My blog has been getting a bit more activity recently, so I’d like to remind everyone that sends me an ask, replies to a post, or reblogs to please not put any spoilers in your message!
I am a blind liveblog, and I don’t have a screener. I’m all alone in running this blog. How entertaining I am depends on how little of the show I know about. The fun of it is to see my opinions grow and shift through every episode. It stops being fun when people send me spoilers.
What counts as a spoiler?
Any information that is given to me later on in the show. Yes, any. No matter how mundane or inessential you think it is. No matter if you think me knowing now or later makes a difference. If the show at any point addresses or talks about it, it is a spoiler. So please, please, please avoid telling me.
What doesn’t count as a spoiler?
Generally should be obvious, but you can talk to me about info that isn’t brought up later in the anime. Also, correcting me on information I should’ve already understood, or extra details from extraneous materials that doesn’t show up in the anime itself. Stuff from author interviews, the manga, different translations, detail books and the like.
If you’re ever unsure it’s best to err on the side of caution and wait until a later point to send me that message.
I know I’ve been pretty lax on this before, partly because it didn’t happen that frequently, partly because it’s difficult for me to know what information is later revealed in the series. I’ve been lucky enough to have a great audience that hasn’t spoiled me on anything serious. But the the little things are just as important, my loves. So please be a little more cautious when sending me messages.
This is kind of an awkward post to make, but I feel like I have to say something. Some of you might have noticed a random post from me last night that, honest to god, I have no idea where it came from. It wasn’t me that posted it and it was a copy of an old post I’ve made before. I’ve since changed my passwords and locked down my accounts, but I’m not really sure what happened.
That being said, I didn’t want to just delete the random post and move on like nothing happened, but I also just… wish I had something worthwhile to say.
It’s been a year and a half since the last time I posted and I want to say that I’ll be back to blogging soon. I’ve been telling myself I’ll be back to blogging soon since the new year. Hell, I even got copies of volume 8 and 9 of RWBY just so I can finish up the show eventually. I just have a hard time finding the time to do so, and I don’t want to make any promises to you guys that I won’t keep.
So. For now, all I have to say is that yes, I will be back eventually. Whether that’s tomorrow, or next month, or next year, I’m not sure. But I have no intention of completely closing up shop here, for whatever thats worth, lmao.
If you’re interested, I typed up some thoughts on why it’s been difficult to get around to liveblogging, and I’ll throw them under the cut. But that’s it from me for now.
Until next time (which is hopefully sooner, than later).
So, the long and short of it is that I am depressed— have been, for a while. Probably for most of my childhood / teen years, with a steep drop in my early to mid twenties.
The past few years have been me recognizing it in myself and working myself out of it. Part of that has been me trying to work myself back into my previous hobbies, like playing games, watching anime, writing fanfic.
The thing with depression is that your brain always wants to pick the fast route to serotonin. That means that when I have the free time to indulge in a hobby, my mind’ll usually pick one of the easiest, non challenging ones for me to indulge in. If I’m lucky, this is playing video games. If I’m unlucky, this is wasting away in bed all day.
Thankfully I’m getting better with that last part, getting out of bed is often the biggest hurdle for me, but I’ve steadily been managing for the last couple years. The next step is having the energy to engage with my hobbies.
Liveblogging isn’t hard to do, not by any means, but it is time consuming, and requires a lot of mental energy. I remember the first time I felt so disoriented realizing I had spent 3 hours on a single 20 minute episode. And while my liveblog has always had more of a stream of consciousness style, rather than an analytical one, it is really tiring trying to be “on” for 3 hours straight. I may not always be analyzing and breaking down the media I watch, but I am consciously trying to be entertaining, which doesn’t come naturally to me.
All of that to say that liveblogging, while so so much fun, is probably the most mentally draining of my hobbies. So when I find the energy to engage in my hobbies, liveblogging is usually the last one on the list, unfortunately. I don’t want to give it up, because I genuinely still do enjoy it and want to continue it. I recently finally sat down and watched Demon Slayer, and so many times while watching I thought to my self “This would’ve been a blast to liveblog”.
Anyway, tl;dr, I have the sleepy brain disease that makes doing things hard. Liveblogging requires a lot of mental energy I find I rarely have these days, but I’m not quitting. Just trying to find a way to work it in. I’ll be back, just not sure when.
Thank you to those who have stuck around all this time (I still recognize quite a few names) and the new guys who have somehow managed to find me and joined up to see what comes next. I’ll have something for you guys (hopefully soon).
I had been mostly joking when I said earlier that Ironwood had fully turned into a villain, but no. No, he actually, truly just became a villain.
And I kind of didn't see it coming? Not to this scale at least. I wasn't too shocked that he'd think to threaten Penny's friends to draw her out of hiding, but I truly cannot believe he broadcasted himself threatening to destroy a whole city full of people. Who is he saving at that point??
And is there any salvaging of Ironwood's character at this point? I don't see how he gets out of this alive, not when he's gone full villain and is threatening genocide.
Jesus. And things were starting to look up for our heroes too. Qrow and Robyn finally escaped, Cinder had a momentary existential crisis, the full team was finally back together. But we are not allowed to have happy times in RWBY Volume 8, no siree.
Also, what would he need them for? Bait?? He wants to bait out Penny??
love it when characters speak in vagueities
what does this fucking mean
Uh... i don't want to just assume Ironwood would go around murdering people. But he's not trying very hard to not sound like he wants go around murdering people.
uh, well, for starters it doesn't even sound like she wants to help.
UHHHH
Does she even want a second chance?? Not being an active enemy does not make someone an ally.
okay but i don't really think oz is comparable to emerald, lol.
He never actively planned you and your friends deaths. He lied a lot, but he had everyone's best interest at heart.
Oh???
So... the cane was built to store the kinetic energy that came from, I assume, every time he swung his cane (or landed a blow?). And that big explosion that destroyed that whale came from the release of that energy.
Then I assume that green sphere we see around Oscar just before the explosion is what protected him from the blast itself.
Yes, that's beautiful and you should let Oz help, but Oz has always wanted to help. He made really shit decisions along the way, but he always wanted the best.
The question is, does Emerald want to help? Or does she just want to survive? That's a huge distinction that makes a difference on whether you should trust her or not.
Oh! They have Oscar with them! That's good, I was worried he was going to be seperated from them for a bit again.
Good question!
They'll probably take her with them, but I don't think that's a good idea, especially since they might run into Cinder.
Guess that's confirmation that Hazel did not make it out in one piece. Considering he was physically holding Salem, it's safe to say that if she's in pieces, so is he.
My god, I love it when people just laugh in Cinder's face.
She loves to feel powerful and in control and it is beautiful to see that power stripped from her.
Brave of Watts to not fear being dropped. He's most likely just calling Cinder's bluff, but if she actually chose to drop him I'm not sure how he'd survive that fall.
I think he would survive the fall, I just have no idea how.
LMAOOO
get her ass, Watts
I'm loving you right now, Watts, but I think your chances of survival are slowly dwindling.
If he does die right now Watts will go down as one of my favorite characters, based purely on this scene alone.
Watts is mean, but it's always funny when he's being mean to Cinder.
To the vault, right?
Cinder would have to camp out there if she wanted the best chance to get at Penny. Something I doubt she could do since I'm sure the vault is in Atlas and that's not a place Cinder could just hang out at.
Well, she could, if she had Neo. Not sure if Neo's even still on her side at this point though.
whoops
Knew she wouldn't be happy about that one, lol.
LMAO
Get fucked, Cinder.
I love it when the villains start fighting each other.
It's probably for the best they believe the kids didn't get out cause Winter would just have to try to arrest them again if she saw them.
Oh, the whale is more intact than I thought. I guess Oscar just blew a giant hole in the side of it's head.
Pfft, I guess this is why they made sure to show us that Tyrian and Mercury left for Vacuo. We know the only people who were in the whale were Salem, Hazel and Oscar.
Salem for sure survived that. Oscar did too, he's a main character and also I'm pretty sure the cause of the explosion. It's a toss up on whether Hazel survived, but his survival chances weren't very good right before the explosion, so I'll go out on a limb and say that he's dead.
Hm. Hazel said that the longest Salem was "gone" for was a few hours before she put herself back together.
I'm assuming Oscar blew them up so they'd have a good few hours were she wouldn't be able to chase after them. She might not be able to find them after that, even, since she used the hound to hunt Oscar down before, and that thing is gone now.
Unless she has another hound, and wouldn't that be unfortunate.
