These People Are Trying To Show Off To Everyone Saying

These people are trying to show off to everyone saying

"Look how hopeful and courageous we are in spite of tragedy and suffering!"

They see themselves as Nietzsche's Übermensch and gotta show it off to everyone, as opposed to those who like this stuff honestly.

I think its to convince themselves, if you gotta brag about something, you probably don't posses the quality.

People who truly take these things to heart let their actions be their words, only speak of it when asked, and are often humble about it.

It's what I've heard about the toxic Steven Universe fandom, they preach its morals yet act absolutely deplorable rather than act on these principles.

"Pyrrha and the rest of JNPR are based on tragic martyrs! How can you write a well-earned happy ending in your reimagined AU!?"

Me: *currently stuffing dying-and-rising figures into them like suitcases* Yeah and Pinocchio doesn't die, become a real human, and die again and Lampwick doesn't stay human and get eaten by a monster, yet here we are.

You're 100% right in this. You don't have to answer this publicly or at all.

But shipping canon lesbians (or gays) with the opposite sex is vile.

I'm sorry you're getting harassed over it. Just know that the people who are harassing you, while they might sound like a majority due to loudness are not the majority of the RWBY fan base.

I'm not sure who on the "left" is harassing you though because everything I've seen are things I agree with and I'm as left as it gets. RWBY is great because of its diversity, there are men who love men, women who love women, trans people and anyone who truly loves the show for what it is, not what they WANT it to be, understands that.

I just realized the terrible typo,

What I meant to say I was *not* gonna ship them with the opposite sex, I’m just not gonna touch on them in that aspect at all

Another reason is because I don’t feel like I would have the authority to cover this sort of thing while there are those in the LGBT+ community who probably do a better job with that than I can

I hope this clears it up

Some Things I Believe About Stories

Stories should not be PRIMARILY created to entertain. They should be created to teach, or encourage, or inspire, USING entertaining qualities. The Romans used entertainment to distract the populace from corruption. J. R. R. Tolkien, on the other hand, described "escapism" as "a prisoner of war escaping from enemy camp to go back home." You're not running from reality to fantasy when a story does it's job. You're running from the dark, twisted side of the world to something that reminds you of the good, the true, the beautiful, the correct. You've been imprisoned by bad ideas and confusion and dark perspectives, and the story shows you how to escape and get back to true and beautiful reality. It's got a point, it's not just for diversion.

Stories should be made to serve others and leave the world better than they found it. Storytellers should not only tell a story to exorcize their personal demons or point to how clever and artistic they are. That can be a nice bonus. But the point should be to serve the audience. Think about it. When it's made, it's timeless; it will be read or watched or listened to by the next generation, or the next. What are the storytellers letting fall into the hands of the people who come after they're not around to explain or gain a profit?

The storyteller should be passionate about the story while they make it. This could look like a sense of duty, or fun, or just excitement. But those outward emotions usually signal an inward understanding of how important the story is, and therefore, a level of compassion and care for the eventual audience.

You can like a story or dislike a story. You can interpret a story or misinterpret a story. Those things are subjective. But whether or not a story is good is objective: it can be measured. Does the story say what it is trying to say in the clearest, most compelling way possible? If yes, it's a good story. If no, it might be great entertainment. It might be funny. It might be cool. It might be quotable or franchise-able or profitable or even memorable. But it's not a good story if it does not say something in the clearest, most compelling way possible.

A story's main point, or theme, is the most important thing about it. The characters, the set design, the pacing, the soundtrack, the language, the use of color or lighting or blocking etc.; all of those pieces work best when they are unified in the goal of communicating that main point or theme.

Death of the author = death of the story. It's point is to say something. If you claim the speaker's intent is meaningless, so are the words spoken. If you claim it can mean anything, your words are meaningless too. We all might as well tell no stories and blabber gibberish instead. It’s one thing to say you understand what the author intended, and you like to think of it in/wish it were another way. But it’s quite another to say that what the author intended is unknowable or doesn’t matter. You’re either calling the author a bad storyteller or, again, recommending we all speak gibberish.

Both form (the quality of the story and it's elements) and content (the main point or lessons) matter. Without one you have a lecture, not a story. Without the other you have an echo chamber, because nobody wants to listen to your story

How about we just stop “subverting” things in gener

We get it CRWBY, Rian Johnson, and the rest of Hollywood, your very smart and artistic.

I have seen stretches before, but this is a stretch so hard that it'd kill Stretch Armstrong.

I'd say "I'm starting to think you don't know what that means" but let's be honest, "tropes" means "expectations" in your language.

If anything, we should be asking *Filthy Frank Voice*

“But-wha…Why do you give a shit?”

Also these are the same guys who say “They’re fiction, their no real, chill my man, it’s not that deep”

Then how the fuck is it delusion then? Especially when it’s an AU and the most of us aren’t trying to claim to be canon?

Also isn’t fanfiction originally the original way people viewed storytelling in the old days or something?

It’s all about controlling other people with these fandoms, it’s the fact they want to control or at the very least suppress what you think, feel, and create…

your ship isn't canon.

And what if I keep living in blissful delusion? What then?

It’s more like they’re assuming there’s nothing valuable and meaningful they we can make out of it, wether it’s an AU or we recycle elements for our own original stories that go the way we want

Not every RWBY fan is like this, but there’s certainly a small but obnoxiously loud contingent within fandoms who want what they like to be the end-all-be-all and have every reason in the world for what they like and dislike and everyone else are a bunch of dumb peasants

They talk the talk why Pyrrha and Arkos being tragic works, but it’s often for moral self aggrandizement and disgust for those who differ from them

Which again, not saying every fan who liked it is like that, and nor am I saying that direction is objectively bad, just that some use it to flaunt their tastes and sneer at everyone else

"Pyrrha and the rest of JNPR are based on tragic martyrs! How can you write a well-earned happy ending in your reimagined AU!?"

Me: *currently stuffing dying-and-rising figures into them like suitcases* Yeah and Pinocchio doesn't die, become a real human, and die again and Lampwick doesn't stay human and get eaten by a monster, yet here we are.