Sunshine's Mod Blog

crunchy-galactus-big-one-9 asked:

ALl of your wonderful Pewey work helps me to ignore the haters. Thank you very much. I love Pewey because of fans like you who make the most beautiful pieces of work for it.

tarajenkins:

I’m glad my work helps! But I know these bullies make it difficult–their abuse finally wore me down in the end, and I needed to move away from SU altogether for a while. But I’m back, and it feels good again!

The thing you have to remember with these bullies is context. When they consistently say disturbing things like this:

Or this:

Or this:

–it’s a LOT easier to realize they don’t really care about erasure. They only care about what they personally don’t like, and they will walk over and talk over anyone else in the community to try to silence them. They consistently call queer shippers straight to misrepresent the argument. They call bisexuality an “excuse for shipping someone with a man”. They refuse to consider Amethyst taking male forms is representation, because it isn’t representation they want to see. (On a personal note, the weird double standard of saying “you’re not a lesbian like me, so you can’t defend yourself when I call yourself a lesbophobe, BUT LET ME TELL YOU HOW THIS SHIT I’M SAYING IS NOT BIPHOBIC AT ALL” is another tipoff that they don’t think these things through.)

They’ve attacked the Crewniverse themselves for ships. Hell, even Rebecca Sugar’s and Ian Jones-Quartey’s relationship wasn’t off-limits–when it was revealed they have been together for many years, the disappointment that she “needed to find a girl” instead of respecting who she does love made me feel sick.

So whenever you see them in the tags spouting this same tired old spout, please remember what Rebecca said in her recent interview!

“If you wait to tell kids, to tell queer youth that it matters how they feel or that they are even a person, then it is going to be too late. You have to let it be what it gets to be for everyone….You are told that you should dream about love, this fulfilling love that you are going to have….like the Prince and Snow White are not someones parents. They are something you want to be and are dreaming of a future where you will find happiness Why shouldn’t everyone have that? It’s really absurd to think that everyone shouldn’t get to have that.”

Queer. Every letter in the acronym. Everyone. Not this gatekeeping bullshit that anti-shipping bullies hypocritically and abusively try to enforce. We are encouraged, all of us, to find ourselves in these wonderful queer characters.

Steven Universe is meant for us all. It’s the bullies who need to step off.

Stay strong, and I’ll be posting more art soon!