#also wasn't expecting this to be so focused on lgbt stuff but sometimes that happens

[joezworld]

Do you have any thoughts on the USS Wolverone and her sister ship USS Sable, the only two paddlewheeled aircraft carriers in the US Navy?

Sister ships is a... bold stance to take there. Try telling that around the Chicago docks and you'll get laughed all the way to Sault Ste. Marie.

Both of these ships did not initially start life as aircraft carriers - they were originally very luxurious passenger steamers - Greater Buffalo and Seeandbee. It's not known exactly when they first got to know each other (they ran basically the same routes along the American side of Lake Erie from Detroit to Buffalo via Cleveland), but considering the fact that Greater Buffalo has never quite been able to shake the nickname GeeBee, it's assumed that Seeandbee was the initiator of that friendship.

Both of these ships were known at the time as paragons of beauty - they'd been designed to attract passengers and in the process attracted other ships as well - but no other Laker could ever "get" either of them, with callers/suitors being gently or not-so-gently turned down. This was not exceptionally uncommon, as many vessels were 'waiting for Mr./Ms. Right', but these two never seemed to be that type.

In fact they seemed quite close to each other... but it was the 1930's, so they were just gals being pals, right?

Right?

Listen, I'm not going to say that the Great Lakes fleet was very homophobic, but such relationships just didn't occur! (because it was the 1930's and everything was awful and nobody ever said anything)

So it was quite a surprise when in 1942, Greater Buffalo joined the Navy, and got willingly converted into an aircraft carrier. Why was that a surprise? Because Seeandbee had already done that a few months earlier, and if anyone was not going to get their upper works chopped off, their pilothouse moved, and generally submit to massive structural changes, it was "GeeBee" - who was so invested in her appearance that she spent part of her winter layup obsessing over anti-fouling paint swatches. (It came in one color at the time. Where she found someone who could make different ones is lost to history.)

Of course, once that happened, and she sailed out of the shipyard in Chicago with a side island and a flight deck just like Seeandbee, everyone else on the lakes kinda knew. It actually became a very big to-do amongst the ships of the Great Lakes fleet, as this was probably the closest thing to an out-and-out declaration of same-sex love that anyone had ever seen, and a lot of informal social change followed it.

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Their war service was actually an anti-climax compared to all the buildup to it - they lacked any real 'carrier' equipment, and were basically just giant floating landing strips for inexperienced pilots. As Seeandbee would recount much later: "for such a big war, it was actually rather dull."

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3 years later, the war was over and so was the Navy's interest in the two. In what would become a rather unfortunate trend for the Navy, they dropped the ships like hot rocks the moment hostilities ended, leaving them as RADM Seeandbee (USN Ret.) and CDRE Greater Buffalo (USN Ret.) whether they liked it or not!

After that, the ships entered "private ownership" working for themselves as 'hulls for hire'. It wasn't economical to de-convert themselves back into passenger steamers, as the postwar economic boom soon made car and rail travel the dominant forces of travel in and around the Great Lakes, but they found work throughout the 40's, 50's, and 60's as dedicated cargo vessels and spot-hire ferries, capable of carrying a lot of automobiles on their flight decks, along with large or otherwise unwieldy cargos.

This made them a regular sight in all of the Great Lakes, and they continued to be unofficially but totally officially A Thing (TM), meaning that a lot of the Lakers (a term denoting any ship that is permanently homeported in the Great Lakes) had to really address their prejudices whether they wanted to or not, as a quirk of mechanized psychology means that something as serious as the criticism of a "fleetmate's" life partner will draw an immediate, vociferous, and oftentimes unconscious defense, even if the ship doing the defending shares the viewpoint of the person or ship they're yelling at. This meant that most of the Great lakes Fleet spent the 60's and 70's more or less unconsciously indoctrinating themselves into not being homophobes - which is a fun historical side note that rarely gets mentioned because most ships had no idea it was happening.

Seriously - they didn't know. A sociology paper was published on this in the very early 80's by a NASA jet who was doing her doctoral thesis, and when it finally got the attention of the lake fleet in the late 1990's, they all collectively bluescreened over it.

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Going into the 1980's, Lake traffic had changed significantly - air travel, rail freight, and cars and trucks had taken away a lot of business, and ships were having to band together just to keep busy. (I could do a whole thing on him, but noted Survivor(tm) Ed Fitzgerald ended up cashing in a lot of his liquid assets and just bought vertically-integrated steelmaker Cleveland-Cliffs in 1999 just so he could employ as many of his friends as possible.) Finding their business opportunities drying up, both Seeandbee and Greater Buffalo went back into government service, joining the Coast Guard in 1986. Since then, the pair have been operating as mobile search and rescue bases - with helicopters being launched from their decks in support of missing or sinking boats.

An incredibly recognizable pair of ships, especially in their white and orange Coast Guard paint, the two have become local icons in their home port of Chicago, appearing in the background of many different films and tv shows.

Going into the 21st century brought new and interesting life events: In 2003, Ontario legalized same-sex marriage, becoming the first in Canada to do so. Within days of the ruling, Seeandbee and Greater Buffalo - with flags flying and USCG paint polished to a mirror finish, besieged the Sault Ste. Marie municipal courthouse and were wed in a very short ceremony after a 70 year courtship period. This made headlines across the United States and Canada, as the United States, which did not recognize same-sex marriage at the time, had a significant bit of egg on their face from the very public nature of the marriage ceremony. It was expected that some pushback might occur from either the Coast Guard (don't ask, don't tell was still enforceable), or the US Government, which was capable of not recognizing the 'illegitimate' marriage certificate.

That pushback never happened - in no small part due to the fact that the Department of Transportation had spent most of the 1980s and 1990 funding studies into mechanical psychology, meaning that SecTrans Norman Mineta was able to articulate to President Bush exactly how fucked the US/Canadian steel industry would be if the entire Great Lakes Fleet rioted over this, which they absolutely would have. Additionally, the Coast Guard had seen how poorly the Navy had treated some of its ships in the early 1990s (Not due to LGBT rights, but instead had been part of a greater push to retire Cold-War-Era ships, and had notably caused a massive institutional brain-drain within the Navy after said push went a little too well, and caused many ships whose service began in WW1/WW2 to leave in disgust.) and had no desire to repeat those mistakes, so they supported the pair unconditionally, a first for any US uniformed service. (They'd hired many of the now -ex Navy vessels, and feelings were still raw.)

Following this, the now-married couple continued their Coast Guard service, which they continue to this day. Additionally, after realizing that their marriage was accepted more through extenuating circumstances than any real attempt to accept same-sex marriage, they both became tireless advocates of same-sex marriage until the ruling on Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, after which they became supporters of acceptance of gay people and LGBTQ+ rights.

#y'know I could do an entire thing on just the great lakes #it would mean not writing anything else #but i could #also wasn't expecting this to be so focused on lgbt stuff but sometimes that happens #i doubt you guys will complain #background info #worldbuilding #worldbuilding kinda #sentient boat headcanon #sentient vehicles #sentient vehicle headcanon #having sentient boats messes with so many historical events #ask response

[princess-of-the-corner]

I mean prob not too much angst around it at least His parents would be fine with it most likely I mean they are in the fasion industry and other kids would be too scared to bully him for it.

Honestly what I would love to see is Magne bringing him Testoreone because she's Male to Female and (depending on how reedemable you want certain charecters) yelling at the leauge if they considers withholding it till he joins

Oh and when the media starts demonizing him it gets leaked (By AFO) to make certain groups angrier. Y'know what never mind there can be a good amount of angst around trans Bakugo

Yeah so like.

I know I made a joke about the "gifted kid burnout" with Bakugo but this would 100% tie into that aspect. Because hello gifted kid to queer disaster pipeline!

Which as for kids being scared to bully her like. My idea would be that her realizing this stuff would happen sometime during Canon. And as is usual for me the class is going to be queer as hell or at least allies.

But she knows all too well how things just outside of what is normal and expected would get bullied because even though she is unlearning it, she bought into that shit and bullied others for things. Knew how even adults turned a blind eye to or even encouraged bullying people who "deserved" it. And yeah she's mostly seen this in regards to Quirk stuff(because. Yeah Bakugo gets dunked on for bullying Izuku which like. Ofc that wasn't right but Bakugo was not the only one to do that it was just focused on due to their past.)

So this is another part of that. And even paying attention to top Heroes, those that are openly lgbt would get some shit and considering she wants to be #1 Hero, she knows that being any kind of queer would kill her chances(being female would also kill her chances).

(Jokes on society though all these kids are hella queer and gonna be on top.)

[bisluthq]

Hey! I'm fairly new here and I have a pretty uncommon take on Kaylor. But I just wanna start off by saying I try my best to be as supportive of LGBT people as possible and if they're both bisexual, then I would be 100% okay with that! I'm not trying to "defend their heterosexuality" or anything, I think that's really weird

Okay, so my personal theory is that Kaylor did happen, but that Taylor and Karlie are both straight. I know that might sound contradictory, but I say this based on my own personal experiences based on how I am with my best friend. I think Karlie and Taylor's relationship might have been similar in some ways to ours

Right, so I'm straight and I'm not into women in the gay kind of way (but it's completely cool that some girls are), and I have this roommate who's gorgeous. Really gorgeous, she's like a 10/10 "I would sell my kidney to look like you" kind of girl. She's very attractive, she has like tan skin and long legs and gorgeous brown hair and pretty eyes and nice lips and just like… she's just very good looking. I'm definitely jealous of her body, I won't even pretend I'm not 😪 I lowkey hate her because of it (jk)

We've been living together since not long before COVID started, and we're very good friends. There were three of us before, but our other roommate went back home to stay with her parents until in person classes are back on and we agreed to it and worked something out because she has really bad anxiety so we understood her reasoning for it

Anyway so it's just been us two and because we've been at home a lot during this time instead of out for most of the day like before, we've gotten to know each other a lot better and have become a lot closer. We were already friends from before, but now we're like super close besties, we've been hanging out a lot together and playing board games, watching movies, helping each other with essays, just having long conversations about anything and everything, etc

Like it's been so nice having a best friend that I can be this close to now because I haven't had a best friend since I was a kid

So my friend and I were having like a conversation last year about how hard it's been in quarantine not being able to go on dates and how we miss kissing people, and so we decided to just like, make out for fun you know. I mean, there's not really anything that's inherently romantic or sexual about making out, that's just society that says that. But tbh I think making out with your friends if you want to should be normalized, it's fun and it can even be emotional sometimes. It's not that different from hugging people

After a couple of weeks or so, I think we got bored of just making out with each other and decided to like, fully hook up. It started off because we were modelling lingerie for each other for banter and were pretending we were each other's runway judges and then I think we just decided to hook up with each other as like part of the whole "game". I can't remember who initiated it now, I think it might have been me as a joke lol

Like just in a platonic way for fun, as a kind of substitute until we can go back into society

And tbh I always expected hooking up with a woman to be like mediocre and boring and awkward, but although it was a bit hard to get the hang of at first and there was a learning curve, it's actually very enjoyable. Like I was very surprised actually at how hot it can be, I think I can maybe see why bisexual women and lesbians like doing it

Anyway we both liked it and we just carried on hooking up on the regular and it's been like 8 months now and tbh I just think it's very sweet and heartwarming, like it actually makes me feel a little emotional how we're close enough and care about each other enough that we can even help each other out with the physical intimacy side of things so that we don't get sexually frustrated while we're stuck in lockdown

I just think it's really cool and we even sleep in the same bed most of the time now because tbh what's the point in sleeping alone when you can sleep in the same bed as someone else? It's nicer, like you can cuddle and stuff

Anyway, I think that maybe Kaylor's relationship might have been similar. I think they're both straight but they became really close friends in a short space of time, and that their friendship was so intense that it became physical but in a platonic way

I think lesbians and bisexual women are amazing and I have so much respect for you guys for accepting yourselves in a society that tries to erase you, and I think there definitely needs to be more wlw representation on TV and in movies

But at the same time, I would also like there to be more close female friendships like the one that me and my friend have where you can just talk about everything together and do things that society usually reserves for romantic partners, but in a platonic way. Because female friendship is really important and beautiful, whether that's between straight women like me and my friend who I think is probably straight too, or between queer women because one thing I've learnt during my short time on this blog is how queer women can have very close platonic friendships with other queer women too

I think society just has overly strict ideas of "straight" and "gay". Like for some people, they would hear about two women sleeping together and think "Oh that's gay", but not necessarily because straight women can enjoy sleeping with other women too, like it's normal 🤷‍♀️

I think it's just a result of women being a lot more physically beautiful than men are, like straight women really got the short end of the stick tbh compared to straight men

I also think it's because women are so oversexualized in the media, and obviously straight girls see that too and so we sort of internalize that attraction to women because we're so used to seeing women being presented in a sexual way? Except it's not real attraction with us like how it is for queer girls

Like I'm very much "attracted" to my friend, she's genuinely stunning and just very hot tbh. But I still identify as straight because it's just a case of what I mentioned above, it's a "fake" attraction. And also because men are afraid to compliment other men because it's seen as "gay", but women can be fully confident in their sexuality and still recognize other women's beauty and sex appeal. You see it all the time in instagram comments, and I really love how we're all so supportive of each other like that

Like I can be fully confident in my sexuality and yet still say that some women like my friend are gorgeous as hell and also 100 times better looking than most men I've seen. I'm very much obsessed with some women's appearances but in a platonic way

And I just love the concept of "girl crushes" and I think that from a feminism viewpoint, it's beautiful that we're focusing on other girls and showing love towards other girls too, instead of just to men who, let's be real, don't even fully appreciate it half of the time

I am going to be sad when we all have to return to life as usual and my friend and I won't be able to spend as much time together anymore. I'm dreading it tbh, I don't want it to end yet. And it really sucks that the physical side of our friendship will probably have to stop too once our other roommate comes back because I think she'd definitely misunderstand the situation and think it's something different than it actually is if she ever saw us kissing or something. I really am going to miss it a lot though, I really like how things currently are and it's just really really nice and I don't want it to change :/

Btw I'm sorry if I sounded fetishistic or offensive with any of this, I just get a bit jealous sometimes that you guys get to date girls and we're just stuck with men. Honestly if it wasn't for all of the homophobia and the struggles that you all have to face and the fact that it would feel disrespectful to the LGBT community, I would probably really wish I could change my sexuality to be bisexual or gay instead because I just think women are better. Sometimes I really do wish I was into women in that way because dating girls just sounds so much more appealing to me (in a non fetishizing weird way) but unfortunately I'm stuck with dating men 🤦‍♀️ But I also know I'm lucky and privileged to be straight even though most men are mediocre and kinda gross and I don't mean to be disrespectful because I know you all have to face homophobia and other LGBT difficulties and it really sucks, people are awful. There's nothing wrong with women dating women or men dating men at all, society is just ugly and bigoted

Anyway, does anybody else have a similar sort of take on Kaylor where they think they could have both been straight and just had a very close friendship with a physical side to it? I think it would explain a lot. But like I said, this is just a theory of mine based on my own situation, and I'm also open to the idea that it was an actual relationship and that they're both into women for real, not just fake "into women" like I am.

Also pls feel free to call me out if I accidentally said anything offensive towards LGBT people, I tried my best but if I made a mistake anywhere pls let me know and I'll avoid it next time!

You’re not offensive. Please stop apologizing. And we’re gonna come back to the Kaylor stuff another time because... Honey. You and I need to have a conversation for a bit.

So firstly, I’m not trying to like “diagnose” you and at the end of the day it’s your choice what you want to call yourself but... tbh you might not be straight. Sexuality is fluid not static and exists on a spectrum not in absolutes. It’s not like it’s straight, 50/50 bi, gay and you’re born knowing and there’s no room for anything else. That’s not true. There’s a lot of room in between all of these and labels can change over time. We’re people, not cereal brands, and sometimes we don’t even KNOW the word for what we might be. I’m tagging a tag for you from when we asked people to share their label journeys for you to see. It’s not simple or easy and it’s not just because of external stuff - it’s because figuring this out internally is HARD. If you found yourself having such an intense friendship it became physical, repeatedly, you liked it a lot, you still sleep in the same bed and continue to share all your thoughts and you don’t want any of that to end... I’m not sure you’re Kinsey 0. And I think you might lowkey have a girlfriend dude. 

You can obviously prefer men but like... hun I reaaallly don’t think you’re completely straight.

Also: it’s okay to say “I see myself winding up with a man and this is a situationship for right now!” but that doesn’t make you straight because again, sexuality is a spectrum and you can manifest a particular kind of endgame while experiencing other things along the way.

But here’s where you really got me: “most men are mediocre and kinda gross” and “women being a lot more physically beautiful than men are, like straight women really got the short end of the stick tbh compared to straight men” because that’s the kind of thing I used to say in my Bi 1.0 era before I ID’d as a lesbian for a bit and before Harry Styles (KING 🥺) made me bi for real. Hun, no. Straight women like men. Tbh BI women like men. I genuinely, unironically, find Harry and Timmy and Matt Smith to be sexy beasts and I would do dirty things to the former two but maybe not the latter irl in 2021 but yes also him if I could be on that Spain trip with him and Karen where they got sloshed and which I think of often. These men are genuinely fucking beautiful to me in the same way Taylor is and Di Silvers is (okay she’s prettier than all of them but like same ~vibe) and like Megan Thee Stallion is and Indira Varma in everything but especially GOT and Gillian Anderson and Keira Knightley. Like those women are HOT to me and SO. ARE. THE. MEN. 

Straight women find SO MANY DUDES hot. So many. Starting from objectively pretty options I just cannot personally understand like Chris Evans all the way through to bitches who are outchea simping for wrestlers and Cole Sprouse. Do I understand? No. But like... that’s straight girl culture and ours is not to judge. 

If you’re struggling to find men hot then... you might be gay.

Also, I’m not sure what you mean by “fake attraction”. Like queer women - especially femme women which I assume you very much are - experience the same kinds of feelings straight girls do. We have women we want to be like and look like and find enviable (me and Oenone Forbat) and women we find aesthetically gorgeous (me and Anya Taylor Joy) and we have extremely close female friends who we can spend hours on end spilling our guts to - as you say female friendships are truly special - and without going into personal people that you don’t know, that’s me and Cam and Sim right? I literally talk to them for hours. Like those are not gay feelings. And yes we can chat about those kinds of feelings with straight girls and call them “girl crushes” and not immediately get “caught out” because they experience this exact shit too.

But here’s the thing. They never do and I don’t want in the cases above to fuck these women. It’s not sexual.

The moment I can actually imagine fucking the women in question that’s... gay. 

Like it’s not “fake attraction” it’s literally just gay. That’s how we desire women. We want to fuck them. Not all women. Not always. But sometimes we want to get under or on top of one and just really truly fucking make each other moan with pleasure.

I have no idea if Karlie or Taylor are into women. They could both literally be straight. I have no idea.

But I have a better idea about you.

Hun, you’re fucking your roommate/best friend and don’t want to stop.

You’re not “into women”.

You’re into this woman.

And possibly into women more generally.

So I know it’s weird to have to be the one to tell you this, and if you want to keep chatting via anon or in my DMs or if you want me to try collate resources for you from around the web but...

Like.

Dude.

You’re a whole ass part of the rainbow.

Welcome to the community you thought you weren’t a part of earlier today 🌈 ❤️

It’s nice here, sure there’s homophobia, but at least we get to fuck girls and man is it good.

#agony aunat #share your label journey #roommate anon <3

[rwby-party]

I’m really REALLY trying to move on from this because man I’m STILL salty about it but

Here’s an alternate thing of what they could’ve done with Sienna if they wanted to keep her important: 

A. Never designed her. B. Had Ghira mention her “Fight but only when necessary” ways in his speech. C. Had another scene talking about her death and Adam taking over and have his motives explained either in that scene or in another.

While this would still be disappointing in the sense of the build up with Sienna’s character (That I admittedly completely missed at first to be honest lmao I don’t know where the fuck I was) it would’ve removed the race aspect to this whole thing and still would’ve gotten all the same info out (With the exception of Hazel)

While people would be mad that she got treated this way, it’d be a lot less disappointing for a lot of people if it was like that. 

This is kinda for the people who argue that “We don’t need even more characters to focus on.” While you’re right, and I think that RWBY suffers sometimes just because of how many characters it has in it, then you just don’t introduce the character. She could’ve stayed in the background. There were different ways to get all the info from that scene. And I feel like the amount of people that died and we kinda just glossed over is a little too high anyway lol.

However, with that, there was this post I read of a good idea to go on at this point.

This needs to BREAK the White Fang. Not every single last person in the WF should be okay with this, and with what Sun has said about the WF before and how it seems like there’s some amount of faunus that DON’T respect the WF, this should cause a lot of problems.  What I felt like should’ve happened though is this: 

A. At least developed her a little more than what they did and let her live for more than 5 minutes. B. Not kill off a WoC in a position of power OR design a character that you know was going to be killed as a WoC in a position of power when your show is lacking PoC representation already.  C. But even if they did, With A, it would’ve made a bigger emotional impact and would be better to deal with.

That’s the part that frustrates me the most.

I would’ve dealt with it a little better if she had actually been developed. If we actually had time to connect with her, even though would be backlash still at killing a WoC. I figured she was doomed to die just because she was based off of Shere Khan. I assumed she would also sound a lot more evil because of it too.

She had points that I agreed with, though. Not everything, of course, but she wasn’t this radical extremist that everyone that’s notable hates (*Cough Cough* ADAM *Cough*) like the others accidentally made her out to be. Misguided, yes, but not 100 percent wrong evil.

I have a tendency to dislike characters who’s motives are/or shown as purely good or evil.

Adam’s pure evil. We know that now lol. He wasn’t shown to be any good since the very beginning. Salem and her crew are framed as the bad guys, and none of them really showed good or lawful qualities except recently. We don’t even know Salem’s motives yet, but they’re the bad guys and they’re kinda boring to be honest because of it.

Hazel really intrigued me with his “No one had to die today” statement because it showed him to not be evil for evil’s sake. He only killed if necessary. This is something that Salem kinda shows as well but only in a manipulative sense. A sense of “We can use them later.” Hazels line came off more like he was upset that she had died. Not upset in a sad way, but still. Hazel’s influence in that scene was WAY more interesting to me than Adam’s was. 

Sienna’s was as well. It showed that she wasn’t 100 percent bad. It showed that even though she was trying to do the right thing by earning respect for the faunus, she was KIND OF going the wrong way about it. emphasis on kind of. 

Either way, I felt like that scene was to advance Adam and not Hazel and definitely not Sienna.

With the little dialogue we got from her, I was more interested in her motives than Adam’s. The only feelings I have toward Adam is hate and confusion.

I hate him because he’s an asshole that maims and tries (and succeeds in cases) to kill people. ANd of course, he is the bad guy. We’re supposed ot hate him. I’m confused because of his motives, even though they were revealed. They're so left field it’s not enjoyable for me. If he was fighting for the Faunus to be treated equally it’d be different.   Instead he’s just some crazy asshole that wants to enslave the humans. It’s something so bizarre you have no reason to root for him whatsoever even if you’re on the side of the Faunus. It makes no sense. It’s something I personally think is a fatal flaw with him. He’s just pure evil, and it makes me uninterested in him because of it. He feels “Flat” because of it. He feels like your typical baddy mcbad guy, and for a show wanting to develop it’s characters, doesn’t really come off good. (However, I will say it was the best performance we got out of him and his VA. Not that his VA is bad, but Adam seemed a lot more lively in a sense in the scene.)  I have no elegant way of saying this lol, but Sienna also kinda went down like a bitch. With Pyrrha, she fought until the very end. She died a hero. It took more than just one stab in the stomach to kill her. With Sienna, we didn’t get a fight. We got a stab from Adam that killed her immediately without her even getting to fight back. (Random side note but some complained that the fact that she didn’t have an Aura protecting her was kinda B.S., and while I’d normally agree, I also feel like Adam’s sword can cut through Aura, hinted at with Yang imo. I think she does have aura. Or however I would need to word it to properly word it lmao) The whole thing felt empty or lacking substance because of that with the little screentime she had. There was no weight to it. The show always wants to kill characters off but besides Pyrrha hasn’t killed any substantial characters. (Which honestly, if you wanna kill characters that’s fine. If you don’t, that’s fine too. It’s just this weird middle ground that’s off.) Sienna was important, but 5 minutes of screentime did her no justice to HOW important she is as the (former) High Leader of the White Fang, the ONLY organization we’re focusing on against the mistreatment of the Faunus. 

Instead of hating Adam for killing of a good character, it’s hating him for killing off a character that didn’t have any time to develop themselves. (once again though, this is excluding the race part of it, which is a BIG part.) 

We were mad when Pyrrha died because she was a developed character. She grew from Vol. 1 - Vol. 3.  She was lovable, and most would agree she didn’t deserve her death. We were upset because we liked Pyrrha as a person and got to know her over the volumes. 

and it feels more like a “She died for her cause.” instead of a “Fuck you” from the writers like Sienna’s death unfortunately comes across. As of right now, even though I know it’s supposed to have weight, it doesn’t feel like it. It feels senseless. Pyrrha’s death felt like it had weight to it besides emotional, even though that was the prevalent emotion (For me at least I cried *Shot*) And while we do get a yearn for “what could’ve been” with Pyrrha too, it was more in the sense of because we knew what she was and KNEW of her potential (rather than just “Speculating”), not because the writers “didn’t care” about her. 

Also,Pyrrha, for what I could tell, was not a WoC in canon. I know I’ve said it before but there’s a serious lack of main characters that aren’t villians and are POC. So, when you kill off a POC within 5 minutes of introducing her it comes off as really bad.

I truly don’t think CRWBY meant it that way. I’m not labeling them as intentionally racist, but it’s still a huge slap in the face, EPSECIALLY when the faunus are supposed to be a race allegory to begin with. And while it is untentional, it  has racist undertones, and as of right now, nothing has been addressed.

When SU had that whole Concrete fiasco, they apologized. They came out and said that wasn’t their intention and people who didn’t even need to come out came and apologized for it. This was also something that many claimed wasn’t really racist or wasn't’ their intention. AND it really wasn’t. It still needed to be addressed though, and I feel like this is a similar situation. 

I’m not saying they have to bend over backwards, I just wish they would say something though. Even just a “Hey, we really didn’t mean for that to be interpreted that way, and we’re sorry for doing that.” And though I know that a lot of people still wouldn’t like that, at least they tried instead of staying quiet. 

Also, I really don’t mean to be judgmental with this, but I don’t trust a bunch of white people with a race allegory even though I felt like they were handling it better than expected beforehand. I feel like they may want to bring in more people for that sometimes. Same with LGBT+ stuff but that’s not what I’m talking about.  They’re doing okay, but when stuff like this happens, you can’t help but be a little upset at least. I just feel like all around Sienna got fucked, from being a Woc in a powerful position to just a character standpoint, she was screwed. She’s one of the worst cases of wasted potential in characters I’ve seen even excluding the race factor, and it really sucks. 

I really hate to rip on RWBY like this too even though I’m posting this. I love RWBY and it’s brought me SO much joy I can’t even begin to explain what it’s done for me both emotionally and “Story” wise. I love the CRWBY, and have been a RT fan for years. I love the show more than I should to be honest.

It’s just sad to see these problems.

#/////negative #Sorry I'll shup up I've really been enjoying the show #Otherwise at least