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Long read, skip if you want（＾ω＾）

Ships aside, the adaptation is not well handled for me. They cut a lot of interactions that serves as foundations to the different bonds of RWBY. But the biggest cut for me is when they entirely removed the popular scene from Burning the Candle.

Yang is my favorite character not only in RWBY but entirely from any show I watch. She's feisty, she's strong and she glows not only her hair but also her personality. Burning the Candle closed the deal that she's my fave (and I can relate to her fully). The realism of even if you shine to others, you will always have a dark side, a shadow of sadness. Storywise, it serves as an introduction to the Raven arc, abandonment issues, team STRQ and a factor with her relationship with Blake as a friend/partner.

Blake is also of course one of my top faves (I love my cute kitten faunus!) The cut of course affected her as well. It has been an issue that she was obsessed with stopping the White Fang that made her tired in general. It wasn't that shown that she's that tired/her drive was not fully established. Her guilt from her actions are missing. A huge chunk of her being Blake of the earlier volumes is missing.

Both of them are missing personalities that should've been there. They lost depth in the adaptation. Yang is just happy and Blake is just mellow. It is like they're just there.

Sun is also one of my top favorites. He is a selfless monkey boi. He reminds me of Zidane from FF9 and his line is “You don't need a reason to help people” which is similar to Sun. But that interaction with Blake that made it seem that a dance is a “payment” for helping is not really something he would do....

Okay of course there are people that will say “hey its just a way of saying thank you it is not an issue” but that response alone contradicts his selfless personality. I hope they made him just say lines like “no sweat! Always happy to help!” (with no need of asking a “payment”) coz that's the selfless Sun that I know.

Perhaps the numerous cut is affected by the number of volumes it was assigned? Or maybe some other factors? But I wished it was handled more properly. Sure adaptations get some minor changes but hey one doesn't change a character/s. Will we get it in the future chapters? Maybe but please handle it correctly as it needs to make up for a lot of things.

Thank the light and darkness gods that this is not canon. But why is strayburn ranting if this is not canon? Well there are fans who pick up the book adaptations first before the original content so it will affect his/her thoughts about the story and characters (comparisons and contrasts).

I'm glad V7 exists along with other materials (the anthologies, yes I love them as they are more loyal to the character personalities).

-----thoughts end here-----

It occurred to me this evening, maybe God is broken? I don't mean broken like a shattered dish. I mean broken like me.

I often feel like a broken person. The good people in my life tell me I'm not, that I'm just a little off, and that's ok. But I tend to think they're wrong. I struggle all the time. Depression. Anxiety. Body image. Confidence. I get too focused. And too lazy. I can never make a decision. I used to think it was just me, but now that I'm older I understand a lot of people are like me. I see pieces of it in my parents. They're broken too.

And that's when it hit me. My parents are broken too. I didn't really know my grandparents much, they died when I was really young, but I suspect they were messed up in their own ways. Like the poem by Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse. Maybe every generation is damaged. We get it from our parents, who got it from their parents, who got it from theirs....all the way back through time to the first cavemen.

So, maybe God is broken. We are made in Their image after all. God is broken in some impossible to understand way, and They passed it down to us. And we pass it to each successively generation, and there is no fixing it. It's a flaw on a cosmic scale.

I am not a bad person. I joke that I am, sure. But I think it's just wishful thinking on my part. Being broken doesn't make me bad (or anyone else for that matter). It doesn't make God bad either. Maybe it just makes us human. That broken part of God is what makes us different?

I don't know if any of this makes sense to anyone else (it's late and I'm tired). But I felt like sharing, so here we are.

In Torah times there were no rabbi’s, and priests were chosen because of their belonging to a certain clan. But today that’s not the case anymore. Our religious leaders are rabbis who chose to enter into that profession for a number of reasons, and some will say because of a “calling”. As a 21st century woman, I struggle with the idea of a calling of any kind. I like the idea of free will, that I make my choices based on my own thoughts and feelings, and by analyzing data at my disposal.

But the book of Exodus (actually, Shemot) ends with the cloud settling on the tabernacle and God’s glory filling the space so Moses couldn’t enter. And then in the very next line in Torah God calls out to him. (This is not a new thought, it’s been written about for centuries.) I have to admit that it makes me wonder what’s going on in Moses’ mind at that moment. Standing there in the space in front of the tent, an otherworldly cloud completely covering it, so close to you but not of the same reality as you. The desire to both reach out and touch it and to run away in the other direction, even as you stand frozen in awe. And then, perhaps just as your logic returns to your brain, a voice, THE voice calls out to you. Not just calls, beckons you into the tent.

The word “Vayikra” isn’t used a lot. Apparently it’s use implies something more than the words, it implies an intimacy and closeness (again, not mine - I’m no Hebrew expert I just happen to read stuff). I was thinking about the very intimate moment that happens there, specifically for Moses. He’d spoken to God many times before, but this was the tabernacle, this was the space created by the people for God. I imagine an unnatural quiet around Moses, the everyday sounds of the camp, birds, bugs, the wind, it all has gone quiet in the space around him and the tent. And then God calls out to him, and his heart races, but he takes a deep breath and walks into the cloud - despite the fear. There is something about this specific choice of words here that makes me achingly aware of Moses’ human frailty.

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