Don't you get it? I love you. I always have.

I love you, too.

[astralwukong]

POLL (HELP ME):

if you had a feeling bumbleby is kissing on the next episode of the hit web series RWBY and you were unable to watch the episode in peace until a day/two later (on Sunday afternoon, for instance) WHAT WOULD YOU DO?????

lock urself in a restroom to watch asap (u get to watch everyone lose it live)

wait a day and watch peacefully (u lose it alone)

Voting ended onMar 25, 2023

lmao this was supposed to be a joke but i really don't know what to do 💀💀💀💀

[parsoleathi]

Watch it! I'm kinda in the same boat tomorrow. My dad celebrates his birthday tomorrow and I'm surrounded by family the time the episode drops at 15:30pm (in germany) but man: bet your ass that I'll come up with the lamest excuse known to men to watch the new ep on my phone in his bedroom with headphones. I can not wait till I'm home at night. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on the party so sorry dad but I have to vanish for roughly 20 minutes and then I'll be a normal, functioning human again.

[notpikaman]

[parsoleathi]

Pikachu right out of my nightmares.

[peachhoneii]

We didn’t get just this…

We also got this.

Good guy, Ekko. He understood the assignment. He knew this was an intimate scene he really didn’t have any business seeing but priorities, right?

[parsoleathi]

I can't stress enough how telling the position of their embrace is. Caressing each others necks, both pressing their heads closer, tearing up, tightening their grip and thus deepening (and holding) the embrace + with their pelves touching means attraction and love. It's not a platonic hug. You can read as much in every blog about the different types of hugs and their meanings. This was a deliberate choice. When Vi hugged Jinx prior in episode 6 there was still a small distance between them (pelvis turned away from each other) and when Vi hugged Ekko, she had her arms around his back and was not caressing his neck like she did with Cait so the animators know of the different types and knew exactly what they were portraying here. Oh and Vi gently caressing her cheek afterwards? Yeah no, that ain't platonic. In short: they're in love your honor and we need season 2 asap.

[catchymemes]

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

My God they actually look like dogs now

[introvertbard]

Lord, the changes! DO PUGS NEXT!!!

[dusky-phantom]

ACTUALLY! A breeder in Germany started to breed healthier pugs called “retro mops” and currebtly ppl are trying to get AKC and UKC to recongnize them as the new standard.

heres the comparison:

[introvertbard]

Reblogging with updates! Healthy bulldogs AND healthy pugs! ❤️

[rpmaniac]

The absurd breed standards are a recent thing, developed in the past 100-150 years. The healthier breeds are much closer to their 19th century ancestors.

A pair of French bulldogs painted by Carl Reichert (1836-1918)

“Sweet Temptation or Willpower”

Charles Van den Eycken, 1891.

[headspace-hotel]

“Sweet temptation or willpower” I love that painting so much

[parsoleathi]

I'm german and my best friends has a retro mops (called Flash...Flash Mops...I hate and love his humor) & he's such a sweet boy. He doesn't breath as if he'd die any second when you go for a walk with him. Healthy, happy little pug ~

[rwbyrantsblr]

A Statement on r/RWBY’s recent bans of those who use r/RWBYCritics.

I don’t have a Reddit account anymore. But being “low on manpower” isn’t an excuse for a lack of moderation on a subreddit. Find more mods. There are plenty of r/RWBY users who I’m sure are willing to help out. It doesn’t have to be a dozen people overworking themselves.

I also take issue with the statement made by the r/RWBY mod team for a multitude of reasons. r/RWBYCritics is a subreddit of hardly 3,300 members. I doubt all of them are active. Perhaps 500 are active a week, at most?

Meanwhile, r/RWBY has 155k members. I’m certain far more r/RWBY members are active than r/RWBYCritics members on their respective subreddits. You’re telling me a subreddit of 155k strong is afraid of some 500 active RWBY critics?   The mod post itself states the issue is a “vocal minority”. The majority of 3,300 users shouldn’t be punished for a “vocal minority”, then. 

It’s as simple as that.

[parsoleathi]

This. And saying manpower is an issue is horseshit. I once was a global / super mod on the world largest Bleach forum (Bleach Asylum; active as a global mod from 2009 - 2013). When we were understaffed, we got new Mods asap. There are always people eager to step up and help out. It's a lame excuse. Trying to justify the dick move they pulled to cash in pity points and do damage control now after being called out by the likes of Eddy and MoB.

Idon't care what bad blood happened over the past years between both subs, collective punishment because they can't come up with a more reasonable solution is unprofessional, unjust and shows they are unfit to be mods in the first place if they can't professionally handle and dissolve this dispute. It's part of being a mod. We aren't just there to swing the ban hammer. As a mod you have to listen to both sides, deescalate situations, find compromises and such and not mass ban whole groups and call it a day because it's the easy way and avoids dealing with dispute.

I was a global mod for over 5 years in a forum with thousands of active users per day. I spent 6 - 10 hours a day sorting out disputes and ship wars & not once did I or the other mods collectivly punished a whole group of people for the actions of a few. I hope they reconsider.

[gunchucks-wukong-archive]

So yeah, it didn't take long. I am so tired.

Leave bees alone already. Stop threating them like fan bait, they are a stable realtionship of the show and people have every right to love them. I am so tired. Just leave them out of WR topics.

[gunchucks-wukong-archive]

....bees are canon.....they are a canon stable relationship of the show......as such they are a thing in the crossover too.......they aint food for fans...........they are canon.......i don't even know what to say anymore......

[parsoleathi]

It's almost like one ship is on it's way to being canon in the show while the other is strictly platonic and these dynamics made it to the comics. Wild concept, I know.

I'm seriously sick of certain WR stans constantly shitting on BB for "stealing spotlight from WR" (what spotlight? It's platonic and the ship only exists in their heads, ffs...) - this was especially bad during V7 - every episode the bees interacted, you could bet your ass that posts would plop up, shitting on BB for stealing development and scenes from WR. But as soon as WR is under fire from rival ships they make a 180 and yell for BB shippers to help and stand by them because "wlw have to stick together and support each other". In all bluntness: fuck them to hell and back.

And CRWBY letting Ruby & Weiss interact less and less with each volume in silent response to all the shitty harassment they receive will never not be funny to me.

I hope CRWBY lets them starve in regards to crumbs.

[gunchucks-wukong-archive]

Hey bees, realistically, what do you think will happen in canon? ✋

A) Bumbleby only.

B) Bumbleby + Ruby endgame (Nuts and Dolts, Rosegarden, Whiterose, Lancaster)

C) Bumbleby + Weiss endgame (Whiteknight, Iceberg, Whiterose, someone new?)

D) Bumbleby + both a Weiss and a Ruby endgame (specify).

You can also tell me what do you expect to happen and then what you would want in an ideal world instead.

[parsoleathi]

I can't really see them devoting lots of screentime again to have yet another romance arc. I can see small hints here and there along the way and making one heavily hinted ship canon in a "xyz years after the show" at the end of the show scenario. I'm betting my money on Rosegarden & Whiteknight. Would've loved NND the most but welp. Lancaster & Sunflakes would be my two favs but yeah: chances are bad.

But keeping Ruby & Weiss single would also totally be OK - especially Ruby. They aren't in need of a romance subplot.

[tatiannamaslany-blog]

[do-you-have-a-flag]

tomorrow

[thecatholicbadwolf-whowaited]

Always reblog NSYNC the day before May

[ackles-wants-snackles-with-cas]

Queueing this for next year

[jenny-jinya]

Did I make you smile for once? ( •᷄⌓•᷅ )

 It’s a bit different from my usual content, I wanted to give you a break :’)

[parsoleathi]

I'm smiling through tears. Thanks for this :')

[gunchucks-wukong-archive]

I'm gonna be honest, my old self would have probably been mad at how beeunion 2.0 and beeunion 3.0 carry and/or will carry more emotional and visual value to it than beeunion 1.0 which was arguably the most tense and important part of their story together, but, maybe beeunion 3.0 is meant to be even more important than that, depending on what happens in the finale...also kind tired of "beeunions" and i want beedating next wkxndnxndnahah anyways not sure where i am going with this, i am just excited for whats to come with V9 and im dying to see how this all goes.

[parsoleathi]

I'm kinda torn about the "when will they reunite" situation tbh. On one hand I'm with farronheit. Having a huge hiatus in between will (at least for me) immensly take away the arc of suspense and momentum that was being built up in Volume 8 - especially with the latest ep. Like...the audience is at their seats right now, so is the BB fandom. Not following through now would pretty much choke that fire for many I think and for me would feel ill paced. I mean I'll binge the last volumes anyway right before V9 starts to hype myself up and get back into RWBY but not everyone does it and I feel like the impact would be less...impactful having a few months till they reunite again. People will calm down in the meantime, the desperation and angsting will go away, people will cope, watch other stuff...can't describe it better in english but I hope you get what I mean. Many would be like "oh right, that was a thing back then, I nearly forgot". Also unless the gang spends some time searching for Yang, shoving a confession & kiss at the start / middle of V9 would also feel ill paced to me (once again way less impactful than having it at the climax of a volume as a phenomenal send-off into hiatus). This could be averted by letting RWB angst over Yang & search for her for multiple episodes but tbh the last thing I want is yet another "RWBY is split" plot. We had volume 4, 5 & 8 for that - specifically 8 where Yang was the only RWBY member being absent from her team for the majority of the volume. It#s just...I don't want it repeated... On the other hand, reuniting them at the finale might be way too soon (depends how it's handled and to be frank, CRWBY has no qualms rushing certain things so I wouldn't put it past them to pull it off in the next ep - Weiss was shown to be treated after Cinder impaled her right in the next ep too) and if Yang alludes to the fairy tale, we might be given a solo arc for her which might even change her. It could also open up especially Ruby & Blake dealing with supposedly losing Yang but without wanting to throw shade at CRWBY: V8 already offered plenty of opportunities for such plotlines (just in a lesser scale because they suspected Yang was safe) like...it was the perfect opportunity but CRWBY largly didn't take it and just brushed the topic here and there with a line or meaningful look so why should V9 be any different? It could easily be integrated in the finale fights against Neo & Cinder by Ruby & Blake having some verbal outbursts. Then again seemingly killing a character to leave their fate unknown in a huge cliffhanger until the next season rolls around is a famous trope in media so this could absolutely be the plan (but THEN again everyone and their grandma knows that Yang isn't dead anyway and I think CRWBY ain't dumb - they know that the fans don't buy that for even a second so that is that). It might as well end with the famous "They all fell but at the end of the volume we'll see it from Yang's PoV who wakes up". So in conclusion: I'm torn. I don't want it rushed of course but I don't want another "destiny tore them apart for the 100th time and Yang is missing from team RWBY again" plot in V9 because I have enough of that. It's repetitive at this point and not different from V8 only with more angst but otherwise the same. I also don't hope that any trope like amnesia or such is being pulled to further drag out making Bumbleby 100% canon with treating it like the het couples (aka confessions & kisses) because me believing it's slow burn & not baiting for ratings has it's limits and for me it's nearly reached at this point. So I still kinda hope Yang falling was only used as a one week angst fuel to really get the fandom in disarray (and the Bumbleby fandom in an emotional turmoil) only to pull a "bitch you thought" at the finale with RWB falling too...and getting the culmination of their build-up & pining with the "I thought I lost you without ever getting to tell you that I love you" trope before sending us off into hiatus. Maybe some reverse V5 finale with Yang saying "Blake?" when they all fall, they get their moment until the whole team hugs it out similar to V5 before all look around, wondering where the hell they are and we see a glimpse of...wherever they landed which will be the huge cliffhanger.

[littleali07]

I really hope that RWB will be able to reunite with Yang next episode...wherever she is...

I don't think I can handle waiting a year to see Yang again. Especially not being able to see Blake and Yang back together.

[parsoleathi]

@haltraveler Has she though? I mean I wish for the confession + kiss next week before the hiatus like everybody else but I'm kinda afraid Barb will come foreward and say "this was the scene I meant". I seriously hope I'm wrong though and this angsty set-up will be resolved in the finale with a touching scene. I couldn't handle the hiatus with such a cliffhanger. Also at least for me the whole set-up leading to their tearful confession + kiss would lose immense momentum and tension with a months long hiatus in between and wouldn't slap as hard at the start of volume 9. Such a thing is cool for a week to have the fandom at the edges of their seats, angsting and having a collective meltdown but with 7 - 9 months in between, things will cool down in the fandom. So for that alone I seriously hope we'll get the conclusion next week as a great send off into the hiatus + reuniting the team after a hard battle would be a nice callback to the V5 finale as well as ending the volume contrary to how it started: reuniting instead of separating. Of course theay might as well use V9 to search for Yang but tbh I'm fed up with RWBY being separated - we had Volume 4, 5 and 8 with that. At this point they'd be more alone than united as a team and I don't want to sit through yet another "the gang is split" volume. Have them reunite next week and end it with them looking around, wondering where they are (Wonderland, Avatar-Realm, Lala-land or whatever) and make this the cliffhanger.

[yangshair]

Manifesting Beeunion 3.0

Like to charge, reblog to cast

[cloverebi]

there’s no way blake and yang arent going to kiss when yang comes back so… silver linings… right… guys… right…

[parsoleathi]

At this point the only thing keeping me going next week will be me deluding myself into believing it was a set-up for their reunion & confession + kiss when they reunite in the finale next week. Please let me keep this delusion or I won't be able to function at work. Because if I have to think, even for a hot second, that Yang's fate will be left unclear until V9 rtolls around, I might as well jump into the limbo with Yang. Delusions ftw. Reality? I don't know her ~

[gunchucks-wukong-archive]

"they" should stop tagging him?

[parsoleathi]

No joke, I just went through the twitter tag (doing that daily) and one of those hardcore WR stans who constantly tags members of CRWBY and demands more WR for weeks now was all like "I don't get it. We're not sending death threats so we're not doing anything wrong". Ex-fucking-cuse me but what?! Death threats aren't the only (even though the most extreme ofc) way of harassing people. Constantly ganging up with your friends, tagging the crew daily and demanding more content for a ship never being set-up romantically to begin with (sorry but read the damn room already) is intrusive and harassing behavior. I hope CRWBY just blocked the whole Whiterose / White Rose tag by now so that that bullshit misses them entirely. Like...ship in fanon what you want. I'm a multishipper too. More power to shippers but stop with the entitlement that somehow Whiterose was promised but never delivered because that simply ain't true. Ya'll turn into the next Fair Gamers with your pushing, entitled and harassing bullshit. Stop this toxic shit already. Now Eddy kindly asked to not be tagged - offering open communication even though he could just block your asses and mute the tag but he wants to listen and wants to stay connected. He simply put out a request and those same hardcore WR stans throw a huge hissy fit about it now. Like...simply accept a request from someone who feels harassed by you and show some fucking basic human decency by respecting their wishes and leave them tf alone. And just a tip for the future: if you want to make sure your ship never becomes canon because the writers are harassed over and annoyed by your entitlement, this is the best way to do it. Congrats, you're currently playing yourselves.

[citadelofmythoughts]

Kinda feel sorry for CRWBY. Nothing the next four chapters can throw at us will make us gasp like Yang tenderly cupping Blake's cheek.

[parsoleathi]

CRWBY: *has them hold hands subtly in the background next*

lbr: it'll be over for us bitches if any more intimacy happens this volume lmao

[gunchucks-wukong-archive]

This fandom is wild, specifically on the shipping side because it doesn't understand the difference between what they want to be canon and whats actually canon and as such is expected to happen.

You'll have people that will unironically claim weiss/ruby are endgame despite being told "no" every season, you turn around and someone will say jaune/ruby should have happened because they were "set up romantically"(???), turn around again and another corner of the fandom is actually expecting nuts and dolts kiss any moment because they hugged a lot, meanwhile canon Ruby is......literally uninterested in anything romantically and is about to have a serious breakdown over thousands of people that are going to die...............like 😬

[parsoleathi]

This. You put it perfectly. I get confused whenever I see serious discourse about Ruby ships in terms of what does or does not become canon / endgame and I'm like "ship what you want but...have you watched the show? Ruby has the least bit of romantic cues / tension / build-up with anyone". I'm a multishiper when it comes to Ruby - I have at least 5 ships I like with her in fanon but tbh Ruby gives me massive aro/ace vibes in canon and I just can't really warm up to the thought of seeing a romance with her involved. People can of course ship what they want for fun but somehow claiming superiority in terms of endgame and digging oneself further into the "I found proof for my ship" shtick is quite unhealthy. Not to mention of course CRWBY will be blamed for not making XYZ canon at the end even though the writing was obviously on the wall...right... Then again the Ruby/any character ships (aside from Nuts & Dolts currently) live off of crumbs and interpret any look™ as undisputable proof that it'll be endgame. Like...a character stands next to Ruby, looks at her for 0,6452 seconds, shows basic empathy / decency / friendly behavior or just breaths in the same general direction: OMG XYZ-ship moment! We're canon! Like...chill ya'll. Ship for fun, remember to not jump the gun and overinterpret (and misinterpret) every frame. The only one you really hurt with this behavior is yourself.

[xkatebishop]

Tired of seeing negative shit about her. This is an Avatar Korra appreciation post. Reblog this if you love and appreciate Korra.