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I've recently been informed that I was banned from the comm for repeated offenses.
This came very out of nowhere for me, as I had thought things were going well and I had represented myself well for the past year ever since re-starting the RWBY spork. To be honest, having spoken with moderators before, I've been given the impression that at least some of them aren't fond of me and I never felt exactly listened to. But I did at least imagine that, if anything I was doing was deemed 'problematic', it would at least be something serious, and not...
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Sticky: Why the RWBY Spork Won't Continue at Das_Sporking.
Sep. 15th, 2023 01:32 pmTags:
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My Sporks:
- Fanfiction:
- Anime/Manga:
- RWBY |
- RWBY |
- Video Games:
My Spitefics:
- Partially Kissed Hero (Jared Ornstead):
- Savior of Magic (Colt01):
- Harry Potter: Junior Inquisitor (Sprinter)
Planned sporks:
- The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
- Sairento Hiruzu by The_Samurai_Prince (and other works)
Good things come to those who wait...?
Mar. 9th, 2024 12:34 pmRWBY, it seems, has not been totally canned.
Warner have given Rooster Teeth until May to close their studios. Rooster Teeth's RWBY team ("CRWBY") have expressed a desire to maintain control of the IP, but Warner is still looking to sell it.
Dillon Goo--who worked on early RWBY for Volumes 2 and 3, and works closely with Shane Newville--has expressed an interest in buying RWBY. This has the support of at least one ex-RWBY voice actor already.
Whether Dillon and Shane can actually do this, or what they would do if they did, is up in the air. Dillon's studio is relatively young and unlikely to have much money, especially given what Warner's asking prices will be. If they could secure investors, then maybe something could come of it. There wouldn't necessarily need to be a continuation of RWBY or a full reboot; they could simply buy it to make some funds off of merch and make different RWBY content.
Either way, it seems that I chose the exact right time to post my final thoughts on RWBY. I know that many fans of the current RWBY, driven by spite as they are, are insisting that "CRWBY" be brought along if RWBY is to be bought out (this is a terrible idea), seemingly not realize that Dillon and Shane are "CRWBY".
I imagine Jessie James Grelle is not the only person to feel like a Dillon Goo RWBY is worth believing in more than what RWBY looks like right now. The number of ex-RWBY fans most likely outnumbers the remaining diehard stans by a very, very wide margin.
Personally, I'm vying for a hard reboot from Shane more in line with what Monty envisioned. Some things are fate, and this seems like one of those things.
Warner have given Rooster Teeth until May to close their studios. Rooster Teeth's RWBY team ("CRWBY") have expressed a desire to maintain control of the IP, but Warner is still looking to sell it.
Dillon Goo--who worked on early RWBY for Volumes 2 and 3, and works closely with Shane Newville--has expressed an interest in buying RWBY. This has the support of at least one ex-RWBY voice actor already.
Whether Dillon and Shane can actually do this, or what they would do if they did, is up in the air. Dillon's studio is relatively young and unlikely to have much money, especially given what Warner's asking prices will be. If they could secure investors, then maybe something could come of it. There wouldn't necessarily need to be a continuation of RWBY or a full reboot; they could simply buy it to make some funds off of merch and make different RWBY content.
Either way, it seems that I chose the exact right time to post my final thoughts on RWBY. I know that many fans of the current RWBY, driven by spite as they are, are insisting that "CRWBY" be brought along if RWBY is to be bought out (this is a terrible idea), seemingly not realize that Dillon and Shane are "CRWBY".
I imagine Jessie James Grelle is not the only person to feel like a Dillon Goo RWBY is worth believing in more than what RWBY looks like right now. The number of ex-RWBY fans most likely outnumbers the remaining diehard stans by a very, very wide margin.
Personally, I'm vying for a hard reboot from Shane more in line with what Monty envisioned. Some things are fate, and this seems like one of those things.
Rooster Teeth Breathes Its Last
Mar. 6th, 2024 12:16 pmVariety.com reports that Jordan Levin, Rooster Teeth's general manager, has sent out the memo that the company is now shutting down.
This of course comes as absolutely no surprise, barring the peaceful expiration of that one cynical part of me that believed this company would never bite the dust. Rooster Teeth was a company that engineered its own demise on many fronts, and I documented many of those while I was recapping their most successful franchise. Warner is currently looking to sell the rights to RWBY and other RT content...so who knows what's next? At least we know that Rooster Teeth can't hurt anyone any more.
I'm looking forward to some posthumous exposes.
This of course comes as absolutely no surprise, barring the peaceful expiration of that one cynical part of me that believed this company would never bite the dust. Rooster Teeth was a company that engineered its own demise on many fronts, and I documented many of those while I was recapping their most successful franchise. Warner is currently looking to sell the rights to RWBY and other RT content...so who knows what's next? At least we know that Rooster Teeth can't hurt anyone any more.
I'm looking forward to some posthumous exposes.
Updated ToC
Feb. 14th, 2024 11:18 amJust linked all the posts for the Persona 3 Spork to the Table of Contents on my journal. I'll link them to each other within their post headers soon, too.
RWBY Final Thoughts: Legacy
Feb. 1st, 2024 06:57 pmRWBY Final Thoughts: Style | Table of Contents
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Nine years ago today, Monty Oum died of an allergic reaction. Today is a day of mourning for fans of his work, including RWBY.
There’s no sense in waiting. Let’s finish this and heal.
RWBY Final Thoughts: Style
Jan. 29th, 2024 11:13 pmRWBY Final Thoughts: Characters (Part II) | Table of Contents | RWBY Final Thoughts: Legacy
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Before we can finish up on RWBY as a whole, we have to go over style—the ways in which it was presented to the viewer. This one’s important, because it has a lot to do with the parasocial relationship Rooster Teeth have always relied on. Someone new to RWBY and binge-watching in 2023 could probably analyze a plot, but it takes someone like me—who’s been with the show since its beginnings—to really spot certain things I’ll be telling you about now.
RWBY Final Thoughts: Characters (Part II)
Jan. 25th, 2024 12:40 pmRWBY Final Thoughts: Characters (Part I) | Table of Contents | RWBY Final Thoughts: Style
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Hey, welcome back to the Final Thoughts for RWBY. Last time, we finished up the main cast, so now we’re gonna tackle everyone else.
RWBY Final Thoughts: Characters (Part I)
Jan. 21st, 2024 08:13 amRWBY Final Thoughts: Story | Table of Contents | RWBY Final Thoughts: Characters (Part II)
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Characterization was a major weak point of RWBY. You can tell after having been in the game as long as I have that Miles and Kerry just don’t have an equal amount of love for every character. They’re very protective of certain characters and very disdainful towards certain others, and it shows quite often.
RWBY Final Thoughts: Story
Jan. 15th, 2024 01:10 pmRWBY Retrospective Part 2 | Table of Contents | RWBY Final Thoughts: Characters (Part 1)
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The Vision
Once upon a time, back in the day, RWBY was this slapdash animesque show put together on the fly from all of the crazy, inspired things shooting out of Monty Oum’s brain and occasionally tinkered with by his two good pals Miles and Kerry.
RWBY 2023 Retrospective (Part 1) | Table of Contents | RWBY Final Thoughts: Story
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Continuing on from where we last left off, we're advancing on our journey of RWBY's most immortal moments, but this time the badge is one of disgrace.
While there were some sparks of quality here and there (mostly in Season 7) after RWBY took its swan dive, the vast majority of things RWBY gets remembered for post-Volume 5 are overwhelmingly negative, proofs that the show was just never going to be what it was meant to be, and never going to regain the quality and fun that it was once known for.
I have twenty moments today that broke me and essentially spat in my face after all the time in my youth growing up that I spent faithfully watching this show and expecting greatness or at least goodness.
( This is why we can't have nice things. )
Volume 9 Final Thoughts | Table of Contents | RWBY 2023 Retrospective (Part 2)
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Back in June of ‘23, I posted a retrospective on RWBY, with the total point tallies and examinations of what they were saying about the show thus far. I also included a lit of my top 15 moments from the series up until that point, with a fond nostalgia for what I used to love about the show. I openly wondered whether such a list would be possible to make using material from Volumes 5-9.
So, with RWBY finally behind us, did I find more standout moments to applaud as I did when looking back over the first five volumes? Did I find anything worth returning to more than once for the sake of a spork?
Well, not many. I found ten in total and even then it was kind of a stretch. All eligible moments are sourced from any point later than the latest examples cited in the last post like this, since we already did one. The other twenty...well, let’s just call them the ultimate disappointments—twenty reasons not to watch RWBY at all. Those will be sourced from the whole show.
RWBY - Final Thoughts Table of Contents
Jan. 6th, 2024 10:26 amRWBY
Created by Monty Oum
Written by Monty Oum (V1-V3), Miles Luna, Kerry Shawcross, Kiersi Burkhart (V7-V9), Eddy Rivas (V7-V9)
Directed by Monty Oum (V1-V3), Kerry Shawcross
Music by Jeff Williams (V1-V8), Steve Goldshein (V1-V3), Alex Abraham (V1-V8), Casey Lee Williams (V8, V9), Martin Gonzales (V9)
Starring the voices of Lindsay Jones, Kara Eberle, Arryn Zech, and Barbara Dunkelman
Show’s over, guys. You witnessed the end with me. The slow and steady disintegrating of a titan and now we're standing amongst a pile of rubble.
But when it came time to write my final thoughts for the series as a whole, I just kept writing, and kept writing...it never stopped. So, fuck it, we might as well give it its own Table of Contents. Throughout this recap, I kept up a steady stream of supplied history and context, and I continued to do so here, so there was a lot to say.
- RWBY 2023 Retrospective, Part I
- RWBY 2023 Retrospective, Part II
- Final Thoughts: Story
- Final Thoughts: Characters (Part I)
- Final Thoughts: Characters (Part II)
- Final Thoughts: Style
- Final Thoughts: Legacy
RWBY - Volume 9 Final Thoughts
Dec. 1st, 2023 05:39 pm58 – Volume 9 Finale | Table of Contents | RWBY: Final Thoughts
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Welcome to my Final Thoughts on RWBY, Volume 9. Now, regardless of whether or not this ends up being the last volume of RWBY, it won’t be my last Final Thoughts on this show—I have one I’m cooking up for the show as a whole.
But before we get there, we have to observe the abomination that was Volume 9. And there is just so...so much.
RWBY 58 - Volume 9 Finale
Nov. 28th, 2023 11:15 am57 – Volume 9, Episodes 7 and 8 | Table of Contents | Volume 9 Final Thoughts
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Alternate Title: The Most Ungraceful End
Last time we left off, Volume 9 had finally decided to stop playing around and just become flat-out unpleasant. Let's see if we can somehow top it in the volume's last two episodes.
( The filler ends, clinging to a dim hope of a tenth season )Last time we left off, Volume 9 had finally decided to stop playing around and just become flat-out unpleasant. Let's see if we can somehow top it in the volume's last two episodes.
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RWBY 57 – Volume 9, Episodes 7 and 8
Nov. 25th, 2023 10:11 am56 – Volume 9, Episodes 5 and 6 | Table of Contents | 58 – Volume 9 Finale
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Alternate Title: Paper Mario & Ruby Lets 'Em Have It
Other Alternate Title: I Think I'm Going To Be Sick
Last week's episode provided us a lot of questions. Will the cat be an ally? Will Jaune be the hero for once? Will Ruby make any actual move towards developing as a character? Was all of this necessary? Will there be a gay wave that finances RWBY enough to greenlight Volume 10? The answer to all of these questions is no, but unfortunately, I've got to spork anyway.It won't come up until Episode 8, but please be aware that a character commits suicide in this recap. That's your forewarning, and a more substantial one than Rooster Teeth gave, which was merely about 'distressing themes'. I mean, it has those too, plenty of them. You name it, Episode 8's got it. Excessive violence, trauma, manipulation, suicide, uncomfortably rape-y imagery... I'll put another warning ahead of the actual episode.
( I will not forgive them for this. )
Tags:
- fandom: original,
- fandom: rwby,
- fic type: multi-chapter (4 or more),
- rwby vol 9,
- series: rwby,
- spork type: anime/manga,
- sporker: surgeworks,
- status: in progress,
- status: incomplete,
- warning: abuse,
- warning: abuse (emotional),
- warning: abuse (physical),
- warning: abuse (sexual),
- warning: body horror,
- warning: extreme violence,
- warning: violence
RWBY 56 – Volume 9, Episodes 5 and 6
Nov. 22nd, 2023 08:12 pm55 – Volume 9, Episodes 3 and 4 | Table of Contents | 57 – Volume 9, Episodes 7 and 8
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Alternate Title: Rooster Teeth Play Their Hand
We are now halfway through the season as of this episode. I haven’t even started writing this and I already have a headache.
Last time...god, what the fuck happened last time? Oh, right, uh, acid trip character “development”. Well, let’s get into it.
RWBY 55 – Volume 9, Episodes 3 and 4
Nov. 18th, 2023 08:12 am54 – Volume 9, Episodes 1 and 2 | Table of Contents | 56 – Volume 9, Episodes 5 and 6
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Volume 9 continues, despite how much we wish it wouldn't.
( You know, it's not 'character development' if you actively prevent the characters from changing. )
RWBY 54 – Volume 9, Episodes 1 and 2
Nov. 14th, 2023 07:57 amVolume 8 Final Thoughts | Table of Contents | 55 – Volume 9, Episodes 3 and 4
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I shamelessly pirated this, so the links I give may go dead if the videos are taken down. Just let me know if they fail to work.
V9E1, "A Place of Particular Concern"
We open on a blank screen with that female voice from the trailers.
RWBY Volume 9 – Table of Contents
Nov. 12th, 2023 11:53 amRWBY Volume 9
Written by Miles Luna, Kerry Shawcross, Eddy Rivas, and Kiersi Burkhart
Directed by Kerry Shawcross, Connor Pickens, Dustin Matthews, and Paula Decanini
Produced under Rooster Teeth
Alternate Title: The One Where Everyone Stopped Caring
RWBY, Volume 9.
Originally, these recaps were posted concurrently with the volume's release in the first half of 2023. Those posts have been preserved, so you're welcome to browse them if you want my original reactions. Of course, this Table of Contents will instead have links to posts wherein these recaps are compiled into more complete forms and some edits are made here and there for the benefit of hindsight. And before that, we need a recap of events inbetween Volumes 8 and 9, so you know why this is probably going to be the last volume of RWBY, outright.
Volume 8 Final Thoughts (Part II)
Nov. 11th, 2023 09:45 amVolume 8 Final Thoughts (Part I) | Table of Contents | Volume 9
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Welcome back to the Final Thoughts for Volume 8 of RWBY. We left off with the Characters slot about three-quarters done. Let’s finish that up now.
RWBY Volume 8 Final Thoughts (Part I)
Nov. 9th, 2023 10:02 am53 – Volume 8 Finale | Table of Contents | Volume 8 Final Thoughts (Part II)
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*pacing back and forth*
*stops for a moment, facing the computer, then continues pacing*
