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a quick rundown of ship no-no’s

tarajenkins:

abusiveshipping:

tarajenkins:

abusiveshipping:

i’m pretty sure this has been done before but here we are

pedophilia : child/adult. often in nsfw works. younger character usually “aged up” to justify. illegal & imoral.

popular ships: billdip, mabill, rickmorty,

erasure : shipping canonically homoromantic/aromantic/etc. characters with people not falling under their romantic attraction. takes away already small amount of representation queer people get in media.

popular ships : pewey, gregpearl.

abuse: relationships with unhealthy dynamic, and treatment of romantic partner that is damaging for either.

popular ships: japis, billdip, mabill

“abusiveshipping”, what a nice, unbiased username. I can tell you are honestly trying to be helpful and lead us poor, misguided shippers in the Pewey tag to salvation.

Maybe you haven’t watched Steven Universe, but the character Pearl’s sexuality has never been stated in the canon material. We only know that she loved Rose Quartz. You know who else could love Rose Quartz?

A hell of a lot more sexualities than just lesbian.

If you want to talk erasure, let’s talk about the spammers in the Pewey tag erasing real life people over headcanons. Let’s talk about the fact real people, who are also part of the LGBTA+ community, get told on a daily basis that our very existence is lesbophobic.

Let’s talk about anons telling lesbian Pewey shippers they are lying about their sexuality, or have “issues”, or dismissing them because they disagree.

Let’s talk about this gem raving to me, a pansexual, how I have no place in the LGBTA+ community, because I headcanon Pearl like myself. (You do know Pride was founded by a bisexual, right?)

Let’s talk about my best friend, who is ace, being told her platonic headcanons make her “bland”.

I wonder if you want to. No other hate tagger ever has. They are too concerned with fiction and dismissing us as straight bigots.

Ironically, you want to know the only erasure that did happen canonly in Steven Universe?

“You’re just a phase. You know that, right?”

That’s right. Pearl, erasing Rose Quartz’s attraction to Greg.

Ain’t it funny how the world works.

hey all these points are valid and all just,,,, not very relevant to this. like yeah, people shouldn’t be rude and erase your identities, but ? that has nothing to do with this. in canon so far, pearl has strictly shown attraction to females. she rejects mayor dewey’s advances and is frankly grossed out by them? i don’t understand why you would think the dynamic would be healthy either, or how either of them could be happy.

“Not very relevant to this”? I guessed right, all you give a damn about is your interpretation of a fictional character, not how the antis are abusing the real people in the tag, and not interested in the fact Pearl’s unconfirmed sexuality allows us other queer headcanons. So let’s go to what you do call relevant, since you obviously haven’t watched the show:

Pearl has never “rejected his advances”. You know why? Because he’s never canonly made any. Not in all two of the direct interactions they’ve had with each other. Mayor Dewey is like any other character in this show, with good points and bad, at least try to accuse the character of things he actually did.

Interaction #1: Political Power

“The hot one”? That was said to Steven. Pearl was not even at the door. He quickly composed himself the moment she arrived. If you’re another one of those tired-ass taggers who object to that, I hope you’ve never, ever, and I mean EVER, tried to make contact with someone you found attractive, nor ever had lingering thoughts on why they look good to you, nor ever gotten flustered in their presence because you like them, because glass houses and stones, and the rancid hypocrisy this particular group of anti tag spammers are known for.

Pearl was confused and annoyed why he was so concerned she wiped out the electric for Beach City, because humans used to hunt and gather, whatever happened to that? Now, look at it closely.

“Oh, don’t be dramatic. I saw humans get on fine without power for millennia. You used to hunt and gather.”

“Whatever happened to that?”

And then Garnet made sure he knew the Gems wouldn’t be helping to clean up the mess they made (again). Garnet brought Meat Beat Mania back to life with an electric zap, the entire situation likely could have been defused by the Gems right there. But they don’t get humans, and so the rest of the episode happened.

You know, the part where Steven faced the furious Beach City mob and said:

“He was just sheltering you from the truth because he (Mayor Dewey) loves you.”

Like he knows the Gems and even his father has done for him.

So one more time, in case you overlooked like before: Mayor Dewey made no advances. She was not grossed out by him. She was annoyed he was so frantic in worrying about the town, which the Crystal Gems left without power–a REASONABLE worry. And the writers emphasized that while his approach was flawed, Mayor Dewey’s love of the town was real.

On to interaction #2, which also has been warped to fit by you hate taggers:  Historical Friction.

He asked to have a seat and immediately sat down, eager to strike up a conversation. How you can call that an “advance”, I have no idea. He made no attempt to “accidentally” touch her, nor did the conversation go into pickup lines. What did happen was:

“Oooooookay.”

She’s confused, and odds are the thought he might be attracted to her never even crossed her mind, because of all the Gems, Pearl is the one who understands them the least. In any case, she shows no annoyance until the conversation gets off to a great start:

“Oh, you know, I wrote this play.”

There we go.

Not because he’s male, or even because he’s human, but because his original script SUCKED, and now he’s taking credit for HERS.

He makes no attempt to pursue her after she leaves, looking like he knows he did something wrong. Yeah, what a masher.

But once Steven tells him she was an inside source for the production

–and he thanks her honestly, without his bumbling attempts to build himself up–

“Oh, what’s 200 years between friends?”

You know, for being so grossed out by him, for being so repulsed by him, she sure had no problem not only staying there to speak cordially to him, but also touch him. And that big bad masher, the Mayor?

Yeah he got so flustered by that he made as quick an exit as he could. And she’s still smiling, relaxed, no sign of this seething ball of hate and revulsion you imply she is.

TL;DR? Your claims on his character fall flat in the face of canon. You might find your arguments will last longer if you go with fact instead of bald-faced lies.

“i don’t understand why you would think the dynamic would be healthy either, or how either of them could be happy.”

No offense, but I’m leery of taking relationship advice from a hate tagger that can’t even fucking tell the truth, because unlike the Mayor, your motives don’t have good intentions. But friendship is a crucial foundation of any long-lasting relationship, and according to Matt Burnett–

–the Mayor and Pearl have enough similarities for a shipper to ship.

And Ben Levin, another of the writers–

–has no problem entertaining a “what-if”.

Mayor Dewey is voiced by Joel Hodgson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame, he even seems to be visually inspired by him, and Rebecca Sugar is a huge fan of his.

So in the tossup of shippers shipping something the Crewniverse clearly has no problem with, or tag haters like you calling him a million disgusting things, and calling the shippers a million disgusting things, which do you think disappoints the creators the most?

I urge you to read this collected post of Amber Rogers’ comments, because she’s referring to the collective of antis, and that includes you.