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I feel like the reason why I can't get into bees schnees at all is most of the content is centered around weiss/fb/mc and often ignores yang/bumbleby
I haven't read enough Bees Schnees to judge. It's just never been my cup of tea despite being openly poly.
I feel it takes away so much from the story of Blake and Yang and their struggles in trying to resolve their feelings for each other.
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We are about 24 hours away from RWBY news.
honestly I think I lost a lot of faith in humanity when hogwarts legacy happened. thousands of people heard "jkr is transphobic" and didn't think that was enough reason to not buy a mediocre videogame and it became a runaway success. it was such a basic show of decency and it was too much. return the shopping cart ass dilemma. I'm a misanthrope now
That was really disturbing, and also extremely confusing to me. I genuinly started to question if many people just don't know anything about the world and the context in which the media they consume is made.
"Rowlings transphobia is extremely well known" I always thought, because HOW THE FUCK COULD YOU MISS IT?? And yet I have met multiple people that mentioned playing the game. And they didn't even admit to transphobia, or tried to vaguely gesture towards some misunderstood death of the author concept, or defended JKR, they just mentioned the game like it was the most normal thing to do.
the amount of people who also KNEW explicity that jkr is a transphobe and chose to just, like, not care, and play that game anyway, is astounding. i lost friends i thought were good friends because they were chill just ignoring her blatant transphobia, and i couldnt be around them anymore
They're playing with my emotions
Let's all hope together 🫴
I don't think that saying trans women have very specific challenges in navigating the world right now should be a controversial statement.
So do trans men and non-binary people.
Some problems are common to just being under the trans umbrella but a large number of them are specific and trans women should be allowed to speak about them.
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Work in Progress Wednesday
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Share something that you're working on. A draft, a snippet, an idea you're currently vibing with. Give the people a peek behind the curtain. Hmm, there's my WIP The Baby Plot that I'm determined to complete this summer, but I think I'll talk about something(s) else for this, the plot bunnies gnawing most at my ankles, vying to be the thing I next work on: My as yet unposted first RWBY fic, For Want of a Nail, currently an around 55,000 word rough draft written mostly in the last two weeks of July 2023 and first week of August 2023. I usually manage about 10,000 words in month, to give an idea of what those two-three weeks were like for me. Why haven't I posted it yet? It needs more work, and I've had other fics demanding my attention. The inline link goes to art I commissioned of a scene from it, and that sneak peek scene is included with the art (written by me, not the artist). Fair warning that it's a dark fic with some fluffy scenes, and that is one of the fluffy ones. There's also my exploration of what Maiden!Yang would be like if it happened, Not Your Sacrifice, and that's very much not fun for her or her loved ones, but hopefully will be rather more fun to read. Also there's Yellow Beauty Burns Gold, about a headcanon of mine that it's Yang's Semblance that turns her hair golden blonde, and if she doesn't use it for long enough it'll fade back to the black inherited from Raven. Incidentally there's at least several months where she doesn't use it after Volume 3... (And there's the top secret thing to get revange! on @starlightsaphron, she knows what she did, and I haven't forgotten (alas, I need brainbleach) or forgiven. I think it'll end up being posted as 'Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings' because I don't know how else to make sure there's no spoilers in the warnings and tags. I'm assured it sounds painful by a certain someone I discussed the idea with :3)
AND/OR Share a work in progress from someone else that you're excited about. Talk about what you're looking forward to or hoping for. Give the creator a shout out or a pep talk. @electronicyarn's A Different Shade of RWBY. There's many things I'm looking forward to but most of all more Bees! Yes, Yarn, I know there's just been some, however there was Bees withdrawal for so long, and I can never have enough Bees! More, pretty pls!
AND/OR Tell a creator directly that you love their WIP and why you love it - either in a comment or an ask or in tags on a post. Yarn again, just to keep things simple, because I'm pretty sure I already do that by commenting on Shade.
BONUS: share a prompt that you're never going to fill yourself (for whatever reason) and tell folks to run with it. Quite simply because I'm highly unlikely to write anything that isn't Bees or Yang centric: Qrow Branwen searching for his potential offspring after learning his vasectomy healed itself.
Have fun!
Oh cool trans women aren't protected under title 9 anymore. Lovely.
Yup!
Not even the three liberal SCOTUS judges see trans women as women.
Let that sink in and understand why we don't think liberals will protect us.
On the last day of Pride Month, happy Trans Pride, now and forever and ever and ever, Amen.
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Honestly, I think it's only the people I know love me and who I love that keeps me going.
It'd be nice if the world would keep from kicking trans women in the teeth for five fucking minutes.
I was lucky enough to meet Ali Hillis (the voice of Liara T'Soni in Mass Effect) at a convention recently. This was actually my second time meeting her and she was just as incredibly nice this time as she was the last time! If she ever goes to a convention near you, I highly recommend saying hi to her! She's an absolute sweetheart! A while before the convention, the official BioWare gear store announced a bunch of new Liara merch. One of the new pieces of merch was a "Liara companion bundle" that included a never before seen love letter from Liara to Shepard. I was so happy that we were getting new Liara merch that also gave us new lore! When I went to the convention, I showed a picture of the companion bundle to Ali and asked her if she could make a voice recording of her reading it as Liara. She thought the letter was beautiful and said yes! This is the recording and Ali knocked it out of the park! Huge thanks to Ali for being so kind and awesome!
Lifting time!
KOSA again, with a different name… and they’re trying to sneak it past you before July 4th. CALL YOUR REPS!
Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation p
Like the man said…the shadow takes another form and ruses again. Time to make some calls and let them know we’re watching.
Just called my senator and the aide said "Yeah, you're not the first person we've heard from about this today." It is 9:45 in the morning and she already had that weary tone.
So keep calling--the needle is moving!
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What a wonderful day…😭
Sometimes I see Blacksun shippers make posts about how Blake/Sun should have been canon. I can understand why they want it to be, and why they're disappointed that it's not. I do wish they'd express that without attacking Bumbleby, although I can also understand why they do because they think Blacksun had a chance of becoming canon instead, and if not for Bumbleby... However, it did not. There's evidence of that as far back as Volume 3. We'll get to that later on in this post. Under a cut because this does get a bit long. Bear with me, I'm doing my best to be reasonable and civil.
I firmly believe in the ship and let ship philosophy. Despite Bumbleby being my OTP (one true pairing) that I love above all others, I don't care if someone else ships Blacksun. I just have no interest in seeing anything to do with it, so I take measures to avoid it - like add the ship name to the filtered tags and filtered post content in my settings, block tumblr users if necessary, that sort of thing. It's nothing personal, just curating what I see.
I'm fandom old (although not in RWBY fandom itself because Bumbleby becoming canon was what caught my attention in the first place) and I've shipped both canon and non-canon ships. Canon is not inherently better, it's just a joy to have the validation and to see that ship in the source material.
Do I hate Sun? No, I think he's a good friend to Blake, and I don't mind seeing him in the show, I enjoyed reading the CFVY novel he appears in, and I've even had him with a minor role in at least one of my own fanfics. Am I hopelessly biased in favour of Yang and Bumbleby? Absolutely.
I can admit that Blake and Sun had a mutual crush at Beacon, going by the winks and blushes, and in her own words she technically went with him to the Vytal dance as his date. But one technical date does not a relationship make. The point of Blake and Sun was to show that not all crushes progress into romantic relationships, and that friendship is a great thing to come from it.
So what was that evidence in Volume 3 that Blacksun wasn't going to happen?
Sun was standing right next to Weiss when Yang asked if she'd seen Blake. Well within earshot, and he definitely didn't miss Yang running over to ask because he turns to look after hearing her call. If Blacksun was supposed to be canon, he'd have gone with Yang to find Blake, or gone instead of Yang, and he'd have been the target of these words from Adam:
"I will make it my mission to destroy everything you love. Starting with her." (well, him, not her)
That would have pretty clear implications for future romance. Instead it was Yang, and those implications were for Bumbleby.
Could CRWBY have prevented a shipping war between Blacksun and Bumbleby shippers if they'd kept Sun within view while Yang and Weiss talked? Probably not, but it might have made it more obvious that ship had already sunk when it came to becoming canon in future. Don't get me wrong, it's still a valid ship, it's just not canon.
Sun is also seen looking at unconscious!Yang and Blake clinging to her hand, and I think that's the moment he sees it: Blake loves Yang. He stops the flirty winks, and there are no more blushes from Blake. Like he said to Neptune in Volume 6, helping Blake in Menagerie and Haven was never about romance. She needed a friend, and he wanted to be there for her. She certainly doesn't owe him anything, particularly considering that she didn't ask him to follow her to Menagerie.
TLDR: there is evidence as early as Volume 3 that Blacksun was never going to be canon.
That doesn't really matter as far as shipping Blacksun goes because it doesn't need to be canon to be shipped. In the event Bumbleby wasn't canon I'd still ship it regardless, although I probably wouldn't even know RWBY existed without it. Which isn't something I care to imagine, considering I made some friends and met my girlfriend through our mutual love of RWBY and Bumbleby.
I wanted to write a bit about what OP (my girlfriend) and I had discussed regarding this.
Not only are all of her points valid but one thing I have never understood is how a romance between Blake and Sun would have worked.
Sun wasn't a Beacon student. If the Fall hadn't happened, he'd have gone back to Haven once the festival was over. If there had been a romance in the offing there are a limited number of ways for it to play out, all of them unsatisfying.
Sun abandons his team to travel around with Team RWBY/JNR after they reunite.
Blake abandons Team RWBY (as a titular character, not gonna happen)
Blake pines for Sun throughout the series. I'm sorry, like OP said, ship what you want but I'm not gonna pretend that a romance between Sun and Blake makes any kind of sense and would have been a terrible fit in the show If romances are going to happen, then it only makes sense that it's going to be between characters who have the most screentime. Which is why the three canon romances have all been from Teams RWBY and JNPR.
