Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II prototype, 1970. Powered by the Boss 429 V8, the Cyclone Spoiler II was to take part in the NASCAR series and was closely related to Ford King Cobra. However Ford withdrew from racing after 1969 and NASCAR effectively banned the "aero cars" so despite their racing success in 1969 the Cyclone Spoiler II program was cancelled

i just finished volume 8 and i have to cope somehow

In memoriam…

"What about you? It's all about you!"

RUBY + BEING BLAMED BY OTHERS (AND HERSELF) in 8x01 & 8x11 & 9x07

“Hey, don’t just mumble. Say it properly.” I hadn’t even been audible. Getting desperate, I shouted. “I love you! I love you!”

Otherside Picnic, File 26

Bumbleby comforting each other parallels

me, a heavy Nuts and Dolts shipper who believes in the NND and Salem / Ozma parallel, who is fully convinced that Penny will return in a later volume, watching The Lost Fable to feed my brainrot, ACCIDENTALLY STUMBLES UPON THIS

what better way to make your main character and her love interest go through the story of their predecessors than make them have the exact same color schemes-

RWBY Beyond Predictions: Emerald

So, having not made a RWBY post in some time and wanting to get some thoughts down before RWBY Beyond air, I have decided to make a prediction post series. This is going to be focused more toward what loose ends/set up I think need to be addressed before V10.

Spoiler Warning: This post contains spoilers for volume 8-9, the full RWBY V9 Animatic and the two Team CVFY novels

1.) Setting up Emerald's Personnel Arc in the Vacuo Arc

The Full RWBY V9 Animatic did a really nice job I feel of setting up the stakes and personal arcs of key characters. However, one omission I'd like to see addressed before V10 is what is Emerald's personal arc going to be like.

Now I think it's pretty safe to say that there is going to be some friction between Emerald and characters who haven't seen her since V3. I do not think it is a stretch to think Team CVFY has some strong opinions about Emerald and winning their trust is going to take time. There is also a case to be made that Emerald share blame in Nolan being the Sole survivor of Team BRNZ so there is going to be tension there as well.

There are two other possible Emerald plot point I am keeping on eye out for. The first is who she is without/beyond Cinder. So much of Emerald's identity is wrapped up around Cinder and it pairs well with how Nora is going through something similar.

The other plot point is how much if any processing has Emerald done regarding her decision to effectively defect has she done? Now I imagine in the time since V8 ended there has been multiple schools of thought regarding this. Did Emerald defect because of Cinder, Salem or a combination of the two? What does Emerald think about Cinder now?

These are thing Emerald is going to have to sort through that I don't think we as the audience have an answer for yet.

"It figures that a Schnee would be the last one standing, letting all her friends die first."

08x14 // 09x07

I'm just tired of losing everything.

Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II Dan Gurney Special, 1969. A homologation special that allowed Mercury to compete in NASCAR stock car racing. To make the car more aerodynamic, a sleeker front section was used. The nose was replaced with one that extended the car's length and a flush-mounted grille from a Ford Cobra was fitted. The front bumper was actually a rear bumper off a 1969 Ford Fairlane that was cut, narrowed, and filled on the ends. Homologation rules meant 500 road-going cars needed to be made but only 351 "flat nose" examples were built, all with the 351ci Windsor V8 engine and automatic transmission. To make up the 500 a further 152 "W nose" Cyclone Spoilers were created with a variety of engine and transmission combinations, making 503 Dan Gurney Special models in all.

NASCAR needed to verify that 500 cars were made (during the first few weeks of 1969): As the story goes they built 351 extended "D" nosed cars; parked them in the front and on the edges of a parking lot; took 152 regular "W" nosed Cyclone Spoilers and parked them in the middle of all the Spoiler IIs in the parking lot. When NASCAR counted the cars they just never looked closely enough at the cars in the rear

so much shit happened y'all send help

Funny how Ruby’s whole thing is Keep Moving Forward but when she’s actually sad to the point where she stops, she’s just so still

I took a picture as Penny dying in a glue trap and-

I am. So funny :)

fun times on the ark of life 🐠