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Treat anything on Discord as media that will be lost

Do not use Discord to host your files. Do not rely on Discord to preserve your text. DO NOT RELY ON DISCORD FOR ANY KIND OF PRESERVATION OR HOSTING!!

It CAN be lost, it WILL be lost! You must consider Discord as a part of the Core Internet, controlled by one company that hosts the servers.

I thought it was impressive at first that it replaced IRC, but now I am horrified. If the company behind Discord went under today, how many friends would you lose?

How many relationships? How much writing?

You may think this won't happen, but I remember when AIM went down and along with it, entire novels worth of interaction with my oldest friend.

IT CAN HAPPEN TO YOU. IT WILL HAPPEN AGAIN. NO COMPANY IS INFALLIBLE.

Back up your files! Download anything you've saved to Discord NOW, before the API changes go into effect! And DO NOT RELY ON THEM FOR HOLDING IMPORTANT FILES!

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i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like

AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE

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My wife: Are you making a list of fonts?

Me: No, worse. I'm replicating the titles of video games but it's the fonts that they're in

My wife: What does that mean

Me: This

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The Bimbofication of Cows

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I expected Penelope to just let out one last bark at the end as the punchline tbh.

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fuck it homebrew boop button. reblog this post to boop the person you reblogged from.

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RWBY Relic Pieces in Volume 1, Symbolism of the Pieces, and How It Ties To the Broader Narrative.

Did a quick searchup on the symbolism of chess pieces, and taking what I saw into consideration (note that this is very abridged, and possibly not entirely correct):

CRDL and the Black Bishop

Bishops are representative of religion, as well as spirituality, morality, and wisdom, and a direct reference to Cardin's mythological reference, the Cardinal of Winchester. In regards to the broader narrative that RWBY sets up, he can be considered V1's partial representation of the institution of Huntsmen, more specifically the deeply flawed and darker side standing opposite to the better/neutral aspects of Huntsmen that RWBY/JNPR represent, due to being a racist bully who stands against Grimm, yet also willfully persecutes and harms the people he's supposed to fight for, such as minority groups like Faunus and (given Jaune at this point is basically a civilian in huntsmen's clothing and training wheels) the people depending on the circumstances. Also acts as a form of foreshadowing to the other deeply flawed or outright bad huntsmen we'd come to see later in the series, as well as highlighting the lack of wisdom and morality that can blight the institutions that Huntsmen are supposed to be, represent and protect.

The Black pieces in chess always move second, which highlights how the Huntsmen are a highly reactive organization, and how this severely limits their ability to truly tackle the bigger problems regarding threats like the Grimm, Salem, society's deep internal problems, and in the bigger picture, Ozpin's divine mission.

JNPR and the White Rook

Rooks are representative of the land, being symbolic of the fortress that guards a city or land and its royalty, and how they essentially "guard" the other pieces, as well as representing stability. The majority of JNPR come from civilians compared to the likes of RWBY, with this becoming completely the case after Pyrrha's death and Oscar's inclusion, and they're shown consistently throughout the series as having the strongest connections to civilians on a personal level. They also frequently as the bedrock and stabilizing influence, through Jaune, Nora and Ren's friendships and roles as supporting characters. Being white pieces also highlights how as time goes on, they would develop an increasingly proactive role through the questioning of the narrative told to them by the metaphorical "royals" (in this case, Ozpin's secret circle) and the latter's failure to actually protect them.

This is especially notable in regards to Jaune, Nora, and from a story perspective Ren, given how the former consistently questions Ozpin and his inner circle's shadier actions throughout most of V4 - V8, and Nora and Ren were failed miserably and made orphans due to the lack of huntsmen and the society around them failing to protect them, while putting them into a situation where their only recourse is to become part of the system that failed them.

RWBY and the White Knight

Knight pieces are representative of the medieval military, fitting given the status of Huntsmen, as well as being considered adventurous, valorous, and unpredictable due to their unique fighting style allowing them a level of unpredictability that other pieces don't have, fitting of how RWBY are the main proactive force to pushing Ozpin and the true nature of the secret war against Salem out into uncharted territory, forcing them to actually change and grow.

Knights are also often historically drawn from nobility, much like how every major character in RWBY has some kind of tie to Remnant's most illustrious groups or some kind of major player (Ruby and Yang being part of major Huntsmen lineages, Weiss being a rich heiress to the most powerful corporation in the world, and Blake being effectively the Princess of the Faunus, as well as having ties to the most prominent civil rights activists and movements in all iterations of the White Fang).

Much like JNPR, they are far more proactive compared to the royals they serve, actively pushing the latter outside their comfort zone in a two-pronged attack alongside JNPR, but the series also strives to highlight and deconstruct the messier aspects of their relationship as huntsmen (and thus a form of warrior caste/mercenary, with the following tension in that relationship with the people they are trying to protect) and how the unpredictable nature of their changes results in as much positive and messier forms of change, for better or worse.

This got way longer than I thought it would.

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hey hey! don’t do this!

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RWBY Beyond: Jaune Episode "A Knight's Journal" late night speculation

You know, I wonder if the "journal" is gonna have Jaune recounting elements of it that initially start off in his normal voice that steadily ages, matching his initial outer appearance.

But by the end, when he's reverted back to a younger man, his inner voice is still the haunted, broken older man, feeling uncertain of how to feel about everything and feeling just a bit...off? Like he just doesn't really know who he is anymore. He's in the body of a younger man, but his years of trauma and the effects of aging without really growing have left him feeling all over the place.

And there ends up being a small scene or two where he ends up being able to relate to Oscar a bit because of it.

EDIT: Also this is probably like, the first major RWBY related post specifically about RWBY speculation and theorizing that I didn't post on someone else's ask in a long time.

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HI WHO WOULD LIKE TO SEE A BABY GOOSE

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my adblocker prevented the nyt from loading the paywall banner so all i got was this

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Zelenogorsk is sand bathing

Zelenogorsk is sand bathing

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Fair enough. I just wanted to clarify my original point. Wasn't sure if it was clear enough.

If you ever forget that TV Tropes can suck sometimes, visit the RWBY page every now and again to remind yourselves.

(Seriously, every single example of a trope being edited to be a multi sentence word vomit, almost all the rwby tv tropes pages are controlled by one guy the staff favors, multiple attempts to claim non-binary characters are not actually non binary, RWDE videos like Judgemental Critter are used as "objective factual" examples of certain tropes even though all the clips are her going on bad faith rants about everything she doesn't like)

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Okay, I need to clarify because I think there's some misunderstanding that I probably accidentally made here: When I say that "If they find anything RWBY related on a different page, there's a non-zero chance that if it doesn't fit what they view is right, it'll just get changed or deleted.", I meant that they would just be very nitpicky and basically alter or delete it based on whether it fit according to a very specific interpretation of the trope that the RWBY section is put under.

It's not them outright completely eradicating it for no reason, just arguably questionably and not without some substantial bias, if that makes any sense.

If you ever forget that TV Tropes can suck sometimes, visit the RWBY page every now and again to remind yourselves.

(Seriously, every single example of a trope being edited to be a multi sentence word vomit, almost all the rwby tv tropes pages are controlled by one guy the staff favors, multiple attempts to claim non-binary characters are not actually non binary, RWDE videos like Judgemental Critter are used as "objective factual" examples of certain tropes even though all the clips are her going on bad faith rants about everything she doesn't like)

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I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️