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bittiblakebelladonna · 1 year

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Songs that are RWBY songs to me

A whole 4 people said they wanted this. This is really gonna show you which characters I think about most lmao

Rivers in the Desert (Lolia)

Winter Schnee in Atlas in V7-8? This is her song, especially in that V8 fight against Ironwood.

Training Montage (The Mountain Goats)

This is Neopolitan post V3, specifically the time between the V3 finale and when we see her again in V6, bonus if you think about the very end as V9 right at the end of ch8

World Burn (Taylor Louderman, Mean Girls)

Cinder Song Ever. Plus you can replace Kady with Ruby every time. It's fun.

See The Day (The Althogether)

Ruby Rose at the end of V9 would maybe cry if she heard this song but in a good way

Honeybee (Steam Powered Giraffes)

It's bumbleby you already know

Special Girl (Dodie)

Pyrrha Nikos really was doomed before she began, wasn't she? This is just Her Song

You're Not Welcome (Naethan Apollo)

This is a Yang Song, and it reminds me of both her fights with Neo and Adam, in which she didn't fare so well the first time around, but came back to fight them again

The Greatest (They Might Be Giants)

Jaune song.

World Spins Madly On (The Weepies)

This is simultaneously a Taiyang losing Summer song and a V4 Yang losing Blake song. They understand each other. And it works well with the song being a duet, just listen to it, you'll understand.

Hummingbird (The Weepies)

This is such a Nora song about her and Ren, and I love it and her and them dearly

I'd Rather Sleep (Kero Kero Bonito)

This is just RWBY: Ice Queendom. The whole thing. In one song.

Candle Queen (Ghost and Pals)

I lied earlier THIS is the Cinder Song Ever, like I'm not kidding THE most Cinder Fall song to ever exist it's literally her

So Alright, Cool, Whatever (The Happy Fits)

We can have a Sun pining after Blake but letting her go and wanting her to be happy song. As a treat.

Be Nice To Me (The Front Bottoms)

I was very neutral on Emercury as a ship until I heard this song and realized the first half is Emerald and the second half is Mercury and now I feel things about them, although this can also work for them platonically as well

P.U.N.K Girl (Heavenly)

This is bumbleby Yang is SO p.u.n.k girl coded and Blake loves her so much

Despair (leo.)

Whiterose song. Weiss is so scared to be in love that she denies that shit so hard. The lady really DOTH protest too much.

Clover (Louie Zong)

Too easy, it's a Fair Game song, but like, it's PERFECT

The Family Jewels (MARINA)

Schnee children, no explanation needed.

Christmas Kids (Roar)

This is Ozlem energy and you cannot tell me otherwise, their whole backstory, it's here

Partners in Crime (Set It Off)

THE Gelato/Pumkin Spice Ice Cream/whatever you want to call Roman and Neo song

Ghost of Chicago (Noah Floersch)

We can have a Qrow pining after Summer song but letting her go and wanting her to be happy. As a treat.

DEATH OF A PREDATOR (Banshee)

I have both versions of this song on my RWBY vibes playlist bc fuck Adam all my homies hate Adam, I'm not saying he deserved it (just kidding, I'm absolutely saying he deserved it)

Kids (Current Joys)

I just want all these children to be happy. That's all this song is for.

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thebreakfastgenie · 2 years

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I don't even go here (westwing) but I would love to hear your analysis of how they screwed up each character in the later seasons :O

Okay so the thing is I haven't rewatched the later seasons in full in a long time, so I'm working from here! If I ever make myself watch them (which I probably will because I have a friend who's watching the whole show for the first time) I can make additions/corrections.

First I want to say that an underlying issue with a lot of this is they kept adding to the cast, which left less and less time for any real growth or development for the original cast. I like the new characters like Kate and Annabeth and of course Santos and Vinick, and I even like the recurring characters on the Santos campaign, but I think adding that many characters was a mistake.

Will is kind of a gimme. He's just a completely different character. He's less idealistic and more ambitious and honestly kind of a jerk. Because he was only in about half a season before Sorkin left, this Will ends up being the majority of who Will is, which is a shame.

Bartlet is probably the least screwed. He does feel a little different to me, which I think inevitable with the writer change, but he's fine. He actually gets a pretty good storyline, with the MS. I dislike how his marriage is handled in season 5, but that's more to do with how they screwed up Abbey. He does suffer a little from being out of focus in the last couple seasons, but I think that was to a large extent unavoidable. Bartlet kind of checking out from the presidency after Zoey's kidnapping also makes sense, although I think Leo should have tried to snap him out of it a lot sooner. And firing Leo didn't seem right.

Charlie is a mess because they had no idea what to do with him, but to be entirely fair, neither did Aaron Sorkin. Dulé Hill was criminally underused all seven seasons. Keeping Charlie in the White House well after he'd outgrown the personal aide role was a challenge, I get that, but in season 6 Josh, Donna, and Will were all allowed to leave the White House. Why not let Charlie leave as well? He could even have joined one of the campaigns. Charlie and Zoey rekindling was nice and I consider them endgame but like most of the relationships in the last season, they had so little screen time to develop that it felt a little out of left field.

CJ being chief of staff is a fun girl power moment but I've come to like it less and less. Before the Bartlet campaign, CJ had only worked for statewide campaigns. Become White House Press Secretary was a big deal for her. The reason I used to like her promotion is that she spends so much of the early seasons proving to the boys' club that she knows what she's talking about. But the fact is that CJ's skillset is not the chief of staff skillset. She has different, vital skills that deserve more respect and appreciation and I would like to see her continue to use those skills. I also think CJ being chief of staff was as much about the surprise twist as elevating a female character and honestly those are both bad reasons to do it (but the latter is understandable). They had to spend a whole episode making Josh and Toby act more incompetent than usual to justify giving it to CJ and it still didn't work for me. So many of CJ's interesting stories came from her working with the press. CJ taking on the communications director role could have been interesting, but not chief of staff. I think she just loses a lot of dimension. That being said, CJ is one of the least screwed up characters in the later seasons.

Abbey is complicated. Her reaction to Zoey's kidnapping is believable, but disappointing. The kidnapping storyline was a lot more interesting to me before she started blaming Jed. Also, while like I said it's believable that her emotions from that situation would affect her view, the Abbey we knew would not be angry with Jed for making a top secret foreign policy decision without consulting her. This is also a bit wrapped up in how annoying I am that they ended up tying the kidnapping to Sharif. I blame Sorkin for this as much as anyone because he had an ending in mind and didn't tell anyone. After that, Abbey's return to the White House and eventual reconciliation with Jed is just kind of glossed over. If they were going to put them at odds like that they at least needed to deliver a more satisfying conclusion. And Abbey working at a clinic and dodging questions about her suspended medical license just feels clumsy. Again, I love seeing her return to medicine and the storyline of the possibility press issues that can cause is great, and I would believe her feelings about her medical license changed, but it's never explored so it just feels thrown together.

Donna is probably controversial but I hate what they did to her. She's a completely different character and she lacks all the things that made her unique and fun. She becomes a generic political operative. Maybe she's a badass, but she's not Donna. She's missing Donna's idealism and also her quirks. It's also not actually character development. If it were character development, we would see a journey of growth. Donna is handed a very high ranking job on the Russell campaign, which is ridiculous. It was probably only done to keep her near Will, but it's bad writing. Donna having a high ranking job on a fledgling campaign like Santos might be believable, but Russell is the frontrunner. Donna has a lot of experience, but most of it is unofficial. Her entire resume is being an assistant and she doesn't have a college degree. Which is also why I dislike the statement that she outgrew her job three years ago. She didn't. She is maybe starting to outgrow it, but it also wasn't Josh's job to find a promotion for her. Donna's role in the show was always complicated, but showing how much vital work assistants do and how smart they are was a great element that's completely lost by basically saying that job is beneath someone like Donna. I would have liked to see Donna actually take control of her own destiny and work her way up. Let her confront that she gave up her education for a man, and then got a new start and built a life for herself but maybe allowed herself to stagnate a little for another man. You can still have the conflict between Josh and Donna without Donna unfairly resenting Josh, and it would actually make his feeling betrayed more personal.

Josh is another one who's handled relatively well, but I still think they missed some of the complexities of the character. Testosterone poisoned Josh test-driving a hummer and destroying a prius is funny, but it's a bit too much. Josh isn't that kind of a buffoon. He just falls down a lot. Josh being the one to say the president invoking the 25th was a mistake makes sense in some ways, but I think it's the first example of Josh being written as a little too cold and calculating. He's just... not very nice sometimes. He always had moments where he was a jerk, but it's more than that, somehow. To this end, the Dotty Baker storyline at the convention makes me furious. I honestly believe Josh would suggest leaking Dotty's mental health history in that moment, because he's desperate to win, but he would feel like shit about it later. There's a really interesting story there, but they don't tell it! They just forgot that he has PTSD. Which is funny, because a lot of what's off about him in those seasons could be explained by him ditching therapy when he starts the Santos campaign and his mental health subsequently deteriorating. He's also written as more of a screw-up. Not making him chief of staff makes sense if Leo wanted him to be free to go get the next guy (which would be in-character for Leo!) but it's not really explained and again, follows an episode of him and Toby acting like idiots for no reason, contributing to a larger pattern of Josh's competence being downplayed. He does have moments of competence too, though, so this might just be my memory failing me here. I don't like how he's written vis-a-vis Donna when they finally get together because whether he's ready to commit or not seems to change based on the scene. His loyalty to and love for the other characters gets lost a lot when he spends less time with them which is an issue because that's central to his personality.

Leo is just... mean. He is mean to Josh and basically everybody else in season 5. I get the idea is he's stressed because Bartlet is checked out but it really just doesn't feel like Leo. And then his fight with Bartlet. Again it seems like they understood one aspect of Leo, that he's intimidating and takes his role seriously, and just... missed his fun-loving human side and a lot of his complexities. I mean, bringing in Angela to do secret polling numbers... what even was that? I also think the cast shakeup in season 6 was a mistake. There wasn't much to do with Leo once he left the White House. Making him Santos's running mate doesn't make a lot of sense, except on an emotional level for Josh. Santos agreeing to that is... strange. Leo has never held elected office. He was Secretary of Labor, but aside from that his entire career has been as a staffer or in the private sector. He has recent scandals related to both his history of addiction (and he was using drugs while in the cabinet, so it's not just a personal thing) and Bartlet's MS, which you'd think the Democratic Party would want to distance themselves from as much as possible. He's recently had a serious heart attack and left his position a chief of staff as a result. Leo gets some fun stories as a candidate and he's much better than he was in season 5, but it's kind of a mess.

Toby... oh, Toby. Obviously the main thing is the leak storyline that never happened, but there's also everything else. Toby being an absent father does not fit with season 4 at all. I'm constantly baffled by that decision. Toby's desire to play more of a policy role in season 5 before Will jumps ship is interesting mostly because Toby was already doing that. Obviously his focus is communications but he was always part of policy meetings and advised the president directly on issues. Maybe the writers were basing his role more on what communications directors really did in the administrations they had experience with, I don't know, but they needed to stay consistent with Toby's job in the world of the show. And like everyone else he just... gets mean. He has these doom-and-gloom lines that make no sense (like his reaction to Vinick's announcement). He becomes so dark and angry. His anger at Josh makes no sense because all he'd done was belittle Santos as a candidate and insist he had no chance of winning, and then he got angry that Josh didn't invite him along? Also, before Bartlet, Toby had literally never won an election, because he picked candidates based on principles and refused to compromise. So Toby reacting that way to Santos is... odd. I'm not saying he needed to be onboard right away, but he should be the last person making the electability argument, or at the very least he should bring up his experience and discuss whether Democrats can afford to lose. The key to Toby, which they seemed to miss, is that his prickliness comes from a deep-seated belief that the world can be better than it is. Everyone and everything is constantly letting Toby down. The writers just didn't seem that interested in the character by season 7.

And what really, really gets me, is the actors definitely knew the characters better than this. I don't think they were given enough input. When I watch the episodes Bradley Whitford wrote, characterization-wise it feels like the old days. It's like they're back all of a sudden.

#not including Sam because he's only in a couple scenes in those seasons #i feel like this could be Better this is such an opportunity #so i reserve the right to do this better later #but here's a start #mash style table reads would have fixed this show

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riacte · 5 months

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not romantic not platonic but a secret third thing [what would happen between earth and the moon if the earth stopped spinning as illustrated by xkcd randall munroe]

#'your moon is here' things that make me explode like a supernova #UGHHHHHHH what if i was perpetually in your orbit. influencing the tides. protecting you from asteroids. and slowly drifting further away.#then you stopped moving and i was only pulse to your dead heart. orbiting you. right where ive been left. and so you started turning again.#ria.txt #personal #space opera au #(<- not about what you think is about)#hiiii this is gaining traction so glad we're all going insane :D your moon is here is SO fucked up. so good.#xkcd #randall munroe #space #moon #anyways xkcd comics are so good. entertaining witty and informative. check em out!

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leafie-draws · 6 months

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I think the biggest downside to having animal ears and a tail would be trying to mask your discomfort in public like imagine trying to play it cool in customer service but your tail keeps bristling

#leafie speaks #everytime someone talks to u and your fur does the ghibli hair thing #*ears pin back* sorry its just loud in here *starts hissing and spitting* oh shit haha sorry

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chromegnomes · 4 months

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the most frustrating thing about AI Art from a Discourse perspective is that the actual violation involved is pretty nebulous

like, the guys "laundering" specific artists' styles through AI models to mimic them for profit know exactly what they're doing, and it's extremely gross

but we cannot establish "my work was scraped from the public internet and used as part of a dataset for teaching a program what a painting of a tree looks like, without anyone asking or paying me" as, legally, Theft with a capital T. not only is this DMCA Logic which would be a nightmare for 99% of artists if enforced to its conclusion, it's not the right word for what's happening

the actual Violation here is that previously, "I can post my artwork to share with others for free, with minimal risk" was a safe assumption, which created a pretty generous culture of sharing artwork online. most (noteworthy) potential abuses of this digital commons were straightforwardly plagiarism in a way anyone could understand

but the way that generative AI uses its training data is significantly more complicated - there is a clear violation of trust involved, and often malicious intent, but most of the common arguments used to describe this fall short and end up in worse territory

by which I mean, it's hard to put forward an actual moral/legal solution unless you're willing to argue:

Potential sales "lost" count as Theft (so you should in fact stop sharing your Netflix password)

No amount of alteration makes it acceptable to use someone else's art in the production of other art without permission and/or compensation (this would kill entire artistic mediums and benefit nobody but Disney)

Art Styles should be considered Intellectual Property in an enforceable way (impossibly bad, are you kidding me)

it's extremely annoying to talk about, because you'll see people straight up gloating about their Intent To Plagiarize, but it's hard to stick them with any specific crime beyond Generally Scummy Behavior unless you want to create some truly horrible precedents and usher in The Thousand Year Reign of Intellectual Property Law

#hoped I was mostly done discoursing about this deeply annoying subject #but twitter's butlerian jihad is starting to pick up more and more steam on here

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dogmotif · 1 year

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yeah they dropped a new love language. yeah a sixth one. its biting

#ill start listening to people about the love language shit if they do this #also i expect to see buffyverse hannibal and iwtv tags here btw. i hope you guys will do your duty....#will speaks

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disconnected-dragon · 8 months

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“Could L have stopped Walter White”

“Could Benoit Blanc have stopped Kira”

Blah blah blah ENOUGH. We have to ask the real questions—

Could Saul Goodman get Light off? And barring that how much would Light’s sentence be reduced?

#death note #better call saul #saul goodman #light yagami #this started a war in my friend circle so we need answers here #i think saul could do it ngl

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1eos · 11 months

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the glorification of your 20s and fear of anything else has got to stop. mainly bc your 20s is quite literally the worst decade of your life the idea that ppl think you peak at 25 has me so sad for them

#in your twenties everything starts to go wrong and you have no experience yet so it's just #ego death after ego death #no way ppl think it's all down hill from here like how BLEAK

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allysketches · 1 month

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this drawing started off as tv crowley and aziraphale dressed like their book cover counterparts, but then I got carried away and it turned out... not being exactly that anymore 🤷🏻‍♀️

so... late 80s/early 90s au? (aka. literally the book lol)

#good omens #good omens fanart #aziracrow #aziraphale #crowley #anthony j crowley #crowley x aziraphale #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman #I wasn't even planning on posting this one #I just started drawing it randomly with no plan bc I wanted a new wallpaper for my phone lol #but I liked how it turned out #so here it is ✨#crowley looks like james bond meets mafia boss #and the idea of aziraphale dressed like a proper university professor in all but the sneakers is pretty funny to me #bc that's exactly how I dress irl 😶#also tumblr's image compression absolutely crushed the quality fml

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samble-moved · 9 months

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post itself

false flags

trans/adjacent tags

accessibility features

tumblr live post (thanks for the link, @problemnyatic)

flashing / strobing / lights

unblockable flashing ad

buying ad free

staff @/macmanx guilt trip

list of staff + more issues

#post nuked bc proshippers started insulting people who rbed this and implied partyjockers attempted to Kill staff? it was getting old so #archive links still under the cut if you want and you can rb this from others if you want the og #hint: if you dislike this post or want to debunk parts of it the way to go about it isn't to call people who've rbed it 'disgusting little #fuck ups' that are 'spreading anti shipper lies'#note: this post is and was Not about ship discourse jesus fucking christ proshippers get a grip #also ace discoursers are here too? this isn't about you either?#edit 2: if you send me an anon regarding this post about how im policing discussion or 'don't really want it'#but then stop replying when i answer your ask #maybe that's. not helping discussion?#i nuked this post as people started making up false accusations to smear people staff sniped. aka accusing someone of IRL ATTEMPTED MURDERS.

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tom-bakers-scarf · 9 months

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Spotted this in a second hand bookshop and the whiplash I felt was so strong that I think I’ve discovered another 12 stages of grief

#had a tumblr moment out in the wild #goncharov #it sent me into shock #plus it was under ‘collectibles’#started questioning my own sanity Jesus Christ I started wondering if someone on here had fucking narrated it and it had somehow reached #this tiny little village shop #the book itself is oblomov by Ivan goncharov btw

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miutonium · 7 months

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I need everyone to take this quiz right now and reblog what element they get

[EDITED: The link is dead but I'm happy to see everyone's result and reaction to this 💗]

#i dont see peoplw poating this here so i thought I should start it first #also the result I get is actually almost accurate??? crayyyzyyy #asuka speaks #reblog game #quiz

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pokimoko · 10 months

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I can't keep being fundamentally changed as a person by animated movies, it's just not sustainable.

#animation #animated film #animated movies #across the spiderverse #across the spider-verse #spiderverse #puss in boots #puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots 2 #nimona #nimona film #yes i'm posting this specifically because i just watched nimona and am feeling all kinds of things but really these are all PEAK TIER #the fact they have ALL been released within 7 months of each other...like...woah we are thriving right now #stylised animation with its own unique style reflecting the movie i love you forever kissing you on the mouth #films that make me ferally rip up any and all art blocks to shreds #and that's just the animation side of things #i won't get started on the plots. they also make me want to bounce off of walls #hugging all these close to my chest #as well as all the other great animated movies that exist because animation wins all catergories for me always #(let's not forget anime movies either; y'all are beautiful too! keeping 2d animation alive and i'm so here for it)

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tecochet · 11 months

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mary jane's husband and his boyfriend

#if i have the energy part 2 of this would be MJ having to comfort PB through his existential crush #spider man: across the spider verse #miguel o'hara #peter b parker #hello tumblr people #i'll start slowly posting stuff here too #mostly for archiving #so sorry if i'm not too responsive!#the @ in the comics are tecotit bc that's my twt side account and i didn't think i'd post it here woops #also twt locked me out of my tecochet acc for some reason #thanks elon........#teco draws

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hyper-vertebrate · 10 days

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hearing 'good boy, good boy, good boy, good boy' chanted breathlessly over and over while they're ruthlessly pounding you into the mattress. thats it thats the post

#also my first post i presume. Hi. i didnt know if i was going to start making posts of my own but y not #gonna figure out how to tag this somehow. Here comes ! ->#trans nsft #t4t nsft #t4t puppy #ftm puppy #ftm sub #ftm bottom #ftm nsft #mlm nsft #queer nsft

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mangozic · 1 month

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archivist be upon ye

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