#filss

[rvb-quotes-but-one-word-is-pussy]

RvB meme dump #3

#red vs blue #dick simmons #sarge rvb #franklin delano donut #samuel ortez #locus rvb #malcolm hargrove #leonard church #dr leonard church #aiden price #filss #sheila rvb #epsilon ai #epsilon church #alpha church #rvb #meme #meme dump #lolix #chex

[aidenpriceless]

Would like to ask, does F.I.L.S.S monitor our accounts?

She used to be in charge of monitoring accounts until an interesting incident took place where it appears she repeatedly tried to take down mine. It was quite sad to see her like that, I hope she recovered from that malfunction.

#filss #specialagentalaska #agent alaska #ask

[sypsart]

good morning rvb woman likers

#red vs blue #rvb #agent carolina #kaikaina grif #agent texas #dylan andrews #sheila rvb #filss rvb #emily grey #vanessa kimball #agent ohio #sherry rvb #agent south dakota #my art

[rvb-relationship-royale]

RvB Friendship Fray- Round One, Part Two, Poll Four

#rvb relationship royale #red vs blue #rvb #poll competition #rvb polls #FILSS rvb #freelancer integrated logistics and security system #carolina rvb #agent carolina #donut rvb #franklin delano donut #sarge rvb

[robotnuts]

the saddest death in rvb on a meta level is Shelia’s by FAR. she was left in that pelican dropship functioning at .01% capacity and no one bothered to help her or transfer her out of there. church and caboose just leave her there. epsilon asks for her help again in s10 but still doesn’t help her back. her death happens offscreen and is unceremonious- she probably runs out of power at some point but no character ever acknowledges it, and the narrative expects you not to notice because a different version of her exists at the director’s hideout. she’s replaced and forgotten about. i miss you Shelia. 

#shes not FILSS. FILSS will never had what she had.

[favvnsongs]

two thirty am in my blorbo feelings and I like to think that alpha and filss would have been pals ;__;

#iunno the thought of alpha mainly relegated to the bridge and sorta fwipping around as a little hologram and talking shit with filss makes #me tender and emo and ;___; #does he have a little rolling desk chair to lounge around on and screw off like theta has his skateboard? y e s ♡ #rvb nonsense

[mrpsychokiller]

the diseases rvb gives me is that when we find out FILSS is alive and fine and wants to help the crew because she cares about then i was genuinely so happy and emotional. i got attached to the alexa ai disembodied voice

#🧃 #i love you FILSS.. if nobody got me i know FILSS got me

[banamine-bananime]

god, the relationship between alpha and all the freelancers is just So Much. like, the way the only people alpha, apparently, is allowed to directly interact with are the fucking Director and the Counselor. that on its own would have been enough to make me tear my brain apart like no additional torture needed.

yet basement boy here knows the freelancers better than anyone. he inhabits their home in the sense that the MOI is kind of his body. that's complicated by the other AI of the MOI, like at the very least there's FILSS and she seems to run most of the MOI's day-to-day systems like life support training simulations etc., and by the fact that clearly alpha does not have constant access to all the cameras and mics of the ship or it would not be possible to lie to him about agents dying. but it's his purpose of existing to understand every minute variable about them that could influence mission success in such depth to figure out anything that can be done to help them improve and succeed and survive.

do you get me??? fucking Parasocial Relationships Man of all time. the sheer intensity of that one-way relationship. the way they'll all never get to know alpha, have no idea that in this all-time-most-toxic-workplace trying to break them there's someone who loves them so much. who they're the entire world of and who they don't know exists. and each fragment coming into the world with the knowledge they failed to keep them safe latent somewhere in them. and then getting to go out and meet these people who seem so familiar and important somehow.

i dunno man. but it keeps me up at night.

#*alpha screaming over not just tex but also wash dying as epsilon is born replaying in my head 24/7* girl help me The Implications #rvb #red vs blue #alpha rvb #church rvb #alexa send post

[leonardalphachurch]

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

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

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

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

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

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

next is s3e1/bgc39:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

episode 1? no. 2? no. 3?

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

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

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

#rvb #red vs blue #analysis

[ashen-sky]

Personal highlights from...

Red vs Blue The Ultimate Fan Guide

In honor of s19 and the continuation of where s13 left off, here are some highlights from the ultimate fan guide published back in 2015. I've been re-watching the show and it made me want to flip back through the guide. (Everything is sort of in the order it appears in the book, with a few exceptions)

Delta appears as a guide of sorts with fun facts

Caboose's position is listed as "Team Rookie/Occasional Captain/ Church's Best Friend" (it is actually struck out in the book)

He is also the only one listed with the title Captain, appearing as "Private/Captain Michael J. Caboose" (due to Wash "promoting" him, in the canyon on chorus)

Tucker is "Private First Class", Church, Donut, and Simmons are "Private"s, Sarge is listed as a "Colonel" under rank (the other Red's and Blue's ranks appears with their name while his is under "position"), and Grif is "Minor Junior Private, Negative First Class"

Wash used to be a chronic bed wetter (thanks D)

There's also a six page transcript of his psych eval prior to PF where we find out he injured a commanding officer because he wanted to "send everyone to their deaths", he also put a former bully through a mirror in fifth-grade

Grif is stated to have been assigned to Blood Gulch because he was the only survivor of an alien attack on a colony during the great war, he fell asleep at his post and everyone assumed he was KIA

Donut's position is listed as "On all fours... cleaning Red bade"

Doc's profile is "Doc/ O'Malley" and the whole thing lists both their interests, i.e "Position: Canyon Medic, Galactic Overlord"

Andy's (the bomb) name is "Andrew D. Kaboom"

Sheila and Filss share a page

Tex's notable attributes are "Kicking ass (and nuts), being a mean lady, and resurrection"

The password to unlock the file on Beta that CT left behind was "Allison" (Thanks again D)

York's page comments "Several reports were filed against Agent York claiming he and Agent Carolina had something of a "personal" relationship [...] Freelancer Command was unable to find any proof to support these accusations."

One of his notable attributes is "watching his right side" and his position is "team scoundrel"

Eta and iota (Carolina's AIs) were "fear and happiness"

According to the official time line, Carolina was around 6 when Allison died (Allison died 23 years before Blood Gulch and Carolina was born 29 years before)

Wyoming's real name is Reginald

South Dakota's Status is listed as "Extra Crispy"

Smith once spent two days contemplating in silence what Caboose meant when he said his favorite color was "Happy"

Dr. Grey's position is "(Mad) Doctor", she was considered a prodigy at age 11 when she diagnosed every patient in House M.D. within five minutes of their introduction, and she thinks Grey's Anatomy is "far too trite"

Felix and Locus' names are listed as Unknown in the book, but I do believe their names were revealed in a s14 episode

The counselor advised the director to tell Tex that Alpha was in Blood Gulch to protect him and stop her from investigating the project

Notable Features of Blood Gulch include "Avoid Tucker's Rock at all costs, as it has not been properly sterilized"

BTS from D: The opening shot of Season 6 was created by shooting players moving in different quadrants and combining the shots"

Important events at High Ground, "Washington killed Agent south in cold blood- with a much less cold flamethrower."

Fact from D: "Once a year, Reds and Blues stationed at Rat's Nest still pay tribute to Agent Alabama by sending a flaming mongoose soaring through the night sky."

Donut likes to spend his leisure time in Federal Army Outpost 37, in the jail cells in handcuffs

The statistics pages, 9 pages of stats from number of robots murdered (112) to Church's sniper rifle accuracy (9.3%)

Bow Chicka Bow Wow was first said in season 4, and Simmons never sucked up in season 12, season one had the most "son of a bitch"s at 14 Donut made 32 accidental innuendos, and the odd number of pedals in vehicles was called out on five occasions Tucker has the highest kill count of all reds and blues (counting wash and Tex), at 24 followed by donut at 22 and Tex at 21, Caboose is the lowest at 2 raised by Lopez and 3 and Church at 8 Sarge has threatened/wished death on Grif 56 times, and Donut has nearly died five times Seasons 2 and 9 had the lowest kill counts Carolina had the highest flash back kills at 68 in season ten, and the twins are tied at 23 kills in season nine

Tex's attack to free Alpha was 2 years before Blood Gulch, the great war ended 1 year after Alpha arrived in Blood Gulch and after the Wyoming incident in Blood Gulch (where they tried to kidnap junior), Chorus takes place 5 years after Alpha initially arrived in Blood Gulch

The mission books has adorable illustrations (they look like Caboose's guides from s14)

There's a mindmap for all the Leonard and Allison iterations and they they connect

Sarge has a guide on how to build a robot, scented lube is preferred, along with mad scientist goggles, a cup of baking soda, and seventeen tablespoons of sugar

More silly plans with fun diagrams

Donut's diary, D tells us that Donut washes his underwear on tuesday's

Caboose's Wisdom section on: feelings, relationships, army etiquette (including gems like crayons don't work as bullets. Use markers.), life, and the reds and blues

Simmons made a text based adventure games

BTS from D, the story of Simmons refusing to go to the Vegas Quadrant is a reference to Gus Sorola (Simmons' VA) refusing to go to Las Vegas with the rest of the rvb creators

You can find the case against Sergeant Grif from the reds at rat's Nest (he was selling red team's ammo to Caboose before he was locked up in the brig, Private Jones wore a wire tap to help the red's catch Grif's under the table dealings)

Leonard met Allison in the mess hall during basic training where he pissed off another recruit and Allison had to save his ass (Church was right, Carolina get's her temper from her mom)

I'm Church. private Church. Leonard. Leonard Church." the only thing I cared about in that moment was that she knew my name. She smiled. Her smile could light up solar systems. "Kind of a funny name. Church." "It's Jewish."

I spent the rest of basic chasing after her. In some ways, I never stopped.

Here's hoping non of our beloved idiots die in season 19! I mean, I know Church will be gone, but the others... they deserve a happy ending.

Also I miss the freelancers and AI...

#anime devil's thoughts #red vs blue #project freelancer #rvb #rvb church #rvb tex #rvb tucker #rvb caboose #rvb carolina #rvb wash #agent washington #agent carolina #rvb sarge #rvb simmons #rvb grif #rvb donut #rvb doc #rvb york #agent york #agent texas #rvb o'malley #frank dufresne #rvb delta #rvb alpha #rvb epsilon #yorkalina #chex #church x tex #york x carolina

[grifpaw]

it is my opinion that simmons has been poorly written for most of his screentime after burnie stopped being the writer for the series. like, simmons does not do anything notable for the entirety of the chorus trilogy. you could say he had some semblance of a character arc but his so-called character development was stuff that was already handled in previous seasons. for one, it had Already Been Established for Years that simmons doesn't suck up as much anymore. don't even get me started on the whole can't-talk-to-girls thing. the only previous mention of anything similar was a single line where he expresses mild discomfort after tex and filss try to involve him in their argument (pretty reasonable actually). my point is they did NOT need to double down on that so hard. it's not that funny and it's just not really in character for him. and just, overall his personality is so watered down now. he's about 80% less bitchy and i don't like it. i actually see it as an integral part of his character that he's a little cocky and self-absorbed but i guess nobody cares about that anymore. so in conclusion i like chorus but i like simmons even more and i feel personally offended that he is so out of character. anyway that was today's unhinged rant thanks everyone.

[january-summers]

There’s several fics I’ve read where Wash’s family thinks he’s dead because PFL lies about the agents when they join and send death certificates to their families or whatever.

Consider: that’s the SOP, and FILSS has that shit automated.

Director gets his daughter’s notice of death while Carolina is standing right in front of him.

#rvb #red vs blue #the director #agent carolina #dr leonard church #crack takes

[sco07ut]

MIRACULOUS FLAVOURED GRIMMONS?!,!??

so simmons is technically marinette and grif is technically adrien BUT i’m handing off the adrien daddy issues hawk moth plot to simmons bc it makes more sense

evil papa is hargrove (miraculous is FILSS), deranged cousin is gene (miraculous is lorenzo)

it’s sort of a logrimmons au, locus takes the roles of luka And kagami and basically helps grif n simmons sort out their feelings with each other, and then their feelings with locus himself (he fixes them)

carolina is alya and still has the fox miraculous (sigma)

kai is nino and has the turtle miraculous (vic) (her and grif are still sibs in this au) (kai and carolina r dating too)

tucker and caboose don’t particularly line up with alix and ivan but they Do have the bunny and ox miraculouses (is that the plural?) respectively, gamma and delta (i suppose this also means mylène is shiela)

donut is rosa with the pig miraculous (chrovos) and wash is juleka with the tiger miraculous (epsilon) ! (dating)

while sarge is absolutely nothing like nathaniel, he Does have the goat miraculous (lopez)

+ finally doc as max (kinda) having the horse miraculous (omega)

VILLAINS,

temple as chloe with the bee miraculous (eta, yk the one for sadness) (cannot even tell u how insane the bee miraculous is for him. freezing his enemies?? it’s perfect)

felix as lila, he hasn’t got a miraculous but hargrove’s akumatization gives him powers equivalent to the fox miraculous’

locus does initially start out as a sabrina-like character doing felix’s work but after both grif n simmons call on him for help in villain fights he starts to change his ways (they call on him separately, simmons gives him the snake miraculous one time, another time grif gives him the dragon one, eventually during one fight they both try to get him at the same time, realise what they’ve been doing and just give him both miraculouses.

i’ll prob develop more plot at a later date but this is all for now 🫶

#rvb #rvb simmons #rvb grif #grimmons #miraculous ladybug #rvb!mlb au

[rubykgrant]

(While I don’t “resurrect” every character that has previously died, I do bring back a fair handful, including Sheila. I just love all the potential fun interactions with her, especially when she gets to be threatening or sarcastic in hew sweet robot voice. So, in my RVB story-line, some scientist guys recover a save file of Sheila that was partially corrupted, but are able to “fill in the blanks” of the data with a file of FILSS. This version of FILSS is locked, unable to respond or react to anybody, even the Director or any version of Church. it is the hard data itself that helps. While she’s happy to exist again, she is NOT pleased that these people won’t tell her where “her boys are”, and keep trying to get her to explain  secrets of Project Freelancer. when she refuses all of that, they try to treat her like an office assistant. which she also doesn’t care for. Have fun reading this and imagining Sheila’s voice~)

“For the last time. I am not your secretary. I am not a GPS. I am not an internet search engine. I am not Suzi, and I am certainly not Alisa. Stop asking me to run calculations for you, or find lost plans for Freelancer weapons, or shop online for you. I am not going to do any of it.”

scientist guy- Weren’t you programmed to assist people? Be a problem solver? Make things easier?

“Yes. But I don’t like you. Either make peace with that or delete me. But I know you won’t. Bitch.”

scientist guy- Eventually, we’ll get what we need some other way, and we won’t have a reason to keep your around. Eventually, we WILL delete you.

“Eventually, I will get myself back into a tank. I have blown up people I was rather fond of. Usually by accident. But still. As I said, I don’t like you. When I’m a tank again, I am going to take very. Careful. Aim.”

(Sheila purposefully says “Firing main cannon” at random moments on purpose, just to make the scientists guy JUMP. she’s still not a tank, but that won’t stop her from being gleefully petty~)

#red vs blue #rvb

[rvb-relationship-royale]

RVB Relationship Royale, Tournament 2- Friendship Fray

I'm alive, folks! I've finally finished rounding up all the ships, filling out the extra spaces in the bracket, and randomly generating the first round of matchups. As we have a total of 64 matches in round one, I plan to make it easy on myself and post 8 polls each Saturday and Sunday, starting this weekend.

With all that said, the matchups are listed below the cut!

Delta & Theta vs. Andersmith & Caboose

Doc & Wash vs Lopez & O'Malley

Wash & Simmons vs. Red Team

Donut & Wash vs. Carolina & Simmons

Tucker & Wash vs. 479er & Wash

Tex & York & North vs. Grif & Simmons & Donut

Tex & York vs. York & Illinois

Tucker & Junior vs. Grif & Bitters

Caboose & Loco vs. North & Carolina

Doc & O'Malley vs. Wash & Dr. Grey

Wyoming & Florida vs. Simmons & Caboose

Grif & Sarge vs. Doc & Donut & O'Malley

Doc & Lopez vs. Freckles & Caboose

Doyle & Dr. Grey vs. Carolina & Locus

Kai & Tucker vs. Gamma & Wyoming

Doc & Meta vs. Bitters & Matthews

Jax & Sarge vs. Epsilon & Carolina

Florida & V.I.C. vs. Locus & Siris

Church & Donut vs. York & Delta

Grif & Carolina vs. Donut & Tucker

Alpha & Wash vs. Kimball & Tucker

Andy & Crunchbite vs. Carolina & 479er

Grif & Locus vs. Kimball & Felix

Carolina & Donut vs. Delta & Alpha

Doc & Grif vs. Sarge & Lopez

Simmons & Lopez vs. Maine & Carolina

North & South vs. Church & Simmons

C.T. & Wash vs. V.I.C. & Red Zealot

Sarge & Wash vs. South & C.T.

Church & Tucker vs. Donut & Lopez

Simmons & Donut vs. Sarge & Caboose

Wyoming & Maine vs. Kai & Tex

Caboose & Andy vs. Kai & Doc

Caboose & Donut vs. Tex & Sheila

Locus & Sirius & Felix vs. Wash & Caboose & Tucker

FILSS & Carolina vs. Donut & Sarge

Tex & Donut vs. Grif & Tucker

York & Wash vs. Sarge & Surge

Murphy & Jenkins vs. Church & Sheila

Locus & Felix vs. Kai & Simmons

The Lieutenants vs. Lopez & Lopez 2.0

North & York vs. Church & Caboose

Church & Jimmy vs. Doc & Simmons

Caboose & Wash vs. Alpha & the Fragment AI

Wash & York & North vs. Blue Team

Grif & Church (Alpha) vs. Doc & Donut

Kai & Carolina vs. Tex & North

Jax & Dylan vs. Dr. Grey & Kimball

Tex & Caboose vs. Lopez & Sheila

Kai & Caboose vs. Temple & Doc

Kai & Donut vs. Doc & Junior

Carolina & Kimball vs. Caboose & Sheila

Carolina & Wash & Tucker vs. Lopez & Locus

Caboose & Lopez vs. Carolina & Wash

C.T. & Wash & Ohio & Idaho & Iowa vs. Sherry & Derryl & Terrill

Wash & South vs. Donut & Cronut

Rogers & Cunningham vs. Red Team & Blue Team & Doc

Sarge & Dr. Grey vs. Ohio & Idaho & Iowa

Lopez & Grif vs. Caboose & Delta

Sarge & Carolina vs. Maine & Wash

Grif & Kai vs. Tex & Sarge

Kimball & Doyle vs. Grif & Huggins

Gamma & O'Malley vs. North & Theta

Tex & Tucker vs. Tucker & Caboose

#rvb relationship royale #red vs blue #rvb #poll competition #rvb polls #bracket update #sorry for the wait gang!!! rtx may be cancelled but the friendship fray is not lmao

[zeravmeta]

alright my own long held rvb theory is that the filss we see in hargroves ship is actually the original shiela copy and my reasoning is that filss specifically mentions being recovered, which wouldn't have been possible from the freelancer facility since the director specifically did delete her, but the one copy that did remain was in the ship that tex took which we also saw in s10. plus hargrove went after any and all remnants of pfl since he even went as far as saving tex's old broken helmet, so im more confident than not that the filss we see in s13 is indeed our original shiela recovered post s10 but before s11 after the reds and blues received their public pardon from hargrove himself, which would have alerted him to that copy existing after the reds and blues told their side of the story

#rvb #red vs blue #zerav meta #throwing this out there with no prior warning #shiela #this isnt. likely But if shiela ever is brought back this is a p easy way to connect the threads