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Punished: A Ruby vs. Tyrion Analysis

So I loved the latest RWBY episode, but I’m surprised that people are ragging on Ruby to the extent they are for joining the fight, like: 

She’s a kid. They’re all kids, but Ruby is two years younger. People are pretty impulsive at that age. 

That being said, this is very much her characterization. Jaune, for all his improvement, couldn’t hope to stand up to Tyrion, so given the chance he’ll step back and let an experienced Hunter take the lead. Ren is very cautious and logical - same there. And Nora, despite her eagerness, tends to both stick by Ren and won’t pick a fight if others don’t want her to (think back to her offer to break Cardin’s legs. Despite how ‘impulsive’ and ‘violent’ she is, she leaves him be once she knows Jaune doesn’t want that). Ruby though? She’s ALL ABOUT fighting the good fight no matter what. It’s one of the first lines in the whole series - she’s a “simple soul,” she wants to become a Huntress because she was taught to “help people,” and that drive is reinforced strongly on their mission with Oobleck. Ruby is the only one who isn’t questioned about her choice to be a Huntress because she’s the only one who fights without true, ulterior motives. It’s not in her to stay on the sidelines. 

However, she’s VERY strategic here. Qrow tells her not to get closer… so she doesn’t, at least not at first. She gains high ground to use her gun and the only reason she gets closer is because her aim can’t keep up with their speed. Ruby is a Huntress - by necessity now if nothing else - and she obeyed her more experienced teammate’s orders, though when those orders proved to not be enough, she made the decision to take further action. 

“This is my fight too!” It IS. Thank you, Ruby. She was just informed that she has some sort of rare, unfathomable power… without anyone really explaining to her what that means. She knows now that she has an important role to play in this war. She knows some queen named Salem is after her in-particular. Hell, she went to a school (again, two years early) specifically designed to teach her to fight. Ruby reminds me of Harry Potter in that she’s getting mixed signals right and left. Fight, they say, but also stay safe. Do your part, but wait until some perfect, magical moment… but no, we won’t tell you when that is. It doesn’t help that, also like Harry, the adults in her life are torn between loving her as a child (Qrow) and needing her to be a weapon (Ozpin). They can’t expect Ruby to play both roles. 

Most importantly, she just watched two close friends die. For Penny and Pyrrha both Ruby couldn’t get there in time. She was so close to them and she still couldn’t get there. Now her uncle, like them, is literally right in front of her, potentially losing this fight (he did lose his weapon, was pulled down into the house, etc.) and people expect Ruby to just watch again? She can’t. She literally can’t. Even Ren (our logical one) held Jaune back when he tried to stop Ruby. He gets that she can’t stand on the sidelines. She couldn’t before and she sure as hell can’t now. 

There’s even more I can say: like the fact that Ruby and Qrow were fighting so well in tandem - Qrow blocking Tyrion’s strikes at Ruby doesn’t make her a hinderance. As we’ve seen, protecting your teammates is incredibly common and it makes sense that they would fight well/potentially better as a team since Qrow was the one who trained her. Or the fact that the distraction wasn’t Ruby’s fault at all, an accident - if anything Qrow was the one who de-stabilized the house by baiting Tyrion onto the rotten parts of the roof. The fact that fighting together is what allowed them beat Tyrion, and it’s amazing that after everything mentioned in point 5, Ruby was able to keep her cool after seeing Qrow injured and still get a critical strike in at Tyrion. That takes a huge amount of control in battle. It takes maturity. 

For me this fight was pretty damn perfect, a way of showing us Ruby’s personality and her growth. I get that the fandom adores Qrow (god knows I do too), but reducing that fight to “omg Ruby got him injured” really takes away from the incredible amount of detail Rooster Teeth has given us. 

But yeah. That’s my piece. Happy holidays! ;) 

For those of you with anxiety

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It’s Webcomic Day!

Webcomics are awesome! They are an excellent way to read comics with ace representation. There are hundreds of webcomics with ace characters to choose from, across every genre.

To get you started, here are 60 webcomics with ace spectrum leads!

1. StarHammer by J.N. Monk and Harry Bogosian @sketchbot9000

2. Lost in Translation by Jjolee @jjolees, Eunice, and Valeri

3. The Unlucky Ones and the Edge of Nowhere by Nicky Rodriguez

4. Novae by Kaiju @kaixju

5. Shaderunners by Alex Assan @alexassanart and Lin Darrow

6. Sombulus by Christina Major @delphina2k

7. SEIS by Puik

8. BUUZA!! by Shazleen Khan @shazleen

9. THIS IS NOT FICTION by Nicole Mannino @nicoima

10. Sarota Springs by Joanne Kwan @joannekwan

11. The Last Dimension by Leaglem @oneeyedleaf, Schooph, Hunie, and Spencer Gooding

12. Earth Angel by Raysdrawlings @raysdrawlings and Aquaarter

13. Crash and Burn by Finn Lucullan, Kate Larking, and Hannah Bradshaw Lozier

14. Aurora by Red @comicaurora

15. Soul to Call by Rommie @rommie

16. Supernormal Step by M. Lee Lunsford @mleelunsford

17. Song for Cantalagua by Maria Izquierdo @vinzul, Antar Castro, Paulo Esparza, Alex Velázquez, Gerardo Blas, and Marisol Diz

18. [un]Divine by Ayme Sotuyo

19. Charity Case by Malacandrax @malacandrax

20. The Ink Witch by Izzi Ward @izzi-illustrates

21. Skull & Pyro by AuthorOfDragons @authorofdragons

22. Husk by Al Acevedo @huskcomic

23. Dom & Mor by DyeMeLikeASunset @dyemelikeasunset

24. Beneath the Woods by Mason Stark @ursachaotic

25. Skyvein by sen holiday @senholiday

26. Tamberlane by Caytlin Vilbrandt @justcaytlin, Ari Noble, Jonas, Elle Pierre, Isabel "Izzy" Pereira, Nakata “Knack” Whittle, and Koda "Puddle" Star

27. I’m Mortal by J. Lovelace

28. KAI by Queenue @rsqueenue

29. Ignition Zero by Cedar Wren McCloud

30. Cirque Royale by Brittany G. @atomicbritt

31. Kiss it Goodbye by Ticcytx @ticcytx

32. City of Blank by 66 @66sharkteeth, yayu_sensai, Ethan LeBlanc, and Spencer Gooding

33. Slice of Life by SallyVinter @celepom

34. Monster’s Garden by Ash G. @kilomonster

35. Brimstone and Roses by Speremint @speremint, Lumiscuro, Basia Dajewski, and Eunice Baik

36. Peripety by Mushki @mushki-art

37. Heroes of Thantopolis by Strontium @strontiumsun

38. Wondrous by Sarah Frederiksen @acolorfulreader

39. Cosmic Fish by Eliana Falcón

40. California Magic by Del Barrio @delshark and Britters @moodypuglet

41. Teleport by R.P. Ruffatti, Moomie Swan, and Xan Larson

42. Jade Kingdoms by Surenlicious @surenlicious

43. Jamie by Bre Indigo and Tami Babikian

44. A Week In Warrigilla by Teloka Berry and Priscilla “Pi” Wu @picayunearts

45. Finding Home by Hari Conner @haridraws and Claire Napier

46. The World In Deeper Inspection by Reimena Yee @reimenaashelyee

47. Four Leaf by Lumaga @lumaga and Hito

48. Castoff by Star Prichard @thestarfishface

49. Aces by Taqi

50. Covenant by explodikid @explodikid, bekkomi, Venacyr, Breanna Boswell, and Nico Hy

51. ELLIS by Marta Selusi @ratonpersona

52. Pathways: Chronicles of Tuvana by Elaine Tipping @triaelf9

53. Dirge for Broken men by JoshuaBeeking @joshua-beeking

54. My Sweet Archenemy by Rosanna Duong

55. LnR by Carossmo @carossmo

56. Friends with Benefits by nezkovsou @nezkovsou

57. Crowned Vessel by Dreadstrive @dreadstrive

58. Namesake by Megan Lavey-Heaton and Isabelle Melançon @secondlina

59. Those Who Sleep by Yokani

60. Kidd Commander by Aria Bell @shinesurge

Each webcomic listed has at least 1 asexual, demisexual, or graysexual leading character, with many having multiple. The majority of the comics listed are also made by acespec creators. This is not an exhaustive list.

Hope you found some new comics to dig into! Happy Webcomic Day!

Things we lose have a way of coming back to us in the end, if not always in the way we expect.

NYALL

…with masaladas and awkward silences.

a very self-indulgent one, and in continuation to this, because i am (1) weak to these four, and (2) good at denial, so i will keep hc-ing them travelling together for as long as i please

manon may or may not have been hanging out with sina and dexio (but especially sina) before coming to alola. mikuri may or may not be finding alan interesting.

[Montauk - Part 3]

wine, cigarettes, and you –

moments.  

so what if the echoes of chronos run through my veins pumping nightmare fuel into my heart and so what if i’m made of things that are dark

in nature?

we can pretend the universe is not buried in the shadows where God can’t see no matter how bright that sun shines and how fresh this air is that we breathe

our galaxy is moving 515,000 miles per hour around a giant black hole with shark teeth and we stand here as pixels of consciousness –

grounded on our feet

praying to the dark sun and watching the black helicopters burn.  what if we are a string of unstable electrons in the nucleus of an experimental dimension bearing the consequences of it’s errors

at the mercy of a creator unwilling to accept defeat

moving between galaxy clusters and different dimensions –

seeking the original path of the divine source before it was hijacked and diverted by [classified]

our history is buried in the shadows and we’ve lost touch with who we truly are and we still find a reason to smile because even if the world collapses into nothing

we’ll still have each other.

waiting for people to realize that things like matching idles (kavehtham, eimiko), mirroring (kavehtham, wriolette) and complimentary colors (clorivia, aventio, renheng) are important for establishing a connection between two characters especially when it's a wlw or mlm pairing

you can't rely on implications alone to establish a connection between two characters

things like mirroring and complimentary colors are used to show they match/mirror and compliment each other

I think those things are just as important as implications and shouldn't be dismissed because it shows the characters are connected to each other even in something as simple as their designs

storyteller

sometimes I forget that I'm just a teenager writing a webcomic in my spare time, so I shouldn't hold myself to the same standards as, say, a feature film with an entire team of professional writers, or Hiromu Arakawa. Writing flawed stories is okay, and even necessary in order to write better ones :)

(if you want to read aforementioned amateur webcomic...)