#they always call our critiques bad without explaining WHY. as a way to gaslight us into not wanting to post.

[woomycritiques543]

Hazbin fans when we post in the main tag; “Stop “clogging” our tags with things we dont agree with! Whether you agree or not and quality are the same thing because I cant handle that someone thinks differently than me! I hate your blogs!!!! I can post hate but you critiqueing things for personal enjoyement because you wish that a show that you like would improve is bad! My opinion is the only one that actually matters! Naysayer! Naysayer! Weeehhh!“

Hazbin Critical Blogs when these kinds of people clog our tags with harassment and genuinely awful things compared to that of just cartoon critique: “Am I a joke to you?”

For people who think that we’re “haters”, you sure like to post hate towards us with no actual critique, constantly, and call us “pests, annoyances” and things that are so bad that I cant even list them here. Hate posts, spamming the same meme over and over again as a “comeback”, etc. Yet we are somehow “bad faiths” who “don’t deserve” to complain, and but you people are allowed to whine pointlessly about otherwise harmless things as if it were the end of the world, while being actually hateful on top of it? You’re allowed to disagree without shitting on all of the work and research that we do for our content. Why be so goddamn rude?! Its so disrespectful, and gives the same vibes of the kind of person that says “im done u suck!” before blocking someone. Some of you legit call criticisms “bad faiths!” while constantly posting hate yourselves. So many hypocrites, and yet we “can’t” complain about Hazbin or Helluva Boss because…. reasons? Why?! Why go after our blogs with harassment while pretending to “ignore” us? Why post hate while calling critique “hate”? Why call us “haters” while hating on us? Why are you “adults” being so goddamn rude?! The lack of empathy, lack of respect! Its so mean, im sick of it, im sick of all of it! Be respectful!

I understand if you disagree, but some of you (especially on twitter) are some of the mosy spiteful “adults” that I have ever seen. Even the Sonic Fandom handles critique better than this, this is just pathetically immature for an “adult” fandom. No joke, ive seen 13 year olds more mature than these kinds of people.

So in a nutshell!

“If you complain/critique about Hazbin stuff, its “hate”, but when we complain with actually hateful intentions- its fine! Critique is baaad, but posting hate goood! -The toxic section of the Hazbin and Helluva Boss Fandom.

[drowmonk]

RWBY Volume 4 Character Analysis Part Four: Yang Xiao Long

RWBY Volume 4 Character Analysis Part 4: Yang Xiao Long

 Oh boy, this one is tricky. And it’s the last one, so it’s expected for me to make a big blanket statement about how all four of our leading ladies were treated this volume. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do that. But here’s my other three metas if you want to read them all in a row:

 http://drowmonk.tumblr.com/post/162092947252/rwby-volume-4-character-analysis-part-one-ruby

 http://drowmonk.tumblr.com/post/162353207557/rwby-character-analysis-part-2-weiss-schnee

 http://drowmonk.tumblr.com/post/162625064192/rwby-character-analysis-part-3-blake-belladonna

 And now for the conclusion below the cut:

To recap where Yang is before we start diving into her actions. At the end of last volume she in order: Was manipulated into attacking Mercury, which led to questioning her own sanity and basically the whole world gaslighting her. Then the school gets attacked, she sees Blake, her best friend, being stabbed by Adam, she charges in and loses her arm protecting her. She wakes up and Blake left without a word (we know Blake was trying to protect Yang here but she doesn’t know that). Then Ruby leaves shortly after (against her advice we find out in Ruby’s letter at the end of volume 4), meaning she has to deal with her physical and emotional trauma with just her father Tai Yang to help her.

 That is a lot of shit to deal with man. Especially so for an extrovert like Yang, being isolated like this can really slow down the healing process. So we start off with her flipping through the local channels all still talking about the attack on Beacon. She holds on the one talking about Adam Taurus, Blake’s ex and the man that cut her arm off. She has a hard to read expression when she’s watching this. It’s a mix of fear, loathing, and anger. She turns the TV off when Tai Yang comes in with the mail, including a new prosthetic arm straight from General Ironwood.

 She’s hesitant to even open the package, much less put it on, even though her father encourages her to. More on this later, as Yang herself explains why she chooses this. Then we see her go about her new normal day, cleaning, dusting and sweeping around the house. She gets a flash of PTSD and drops a plate while washing dishes, Tai Yang sees it and doesn’t know how to help, and turns away.

 We next see her having a nightmare of being at Beacon again, Adam bearing down on her, her weapons powerless against him. She wakes up in a cold sweat and looks at her missing arm. Then she hears laughter from downstairs, she goes to investigate and finds her father talking with Dr. Oobleck and Prof. Port. They’re sharing stories of when Tai Yang was at Beacon, with the Branwen twins (her mother Raven and uncle Qrow). Oobleck and Port try and act as normal as possible, never mentioning Yang’s arm. When her father tries to get them to not talk about his high school romantic life, Yang refuses to be infantilized, she’s lived through combat after all. Tai Yang then earns the most savage father award by saying “I guess you lost some brain cells along with that arm!” which we find out Yang is totally comfortable with as she laughs along with him and lovingly punches him in the arm.

 Now while Yang is shown to be comfortable with what Tai Yang said, I’m not, but I don’t have the background necessary to really talk about Tai Yang’s behavior here. I’ll only say that this in my mind wasn’t the best way to show that Yang has accepted her new state as normal.

 But it does let us see Yang talk about why she hasn’t put on the new arm yet. She appreciates everyone wanting her getting back to normal, but for her, after six months of dealing with this situation, not having a right arm is normal for her, and she’s afraid of what putting it on will mean. Then her father points out that she doesn’t have to let her new normal stand in the way of where she wants to be. He finishes by saying he’s going to be there for her whenever she’s ready for the next step forward. Port follows up that it’s normal to be afraid, and that how one deals with that fear is what is important.

 Then Oobleck points out that Port is scared of mice and we get a good look at Yang laughing along with Oobleck, and Tai Yang looking lovingly at Yang, with a hint of melancholy. This is so important for Yang’s healing, as a extrovert she’s needed more than just her father to help her heal emotionally. It’s really nice to see her start to really recover here. Yang then bids Oobleck and Port goodnight and she hides by her window to watch them leave. They ask Tai Yang about Ruby, apparently they never got any of the letters she sent, and Tai Yang feels obligated to look after Yang and teach at Signal Academy.

 The next scene with Yang is in the same episode at the end, she’s put on the arm for the first time, and is flexing its hand. Tai Yang stands up and looks apprehensive, but he follows through on his earlier promise and wants to get started on training her with the new arm. Cut to a few episodes later and an indeterminable amount of time and Tai Yang and Yang are sparing in the back yard.

 During this training Tai Yang takes a moment to give a critique of Yang’s approach to both combat and life. He compares her to Raven, her mother, something he’s evidently never done before, perhaps the pain of her leaving was too much, but it’s been shown that he has tried to keep Yang from Raven. Which sounds bad on the surface, but bear in mind this is Raven “worst mother in RWBY” Branwen we’re talking about, she loses against a dead woman (Summer Rose) and a neglectful alcoholic that doesn’t get any screen time (Willow Schnee) (Kali Belladonna is best mom btw).

 Anyway, Tai Yang points out that Yang always tries to take the most direct solution to a problem, often ignoring better, easier solutions in the process. It’s how Cinder and company were able to get her to attack Mercury, sure she saw a hallucination that he was attacking her yes, but she could have just dodged him and it would have delayed their ability to get the Grimm to storm Vale. And again, it lost her an arm against Adam. It’s important to not shame Yang for these events, these are what we call character flaws. Tai Yang certainly doesn’t shame her for it, but he cautions her to not rely on her ability to (literally) punch through most problems.

 She beats him in the next match and we get a smirk of victory from her and a proud smile from him. Then we get to the part that’s really hard to gloss over. We go from this nicely paced recovery arc to Yang painting her robot arm and getting ready to mount up on Bumblebee (her motorcycle). It’s a little fast to go from this slow (ish) healing arc to Yang getting ready to mount up and head to Mystral to look for Ruby and/or find her mother.

 Tai Yang comes in and asks her where she’s going, he’s not about to stop her, but wants to know that she’s committed to something and knows what she’s doing. We technically never find out if she’s going after Raven or Ruby, but it’s fairly obvious that she’s going after Ruby first.

 Overall I’d say Yang’s arc this year was actually really well done, if stymied by pacing issues due to the format of the season, and having to balance out the titular four in four different locations dealing with four very different situations. A solid effort that fell short of what I’m sure they wanted. It’s not Korra’s healing arc from the final season of Legend of Korra, but it’s not “oh well guess I got a robo arm now lol!” either.

 So there you have it, my thoughts on Yang and her healing arc. I hope you’ve enjoyed these metas. If you did, please reblog them, it gives me warm fuzzies. :)