#source: steven universe future

[angelhareincorrectquotes]

Zag: Jonah, what is wrong with you?!

Jonah: Oh you know, the usual.

[your-incorrect-quotes]

A: B, what is wrong with you?!

B: Oh you know, the usual.

[envelopesofbadluck]

Misfortune: I love your energy it reminds me of when I was younger

Milkman (beta) Eddie: I'm older than you

Misfortune: -awkward smile-

[dawnthefox24]

*Venture is injured after they returned on a mission only to see that Jack is quiet angry at them while everyone else just watches clearly worried* Ana: Jack relax everything is okay and- Solider 76: What happened!? Venture: Look what happened was a...Slight miscalculation and- Solider 76: No your not going on anymore missions... Venture: Excuse me!? Everyone gets injured! I mean yeah I tend to get distracted and all but that doesn't mean I still can't help! Solider 76: Your only putting yourself at RISK Solan! Cassidy: Jack relax what happened was nothing more then a accident, if anything we tried- Solider 76: I don't care they're not going on anymore missions after today! Venture: YOU CAN'T DO THAT! Solider 76: Yes I can! Venture: I'm not a child! I can still fight! Solider 76: *shakes his head getting frustrated* You shouldn't be anywhere near the fight, Your to important! Venture: I AM NOT! Solider 76: YES YOU ARE! *Cassidy & Ana just watching unsure what to do but Venture leans up clearly upset* Venture: NO! I can still fight and- Solider 76: *just removes his visor as angry tears rolled down his face*Why won't you just let me do this for you, Vincent!? *As he said they Venture, Ana and Cassidy just look at Jack with concerned but mainly Venture staring at him with pity* Solider 76:*feels his face burn up a bit as he looked away as he quickly put his visor back on* I-I got to go...Just remember what I said Solan... Ana:*sighs softly* I'll go talk to him. *Venture and Cassidy watched as Ana goes after Jack only for them to look at Cassidy* Venture: I know a Vincent...Vincent was my mentor... Cassidy:...Can I ask what he looked liked Sloan? Venture:*nods* Yeah um h-he had dark hair but had silver strains in it,sharp features, and was tanned...Why? Cassidy:*sighs* Damn it no wondered he snapped at you... Venture: Is everything okay? Cassidy: Not sure but Jack got very emotional here...Not that first time he blew up like that... Venture: What do you mean? Cassidy: He called me Reyes...

[asgardian--angels]

things I wish I could relive for the first time again:

that magical window where you finish a new piece of media, having watched/read it all by yourself with no fandom contact whatsoever, and you are just so happy about it, and full of interesting theories and takeaways, and just in love with it as a gorgeous piece of art.

because I swear to god as soon as you join the fandom for anything, you're bombarded with how you're supposed to view characters and their arcs, how you're supposed to morally and ethically judge the plot and the ways it apparently failed to present the right message, and if you don't you'll either be shunned for not sharing the popular headcanons or you'll be harassed for not criticizing the source material enough.

like how is it that the fans of a piece of media are also the ones being the most negative about it? If I like a show or a movie or a book, well, I liked it. That's kind of the point. I'm actually not here to tear it apart and talk about how it didn't live up to standards other people had! I enjoyed it for what it was, and forcing myself to find negative things to say about it doesn't actually bring me more enjoyment of it or reap any benefit to me. Fandom's a double-edged sword; you want to join a community to share your love for a piece of art, and the price you pay for a modicum of joy is a mountain of negativity. that's one main reason that I never engage with fandom until I'm completely done with a show, because if I was plugged into all of that commentary and discourse during the process, I'd be completely colored by how I'm expected to interpret everything this piece of art is presenting to me without being able to even form my own opinions.

[starlitcen]

⋆ pink pearl / volleyball icons | genderfae ; 500×500 ; square ; for anon

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[deepseasmetro]

I see Steven as more transmasc but im super interested in how you see him as transfem bc I don’t think ive seen that take before surprisingly.. if you don’t care to explain that’s totally fine im just curious

So like. okay. Obviously Stevens entire arc, and really the entire overarching themes of Steven Universe are fundamentally a trans allegory. This isn't really up for debate, right. Steven is fighting to be seen as who he is and not who everybody in his life sees him as. And yes, the person everyone sees him as is femininely coded, uses she/her, etc. But the thing is is that this is an allegory.

I mean first of all in most importantly like. he is explicitly assigned male at birth. we see him as a baby and he is referred to as a baby boy, he/him etc. He is just not assigned female at birth. In fact he is a very very explicitly NOT assigned female! "three gems and a baby" centers on this - the gems are struggling to conceptualize Steven as Steven and this includes his birth sex.

So like. Steven literally textually cannot be transmasculine.

Like. I get where people are coming at with this. When Steven is being literally misgendered, he's being misgendered with she/her. He's being called Rose. There's that Blue Diamond line "she prefers to be called Steven". The authority figures in his life telling him he's not himself are insisting that he's Rose.

So like yes, on a surface level, these experiences relate more strongly to a transmasculine experience just because of the pronouns being used.

But Steven is assigned male at birth!!!!

Steven is boundlessly feminine. He "crossdresses" with excitement. "But if it were me, I'd really wanna be, a giant woman". Fusing with Connie is a source of immense joy and love and self expression for him - Stevonnie is integral to his growth as a person and as a character. I think it's weird, honestly, to see him as transmasc when he clearly finds melding entirely with a girl to be so good and joyful.

Future really is what does it in for me though. Steven isn't being constricted by this externally imposed identity of Rose anymore. He's being constricted by his own identity of "Steven Universe". He Is Steven Universe. The Boy Who Saved The Galaxy. And he HAS to be that person, that boy, to be deserving of love. And part of this is ALSO taking on the emotional labor of fixing everyone else's problems and being endlessly useful and emotionally available to his own detriment (something plenty of transfems would tell you they've experienced)!

So like. Put all of that together, right;

Steven IS trans-coded - his character arc is fundamentally a trans allegory

Steven is explicitly and textually assigned male at birth

Steven repeatedly shows interest, joy, and fulfillment in presenting feminine, exploring a transfeminized nonbinary gender expression, and deliberately modeling himself after the women and girls in his life

Steven feels boxed in by not just Rose's identity (an externally imposed VERY specific idea of femininity) but his OWN "accepted" identity as Steven Universe™️

And I mean - he had to fight like HELL to break free of Rose's identity. Wouldn't it make sense for that to also force somebody deeper into a closet? I think Bridget from GG is a really good example of something similar to this. She was forcefully imposed with a feminine gender identity under circumstances that suffocated her instead of it being something she came to of her own autonomy. I think Steven's arc is sooo similar and I think a hypothetical SU continuation would make the most sense with a transfeminine Steven.

and BTW shoutout to @plaidos for being my transfeminine Steven sister in arms

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real-time fandub out of context

sources beyond the cut

Sources in order of appearance:

Gravity Falls, "Bottomless Pit!" (2017)

Gravity Falls, "Dreamscaperers" (2023)

Sonic X, "The Last Resort" (2018) (patreon only)

"The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya" (2016) (clip, the rest is on Patreon)

"Legend" (2022)

Gravity Falls, "Bottomless Pit!" (2017)

The Owl House, "A Lying Witch and a Warden" (2021)

SpongeBob SquarePants, "Band Geeks" (2016)

The Powerpuff Girls (2016), "Secret Swapper of Doom" (2018)

The Owl House, "Separate Tides" (2022)

Delicious in Dungeon, "Roast Basilisk/Omelette/Kakiage" (2025)

Blue's Clues, "Blue's Story Time" (2016)

"An Extremely Goofy Movie" (2017)

Delicious in Dungeon, "Stewed Cabbage/Orc" (2025)

Breaking Bad, "Better Call Saul" (2017) (patreon only)

Every Gravity Falls Real-Time Fandub (2016-2018) (posted 2024)

"Back to the Future" (2016)

"Spider-Man" (2017)

"My Little Pony: Equestria Girls" (2018)

"Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Dinghy" (2022)

LazyTown intro (2016/17)

DuckTales (2017), "The Beagle Birthday Massacre!" (2017)

Steven Universe, "Alone Together" (2016)

"Animal Soccer World" (2018)

"Super Mario Bros." (2018)

Gravity Falls, "Northwest Mansion Mystery" (2018)

"The Incredibles" (2018)

Bubsy the Bobcat, "What Could Possibly Go Wrong?" (2018)

Astro Boy, "The Time Machine" (2018)

Gravity Falls, "The Golf War" (2025)

The Nutshack, "4/20" (2017)

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?, "Nowhere to Hyde" (2018)

"Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Dark Chocolate" (2021)

[picturejasper20]

Steven Universe (good) video analyses recommendation:

Because youtube can be filled with a lot of bad clickbait ragebait videos, most specially when it comes to SU, here are some actual videos that take the time to analyse the show's themes and others aspects from it while citing proper sources and information behind the scenes

James Woodall SU analysis trilogy: The most important scene in Steven Universe (overall analysis of Steven's character, White Diamond and Change your mind):

A deep analysis about how much ¨filler¨ Steven Universe actually has:

A deep analysis of Steven Universe Future and why it is important as epilogue series for SU's narrative:

Jord (channel's name)

This guy has some good decent videos analysis of the show, others are general rankings and tiers about the series

This video is an overall pretty decent analysis of Rose Quartz and her actions as character:

This one is an overall summary/analysis of A Single Pale Rose:

Curmudgeon media An in depth analysis about Steven Universe animation and art design:

Angel Manson

An analysis about the trans and queer allegories in Steven Universe (this one is really good):

The Roundtable

Honestly i'm not that big fan of this guy but some of the recent analysis he made about about SU are pretty solid, so it is worth of adding them.

An overall depth analysis of Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond's character arc:

An overall analysis of Peridot's character arc:

Overall analysis of White Diamond character and what she is intended to represent:

Feel free to add some other video analyses i might have missed

[thegreathomestuckreread]

we have confirmation of a new steven universe spin-off, lars of the stars!

Executive produced by Sugar alongside her partner and “OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes” creator Ian Jones-Quartey, “Steven Universe: Lars of the Stars” will follow up on the original show, tracking fan-favorite character Lars Barriga, described as an “eternal teenager and space outlaw.” According to the official description, the sequel series will chart Lars and his pirate crew as they “smuggle contraband, evade the authorities, and uncover the darkest secrets of the fallen Gem Empire.” [source]

and we can already get an idea of what might be coming our way from the art book end of an era, which contains quotes from rebecca and steven universe: future writers on some plotlines they had planned for future but were cut due to time constraints

Jack [Pendarvis, writer]: We went a pretty long way toward developing a really interesting story about Rhodonite. It was too good, if that makes sense. Too rich! I mean, the deeper we dug into it, the more there was to the story. It started to seem like a two-parter, I think, and we didn’t have that much time to spare, considering everything we were putting poor Steven through. Also, it would have been nice to have Steven visit Lars in space. […] The “extra” Lars episode would have also been nice because we were planning to include some clues about Diamond prehistory and/or Gem religion, I suppose you could call it. Very, very early on, there was the idea of the final four episodes consisting of a cosmic journey into the origins of the Diamonds and Gem culture. There was a remnant of that in the Lars idea, and then that episode fell by the wayside and a lot of these secret ideas went away with it. […] Taneka [Stotts, writer]: Rebecca drew some amazing sketches for the Rhodonite episode we wrote. They included a character I personally wanted to write more about, which was Morganite. It was great to be able to break that story even if it wasn’t added to the final twenty. I believe the interest in the past and in Diamond lore is something everyone wanted to see incorporated, because it would help us come full circle into the future! Kate [Tsang, writer]: We also bounced around an idea early on about Steven going into space for a multi-episode arc where he learns about the birthplace of the Diamonds. […] Rebecca [Sugar]: With Future, we were originally planning on delving into Gem origins. We always nod to it: Gems are obviously technology, and they have their own extensive mythology. (Way back during Peridot's arc, I kept trying to find a spot for her to “Linus,” like in A Charlie Brown Christmas—to recite a long, religious Gem monologue.) But we were having trouble finding the emotional pulse to complement that exposition.

from end of an era, pgs. 226+229 [source]

i am so excited to see what they have in store!!

[clean-casual-analysis]

When the villain is a philosophy

When you think of the word antagonist, the first thing that comes to mind is a villain. This is completely natural, given that stories of good vs evil tend to follow a heroic protagonist fighting against an evil antagonist. But once you get into the definition of the word, a person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something, moral alignment doesn’t dictate whether a character should be a protagonist or an antagonist. The most recognizable examples of this would be the likes of Invader Zim and Megamind, characters that are villainous in nature but are still the protagonists of their respective stories.

But villain protagonists and hero antagonists aren’t what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about the antagonists that aren’t entirely focused on, at least in the traditional sense. Antagonists that, despite being the source of conflict in the narrative, don’t actually show up a lot of the time. These antagonists, while characters in their own right, are more symbolic in nature. The protagonists of these stories aren’t just trying to defeat the antagonists, but the rotten philosophies that these antagonists have. The beliefs that push the antagonists to do their villainous acts.

White Diamond: Uniformity and the Status Quo

In the entirety of the original Steven Universe series, not counting the movie or SU Future, White Diamond appears in three episodes out of one hundred and sixty episodes. (Two if we don’t count White Pearl/Volleyball) That’s not even one percent of the series. In most series involving a good vs evil plot line, we usually switch perspectives between our heroes and villains to understand how they’re reacting to the events of the story. But SU is entirely told from Steven’s perspective. The audience only gets new information about gems, homeworld, Rose Quartz, etcetera, when Steven himself learns it. Because of this perspective, we don’t see the final antagonist of the series until the very end of the show.

But even though White Diamond is not present throughout the majority of the show, her homeworld subordinates and beliefs fill in the place of the hurdles that the protagonists must pass. Think about what the show is about and what lessons it teaches. Relationships are intricate and need mutual respect, being proud of who and what you are, and (most importantly) societal roles do not define you. The development of the main characters each involve acceptance of the self and bucking of what’s expected of them. Pearl fully moving on from Rose, Garnet improving her self-love, Amethyst fully accepting herself for what she is, Peridot’s disillusionment with Homeworld and growing appreciation for earth, Connie disobeying her mother’s strict rules, Steven slowly becoming someone better than even his own mother, I could go on. It’s honestly surprising, looking back, how most of the characters’ core issues stem from the lack of self-assurance and how homeworld views their flaws.

White Diamond and her Homeworld regime ultimately represent how systems put limits and stigma onto people for the sake of uniformity. The consequence of living inside your own head. A fusion cannot happen between two different gems, Pearls must be servants, Quartz gems must be big and strong, and Diamonds must be the perfect leaders. Why? Because that’s just what gems do. Because that’s how the system works. Homeworld’s status quo is one of creating an ever-expanding empire at the cost of independence, self-expression, unique lifeforms, and healthy relationships. The system can’t be wrong, White Diamond can’t be flawed, it’s how things have always been so why change what isn’t broken.

Sauron: Dominance and Corruption

While he has more screen presence and is a much more a significant part of the story of Lord of the Rings than White Diamond is to SU, the dark lord Sauron is similarly one small part of a larger tale. Heck, he doesn’t even have dialogue in the book trilogy. Also, like White Diamond, Sauron is best represented by his many underlings. Ruthless orcs with crude but effective weaponry, colossal beasts to crush his enemies underfoot, massive armies dedicated to the dark lord’s cause of dominating all life in Midde Earth. But what’s most notable about Sauron isn’t the great power he possesses or the armies he commands, it’s the way he corrupts and deceives those that stand against him.

The betrayal of Saruman the White, the nine Nazgûl once being great kings of men who were turned into terrible ringwraiths, and most notoriously, the enticing power of the one ring. Boromir, believing that Gondor can use this evil weapon for good. Smeagol, utterly degraded into a deceitful cave dwelling throttler named Gollum. Frodo, forced to carry a heavy burden that weighs him down both physically and mentally. To Sauron, the corruption of good is a weapon he wields with unmatched lethality.

The insidious nature of his villainy is what makes Sauron the great representative of dominance and corruption that he is. The promises of more enticing good people to do evil for the “right” reasons and the ruthless conquest for dominion over all is all too real an evil to ignore.

The Martians: Colonialism and Warfare

I debated with myself on whether or not the martians from War of the Worlds should be included here. Unlike Sauron or White Diamond, the martians are clear and present throughout the story. On the other hand, there isn’t a named martian general or a big bad that’s shown to lead the alien invaders into combat. In the end, the fact that the martians are made to purely represent the darkest parts of humanity outweighs the secondary theme of this essay.

One of, if not THE first alien invasion story, War of the Worlds messaging is clear and easy to understand. The tentacled beings from Mars are coldly intelligent, remorseless, and regard our world with envious eyes. They use human blood as sustenance when they aren’t vaporizing us by the hundreds, their tripods are horrific machines of mass destruction, and their invasion is one of slaughter and destruction. But the book is quick to remind us that humanity isn’t so morally innocent compared to the martians. The consumption of our blood seems horrific, but humans have also killed animals and each other for food and resources. Their tripods are colossal and terrifying, but humanity has made countless destructive war machines. The invaders are dead set on wiping out humanity, but humanity not only brought extinction to animals like the dodo bird but to entire groups of our own kind. The martians are not simply an alien invasion to fight back against, it’s a cautious look into our worst future. A humanity that prioritizes ruthless colonization and military might is a humanity doomed to be parasitic and heartless.

War of the Worlds also takes a critical view towards solving problems through warfare. Violence is sometimes needed to fight evil, but that does make violence a good thing. The action and battles in War of the Worlds are not thrilling or glorious, they are horrific and even bumbling to an extent. Much like the early British imperials that they represent, the martians are arrogant and only win because they have the better technology. Even the destruction of a tripod has severe consequences, a flaming wreckage falling into a lake and boiling the humans hiding there alive. There is nothing pride or goodness to found in destruction and death. Warfare and violence should be the last resort of those trying to survive, yet humanity and martians brandish their weapons without care or empathy for those beneath them.

The Truth, In-Fighting, and the Seemingly Insignificant

These antagonists all represent a morally dangerous part of humanity. The stubborn refusal to change a flawed status quo, the desire to dominate and corrupt those who don’t, needless conquest and bloody war. But despite all their power and influence, these philosophies that the villains believe in fail them in the end.

For White Diamond, her ultimate failure stems from the mortal enemy of all tyrannical systems: the truth. In the last episode of Steven Universe, White Diamond removes the gemstone from our protagonist’s body. Believing that the mischievous Pink Diamond is merely hiding in this human body, White seeks to end this silly game once and for all. But once the gemstone is removed, it does form into Pink Diamond or even Rose Quartz. It forms a bright pink Steven. In the final act of Change Your Mind, White Diamond is faced with reality and all its implications. This gemstone is Steven, it’s always been Steven. This half human is not the irrational or childish person, it’s White. The leader of Homeworld, the one who’s supposed to know all and make things better, is wrong. But in order to do that, she needs to leave her own head. One of the hardest things for a person to do is admit when they’re wrong, that their foundational beliefs holding up a status quo is deeply flawed and objectively false. But accepting that you were wrong, learning from and fixing your mistakes, and becoming something better than what you were before is the greatest reward anyone genuinely looking for redemption can ask for.

For Sauron, his victory over Middle Earth comes so close. Minas Tirith has been ravaged, the army of man outside the black gates are crumbling before his might, and the ring bearer has been corrupted. However, just when all hope is burned to ash, something unexpected happens. Gollum, the epitome of the corruptive power that the one ring possesses, attacks Frodo to get back his precious. Whether it’s through struggling with Frodo like in the movie or not paying attention like in the book, Gollum falls into the fires of Mount Doom with the ring in tow. In the movies, we’re told that the eye of Sauron can pierce through cloud and stone. Because of this detail, I personally wonder what was going through the dark lord’s mind as he watched Gollum plummet to his death. The one ring’s defense, Sauron’s greatest strength, corrupting others into fighting amongst each other, was what led to his ultimate downfall. This is not the first time something like this has happened. Think back to the orcs fighting amongst themselves, or when Wormtongue stabs Saruman in the back. Not to mention that the mercy of both Frodo and Bilbo is what led to Gollum reaching Mount Doom in the first place. Even with all his armies and power, Sauron underestimated the petty infighting amongst his followers and the little acts of kindness of his enemies. Even when the forces of darkness seemingly succeed, all they’ll have left is each other to destroy. As Frodo himself said in the Two Towers book, they can’t conquer forever.

For the martians, their demise comes outwardly from nowhere. Their Tripods fall silent and they all die due to sickness. The book states that the martians either never encountered bacteria like earth’s or they had wiped out all disease on Mars. In both scenarios, the martian’s belief in their untouchable superiority over earth led their death. As soon as their invasion started, they were doomed. War of the Worlds isn’t just a hard look at what humanity could become, but also a love letter to all types of life. Bacteria, the seemingly most insignificant part of our world, is our savior here. It is so, so easy to despise germs and how they make mankind ill. But they also decompose dead flesh, helps the human body digest food, and are just as vital to our world as so many other creatures’ humanity takes for granted. All forms of life has a place in this world and to undervalue, let alone actively want to eliminate, all of it is foolhardy and black-hearted.

It’s how these stories come to an end is why I’m attracted to the idea of villains representing abhorrent philosophies. They show the inherent flaws of such morally bankrupt ideas and how their failures are inevitable. The desire for uniformity and belief that your status quo is flawless cannot stand up to the truth of the situation. Great and powerful conquerors seeking to corrupt will find themselves destroying each other when there is nothing left to dominate, while small acts of generosity and sympathy keep their opponents afloat. Arrogant war lords with their mighty machines will crumble to the things they deem to be insignificant.

[mariacallous]

The recent weeks have obliged me to unearth some research I had hoped could stay on the backburner. In 2023, I wrote about the major forms of democratic erosion facing the United States: election subversion and executive aggrandizement. “Even a legitimately elected leader can undermine democracy,” I noted, “if they eliminate governmental ‘checks and balances’ or consolidate power in unaccountable institutions.” In 2022, I suggested that, if weaknesses in the formal institutions of American politics made it difficult to forestall additional assaults on the Constitution, the final backstop of democracy is civil society.

Historically, the United States has been fortunate to have a strong civil society. Many of these institutions have weakened. In this article, I quickly review how some sectors—the media, the academy, business, and mass voluntary organizations—are responding to “the most serious examples of executive branch malfeasance in American history.”

American civil society has essential nodes of power that must be energized in the coming days and for the foreseeable future. Not merely the individuals in these institutions, but the institutions themselves must coordinate to provide a public counterweight to the sharp lurch toward personalist rule. That work is not easy. Any more time lost to disbelief, silence, and acquiescence will make it much harder.

Some major media institutions have been slow off the mark. Major scoops have come from unexpected outlets, including independent journalists and the technology magazine WIRED, which was the first to reveal that Elon Musk’s young staff had the power to alter the $6 trillion Treasury payment system, a fact that Treasury officials had denied. (A federal judge has since blocked access. An earlier ruling had limited access to read-only, a problematic ruling given Musk’s conflicts of interest and the security threats posed by his unvetted and secretive young staff. It is unclear if either order is being followed.)

DC’s hometown paper, the Washington Post, should by rights have the best sources in the federal government, but the interference of the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, in the planned endorsement of Kamala Harris, and his prominent place at the Trump inauguration, may well be keeping whistleblowers away. The paper nonetheless has provided some important reporting, including this round-up of Elon Musk’s interference in government operations. The New York Times has buried several excellent, insightful analyses and essays deep in the paper, and adopted tortured euphemisms and vague, small-print headlines that leave their readers uninformed of the gravity of the news.

Academic institutions are largely silent, but that may be changing. Academics have for years been sounding the alarm about America’s democratic erosion, and many continue to provide vital analysis and context. See, for example, these analyses from Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, Kim Lane Scheppele, and Don Moynihan. But academia has been outspoken as individuals. Institutions have mostly remained silent—though they may be shaken loose from their apathy by the executive orders interfering with billions in congressionally appropriated funds for scientific research.

Coordinated public pronouncements from university leadership, especially from law and medical schools, would assist citizens in understanding the scope of the dangers confronting the country. Top hospital administrators and medical associations that have been quiescent in recent weeks need to make clear the immense public health costs of ill-considered, arbitrary, and unlawful interference with government-funded science. In addition, professional associations have the power to sanction their members, a power they should exercise in defense of the public sphere, as my colleague Quinta Jurecic has argued.

Business concerns are not yet being channeled into political action. Autocratic populist leaders damage the economy; their countries see their GDPs drop due to erratic policymaking, cronyism, and underinvestment in public goods. But, as I wrote last year, business leaders have a tragic history of misjudging these dangers. American business influence, moreover, has grown increasingly ideologically conservative and focused on narrow benefits like tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks.

Since the election, business leaders have truckled to the new administration—a trend many, including President Trump, have suggested is driven by fear of official reprisals. That fear is, of course, one of the common ways in which opposition to populist authoritarian leaders is eliminated.

It may be, however, that business will awake to the massive economic dangers posed by executive overreach. Opaque and unpredictable stoppages of congressionally mandated spending by federal agencies will ramify throughout the economy. An unvetted young individual meddling with the code that underwrites the Treasury payment system is, as one Treasury contractor wrote, an “unprecedented insider threat risk.” (That contractor has since been “removed” by their employer, Booz Allen, a consulting firm heavily reliant on government contracts.)

Mass mobilization is underway, but those efforts will struggle if elites continue to underplay the magnitude of the moment. Congressional offices have been flooded with phone calls. As the volume went from the usual dozens to more than 1,500 calls per minute, the phone system buckled under the strain. Advocacy organizations appear to have been caught flat-footed by the speed of Musk’s incursions. Small protests have occurred at government agencies and congressional offices, with union organizations often playing a key role.

Religious organizations have not yet been prominent in most public protests, but they have an essential role to play. As my colleague Jonathan Rauch has written in a new book, churches must combat the rise of what has been termed Christian nationalism.

More broadly, public opposition to the second Trump administration remains far smaller than it was the last time around, even though recent actions represent a far more aggressive assault on American governance. This is perhaps in part because Trump’s loss of the popular vote in 2016 provided an impetus for organizing before the administration even began. Whether the organizing gap will close is a critical question in the weeks and months to come.

Across all of sectors of civil society, coordination is key. Individual objections do not carry the weight of joint action. It is worth noting that censorship in authoritarian China does not focus on “negative, even vitriolic, criticism of the state,” it silences “comments that represent, reinforce, or spur social mobilization.” Resistance to authoritarianism, like democracy itself, is a collective endeavor.

[cuppajj]

I hope this isn't a source spot, But I heard you mentioned that you're a former Steven universe fan. Is there any particular reason why you're a former fan? Sorry if this is too personal.

Nothing bad happened where I stopped being a SU fan, I just naturally fell out of it. I’d say I stopped after the final season, just didn’t feel the same as I used to, and being dissatisfied with how things ended kinda helped me drift from it. I saw the movie and future but they didn’t hit as hard as seasons 2 and 3 did yknow? Nothing is gonna beat Peridot’s arc imo

I still like Steven Universe but I wouldn’t call myself a fan anymore, just an enjoyer. I will forever love s2 and 3 but after that it kinda goes downhill for me. But it’s ok, I’m grateful for the show existing, and it’s influenced a lot of my art :)

[thequeenofthedisneyverse]

How about a Transformers one x Steven universe au?

Sentinel is obviously in white diamond's position (I'm all for ideas for who should be yellow and blue diamond. Please keep in mind I'm new to the transformers fandom)

Miners are kind of like amethysts

I was thinking of D-16 and Orion Pax in pink diamond's place? With B kind of like pearl?

Megatron could be like rose quartz I suppose with how Rose "shattered" pink diamond. But make pink diamond...well...Orion/Optimus prime. And we all know what happened if you watched the movie.

Another idea of mine was that humans were could also be like pearls due to like...earth domination?? A million more years into the future humans are treated well but still low ranking in regard to cybertronians.

Like pearls, humans are more so used as assistants and some-what sources of entertainment.

I'm not too sure on that idea though

Idk, lmk what you think with a comment or something

[jinxfriend]

Introduction to my blog!

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I go by mainly Jinx (I am sadly not an arcane fan) i'm thinking about going by Jamie too in the future,

Nonbinary, Aroace/Demiromantic, Mayhaps Polyamorous

Infp/Enfp

I MIGHT be neurodivergent

Reality shifter, I believe in Spirits/Ghosts and manifestation and have my own experiences with them,

i apologize to my non-shifter moots im definitely going to be reblogging stuff about it or make my own posts on it 😭

I am 16 so i apologize if i ever did interact with any nfsw blogs or blogs with 'Minors Dni' in them, feel free to unfollow me 🙏 /nm

My birthday is january 12!!

I’ve moved to tumblr from TikTok because of the ban (˶°ㅁ°) i’m still getting used to the features, culture, and etiquette so please be patient and educate me if i do anything annoying/wrong! ALSO my tiktok is oldcatsnbeetles, any moots from tiktok PLEASE MOOT ME HERE 🙏

I would love to make more moots on tumblr also! don’t be afraid to give me song or fic recs, ask questions about my interests or beliefs and just interact with general! i might not be able to explain reality shifting or manifestation well but i can definitely give you some good sources/blogs!

this will get updated regularly as the time pasts and my interests change ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧

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Fandom List, i’ll probably add more as time goes on: Undertale, Deltarune, GRAVITYFALLS, Marvel (i know basically nothing about it but i love the fanfics) X-men (same thing as marvel) The owl house, Bob’s burgers, over the garden wall, steven universe, adventure time, smiling friends!! Big Top Burger, Good omens, the good place, the amazing digital circus, five nights at freddys and batman/dc stuff (same thing as marvel and x-men) the spiderverse movies, ouran highschool hostclub, dungeon meshi/delicious in dungeon, MY HERO ACADEMIA, assassination classroom, the disastrous life of saiki k, mob psycho, Dandadan i am aware of hazbin’s hotel’s existence

if its pink i adore it and its my entire personality, if its blue i know about it and probably watched it, if its green i only know fandom stuff/things in fics

Favorite characters:

My hero Academia: Shinso, Deku, Nezu,

Marvel/X-men idk: Spiderman (Specifically Tom Holland’s spiderman and Andrew Garfield’s Spiderman), Loki, Dr Strange, Deadpool, Wolverine

Gravityfalls: Waddles, Mabel and Dipper, that one guy that says ‘get em!! get em!!’ Bill Cipher, The Axolotal

Other: The Cheshire Cat, Garfield

Kins: Mabel and dipper, Vee from the owl house, Tina from bob’s burger, Papyrus and sans, Mob from mob psycho, Kinger from TADC, Spinel from Steven universe, Izuku midoriya, bmo from adventure time, UHH A BUNCH OF OTHERS

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Music Tastes, oh gosh this is going to be hard: Stereolab, Adrianne Lenker, Kimya dawson, I.C.P, Lemon demon, Strawberry Switchblade, Rob Zombie, Will Wood

Honorable Mentions: Toby Fox, S3RL, Alex G, Gorillaz, Ayesha Erotica, Boa, Liana Flores, Lady Gaga, Fiona Apple, Scary Bitches

Genres: Old 80s Rock, 2000s, Scene, Goth vampires music, Old 3ds game music (specifically animal crossing new leaf) theres probably alot more i can’t think of atm

Current Favorite Song: Dead Girl Superstar by rob zombie

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Games: Obscure 3ds and xbox games, animal crossing new leaf AND I GUESS new horizons, Tomodachi life #TomodachiLifeForSwitch, Miitopia, Pikmin, Wobble Dogs, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Slime Rancher, Ooblets, Bugsnax, Spiritfarer, Terraria, Cult of the lamb, Cattails, Omori, Viva Piñata

If its Pink i’ve been playing it for all my life or i just really adore that game, If its blue i’ve played it briefly/And or completed it, if its green ive played it once or only know fandom stuff about it

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Other interests

Bugs, Aliens, Expensive Etsy Keychains/Stickers, Art, Louis Wein Cats, Fashion, Cats in general, Colorful stuff, Rainbows, Sparkles

Aesthetics/Fashion: Scene, Kidcore/Clowncore, Twee

Reality Shifting Stuff:

My drs currently are: Mha dr thats also mixed with marvel, dc, x-men and a bunch of other stuff, and an alternate version of that dr where im a vigilante :D,

My drs also have soulmate elements and a bunch of other stuff

I definitely will make an introduction post for each dr!

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DNI:

Basic Dni, Proshippers of any kind, Race Changers, Anti-Shifters, Mabel, Bakugo, and Ochako haters, people who don’t support Palestine, Terfs, Homophobic and transphobic people, AI ART DEFENDERS/USERS

INTERACT:

Reality Shifters, People who like my interests / Music tastes, Non-Shifters who don’t care and are respectful, Gay people,

MOOT ME UP RN:

Mha Shifters, Gravityfall shifters, Furrys, Therians, Kemonomimi people, People who believe in manifestation, Witchs, Pagens, Spiritual People, People who practice Hellenism, Neurodivergent people, Artists, Boring People, Weird/Nerdy/Cringe People, People who want to be teachers in the future/want to work with children/teens, cat lovers, FANFIC READERS🔥🔥

This is a safe space for systems!!

i don’t know much about DID besides the basics, but i do have some friends/moots who have it!

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Tags:

Shifting Related:

#Vigilante Mha/Marvel dr

anything that i post/reblog about my vigilante dr, my dr also includes dc, xmen, danny phantom etc

#Hero Mha/Marvel dr

same world as my vigilante dr but im a hero and have a different path in life! this was actually the original version and my vigilante dr was an alternate universe of this dr, but i became more focused on my vigilante dr so ill probably talk about that one more!

#Gravityfalls Dr

anything i post about my gravityfalls dr! this dr also includes, danny phantom, the owl house, inside job, UHH star vs the forces of evil, and more! im still figuring things out for this dr so i probably won’t post about it until im certain in my pondering

#shifting/spirituality ˖ ݁𖥔 ݁˖

shifting reposts, motivation, memes etc, tarot, witchcraft, manifestation and more

#mine or other people’s mha drs

#this reminds me of my dr

Other/Misc:

#i heart gravityfall / mha / marvel / xmen / dc

any reblog of that media, i might forget to tag my reblogs sometimes woopsies

#helpful advice ᯓ★ / Tumblr Help

just anything i think would be helpful, there some shifting advice in here too

#HI MOOT/MOOTIE ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ )

i usually tag this on my friends/close moots posts when i reblog them! i might sometimes forget to or forget ur my moot so apologies in advance 😭

#pretty pictures (ᵒ̤̑ ₀̑ ᵒ̤̑)

aesthetic stuff, comics, art, etc also idk why the kaomoji is messed up on the computer 💔

#i agree

this is usually on posts that make an argument, is a ‘hot topic’ or opinion i agree with

#so me coded

#random polls

#this is so cool?!

theres probably more i used but these are the main ones!

Links:

some will be added in the future!

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What are your favorite pieces of media?

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growing up, probably The Pendragon Chronicles- from what I recall it's a series of books about a kid who has to correct cataclysmic events on a bunch of separate worlds caused by a being who intends to end life on all of them.

One world is Modern Earth, where he's the only one able to use the portal to travel to other worlds, one is 1920's Past Earth, one is Future Earth in a sort of cyberpunk setting, one is a desert planet in the midst of war, one is a jungle world in which the dominant species is a race of bipedal cats, one is a water world where all food is farmed on a series of island-sized boats.. and I think that's all of them, unless I'm forgetting?

And on each world there's one guardian, and they meet up and fight and shit, and they can't blow their cover on any world, and each world has a large, distinct world-ending event brewing- The water one may lose their source of food, for example, and in future-earth people are wasting away in a virtual reality game they become addicted to.

It's one of the rare long series of teen books that I feel had a pretty satisfying ending despite the huge buildup, and I'd really recommend it to anyone interested.

I also really like X-Men, and Trigun, and while I haven't seen the new Percy Jackson series it was UNCONTESTED my number one favourite- I still have it on my shelf, absolute A+.

Aaaaand.... I enjoy the Batman Fandom more than most of the comics themselves but I'm in there, too. Was a homestuck cosplayer back in the day, as well. Loved Gravity Falls, loved Steven Universe.

Six Underground ins my favourite "sick at home" comfort movie. Also the only two John Wick movies in existence, shame they never made more sequels. Lord of the Rings. The Princess Diaries. Stardust. Ella Enchanted.

Oh, and the Inkheart books were FABULOUS. Really, they read like nothing else, just such a fantastic and unique flavour in fantasy!

Uhhhhh. Hellboy, too. Hell's Paradise. Bleach. Darker Than Black I vaguely remember enjoying, but I have the DISTINCT MEMORY of despising season two, so fuck that shit, whatever it was.

And I remember... oh, maybe twelve years ago, now? Really liking the spy series Nikita, and the urban fantasy Lost Girl, though I don't think I finished either.

Oh, and Elementary is a must-watch!

Poirot, too, and Perry Mason, and Midsommer Murders.

Also Blown Away, glassmaking reality series, and Forged In Fire, a bladesmith reality series.

Kitchen Nightmares, Hotel Hell, Hell's Kitchen, all good.

Puppet History. Watcher. Game Changer.

And webcomics Dead End and Check Please.

................I may need to spend more time on this