Incineroar 1
If you…
- Don’t force ships and headcanons on people and get upset when they don’t have the same ship or headcanon. It’s ok to have headcanons, but that’s all they are – opinions, not facts.
- Don’t demonize good guys such as Jaune, Sun, Tai, Ozpin (even while he is morally grey), while glorifying and praising villains/antagonists like Cinder and Raven (yes, Raven is villainous, we can give you a list of reasons). In other words, you don’t treat heroes like villains and villains like heroes. (Jaune feeling trauma and PTSD is not manpain, Ozpin making mistakes does not make him evil, Tai making jokes does not make him a bad father, Sun interacting with Blake does not warrant hate, for example.)
- Are not on the Jaune/Sun/Tai/Ozpin/any-other-commonly-hated-non-villain hate trains.
- Don’t wish death upon the writers, even as a joke. That’s not cool. That’s never cool.
- Don’t see a ship everywhere you look and also feeling your particular ship is being threatened just because the parties involved interact with other characters.
- Don’t reduce characters to stereotypes or singular traits, i.e. Ilia is gay, Qrow is a drunk, Ruby is a ditz, Weiss is a snob.
- Don’t refuse to accept that character development is a thing. Weiss is not the same person she was back in volume 1.
- Treat the characters like people and let them have normal human emotions and reactions.
- Understand that Adam killing Sienna was not an act of light-skin against dark-skin or man against woman. It was a faunus against faunus coup d'etat and nothing more.
- Don’t oversexualize characters. Doesn’t matter if it’s Ruby or Kali. You don’t do it.
- Don’t personally attack someone for their ship. If you say something against a ship, keep it on your own blog and do your best to keep it out of that ship’s tags.
- Don’t have the “Tumblr mentality”, i.e. anti-white, anti-straight, anti-men. Just be accepting regardless of race, gender, sexuality, etc.
- Respect Rooster Teeth and the CRWBY for the story they’re giving us. You don’t harass or threaten them in any way.
- Don’t constantly complain about the writing, pacing, animation, etc. while claiming it’s “critism”.
- Don’t insist that theories that have been debunked or disproved, i.e. “Qrow is Ruby’s dad” are still true.
- Don’t believe fanon over canon and can keep them separate.
- Don’t claim you know what Monty wanted. Miles and Kerry were two of his closest friends that he worked closely with on RWBY. If anybody knows what Monty wanted, it’s those two.
- Don’t expect or demand redemption for the villains. This isn’t My Little Pony.
- Don’t see every interaction as romantic and forget that friendship is a thing.
- Don’t have incestual or toxic ships (i.e. YangxRuby, BlakexAdam.)
- Don’t insist that just because voice actors ship something, that makes it canon.
- Understand that RWBY is the CRWBY’s and Rooster Teeth’s story and accept that they’re telling it the way they want to.
Then join our RWBYlution, a new RWBY fandom made up of the most accepting, open-minded, and respectful RWBY fans who just want to enjoy the show for what it is. If you meet the above criteria as a RWBY fan, make it easy for other fans like us to find you and your posts by tagging your RWBY posts with “rwbylution”, and be sure to follow this tag as well. Even add that you’re part of the RWBYlution or New RWBY Fandom in your description if you feel like it! And don’t forget to reblog THIS post so we can bring in even more people who are with us!
This isn’t a joke either. It’s time for fans like us to stand up and make ourselves known. Don’t let Tumblr control you. Join the New RWBY Fandom and leave the fndm in the dust!
Welcome to a world of new solutions.

Look, we have a symbol, yay…!


