okay i’m all caught up on steven universe and i think i am THE MOST charmed by how padparadscha isn’t actually useless— she predicts the past, yeah, which isn’t as overtly cool as predicting the future, but her predictions often clarify what just happened, for instance, that garnet made people uncomfortable in her enthusiasm, or that lars was pressing the wrong buttons. that’s still pretty neat!
i am second-most charmed by lars’s ridiculous space outfit. what a fashionable dork, i love it.
This is the best song Zach’s had to date, finally displacing Be Wherever You Are as my favorite Zach song.
This is something Greg and Pearl both need–they’re both hurting, in agony from the loss of the greatest love of their lives, and they’re unable to talk to the one person in the world who understands better than anybody what they’re going through.
Steven apparently brought Pearl along deliberately hoping they’d finally hash things out, and I can’t blame him–these two needed closure. Pearl’s hurt bubbles near the surface, but Greg’s hides deep, and they both need to get it out, get it to a place where they can deal with it.
Note that I didn’t say get over it.
They never will.
You don’t get over the True Love of your life dying–not even when you’re a fleshy, short-lived ape with imperfect memory, let alone an ancient immortal AI time abyss like Pearl. You never do, but you can move on, can find peace and closure to take away the edge. Greg needs to deal with her loss, and the way he thinks Pearl resents him–but it’s not him she’s most resentful of.
It’s Rose.
Pearl’s telling the truth; she always thought of Greg as one more interchangeable lover, one more meaningless ape-thing that would soon leave their lives, until suddenly he wasn’t. But she doesn’t blame him on more than a surface level; the betrayal runs all the way to her core, to Rose, to her love, to how Rose chose to die for her love–and her love wasn’t for Pearl.
But…it’s over, isn’t it?
It’s time we all moved on.
one of my favorite things about this show is that greg and pearl love steven utterly… but neither of them have any idea why rose died to make him. greg is an artist, a musician, his work is already his legacy; it’s obvious that he’d have been totally fine with the adoption of a completely unrelated human or gem child. and pearl already was a willing and supportive older sister to amethyst, the baby of the group at that time; if rose quartz had picked up a human baby to raise, i really think pearl would have been game.
so why rose specifically spent her life on the creation of a hybrid kid with this latest human lover is the center mystery of the show, and it clearly haunts steven himself more with every season: why did rose die for him? what for? how is he supposed to be worth it?
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what’s possible for characters vs. what the audience sees. (This might feel really obvious or redundant to talk about, but I just need to get the words out of my system)
In Steven Universe, when a character can’t do something, it’s a bit of a big deal. They struggle with it, they fixate on it, entire episodes may be dedicated to this thing they’re unable to do. When a character can do something, but doesn’t, it’s never focused on or called out. But when it does finally happen, it underscores a huge moment for that character.
As early as episode 10, it’s confirmed that Amethyst is able to bubble Gems. The action itself is not a big deal for her. Maybe she’s done it lots of times offscreen, where the audience hasn’t seen it. But since it’s our first time seeing her do this, it underscores her growth in this character arc, as she sends her tormentor and kindred spirit away.
On the other end of things, Garnet’s refusal to ask questions in the present ends up being a highlight for her backstory–she’s only shown asking questions in the far, far past, to highlight her very first moments of being in comparison to how firm and completely certain she is of herself now.
One can assume that Greg has always had some manner of social life outside of Steven and the Gems, but it has never once been mentioned who his friends are or what he does when he’s not working or hanging out with Steven. To wait until after he’s reconciled with Pearl to mention any sort of social action underscores how much he was letting the past get in the way of his friendships before this point. Considering this same episode is about Pearl doing the same for her social life highlights that further.
No one ever calls out these actions, or lackthereof, within the show. Things that aren’t happening lay in wait, to emphasize important moments in a character’s development.
All this is to say…
boy howdy they must be saving up Pearl shapeshifting for an absolute doozy.
I just realized today we’ve never had a Jenny-focused episode. We’ve had a Buck-focused episode, a Sour Cream-focused episode, a Kiki-focused episode, a couple for the Pizza family and the Cool Kids, but never one just for Jenny.
I suspect we might get one soon!
LIKE MAYBE ONE ABOUT HOW MUCH SHE LIKES SADIE THAT’D BE PRETTY PEACHY KEEN IN MY BOOK
Simple plot: Jenny likes Sadie romantically and tries to express it, thinking that her affectionate and flirtatious gestures will be understood. Sadie explains away everything Jenny does as just being friendly or kind because she is living the Tumblr oblivious lesbian cliché. Eventually Jenny realises Sadie doesn’t have the confidence to believe a cute girl is into her without being Very Directly Told. So she tells her, maybe with a heavy metal love song.
(steps up to the mic) “This is a song about a girl I know. (pause) Called Sadie. Sadie Miller. Standing right over there by the prop coffin. That one, specifically, and these lyrics should be taken literally. ONE TWO THREE FOUR!”
I, LIKE, LITERALLY ROMANTICALLY LIKE YOU
a song by Jenny Pizza feat. Buck Dewey and Sour Cream
HEY GIRL DO YOU WANNA GO OUT SOME TIME WE COULD SEE A MOVIE OR TWO A SCARY B-MOVIE LIKE WE BOTH LIKE BUT NOT LIKE I LIKE YOUUUUU
(Buck and Sour Cream: NO!)
BECAUSE YOU CAN’T MAKE OUT WITH A MOVIE NO YOU CAN’T MAKE OUT WITH A MOVIE WELL YOU COULD TRY BUT THAT’D BE WEIRD AM I BEING CRYSTAL CLEEEEEEEAR?
I, LIKE, LITERALLY ROMANTICALLY LIKE YOU! I, LIKE, LITERALLY ROMANTICALLY LIKE YOU! I, LIKE, LITERALLY ROMANTICALLY LIKE YOU! AND IF YOU DON’T LIKE ME THE SAME WAY THAT’S OKAY I CAN DEAL BUT I’M TELLING YOU HOW I FEEEEEEEEL
(Buck and Sour Cream: UNAMBIGUOUSLY!)
‘CUZ I GET THE IMPRESSION YOU’RE NOT GONNA FIGURE IT OUT ON YOUR OWN BECAUSE YOU HAVE CRAZY LOW SELF-ESTEEM AND I KIND OF WANNA PUNCH WHOEVER MADE YOU FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT YOURSELF WHEN YOU’RE SO SMART AND CUTE AND FUNNY AND THIS PART OF THE SONG DOESN’T RHYME AT ALL BUT IT’S SINCEEEEEEEEEEEERE
BECAUSE
I, LIKE, LITERALLY ROMANTICALLY LIKE YOU IF WE WERE BRITISH I’D FANCY YOU IF WE WERE JAPANESE I’D DAISUKI YOU IF WE WERE WEREWOLVES I’D SAY AWOOOOOOO LET’S WATCH GINGER SNAPS AND SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO…ch.
(smashes guitar)
hi i just want you guys to know that this very literally cured me from being sick in bed just now. like an easter miracle or whatever. but yeah, thank you so much for this quality content! i love this so much!
In “Full Disclosure,” we see Steven swipe through the photos on his phone, and there’s this one of Steven and Connie at a restaurant.
Notice the painting and the stuffed cow head. Stuffing and mounting an animal’s head is usually what you do with an animal that you’ve hunted and killed, not with domesticated farm animals that are slaughtered for their meat.
And that painting is based on a real painting of Theodore Roosevelt, who was (among many other things) a big game hunter.
And then there’s this line from Garnet in “Too Far:”
Are cows a wild animal that people hunt for sport in this universe?
You: White Diamond
Me, an intellectual: Steven Universe cow lore
this post is better than anything thats come put of su post-the answer
No offense op but have you ever actually been to the rural US
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