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I wanted to draw several things for ep3 as soon as it came out but I only had energy to do so a few hours before ep 4 drops but. Here is marya in The Pit

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Get to the airship!!

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Keep Moving Forward 🕊️

happy birthday Monty 🪷🎂

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Would be so funny if this happened in Crossworlds lmao. (If u know the reference ;)

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Fig!!!!

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stop interacting with my old art i have better things for you to do that to !!!!

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Personally I'm not a big fan of the whole "instead of saying W*ndigo, Sk*nwalker, Spirit Animal, say x y and z" like maybe you can't and shouldn't reduce Native cultures to some pop culture swill made for your easy to consume cultureless identity. Maybe somethings simply aren't for you and you should suck it up and stop equivocating Native spirituality to personality quiz results.

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I never bothered to watch that hbomberguy rwby video essay but someone who's never seen rwby watched it and was like he was clear and concise and had good points and he's bisexual himself so it seemed good. I don't know who else to ask abt what the problem is with the essay, if you don't mind, could you like. Sum up what the issue with thst essay was cause like. I don't know much abt it other than the general "it was bad faith"

there were a few things i know and other things i heard

first and the most major point is how he presents himself as having "always been a fan of Monty's" and for the most part solely attacks Miles and Kerry (at one point he apparently implicates that they're paedophiles, which is, y'know, an ad hominem character attack and nothing to do with the show he's alleging to critique) while putting Monty on a pedestal - however, his posts on the somethingawful forums about the show which were mere months before Monty's death shows that he not only had nothing but contempt for the show (which he barely watched in its first volume by his own admission), he hated Monty's entire body of work (dismissing Monty's first animation, Haloid, as "rip off a fight from the Matrix with lesbians" because at one point in that video, Monty referenced the Burly Brawl from Matrix Reloaded as if that isn't still an impressive technical achievement for a fan animation he made in his free time - it speaks to hbomb's weird contempt for and superiority complex over fandom in general, it's bad because it references things, Monty is bad because he is a cosplayer, etc. etc.) (link to more examples here). which makes his dedication to Monty at the end of the video even more galling and insulting (hbomb has a history of doing this - in his Sherlock video he dogpiles most of the faults on that show onto Moffat and apparently doesn't really draw attention to Mark Gatiss's contributions despite him being just as involved - it makes it look like hbomb has decided criticising a gay man or a dead man isn't great for his image so he scapegoats the other guys involved)

then there's the jackass he hired to make a song for the video who makes no bones about how the thing is presenting itself

there's also a lot of misrepresentation from what i know - at one point he alleges that the 'Dust robbery' storyline was dropped when... it wasn't. beginning of volume 2 Cinder outright says they're done with Dust (a highly volatile energy propellant) and then all the stolen cargo is seen on the train they're using to draw Grimm into the city for the Breach. so he's failing as a critic there just because he's clearly not paying attention. he claimed Sun was white at one point.

i know from an earlier version of the video that went up on Patreon that there was a section where he ripped into Barbara for posting a 'don't like don't watch' tweet, which likely got removed when someone must have mentioned the context for her tweeting that (some asshole had @'d her and Arryn an edit from the end of volume six of Blake and Yang stabbing each other). like it's bad enough he was gonna do that at all, but that in his months of research he either never bothered to find out what the context for that was for or worse, knew and didn't care until he found out how widely known the context was, again shows how much bad faith he was willing to go to

(there's also the fact that this video originally was pitched as 'RWB/Y is Garbage and here's why' and it seems like he only changed it to 'Disappointing' because the subreddit found out about it and they were part of the demographic he was trying to appeal to)

it's been a while but i also vaguely recall him basically expressing the viewpoint that the artists and animators working on the show, and the talented fan artists making art for the show, are wasting their time and talents on it when they could be doing something else. he also lists off a bunch of shows he thinks are better and says that "if the rwb/y fans watched these they wouldn't like rwb/y anymore" or something to that effect

in general he's just a contemptuous bastard about the whole thing who knows how to present his biased and flawed opinions (and petty grievances) as if they're objective fact better than the average rwbytuber self-described 'critic'

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i keep remembering Beardsley's gonna be a parent and now the ring. i am so emotional someone kill me

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sorry for no art ever but i'm still on the animatic grind and this is where i've been the last month. riz gukgak violence enjoyers RISE

💥 youtube link

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the first in our return to weekly updates! and again, please let me know if you feel like this is too frequent 🙏

holy shit they let ao3 links work again. thank fucking god.

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16/06/25

started watching cloho, so here's emily's character, marya junková

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I'm terrified of speaking to people in real life because one of them could say "I'm a chuckster!" and just hurtle me three hundred feet up in the air

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this is the quality content i follow this blog for

sleeping

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thank you dimension 20 for giving me a new daughter