#[To Be RWDE or Not to Be RWDE- RWDE Posting]

[diaryofamadsunwukongfan]

So Tumblr's still not letting me reblog this person

So I made this post to point out the massive amounts of ableism/racism in the anti rwde community

[keclan]

rwby would be so good if it was good

[gaymakima]

fanon Jaune Arc is the most insufferable dudebro stand-in I've ever seen. he's the definition of mid. you could replace him with any bland isekai protagonist or harem protagonist in fics and there'd be no difference. if you go into any other character tag there's a 90% chance there'll be multiple posts of characters talking to each other about how cool jaune is. if you go into ao3 and do the same you'll be bombarded with jaune harem fics that all start to melt together after you've scrolled through 40 of them. he's so far removed from canon jaune. that's not my boy. my boy does not have rizz or game (except for that one time with pyrrha bc she's INTO his failboy persona). he is a soaking wet dog who was born in a cardboard box. i will kill fanon jaune with my own bare hands and then give canon jaune a blanket. can you tell ive been looking through character tags and going on a block exodus.

[ninadove]

So. There’s this show I really hate.

I didn’t even want to watch it, but I was forced to sit through literally all of it because my parents liked it for some reason that completely eludes me. Not only is the plot catastrophically bad and the characters inconsistent — it’s also very, very misogynistic in essence. Just thinking about it now makes me want to chew on the writing team’s bones.

I genuinely have nothing good to say about this show.

So. Do you know how many posts I uploaded to the corresponding tags?

ZERO (0)

Because there’s no point in spending energy on a thing I hate so passionately, and even less in ruining it for other people.

Don’t get me wrong — it’s OK to point out irregularities in writing, and to talk about specific aspects of a story that upset you. But uploading dozens of posts about how you Hate The Thing, Analysing The Thing Is Pointless, Everyone Who Worked On The Thing Is Stupid, and Everyone Who Loves The Thing Is Delusional, is maybe not the genius take you think it is.

It doesn’t make you smarter than everyone else. It just makes you boring.

[oddlyhale]

Since RT is shutting down, I call dibs on Ironwood and Penny.

[bubblinelovechild]

The RWBY fandoms treatment of Adam makes me very uncomfortable

This is very long sorry I was rambling <3

There’s something really odd about the dedication RWBY fans have to hating Adam. So much so that they’ll admit the writing of the WF is racist but refuse to admit that Adam a member of the white fang also suffered from that racist writing.

There’s this weird dedication to pretending there are no problems with the choices made around Adams character and vilifying literally everyone who tries to talk about it, for the sake of continuing to blindly hate him. The fandom seems to struggle with understanding that the show is fictional and everything that happens in it is a direct choice of its writers. Y’all talk about Adam like he is a real person who has personally offended you irl. Just a huge lack of media literacy tbh.

A white man wrote a civil rights group, that he admittedly based off the black panthers, as the generic bad guys of his shitty anime knockoff and made a central theme of the show the idea that fighting against your oppression violently makes you just as bad if not worse than your oppressors. Then he mad the leader of that group a generic abusive meanie bad guy. Who essentially is what white supremacists think civil rights activist are all the way down to being the fictional equivalent of a black supremacist.

When there was backlash to this he made a knockoff Malcom X and then killed her in her only scene and made a character whose ideology is basically sit down and lick the feet of your oppressors and had the audacity to say he was based off of MLK. How the fuck do you base a character off of somebody without doing basic research on them because contrary to what people seem to believe MLK was not a doormat and this is a conversation for a different day but I’m sick and tired of his memory being weaponised against black people.

What’s worse is that Adam is the only character portrayed as actually doing something to fight racism. Ghira’s faction is only ever seen fighting against other groups. I don’t know if y’all know this but that’s not how the civil rights movement worked. Most of the leaders didn’t agree on methods but they coexisted because the main goal was the liberation of black people and they knew they had to coexist. MLK did not go around calling the cops on revolutionaries he disagreed with.

The problems with Adam and the WF are not separate and cannot be. Most of what’s wrong with the Faunus plot line is the way the show handles Adam. The choices made with his writing cannot be separated from those they made with the WF overall. Adams choice to kill his attackers to keep himself and other Faunus safe, from people literally trying to kill them, is treated the way it is because of the stance they took with WFs writing. When Adam kills a human supremacist trying to kill Ghira you’re supposed to see it as an extreme and the beginning of his turn to evil. Adam isn’t a real person every descisiom he makes is informed by the white writers of the show. Why would the bias they displayed writing the WF not apply to him?

Some of you have been abused and relate to Blake in that sense, a lot of you seem to be projecting your abusers onto Adam. I’m sorry you went through that but you are not excused from buying into racist rhetoric. It’s incredibly uncomfortable as a black person to watch people talk about how “healing” it was for them to watch a civil rights leader admittedly inspired by black people slapped around and killed by two white women. It is anger inducing to watch fans celebrate “queer representation” dancing on the corpse of a monumental disrespect to black people and our history.

RWBY doesn’t even handle abuse well tbh and most of the queer rep is not that great, there are many shows that do it so much better, there is actually no excuse for hanging on to the black people are bad for fighting against racism show.

[kitkatopinions]

Since my sister no longer has a tumblr, she can't make this post herself. But just now she told me that at two AM last night she looked up how much of RWBY Kiersi Burkhart actually wrote and worked on.

She wrote four episodes on her own.

She wrote fourteen episodes with a male coworker.

Out of a hundred and sixteen episodes of RWBY.

Meaning ninety eight of the episodes were written by men exclusively.

I had already thought that it was bad that it took until season seven for the supposedly feminist girl power show to include a woman in the writers room, but boy howdy! I hadn't thought she'd have so few credits during the three seasons she worked on the show! Hasn't she also quit now and it's going from MKEK to MKE? I couldn't say that for sure, but if she quit I'd say more power to her.

Honestly, what a poor showing. XD Like this is something I'd expect from a cop show that ran in the early two thousands. Like, this is something that if someone told me "You know Chuck that show starring Zachery Levi as a nerd-turned-spy only had four episodes written exclusively by a woman and then fourteen written by both a woman and a man?" I'd say "Yeah that totally tracks." But RWBY???

I'm not one of those people that's wrongly convinced myself that RWBY is some super feminist show just because it's advertised with four women protagonists and the girls aren't exclusively there for romance or to look hot. But even I'm flabbergasted, absolutely gobsmacked and befuddled and stunned to learn just how little of the show actually was written by Kiersi.

[dazadoop]

Reblog to scare a rwby fan

[ironwoodprotectionsquad]

I was just passed along interesting news from an RT stream and it sounds like 1. RT has 60 days before shutting down. 2. Beyond is going to come out and 3. CR/WBY “care too much” about RWBY to let it go and are trying to hold onto it.

Regarding beyond I’m concerned with how they plan on getting it out and hope that it’s just very close to finished and that’s why they’re going to put it out instead of forcing their workings to work even more inhumane hours then they already do to push it out when it really shouldn’t.

Regarding volume 10…the language it sounds like they used has me concerned. Warner Bros owns RW/BY so them refusing to let it go…I don’t even know how they plan on that working. They’re apparently negotiating with partners so it seems like they want someone to buy it who would keep the main CRW/BY but again not sure how they plan to pull this off or if they…should? I feel bad for all the people losing their jobs but CR/WBY and RT did horrific things to their employees and it feels….wrong? To reward that bad behavior by forcing whoever takes over RW/BY to take them on as well still. I get not wanting to let go of a passion project but this more feels like trying to cling onto a cash cow then a passion project.

It’s a lot of complicated feelings I’m struggling to verbalize because I’ve been their having a show ripped out from under you that you loved flaws and all but RT did horrible things and the show in the end had extremely harmful tropes and ideals they leaned on so the thought of CR/WBY getting to finish it feels wrong given all they’ve done but leaving fans hanging also sucks. But also is it better to just…leave it and not continue to push these harmful things out in this show? Like we’ve had some vile “lessons” and I’m worried it’ll only get worse if they do volume 10. A part of me hopes of it was finished by someone else who maybe wouldn’t continue said harmful tropes but it sounds like CR/WBY is going to fight to stay with the show in an honestly unhealthy manner.

Gut feeling is best case scenario WB tells RT to pound sand and someone buys it and reboots it but again…I’m not sure anyone will given the fan base and how they’ll likely behave if said new owners don’t keep CR/WBY.

[saltedsnails]

At an alarming frequency online I’m seeing a lot of people just going the fuck off about critics of RWBY, so let me apparently say this again:

If you feel personally attacked because people don’t like your “thing,” you have an issue. And it’s your issue to deal with. Yours. You are equating your self worth with the things you enjoy, and you’re taking it personally when people rightfully call out extremely pertinent issues that need attention brought to them. Telling people to stop criticizing what you enjoy is going to do the opposite, and then you’re going to be more upset. Crusading against critics is pointless. Perhaps seeking the answer as to why you take criticism over an animated show so seriously would help you as an individual.

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[amiiizuki]

lmao

(og post)

[itsclydebitches]

Team RWBY getting introduced to the multiverse by a team of superheroes who've been fighting God-like beings for years and not asking for any help against Salem after establishing that she's apparently laying waste to the rest of Remnant and Vacuo is the last remaining hope is just... Typical, I guess.

I feel like that highlights how unintentionally selfish the writing makes the team out to be. Again: unintentionally because though the story is clearly aiming for a heroic perspective, lack of development and world-building like this ensures that falls flat. I haven't watched the movies yet, but we saw a more complex version of this in the Atlas arc where the group was more concerned with what was morally easy for them (save people) than grappling with the difficult choice that might help everyone in the long-run (lose people to maintain/win the war). It's a hard thing for a lot of fans to even pick up on because the knee-jerk response is, "How can saving people be bad?" and... it's not, but RWBY keeps presenting moral quandaries where the "best" outcome is both subjective and unlikely to come about through traditionally heroic means. Same thing with the Ever After. Team RWBY wants to leave the world they've been cast into so they can get back to saving people. That's good! Totally good. How could that in any way be bad? Well, because staying there, if only for a short period, means they may learn information that will assist them in defeating Salem. Lose another (metaphorical) battle to potentially win the war. Make a sacrifice to protect the majority. The go-to response for why they didn't hang around and question the Blacksmith is that they had to get back to help, but that short-term help is always what's prioritized. The immediate help. The easiest help to give without taking risks or making a hard call. Now, why go through the difficulty of acquiring inter-dimensional allies and attempting to figure out the logistics of them saving your world when you can just fix the immediate problems (defeating the one-off baddie, getting back home) and return to your regular saving people gig? That's a fantastic gig that indeed makes you look good... except when it's no longer enough to solve the problem and your preferred means, no matter how heroic on paper, are acting as a hindrance to your success.

Obviously in the realm of tie-in movies there are writing considerations too like, "These superheroes aren't actually a part of the canon proper, so they can't just swoop in to save the day" but that doesn't mean the writers can't craft a hand-wavy scenario for why that help is denied. The point is to have the heroes try to find that solution. Let the girls try to defend Mantle, try to help Ironwood keep the Relics safe, try to get the Blacksmith to fix things, try to ally with superheroes to win the war, and if the story doesn't want those to function as solutions it can come up with reasons why it didn't work/someone refused. But continually the team makes these terrible choices that don't forward their primary goal and the audience is left to try and justify that with very unpersuasive excuses.

[acebender]

[uncaught-coolfish]

every time i remember the “people hurt me long before we met. all sorts of people in all sorts of ways” line I start seeing spiders

[oddlyhale]

A very annoying petty nitpick I had harbored within me when it came to the V9 commentary track:

The writers trying to push that Older Jaune is hot.

He is not.

After a while, I think they were trying to push the idea of "hot older Jaune" because of the reception people had for Ironwood's looks in V7. Ironwood is a hot guy with a dad-bod, one of the few handsome characters they've made, and it was pointed out a lot.

But because Ironwood is supposed to be hated, they decided to push that attraction onto Jaune when they made him middle-aged. The thing is though: 1) Jaune becoming an old man makes no sense, and 2) it didn't matter because they de-aged him by the end of V9.

Well tough tits, CRWBY, but old man Jaune is not hot. He's annoying and I hate him as much as I still hate young Jaune, and trying to say he is hot is kinda cringe, bro.

[neptunevasilias]

Since we’re talking about sun and neptune today does anyone wanna talk about the queerbaiting rt did with them