this hit the nail on the head so expertly it gave it a concussion

yes yes besides the last point about Phyrrha, I just think him being likened to an Isekai protag is depressigly apt

I hate Blake’s outfit in IQ with a burning passion I know it’s meant to be a representation of Weiss being racist or whatever but GOD it is so ugly and does not suit the character at all

I am once again asking the jaune fanboys to let me write my ruby centric fic in peace

Thinking about how we had Hazel torture a child fully willingly and enthusiastically on-screen but we were meant to give a single atom of a shit that he died and idk repented somehow. Nahhhh.

So. There’s this show I really hate.

I didn’t even want to watch it, but I was forced to sit through literally all of it because my parents liked it for some reason that completely eludes me. Not only is the plot catastrophically bad and the characters inconsistent — it’s also very, very misogynistic in essence. Just thinking about it now makes me want to chew on the writing team’s bones.

I genuinely have nothing good to say about this show.

So. Do you know how many posts I uploaded to the corresponding tags?

ZERO (0)

Because there’s no point in spending energy on a thing I hate so passionately, and even less in ruining it for other people.

Don’t get me wrong — it’s OK to point out irregularities in writing, and to talk about specific aspects of a story that upset you. But uploading dozens of posts about how you Hate The Thing, Analysing The Thing Is Pointless, Everyone Who Worked On The Thing Is Stupid, and Everyone Who Loves The Thing Is Delusional, is maybe not the genius take you think it is.

It doesn’t make you smarter than everyone else. It just makes you boring.

Who had the worse character murder? Iroonwood or Chloe?

And in Iroonwoods defense, at least the writers tried to do damage control and blamed it on he’s semblance (doesn’t make it any less worse, and actually makes it seem worse written by blaming it on something never mentioned, but at least they show someone knows they kinda totally ruined it, unlike certain person this blog is focused on)

Chloe, hands down.

As poorly handled as it was, RWBY's eighth volume at least let Ironwood be a villain without needing anyone to tell him what to do.

With Chloe, the show wanted us to see her as bad as someone like Ironwood without actually letting her be a effective villain on her own.

... Okay, so I just said RWBY did something better than Miraculous Ladybug. This means I won't be called a homophobe again, right?

What a vague and catty statement.

I'm sure the person posting this wouldn't cross-post into the tag they dislike... unless

Edit: Since I wrote this, here it is

I don't like how some RWBY fanfics set in the hypothetical post series have that "magic goes away" thing

Like, A. That idea is played out and dumb in fiction as a whole (and I'm pretty sure RWBY is leading to a "magic comes back" world)

But the lengths some people take it with RWBY after the end fics...

Like, you see fics not just doing away with the relics or maidens, those are at least kinda understandable (but not really), some have the Grimm and semblances, and even dust go away

Why would you want that?

Why would you want to strip away everything that makes the world of RWBY special and unique? Why would you want to reduce this incredible setting to just "our world with different geography, a busted moon, and animal people"?

Owl, which has more of your ire A:TLA or RWBY?

rwby. despite the hangups i have with atla, it does have consistently strong moments & bar moments like aang & the lion turtles, the storylines & moments set up flow cohesively.

rwby never seems to know what it's trying to say or what it's trying to do from one episode to the next, never mind volume to volume.

bryke & crwby are on par for how annoying they are however.

ABOUT TIME

ABOUT TIME

ABOUT TIME

Oh of fuckinG COURSE THEY DE-AGE JAUNE LIKE MARCO FROM SVTFOE. OF COURSE. I'M SO DISSAPOINTED.

Rwby character-writing analasis thing.

Its really interesting to me how much RWBY as a series has changed in the post-beacon era. And while there are many differences i could write page-long essays about,  I think most of those are a story for another day. Today i want to talk about how the post S3 change in genre has negatively affected the strength of its characterwriting. (other topics might come up tangentially but wont be the focus.)

Beacon era RWBY was a verry slow, airy slice-of-life heavy show with only a bit of action sprinkled on top, like Fondant on a cake. It gave the characters plenty of time to breathe, interact and just share a chemistry together.  I’d even go so far as to say the early show was, 80 percent slice of life (at minimum), and maybe 20% action at most. Even “fight for our life” were permeated with moments of dialogue and lighthearted character-beats. (Ruby and Weiss talking out their squables mid-beowolf fight, Weiss VS Boarbatusk cutting to ruby’s little flags for example)  But it should also be noted that, With exception to Pyrrha, who the show knew had only 3 seasons to be fleshed out. Most characters were left deliberately sort-of vauge so they can be deepened out when we get to their arcs later. (certainly they were given “goals” like “find Raven” or “redeem the Fang”, but anything more specific was left out for future writers to resolve). But in a post-beacon world, the showrunners put them into a constant no-time-for-breaks pacing has prevented much of that filling in, as the show repeatedly denied them any moment for them to just “exist” (as well as the infamous stories about how any scenes that do allow characters to do so, having all chemistry surgically removed by production to “prevent romantic spoilers”.) They cut out so much of its slice-of-life moments, that all levity happens either off-screen (Yang+Blake at the disco) or in the background of “actually important” plot-beats. (Meeting Jaune’s sister taking second-seat to a critical debrief re:Ozpin-being-full-of-shit) Not to say there’s been no progress at all on filling out the blanks left behind in their early characterisation but: Ruby’s 6 seasons of constant trauma, ended on a resounding concluding note that “she was fine as-is in S1E1″, meaning nine collective seasons of character development, amounts to a great “Status quo, but now with Laser-eyes”. Yang’s raven-issues “resolved” at the fall of haven, and did so in a rather unsatisfying in the way. Because her and Raven never really explored the abandonment issues beyond a vague “i know you dont care about me, I’ve decided the feelings mutual now Portal me to my sister/Hand me the damn relic”. (which doesnt feel like a resolution, but the show tries to frame it as a “going no-contact” resolution) Blake and Weiss have both actually had their core struggles in the world removed and tranposed onto adjacent characters instead of actually resolving their established “goals” in the world at large. (Weiss no longer wants to redeem the family business, thats Willow and Whitley’s job now, Blake no longer wants to redeem the Fang, thats Ghira and Ilia’s job). and although we now know how Ren and Nora came to be together, their atlas arc only emphasises that even they still dont know who they are themselves.  Same for Ozpin, pf whom we now know how he came to be cursed, he spent so much time dormant “regaining his oldest memories” that we only know we dont know him either.  Six additional seasons of writing for these characters, and they are all (with possible exception to yang) either back at square one, or in BW’s case have somehow stumbled themselves back to square zero. The only character that’s gotten “more” fleshed out in a way that satisfies on a narrative level is Jaune. (to the point that i cant even fault elements of the fandom criticising the show for being “The Jaune Show”) And even that is only because of how well-realised Pyrrha was at time-of-death, It really says something about the drop quality in the shows post-beacon characterisation that Pyrrha is more well-written in absentia then the entirety of the shows namesake team combined. and that is just plain tragic.

rumors are saying that part of the reason volume 9 was delayed is because despite being a shorter volume the episodes will be longer than standard rwby episodes 👀

What was the twitter gif 👀

Ok so first of all spoilers for the movie, and also clarification that I am 100% not presenting this as any serious speculation

But the fact that they have a whole scene in the movie where Jaune sees Pyrrha again and gets hit with the fall of Beacon angst and talks about how she shouldn't be able to be here, and yet as far as I can tell there's no mention of Penny anywhere in the movie has me going "hey crwby is there some reason you're holding off on Penny angst? Maybe some things you're still trying to keep hidden?"

AdriNora vs. MariBat

Dick: Ah, yes. Here we have a beautiful couple...

Nora: I really care about your feelings!

Adrien: I really care about YOUR feelings!

Dick, turning their head: ...and then there's the disaster couple...

Damian: YOU NEED TO PAY MORE ATTENTION TO ME INSTEAD OF BEING AT THE HOSPITAL!

Marinette: I WOULDN'T HAVE TO SPEND SO MUCH TIME AT THE HOSPITAL IF YOU STOPPED INSISTING ON FIGHTING EVERYONE WHO COMES WITHIN A FIVE FOOT RADIUS OF YOU!

(As you can see, I’m not a fan of one)