The Elder Scrolls Travels: Jiub’s Quest

Sidescroller Shoot Em’ Up mockup based on Jiub’s eradication of Cliff Racers

I started reading “lords of the lance “ the new novel for warhammer the old world. I’ve only just started but I’m really enjoying it. Of course that subset of warhammer fans who always cry when GW makes the setting more inclusive are going nuts over the fact that there are *gasp* female knights in Bretonnia.

The amount of sexism in Warhammer Fantasy honestly makes me really uncomfortable

I genuinely have difficulty enjoying the setting because of it and I absolutely hate that fact

I got nothing against sexism existing in fiction provided it's handled well but sexism in Warhammer is handled horrifically to the point that it's practically downplaying it

Thoughts on Bretonnia getting female knights?

Good if true? There's nothing in the codes of chivalry that ever said it wasn't possible. There's nothing that says women can't be grail knights. Also, whichever god you subscribe to the lady being, Ladrielle (correct) or Lileath (incorrect), neither of them really make distinctions about someone's sex. It's based on purity of spirit.

There being no female knights/grail knights (minus Repanse) to this point comes from the passive application of real world biases that have no logical place Bretonnia, and don't mesh with the way becoming a grail knight works.

Thoughts on Bretonnia getting female knights?

Good if true? There's nothing in the codes of chivalry that ever said it wasn't possible. There's nothing that says women can't be grail knights. Also, whichever god you subscribe to the lady being, Ladrielle (correct) or Lileath (incorrect), neither of them really make distinctions about someone's sex. It's based on purity of spirit.

There being no female knights/grail knights (minus Repanse) to this point comes from the passive application of real world biases that have no logical place Bretonnia, and don't mesh with the way becoming a grail knight works.

I really want to like Warhammer fantasy

but the sexism in the lore like, reaaaalllllly turns me off. It's not handled well at all. Makes me feel unwelcome to an extent.

Gender is no object is one of the best tropes EVER and I really wish Fantasy used it

you should read Angels & Demons, I thought it was pretty good

wuhhh been a long ass time since I've used this blog

Also yeah that was actually already on my book list but now that you're recommending it it's definitely getting bumped near the top LOL

female protagonists will literally go through 30 life altering traumas at the age of 16 and you ppl still have the audacity to call them annoying bc they cry about it and act like teenage girls

I've had this thought swirling in the back of my head for a while, but it's finally congealed enough that I think I can make a coherent pitch, which is: I think RWBY's problems with the more vitriolic part of its fanbase partially stems from the fact that RWBY is a deconstruction that doesn't advertise it's a deconstruction.

RWBY's status as a deconstruction is pretty textbook. It takes apart standard fantasy, shounen, and anime tropes in order to analyze them and their deeper meaning and then reassembles them in new and interesting ways for the plot/characters/series. Thing is, it never says that outright in promotional material, which can lead to later outrage in fans.

See, unless their way of discovering new shows is to close their eyes and stab their finger at random, most people tend to choose series to watch/read based on expectations. Maybe a friend said they'll like it because it has [insert thing], maybe they read the summary and were intrigued, maybe they thought the poster/cover art was cool, whatever. These small pieces of information are generally enough for people to make a snap-judgment of the style and genre of the series, which they can then gauge against their personal tastes and decide whether or not they want to try.

Most of the time, this works just fine. Well-written deconstructions also generally give the viewers some warning/buildup before they take a hard swerve. See Madoka Magica: the magical girl paradigm is shaded by the possibility of death as soon as we're introduced to it, then there's an onscreen death with blood, and then a few episodes later we eventually realize the Faustian bargain of it all. Even innocent viewers who stumbled into watching it, unaware of the show's reputation, would go "Oh, wait, this is not going in the direction magical girl shows usually go" by a third of the way through.

The thing is, with RWBY, this does not happen unless you're paying a lot of attention and/or looking for it. And neither the cover art nor the summary nor, I believe, the fanbase gives a lot of warning about the swerves ahead.

In fact, RWBY initially bills itself as a pretty standard shounen anime. The main protagonist is hinted to have Special Powers and gets into the Magic Monster-Hunting School in the first episode, and the first two-and-a-half seasons are taken up by her and her friends' superhero-esque slice-of-life shenanigans as they thwart robberies and terrorist attacks and gear up for a tournament arc against the looming background of a larger conspiracy.

Then in the last half of the third season the villains' entire Rube Goldberg machine of a scheme snaps into completion and the plot twists so hard the entire genre takes a hard right. If you're used to character analysis and common anime tropes, this is not completely a surprise -up until this point, RWBY's character arcs and plot have been subtly traveling in non-traditional directions that hint of greater flexibility in genre treatment ahead- but if you're not... well.

Thing is, people watching RWBY up until this point have signed up for pretty standard shounen and they've been getting it, but the third season's ending smashes that all to bits. From then on out in RWBY, it's like they ordered fries and suddenly got a hamburger. It might be delicious; but it's not what they asked for, what they wanted, or what they paid for, and they are, justifiably, displeased.

So when the reasonable people either adjusted their expectations or sighed, shook their heads, and clicked back out (perhaps with a grumble and a scowl), the unreasonable people dug their heels in and began insisting that everybody was Getting The Show/Character Wrong and that CRWBY is ruining it, because the fact that RWBY's method of deconstruction is to put standard tropes in a blender and then arrange what's left in deceptive patterns means that said unreasonable viewers can scan the bare surface and argue that all the stereotypical stuff is clearly still under there, somewhere.

So they're continually trying to drag RWBY back to the tracks of a typical shounen anime series (it's closest relative), which creates a dissonance between the show they're watching and the show they think they're watching. They're trying to turn the hamburger back into fries, basically, except that doesn't work and just frustrates everyone involved, because you're trying to make RWBY into something that it's not. Hence, this attitude probably starting/fueling some of the more contentious statements in the fandom, i.e.:

"Ironwood was right the whole time" (in most action movies and shounen anime, allied military leaders are trustworthy beyond reproach)

"Adam's character was wasted" (we all know how much shounen loves their powerful warrior antiheroes)

"Ruby and the others are in the wrong about [insert thing]/or for doing [insert thing], and this is bad writing!" (shounen protagonists don't usually make more than One Very Big Mistake over the course of their entire careers, which is usually fixed/overcome/redeemed via an appropriately rigorous training arc)

And to be clear, there's nothing wrong with shounen tropes or shounen anime. They're wonderful storytelling devices in their own way and their own time: but if you want standard by-the-book shounen without any new and interesting concoctions, then RWBY is definitely not the show for you. And most people don't find that out until it's too late.

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HOES MAD!

REBLOG TO HAVE A KARKALICIOUS 2009!

Shh babygirl, I know it's not actually 7,000 steps to High Hrothgar. It's actually 763, but canonically, it's 7,000. Shh, I know love. It's ok. It's Skyrim Darling,followers can get trapped in walls,people can swim in mid air and you can break doors with dinner plates. Let it go. It will all be alright.

me watching monsters inc as a kid: how did it take so long for anyone to figure out that human child laughter not only produced energy like screams, but was more effective, and that children aren’t actually dangerous at all?

me watching monsters inc now: monsters incorporated, a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, stood to make extra profits off a scream shortage because low supply with high demand makes it possible to charge a fortune for a necessary commodity and everyone has no choice but to pay the high prices because they can’t go without electricity. Therefore Monsters Inc, as well as any other major powers that may have existed at the start of the era of using scream energy, fabricated the idea that only screams could generate sustainable energy sources in order to create artificial scarcity, because laugh energy was far easier to obtain and far more efficient, and therefore stood to lower the value of energy due to surplus. They also fabricated the idea that human children were toxic, in order to a) make other monsters too afraid to go near them to do research and possibly discover the secret of laugh energy, and b) to make monsters so afraid of going near them that there is a shortage of scarers, making it harder for rival companies to rise up and create competition. Even in the monster world, capitalism is based on lies, greed and cruelty, and even monster companies have no qualms about using and abusing children to maximize profits.

I love the idea of Coco always openly confirming her feelings for velvet. While Velvet is just a big gay mess ,and can’t tell if Coco is being serious or not.

That works too!

Thanks for the tag @thelastplantagenet 😊💚

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I got Sex in the City

Never watched it but hey I like sex

New York City Sitcom Map.

by Dan Meth

I was gonna put my hands in the picture but then I wouldn't be able to do my favorite pastime

As for the verdict, I like this. I'm undefinable. Mysterious. Eldritch, some would even say. The eldritch god of accountants, even.

I HEREBY NOMINATE @goldsrc-hl1 and no one else cause I kinda don't know anyone else on here

Thanks for the tag @thelastplantagenet 😊💚

1. Do this uquiz.

2. Do this picrew.

3. Tag people.

feel free to play if you’d like :)

@buncha-angry-kids-with-no-money @thatoneandlonelyemo2005 @with-the-words-all-wrong

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