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RWBY and Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss are the same thing and here’s why

Interesting concept, terrible execution

What the fuck is Worldbuilding

People behind the show are revealed to be terrible people

Cult-like fanbase that dislikes criticism

Popular in Japan

Double standards when it comes towards the villains (Neo/Adam) (Valentino/Stella)

People working on the show are being mistreated and underpaid

Overpriced/Low Quality Merch

Surprisingly racist if you looked hard enough

Surprisingly sexist if you looked hard enough

Rewrites have done better

Writer's Pets (Stolas & Jaune) that get more focus than the actual main characters

WLW (RWBY) & MLM (HH/HB) relationships are fetishize by the writers

MLM (RWBY) & WLW (HH/HB) relationships are either ignored or have the least developed chemistry

Claims to be "indie" when it's not (RT used to be part of Warner Bros & Hazbin Hotel is on Amazon Prime)

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You're not immune to being the bully btw. You're not immune to being in the wrong

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So, thanks to President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation Reservation will be receiving electricity for the first time — ever.

Also, water treatment devices are being developed to help the tribe access clean running water. After decades without.

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from twitter user deejaygeejaygee

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Why do people get so upset when the media they like is critiqued. Don’t you like when people critically engage with the stuff you’re interested in or do you just want them to eat the slop from the trough.

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These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you. Make a habit of imprisoning Fascists without trial, and perhaps the process won’t stop at Fascists. - George Orwell, Proposed Preface to Animal Farm (written 1945, published 1972)

It's infinitely hilarious to me that for all the people who claimed Team RWBY was right to fuck over Ironwood "because he's a fascist dictator man," they don't recognize how their actions in the fandom have been far more totalitarian.

Hell, the irony of staunching creative thoughts and expressions in this fandom when the Great War in lore was *specifically about fighting to preserve the right to create art* as well as *the fucking reason the naming rules existed.*

RWBY die-hards are so funny tbh. They spent the past five years deliberately and vehemently gatekeeping the fndm to a ridiculously high degree, doing things like gloating that they were "purging" the fndm of all but the show's most ardent worshipers, launching vicious smear campaigns against anyone and everyone who said even the mildest bit of criticism and slinging baseless accusations of "sexism" and "homophobia" against them (even though an overwhelming majority of their targets have been queer or women or both, while an overwhelming majority of RWBY's creative team have been straight men with histories of open misogyny and queerphobia) they've bullied fan-artists off every platform, they've sent hate mail, death threats, rape threats, slurs, they've literally posted long lists of "rules" they expect fans to follow "or else" (and the rules include things like "you must fiercely advocate for my favorite ship" and "you must love my favorite characters and hate my least favorites" and "No AU's or Fix-it fics allowed" and then if anyone is caught breaking these "rules" they get labeled as "the HTDM" and viciously smeared and bullied out of the fndm, they've deliberately sought out popular fanworks and started viciously smearing and harassing the fan creators while gloating "if you criticize the product sold by a corporation, we get to coordinate cyberbullying campaigns against you as an individual artist who makes fanart for free, because those are totally the same thing in our minds so you deserve it!!!" They've swarmed YouTubers like penguinz0 or Hbomberguy and harassed them with death threats and accused them of "trying to kill rwby" (as if it couldn't possibly have anything to do with 1. Rooster Teeth being a horrifically abusive and bigoted company that every decent person decided to stop supporting, 2. "CRWBY" being comprised of and run by Rooster Teeth bigwigs including four of the five founding fathers of the company and several department heads, many of whom have open histories of extreme bigotry themselves, which bled into the show and caused extreme bigotry to be baked into the writing itself, and 3. *this exact fandom*, all of which together are enough of a poison itself, to the point where having a couple of youtubers say "so this isn't a good mix" was never going to actually affect viewership NEARLY as much as the Corporation and Fandom were already doing) and also can we talk about the horrific amounts of biphobia that gets leveled against the people who ship Blake with literally ANYONE other than Yang and ship Yang with literally ANYONE other than Yang?? Because my god the biphobia that exists within the Die-Hards in this fandom is off the fucking charts. The amount of specifically bisexual fans who have been viciously attacked because they did not list bumblby among all the queer ships they liked. The amount of times I've seen people say things like "the only reason anyone likes BlackSun is if they're homophobic" when a lot of BlackSun shippers are openly bi and ship them as a bi-for-bi ship. The amount of times I've seen people say things like "the only reason anyone PRETENDS to like Freezerburn is if they're trying to shove Yang with a random girl so they can force Blake to date a stinky MAN while using Yang and Weiss as shields to protect themselves from being caught as the homophobes they really are." The amount of times I've seen people attack fans who ship Blake with Ilia or Ruby or Nora, or fans who ship Yang with Pyrrha or Neon or Nora, because it *does not matter* if you actively ship a hundred queer rwby ships and write hundreds of fics about it and draw endless fanart of it, if you say "eh I personally just don’t care for Blake X Yang" or even if you say "I used to be a hard-core bumblby shipper but the way the writers chose to execute it left a lot to be desired and turned me off the ship" you get labeled a "Sexist Homophobe" and violently abused and bullied. It's fucking disgraceful, it's NO WONDER this fandom is fucking dead

When a fandom: a) posts strict rules detailing exactly which interpretations, headcanons, character opinions, and ships are REQUIRED in order to be considered "not a hater," b) viciously attacks and harasses every single person on the internet who does not follow those strict rules and labels them a "hater" because of it, c) slings baseless and despicable accusations of "sexism" and "homophobia" against these so-called "haters," because apparently they're too ignorant to pick up a dictionary and learn that "criticizing rwby" is not included in the definition of those words, while also completely ignoring or even *denying* the fact that most of their targets are queer women and most of our complaints are that *rwby is textbook sexist and homophobic and RACIST AND ABLEIST and was created and almost entirely written by openly sexist and homophobic and racist and ableist men, and you actually kind of have to have failed Progressivism 101 in order to not see it,* d) engages in open bigotry themselves by attacking marginalized people to punish them for condemning bigotry while using bigoted slurs and dogwhistles against them, and e) deliberately "purges" the fandom of every single fanartist, fanfic writer, theorist, meta analyst poster, or even shit-poster who DARED to express an opinion that didn't conform to the "rules" and therefore got labeled a "bigoted hater" who "laid down with the dogs" and was "guilty by association..."

The fandom dwindles away to nothing, and dies

And then the last remaining Die-Hards who got their wish and "purged" the fandom of everybody whose opinions did not 100% align with theirs, get all pissy whenever they see somebody like you acknowledge the empty void left behind

The fandom got so militant and zealous with their gatekeeping that there's just nobody left anymore, except for the few who turned Worshiping RWBY into a cult and violently kicked out everyone who didn't conform - but they consider that to be a "victory" so they attack every new straggler who walks into the vast empty field and says "there used to be a fandom here."

That post that was made five years ago about how it was time for the mega-stans to "purge the fndm" of everyone who didn't conform to THEIR view of the show? Yeah lol well they succeeded and I hope they're happy with their echo-chamber of circle-jerking Yes-Men who have been throwing all their hard-earned money at bigots and abusers while crying about the uncertain future of the show they turned into their identity, and I hope one day they realize that THEY contributed to Rooster Teeth's downfall far more than the critics ever did

Because fandom has historically thrived on diversity of opinion, including the allowance of criticism and the celebration of fanworks

So when a culty subsection of the fandom decrees that freedom of expression is WRONG and differing opinions are WRONG and writing fanfiction they don't like is WRONG and drawing fanart they don't like is WRONG and shipping ships they don't like is WRONG and not shipping the ships they do like is WRONG and liking characters they dislike is WRONG and disliking the characters they do like is WRONG and criticizing the corporation behind the product is WRONG and holding the product creators accountable for their hateful and ignorant beliefs is WRONG and choosing to withhold our money from those who have been proven to be abusive bigots is WRONG and therefore demanding change instead of letting them keep getting away with everything is WRONG, and so they are so totally justified in their efforts to deliberately cyberstalk, harass, and bully the "Arrogant, Entitled, Ungrateful" non-conformists until they've driven everybody away...

The fandom dies

And there's nobody left to BUY THE PRODUCT

*shocked Pikachu face* that RT went belly-up???

The Die-Hard Mega-Stans are the ones that killed RWBY. That's why they're so desperate to point fingers and bitterly curse the names of all the fans they deliberately ORDERED to "Stop Watching," "Stop Posting," "Stop talking," "Stop Writing," "Stop Drawing," "Stop BUYING," and that's why they're so fucking ANGRY every time they see proof that their mass gatekeeping, mass cyberbullying, mass smearing campaigns WORKED.

The fandom is dead because they fucking drowned it on purpose, and they refuse to admit that fact to themselves

What else can they do but lash out?

What else is there to say? You nailed it. I was there in the very beginning when the fandom was thriving and I watched the wasps slowly kill it. I remember all the creative au’s and how even rarepairs got content. It’s not even a husk of its former self, it’s crumbled dust.

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Throughout her translation of the “Odyssey,” Wilson has made small but, it turns out, radical changes to the way many key scenes of the epic are presented — “radical” in that, in 400 years of versions of the poem, no translator has made the kinds of alterations Wilson has, changes that go to truing a text that, as she says, has through translation accumulated distortions that affect the way even scholars who read Greek discuss the original. These changes seem, at each turn, to ask us to appreciate the gravity of the events that are unfolding, the human cost of differences of mind.

The first of these changes is in the very first line. You might be inclined to suppose that, over the course of nearly half a millennium, we must have reached a consensus on the English equivalent for an old Greek word, polytropos. But to consult Wilson’s 60 some predecessors, living and dead, is to find that consensus has been hard to come by…

Of the 60 or so answers to the polytropos question to date, the 36 given above [which I cut because there were a lot] couldn’t be less uniform (the two dozen I omit repeat, with minor variations, earlier solutions); what unites them is that their translators largely ignore the ambiguity built into the word they’re translating. Most opt for straightforward assertions of Odysseus’s nature, descriptions running from the positive (crafty, sagacious, versatile) to the negative (shifty, restless, cunning). Only Norgate (“of many a turn”) and Cook (“of many turns”) preserve the Greek roots as Wilson describes them — poly(“many”), tropos (“turn”) — answers that, if you produced them as a student of classics, much of whose education is spent translating Greek and Latin and being marked correct or incorrect based on your knowledge of the dictionary definitions, would earn you an A. But to the modern English reader who does not know Greek, does “a man of many turns” suggest the doubleness of the original word — a man who is either supremely in control of his life or who has lost control of it? Of the existing translations, it seems to me that none get across to a reader without Greek the open question that, in fact, is the opening question of the “Odyssey,” one embedded in the fifth word in its first line: What sort of man is Odysseus?

“I wanted there to be a sense,” Wilson told me, that “maybe there is something wrong with this guy. You want to have a sense of anxiety about this character, and that there are going to be layers we see unfolded. We don’t quite know what the layers are yet. So I wanted the reader to be told: be on the lookout for a text that’s not going to be interpretively straightforward.”

Here is how Wilson’s “Odyssey” begins. Her fifth word is also her solution to the Greek poem’s fifth word — to polytropos:

Tell me about a complicated man. Muse, tell me how he wandered and was lost when he had wrecked the holy town of Troy, and where he went, and who he met, the pain he suffered in the storms at sea, and how he worked to save his life and bring his men back home. He failed to keep them safe; poor fools, they ate the Sun God’s cattle, and the god kept them from home. Now goddess, child of Zeus, tell the old story for our modern times. Find the beginning.

When I first read these lines early this summer in The Paris Review, which published an excerpt, I was floored. I’d never read an “Odyssey” that sounded like this. It had such directness, the lines feeling not as if they were being fed into iambic pentameter because of some strategic decision but because the meter was a natural mode for its speaker. The subtle sewing through of the fittingly wavelike W-words in the first half (“wandered … wrecked … where … worked”) and the stormy S-words that knit together the second half, marrying the waves to the storm in which this man will suffer, made the terse injunctions to the muse that frame this prologue to the poem (“Tell me about …” and “Find the beginning”) seem as if they might actually answer the puzzle posed by Homer’s polytropos and Odysseus’s complicated nature.

Complicated: the brilliance of Wilson’s choice is, in part, its seeming straightforwardness. But no less than that of polytropos, the etymology of “complicated” is revealing. From the Latin verb complicare, it means “to fold together.” No, we don’t think of that root when we call someone complicated, but it’s what we mean: that they’re compound, several things folded into one, difficult to unravel, pull apart, understand.

“It feels,” I told Wilson, “with your choice of ‘complicated,’ that you planted a flag.”

“It is a flag,” she said.

“It says, ‘Guess what?’ — ”

“ ‘ — this is different.’ ”

The First Woman to Translate the Odyssey Into English, Wyatt Mason

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The OGTRIB Bonus Posts masterpost

Along with posting the story every day, I've also been doing some rambles. In the interest of accessibility, I want to gather those in one place. This list will probably be updated less frequently, but it will be updated. The goal is to, eventually, in sum, Explain some substantive aspects of the story.

May 26: "Mistress Dread," and the aubade May 29: more "Mistress Dread" May 29: you wouldn't dissect a frog (fractions) June 2: "The Dark Eternal Night" June 4: "We Excavate" June 5: WOMP WOMP, a little picture into the comedy of act 1 June 8: June 1, and the comedy of Dream Theater June 10: Metahorror, the Arc of the Audience Expectations (The First Real Ramble of Act 1) June 10: Rapture Art, and the Delineation of "Fanart" June 11: The Egg Dance June 21: Tally Marks Ramble 1 (The Unfunny Jokester) June 22: Tally Marks Ramble 2 (Laziness and Work) June 23: Tally Marks Ramble 3 (On the Slender Man, I: Blurring Boundaries) June 25: didn't wanna ramble. too hot. rambled anyway. (Roman a Clef, Act 1) there you go, all in one place. we will see more rambles as the story proceeds, that's a promise. if there's anything I can do for my own stories, it's ramble.

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Realized I'm not sure I've seen anyone else talk about it on Tumblr, so if you didn't know about it, here's the heads up on this very cool fan project to make 358/2 Days fully playable on PC

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For years people have been stumped on converting the second PMD installment OST to MIDI since the music sequences are stored on .smd files. Thanks to a few researchers, MIDI rips were finally made from the soundtrack.

Files are in Sky Jukebox order (001-141). Contains two sub-folders; test files and unused sequences. 1.30 MB in total.

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"Normalized lesbians for the straights"

Did. Did OP fuckin forget that Ellen DeGeneres exists??

Like. Representation exists outside of cartoons. Hell, you can just search up "list of dramatic television series with LGBT characters: 1960s–2000s" on Wikipedia, there's plenty of representation WAY before Korrasami, much less The Bees

In fact, taking a look reveals that there were fuckin transgender lead characters back in the SEVENTIES. (Research "Play For Today," and the story of Stephen/Susan Piper)

Contrary to these Tokenizing Tums Bottles would have you believe, queer people and other minorities have been the focus of the screen (big and small) well before the turn of the millennium.

The fact that OP may well be writing genuinely, well. It just highlights the damage Mainstream Media Companies have done for the past decade, pretending that they're so Stunning and Brave for giving us scraps of representation.

It's fuckin bleak.

I deleted brain cells looking for this

Ever since I laid eyes on this particular post, it's been rubbing the insides of my brain the wrong way.

This person (🔴) proclaims BMBLBY "the ship that normalized lesbians for the straights" and that the only reason lgbt+ people could dislike it is because of... well 👆that!

But the thing is, the goal lgbt+ representation has never been just about normalization. The main reason for it is represent the lgbt+ people watching the show. Also

Kind of hard to be the first lesbian ship for the straights when all of these shows did it before RWBY :/

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>Robot that can’t process anything too large and at a fast rate or else they’ll shut down.

Robot disabilities. Robot who charges slowly and loses power incredibly fast and is always tired. Robot with malfunctioning lenses and can’t process visual information properly. Robot that can’t process anything too large and at a fast rate or else they’ll shut down. Robot with limbs screwed on too loose/just can’t attach correctly, so if they’re not careful they fall out. Robot disabilities,,,

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Honestly, it doesn't surprise me. With other ""progressive"" critics like MovieBob - a man who infamously and unironically bemoaned the fact that intelligence based voting requirements and eugenics were optically spoiled by Jim Crow and the Nazis respectively, or that 70% of mankind deserved to die horribly via COVID infection - remaining uncancellable in spite of saying objectively heinous shit...

Well, it simply tracks with how Hollywood and the mainstream handle being "progressive." So long as you say baseline "Leftoid" takes like "Orange Man Bad," or "Trans Rights," you can say the most bigoted shit while having the optical high ground to call your critics the bigoted ones.

Hell, Pedro Pascal told Gina Carano point-blank that if she simply tweeted something Pro-Trans, regardless of whether she actually believed it or not, she could avoid being cancelled for the whole "COVID/Holocaust" clusterfuck.

Then you have people like Mindy Kaling, whose Velma show was the most mask-off Woke production in recent years, to the point where even leftoids were convinced it was an Alt-Right psyop to make their side look bad.

No, sweeties. That disgusting sexual predator was just more honest about portraying Hollywood's idea of being "progressive."

The mainstream is fucking filled with bigotry, they just found a more palatable version to get normies on their side.

It's why Stellar Blade and other Japanese dev teams who wanna show some skin on their models get their work raped like Nanking, but Neil Druckman can show a fugly meathead getting pounded onscreen to thunderous Sonyfornian applause, and Baldur's Gate can be praised for onscreen bear fucking.

The Western Entertainment industry - and the critics who suck it off for free Journo perks - that's all become more xenophobic than ever. It's just been given a shiny coat of blue paint.

Hell, why do you think Israel is able to pull the "you just want all Jews to die" card when people bring up their war crimes? Because the fucking Western Media has been pulling this shit for over a fucking DECADE. It's a strategy that fucking works, to perform fucking horrendous shit and plaster a minority on it as the face. Then they simply say "it's because you're bigoted/want minorities to die" instead of engaging the criticism.

And people fucking bow, because they don't want to be seen as a bigot and be cancelled out of a job. It's why actual bigotry is on the rise, because they associate horrors with these brown and gay PR shields.

It's why I fucking despise the "Woke Left," because it bastardizes everything it's meant to stand for and poisons public perception. Ffs, the second people see someone black or gay in a trailer or promo, they're mentally bracing for it to be dogshit, and to hear critics slammed as bigots despite the validity of critiques.

To sum up this early morning salt tsunami in a dank may-may:

Lily Orchard really starting off her video like: Not to be racist, but every single anime that has ever existed has been a cesspit of degenerate sexualization of women particularly of the underage variety and only enjoyable to sweaty misogynistic creeps. I suppose it's just to be expected out of those unclean savages known as the Japanese. I despise anyone who suggests this "anime" to me, as I know it will only be filth of the lowest caliber, and these barbarians have the gall to call me "xenophobic" and "racist" for saying Japan is uniquely bad with its vile cartoons.

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So she subjected that guy to caulking ball torture

nothing makes me feel more well adjusted than hearing about the problems that straight people in the periphery of my life are always having

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Can you doodle Ansem SOD?

Many months later but here you go 🤲

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why didn’t gandalf just carry the ring to mordor himself with these tongs