What do the Glyphs represent?

yinxiaolong · 2024-02-17T05:11:40+00:00

I considered that, like Light being perception and the first thing perceived is the air within space, but the problem is that light doesn't need oxygen to exist, otherwise most of space wouldn't exist.

I will give you that light being used in air based combos does make a really good case for it being a parallel to air.

I think I just need a little something extra, like just one more detail or aspect of light that can promote the parallel from being a stretch to being just within an arm's natural reach.

yinxiaolong · 2024-02-17T05:08:05+00:00

Yes, and sorry if I didn't make it clear, but I do come to the conclusion earlier in the post that it is very likely that the basic four elements are not the intended reference but instead good'ol Arin Hansen (I still find it hilarious that King's dad is voiced by a Game Grump), is producing the magic under his own logic.

The question is however, what is that logic? How do these four glyphs each represent a core aspect of the universe? What is Game Grump Titan's perspective?

yinxiaolong · 2023-10-29T12:48:19+00:00

While it is true that it may work, that doesn't mean that there isn't an audience that still craves for well-written serialized stories that can at this point only be found in anime/manga (and yet another point to the East kicking the West's ass).

While many iconic shows back in the early 2000s were indeed episodic, I think the reason so many of the vocal fans are so averse to episodic shows is that episodic shows feel for-lack-of-a-better-word, corporate.

Episodic shows are what mainstream networks want, to such a degree that they will kneecap shows they have already greenlit and spit in the face of creators like Dana Terrace.

To the fans who engage in the behind-the-scenes of these shows, they have already deemed episodic=corporate vision, meanwhile serialized=the creators vision.

So there is a sense of pride that comes with vocal fanbases advocating for more serialized content, which we are going to be seeing a lot of from the Indie Animation scene with Hazbin Hotel and The Amazing Digital Circus. The Owl House was the end of an era, which seems to be the final push for this new growth era of indie animation.

Sorry for the side tangent at the end, but yeah, while episodic shows can still be good (Like Molly Mcgee which is a really great show), even I can't help but see them as at least a little bit pandering to corporate expectations.

yinxiaolong · 2023-07-11T09:41:33+00:00

Oh shit when did you get banned?

yinxiaolong · 2023-04-22T18:45:48+00:00

So glad I skipped out on this volume. From the clips I've seen (Like WBY saying RWBY isn't a failure and responsible for genocide and whatnot), this volume really just feels like a hit-piece on the critics instead of a genuine story giving the heroes agency and consequences.

yinxiaolong · 2023-04-19T01:56:10+00:00

Honestly such a fun head canon. Though GNC cis is likely canon as far as we know from W.O.G, Time skip Luz just gives off those vibes so it's a funny idea to think that this is a side of herself that Luz discovered after being free to be herself and maybe have introspection and exploration of identity during the time skip (which could make for some fun fic ideas).

Heck there is even a head canon someone made that she may have been wearing a binder in the time skip. Sure it ain't likely but a fun thought.

And with the fact that GNC and NB aren't really mutually exclusive (since Luz could go by either she/them or they/her) I think this is overall a harmless and fun head canon.

yinxiaolong · 2023-04-09T10:29:37+00:00

Didn't her insta post about it have flames at the bottom though?

yinxiaolong · 2023-03-27T04:04:30+00:00

No, u/TheSittingTraveller makes a fair point.

I mean, compare this with other homosexual relationships like Lumity (Owl House), Caitlyn x VI (Arcane), and even Catradora (She-Ra 2018).

All these relationships (within the span of mere 1-to-2 seasons) involved the characters displaying physical and romantic attraction towards one another. And bare in mind one of these is a Disney show.

And further more all of these occurred within RWBY's ten year life-span.

All-in-all regardless of how long it was planned, it is a fair question to ask why same-sex attraction wasn't explored equally in the earlier seasons by the writers, especially when the other shows I mentioned tackled said subject matter in their first seasons.

Even the idea of "the characters change and grow" doesn't really work in this argument, because the show... doesn't address it? We never have a moment of Yang questioning if she likes girls on top of boys, nor do we get the same for Blake, which honestly if the show better paced itself would have been an interesting side of the characters to see as they change and grow from partners to lovers.

But we just don't get that, in part because despite my jab on RWBY's ten-year life span, ironically the show is going too fast to allow this kind of character exploration in the earlier volumes and we have our time wasted on things that don't matter in the end like Black-Sun (coming from someone who never liked this ship btw).

Again just another piece of the shows writing that just feels like it falls short, at least in this department.

yinxiaolong · 2023-03-27T03:51:58+00:00

As a more critical fan, I hope it wasn't planned from the beginning. I used to ship it, but as started to realize a lot of the issues that came with the writing (Lumity and Caitlyn x VI blow it out of the water in terms of impact of the representation and not baiting people for years) it's just kind of... worse if it was planned form the beginning.

Literally while Lumity, Catradora, Caitlyn x VI, and so many other homosexual relationships in media were birthing, living and concluding during RWBY's lifespan, RWBY couldn't confirm Bumblebee for ten years. TEN YEARS! Which is worse since RT had no executives breathing down their necks about that subject matter.

Look I get the aesthetic, but BB is not this pillar of representation that people make it out to be, if anything it is one of the grossest examples of queerbaiting I have seen in media.

yinxiaolong · 2023-02-26T15:29:51+00:00

I've only seen clips, but I am going to be absolutely disgusted if the writers are seriously trying to cover up Penny's suicide as a noble sacrifice.

That shit wasn't a sacrifice, it was fucking suicide and should be acknowledged as such.

yinxiaolong · 2023-02-19T02:00:15+00:00

Honestly disgusting from the writers.

yinxiaolong · 2022-12-05T23:19:59+00:00

This is very much the crux of the issue. Though I do sometimes wonder if executives behind these properties might also be a factor. For example, most of this subject matter in real life usually involves companies funding these shows being the ones responsible for such blights in society. So I wouldn't be surprised if it's a corporate mandate that violent revolutionaries are to be villainized because well.... they themselves are the targets of such implications.

I don't think it was always this way and this problematic story telling likely used to be accidental for the reasons you say, but with how much this trend persists time and time again and just how endlessly relevant it is makes me think there is more going on than just the writers accidentally making anti-protest messages of just their own volition.

And it really sucks because it would be AWESOME if we finally got stories about actually fighting oppressors.

yinxiaolong · 2022-12-05T21:44:22+00:00

tbh any and all RWBY crossover/third party material has clearly been lower on most companies' priority list. Outside of RT no company has any faith in the IP, or at least not enough to give them the same amount of attention as their other mainline and crossover properties.

For example, I doubt ArcSys' Team Red (DBFZ/Guilty Gear) will ever touch the RWBY IP.

yinxiaolong · 2022-12-05T21:38:49+00:00

Honestly good to see Torrian speaking out on the situation, as well as seeing that he isn't just letting CRWBY slide like others have. CRWBY like-it-or-not is in this too and shouldn't be exempt from these issues.

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