silveranjyil:

Let’s talk about Ozpin’s conversation with Jinn and clear some things up real quick.

I watched this episode at least three times, and I can say with quite some certainty–Jinn was not being “cheeky”.  And Ozpin was asking the right question, in a sense.

Look at it this way.  Ozpin was charged by the god of Light to save the world–to reunite the world and bring out the best in the humanity.  The only way to do so is to defeat Salem.  He is not wrong on that point.  He tried to be with her, and that didn’t go so well.  The only way to save the world and humanity is to remove Salem from the picture—this is obvious.  But what does that mean?

After their battle, Ozpin came to the conclusion that Salem’s death was the only way.  That makes total sense.

So, he asked the very simple question: “How do I destroy Salem.”  Yes, this is very specific, but there is no emphasis on ANY of these words.  It is a matter-of-fact question.  He has resigned himself to the fact that this is the only way.

How do I destroy Salem.  If you listen, there is a bit of regret at the end of the sentence, but there is no “How do I destroy Salem.” And he doesn’t ask how to defeat her, or how to beat her.  Actually, he doesn’t even ask about killing her.  Destruction is a very final, complete thing that generally involves the atoms and soul.  Killing is less permanent.  But no, he just asked about destroying her. 

Jinn, calmly and straightforwardly says .“You can’t”  She doesn’t emphasize YOU.  She emphasizes CAN’T, more with her eyes than her voice.  She can NOT be DESTROYED.  It isn’t that Oz can’t, that someone else can, or that she can’t be defeated.  It is merely that Salem can not be destroyed.  We already know this, given her history.

Jinn’s attitude and behavior is more of the kind where she is being firm and final.  Her body language says it all–this is the answer and there will be no other.  Salem can not be destroyed.

But that is all.    Yang and Weiss simplify this by saying she can’t be killed…but that might not be entirely true…  Since they have an afterlife, death is not destruction.  Destroying her means no after life.  So she might be able to be killed… in any case, she can be sealed away.  She possibly can be changed.  But she can not be destroyed, thanks to the curse of the gods.  And we already knew that–the god of Light specifically said that.

trainsinanime:

I’m so annoyed with myself right now, because in the latest RWBY episode (volume 6 episode 6) it took me two viewings to get the actually very obvious metaphor at the end: Barnaby, the guy who thought, “let’s abduct some Grimm to manage my family’s emotion” is not just a little crazy. The point is that sometimes it’s healthier to let anger and negative emotions out, even if that means a fight (in the analogy: Huntsman protection), than try and bury it all. Repression is really dangerous.

And that of course applies directly to what team RWBY is going through right now. Yang is angry but unwilling to talk about it; Qrow drowns everything in alcohol; Ruby puts moving the plot forward over everything else, which makes her both effective (here) but also unable to relate to Weiss in the last episode; and Blake is in love with Yang but scared to say so (yes at this point that’s technically still only a headcanon, but I mean, come on).

The end contains both that metaphor, and the team reassuring each other that they totally didn’t mean anything that happened in the farm and that it was all just the Grimm. (Notably, Blake immediately tells Yang that Yang isn’t responsible, which is arguably the more important Bumbleby moment here even over the hand-holding.) Obviously that doesn’t really mesh. So I expect we’ll see the conflicts come back; and I hope that they’ll learn Barnaby’s lesson and actually start talking and, where necessary, fighting about stuff that they’re currently all trying to ignore.

ihatecispeople:

ihatecispeople:

what the FUCK is ariana doing acting as if she’s an ally to the LGBT community and likewise allowing transmisogynic portrayals for comedy’s sake in her latest music video

i talk about the intent of a portrayal again and again regarding other portrayals of hated minorities in media. though there are trans women who have a 5 o’clock shadow, trans women who let their beards grow out fully, trans women who don’t fit the norms of cis womanhood (or cisness in general), who are no less women than those who do, having a cis male back up dancer by the name of scott nicholson play a role where he is to be seen as a man in a dress only has one goal: to laugh at the idea of trans women thinking they’re women. 

i seriously question the decision to add this detail to a music video for one of the most listened songs right now. ariana is a big enough of an artist to say that she’s refusing to add transmisogynic content into her videos and having her voice heard, yet this part is still in it. by allowing it in, she’s giving the impression that she either agrees with the mockery, or thinks it’s not big enough of a thing to question: both, in the end, equally harmful. 

cis LGB artists and persons, such as troye sivian, took part in this music video, and still trans women are being mocked, showing how little the further cis community (and indeed, even the rest of the trans community) cares about the wellbeing of trans women. 

ariana is, by including this, further helping transmisogyny hold its roots steady not only in its portrayal of trans women (and caricatures of men in dresses supposed to represent trans women) in media, but normalising this mockery to her audience, who will use this normalisation to harm trans women. it’s disgusting. ariana’s actions here are disgusting.

undeadwicchan:

When you realize that if Ozpin is the reason behind the conception of the Silver Eye Warriors then that would mean all of his descendants and children not only inherit a powerful skill against the Grimm.

But all of them (Maria, Ruby, and Summer) also inherited Ozpin’s love and unyielding appreciation for life and humanity, selflessness, and iron strong will to protect the ones they love and cherish with all their being.