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9 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I'm saying this because RWBY claims to be very supportive of the LGBTQ community, but when you look at it...is it really? Whether you like what RWBY does or not when it comes to LGBTQ, you can't deny that it gives us mainly crumbs in comparison to the "straight" side.

#RWBY
I know many people use the excuse of "they're taking their time/properly developing things" when it comes to LGBTQ romance, but love is love no matter what way you spin in & any attempt to say the different labels effect love would be one just admitting to their own elitism.
In other shows/fictional media, we've had LGBTQ romance that was handled with the same level of exploration, development and public displays you would find in their straight relationships, so it is possible to truly do it equally. But somehow RWBY gets a pass on not doing it? 😕
And I'm not saying every story absolutely NEEDS to have LGBTQ rep as it ultimately depends on the type of story one is writing and the setting of such a story. The problem with RWBY is that it's a story that contains romance & its setting happily welcomes LGBTQ individuals...

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9 Apr
Tell me if you would've preferred this for V8:

Instead of Salem showing up, Atlas has 3 days before her arrival & all our heroes are divided. And so, V8 will be a battle & race between former allies as they all try desperately to prepare for the nightmare to come.

#RWBY8 #RWBY
In this volume 8, James isn't a genocidal tyrannical lunatic either. Rather, he's still the same empathetic James we've known him as all this time, but you see him no longer holding back on making really tough-but logical-calls, yet we still see how these trouble him.
Add in some unexpected faces joining James' ranks like Qrow, Pietro and even Ren, along with the two sides fighting each other, grimm activity steadily increasing more and more as Salem draws nearer & Cinder, Arthur, Tyrian and Neo still being thorns in everyone's sides.
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8 Apr
Imagine if we could've changed who got thrown into the void at the end of the Atlas arc. I would've had the following members from the Party fall; Weiss, Yang, Emerald & Nora.

#RWBY #RWBY8
Jaune & Ren would logically be in Vacuo helping with the evacuation, Ruby would survive to both deal with the "death" of her sister-like Winter-& truly deal with the ramifications of her actions in Atlas. Blake would now have to cope with losing Yang & Weiss before her eyes>
and it would allow for some potential development and even discussion into just what the hell is going on between them. Emerald honestly needs a bit more meat to her redemption arc, so let's have her get dropped into the void directly by Cinder, with her seeing Cinder do it.
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19 Dec 20
#CJs2Cents: #RWBYSpoilers
#RWBY8 #RWBY
So episode 7 of volume 8 has just been released and I must say...I don't know how I feel about this episode. I wouldn't call it good, yet at the same time I wouldn't call it bad either...this is a mixed bag. So I guess I'll just go in order.
So Salem's invasion is finally underway and her grimm army are swarming and overpowering the Atlas army. While I do like the panic and destruction the grimm are causing and seeing them apparently slowly overtake the army, the writers have made the Atlas military seem so poor.
Then there's the citizens of Atlas just chilling and walking around like it's a normal day, until the flying grimm get into the city...I'm sorry but what?! Even if you want to say they're confident in their military, you'd think they wouldn't be so carefree & out in the open! 😵
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12 Dec 20
#CJs2Cents: #RWBYSpoilers
#RWBY8 #RWBY
Kerry, congratulations. You've all managed to get me legitimately hyped for what's to come in this volume. Do keep up the good work, as this is yet another episode where I find far more good in it than bad. So let's get the bad out first.
First, let's cover the biggest negative of this volume, Cinder's backstory. Don't get me wrong, it's a solid backstory but it's literally just a dark Cinderella story that takes place in a hotel. This was NOT worth the 6-7 years of anticipation and feels pretty lackluster.
The next negative would have to be the major worldbuilding issue we get from Cinder's mentor, where he says at 17, she'll be able to take the "Huntsmen Exam". I'm sorry, what? So this backstory & Maria basically disvalue the existence of the academies completely, huh?
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10 Dec 20
@Rythen If you liked bumbleby killing Adam, I won't try and take that from you. More power to you. However, if I may offer some words. The symbolism of overcoming your "abuser" is lost considering Blake had already done so twice before their final confrontation. Then there's the issue>
@Rythen of Yang absolutely steamrolling Adam despite her realistically being weaker than she was at Beacon when Adam one-shot her, hell Blake should've had an easier time against Adam than Yang since she should've been at a higher combat level than her at that point. It really just>
@Rythen comes off as they made Blake weaker so Yang could come save her damsel in destress. Not only that, but Adam's death in the show completely destroys any deep narrative regarding the cycle of hatred & conflict you see so much in war and discrimination, it's just "bad man die" now.
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10 Nov 20
Look man, I'm going to end this here because you're giving me a headache. I know you hate me and all, but try to think here, okay? In V7, the narrative made it look like Amity was nowhere ready to be deployed at all, hence why there was so much conflict with James lying about it.
Do you really think that James-in that slipped state-wouldn't have tried to launch Amity-the project he knows and monitors better than anyone-if it could've been launched & operate at efficient capacity? Mantle would've still been fucked, but he certainly would've launched Amity>
if was in the realm of possibility because it would've given the world a better edge and chances against Salem as a whole. But no, he didn't which implied Amity needed far too much work done to even be rushed up into orbit. However, you mean to tell me that apparently Pietro>
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