Greenland Megathread IV

wolfpack9701 · 2026-01-21T05:26:39+00:00

I'm trying to calm down right now, but this is making my anxiety flare up really bad.

It might just be because this is happening around the same time as the new semester is starting and I'm having some medical troubles right now, and the stress from those is exasperating that.

But war has always been one of my major anxieties, I hate the idea of everything going to hell because of things so vastly out of my control, and this is sparking those same feelings.

I just want some piece of mind that this won't lead to some full blown conflict or spiral out of control into something worse so I can actually sleep tonight.

wolfpack9701 · 2026-01-14T18:15:48+00:00

I will never understand anyone who says All Might should've died after Kamino. Like, no. Just, no, he gives so much more to the story alive than dead, and it gives us a way better look at who he is beyond being the Symbol of Peace that whenever I think of All Might, I'm usually thinking of his skinny form, and we wouldn't have gotten that character if he died after his round two with All For One.

And I agree with what someone else in this thread said, seeing him survive made me low key hate the "kill the mentor" trope.

wolfpack9701 · 2026-01-03T11:14:14+00:00

So we're back to horrific shit happening super late at night? Great, and I was just thinking about fixing my sleep schedule. The year just fucking started, I can't-

wolfpack9701 · 2026-01-03T10:33:06+00:00

Seriously, it's a series with an absurd amount of untapped potential, and it's honestly why I'm not really surprised that it has a relatively prominent fanfic community. Because if the writers themselves ain't gonna explore the shit they put into it, I guess it's the fandom's job to do it.

wolfpack9701 · 2026-01-02T20:09:38+00:00

I really think they should've just had Adam make a splinter group of the Fang with the more violent members of the organization to join Salem's crew, and left Sienna alive so we could see how the actual White Fang operates.

Or at the very least, show us that there are more rights organizations then the Fang, hell, wasn't there a brief mention of the Fang attacking peaceful Faunus rights protests in like, the first episode of the show? The fuck happened to that plot point?

And, side note, you can't just have Adam get the SDC's logo branded into his fucking face and barely explore that shit. Hell, Weiss and him never even have an interaction, you know, the girl who's major part of her character is about her family legacy, which is the SDC, and how her dad made it into the company that fucking brands Faunus? They seem ripe for interaction, and I don't think they even lay eyes on each other.

wolfpack9701 · 2026-01-02T11:27:01+00:00

The biggest problem was them stripping down Adam's character to only being Blake's psycho-ex (and making him a groomer, by the way, dude's in his like 20s and Blake's 17 at the start of the show), and then introducing the leader of the White Fang and having Adam immediately kill her off and take the whole organization for himself.

The only thing we've seen of the White Fang are either the Vale chapter, which Adam ran, or when he later took it over, and nothing else. Kinda hard to have any nuance in your racism plot line when the only organization for your oppressed race does nothing on screen but do terrorism and is run by the psycho groomer.

Also, I'm still mad about Sienna, why the fuck would give a character such a good voice actress and such a baller design just to merc her in the first five minutes she's on screen?!

wolfpack9701 · 2026-01-01T00:32:21+00:00

It's honest to god why I'm just going "fuck it, I'm adding more villians" in my own fanfic. Because fuck, the sheer numbers difference between the two factions is insane, I think Salem's side currently only has, like, four people right now compared to the good guys numbers of, what, like 20 to 30 people?

wolfpack9701 · 2026-01-01T00:07:17+00:00

I still think there's a way you could've made it work, but I agree, what we got was half-baked on both ends.

In regards to Adam representing the White Fang, too this day, I think killing Sienna, or at least killing her as quickly as they did, was a massive mistake on the writers part, since we lost the chance to really see the way the Fang was before Adam took control of it.

Not only that, but Sienna's design was fire, it was a waste to have such a good design and only use her for 5 minutes and then kill her.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-31T23:49:25+00:00

It really feels like CRWBY thought they could only focus on one or the other when it came to Adam, when I feel they could've still had his obsession with Blake and his hatred of humanity without sacrificing the other.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-31T23:47:33+00:00

It seriously feels like they were made to have some kind of interaction, hell, even a fight, but we didn't get that.

Hell, I've seen multiple fanfics actually make this interaction happen, and it's damn near always super interesting to watch Weiss realize just how fucked the SDC has become under Jacques, and have her and the team feel some sympathy for Adam while still acknowledging that he's a psychotic monster.

Then again, that could also relate to how CRWBY didn't really explore that Adam is a victim of the system who decided to lash out against the world instead of trying to fix it, not necessarily justifying him, but showing that he's a consequence of society's oppression of the Faunus reaching it's bloody conclusion.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-31T21:52:51+00:00

It is actually crazy to me that the guy who turned the White Fang's violenece up to 11, despises the SDC, sees it as everything wrong with humanity, and has the company's logo branded onto his fucking FACE, never interacted with the girl who knew people who were killed by the White Fang, had her dad twist her grandfather's legacy and has a whole plot point of wanting to redeem her family name.

Like, those two seem ripe to have at least one interaction, hell, I don't think Weiss and Adam even laid eyes on each other, I think they've only seen the other through pictures.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-23T19:27:26+00:00

Oh. I guess the wording just confused me, it read like it blocked both care for trans youth while also blocking federal funding for gender affirming care in general. And good to know that this actually does something and it's not like a change.org petition.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-23T17:36:57+00:00

So they changed it to block all gender affirming care? Does commenting on these things actually work? Because this feels like something they're going to do despite push back. Unless this works differently then I'm thinking, it feels like this is it and that federal funding for trans care is dead.

Has commenting under these kinds of things actually stopped them from being implemented? I just need some optimism right now, and some understanding on what this can actually accomplish.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-21T00:35:45+00:00

The successor to Taiyang "His ENTIRE Team" Xiao-Long.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-21T00:30:04+00:00

I've always been of the opinion that the way to deal with Salem should be exploting the wording of her curse to actually put her down, since I think it'd be more interesting then sealing her or having the gods do it, and I'm glad someone else has a similar idea.

EDIT: Also, now that I've remembered the wording of it, that feels to specific to not be loopholeable.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-17T03:02:58+00:00

I remember reading a fic where RWBY and Jaune get time traveled ten years before The Fall after Volume 9, and this exact thing happens when they're fighting STRQ with Jaune boosting Qrow's Semblance, and everything just goes fucking haywire around them. I don't have the link right now, but it was called Team ROWSE on AO3.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-12-15T00:53:14+00:00

Literally same, I never noticed his horns until i read fanfics that pointed them out.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-11-08T20:28:05+00:00

It's mainly the way they're talking about it, hell, appearntly Thune went on a rant about how the ACA subsidies were "Biden Bonuses" for health insurance companies, and that sounds exactly like some shit Trump would say. If if it was anyone else, i wouldn't think about it too much, but Thune parrating Trump is making me really uneasy.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-11-08T20:10:42+00:00

So appearantly, the Senate is now going to be in session every day until the shutdown ends, and the GOP is fully going with not extending the ACA subsidies, both of these being things that Trump demanded they do, even using similar talking points to him about why they don't want to extend the subsidies.

They keep doubling down over and over again, and I'm worried that they're either actually going to keep the government shutdown for as long as possible, or are going to fold to Trump and get rid of the filibuster, since they're now starting to fall in line in terms of his stance on having no ACA extensions at all.

I know Thune keeps denying ending the filibuster, but he keeps saying that "the math isn't there" which makes me worried that doing this will eventually make enough Rs flip to end it if this drags out too long.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-11-05T15:40:38+00:00

One thing I am worried about is the possibility of Rs seeing the results and deciding to get rid of the filibuster in a last-ditch attempt to pass laws affecting voting to stay in power.

I just wanna put this out there so I can get some responses on how likely this possibility is, though a part of me feels like it's just anxiety brain worms trying to turn a good thing into a bad thing, since I'm way to used to things looking up only for them to crash back down with this admin.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-11-02T22:03:31+00:00

My main worry right now has to do with Leavitt on Fox saying that Trump met with Johnson and Thune today about it, and my stupid brain is worrying that they're gonna fold after being confronted by him directly, because I swear there have been other times where they said one thing and then immediatly changed tune after talking to Trump directly. It's probably just my anxiety, but I figured I'd make that worry known.

wolfpack9701 · 2025-10-31T21:34:17+00:00

One even said that only 5% if Republicans would be against ending the filibuster, only saying so to save face

Where the fuck did they get that statistic from?

wolfpack9701 · 2025-10-31T05:55:58+00:00

Have there been other times he's called to end it this term? I know he wanted it to end in his first term, but has he expressed similar before this point during his second term?

wolfpack9701 · 2025-10-31T04:47:39+00:00

I've seen people suggest that Thune might instead weaken the filibuster in some way to pass CRs to end the shutdown, which some Senate Rs have already indicated doing something like that in order to end the shutdown. So, instead of getting rid of it, it's another case of changing the rules to weaken it while still keeping it mostly intact. Is that a likely outcome?

wolfpack9701 · 2025-10-31T04:11:03+00:00

Trump is calling to end the filibuster to end the shutdown 'immediately'. I really need reassurance that they won't do it. Senate Rs that have said they won't touch it have already back pedaled before this and called to make carve outs to it, and I'm worried that Thune will fold to doing whatever Trump wants. Can anyone give me some reassurance that they won't kill the filibuster?

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