honestly the truth is that if ur a straight fan of rwby u will literally never be able to understand what it would mean to wlw fans if bumbleby became canon. two title characters, with incredible plot build up and character development, falling in love and being together on-screen? with neither of them dying, ending up miserable and alone because Gay Is Actually Bad, or cheating on each other or some stupid ass shit like that (because rwby isn’t a teen drama and doesn’t employ those tropes)? y’all know where we get to see that kind of content? fuckin nowhere. nowhere. this shit is monumental for us. it’s not about ships. bl*cksun is a ship. bumbleby would be fuckin revolutionary and that isn’t even an exaggeration, it’s a commentary on how poorly we’ve been represented literally forever. in this essay i will
So… What about Freezerburn? Ladybug? Monochrome? None of those would be monumental? ONLY Bumbleby? It HAS to be that ship made canon?
“It’s not about ships”
Yes the fuck it is. Stop trying to act like your ship is “different” or “special” and trying to pull the fucking diversity and representation card just for your ship to become canon.
- Irritated resident Bi girl who is exhausted of people doing this shit.
Note to vacationing non-Americans: while it’s true that America doesn’t always have the best food culture, the food in our restaurants is really not representative of what most of us eat at home. The portions at Cheesecake Factory or IHOP are meant to be indulgent, not just “what Americans are used to.”
If you eat at a regular American household, during a regular meal where they’re not going out of their way to impress guests, you probably will not be served twelve pounds of chocolate-covered cream cheese. Please bear this in mind before writing yet another “omg I can’t believe American food” post.
Also, most American restaurant portions are 100% intended as two meals’ worth of food. Some of my older Irish relatives still struggle with the idea that it’s not just not rude to eat half your meal and take the rest home, it’s expected. (Apparently this is somewhat of an American custom.)
Until you’re hitting the “fancy restaurant” tier (the kind of place you go for a celebration or an anniversary date), a dinner out should generally also be lunch for the next day. Leftovers are very much the norm.
From the little time I’ve spent in Canada, this seems to be the case up there as well.
the portions in family restaurants (as opposed to haute cuisine types) are designed so that no one goes away hungry.
volume IS very much a part of the american hospitality tradition, and Nobody Leaves Hungry is important. but you have to recognize that it’s not how we cook for ourselves, it’s how we welcome guests and strengthen community ties.
so in order to give you a celebratory experience and make you feel welcomed, family restaurants make the portions big enough that even if you’re a teenage boy celebrating a hard win on the basketball court, you’re still going to be comfortably full when you leave.
of course, that means that for your average person with a sit-down job, who ate a decent lunch that day, it’s twice as much as they want or more. that’s ok. as mentioned above, taking home leftovers is absolutely encouraged. that, too, is part of american hospitality tradition; it’s meant to invoke fond memories of grandma loading you down with covered dishes so you can have hearty celebration food all week. pot luck church basement get-togethers where the whole town makes sure everybody has enough. that sort of thing. it’s about sharing. it’s about celebrating Plenty.
it’s not about pigging out until you get huge. treating it that way is pretty disrespectful of our culture. and you know, contrary to what the world thinks, we do have one.
So the “doggy bag” thing is real?
Y-yes? Is it not overseas?
It is in Australia. The snobs are trying to put a stop to it by labeling it variously as bogan and American.
They could have a point if you were in a high end restaurant, otherwise give me my fucking doggy bag!
I am so freakin mad at white men and women right now like come on Cruz are you fucking kidding me?!?! The world is bigger than white people you know, so vote like it!!!!
This is just example #56754238 of white privilege
except the white people that voted for someone like him don’t care that there are other people in the world, and that’s really the core issue here
Yeah, I agree. I wish this country wasn’t so white supremacist. White supremacists don’t care about anyone else but those of their own race. It’s sickening we still have it in 2018.
Yes, keep doubling down.
Ah yes, Ted CRUZ.. Born in Canada to Rafael CRUZ, who was born in Cuba… The face of white supremacy…
Let me sum up this post:
“I’m so mad at white men and women” “Just an example of white privilege” “White People don’t care” “They’re all white supremacists”
> The Right is racist…
Soooooooo Cruz white, O'Rourke not?? Seriously?
Shit like this is why Cruz won.
So a bunch of white people voted for a non-white guy because they’re white supremacists?
The “friend zone” and unrequited love are not the same thing. Unrequited love is, “I love you, you don’t love me in that same way, I am sad about that.” The “friend zone” is, “I love you, you don’t love me in that same way, you have therefore wronged me.”
Unrequited love is, “My unilateral crush is my problem.” The “friend zone” is, “My unilateral crush is your problem.”
Again for the ones in the back
Louder.
Unrequited Love is sad. The friendzone is creepy.
I like how OP’s incorrect, strawman definition of the “friendzone” completely leaves out the whole “friend” part.
“I have romantic feelings for a friend, but they only see me as a friend” is not inherently putting blame on anyone, or creepy.
Heck, you had to play silly buggers with the definition of UL too; it’s “when you have romantic love for someone who does not feel the same way”.
The friendzone is, in fact, a form of unrequited love, literally by definition. But you see UL as ‘legitimate’ and the friendzone as wrong, hence the sad, sad redefinition attempt.
This is the same shit that happened with “boys will be boys”, these people just collectively convinced themselves that these words mean things they absolutely do not mean.
When used by people who aren’t extremist freaks, all friend zone is/was ever supposed to mean was “I like someone but they only see me as a friend, so now I feel really awkard because I don’t want my feelings to ruin this friendship since I care about them, but it also makes me feel like crap because they might think I’m only hanging around to wait until they’re interested, but just stopping being friends with them because I can’t date them would be petty and stupid. Everything is a mess.”
