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i know it's a holdover from them being invented so that rwby could have a catgirl, but MAN i wish the faunus got to be more bestial. theyre supposed to be a perfect mix between animals and humans, but theyre SO much more human. im gonna start drawing them with more animal traits and fur for fun

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Anyone who sees your blog immediately identifies you as someone who idolizes abusers of women, pathetic incels and selfish sociopaths.

lmao

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I've been meaning to do these drawings for ages and just kept putting them off

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ep 4 had me feeling a certain kinda way

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channeling my frustration with this week's episode into writing fanfic to cope

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y’know what would’ve actually validated blake’s “struggle” with being a faunus &  supposedly being a “bridge between two worlds” despite the fact that’s never been the issue in canon & hasn’t even been specific to her as a faunus in a human world  — hello, velvet? marrow? sun?  —  & actually deepened her character arc as a racial allegory?

making her mixed race. the struggles of her being a mixed race faunus / human would’ve absolutely paralleled the struggle that a lot of mixed race people feel. it would’ve made her feel inadequete in the white fang amongst “full blooded” faunus, it would’ve weakened her resolve against adam in the beginning due to him having the “full” experience of anti faunus racism while she could very easily blend into human society, it would’ve actually made her in between human & faunus, a part of both.

ofc with these white writers it still would’ve been incredibly poorly handled but hey, in the hands of actual poc writers who can act professionally, it would’ve worked fantastically with whatever arc they’re trying to break & bend now to fit blake poorly.

& y’know. don’t call her a cat. stop equating poc to animals miles, you stupid ass white unseasoned cracker biscuit.

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Right when we thought the writers couldn’t write Blake’s character further into the ground they pull out “Would you rather be a cat or a human?” bullshit. Like ???? She ISN’T part cat bruh she’s a goddamn human with genetics that give her animal like features. That’s literally the WHOLE POINT.

I don’t know how to better articulate it because how the hell do you even come to that line of thinking. “Do you want to be a cat or a human” seriously it’s the equivalent of asking me if I’d rather be a human or the color brown, and I just. Wtf.

IT'S SO BAD. I cannot even fathom how they could still be this oblivious to the fact that Blake is an allegory for a Black person in America, and so anything they write surrounding her is going to translate as commentary on Black people in America. And this whole volume has been weirdly fixated on Blake's faunus trait meaning that she is the animal her trait comes from? And generally just othering her from her teammates? Which is SO odd after they set up the faunus as people who strongly dislike being considered the same as their trait's source.

Not to downplay the incredibly uncomfortable implications about "simply choosing not to be a minority," but also as some kind of character moment for Blake, it falls so flat. We have never seen her struggle with her identity as a faunus, only the oppression that comes along with it. This sudden desire to shirk a responsibility we didn't even know existed (be a bridge between humans and faunus? since when?) feels like it comes out of nowhere.

Speaking from the outside as a white person - which, in fairness, most of the writers are doing too - I have seen that people's experiences with their race and culture are multitudinous, complicated, and sometimes even contradictory. I don't doubt that there have been times when someone wished they could no longer be a minority. However. That's an extremely sensitive and nuanced area to explore and certainly NOT something to suddenly spring on a character in a show that has repeatedly butchered its commentary on race. It was gross.

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Why does that cat want to fuck the mouse.

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these are big words coming from the Adam blog, I know, but I think Blake's little introspective section would've been more true to what we've actually seen of her character in the show if she was asked about regressing back to when things were "simpler" with the White Fang - when she could follow Adam, when all humans were bad. Maybe even some callback to, like, "What if you didn't have to care about the crewmembers?" or whatever. I'd still have qualms because of the baggage with the WF plotline but at least we wouldn't be asking the minority if she didn't want to be a minority anymore and bringing up a culture that's never been a thing on screen.

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hot writing tip: lampshading doesn't actually solve problems when it's used, it just draws attention to them. It "works" as a technique when it's like a wink and a nudge towards the audience for something that typically isn't critical to character development or plot, or when it's a common narrative convention, so the audience feels like the author is "in" on the joke. Even then it's a risky ploy - why should the reader take your story seriously if you don't?

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did they really just write a scene in which the minority allegory character was offered the choice to no longer be a minority

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*seductively* doomed by the narrative all by yourself, handsome?

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Would you like to talk about how you see Adam as a Jewish allegory?

considering how much violently antisemitic hate this concept got recently, hell yeah i would lmao!

there's a few minor / character related things for adam that i think relate to him as totally unintentional jewish allegory, & then some larger scheme aspects in regards to the faunus as a whole & some other jewish concepts that apply. again, this is all totally unintentional in the eyes of the writers as they themselves are also incredibly antisemitic, but i'm jewish so those goy can suck my dick.

red hair!

red hair, while incorrectly associated with irish people — we have phenotypically dark hair & light eyes — was also a marker for jewish people, especially ashkenazi jews. the stereotype seems to stem from all the way back in the talmud: where david & esau were referred to as "admoni", basically meaning redhead. by time it came to medieval europe & the spanish inquisition: red hair was a mark of jewish "otherness" & dishonesty / treachery. adam himself having red hair ties into these tropes, he's othered by society due to his faunus nature & is seen as the "traitor" in the narrative of others.

his name!

a lot of "western" / "christian" names are hebrew in nature, due to the violent colonization & oppression of jewish people. these names were anglecized / westernised to strip them of their roots, but they are hebrew all the same. adam itself not only refers to his red hair / the red earth, but to adam in the bible.

his faunus type!

aside from the faunus in particular just being really applicable to jewish oppression & survival in the midst of goyishe oppression: adam's specific faunus type can also allude to the golden calf. the sin of the calf, aka the worship of the golden calf idol when moses went up mount sinai, is an important part of the book of exodus.

the golden calf itself wasn't just a sign of insolence from the israelites following moses, but their fear & anxiety that he wouldn't return & they would once again be in danger. adam being tied to this bull & the narrative of the whole tale could very well tie into his own fear of ever being placed back into the horrors of slavery in the sdc & the violent oppression there: becoming his own calf idol in order to lead the white fang in a way that he sees fit to keep himself safe.

his colours!

adam himself is associated with the colours : red, black & blue. red obviously brings forth the very biblical concept of blood & wrath & rage: but i also like to really tie it to the lamb's blood put over the doorways of jewish homes when g-d's justice for us against the egyptian oppressors came at the loss of their first born sons. that blood, that sacrifice in the moment meant that we were kept safe while our oppressors suffered for their decisions, which tbh can be very applicable to adam.

blue is an interesting one in judaism because it's a holy colour for us, it's usually the colour on our tallit alongside black & white. it's also tied with jewish reclamation & hanukkah: a holiday centred around violence being used as liberation from a violent oppressor. the fact this colour is in adam's eyes could very well show that he sees the way that will need to be taken against the violent human oppressors in remnant.

his brand!

the way jews were borderline branded with the number tattoos in camps such as auschwitz is basic knowledge of the horrors surrounding the holocaust: adam being branded by the oppressive sdc company that exploits faunus labour while simultaneously dehumanizing them, brutalizing them & often being complicit in deaths under that exploitation — see: ilia's parents — very much parallels this in my eyes, though obviously not to the same horrific extent.

the fact that the schnees are a very german coded family & corporation does little to dissuade this comparison btw.

the faunus as a whole!

this one's a lot more generalizing to the entire faunus population which we completely acknowledge had taken primarily from black struggles & oppression in the mid 20th century america. however there are a lot of parallels to jewish oppression also, such as them being ethnically segregated into an ethnostate, the various attacks on faunus being seen as pogroms, a lot of the featured animal types of faunus in the show featuring in the torah & other things.

the faunus has overall just become a blob of "insert oppressed minority here", in a far less tactful way than other groups like them in media such as the x men but hey ho.

so yeah! this is why i see adam, personally, as jewish allegory & why people reducing him to just a "sociopathic abusers", ableism aside, ends up being incredibly reductive because this character is the one who faces the most racialized violence in his life, he was literally a former child slave, he is canonically pushed to actions he didn't want to take & in the end of it, adam's death is treated as the cure to faunus racism because it's never brought up again post this event.

overall it's just really disappointing to see this incredibly marginalized character who, not unintentionally, is constantly compared to an actual jewish character based on combating jewish oppression without respectability politics in magneto, essentially just used as a very blunt tool by very dumb, very ignorant non oppressed writers.

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✰ i take pride in drawing him… it’s been a bit.

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lil sneak peek of a thing

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Hey bestie, can we take a moment to realize the whole "Adam was wrong for turning to extreme violence and attacking everyone indiscriminately." thing was more in-part to Cinder forcing him to work under her via threatening the lives of his men, which was waaaay before CRWBY turning Adam into a hate sink in Volume 3 (an irony in-and-of itself since that's when people started to give RT a notable side-eye, which became full-blown after Adam's demise in Volume 6)? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it felt like before Cinder reared her ugly head, Adam was specifically targeting locations either related to the SDC or those heavily infested with prominent Faunus racism.

I lived in a world where Cinder didn't exist for a minute there.

But that just makes this even worse, because Adam didn't even want to attack Beacon Academy. He explicitly told Cinder no, that he wasn't going to risk his people, even when he was offered money and powerful alliances if he did it. Is that someone who doesn't care for his people that the writers tried to push in later volumes?

So we now have it that the minorty group that was forced into terrorism by a human was actually evil all along because they went along with it, and then were written to be comically evil with "get the humans!" and having no other personality. Great.