fandom things.

Bisexual Disaster / mainly RWBY, Mass Effect and a few other bits thrown in

[phoenix-fell]

I'm new to RWBY and Bumbleby is like what if Gideon Nav and Camila Hect were a couple , I'm loving this

Ha! What a fun comparison (or cross-over idea?!). But also... you're new! Lucky you, I'd love to re-experience RWBY and Bumbleby again! What a ride. Welcome!

[the-sapphic-raven]

Yang: *tries to do a cool trick to impress Blake and falls flat on her face*

Blake: I'm gonna marry her

Also Blake: *Uncontrollably stuffing her face with tuna as Weiss watches with horror*

Yang: I'm gonna marry her

[h4lcyonism]

“no more falling”

volume 9 storyboard by andrew bower

[citadelofmythoughts]

Bumblebee, in addition to being a major LGBT couple, is also thematically relevant to RWBY primarily because they are one of the many romantic pairings that directly parallel the main story between Ozpin and Salem's failed relationship.

A big reason why Ozpin and Salem's relationship fell apart was because of their failure to communicate with each other. Ozpin was too dogmatically stuck in the idea that he needed to redeem humanity to the gods, and that they needed to grovel before them for forgiveness. He ended up leading Salem around without telling her about this, despite the fact that Salem absolutely DESPISES the gods for harming her and her husband for extremely petty reasons, and she is not unjustified to despise them. And once that lack of trust and communication was revealed, their inability to properly deal with it led to the relationship collapsing, and all of the misery that followed. This doesn't absolve Salem of her own terrible mistakes and her acts of villainy since then, but it's plainly evident just how damaging the secrecy and half-truths ultimately turned out to be.

It's also relevant when you draw additional parallels to other pairings in the story, like Renora, Arkos, Black Sun, and Adam/Blake.

Arkos fell apart before it could truly begin because Jaune didn't understand Pyrrha's emotional turmoil, and held her on a pedestal subconsciously when she needed understanding the most. As such, his story ended up closely paralleling Salem and Ozpin's tragedy the first time they were separated; a powerful but martyr-complexed warrior saving a helpless person, only for tragedy to tear them apart, and the helpless person making rash grief-stricken decisions in the aftermath that caused immense pain for themselves and others.

Renora was an outwardly good relationship, but it steadily became clear how codependent they really were, how much Ren and Nora had not really dealt with their personal issues and in the former's case, was just outright repressing his darker feelings until his trauma was pressed. Once they hit an ideological impasse, with Ren favoring security and safety due to his own insecurities and his own strongly implied feelings about what happened to his family and village, vs Nora favoring aiding the helpless and marginalized in the face of tyranny due to her abandonment, it only further highlighted how they weren't communicating enough. They had gotten too comfortable with not really challenging each other's beliefs and figuring out their identities outside of just being Renora, something that they've only begun to do after properly talking things over.

Blake and Sun suffered from communication problems, as it was evident that the latter didn't really understand the former and just didn't get her very well with her outside of a shallow crush, but it was more driven by well-meaning ignorance rather than any genuine malice. And once the air was cleared, Sun also ended up showing a relationship that might not have worked out, but at the least was still amicable because they communicated on what the problem was.

Blake and Adam's relationship by contrast was purely toxic, with the latter being all take and no give. Everyone else's desires were subservient to his own, and for all of his outward acts of appearing benevolent, became cruel and selfish the minute anyone challenged him. A purely lopsided relationship that was never going to end well because he had no interest in communication, only subjugation and the expectation of absolute obedience to him. Which also frankly puts him in direct parallel to the God of Light and Darkness' relationship; the latter being stuck in unfair and arbitrary rules made by the former to the point of angrily lashing out when Dark finally had enough (and unfortunately also causing immense harm from the fallout), and said GoL revealing his (albeit more subtle) cruelty when someone challenged him, ala Salem.

Heck, even Team STRQ have this with Tai, Summer, and Raven. The latter two disappearing without any communication as to why (or perhaps in the latter's case, her possibly trying to in regards to her suspicions of Ozpin but being dismissed or ignored) absolutely broke Tai, and the fallout of that hurt Yang and Ruby's ability to value themselves and communicate their own pain, leading to this tension in their familial ties.

Bumblebee in many ways directly parallels each of the above, but the key difference was that when push came to shove, Yang and Blake were willing to try to communicate, to TRY to fix what had happened and actually come to a mutual understanding. And in doing so, they were able to find love with each other and truly begin to heal the wounds that those mistakes made.

I don't have a great deal to add here. Excellent analysis and further proof that Blake & Yang have the healthiest romantic relationship in the show.

[gummy-the-ghost]

"Hang on tight, Spider Monkey."

bonus:

[phoenix-fell]

Real talk though, I knew Worthy had to be from Blake's POV the second I heard "I'll never let you out of my sight" cos that girl deadass tracks Yang better than GPS.

[yangfanbb]

SPOILER WARNING! Bumbleby's Worthy full length version so if you want to wait keep on scrolling

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[citadelofmythoughts]

I don’t know who need to hear this (that’s a lie, I know PRECISELY who does)

But Blake’s true personality was never the aloof, moody bookworm nor was Yang’s the free-wheeling girl without a care in the world.

Those changes you’ve seen? Those are their true personalities coming out.

Largely due to each other’s influence. 

If you have a problem with that, stick with RWBY Chibi because that definitely seems like more your speed.

[citadelofmythoughts]

@dazzleyourmindseye​ don’t you dare just leave this in the notes

[iamafanofcartoons]

do you have any good positive rwby blogs that i can follow?

@hadesisqueer

@citadelofmythoughts @tumblingxelian

@bloodraven55

@min3nc

@lilithfairen

@erros429

@marylizabetha

@marylizabetha-reblogs-stuff-here

@strqyr

@astralwukong

@inx-yourx-dreamx-galaxy

@sir-adamus

@anthurak

@cream-and-five-sugars

@phoenix-fell

@astraskylark

@chittychittyyangyang

@set-wingedwarrior

@matt0044 (I love this dude so much)

@monkey-60-t (Sweetheart, this one!)

@pilot-boi

@almea

@tokufan400

@markzschiegnerii

@bardock1991

@flipomatic

@levilagann

@elliesgaymachete

@liskysun

@demtoons

@starry-river-serval

@captain-crackship

@yang-gang

@fallentitan98

@chaoticrushu

@short-wooloo

@shortkingvi

@rwbyrose343

@etincelleart

@corvophobia

@stoneillustrations

@stonegraphics77

@yangfanbb (100% recommend)

@nimona-antifa

@arnieb95

@goldenamaranthe-blog

@mylordshesacactus

@crimsonxe (bit gruff, but always supportive and a listener)

melonishus (was going to provide their link, but tumblr said I tagged enough people)

tupayapsina

novandor

blakistan

animeaddict363

sapphicdash

Tumblezwei (i completely forgot, PLEASE FOLLOW THEM)

These are definitely positive ones that I would recommend.

Type RWDE into a blog's search bar if you're not sure, block em if they're negative.

Its tedious, filtering your feed, but the resulting decrease in negativity is worth it.

[phoenix-fell]

Thank you for the shout-out 😭 and anyone else looking for positive blogs, I'd actually recommend this list also, some great recommendations.

[citadelofmythoughts]

Blake and Yang were queer BEFORE they confessed/kissed. Their romantic relationship has been solidified/canonized but their sexuality hasn’t changed.

All those moments we saw between them before V9Ch6 were real things that happened. 

I know I’m preaching to the choir but just the way some people frame things really annoys me. 

[iamafanofcartoons]

There’s way too many that do.

Kaosi I think it was made 2.5 hours showing Blake and Yang’s development, and people still are blind and deaf.

[battlecouplesoulmates]

Their full story is actually 5.5 hours

The fact that people ignore half their story/development shows they don’t know what they’re talking about

[citadelofmythoughts]

To put that in perspective, the entirety of V6 is a little over three hours.

The Bees had roughly a volume and a half of development. For a webshow with limited resources and time to tell it’s story that’s a HELL of an investment.

It’s almost like their relationship is extremely important to the show.

[phoenix-fell]

It's honestly criminal how little we get of Liara in ME2. 😭

[phoenix-fell]

Mass Effect update:

Decided I've played enough of my first play-through speed run to warrant beginning my in-depth restart of the whole series.

This decision may, or may not, have something to do with the fact that I didn't realise that the IFF mission secretly triggered the end of the game. It also may, or may not, have something to do with my mild trauma induced from my crew being reduced to... Well, goo.

[phoenix-fell]

Me innocently playing the game for enjoyment vs. My best friend asking me if I've romanced any of my crew.

The way my head did a 180 was just wild 😂

[phoenix-fell]

My Mass Effect experience can be summarised with:

90% - I have NO idea what I'm doing but I'm bumbling along having a good time while my squad walks into walls.

Randomly - oh hey I think I got the hang of this! *Game ends* sure. 🫠

Onwards to Mass Effect 2 I guess 🤣

[phoenix-fell]

are you stuck on eden prime? (i saw your post about being stuck in mass effect)

Hey! I'm actually on Noveria Peak 15 garage. The main issue is that my squad just seem to like... stand still and die. 🫣

[yangfanbb]

Artist: saltybaguettes_

[kiyomides]

bees dinosaurs as a bday gift for a friend uwu