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I don't think the writers ever meant for us to come to the conclusion that Watts and Ironwood were exes, but everything they say and do (as it relates to each other) gets about 250% funnier when viewed through the lens offered by the belief that these two men had sex at some point.

#HELP

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A look worth fighting for!

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Pride Day 8: Ilia Amitola

#ilia amitola #YEAHH

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Can I hear more about Cinder's toxic love/hate relationship with femininity?

Oh boy this is gonna be fun.

Here's the thing: femininity in Cinder's eyes is deeply intertwined with class and with power. Femininity in her world (and ours to be frank) is designed to be performed by upper class women. Long hair, deftly styled make-up, jewelry, pretty dresses, pretty manners...the ideal woman is the high class woman, and the Madame never let her forget that. Cinder's mother and sisters get the long hair, the heels, the pretty clothes. She gets a plain unisex uniform bleached so white not even her hair ties have color. This isn't subtext, by the way, it's text. When we see her torture Cinder for the first time, the Madame chastises her by saying "Now that wasn't very ladylike, was it?". Femininity is power. Femininity is elite. Femininity is not for people like you.

I believe that Cinder, even if she didn't have all of that hanging over her head, would genuinely like some feminine things. She'd probably wear high heels and shiny things regardless, it just seems very her. But because she's had that upbringing, it's all tainted. It's not about what she likes and wants to wear, it's about power. It's about being a lady, because her inability to be a "true" lady, denying her femininity, was the bludgeon they used to keep her down. The silky voice, the sexiness, the tranquility....none of those aspects of femininity is really her, but she performs them anyway because that's what a "lady" does. She might like some forms of it, but it's all tainted because she performs femininity not to represent herself but someone she wants to be.

Cinder performs femininity the way she does because she was taught a very narrow form of it just so it could be denied to her, and now she's seeking that form of it whether it's true to herself or not. It's a performance, not an expression, and that's where the toxicity comes from.

#cinder fall #oh wow

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Broke: Neo redemption on Therapy Island

Woke: tentative truce between Neo and RWBY until they escape and then she's their enemy again

Bespoke: Neo shows up at completely random intervals to interrupt Ruby's angsting to punch her in the face

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Lmao

#blake belladonna #JTSTUSHSSTD

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May my beloved

This was supposed to be a doodle lol woops, but ty for the suggestion!

#may marigold

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Sometimes I wonder if the straights think Renora is just the straight version of Bumbleby. Then I wonder if they even know Renora also belongs to the queers?

You think RT is gonna give us one character that fucking gender and looks at men like that, and another character who stares at other women’s asses and has an identity crisis, and we’re not gonna claim them? C’mon.

#lie ren #nora valkyrie #ren x nora #renora is the straight ship for gays

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#happy huntresses #robyn hill #may marigold #fiona thyme #joanna greenleaf

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mirror mirror on the wall what the fuck am i doing with my life

#weiss schnee

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I do hope the idea of imprisoning Salem turns up in the show at some point because-

It's an idea that makes sense, y'know? If she's immortal, can't be killed, then the next best way to stop her is to imprison her. Seal the evil in a can. She might escape, and cause problems in the future, but she would be stopped in the here and now.

But with Salem's backstory, that becomes a supremely fucked up thing to do to her. Recreating the way her father abused her in order to stop her. And all our heroes know her backstory now, they know what they'd be doing! There absolutely would be hesitation to do such a thing, because it is incredibly morally dubious.

It would serve the Greater Good, sure. But it wouldn't be a moral good. And while the idea might be entertained and debated, ultimately I don't think our heroes could stomach it.

#salem #boxed satan

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By popular demand, the transformation of Magnhild! ⚡️

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#nora valkyrie #woah

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The feminine urge to rant about the RWBY color symbolism iceberg

#yo

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I’M GAY!!

#robyn hill #swooning

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Do you know if people were broadly complaining about Clover’s semblance when it was revealed? I feel like introducing a character whose super power is good luck is one of those things that SHOULD get a lot of complaints about Mary Sueness or being OP from the crowd that likes to complain about everything RWBY does

Nope!

Now, to be fair, Clover's semblance was introduced in a way that portrayed it as "balancing out" Qrow's. That the two together ended up creating a net neutral. That probably did some work in dissuading people from thinking of it as overpowered.

...but let's be honest, if Clover had been a woman, you absolutely would have seen some complaints.

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May Marigold.

#may marigold