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How it feels getting the news about the new Steven universe spinoff series

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new steven universe show announced during pride month? fork found in kitchen, come on

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If Lars of the Stars ever does get a spinoff, the theme song HAS to end with Padparadscha popping up at the end yelling "Everyone! We're about to get our own show!"

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Man Lars Barriga is one of the most ‘If I think about him for too long I go insane’ characters of all time

Imagine just you’re a shitty teen who really wants the popular kids to think your cool and thinks being earnest is cringe and dumb (like most shitty teens)

You’re a bit of a loser who thinks that strange emotional kid that lives on the beach with his many colorful aunts is kinda annoying. Well, he’s pretty nice, but still annoying.

You get kidnapped and sent to space with said kid, eventually causing you to just break down in tears cause you’re so fucking scared and if you weren’t such a pessimistic coward you wouldn’t be in this situation

That annoying kid isn’t actually that bad, he was just so genuinely earnest it made you’re feel even worse about yourself

You’re on an alien planet, none of this shit is making sense to you but you guys manage to find a group of outcasts and they seem nice

Everything is going to hell and you have to protect one of them from getting hurt, you refuse to run away and be a coward again

You realize it’s okay to be scared

You die

You come back, scar on your face and completely pink

Your hair is now a portal, that’s new

Are you a zombie? Your heart is still being but very slowly and you don’t feel the need to eat.

You let that kid go home, it’s okay, you and these outcasts you’ve befriended with find a way back to Earth

Does your friend miss you? God how do your parents feel?

Some time later and now you’re a full on space pirate, you are basically an anime character now

You don’t age, or if you do you age very slowly

You get home and stay for a while but you eventually decide staying in space with your new friends is what you want

Are you going to outlive everyone you know? Are you really going to leave behind everyone you love when you know that their time is much shorter than your own?

You’re going to travel the galaxy with your friends and help anyone you can along the way

You hope you made the right choice

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If you told the 2016 SU fandom that a Lars spinoff was happening and EVERYONE was excited, they'd have burned you at the stake

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NEW STEVEN UNIVERSE, HAPPY PRIDE MONTH, NEVER KILL YOURSELF

🥳🥳🥳🥂🎉🎉🥳🥂🥳🥳🥂🎉🎉🥳🥂🎉

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damn I can't wait until the long anticipated Steven Universe Renaissance happens as folks rewatch the show from the beginning in prep for Lars of the Stars and go "oh my god this show was So Good, how come I never realized how good it was growing up, the crit on it was so overblown and wrong" only for the Old Guard fandom (those who never truly left) to stare into the camera like we're on The Office and mumble something about how SU was ALWAYS good, the normies are just stupid and vastly skewed your opinions

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please for the love of g-d look at these official steven universe storyboards i just found

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Anyone else feeling insane today.

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Testing... Testing... Is this thing still on?

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I love Padparadscha

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Steven Universe fan theories for like five years

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i had a lot of fun with this spread! bottom left pose is from @adorkastock

[description: marker drawings of rose quartz in lingerie, with some ballpoint sketches of her on the side]

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Sometimes I think about how and why some people had such a *bad* reaction to the end of Steven Universe, specifically in regards to the Diamonds living.

Even though they no longer are causing harm to others and are able to actually undo some of their previous harm by living, some folks reacted as though this ending was somehow morally suspect. Morally bankrupt, even.

And I think it might be because so many of us were raised on a very specific kind of kids media trope:

They all fall to their deaths.

Disney loves chucking their bad guys off cliffs. And it makes sense- in a moral framework where villains *must* be punished (regardless of whether their death will actually prevent further harm or not), but killing of any kind is morally bad for the hero, the narrative must find a way to kill the villain without the protagonists doing a murder.

It's a moral assumption that a person can *deserve* to die, that it is cosmically just for them to die, that them dying is evidence that the story itself is morally good and correct. Scar *deserves* to die, but it would be bad for Simba to kill him. So....cliff.

Steven Universe, whatever else it's faults, took at step back and said "but if killing people is bad, then people dying is bad", and instead of dropping White Diamond off a cliff, asked "what would actual *restorative*, not punitive, justice look like? What would actual reparations mean here? If the goal is to heal, not just to punish, how do we handle those who have done harm?" And then did that.

Which I think is interesting, and that there was pushback against it is interesting.

It also reminds me of the folks who get very weird about Aang not killing Ozai at the end of Avatar. And like, Ozai still gets chucked in prison, so it doesn't even push back on our cultural ideas of punitive justice *that much.* and still, I've seen people get real mad that the child monk who is the last survivor of a genocide that wiped out his entire pacifist culture didn't do a murder.

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the crystal fairies

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rose being in love with pearl <3