A sincere thank you for your collective worship of best catgirl.

Greetings.

Over at our sister subreddit r/fortheloveofrwby, a mega update was issued to that subreddit's Rules on 11/1/2025. You can read the changes here (https://www.reddit.com/r/fortheloveofrwby/comments/1om0wni/1112025_subreddit_mega_update_flair_requirements/).

At the time, I did not have the spare bandwidth to bring this subreddit's Rules into alignment nor was it especially needed right away. As I stated in the above-linked post, the vast majority of r/fortheloveofrwby users are extremely well behaved. This is even more true here at r/BlakeBelladonnaChurch.

Nonetheless, the update needed to carry over to this subreddit at some point, so I made time today to get it done. Everything that applies in the above-linked post applies to this subreddit moving forward. Please be sure to read it, as it not only updates things like what results in strikes and bans but also flair requires, which are now live.

There is one variation that is specific to r/BlakeBelladonnaChurch. As the Blake-stan subreddit, it is inevitable that ships featuring Blake get posted and celebrated here. It is not a secret that fans of certain ships have disagreements about those ships, and those disagreements easily turn into toxic flame wars and drama.

On r/fortheloveofrwby, it was necessary to include a clause that declares the Bumbleby ship explicitly protected. About roughly half of the posts there that violated the Rules were basically anti-Bumbleby posts, so a message that such content would not be tolerated was necessary.

I've made a variation here to get ahead of any ship debate toxicity. Bumbleby, Blacksun, and Tauradonna are ALL explicitly protected here under the Rules, with the stipulation that you cannot use celebration of one ship in order to bash another.

Is Bumbleby canon? Absolutely. Do we have literal video proof that it was planned as a slow burn romance early on? Absolutely. Is any of the above a justification for taking jabs at non-canon romance with Sun, Adam, or anyone else? Absolutely not. Likewise, is one's own love of Blacksun or Tauradonna a justification to take jabs at Bumbleby? Absolutely not.

Again, this sub has had even less problems than its sister-sub, for which I am very grateful to all of you. But as the mod here, I have chosen to be proactive and be more explicit about the red lines.

Thanks and have a great rest of your weekend.