AND YET A TRACE OF THE TRUE SELF EXISTS IN THE FALSE SELF

this post is about plastic dinosaurs

Alright was no one going to tell me that in the middle of the Nevada desert is an old cemetery that contains the bodies of a bunch of miners who died in a fire and next door is a haunted clown motel

Why are we still setting horror movies in generic Victorian houses in the woods when this is a real place in the world

So here’s something I’ve been thinking about for Volume 9 for a while now, but has really felt more prominent ever since the trailer:

What if the Ever After at first seems like some idyllic paradise for Team RWBY… and then it turns out that it pretty much IS exactly that. Sure, they may be a few dangers and some areas best avoided if possible, but on the whole the Ever After actually is very peaceful, idyllic, even fun, and safe. Especially compared to Remnant. Overall, far from the worst place to live…

Imagine that once Team RWBY has reunited, gotten their barrings and started getting a real sense of this place, they all start thinking ‘Is this really such a bad place to be stuck in?’

The thing is, Ruby, Weiss, Blake and Yang have some unique qualities as protagonists which make a potential ‘Leave Your Quest Test’ a VERY interesting plot point. When you think about it, Team RWBY isn’t exactly vital to the main plot as protagonists generally are. None of them are ‘The Chosen One’ or possess some super unique trait which is the one thing that can stop the Big Bad or hold some vital macguffin or are simply ‘The Best™’ fighter(s) among the heroes by this huge margin. They’re important to be sure, but not quite in some easily apparent ‘the other good guys literally cannot win without them’ important, to either themselves or the audience.

And when we combine that with just how much unmitigated SHIT that Team RWBY has been through the past several volumes, I think the prospect of the girls deciding to just stop and settle down in this new world starts feeling particularly plausible.

Think about how Ruby in particular has begun feeling more and more responsible for pretty much the fate of the whole world and is clearly buckling under the obligations she’s put on herself. When we get to the point where Ruby finally admits just how exhausted and overwhelmed she is by this responsibility, I’d say its an all-too logical next step for her to simply let that go.

Imagine Team RWBY has gotten back together, got caught up on what they know, had all the emotional breakdowns that have come with it (mainly from Ruby), have started exploring the Ever After and getting settled into this new environment. And they start thinking ‘Maybe this place isn’t so bad…’

Sure, they try to figure out a way back home at first, but quickly find there is no apparent way back to Remnant. And after sitting with this for a bit, they begin to accept it.

Their friends and family can continue the fight against Salem. And besides, they tried to fight Salem, and they FAILED. So what more can they really do? Weiss might even be able to provide the others with a small bit of solace that almost everyone from Mantle and Atlas made it through the portal to Vacuo, so they know they did get achieve one victory in the end.

And this new place they’re stuck in isn’t so bad. It’s mostly peaceful, beautiful, even kinda fun, and it’s safe. Safe from the Grimm, safe from Salem. Team RWBY could just stay here and not have to fight anymore. Maybe it’s okay if they just… stop.

And there isn’t any malicious mind-altering effects from the Ever After forcing the girls to think this way either. Because there doesn’t NEED to be. The Ever After doesn’t need to be secretly nefarious. All it needs to be is just ‘better than Remnant’ for our heroines to start seriously considering just staying there.

It all makes the whole “Leave Your Quest” Test hit all the harder. It makes Team RWBY actually settling down and leaving their quest feel like entirely plausible.

(and as a side note; I imagine the girls haven’t found Jaune at this point. Remember that none of them, even Weiss, has anyway of knowing that he fell too. Team RWBY being lost but still together makes the possibility of just staying feel more plausible)

Heck, going back to the theories about the girls spending months or even years beyond the void while only weeks, days or even just hours pass on Remnant, imagine that we see Team RWBY actually settle down and just live peacefully for a while (months or perhaps even a few years) in the Ever After before something spurs them into action. Maybe finding Jaune who’s barely experienced any passing time at all, or stumble on something that might actually get them back to Remnant. Which of course brings up the question: Do they even WANT to go back…?

Now of course, I’m not positing that our heroines will ultimately flat out abandon their quest. Team RWBY ultimately will decide to return to Remnant and continue the fight. But all this makes the conflict and the decision to return, the decision to reject paradise and a peaceful life in favor of returning to help others hit all the harder.

why does oscar wilde take 150 pages to write something he could literally say in a paragraph

gay

compelling argument

what does this say about victor hugo

no he was just french

R.R Tolkien?

autistic infodumping

Put this together and I dread to think how long a novel by an autistic gay Frenchman would be. :p

Let’s see what this whole hummus thing is about

If you're a fan of gay sex I cannot recommend hummus enough

lgbt neon dividers

lesbian

gay

bi

trans

rainbow

pan

ace

aro

nonbinary

baker 8-stripe

please rb if saving! ❦

*these work best with dark themes

no wait you’re so right

hold on lemme just

wait i forgot something

happy pride

Diversity win! The Sith Lord killing you has a pride lightsaber!

@merrysithmas your thesis!

hate how they forced bugs bunny into anti-weed propaganda in the 90s, as if bugs bunny wouldn’t love smoking weed 

To be perfectly fair, bugs bunny would also love taking money for starring in anti-weed propaganda and then using said money to buy weed

i mean. sure. its equality

also wear lingerie. next question

a champ

I can’t believe they’re gonna die in 26 days :’(

as long as we keep reblogging the timer keeps resetting

ALSO while I'm here, I also found the video frustrating as a fan of Hbomberguy's past work, especially his Sherlock video.

Sherlock is Garbage and Here's Why worked because Harris had something new and interesting to say in it. The general fan consensus on Sherlock was that the first two seasons were legitimately great, while the show started to loose focus in 3 and 4. Harris pointed out, in great detail, how the reason why people got so invested in seasons 1 and 2 is that the show is very good at *tricking* you into thinking it's clever without actually being clever. It wasn't that Sherlock was a smart show that got dumber, it was a dumb show that got worse at pretending to be a smart show. This critique was legitimately novel and really shined a light on the show's problems in a way that I felt gave me a new perspective on it.

The RWBY video, on the other hand, is just reiterating all the criticisms of the show that EVERYONE, up to and including diehard fans and the cast and crew themselves, have already admitted to. It spends 2.5 hours treading no new ground and offering no new perspective and that's why it ultimately feels like a waste.

my favourite adhd / general executive dysfunction feeling is when you become very consciously aware that you are bored and there is nothing interesting left on the 5 social media apps you’ve been cycling around for the past hour and finally a small logical part of your brain goes “hey! perhaps at this point it might actually be more fun to do one of the productive things you’ve been putting off!” and you’re this close to going oh huh yeah maybe that's true! and getting up to do some housework or read a book or something when a far louder part of your brain goes “NO WAIT!!!! maybe THIS time when we refresh tumblr.... it will be interesting again” and you’re like "ohhhh right sorry for doubting you boss" & promptly get right back to doing fuck all

Throwback to the time where I tried to filter “***” to “ass” to annoy a specific member of our forum but since * is a variable operator I just filtered every single word on the forum to “ass” and all posts became immediately unreadable

really glad Rachel still had screencaps of it

You know, I personally find that Blake is ironically a good canary in the coal mine for RWBY spinoffs and fandom works.

Good spinoff media and fandom stuff always understands Blake's nuances and character. Bad spinoffs and fandom stuff always screw her over in some way or another.

If you don't get Blake, you don't get RWBY.

So yeah, I'm gonna be skipping Ice Queendom, that's an immediate red flag for the content of it.