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masterweaverx · 3 years

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So anyway I think that the heroes are going to snatch control of Atlas right out from under Salem and Ironwood’s noses. It’ll take a few episodes, but it’ll happen by V8′s end. Here’s the probably inaccurate spiffy:

Ironwood and Salem are busily playing army and being absolutely ignorant to their own and each other’s underlings thinking maybe they’re in the wrong. So while they think they are controlling the Battle For Atlas (TM), everybody else is going to be trying to save people. Emerald’s going to get to the lamp first(ish).

Emerald: JINN! I must ask you something! Jinn: For reasons related to metaknowledge I like you a lot kid, so I’ll warn you to word your question very carefully. Emerald: Well... shit, give me a minute. Jinn: Time’s frozen, I’m magic like that. Take as long as you need.

Exactly what Emerald asks is up in the air, but it’s probably either ‘what is Salem hiding’ or ‘how can Cinder be freed from Salem’ and either way Jinn will make it clear Emerald needs to get to Ruby, so Emerald shrugs cause she was totally going to jump ship from Salem anyway (woman is dancing murder, literally) and so she waltzes out to pick up Oscar and then they run into JYR.

Yang: You framed me! Emerald: Yeah but I’m good now. See? Saving kids, got the relic-- Ren: I HATH SEEN HER VIBES, AND SHE DOTH BE GOOD NOW. Yang: Wait but how do you know it’s not an illusion? Ren: YOUR VIBES DOTH PROCLAIM AFFECTION FOR THINE PARTNER, OF DEEP AND INTENSE KIND, YET YOU DOUBT YOUR VALUE TO HER-- Yang: Okay okay I believe you! Oscar: Hey I’m kinda bleeding to death can we escape already?

And as they rush out of the whale, there is DRAMA in the Schnee mansion. Ruby’s panicking over Penny, and because Penny came in hot she can’t touch her with her bare hands so she’s getting Weiss to summon up some remote gloves for Emergency Robot Surgery and totally ignoring that pain in her heart. Meanwhile Klein’s patching up Nora--

Nora’s Past: Excuse me, sir, I need to reveal myself now. You don’t mind do you? Klein: This girl is pretty badly hurt, so I do rather mind-- Nora’s Past: Not to worry, I won’t interfere in your healing and you can have a conversation that sets up a future plot point.

And Blake and May are talking about how they robbed people to save people and Blake’s kinda trying to hint maybe that the situation’s pretty bad up here without offending May who is really just this close to exploding.

May: If you can’t give me one good reason to stay I’m taking the jet down to Mantle! Whitley: Jacques has a work computer in his office, maybe you can reactivate Mantle’s heat from there? May: ...fuck it get me some cocoa.

And indeedily, it turns out that there are programs to reactivate the heating grid! And switches to flip the direction of the Mantle/Atlas chute system! And a bunch of other stuff that’ll help Mantle, and May’s getting into it when she hits THE JACKPOT. You know how Jacques got elected a councilman? And how he got some key codes for that? Well, being the brilliant genius that he is, he put those key codes on his home computer and nobody’s thought to erase them since his arrest. Which means May can spoof Atlas systems to think ONE council member is doing things!

[Interlude with Cinder going aircar shopping, surprisingly easy when the city stores are abandoned. She has a run-in with the Glass Unicorn, which does not survive. We get a close-up of her face, and she’s frustrated that this isn’t satisfying her.]

But only having one councilmember’s codes isn’t enough to do more than move some people around the subways to safer places--great and all, but won’t solve the problem. If they had more control of Atlas’s automated systems, they could maybe do something, but the only way to do that is get more councilmember control codes. Like a majority. That’s two codes, and there’s no way to--

Blake: Wait doesn’t Ironwood have two seats? May: Yeah but he’s not going to work with us. Blake: We’re already spoofing Jacques’ codes, we can spoof Ironwood’s. May: We’d have to get to the terminal in the military compound! Blake: ...or the one in Atlas Academy. I need to make a call.

Cut to team FNKI, not at all chillin’ in their dorm. They’re ticked for so many reasons, they’re antsy, Neon gets a call from Blake and listens for a bit before saying ‘hey everyone wanna go infiltrate the Headmaster’s office and save Atlas?’ And Flynt’s like ‘You know what, sure.’ And four teenagers with attitude Power Ranger their way through some very confused soldiers and then Ivori puts on his hacker glasses and says--

Ivori: Oh crap guys. Ironwood only put the Headmaster codes on this terminal. Not the military council codes. Neon: Paranoid bitch. Ivori: Also he knows we’re here now.

Meanwhile JYR and their new pals (who may or may not include Hazel and Neo, depending on how effective Oscar is at handing out redemption arcs) have a bit of a tiff over the whole ‘recruiting bad guys’ thing and Emerald’s like ‘Guys fine arrest me but I literally have all the knowledge you need and for plot reasons we need to go to the Schnee mansion now’ so Winter’s like ‘Oh shit! I hate plot in my house!’ and she checks the clock and yeah, there’s PLENTY of time to hop over before the bomb arrives and, hey, probably fugitives, so dad Ironwood can’t yell at her for this!

[Interlude with Fiona and Joanna, who start characterizing each other and mention Important Plot Details that will probably come into play in the next volume but the fandom’s all going to speculate about how it’ll come into play this volume because we’re like that.]

So back with Ruby, she’s managed to juryrig Penny back to life and there’s this big emotional moment and Ruby has a breakdown and Weiss is all ‘I’m not equipped to handle this shit but I’ll try anyway’ and Penny has a breakdown and Weiss is like ‘yeah okay, cuddles and comfort time, come here you crazy girls’ and THEN Whitley bursts through the door and shouts ‘GUYS GUYS TEAM FNKI’S ON TV AND THEY’RE SAYING SWEAR WORDS!’

Neon: I’ve come to make an announcement: James Ironwood is a bitch-ass motherfu-- Ironwood: Okay this teenage rebellion is stupid. Luckily it’ll be easy to take back control of Atlas Academy because I am always right and never miss anything. Random Intern: But Sir! Aren’t You Worried They Will Hack Atlas’s Systems? Ironwood: Allow me to exposit on how impossible that is and how they would need three council codes to make a majority that could let that happen. Camilla, in her office: YO BITCH! REMEMBER ME?!

That’s right, Camilla’s noticed this TV broadcast, put together the pieces, and as scared as she is of Ironwood she’s noticing that he’s not really doing so hot fighting Salem so, what the heck, she’s going to tell everyone that Ironwood killed Sleet and he’s a treasonous traitor and soldiers should totally turn to Robyn Hill. Because she just sent her own council codes to ALL FOUR OF THE HAPPY HUNTRESSES. Also she says this is a pre-recorded message and she probably got killed by her doorguards.

[Meanwhile, the Hound gets a smoothie. It’s plot-detail flavored.]

Ironwood rages, but it’s okay! He’s got Robyn’s scroll! So he’s got the codes, he’s still in control aaaaaand Fiona’s already changed the password. But you know this plan is totally going to fall apart without Robyn, who’s trapped in her cell, so he marches down there to kill her before she can become a problem and comes face to face with Cinder God Damn Fall.

Ironwood: Get out of the way, I need to kill that woman. Cinder, flipping him off: Fuck you, Atlas scum, I do what I want! Hardlight generator: Hey why are you reaching for me scary lady OH GOD THE PAIN I AM DEAD THE PRISONERS ARE FREE BLEGH-- Watts: Let’s get out of here while they’re fighting each other! Cinder: ...yeah, that, that was totally my plan, yeah.

So Cinder and Watts skedaddle and the soldiers are like ‘uh should we catch them’ and Ironwood’s all ‘WE MUST KILL ROBYN’ and Robyn has no idea why but she’s not going down easy and Qrow’s screaming how Ironwood’s just the worst and Jacques is cowering in a corner because everybody has guns. Realistically a whole bunch of soldiers are able to easily subdue Qrow and Robyn and Ironwood gets ready to kill them when suddenly--

Raven: Looks like I need to save your weak ass, bro. Robyn: Who’s the hottie? Qrow: A fucking bitch. Raven: Yeah, okay, but I brought Tai along so... Taiyang: Anybody want a brownie? No? Fine. Sic’ em Zwei.

Obviously the might of the War Corgi (and yeah, the Spring Maiden, sure) is enough to get Robyn and Qrow to safety, and they also snag Robyn’s scroll on the way out, and Robyn gets informed of basically everything in one long ‘thank god you’re back’ speech by May who is REALLY tired of wrangling all these teenagers and their drama, but she’s interrupted when the Ace Ops land at the Schnee mansion and bring in their drama and should they turn on Ironwood like Camilla says and Blake says some stuff about ‘did you promise the man he is or who he pretends to be’ and Penny also has lines and there’s so much yelling--

Watts: According to my notes, Penny’s at the Schnee mansion. Cinder: My orders are to deliver you to Salem. Watts: But Cinder, there’s a lot of plot at the Schnee mansion right now! I know you looove ploooooooot! Cinder: Are you trying to tempt me to do a dumb? Watts: What can I say, I’m mischievous. Cinder: ...okay, you can drive yourself right back to Salem--I mean it! Drive STRAIGHT BACK, don’t get yourself CAUGHT AGAIN, and you tell her that you ordered me out. Watts: You have my word! Watts tells Salem Cinder totally abandoned him of her own free will.

So Cinder Fall strides into the conflict and she’s all smug--right up until she sees EMERALD IS WITH RUBY and she just flips out like ‘what the shit! What the shit girl what are you doing?!’ And Emerald says ‘I’m doing this for you! Allow me to begin my melodramatic speech about--’ Cue the Hound smashing through the window with a horde of Grimm and suddenly everything is chaos nobody knows who’s on anybody’s side Penny’s being fought over by everyone and--

Penny, eyes red: THE VAULT--Aaaaargh! Ruby, watching her fly out: Oh yeah, she was hacked, right, forgot. Cinder: The Hound: The Ace Ops: JNOR: RWBY: TRQ: May: Robyn: Kids, go after her, we’ll clean up here.

Everyone RUNS OUT OF THE SCHNEE MANSION and it’s a race to get to the Vault using every method they can and Cinder’s melting the ground and getting into fights left and right and the Ace Ops are showing their true colors by getting random citizens out of the way and meanwhile the Happy Huntresses are coordinating everything in Atlas AND Mantle and it’s all chaos but it’s clear that Ironwood’s not in control and then--

in the vault--

there he is, holding Penny’s sword. And he’s picked her up and started literally banging her against the door because the vault won’t open--

Cinder: Yo, moron, you need to do it right. Cinder: *Whips out a frying pan and conks out Ruby* Cinder, sweetly: Penny, if you don’t open that door I’ll melt her booooones~!

Welp, there’s no way to solve that hostage situation, so Penny reluctantly opens the Vault of the Winter Maiden and it looks like, oh no, somebody bad is going to get the staff, when all of the sudden--

Nora: THIS is what I’m good for! Nora’s Past: Go get ‘em girl!

Nora just catapults herself into the vault, grabs the staff and--before anybody can react--gets it to land next to Mantle. And THEN the Ace Ops come in and say ‘yeah, uh, Ironwood, totally under arrest for being stupid’ and turn off the hackersword which lets Penny get Ruby away from Cinder. Cinder’s right ticked so she reaches for the staff with her Grimm hand but, in a fit of realization, Nora decides to use the staff to regenerate Cinder’s lost arm (which destroys the Grimm Arm entirely).

Cinder: Wait... what the fuck? Why’d you do THAT?! Nora: I have complicated in-character reasons but the truth is I’m setting up a plotline for you to doubt the path you’ve chosen so you’ll turn on Salem down the line. Cinder: Well now I’m feeling existential. I think I’ll go back to Salem and whine about this whole crazy day.

So anyway the volume ends with reinforcements arriving, Robyn the new leader of the Kingdom of Mantle, Ironwood locked up for being a moron, Salem just totally blindsided by the complete upset of the board, and Nora offering to regenerate Yang’s arm. Yang says no because she gave up her arm for something precious and her new arm was a gift plus it’s awesome plus her sister’s dating a robot so saying ‘I don’t like metal arms’ is kinda hypocritical.

....

And then in the stinger Cinder’s staring in a mirror and Pyrrha says ‘Hello again.’

#RWBY #V8 #Spoilers #V8 Spoilers #Speculation #Ruby Rose #Weiss Schnee #Blake Belladonna #Yang Xiao Long #Actually a whole bunch of characters #This is probably going to be wildly inaccurate #No mention of Willow's secret elf powers #But let's see how badly I can guess

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diogenes3000 · 5 years

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Beware the Ides of March, Biden...

SOOTHSAYER: Caesar!

CAESAR: Ha! Who calls?

CASCA: Bid every noise be still. Peace yet again!

CAESAR: Who is it in the press that calls on me?

I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music,

Cry “Caesar.” Speak, Caesar is turn'd to hear.

SOOTHSAYER: Beware the ides of March.

CAESAR: What man is that?

BRUTUS: A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.

CAESAR: Set him before me; let me see his face.

CASSIUS: Fellow, come from the throng; look upon Caesar.

CAESAR: What say'st thou to me now? Speak once again.

SOOTHSAYER: Beware the ides of March.

CAESAR: He is a dreamer; let us leave him. Pass.

This iconic exchange from Shakespeare’s ‘The Tragedy of Julius Caesar’ quickly came to mind after seeing a clip of Joe Biden speaking to an association of Fire Fighters on MSNBC and it should be obvious that Biden was not playing the Soothsayer. I hope not to be cast in that role either, but with the continuing escalation of tensions in the culture wars it would be no surprise if Biden’s run barely made it into the fall of 2019. That is if in fact he does announce his candidacy in the already crowded throng of Presidential hopefuls on the Democratic side. Not only are there too many landmines for him to tap-dance over, but he has more than his fair share of skeletons which no closet or rug can cover up in the Orwellian present, three of which stand out.

1) “He’s pretty fly, for a white guy…”

Like the Elves at the end of Lord of the Rings, the time of the White Heterosexual Man in America is over. They had a good run, but according to the church of Intersectionality White Man do nothing for society. They are inherent oppressors of all differing groups and constantly exude toxicity while maintaining their White Supremacy over the world through colonization.

Wow, I should teach Critical Theory, that was pretty damned good.

Joe Biden is an old cis-het-white guy colonizer that epitomizes EVERYTHING the current Democratic party is against. Centrists, who still make up a majority of the Democratic Party, may like him, but that silent plurality doesn’t have the sway it once did and doesn’t have the energy of young activist progressives who don’t give a fuck about other people’s feelings. The determination of ‘Call-Out Culture’ will not pause from deplatforming Biden wherever he roams on the campaign trail or off. Whether it’s Women’s March leaders like anti-Semitic Tamika Mallory & Linda Sarsour, Code Pink, Black Lives Matter (whom we will definitely see later this year as campaign season starts gearing up), or Intersectional Feminists, Joe Biden will be pressured on a daily basis to atone for his ‘Toxic Masculinity’, rebuke his White Privilege, and genuflect at the Sacred Totem pole of Intersectionality. Not only will this performative display do nothing to appease the high priestesses of Critical Theorists, but it will alienate the very centrists Biden will depend on to act as his voting base to keep him atop the Democratic Primary field. Even if he survives this inevitable onslaught in to the Christmas season Biden will do what we all know he is going to do.

2) Put his foot in his mouth

Back in February of 2007 soon after Biden had announced his bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination, he put his foot in his mouth as he was prone to do. In describing the competitive field that he was up against, which included Obama, Clinton, and John Edwards, he made this comment about future President Obama,

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."

The press quickly jumped on his case about potential racist overtones in his word choice, but the controversy was short lived as he clarified his meaning and openly apologized to Obama which the, then candidate, felt was unnecessary. The perhaps poor choice of words may have not been anywhere close to a nail in the coffin back in 2007, but we are living in a completely different political world. The above quote along with his 2012 declaration that the GOP will put people “back in chains” are obviously unworthy of getting one’s dander up, but the ‘Woke-Left’ thrives on their overly sensitive dander reactions. Biden better start hiring some expert political PR reps to prepare for the onslaught of “internalized racism” accusations and smears of ‘White Savior complex’ he will endure at the hands of identarians the likes of journalist Rebecca Traister, ‘White Fragility author Robyn DiAngelo, and uber-feminist Amy Siskind, (the latter of which has pledged in a recent tweet not to vote for any white male in the Presidential race) not to mention the hordes of iGen activists who view the American landscape as a righteous battlefield for equity. This example alone may cut Biden off at the knees and if it doesn’t the next one surely will.

3) Anita Hill.

Biden has received perhaps his less than fair share of criticism over his handling of the Clarence Thomas hearings in the fall of 1991. He promised fellow Senator, Republican John Danforth, in a gym that he would make the hearings quick so they would end by Columbus Day of that year which drew the ire of other Democratic lawmakers. Biden failed to fight or challenge hostile questioning of Anita Hill by Republican committee members and, perhaps most importantly, did not call 3 other witnesses who could have corroborated Miss Hill’s testimony which would have ended the chance of Clarence Thomas being approved to the Supreme Court. Although Biden has openly apologized to Anita Hill a few times over the years and has also taken credit for raising the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, some of which he does deserve, the ‘Believe all Women’ crowd will not be so kind as to pat him on the back anytime soon. Anita Hill’s name was the rallying cry for all those who opposed Brett Kavanaugh last fall during his confirmation hearings. The same individuals helplessly banging on the locked doors of the Supreme Court in a futile attempt to stop Kavanaugh from being sworn in will not be so forgiving of Biden who truly subverted justice in fast tracking Clarence Thomas to the highest court in the land.

Joe Biden is not brave enough for this Angry new world of the Democratic party run by staunch ideologues and activists like Ocasio-Cortez, Kamala Harris, and Rashida Tlaib. He and Nancy Pelosi are dinosaurs running on fumes. They don’t know that their time is up. They may have good intentions, but the new base of the Democratic party, steeped in ‘Woke’ values of results oriented equity, imposing the original sin of ‘Whiteness’, and the perpetual resistance to a mythological creature known as ‘The Patriarchy’ will leave Biden alone in the dust with only the jeering laughs of a call out culture to keep him company as the Bernie Sanders bandwagon heads toward a similar chasm known only to Thelma & Louise. Joe Biden would do all progressives a favor by sitting this blood sport out and doing what any elder statesperson should do. Advise his own party to stay the course while taking the type of cheap shots at Donald Trump that any worthwhile Presidential candidate should avoid at all costs. I’m afraid that if Biden fails to heed my March predictions of political madness to come, he will achieve nothing, but walking headlong into the countless knives that await him before the dawning of 2020.

#JoeBiden AnitaHill Democrats PresidentialRace

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