The RoosterTeeth site will be deleted May 15th 😔 do yourselves a favor and start archiving EVERYTHING you can now. RageQuit, RvB, X-Ray & Vav, the Minecraft Let's Plays, RWBY, etc. RT is warning us as nicely as they can that there's a p good chance we won't be able to access ANYTHING by next year, including the YouTube channel. Download!

The RoosterTeeth site will be deleted May 15th 😔 do yourselves a favor and start archiving EVERYTHING you can now. RageQuit, RvB, X-Ray & Vav, the Minecraft Let's Plays, RWBY, etc. RT is warning us as nicely as they can that there's a p good chance we won't be able to access ANYTHING by next year, including the YouTube channel. Download!

Alright. Gonna start with some advice. Maybe not good advice either, but advice nonetheless.

If there's any RT merch you've ever thought you might've wanted, get it. Get it now. Figures? Shirts? Hats? Pins? Get it. Don't wait for the liquidation sale, I was on the RT store @ 2pm yesterday and bought some shit that was sold out by 5pm. Raid the RT store, raid Amazon, raid HotTopic, raid fuckin WalMart. You will NEVER get the chance to buy this merch again, and what's in circulation NOW is likely what will forever be in circulation- and it'll only get more expensive next year when RT's dissolved. Buy it, buy it, buy it. Because you don't wanna regret never having got it later.

Content! If there's a song, Achievement Hunter episode, series, etc that's ever made you laugh, download it. Download the RageQuit Impossible Game series. Download the entire RvB series. Download RWBY. Download the entire Achievement Hunter Minecraft Let's Play series. Download Falling Towards the Sky. WB has a long history burying content that it owns and making sure people can never find it again. In 20 years, you don't wanna go looking across YouTube just to find out that "SWISS FUCKING CHEESE!" or "I WENT TO PUBLIC SCHOOL!" has been deleted. To find out BMBLB or Boop has been scrubbed off Spotify. Download if, keep it in a hard drive somewhere, and maybe in 2051 you can still sit down with a friend and watch every episode of XRay and Vav without worrying about which website is still hosting it.

Keep the community. I've met some of my best and oldest friends through RT. Don't let those ties break. Find something else to get into, but maintain those friendships.

This sucks, but we can make it suck a little less with friends!

I wrote some words about this on Twitter that you can read below, but for now, thank you, Crwby

goodbye to my friends of 12 years :(

Ren + Nora / Vol 8. Ep 11

okay so they’re cute

You ever think about the fact that Nora was an orphan whose mother chose to abandon her and save herself rather than help her own daughter? You ever think about how that must’ve affected Nora every waking minute of her life? That her mother didn’t even think she was worth saving? But now here she is, days, weeks, months after she should’ve died, still fighting for every minute of her existence? Foraging for food and raiding dumpsters for stale bread? No older than five? This little girl was on her own at such a young age and she woke up every morning remembering the fact that the person who she trusted the most in her life had abandoned her to be eaten by bloodthirsty monsters.

You ever think about how Ren was most likely the first person to show Nora any kind of compassion or kindness since her mother abandoned her? How Ren- a kid who was perfectly safe and hidden from the Grimm, a kid who’d just been orphaned himself- put his own safety in jeopardy in order to save Nora. This random kid who’d just been through such a traumatic experience- this kid who had two loving parents who sacrificed themselves to give him a chance at life- did more for her than her own mother!

You ever think about how Nora must feel about Ren after that? She wasn’t alone anymore. She wasn’t abandoned or not even worth saving. She was worthy of love! She was worthy of life! Because if this little kid with bright pink eyes thought so, who was she to argue? 

Fine.

This sucks. This genuinely sucks. I know I've been one of the loudest and most consistent voices in the RWDE community, but I've always been a RWBY fan first and foremost. I've met some of my closest friends through RWBY. I've been in communities for over a decade through RWBY. RWBY has easily been the most formative fandom of my life for me. I've got over 40 RWBY fics that are some of my most read pieces of writing. I love RWBY.

RT shutting down was obvious. The past few years have been rocky as hell. The Ryan incident, the Joel incident, Mica rightfully airing out her issues with the company, Kdin doing the same, etc etc etc. It honestly feels like getting bought by AT&T put a timer on their backs that's finally rung. The writing's been on the wall for a really long time. Most of us have been refusing to read it but... now we're here.

I'm still processing. I think all of us should take the day to process. To get our hopes up that WB will sell it off instead of canceling it for a tax writeoff like they've done with every other property they own. Hopefully we get lucky! Crazier things have happened.

Like I said in my other post, today is Renoraversary. And the Bees are canon in RWBY. We have some great moments to fondly remember. RvB WILL finish up with its final season, and to everyone still watching Camp Camp, we've got that too. If you're an RT fan, hell, if you're a RWBY fan, let's make sure today is a good day.

We can mourn tomorrow.

It's Renoraversary. Can we please just say today is Renoraversary and nothing else happened today? Can we PLEASE just focus on Renoraversary today?

This will forever be my biggest gripe with this show.

can we stop doing this trope

Pyrrha

she was my fave and then… you know

I'm not trying to be doomer about it either. Like, I'd be genuinely happy if RT picked back up, and sad if they circle the drain until they collapse. But the fact that they're not even doing RTX this year... the difference in tone between last year's RTX and 2022's RTX... the fact that almost all the VAs have moved on from RT and only return to do their lines, the fact that v9 had to be outsourced to CR and pretty much lost money every episode...

Where do we go from here?

Be hopeful. Be excited. Sure. But I think in a "being realistic" sense... RT is cooked. I hope I'm wrong. I really do. But it's been obvious for a couple years now that RT aren't gonna survive much longer. And with v10 still not greenlit, and "the final" season of rvb on the horizon after 2 poorly received seasons........

I think we're done.

... I think we're done

... I think we're done

You ever remember how Penny Polendina was a sentient robot designed and programmed to help people, but was so sentient that she started to rebel against her orders and programming? But no she didn’t rebel to take over the world or hurt people. She didn’t see people and battle androids get shredded and torn apart by Grimm and decide that that’s not the fate she wanted. Her big rebellion was to try to think up a plan to be with her friends. She wanted so badly to remain with the friends she’d made at Beacon. That’s it. That’s all she wanted. You ever think about that? You ever remember how Penny was so human she even developed her own fears? But not like, fears that would’ve been programmed into her like self-preservation or fear of not being able to help. Nah, the fear she developed was of people invalidating her humanity. She didn’t want people to see her as “less than.” But she was so touched and moved by Ruby that she told her her secret anyway, fully expect Ruby to then invalidate her. Can you imagine how happy she must’ve felt when Ruby told her otherwise? That she was a real girl regardless? And can you imagine how absolutely afraid and ashamed she must’ve felt as she fell apart on the tournament floor? Those last few seconds of consciousness that must’ve felt like an eternity to an AI? Can you imagine how she must’ve felt knowing that her cover was blown, everyone knew she was a robot, and would then invalidate her humanity? Not a real girl after all? You ever think about that?

Red like roses fills my dreams ~

I love the finale so much