#majoringinsarcasm

[baboey]

Just finished “like taking candy from a” thank you for the wonderful food. Thank you for pushing me deeper in the Zoeybaby trenches. I would steal gold for you. Maybe even soul or two it was that good

so glad u enjoyed!!!!! kind of blown away by the response for the fic. i'm too used to writing for niche fandoms lol

[sagechan]

Fellas is it gay to give your volleyball rival a makeshift crown so he can be allowed to overcome his shitty middle school persona and grown into someone worthy of the title King of the Court and also you’re alone in the gym and also you’re both boys

FELLAS.

FELLAS IS IT GAY?

FELLAS? LADS? BROS?

IS IT G

IS IT GAY

[strqyr]

So after thinking about it for a good nine minutes at work today and after just watching The Indecisive King, I’ve decided the crown Aka the Relic of Choice is IN the tree. I am not good at long theories but come ON the first king making decision he did was about a Tree That Fell (and broke a fence). It’s a relic that has no practical use, meaning that Oz putting it in the Ever After means he would’ve had no use for it himself. I don’t know about the sword but the lamp can only answer 3 questions every 100 years and the staff can only make and keep one new creation at a time and it destroys the last thing it makes to create a new one. ALSO I guess the moral or good end of The Indecisive King is that one person having to carry the burden of making all the rules and knowing too much on their own leads to that person being burnt out and second guessing themselves. I still have no idea what’s really going on with Alyx and what truly happened to her both the first time and then with Jaune, but we don’t have the full picture. “Share your burden with me. Let me wear the crown so I may understand.”

“This crown… it gives a glimpse into the future, to a decision that must some day be made.”

“If you only concern yourself with the future you will miss the good things right in front of your eyes. Life is full of decisions, but you must trust yourself to do the right thing when the time comes. YOU must keep living.”

They don’t know how to stop Salem, they don’t know what’s waiting for them back home, they don’t know if they can do all they’ve been asked to do. But the point is that none of them are doing it alone. None of them have All the answers but Together they might just find one. If there IS a sacrifice that’s a choice they’ll have to make. And if not there’s probably going to be one last little mind puzzle they have to answer for themselves before the path home is revealed. We know the sword is in Vacuo. If the crown really is at the ruins then things will end where they started which is at Beacon which is what I personally would like, for them to go back to Beacon I mean. But the crown has a very good chance of being in the Ever After and I’m on team tree until the next four episodes prove me wrong haha

Also the cat endlessly seeking knowledge via all their questions and the opening of the story which is “Is knowledge the answer to all your problems? Surely being more informed leads to smarter choices.” Idk it’s giving the gang isn’t asking the right or interesting questions bc they’ve been trying to stick to a path that fundamentally will not work for them by virtue them not being in the Book but the Location of the Ever After and their very presence would’ve changed things even if they were in the literal book.

Team Tree!

you know. i could see it. i mean it depends if ozma knows about the ever after and how to get there (i don't think he would leave the crown in the ever after without ever having a way to get it back).

alternatively it could be that the door that leads to remnant (if such door actually exists) is somehow connected to where the crown is, so the crown would still be on remnant, but in a place that would still have (magical) protection as i doubt the other side of the door to the ever after is just. out there for everyone to walk through.

main reasons i find this compelling is bc of 1. the connection between choice and knowledge, 2. the ever after is definitely playing around with these two concepts, with the curious cat asking questions (and answering them, and also highlighting the importance of asking the right questions) and the whole thing with the crossroads that requires making choices between two options (but is that the only way to go through it? deciding to go with neither is a choice as well.) and 3. well.. there's is a big tree in the ever after, and the vault of knowledge also had a tree with some magical properties. like. the trees, i do not understand them, but they do compel me so.

there's also the "a place like these vaults" instruction team rwby gave ambrosius for the central platform, from where they then fell to the ever after, so. the possibility is there that the vaults are connected to the ever after in some way—if not directly, then like. being in the same realm or something. perhaps acting as in-between? the vaults have similar effects within them as did the white void where the god of light brought ozma from afterlife.

i think there's a good possibility that there's something here, but how exactly it all fits together, i'm still unsure about.

[greenteaandtattoos]

This Will Be The Day: victory is in a simple soul

V1 Opening with Ozpin: small sparks can bring great change (I am 100% paraphrasing but it’s right before we get to the dust shop in episode 1)

Oscar: A soul match for Ozma but now surrounded by people he can’t trust and fresh eyes to this hell that Ozma has lost his way in

Your recent post: Ruby and Oscar parallels

Me an empath: I think simplicity is the key and also Ruby and Oscar are gonna save the world and maybe even confront the gods together which would be Wild and also Amazing

Definitely. Simplicity is the key, for sure, we just don't know how.

That's the exciting thing, isn't it? Watching them figure out what they need to know and how to do it. That's the story right there.

I think, Oscar, being Ruby's secondary protagonist, is key, as well. I think he's going to be the key to bringing RWBYJ(N?) back from the Island, and I think Ruby and Oscar, with the support of their loved ones and teammates, will figure out how to do this.

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

Yeah Manfred, for one, literally ruined two entires lives with what he did to Gregory. But the needing to be Perfect is like. I know the time line is all wonky but Miles is seven or six years older than Franziska so him leaving her behind as he went all baby prosecutor mode was just. Him being six or seven years older. She was a toddler when they met so he’s been her Little Brother basically all her life. And Miles really needed that kinda innocent adoration and interest she had in him when she was a kid bc if he had been alone? Can’t imagine how much worse things could’ve been in Manfred didn’t at least have his own kid to think about at the time. But poor girl felt like she had to give 200% in order to keep up with Miles when if she had a not ihhh objectively evil father they could’ve been an unstoppable duo from the jump. Or. Once Miles got a bit older bc again. Nine is kinda young to have your life stolen from you but. Gah.

Evil fathers / dead fathers / dead family is a big theme in this game. Why couldn’t Phoenix ever gotten like a case about theft it’s ALWAYS murder. (I guess he’s a criminal defense attorney specifically.???? But istg when I get to the damn circus in my play through I’m loading into the game and arresting 80% of the ppl in that case LEAVE REGINA ALONE)

"if she had a not ihhh objectively evil father they could’ve been an unstoppable duo from the jump" very true! some competitiveness is normal for siblings but franziska always felt properly in miles's shadow in a way that really messed with her own self-worth. and god the whole DL6 incident is so angsty from every angle for everyone invovled, you're so right that it was good that miles had a sister-figure to keep him company after that. my brain is kinda sleep-deprived at the moment so i can't quite put all my thoughts into words properly but you said it, these two have such an interesting dynamic and i love them, i love them so much

(also wait how far into the games are you? i don't want to spoil anything!) and yes omg regina is too young for this, let her live her life smh

[bloodraven55]

What’s your stance on the Summer is dead thing? Bc at this point idk if we’re just getting backstory or if this is setting up to be “Salem trapped Summer in some nightmare dimension and has been fighting gods for 14 years”. I wanted more Summer but I didn’t get a permission slip signed for this feels trip!

I think right now it could still go either way. I'd sort of like the permanence of her being dead but I also see so much potential for what they could do if she was alive so... I don't know, I guess lol.

[kahnah23]

Also it should go without saying that Lamp Halo (and everything spawned from it) is my life blood.

well you were a big part of it so I’m expecting as much!

[bakapandy]

*screams loudly while crying* my friend showed me the tweet you made since I don't have twitter and I'm so so so happy you liked the fic. I've been beyond worried that it was gonna fall flat or the ending would be lame and just worried so much. But you like it and that's incredible!! Thank you so much for reading it.

IT WAS SO GOOD OK LIKE A+ MUTUAL PINING AND I WAS SO SCARED WHEN THEY FOUGHT BUT I WAS SO HAPPY THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO WORK IT THROUGH IT LIKE ADULTS BC THAT”S HOW RELATIONSHIPS WORK AND THEM LEARNING TO FIND THEIR NEW DYNAMIC WITH THEIR DIFFERENT CAREER PATHS.........

I was surprised by Ssk’s resulting profession but it was really cute weeps and um???? Ssk and Haru snarking the shit out of each other??? but still being friends????? yes?????? 

The smut was A+++ (I wanted more............)

They were so in love and wonderful and aaaaahhhh thank you so much I’m still shocked you managed to write 37K+ words like when I opened it was like ?????? holy shit????? thank you for taking so much time and putting so much love into it and dealing with all that teasing over the past year was totally worth it lmao