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[haibarashiho]

Blake glances at yang before the kiss

She wanted to kiss her so bad

[wary-taru]

My babees I miss them so much 🧡💜

[rwby-encrusted-blog]

Yang: What do you mean you thought we were already Dating?

Emerald: I mean I thought you two were a thing when I joined. I saw the way you looked at each other, I heard to they you talked to and about each other. It was pretty damn obvious!

Yang: No- Okay! everyone who thought me and Blake had been dating this whole time raise your hands!

*Everyone raises their hands*

Yang: ...

Yang: Blake, Babe, please put your hand down.

[justheblueberry]

i can see the beauty in this again

[notmaplemable]

Arc-Noire Omake: Contrast

Yang: *Pulls up on bumblebee*

Yang: *Takes off her helmet, does a sexy hair swoosh*

Yang: *Smirks and waves at Blake*

Blake: *Staring, mesmerized*

Ruby: *Pulls up on a scooter*

Ruby: *Takes her helmet off, he hair looking like bird's nest*

Ruby: *Waves at Jaune with a big goofy smile*

Jaune: *Smiling back*

JB: *Look at each other*

JB: *High five*

Note: I've had the idea for this in my head for awhile now, but it's a much better visual joke if I'm being completely honest. But I have none of the artistic skill to make it into a comic or whatnot, so you'll just have to endure the written version.

But if someone does want to draw this, you have my permission.

[razorblade180]

This is my RWBY Hot Take:

BB ended up being canon because of fandom and VAs pushing for it. Which, is not necessarilly a bad thing, but it is when you can ACTUALLY tell. And I think that´s the problem.

Now, RWBY has always been on the sights of Yuri and Queer fandom, which are a both a force to be reckoned with whenever people want to admit it or not. This shouldn´t be surprising considering that they showcased not one, not two, not three, but FOUR main characters with very unique desing, appeal and personality. OF COURSE the show was gonna attract lesbian women like honey attracts flies XD

At the same time however, RWBY kinda wanted to fall into very classic old tropes of anime, hence why even 10 years later Ruby has still to show attraction to somebody, like a proper shounen jump character, with some twists every now and then. Which is why you can´t convince me that Sun wasn´t put there to be Blake´s love interest, but the fandom had already taken into the main characters hooking p between them and just wouldn´t move from there.

Proof of that is that even after 10 years of absolute 0 development, White Rose is still one of the biggest ships out there, receiving new art almost daily by, you guessed, lot of tumblr queer (which seems to be in abundance, maybe there´s a correlation? Beats me). Now, this isn´t me throwing shade over WR, they DID have some very good base and chemistry, but people rationalizing that Weiss MUST be bi or even yet, a Compulsory Het (despite absolute 0 evidence that´s even a thing in Remant) just doesn´t paint a very positive figure of the fandom.

What I´m trying to say with this? Well, if a fandom can be THAT obssesed with queer characters (Ask CanonSeeker about it if you don´t believe me) and attract an audience who clearly has an obsession with them either because they just want to see girls kissing (lot of pervs around, the NSFW reddit sub has MORE subs than the main one :/ ) or because they want to see their representation/projection/whatever and see absolute no issue with the crumbs and the bad things RT did some of its queer workers (like Kdin)... who is there not to say that this couple, (or any other even!) is not fanservice?

People want to see what they want to see, and will resort to all kind of emotional pitfalls to rationalize their preference or how "it was always meant to be".

No, having a base as friends is not enough. Yes Nora, people can be friends, and sometimes it´s better if they remain that way, as you have discovered. You can´t have a character show attraction that is slowly being reciporcated for seven years only to drop itone day and say "nah, it was never about it" and pretend the fandom who is not just looking for validation and seeing hot girls make out bdon´t end up scratching their heads in confusion. That´s just now how it works. SPECIALLY when lot of people were dropping after the disaster that was Vol.5

Which is another reason that it feels like the writers just caved:

They realised they were not going anywhere with BlackSun and with the WF, so they just removed it out of the equation and pretend it never existed. They needed to keep their fans interested, and while at it, some Rainbow Capitalism to get some more attention. People called it forced because morons are "ugh, lesbians!" (Not forgetting that some people on both sides of the equation just can´t get that Bi people exist) while the reason can be simply that RT can´t write romance for shit, and the relationship feels more like they just wanted to speedrun to make up for 6 seasons where they still had plausible deniability (forgetting that they just put that line on the sky dropping Sun...) while at the same time not outright confirming until the last minute.

So, the whole point of this rant is: BB is fanservice? Yes.

But it´s the BAD fanservice. The kind of you can TELL they are caving to the fandom for attention, and doing so in a kind of unnatural way, that they try too hard to give crumsb ("Yeah... Ruby.") and have to confess in a magical plot device that feels like taken out of a fanfic, so instead of "this is the natural progression our characters took" feels more like "Yaaaaaaas, we gave the fanatics what they wanted, aren´t we great!? Another "cultural" victory, yay, so now give us the money so we can greenlight Vol 10!"

So, TL:DR - If you are going to give fanservice, try at least to make it FEEL natural, or don´t give it at all. If you ar unsure, get a good producer, a guy whose sole job is to say NO.

This time I think I’m just going to primarily be the bridge that allows people see and respond to this with their own opinions cause if I’m being honest, it feels like you got into the weeds a little and I couldn’t follow. Please be civil in comments.

As for my personal opinions about BB in general i will reiterate what I’ve thought for the past few years now. The ship itself is fine but any cultural impact it would’ve had was lost when you wait so long that Disney beat you to showing a lgbt kiss scene. I think RT did course correction when seeing its popularity which isn’t in itself bad at all, but they just sucked at it.

The two roads people have to walk is thinking BB was planned from the start or added later due to popularity. If you think the first one, then face the fact RT handled it very poorly and unnecessarily made things messy by adding Sun. If you believe the second then don’t be delusional if someone has the opinion it made certain narrative choices messier or that once again, Sun was written as a potential love interest.

I like BB but RT made some questionable choices that wouldn’t say hurt Blake and Yang’s character, but hindered scenes because they dragged it out too long. Also hate to say it but 95% of their relationship healing, comfor, angst, etc. was built off of Adam. So when ya kill Adam… the thing that made the dynamic interesting is gone. That’s not a problem if he died at the end of the show, like most characters do with the trope.

But I will say I do respect the fact they didn’t immediately date after murdering him because that just doesn’t look good on any level. However, Atlas had a time skip. As much as I love Ren and Nora, maybe we should’ve gone to the dance club and do the kiss there before Atlas went to hell? Then we could have a nuanced discussion about if the two of them telling Robyn without consulting anyone was okay.

[howlingday]

Yang: Hey, cute kitty~!

Blake: Yang, I told you to stop calling me tha-

Yang: (Holding an actual cat)

Yang: Aw, don't worry, Blakey! You're my cute kitty, too~!

Blake: (Blushing)

[bobacupcake]

hopefully this works and shows enough of it :') It's in an area called "Radiosonde" but they take damage from enemies as well so I struggled finding a good video. I went ahead and got mine + gifed it!

looks like they have a texture mask that goes over everything, and then they use the texture mask to check what to display!! if its one value, they still display the animated part, if its another value, they display the staticy part, and it looks like they have a third part for displaying the staticy part but also flashes ocassionally. plus a cracked-up texture that goes on top of everything and matches up to the texture mask (or could be part of the staticy texture)

i would guess they have different levels on the texture mask too? so like lets say if the color is 0.2 on the mask, it will transition after just one shot, but if the color is 0.4, it would take two shots, etc