#i believe in tai supremacy

[tai-janai]

taiii! bashfully kicking the dirt. do you have a height chart for your voices <- nefarious and malicious intent

oh i cant say no to that face (i had to go draw this)

sorry if it's blurry but you get the idea

[just-another-colin-kinnie]

Babe wake up partially colored Nindroid Junction full designs just dropped stuff abouttt the outfits beklow

ok so Zane is literally just wearing his civilian sweater and boots over his ZX gi but that's really all he needs .... it's practical so it's fine

he does most of the driving so I don’t think he’d settle for anything less

Zane rebuilt Cryptor to be pretty much exactly the same as before, incomplete exoskeleton and all, so there’s nothing much to say there.

Cryptor's wearing his regular nindroid gi pants, boots, and waistband but the spiky leather jacket + shirtless combo is just to dramatically look the part 😭 let that power source hang ig

Cryptor wears those boots to be sliiightly taller than Zane but it doesn’t really work since his hair is shorter

He can SORT OF successfully (and recklessly) drive the cycle too but only because he’s watched Zane do it so much….. Also if he has to wear a helmet, he might as well make it look cool so ummm SPIKY TEETH ON THERE!

echo really only wears clothes to protect his already rusting body from the constant beatdowns the wind gives him on that motorcycle tbh

Now, I was originally only gonna add the letterman's jacket to echo since I didn't think he'd like the fabric of pants getting caught in his joints or whatever (and the sleeves are nice and puffy so they wouldnt do that too much on his arms) but then I realized I could just put a big ol pair of palazzos on him so yk GET THAT NINDROID COMFY

Echo's outfit and lack of shoes is not practical for motorcycle driving because I don't really see him doing much of that (though he could if he really wanted to, after a bit of trial and error) ..... He’d wanna get a good look around at the big ol world he’s never known before anyways!!!

he rides in a sidecar and uses the mailman bag for trinket + spare parts collection :) Also Tai-D likes to be carried around in said bag so another win

For the record, Echo ALSO has to wear a helmet but they haven't really gotten to circle back and buy one yet so he either wears Cryptor's or ties a toolbox to his head

[respectthepetty]

10 Anticipated BLs for 2024

Since I'm excited for ALL the GLs (Pluto, 23.5, Sunshine in the Wind, Chaser Game, Be Mine, y todo!), I'm making my list of the 10 BLs I'm excited for this year with brief reasons why I'm looking forward to them. In my normal fashion, I cheat my way into having more. All except one is Thai because Thailand loves to tease series three years in advance, then never make them, but I strongly believe these are coming:

The Next Prince

Zee continues to never play a poor person, and a trailer is supposed to drop in the first quarter of this year. I never knew there was so many fencers on BL Tumblr, so I'm looking forward to everyone's commentary on how well the characters poke with their sticks or whatever fencers do.

Jack & Joker: U Steal My Heart

It's a heist BL. It has YinWar. It has Prom x Mark. It has Bonz. It's Dee Hup House (we got beef). It's Director Tee and probably Cinematographer Jim. It might have color coding. There is not one thing I can find wrong with this series. It's perfect on paper, and I'm praying that translates well to the screen.

Spare Me Your Mercy

Like that lady in Titanic, I've been waiting 80 years for this series (give me a minute to cry about MaxTul), and it's finally near! I'm getting JJ & Tor in a Dr. Sammon piece, who I feel writes "Be Gay, Do Crime" very well, so I'll be forgiving any of these two gays' wrongs including murder, attempted murder, contemplating murder, and murdering each other in the bedroom (ahhhh!).

Wandee Goodday

Golf from The Eclipse is directing. It's about Muay Thai. It has an older doctor and a younger boxer who start off as bed friends (and I think one is actually a virgin). It has color coding. It has me already seated and waiting with popcorn, and I think it might be the first offering that will be delivered from GMMTV's 2024 lineup.

Sequels: Choco Milk Shake 2, Unintentional Love Story 2, My Doctor

Is Choco Milk Shake 2 gonna finally give me poly? Probably not, but I hope My Doctor brings the same heat the side couple did in Be Mine, Superstar, and the side couple getting the spotlight in Unintentional Love Story 2 will also make my side-couple-supremacy heart very happy this year.

Live in Love

It looks color coded. That's it. That's the reason. Keeping my expectations low because it might not get made since this is Thailand's favorite game.

Red Peafowl

The character reveals were absolute chaos, so I'm hoping that chaos transfers over to the actual series because it can either be a mess or a masterpiece, but it cannot be mediocre with Max, Cooheart, Boun, Mek, and Yacht as supports. Plus, it has color coding and a bird that is quickly becoming a Tumblr god.

Love Upon a Time

Even though it is a historical queer series, which means it could be sad, I think Domundi will keep the sass, so James' character won't be crying in the 1600s club but instead eating fruit seductively to encourage Net's character to put his homosexual skills into practice instead of simply theorizing about them, which is something I need more of. Plus, it has color coding.

Love Puzzle

This is one that might not get made because . . . Thailand. It's connected to Chains of Heart, but I don't care because the cast looks good and Poppy is gonna finally get to kiss a homie. If this doesn't get made, I will cry thug tears. It's 2024. Poppy deserves to kiss a man already.

My Stand-In

I don't understand the plot, but it doesn't matter because Pepzi and Khom are directing, and in case that means nothing, those were KinnPorsche's directors! Then, it has Up and Poom as the leads, plus a stacked supporting cast. I'm here. I'm queer. And I'm ready to be served.

Honorable Mention: Peaceful Property

It's about los espookys and features Tay and New. Will it be a QL? The streets are saying no, but all the characters are color coded, and all's I'm saying is what would be the point of color coding them if I ain't getting a BL main couple and a GL side couple? It's already canon to me.

Bonus: MosBank & JoongDunk

MosBank had like eighty projects announced for 2023, and I got NONE! Big Dragon 2, Big Dragon: The Movie, SunsetxVibes, where you at?! Y Journey: Stay Like a Local and Club Friday do not count. I don't want to watch their horror movie, but gosh darnit, if that comes out before everything else, I just might.

And I am a JoongDunk fan first, and a human second. Give my boys a gym BL already, GMMTV!

[wandesu]

I can't believe I've been finishing these while I'm so sick...

Bumbleby week day 4: (Air)Nomad Blake & (Earth/Fire Nation)Farm Girl Yang 🌊⛰️🔥🌪️ I wanted to spice things up~

I like the A:TLA AUs where Blake is a Kyoshi warrior, but I am a firm believer in Lavabender Yang supremacy... Tai or Raven can be from the Earth Kingdom/Fire Nation descent its fine

[gunsatthaphan]

just saw some clips from safe house season 4 and first and tay being so cuddly all the time was so cute i didnt know they were so close!!

in this house we believe in tayfirst besties supremacy 🕯️🕯️🕯️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[julie-schwieters-supremacy]

intro !! (sarah's version)

i changed my url!! prev: -> just-sarah-xx // 14/05/2024

☆ sarah, s, moon ☆ she/they ☆ bi ☆ sun: libra ♎︎ moon: libra ♎︎ rising: pisces ♓︎ ☆ australia !! ☆ infp<3 (pls talk to me im so introverted lmao)

☆ i have a few alt accounts if you'd like to go follow<3 -> @scholarmoons-studyblr :: my studyblr alt !! -> @oxi-moon-xx :: my shifting account for my shifting mooties<3 ☆ taylor swift, conan gray, phoebe bridgers, tv girl, olivia rodrigo, the neighbourhood, steve lacy, dominic fike<3 ☆ i love art, reading, astronomy, taking long walks, playing guitar, making playlists and aesthetics ☆ fav aesthetics: rockstar gf, downtown girl, chaotic academia, y2k grunge, etc.

☆ stuff you'll see me posting about: -> random shitposts -> shifting -> rants about stuff -> drawing -> many different books -> obsessing over someone -> the sturniolo triplets -> etc.

my socials<3 ☆ pinterest: justsarahxx ☆ spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/31nyeusuv342xa4h4thn3j7ujzoy?si=b8f0fc1b36864e52

this is my fav post that i've made so far: https://www.tumblr.com/julie-schwieters-supremacy/746191574561636352?source=share

my mooties<3: @niallermybabe - bells, probably will tag as bells💛 (im sorry i dont have a better name) @quackethh - tay, will tag as quack quack @antisocialgaycat - lele, will tag as bestieboowifeyforlifey @cc-horan - cc, will tag as cc or 🍍 @strawberry-lia - lia/laura, will tag as 🍓 @localrockstargf - my shifting bestie xe, tagged as 🎸 @sad-trash-pigeon - fernie, tagged as pigeon🌿 @shutup-andletme-go - jack, YOU ARE JACHARY IM SORRY U DONT HAVE A SAY IN THIS @thatsawesomedontyouthink - emma, i also havent given you a tag yet im very sorry @waitingforthesunrise - ari, will probably tag as ari☀️🌿 @5ducksinatrenchcoat - flora, will probably tag as duckies x5 @svnflowermoon - lucy, will probably tag as luc🪩<3 waaaaiiittt wait wait wait @sleepy-vix (im so so so sorry i am so sorry ur so special omg i cant believe i didnt add u) - vix, uhh ill tag u as vix (mitski's version) @elemelom OMG my irl, imma tag you as em :D melon (im sorry thats just what i associate your name with) @demigoddess-of-ghosts - tess, ill tag u as tessy :3 julie schwieters is my bae (she doesnt know i exist) so she deserves a tag too, which is #julie schwieters supremacy my asks tag is #i'm not introverted !! (my asks) my posts and random rants will be #sazzy yaps i will do more im sorry if i missed u (i haven't fully added the moot tags so some might not show up)

so yeah thats my intro imma prolly edit it later have an amazing day<333

[thefringespod]

Happy #AudioDramaSunday dear wanderers! This week at work had way fewer meetings which meant more podcast time

Starting off the week, I had a relisten to the entirety of the Technomancy Project because I have a problem <3 I love the Technomancy Project so much and will likely relisten again soon

Also Jason *does* say gods instead of god throughout all of season 1 and I never noticed because *I* say gods instead of god because that's just who I am as a person

I missed a clue

Because of my linguistic choices

And I have no regrets

@re-dracula is continuing its incredible journey and I feel so bad for Lucy. It doesn't matter that I know what happens to her. Hearing Beth Eyre voice Lucy is cutting directly into my soul

Episodes 5 and 6 of @doyoucopypod have made me feel EMOTIONS. Episode 5 in particular made me cry. At my desk. At work. Cody Heath has made me cry with this show TWICE. And I wouldn't have it any other way

Patreon access for @malevolentcast was released this week and yeah. YEAH. I will be screaming about it more once public release has happened but its one hell of an episode (as they all are)

And of course we had the @EthicsTownPod season finale. Louis Hendry has created a crazy fucked up world (affectionate) and I'm obsessed with it. Liz Dokukina and Rhys Lawton absolutely punched me in the chest with the finale (and with the whole season) PLEASE listen to Ethics Town

Last on my listen list was episode 1 of The Silt Verses and hooooooboy I'm already so in love with it. Its been on my list for ages and both Tay and Tot told me to listen to it got moved up and yeah

YEAH

This is my foreseeable future

I believe in Méabh de Brún supremacy <3

Just a reminder that the incredible @chainofbeing is crowdfunding for season 2! They're 18% of the way to their goal with 22 days left

I adored season 1 of COB and know Cai is going to do incredible and wild things with season 2

And the cast is to die for

Here on the Fringes cast members are sending over their audio and im working on editing some bonus content

Season 2 is well underway and I can't wait for yall to hear it!

That's all for this week! Next week will be more Silt Verses and probably another COB relisten because im hyped for season 2 (please please PLEASE back the crowdfunder if you can they deserve the WORLD and if we can't give them that we can at least get them funded)

[whatiwillsay]

omg thank you! I'm so excited to look into other gaylor meta and lore. I just can't anymore with the 'how can we make everything Taylor does about Karlie' train. I'm so excited to dig into Tily. You can't talk tily in certain spaces cause it's believed some ppl made up the tily ship just to spite kaylor. Unnecessary because both could've happened. Whatever the Tily era was looked so hot. Not to be a creep but Taylor's never been hotter to me then that era. Deadpool pic lives rent free forever

@tilynation ‘s masterpost outlines so many exquisite moments in the tily timeline like you literally can’t make it up. we didn’t make up that lily travelled on rep tour w tay we have her there on candid camera 😩 we didn’t make up that lily has a tattoo of the word gold on her wrist, we didn’t make taylor go stay in london where lily was and get overheard in lilys apartment, we didn’t give lily ocean blue eyes (compared to karlie’s green) and an accent (in contrast with karlie’s lack of accent) like SORRY THATS NOT MY FAULT anyway tily supremacy rise up what were we talking about?

[cin-dy-moon]

Fusebox: we’re making the reunion 3 weeks of “content”

Me: what??? why...

Fusebox: now your MC and LI fight!!!

Me: WAIT WHAT WHY?!?!

[kozu-chan]

filipino!iwaizumi

no bc the way that this concept has a CHOKEHOLD on me ejwnqudbchv. and the fact that both of my parents were born and raised in the philippines i love this concept even more!!

disclaimer: even tho i'm filipino i was born and raised in the u.s. so i'm not like 100% knowledgable lol

warnings: mentions of food, use of tagalog, calling his s/o "mahal" (which means love or my love)

🇵🇭he's so respectful?!?! literally does the "mano po" thing to any elder he talks to and i always forget to

🇵🇭he also uses "po" a lot so you KNOW he's polite!!

🇵🇭watches teleseryes every night. sometimes he'll even watch it with oikawa and the rest of his friends and will give his own commentary on it.

🇵🇭he totally ships kathniel and “got to believe” was his favorite show. i will not take criticism but maybe that's because they were my faves as a child-

🇵🇭every once in a while, he'll have a night to himself where he'll watch some tagalog movies and eat some snacks.

🇵🇭he's the dude that all the titos and titas love. like the type that all the adults praise and compare you to.

🇵🇭"look at hajime! he gets good grades, he's so polite, and he's the ace of his volleyball team!" "you should date him, anak"

🇵🇭if he existed, my mom would try to get me to talk to him-

🇵🇭this man is also a whole CHEF

🇵🇭he makes really good food and i would die for his lumpiang shanghai and his adobo and his sopas-

🇵🇭if and when he ever gets a significant other... they're getting introduced to the entire family

🇵🇭he'll come home one day and bring his s/o. he'll pagmamano and then he'll be like "nay, tay, this is my s/o *insert name*"

🇵🇭his parents would be so excited and fawn over his s/o and try to get to know them i-

🇵🇭"would you like to stay for dinner? i made liempo with rice"

🇵🇭it would be a really nice family dinner ay ang puso ko!!

🇵🇭stop he would literally be so sweet and calling his lover "mahal" i can't rn

🇵🇭omg and he'd also try to educate his friends and anyone who's curious about his culture because he definitely appreciates and has pride in his filipino side as much as he does his japanese side 🥺

🇵🇭in conclusion, filipino!iwa supremacy 🇵🇭😩😌

🇵🇭mahal na mahal kita, hajime ikaw ang araw ko at ang buhay ko <3 (pls don't google translate that it's so embarrassing)

[tehohaews]

♧ oh so you're doing these too? 🥱

Jdjdjd i was legit gonna ask you to send me one so I can answer this for you 🥱🥱 my second favorite ex pie blog 😔✊

You’re my: like you said, evil twin with the different time zone 😌

How I met you: you popped up in my dash a lot and I was wondering how did I not notice you before since you were close to everyone. (Now i know that you came back on tumblr around that time, i think). Anyway I think i followed you first for itsay content and then you rbed or posted smth that had teh and tuty and i was like #TUTY THE HOMOPHOBIC DOG #cant believe the real villain of itsay was infront of us all along or smth like this (dont tell Tay she'd come screaming again with those tuty defending posts). And then you sent me an ask about it and I was like djdjjdjd OMG THEY NOTICED ME!?!? I didnt interact with a lot of ppl back then and I thought you were funny and cool (i now know that is a lie lol 🤪🤪). And I liked how you were so approachable like you just started a convo out of nowhere and you sent me another tuty related ask after that too. And then atots started and somehow we jumped on the train and you made that meme after ep6 with the shot of the school burning. Like the school was gmmtv and there were mine,yours and lara's icon there and it was like that we were burning down gmm if tian doesnt survive in the next ep or smth dhjdjd. And it was so sweeeeeeet and the first time i felt included here and after that I followed your approach and started talking to ppl more and all that lead to the protection squid first after nuria joined. And then the ask games and now ppdcc. I really admired(past tense 🥱) you and you taught me to interact with ppl more so like thank you for that ig 🥱🥱 This is getting really sappy omg what pie did you feed me i hate you 🥱

Why I follow you: you are my newspaper 🥱🥱 i never check the dash properly so i just scroll through your blog and look for new ways to bully you. I HAVE TO KNOW WHAT YOU SAY IN THE TAGS OKAY 🥱🥱 also you check the tags so its super useful to just go in your blog and find the good posts

Your blog is: PIES PIES PIES 🥱🥱

Your URL is: that pie url will always be superior and i miss the pie shop sm 😔😔 BUT user billkinsdancing supremacy. I associate you with billkinsdancing more than i did with hmmmquan or ipytm. It's just your brand and I also love that everytime i go to your blog the first line is "is this for billkin simping" djjdjd. You confused everyone with the same icon AND the same header and the fact that the header was the same picture as the icon djjdjdj.

Your icon is: PSEETIAN SUPREMACY!! he loooks so cute and the first time you changed into this was after ep7 or smth and you named the icon to delete.png or smth funny like this djjddj. Seeing you change back to it and be billkinsdancing again made me nostalgic

A random fact I know about you: you owned an aquarium and your tiger fish or smth bullied the other fishes i think (help you were a fish fetishist since childhood 🥱)

General opinion: CHAOTIC,lacks motivation and patience but SO SO SO TALENTED (when you focus on it 🥱🥱)

A random thought I have: hmmmmmm another thing I admire about you is that you gif for fun only and dont care that much about tags or anything. It taught me to be proud of my works even if they werent popular or smth djjdjdjd.

[sssn-neptune-vasilias]

RWBY vs Comic

Alright, I said I was gonna do this back when the comic first started getting published but I got so frustrated reading it that I couldn’t actually keep up with it enough go through with it. I think I stopped around issue 4 because that was when I just got angry and threw my comic back into the plastic. I figure now’s as good a time as any since I’m actually rereading it now. My whole issue with the RWBY DC comics is that they’re super canon divergent but somehow still canon material. It’s so frustrating that this is the case because we’re supposed to take into account things that happen in the comic as gospel- things like Adam revealing he’d always been genocidal, Bumbleby’s bottlecap, Weiss’ zoo animal arc, etc, but a lot of these different story arcs don’t make sense in our current canon. So I’m gonna talk about them because why not.

 Issue #1:

The first issue actually isn’t that bad- mostly because it’s just an intro to the series- but there are still some huge inconsistencies between the comic and official canon.

These two panels are a fucking mess.

1) Ruby was passed out when she was delivered to Patch by Qrow. She’d just used her Silver Eyed Warrior powers for the first time, hurt Cinder, frozen the dragon, and passed out. We were literally forced to listen as Qrow carried Ruby out of the rubble and back home, because she was unconscious. But the comic has her just arriving back home all on her own. “I came back to my dad’s house.” No you didn’t, you literally woke up in your bed after what must’ve been days of being unconscious.

2) We know Blake didn’t get to Menagerie on a little wooden boat. We all watched the episode. It was a decent sized ship with multiple crew members, dozens of passengers, and literal armaments designed to destroy Grimm. Sun can’t hide in a robe for 3+ days on this boat. This boat wouldn’t have survived a Grimm attack in the first place. Idk why they decided to draw this boat instead of just drawing the Pride the way it was designed in the first place, but whatever I guess.

RNJR didn’t tell Taiyang they were leaving. Ruby and her team just left. There was a whole scene dedicated to showing the shock and horror on Tai’s face as he saw Ruby’s letter and ran out of the house hoping to catch up to his daughter before she left. Also not as important but still relevant, RNJR left during winter. There was snow on the ground. I don’t see no snow in this panel- that tree looks real green. That last issue is mostly a nitpick- who cares what season they left in tbh. But the fact that they just wrote this panel into the comic despite the fact canon shows Taiyang had no idea of Ruby’s departure- and the fact that Ruby’s departure is actually really important to a bunch of later scenes in this show is really fucking weird.

Issue #2:

I know we know next to nothing about Raven Branwen, but holy fucking shit do I wanna believe this is ridiculously out of character for her. You’re telling me that Raven actually did come visit Yang and Tai and Ruby, but the one time she ever made her presence known to any of them was to berate and terrify Ruby the one time she’d learned anything about Summer?! Like BRO. This is so fucked up! This is too fucked up! This is straight early 90′s level villainy right here. What was even the point behind this?! This scene tells us that she felt so negatively about Summer Rose that she was willing to break her silent cover just to disillusion Ruby for no other reason than to tell her she was weak. Which makes no fucking sense because when we finally meet her during season 5 Raven has nothing bad to say about Summer at all! What did Qrow say to her after they spoke? “Hey sis why the fuck are you flying around your ex’s home scaring his daughter who just lost her mother? You realize you’re talking shit about the woman who raised your child too right?” Like, this is so wildly terrible, that if we’re meant to take this into account, I don’t see how anyone who reads these comics could say anything positive about Raven ever again. This is strike one, two and three for her entire characterization.

Issue #4:

I’ve said it already but fuck this boat.

Not so much an issue with the comic as it is with RoosterTeeth’s sometimes sloppy storytelling, but we really need an exact age on Adam. Is this man a pedophile? We know Blake is about twelve here, meanwhile- besides looking maybe a little scrawnier- Adam looks the same as he did during the show. How old is this kid right here? Fifteen? Seventeen? Was he 20 during the events of volume 1? Was he 25? I really dislike this specific problem RT has created because at no point during canon were we led to believe that Adam was significantly older than Blake or our other characters, but here in the comic we’re getting huge pedo vibes. Idk if this was RoosterTeeth retroactively trying to throw Adam’s character even further into question but... Idk man, RT y’all need to hurry up and carbon date this kid because I’m really not liking this.

I’m not gonna harp on the whole “Adam as a revolutionary vs Adam as a genocidal maniac” issue again. Most of y’all already know where I stand on this and have either made up your minds that either, yes, Adam’s sudden change towards being genocidal after being forcibly conscripted by Cinder doesn’t make much sense, or, no, Adam’s behavior is entirely in line with what little we’d seen of him up to that point in the story. I’m not trying to change anyone’s opinions on this issue, I’ve got about a dozen other posts for that. My issue with these panels specifically is that this is the moment Blake discovers Adam is genocidal. This is the moment Blake realizes that Adam never wanted peace, never wanted coexistence, never wanted what the White Fang actually wanted in the first place. He wanted Faunus supremacy- a goal entirely removed from the White Fang’s goal of equality between Faunus and humans. This is the moment Blake realizes that his ideology is so far from what it is she herself wants. If this is correct, why does Blake never mention this AT ALL when she’s talking about Adam. When the conversation comes up during season 3, she specifically states that Adam’s change was gradual. Not that he’d been hiding who he really was from her but that he’d become a completely different person from the man she’d originally known. I recognize that a lot of people say that this could be explained away as evidence of Blake’s abuse- oftentimes abusers don’t even realize just how monstrous their abusers are, even after they’ve escaped from said abuse. But this is just such a monumentally larger issue than manipulation and abuse. Adam is outright saying that he wants genocide! He’s not trying to hide it, he’s not trying to lie, he’s not trying to manipulate her! He’s telling her explicitly that he wishes he could kill as many humans as possible. But during the Black Trailer she’s still asking Adam about the crew members as if they hadn’t had this conversation hours ago! During season 2 she’s drawing him in her notebook as if she misses him! During season 3 she’s explaining that he’s simply misguided! This is apologia of the umpteenth level that is absolutely inexcusable. If I’m honestly supposed to be made to believe that Blake knew Adam was genocidal from before the events of the Black trailer and season 1 but still had feelings for him... I’m sorry but I’ve lost any and all respect for her entire character. You can’t have feelings for someone who’s genocidal- who you know is genocidal- and expect sympathy. No amount of abuse would forgive someone for having feelings for Hitler.

I recognize the comics aren’t supposed to be a shot for shot recreation of the show, but what the fuck is this panel? The frame of Adam dismembering Yang was such a good, amazing, impactful frame. The black and red framing, the yellow of Yang’s hair and weapons, the red of Adam’s sword. Why would you not even try to recreate that?

Leaving nitpicks for the end, really wish they hadn’t used “sunflower” here. That’s Yang/Ren. But again, the comic is made by people who aren’t in the fndm and don’t interact with the RWBY community at large in the first place, so of course they wouldn’t know.

Issue #5:

Why does Blake seem so ooc here. Like, the fact that she’s trying to make Weiss feel guilty for “cheating” in a “win by any means necessary” free for all match is really??? Weird??? When we know Blake isn’t above using underhanded tricks herself considering what she did to Reese during the tournament and her Semblance in general??? But whatever, that’s mostly a nitpick as well.

Issue #7:

My issue with this story is that it ends with Yang like, wistfully thinking of spending more time with Blake. But this is before she even put the prosthetic on. This is before she even got to talk with Weiss after meeting up with Raven. This is so early on in her healing process that I find it extremely difficult to believe that Yang is fondly remembering any time she spent with Blake. When Ruby talks to her during 3.12, she was angry that Blake had left her! Abandoned her! And then in the conversation she has with Weiss that happens after this event in the comic she’s still frustrated with Blake for leaving. So like... did she suddenly forgive Blake just a few weeks into her recovery and then relapse back into feeling like she’d abandoned her? Wtf is this?

Issue #9:

I know she’s obviously supposed to be drunk here, and we barely got to know her during the short scenes she had, but like... she never struck me as this kind of person. To literally forget how old her daughter is? Like...???? The same woman who was so perceptive she was able to recognize that Whitley was acting out because he’d felt lonely and abandoned by his sisters? Doesn’t know how old one of her children is? This is silly.

This isn’t the same woman we met during season 7. This isn’t the same quick witted woman who immediately directed Weiss to the cameras she’d hidden around the house when it was time to spring the trap on Jacques. This isn’t the same woman who was so honest when she admitted to her own faults just a few short months after this scene supposedly took place. You could argue that the events of this comic are what led Willow to become the person we meet later on, but like... That’s an absolutely ridiculous amount of offscreen growth you’re expecting me to just assume has happened. These aren’t the same people. This is ridiculous.

Issue #12:

This seems so ooc for Sun. Why is he literally begging her to run away and not face a problem when his entire relationship with Blake up to and past this point is him teaching Blake to love herself enough to face her problems head-on in the first place? This is so weird and gross imo because it just feels like they’re warping Sun’s character to make it look like Yang is the only good influence in her life when that’s simply not the case. Every conversation Sun has with Blake from season 1 to season 6 is him telling her that she deserves happiness, love, and to forgive herself. There are multiple songs about this aspect of their relationship! Sun has helped Blake grow just as much as Yang has. Why is Sun taking this approach to manipulate Blake into staying silent about something that’s bothering her? On top of that, Sun’s never been the brightest banana of the bunch anyway, why the FUCK is he smart enough here to recognize that if Blake tells the truth and makes those people feel bad, that they’d draw more Grimm? He’s never been this intuitive before. It really feels like they made him smarter than he normally is just to make him scummier than he’s ever been so that we could feel that Blake’s relationship with Sun is less than her relationship with Yang. Awful writing and characterization from the RWBY DC team here

Issue #13:

This is so wrong and despicable and manipulative and terrible. Again, this isn’t the same woman we met in the show. 

Willow never made excuses for herself or her actions like this. Not once during the entire time she was on screen did she do anything like this. She knew she wasn’t a great mother and she took full responsibility for her actions- and inaction- I don’t know WHY she’s trying to excuse herself here. This is more Cruella De Ville than it is Willow Schnee.

I’m not gonna explain how lumping this “prized menagerie” story with “Faunus slave labor” story together is godawful but just recognize that it’s Black History Month and this plot point they decided to write in is not MLK approved.

Anyway, that’s the whole RWBY DC run. All in all it wasn’t the worst adaptation of an established series, but goddamn. I’d rank this up there with Eragon or Percy Jackson or the end of the Soul Eater anime or something. This is such a slap in the face by people who obviously only ever skimmed through the show for the explicit purpose of writing this series that I’ve read fancomics and fanfiction that handle canon better than this. It’s really frustrating too because this comic run is like, beloved by certain people in the fndm who are only in this for the ships, and people who refuse to see anything wrong with this series ever. The healthy servings of Bumbleby and crumbs of Monochrome and White Rose are apparently enough to make people go “fuck all the inconsistencies, this comic is great.” Cannot express how much these people make me wanna slam my head into a wall. 

I did this just to highlight all the issues I have with the run, but I’m sure other people have other issues with this comic than I do. Have fun in the comments I guess.

[atldiscourse]

i remember that jack seemed really into tay and then alex dated her and screwed her over lmfao

i believe in baradine supremacy

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Hi hi hi it's Shy! I am here i am queer and I read the newest chapter as soon as I could!

Yay! Ze is back! (Also i am just noticing you put in chapter titles - duly noted)

I loved the phrase "Ze-shaped" a lot for some reason and oooh others are noticing it, i am looking 👁👄👁

I wanna see how the others reacted seeing him again please T-T

I really enjoyed that the start was more from Chilleds perspective but it HURTS to see him miss Ze so much. Their friendship...

The shift back to Ze was great and I am curious what else Dumbdog told him 👀👀

Also the Tay-Chilled combo is great (their sibling energy keeps me alive) and Chilled is not falling for survivor ship bias which is good for his brain but he must be emotionally crushed.

My mental health when i get trapped in a vacation home, someone manipulated our only way to get home, I got shot my a friend, my closest friend ran away and comes back way different after having died multiple times: 📉📉📉

Chilled venting in the notebook was great but Ze reading it was all sorts of devastating. I like that you included the thing about him writing like he talks because yEAh he does, he really does xD

Shubble coming through as mvp once more, i like that the crown is HER thing, just like in among us, very neat! Shubble was just "i will provide you with a notebook but don't ask me for a pen :D"

I adore them really reconnecting in the end (also the implications of who said hey first and who seeks validation) and the trust and just - MY HEART!

Anyways, amazing chapter! (If we see someone opening a box that isnt tay we know they're evil! Wonder if a survivor crate will end up dropping....)

Btw: there's a space misplaced in the "ze i hate u" paragraph where he "carriedo n reading" and after "Stop Reading This!" doesnt need to be a period!

Hope you're having a great day!

Hi Shy!! Thank you for reading and asking once again!!

Glad you like it, I tried to do a sort of parallel of last chapter where Ze met Dumbdog, because they’re both sort of hybrids. And we will definitely have to see how the other’s reacted to him! I love writing Chilled because it’s such a different energy in my head, like I have to get into a paranoid detective headspace hahah, idk if that makes sense

I love the Tay-Chilled combo in so many games and especially PW, there’s so many blackout streams where they go meet to see if they’re evil and they’re just so good together omg. I really feel like Chilled trusting her because of the accusations she made is like some among us situation he would do

Aaaaaa no i’m sorry for giving them emotional trauma, they’re gonna have so much to work through D: thank you,, Chilled is so expressive when he has something to say and I’ve noticed that he goes off the rails when he doesn’t have someone in dead chat to vent with, so I thought it would translate well to the notebook thing

I believe in Shubble Supremacy <3 She’s so kind to the boys but she takes no shit, I love that for her. Thank you omg, I want them to be happy so badly even if the story is so mean to them hahaha, we gotta have some soft moments yknow

TY for the typo spot omg, that’s what I get for writing at 3am on a phone aaaa. Hope you’re having an amazing day!!

[theculturedmarxist]

@agentsyzygy

>i mean... porque no los dos? race is just as real as every other socially constructed thing about us. it’s both/and in this case, not either/or. sure, the government will kill any white person that demands real change as quickly as they’ll kill anyone else, but the reason fewer white people do so is absolutely due to white supremacy, and insisting otherwise is obtuse at best.

What you’re saying is “race is just as real as a bunch of other things that aren’t real.”

Okay, let’s assume that’s true for a second. Race is just as real as, say, religion. Christianity for example. There are Christians just as delusional about the functioning of the universe. I wouldn’t doubt that there were some in the capital yesterday that believe that God put Trump in the White House—and didn’t he? Aren’t all things in the hands of the Intelligent Designer? Are those idiots justified then in believing that Trump is their anointed one? Is that something you’re expecting me to respect as being just as true as anything else?

Treating race theory as if it’s legitimate is completely self-defeating for opponents of racism in all its forms. You’re essentially admitting that race is real, and once you’ve accepted that nonsense you’ve lost. You’ve bought into the bullshit of race ideology and now you fight the impossible battle of winning using rules that you don’t control and make no sense. You say, “okay, we admit it, races are real, which means racial differences are real, which means that one race is more suited to this or that than another race,” and so on and so on. We’ve seen where this horseshit goes, and it’s fucking nowhere. It leads to wasting time trying to prove that black men aren’t hypersexual criminals or that Asians aren’t unempathetic bug people and that Jews aren’t controlled by a secret global cabal or whatever. You might as well try and prove that bigfoot or the bogeyman don’t exist, because the answer doesn’t fucking matter to the people that want to believe in that shit anyway. You can see the truth of this in the struggle for women’s rights against religious fundamentalists. It doesn’t matter how much evidence you have, how logical your arguments are, because the fundamentalist doesn’t care, and you’ll never argue them out of that belief. The only answer is to deny the validity of religious arguments entirely, not fucking treat them like they’re “just as real as any other socially constructed thing.”

“White supremacy” is the same sort of mystic mumbo jumbo. The BLM protests were overwhelmingly white and much more wide spread than yesterday’s buffoonery. If “white supremacy” is the conclusion to which this government and society are working, it’s doing an incredibly shitty job of it. The vast, vast majority of white people have been suffering horrifically for decades now. Deaths of despair, extreme poverty, murder by cop, etc, etc, have all been hitting white members of the working class just as hard as black members of the working class.

“White supremacy” might be an ideology that the US government et al cultivate, but “white supremacy” isn’t the goal of the US government. It doesn’t care about white people any more than it does about black people. It’s sole and only only concern is the supremacy of the wealthy, full stop. If it were concerned in the least bit about the supremacy of white people, it wouldn’t be doing every day its fucking damnedest to threaten its very existence. It wouldn’t be destroying the economy it relies on to maintain such a fantasy. It wouldn’t be destroying the environment it needs to survive. It wouldn’t be poisoning the water it drinks, or the air it breaths, or rushing fucking headlong towards its own nuclear annihilation. Nothing it does makes sense from the perspective that it is concerned with the white race. If we’re to accept this nonsensical idea, we also have to accept that many of the primary proponents and facilitators and beneficiaries of “white supremacy” are themselves not white. Barack Obama was overwhelmingly carried into office in his first term primarily with the votes of white people. It’s looking like now (if the theories about Biden resigning after inauguration are true) we’re going to have another black president in the person of Kamala Harris. And after a quick survey of the Biden cabinet, we have

Anthony Blinken, Jewish.

Janet Yellen, Jewish.

Lloyd Austin, Black.

Merrick Garland, Jewish.

Deb Haaland, Pueblo.

Tom Vilsack, White.

Xavier Becerra, Mexican.

Miguel Cardona, Puerto Rican.

Marcia Fudge, Black.

Pete Buttigieg, White.

Jennifer Granholm, White.

Denise McDonough, White.

Alejandro Mayorkas, Cuban Jewish.

Ron Klain, Jewish.

Michael Regan, Black.

Neera Tanden, Indian.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Black.

Katherine Tai, Taiwanese.

So I dunno man, how real do you wanna treat the “reality” of race here? Because it looks like we have more Jews in Biden’s cabinet than good, honest White People™. Or should we debate where Jews belong on our race lists? Whether or not the Catholics on this list are in fact white enough? Do you think we should be concerned whether or not these papists are in fact agents of the Pope? How deep do you want to go with this “social constructs are real” shit?

Examining the racial background of these people is nothing but a waste of time. Whatever their racial or ethnic or religious background, their liberal college admissions pamphlet diversity is underscored by their monolithic class character—Bourgeois.

Race is nothing but a delusion. While that delusion might factor in to the decisions and motivations of some people, might be cultivated and used in the maintenance of the status quo, itself is not reflective of reality in the slightest degree. It’s a bourgeois ideology, and accepting it as in any way valid, perpetuating it, and using its incoherent reasoning to try and explicate the functioning of the world is as useful as divination or dousing, like trying to treat a cancer patient by leeching them or purging their humors. I don’t have any time for it and I’m not going to treat it like it’s actual medicine.

[vesperiandusk]

Hello, everyone! My name is Tay. I’m Pagan (or a polytheist) and a witch. Here’s a quick bullet point list about me

Check out my about for more information on me

I don’t really fall under a specific ‘category’ of Pagan. I work with Norse deities, but am trying to study Celtic witchcraft (specifically Scottish), Celtic paths and some other Heathen paths.

Currently, I work with Freyja. However, I do occasionally work with Odin and Loki.

I classify myself a hedgewitch.

While I am looking into Celtic paths, Heathen paths and Celtic witchcraft because of my ancestors being from the Celtic and Germanic nations, I don’t believe ancestry is a big deal to the gods nor should determine what path you should be on. It’s just important to me to look into my ancestry or what I can find about it because it’s valuable to me.

Basically, if you believe someone can only be x if they have x blood or any idea that can fall under fascism, racism or plain and simple white supremacy then I don’t like you. Go away.

If you believe Loki is the Norse Satan then I also don’t like you and want you to go away.

Yes, I did own @spear-maiden​. Yes, my real name is still Trudie and yes it still can mean Spear Maiden or Spear of Strength.

Also funnily enough, I discovered Þrúðr/Thrud (which I think my name originates from) is the name of Thor’s daughter and also a Valkyrie. Not that it’s important... I just thought it was neat.

Anyways, hi!