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in a world where the last of us show is able to get away with bill and frank's relationship being as explicit as it was (and will likely do so again with ellie and riley when they get to the left behind content), rwby has no excuse for dragging its feet on bumblebee beyond that miles and kerry just don't give a solitary fuck.

I haven't seen the show yet (too deep in Devil May Cry lol) so I can't say anything concrete, but I did watch playthroughs of it back in the day. In 2013, the most the developers could do for gay rep was a joke via the male model magazine

You know what the bees remind me of? Korrasami. That hand hold in the finale was gay enough to get the 4th season banned to the shadowrealm (streaming only). In 2014. Before gay marriage was legalized. That was revolutionary

Say what you will about Bryke - I sure have and will - but they did care enough about this to fight their bosses. Because of them taking that first step, we have more explicit queer rep like Steven Universe, She Ra, and Owl House

Crwby does not have the excuse of it being 2014. The v6 bees hand hold came in 2018, 3 years after gay marriage was federally approved. They do not have bosses they have to fight tooth and nail against for a kiss or wedding. Some of their members consist of the highest positions of power within the company!

V6 and onward primed the stage for a bees confession or kiss, but neither Blake nor Yang have even admitted they like girls. If crwby wanted bees to be canon, they would make bees canon, but they don't so they haven't

#rwde #honestly im still fucking pissed abt how people treated rebecca sugar during and post show #su isnt perfect and does have its own issues but dammit sugar fought for that rupphire wedding #their show got jerked in so many ways bc their bosses wanted them to tone down the gay #and as a reward the fanbase yells and kicks and screams at her bc the show ended abruptly #this poor person put their heart and soul into this show and got a fucking knife in the back #this happens to queer creators and queer creators only #every problem the studio creates by trying to fuck over queer projects is attributed to the person trying their fucking best #like high guardian spice. its a bad show yeah but lots of the problems came from behind the scenes #also people go after its creator like fucking animals. jfc guys its a cartoon not a hit list #it just sucks that cishets are forgiven time and time again for lackluster at best rep while queer creators are being actively hunted #thanks for asking #anon hours

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