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PLEASE DO NOT THINK FOR EVEN A SECOND THAT YOUR VOICE WILL NOT HAVE AN IMPACT THIS IS LITERALLY THE BARE MINIMUM

I'm sorry for putting this in the BLM and stop Asian hate tag but in the last few days posts tagged with "Palestine" have not been showing up.

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...because I need to get it out of my head, and it...fit...here. I dunno.

Without Further Ado....a RWBY Post-Volume 8?( I guess?) mini-musing of mine

Winter: I told you that you'd pay for what you have done. You're time is up, Cinder. It ends here and now.

Cinder: {letting out a burst of a scoff (which all told had the net intimidation factor of a gently tossed training bubble given the hiccupping burp of a micro-fireball that followed closely behind)}

(still) Cinder: Many greater than you have tried, Blanche, and all, including you, have failed. As I recall it, a few were even maidens at the time. {Shrugging} Small world...

Winter: {...After a beat (for effect, bien sur), and accompanied by a sidelong piercing ice shard of a glare that would've pinned the Fall Maiden to the very spot she occupied were it not for the fact that they were slowly circling* one another hovering half a mile above the nearest dirt clod...

*(technically, they both traced along the same circle, as far from one another as possible, while circling some mutually imagined midpoint between them...but I digress)}

*ahem*

Winter: (sighing, and softening a bit) I admit it, you are better than I am.

Cinder: (caught off-guard) w-what? Then....wait. Why are you smirking?

Winter: Because I know something you don't know.

Cinder: And what is that?

Winter: I am not 1-eyed!

Cinder: ...Wait. I knew you had two functioning eyes befo-!!!?!!HhRk!!?!!!

Moments later: Winter, having just taken down the infamous Fall-en Maiden with a single, solid punch to the gut using the pummel of her saber, set Cinder's limp form down gently (enough) in front of a growing number of people (mostly Atlesian refugees but also various Huntsmen and Huntresses that now protect them from the chaos they introduced to the Vacuum desert) and nodded to a few who then moved to transport their new prisoner.

Hands now free, she swiftly removes a small hair clip as though it had just whispered insults concerning Weiss into her ear before threatening to spontaneously combust atop her snowy locks. Her bangs return to their natural swoop as Winter finally lets some of the tension out of her shoulders.

Winter: hmmm... (eying the clip, as though pensive but also for some reason weirdly wary and suspicious of the thin bit of metal)

... 'Depth Perception'....hmf...

(Tidying the lines of her uniform)

..Gods..

I believe I may owe that young woman some semblance of an...

(tries to snap then realizes she's wearing gloves) ohcomeon.. an...appreciative gesture... -ohwhatdoyoucallitIknowthisone...ohforthesakeoftheGodsabove-

Aha! A gift! ......

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reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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Season 8 of RWBY Spoilers! Maybe! So .. that's a potential thing here, I guess...*ahem*

~AnYwHo~

O friends, can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture? I mean, besides all the, y'know... emotional, philosophical, potentially existential (now that one feels ...oxymoronic? Or redundant? but I digress...) things that are arguably wrong with what's happening in this, Rooster Teeth's RWBY, Vol8 E12? Not that I'm judging RT for the ....slipup?...or is it just the angle? Methinks the former (obviously) if the latter, someone eli5 in commentary formation, please and thank you. just found it funny, is all. If you don't see anything, tHaTs BeCaUsE tHeRe iSn'T AnYtHiNg, soooooooo move along, now, move along peepL...

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Weiss: Winter, you're joining us for Yang's surprise birthday celebration, right?

Winter: I suppose I did respond to the RSVP, so...yes. Yes, I am.

/Later that afternoon, at a nearby bowling alley/

Weiss: Winter, you made it!

Winter: Indeed. Although, Weiss, why is Yang here already? I thought you said this was...

Yang: (cutting Winter off unintentionally as she approaches the Schneeblings with her boisterous greetings) Hey Winter! Glad you could make it! ... I wouldn't have pegged you for a bowler. Huh.

Winter: To be honest, today's my first time at a bowling alley.

Yang: Really? Cool! We'll nab you some shoes first, and then I can help you with finding the right weight for your ball and show you some of my sweet moves...(keeps talking)

Winter (aside, whispering to Weiss in confusion): Shoes? I wore shoes.

Weiss: Ah, yes, I forgot to mention...

/Two minutes later, as Weiss adds Winter's name to their lane/

Winter: I see why it slipped your mind to mention the shoes, Weiss. These are...

Yang:(having just turned around with an extra plate of pizza for Winter) *Gasps, frozen, as the pizza slowly slid off the plate to smack loudly on the floor*

Yang: Y-you're.... ?!?

Winter: (blushing) What?

/Yang closes the gap between them, for once tilting her head slightly down to meet the operative's eyes, who just stepped out of her heels moments before and straightened just in time to see the death of that pizza slice. Practically nose to nose, the two elder sisters can't seem to break their eye contact as both blush deeply enough /

Weiss(with a heavy but fond sigh): Happy Birthday, Yang.

Yang, still kinda in shock and with an ever-widening smile overtaking her face (along with a tinge of red), hugged Winter, not Weiss...for some reason...catching Winter by surprise for a moment before the embrace was returned. Weiss, pouting, didn't have to wait more than a few moments before finding herself swept into a bear hug to end all bear hugs.

Weiss: (giggling a bit) Put me down, you brute!

Winter: (confused, but too distracted by the antics in front of her to notice the unbalanced smile plastered on her face or the fact that Yang's hug had left her clothes a bit disheveled) .. Happy Birthday, Yang.

See, Yang had always wanted a genuine surprise for her bday but despite Ruby's best efforts she always managed to figure out any plans before they could be enacted. Weiss, knowing this, had finally come to terms with the fact that only Winter could be that surprise, seeing as Yang wouldn't have had the audacity to bother her (sighing to herself) crush about a topic as trivial as birthday surprise plans. And if Winter had been wholely unaware not only of her effect on team RWBY's blond brawler, but also of her own reactions when the dragon was in her immediate vicinity, well, who could blame her little sister for hopefully bringing those things to light? Smiling softly, Weiss plucked the cherry from atop Ruby's banana split and popped it into her mouth. ...and prepared herself, of course, for imminent retribution of the highest order as soon as the crimson blur noticed the misdeed. Worth it.

Today, it seemed, was a day of many firsts...

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My girlfriend and I talk a lot about our different generations of queerness, because she was doing queer activism in the 1990s and I wasn’t.

And she’s supportive of my writing about queerness but also kind of bitter about how quickly her entire generation’s history has disappeared into a bland “AIDS was bad, gay marriage solved homophobia” narrative, and now we’re having to play catch-up to educate young LGBTQ+ people about queer history and queer theory. It gets pretty raw sometimes.

I mean, a large part of the reason TERFs have been good at educating the young and queer people haven’t is, in the 80s and 90s the leading lights of TERFdom got tenured university positions, and the leading lights of queerdom died of AIDS.

“Excuse us,” she said bitterly the other day, not at me but to me, “for not laying the groundwork for children we never thought we’d have in a future none of us thought we’d be alive for.”

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Indeed. It seems to me it went the other way with it even. The guys around him seemed to be the ones overwhelmed by his charm and shit. That includes some of the police, given they were given tips that him...how many times? Oh that's right they got tips that pointed in his direction for YEARS so the exact number is lost to the grey. Charming my ass.

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So. RWBY vol.8 ep.13 SPOILERS/THEORIES BELOW... deal with it? I dunno, it's 5am n I can't fall asleep til I get this down, so here goes...very little...

I have a theory (tho it be quite soft n squishy as newborns tend to be) on the void wherein Yang dideth become kicked, irreversibly perhaps. It cometh with a fairly large fulcrum point, of which I am uncertain if I remember correctly. I suppose we shall see/somebody fact check the shtuffing that falls out my head and lands below, please. I wish to eventually sleep;)-

With me so far?

...how? Well, regardless, blast fax kudos all around. And I mean that.

*ahem* Re: That ominous void/that trickster genie/worst case theory scenario ~vs~ best case theory scenario. W vs B? No, they're friends now.

H'okay. So. The fulcrum/uncertain point upon which my crackpot fear theory balances is this; anyone remember that travelling river of creeper grimm goo that dispatched...oh I dunno...the foundations of an entire kingdom in 7.3 seconds, give or take 1.47 milliseconds, after bubbling up to the surface after who knows how many underground misadventures and wrong turns that will likely remain forevermore untold? No? Well nevermind, then. It appears I've gotten the wrong room again. I'll just be...ah....I'll, I'll just be going then...

What if the void consumes any who fall into it only to pop them out as a mishmash of grimm + people (grimmple, for...me, 'cause iLikes it). Thus Ruby ends up having to face an amalgum of her older sister and her oldest grimy foe, as Salem's last pocket pair of aces of defense? Given, I don't even put a grain of rice's weight into that as actual probability goes, but nonetheless, stranger things have quite probably happened.

So that's the worst case theory seedling in mine cranium. The best case theory? Wonderland, bees kiss, maybe. And by the end of this volume dear GoDz please let Winter realize how very not alone she is...and maybe get in on that bees thang.

*Ahem*

*drops mic, deftly catches it, then, realizing that the mic was actually caught successfully, launches it directly into the asphalt mid-victory-jump. Lands with a single tear sliding from eye, acknowledging a severe lack of a contingency equipment replacement fund. Then looks up and remembers the evacuation from Mantle...while still standing in the ever-growing (then shrinking?) shadow of the falling city. Shakes head, in final moments, well-wishing Schneewood Forest and dem Bees, while wondering if somehow the void took them to the movie Avatar, and smiling at the thought of that giant soulglow tree.* So yeah. If you made it this far....I have nothing to give you, other than more rambling semi-developed musings and self-deprecating 6 am still yesterday level humor...scratch that. *Throws smokebomb atop broken mic, still there but asleep when smoke clears*. I bid you...decent enough morning, all you gigglemugs! Much love;)-

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SO...A call to arms, comradicals!

Aka help meh prove to myself that I'm not (entirely, as of yet) off my rocker....

In my recent rewatching of RWBY Vol. 3, a moment in episode 5 left me twitchy. I often hear sub-layering in songs [concreteexampleA) chorus of Lady Gaga's Pokerface-she pronounces 'pokerface'...*ahem*... in at least two different ways as she quickly repeats the word] OR [generalhypothetical#1) when you tune into a momentary dissonance during a single beat midway through a certain song, which upon further investigation reveals itself to be lyrical/linguistic overlay i.e. when the artist(s) layered multiple tracks with differing words that fall on the same beat atop one another. Often, initially, one track (set of lyrics) will seemingly drown out the others (usually it isn't actually louder or anything, but your mind was primed to expect track A... so you heard track A, and many people can't/don't/won't/stubbornly refuse to even try to register the sublayer after settling into whatever track they heard first, getting stuck on it and losing plasticity. But as with many visual illusions like the 'rotating figure', you can cue into the others the next time you listen if you retain an open-minded...-ness about it, sans expectation as it were...but I digress.... Oh, right; concreteexampleB) Sound is Vibration by Atmosphere, much easier to hear than the sneakier one in Pokerface. But I swear, it's there)

AnYwHo...now that we're jiving on similar wavelengths and or particular particles...RWBY Vol3ep5 wherein the match pitting Neon & Flint VS Weiss & Yang, the score starts up with the song 'Neon' and that jazzy burst of trumpet, and Neons skating up a rail, across the ?ruins of a building's rooftop? and swooping gracefully and annoyingly to the left...underneath the line 'the best will climb to the top like me, the rest will end up like you', there's a bothersome sound that to my ears rings like two words, spoken rapidly and rhythmically (and repeated three times for a total of 4) in timing with Yang's firings of ember celica. They definitely aren't part of the song, seem to be at a fairly high pitch reminiscent of a guy's falsetto voice, but also really make me think of that squeak you can get on a dry-erase board and certain erasers/sponges/towels. I don't know, but I can't leave it be. Anyone got any idea what the hell it's supposed to be? Cause the only reference I could find for the sound effect credit of ember celica was Halo 3's shotgun sound bytes, which while accurate is definitely not what I heard. I'm gonna go ahead and just ramp up my foolish to 125% before even giving one of y'all a chance to be the first to tell me it's something simple (and I missed it and am stupid) by throwing out the nonsense word pairing I kept hearing after the oh-say-27th replay....*lesigh* it sounded like if you lit the tippy toes of both shoes of an unsuspecting but admittedly mediocre (on his good days) court jester on fire, just for fun, and he just noticed and began prancing about, impossibly light footedly, on said flaming tippy toes as he looks for any nearby water to ballet himself on into (twinkle toes first, of course) and he's just naturally babbled his actual voice up an octave or two into his 'shakespearean femalecharacter#3' voice as he prances circles before collapsing, just repeating the words 'water prism'. Ironically his collapse didn't even claim quenching the fire, as it kinda fizzled out on his third frantic lap of the small courtyard y'all are in. So yeah. Water prism water prism, water prism water prism, said the squeaky dry board eraser in a mocking tone.

I think part of me rationalized that the only other thing I don't comprehend in that moment, is whatever the heck Neons semblance is, so 'rainbow' led to 'prism' being semi-rational... led to... help me dear God find a way out of this charybdis I created to lie in wait for me. I should've expected me when I least expected me...ah well I'm an easy mark and the WoRsT kind of Karen, seriously I don't know how she manages it. Welp. Rambling cry for help? Checkcheckrogerroger

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Because it's so shadow-canon I can avoid tasting the sun in it

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So Vol 8 Episode 1! Finally!

Does anyone else get just a wee bit discomfited that right at the end of the episode, rather quick and easy-to-miss, a final, enigmatic image comes together depicting (most of) our huntspeoples as they face the incoming baddies OH WAIT EXCEPT PENNY, who pulled an about face, equipped her swords, and now hovers ambiguously either above OR in counterpoint position facing off AGAINST our crew?

Conspiracies abound!...Welp, can't say most of the fanbase didn't already catch a whiff of an imminent $#!+$+%RM....So as my favorite lyric of all time (see: ‘The Mission���, by Puscifer) puts it, ‘Its all fire and brimstone, baby, so lets go outside...’

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Beautiful metal tree art….

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