im so obsessed w them that I made fanart AND my own playlist

This is ridiculous

I'm literally tearing up here...

Like...

It really does sound like a Buck realization arc and I can't

If this really happens... I'm crying like

Omg

They're really doing it!? Like in a good way!??? Are they????

if I'm told to stop doing something for any reason I will respect it because I am a very niceys person but also I will be seething and pissed for the next hour about it because like, don't tell me what to do??? I should have free reign to do what I want ugh

loving the therapy vibes u have planned and i have 1 single piece of advice for u: the things you truly, sincerely, DONT want to say out loud, are the most important to say ❤️

got it, thank u so much my divine angel <3 i do have an issue w obscuring the ugliest things out of fear of judgment or being misunderstood, but if she's as good as my friend says she is she'll hopefully see through that and help me navigate it. i'm rly excited :)

you know what i think i'm gonna actually join julance

no art block allowed in this house!! plus i need to do more of that "draw everyday no matter what" thing and this serves as a great motivation, so let's go

plus i don't know if i'm using tumblr right it feels so weirdkshdjdk too many options to talk in general

If I'm remembering correctly, I saw a AMA post on Reddit revealing Blake and Ruby were supposed to go into the whale and Nora was supposed to take Yang's place in the argument with Ren. I'm not sure why this change happened - it might have something to do with Penny and Ruby - but its very revealing the writers think their characters' roles in the story are interchangeable, which... I don't like. Regardless, this might explain why certain dialogue (or lack thereof) seems ooc - because it is.

Yeah, I heard something similar. Generally speaking I don't have a problem with the characters switching roles, only in the writers failing to change things as a result of that switch. As you say, they're treated as interchangeable. The problem isn't in the idea of, 'Yang should get mad at Ren and Ruby+Blake should stay at the mansion' (even if, honestly, giving the B Team more to do is a bit of an inherent problem imo) it's in failing to go, 'Okay, if these characters are now doing this, how does the plot and their dialogue change as a result?' To put it in extreme terms, RWBY's the kind of show where they'll originally have a character dress to the nines, then change the plot so that they wind up in grimy, scorched, utterly disgusting rags instead... and still have another character go, "Omg you look so good today!!" with complete seriousness because the change isn't allowed to have a ripple effect. Not even for creative purposes, but just for basic logic.

As a side-note, I'm intrigued by the idea of Nora getting mad at Ren instead. That hypothetically works better for me. 1. We remove some of the fuel that is Yang getting mad at everything all the time, 2. Ren is Nora's teammate and she has far more reason to be emotionally invested in his choices, 3. Having her stick up for Mantle/be anti-Ironwood again would have helped smooth over the odd choice to have her go to Atlas HQ, 4. Nora's whole arc this Volume is (supposedly) finding herself, so giving her a strong opinion/more personality in regards to serious issues is a good thing, 5. If his side was actually treated respectfully, having Ren's differing morals put a potential wedge in their relationship is FAR more compelling/believable to me than, 'You were a very bad friend and teammate off scree. I'm glad you learned to stop voicing your opinions -- that's the bad thing -- but I need space now,' and 6. Having an all JNR disagreement might add more weight and logic to Ren's "You cheated your way into Beacon!" accusation. Meaning, it all might flow better if the team were turning on each other, with Ren feeling ganged up on, so if Nora is going to start criticizing his ethics and potentially stupid choices, he'll do the same to Jaune.

With Yang I'm just like... You trusted Robyn blindly, betrayed the group as a result, are straight up lying right now about how well you've done, and are yelling at a guy you've barely spoken five words to in as many Volumes. I am not convinced by your ethical position here, Yang.

Small PSA for the Merlin fandom, but generally every fandom, really.

Please don't annoy the actors/creators.

Writing to them saying that you love their creation is great and I'm sure they are really happy when they receive them 🥰

However! Spamming them is not cute. Please don't. They are people as well. Not props.

Or (I feel) acting as if you are speaking with the character and not the actor, especially if what you write is on the line of inappropriate. Because while being incredibly inappropriate towards a fictional character is perfectly fine because, well... They are fictional... remember that you are not speaking to the character, but a real person.

I mean. I don't know them, maybe they have no problem with weird DMs, but try to put yourself in their shoes.

Again. Maybe I'm wrong. But I've seen a couple of people on Instagram bragging about it and it felt weird.

Hate when the entire fandom misinterprets one of your favorite characters and you literally can't find any fan work where they actually act like their character

every time i see someone talk about an amazing life-changing t*ylor swift lyric it's the dumbest most inane most "thirteen-year-old girl writing Deep poetry" shit i've ever heard in my life like have swifties just never heard other music

It's so funny whenever someone discovers that people like to have emotions about fictional characters recreationally and like loses their mind. what, people are actually lusting for the undescribed tits of ianthe tridentarius on the internet?? that's so weird no one has ever been horny on the internet before!

most emotional パワーパフガールズ moment

being both gnc and trans is so hard sometimes. it's like, I'll face adversity for being gnc/trans/whatever-strangers-read-me-as, and in addition to the normal base-level difficultly and pain and fear of these experiences, I'll also feel on some level like it's "my own fault" too because this is what I purposefully decided to be.

I often dress/act like a girl but have a deep voice/facial hair/flat chest -- and I opted in for all of those. I spent more money than I can conceptualize in order to medically transition in those ways. while, in theory, I could've saved the money, not transitioned, continued dressing/acting the same way as I do now, and the problem would no longer exist... in theory. ofc logically I know that's not at all how it works. if I hadn't transitioned I would feel even worse. and the way I'd experience & express gender would still be intrinsically different from "cis girl" -- that's true regardless of how my body looks or sounds. which should all go without saying, because I very obviously don't conform to my CAGAB either. if I did I wouldn't be in this mess!! u know?

...but the self-blame is still there, because for better or for worse I did go out of my way to become myself. <- feels like a truism.

wish I was pretty today unfortunately not

MORE BEACH EVENT ART!!! WOOOOO!!!!

I'm gonna ramble about fic writing (while taking a break from actually writing, but I'm making progress this time! I promise! woohoo. knock on wood). ANYWAY, one of my favorite things to consider as far as characterization goes is self-awareness. Because there's so many different ways and degrees to which a protagonist can be self-aware, and I just LOVE seeing how characters shift (not necessarily 'grow') over the timeline of a story. I love thinking about where a specific character would choose willful ignorance, where they would choose to come to terms with a harsh reality, where they would be entirely oblivious, where they're NOT oblivious but can't even verbalize it in their own internal monologue... chef's kiss. My favorite stuff to write