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In one hand, that statement undermines just how difficult it is to direct an engaging good "just talking" scene and the skill it takes to pull that off.
But the other hand, it's indicative of how RWBY morphed into a vanity project over its decade-long run.
I understand that as an artist your social media is your portfolio and the more eyes you have the more job opportunities come by.
But Roosterteeth (and this includes Crwby) have fostered a clout-chasing type of environment.
Miles, Kerry and Gray would have meeting with their stressed, overworked, underpaid co-workers just to brag about their trips to Japan.
The fndm has placed MKEK and any talent in Crwby with an on-screen social media presence on a pedestal and, in a way deified them. And all of them have indulged in the toxic parasociality and Internet fame and even weaponized it to obfuscate criticism.
That statement kind of legitimised that and showed how that mindset of farming engagement from the fandom and clout chasing permeated through the entirety of production.
#rwde#again this is not a criticism of the animators but the higher ups and the overall work environment in roosterteeth/crwby#and “punishment” is such a strong word to use#i always stood by that Kerry was a shitty showrunner and all the higher ups are terrible at their jobs too#but to view a scene that wasnt an action scene as punishment??#punishment???#wtf went on in production? wtf is wrong with leadership?
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Ok so according to Eddy on twitter the updated V9 epilogue (releasing on Saturday) is /twice as long/ as the version from RTX (apparently over 12 minutes total)
#Y'all I was expecting a couple new shots at most wtf#That's practically an entire extra chapter of V9#Crwby I'm begging you to show me Pietro with this#rwby
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Damn that episode was wild. I got nothing to say.
I'm just gonna lie here now 🫠
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OK BUT WAS IT REALLY NECESSARY FOR THE FUCKING CAT TO CRAWL IN HER MOUTH LIKE THAT WTF
#rwby#rwby v9 spoilers#rwby spoilers#curious cat#neo politan#bitch got slurped up#none of the previous creepy stuff got to me before this wtf#crwby is upping their game but at the fucking cost of my fucking sanity
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Jaune and Blake's roles are useless. Bumblebee is useless as a ship. Bumblebee is an abusive ship. Blake has privileges. She is WHITE. Fandom can make her a dark-skinned girl out of her all it wants. She will always remain a white girl with rich parents. Blake has a big house. She has never gone hungry. She had access to a comfortable island life without the grimm. Whereas Yang and Ruby grew up in a place full of grimm and even suffered from them. Blake is almost like Weiss, but she's worse. Blake has prejudices against people in 1v and is unapologetic about them. But Blake poor meow meow everyone owes her an apology for racism and her suffering. Her suffering that didn't happen. Blake has protective and kind parents. Her parents were not depressed or alcoholics. Her parents did not die or go missing. Blake has the perfect family. Blake has a perfect partner (I don't think Adam sent her on dangerous missions) Blake is a good white princess who decided to play activist and ran away when she realized it wasn't a game. I suspect that Jaune also has the perfect family. There is not a hint that he was bullied in his family. He has no hints that he was forbidden to practice. It doesn't make sense for Jaune to run away from home to play the hero. Weiss had to work her way through sweat and literally blood. Jaune just forged documents. If he wanted to be a hero so badly, he should have started training at home. Or he should have gone to Signal (like Ruby) . If he's a descendant of heroes, he should have been trained since he was a kid. But he doesn't do anything. Jaune is like Blake. He just decided to play hero. He doesn't want to make people's lives better (like Ruby). He doesn't want to overthrow his father (Weiss). He doesn't even want to run away from his past and start a new life (Blake). He doesn't want to make a profit (Yang). He just wants to play the hero. He wants to be famous. He's useless.
It is incredibly unfortunate that Crwby decided Blake's backstory was going to be island princess instead of orphan activist, but I don't think it's fair to say her life is perfect because she didn't suffer discrimination directly - which is a take that is entirely up to interpretation depending on how you converge her V1 speech ("You could say I was born into the White Fang [shown with ratty clothes as a youth at a protest]) with her V4 lifestyle (daughter to the head honchos, big fancy mansion on an island with ((supposedly)) very little space, etc). Even if you're at the top of second class... you're still second class. The best a Faunus can ever hope for is silver while the humans get gold from the get-go
Blake Belladonna is a tool of a narrative, written by people who shouldn't go near racial issues with a 100 ft pole. It's not her fault that she is a white girl that somehow has Indian parents, nor is it her fault that her storyline is absolute ass at best. It is Crwby's fault that her pacifism methods/activist history/de-radicalization arc amount to... nothing
A person doesn't need to be personally affected by discrimination to take action against it. The suffering of one is the suffering of all. If everyone only did things according to how it affected them personally, the world would be an incredibly dark place indeed. (Just look at the discourse surrounding the Dragon Age 2 companions. Ugh)
As to Blake's personal suffering... it's really hard to say anything concrete. The narrative of RWBY doesn't give us anything solid, and what little it does give us gets contradicted (see aforementioned V1 speech vs V4 presentation). The only thing we can say for certain is that she suffered at the hands of Adam as a romantic partner, which is Crwby's way of side-stepping the racism thing they created. So, technically, she has suffered as a woman in narrative, not as a Faunus nor a Faunus woman (a la misogynoir)
While there might might be some precedence of emasculation while growing up with an abundance of sisters while being the only boy, but other than that, there is little to suggest what Jaune's family life was like. We don't know the reason he had to forge his transcripts - was it because he failed his classes at a prior school? Did his family forbid him from continuing the legacy for some reason? Did Jaune do it for the funsies? - and therefore it is impossible to determine why he took the path he did, and if there were any alternatives he failed to pursue
Jaune, like Blake, is a poorly wielded tool of the narrative. The writers wanted him to be both Super Special (long standing legacy, cool heirloom weapon, harem protagonist) and the Audience Stand-in (doesn't know shit about Aura or Grimm or... life in general), which makes him an absolute Frankenstein of tropes. Once again, it is not the fault of a character that they're written to be absolute ass
#rwde#thanks for asking#it feels like a lot of your anger stems from the way you've interpreted the holes in the plot#which. hey. i get it. swiss cheese plots are aggravating as hell#but getting mad at how you fill in the gaps is kind of a you problem#if you want you can circumvent canon all together and make blake that orphan activist who knew poverty and bigotry and hardship#in fact when canon is this amount of ass i say its downright required lol#crwby dont know wtf theyre doing so you might as well have as much fun as possible#but i genuinely suggest looking at things from doylist perspectives as well as watsonian#strange character backstories/actions make way more sense when you look at them through that lens#its why Qrow is still one of my fav characters despite the narrative gluttoning him on stupid pills in late v7#if you focus on the strings of the marionette more than its dance then its a bad performance all around#anon hours
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My hot take? RWBY has too many belts for a show where the protags barely even are shown to carry their ammo
#rwby#listen. this is for jokes#do not clown on this post#team rwby#fr there’s at least three belts a character wtf#someone on crwby is showing off
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GUYS.
I JUST REALIZED THAT CRWBY IS THE BEST AT FORESHADOWING IN THE WORST WAY
IN THE WEISS CHARACTER SHORT, WINTER TELLS WEISS, “I won’t always be there to save you, Weiss.”
AND THEN IN V8 SHE WASNT ABLE TO BE THERE TO SAVE HER.
AND THEN WE SEE THE V9 EPILOGUE WHERE WINTER IS A MESS.
CRWBY WTF
#i was today years old#look at me realizing things last yet again#i feel dumb#but crwby is really out there doing it like no one else#ugh#anyways poor winter#poor everyone really#rwby#weiss schnee#winter schnee#crwby you are geniuses#crwby#greenlight volume 10#greenlight rwby volume 10#greenlightvolume10
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RWBY Beyond 1x02 spoilers below the cut:
Confirmed that Jaune's aging up and back will continue to be a thing within his character (unlike what some dumbasses pushed as it being handwaved away as part of the thoroughly debunked "v9 is filler" bullshit)
So good to see them back together again and having fun
Once again reinforcing that his time in Ever After is still a thing
Big brother Jaune being able to relate and connect with Oscar on the level of both being different selves in one body. Not only for Jaune but for Oscar too, cause up to this point its been a burden all his own.
Though it is a feels punch seeing the fusion in real time happening with Ozcar.
I love this art style for moments like this, also Alyx and Lewis were from VACUO. Also from "before the war" and a "before huntsmen" O.O:
WTF CRWBY WHY? Just dagger right in the heart huh?
Such an amazing episode >.<
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Omg I never noticed the mirrored rg scenes like wtf?was it intentional? Ahah of course completely accidental coincidence ofc, bc we know how crwby is hehe lmfao rofl,
unless..?
(you owe me some brain cells,I'll never be the same after that post)
RWBY IS BUILT ON PARALLELS, FRIEND. THERE'S NO WAY IT WASN'T ON PURPOSE.
Their entire story arc together has been mirrored 🥺
Red vs. Green. Silver vs. Gold. Moon vs. Sun. What are you vs. Who are you. The Rose vs. The Little Prince. Six of Swans vs. Rumpelstiltskin. Dorothy vs. Tip. Chooses adventure vs. Chosen by adventure. The smaller more honest soul vs. The man with two souls. It just keeps going... They've always mirrored each other. Even their scenes do!! When they first met we got
Oscar: You... have silver eyes. Ruby: Who... are you?
mirroring speech patterns.
Then we got
Oscar: Heh... sorry! I've just never met huntsmen or huntresses before. Ruby: Well, we've never met a person with two souls! First times all around.
mirroring speech patterns again but Ruby also copies him in the fumble later on!!!
Ruby: Heh... sorry! I didn't mean to interrupt. Oscar: You didn't, actually!
Then the two of them turning around at the same time to wish each other luck?? the way Ruby literally JUMPS OFF THE GROUND WHEN SHE DOES?!?!
They're insufferable (affectionate) and they can't keep getting away with this (they can and they will).
#cannot fucking wait for dojo scene 2: electric boogaloo#rwby#rosegarden#ruby rose#oscar pine#asks#ask#anon#anono#chainalysis
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one of my friends just told me Klein in RWBY has DID and I realize this is definitely old news to y'all but I'm losing my fucking mind over this
I'm just. I have DID, I'm part of a system, and I cannot express enough how much I Do Not Vibe with Klein having. DID. he switches like it's fucking parlor trick to amuse people like wtf
it is so completely unlike what DID is actually like that I didn't even register that he was meant to have DID until I was told that according to CRWBY he does
I just. I hate it, I don't even have the words to describe how much I hate it
I love it when people find stuff about RWBY that shocks them while we're sitting ehre like that Tom meme with the newspaper.
But yeah, RWBY really does just not handle mental disorders properly, especially the more stigmatised ones like DID. Klein is just bad DID rep and I am mad about it with you, anon.
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bisexuality won the day that the branwen twins were created tbh. crwby knew wtf they were during
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Seriously
CRWBY WTF KIND OF JUNJI ITO HORROR IS THIS
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Unlike in Canon in my AU Cinder eye was stabbed out by Triyan as a form of punishment from Salem.
I don't dislike this idea as cruel as it is- to a point it may be make even more sense than the info we're lacking from canon, because I still ask how's possible that Ruby left Cinder without an arm and side of her body all burnt + damaged eye
Like wtf did you do up there, Ruby? Was it the work of the Silver eyes? Did she do something else? I still want answers for that, CRWBY
Literally the only headcanon I have for it instead, is that the Silver eyes partly affected Cinder because, she had to use that one Grimm glove with the bug to steal part of Amber's Maiden powers with- the bug seemed to fuse with her body after, so maybe there was already some Grimm in Cinder when Ruby got to the tower, and thus she got affected, because otherwise idk what it could've been in that situation
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this shit was 16 minutes and yet they managed to tear my heart out and stomp on it then desecrate it's grave in that amount of time, wtf crwby
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V9C3
What sites are y’all using? I had to go through like 3 before finding one that would work :/ either way, react time yeehaw
Post Ep: this is essentially a mental breakdown of an episode and I hated every minute of it
I think crwby put more attention into the trees than the story
Weiss for the love of cheese and crackers stop with the fucking wAcKy animations I am begging
Why does this little red shite sound so shitty? I wanna shove him in a locker and give him swirlies. Also wow an entitled dramatic flamboyant prince. What a totally unique idea. I am in utter disbelief at such creativity. How can we ever thank our crwby overlords for such a great character.
I unpause the video and immediately need to kill this stupid shitheel. I cannot believe we are getting all the most annoying characters in a single fucking volume. At this point I’d be willing to endure another fucking Jaundice arc if it meant never hearing the prince or Little ever again
I am losing my goddamn mind every 3 seconds. I’m going to start chanting latin and climbing up the walls and spewing pea soup everywhere
I’m going to go full Blaire Witch. The last y’all are ever going to hear of me is when the forest rangers find my shitty recorder at the torn apart campsite and the last thing you’ll ever hear is me going “Where is the fucking plot what are the themes what is this tone someone help me”
Ruby is red. Shouldn’t that like. Factor in at all? Dude’s so upset at the color green but is totally chill with yellow, black, and blue? Is it because green is the opposite of red?
So it’s a shitty chess game with some elements of wizards chess. Did these motherfuckers really pluck inspiration from Harry fucking Potter? Right down to the kids being pieces??? Are y’all for fucking real??
Wait a goddamn minute the pieces being advanced upon can fight back? What sense does that fucking make? Unless the framing is really awful and I can’t see the space the pieces are fighting over? It doesn’t make a whole lot of sense when Ruby’s calling out moves but the shitlord isn’t
And now it’s a full out assault? What is this game and why does it suck?
Normally I don’t notice music due to my auditory issues but the song coming out of nowhere with a jazz bit was so weird I missed like half the battle
Also RUBY YOU ARE HUGE SWEEP THE FUCKING BOARD DUMBASS
Wow .2 seconds of despair followed by an all out victory. Riveting
Ah the cat monstrosity. The first instance of gradients and it’s so atrocious
NOW LITTLE RECOGNIZES THE FUCKING CAT FUCK THIS GODDAMN MOUSE
Wait wtf Neo fell at the same time as Ruby right? Why is she just now shooting starred into wonderland. Why does she immediately waste energy shifting into Ruby and Cinder? Why would she even want to?
And why build up the twitch creature if it’s just going to be ganked off screen? I assume it’s going to be making a return considering the design but also why didn’t they have it do anything before being Neo’d?
At the very least this hints that Jaune won’t be appearing until later, if crwby can remember their own rules for 5 minutes. We might even be Jaune free a few more episodes! Took Neo 3 to show up so hopefully Jaune won’t make it til 6
#rwde#i cannot wait to see people try to defend this episode. literally nothing last ep had any real affects here#just now realizing they dropped pennys sword and nobody commented#ruby was sooooo drawn to it just to dump it like yesterdays trash#p much the only thing i liked was the diamond pupils of the prince. everything else sucked ass#i am just... astounded#i think they're trying to be this bad#either that or wrote the whole season on every drug known to man and even some unknown#what even was this episode. smash cut from them arriving to the castle to them getting chased#and the only thing missing would be the tiny team context#what a goddamn waste of time#i have work a 12 hour shift tonight i should be going to bed#but now im going to stay up forever fuming abt this waste of human energy#these mfs bled their animators dry for THIS#like its awful no matter the quality but this level of shitty writing is a slap to the goddamn face#bc who tf is going to look at this and be like 'yeah everything was shit but look at this shot i did aint it great?'#theres nothing here worth getting a hangnail for much less all but murdering your employees#gr8 job rt i hope you die in flames and drown in lawsuits#you will not be missed
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Sorry I'm late to the meme party, I heard we missed out on some wholesome content
#rwby#but like for real#we were robbed#wtf crwby#rwby volume 6#ruby rose#weiss schnee#blake belladonna#yang xiao long
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