Random Story Time!

Doing another RWBY hatedom rant because people seemed to like the last one and I have more to say:

I absolutely despise it when people call Yang selfish and a terrible sister in Volume 9 when it came to Ruby’s struggles with her mental health. I have two main issues.

1. People seem to think that because Yang is Ruby’s big sister then she needs to always be at her beck and call. She can’t disagree with Ruby. She can’t let Ruby do things on her own. She can’t focus on herself or her happiness. She must always be focusing on Ruby. That’s not how relationships, especially sibling ones, work. People seem to think that Yang must sacrifice everything for Ruby and if she is anything less than that then she is a terrible sister. Do people forget how much Yang had given up for Ruby?! She raised her! She sacrificed her life for her! As soon as she was ready to went to go find Ruby in Volume 5 instead of her mom, which she had wanted to do for most of her life! I fully believe that if Raven didn’t have her portal semblance, which made finding/getting to Ruby MUCH easier, Yang would not have bothered. Yang loves her sister so much! But just because she’s a big sister does not mean that she isn’t allowed to struggle or focus on herself.

2. Here’s the big reason. As someone who has had to deal with a VERY similar experience in my life it absolutely infuriates me when people call Yang a terrible person and sister. I won’t go into too much detail because it’s not my place and I’d rather keep the information private but a couple years ago my sister hit a very low point mentally and it got very scary. (She’s doing much better now don’t worry). Here’s something that most people don’t realize when someone very close to you is going through something like Ruby did: You don’t tend to realize how bad it is. I knew that my sister had her struggles, but I genuinely thought she was doing alright. Afterwards I felt like such a terrible person because I wished that I noticed more and wished she had told me what was going on. This is exactly how Yang felt! She knew her sister was struggling, but didn’t realize just how bad Ruby’s mental state had gotten. She would try to comfort Ruby, not realizing that it was making it worse. She wished that Ruby had told her so that she could help her. It’s a really shitty situation to be in. This is on top of the fact that all of team RWBY were in a very stressful situation after having witnessed the fall of Atlas. I don’t think any of them were in great headspace’s, Ruby was just in a much worse place.

Honestly the entirety of Volume 9, in my opinion, was very realistic in its portrayal of mental health issues both as the person struggling with it and as the people around them. These situations are messy, complicated, and are never straightforward. Trying to treat it as anything else really shows that people don’t know what they’re talk about.

Yang is a good sister. She’s not perfect, but guess what? No one is! Remember we as an audience know so much more than the characters do. Just because characters don’t handle a situation perfectly doesn’t mean they’re garbage.

I just got out of the shower and I walked into my room to put my stuff away. My roommate was sleeping and I tried to be super quiet so that I don’t wake her up. Then suddenly she sits up super quickly and says “I apologize!” I looked at her with a confused look and said “For sleeping in your own room?” She looked around for a moment before saying “Oh yeah, I am in my room,” and went right back to sleep.

I find it funny when queer fantasy stories are written in a setting where homophobia doesn't exist, but there's a ~forbidden romance~ element coming from some completely different, fantastical prejudice. Like

"Son, I don't care if you suck dick, but no child of mine will be sharing a bed with a goddamn necromancer!"

“It’s literally impossible to be a woman.

You are so beautiful, and so smart, and it kills me that you don't think you're good enough. Like, we have to always be extraordinary, but somehow, we're always doing it wrong?

You have to be thin, but not too thin, and you can never say you wanna be thin. You have to say you wanna be healthy, but also, you have to BE THIN.

You have to have money, but you can't ask for money because that's crass.

You have to be a boss, but you can't be mean.

You have to lead, but you can't squash other people's ideas.

You're supposed to love being a mother, but don't talk about your kids all the damn time.

You have to be a career woman, but also, always be looking out for other people.

You have to answer for men's bad behavior, which is INSANE, but if you point that out, you're accused of complaining!

You're supposed to stay pretty for men, but not so pretty that you tempt them too much or that you threaten other women because you're supposed to be a part of the sisterhood, but ALWAYS STAND OUT and ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL. But never forget that the system is rigged, so find a way to acknowledge that but ALSO, always be grateful!

You have to never get old. Never be rude. Never show off. Never be selfish. Never fall down. Never fail. Never show fear. Never get OUT OF LINE. It's too hard! It's too contradictory, and nobody gives you a medal or says 'thank you!' And it turns out, in fact, that not only are you doing everything wrong, but also, everything is your fault.

I'm just so tired of watching myself, and every single other woman tie herself into knots, so that people will like us.

And if all of that, is also true for a doll just representing a woman, then I don't even know." -Gloria the barbie movie

this is it. this is exactly it oh my god.

I was lucky enough to be born when being forced into being right handed was not a problem anymore (at least where I live). Most of my the troubles that I have had due to being left handed were inconvenient at worse. These were mostly me having trouble using tools that were made for right handed people (scissors, bows), and teachers struggling to put me in a seat where I wouldn’t bump elbows with the kid next to me. The only scenario that was slight more serious was when my grandma tried to teach me knitting. I couldn’t figure out for the life of me why I was having so much trouble. Turns out my grandma was trying to teach me to do it right handed. She didn’t understand that I couldn’t knit right handed or at least not very well. I still don’t know how to knit because of that.

My uncle, who is also left handed, was forced to use his right hand. I’m not sure if he was beaten over it, but it’s why he can write with both hands. Luckily he mainly uses his left hand now.

I’m rambling but I guess this is why I am so proud of being left handed. It’s not a huge deal among my generation other than being different. But people weren’t allowed to be left handed until recently and I was always aware of that.

DR: KH Superheroes

Monokuma’s Family

Yes of course he has a family, you silly

His wife, Suki, even has a power of her own

She’s a human calculator

Every math problem, even ones thought to be unsolvable, are child’s play for her

But she doesn’t just solve other people’s problems, no no no, she creates her own

She’s even the person who wrote out the Hope’s Peak Algorithm

You know, the one that decides who they’re going to enrol and has never ever been wrong?

I don’t think I need to tell you these two are crazy about each other; the fact that they have six kids who can turn into teddy bears and are better than most at math should be telling

Monokuma will tell you all about his very, very fine wife and his kids.

You will hear about her accomplishments. You will hear about how cool his kids are. This is your fault

Do not get him started unless you want to lose an afternoon

Suichi Saihara

Special eyes

What does that mean?

Well he can see through up to ten feet of material

Almost any kind of material

Wood, concrete, skin, metal

His special eyes can also see in astounding detail

Even in environments where normal people wouldn’t be able to see well, such as underwater or in the dark

Think of the enhance thing that they do in those awful forensic crime shows- that’s what he can do with his eyes

Also, if he focuses them right, they can burn through solid metal

No big deal

Tsumugi Shirogane

Bear with me here

She’s a conditional shapeshifter

She can completely change into any character from any kind of media

She can also selectively choose parts of any character from media to modify her appearance

BUT (of course there’s a catch)

She has to know the character

For instance, if she somehow doesn’t know who Batman is, she wouldn’t be able to turn into Batman

And if she wants to go blonde she needs to know of at least one blonde character whose hair she can steal.

Rantaro Amami

His body is fully and instantaneously adaptive to the environment he finds himself in

For instance, if he’s in a desert, he’ll find himself unable to experience dehydration, heat exhaustion, or sun exposure

Or if he’s in a rainforest, mosquitoes and other animals will find him vastly unappealing, he’ll develop a resistance to poison, and he’ll develop a sudden and inexplicable knowledge of which plants are edible

These adaptations last as long as he’s in any given environment, and as he shifts where he is, his adaptations will shift as well

Bear in mind, though, this process can take a second

Anywhere from ten minutes to three hours, depending on how harsh the shift is

Luckily, it usually takes time to get somewhere, so it’s not a problem to get adjusted

Himiko Yumeno

She can teleport

A little simplistic but it is what it is

At first, she only felt comfortable teleporting objects, anything that’s less than 135 kilometres away

But then one day she tried to help the group defeat some evildoer by teleporting herself

But see, space time jumps aren’t terribly easy to do in your head as you’re in a paradoxical nondimension

So she of course, made a mistake, and rather than ending up in her destination like she wanted, she ended up above it.

6,000 feet above it, to be exact

She broke both her legs, her arm, a couple ribs, two vertebrae and a few bones in her face

So good news: she survived

Bad news: she survived

After this incident, Miu made her a device to do the complicated space-time calculations for her so Himiko could teleport herself safely

Without the device, she’d end up splattered all over the planet with one arm in Yemen and her other leg is in Pakistan

The device gave her a new kind of control over her power she never could have imagined

Miu, what have you done

Tenko Chabashira

When she gets mad, she turns into a giant monster

You know, pretty basic

Except not really because her giant monster changes its form

Sometimes it’s a giant fucking cat. Sometimes it’s a 90 foot snake. Sometimes it’s a huge owl.

Whatever it is it’s always angry, it always wants blood and it never gives up

Monokuma says the monster probably changes based on whoever’s most afraid around her when she changes

This is the most likely theory, and it was all but proven following an incident with Byakuya where they got into a fight and she turned into a bat with a 50 yard wingspan

Byakuya hates bats

They found him hiding under a desk; when they asked him why he didn’t call for anyone or help them fight her, he explained that he’d tried to get out from under the desk multiple times, but every time he would be struck by the image of the bat and freeze up

Monokuma had to interview everyone in private because nobody was willing to admit to being afraid of the giant cat she’d turned into

Miu Iruma

She can bestow sapience and even sentience onto her creations

At first she didn’t even know she could do that

But when the first calculator she ever built turned off when she swore at it, and wouldn’t turn on again until she apologized, she put two and two together

Now she’s the sort of person who apologizes to her vacuum for stepping on it, but the difference is, her vacuum can feel pain

How sentient and/or sapient are the things she makes?

Well, that depends

Her calculators, as we’ve established, are very testy

Her vacuums have the measured intelligence of the average dog; they can follow commands, get upset if you hurt them, but usually they forget about it and they like it if you pet them

However, her virtual worlds are extremely complex; any computer she makes to run them, therefore, has to be as if not more aware and emotionally understanding than the average person

Also she names her machines

This is a normal thing to do

Kibo

He’s some mad scientist’s attempt at resurrecting their dead son

She gave him the armour so he could never get hurt again

What she didn’t anticipate was that the armour would be self-modifying

Every day Kibo would find he could do something new. Different

On Monday it was rocket boots. On Tuesday it was homing missiles in his arms. On Wednesday it was internet in his fingertips. On Thursday it was night vision. On Friday it was- look you get the idea

The woman who made him kept getting upset if he tried to figure out what he could do or god forbid asked to go outside

She’d exaggerate the dangers of the outside world and convinced him the only thing keeping him alive was her

She even ripped up his Hope’s Peak letter to keep him from seeing it (he did)

Eventually he got tired of being held to the standards of someone he’d never known and of being kept prisoner in his own house

So he ripped out his tracking chip and he ran away

He was on the run for almost a year

Until one day he met Monokuma while he was hiding in his garage from the rain (Kibo’s “mom” had convinced him he wasn’t waterproof)

Monokuma responded to this weird homeless robot child by bringing him inside and introducing him to his family

At first his wife was like “he can stay for the night but you’ve gotta find a place for him”

Then she was like “okay he can stay for a few days”

By the third day she was fussing with his hair and helping him take off the armour (which he didn’t know could come off)

Then he accidentally called her Mom and she asked Monokuma how he felt about adoption

“Puhuhu- my evil machination was a success!”

Kokichi Oma

He’s loud

When I say that, I mean. He’s loud.

He can make his own voice loud or he can mimic sounds that are also very, very loud

Sounds he can mimic include lawnmowers, shotgun blasts, sirens, explosions, and in his more outspoken moments, the sound of a Boeing 727 taking off

When he’s just shouting, however, he has been documented being heard over ten kilometres away

If you don’t have perspective for that, that’s approximately the sound of a shotgun going off

But see shotguns go off for a second and then they’re done

Kokichi can. Keep yelling. For a while.

Fuyuhiko absolutely considered killing him when they first met.

Ryoma Hoshi

He can create portals

That is, he can open holes between two non-adjacent places that connect them across time and space

These holes will stay open for however long he can hold them

How long is that?

That depends

Ones big enough for, I don’t know, a tennis ball, could stay open for hours without him putting much thought into it

(He’s often stimmed this way; put a tennis ball between two portals and watch it go whee)

Ones big enough for a person are a bit tougher; he’d have to focus on the portal and couldn’t hold it open forever

Monokuma timed it; his longest held person-sized portal was open for two hours and forty-five minutes

And by the time he closed it he immediately puked onto the floor

The largest portal he’s ever opened was held open for five minutes, and it was to move the school

Long story

And by the time it closed, Ryoma was shaky, pale, and could hardly move he was in so much pain

All he said on the matter was, “I don’t think I could ever do that again.”

Before he passed out

Maki Harukawa

She’s empathokinetic

If that sounds stupid, let me explain

She can manipulate the emotions of people around her by adjusting her own

She can focus her emotions on one person, which is helpful for work

For instance, if she has a very vigilant target, she can focus on “calm” and make them convince themselves nothing is wrong and they’re safe

She can shift “calm” to “warm” to convince the target that they recognize her and allow her close

And from there, you know the rest

When she isn’t focusing on one person in particular, however, her emotions come off her in a kind of wave that effect everyone around her within a radius of up to seventy kilometres

This is great for childcare

If you’ve ever worked in childcare, you’ve had a room full of rowdy kids

If you’ve had a room full of rowdy kids, you’ve dreamed of a person who can walk in and calm the entire room

Korekiyo Shinguji

He’s a ghost boi

No, he’s not dead

It’s just that things you’d commonly associate with ghosts are things he can do

Icy chill in the air when he’s experiencing an intense emotion

He can close doors and knock things off the shelves without touching them as long as they’re close enough to him (50 yards at least)

He can move almost silently and can even float cleanly up to 30 feet off the ground if he wants to

He can walk through solid objects and turn intangible so attacks phase through him

He can turn invisible for up to eighteen hours

And before you ask, yes he can see ghosts

But extremely conditionally

Ghosts have to want to be seen

They also have to be around

He hasn’t been able to find his sister, but not for lack of looking

Do with that information whatever you will

Kaito Momota

He can fly

Which I know sounds underwhelming but that’s not all he can do

Not only has he clocked in at speeds of 40,000 miles per hour at his fastest, but he has a secondary power that even he didn’t know about

Due to a complete accident involving Ryoma’s portals, they discovered that Kaito doesn’t actually need to breathe

He returned three days into the search for him, as Monokuma was trying to determine how he was going to go to his grandparents and tell them that he’d lost their boy

When asked where the hell he’d been, he explained Ryoma had transported him into space and he just hadn’t wanted to leave immediately

He also learned during this trip that his gravity adjusts to the planet he’s on, but that doesn’t seem to effect him in any way

For instance, he was on Jupiter, where he weighed twice his normal weight, and he was fine

Monokuma thanked him for all his in-depth research. Then grounded him for making him worry so much and made him go apologize to Ryoma

Which he wanted to do anyway

Seriously our boi spent a solid three days certain he’d killed Kaito

Kirumi Tojo

She can cover her body in… stuff.

What kind of stuff?

Depends- what kind of stuff do you need?

If she’s being grabbed from behind, she’ll cover her entire body in tiny, thin needles, like the ones found on the plant known as Dendrocnide moroides

If she does this, she can make whoever’s grabbing her regret it for years

Whereas, if she’s being shot at, she can harden her skin with a layer of chitinous material that’s proven to be bulletproof and knife-proof

As an experiment, Monokuma asked to hook her up with some electrodes, and they discovered that she can insulate herself with something rubbery and plasticky that doesn’t conduct electricity

Having said that it was still tremendously painful and she safeworded out at about 10,000 volts

That’s a nasty caveat to her abilities- she may not take damage but she can still feel things

Gonta Gokuhara

I feel like this one goes without saying

Oh well

He can talk to bugs

And spiders

And scorpions

Basically as long as it’s tiny and creepy and weird Gonta can talk to it

When he was a child he’d spend hours chatting with butterflies, centipedes, bees, and would frequently invite them in for food and tea

Much to the horror of whoever was fostering him at the time

My best boy has bounced around almost 60 different homes in his life

They all were very interested in having a super who could just talk insects out of their homes

But they ducked out the second he started bringing bugs into their homes

Quitters and cowards the lot of them

Angie Yonaga

She can draw things into reality

What do I mean?

Imagine her, drawing a slice of pizza in her sketchbook

Nice, right?

Then she gets hungry, reaches into the book, pulls the pizza off the page and eats it

She isn’t limited to paper either, she can draw on walls, the floor, her bed, just about any surface you can think of

She also isn’t technically limited to pens and pencils

She’s never tried anything else before but technically she doesn’t need specific art tools, the drawing just needs to be made with something that makes a mark

However, this will effect the objects composition

For instance, if she drew a pair of shoes out of ketchup they’d always feel like they were full of ketchup no matter how much you cleaned them out

Kaede Akamatsu

Unlike the other protagonists before her, she knew she had a power, knew exactly what it was and knew it was extremely cool

She could come back from the dead

If you kill her, in any way shape or form, you only need to wait five minutes for her to reset

Once she resets, she’ll be completely physically fine.

Well, of course, there is one exception

Depending on the manner of death, there may be a tiny scar on her wherever it happened

For instance, if she was decapitated, there may be a thin scar around her neck from that day forward

And of course the lasting psychological damage on anyone who saw it happening

She’s fine of course

No really

She’s died over 10,000 times and she’s fine

Hgnn,,, thinkin about some kind of AU where Alya and Nino have the Miraculous instead and Marinette and Adrien are just tryna lead a normal life.

But here's the main idea I had.

Mari is head over heels for Kagami (hell yeah it's gay!) and when Kagami is threatened by idk let's say either Lila (mhm yup she's still a bitch here) or someone else I'm not sure yet- Mari is so overcome with rage that she's akumatized into “Knight Justice” and akuma which, whoa no surprise here, is a knight.

(Princess Justice is good n all but her being a knight just sounds so much cooler like- give Marinette a sword already c'mon)

And her goal other than to retrieve the Miraculous, is to protect Kagami, aka her “Princess” at all costs.

Idk honestly I just thought it was cool idea lmao.

No, no, this isn't an AI-generated image! It's a 220 million-year-old petrified log located in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, USA. This park is famous for its vast petrified wood deposits. Petrified wood forms when minerals replace the wood fibers over millions of years, resulting in fossilized wood that can be as hard and colorful as gemstones. The log in the picture is entirely replaced by quartz crystals, making it sparkle in the close-up view. This log, dating back to the Late Triassic Period, about 225 to 207 million years ago, serves as a fascinating reminder of the ancient forests that once covered this area.

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?