#rg!moon

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

*minor spoilers for Royal Guard!AU*

-wanted to make something a little indulgent with the gays-

You jeeringly order your new guards to kiss your hand every morning and every night. To get back at you, they take that order very seriously.

And of course they don't limit the gesture to just you~

(and friendly reminder Sun and Moon are NOT brothers in this AU)

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

d'awwww the sweethearts lovin' on each other!!! ^^

this is so cute!!!

The Royal Guard

This au belongs to @ayyy-imma-ninja

I wanted to show much I love this au and her artwork. She is awesome.

[whoishotteranimepolls]

"Who's Hotter?" Some Old School White-Haired Anime Men

[dozydawn]

when rhythmic gymnasts bind themselves with the ribbon like this it reminds me of sailor moon

[the-corvus-luna]

FULL MOON WALLPAPER TIME!

You know the drill, grab these freshly posted wallpapers just posted by CLAMP on the LINE app.

Ashura from RG Veda appears in this wallpaper. Quite heartwarming that this full moon's and last full moon's were two non-binary clamp characters!

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[backscale-pivot-queen]

Team Uzbekistan’s iconic Sailor Moon performance

[shima-draws]

Me: Haha wow it’s been years since I’ve played HM let alone got this far in wooing the bachelor I want to marry, I’m sure it’s probably as corny and cringey as I remember—

Luke: Hi Sunshine!! 😊

Me:

[kazumikikuchi000]

I replaced Yasha and Ashura with Sailor Cosmos and Mamoru.

[rwbyrg]

Ohhhhh yes. Yes yes yesssss. But if we're talking Fairytales of Remnant in regards to parallels with these four, we can't only mention The Man Who Stared at the Sun without also talking about The Gift of the Moon.

The story starts with a sun who - much like the one in the farmer's tale - adjusts its behaviour at the whim of humans and causes an imbalance. It tries slowing down but gets off schedule and rushes to catch up, takes a break in place which scorches the earth in som spots and leave the other half in darkness, then to try and please everyone, the sun decides to move faster and faster around the world to light all of it at once... before crashing to the ground and shattering.

This story isn't just about the sun though. It's a creation myth about how the moon came to be... and it's the most aggressive Ruby Rose metaphor I've ever heard in my life.

(this got long so i'm putting it behind a read more lol)

She wants to save everyone, but she can't. She wants to do the right thing in order to achieve that goal, but there is no right thing. So she just ends up causing more harm than good. And when the weight and exhaustion from trying so hard catches up to her, she falls. Like the sun that fell and became the moon, Ruby fell and lost a lot of her light.

This story isn't just about the moon either though. It's also about the Sun and Moon working together. It starts by talking about the imbalance between sun and the dark of night...

In a very distant past, much longer ago than anyone can remember, people wondered why nights were so dark. In those days, there was only the sun to illuminate the whole world, going around and around the sky. But the sun could only do so much, and half of the time, half of the world was brightly lit while the other half was cast into darkness.

But the story ends with the light that the shattered sun spills out being used to help create a new, artificial sun that is raised into the sky. The new sun and shattered moon tied together by a string so that the world can always have some amount of light. Be it a story about Oz being the only one fighting Salem until Ruby takes over to help, or the God of Light and Dark fighting with one another, or a Ruby allusion, or a foreshadowed metaphor for how Oscar and Ruby will work together at the end of the world to chase away the night... many different ways the story can be read, but they all work really well thematically.

As for your points about Penny, I am in big agreement over her being the Sun to BB equivalent for RG. However, she also does actually fit the celestial symbolism!!! Just not as a sun or moon. She's the shooting star.

We see it with her "goodbye" in V8E4, when she falls from Amity as a comet and lands in a crater outside Schnee manor, there's a star charm on the jar of hope Ruby is asked to fill up in exchange for Penny's sword at the market in the Ever After. There's also Penny's associations with Pinocchio and wishing on a fallen star, especially in the lyrics to her song Friend from the V8 soundtrack.

Aaaaaand last but not least, much like how Oscar's emblem is two suns (or clock gears (something something artificial sun), or water wheels (that's a different post)), and Ruby's is a blazing rose that, when turned sideways, looks like a shattered moon, Penny's looks like her sword as well as a shooting/falling star.

I'll end off on the quote you brought up from The Man who Stared at the Sun. "We are both proud of our jobs and too stubborn to change our ways" does apply perfectly to Oz and Salem. They're unstoppable force meet immovable object in the worlds longest and messiest divorce. But with Oscar and Ruby being the ones to fix what Oz and Salem broke, we see that they too are stubborn. However, instead of just white-knuckling through and throwing the same solutions at the same problems hoping for different results, they stop and try to do it differently. One of Ruby's biggest insecurities is that she just has to "keep fighting forever and ever against an unstoppable monster that took (her) mother away" while Oscar's is that he's "just going to be another one of (Oz's) lives". In slowing down, in resting, and in relying on each other for help through the curses and burdens they've been shouldered with, they'll come out the other side of it in ways Salem and Oz never could.

Thinking about how Salem sparking an uprising against the Gods and uniting humanity under one goal is eerily familiar to Ozpins view on Ruby being a simpler more honest soul that can spark the hopes of man.

Both reading stories and being inspired to lead their lives off it. Putting their message out to the world and the people answering back. Their actions are the same but in different fonts.

Their imagery is even eerily familiar, most notable in mind being consumed by water, the cliffside/memorials, and both having parts of one of the Brothers powers within, moon symbolism, etc.

Ruby and Salem are building up to be foils of light and dark.

"Likeminded souls indeed"

Like of course Oscar is heavily implied to have a crush on Ruby. They're two characters who are a version of Oz and Salem without their history.

DING DING DING DING DING!!!! EXACTLY!!! This show is one about parallels, rhymes, and mirrors and these four are at the heart of all of it.

I also think it's really interesting that the task the GoL gives to Ozpin is to unite humanity when that's... kind of exactly what Salem did, only she was punished for it? smh. god forbid women do anything.

But anyway, I love that Ruby has taken over Oz's role in that regard. One of my favourite shots in the show that pushes this is this one from The Lost Fable. Where the line right before it says something like: "In time, (Salem) would find her adversary."

The story Jinn tells to cast is one of Ozma being setup to stop Salem, but the story the show is telling us, the audience, is that Ozma walks off screen revealing Ruby as Salem's actual adversary.

There's also some interesting allusion stuff that pushes this even further with Salem being the witch from the Two Brother's fairy tale that is killed by a silver bullet, and Ruby is a "girl who is also a gun" with silver eyes. But to talk more about the SEW stuff, I have to address the celestial symbolism you pointed out.

What you say about "foils of light and dark" is also right on the money. The way these four interact as symbols within the central plot is so poetic. We have Salem as the darkness of night, and then Ruby as the moon. Silver eyes, as Maria explains in V6, "shine like mirrors, reflecting the light of the world onto darkness". But silver eyes don't just reflect the light of the world, they reflect the desire to preserve life onto that which threatens to take it away. Just as the moon reflects the light of the sun.

Isn't it just. So. Interesting. That the person the story is telling us Ruby is most afraid to lose... is Oscar Pine... a sun coded character? So!!! Interesting!!! I'm so!!! Normal about it!!!!!!!!

By extension of this, I do think Oz is generally symbolized by Daytime. A lot of the songs seem to use "days" as a placeholder for each lifetime (or generation) as a "new day" to try again. It also works in the sense that daytime bring sunshine and his curse is what brings Oscar, this generations "sun", into the fray. Additionally, works as a perfect contrast to Salem's night and her frustration that he keeps coming back over and over again.

or tl;dr you know it's bad when i start making diagrams ooh boy

Anyway, yeah, it makes complete and utter sense why Ruby and Oscar are setup as they are with just how central they are to the main plot. This story is one about breaking cycles, so having those two have a successful version of the Ozma and Salem situation is just the most natural way for this to go.

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

it is pride month so i am obligated to draw as much gayness of these two as i possibly can-

yeets

also the top right bit is how i imagine them appearing in their headspace

[luperpla]

Finally took some nice pictures of my RG Hi-Nu Gundam :)

This kit is special to me because it's the last gunpla I finished before my kiddo was born. I actually wrapped it up over a year ago but I haven't had the time/energy/drive to take DSLR pictures of it til now.

The paintjob is based on an old Moon Gundam commission I did back in 2020 and the Unicorn Gundam. The pink/red accents are meant to invoke the Unicorn's psychoframe :) I used grey in place of blue on this because I wanted to use the polygonal decals that the RG line uses but since some of those decals are white I had to make my color choices based on that.

Overall very happy with this little guy. The kit itself is wonderful and this paintjob is really striking, if'n you ask me. I have the HMBL for this too and that parts are all prepped, they just need to be painted. Dunno when I'll get around to that but it'll probably be before the year is out.

[chaikachi]

Sun & Moon: A Rosegarden Comic

Back when I first got bit by the RG bug a few years ago, I sketched out 90% of this comic and then ran out of steam. Some friends recently encouraged me to finish off the last couple pages and share it, so here it is!

I hope you enjoy! 💕🌹🌲

[mystifiedmoon]

YASSSSSS!!!!!

[3seven-gambler]

#⌁꒰RG!Ken fɑlling foɾ γou꒱

⋆ word count: 303 ⋆ genre: fluff, SFW ⋆ a/n: not proofread. Short but sweet. I should be doing my university hw but I really wanted to write somthing.

Ken falling for you is something that isn't surprising.

Not only are you beautiful but you are also so... caring with him. You are the one who notices him always, the one asking him how he is feeling, the one choosing to give him company because you enjoy being around him.

You laugh at his goofy jokes, you encourage him when he's trying to show off (even when you told him is not necessary, but he sometimes insists), you listen to him !!! for once he's the one that gets to talk and you just listen to him while watching him with such attention and care, showing that you are really enjoying just being sitting next to him while he talks.

You get him gifts. He was over the moon the first time you got him something all for himself. He never thought he would get a gift from someone. Just thinking that you spent your precious time choosing and wrapping it just for him makes him feel important.

The first time that you hugged him was when he was about to cry because not feeling enough for anything; he froze, not very sure of what to do. He felt so warm, cherished, loved; he then, slowly, put his arms around your figure as well (crushing you a bit) just wanting to feel more and wishing that moment never ended.

Eventually, after knowing each other for a while, he confessed !! The poor boy was so nervous; what if you weren't interested in him? Did he make enough to impress you? What if you liked someone else? All of his worries melted away when he saw that pretty big smile of yours and your eyes lighting up, as you grabbed his hands carefully and just said -“yes”.

Yes... He indeed fell for you.

❥ 𝖱𝖾𝖻𝗅𝗈𝗀𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝖺𝗅𝗐𝖺𝗒𝗌 𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗋𝖾𝖼𝗂𝖺𝗍𝖾𝖽. || 𝖣𝖮 𝖭𝖮𝖳 𝖱𝖤𝖯𝖮𝖲𝖳/𝖳𝖱𝖠𝖭𝖲𝖫𝖠𝖳𝖤.

[dozydawn]

[dedalvs]

Hey mr sir I was wondering if you had any idea how to understand syntax. I am in a class and I am SUFFERING and the only resources I was given was the teachers notes. And they don't make sense. I am so close to failing and no one knows what the hell they're doing (not even the instructor)

Syntax is analysis. Always remember that. It is, at best, tangentially related to language. It is a representation of a theory (and there are multiple such theories) about why the words in a language are arranged in the order they are in order to produce a meaning. It is an attempt. It's not necessarily true. It is not a representation of something real. It is a representation of something that IF it were real, wouldn't that be cool? It doesn't actually say anything about language.

The important thing to remember about studying syntax at the university level is that you are not studying syntax: You are studying a specific theory of syntax. Your job is to learn that theory and how it works. You are NOT learning how a language works: You're learning how that theory works. It doesn't matter if anything you're doing makes linguistic sense: It matters if it makes sense within the context of the theory. That's it.

I say this because based on the way you've worded your question, it's pretty clear that this is a point you've missed. If you hadn't, you wouldn't be saying "I was wondering if you had any idea how to understand syntax", you'd be saying "I was wondering if you had any idea how to understand XXX theory of syntax". Because that is what you are doing.

If you are studying an older X-bar theory of syntax (for example, Principles and Parameters, or Government and Binding), I can help you with that. If you're studying a modern generative theory like the Minimalist Program, I can't help you with that, as I never learned it. I also can't really help with Head Phrase Structure Grammar or Construction Grammar, because I never studied it; I just have some exposure to it. I do understand Relational Grammar, because I had to learn it to go through some older Austronesian papers, but I find it unlikely that you'd be learning RG, as it's been mostly abandoned.

If it helps you, though, everything you're learning is, to put this in the most controversial way possible, the equivalent of learning astrological star charts. It's like, you tell your friend, "Dude, I went to work today, and my coworker was sick, so I had to cover her bathroom shift, but as a thank you my boss said I could have Friday off!" and your friend is like, "And that makes total sense, because Virgo is in ascension, and the moon is in its third phase, with Libra in retrograde!" and you're like, "Uhhhh..." *headpat* In linguistics, that's, "Wow, in Finnish most indefinite objects take the partitive, but you can also have a partitive subject with a paucal reading!", and then, "That's probably because of object to subject raising required in order to check features generated in D-structure when…" etc. Thus, if you think of it like some sort of game, it might help to put it in its proper context.

If you do have some transformational grammar questions, though, I'm happy to try to help explain.