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This kinda of thing (I know the dress is black in both photos shut up)

And all the trainees are just like “Tf?? Is that??? Is that.. allowed? Yeah, no, I know the corps don’t have a dress code. I mean is it allowed on Sayeon Lee. I feel like her in this kind of thing breaks some sort of rule in the universe.”

Ryujin, is trying so, so hard, to just be annoying about it and not gay, but tragically for her she is both.

Everyone at this exact moment low-key realises “Has. Has Sayeon lee. Been conventionally attractive this whole time. she’s just so insane, there are so many other things about her to notice, before her appearance even comes into question, that it simply goes unnoticed.”

But the officers or anyone who ever saw or knew Sara Lee is just sitting there:

Ryujin in a suit btw of course, somehow they immediately fucked up the situation so bad that Sayeon and Ryujin have to pretend to be a couple. They are both considering killing themselves, but they do it anyway. Ryujin super pissed off at how well Sayeon’s pulling off the “doting girlfriend” stick, meanwhile Sayeon is going:

Plus the Godling in her head, when some shit goes wrong and they get Ryujin to start distracting some rich people by playing the piano, (Sayeon in entranced):

Cue Yang trying to step in and be like, "Oh she just means I helped out cos you know, things were tough for a bit, not your fault-"

Ruby: No I mean Yang raised me, like dad was there I guess, he's, ya know... Dad?

Yang: See she calls Tai dad, I can't have been raising her if she does that.

Ruby: I used to call the teachers Yang.

Yang: U-

Summer: Sweetheart let your little sister speak.

Ruby: I just mean like, Yang fed me, taught me, got me to school, read to me, helped with my studying, shopping, and like... Everything?

Summer: And what did Tai do?

Ruby: he was... There? He said stuff sometimes?

Summer: I... See.... So you had to raise yourself and your little sister alone, Yang?

Yang:... Qrow was also there?

Summer: and what was that like?

Yang & Ruby (Flashing back to holding Qrow's hair as he throws up in the toiled)

Both: Uuuuuum

GOD that’s so Yang to go immediately into damage control mode

Yangs a chronic taiyang defender for many many reasons and it has several negative consequences but we don’t have time to get into all that cause I need to sleep soon even though I totally want to get into that

And that’s so Ruby to actually address the issue I never give ruby enough credit for being physically able to do that without needing to immediately fix it just address it

But this breaks my heart all the more because not only is it a damage control and her trying to make sure her mom doesn’t feel guilty but also because it’s summer it gives so much of the vibe of yang trying to get Ruby not to tell on her

Like Yang feeling guilty for having taken care of Ruby like she’s done something wrong because summer definitely isn’t going to be happy about it and she doesn’t want to upset summer the second she got back and she also probably has a lot of guilt over maybe not doing the most amazing job raising Ruby

Also Yang just refusing to acknowledge to people anything bad has ever happened to her is so very Yang

Cause boy howdy I do

The fact that it’s her trailer song?

Because I think about it! The fact that both Ruby and yangs trailer songs are both as much or more about other people then it is about them but Ruby’s is the one that’s a lie

Red like roses, the original, is a sad sorrowful song, its soft and sad and it has only 2 lines about herself

“Red like roses fills my dreams and brings me to the place you rest”

Simply grief

It also only contains the lines from everyone’s song that simplifies them down to their colors

Them without their depth, how they see themselves, how they’re seen by the world

Them as they present themselves

But Ruby’s is just

Grief

Just loss

And then throughout the rest of the song we get a lot more upbeat of a tune for her to fight to

But no lyrics

And even with the more upbeat tune it’s not *happy* it’s just active

And then after that, we get a small bit of a horror like sound until we get the fast paced red like roses sounds we know and love (very much feeling like a final move victory kinda sound very much like her sister end of her song)

But that’s it

Ruby’s grief, Weiss’s yearning, Blake’s self loathing, and Yang burning (I have a whole other thing I can say about how those lines are the things she focuses on but another time) and then instrumentals

But THEN

Red like roses part two

And BOY is it different

For ONE

the first section of the song is nearly entirely devoid of instruments!!! It’s just her speaking

Saying what she wants to say

And her FIRST LINE

Is PURELY ANGER

and it’s why red like roses is my FAVORITE FUCKING PEICE of character writing for Ruby or even in the damn show

NOTHING TOPS THIS!!!

The character choice that is deep down Ruby’s most essential feelings are RAGE

The character Choice that she is ANGRY AT HER MOTHER FOR DYING

GODDDD HOW GREAT IS THAT!!! HOW FANTASTIC!!! HOW WONDERFUL!!!

GOD ITS SO GOOOOOOODDDD

Yeah she’s devastated CLEARLY is she devastated!!! She describes her life as a never ending nightmare she doesn’t want to live in and that this has broken her forever, she talks about the shock and denial and grief

But the tone is anger!! She is angry at her mother for choosing the world over her!!! for not coming back!!! for making her life this hell

The kind of vibe of

You put me here

You lied to me, you told me you would come home, I always feared you wouldn’t, and I was right and you lied to me

She is angry she has been denied something so fundamental and so basic as just having her mom

Something she was entitled to

But she acknowledges that she knows her mom didn’t plan to die, and that she was doing what she thought was right

But it undoubtedly fucked her over regardless

End of the day, her mom is still gone, and she still has to fight monsters and save the world as a teenager

The fact that this song’s chorus is about red (blood and death but also rage and anger) consumes her mind and she is constantly inching closer to giving in to the break inside her that she’s been given instead of the love of her mother

And ANOTHER!!! GREAT THING ABOUT THIS SONG

is that this is the only Instance of getting to hear anything at all from summer rose-ANYTHING AT ALL

Her expression of emotion is just so genuine and so from her core it gets a response from beyond the grave!!!

Oh and her response

It’s such GOLDDDDD

because as amazing as it is to show Ruby as not just this sweet little girl who’s happy but also sad about her moms death but gets through it to comfort other people like any other protagonist but as a teenager who’s grown up in a broken home because her mother died for a cause she chose over her children and she’s MAD about it

It’s even MORE amazing and interesting that in summers response we get an equally interesting unique expression of emotion!!! She’s not reduced to simply sad dead mom or tragically dead wife!!!

Throughout the ENTIRETY of the song not ONCE does she say that if she did it again she’d choose her family, she’d choose her daughters, she’d choose Ruby

She’d always leave them

So much agony and sorrow expressed in how she hates watching her daughter suffer

How she hates what her death has done to Ruby, how it’s affected her, the responsibilities she was intending to handle now thrusted onto Ruby

But not once does she say she regrets leaving

She just didn’t think she was going to die

Her first lines in the song as well as her first lines EVER are:

“I know you're broken down by anger and by sadness

You feel I left you in a world that's full of madness

Wish I could talk to you, if only for a minute

Make you understand the reasons why I did it”

‘I know you’ve been broken by the anger and grief I’ve left you with, I know this has ruined your way of looking at the world, I wish I could talk to you even just once more’

But not to comfort her, not to apologize for leaving, not to just be with her

To make her daughter understand why she did this

Why she left them like this

She sees it as something she had to do Ruby sees it as a choice she made

She wanted to save her daughter from the awful future that awaited them all and then ended up leaving her to handle that future alone

She doesn’t apologize for it, she doesn’t take it back

She just acknowledges how hurt Ruby is

And then begs her not to follow her

To escape the cycle summer chose again and again and again until it killed her

The fact that the ending

Is a back and forth argument between them

Is the coolest thing in the world

Just:

You're not the only one who needed me

I thought you understood

You were the one I needed

And you left me as I always feared you would

Would I change it if I could?

Like I just can’t it’s so perfect

“You weren’t the only person who relied on me don’t you get that?” “You weren’t the only person I had to rely on and I yes I always knew you’d still leave me” “would I have done it differently”

LOVE IT

Not ONCE does summer say she’d wouldn’t have done it!!!! She says she didn’t know she was going to die but never that knowing it would’ve stopped her!!! It’s so good!!!

And then the conclusion!!! The mutual agreement that it doesn’t matter anyway because it’s already done!!! They defied life and death to have a conversation and the conclusion is that all these feelings and emotions they want to express but can’t don’t matter anyway because there’s nothing they can do with the feelings anyway

“It’s all already happened

It doesn't matter how

The petals scatter now

Every nightmare just discloses

It's your blood that's red like roses

And no matter what I do

Nothing ever takes the place of you”

The fact that it’s still a duet when they say “it’s your blood that’s red like roses”!!!! Because the whole song is about their doomed deaths!!! That not only did summer leave her but she left her to die a terrible meaningless death right after her!!!!! ITS SOOO GOOD!!!!

“And no matter what I do Nothing ever takes the place of you” SHES TRIED!!! SHES BEEN TRYING!!! ITS SO SAD!!! ITS SO HOPELESS!!!

GODDDDDD I LOVE RUBY

Dick, who's filling in for Bruce as Batman: I'll call him

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Hal: you've gained some muscles

Jason, dressed as Nightwing: I started working out

Hal: Damn. What's the routine cause I just saw you last week and you look completely different.

Jason: steroids

Dick, as batman: *chokes on coffee*

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Superman: We might need someone who's good with guns, hm... Hey Nightwing you're in contact with redhood, right? Could you have him come?

Jason, as Nightwing: ... I don't see why not

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Wonder woman: this security is an issue we need someone who can hack this system long enough for us to get pass

Superman: hey hood, any chance you can give red robin a call?

Tim, with 5 inches of padding, as redhood: on it

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Hal: isn't robin usually with you all?

Flash: yeah we could use him with this one

Superman: Red Robin, would you call in Robin for us?

However the drunk guys are also drinking, and eventually she can't afford to buy another pitcher for the table so she can't keep up the ever-full beer glass trick. At this point she has to resort to setting up the pool trick shot that she's never seen anyone but her boyfriend pull off, and says she'll leave with whoever manages the shot first.

Employees and developers working on Magic: The Gathering Arena say they were hired with promises of remote flexibility, so they bought homes and built lives around those assurances. But they say they are now being told they may need to relocate to Washington state — or effectively lose their jobs.

If you want to help out the United Wizards you can sign this petition

cwa.org/uwotcletter

Carolina Milanesi, an independent technology analyst, said Google is trying to make its cash cow business — search — richer and more personalized, and it will make shopping easier. But there is a risk that users may have fewer choices about what to click. "Right now it's: I ask a question, I get a bunch of answers and I feel that I'm in control as to which answer I take, or if I'm looking for something, which product I'm going to end up buying. That is going to be less so going forward," she said. Milanesi envisions AI-enabled search and agents proposing products to consumers — perhaps even those they have requested — but with less clarity or choice around where it's coming from. "If you're going to say: 'I want a pair of Jordans, go find them,' you're not necessarily sure what steps have been taken and whether the AI has used a source or a store that was paid for and therefore came up in the search results," she said, "or if AI actually went and did their due diligence and picked the best for me as a customer."

And here's one from Time magazine (May 20, 2026):

While Google already has “AI Mode,” the company will now power the whole search bar through its new Gemini 3.5 Flash model.  Instead of the classic list of blue links, Google Search will now also generate a custom page with an AI-generated summary of what you’re searching about, which will then trigger a conversation with AI Mode on the main page, allowing users to ask follow-up questions—similar to the kind of layout you would see when opening ChatGPT.

And a little more from Time's article on how this may affect the websites that we are trying to search for:

A shocking reveal that feels totally out of nowhere at the time, yet in hindsight all the signs to it were right in front of us all along.

Because the thing that makes the reveal that Raven was the Spring Maiden all along WORK as well as it does is that it really is meant to feel completely out of the blue in the moment. There isn’t any direct foreshadowing meant to ‘prime’ the audience to think that this even could happen.

From the moment we first start hearing about the Spring Maiden in Volume 4, as far as all of the characters seem to know, she is this teenage girl in the care of Raven. Qrow is positive that Vernal is the Spring Maiden and all the other characters down the proverbial chain of information, from our heroines, to Leonardo to Salem’s cronies, all take that information at face value. Right up until Cinder gives Vernal a fisting with her Grimm-arm, we the audience are given no overt reason to doubt that she is the Spring Maiden.

But in hindsight afterwards, ALL the signs were sitting right in front of us the whole time.

The fact that Vernal doesn’t seem to use her powers much (most notably in the Haven battle), or the fact that she never does so when Raven isn’t around, even just the fact that the first we hear about the Spring Maiden comes from Raven.

And of course, the ENTIRE scene in A Perfect Storm where Vernal ‘shows’ her powers to Cinder and co. Like this entire scene really is just the show dangling ALL the clues for the reveal right in front us. The fact that Vernal closes her eyes, thus giving her convenient reason to not show the eye-flames that appear whenever Maidens use their powers. The fact that Raven is conveniently wearing her Grimm helm that can totally obscure her eyes and face, and therefore any eye-flames SHE might have. Heck, just the fact that Vernal ‘chooses’ an indirect use of her maiden powers in the form of summoning a storm, rather than doing something that would affect/emanate from her more directly.

Notably, I do think one key factor in this was timing; this was back when Maidens were still a fairly new and unfamiliar concept for the audience and we hadn’t quite gotten a sense for them yet, like how this was only the second Maiden we were introduced to. For example, it hadn’t been made fully clear just how ubiquitous the now-iconic eye-flames were to Maidens, so Vernal not showing them probably didn’t stick out to most people.

Basically, the reveal is ‘hiding in plain sight’ in part because the audience doesn’t yet know they should be noticing anything amiss.

And the fun thing is, a potential Rosebird Parents reveal has ALL the same qualifications we just went over, just writ large over the course of basically the entire show.

Nobody in the show itself has ever expressed any doubt that Tai is Ruby’s father, or even brought up ANY questioning as to Ruby’s parentage whatsoever, just like nobody across Volumes 4 and 5 ever expressed any doubt as to whether the Spring Maiden was the person they thought she was.

The reason nobody ever had any reason to doubt that Vernal was the Spring Maiden is that I think it’s pretty clear that the only people who even knew the truth were Raven and Vernal themselves. Likewise, I think it’s entirely possible and likely that the only people who could know about Raven being Ruby’s real dad are just Summer, Raven and Taiyang.* So of course nobody ever brings it up. Because nobody has any reason to think otherwise.

Yet, as many, myself included, have been noting over the years, if there IS a reveal that Raven is Ruby’s dad, then just like with the Spring Maiden reveal; in hindsight the clues are all over the goddamn place.

The fact that Tai looks nothing like Ruby yet RAVEN looks just as much like Ruby’s mom as Summer does.

The growing hints of a very CLOSE relationship between Summer and Raven, including secret meetings ever after Raven left.

The very odd absence of any seeming connection between Ruby and Raven, despite all the clear similarities between them.

The repeated downplaying of Ruby’s connection to Taiyang.

ALL of the Unreliable Narrators and general mystery surrounding Team STRQ.

The list goes on.

(This list specifically lol)

Heck, even just the initial ambiguity all the way back in Volume 1 as to how Ruby and Yang are sisters could be considered a hint. The show itself deliberately being a bit vague as to Ruby’s and Yang’s family situation.

Oh, and you know what I said about part of the Spring Maiden reveal relying on the Maiden powers still being a fairly new and unfamiliar concept to the audience at the time? Well by the same token, the show hasn’t yet outright stated that two women conceiving a child is something that can happen in its setting…

…despite the potential case of EXACTLY THAT having been sitting off in a proverbial corner since Volume 6 XD

Simply put; after Volume 9 I think we are at a point where a Rosebird Parents Reveal absolutely COULD happen at some point in the future. All the proverbial pieces are THERE, now it’s just a question of whether or not they are going to fit together.

Oh, and as to the common question I so often get as to the point of such a reveal and what it would ADD to the story…

Exploring hyper-dysfunctional and broken families IS something of recurring TREND of RWBY, is it not? XD

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Okay so like. Having made this snarky comment. And given our track record. Me and @some-lasombra-bullshit now HAVE to assign real-life animal courtship rituals to clans like this is a contractual obligation now. Obviously.

In order of how long it took us to come up with this bullshit:

Toreador: Toreadors are easy. They're bowerbirds. They make a fancy art project, do a fancy dance, then fuck in it.

Tzimisce: Elephant seals. It's not about 'impressing a mate' it's about OWNING this BEACH. This is MY BEACH and it is MY property and if you haul out on MY beach I OWN YOU TOO. Get OFF!!!! My FUCK BEACH!!!! INTERLOPER!!!!

Ventrue are one of those three-sexed songbird species that have two distinct sexes of male, where the big aggressive dominant sex that control territory and drive rivals away from a collection of females....are actually significantly less reproductively successful, because they get so caught up in fighting each other and expanding their territory that they are literally CONSTANTLY getting cucked. Because the quieter, dull-colored, friendly, prosocial male sex treats the femals better and has built a robust network behind the loud jackasses' backs. Every Ventrue thinks they're the cool twink bird and 99% of them are wrong.

Lasombra: The thing jumping spiders do where the male has to perform a flawless hundred-step dance and also provide dinner and if he's even slightly dissatisfactory in either of those tasks at any time she will full-on eat him. But like, she'll say grace first.

Brujah are stag beetles. They have performative clashes of strength like red deer, throwing each other around to impress the nearby female only to get so into it by the time they've bested every other interested party that they chuck her off the roof too.

Tremere are....okay so the Tremere are alpacas. They're goofy and harmless-looking but in their internal hierarchy you're normally only Lead Buck for a few days because the position involves so much time constantly fending off rivals that you literally don't have time to eat, so in order to improve their future chances at still HAVING the position by the time more females come into season the dominant bucks will deliberately aim for their rivals' testicles and CASTRATE THEM WITH THEIR TEETH to prevent them from become a future threat. Just in case.

Look me in the eye and tell me that's NOT how the Pyramid works.

Gangrel: Hares. (Went back and forth on this for the Lasombra, but I feel like the idea of a perfectly-matched equal would make the Lasombra break out in hives. How DARE you. I HAVE no equal.) Anyway the Gangrel are hares. If you pass initial inspection we start with an endurance footrace at high speed. IF you can keep up we then proceed to the bare-knuckle single combat portion of the sex. If you're STILL not dead then we can fuck.

Banu Haqim are eagles. It's cliche but since when do the BH care. Courtship is opened when you hunt something down and present it to the object of your affection. If the prey is deemed impressive enough, you will fly as high as you can go, lock talons, and plunge toward the earth. Let go too soon and you're a coward unworthy of my time. I decide when we pull out of this freefall. Embrace the ecstasy of imminent death.

Salubri: Pandas. There are so few of them left and we DESPERATELY want them to fuck but they're so bad at it. We cannot get them to make more pandas we are trying DESPERATELY to make more pandas but they simply will not. Stars. Can't do it. Not today.

Ravnos are maned wolves. Or albatrosses or something. They actually mate for life and defend a territory together but they only physically see each other once or twice a year. hello darling. love of my life. my perfect other half. I will remain loyal to you until one of us dies. go away.

Settites: Nobody knows but it's probably annoying and weird. They probably do the thing Adelie penguins do where they make a pile of Fuck Rocks and the person with the biggest pile wins, but with secrets. And crucially absolutely nobody else wants the rocks. They're over here going "I AM THE MOST FUCKABLE KINDRED ON THIS EARTH. BEHOLD MY PILE OF VALUABLE SECRETS" and everyone else is like "those are rocks. im not fucking you for the rocks" and they're like "FOOLS!!!!" and everyone is like "IT'S R O C K S"

Hecata: The Hecata are not allowed to fuck. They're like those octopuses that just chuck their penis arms at each other and leave.

Nosferatu: Listen y'all these guys fuck nasty. It's either salmon spawning season or a snake-fuck style breeding ball and we all know it.

Malkavians: Elaborate rituals that are not actually recognizable as mating behavior by anyone else. They're like mice that 'howl' at ultrasonic frequencies to attract mates but nobody else can tell they're doing anything, combined with some shit like goddamn fungus. Sexting over the mycelial network.