#not really about rt

[jomeimei421]

Felt a bit nostalgic watching RT shut down…Here are the og faves again for old times sake 💙

[cozybells]

what if they were meaner and also were in love

[mathlann]

Marazhai and Yremeryss make me insane and will probably continue to in ways I can probably talk incomprehensively about forever but this:

Has been rotating in my brain for awhile now just for the implications of what it says about "family honor" as Drukhari may have it, and how it conflicts with rank. Marazhai seems to argue his being wronged on the basis of Yremeryss disregarding what he is owed as her brother. At least from how he talks about his mother and some of his other dialogues about Yremeryss, there's a measure at which sibling loyalty matters against other Drukhari. As he says,"only an Aezyrraesh has the right to take the life of an Aezyrraesh." Therefore, Yremeryss tossing Marazhai in the Chasm to die as arena meat is a sign of grave disrespect. But by that same measure, Yremeryss is Archon of the Reaving Tempest and as long as she sits in the chair, her word is law. Marazhai is refusing to be a proper subordinate in the way his Archon demands by refusing to get out of her way once she felt like it was time for her to move on to bigger schemes than him.

And, it's interesting to me how their sibling dynamic also creates this fragile internal stability in the Kabal...for awhile. Marazhai will always scheme against Yremeryss, and she will always be guarding against him, but that game (as Marazhai sees it) is a game of siblings and nobody else is allowed to join in. No other families could rise to challenge the Aezyrraesh if Marazhai made sure all the rival Dracons were bribed, intimidated, or suddenly discovered the joys of dirt naps. And in that way Yremeryss had at least a modicum of "safety" in that regard because so far as internal threats went, Marazhai wasn't going to tolerate any that didn't involve him. He was, a good functional brother and subordinate for as much as that was worth. But that internal stability became an external liability once they hit a political fork. As the only Dracon, Marazhai sat as the primary rallying point for any opposition to Yremeryss' plans, and thus needed to be gotten rid of. Marazhai, as any good Drukhari would, was itching for a chance to overthrow his sister especially if she was going in a direction that was politically inconvenient for him the Kabal. And, you know, maybe he was a bit overconfident about the reaches of brother privilege if things went wrong. Which left a good opening for someone like Nazrakhei, who had the rank and power to offer both sides what they wanted, an easy crack to exploit that unraveled the whole Kabal (for bit, true success ending dependent ofc).

[harellan]

badlands - 10:47 pm

[the-oracle-of-the-lost]

banging my head against the wall while i say: "relatability is not the be all end all of writing a character. saying that you don't find a character relatable/you wouldn't have made the same choices does not mean something is poorly written. you actually should go out of your way to engage with media about people who are fundamentally different from you because it helps you learn about others."

[unmanageably]

it's crazy cuz i'm sure in lacob's twisted brain he thought this was like a sweet thing to say but it truly reaffirms just how much they took him for granted and how they were banking on his kindness and love throughout like. all the horrible things they were doing to him lol. they were so so completely sure that he would never leave, knew how much he valued staying with one org, how much he valued retiring with steph. knew how much he loved the warriors. thought they could just like. have a horrible smear campaign against him for a year and a half, tear down his confidence, over and over again. counted on his love and loyalty to steph and the org to have him crawling back on his knees asking for pennies despite that. that's what this quote tells me. that lacob was shocked his master plan didn't work. that klay for once chose himself lol

[leonardalphachurch]

i know this is the found family fandom but honestly. we’ve always been a fan of groups growing up and moving past each other. like i think the ending was a little stupid bc simmons is just… in blood gulch now? the leader of an empty base??? but uh. the idea of grif going home and simmons staying in the army. yeah. like yeah. that’s probably how we would’ve written it too.

[gridgamesgalore]

i really wanted to dm smal some drawings to hopefully make her feel at least a little bit better but idk if that's a good idea and you seem like the right person to ask so.......

be honest. do you think she would like these?

yeah i think she would !! I just think we need to wait to the point were smal is not as unstable and then you can like dm them /gen ,, fire art though !! /pos

[outeremissary]

Longer than intended and one might read this as a Heinrix Hater Post though I swear it's not my intention, he's just become a character I have come to see interesting dynamics with in my ongoing playthroughs

I think it's funny that thanks to the two characters I've been playing in RT I have manifested into the game the Probably Not Intended Heinrix trait of "desperate to the point of depravity." Like there's something astounding about speedrunning to the high levels of heretic not seeming to impact the romance at all, so you bounce between scenes of him protesting or being shocked by the latest atrocity and him begging for attention and throwing himself at you. Makes it feel like he has absolutely no standards at the end of the day, like he'll tolerate fucking anything. I didn't start the romance on purpose and have been sustaining it by doing as little as possible on that file just to see Where The Line Is and it feels like there isn't one. You don't touch him and you're barely nice to him and you spit on everything he claims to stand for and fill the ship up with cages and flayed bodies and you have an entire actual relationship with Jae which is Extremely Public and you ask him for advice about and you fuck Marazhai and none of it even slows the dude down. Gale 2 but without any worry at all about the cheating.

And then on the OTHER hand on the other file he's chasing the much younger mutant psyker who has more in common with the Inquisition's victims than with him, someone who Very Much does not want him and barely even feels a sense of psyker solidarity. And it feels more than a little sleazy when only the precariously held position of Rogue Trader allows something like equal footing and he could so easily be their jailer rather than their companion. The guy voices open, violent contempt for mutants, callous indifference to the suffering of the disenfranchised, and easily glides along with the flow of all this hatred and cruelty and then turns around and goes "nooooo but you're different!" It provokes such an intense sense of disgust. The guy SUCKS. If he tries to pull the alpha het shit I saw post Commorragh (left behind, so sad) on my other file with Kas.... eugh. I had enough instances of "take your hands OFF of them! don't smile like that!" already.

At one point while playing through the end of Act 1 with Kas I'd made a joke about trying to shake the guy by accusing him of having a mutant fetish, but the more I thought about it the darker that felt. Here he is compelled towards people he ultimately holds the power of life and death over, shamelessly pressing on beyond any sense of boundary or decency. It inadvertently creates this disturbing undercurrent to the character, haha. Slimy!!!! Gross!!!! And while he's got this mopey thing about being bound by obligation and dehumanized, it's a hard thing of like. It's for him being a cop, man. It's for him being a cop. Even recognizing the unfairness of his position it's so hard to hold sympathy for him when he's such an active participant in atrocity and these Weird Dynamics just drive that discomfort further. His spicy forbidden loves and humanizing moments with people who have every reason to be fucking afraid of him- especially Kasander.

I find it all terribly compelling conceptually and also it means that I really have the least charitable read imaginable on the character lmao.

[fleouriarts]

feeling bad about my art lately. will probably not post for a while. but i wanted to at least dump some stuff here before i retreat into my hidey hole

[ironwoodprotectionsquad]

I was just passed along interesting news from an RT stream and it sounds like 1. RT has 60 days before shutting down. 2. Beyond is going to come out and 3. CR/WBY “care too much” about RWBY to let it go and are trying to hold onto it.

Regarding beyond I’m concerned with how they plan on getting it out and hope that it’s just very close to finished and that’s why they’re going to put it out instead of forcing their workings to work even more inhumane hours then they already do to push it out when it really shouldn’t.

Regarding volume 10…the language it sounds like they used has me concerned. Warner Bros owns RW/BY so them refusing to let it go…I don’t even know how they plan on that working. They’re apparently negotiating with partners so it seems like they want someone to buy it who would keep the main CRW/BY but again not sure how they plan to pull this off or if they…should? I feel bad for all the people losing their jobs but CR/WBY and RT did horrific things to their employees and it feels….wrong? To reward that bad behavior by forcing whoever takes over RW/BY to take them on as well still. I get not wanting to let go of a passion project but this more feels like trying to cling onto a cash cow then a passion project.

It’s a lot of complicated feelings I’m struggling to verbalize because I’ve been their having a show ripped out from under you that you loved flaws and all but RT did horrible things and the show in the end had extremely harmful tropes and ideals they leaned on so the thought of CR/WBY getting to finish it feels wrong given all they’ve done but leaving fans hanging also sucks. But also is it better to just…leave it and not continue to push these harmful things out in this show? Like we’ve had some vile “lessons” and I’m worried it’ll only get worse if they do volume 10. A part of me hopes of it was finished by someone else who maybe wouldn’t continue said harmful tropes but it sounds like CR/WBY is going to fight to stay with the show in an honestly unhealthy manner.

Gut feeling is best case scenario WB tells RT to pound sand and someone buys it and reboots it but again…I’m not sure anyone will given the fan base and how they’ll likely behave if said new owners don’t keep CR/WBY.

[aerithisms]

i have got to be so real and honest with you all i am going to be sad forever if rwby never gets finished. "it's just a show" "it's not even that good" i don't CARE i've spent a decade growing up with it and it's so special to me :(

[rgbfall]

Watching the rtgame minecraft video and I can TELL I'm gonna watch this one a lot

[hiding-under-the-willow]

Absolutely adore ur watcher rt! Been wondering how he would interact with people whove been on evo (if it happened). Or how people like grian would think abt how he acts. On one hand can you blame a guy whos never been mortal? On the other hand would they even know and if they know would they be able to accept it?

I just find it so fun to imagine how rt would react to their reactions and how he interacts with other watchers and related people!

Oh so this is a kind of interesting topic that is kind of actually relevant to the story I've got planned for him.

To keep things as spoiler free as possible, I'll simply say that uhhhh Grian and other relevant (ie. Empires or Hermitcraft linked) Evo members certainly would not like him by the end of the main story arc I have planned out. and that while RT is one of the few watchers who actually doesn't have any real problem with Grian as like. A defector. He certainly may have some more personal issues with him by the end of the same story arc.

I kind of like the idea of him and Grian begrudgingly ending up on the same team at some point though later down the line once RT has had some more character development (think the thing I was talking about in the last post about him butting heads with the higher ups) and realizing they're more similar than they may have thought even if they have different conceptualizations of the world.

[hawkwidows]

oh I hate twt so much hate it hate it hate itttttt turns out when you block people and just don't go online - shitty stupid things still get said, still get believed, still get a disgusting amount of likes and me who removed myself from the cesspool to be a happier, sane, nuanced person can only watch on as that many people run around an echo chamber parroting nothing of their own thought 💀 never wanted to have the ability to reach through the screen and shake people like I have lately but no I'll settle for closing the app and having a rant before bed. peace and love to my small corners of the internet that are still sane 🫰🏽

[front-facing-pokemon]