#i ship everyone with therapy

[tecnestheim962]

A Rating & Scathing Review of RWBY Characters:

Done by: Me (surprise!)

This is a serious review where I seriously analyze each character and rate them all seriously!!

If I hurt anyone in this, I’m sorry, it’s not you, it’s me. It’s nothing personal.

That being said, let’s get on to the ratings!

Ruby Rose:

Can I just say:

I really just love Ruby. Isn’t she awesome? Like. Man. What a lovable, strong, caring, amazing person! Had the weight of the world thrown onto her, and she didn’t care, she just kept doing what she thought was the right thing. And when she broke? It was still selfless. She thought she was doing the world a favor after all her mistakes. Then she came back because she knew she could do and had to do more for everyone. She needs a hug and all the love.

Rating:

Infinity/10

Weiss Schnee:

Weiss??? The way she opens up and goes from being all, “friendship? Who needs it.” To, “I! Love! My! Friends! Friendship is magic! I will fight tooth and nail for them! They are the most important people in the world!” And the way she became so open minded after learning from different perspectives? Gotta love her.

Rating:

Infinity/10

Blake Belladonna:

Oh my gosh and another of my favorites: Blake! She learns to let herself be loved by those around her! She learns that letting people in isn’t a weakness, but a great strength! She is a fierce protector and a whole civil rights activist taking the world by storm! She finds a way to show love now in any scenario when beforehand she didn’t because she was scared to get hurt. Gosh. Spectacular.

Rating:

Infinity/10

Yang Xiao-Long:

Don’t even get me started on Yang. Protector Supreme. The way she used to let her emotions control her to controlling her emotions??? I’m in shambles. From learning how to live for herself and not just her sister??? It’s important even though she missed rubys pain she’s only human and she’s beautiful!! The way she loves through her actions and defends through her words??? Just kill me now.

Rating:

Infinity/10

Jaune Arc:

Oh yeah and Jaune??? The character development??? Wowza. The way he’s always there for those he cares about??? Fantastic. The way he would throw everything away just to be there for his friends?? I am deceased. His fortitude and determination to keep pushing through?? Ugh.

Rating:

Infinity/10

Nora Valkyrie:

Nora??????? My Queen????? With her heart a beautiful storm that she projects to all those around her??? Her protective nature over everyone??? How she learns that she needs to love herself and know herself before she can truly dedicate herself to another???? Literally puts me 6 feet under.

Rating:

Infinity/10

Pyrrha Nikos:

Pyrrha??? Don’t think I’m leaving her out of this! Her heart was so strong with her convictions and her love for her friends that she literally did everything she thought she could to protect them. She wanted to define her destiny and save the world in the way she thought only she could. I will literally never recover.

Rating:

Infinity/10

Oscar Pine:

Oscar???????????????? My baby???? My precious little prince??? Innocent farm boy who keeps getting slapped in the face by literally everyone (seriously crwby this poor boy needs a break and a hug) literally losing his soul but wants to spend every second he has doing everything he can for remnant???? He didn’t ask for this???? And yet here he is??? I haven’t stopped crying since V5 thank you very much!

Rating:

Infinity/10

Lie Ren:

Ren????? My boy??? Who feels like he always has to be the strong one emotionally??? Who always has to mask his own emotions to take care of others???? Who literally developed a semblance, a manifestation of his SOUL that is empathy??????? Like what???? Who would literally rather be dead than without Nora?? Who tried to take up the mantle of Jaunes emotional support humanness???? Orkcmekwkqo.

Rating:

Infinity/10

I could go on for the rest of my life for these people and literally every other character.

Also, how come tumblr doesn’t have more colors available??? Truly a tragedy and quite rude if I might say! Hmph!

I really hope someone gets some giggles out of this like I did!

Let me know if anyone wants me to do another HIGHLY critical review (ahem) and rating of these characters.

Gonna go cry now bye-

[obsesive-poltergeist]

About to watch the last episode of the ultimatum queer love. Here are my pre proposal thoughts and my predictions:

Vanessa: I don't get the hate. Being stupid isn't a crime... Clearly, she's poly or hasn't had her hoe years yet and didn't take this seriously. Not an evil mastermind, just lacks self-reflection or common sense. (will leave alone)

Xander: Cute, lovely, shy. She's like what every little girl dreams of dating. Hate how there's all the shit around her and she just stands still. I get that you want to keep the peace, but step up. (will leave alone, but will propose to someone)

Tiff: Started with some issues and is making an effort to work through them. (will get engaged)

Mildred: As someone who's Latina, Tiff's rights, being an ass is no excuse. Also, feels like she wants a marriage more than the marriage. (will get engaged)

Yoly: Hypocrite. Hypocrite hypocrite. You can't treat Vanessa like an ass for having a consensual thing with Rae and then straight up hijack the relationship. And I don't mean, oh, fall in love with Xander. I mean, "don't want your ex to get her hands into you." Dude, Vanessa was right about being uncomfortable about them still talking. Also, Vanessa never did anything to her? Yoly literally jumped on Lexi's hate wagon. (try to get with Xander)

Mal: I can't give my opinion. She's too hot, and anything I say will have implicit bias. I would will let her get away with anything. Also, very emotionally mature. (will leave alone)

Sam: Love that she discovered her worth. 100% benefited from all of this no matter the outcome. (Will leave with Aussie, but just dating)

Aussie: Therapy (will leave with Sam, but just dating)

Lexi: Hate her. Just hate her. Child whose brain is still developing. Mean girl hive mind who chose a bad guy and just became obsessed. She's the type of girl who says, "I hate drama," and is somehow always involved. Will dissect your text and hound you down for "closure." (will leave alone)

Rae: A rock with feelings. Someday, you will be a real girl. Just said yes to joining this to appease Lexi, and is confused how they actually end up on the show. ay have thought this was all an elaborate prank (will leave alone, but become friends with Vanessa agai)

[sanguine-vn]

What’s your favorite paring??

to be honest i don't really have a favorite? my leanings for the day are usually based on whose route i'm currently working on(so atm nero and sawako are in my peripheral)

[kiwifie]

lantern rite date

[vanmec]

sobbing i love them 

[My Socials] | [Prints]

[aroaessidhe]

2023 reads

The Deep Sky

scifi mystery thriller

on a deep space mission traveling from an environmentally devastated earth with hope to restart humanity elsewhere

when they’re halfway, an explosion kills 3 crew and pushes them off course

the only witness is the Alternate who has no specific role, and she has to figure out who caused it & if they might continue to sabotage, while they're figuring out a way to get back on course with limited resources

flips between present and the past: of her childhood and training for the mission, her identity struggles, and relationship with her mother

questions the ethics of ‘restarting’ humanity elsewhere vs putting resources into fixing earth

[welcometogrouchland]

Do you think Luz and Hunter ever banter about their respective deaths w/ each other post canon. Like they have a "who wore it better" discussion but it's "who had the best resurrection over a 48 hour period?". Do you think they (emo shits) listen to Dead by MCR and go "haha you that one time", taking turns for who is, in fact, dead. Do you think the Eda, Darius and Camila are simultaneously suffering from unexplainable heart palpitations on the other side of the house???

[zukkaoru]

[ID: the first two images are screencaps from Bungou Stray Dogs of Kunikida and Dazai, respectively. the first shows Kunikida from above. he sits in a cell, frowning, his face angled away from the viewer. the second shows Dazai in prison, smiling at the viewer.

the third and fourth images are the mugshots of Barbie and Ken from the Barbie (2023) trailer. Barbie looks at the viewer, frowning and afraid. Ken faces left, looking back at the viewer and grinning widely. /End ID.]

i can't draw but you see the vision, right?

[piulblood]

TAKE MY LIAMS AND LEAVE.

I KNOW ITS NOT MUCH BUT I LOVE HIM SO MUCH. IVE BEEN SO BUSY BUT HFJONE IS LITERALLY MY LIFE SAVIOR EVER SINCE THREE WEEKS AGO AND LIAM, BRYCE, AND AIRY ARE MY FAVS. ESPECIALLY LIAM I CANT GET ENOUGH OF HIM mind my sadistic tendencies but he was SO cute when he was drowning, i still felt so bad for him and rooted for him I LOVE LIAM FAY9SFYOSR69SIPGSR6ISOHDY79D0TDTUO9WTPWYIP

[purplerakath]

MiyagiDo Karate and Protagonist Morality

So when I watched the first two seasons this bothered me and then last weekend I watched everything else (thus far)... and this still bothered me. So here we are.

Spoilers for all five released seasons of Cobra Kai (although I'll mainly be talking about Demetri, Sam, Danny, and Hawk).

Before I get started...

As much as I'm criticizing the writing of these characters, I don't think the characters are bad, or hate the show. I just think more could be done with them, or in the case of Sam they could have started the ball rolling sooner and she could be a better character than she is.

Except Demetri, they really screwed the pooch on his writing.

Protagonist Morality

So I guess I should explain this term. Protagonist morality is where a show doesn't question the behavior of it's protagonists, assuming that whatever action they've taken is morally correct (for the setting). In a video game, you know all those unguarded chests full of stuff for you. The ones all across the countryside and in towns and often people's houses? The ones you can loot freely and nobody cares or is concerned with all the robbery you're doing?

That's protagonist morality. If the game labels you a thief and you get run out of public spaces for your actions, then the game is labeling your actions as maybe less than a paragon of virtue, and giving you reason to think about it. (Then you do it anyway because it's really nice loot.)

So what about the ACTUAL protagonists?

Johnny, Miguel, and Robby are questioned and judged by the narrative constantly. They generally do things right for them, but not universally seen as correct. And generally the narrative is about them moving forward and making less questionable calls.

The whole point of the start of S2 is that Johnny realizes "No Mercy" is a bad motto, because it just gets people hurt, and changes his teachings to match this bit of character growth. Characters backslide, Johnny and Robby both crash spectacularly at the start of Season 3. Each needs to dig themselves out of the hole their in all through Season 3 (Johnny) and 5 (Robby).

So the show never treats them as not needing growth, as the show is all about their growth.

Daniel

Danny is a hyper-judgmental asshole due to unresolved trauma from his youth and it's a problem. But also the show would be a lot less interesting if he worked through all of this in a timely fashion. Primarily the issue is his reaction to "Cobra Kai" just being back at all, and how he never once gets pushed to question if Cobra Kai in Johnny's hands changed.

Some of this is miscommunication, which is the cornerstone of the Unresolved sexual Karate Tension with Johnny. But his absolute refusal to see good in Cobra Kai had a direct hand in breaking up Sam and Miguel in Season 1 and Danny... came out of it believing he was right.

And when he goes out of his way to try and destroy the S1-2 era of Cobra Kai, the narrative never once actively punishes him for his prejudice. He's also never forced to face why he's like this. It's kind of shit but very much a plot lodestone.

Sam

Like her father, Sam often rushes to a moral judgement on bad info and never goes back. Even if she's wrong. So much of her Season 1 behavior is swept under a rug so that other characters (Kyler, Yaz, Miguel) can be her personal villain. And the worst being Season 2 with Tory.

Sam rushed to 'all Cobras are evil' while in a plot trying to fix her friendship with her best friend, she instigated things with Tory, and blamed Tory for all of it without having to think about why she's following her father so readily. Of course, with the end of Season 2 it didn't matter what her behavior was prior, she had every justification to treat Tory as her own personal satan.

Fortunately for me, and everyone else who likes Sam, most of the later seasons focus real hard on having her grow as a person. Maybe not facing all of her personal failings, but she does grow past them in respectable ways. And while her behavior toward Tory is... still bad, Tory is her personal anxiety attack she's allowed it now. (Unlike someone else.)

She also unpacks some of the prejudice she learned from her dad. Sneaking off behind his back to learn Eagle Fang and figure out before Father Dearest that balance is better than pigheaded arrogance of your own greatness. Leading to the Season 4 finale and her mixed styles.

Demetri Hawk

Before I rant about Demetri, I need to explain why Hawk's narrative, regardless of his failures, is better. Eli starts the show with a clearly defined failing (confidence and courage), focuses hard on overcoming it (through Cobra Kai Karate), and turns him into someone new.

That new person is a loud abrasive asshole, but it's a growth arc.

When Hawk behaves badly, it's treated as a start of darkness. As he grows to love having the power his weaker nerdy self lacked. His acts of vengeance make sense as the flexing of power he's never had before. To the point he becomes the sort of bully he feared. His reactions are all overreactions and that's good writing. You understand why he beats Kyler's flunky to a bloody pulp, it's cathartic but also framed as an act of pure violence and destruction. He needs to live in his anger, his violence, listening to the whispers Kreese offers.

Season 3 is Hawk struggling to choose between good and evil, and in the end he chooses good. Leading him on the path toward balance and being better than either side of him before. Honestly of every character in the show his path is the best defined.

Now Demetri

Demetri is a anxious pessimistic leech. He feels he'll fail before he starts, and therefore doesn't try. He rides the coattails of his friends as they become cool and popular and Hawk was right to call him out. But rather than investigate that, he becomes the target of Hawk's new villain arc, and rushes to the arms of MiyagoDo.

Where he proceeds to never actually face who he was, and just... get to be a cool martial artist with a hot girlfriend as the show sweeps his negative traits under a rug and never touches them.

The narrative never confronts how 'it's fine for me to reap the benefits of your hard work' (start of season 2) or 'I can humiliate my best friend by spilling all his secrets then hide behind my badass martial artist friends' (late season 2) were bad calls, because at the end of the season he just... gets to beat up Hawk to establish the full defeat of Johnny's Cobra Kai.

Directly into Season 3 where he's just as aggressive and antagonistic as Sam is, while neither is treated as being 'over the line' by the narrative. Which is all before Hawk breaks Demetri's arm, meaning he doesn't have the extant trauma reason Sam has.

By Season 5 Demetri is a pretty cool person, but as there's no actual focus on how he got there, it feels cheap. Which really sucks.

What I'd Write-

I don't want to rewrite the whole show, and that makes Danny hard to fix. As so much of him is that paranoia of Cobra Kai. Like- best I could ask for is him going to therapy and trying to work past it (and just being bad at it).

Sam the easy answer is Aisha not forgiving her (at least during S1-2). Where Sam tries to get Aisha back, but every time she either says something about Cobra Kai, or Miguel, or Tory and Aisha points out Sam hasn't given any of them a fair shot, and that Sam has no room to talk after dating Kyler and being Yaz's friend.

Bonus points if Sam also gets taken to task for her going after Tory when Tory was working. Because Amanda already got Tory fired once, but she felt bad about it.

Demetri has a similar route of 'best friend does not forget.' A simple 'why should I ever trust you again' after Moon's party would go a long way to rub Demetri's face in what he did, how he was as bad as everyone who made fun of Hawk's lip at school. How Demetri, for one brief moment, was worse than Kyler.

I want all the characters to either get the kind of care in how they change direction that Miguel has, and failing that being absolutely perfect like Devon (the only person to join Silver's Cobra Kai and not turn evil).

[saucerfulofsins]

Ngl watching House for the first time after almost losing my foot and then using a crutch for 5+ years before I did specialised physio for chronic pain is like... Actually I keep feeling like his experience is... Familiar? Believable really. The ups and downs, the link to mental wellbeing, the belief it's gone and the struggle with the pain and with disability becoming a part of your being and how those can and do bite eachother, and the scars always being there to remind you?

I'm not saying the other medical things depicted are realistic, I'm not. I'm no medical expert. But the whole experience he has (minus the vicodin addiction/enabler polycule) resonates with me now, which is... Interesting and unexpected tbh.

[randomnumbers751650]

Reading the new Oshi no Ko chapter, I can't help but to think the reveal about Crow Girl was underwhelming. But that's not what I wanted to comment.

We know that Ruby likes to be self-indulgent, with a big backstory reason, but I feel this is evolving to be a flaw. Back then, I was positively surprised that Ruby was the first person in the entire series to understand Ai as a person, a scared normal girl trying to survive in a scary world; but this actually makes Ruby to become even more self-indulgent. I mean, it was obvious with last happenings, especially that kiss, but the way she just tossed aside Crow Girl when Aqua arrived in the scene made me think more. It was kind of a comedic gag, but the fact she did it so dismissively was a detail that called my attention.

We still haven't had a chapter with Aqua PoV since then and I bet it's because of an editorial mandate, to let people theorize about it. The Crow Girl reveal was, again, in my opinion, underwhelming. She claims that humans are immature like children in the end of the chapter and, while she's not wrong, it doesn't have any weight. Maybe if they portrayed her as a creature that can understand up to a point but cannot relate to humans, that gave them the gift of reincarnation without understanding its costs and consequences, maybe the reveal would have more weight - they tried to do that, with Aqua reflecting on how he's still haunted by Goro and cannot fully be himself.

I really wonder if Akasaka is still thinking on how to end it. So, it explains why the characters are running in circles, to buy time: Ruby becomes more self-indulgent and is stuck in this mindset, Kana is still there and so on. Is there any conclusion that can deliver what's being promised? The question might not be how to kill Kamiki, but how do it in a satisfactory way? Or, if he lives, how to do it in a satisfactory way (which is a much less popular outcome)? Because it has to do with the stakes of how much Aqua and the rest of the cast are willing to go to get to it; or put another way how far is Ruby willing to go to keep her current lifestyle. A lot of long stories suffer of that, I'm pretty sure you can think of at least one (Houseki no Kuni, in my case), and an ending that satisfacts all readers might be impossible. And knowing how the manga execs must be panicking about One Piece ending (if no worthy successor to it is found, it'll require a...downsizing in the best scenario), so they have to stretch current works. But, in the politics of serialized manga, some answers might be in processes we don't have access to (the curse of Sweet Today).

[ahoyimlosingmymind]

sophie is an unreliable narrator, but not intentionally. She's just so insecure that it affects her communication with all of the other characters and her perception of reality.

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[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

i love the voice acting for both hunter and willow in the willow park depression arc. she’s having a panic attack and hunter delivers his lines like “i feel the exact way, but i know what youre saying about yourself isn’t true, and im only now realizing how this kind of thinking hurts.” nice to see how hunter is getting more used to showing his emotions and crying after spending time in the human realm. and its nice to show him passing that to willow.

[poppy5991]

Me: rooting for the MHA heroes because they have PTSD

Horikoshi, dropping my villain academia: ok what if…villains also have PTSD

Me:

[trekkele]

Oh? You like [popular ship]? Which one is always making "unecessary boundaries" and is "emotionally incompetent" and which one is always stomping over those boundaries in the name of "emotional competence"?