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girls when the media they're obsessed with is never going to be as good as they wish it could be

An animatic I have been working on for a while :o) !!! It took around 2 weeks to finish, so enjoy!

Is this all that’s left of her army?

I wanted to reserve my judgement until I finished watching Steven Universe but now that I have. Why the fuck is there so much discourse. This is literally just a normal kids show. With an insane amount of good queer rep AND erasing gender roles in a way thats still groundbreaking today. Even with the complaint of the series finale being rushed, if you go into it with the knowledge that it got cut short so they had to cram it, that satisfies most of my Media Critique. You are all being insane about this for no good reason.

Glad you enjoyed it, at least that’s what it sounds like? 

A lot of the discourse I experienced was my friends and I being called abuse apologists cuz we talked about liking/drawing fanart/writing fic about one (1!!!!) character.

Source

Some rando: This character should not have the chance to become a better person

Me: Why

Same person: Because they are a bad person!

Me: But what if that character was allowed to become a better person so that they are no longer a bad person?

Same person: You’re an abuse apologist

I would love for every bad person to become a good person. I’d think most humans think that it’d be a cool and great thing if all bad people became good. 

A cool and great thing, which we can play pretend with in fiction, knowing it’s not realistic, just to feel a little better about the shitty real world we live in.

tbh, I think the problem is that people confuse “getting a redemption arc” with “being rewarded with what comes after a redemption arc”

like, redeemed villains are generally friends with the heroes. they get to experience love and The Power of Friendship for the first time, if they haven’t already. they generally get to experience forgiveness. if their motives are based off of some kind of trauma or pain (like a lot of redeemed villains) then they will probably have that resolved and get some sense of closure or inner peace from whatever is hurting them.

so when they say that “this character doesn’t deserve a redemption arc” what they mean is “this character doesn’t deserve to be loved. they don’t deserve happiness, peace, or companionship”. the alternatives I have seen are:

“I hope that this character realizes how awful they are and they kill themselves”

“I hope this character is redeemed by a heroic sacrifice” (meaning they would be redeemed but wouldn’t be alive to experience the “reward” afterwards)

“I hope this character begs and pleads for forgiveness over and over again, but is never forgiven”

it’s pretty disturbing tbh, to treat basic things that every human needs (like being loved) as a “reward” that you get for good behavior. or more accurately: never being bad in the first place. that once you fall from grace you’re damned for eternity.

I think this post exposes a really gross underbelly to purity culture bullshit that I don’t think I examined quite this way before.

If redemption is unacceptable, if bad behavior can never be forgiven, what is the alternative?

Because it sure seems like the alternative is “Indefinate suffering = justice.”

BINGO.

That’s what purity culture has always been.

“Everyone who who has ever made a choice I disapprove of should suffer for eternity” is the origin of the concept of Hell. Fandom purity culture is fundamentalist Puritanism without the religion.

I absolutely LOVE the scene in “Huntara” (season 3 episode 2) when the Best Friends Squad meets Huntara for the first time and Adora is just…totally whipped.

And how could she not be? With Huntara’s ~muscles~ and the light framing her like THIS

Totally understand why my girl Adora is staring at her like this

I also love that this is the first time we really see Adora find someone attractive and try to be all ~smooth~ but more than that…we get to see Adora be absolutely awe-struck by another person and express some chaotic unrestrained happiness.

Her expressions are kind of reminiscent of Drunk Adora but arguably just as great.

✨jasper✨

friend break up

[ID:

A four-panel diary comic featuring a fire that slowly builds from a few sparks to an inferno.

Panel 1: “Hey.”

Panel 2: “We never really talked after what went down.”

Panel 3: “So I just wanted to let you know,”

Panel 4: “Fuck you.”

End ID]

I couldn't not do this

Year of the Tiger means Jasper time!

Tumblr is infinitely better than Twitter because when someone says a bad take about Steven universe on Twitter everyone circlejerks around themselves repeating the same 5 easily refutable points from the Lily orchard video but when someone does that on Tumblr nowadays they get fucking dragged down by exhausted people who were forced to listen to these points for more than 4 years

Twitter when someone brings back annoying su discourse: haha Steven universe bad! Epic chungus 3000 moment haha LOL

Tumblr when someone tries to bring back annoying su discourse: no. Fuck you we're not doing this again. Go to hell

twitter is still stuck where tumblr was in 2016. we can only hope they reach 2018-2019 someday.

“I to this day will not forgive Steven Universe for screwing over Jasper. If Peridot and Lapis and even Spinel can get redeemed or save why not Jasper as well.”

The sadness will last forever.

the professional wrestlers aren’t doing it right

IT’S WHAT SHE DESERVES

Ok, it SERIOUSLY pisses me off how TERRIBLY Jasper was treated throughout the entirety of Steven Universe. I mean, I’m not gonna say that Jasper is an innocent party! But did she deserve the awful treatment she was given? HELL NO! She was NEVER given the chance to make anything resembling a positive relationship with ANYONE, never given a chance to work through her trauma, never even given an arc that was done for HER OWN DAMN DEVELOPMENT!

Worse still, she wasn’t even granted NEAR enough screentime by the creators to get any meaningful amount of character development! I checked the SU wiki, and she made a notable (in my opinion) appearance in only about 12 episodes, including Steven Universe: Future! You wanna know how many episodes where she was brought up in conversation without actually showing up? 15. Jasper was mentioned more times than she was actually appeared on the show. Steven Universe had 180 episodes in total (including SU:F) and a whole movie. You’d think that Jasper would’ve been given more time in the spotlight, considering how important she was to a LOT of characters’ developments! (ex: Lapis, Amethyst, and Steven.) I mean, for crying out loud, we had to wait for TWO AND A HALF YEARS for her to make a brief appearance at the end of Change Your Mind!

Like, I get the fact that that SU was never really “about” Jasper. It was mainly about Steven; the clue’s in the name. But even just a few episodes-long side story or a short comic would do! That’s how desperate I am for her to be given something even RESEMBLING closure!

Just, like...is it really so wrong to want my favorite fictional character EVER to have at least gotten a LITTLE more development?

Welcome to the club we have t-shirts and trauma relating to the one GNC character getting absolutely shat on by the narrative.

Have i ever told you i used to be a huge Dragon ball fan?

Too bad she didn't get the whole vegeta treatment amirite

Some STRONK training with Jasper from the “Fragments” boards

EDIT:

A modified madd jasper for your use