“I just wanted to highlight an awesome RWBY creator on YouTube who helped with making Volume 9 an amazing experience for me”

The creator in question is named ave_r_ie, also known as Avery. I discovered ave_r_ie’s channel following the release of their Episode 6 reaction video, and it absolutely warmed my heart to see just how wonderful their reaction to the Bumbleby confession scene was. Over next several weeks, I decided to check out the rest of ave_r_ie’s Volume 9 reactions as each video released. Getting to hear Avery talk about their mental health struggles and how they related to what Ruby was going through really affected me in a pretty profound way. Like Ruby and ave_r_ie, I too am dealing with my own issues with my mental health.

Without getting too much into specifics, I’m going through my own identity struggles at the moment, and find myself in a similar position to what ave_r_ie has described. In a way, these videos have absolutely helped me process my own thoughts regarding my own journey of self-discovery I’m going through, and I think they’ve done a lot for improving my overall thoughts on Volume 9 as a whole. Discussions like these just go to show and powerful and thoughtful of a series RWBY can be, and I definitely think the CRWBY writers deserve a ton of credit for tackling difficult subjects like mental health in a pretty impactful way.

In the off chance that Avery does actually end up reading this, I just want to say thank you so much for being such a positive force in the RWBY community. Your discussions about mental health and how Volume 9 has affected you both as a fan of the show and just in general have been amazing to watch. I wish you nothing but the best in conquering your own struggles, however long and difficult of a journey that may be. And thank you for demonstrating that this show matters. For all the negativity that can surround this community, your positivity has been incredibly refreshing.

I sincerely hope we can eventually get Volume 10, and if creators like ave_r_ie can help make this a reality through their love and dedication for the series, then I think we really need to support that. Seek out ave_r_ie’s channel if you haven’t already. Not only that, but spread some love for this amazing series. Lastly, for anyone who needs to hear this today:

You will always be enough.

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"Yang fights the White Fang" RWBY Fan Animation by @sufferalways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKhNU9r1ORU

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Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions

I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.

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He’s a magician! 

Its magic, I tell you!

“I always remember having this fight with a random dude who claimed that ‘straight white men’ were the only true innovators. His prime example for this was the computer… the computer… THE COMPUTER!!! THE COM-PU-TER!!!

Alan Turing - Gay man and ‘father of computing’ Wren operating Bombe - The code cracking computers of the 2nd world war were entirely run by women Katherine Johnson - African American NASA mathematician and ‘Human computer’ Ada Lovelace - arguably the 1st computer programmer”

- Sacha Coward

Also Margaret Hamilton - NASA computer scientist who put the first man on the moon - an as-yet-unmatched feet of software engineering, here pictured beside the full source of that computer programme. #myhero

Grace Hopper - the woman that coined the term “bug”  

- @robinlayfield

Grace Hopper did more than coin the term “bug”. She invented the first program linker in the early 1950s, for the UNIVAC I. A program linker translates instructions from one language to another (for example, numerical codes that represent instructions translated to machine code that computers can read), which is the very foundation of how computer’s operate independently. she also pulled a steve rogers and tried to enlist in the military a bunch of times and was denied. then, an exception was made for her when she joined the navy reserves, and she ended up serving for over 40 years (half of which was active duty). she retired from the navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. she was born in NYC in 1906. Grace Hopper was a fucking badass.

also computing was typically a job for women (many of whom were black women that made incredible contributions) back in the day, so it’s absolutely fucking wild that straight white men think they are the foundation of computer innovation. men PUSHED women out and took the credit.

Reblogging to do what the failed education system never did.

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what the failed education

system never did.

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Adding Wendy Carlos to the list! Trans icon and pioneer of synthesized music!!

Also, just about every computerized device outside of desktops is running ARM chips now. Your phone, your keyboard, your car, your watch. Basically everything.

And ARM was primarily designed by Sophie Wilson, a trans woman.

Then may I recommend some positive RWBY Review videos for you. Also, try XelWriter’s Channel on Youtube.

This thread omg

Family doesn’t have to be blood related.

Sometimes family is a righteously angry little girl, her supportive brother, a random stranger with a thirst for chaos and justice, two foreign grandmas, and The Rest Of The Plane.

yasss this makes me happy like nothing else lol

RWBY Hot Take?

I'm going to say this, and hope nobody blows up at me for it.

I liked V4 and onward on RWBY as a whole moreso than the first three volumes. One of the reasons is everyone's storylines being separated at first, but coming together in V5.

So, yes. I liked Yang's storyline as it started in V4 and has only been expanded on later on, with Tai having to help her back on her feet. I liked Blake having to face the fact that it wasn't her fault Adam attacked Beacon and doing SOMETHING is better than trying to run. I liked Weiss' gaining freedom from her father.

I like how Renora didn't become a couple right away. I actually liked that team RNJR got to rest in V5. I loved Ilia letting go of her extremism. I loved just...everything about V6, 7, 8, and 9.

I think RWBY has gotten better and better as it goes along. The first three volumes are great set up, have good humor, and start things along but if things went too far with it...well. I love My Hero Academia, Little Witch Academia, and other stuff involving schools of heroes and magic but that woulda been boring.

And just to say this: I have my own problems with RWBY. But they're minor at best. Most of them dissolved after V3, and each successive volume seems to make things better. I may not get deep in the meta, but I have thoughts.

I think this is what’s called constructive or good faith criticism, and I like it.

Fellas, what do y’all think?

Like and reblog if you think this is fair.

I definitely have problems with the show, but I enjoy it overall. 

Rebloging this for visibility.

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Why the re-united Fodlan will likely NOT split back up anytime soon.

As I’ve mentioned before, Edelgard’s detractors really like convincing themselves that things will go right to hell shortly after Crimson Flower ends. Naturally, this is just a case of sour grapes at the devs treating Crimson Flower as no less valid than any other route (if anything the outlook is brighter) masquerading as a legitimate argument, but I’ll humor them because it’s been a really long time since I had a good idea for a Three Houses post.

A common feature of these arguments involves Edelgard actually being an incompetent ruler (Three Hopes pretty casually destroys this claim), or her successor being incompetent (ignoring that her method of succession has infinitely better methods to filter out poor successors compared to Azure Moon’s, “just hope Dimitri’s kid isn’t a shitbag, I guess,” approach).

There’s no indication that either is likely to happen, and in fact the backstory already has a precedent for southern Fodlan militarily subjugating the north and holding it for centuries. And that would be when Rhea and Willhelm rolled on up and brought proto-Faerghus into the Empire by killing King Nemesis. Why would Edelgard see less success? I mean, aside from the fact that her detractors want to believe she would, of course.

I suppose the argument would be, “obviously, Nemesis was a tyrant to the north and nobody wants him back, but Dimitri would have been real popular!” but that doesn’t exactly track with anything that would be called sensible. Now, I’m not trying to stan Nemesis here, I’m just saying there’s nothing to indicate he ruled the north poorly. “He’s a bandit, so obviously he couldn’t rule a kingdom!” doesn’t exactly track when kings in Fire Emblem are often made by being the biggest ass-kicker around.

According to the Fodlan Timeline, Nemesis ruled northern Fodlan for, at minimum, 130 years. You can’t hold that much land reign of terror style for that long a time. You just can’t. Uprisings will happen, and even if you’re super-powered enough to slaughter the peasants, you can’t just kill all your people or you have nobody to grow the food, and your soldiers (and your you) kinda need food.

Now, moving on to the most relevant point: Loog’s rebellion was only a success because of the Agarthans supplied him equipment and a strategist, and the Agarthans aren’t exactly going to be around in force anymore post-CF.

Additionally, the end of Fodlan’s focus upon Crests, Relics, and the Aristocracy, not to mention the slaying or conversion of so many Faerghan heirs, means that anti-Imperial elements wielding Relics will be all but out of play for generations to come, and men like Count Rowe’s predecessor won’t be able to unilaterally steal fortresses from the Empire without oversight.

So in summation, the Empire’s likely to remain united for many, many years to come after Crimson Flower. The set of circumstances allowing for Loog’s rebellion will likely never come again, and it remains in doubt whether similar ones could ever happen. And this is without even discussing the possibility that Edelgard and her successors provide the people no impetus to rebel against her at all. The notion they might come to prefer life under the Empire never seems to come up.

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It is buck wild to me that we are three years removed from Three Houses release and there are still people using "meritocarcy bad" as someone sort of argument against Edelgard even thoguh we have no reason whatsoever to think that Edelgard's government would look anything at all like our modern conceptions of the word "meritocracy." Like, seriously, across three games that she has now been in (Houses, Hopes and Heroes) the word 'meritocracy' isn't used once, let alone to describe the kind of society that she wants.

Like, when Edelgard talks about wanting people to rise and fall by their own merits, she is specifically saying that in the context of a medieval fantasy world in which positions of power are literally determined by who has the most special bloodlines. When Edelgard talks about merit, she's not talking about our modern conception of the word meritocracy, she's literally just arguing that the guy in charge of agricultural development should be someone qualified for that position and not just the previous guy's kid.

But like, people ignore all that context and just start going on about the problems of 'meritocracy' even though that kind of stuff has absolutely nothing to do with Edelgard or the kind of society she is looking to build.

It's particularly silly when people try to use this 'meritocrcay' argument to try and frame Edelgard as being similar to previous Fire Emblem villains like Ashnard or Walhart in wanting some kind of Social Darwinist, Survival of the fittest society even though there is nothing to support that kind of argument in the game itself. There is nothing at all to suggest that Edelgard's idea of 'merit' is based upon physical strength, if anything the game suggests the opposite.

Like, look at Edelgard's A and A+ support with Linhardt for example. Edelgard recognizes that Linhardt has his own unique challenges and desires and instead of forcing him to fit into a particular box, Edelgard goes out of her way to accommodate Linhardt and find a position for him that he would actually enjoy.

You could also look at Edelgard's support with Bernadetta in both Three Houses and in Three Hopes. Edelgard goes out of her way to treat Bernadetta with kindness, and in their Three Houses A support even credits her for making her a kinder person. Like, there's a reason that Crimson Flower is the only route in which Bernadetta feels comfortable enough to stop shutting herself away in her room.

Linhardt and Bernadetta are the type of people that Walhart would crush without a second thought, but Edelgard goes out of her way to accommodate their needs and desires. The type of society that Ashnard wants to build would have no place for them, but Edelgard's does.

So yeah sorry, but the idea that our modern understanding of meritocracy should have any bearing whatsoever on Edelgard is really out of touch, and the idea that she's like Ashnard or Walhart beyond surface level details is completely baseless.

They weren’t given a support bc IS knew they’d be unstoppable as canon lovers

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