jon during a squad team force stream while they were playing RAFT: hopefully there’s bees on this island
barb: you sound like a fan of rwby there
and after that little exchange she reiterated that volume 9 is probably her favourite volume yet (and that it will be out At Some Point and that it will be magical)
the one thing that comforts me in regards to bumbleby vs the homophobes/all the ppl being like “it’s rushed!/but bl*cksun development!/adam should’ve been redeemed!/blake and yang are Toxic!/etc” is that they are actually the vocal minority. which sounds insane because we have to deal with them so frequently. but they’re literally a minority! and we know that bc every time rooster teeth/crwby does anything related to bumbleby, it explodes! bumbleby won the poll for fav ship by a landslide on rwbyrw! any time rt tweets anything about bees/rwby, all the comments are people just copypasting bee emojis and hearts and screaming! when i went to rtx last year, the majority of the people i met who were into rwby shipped bumbleby!
i feel like i always had a fear that those voices were somehow the loudest, that they’d reach crwby somehow and make them doubt themselves or question what they’re doing, but i’m comforted because instead it’s us who are the majority, it’s us who are the loudest, flooding them with praise and positivity and you know what even if we’re coming up with stupid fucking memes at least we’re having fun! we aren’t picking miles & kerry apart, we aren’t harassing anyone, we’re just happy to be here and i hope crwby knows that because never once in my life has being in an f/f ship fandom been a happy thing. everyone say thanks crwby we appreciate you!
I get that people don’t like the new release schedule and I get that not everyone can afford a First membership, and constructive criticism will help RT make a wise decision for Volume 7, but we have to take their perspective into account too here.
Making RWBY costs money. A lot of people work their asses off for months and months to give us a longer runtime and better animation with each Volume. All of them want to pay rent and eat. RWBY isn’t a show they can just throw out for free. First members are what keeps the company alive, so of course they want to make a First membership as attractive as possible. Of course they want more people to become First members, but it’s not like they’re hiding RWBY behind a paywall now and you can’t watch it unless you pay for it.
Watching Volume 6 a week later isn’t quite as bad when you’re a European and usually don’t get to watch anything from the US until like a year later. Yeah, it might be a challenging time when you’re active in a fandom regarding spoilers and such, but you still get to watch the episodes for free only a week after paying members get to watch them. Netflix shows aren’t available at all unless you have an account there or pirate it. Game of Thrones either costs me 30€ to watch the season, and only this season, nothing else, about three days after it comes out in the US, or I watch it a whole year later. Doctor Who isn’t available at all for me most of the time until after the season has ended and then I have to pay a lot of money to watch it legally.
So please try to understand RT here and keep watching their shows on the RT website. Don’t pirate them. This isn’t HBO, pirating RWBY might eventually get it cancelled. Being able to watch the show for free is absolutely amazing and we should support them in every way we can.
It’s just a week. We’ll get through this.
i just discovered barbara dunkelman’s “french with benefits” collection on roosterteeth and
can someone PLEASE draw yang wearing this i’ll die
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