My comments from the Entertainment Weekly thread:

OH SNAP!

FIGHTS WERE AWESOME.

MUSIC WAS AWESOME.

ADAM WAS AWESOME.

SIENNA AND HER CHAIN WERE AWESOME.

THAT WAS A LOT OF BLOOD!

I'M HYPE FOR VOLUME 6!

So I guess when we first see Adam in V6 he won't have the mask already? Unless that's a slight flash forward from where we start, if they show him keeping up with Hazel, Merc, and Emerald, then going off on his own, which we saw in this.

I also love the irony of Sienna being like "Adam saved your life, what a cool dude. :D"

If they keep that level of quality for Volume 6's fights, I really hope people finally shut up about no one being able to animate like Monty.

Wouldn't it be wild if Blake made Gambol Shroud based slightly on Sienna's chain whip weapon? :D

POLL TIME. What's gonna be revealed under Adam's mask?

https://www.strawpoll.me/16288370

The Ozpin Files not being canon.

Honestly though, probably whenever they stop following team RWBY like they said they eventually would. That is if I don't get suckered into liking whoever the new team is.

About a week ago I posted the original designs for Yang and Blake along with some fan art of said designs. Today I’m here to post the other relieve of early from that artist. It depicts our lovely Bees in what is a scrapped original first meeting in the a Emerald Forest. Source

I think we are gonna need more chairs, here is a 4 pack.

Source If you wanna Protecc the little illusionist respond with "Protecc".

Also this version of emerald is from the fanfic "Relic of The Future" By "Coeur Al'Aran" link

I found these. I know Razer also sells these.

Hey, I'm back with an update!

These portraits are for a Fire Emblem 8 mod I'm making, called Fire Emblem: Dust to Dust.

<strong>Get the demo!</strong>

In other news, I've transcribed Team SSSN's battle theme for GBA, so look forward to hearing that in the game along with a bunch of other RWBY songs!

The Ozpin Files, in which Cinder discovers Oz is a fucking idiot.

One Day They'll Understand, with Knightshade happening without convoluted circumstances

so is it just me, or is there an unusually high level of fanfic related posts today (not that that's a bad thing, just out of the ordinary).

anyways, I've already made some recommendations of serious and romantic fics today, so how about we highlight what might be the funniest fic in the fandom, The Ozpin files by Anon_H, a fic where Cinder manages to get access to some files that paint Ozpin in a very....different light.

According to dictionary: a person who regularly enters competitions in newspapers, magazines, etc, esp competitions offering consumer goods as prizes + anime

New series of 4 anthologies coming for Team RWBY by different manga writers and artists.

First issue focuses on Ruby Rose - Release Date May 15, 2018

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1974701573/ref=s9u_newr_gw_i12?ie=UTF8&amp;fpl=fresh&amp;pd_rd_i=1974701573&amp;pd_rd_r=1d4d7e20-189d-11e8-8608-8970f4803fc8&amp;pd_rd_w=Z4VdO&amp;pd_rd_wg=p7tIS&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=&amp;pf_rd_r=...

Outside of the tech panel, most of what I'm paying mind to reinforces what I've been learning about regarding the production. Plus, some of what I'm learning that's new is very fascinating and can be repeated in other panels depending on the subject. For instance, I've learned that from both the compositing and tech panels are that they added a third software to go with Maya and 3DS Max for volume 6 is Houdini. Also, the staff don't really update any software in the middle of production since it would create more complications.

Another thing is that for the storyboard artists, continuity is a thing to keep in mind all the time, like with lying, dead bodies. Oh, and regarding the matter of storyboarding fights, when Kevin Harger was brought on (I believe during volume 4), he originally applied to do just dialogue scenes. But when it was found out (didn't say by who), he can also do fight scenes, that's all he does now and has admitted he sometimes misses them. Interestingly, with the Raven and Cinder fight in particular, he only had two weeks to work on boards and had to do 600-800 shots. He didn't even have time to draw anything beyond the blocking (I imagine the composition between characters in a given shot) like facial expressions and effects. His rough draft was the draft that was used. Though I don't believe the animators assigned to that fight had to follow it down to the letter, as they can take some liberties.

Source on a side note SO MANY GOOD GAMES AT E3 THIS YEAR SO FAR

WE GOT

DMCV

The Elder Scrolls 6

DOOM Eternal

Wolfenstien Youngblood

Cyberpunk 2077

Battletoads

SEKIRO: Shadows Die Twice

SKYRIM VERY SPECIAL EDITION!!!!!!!!1!!!1111!!

And who could not forget, the one the only.......

METAL WOLF CHAOS XD THE XD IS NOT ME LAUGHING, THAT IS PART OF THE TITLE.

So many good games!!!

Source Weather update, It is finally raining after about 2 weeks without any rain here and my sinuses are thanking me, now that all the pollen is out of the air. Hopefully it rains for a couple of days.

Yeah, you can find it on Amazon. Young adult novel, official and canon, about Team CFVY in Vacuo one year after the Battle of Beacon.

Edit: found the Amazon listing.

After the Fall (RWBY) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1338305743/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_5X3ACbCNKKXRF

Yes, this is my moment!

I can't claim it has the numbers of a White Rose or Bumblebee, cause that would be silly, but Freezerburn actually has a pretty good list of pretty great fanfic. It doesn't get much, but I'd say the best Freezerburn fanfic tends to be above the rest of the "non partner" romances. Hopefully it keeps going down that route now that some more folks might be being converted a bit

Recovery by ShippingK8- A retelling of season 4, if Yang had to go to Atlas to get her new arm herself. IMO, probably the best Freezerburn fic ever wrote, and one of the best RWBY fanfics ever wrote in general.

The Princess and the Dragon by DinasEmrys

-Dragon AU. Weiss is set to be sacrificed to a Dragon. Things don't go as planned, they go much better. Probably the most well known major Freezerburn centered fic. It hasn't been updated in over a year, but that's majorly because Dinas might be the most popular RWBY fanfic writer on the internet, and is stretched thin. They still plan to finish it, and are still responding to reviews.

I'll leave it at these 2 for now, but I'd also strongly recommend both Queens of Vale & Price to Pay by Texan Red Rose, Cold Snap by Dinas again, One Little Secret by ElectricYarn, and both the two that were recommended by the other posters as well. All are on either Archive of fanfiction.net. Hope you enjoy! :)

Apparently the link in the tweet is a dud, so here's the proper link.

I'm guessing this is a RWBY take on classics like Bejeweled... God knows though. I've signed up myself because I enjoy these games. They're relaxing after a stressful day.

Writing

A Sour Ice-Cream - Yang decides to introduce Ruby to her new girlfriend, but things don't go quite as planned... - When Baked Alaska happens, what does that mean for Roman and Ruby? ALL THE CRACK!!

The latest chapter was so much fun to write ~~and no, I won't make Frosen Steel smut, stop asking~~. The next one... is kinda weird, and a pain in the ass to write, but it'll be ready soon

Reading

The Ozpin Files - Cinder hacks into Ozpin's personal computer, and it turns out he's kind of a dick. Probably the funniest I've ever read in this fandom. It even has a Ship Probability Chart for teams RWBY and JNPR, written by our dear headmaster. If that won't make you wanna read it, I don't know what will. (Thanks again Fanfic Bookclub)

Source

I was confused as to which artist to credit the photo to because there's two tumblr accounts with the same style of drawings and the name written in photo was jopato.

This website will help you guys convert to your time zone. For UK fans, the panel will be live for us at 6:30pm BST on Wednesday 16th September.

EDIT: Confirmation from Eddy as well. Official schedule should be updated to reflect the change as well with any luck.

Published May 22nd 2013 by Dark Horse Comics (first published May 1st 2013)

Source

I just wanted to point out when the book was published, because the picture makes it seem older than it is (if that makes any sense). It's apparently based on this video game. The game was released in Steam early-access, and received sub-par reviews.

It's a program called Rainmeter. You can download it here. There are plenty of great tutorials out there, and it's pretty easy to get the hang of. If you wanna replicate this one for yourself I posted all the skins and the wallpaper in another comment.

Edit: I forgot to mention that you probably shouldn't use Rainmeter unless you're CPU is decent, or it'll slow your computer down a ton.

RWBY Volume 7 Amazon Listing: https://www.amazon.com/RWBY-Vol-Blu-ray-Burnie-Burns/dp/B08DSYSY18/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&amp;keywords=RWBY+Volume+7&amp;qid=1625522532&amp;sr=8-2

There is no release date for Volume 8's Blu-ray, but should release later this year.

Magnhild blushing is adorable.

Can't find the original, but I'm 99% sure it's by Jo3mm. If anyone could give me the source that would be great.

Edit: Source

> I don't see why Velvet would do it.

I address a similar question in the comments on the fic:

>&gt; Also, goddammit Velvet, you're allowed to fudge rolls as DM if it makes for a better story.

> Ah, but we decided that not fudging those rolls made for a better story in this fic's context! In a real game, the DM probably would have fudged those rolls, but we were trying to balance hitting those canon moments of "WTF!" with "proper" DMing, so some sacrifices had to be made. (RIP, Ember's right arm and Torchwick.)

If this were purely a game being played among friends, the DM certainly has discretion as to what to do: simply re-roll and pretend it didn't happen, lose a different limb, just lose a bunch of HP, rocks fall, etc. But we have show canon to account for as well, and all of the co-authors had agreed during the drafting phase: if Adam appears in the in-game story, Yang's character is going to lose that arm. Velvet isn't singling Yang out, either--you see the DM choosing to reenact things that she knows are uncomfortable to Blake, but at the same time she also trusts that her friends will tell her to back off if necessary, and that she's not pushing boundaries out of a sense of malice. Perhaps it's not entirely fair to Velvet, but we, the authors, did need to create these moments of tension in both the meta story and the in-game story, and using the DM was the obvious choice.

Oh yeah.

Here's the synopsis for that book:

Action. Adventure. Magic. Motorcycles. In this action-packed twist on the beloved Grimm Fairytale, Red Riding will not merely face dangerous wolves; she must face the wolf within herself. Gifted with the power to transform into a werewolf, she will rise to become a legendary warrior known as the Alpha Huntress. Accompanied by bad-boy Wolfgang Helheim, Red will lead a tribe of loyal followers armed with mystical powers of their own against a vile lunar deity, who plans to thrust Wayward Woods into eternal night.

Amazon link.

iMDB link.

This fucking fic made me ship Ruby with May from team BRNZ. She's had almost no presence in the show, never spoken a word, and that fic made me ship her with Ruby.

If you're looking for good backstory for a plausible Qrow/Winter relationship, I highly recommend checking out Immature and Unprofessional. It basically made the ship palatable for me.

If I may just throw this out there, have you considered a website to host/advertise this on? Something like a hub for the podcasts, where you could download it easily or have a link to it. Even just to have an RSS feed to tell people there's a new podcast.

Edit: If money is an issue, may I suggest something like Jekyll or Octopress. They can be hosted for free, are mostly simple (Unless you dig into the code) and are very fast and stable.

Edit 2: Could also be used as a linkdump.

Source: http://www.plurk.com/p/ki30rl

Yes I know I just made two very similar posts but I just found these, I already posted the Weiss one, and they were made by a different person, so I just posted these on their own. Sorry..

Is it unexpected though? RT is under WarnerMedia. Warner has been pushing collaboration between all of their properties pretty hard for the past few years.

Warner doing Doctor Sleep is how we got RWBY there. Warner owning AEW is why there's a Funhaus x AEW collaborative podcast coming out. This isn't even the first time we've had a RWBY comic made by DC.

It's legit, the track listing is here and apparently there is a sample as well, but I can't play that because I don't have a US amazon account.

Not sure what it says that they've got a tease this heavy handed on the soundtrack, but I honestly can't point to a song from the volume it could be, unless it's that track that people were calling 'Home' before now

Writing

The Silver Lining of Ignorance is a short interaction between Qrow and Ruby on why her silver eyes were never explained. I hope to expand on the scene a little later but wanted to write since it just "hit me."

Also, I am in the midst of adding another chapter to Lullabies and Fairy Tales which is a Kali-centric chapter that involves an OC named Darren who has a soft spot for the Faunus and looks after Kali and Blake whenever he can.

One of the most compelling aspects of RWBY is the exploration of familial relationships including the main characters to their respective parents. You bring up great points on how Blake being very alike to her parents in the sense that they always ran away (even though Blake berates her father for being weak and cowardly).

I hope you won't mind the self-promotion but I written a fanfic entitled Lullabies and Fairy Tales which is a collection of short stories that explores the mothers' POV in further detail. I also have a few headcanons in there such as why Kali was willing to let Blake run away and the real reason(s) and why Willow (assuming Weiss's mother's name) is such an emotional wreck. I think you are right in the sense that Willow always felt trapped in her own home. Maybe it was because she was coddled by her father and she has had her hangups before just before she married Jacques. Perhaps she was a failed huntress and Jacques coaxed her into marrying her and convinced Nicholas that she wasn't a good fit for the company or huntsmanship. Or maybe she overall lacked confidence because she was never given the freedom to fail and learn then succeed. Either way, I refuse to believe that it was only a shallow reveal on the tenth birthday of her daughter is what broke her.

A lot of artists offer different tiers for stuff. I think this is a good idea of what other artists usually do. (This is all in USD)

Sketches 3-10

Line Art 10-15

Flat Colors ~20

Shading/finished pieces can go from anywhere between 35-70+, or even more than 100. I've seen some of the more popular artists head to the higher end super easily. Dish, you are definitely in this tier, and what you're willing/wanting to draw will probably affect it a bit. Supply and demand!

Another thing people love to do is sell commission slot bids and "Your Character Here" stuff. But that usually involves OCs which not everyone may want to jump on. People generally are willing to drop a lot more money on OCs though.

All in all, it's 100% based on how much you value your time for this stuff. A lot of people don't realize how long a "finished" piece takes, and it varies artist to artist, but I think you can definitely find a comfortable spot on the higher tier. If you're just looking around, poll is a great idea. You might benefit from doing a raffle every so often for a commission slot if you get flooded with requests too. Supply and Demand can work heavily in your favor here if you're willing to take the risk.

Something else that's seeing a lot of success recently is setting up a <strong>Patreon.</strong> Would recommend talking to somebody and figuring out the best way for you to be happy with doing it if you go down that road though. Everyone loves seeing the big art you put out already, I'm sure they'd love to jump on your Patreon.

> Yang doesn't exist just to be a part of Blake's plot unlike Sun. Yang is a main character with her own story. If she got maimed it wasn't just so she has a bigger impact in Blake's life. It was to make progress in her own life and get character development.

this is also what's hurting Sun's character, he has no character beyond being Blake's love interest, as this post explains

I imported this from Japan here. Sadly no longer available from there.. I found it on amazon here, but that price is like 80 bucks more than than what I paid for it.

There are apps for mobile. Roosterteeth.com works pretty well on mobile browsers as well.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rooster-teeth/id1012562632

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.roosterteeth.roosterteeth

> WRITING

• Huginn and Muninn - a short story exploring how exactly Ozpin gifted the Branwens with transfiguration. Slightly dark.

> READING

Blech.

I've just finished both 'Make You Love Me' and 'Burning Coals', the former being a Bumblebee fic and the latter a Baked Alaska fic, and they are exceptionally well written in my opinion.

Source Anyone else see that Bethesda stream going on? last i checked it had about 76,000 people watching it at like 2 in the morning, what is it at now and anyone know if it is just gonna be another mobile game or is it gonna be New Vegas 2?

The US is far from the most progressive country for LGBT rights and treatment. If anything, things got worse for them after you know who was elected and decided to try and ban transgender troops from serving in the military, as well as choosing to roll back legislation that prevented businesses etc. from discriminating against LGBT people based on the owner's beliefs. This happened just a 2 weeks ago in Colorado.

Binary Stars is one of my favorites. The way it was written is a bit... unconventional, but it's an extremely fluffy, angst filled journey.

NSFW btw, though if you look hard enough there is a version of the fic without the eventual loodness

As I understand it RWBY has always used Maya for character modeling, RWBY V1-3 used Poser for animation but they are now using Maya for just about everything.

The problem with Maya if you're looking to get into modeling/animation is it's very expensive. We're talking thousands a year here. You can get a student licence but under that everything you make is theirs, not yours and you are not allowed to profit from it. It's purely for learning the software.

Because of this a lot of us starting and hobbyist animators and modelers use the free open source program Blender. It's surprisingly powerful if a bit unintuitive at times. It's a great place to start and it can actually take you pretty far. Dillon Gu was an animator for RWBY Volume 3 and while he learned poser for that project he almost exclusively works in Blender otherwise.

My favorite example of what Blender is capable of.

The English edition is available on viz.com, but as it was released bit by bit in one of their weekly serials, it's not easy to come by, and costs money for the back issues. Last I heard, the official English translation was due for a physical release sometime in September (I can only speak for American release through Amazon).

However, if you want to get in on the action early without paying money yet, searching "RWBY Manga" will likely get you results on various manga hosting sites, with scanlations done by our very own /u/Cloudssj43 (retired, last I heard). Bear in mind that only the first 10 issues were translated by him, as it was around that time that the official translation was announced, and thus Cloud decided to back out since he deemed that he would no longer be needed in that area.

Brief disclaimers:

• The Manga is canon, written by Shirow Miwa collaborating with RoosterTeeth via Miles and Kerry.
• The first 9 Issues--save for the latter half of Issue 1 and all of Issue 2--are slight re-tellings of the Color Trailers (since the trailers didn't get translated for Japanese audiences, this was the solution). Most of it is treading old ground, but there is some new context given that answers some questions that fans have had about the trailers.
• The rest of the Issues--10 through 15--cover a brand new story set between Volumes 1 and 2, with teams RWBY and JNPR at the forefront.

Hope this helps, Have Fun!

This is a preview for RWBYzine, featuring over 30 pieces of fan content from art to short stories, and pre-orders are up if you all are interested!

I myself contributed this piece of Summer Rose, This was completed before Volume 6, so it's an original design.

Reading

Extinguished by RandomReaderThatWrites is a RWBY/ATLA cross over that I think is super well done and really under appreciated.

They really did a great Job of mixing the two worlds while telling an interesting story. And I like that they also don’t have the characters as carbon copy of their show self. But their personalities are a bit tweaked to fit the new world. They’re still the same people mind you, but the changes really do make sense.

Hey guys!

Reading <em>But did you really think I'd shut an open door</em> by BeNiceToNerds. A short-ish, incredibly sweet fic about Ilia and how she interacts with the gang in the months following the Battle of Haven. Ilia/Weiss pairing with Bumbleby in the background. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Writing Writers block yay! Though I did have a dream recently that I just might be able to turn into a story.

Writing Actual thing I've written was a short Freezerburn story for a Secret Santa. I'll be publishing it on the 25th. Projects-wise, I've finally started planning chapters for a Steampunk (Or Dustpunk I guess) AU called Rhinestone Heart. Each of RWBY wind up getting involved in a multitude of various hijinks that I can only describe as "National Treasure meets the Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes films." And of course it wouldn't be RWBY if someone didn't fall in love.

Otherwise, I'm working on ideas for a chapter of Jewel Thief Turned Heart Thief, my nearly-dead-but-not-by-choice AU where Summer adopts Emerald.

Reading Persona SH updated recently, and that's been good quality. There's also /u/pvoberstein's new fic The Flocks of the Wayward, a modern criminals AU which was pretty darn good to read (barring that I'm still leery on Raven/Vernal because of the age gap but Stein does make it work).

Time to panic! Just kidding. Nah, nothing to worry about. I mean, let's use Neo for our example. She was literally a last minute addition and she turned out to be incredibly popular and did well in the show

In terms of sheer epicness, The Dissonance Trilogy is (IMHO) unmatched. Though I'd also have to rec Premium Well Redux as my go-to "best" RWBY fic.

If you have something more specific you like, I might be able to narrow down my recs.

Hyperdimension Neptunia!

Specifically this character is IF.

It's a game series with an Anime Adaptation(Both can be enjoyed without needing the other). Can get pretty fan service-y but it's a ton of fun with some cool characters.

Games can be found on Steam, Anime can be found here.

^_^

I think Volume 4 was pretty explicit about at least one theme, with the lyrics of Let's Just Live and Ruby's letter.

"Go forward. You must keep moving on."

People will die, kingdoms will fall, darkness will never completely disappear and bad things just happen, but keep fighting and living for the good things that are to come, for the people you care about and to make make things just a little bit better.

I would strongly advise against using any free VPN service as you do not have any kind of idea on where your data is being sent, captured or otherwise used for purposes of which you may not like. If VPN is important to you, use a paid service such as Private Internet Access or similar.

Isn't NordVPN a popular one too? I think Philip DeFranco promotes that one and he's a pretty trustworthy source. He pulled the plug on the BetterHelp sponsorship after what happened and actually got one of his staff an opportunity to interview one of the higher ups there. Not sure what came of it...

/u/teal_it_how_it_is

Lullabies and Fairy Tales

A lovely collection of short stories with a loose overarching plot about the mothers of team RWBY and their up and down relationships with their daughters. It touches on just about every emotion from Summer's childlike and "Super-Mom" interactions with Ruby and Yang, Willow's sorrow that she couldn't protect her children from the same abuse she's grown accustomed to, Kali's incessant worrying and hurt due to her daughter running away, and void that Raven left behind that her husband and best friend had to try and fill for Yang. It has something for just about everyone in my opinion, and can be heartwarming and heartbreaking in the same breath.

God bless, and Merry Christmas ;)

That's very solid advice, I thoroughly appreciate it! Yeah, I always thought it was a bit peculiar that Dumbledore was supposedly gay when we had absolutely no allusion to it. What we got instead was the author's declaration of it rather than it being a confirmation and it should have been the latter. So that was a good example.

> shows that you're already doing all you need to do to avoid this problem, so you're good in my book.

Well I'd like to think I'm doing a good job at avoiding the problem, but thank you for the acknowledgement. I actually have written a fanfic of the OC already. Lamar is his name and he alludes to the Little Mermaid and I wanted the focus to be on his Faunus identity and him trying to fit in the human world. Please only read it if you're interested and feel free to PM me what you think and how efficiently I have presented my OC as well as his sexuality.

I knew it was too hard to sing all by yourself. I'm going for backup, can't sing that one particular quick part (Before 'Hold Manghild'). I'm going to record it ~~tonight~~ two nights later

Here's my attempt. Woke up at 2AM hoping that nothing could interfere when the construction next door suddenly starts working, tried my best to remove the sound

Also, i can already imagine my self ~~trying~~ attempting to sing Caffeine

Sorry everyone, i destroyed this awesome song

There are some background voices of where i shift my standing position, accidentally tap on the floor due to the music, or the song it self because i listens to the original song while singing.

Also, i coughed and sniffed quite lot.

Also, my pronunciation really sucks.

And also, i edited the song using Adobe Audition in a poor attempt to remove the noises (i'm recording using phone).

Last but not least, the size of the file is surprisingly no more than 2 MB. I don't know how the hell did that happen, so please tell me if you want the original noisy audio file (6.5MB, i think).

Zerochan isn't a source site its a rehost site. This one came from an artist on pixiv, along with the rest of the stuff (or most of it at least) the zerochan user uploaded. saucenao can be used to find pixiv sources.

~~This is just a pet peeve of hers~~

Side note..more research.

A femur, which is the largest bone in the leg and the body as a whole, can be fractured with approximately 4000 newtons of energy, according to an article in SciFighting. (http://www.ask.com/science/much-force-break-leg-63164b112bd628f7)

Doing some math that I thought i would never end up using..(Asuming, when Nora hit yang through the roof (Using some stats from the DeathBattleVid) she was free falling in a unstable state, hitting about 480 km/h (300 mph) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_skydiving

Which means Yang had a Kenitic Energy of around 7050240 joules/Newtons. (1 Joule is Equal to 1 Newton) So...basically with that hit Nora could break 1762 and a half femers (roughly).

Mafia AU is a series of Monochrome stories. There's some fanart from various artists.

Here you have the various parts. Some of them are pure plot, some of them are pure smut, some of them are hybrid.

Personally, I loved the first part, the rest I just found ok. It gets kinda dark at times.

the epitome of fashion according to ruby

>see Weiss! if you need more pockets you can just attach them to this cool webbing!

I keep searching for it but I can't find it on Amazon. Where's it hiding?

Edit: Found it!

The Team RWBY skin features 4 aircraft skins with each of the members of Team RWBY.

The skins are:

F-15C Eagle -Ruby Rose-

Eurofighter Typhoon -Weiss Schnee-

YF-23 Black Widow II -Blake Belladonna-

Su-37 Terminator -Yang Xiao Long-

Nexus

Moddb

Hello, I thought I'd at least describe how I did this, I recommend using a simple/minimalistic wallpaper as you will need to cut something out of the wallpaper

Image source http://prizrensoldier.deviantart.com/art/Red-Riding-Reaper-354707067

First of all, got an image for the background

Secondly, I followed this guide http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/make-desktop-stunning-interactive-live-wallpaper/ (Read the later in this comment for some troubleshooting), using GIMP with the magic wand to remove any whitespace within the image

Third, I had some issues with how the guide got things to work so I'll add what I needed to do below.

Cutout is on the wrong monitor/wrong place (Multimonitor) - Set the X coordinate to the length of the monitor that it's on/the monitor next to it, positive numbers move it to the right, negative numbers move it to the left (e.g. if it's on a 1080p monitor then set it to 1920)

The bars are in the wrong place - Enable draggable (Within RainMeter) and drag to where you want (If you want to add more bars/make them wider, you will need to drag it to the bottom-left of where you want it)

Change settings for the bars - Click the bars, a settings menu will open

The bars don't stretch across the screen - Go into the Settings (see the line above) and Display, you can change the number of bars, the bar width and the bar spacing

The settings don't go high/low enough - Go to [Rainmeter Skins folder]\Fountain of Colors\@Resources and open Variables.inc with a text editor, find the setting and change the value, save the file and reload the Fountain of Colors skin

The cutout doesn't go over the bars - Unload and reload the cutout skin

Source We need more happy Yang in all our lives. Also the sacrifice update arrived yesterday and Excalibur Umbra is so goddamn fucking awesome. Totally worth the 3 year wait.

Well, they're .stl files, and it's in two parts as it was designed for a dual-extrusion print... but here ya go!

Ninja Edit: I also an planning on doing the other logos of the main team (Weiss, Blake, Yang); Then I'll probably do some CFVY, JNPR, etc.

I'm also printing 2 of each, and a full set is of course getting mailed to Austin.

A few days ago I made a 'least favorite' version of this poll. Here are the results!

As expected, Adam is the most hated character. Some shocks (to me, personally) were Blake and Ilia both being so high up there.

Anyways, here's this one! Try to base your vote solely on their v4 and 5 performances, rather than just in general! So for example, if you love Ruby, but thought her Volume 4 and 5 was hot garbage, then vote for someone who you thought had an excellent Volume 4 & 5!

I'm excited to see who you all vote for! Just like the last poll, feel free to explain why you voted for who you did in the comments! A healthy discussion about why we dislike certain relevant characters would be awesome.

I voted Weiss, because ~~sadly Mercury was absolute trash in Volume 4 and 5 so I mean who else would I vote for~~ while her Volume 5 was weak, I personally adored her V4 plot! I know some people thought her just 'walking out' was anti-climatic, but I enjoyed it. Plus, she still had some solid V5 moments! The lancer fight and her talk with Yang in V5E8 are all high points of the volume for me.

I just started on Homecoming by Samuel412 yesterday and it is fascinating. It’s mostly about Weiss, Winter, and Whitley Schnee and Atlas as a whole. Also features a badass Ironwood, always a bonus. Here’s the summary from Ao3:

> It's been 5 years since Weiss left Atlas, and a lot has changed there since. But when Weiss and Ruby take a mission there, Weiss must deal with the pain of coming home. She soon discovers that her escape set events in motion with a far greater scope than she could have ever anticipated.

Written Heritage;R AO3 Heritage;R FF

A rewrite of my original Heritage fanfic which I found to be quite lacking in some regards. Follows Blake towards the end of Volume and how she copes with having to hide her faunus heritage from the rest of her team which she sees as here family and is afraid to lose. Slight Bumblebee and attempts to expand Blake's and Yangs relationship.

Its my only real fanfic to date, I feel bad for literally asking for feedback but it would help a lot. Also thanks to anyone taking their time reading it :)

Also work has begun on Chapter 2 of Heritage.

Reading

Swarm on the Somme. Not a fanfic but alternate history, a mix of starshiptroopers and WW1

Picking up the pieces by Etheriell. Rereading one of the best RWBY fanfics I know althought its filled with stuff like depression, self harm etc so be warned.

Anyways, cya next week

Well damn! That was an interesting chapter:

• First and foremost, Jacques indeed used Willow and according to Weiss it what lead to her alcoholism. I'm still holding out the headcanon, though, there's more to Willow's alcoholism that Weiss doesn't know about. Oh, and on her tenth birthday? The fuck?? This gives me a lot of ideas for a new chapter for my fanfic... Also, looks like I will have to add edit some chapters, though.

• Hmm Ilia wished that Blake would look at her the same way he did Adam. Interesting.

• Kali doesn't seem to be a skilled fighter but she grabs the gun anyway and starts shooting. That's our cat-mom! You get em, woman!

• Aw man, Ghira, I'm so worried. But I can't wait to see him in action!

I imagine some of the aquatic Faunus decide to reside deep in the ocean while some choose to live by the water. I'd think that most of the aquatic Faunus -- or at least the ones with the mermaid tales -- aren't train for hunting. I'm glad you bring this up since I'm writing a fanfic OC that alludes to the Little Mermaid and I like to get an idea of how the logistics would work. I think it would be neat to have a 'merman' with his fish out of water experiences (forgive my pun) as a huntsman. I want to say more but I don't want to spoil anything in case you're interested -- but feel free to pass.

Got caught up this week with Getting a Grip - which has the honor of being basically the only Newspaper fic I've found that wasn't mindless smut with magical extra appendages. It'd get points just for that, but the writing's solid and the characters feel fairly true.

Second Chance features Ruby and Yang as runaways who find themselves in the small town of Beacon, Ohio. Everybody's got damage, there are plenty of cameos from canon characters, but what really sold it to me were all the little ways the sisters interact. They've got shared history and all these little rituals for dealing with their issues. It's good stuff, if angsty.

Writing

Forgot to post last week for F3 (erps) but I still have been adding chapters to From The Sea. The story's protagonist is an Aquatic Faunus named Lamar who is based off The Little Mermaid and is a "fish out of water" (forgive my puns) sort of tale that involves him learning to fight and live among humans. The story also features James Ironwood, Willow Schnee, and Nicholas Schnee.

I also added a chapter to The Rose and the Meadow. I might add another chapter that is asynchronous to the previous chapters but it has been a fun story to write how a relationship would go down between Ruby and Whitley. I know Whitley isn't very well-liked, but give the kid a chance. I'm sure Ruby would...

Anyway, hope y'all enjoy!

Shameless plug, but my story Nevrospastos features a revived Pyrrha, albeit in an unusual state.

I also very much enjoyed My heart keeps beating like a hammer

It's not racism, it's the fact that for most that write fanfics, it is their first time writing a narrative, and have inexperience with how to refer to characters. So if a character has a unique trait, no matter how mundane it is, it will be referenced in every single which way possible.

That's the general gist of what you're going to get here, if you want a resounding, ranting, raving yes, ask this question here.

WRITING:

Wrath's Palace

A story about Yang taking the other turn at the fork in the road to Mistral. An encounter with her mother down that road leads her to a downward spiraling path, leading to Yang taking up a life of crime in order to right her world and take back what's hers. But, with her life becoming defined by her anger and vengeance, how will it affect those she left behind, or worse, those that left her behind?

This was a project I had in my head for a few years, really since the end of V3, and it's coming together nicely. I'd love some more feedback on it, but fair warning, it gets quite dark. Major Character Deaths are present, as are themes of abuse, abandonment, and others.

I remember reading "Binary Stars" and finding it absolutely fucking ridiculous. Kinda like if Douglas Adams decided to write a smutfic. APW isn't a bad author by any means, though; &quot;Bygone&quot; is proof of that.

4K UHD is 4x the resolution of 1080 Full HD, and it's much more noticeable up close than at a distance. Because of science reasons, screen size and view distance matters much more than resolution. For example, if you have an 80" 4K TV, at 5 feet away, it looks significantly better than 1080 (you get the full effect of 4K), but at 10 feet the difference is indistinguishable. This all assumes 20/20 vision.

The graph of view distance vs screen size that allows for the full effect of the chosen resolution is linear for all resolutions, 1080 being y=x/8, 4K being y=x/16, where y is viewing distance in feet and x is screen size in inches.

Source of math

Edit: added italicised text.

Writing: Making good progress on The Macabre with about half of the chapter done. I'm getting excited now. Time for everything to go down!

Unbeknownst to the rest of Remnant, the Huntsmen had fought a shadow war with an organization known as The Macabre in the past. But now, during the events of the show, The Macabre have arisen again for reasons unknown and are directly attacking the Huntsmen once more. And this time, four unlucky students have been dragged into it. Soon they’ll realize that the war isn’t as clear cut as it seems.

Reading: I had the story With You To The End of The World recommended to me and I gotta say, it's a great piece of hurt and comfort centering around Velvet and Coco in the aftermath of Volume 3. I wholeheartedly recommend this one to anyone for a quick, but great read.

Is a preference for using less word an American thing? I always see a lot of advice about not using passive voice, using less adverbs, using short sentences and simple words (all things the Hemingway editor tries to correct) but it often ends up feeling very dry to me compared to some good authors I read (in French, so the comparaison is not that great, or Pratchett but I don't know if it's a good "standard" author).

The lyrics in the preview snippet on Amazon are pretty explicitly talking about "love" and if it's a platonic love it's a really damn weird platonic love, lol:

>But they watch us, and they know

>And they’re happy as they see our love grow

>We’ll sit for a while, as I drink in your smile

>It feels like a dream that’s come true

>My head starts to buzz and my heart fills with love over you

>Baby can’t you see

>You could be with me

>We could live inside a

As explicit as this is and as hard it is to explain away as anything else, I'm not gonna let myself get my hopes up until there's some real REAL explicit hinting in the show.

Reading (Finally)

A Patchwork Rose: The First Day of Summer by /u/IAmMenace . A collection of stories following huntress extraordinaire Summer Rose who went from slayer of monsters to Super-Mom over night. See how her journey unfolded from the nightmarish days in Vacuo to sharing a room with three quirky friends at the most prestigious school on Remnant, to finally baking cookies for her daughters in the happiest days of her sorrow-filled life.

Writing (Finally)

Forever Knight Weiss and Jaune's relationship after volume 5 with some possible romance. But will Jaune forever be by Weiss's side?...

Here we go. If this song was this hard for me, I can only imagine what Caffeine is gonna be like. Sorry for some mispronunciations and the fact I only sang some parts.

Just Read

Never Forget by /u/gateoftruth201 She finally escaped from her father's control. Now she had to teach her little sister to do the same, but would they still be the same people afterword? Introspective, Winter-centric. A poignant look into Winter's true emotions and her struggle to prevent them from overpowering her.

Writing

Been sick so I got nothing this week, sorry folks! However, I am thinking of writing a alternate canon White Knight fic (but fair warning, it's not a "conventional" shipping fic).

Written

Feel free to check out my other fics on my AO3

Writing

Added a chapter to L&amp;FT which involves Willow along with her three very young children and her father, Nicholas Schnee.

In the newest installment of The Rose and The Meadow which involves Ruby and Whitley trying to escape Salem's clutches with their skills. I added two new chapters which is a continuation of the "new story."

Here's Chapter 1. There's 11 chapters atm I believe and please don't just say 'I'm dropping it because bad grammar' like other people did... Vin's english isn't perfect (he's French Canadian) so just try to overlook it. I've been able to lend a hand in a couple of the later chapters with spellchecking but it's worth reading for sure

/u/pvoberstein wrote a Winter Soldier (Winter x Ironwood) fic called Permafrost. Even if you don't "ship it" I highly recommend it; it's poignant, beautifully written, and isn't too gushy or smutty.

Now includes fanfics too!

I didn't read both of them (yet) but I'd 100% recommend "but did you really think I'd shut an open door" by BeNiceToNerds.

I hope you won't mind the self-promotion but I was told this particular chapter from my fanfic, Lullabies and Fairy Tales It gets pretty dark and is well-written. It involves depression and implied self-harm. I don't think reading the other chapters first will be that important but it does give a sense of what each mother of RWBY is going through.

Permafrost by /u/pvoberstein/ is Winter Soldier (Winter x Ironwood) fanfic that is beautifully written.

From Embers to Dust by /u/WarrenDSherman2/ is Jaunex Pyrrha as well as s RWBY X Dark Souls crossover is very poignant.

Writing

I added a couple of chapters to From The Sea an OC about an aquatic Faunus named Lamar who strives to walk and fight among the humans. Even though he enjoys life on land and collaborating with his teammates/friends he finds that hiding his Faunus identity can be difficult.

So here's an (admittedly-somewhat-hasty) fic, more to explore the character dynamics between Raven and Vernal than any attempt at plot. Also available on Tumblr [here](www.pvoberstein.tumblr.com/post/167966150208/the-leaves-of-spring) if that's more to taste, and backed-up on the Internet Archive here.

Thoughts, feedback, criticism, suggestions - all are always welcome.

Writing

I added another chapter to From The Sea in which Lamar has to deal with the harsh winters at Atlas Academy -- and trying to keep his Faunus identity from being compromised.

This week I added another chapter to The Rose and The Meadow. I wanted to add another scenario that is not a continuation of the previous chapters that initiates Ruby and Whitley's first interaction while adding some drama to the plot.

Writing — Take this Night

Summary: In which Roman is caught and imprisoned by Ironwood after his fight with Ruby during the war of Beacon. Ruby pays him some visits in the subsequent years. Canon until Volume 3 Chapter 11.

This is the first thing I’ve written in many moons that isn’t university or work related. I heard of RWBY rather recently, watched it all in one day last weekend, consumed an unhealthy amount of commentaries/fanfics and then decided to write my own because I’m bummed out Roman was killed off.

Not quite sure where I’m going with it, but open to suggestions!

Premium Well: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1091436/chapters/3841450

By the same author: It’s 60k, not 80k, but Prise de Fleur is really good. https://archiveofourown.org/works/2322065/chapters/5113064

I sometimes like a good brooding fanfic story as well. May I self-promote my fanfiction Lullabies and Fairy Tales. It's a collection of short stories about the mothers (as well as the fathers) of team RWBY and it can get quite bittersweet and "feelsy."

Archive link for those who prefer websites that look like they weren't designed in the 90s.

Hope everybody likes it! Elfen and I have been discussing how we're going to wind down this story, and I think we have a couple of interesting ideas up our sleeves, so stay posted. As always, thanks for reading.

I'm interested in this, but I have no idea what I'm doing. Here's my Blake. Apologies for the audio quality/popping, this was done on my phone. If this goes anywhere, I'd be doing all future recordings on my computer.