At This Range

At This Range

Ironwood: *Watching a battle take place*

Winter: General, perhaps you should take cover.

Ironwood: Don't be ridiculous, they couldn't hit an elephant at this range.

At that exact moment a bullet hits Ironwood in the head and harmlessly falls to the ground.

Ironwood: I stand corrected, they couldn't hit an elephant at this range twice.

The RWBY fandoms treatment of Adam makes me very uncomfortable

This is very long sorry I was rambling <3

There’s something really odd about the dedication RWBY fans have to hating Adam. So much so that they’ll admit the writing of the WF is racist but refuse to admit that Adam a member of the white fang also suffered from that racist writing.

There’s this weird dedication to pretending there are no problems with the choices made around Adams character and vilifying literally everyone who tries to talk about it, for the sake of continuing to blindly hate him. The fandom seems to struggle with understanding that the show is fictional and everything that happens in it is a direct choice of its writers. Y’all talk about Adam like he is a real person who has personally offended you irl. Just a huge lack of media literacy tbh.

A white man wrote a civil rights group, that he admittedly based off the black panthers, as the generic bad guys of his shitty anime knockoff and made a central theme of the show the idea that fighting against your oppression violently makes you just as bad if not worse than your oppressors. Then he mad the leader of that group a generic abusive meanie bad guy. Who essentially is what white supremacists think civil rights activist are all the way down to being the fictional equivalent of a black supremacist.

When there was backlash to this he made a knockoff Malcom X and then killed her in her only scene and made a character whose ideology is basically sit down and lick the feet of your oppressors and had the audacity to say he was based off of MLK. How the fuck do you base a character off of somebody without doing basic research on them because contrary to what people seem to believe MLK was not a doormat and this is a conversation for a different day but I’m sick and tired of his memory being weaponised against black people.

What’s worse is that Adam is the only character portrayed as actually doing something to fight racism. Ghira’s faction is only ever seen fighting against other groups. I don’t know if y’all know this but that’s not how the civil rights movement worked. Most of the leaders didn’t agree on methods but they coexisted because the main goal was the liberation of black people and they knew they had to coexist. MLK did not go around calling the cops on revolutionaries he disagreed with.

The problems with Adam and the WF are not separate and cannot be. Most of what’s wrong with the Faunus plot line is the way the show handles Adam. The choices made with his writing cannot be separated from those they made with the WF overall. Adams choice to kill his attackers to keep himself and other Faunus safe, from people literally trying to kill them, is treated the way it is because of the stance they took with WFs writing. When Adam kills a human supremacist trying to kill Ghira you’re supposed to see it as an extreme and the beginning of his turn to evil. Adam isn’t a real person every describe he makes is informed by the white writers of the show. Why would the bias they displayed writing the WF apply to him?

Some of you have been abused and relate to Blake in that sense, a lot of you seem to be projecting your abusers onto Adam. I’m sorry you went through that but you are not excused from buying into racist rhetoric. It’s incredibly uncomfortable as a black person to watch people talk about how “healing” it was for them to watch a civil rights leader admittedly inspired by black people slapped around and killed by two white women. It is anger inducing to watch fans celebrate “queer representation” dancing on the corpse of a monumental disrespect to black people and our history.

RWBY doesn’t even handle abuse well tbh and most of the queer rep is not that great, there are many shows that do it so much better, there is actually no excuse for hanging on to the black people are bad for fighting against racism show.

"Then I argued that the gold standard, the establishment of exchange rates, etc., are conventions that I have never considered and will never consider as weighty and unshakable principles of economics.Money for me was just a sign of exchange for the work done, and their value completely depended on the value of the work done.Where money did not represent services rendered, I insisted, they had no value."

- Ado!f H!tler

been seeing recently that Adam Taurus' allusion is Gaston from Beauty and the Beast and I'm like, huh? why? that doesn't make any sense to me.

His name is Adam, that was the prince-turned-beast's name. he has a red theme, probably because before the beast gets all gussied up for Belle he just wore a red cloak. his emblem is THE ENCHANTED ROSE, why would his allusion be Gaston? seems to be real reach-y to me because fndm wants to hate him so bad so he can't have an allusion to a redeemable character, he's got to be Gaston.

oh, and then BLAKE can be the beast, and YANG can be the beauty, thanks bee shippers, for another take that makes no sense. Blake's allusion is Belle! The Beauty! From Beauty and the Beast! because she's BELLadonna, she has a love of reading. and Adam is the godsdamed beast! Yang is fucking Goldilocks!

additionally, why would you say that Blake is the beast? like she has to be redeemed of her monsterous-ness? where? just seems like another way to make yang her savior when she doesn't really need one.

anyways I'm going to bed. as always, if you don't like my angry thoughts on this, you can keep scrolling for free! I don't want to engage with you!

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Stop sexualising "tradwives". I can't stand the bimbofication, "sexism kink" fetish thing. You do you, but don't claim this lifestyle, which is already shrouded with judgement, and remodel it into a sexual desire of yours. This puts a lot of women with a passion for tradition in danger as we can't decipher which of these men actually hold the wholesome traditional values that we have, or which of the men just see SAHMs as some sexual trope. These women don't deserve these lustful, dangerous men, and the good traditional men do not deserve to be perceived this way. These men are saddened and hazardous and they are putting these admirable women in danger by creating a false "traditional" image, yet wanting to purely sexually torture and control their wives. Yes, you can have your kinks and whatnot, but claiming this nothing but wholesome community as your own, to "rightfully" act upon your desires, is ridiculous.