It Has Been DAYS And I'm Still Just--

it has been DAYS and I'm still just--

Blake: I... think... you're an extraordinary person. You're always the first to lighten a situation. You act bravely when you're afraid. You do what you say.

Blake: Try to keep up! c:

Me:

i can’t take anything seriously

bumbleby is sooooo good. it starts as your usual sunshine/emo duo but grows into so much more. turns out they actually get along flawlessly. turns out yang has abandonment issues and blake always runs away. turns out blake’s ex is the opposite side of the same coin as yang, and blake chooses her anyway, then is proven time and time again how she could never be adam. turns out both their worst fears happen; blake’s newfound world crumbles in her hands, yang is left behind, and they still find their way back to each other. turns out yang needed blake and blake thought she didn’t deserve yang. turns out they’re reincarnations of an ancient love that ended in tragedy, but theirs didn’t. turns out their eyes are the color of the other’s soul. turns out they defeat the monster who almost ruined them not through martyrdom, but by protecting each other. turns out after everything they’ve been through, the hardest thing to do is professing their love out loud. turns out the confident, intimidating yang xiao long is terrified to say it. turns out the once reclusive, self-loathing blake belladonna is absolutely sure and eager to say it. turns out all they’ve ever wanted was to be together.

As someone who is both an older sister and raised their younger sibling, let me tell you why this scene was so good

It would be so easy to misinterpret Yang’s protectiveness over Blake here, but that’s not what’s happening. We’ve always seen Ruby as happy-go-lucky, follow-your-heart and do-the-right-thing, and it’s easy to forget that Yang raised Ruby, and the implied subtext there is that it *wasn’t* always sunshine and rainbows.

Yes, Yang is protective over her newfound relationship. Yes, she’ll maybe feel a little wounded that her sister is lashing out. But what we see here is Yang shifting ever so subtly into mother-mode. Yang knows this isn’t about Blake, or her and Blake’s relationship, she’s stepping in front of Blake to protect her before Ruby can say or do something she regrets. In essence, protecting both of them and trying to control the situation from escalating. Yang is stepping in front because she can take it, because god knows she’s probably had to, at some point, take some lip in the past while the others have only ever known her as a strong, positive leader. She doesn’t shout at Ruby, she’s calm, lets her get it out and just looks sternly with a simple “Hey!” as in, ‘hey, that’s enough now’. 

Yang has expressed concern, and is concerned, but this is 100% Yang shifting into parent mode. This is brilliant because earlier in the episode and even last episode we’ve seen examples of Yang’s ‘concerned big sister’ side which is soft and supportive. There’s no malice in Yang’s expression, and it’s difficult to catch it because we haven’t had the best representations of ‘good mothers’ in the show, especially not ones that have had to chastise their kids at some point, but you can bet your ass that this is Yang’s parental mode stepping in to bring calm and stability to a chaotic situation. And that doesn’t always present as ‘let’s hug this out’, sometimes it’s stern, tough love and recognising that the younger one isn’t in the space to receive comfort, so the best you can do for them is diffuse the situation and be an authoritative voice of reason because she recognises her sister’s fragile mental state.

This is without going into how amazing Ruby’s portrayal was. Going after your sister’s new relationship is RAW, and personal, but it’s also what siblings do - they lash out sometimes when they’re under stress. The way Ruby says ‘we’re sOoOo happy for you by the way good for you’ - just SMACKS of younger sibling cutting loose and saying something they don’t mean, which makes Yang’s response all the more realistic for me. She recognises the tone, the almost-petulance and steps in before it can go any further.

It’s so subtle, but it SPOKE to me so massive kudos to Miles Luna and the animators for this. And god bless the clowns that use it as some sort of Anti-Bees discourse - the nuance is entirely lost on you.

so…yeah…

those things they said on the bridge…

what if we put the things they said before together with they said on the bridge…

HOW ARE WE FEELING BUMBLEBY NATION??? <3