disaster bird

marc / main: jonathonharker / lit blog: epode

[qrowbrnwen]

Trying to neaten stuff from my main so all my rwby posts will be here from now on! (previous tag here)

[hadesisqueer]

RWBY Volume 8 as Reductress headlines

[theseerasures]

the finale should begin with Fiona Thyme saying "FUCK" at the top of her lungs, as a treat

[sunnyteea]

You are going to pay for everything you’ve done.

[xordvalley]

that’s magic babey!!! ✨

[lutzsan]

“Of course the Schnee would be the last one standing" 

Commission Info | Ko-fi

[yeahbumbleby]

rwb + tears

[alexkablob]

I just love how Weiss is the very fem artsy kid and then Winter is a total jock whose entire aesthetic is “19th century aristocratic cavalry officer in tight pants”

[qrowbrnwen]

so remember back in volume 1 when we had flat-colour backdrops and side characters were just silhouettes

[professorspork]

i can’t believe on top of everything else we had such blessed combat choreography as “Robyn rams her minivan into another minivan” and “Qrow literally just going through a windshield like a bird in a sliding glass door”

[theactualpufferfish]

Winter Schnee as the Winter Maiden in The Final Word

‘You chose nothing. This was a gift’

[flipomatic]

Yang, Weiss, and Blake endangering themselves to protect Ruby

[sister-ilia]

Weiss & Gambol Shroud

[philologer-mosaic]

#god she thought everyone was dead#the way her hand shakes when she picks up gambol shroud (tags from mylordshesacactus)

[jonathonharker]

Cinder’s backstory in light of her character being an allusion to cinderella sets up a very important question: was the fairy godmother right? Rhodes is Cinder’s fairy godmother who turns a blind eye to her abuse even before she steals his sword, and continues to do nothing other than training her in combat at night. On top of all that, he frequents an establishment that refuses to serve faunus.

Where was the fairy godmother all those years before she showed up? Why give one night of reprieve, a taste of freedom, before disappearing all over again?

And there’s no prince in this story. Or, if there is a prince, then it’s Rhodes — who fails that role by raising his sword at her. Cinder’s descent isn’t marked at the moment she kills the madame and her daughters, it’s when midnight strikes and Rhodes decides she’s beyond saving.

We miss the way the fairy fails cinderella in the original story because it has a happy ending. RWBY took the premise of the fairytale and turned it into a potentially powerful comment by framing it in a new context where you can’t overlook the way the narrative fails Cinder

[jonathonharker]

when the day you waited for won’t come and dark won’t yield to dawn — trust love.

[jonathonharker]

Not every Grimm is mindless. Or rather, not every Grimm is still mindless. The Grimm you see before you are so powerful, so superior to the Grimm you’ve fought, that they’ve undoubtedly lived hundreds of years. And in that time between killing humans and attacking our borders they’ve done one important thing: learn. [2.09]

[jonathonharker]

Whitley and Weiss quipping “can you handle this” “assuming you can handle that” is genuinely such accurate sibling rep

also whitley running back to press the button look at him go