#incoherent with rage

[asexualbuthorny]

you know what i hate?

when bitches wobify Mu Qing and make him into a twink and i especially despise it when they do it for a ship with Feng Xin.

and okay he's not as muscular and more lean (hence being describes as looking scholarly) but do y'all fucking forget the man is a martial god in his own right? by no means is that man a damsel in distress that needs Feng Xin to constantly save him. he's smart, he's cunning and yeah he had a few vulnerable moments but by no means is he a poor wet meow meow he would kick your ass and laugh at you for being a failure. and yeah he's more lithe, especially when he's constantly next to Feng Xin who is kind of hypermasculine in fandom portrayals and impo (general "gigantic masculinity" anyone?) and those two are THE SAME FUCKING HEIGHT so why is Mu Qing always drawn to be much shorter than Feng Xin. and also maybe let's factor in the fact that Mu Qing was poor when growing and likely had to go without food so the lack of proper food while growing probably had an effect on his development(this just a hc btw but still it tracks). also this whole thing kind of smells really bad when people take Mu Qing, who is described as scholarly, and feminise him. it's really giving "EUGH!!! school is for girls!! only boys play sports!! academics=lame, feminine girly, war=cool, MASCULINE, done by REAL MEN URGH!!!"

y'all saw a man who is a war good who doesn't conform to your idea of a "war god" and went "no❤️that one is a femboi catboi twink who gets bent over by that one who DOES conform to my basic, no nuance idea of a war god"

get bent xoxo

[possiblycringe]

Sometimes I wonder how Akechi felt being on the other end of the encounter with a cornered animal.

[anthurak]

So latest in the long line of ways that Jaune represents a massive, brutal and scathing subversion of so many typical shounen/fantasy-hero protagonist tropes that a sizable chunk of the fandom seems to have ENTIRELY missed the memo on, let’s talk about his time at Beacon.

Specifically, how we see Jaune struggle so much in classes and seemingly has to put in much more work and training than his peers.

Now this is a pretty standard ‘main character’ trope in so many fantasy adventure school stories. The idea that the hero works so much harder than all of his peers because they’re all elitists who were ‘handed’ everything while our plucky underdog hero has to get by on gumption and good work ethic (and also plot armor, higher-power favoritism and narrative cheat codes but they don’t like it when you say that out loud). And on the surface, like so many other things in RWBY, it might seem at first like Jaune’s story is playing that trope straight.

But of course if we actually THINK about Jaune’s situation for a second, it becomes clear that the context of his situation actually represents a pretty scathing takedown of this trope.

The reason why Jaune seemingly has to work so much harder than all his peers in the present is because all those peers ALREADY DID all that hard work and training before they even came to Beacon. The same hard work and training that Jaune DIDN’T do because he thought he could proverbially ‘skip the line’ and CHEAT his way into Beacon.

Ruby, Yang, Blake, even resident rich-kid Weiss, they ALL put in YEARS of work and training to become huntresses. EVERYONE at Beacon did.

Everyone except Jaune.

He seems to have never even so much as attended a combat school, and NOTHING we’ve seen or heard indicates that he otherwise wanted to and was prevented by his family or some other factor. Instead, he clearly seems to have thought that he could just skip all of that and just cheat his way into Beacon.

Really, the fact that Jaune got as far as he did thanks just as much if not more so to having friends who would help and cover for him, as well as him lucking out and having a particularly naturally large aura reserves, rather than any kind of hard work he put in. And with ALL of that, he’s still only has basic ability as a fighter and is FAR more effective at simply supporting his friends and allies.

If anything, it does in fact show that Jaune had some pretty impressive potential.

Potential that he completely SQUANDERED.

Imagine if Jaune HAD actually attended a combat school. Actually put in all the same years of work, training and effort that all his peers did. Learned how to be a fighter, trained his aura and unlocked his semblance. Think about where he would have been at the start of the series when arriving at Beacon.

Jaune would almost certainly be on the same level as Ruby, Weiss and the rest. Hell, he might even have been on a similar level to Pyrrha, albeit most likely with very different strengths. Given his semblance, Jaune was always going to be a support-focused fighter. Still, he would still have been one of THE most capable support huntsmen of his year.

But Jaune DIDN’T do any of that. Instead he was forced to effectively burn through all of his potential just playing catchup to all his peers. Having to cram years’ worth of training into a scant few months. Which in turn has left his abilities invariably stunted and lagging behind everyone else.

All of this through no one’s fault but his own.

Unlike what I imagine is literally EVERY OTHER ‘underdog’ at a fantasy adventure school, Jaune being this ‘underdog’ who has to play catchup to all his peers is one hundred percent HIS OWN DAMN FAULT.

Which of course all makes Jaune a FAR more complex and interesting character than 99.999% of the typical fantasy-protag characters who play this trope ‘straight’.

[unionizedwizard]

tbh i know it's me being biased because irma is a summoner main but there's something so funnily accurate about the wol being a summoner re: the whole azem thing. convoker outfit huh! azem's special spell being Use Party Finder and summon allies HUH! and as we've established*, summoning is the missing link between creation magicks and regular sundered arcanima. though of course the funniest reveal of them all was to find out WHY the phoenix rotation had spells called shit like "brands of purgatory" (extremely ❓ for most of the MSQ) and that the true reason is that you pirated copyrighted material created by none other than lahabrea himself and then fixed it yourself. the DRAMA

*as we have obviously all read and agreed with my archon thesis on the topic

[lycoris-basement]

Another thing about D-16 is the fact Sentiel was a false leader who usurped title & legacy of Primes and instead of being mad at him for disgracing name of his idols he got mad at Primes as whole. Who in fact are ancient heroes and have nothing to do with Sentiel's crimes. In his rage and thirst for revenge he became so blinded to extend of lashing on his closest friend for merely becoming one after letting him on death fall. To think all they went through was in search for Matrix in the first place, originally with goal to restore their planet natural resources. Obvious but oblivious

[bvckbiter]

im having so many thoughts about ethan being trans and his immigrant father’s only daughter. ethan in his mortal family being treated as the most fragile precious thing in the world, and he hates it so fucking much. his father keeps promising that ethan will never have to lift a finger as long as he’s around etc etc and ethan’s temper is so frayed because his entire childhood hes watched his dad break his back to no fruitful avail. he and his dad fight about it, about making promises you cant keep, and if you get sick or hurt or get old it wont matter if im a girl. i’ll be the one supporting you anyway so stop acting like an all-powerful hero. then ethan in camp choking down so much anger because dying children are raising dying children, and just like everything else in his life, he never matters in any significant way and cant change anything. ofc he plucks his eye out for nemesis the moment she offers him the chance to change things i would too

[cureofthenonesense]

Liu Kang didn’t make Raiden mortal to ‘get back at him’, he made Raiden mortal because he loved him. Liu Kang knew, from experience, there was no better life for him than humble beginnings next to Kung Lao. It was never about punishing him, or taking his power. His mortality was a gift - giving him freedom, a purpose without the world on his shoulders

[nicodiangelo-we-stan]

My biggest gripe with TSATS is-

Okay my SECOND biggest gripe with TSATS is that there was no Akhlys in the novel

She was so interesting her character was so interesting and the way she viewed Nico was something that I genuinely would’ve really liked to see how that changed

Would she try to torture him now that he has something to lose? She lost her perfect demigod, she must be devastated I’m sure and maybe take taken that anger out on Nico. How would he deal with her now that he would’ve actually had to fight her? Questions I’ll never get answers to

Sorry y’all just thinking about tsats again after I was reminded of the second book and what made me excited for the first one in the first place

Akhlys…Akhlys pls come back…

[spaceparadize]

Ok but imagine writing Faust a song about being flawed and lonely and practically begging for love to come save you to create a dream of bare minimum human survival things like friendship and sleep. And then. And then some cunt steals it, calls you a fag, has you kicked shitless, sends you to jail, funds them ripping ur teeth out, and to top it off ruining that same fucking song, which of course you don't know about till it's on the god damn radio. this is reasonable murderous intent if there ever was one, and then you fuck it up, You fuck it up so bad and ur face. And you think oh maybe I can fix this with a goth outfit and this knife I have with no explanation and you fucking fail to knife the most easily knifable man at his most knifable moment. And then he looks you dead in ur fucking eye, calls you horrible and is like let's be friends k :3 trust me. Fuuuckk thaat fuck that all the way to hell and back. If I were Winslow, no, I would have continued with the knife plan for the rest of the duration of the film in increasingly comic and absurd ways and once I realized Swan can't die that way I woulda kept knifing him just for catharsis. Just oh there's a pause in this conversation, Knife You.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

I know that people are rarely their best selves at a funeral, but do you ever just watch your family move through the process of mourning the Patriarch and have a sudden and violent and vivid understanding of Why Everyone Is The Way They Are

[bookhobbit]

Changes happening at work that have a chance (not a certainty; just a chance) of meaning I may not have enough work to do in the future. Every time this happens it sets off a cascade of suicidality feelings (I am physically safe and not making plans). This is surely not normal. I felt like this all the time when I was finishing my PhD and again, worse, when the company got bought out last year and we sort-of-not-exactly lost our jobs. It's like every time I have to think about the possibility of job-hunting I have an existential crisis and want to stop existing. It's all the same existential crisis that I can't seem to resolve and the same constant obsessing over what I could do to stop myself feeling trapped in a corner, it just kind of goes back down to a quieter level when things are more stable at the job. Just getting news that MIGHT lead to having less work (it might even lead to more work!!! we just don't have the data yet!) has put me back here which feels really stupid of me.

[residentrookie]

hey this is the wrong crowd i think but like i’m having heart palpitations over a college football game rn i had to take two tums and sit outside to reconnect with nature during halftime. i feel physically ill.

[mjshortformcjesus]

my mom is so crazy about the me Being A Tranny thing because she still doesnt call me mj but sometimes out of nowhere she’ll use they/them for me and its so unexpected and scary. last night she did it in front of my older sister (the one who outted me and hasnt spoken to me for more than five minutes since) and my sister said “it” because my mom said “them” and i guess my older sister was trying to be an asshole idk. i just think it fucking sucks that some people are so fucking locked into the binary that they cant even handle it/its pronouns like jesus fucking christ. how do we think she’d feel if she knew i also use ae/aer….

[telemna-hyelle]

Is incredibly mad that I'm trying to write the concept of news being carried out throughout the land upon the wind and all my dumb brain is coming up with is "the word wunged throughout the land"

[scary-grace]

I have two pathetic white-haired fictional characters and I really want to make them fight