#rw spoliers

[kalivasquezart]

a child found [part 1] // part 2 // part 3

[asarabuck]

So I made an 'escape vessel' for @fauxbia 's Tangled Threads

Would you still love her if they were a worm??

[kitkatopinions]

Forgot to talk about something in my little new rw/by ep post. Spoliers for V9.

Ruby giving away her emblem. The thing is that while the general idea of it as Ruby losing more of what is iconic to her (Cresent Rose, emblem - I do wonder if she'll temporarily lose the cape) is a good one, it comes with two major problems that keep it from being as emotionally meaningful as it could be.

1. Emblems are a badly included piece of the world of RW/BY the explanations with them and in-universe references to them are nearly non-existent, leading it to feel like little more than an only sometimes useful design tool instead of part of the world-building and therefore also character building. This is very similar to weapons being named, it seems like an ill thought out 'rule' that was done for coolness sake alone that the writers never really bothered with making sense of or even really putting it in their work. Because no one in RW/BY has ever bothered to talk about where or how they got their emblems, what it means to them, or how much it relates to their identity, it leaves the inclusion here feeling like it's just symbolism for our sake and shouldn't matter to Ruby at all which makes her 'sacrifice' feel more like a random grab for any way to get what she needed. Like she could've just as easily taken off her choker and given them that, or sacrificed a glove.

2. The connection it has to Summer Rose. I believe Ruby's emblem is the same as the emblem we see on Summer's grave, which means we can pretty much assume that Ruby sees her emblem as connected to her mother. But Ruby's obsession with Summer lately still feels forced to me and on top of that, since Ruby has never actually discussed modeling herself after Summer or talked about the emblem being her mother's first, Summer having the emblem has seemed like little more than a blink-and-you'll-miss it passing thing and emblems have been handed down before (Weiss, Jaune,) so to me this also just felt like another casual design choice that doesn't matter. On top of that 'it's a symbol of a mother's promise-" Well whatever Summer said about it or how Ruby feels about it, I sure wish I woulda known before. This show has such a problem with actually properly setting things up and it leaves so many small moments like this feeling lackluster. Now that I'm meant to see this emblem as super meaningful to Ruby because of how connected it is to her mother, I'm left once again feeling like the Eleventh Doctor is wearing Amy's glasses. It's just an object I know the writers want me to care about, but due to the lack of work that was put into it... I feel nothing but annoyed, wishing they'd have either included it earlier or just not at all.

I feel like Yang could've just handed the teapot lady her jacket and been like "Uhhh it's a symbol of me staying warm in the snow" and I would’ve cared just as much.

[13-reasons-ideas]

Staying off tumblr until I finish this season. Tomorrow’s chapter of Finding Peace is scheduled and I’ll answer any messages between now and then when I finish, likely on Sunday. Happy viewing all!

[flaringgoosebumps]

It was like the traditional sting this show left for us, closure but with a knife in our sides twisting. They could even kept the storyline to show that it wasn't hopeless, that you can live with these diseases. Justin wasn't my favorite character but I ached for him and felt like it was a giant slap in the face to kill him off. Especially when he had so much potential.

13 Reasons Why Spoilers

I’m sorry but killing Justin off in the last episode of the series really ruins the entire show for me. He embodied the show’s main theme: that no matter how dark it got, no matter how bad your past was, it could always get better. Justin had a crappy past, like really bad, but he rose above. He got into college, he finally had a family, he had a brother who would have done anything for him, and then they go and kill him? For what? Shock value? I understand they wanted to shed light on AIDS and how it’s a silent killer that should be talked about more and I appreciate that. I just wish they had went about it in a different way. Because killing Justin off in the last episode, right when some light had finally began to shine through, really sucked. It just ruins the entire series for me. Not because Justin was my favorite character or anything like that, but because by killing him right as he finally found happiness, you’re completely destroying everything that show stood for. You’re showing that no matter how hard you work to escape your past and no matter how happy you finally are, your past will always come to bite you right in the butt again.

And don’t even get me started on how heartbreaking the Clay/Justin friendship was. I have never seen anything like that in a show before and it was my absolute favorite thing about 13 Reasons Why. They really did save each other lives and I can’t believe they didn’t get a happy ending like they deserved.