#vi watches rwby

[commandervisor]

do i post my remaining v8 reactions or do i just skip straight to v9 or just not do anything at all

[kitkatopinions]

I still can't believe there are people out here trying to pretend like Hunters in RWBY aren't just fantasy cops.

Yes, RWBY is pretty freaking bad copaganda but I'm not actually one hundred percent against the idea of them being fantasy law enforcement if it hadn't been done in the most copaganda way possible, because fiction doesn't always match reality. But like??? There are people saying they're not cops and there's nothing copanganda about RWBY???

Let's not pretend here guys. They are badge carrying law enforcement officers who work for the government and can arrest people. And then RWBY fans are gonna turn around and be like "Cait and Vi from Arcane are worse than Blake and Yang because they're cops." Blake and Yang are cops! They're fantasy police officers by another name. This is more proof that people will just let RWBY get away with anything that they would be against in like any other thing. This is why even if a RWBY re-write does the same things the actual show does, they still get hate from the same people who are against any and all criticism of RWBY.

People are really out here watching a different show, because they just change whatever is in RWBY that doesn't line up with their made up concept, and then accuse rwde posters of lying.

[bestworstcase]

What is it that causes people to determine whether a story is a "deconstruction" or has deconstructive elements in it?? There doesn't really seem to be any specific rhyme or reason behind how it works, and half of the time it feels like the main reason people see something as a deconstruction is because some other big YouTube personality tells them, and then they just regurgitate that as fact.

so here’s the thing—and it’s a recurring pattern, i don’t mean to pick on you specifically for it—but i dislike this mindset that all poor or unsound or bad faith or even just clumsy analysis in fandoms is the consequence of people being idiot sheep mindlessly regurgitating what the big bad youtubers say.

i think i’ve made my position vis-a-vis fanon ‘analysis’ pretty clear (namely that most fandom-produced meta isn’t analysis because fandom is transformative by nature and the approach to the text is different, and that my personal distaste for fandom is predicated on fandom’s cultural disregard for the text, hostility toward real textual analysis, and the refusal or failure to distinguish between analytical and transformative engagement which socially rewards nakedly antitextual “analysis” if it taps into popular fanon).

i do not watch youtube video essays. i have never felt an interest in doing so. i cannot imagine what the appeal could possibly be. i would, frankly, exist in a permanent state of Not Thinking About Youtube were it not for the rwby fandom’s inexplicable fixation on youtube video essays. i feel an unshakable and possibly baseless conviction that you folks are the weird ones here, not me.

anyway no people don’t slap the ‘deconstruction’ label onto everything willy-nilly because they’re idiot sheep who’ve been brainwashed by the evil youtubers. they do it because ‘deconstruction’ was an ill-defined and nebulous textual approach even before it percolated into fandom and sparked off the trend of narrative cynicism which is endemic not just in fandom but in the modern entertainment industry itself, largely as a consequence of executives prioritizing profit over artistry and rampant anti-intellectualism.

to deconstruct is to disassemble and examine and fandom prides itself on both disregard for the text (“fuck canon!”) and strip-mining stories for spare parts to glue together into the mold of fanon archetypes. and you’re surprised that people in fandom widely misuse and misapply the concept of deconstruction?

[butch-bracket]

BUTCH BRACKET Round 2

Rules & Guidelines

matches under the cut! polls will be linked once posted

Jess McCready (A League of Their Own) vs. Lupe García (A League of Their Own)

Jo DeLuca (A League of Their Own) vs. Vi (A League of Their Own)

Max Chapman (A League of Their Own) vs. Chleo Kitagawa (Belle of the Ball)

Miyake Aoi (D4DJ) vs. Kyoutani Kentarou (Haikyuu)

Captain Annabelle Cheddar (Dimension 20: A Crown of Candy) vs. Kristen Applebees (Dimension 20: Fantasy High)

Lake (Infinity Train) vs. Anne Lister (Gentleman Jack)

Zarya/Aleksandra Zaryanova (Overwatch) vs. Junker Queen/Odessa "Dez" Stone (Overwatch)

Susie (Deltarune) vs. Riot Maidstone (Hello from the Hallowoods)

Bonnibel Bubblegum (Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake) vs. The Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who)

Vi (Arcane) vs. Rika (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet)

Jean (Blue Jean) vs. Opera (Mairimashita! Iruma-Kun)

Jane Crocker (Homestuck) vs. Applejack (My Little Pony)

Lae'zel (Baldur's Gate 3) vs. Karlach (Baldur's Gate 3)

Kena Mwaura (Rafiki) vs. Emmy Altava (Professor Layton)

Lois (Dykes to Watch Out For) vs. Mo (Dykes to Watch Out For)

Niamh Brody (Any Way The Wind Blows) vs. Kenjou Akira/Cure Chocolat (KiraKira Precure a la Mode)

Tenoh Haruka/Sailor Uranus (Sailor Moon) vs. Nazali Satrinava (The Arcana)

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. Pyrrha Dve (The Locked Tomb)

Park Jae-In (Sora & Haena!) vs. Jess Goldberg (Stone Butch Blues)

Van Palmer (Yellowjackets) vs. Tenjou Utena (Revolutionary Girl Utena)

Burn (Wings of Fire) vs. Tsunami (Wings of Fire)

Mothwing (Warriors) vs. Anybodys (West Side Story (2021))

Mitsuki Koga (The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All) vs. Susie Myerson (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel)

Sabine (Star Stable) vs. Korra (The Legend of Korra)

Huntara (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power) vs. Scorpia (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Kit Tanthalos (Willow) vs. Sun Jing (Tamen De Gushi)

Buliara (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom) vs. Impa (The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword)

Tetra (The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker) vs. Queen Barb (Trolls)

Willow Park (The Owl House) vs. Raine Whispers (The Owl House)

Vector the Crocodile (Sonic the Hedgehog) vs. Surge the Tenrec (Sonic the Hedgehog)

Garnet (Steven Universe) vs. Bismuth (Steven Universe)

Saira (We Are Lady Parts) vs. Yang Xiao Long (RWBY)

[tumblezwei]

(Hasn't actually watched Rwby since V5) BUT YO, I'M LOVIN ALL THIS RUBY ROSE COMMENTARY JDJDJDJDJDKDK.

Yo, youngest brother here, I 110% get that post you made about Yang giving Ruby the #Look. Like you're trying to express your exhasperation and exhaustion and you get #TheLook. That shit hurts.

Also yo, that's the #Bitter Look ya'll, omg.

The Jinx and Vi and Ruby and Yang vibes are tasty up in this bi- WOOOOOO

Corruption arc for Ruby when? That'll get me back to the show kdjdkskks

YOU GET IT, YOU GET THE #LOOK

It's how you know they don't mean to invalidate your feelings when they look at you like that, but it just makes you feel so small. And you just know that whatever feelings you're trying to get across just won't.

Jinx and Ruby are truly two peas in a pod and it's insane to me how similar they are sometimes.

And don't worry if Ruby goes berserk mode you'll be the first person I tell lmao

[valenshawke]

"Oh, the misery..."

"Everyone wants to be my enemy..."

Is it weird that I celebrate anniversaries of when I first watched/read something (when I started tracking them at least). Yes? Too bad because I want to ramble about Arcane.

365 days ago, today, I watched episode 1 one of Arcane: League of Legends.

Really, just by the luck of a spinning wheel that landed on it as the next thing to watch.

I went in only vaguely knowing it was based on League of Legends (obviously), but I played all of maybe 3 minutes of the game. Otherwise, I didn't have any spoilers, did not know any of the characters. I went in cold.

Here were are a year later.

And I'm still surprised this thing ending up consuming my soul.

So, what do I mean by that?

To put it in measurable terms: On August 29, 2022, I had zero posts/reblogs tagged Arcane. By the end of today, August 29, 2023, I will have 5,893 posts/reblogs tagged with Arcane. This makes it my number THREE most used fandom tag. In a span of one year.

To put that into perspective, the only two tags AHEAD of Arcane are: 2. Fullmetal Alchemist/Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood (combined since it's pretty much the same canon. That is the former refers to the manga and not the 03 series) at over 8700 posts/reblogs and 1. Claymore at nearly 13,000 posts/reblogs.

Some more perspective? It overshot the following fandoms: RWBY, Cowboy Bebop, Code Geass, Kill la Kill, and Ghost in the Shell. There are some other fandoms, but I won't mention them as I actively came to dislike them. But the one's I mentioned? Between 4 and 8 years I've been in them.

Arcane overshot all of them all.

Arcane, specifically CaitVi, became the first fandom that isn't Claymore where I commissioned fan art!

I'm actually trying to write a piece using a bit of class analysis and how Arcane demonstrates what normally happens to the "revolution" through Silco (I'm still struggling with if this is even interesting). I've been trying to come up with something to write about Vi or Caitlyn (or even CaitVi) but the great orphanmaker/visupremacy has done a great job covering them.

And what gives me pause the most is... if season 2 comes out in 2024... it's entirely possible that, in 2024, Arcane overtakes Claymore as my used fandom tagged.

Yeah... Vi, Caitlyn, Jinx, Ekko, and that rat-bastard Silco mean a lot to me...

[crimsonxe]

I’m just going to be blunt: Women do being badass different in the absolute best way. Like men are cool and all but there’s nothing better than a woman just absolutely wrecking house like a badass.

This thought brought to you by: Practically all of RWBY’s females (though special mention to Yang who literally has taken giant creatures by their horns and flipped them); Caitlyn, Vi, and Jinx from Arcane; Motoko “Major” Kusanagi from Ghost in the Shell franchise; all of the Warrior Nun crew; Buffy; Selene in Underworld; most recently Nik from the Extraction movies; etc. Truly a work of art watching them work (and no this isn’t about appreciating their looks, its a matter of the literally how they do what they do that has a beauty of its own).

[chimkennuggit]

introduction

hi! i'm dot, and welcome to my page! my page is peridot themed, but my posts don't have a solid theme. i mostly repost things i find interesting, or post my disorganized thoughts and poetry with the occasional scenic picture (i.e. trees, sunsets, fields, etc.)

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elder scrolls series - mostly about elder scrolls v: skyrim and the developments of elder scrolls vi, the beyond skyrim mods, skyblivion, and skywind, however there are a few oblivion posts sprinkled into the category.

retro video games - mostly original playstation and playstation two games since i grew up playing those as a kid. examples include but not limited to spyro: year of the dragon, pac-man world, pac-man world two, darkstone, pokmeon crystal, and others.

pokemon - mostly a fan of the johto region, but have played many of the other games. top two favorite games are most definitely pokemon soulsilver and pokemon crystal.

2000's nostalgia - anything that 2000's babies grew up with or experienced as a whole.

music - i like most kinds of music with a few exceptions, such a screamo. i don't know every genre of music, but a decent bit of them, so this list may expand. my favorites are probably classic rock, grunge, alternative, indie, rap, and metal.

parenting - i have a 3-year-old so there will be some funny moments i post about on here and sometimes the struggles of my journey as a parent. no, i will not be posting pictures of my child.

pets - i have a dog (husky & pit mix), a black cat, and 2 birds, so they might pop up every now and then.

liminal spaces/the backrooms - anything that falls in the category of feeling like the backrooms or a liminal space, places that give off a sense of unease but also calm, i suppose.

analog horror - my favorite type of horror genre, i may talk about upcoming games of this type or games that i've found of it.

poetry and literature - i tend to repost quotes or poems i find to be interesting or endearing. i'm also working on a book series from the point of view of an altmer-bosmer woman in the elder scrolls universe named willow titled "lost faith", so i may ask questions relating to it or post about it's developments.

pride - as a member of the lgbtq+ community who identifies as genderfluid, pansexual, and demisexual, i sometimes post the struggles about accepting and finding my own identity.

the struggles of adult adhd - i was diagnosed as a child, and still struggle with it today so some jokes and/or genuine posts about it.

nature - rarely, i post nice pictures i take of plants or scenic views and i find more rural areas to be a lot more comforting, so i talk about that sometimes.

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possible triggers when browsing this blog can be found below

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TW:

swearing, a lot of it

talks of mental health struggles

talks of violence in video games

posts and reposts with literature that can be disheartening or sad

resposts of surreal and liminal photography

[alexkablob]

@commandervisor a selection of quotes from volume 3 chapter 1

Ruby: “And that’s all while we were still in training! Oh, imagine what it’ll be like when we graduate!”

Nora: “The worst thing that can happen is we lose!”

Pyrrha: “If anything we should be looking forward to a fight with actual guidelines and not, well, murderers.”

[commandervisor]

i'm days away from it having been three fucking years since I started rwby? wow

[valenshawke]

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[commandervisor]

"Thank you, Winter. I don't know what I'd do without you."

Yeah, uh, that's something to say to an abuse victim.

[commandervisor]

WOAH OKAY WHAT THE FUCK JAMES

[commandervisor]

[commandervisor]

rwby good

[commandervisor]

You gave Watts a computer? That is maybe one of the WORST ideas you could do at the moment.