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I was just doodling Steven randomly and it turned into this huge sketchy mess of random comic scenes in which Malachite is unfused and everyone gets their shot at redemption all at once.
(I apologize to everyone following me. My dash has been really busy today, and too much of things like the above have piled up. I want to get this out there in hopes of keeping at least some of this from happening to someone else.)
Okay then: Steven Universe side of Tumblr? You can like or hate comics or theories, but this kind of “argument” is not okay. You can criticize all you want, we certainly do it to the canon material! You can even do it as rudely as you want, if you want to be “that person”. But personal attacks are never okay. Because surprise, the person who drew/wrote these things in question is an abuse survivor.Assume only makes an “ass” of “u”. It pisses “me” off.
It’s also condescending as hell to assume my history prevents me from thinking critically, but that might explain why some people completely rob the Lapis Lazuli character of her agency too, dismissing everything she does as “she didn’t mean to”. You’re treating this character as an “object” as well when you do that: an object that can’t possibly have the intellect to claim their own actions and needs to be told “it’s okay, you didn’t know any better”.
My abuse experience isn’t my get out of jail free card when I make mistakes, nor should it be, and I’m not even talking about the level of Grand Theft Ocean. It’s okay to make mistakes, it’s okay to admit mistakes! Like ianjq said, you learn new things that way! You can recognize when a character makes terrible mistakes and still like them, and you can still wholly sympathize with their tragic circumstances. And since this is Steven Universe, you can be rest assured they will grow as a character!
But you shouldn’t use it as an excuse to the harm they deal, and you especially shouldn’t use it as an excuse to attack other fans. I for one don’t want to be patted on the head and say “it’s okay, you didn’t know any better” when I say something that hurts someone. You don’t learn that way.
“Yikes. Those two are really bad for each other.” Even GARNET placed equal responsibility in Jailbreak. It’s okay to. Just because a character hasn’t learned yet doesn’t mean they won’t! And it makes for a very well-rounded, dynamic character.
I had to bring my personal history up on Tumblr exactly once before this, in the pony fandom, when accused of being an “SJW”. I have had to bring this up like four or five times now, here in the SU fandom, because apparently I need some kind of bizarre survivor cred to speak my mind about a character’s behavior when what the fandom says doesn’t add up to me. And that is just the times I actually responded. That is not being the Cool Kids, SU fandom.
There is a vast difference between someone saying “I don’t think a character acts the way the fandom says they do” and directly accusing an actual,
live person of being an enabler at worst, or uncaring at best. Learn it. “Choose love”. And don’t harass the writers about pie, either!
This is the last time I will address comments like these. It’s exhausting! I’m going to go back to drawing silly Gem shenanigans and what this show is actually about.
I apologize again for the unhappy on your dash. I return tomorrow with more art!
WWWWWOOOOOOW that’s gross. I knew some of this was bad but good lord.
He was the wildest cat in the jungle. So wild that the others cats couldn’t take it. So she—I mean he—went to look for somewhere he fit
in, somewhere with other people who felt misunderstood.
