#RWBY'S FANDOM SCARES ME

[ex-vespidae]

the worst feeling is when you get hyperfixated on something that you KNOW isn't all that good. but you specifically really enjoy the parts that you can see good and POTENTIAL in. and it sucksss because it could be a great thing and it gets to those highs sometimes but its just not consistent.

of course its not the worst thing ever, fandom exists and such and you can enjoy the pros you do like, its just also important to be critical of the media you consume well especially if you want to go into storytelling or a similar field etc.

at least they inspire fans to create and imagine. which is a great thing.

#sage speaks #this is specifically about rwby and warrior cats but it can definitely include other things #like god is some of the writing bad but there are some highs in the series #i mean weiss in rwby has some incredible development + she is so funny like damn #also the line 'citizen of a fallen kingdom abd an heir to nothing' is so fucking cool guys #but you know at least they inspire fans of the series to create and explore that potential #which is good you know if the fandoms didn't scare me a lil lol #i say a little but i mean alot please don't kill ne

[dowhatteverer]

Listen up, it's my AU and I get to change their relationship as much as I like without having to worry about what happened between them in cannon, so with all do respect,

And here's one without the background because I'm still not sure about it, it's coloring is very much experimental.

Also, featuring half-Black, half-Indian Penny.

#james ironwood #penny polendina #pro ironwood #just so everybody's clear where i stand #Eventually im gonna make a big post about what im doing with these designs with all the art #with all the art ive already made #but RWBY's fandom scares me so that might take a while #still not sure about Penny's hair tbh #Remnant City AU

[demonwield]

     Totally forgot I made this. I’m getting to Inazuma today on stream, that’s for sure, so I can finally start piecing together her Verse for Genshin. I’ve a few ideas, but they. . .take a bit of lore searching to see the parameters of. Not to mention I’m trying to tip toe because. . .I hear the Fandom is quite. . .vehemently vicious. . .so. . .we’ll see how it goes.

#In The Shadows Does His Eyes Shine || The Wolf Prowling The Darkness (OOC) #Listen. . . #no fandom scares me more than the genshin one at this point #And that's coming from someone #who was a fucking adam taurus in the rwby rpc

[ryuto12]

Random RWBY I think 15?

Still don't know what part it is but it's headcanon and idea time.

There is not one person in this fandom who can convince me any known character is a better swordsman than Blake.

Yang and Blake are absolutely the reincarnated knight and princess from the comics.

When the Schneeblings hear the word "father" they think of Jacques, but when they hear "dad" they think of Klein.

Yang and Weiss share a fear. Neither is scared of dying, but both fear dying alone.

Oscar's biggest goal is to have Jaune's physique.

Faunus and Humans have different drinking ages, and they differ across Kingdom.

JNPR got in on those Team RWBY White Fang sabotage missions.

RWY & JNR+O have figured out that when speaking alone with Blake they can speak super quietly and Blake won't even notice cause it sounds like a normal volume to her. Something Ruby takes advantage of when doing stealth missions.

Nora and Ren have seen each other naked YEARS ago. Reached that random friendship milestone a LONG time ago. As such they have no issue changing around each other.

Pyrrha and her scented candles.

Jaune once challenged Ren to a fun boxing match and did not expect to be absolutely bodied in less than ten seconds. He never asked again.

Yang is prone to grabbing the side of a pot on the stove with her right hand just to watch everybody have a brief heart attack.

#rwby #rwby headcanon #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #jaune arc #nora valkyrie #pyrrha nikos #lie ren #schneeblings #schnee family #oscar pine #this has been in my drafts for far too long

[punkeropercyjackson]

Top 5 worst ships in your opinions (can't be from the same franchise)

5.Weiss/Ruby(Rwby).Purely because of the fandom,i love Weiss but Ruby's way out of her league and ion like how the stans talk about Oscar,who is Ruby's canon love interest and a poor afrolatino boy to Weiss' rich white girl.Dosen't help that Weiss has more chemistry with Ruby's sister actually

4.Peter/Wade(Marvel).Do not care about Wade in the slightest bit and it ranges into full on hatred thanks to me maining Spiderfam when it comes to Marvel and i'm a firm believer in Gwenpool and her x Comics!Gwen as queerplatonic trans girlfriends superiority(Me and my gf fr fr)

3.Bakugou/Momo(Bnha).She deadass shows nothing except disdain for him in canon in all their interactions but she's his bestieeee according to Bakuriders because women don't have backbones if they're soft and peppy and kiddy-Momo is the walking definition of 'Silk Hiding Steel' and that's why she dosen't date nepotism dudebros.Shouto dosen't count because he's neither dude nor bro,he's just her pretty boygirlfriend who lives in her head rent free and vice versa(but for her it's 'pretty autistic girlfriend')

2.Percy/Annabeth(Pjo).Their couple song is 'Fake as hell' by All Time Low and Avril Lavigne because they're the fakest fake to ever fake-Percy is obviously comphet on Annabeth's part but also their whole dynamic is just built on lying to the reader and being shoved onto eachother against their consent by the narrative until they give into it and it's a severely unbalenced dynamic with almost all the favors going onto Annabeth and Percy enabling her because he's scared of her.They will never be the Dead Sea Siblings soulmateisms or Ghostflower and the shippers are such Luke and gods apologists ong

1.Harry/Draco(Hp).This ship has so much of it going around eternally for an eternity and it's all just white privilege and fetishization of minorities and glamorization of richness and i do not get the hype around Draco,it's always been so incomprehensible to me that BLACK WOMEN especially simp for him like honey he called Hermione slurs💀Yet another reason Hp and Marauder's era should've never gotten published,it's done nothing but damage to everyone and everything

#parkerpresentz #rwby #marvel #spiderman #bnha geekery #pjo #anti harry potter #rwby ruby rose #ruby tag #peter b parker #gwenpool #gwen poole #gwen stacy #me and moon #momo yaoyorozu #anti bakugou #todoroki shouto #todomomo #percy jackson #annabeth chase #nico di angelo #hazel levesque #anti luke castellan #antilukercy #anti percy x gods #antiwr #antispideypool #antibakumomo #anti percabeth #summerposting

[chaikachi]

I appreciate you so much for being loud about rg, despite all the unnecessary hostility this ship gets on a daily basis ❤️, it's my comfort ship and these two dorks literally makes me so happy 💕

Awee of course!!! 🥺💕 This ship means the world to me and I don't know how to be quiet about it these days even if I tried, as evidenced by the fact this answer turned into a whole essay somehow uwu

V8 was when i first really joined the fandom/RG and it was rough. I was scared to admit I shipped it romantically for the longest time because of all the discourse/harassment and I know I am very much not alone in that feeling. For the longest time I was scared to even draw them kissing lest it incite something. But ffs I'm over it. This ship is cute as hell, has so much going for it in canon, and so much creative potential in fanon. I love analyzing their story and somehow still discovering old crumbs even after all this time. Not to mention all the new crumbs this volume has given us!! Feels more like a whole loaf of freshly baked bread than anything else!

Every single argument I've ever seen thrown against the ship in the last 2+ years has been made in bad faith, is a double standard not applied to other ships, or is easily debunkable. Some of the loudest RG antis have a terrible reputation even outside of our 'ship wars', and it actually become so easy to not notice or let it get to you when you block without remorse.

I can't really speak for tumblr as I've gotten not-so-good at interacting with people here recently and feel a bit disconnected from the community (aside from the stray asks/tags y'all send me which I always appreciate 💕). But I know on twitter we've had a handful of new artists and vocal shippers come out of the woodwork in light of the new volume that are flooding the tag with positivity, memes, and creations every day. I've seen multiple rival shippers admit that they have to 'prepare for when rg is canon' and they genuinely believe it. We've even got a few bigger RWBY youtubers standing up for us and shutting down that discourse when people try to stir the pot.

Also numbers aren't really indicative of anything on tumblr when reblogs are more scarce than ever, or on twitter where the algorithm is anyone's guess, but there are some rosegarden posts on this site from 2017 that hit over 4k notes. Some of my own rg pieces on other platforms breach 1-2k. Heck, even some of the metas that I have cross posted to twt have hit more than 600 likes.

There are so many rg shippers out there. And what I am seeing with v9 is a few things. First, any people joining the fandom anew that aren't aware of all the discourse fall into RG pretty easily without that bias being pushed on them.

And second, that when we are loud and we are enthusiastic and we are kind to each other... when we foster healthy and approachable community, that is how we tune out all the negativity, and that is when we have the most fun.

So i'm glad you appreciate all my yelling, and I am not trying to pressure anyone into speaking out or participating if they don't have it in them... but this is a very friendly reminder is always room for more of us out here 💕🌹🌲

#i don't like dubbing myself as ceo of anything esp cause i know i ship rg in a v *me* way #but i do reserve the right to call myself the most annoying rg shipper simply BECAUSE i refuse to shut up about it ehehe #be a shame if anyone tried to fight me for the title hmm?? 👀 #ask #asks #anon #anono #rwby #rosegarden

[itsclydebitches]

The opposition to rewrites in the FNDM is just so goddamn weird to me, given that one of the cornerstones of another fandom I'm in is a rewrite of a canon storyline that had some really cool ideas but dogshit execution. I see people saying that the rewriters are arrogant for thinking that they can do RWBY better than the official team, but no, in my experience even if they are arrogant it's equally possible that they're right. Official doesn't mean "The Best" or even "Good", just official.

Exactly. Ultimately it shouldn't even matter whether rewrites are "good" or not because

a) That's a highly subjective interpretation no one will ever agree on

b) They're written by amateurs for free as a hobby - with "amateur" meaning someone who does not produce RWBY writing in a professional capacity, not someone who is automatically "bad" at the art - and thus rewrites would be at huge disadvantage even if we did want to judge their quality

and c) That's just what fanfiction is?? Transformation??? The writer's motivation is inconsequential. Whether they're producing this because they think they can craft a better story than canon, or whether they simply want a creative means of celebrating it, the end result is still the same: a new, unofficial RWBY product that readers will inevitably compare to the original, favorably or otherwise

So yeah, it's wild to me. I've literally never seen another fandom so anti-rewrite. It's usually the opposite - as you say, a cornerstone of fan engagement - where fans, both jokingly and not, talk about how sometimes fic is a love letter and sometimes it's a "FUCK YOU STRONGLY WORDED TELEGRAM TO FOLLOW." Despite RWBY appearing unique at first glance (from my perspective, anyway) I wonder if part of this is due to larger fandom trends? Meaning, RWBY is comparatively young as fandoms go and I've noticed in recent years a prioritization of canon that hasn't been around before, particularly when it comes to shipping. Some of that is good imo (like the push for queer canonization) and some of it is just downright odd (what do you mean I'm not "allowed" to ship them just because they haven't spoken to each on screen? Since when is THAT a requirement?). Though RWBY is definitely an extreme case, there seems to be this generalized move from, "This is our canon and it's great, or maybe it sucks, but either way it's a spring board for all of THESE cool things" to "This is our canon and it is scared. It is perfect, flaws and all. If you're going to add to it I need a detailed proposal for how this fits into the established world, encapsulates the original author's vision, and maintains characterization even though I'm too young to know what OOC stands for." Certainly in RWBY's case, I wonder if part of it stems from the rise in social media and, as a result, fans "personal" relationships with the actors and writers. When you're seeing a creator's tweets all day and feeling like they're your online friend, you might be less inclined to "mess with" their work; as opposed to seeing an actor/writer at a con once a year, going home, recognizing that they're a complete stranger outside of any fantasies, and then getting on with playing in their sandbox because why wouldn't you? They're never going to know. This is the age of fans sending their fic to actors to read aloud and tweeting at writers that such-and-such had this to say about the show. Though this was done in a cool and positive light, I have legit had a meta of mine tweeted at a OFMD actor and, if the like he gave is any indication, he read it... which is a weird thing to think about considering he was not the audience I had in mind while crafting it. Those kinds of interactions has got to have some kind of impact on fans' perception of what they can and cannot do with the material...

Anyway, today's PSA is that if you want to do a rewrite of any story - yes, even RWBY! - you are absolutely allowed to do that regardless of how "good" it supposedly is. Go forth and get creative. Get messy. Do whatever the hell you want and if someone in the fandom tries to make you feel bad about that, tell me and I'll manifest a Lego in their shoe.

After all, it's not like the entirety of RWBY is built on transforming others' stories or anything :)

#rwde #rwby #fic things #mymetas

[apathmakerstale]

I woke up from a nap and found out one of the foundational pillars of my youth shut down. Damn.

Rooster Teeth was my lifeblood as a teen, and I’ve been a fan from the first time I saw Tex vs RnB’s. RWBY is what made me starting writing. I remembered the exact time I started actually writing down my ideas, Feb 2, 2015 at 3:52 pm after confirmation study, a day after I learned Monty passed. It was a RWBY OC fic that I stopped after I remembered their words to stop focusing on other people’s work and work on your own to build your own brand. I still have it- the writing is meh though -and my first drawings were RWBY characters like the ones below. I owe my artistic creation to that. Maybe I'll post that first fic one day too.

That gave me the time to build up a portfolio of original writing that I will soon be publishing online for myself. It inspired me and still does to this day as I enjoy RWBY and hope it will be finished.

I still listen to Gold, the music from RWBY just inspires such a sense of love from me. It can make me well with tears- which is not something easy do. I was apart of the RWBY WIKI! Back when we called Yang Yellow, and speculated White would be a cold high lady type and not girlfail. The Speculation House was my house. It was the first time I posted anything on the internet.

AND I CALLED IT BACK IN 2013- I CALLED SALEM AND OZPIN- ONE MAN WITH MULTIPLE SOULS A WOMEN WITH NONE!!! I CALLED IT AND EVEN HAD A POST I MEANT TO MAKE BUT I WAS TOO SCARED!!! SIX YEARS AHEAD!!!!!!

Anyway I was a superfan like from 2013-16 I lived and breathed the company, I watched every video, every channel, every podcast, I lived and breathed it. From Cow Chop, Sugar Pine, Funhaus, Gamefails etc. Achievement Hunter was why I came home from school to watch videos. I remember why RTX was a fandom wide event, and every single panel had mind-blowing information about something I loved. I was there for the first GTA V gameplay, and the first video on Let's Play. I have such a distinct memory of sitting down one Friday after school with a bowl of chef boyardee on a cheap white desk covered by a blue rag and chipped dark blue bowl, looking up at the ps3 3d wall-mounted tv, and watching the first Capture the Tower in Minecraft with such glee. It was my childhood.

I followed the King AU fan comic series on here and the FAKE AH crew AU. I was that heavy into it.

I READ A FEW REAL PEOPLE FICS. I was that deep. I've never done that for anyone else even in my deepest fandom days.

I remember being so excited when them and Yogscast paired up, they being another pillar and like them I am still a fan. Those TTT episodes are something special to me.

Like any company it had its flaws, and I remember every single controversy. Every. Single. One. God. I've diminished to someone who just keeps up with podcasts like F**ckFace and Red Web but I still called myself a fan. It was a foundation for me and a stabilizing influence when I was younger. I sincerely hope that the talented people there get help for this.

It only inspires my hatred of Warner Brothers more.

It actually does feel like a chapter has closed and I don't know how to feel about that.

Anyway here's Gold for your heart.

#rooster teeth #rooster teeth shutdown #achievement hunter #RWBY #RWBY art #misc.stuff #lets play #rt #Funhaus #Cow Chop #fandom #Youtube

[caterpillarinacave]

Little Update (particularly for those waiting for me to respond to something, but also in general):

Hey everyone!

So I know I have a few asks in my asks box, and some @‘s and messages I need to respond to, and I promise I will get to them! 

The asks are my top priority right now so I should get those responded to pretty soon.

I’m not having a super great time mentally or physically right now and unfortunately there’s not much I can do about either aspect.

Aside some physical health problems I’ve been getting hit pretty hard with some ramifications of trauma. In comparison my trauma and the relationship I was in was really not that bad, but unfortunately I really haven’t been able to shake it lately. I get the feeling the hyper vigilance is contributing heavily to my overall discombobulation.

I really enjoy tumblr (clearly I spend a lot of time on here) and interacting with people makes me incredibly happy.

While most people are very, very nice - and to be honest, I would say some of my best friends are on here - there have been a select few who haven’t been so kind.

I fully understand that those people are struggling more within themselves then with me, but it can be really discouraging to work hard on something in a space and be treated somewhat poorly. I know I am not perfect and understand how I may be annoying for people, but Tumblr is very much my safe space and I try very hard to be kind and helpful on here. 

Additionally, while I do love the fandom space-I’m having some trouble RWBY in particular. 

I’m very much not trying to start anything so I will spare everyone my thoughts, but in some ways I’ve fallen out of love with the show- and fallen more in love with Roman and Neo.

For years before  the Roman and Neo fandom was wondrously rich with content. When I compare the canon and the fandom, for me at least, the fandom did a better job, and it still does. In 2016 there were fics that were so good I accepted them as canon. In 2024 some of those fics, and plus a few new ones are still the best.

That being said I adore the fandom I’ve curated on here surrounding Roman and Neo. I have mutuals, followers and friends who create phenomenal fan work, have excellent ideas, and bring me back to the show and characters that was, in the fandom sense, my first love.

I would very much like to be more active on that little Roman/Neo fandom I’ve found. It’s just that taking into consideration my complex relationship with the source material I’m not sure how to do that.

In terms of TSC those of you with astute gazes have probably noticed I post a lot of WIP snippets- and not many fics. That’s due in part to all the above reasons, but also just because I really care about the content. I care very, very deeply about these characters, and I pour a lot of work into my writing. I’ve always got the feeling that once I post something I can’t redo it- I post one fic with a premise and I can’t ever rewrite it again. Posting work that’s less than perfect when there’s already a very small audience looking at my fics almost doesn’t feel like an option for me.  Trust me, I want to post more content- and very little makes me happier than talking with people about my beloved blorbos- it just involves a lot of energy and emotional.

Basically, I’m anxious, tired, lonely, scared, and so deeply invested in fictional characters it makes me screech in excitement whenever someone asks about them. So, dearest of comrades, please be patient- I promise I’m not ignoring anyone!

TLDR: Moving slowly on account of all the HorrorsTM, but I’m working on it.

#Yes this all boils down to “please don’t forget about me” hush about it now #I’ll get there #Eventually

[storm-of-feathers]

cant sleep gonna say my thoughts.

I think what a lot of people miss about tumblr (and especially unfocused blogs that, say, aren't fandom oriented) is that it's essentially an open journal. it's a microblogging website, and all blogging micro or macro is fundamentally a web log (where the term comes from!). if it seems like I'm not talking ab something enough, it's not because I don't care at all.

It's because first and foremost, this blog is a piece of my soul that I am choosing to share. I'm not trying to be an activist on the internet, I'm not trying to sway anyone to my opinions. I'm saying the things I think and feel. If I talk ab american politics too much, that's because im american. if I'm writing frustrated posts about performative internet activism, that's because it feels exhausting to be out there doing the work (because that's what it is. Its work. Its boring and taxing and it feels like youre getting nowhere. Until you see how far youve come) and having to come to tumblr and seeing people say I didn't talk about [disaster 30000 of the past ten years] enough.

if I seem angry and upset and scared and irrational, its because i am those things. you have to understand. in spite of my rather large follower number, this blog is, first and foremost, for me. I am writing things down and allowing strangers and friends and wanderers to read it. I won't call it a privilege that can be taken away, bc its not like some of my thoughts are exactly a treat, but it is something to keep in mind.

if you ask me why I'm talking about the supreme courts recent decisions but not similar decisions in other countries, the answer comes down to "one of those directly affects me, and therefore i can fight back."

but I shouldn't have to announce where and how I'm fighting back. if for no other reason, my own fucking safety. but also bc this blog isn't any sort of guide to activism, it's not any type instruction. it is, at best, my diary that I published.

and that isn't a bad thing!! and it shouldn't be!!! that's why I harped so hard on the carrd post. that's why I'm vaguely annoyed with my reddit posts. that's why I shared my marital status and sexuality for a long time. that's why i have a rwby icon. that's why my blog title which hasn't changed since 2018 is what it is.

I understand that sometimes I have opinions people don't like. oceangate in particular has proven to be a fantastic example of that. But i am, at the most basic terminology, venting my thoughts and feelings.

that's why I'm talking ab the supreme court and their awful decisions. why I may not be talking about issues that don't directly affect me, but might affect some of you. it's not because i don't care. It's never because I don't care.

It's because my target audience is a mirror.

#you need to understand. #im well aware of my bad reputation for not reblogging dono posts and for defending teenagers into dsmp #(not even dsmp itself! just the people who like it.) #i am MORE than aware of the evils on my carrd post im the one who has to see it. #but ultimately i stand by the things i say unless i change my mind. #if i change my mind its because i have more information than i did before #(ie. again. oceangate. i went back and forth as info came out. because i wanted to have an *informed* opinion) #but if i believe in what i said. if i hold to the principle i am espousing #its hard for me to apologize for anything more than i might have worded it weird #but at the end of the day #of the month #the year #life. #this blog. MY blog. is a record of alex storm-of-feathers #if someday a historian figures out our internet and how to access it #i want them to know #i want YOU to know #my name is alex #this is my journal #this is not any type of record on historical events #this is not me trying to organize activism #this is simply me. #my name is alex. #please remember that. #please remember me.

[ridingthechaos]

Pairing: Ozpin and Lilium

Fandom: Rwby

Ship Type: Canon X OC

Lilium was just calmly sitting in the ruins of Beacon, allowing the foliage to take over the area. Salem wasn’t a threat anymore, trauma wouldn’t be inflicted anymore. But the one in the ruins looked tranquil, she looked as if she hadn’t had trauma inflicted onto her whatsoever. The sound of footsteps drove her out of her thoughts, Lilium’s silver eyes flitted towards the source of the sound. She spotted Ozpin approaching, he himself looked to be in a good mood. Which can be expected when your undead ex-wife is no longer at large. A soft chuckle escaped Lilium as she returned her focus to the flowers, walking around idly and letting them grow. She watched as daffodils, lilies, tulips, and so many more took over the chaos of the old campus of Beacon.

“So this is where you’ve been hiding?” Ozpin chuckled, Lilium could practically hear his iconic smile.

“So what if it is? I need away time.” She raised a hand and a rose grew, a soft smile graced her lips when she saw it.

Ozpin let out a hearty chuckle, his cane made a soft tapping sound against the cracked and overgrown pavement, “Why don’t you come to the new campus of Beacon? I’m sure we’d enjoy having you as a teacher again. I know how you felt about Weapons Care.”

Lilium paused, was Ozpin offering her old position to her? He was, wasn’t he? She turned to face him, a guarded expression on her face, “Isn’t someone filling the position now?” She asked carefully, Ozpin only shook his head. Her eyes flit down, not having expected that. She could return to her post at Beacon, wouldn’t that be lovely? Return to how things were before the fall? Her hands balled into fists, she didn’t know how to respond.

It's as if her world came crashing down on her. Lilium suddenly remembered the fall of Beacon, the pain it caused her, and more specifically.. Ozpin’s death. Well it technically wasn’t his death, since he inhabited Oscar Pine for a good while until four months after Lilium’s return from the Ever-After. As if sensing her pain Ozpin walked over, enveloping her in a hug. Lilium froze up even more, she hadn’t been touched, let alone held, in a good seven years. And if she was touched it usually wasn’t in a nice, unharming, way.

Tears swelled in her silver eyes. Damn it, Ozpin. She thought, her own arms wrapping tightly around him.

“I know you're still hurting. You went through the most hell out of all of us.” Ozpin cooed, rubbing her pale green hair. He sighed, was this really the woman he knew and loved? This broken, traumatized woman? It was, deep down, still her though.

“I was so scared, Oz.”

“I know.”

“I felt so alone.. It hurt.”

“I know..”

“I can’t do this alone, please don’t leave me alone… I don’t want to be alone.”

“I won’t…”

Ozpin felt pity for her, but that would do neither of them good. So he just held her tightly. The sound of Ozpin’s very much beating heart made Lilium more calm, more relaxed. It felt nice that this wasn’t caused by some tree’s leaves, or Neo’s odd clones, or this being a hallucination from lack of sleep. Good lord, on the topic of sleep, when was the last time Lilium slept? She could feel her eyelids drooping, tears coming to a stop. Ozpin could feel her breathing slow down as she fell asleep. Soon her arms fell from around him, she was asleep in his arms. A chuckle came from the white-haired male, picking her up carefully in his arms. He somehow held her and his cane in his arms. Ozpin walked back to the new campus of Beacon, leaving Lilium’s overgrown safe-haven.

When Lilium woke up, she realized she was neatly tucked into a well kept bed. Ozpin’s bed probably. She didn’t hear his movements outside in his office, was he even here? A soft groan came from her as she forced herself up and out of the warm bed, where was Ozpin if he wasn’t in his office?

“Oz?” She called out into the quietness. No response, “Ozpin??” She called again, hoping for a reply. But there was still no reply, “Ozma???” Lilium called that name knowing full well he’d reply to it. Then a white tuft of hair peaked out from under his desk.

“Am I in trouble?” He asked, obviously slightly surprised Lilium would call that name. His first name, the name he had gotten in his very first life.

“No, I just didn’t know where you were.”

He narrowed her eyes at her. Ozpin came out from under his desk, staring at Lilium was a glaring expression. Lilium just smirked at him, handing him a red rose. Ozpin stared at the rose before carefully putting it into the vase on his desk. He enjoyed her flowers, he always did. Lilium’s flowers were a gift in themselves since they came from her. Leaning in close to her, Ozpin planted a small kiss to her nose. A small sign of affection from someone who hadn’t wanted a relationship since the undead Grimm witch.

“You just..” Lilium looked at him surprised. Ozpin nodded, a light blush dusting his features. It looked odd, considering it was rare he blushed. Yet again, he was never one to show affection willingly.

Ozpin sighed, “I think it's time I started a relationship. It has been too long, this is far overdo.” He adjusted his glasses and his expression softened, “Lilium, will you do me a favor and..,” He paused, growing uncomfortable with the words.

“Of course, Oz.” She smiled at him, “I’d happily be in a relationship with you.”

Lilium yelped when Ozpin pulled her in close by her waist. It was a notion she wasn’t expecting. But it meant a lot to both of them. Laughter collectively escaped their lips, comfortable in each other’s embrace. Lilium’s arms wrapped willingly around Ozpin’s neck, she hadn’t mourned over this man for nothing. But here he was, alive and well and in her arms. They stood there for a good while before they heard the snapping of a scroll.

Lilium’s head snapped towards the sound, only to see Ruby Rose holding her scroll up in an ‘Oh my gods I just saw Professor Mycelium and Professor Ozpin hug.’ way.

“Delete that.” Lilium hissed.

“No.” Ruby countered.

“Ruby Rose.”

“Lilium Mycelium.”

Lilium broke away from Ozpin to charge at Ruby, aiming for her scroll. Ruby used her semblance to run away from Lilium, to which the plant manipulator used her own semblance to block Ruby’s path.

Ozpin just stood there watching this happen, a snicker coming from him. He took a sip of his hot chocolate and smirked as the flashes of green and red ran by. In his opinion, he thought it made it look like Christmas with how past they were going. But now he had a partner for the first time since Salem, Ozpin was in a great mood.

#rwby #Rwby fanfic #rwby au #professor ozpin x reader #Professor Ozpin x oc #fanfic #canon x oc #self insert #ozma x oc #rwby oc

[lee-rambles-about-rwby]

Arryn back at it again with just being excited about the volume of rwby they worked on and unintentionally or maybe intentionally scaring the fandom in the process (feat. Kiersi)

Seeing Arryn shift from “rwby fan/reactor being startled by cryptic crwby tweets” to “knowing the secrets and creating the cryptic tweets themself” is so funny to me

#i know they're on tumblr so hi arryn if you see this #lee speaks #rwby #rwby volume 9

[carnyreborn]

Rant time

Gonna be a bit negative, so proceed with care. It involves non-con/rape, me complaining about other people's writings (not a callout, or I don't think so, just me expressing how I feel) and other triggering things, possibly. Oh, and it deals with RWBY, Naruto, Danganronpa and other fandoms.

Know what freaking annoys me? How... Normalized rape and non-con stuff gets to be, especially with guys, and especially with the pretention of fluff/harem play

What do I mean by that? Well, Rwby posts, Naruto posts, any of that, which pose scenarios with the main guys and girls where like... For example. Jaune and Team RWBY are in the shopping. Yang and Blake want to be with Jaune, so they distract Ruby and Weiss before dragging Jaune towards the booth, where he resists, even as they strip him down.

And all of that is written as if it is normal for him to resist. Like it's cute. Or things where Jaune is forced to be with a girl, or where a girl is wildly aggressive and Naruto is more scared than anything else.

Imagine the opposite scenario, with Sun and Neptune dragging Blake there and fucking her. Wouldn't that be clearly rape? Or Naruto pinning Hinata as she asks, 'no, she doesn't want it'? That is clearly rape. So why is that the male not being into it normalized while the contrary isn't?

I'm not saying that you can't write non-con. I'm not particularly into it but can be a hot thing to write, and your kinks are your own as long as you don't hurt anyone. But...

If you want to write Jaune with whoever, why not write him into it? Like, the scenario above, write him as willing but scared about being caught! But show that he wants the girls! Show his attraction, affection and lust! Otherwise, you're writing rape, and it seems you don't even realize it. And that is the bit that annoys me the most.

They write it all as if it's normal for the guys to not be into it. Like they should be resisting it and by enjoying something is wrong. It's like a full reversion of the puritan image of what sex should be, and it's as anger-inducing as the other way of writing it is.

So, how do I think you should write stuff? Well, if you're writing it with the intention of it being non-con, no notes, you do what you enjoy. This, once more, isn't about you. But if you want to write something that is consensual about two characters... write that?!

Like, straight up, write about it being consensual. Show that both parties want it. Show how Jaune is into it, how Izuku does like the flirting, how Naruto can barely hold himself back! There are many ways of writing conflict that would make for a straight smut scene not happen instantly, but at the same time you don't gotta write it with one half of the pairings not enjoying it. Just... ugh, yeah, been annoyed about that for a long time, sorry for the long rant

#Carny Speaks #Carny Rants #TW: Non-con

[vanadisvalentine]

It's All About the Bees, Baby

Well, now that I'm done crying and laughing and screaming, I can finally take a moment to relax and put all of my thoughts about today's episode in one place. Full disclosure that I'm not going to be talking about fandom drama or anything because I have negative interest in engaging with that sort of discussion. This post is about what the bees mean to me and to others, as well as why the big scene today was so beautiful.

To start off on a personal note, I've been watching RWBY since I was twelve, so coming up on a decade now. I remember seeing a ton of fanart and memes for volume one as it was airing and decided to give it a shot a few weeks before volume two started airing. I dropped it in the first episode because the sound mixing was awful (apparently I've always been an audio snob), but decided to give it another go based on the recommendation of one of my long time friends, and that was when I realized it was basically the perfect show for little twelve year old Valentine. Great character designs, awesome music, I dug the humor, but more than anything, there was a particular character who I could not get out of my head.

Yang Xiao Long.

Yang is still to this day very much my type. Brash, bold, boisterous, blonde, brawler. I have loved this girl since the day I first laid eyes on her and I will love her to the day I die. As you can probably guess, being twelve years old is often a pretty rough period in a baby sapphic's life. I knew I liked girls, but outwardly admitting it to myself was something that took a long time, and Yang sort of galvanized that process, which really kicked off after Burning the Candle aired.

This is the moment that made me go "Oh. Oh, she's like me, isn't she?"

And it was all downhill from there.

I don't think I need to stress how prevalent shipping is in the RWBY fandom. For a show that doesn't focus much on romance (there are romantic relationships in the show that get significant attention and one of those ships was sunk six volumes ago), it might be one of the most notable aspects of the fandom. If two characters exist, even if one of them was dead before the series even started, there's a good chance there's a ship name for them...be they family or not. Looking at you, Enabler. That being said, Bumbleby--great ship name by the way, you guys--has been the most prominent basically since the start, with White Rose/Ice Flower following closely behind. This isn't really surprising. They're half of the main four girls and Blake specifically went out of her way to choose Yang as her partner, so them becoming a popular ship is a no-brainer, but the reasons as to why it's truly something special didn't become clear until the audience had learned more about these two as characters. Their backstories, what they strive towards, what motivates them, what scares them, all of that. They might seem like oil and water at first glance, but really, they're made for each other.

Alright, let's head in another direction before this just turns into a post about what makes their relationship great. Bumbleby is a relationship that is important to people for a lot of reasons, chief among those reasons being that people see themselves in these girls who have been through so much, both together and separately.

Blake Belladonna is, for all intents and purposes, an abuse victim, something that is unfortunately all too common (especially among the queer community). She managed to escape that relationship for a time and found family in her team, but her relationship with Yang has always taken center stage. I don't think it's lost on most Bumbleby fans that on the surface, Yang and Adam are similar. Semblances aside, they're both prone to bouts of anger, but one of the (many) differences between the two is while Adam was attracted to Blake for what he wants her to be--another violent revolutionary to take on the world with him--Yang likes Blake for who she is. She cares about her, truly, evident by the fact that she's the one who knocks Blake out of her self-destructive spiral in volume two. For so many victims of abuse, the notion of finding someone who will love you for you and won't treat you the way your last partner did is almost like a fairy tale, so to see Blake move on from Adam and overcome her trauma with Yang by her side resonates with a lot of people.

On the other side of things, there's Yang. She has abandonment issues, of course, which is something that doesn't really mesh well with Blake "My Problems Can't Hurt Me If I Just Run From Them" Belladonna. Come on, her semblance literally leaves behind copies of herself to take damage for her, but the show spells it out for you during Mountain Glenn, so you don't need my analysis here. The difference between Blake and Raven, though, is that Blake came back. Because she cares, and even if she made a mistake, she tries so hard to make it up to Yang. For a lot of people who have been abandoned or tossed aside in their lives, seeing someone who left a loved one behind not only come back for them but earnestly try and make amends is moving because it's something they think they'll never have, or it's something they've longed for but never got.

Now, onto the big scene from today's episode, Confessions Within Cumulonimbus Clouds. First of all, the fact that the Ever After itself said "You two have been making goo-goo eyes at each other since forever, go and work it out"? Gorgeous. Beautiful. You love to see it. What's nice about the framing of the scene is that Blake and Yang are put into a situation where in order to progress, they have to...well, progress. "Take the next step", which is to, of course, confess already. And how do they take those steps? They have to open up, say how it is they truly feel about each other instead of awkwardly flirting and making Weiss want to pull her hair out. And the more they progress, the more solid the rickety bridge becomes, symbolizing that they're getting closer and closer to finally clicking.

Even then, there's a contrast between the two of them. Blake, while nervous, is ready to take the next step. She's ready to finally say what they've needed to say to each other for ages. Yang, though? She's scared. Scared that she'll mess it up, scared that Blake won't feel the same, scared that she'll fall.

But in the end, even if she's nervous, she knows it's Blake. Her best friend, her partner, her soulmate. And Blake urges her to say it, and it's the push she needs to take that next step.

Part of what makes this scene so special to so many people is that when it comes to fandom and queer shipping, so much of it is implicit. Even for something that is obviously gay, like Madoka Magica, Homura never says that she is romantically in love with Madoka, and the unfortunate reality is that without that, queer relationships are often just written off as bait. Hell, just this last season of anime we were given The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, a show that was commonly called bait even though the main characters makes it clear at several points that she is a lesbian who is attracted to the love interest. If there's no confession, it's bait. If there's no kiss, it's bait. So the fact that today, we were given both? It's so incredibly refreshing, because it is just not something that happens a lot in anime/anime adjacent media, especially not one as widespread as RWBY is, so people who mainly consume that type of art are left scrambling for crumbs, grasping at every glance or touch or smile, sustaining themselves off of fanart and fanfiction. You've got to understand that a lot of queer people--sapphics in particular--just...aren't used to this.

People have been clamoring over these two for a decade now. The hiatus between volumes eight and nine beat our asses, and we've been hyping ourselves up with "Bees kiss, bees kiss, bees kiss" since the trailer for this volume dropped, so to have it? To have it be real, be tangible, be undeniable? It feels good. It feels good to prove the weird ass homophobes who for some reason still watch this show wrong. It feels good to be vindicated. It feels good to be able to feel this joy.

We won, babes. We won. We can celebrate that, we can cherish that, and no one can take that from us.

#RWBY #rwby9 spoilers #rwby9 #rwby spoilers #yang xiao long #blake bellodona #bumbleby #sorry if this came off sorta rambly #i have a lot of thoughts and emotions right now #to all my fellow rwby sapphics #we gather here today to celebrate the size of this W #i cried watching the first time and bawled on like the twelfth #because it feels so good to be vindicated after years of shipping these two #and yeah shipping isn't all that but i hope this post explains just why it can mean so much to people #ok back to rewatching the scene ad infinitum

[greenteaandtattoos]

Honestly curious, what were the criticisms that turned you off of N&D?

Ah, forgive me anon, but I'm going to be a bit brief with my answer. I've received nothing but kindness from the Nuts and Dolts community since I've begun to come out as one (I was hesitant because I'm always scared I'll be harassed for also shipping rosegarden), however, this is also the RWBY fandom, and the RWBY fandom struggles with accepting criticism that they don't agree with.

So, I'll stick with the big factor that turned me away from NND in canon: it was that the paths that Ruby and Penny needed to go for character growth went in completely opposite directions.

Penny needed to learn how to be more independent, as she was extremely dependent on people, especially Ruby (understandably from the fact that she was isolated her whole life until she met Ruby), and while she was very determined, she was also quick to give up. This is why I like NND in an AU sense. If Penny had lived and gone to Vacuo while Ruby fell, she could learn how to be more independent.

Ruby, on the other hand, needs to learn how to depend on others. She must stop isolating herself, pushing down her feelings, taking the burdens of others on her shoulders, and always putting the needs - or what she perceives as the needs - of others before herself. She must learn how to lean on others, and to recognize when she needs to ask for help instead of stretching herself so thin trying to do everything for everyone that she eventually snaps.

The major parallels they had were that they were both destined to be warriors, with Penny being designed for that express purpose, and then receiving the maiden powers, and Ruby being born a silver-eyed warrior. But the resulting development due to that foundation led to opposing branches that they needed to go down in order to grow.

So, with Penny being so dependent on Ruby, and Ruby desperately trying to put everyone's needs over her own... it just didn't sit right with me.

As I said in my previous post, I deeply value individual character growth within a ship because I believe that what they learn individually can help them grow together as a relationship. So, while Ruby is growing and developing now in the Ever After, to shed those unhealthy mentalities and habits, Penny never got that same chance.

#anon #orringinal answers #ruby rose #penny polendina #nuts and dolts #nuts n dolts #please don't come for me nnd community

[bestworstcase]

I think one thing the fandom needs to realize is that, if Theodore was right about Jax just being too lazy to "try", then it's the WRITERS who are being ableist.

Either Theodore is wrong, or the writers are terrible people, there is no middle ground.

mhm. and while the writing team isn’t perfect, it’s clear that they are making a genuine effort to portray disability respectfully and naturalistically. there are characters with prosthetics across the whole spectrum from villain to hero, none of them are defined by their status as amputees, and one of them is a main character whose recovery arc is complex and still ongoing as she continues to heal emotionally. neo is mute and her backstory novel depicts her father as abusive for demanding that she speak—and not just that, other characters who refuse to engage with her unless she communicates “properly” with a TTS app she hates are also portrayed as cruel, no better than her father. qrow’s and willow’s alcoholism is treated with appropriate seriousness and the narrative never condemns them for struggling, even when exploring the harm their drinking causes to the people closest to them. etc.

and in the CFVY novels, the way theodore and finn talk about jax is juxtaposed against how fox was treated by his tribe—a blind orphan who received love and support instead of scorn. fox’s confidence in himself and his easy comfort with asking for help when he needs it is explicitly connected to his childhood, and the contrast between his healthy self-image and the boiling hatred and shame jax feels toward himself lines up the dots for the reader to connect. (and in case that isn’t enough, it’s implied that finn branded his infant daughter because he didn’t want the sickly twin to be the “true” heir to the mythical family legacy, which… really how much more obvious can a narrative GET about signaling that the father who says “my poor sickly weakling child’s frail little mind was WARPED by his fragility” is, um, not an objective source.)

idk like… it makes no sense to me to read before the dawn as narratively agreeing with theodore’s/finn’s/rumpole’s attitude that jax was just, like, a Bad Seed because being sickly twisted him? that’s wildly incongruent with the way rwby handles disability in general and before the dawn is really not subtle about positioning fox and jax as narrative foils with inverse childhoods. is it so difficult to pick up what the narrative is putting down vis-a-vis jax being a product of his culture and “chronic illness poisoned his mind, so sad” and “he’s just a scared little boy” and “he didn’t belong here, he only held his sister back” and so forth as depictions of that culture’s deep-rooted ableism and not, like, things the narrative intends for us to take at face value.

#but yeah the ‘jax is bad bc he let his disability make him bitter’ reading is. hm #especially when it’s presented like a rebuttal to ‘theodore and finn are ableist’ mfhfjc #ok but that’s worse dot jpg