#six WF

[thisheademptyyeet]

*posts an iceberg about an ln AU that I barely post about* good luck to understand!

just to be clear, Kai is rk, Robin is rcg and the pretender is sometimes refered as prett.

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

consistently amazed by my own ability to Not Do The Things I'd Like To Be Doing, actually

[jonesyjonesyjonesy]

I haven't done a six sentence sunday for Wildflowers in a while, but oh boy, oh boy am I stoked to fuck with you all.

“The veins in your eyes. They look like…lightning.”

I pursed my lips.

“Did you know that?” he asked eagerly.

This wasn’t going well. “Lift your arms, John.”

The sheer curiosity in his expression turned into a smirk that would have been playful in a different moment, but for now made my stomach lunge to expel itself through my mouth. “Are you trying to get into my trousers?”

“I’m trying…to get you ready for bed. You need to rest,” I said as calmly as I could though my blood had been absolutely roiling for the past half hour.

John lifted a hand, unsteady like he was under anesthesia. He gripped the collar of my dressing gown and tried to pull me down toward him, but his strength was buffeted by whatever was in his system and his hand plummeted to the mattress. “You really ought to buy a lady dinner first, Maureen.”

I should explain from the beginning, shouldn’t I?

Hehehehe I am so excited to watch the world burn. Sorry.

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[alteredsilicone]

Viri sells Obols to Corpus telling them it's a good luck charm until Ergo stops her

[speckeltail]

the wolf of saturn six is back

YEAH I SAW

[r0semultiverse]

AMOGUS PROTEA FLASH MOB AT THE DUVIRI RELAYS LATER

reds are from Halloween and cyan/light blue is Cherub (you can use any light blues)

[kellyvela]

If Grrm didn't scrap the 5 yrs age gap, then Sansa would be 18-19 and Jon would be 21-22 during reclaiming WF. Somewhat similar in age of Ned Cat when they enter WF after marriage.

Right, but, that "gap" wasn't really a "big" thing. George only thought about it after finishing ASOS and tried to do it while he started writing AFFC, but soon after he realized that it wouldn't work.

Q: I'm obsessed with the five-year gap you originally planned in the middle of the series. How would that have happened? GRRM: Originally, there was not supposed to be any gap. There was just supposed to be a passage of time, as the book went forward. My original concept back in 1991 was, I would start with these characters as children, and they would get older. If you pick up Arya at eight, the second chapter would be a couple months later, and she would be eight and a half and [then] she'd be nine. [This would happen] all within the space of a book. But when I actually got into writing them, the events have a certain momentum. So you write a chapter and then in your next chapter, it can't be six months later, because something's going to happen the next day. So you have to write what happens the next day, and then you have to write what happens the week after that. And the news gets to some other place. And pretty soon, you've written hundreds of pages and a week has passed, instead of the six months, or the year, that you wanted to pass. So you end a book, and you've had a tremendous amount of events — but they've taken place over a short time frame and the eight-year-old kid is still eight years old. So that really took hold of me for the first three books. When it became apparent that that had taken hold of me, I came up with the idea of the five-year gap. "Time is not passing here as I want it to pass, so I will jump forward five years in time." And I will come back to these characters when they're a little more grown up. And that is what I tried to do when I started writing Feast for Crows. So [the gap] would have come after A Storm of Swords and before Feast for Crows. But what I soon discovered — and I struggled with this for a year — [the gap] worked well with some characters like Arya — who at end the of Storm of Swords has taken off for Braavos. You can come back five years later, and she has had five years of training and all that. Or Bran, who was taken in by the Children of the Forest and the green ceremony, [so you could] come back to him five years later. That’s good. Works for him. Other characters, it didn’t work at all. I'm writing the Cersei chapters in King's Landing, and saying, "Well yeah, in five years, six different guys have served as Hand and there was this conspiracy four years ago, and this thing happened three years ago." And I'm presenting all of this in flashbacks, and that wasn't working. The other alternative was [that] nothing happened in those five years, which seemed anticlimactic. The Jon Snow stuff was even worse, because at the end of Storm he gets elected Lord Commander. I'm picking up there, and writing "Well five years ago, I was elected Lord Commander. Nothing much has happened since then, but now things are starting to happen again." I finally, after a year, said "I can't make this work." [Source]

[invested-in-your-future]

I still can't get it out of my head that after SIX VOLUMES WHERE:

Beacon fell

Sun ditched his team and ran off to another continent because Blake needed a comic relief (and showrunners were still queerbaiting).

Mistral had it's huntsmen wiped and academy attacked

Atlas and Mantle literally got destroyed

Vale got offscrened

WF tore itself apart

Team RWBY went "missing"

There's a world destroying immortal satan with god mcguffins.

All that the showrunners can think of when it comes to writing Sun and Neptune(who is from Mistral btw) is STILL just "ayyy Volume 2 comedy clown segment"...

If there was a moment to showcase just how RWBY writers are completely unable to progress characters in any way or have them react to story beats, this would be it.

[sherlokiness]

I think your Sansa chicken metaphor as foreshadowing for jonsa marriage is stronger than the blue flower sweetness meaning jonerys marriage. /s

Hi, anon! Why do I feel like you're making fun of me? I am serious about Sansa being a chicken!!! I'm sure you're familar about the trope in stories where the hero gets a reward after saving the day.

The hero will slay the dragon and get a princess' hand in marriage as a reward. Is it crazy to expect this? I don't think so. The series is ultimately a song. All the stories can't be lies. There are true knights and heroes.

The bitch growled low in her throat and moved closer. Ghost looked up, silent, and fixed the dog with those hot red eyes. The bitch snapped an angry challenge. She was three times the size of the direwolf pup. Ghost did not move. He stood over his prize and opened his mouth, baring his fangs. The bitch tensed, barked again, then thought better of this fight. She turned and slunk away, with one last defiant snap to save her pride. Ghost went back to his meal.

In the first book of the series, Ghost faces off against a mongrel bitch bigger than him and will successfully defend his prize. What's the prize? Sansa/Winterfell.

"Hungry again?" he asked. There was still half a honeyed chicken in the center of the table. Jon reached out to tear off a leg, then had a better idea. He knifed the bird whole and let the carcass slide to the floor between his legs

The chicken is a honeyed chicken. It's sweet. *insert quotes of Sansa involving honey and being honey sweet* I'll make smth longer than this later. I think.

Arya was always quick and clever, but in the end she's just a little girl, and Roose Bolton is not the sort who would be careless with a prize of such great worth.

"Do you blame me, my lord? Such a prize is not easily won. A nubile girl, I hear, and not hard to look upon. Good hips, good breasts, well made for whelping children."

"She is old enough to be Lady of Winterfell once her brother is dead. Claim her maidenhood and you will be one step closer to claiming the north. Get her with child, and the prize is all but won. Do I need to remind you that a marriage that has not been consummated can be set aside?"

Who will win the prize that is Sansa Stark? Is this sexist? Even Jon says Arya is a prize.

He wanted it, Jon knew then. He wanted it as much as he had ever wanted anything. I have always wanted it, he thought, guiltily. May the gods forgive me. It was a hunger inside him, sharp as a dragonglass blade. A hunger . . . he could feel it.

Jon's hunger for Winterfell gets mingled with Ghost's hunger. Since Ghost gets to successfully eat the honeyed chicken, I'm gonna assume Jon's hunger will be satisfied.

Red eyes, Jon realized, but not like Melisandre's. He had a weirwood's eyes. Red eyes, red mouth, white fur. Blood and bone, like a heart tree. He belongs to the old gods, this one. And he alone of all the direwolves was white. Six pups they'd found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and black and brown, for the five Starks, and one white, as white as Snow.

He had his answer then.

Indeed, Jon forgot about the WF hunger because of the appearance of Ghost and how he's different.

Jon said, "Winterfell belongs to my sister Sansa."

Winterfell belongs to Sansa.

Then Ghost emerged from between two trees, with Val beside him.

They look as though they belong together.

And Sansa belongs with Ghost.

[thisheademptyyeet]

Them, the three dumbasses <3

Original base here

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

crying okay so once again thwarted by my inability to count HOWEVER: i am OFFICIALLY seven (7) pages of typing from the end of this book!! and!! today i did seven (7) pages by lollygagging! so i think! if i am On It tomorrow! i could FINISH FORREAL!!!

[northoftheroad]

hey! im really new to the fandom and ive been looking through your blog (quite literally awesome btw) and im finding your resources so helpful! I was just wondering if you have a recommended reading order/place to start? i want to get a good understanding of the storylines but i also wanna focus on dick grayson bc ive just been drawn to him the most so far, also on the batfam in general. Im having a hard time figuring out where to start haha

Hi, welcome and I'm happy you've been enjoying my posts ❤️ Maybe you've seen my three reading lists (pre-Flashpoint, New 52 and the current run) but decided there's too many old comics to hunt down? Perfectly understandable 😎

I guess there are as many possible starting points as there are Dick Grayson fans to give recommendations. Personally, I'm fond of the New Teen Titans from the 1980s. Read with modern eyes, they're not flawless, but it's still the start of the modern, growing-up version of Dick Grayson. The book will eventually decline in quality, but there's still a lot of comics to enjoy.

For older stories with Dick as Robin, DC has published two collected editions with stories from the 60s and 70s. They're partly the same comics in both volumes. I like them, and if you’re curious about this period you’ll be spared the job of looking through many, many floppies for the occasional Robin story.

If you're looking for something considerably shorter, there’s also The Gauntlet (Dick’s field test, a great one-shot) and Robin Year One, which I'm sorry to say I don't love, and Teen Titans Year One, which is a good short and modern retelling of vol 1 of the Teen Titans.

If you look at current comics, it's no secret I think Tom Taylor’s run is pretty dull, but a lot of people love it. That's one starting point, but I'd rather recommend to start reading volume 4 from the start. The book has had its ups and downs (feel free to skip the years before Taylor started writing, when Dick is not-Dick) but some of the pre-Taylor stories are very good.

But - the best current books with Dick are no doubt Batman Superman World’s Finest, and the spin-off six issue WF Teen Titans. Dick is not the main character in WF, and he's not yet Nightwing, and it’s still superior .

That's what I can think about on the spot. I hope you’ll find something helpful!

[jackoshadows]

The way GRRM writes Arya and Jon in AFfC and ADwD thinking of their siblings in that specific order and then ending with each other.

It's just a sword. . . but it wasn't.

Needle was Robb

and Bran

and Rickon,

her mother and her father,

even Sansa.

Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room.

Needle was Jon Snow's smile. He used to mess my hair and call me "little sister," she remembered, and suddenly there were tears in her eyes. - Arya, AFfC

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Jon flexed the fingers of his sword hand. The Night’s Watch takes no part. He closed his fist and opened it again.

What you propose is nothing less than treason. He thought of Robb, with snowflakes melting in his hair.

Kill the boy and let the man be born. He thought of Bran, clambering up a tower wall, agile as a monkey.

Of Rickon’s breathless laughter.

Of Sansa, brushing out Lady’s coat and singing to herself.

You know nothing, Jon Snow. He thought of Arya, her hair as tangled as a bird’s nest. I made him a warm cloak from the skins of the six whores who came with him to Winterfell … I want my bride back … I want my bride back … I want my bride back  - Jon, ADwD

The way these passages end, with Arya breaking the rules/oaths of the FM and keeping Needle and Jon breaking his oaths of the NW to attack the Boltons in WF for Arya.

It’s like an affirmation of how strong their bonds are, being above oaths and vows and duties. Yes, Robb, Bran, Rickon and Sansa are bonds to family and home. However, it’s Jon and Arya who provide that extra emotional impetus, that pushes them into an important decision. 

The Many-Faced God can have the rest, Arya thought, but he can't have this - Arya, AFfC

“I think we had best change the plan,” Jon Snow said.- Jon, ADwD

[wfs-of]

AUGUST 2023 DEVLOG

Hello everyone, this is WFS-Team. This post should answer the most popular questions of our readers! (✿╹◡╹)

✿THE CONTENT OF THE POST✿

1. Remaster: = 1.1 Cast of characters. = 1.2 What is the plot now? = 1.3 How often we plan to release new pages.

2. A new team.

3. Plans for the future

✿REMASTER✿

— 1.1 Cast of characters ＼(^ω^＼) Let's start with the most interesting in our opinion! We have decided to completely abandon the alpha and beta separation of trolls and kids. Now we have one group of trolls and kids. This is done to facilitate the work of the team, better assimilation of the plot, and also so that we do not have empty characters or those who do not play a role in the plot, but will only play the role of a fanservice in the project. Now we will show only the kids and our assistant Holo!

— 1.2. What is the plot now? (ʘдʘ╬) Of course, in addition to the characters, we write the plot. No more spontaneous decisions! We are busy trying to think at least the main events in the comic through so that there are no plot holes in the future! We are working on it and promise that the first pages will be published only when we finish writing the plot!! We also do not deny that there will be a fanservice in the comic to dilute the narrative and give you a rest!

— 1.3. How often we plan to release new pages (人ﾟ∀ﾟ) As we have already said, we will start making pages only when we finish writing the plot. But we want to talk about how often we plan release new pages! We plan to release all the pages for reading once a month to please you, and not make you wait for six months! We hope that you will also like this idea!!

✿A NEW TEAM✿

As you may remember, our team was disbanded due to some problems that were within our team. At some point, the project was supposed to close, but now it's not like that! Yes, now we have a fairly small team, but despite this, we are quite friendly! All the guys are fully working on the project, and not doing nothing, and really burning with enthusiasm on the project to please you!! You can see the list of the members here.

✿PLANS FOR THE FUTURE✿

We have a lot of plans for the project itself! We are working on the pages, and also on the official English translation at the same time! We plan not just to translate, but to adapt some jokes, reference, etc. We will try not to disappoint our English-speaking fan base as well!

A little more from the plans:

Make official stickers with Holo in about 4 months. They will definitely be in the telegram, stay tuned. And yet the comic itself is a priority for us!

In 2 months, we will make a video podcast where we will talk about the plans for the plot itself, tell a little about our kitchen, and also share some funny moments that happened with the comic. We hope you enjoy it!!

[kob131]

If you haven't already seen it yourself, this is what the anon who mentioned that ridiculous claim of the WF plotline 'radicalizing people ' is referring to. www(.)reddit(.)com/r/RWBY/comments/10ruu07/the_wf_plotline_and_you/

... What the hell am I looking at?

When violent protests occur in the real world, from the Stonewall Riots to full revolutions like the French Revolution, they happen because certain conditions became so unlivable that significant portions of the populace felt violence was their only recourse.

Okay. ... That doesn't mean the revolt is good, that you should be violent or even that the force behind the revolution is better. Ignoring the French Revolution which i recently talked about-

One could consider the Nazis and Hitler to be rebels of their time. They were outside the establishment and said that violence was their only option as Germany crumbled and fell. No one's gonna argue they're GOOD.

These kind of events didn’t happen because one person convinced others to commit acts of terrorism, so to villainize the WF because of the actions of one person is a bit silly.

No but one person tends to convince others to be violent, again with the Nazis and Hitler.

Not to mention that the WF in the show is villainized for their acts of terror and aid in MASS GENOCIDE.

 Many people seem to have determined that the WF plot line is about people using civil rights movements for their own ends, but the socioeconomic conditions that lead to these revolutions are such that the actions of one person are irrelevant.

Then why do we place so much blame on Hitler then? Seriously, is the history of the Nazis just gonna counter every single point you make?

Furthermore, focusing on the character of the people taking part in riots and protests with the goal of discrediting their movements while ignoring the reason they're rioting is a common tactic in right-wing media. Ever since Black Lives Matter became an organization Fox News has been constantly reporting on it, but whenever they do the goal is to discredit it by focusing on some of their alleged wrongdoings with very little time spent on the cases of police brutality that made the group necessary.

"Hey, don't pay attention to how these people do nothing but make the situation worse and act like violent animals. No, focus on how they are victims!"

And yet again- Adolf Hitler was abused by his father, lost a sibling in his youth, was indoctrinated into anti-semetism from his time in art school and was a war veteran who watched his country fall apart in no small part due to the victors destroying their economy.

Again- doesn't excuse HIS actions, why would it excuse the WF's?

Which brings me to the core of my concern: I fear that in trying to believe that the writing of the WF plotline is sound a lot of people are gonna find themselves going done an alt-right pipeline. It starts off as people believing CRWBY has a point about the WF, then they seek out similar content about the wrongdoings of civil rights groups, that content then links to homophobic, transphobic content that might seem harmful enough then Bam! Radicalized! I know it seems a bit unlikely and I am simplifying it but not only does radicalization happen to the unsuspecting RT has already gotten the fandom to financially support a company known for almost every type of bigotry there is, so how unlikely is it really?

The fact that I have been preaching this for roughly six years and I'm barely considered right wing by today's society...when I'm a self professed centrist?

My point is when consuming content that tackles real world subjects like racism it's important to question it and not let a singular devotion to making your favorite show look better than it is cloud your judgement and slowly radicalize you. This may seem unimportant within the grand scheme of RWBY because the WF plotline ended in V6 but if the series is going to end with V9 humanity united then that would only occur because of the de-radicalization of the WF, which is it's own can of worms.

I came to my conclusion by observing history, seeing how violence was villainized in the past, compared it to my own states of intense anger and how disgusted with myself I felt about my violent thoughts. RWBY has nothing to do with this.

You just want the show to validate your bloodlust.

[usafphantom2]

VS-27 Grumman S2F-1 Tracker 136615 (AU-10) by Wing attack Plan R Via Flickr: Grumman S2F-1 (S-2A) Tracker/Bu.No. 136615 -Upgraded to S-2F. -1961: VS-27 as AU-10. -VS-32 as AT-42. - 1966: VS-32. -8/1966: Put into storage at MASDC. -Converted to US-2A. -1968: MCAS New River Base Flight. -11/19/1968: Written off. Photo Credit's: Unknown to me (Reprint). Photo date: 1961-62. Location: Aboard USS Essex (CV-9)? The Grumman S-2 Tracker (S2F prior to 1962) was the first purpose-built, single airframe anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft to enter service with the United States Navy. Designed and initially built by Grumman, the Tracker was of conventional design — propeller-driven with twin radial engines, a high wing that could be folded for storage on aircraft carriers, and tricycle undercarriage. The type was exported to a number of navies around the world. Introduced in 1952, the Tracker and its E-1 Tracer derivative saw service in the U.S. Navy until the mid-1970s, and its C-1 Trader derivative until the mid-1980s, with a few aircraft remaining in service with other air arms into the 21st century. Argentina and Brazil are the last countries to still use the Tracker. Design and development- The Tracker was intended as a replacement for the Grumman AF Guardian, which was the first purpose-built aircraft system for ASW, using two airframes for two versions, one with the detection gear, and the other with the weapon systems. The Tracker combined both functions in one aircraft. Grumman's design (model G-89) was for a large high-wing monoplane with twin Wright Cyclone R-1820 nine cylinder radial engines, a yoke type arrestor hook and a crew of four. Both the two prototypes XS2F-1 and 15 production aircraft, S2F-1 were ordered at the same time, on 30 June 1950. The first flight was conducted on 4 December 1952, and production aircraft entered service with VS-26, in February 1954. Follow-on versions included the WF Tracer and TF Trader, which became the Grumman E-1 Tracer and Grumman C-1 Trader in the tri-service designation standardization of 1962. The S-2 carried the nickname "Stoof" (S-two-F) throughout its military career; and the E-1 Tracer variant with the large overhead radome was colloquially called the "stoof with a roof.". Grumman produced 1,185 Trackers. At least 99 and possibly 100 aircraft carrying the CS2F designation were manufactured in Canada under license by de Havilland Canada. U.S.-built versions of the Tracker were sold to various nations, including Australia, Japan, Turkey and Taiwan. Sensors and armament- The Tracker had an internal torpedo bay capable of carrying two lightweight aerial torpedoes or one nuclear depth charge. There were six underwing hard points for rocket pods and conventional depth charges or up to four additional torpedoes. A ventrally-mounted retractable radome for AN/APS-38 radar and a Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD) AN/ASQ-8 mounted on an extendable rear mounted boom were also fitted. Early model Trackers had an Electronic Support Measures (ESM) pod mounted dorsally just aft of the front seat overhead hatches and were also fitted with a smoke particle detector or "sniffer" for detecting exhaust particles from diesel-electric submarines running on snorkel. Later S-2s had the sniffer removed and had the ESM antennae moved to four rounded extensions on the wingtips. A 70-million-candlepower searchlight was mounted on the starboard wing. The engine nacelles carried JEZEBEL sonobuoys in the rear (16 in early marks, 32 in the S-2E/G). Early Trackers also carried 60 explosive charges, dispensed ventrally from the rear of the fuselage and used to create sound pulses for semi-active sonar (JULIE) with the AN/AQA-3 and later AQA-4 detection sets, whereas the introduction of active sonobuoys (pingers) and AN/AQA-7 with the S-2G conversion saw these removed. Smoke dispensers were mounted on the port ventral surface of the nacelles in groups of three each.