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I'm gonna stop you right there, bucko. Can confirm that the rwde tag was created for ANY negative thoughts about rwby, not just constructive criticism.

Source: me, I was there when it was created.

Also kkkob:

Ya'll are even too sensitive for damn shirt now?! For fucks sake. It was hardly implying anything nor was it hurting anything. Fucking UWU *sparkle* special Tumblr folk UWU actually went and got me right in my kneecaps. You guys are too much. Bless.

A good friend of mine has recently found himself in an incredibly bad situation, and needs help. If you guys could donate or even just reblog to get more eyes on his story, it would be greatly appreciated.

i can’t believe people are calling Yang and Blake murderers for killing the dude who abused Blake, dismembered Yang, attempted to murder Blake more than once, attempted to kill them after they gave him more than one out to leave and who was lunging for Gambol Shroud to attempt to kill Blake yet again when her aura was depleted.

“They could’ve just as easily knocked him out”

Because Miles, even though he tries to utilize tropes based off of it, has no idea that more forms of intelligence beyond logical thinking exist.

We have two team leaders and two designated strategists. But Jaune is the one who primarily gets to display it, even though his brilliant plans amount to directing actions already in progress, shouting orders his team has no idea how to follow, and yelling such super-complex strategies as “hit it harder” and “go in a circle”. Ruby is still a strategist on paper, but this aspect of her has been dropped off almost entirely in favor of her being the “glue” of everybody and giving them deep heartfelt speeches.

The latter is what we call “social”, “emotional”, or “interpersonal” intelligence. The talent for empathizing with people, understanding their feelings, and making them understand yours. It’s necessary for a good leader.

The thing is, Jaune should’ve had that sort of intelligence. That should’ve been Jaune’s talent, not Ruby’s.

Miles doesn’t seem to understand that a person can have value on a team beyond their combat skills, which is why Ruby is hyped as a strategist and never displays it. He knows Jaune lacks the same combat ability as his peers, so he tries to make Jaune’s saving grace his brain in combat. But intelligence is also something that grows with use, just like any other skill. It’s not just talent. Jaune shouldn’t have strategy as a skill when 1) he had no combat experience prior to V1 and 2) Miles can’t strategize to save his life (and you can’t make a character smarter than yourself, it doesn’t work). Ruby should have that skill because she knows her way around hostile situations and should already know how to spot weaknesses and strengths. Jaune certainly shouldn’t be any better at it than people already trained (like his teammates).

It makes me upset because in these types of stories, usually the hero would keep the items intact and trek across treacherous lands to deliver them to the parents or other loved ones. And once they arrive, then those loved ones would give their blessing.

I guess it doesn’t upset me. It just… Saddens me. It saddens me because we could have had a big arc about Jaune doing his damnedest to keep those items intact for Pyrrha’s family. It would have made him actually look and feel heroic.

But no.

He just… Melts them down… Without ever considering how Pyrrha’s loved ones would feel about it…

This is the WRONG way to stalk someone

This is the RIGHT way to stalk someone

It’s also quite interesting how you deliberately chose to only post the most neutral definition of the verb ‘stalk’ (you know, the one that would make your original post look less terrible), while ignoring every other definition, especially those applied to ‘people-stalking’ scenarios as opposed to animals hunting. Lemme post a few of both:

So I don’t think people understanding how wrong it is to stalk someone it’s illiterate - rather, I’d point out how fucking creepy it is that you try to ignore the actual meaning of the word in this circumstance.

Stalking isn’t ok, and you don’t get to justify your fave doing it because “it was for a good reason uwu.” This isn’t on Sun, mind you, but on the writers, who decided having him stalk Blake, an abuse survivor, was fine since his intentions were good.

News flash, it isn’t. And the fact that the other characters (who are also written by these writers) don’t call him out on it does not mean we, as real people, should accept it. 

Thank you so much for this, anon! Everyone needs constructive criticism from the smallest fanfic to movie reviews of the Avengers, for example. Everyone should appreciate it and learn from your mistakes. And sometimes people aren’t going to like what you write! And that’s okay because not everything is for everyone! As a writer myself, this is extremely important because how can you improve your writing then?

I also feel like the rwde tag is really sad, tbh. When I was making the post, I was VERY hesitant to because of the backlash I knew I’d get, and I didn’t know how to tag it. But I stood my ground because it does belong in both tags: rwde because I was a little snarky and rwby because it was constructive criticism, albeit a little snarky.

Fandoms in general need a lot of work and have become the primary reason for Tumblr’s current state of hostility. There have been fandoms I’ve seen and been in (and embarrassed by) that have done everything from: force members off of tumblr, push someone to suicide, send death threats to writers of the fandom SOURCE MATERIAL among other despicable, unforgivable things.

I think that the RWDE tag was born from this, and I would hope for some day it to be eliminated. Because on the one hand, the fan base could be nicer to each other and their ships, and on the other hand could stand to see some criticism of a far-from-perfect show born from amateur writers, animations, and voice actors that were literally picked because they were secretaries at the office of Rooster Teeth.

It also made it super easy to just block people who's opinions you didn't care to see or block the whole tag and it not end up on your dash anyway, because Tumblr tagging sucks. That's also why we added slashes through any words that would make it show up in other tags. Like rw/by, bumbl/by, things like that.

You’re an idiot.

More under the cut.

People my post likely applies to: “Hey, what do you mean I/the FNDM are all abuser/pedo apologists? You’re rwde and I’ll block you before you block me!”

Well, I’d like to thank this new, high-tech model of trash for developing self-awareness and taking itself out. Because, well, if the shoe fits and you’re upset about it…

doesn’t he sound wonderful? you’d have to be a total asshole to hate that person…

IN REAL LIFE

in fiction, the rules are different. it’s not about right vs wrong. it’s about fresh vs stale, engaging vs tiresome, profound vs vacuous. being a good person is not the same thing as being a good character. i dislike tsunderes in anime, no matter how virtuous they may be, because they’re fucking annoying and i’m sick of seeing them. and mr. perfect up there? some people are gonna dislike him too, because there’s a good chance he’d be boring to read about. they don’t need more of a reason than that