed?#At some point I'd like to put my 'true voice' to good use for a future dub lol#If you listen closely you may notice additional muffled dialogue during the third panel#That's 'cause it's Cut Man and Ice Man bickering in the car from a distance#Even in a hastily voiced dub I still gotta let my knack for details shine! 💙🏳️⚧️✨
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Yui lies awake for an indeterminable amount of time, watching shadows make patterns on the ceiling above them. The heartbeat against her fingertips beats a constant tattoo against her skin, a reminder that she’s not alone, that the body next to her continues to live and breathe and exist in this world.
—Famous Last Words Chapter 3, from May Death Never Stop You by @slexenskee
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Okay so I binged this series in about the span of a week and it did things to my brain. The scene where Yui gets Satoru to come home and sleep lives rent-free so I had to draw it. She's the most little sister ever and this scene made me cry from the bittersweet wholesomeness. My utmost respect to slex for this masterpiece of a fic.
#fic may death never stop you#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#my hero academia#mha#slexenskee#kodai yui#gojo satoru#art based off of fanfic#pencil's art tag#I have no idea if yui sets the contact name on the app or not#but I named him dumpster fire nonetheless#gojo would approve I am sure#though I through the phone interface together the details aren't important#favorite detail is probably sparkly nails lol#gojo be looking fabulous as he annihilates traffickers worldwide#and for his mental break ahahaaaaaaa#it's okay little sister figures are there to call you out#god that phone call and text sequence *had* me#and then him coming immediately and the bit with the spilled ramen#and her sleeping in his empty house to get out of her own#good stuff good stuff#also the sass these two have towards each other in that affectionate way#honestly every relationship ever in this fic has me *gripped*#but kudos to slex for making me love an obscure mha character with every inch of my being#yui deserves the world#anyway tag rant done#i would have made yui's shirt a no scrubs one but I got lazy
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“Surely you can’t expect me to climb a 30ft pole and take the already loose eye out of a dead man’s skull!” -the guy who scaled a vertical shaft dozens of feet tall, shimmied around the exterior of the nth floor of a mansion on a cliff during a storm, has survived an elevator drop from inside a hotel to the bottom of a massive underground cavern, stumbling into an eldritch meat pit in the bowels of another world, and being thrown down a mineshaft, and has killed “I don’t know, seven?” people, two of which by shoving his thumbs through their eyeballs.
Y’all will do fuck all for Yorick smh.
#some details may be inaccurate#this was all off the top of my head#i’m only like 15 minutes in to this dang episode and so much yorick disrespect is flying around#malevolent 47#malevolent podcast#malevolent spoilers
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they never left the desert...
gift for my desertduo-obsessed friend @kindledrose, love you trr hope you like it <3
#grian#grian fanart#gtws#gtwscar#gtws fanart#desert duo#desert duo fanart#3rd life#trafficblr#traffic life#traffic life fanart#life series fanart#watcher grian#based off of the 'murder documentaries be like' meme#favourite detail has to be that grian has blood on his knuckles and scar has it everywhere else :)#desertduo enjoyers don't get to be happy here pfff sorry terra#also i thought it would be funnier to have a mc screenshot instead of a doodle for the first part-#just really let it sink in that these guys are characters in a minecraft roleplay#they may be tragic#but they are also made of Cubes
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Shirai and Posuka's answers to fan questions: pt 2
Reminder that the English answers posted by the officials are machine translated, so there are some inconsistencies (like "About Never" being the auto translation for "TPN", some mess-ups between first and third person pronouns in the answer about Ayshe etc.)
Pt. 3 will be the final part!
#the promised neverland#posu loving ch. 152 to draw is now of my new favorite information#the details about GV was cool I'm glad it was touched upon#also the background behind ayshe's name haha#is shirai forever going to keep it from us why rats poisoned norman at lambda or should we be still hopeful for an elaborate side story#the next batch will answer off-series questions so FINALLY he may answer what's his plan for the series's sustainable future#and whatever he's up to#yakusoku no neverland#tpn emma#tpn norman#tpn ray#tpn ayshe#goldy pond#kaiu shirai#posuka demizu#mine
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CRWBY & the White Fang - To Critique or Compliment?
There's no denying that when discussions of RWBY's quality come up, the specter of the White Fang, Blake & Faunus plot lines will almost inevitably rear their head.
So, I wanted to take some time to analyze my own critiques of CRWBY;s handling of these subjects, which thee writers themselves have said they found fault in regarding their work.
But, to also outline what I think was done well and address some common complains that I see, as I think there is a much more nuanced discussion that could be happening here.
With that in mind, lets begin:
My issues lie in the Execution:
CRWBY simply don't have the budget or time to give this topic the necessary breathing room to be handled with as much nuance as it needs; which at times can lead to a subject not being explore sufficiently, or a bit like in Mistral, a seemingly easy solution being applied to a complex issue.
While I understood the logic of having Sienna supplanted as she was, and the tragedy of her death. The loss of her character and a more active counterweight to Ghira's pacifism has weakened a lot of the stronger aspects of their writing on this topic.
The plot of the series while allowing for the exploration of some of the themes at play means that in universe, characters need to logically prioritize the apocalypse witch over other matters sometimes.
My Praise is in the details:
Faunus bigotry varies from regions to regions & country to country, in Vale it's heavily rooted in microaggressions, harassments and presumptions of guilt. In Mistrals its not only legalized to discriminate against Faunus, but there are outright lynch mobs. Meanwhile in Atlas it is blended with heavy doses of classism and the impoverished of Mantle are placed against the impoverished Faunus in the crater.
The writers consistently acknowledge that this is a complicated issue, not in the sense of "Ooh poor bigot has a reason to be that way" but in the sense of "Fighting for a better world is hard, complicated work, where there is no a neat and tidy ending, or simple solution." Which is frankly far more realistic than I see in a lot of media that want to cap off stories with "& then bigotry was solved!"
While Ghira has been returned to a prominent role, he outright respected Sienna Khan, and acknowledged the faults in his all too passive approached in the past. It also seems that thematically Blake is the one being set up to eventually take the reigns of the movement and seek out a path between easily exploitable militarism and all too self effacing pacificism.
Counters to Common Complaints:
The White Fang are presented as faceless mooks - This is indeed an issue in Volumes 1 through 3, however, it is also one CRWBY course corrected on, and I'd note Blake is also meant to be our primary window into the White Fang. What's more, the radicalization of the White Fang took time, with Sienna's era notably having actually seen genuine progress for Faunus, before Adam ended it in fire and blood.
What's more, if we look at resistance movements like the real world IRA, we will see that they too can start out using moderated violence, only to be co opted by self serving despots who harm their own people as well as others, so their shift is not exactly unrealistic.
Making a victim like Adam a villain is in poor taste - A questionable claim as I think that is all down to execution and he's hardly the only character like that, & there's many others who overcame similar issues, so tis hardly "Abuse makes you evil."
But more to the point, given how a lot of people who have dealt with abusive stalkers, including those who weaponized their own history of abuse or trauma for sympathy said he was the most realistic portrayal of an abuser they've seen, I think there's a great deal of merit to his portrayal.
I would also note that the philosophical stance, "X person was a victim and therefore cannot be bad" is a poor and rather problematic idea. Because there is no demographic of person that makes one incapable of causing harm. Plus, Adam's life and death is still framed as a tragedy, despite all the harm he did, his life still had innate worth even to the people he hurt most.
(Well, the one's still alive anyway XD)
The White Fang being antagonists is corporate/military apologia - I already addressed most of this above, but I wanted to re-center it because I had some interesting thoughts to share. Specifically how in another show this would be true, but it's not true in RWBY.
Because in most shows where the freedom fighters/terrorists are villainized, the institutions they target are propped up and defended, where its claimed, even if they are "flawed" they are "better", "Necessary", or more "well meaning" than the rebels.
Not true in RWBY
The SDC is every bit as bad as it's advertised, and Jac outright enables the villains in a selfish bid for power to protect his own wealth. Ironwood, who in other shows would be the "Good military man" type, reveals himself to be a craven coward and despot.
Ironwood and Adam's character songs even hit on the same themes of egotism and entitlement. Adam's is angrier & Ironwood's more grandiose because of their respective life experience, but they are men cut from a very similar cloth & playing similar roles amongst their peers and in the wider narrative.
Blake was originally a street kid, her being a princess is bad- That's not true in both cases and I appreciate CRWBY subverting the tired trope of "Violent minority girl gets saved and civilized by nice Caucasian girls" the post below goes into more detail on that: https://www.tumblr.com/kkglinka/176246425849/rwby-racial-trope-inversion?source=share
Conclusion:
Ultimately, RWBY grew beyond, explored or outright subverted a lot of the usual issues that come attached with these complaints and had a lot more nuanced stuff to say on the subjects they tackled.
Even with their issues in tackling these subjects, I feel that there is much more interesting stuff to talk about than a lot of what I usually see come up when this subject comes around, which is a shame.
There's room to acknowledge where there were flaws without tearing down the entire concept, or glossing over what was done well, I think.
#RWBY#CRWBY#Faunus#The White Fang#Blake Belladonna#Text post#Analysis#My writing#This was written off the cuff#Mostly for the last section#So I may have missed some things or not gone into as much detail as I could#But I hope this conveys my main point.#Tag: Also Miles Luna is white passing which likely informs a lot of his writing decisions on this topic early on especally
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back on my soldierrose bullshit
[ID: digital drawing of the soldier and rose in the alley. rose is wearing a red dress and has red hair. the soldier is wearing a green military uniform and has brown hair in a bun. they are standing under a warm yellow light, which fades into the darkness. they are holding each other close, foreheads touching. rose is pressing a gun to the soldier’s chest. end ID]
#they’re my little guys! she’s shooting her in an alleyway! she’s swearing off vengance against the most vengeful person in the whole world!#ghost quartet#soldierrose#soldierose#art#dave malloy#malloysicals#my art#you have NO IDEA what this drawing put me through#my most beloved and most beloathed#which is appropriate given the subject matter but GOD#someday i may try again to do a more detailed version of this but it is not this day
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brassic questions im haunted by: what the fuck was the wanking contest? why the FUCK do these "professional thieves" never silence their phones when they're robbing? why does dylan continue to take class a's?
#brassic#may add to this list as i get further into the rewatch. i love this damn show its so stupid#also! little thing i noticed - at carol and cardis (first) wedding sugar and jj r walking down the aisle together and link arms. cuties 💓#rain rambles#siiigghh this show is great its amazing its perfect#also the reason the s5 jobs go wrong is bc dylan isnt there. actually the reason any job where dylan isnt there goes wrong is exactly for#that reason. bc dylan isnt there. my guy is the brains of just about every plan. maybe he doesnt come up with the idea but he works it out#and pays attention to the details. where to go on the sea for the funeral. the map w the rolly clicky thing. fuck ik theres more but thats#all i can remember off the top of my head. dylan ilysm. oh and the weed grow!!! and hes quick on maths stuff! i love dylan 🎉🎉🎉🎉 pls b ok#also big big big on the 2nd one. esp vinnie. my guy youve been doing this for 5 seasons and a christmas special and ur phone still isnt at#LEAST on vibrate. cmon man. “professional thief” my arse
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