#saltwukong

[dragynkeep]

can ya'll stop doing this on bme folks posts in rwde & the main fandom alike. ciel is symptomatic of a larger problem in the show where poc characters are treated as disposable, replaceable or otherwise there to be connected to a white character with little to no arc or characterization of their own.

ciel is the first of multiple people connected to penny this happens to. consider another perspective & why this would be frustrating, especially in the racism behind the schnees & how they're handled against other characters in the narrative. your experience is not universal!

So you’re telling me that the WOC Ciel Soleil already fit the roll of being the “human that acts more robotic than the robot (Penny) acting more human” (which has it’s own issues believe me) was replaced in her role by the white German cop Winter Schnee?

Why the fuck was this done again?

[dragynkeep]

have i not made enough posts ten toes down to show that if i'm going to say something, i'm going to say it with my name attached like, c'mon now. saltwukong, you know this because i commented on the coco adel post of yours where you "um actually"'d about the antisemitism inherent to her character & you deleted it because clearly a jewish person with an opposing opinion was too much.

if you're going to accuse us of sending anons, at least make it make sense. i've confronted you before about things i personally took issue with, as the aformented coco thing, & i will do so again. keep the mutual block & keep your own peace lmao.

[kob131]

I don't think I got a response for The Fantastic Baby point I made in regards of CRWBY's disconnect with Monty. In case you're curious why I made that point, it was because they didn't know which Aseop Sage was based off of, even though Fantastic Baby kind of spells it out (before you ask how, just look at the music video).

...How does Miles not remembering what Sage was based on proof of anything?

To expand on this: Your point is that since Miles (the only proof of this I can find of this existing specifically states it was Miles) didn't remember what Aesop Sage was supposedly based on. You bring up the Fantastic Baby video as 'spelling it out' but that's all you say. I don't know what Fantastic Baby is based on, or how it relates to one of Aesop's Fables or how this proves a disconnect or how it relates to people claiming that Miles and Kerry retconned James.

I don't see a point here. Like even at the most basic level: Miles didn't remember exactly which Aesop Sage, a minor character, was based on. Why does that matter?

Unless you're arguing that SSSN was supposed to be major characters, in which case- Proof that isn't Saltwukong huffing paint.

[uncaught-coolfish]

Sun Wukong [gun emoji] from @saltwukong

ON IT he is a fave of mine. Love him. His weapon is sick and I really like his personality… he’s swag. My only gripe is less about him as a character but:

Please return my boy his melanin CRW. Please stop whitewashing him thanks.

[knightofbalance-13]

http://saltwukong.tumblr.com/post/179121472806/so-that-trailer-doesnt-bode-well

They made a point of showing off more than one scene of RWBY using her Semblance. Which isn’t a good thing, as she just looks like a red blob that floats and bounces its way around a room, and not exactly at a very high velocity. Stop turning characters into colored blobs! It’s ugly and doesn’t look good!

Gee-

Looks pretty fucking similar to me, except one looks like Ruby phased out of existence. 

So surely, you’ll make a post talking about how shit Volume 2 looks...RIGHT?

Adam is still yelling.

You’re still a whinny bitch who doesn’t understand basic writing concepts like ‘disgraced villain’.

And everybody is still fucking walking.

That literally lasted for all of 6 seconds. Oh no, let me fix that for you *jiggles keys in face like a toddler*

And Tyrian looks like he’s about to try something very non-PG on a very unsettled Emerald, so that’s always bad. Not in the least because Emerald is so OP.

Because non-PG stuff is always terrible right? *cough* BERSERK *cough*

Oh and:

> Emerald is OP

> Can’t stop Ruby who you call pathetic

Choose one.

Urgh. If that was what was supposed to make me excited for Volume 6, it didn’t just fail, it backfired.

Yeah see thing is, trying to hype you is like:

https://youtu.be/hTyoQb-2EVk?t=35

AKA impossible. You’ll deny anything good even under threat of death.

But hey, at the very least I know now how to treat your favorite show!

[sir-adamus]

At least sun is/was an actually confirmed romantic prospect unlike yang. And why bother put him in vacuo to see Blake again if it was truly not happening over & had no shot? Crwb/y could’ve had him & his team stay in mistral because they needed huntsman. Bi means liking both genders & it’s not bi erasure if she ends up with sun or another character. Yang isn’t lgbt outside of the va wanting her to be. Arryn could’ve just asked if Blake was bi since that’s something she wanted too.

[bloodraven55]

Since it’s nearly the start of a brand new year, and therefore an excellent time for change, I’m here to... hold myself accountable and challenge myself to improve, I guess.

A combination of the ongoing pandemic and finally dealing with some of my mental health issues has caused me to do a lot of self-reflection over the past couple of months, and it’s made me realise there are a lot of things about myself that I’m not too fond of. I’m not going to talk about the more personal side of that here, though. Overall I don’t regret being active in the RWBY fandom, but there have definitely been a lot of negative aspects of the experience too, and I want to acknowledge that I’ve contributed my fair share to the rampant toxicity in this fanbase. There are plenty of times where I’ve been needlessly petty, or been hypocritical, or jumped to unfair assumptions, or let myself be dragged into pointless discourse that should never even have existed.

So with that in mind, I sincerely apologise to the people who I’m sure have been hurt by actions of mine in the past, whether I was aware of it or not. I feel like I’ve gradually become a more negative and mean-spirited person as time’s gone on, and I don’t like that at all. But I’m hopeful that I can do better and become the person I want to be by taking that regret and turning it into something productive.

I’m not trying to address any particular examples here, nor do I want this to come across like I’m calling myself out as such—this is just meant to be a general recognition of things I need to work on—but there is one specific apology I want to make as I feel it’s deserved. And that is to @saltwukong, who I implicated some time ago as likely being behind the anonymous harassment I’ve been receiving for almost two years now. At the time I genuinely believed it was justified and for the best, but in hindsight it was just irresponsible and immature. The proof I gave wasn’t conclusive enough to warrant a public claim like the one I made, and it wasn’t an acceptable or reasonable response to the problem I was facing. I don’t expect an apology to be accepted at this point, which is totally fine as that’s not the purpose of this, but regardless I’m saying sorry anyway because it’s what's right.

I truly thought that I was doing something beneficial and helpfully sharing important and correct information—if I'd had any doubts at the time then the post would never have been made in the first place—but looking back I cannot in good conscience do anything except retract the accusation. I wish I could go back and tell myself that trying to play some vigilante hero wouldn't solve the issue of my anonymous stalker hounding me, but that's obviously not possible, so all I can do is try to wipe the slate clean now. No, there's no new information or anything like that; I just don't feel comfortable standing by a claim that I no longer have 100% faith in being the truth.

Anyway, that’s all, so thanks for reading and I wish everyone a very happy 2021.

[ironwoodprotectionsquad]

@lonesilverw0lf is this the post you where trying to find?

https://www.tumblr.com/saltwukong/715497115884912640/i-dunno-man-im-thinking-we-need-to-create-a

One of my followers dmed it to me thinking it might be it.

Once again I am reminded about how bullshit it is that Neo sort of gets redeemed, the person who drove Ruby to try and end herself, who brutally killed Little, who helped destroy Atlas, while Ironwood, someone who at the time of RW//BY declaring him too far gone was just trying to save who he could is a monster that can’t be saved. Can we at least have some consistency in who the girls think can be saved and who can’t?

[saltwukong]

yo, bloodraven55, you owe me an apology.

sticking this in the bumbleby and rwde tags because at least that way I know it will probably get back to you from someone else.

you posted this two months ago:

Except there are some holes in your accusation, which you probably noticed given your use of “almost certain”.

1) I don’t own an iPhone. My phone looks like this: 

Very clearly an Android. Got it at Family Dollar.

2) Judging by this tiny little pinprick dot on your script, the user you’re talking about lives in the New England region. 

I live in the southern US, as I can prove because hey, this is my IP provided by https://whatismyipaddress.com. 

And don’t say I flew down to the Southern US all for the sake of changing my IP address, because if I had money to do that, I actually would have an iPhone. Actually, I probably still wouldn’t because I don’t blow $600 wads of cash on a  fucking phone.

3. You deliberately skewed your findings. 

Your referring URL is a search link. All this proves is that the person looked up my URL on your blog before hitting up your askbox. Why would I search my material on your blog? To my knowledge, you never reblogged my posts. And it’s not possible you answered asks from me, because saltwukong is a sideblog and can’t send asks. That’s how it’s been since I made the damn blog. The likeliest scenario is the user finds me to be a good source to bounce off of because, generally, I know what the fuck I’m talking about.

Post the unedited version of your screenshot. If I’m not afraid to post my own information, surely you wouldn’t be?

You thought you said something. You said a whole lot of nothing, and what you can say now is “sorry for jumping to conclusions and accusing you of harassment”.

[sssn-neptune-vasilias]

BR falsely accused saltwukong of stalking her so you’re kinda dealing with someone who doesn’t look at all the facts before drawing her conclusions. anyway, good luck with all that!

👍🏽

[orchidvioletindigo]

Lol salt wukong is still around? What he say

https://bigenderbeastmaster.tumblr.com/post/189283574363/saltwukong-can-i-say-that-the-critical-side-of

[solardragun]

apparently it was confirmed through twitter ( link / link ) , but given their track record for a bunch of other stuff , i’m not sure how much i’m inclined to take their word for something like this in this way .

Now what's this about some mouse being lgbt rep, what now...

it was in passing / some sort of joke that Little was nonbinary rep because they use they / them pronouns . like yeah it's a joke but at the end of the day it's still kinda ???? bc it reinforces the idea / joke that nonbinary people are robots and aliens and animals , and it shoves us back into the " nonbinary are non humans bc heehee hoohoo not having a gender means you're not human " or whatever .

maybe i'm a bit sensitive towards this sort of thing bc a lot of my identity is treated as a stereotype or joke fjsjdjsjd but it was just something that bothered me

[kob131]

https://saltwukong.tumblr.com/post/185644385531/rooster-teeth-glassdoor-crunchovertime

It does make them ‘evil’ and ‘bad’ though. This is abuse. It is abuse that has been going on for a long time, and it is abuse that they get away with specifically because of mindsets like yours that fail to hold them accountable.

Rooster Teeth is a company. A corporation. A business. They do not make these practices purely because they “don’t know” that fans would rather wait. They do know that. They elected to crunch their employees like this because it’s cheaper and they can get away with it.

People kill me with this shit because it’s exactly what hamstrings any change. Stop coddling them and being nice. They are overworking, under-paying, neglecting, and misleading their workforce. They chose to do that.

I am seriously not gonna take this coming from YOU, SaltWukong.

In order to be evil, you need to be exceptionally immoral or malicious. Emphasis on ‘exceptionally since this is normal in the animation industry. I’m not saying it’s right or they should be coddled but what I am saying is that just throwing around the word ‘evil’ and ‘bad’ is just gonna make the company not care. Why should they care since we both know that you’ll never stop parading this shit around, even if every single animator openly said things got better? Your bullshit is equally bad in this scenario.

I’m also not taking this from a guy who CHOOSES to use a dead man to beat people into submission. You don’t get to try arguing from a place of moral superiority while doing what you would consider immoral.

[tsff21]

Oh course saltwukong got, well, salty over Arryn’s tweet regarding Monty.

Of course he’s still treating Shane’s demented ramblings as the one and only truth.

Of course rwde is actively antagonizing Arryn for daring to defend the show her late friend poured his heart and soul into.

Of course.

Of COURSE.

[fairytail-whathesays]

So, on watching Volume 4 of RWBY.....

...............I’m not as angry as I thought I’d be. Volume 4 goes out of its way to do the opposite of some of the things that made me so furious about Volume 3. It’s not perfect, but someone was definitely listening to my complaints, because from the get-go, Sun is both involved and competent, not to mention he interacts with his love interest for more than .5 seconds. People don’t drop like flies over the course of the volume the way they did in 3, and Nora and Ren--perhaps rather late--have gotten the backstory and characterization they’ve so desperately needed for a while now.

That doesn’t mean the show’s off the hook. I am still never forgiving Rooster Teeth and still 100% believe Shane, and will not be giving them a dime of my financial support (especially as I recently found out I’m $4,000 behind on student loans whoops). 

...And the fandom is still fucked up, I found that out within 10 seconds.

I don’t think the salt blog I planned will be as prolific as I first thought. But I do still have some drafts set up there. It was initially rwby-whathesays, but I changed it to @saltwukong.

[orchidvioletindigo]

The Bumbleby hatedom is so fucking obnoxious. Saltwukong posted something inflammatory about the RWDE tag a couple weeks ago and the response to me calling him a loser for it was one of his friends saying I'm just mad because he doesn't ship Bumbleby

These people think every little thing has to do with the ship they're obsessed with hating and it's ruining our ability to talk about literally anything else

Love the tone of that ask though "janelle had a marginally positive thing to say she must be turning into a BB shipper"