#remains best girl

[powertaco]

I do have to agree with your confession about Volume 9 being the weakest.

It tries to hard at being "Symbolic", but the fact that even the confession between Yang and Blake had to be forced with death made it painfully obvious they were taking short cuts in writing. Couldn't have it be a simple talk under the stars? Had to do that? Are words so hard to say?

Every scene was kind of awkward. While the beginning was comedic and brought charm, the volume got more and more scene's that made people question some decisions.

I mean, we all know the one where Weiss and Yang were literal inches from Ruby, but they left her face down in the dirt. We all know what part of the fan base that awkward moment was directed at, and that's just mean, taking from the volume.

They see she's not fine, but efforts to do anything to help her were minimal. The scene from the Caterpillar smoke suggests everyone's now confident and strong, but the writers didn't allow them to let Ruby lean on them. When Yang was asking Ruby "Are you fine?", you could feel that Yang was restrained, wishing to do more, for the sake of the tea drinking scene.

That may be a characteristic thing for Ruby to not lean on people, but Weiss, Yang, and Blake know sadness and know it's not good to deal with it alone. Weiss had Klein, Blake had Sun, Yang had Tai. If the plot didn't need it, Ruby wouldn't have drunk the tea if her team was allowed to talk and comfort her. But ya know, writing decision of "none of them thought Ruby needed them."

Yang didn't confront her and stop her spiraling, which as Yang herself spiraled into depression after the fall of Beacon, you'd think she'd have experience with it.

Then characters felt absent from scenes even though they were right there in multiple instances, and all you have is 6-7 to work with, are you serious?

My worst gripe is Jaune tho. You're gonna blow up at Ruby, blaming her for everything, even though you know she's breaking right now. You're a grown ass man, and you're blaming a child for a village you've been trying to protect from itself, great to know you'll never mature.

And once again, the other 3 felt absent from this tantrum, who didn't interrupt it and let him continue yelling at the top of his lungs at Ruby. Forget what Neo did, in my opinion, she drank the tea because of Jaune.

And I wouldn't hate Jaune this much this volume of they simply acknowledge it. But no. Jaune gets the hugs, the reassurance, even after Ruby's "death". Come on Miles, you know better than to show favoritism for the character you voice.

This volume made it felt there was a lack of time to script, to focus group, to reconsider choices, to see if "that's what the character would do."

I know they wanted it to be special, and meaningful, and while I don't really care much about them the fact that they basically HAD to confess to solve the issue is that they didn't get to do it on their own. I know they wanted to end the series by having Bees be canon, but there were other ways to do imo, and like I said it just made me dislike canon bees because it showed that they focused essentially on only each other until Ruby drank the tea.

A very too little too late thing, and they don't seem to acknowledge that they got too caught up in each other or anything, and much like Ruby's mental issues are just kinda brushed aside.

We lose great storyboards of other partners who aren't bees interacting.

You really don't even have to ship WR to see that they're supposed to be canon best friends, and a single scene like this is not too much to ask.

We got an entire episode basically devoted to the bees, and loooots of jaune time, but we can't get a single scene elsewhere in the series for something like this to give the girl partners a chance to, you know, interact, or be meaningful.

I know there were problems but they knew going into it that this was likely it, and had years to work on it. This volume is exceptionally rushed.

One of the biggest problems I have with the show is that it's named RWBY, and there's so much character bloat, and even among the named cast the team barely interacts outside of their partners.

Ruby, and Blake interact more in her imagination in the Emerald Forest and the first episode of IQD than they do in most of canon.

Weiss and Blake trade a few catty remarks for fun in atlas,and despite supposing to be deuteragonists JNPR is largely just Jaune.

We don't get scenes of Ruby, Jaune, Nora, and some of the others playing games. Ruby, and Ren baking as Nora awaits her feast. Blake having a book club with Ruby, Weiss, Pyrrha, and Ren, or even working out with Yang, Nora, and Pyrrha.

It makes the relationships feel kind of hollow, and now that WR apparently forgot they're partners for most of the last 3 volumes I mean it's just the bees show really, and as I said V9 showed me their worst side. If you wanted to convert me you failed miserably.

I realize that's unpopular because as long as team bees win it's perfect, but I don't care if people don't like my opinion.

The bees deserved better than a forced confession, like rwby deserved a proper non rushed ending. (also side note wasn't jax lobotomized in the novel? So why break him out?)

To bring back your point yes it is annoying they leave Ruby in the dirt. People were saying they left Ruby in the recovery position which you know great, but that's doing the writers job for them. It wouldn't have taken much for Weiss to fret, and put Ruby in the position, or Yang while they talk to the others. It's like a first draft that needed another run over.

I know in the white void Ruby's first instinct is to call for Weiss, and Yang, and yet again for the sake of making her speedrun a breakdown everything conveniently works against her.

There's a game called Evil Within. Sequel is fun, but the 1st game has a goal of getting to the lighthouse. The issue is that you're inside the mind of another person so one moment you can go from a forest with the lighthouse in the distance to a closed house, then a medieval battlefield, and so on.

Essentially there's no sense of progression, or rules you can really enforce because of the setting.

Ever After bothers me for that reason. I understand it's fantastical, but without some rules there's no sense of urgency, or weight, or stakes to whatever actions can happen.

Could they open a random door, and Salem be there sipping coffee? It's EA so why not?

Ruby's mental breakdown and suicide don't matter because it's EA.

Side note Weiss you have glyphs put one over the teacup so she can't drink it. Of course your sister could have also used one to catch you too as you fell so maybe forgetting you can do that is a family thing. Hmmm, thoughts for later.

Jaune isn't in a great headspace. I don't like that he yelled at Ruby, but I do understand him snapping after decades alone, and venting his frustration. I mean I get pissed if my cat knocks out the ethernet cable. I don't scream at it, but it didn't cost me 20 years worth of effort either.

My point being that I agree that one of Ruby's teammates, especially her partner should have stepped in at that point, and many others to protect Ruby, or each other, and they don't.

They're not a cohesive team anymore. They're Bees who care about each other, and if they can bother to remember the others then the others.

Weiss is adrift with no arc AT ALL, , and reduced to comedy. I hate it. We have seen time, and time again that Weiss will have hard talks and yet now of all times she just can't? Must be those darn ever after rules making her suddenly not talk at all.

Jaune's...idk him returning to normal is boring because the idea of him needing to meet and interact with new peers and his friends despite being older is interesting, and hey older jaune meeting older jess in the JL P2 would have been pretty neat to see.

If we ever get a V10 you can bet he'll go right back to being the same old Jaune except he might sometime say something wise and nora might mock his gray hair. Yay what a waste.

I still would have prefered Nora falling so she can learn who she is away from Ren and he from her then when she was reunited in V10 they could be ready for a relationship.

Plus Nora would be well used to wearing a happy + mask so she'd actually talk to ruby or get mad weiss or none of the others were.

I will also accept maria jumping down after Neo screaming round two bitch, and somehow getting the dagger, and turning young. This would also be acceptable and make just as much sense as anything else in Ever After. You know I have to work it in there. Bonus, she wouldn't accept Ruby acting like that, and would confront her on it.

If Maria can handle Neo then she can handle a moody Ruby.

At any rate I'm rambling but yes Ruby got a team hug, and came back basically the same as ever (for real give her a semblance upgrade or power up she's fighting what's close to a god) except she's more confident.

Neat.

I know there's no victory in strength, but there's only defeat in weakness too so I meeeeean.

Idk just me though. Prob why Vol 8 time travel or fix it fics are so common. Just an easy pathway into them.

#rwby #rwby volume 9 #i still hate it #answering an ask and rambling #taco's rambling hour #maria calavera #remains best girl

[dirtytransmasc]

concept, cause the dynamics at play would be super interesting:

when Tuk and Neytiri are sucked into the hold of the Seadragon, what if Spider, unwilling to watch another one of this baby siblings, nor his siblings mother (despite everything cause he's a good kid), die without doing anything, jumps in after them?

they're now stuck in a flooding ship, spider knows his way around to a decent extent, they're all tired, they're all scared, they're all hurting. they have to depend on each other for survival.

Neytiri has to not only trust Spider, but has to follow his lead, has to trust him to guide her around a demon ship, has to untrust not only her own life, but the life of her youngest child to this boy.

Maybe they're separated, they have to find one another (my personal favorite scenario is that Tuk and Spider are together and he has to try and find her/guide Neytiri to him)

Spider taking Neytiri and Tuk's arms so they aren't separated by stray currents and raging waters (a parallel to "Sully's stick together"). Spider talking them through the breath holds he learned as a kid in case his mask malfunctioned before bringing them through the depths of the submerged ship (parallel to Jake and Lo'ak)

anyway. I just can't stop thinking about it. think about it.

Neytiri is faced with the fact that Spider jumped in after her and Tuk. he came for them, he put himself in danger to save them, to save her daughter. even after what she did to him. even after she held a knife to him, after she cut him, after she intended to kill him even after Kiri was released. he still jumped to her aid, even if he could have stayed with Kiri above deck where he was safe, he could have just aided Tuk and left her behind, but he didn't.

and there's so many ways to play with it and the aftermath. like.

Spider dragging both Tuk and Neytiri up the surface, trying his best to keep the trio afloat (namely Neytiri who was much less adjusted to the water and is exhausted by the night they've had) as they hope and pray to be reunited with the rest of their family.

maybe the stress gets to them and Spider just starts apologizing. I should have fought them harder. I shouldn't have let Lo'ak and Neteyam try and leave with me, I would have been fine. I should have seen it coming, should have taken it myself. it should have been me. my baby brother shouldn't be dead.

maybe he becomes partly delirious as he too gives into exhaustion, the big brother in him being the only part of him left coherent, so he takes Tuk close, whispering prrnen tsmuke [baby sister] over and over into her braids, assuring himself that she's safe and unharmed. he keeps praying to the Great Mother for his siblings to return to him unharmed. maybe he keeps asking where they are, if they're safe as his awareness fades and his memory weakens. all of his siblings. asking if Neteyam is ok, only to remember he's gone the second the words leave his tongue.

Jake and Lo'ak finding them when they come up with Payakan, both worse for wear, exhausted, clinging to one another, the only thing keeping their heads above water being spiders life vest, Tuk cradled between them. what a sight.

Neytiri watching as Spider looks over each of his siblings, taking them close, holding onto them as if they will be ripped away from him. the realization that he would die before he let that happen again hitting her like a ton of bricks the second she sees the look in his eyes.

a peace being made between the two in the wake of this event. spider silently claiming the role of big brother (he always was, but he had to pretend he wasn't. with Neteyam gone, he can't pretend he's not anymore), Neytiri silently agreeing.

idk man. it would be interesting.

#listen #I love them both so much #I just wanna give them both kisses on the head and a warm blanket and some peace and fucking quiet #Tuk too. my baby girl. oml #and I love putting them in Situations that test all of the patience and sanity that remains with them #its Fun ☺️ #(for me at least) #(they probably wouldn't agree) #forget about kiri for a moment. I love her. but I need her to play with her fishies (lovingly) and not interupt my favorite disaster duo #(trio if you count Tuk) #also. um. either Q's dead dead or be woke up from his little nap and dragged himself out of the boat. cause spidey ain't getting the chance #to find his ass in this situation. he's a bit busy being in a situation with the women who just tried to kill him. #😁👍 #idc if this ooc. I'm living my best delulu life. I haven't slept in days and these scenario is haunting my every thought. #avatar 2 #avatar the way of water #spider socorro #miles spider socorro #miles socorro #neytiri #neytiri te tskaha mo'at'ite #neytiri sully #tuk #tuk tuk #tuktirey #tuktirey te suli neytiri'ite #atwow

[lilpomelito]

girldads Steve and Eddie. their oldest looooves sports and she's crazy good at soccer (making auntie Robin proud). everyone would assume Steve would be her biggest fan (and he is!) but it's actually Eddie the one who's getting into loud arguments and even fights with all the other soccer moms. yes Jennifer your brat just kicked my baby on fucking purpose she has to get a red card this is so unfair and Steve has to drag him away to stop him from strangling another kid's parent. their girl loves the drama, she's kind of a queen bee who lives for her dad's crazy sense of theatrics.

and then their youngest wants to learn music and she starts with guitar because that's what's at home and Eddie is so proud of how quickly his baby is learning, then Steve teaches her what he remembers from his piano lessons. but she wants more, so she asks robin for trumpet lessons. but that's not enough she seems to be some kind of music savant and plays the violin next, and then the drums when she convinces Garreth to teach her. then she begs for oboe lessons. she's a little rascal stealing instruments from the school's music classroom. and you'll find Steve loudly arguing with the principal when she gets caught again, no I won't stop her, yes she has ten instruments at home but she wants to learn more, what kind of institution is determined to stagnate a kid's learning development? and Eddie has to rescue them both before his husband gets their child expelled from the expensive fancy school for gifted kids

#just Steve and Eddie very aggressively supporting their girls interests #because they know how awful it feels when your own parents don't give a shit about you #grandpa Wayne remains the best tho #steve harrington #eddie munson #steddie #stranger things #girldads steddie #mine

[hidingoutbackstage]

The problem with wanting to watch a lot of horror movies is that you do have to subject yourself to the bad ones. That’s also a positive of it though. But watch out

#sid rants #there’s good bad movies like basket case and slumber party massacre 2 and whatnot #and then there’s like. just some bad ones. bad acting that isn’t fun or plots that are confusing in an annoying way #and sometimes there’s just not enough good stuff to save it #watched starve and like. the concept was nothing new and the characters weren’t fun or interesting to watch and the best part #of the movie was the gore. but like that’s it #guy’s fingers get cut off? sure. woman gets stabbed in the face with scissors? okay. girl gets her brains eaten. fine. etc. #that was the most enjoyable thing #norman and nora were the best part of this movie obviously #this was mostly a way for me to complain about starve lol #post still remains true though lol

[bassguitarinablackt-shirt]

Salveria Ramel (she/her)

Represents the earth

Cisgender & unlabeled sexuality | 16, born July 7th

Cheerful, relaxed, unable to take things seriously, fun-loving, caring, generous, carefree, stubborn, imaginative, adventurous, anxious, reckless, charming, selfless, unable to take things seriously

On the school's swim team

Enjoys looking for cool rocks and bugs

Diagnosed ADHD & autism, undiagnosed depression and anxiety

5'3 with fair skin, warm light brown eyes, and curly, upper back length dyed turquoise hair that she often straightens | Experiments with style alot, partial to anything with fun patterns or colors

Represented by the songs:

Blue Hair - TV Girl

Little Soldiers - The Crane Wives

Struck by Lightning (feat. Cavetown) - Sarah Kays

#ashers writing rambles #oc intro #writeblr #original characters #writers on tumblr #salveria my beloved silly lil girl..... #you had blue hair and pronouns.... #you saw the best in a world that did nothing but hurt you..... #you welcomed death with open arms..... #you died before the story began yet you remain a constant presence.... #your death haunts the narrative..... #youre simultaneously the least and most plot important pdgg character.....

[5bi5]

And I'll say this: You can call it regular, but I call it classic! Youse may want your chips all dolled up and camera ready... I just want a chip to sit on the sofa with. Catch a flick. Shoot the breeze. But fuck it! Could be the first chip I ever had. And I'm not gonna turn my back on it. 'Cause it's never turned its back on me.

Dary, I know you go a long way back with the chip.

So do you.

So do I.

#i'm not normally a big dary/wayne shipper (at least not when my best girl rosie is in the room) but they had something going this ep #especially with dary and wayne making big emotional speeches about chips that were clearly tied to their relationships #AND wayne in the cold open being like 'hmm seems like i have a male friend who shall remain anonymous who might be into me' #anyways #letterkenny #lk #letterkenny season 11 #gif i was a cowboy

[rewritingcanon]

hermione is everything and ron’s just ken

#hermione is so barbie coded when u think on it she’s literally the wizard president #this was one of my otps when i was like 10 and ive cracked the code now that al my very old otps followed this trope #where the girl would be super duper talented and important and her bf is just her number 1 supporter #dont want to contribute to the ‘ron contributes nothing’ trope #its funny to me how ron went through this whole arc where he was insecure about being useless to the trio and then when hes an adult hes- #-totally fine with being hermione trophy husband. in fact he wears that honour with pride LOLL I LOVE THEM #like thats him being secure that he doesnt have to keep proving himself to anybody i love thag for him #romione will continue to remain the best ship in hp objectively #hermione granger #ron weasley #romione #harry potter #hp #golden trio era #lightning era #rewriting

[hersheyalmond]

Steve, to Nancy: I was thinking of dying my hair white

Nancy, confused: What why?

*The kids running around laughing while Eddie was screaming and chasing them in the meat aisle. Dustin yelling in the background to shut everyone up while he's on a broadcast date with Suzie by the fruit stands. Robin complaining about the snack prices in another aisle. Jonathan and Argyle, high on their minds trying to fit themselves in the freezer.*

Nancy:

Steve:

Nancy: Yeah and I think I should too

#parenting by steve harrington #steve harrington #steve is the best babysitter #steve is a single mom who works two jobs #steddie #ronance #byler #jancy #steve x eddie #nancy is a girl boss #nancy and steve shall remain friends #they're so chaotic #stranger things #incorrect stranger things quotes #incorrect texts #stranger things 4 #let's not ship steve and nancy anymore thank you #steveddie #bi icon steve #bi icon nancy #bi icons #lgbtq #dustin henderson #lucas sinclair #eleven #eleven stranger things #mike wheeler #will byers #max mayfield #eddie munson

[tgshydestan]

ok but can we all agree "mindless self indulgence" is a fucking banger band name. like. come on. thats so good

#mindless self indulgence #msi #yes. i am aware of all the problematic things they have done. you do not need to educate me #i am not defending any of their actions or slurs they have used that they cannot reclaim. they are one of my special interests. i could do #whole rant about how i do not support any of their actions but think their music is fire but im in science class right now and also a #fourteen year old white girl so im not the best person to speak on this #please do not attack me 💗 #lets just focus on how mindless self indulgence is a banger name ok #please remain civil y'all #ok rant over #this is going to get like 2 notes so this is probably not necessary but yk

[innytoes]

Okay, last one 🤭

“you’re like perfection (some kind of holiday)”

you’re like perfection (some kind of holiday)

Bobby hates Hallmark Movies. Every year the extended Shaw-Wilson clan got together and he was outvoted by his seven female cousins and he had to watch them.

Which is why he's so mad that he currently seems to be in one. After being sent to this tiny town by his boss to scope out some dinky December music festival for 'undiscovered talent', his rental gets stuck in a snowbank and he's literally rescued by a handsome Christmas tree farmer slash dog walker slash handyman slash math tutor. Who is cute. And full of joy and Christmas spirit. And perfect.

And maybe Bobby doesn't discover the Magic of Christmas, but he does discover his perfect Hallmark Dreamboat is an amazing country singer. The question is, what's he going to do about it?

Fake Fic Ask Game

#julie and the phantoms #bobbyxreggie #fanfic #fake fics #as scene breaks there's texts between Bobby and Carrie where Bobby is a grinch who is big mad about this hallmark au experience #and Carrie is LIVING FOR IT and making fun of him #until she steps up and becomes the cliché girl best friend(/cousin) character who tells Bobby to follow his heart #not sure if the ending would be cliche hallmark or Reggie is like: THANK FUCK A REAL JOB AND I GET TO GO TO THE CITY???? CAN MY DOG COME??? #you think I like working ten odd jobs? fuck no I'm poor as shit! #but he remains bubbly and perfect and full of christmas spirit 10 years later when they get married in Smalltown Christmasville #yes it's a winter wedding #hallmark au #I wrote a thing

[royallylk]

Why are girls so obsessed with bad guys?!?!

#i mean #i hate them #giving these major narcissisitic vibes #why #not every girl will fall for them ok #they feel they r ultimate gods #NO #best guys r those who know how to talk to a #girl #modesty? manners? #they'll forever remain 'that guy' and not a #not a man #:) #ranting bcz one is sitting beside me #dark academia #desiblr #lk answers #desi tumblr #desiblr community #desi #desi tag #life

[alwaysahiccupandastrid]

Nick Nelson is a better person than me because if I got sat next to Ben Hope for GCSE Study hall and he started trying to talk to me about my boyfriend, I’d have beaten the shit out of him 💀

#heartstopper #nick nelson #ben hope #anyway fuck Ben and fuck David #Nellie remains the BEST girl 🐶

[boltgunkiller-archive]

well you can hate fabrevans but let’s not pretend that lucky wasn’t the cutest duet ever

#juno speaks #however: sancedes should’ve won the duet competition. don’t twist this #i think quinn’s a lesbian. but sam was definitely her comphet crush #she used finn and … well you know what happened with puck 🙂🖕 so those don’t really seem like comphet #finn was quinn’s version of trying to fit into the american teenage dream & be the perfect girl #but i think quinn genuinely did want to like sam it just didn’t work because she’s a lesbian!!!! okay!!!!! #i think they’d remain best friends though #anyway lucky was a cute duet for them. regardless of any genuine romantic attraction that could’ve been there #(not there for quinn but there for sam 😚 okay) #gleeposting

[itspileofgoodthings]

that viral tweet about clothes looking dead on Taylor made me sooooooo angry tbh. the writer can meet me in the pit.

#it made me so angry for a hundred reasons #But mostly because it missed the truth in its own lie #and the truth is that —in the BEST way —Taylor always looks like herself #and always looks …… kind of wholesome and straightforward #in her own words she is neither edgy sexy or cool #not inherently #she can make the vigilante shit outfit (and dance tbh) seem businesslike after a while #but that’s not —as the writer believes —due to a lack of personality but an excess of it!!!! #and the girl is not sexy in the way of packaged pop stars. she has no slinky oozing charm #she is straight as an arrow and completely vibrant and completely a girl’s girl #she is also a dork!!!!! #(a good thing) #This is why I think about the rep tour version of Dress all the time 😭 #the softness 😭😭😭 the colors 😭😭😭 the joy the humor the fun😭😭😭😭😭 #I’ve never seen an explicitly physical love story (which dress is) told with those qualities #like. Revolutionary tbh #but yeah. Taylor no matter what she’s wearing remains herself and the truest parts of her shine through no matter what

[surelynotshirley]

Wrote a review for Mahoyo for work! It was really fun, totally loved the characters, and I liked the way the kinetic novel format was. My one complaint was that I played it with the English localization for work purposes and it was really unpolished. Tons of typos (the most egregious being ‘thongs’ instead of ‘things’), grammatical errors, and punctuation mistakes. All of them were ones that were clear oversights and not just a disagreement over the Oxford comma.

Like, it felt like it needed just more time. Some of the more unnatural-reading lines clashed with the much more natural flow of other sentences, which either meant there were 2+ translators but no editor, or there was only one translator who didn’t have the time to go back and fix these mistakes. Either way, I hope they release a patch soon with an edited translation, but I doubt they will.

#mahoutsukai no yoru #wafu talks #witch on the holy night #something that bothers me is the inconsistency of the names too #i am pretty sure type moon wanted them to use sizuki and not shizuki #but they allowed names like fujishiro to remain fujishiro #it really stands out that sometimes they use si for shi and sometimes they just use shi #you're already using si so why not keep it consistent throughout as that #anyway aoko best girl #sizuki is moe and alice is cute #loved the trio

[cashweasel]

Oc-tober day 1- miss Lady Valen

#no better character opening for OC-tober than my very own best girl! 😌 #oc tober #she is the moment #she was supposed to wear one extravagant necklace but my hands were crying for help #let’s hope I keep the same energy for the remaining days hekskdjd I do love to paint tho #also mutuals do send in your characters bls I’m gonna try drawing as many as I can #my art #my ocs