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WAKE UP FUCKERS ITS HAPPENING

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guy at the front desk that checked us in !?

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Ruby: She carried a message of hope to the stars, and she saw the world through better eyes. Ruby: I mean... not better eyes than mine. Mine shoot laser beams. My eyes are fucking sick.

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healthy & normal teenagers are produced inside the hell whale

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I love my show that doesn't make sense

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Ozpin: I've made her a huntress

Yang, gesturing to Ruby: You've ruined a perfectly good kid is what you've done. Look at it. It's got anxiety.

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happy 10th birthday to *slaps roof of car*

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CRWBY/Viz I need V10 to include a scene where Emerald says she thought the Bees were already dating back in Beacon.

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Oh, Oscar...

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Sauses here and here

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A tease about rwby news and a new bungo stray dogs chapter in the same day, the brainrot is so real. What a time to be on fandom tumblr

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heLLO 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

[id: two screenshots of tweets. The first is from the Official RWBY account that is just a Soon arrow emoij. The second is a retweet of the first from Kerry Shawcross where he just adds a smiley emoticon end id]

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I don't know why RWBY's trending, but might as well exploit the opportunity

Just so we're clear, I'm only asking about the songs. Not the animations for the openings

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Finally finished one of my rwby fansong WIPs that I haven't toughed since like October! Can't post it to youtube until I get the lyric video made, but I'm impatient so here's the mp3 for now lol. Bonus points if you recognize the leitmotif I crammed in there

(please do check out the lyric video when I post it later if you like the song though, thank you)

Lyrics: (text version in the alt text on each screenshot)

I ramble about the lyrics bit beneath the cut, if you're curious!

I don't remember how I got the idea when I started writing, but I was imagining the various Oz's each appearing in a big, empty version of the Land of Oz, like specifically the palace (castle? whatever they call it in The Wizard of Oz). Only the current and maybe previous Oz pre-merge are ever in there at one time, but with the memories of every life, before and after their reincarnation, stored there like a library. So just, seeing all the familiar names that aren't yours to be familiar with and having to come to terms with that fact that now YOU'RE one of them too

The first verse is like the death of one of the reincarnations. "Lights out, you go. Only effigy will show the path to day" (they died and go into whatever dark, in-between there is until they get reincarnated, with the light from their own funeral effigy to guide them) "They'd never know, Ne're a eulogy could ever show your fate" (the people at the funeral likely have no idea, considering how secretive Oz usually is, and no eulogy about them resting in peace will ever be accurate).

Originally the line "Just a secret in the hall" was "Hang your photo in the hall" like they have to walk to the end of a long wall of photos to nail their own up in the next space. So not only are they dragged into the cycle but they have to choose to pin their identity up and hope for the best that it isn't forgotten too quickly. The line sounded a bit too off when it was actually sung but I think the sentiment is still there

The reason I hadn't worked on it in so long was because I couldn't figure out how to finish it. I decided to listen again yesterday, thought "Oh hey that also has like Ozymandias vibes a little, which actually fits pretty well" and suddenly that last section just clicked

The whole last section is a bunch of Ozymandias references but I tried to do it in a way that's also very Ozma. The "very sands that once revered your name" now haunting him could be anything from like the sands of time, to Salem herself, his own heroism, etc.. His righteousness (saving Salem from the tower) and his hubris (basically playing god with her after he reincarnated) both doomed him in the same way. And so on

Musically, I wanted it to feel almost zoned out. Just kind of trudging forward, vaguely curious but mostly melancholy. Harmonies got a bit weird at times, so it was a fun challenge trying to figure those out at times. Mixing this was a nightmare but eventually i just went yeah that's good enough and here we are

Sidenote: shoutout to changyuraptor on youtube, both for making very handy leitmotif videos I keep going back to as reference while writing fansongs and also for indirectly making me learn how to spell "changyuraptor" without needing to google it lmao