#479er

[fischiee]

rvb ft. goofs and gags pt. 2

bonus: a slide i made while trying to convince my friend to watch rvb:

#rvb #red vs blue #rvb church #leonard church #rvb epsilon #agent Carolina #rvb carolina #grif #rvb grif #simmons #rvb Simmons #agent texas #rvb Tex #rvb Chex #kaikaina grif #rvb sister #rvb caboose #rvb doc #frank dufresne #479er #i have some favorites in here #also let me know if you have any points on how to convince my friend to watch #she watched achievement hunter/rooster teeth when she was younger but never rvb #michael j caboose #rvb goofs and gags

[rvb-relationship-royale]

RVB Romantic Relationship Royale- Round 5, Part 2, Poll 1

#rvb relationship royale #red vs blue #rvb #poll competition #rvb polls #grif rvb #dexter grif #simmons rvb #dick simmons #grimmons #grif/simmons #ct rvb #connie rvb #agent connecticut #479er rvb #479er #ash rvb #ct/479er #connie/479er #ct9er #ctniner

[girlhud]

#rvb #donut #479er #this is their dynamic theyve never met but this is the exact conversation theyd have

[rvbshipbrackets]

RvB Ship Bracket Winners Round 1:

showdown 16!

#rvb #red vs blue #rvb ship bracket #rvb ship bracket round 1 #winners bracket 1 #locus rvb #dexter grif #479er rvb #479er #ash rvb #south rvb #agent south dakota #agent south

[riderkaitlyn5]

Merry Christmas! I had the great pleasure of being @lordsireno Secret Santa. One of the things you requested was any/multi Freelancer down time shenanigans so I hope you enjoy this!

Thank you @redvsbluesecretsanta for hosting this!

Summary:

York drags the team in for their annual Game Night. Let's see how many fights break out

Chapters 1/1

Fandom: Red vs. Blue

Relationship: Agent Carolina/Agent York (Red vs. Blue), Four Seven Niner/The Meta | Agent Maine

Characters: Agent Carolina (Red vs. Blue), Agent York (Red vs. Blue), Agent Washington (Red vs. Blue), Agent South Dakota (Red vs. Blue), Agent North Dakota (Red vs. Blue), Agent Connecticut (Red vs. Blue), The Meta | Agent Maine, Butch Flowers | Agent Florida, Agent Wyoming | Reginald, Four Seven Niner | Ash (Red vs. Blue)

Additional Tags: Team Bonding, York what have you done, Carolina is super competitive and a really bad singer, Background Niner/Maine, freelancer shenanigans, Secret Santa

#rvb #red vs blue #red vs blue secret santa 2022 #rvb secret santa #rider writes #agent carolina #agent york #agent washington #agent north dakota #agent south dakota #agent connecticut #agent maine #agent florida #agent wyoming #479er

[tvckerwash]

one of my favorite silly hc's is that all the characters I hc as being former odst's (wash, south, north) develop a dislike of heights and flying via that line sarge has in I think s7 where's he's like "where do you think I got the fear of heights from? that shit was crazy!" in regards to it being revealed that he used to be an odst

#wash and south also both canonically hate 479ers flying stunts which makes this hc even funnier imo #like wash and south are both 100% still capable of dealing with those types of drops but they're both gonna bitch and whine about it jdgdhj #rvb #red vs blue #mine #ms 'knocks herself out while talking about how much she hates flying' #and mr 'i think I'm gonna throw up' lmao

[citrineoleander]

South

#agent south #agent south dakota #rvb #red vs blue #art #my art #⚔️ #fanart #i have a disease that only lets me draw women in tank tops sorry #also where are my south 479er truthers at #they had something right

[crystalsandbubbletea]

479er: I have the sharpest memory here. Name one time I forgot something!

York: You left me, Washington, and North in a Walmart parking lot at 2am a day ago.

479er: I did that on purpose, try again.

#rvb #incorrect quotes red vs blue #red vs blue #rvb york #rvb 479er #agent york #agent washington #rvb wash #rvb north #agent north dakota #agent new york

[bliakunone]

Merry Christmas to @riderkaitlyn5 !!

Here is your gift for this year's secret santa, I hope you like them!!

479er (someone tested her patience again xD) andd-

Dakota siblings!! North got them matching sweaters...South wasn't very happy tho

Thank you so much @redvsbluesecretsanta !! Happy holidays to everyone!!

#rvb #red vs blue #rvb secret santa #rvb secret santa 2023 #rvb 479er #rvb south #rvb north

[joltning]

speaking of the wiki I was double checking her name and this image is here. where the fuck is this from. random vandal or?

#rvb #red vs blue #I still need a fc for 479er #txt

[agentbuckshot]

Working on a pretty lighthearted completely about Wash, Church and Carolina recovering a collection of old videos from the main freelancers (North, York, Tex, C.T., South, Maine, and Wyoming + Wash and Carolina), revealing embarrassing yet hilarious secrets and bringing back the small, scarce ‘good memories’ they could muster out of the program, or atleast their the good memories regarding their deceased friends, and I’m looking for small prompts for future chapters? Planning to post a chapter a day and I’m pretty sure I’ll run out of ideas eventually, so if you have any ideas of some freelancer shenanigans, let me KNOW

There’s not a whole lot of implied relationships, other than Yorkalina, and I am so hoping to dabble a little bit in South9er, or whatever their shipname is, i am So hungry for any 479er content and I’m hoping you fellas are too

Work In progress of it so far

#red vs blue #rvb #rvb fic #rvb york #rvb north #rvb connie #rvb 479er #rvb tex #rvb south #rvb wyoming #rvb washington #rvb carolina #rvb maine

[artfulbassoon]

Another Twitter doodle :)

This time, my facecanon for 479er

#rvb #red vs blue #four seven niner #rvb 479 #rvb 479er #not my favorite design #but a design nonetheless

[rvb-relationship-royale]

Redsbian vs. Lesblue, Round 2 Part 2 Poll 1

#rvb relationship royale #red vs blue #rvb #poll competition #rvb polls #ct rvb #connie rvb #agent connecticut #479er rvb #479er #ash rvb #kai rvb #kaikaina grif #sister rvb #kimball rvb #vanessa kimball #kaiball rvb #kaiball #ct9er #ct/479er #ct/479er rvb #poll release

[shitpostingkats]

There is something so chilling and incredible about remembering the fact that Red vs. Blue is a war story.

It’s a workplace comedy, it’s a goofy ensemble show. It’s everything a silly, off the cuff web series should be, so relaxed its characters feel realistic, so unconstrained its world feels alive. It establishes in a few lines what some shows takes seasons to not even accomplish at all; that every faceless person is, fundamentally. A person.

And people are silly and bored and have their own little small scale lives and they don’t think about the grand story they’re telling, their part in the tapestry of the universe. They think about how hot the afternoon is. They bitch about their coworkers. They throw rocks at complicated military equipment and then get together to ooh and ah over ‘Oh wow, the rocks got all ashy and sizzley.’ 

Every soldier in the show has those moments of down to earth humanity. And the down to earth humanity is having dumb conversations to pass the time and doing very dumb shit because you’re bored. Every. Soldier. The guards in the tower at the sarcophagus heist. (“Did you hear something?” “The sound of you being an idiot?”) The soldiers at Rat’s Nest (”Seriously?!?! How have you never met another person named Jones?? It’s very common!) The freelancers, both top agents to the so-so agents to the worst agents to the dozens of people that work for PFL that aren’t even freelancers. (Wash’s twirly straw and skateboard, the triplets and Five Things, 479er’s never-ending feud with the guy who moves the crates.)

Everything has a face, and that face is human.

Which is why it comes out of nowhere when the show starts waxing philosophical on the atrocities of war, how flexible our societal morals become, the aftermath and the tragedy of it all. It’s a gutpunch to be forced to take a step back and be told “You are nothing. You are disposable assets, names on a sheet of paper, and only used to further more violence.” To see the characters be told that.

I find it fascinating that, due to the strange relationship between rvb and Halo itself, we never actually see the war. Never really learn what started it, what’s hypothetically being fought for, only the fallout it creates. That outside the lens of our ragtag heroes, people are dying and lives are being ruined for?? What? We don’t know. But one very sad and very twisted man saw an opportunity, and the loosened ethics and the institution of war gave it to him. No one thought to look into PFL, no one batted an eye, until the dust had settled, until lives had been ruined and ended. Because when faced with extinction, every alternative isn’t just preferable. It’s encouraged.

War is just the broad, inhumane system that gives real, human people the chance to excuse atrocities. The director. The counselor. Felix. Locus. Wash.

There’s something so poignant, so heartbreaking, and so goddamn fundamental to the story of rvb in Kimball’s speech. 

“When you spend every day fighting a war, you learn to demonize your attackers. To you they're evil, they're sub-human. Because if they weren't, then what would that make you? What I'm trying to say... is I've been afraid to see you for what you really are. You're our brothers. Our sisters. And the things we've done to one another are unforgivable.”

The audience knows, has had it shoved in their faces, over and over and over again. Everyone in this universe is human. We see, from our omnipotent (yet incredibly limited) perspective that everyone in this show is a distinct person beneath that helmet. That no one is unattached from humanity.

And what do the soldiers see?

A crowd of faceless bodies, all wearing the same color armor.

#red vs blue #rvb #More of my overly adjectived musings on the same show that gave us #'Its on a timer.' 'A countdown timer?' 'No. A count UP timer. It goes from one to explode.' #essays

[rvbshipbrackets]

Ash/479er time

#rvb #red vs blue #479er rvb #479er #ash rvb #agent washington #agent south #south rvb #agent south dakota

[leonardalphachurch]

saw the question of “how long does it take rvb to pass the bechdel test” and i got curious and also wanted to make myself mad so.

my answer is Reconstruction: Chapter 5 (s6e5). there’s a recorded conversation between sheila and tex about the ship crashing.

my answer with no caveats is Evacuation Plan (s9e4). carolina, 479er, filss and south all participate in a conversation that takes up a good chunk of the episode.

i talk a LOT more about the state of female character interactions under the cut.

the first time two women talk at all is s2e11/bgc30:

sheila bisexual moments. while iconic, this isn’t much of a conversation (tex doesn’t ever speak to her) and it’s certainly about a man so. doesn’t count. next!

next is s3e1/bgc39:

while here it’s implied that they are actually having a conversation at least we still don’t actually see any exchanges between them and they’re still talking about men and quote “Boring stuff like oppression, and a hostile work environment.” which is great but. a) we don’t see it. and b) again, still about men

next is tex and kai’s exchange in season 5. which is misogynistic as fuck and even if it did pass the bechdel test i would refuse to count it. but guess what! not only are they talking about men, but we literally do not see them talk to each other. kai speaks to tex “who’s o’malley?” but tex doesn’t respond to her, instead asking the guys “who’s the girl?” (s5e10/bgc92). then they talk in the background of the next episode while church and tucker are misogynistic. then it’s two more episodes until we get this gem

y’know, girl stuff! how fucking charming. these writers really have a great grasp on how woman act. god, it’s even worse when compared to tex and sheila’s conversation earlier. in what world would tex be fucking intimidated by kai.

and you know what the joke of this all is. even if they did have a conversation here that passed the bechdel test it still wouldn’t count under some rule sets because kai still doesn’t have a name at this point. great work team.

s5e15/bgc92 has a deleted scene where kai calls up a girl friend and they talk… i’m not counting it because 1) kai is as of yet unnamed and the girl friend is never named, 2) the conversation is ostensibly about junior, though they do talk about other stuff enough that you could argue it’s not about a man, but 3) it’s deleted. you don’t get credit for shit you deleted.

next time two women talk to each other is recovery one episode 4. this is the first time we see two women have an actual, back and forth conversation. the conversation is between south and commamd about wash, delta, and the fact that south isn’t rejoining freelancer. i do think this conversation fits the spirit of the bechdel test (two women talking to each other with deeper characterizations unmoored from being about men) but that’s only really by technicality. command isn’t a character here and doesn’t become one for another 4 seasons; the conversation is only retroactively a deeper one. it’s up to you whether or not you pass it. i think it’s important to remember that the bechdel test isn’t really a hard test to determine what’s feminist (and was made in the first place to be about queer women being able to see themselves in media) but rather a marker to help sort out if the female characters in a work are allowed any depth outside of men. this exercise is less about finding a scene fitting exact criteria and more about. me going oh god it really is fucking bad out there huh.

my actual pick, as i said in the beginning, is s6e5. though tex mentions gamma and the aliens, the conversation is still about the fact that the ship is crashing. and in terms of the spirit of the test, two women yelling at each other as they die definitely fits definitely fits “deeper character motivations outside of men” imo. it’s. kind of really sad though. the first time we ever see tex and sheila have an actual conversation is the last time we really see either of them, chronologically. we only got to see them have a relationship as they were dying. why couldn’t they have been friends in life.

if a recorded conversation isn’t good enough for you, you’ll have to wait until s8e15. season 7 does not have a single woman in it. tεx and filss talk about pfl’s files. it’s not exactly an in depth back and forth and the conversation is shared with simmons and church but. it’s something. i think sheila and tex’s convo fits the spirit of the test a bit more but. let’s chalk it up to two conversations in the 8 seasons. fantastic.

all right, season 9 time. come on, a third of the main cast is women! that’s gotta bring our numbers up, right?

episode 1? no. 2? no. 3?

incredible! we have a conversation between female operative and pilot! just kidding. the wiki doesn’t name them bc they haven’t been named yet, but this is a conversation between carolina and niner! no funny business! just an actual conversation between woman! wow. only took us nine seasons to get to a point where i can confidently say something passes the bechdel test with no caveats. unless we look at the 60 second rule. then. oops.

but… wow! episode 4 has… THREE women? talking to each other? and then a fourth joins in? i thought it was a myth! being able to handle so many women on screen at once… they really did something special here. anyway, this episode is the first to pass with flying colors. i can’t time shut bc i don’t have the videos on hand but i’m certain this passes the 60 second mark. great work! if only it didn’t take you nine years to get to this point.

ugh. i had more written past this point but tumblr erased it and i don’t feel like fucking redoing it. i got to the point i wanted to so. maybe i’ll continue this later. would like to explore the rest of pfl and chorus. it’s impressive how well pfl manages to avoid having women actually speak to each other. they’ll literally be in the same conversation but never actually address each other. this happens multiple times.

#rvb #red vs blue #analysis