why was Blue Diamond (generally) drawn so beautifully while Yellow was… like that

it’s… really weird how some people are using “he” pronouns for Rainbow Quartz 2.0 and calling them male, when there’s no reason to believe they are any different from Steven’s other fusions?

[blinks twice]

it’s kinda weird how people fixated on light deprivation* as a means of torturing Stevonnie and Pink Diamond as opposed to, you know, solitary confinement

*which turned out not to be as extreme as some people were thinking, considering the tower had open windows

I did not care for the pacing of “Escapism”.

I rewatched part of the dream sequence from “Jungle Moon”, and it really paints Pink in a worse light now that everything else has been revealed.

In the dream, Dr. Maheswaran/Yellow Diamond explicitly states, “Yes, I know there’s organic life on the surface [of the Jungle Moon]. It’s an invasion. … You will stick to my orders, and you will destroy them!”

Fast-forward to “Now We’re Only Falling Apart”. Rose says, “All this life that’s been growing wild here on Earth… none of it will survive my invasion. We’re not creating life from nothing; we’re taking life and leaving nothing behind.”

Pink heard Yellow say that invasions inherently bring about destruction. Pink should have known colonizing Earth would entail the destruction of life.

Even if you want to argue that Pink didn’t know about Earth’s organic life (which she should have), she should have known it was a potential hazard. In fact, she did know this, and she went ahead with Earth colonization anyway.

Pink’s realization isn’t treated like a moment of “only now do I see that it’s bad to commit genocide”; it’s treated as a moment of “this is brand-new information, and I wouldn’t have undertaken colonization had I known”.

Now, it’s possible Pearl was an unreliable narrator in “Now We’re Only Falling Apart”. The notion that she was is substantiated by “Can’t Go Back”.

However, I don’t think that’s what the narrative is going for. I think they’re really going for this idea that Pink was just naïve and didn’t mean any harm.

In essence, Pink Diamond went to Earth knowing she might have to commit genocide. She went anyway.

We’re supposed to find that redeemable?

what’s the point of having White Pearl be Pink Pearl?

is it to show that the Diamonds are bad and mean? a lot of us knew that already.

is it to show that Pink Diamond specifically was irresponsible? we know.

is it to show White’s a special kind of evil? got that already.

they didn’t even allude to her existence well before this arc (Connie’s eyepatch does not count). yikes.

> listens to “Familiar”

boy, I sure am glad I have wine right by me

IJQ comparing Rose Diamond’s experience to migrants’ experiences is just… yikesyikesyikesyikesyikesyikesyikesyikesyikes

why do people so unanimously hate Holly Blue but turn around and woobify literally all the other antagonists

Smh ‍♀️

I had to rewatch the Adventure Time final to get the Steven Universe one out of my head. The only good thing from the episode was seeing Jasper. But the fact that they were originally just going to throw her in the last second pisses me off.

And I know it’s not the end of the series, but it originally was the final… and it was bad.