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A Jasper appreciation blog. Askbox is always open if you'd like to discuss Jasper or anything Steven Universe!

[anistarrose]

hyperfixating on a fictional woman who went underdeveloped in canon is literally FUN and the 80-90% of fandom people who only do the same for background character men have no idea of the degree to which they are fucking missing out

[anistarrose]

no tumblr i have faith that this post will be found by the enlightened 10-20 percent

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[anistarrose]

hour 1 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: idk it would've been nice if she had more screentime

hour 100 of thinking about an underdeveloped woman: ok but despite having only eight lines of dialogue she is literally THE most interesting nuanced and tragic character in the entire series and these writers had no idea what they even had. how is no one else seeing this it's literally so objectively obvious

[elcorhamletlive]

Not to be a bitch but sometimes people engage with fiction in the most boring way possible, and nowhere is this clearer than in videogames. Like what you mean you hate a character just because they were kind of abrasive when speaking to the player character? "They were mean to me" and it didn't occur to you to wonder why? Like, what might their attitude toward you reveal about the world? About the social dynamics within it? About their own perspectives and backgrounds and personalities? Does it even occur you to ask? Would you only have liked them if they bowed to your presence and talked about how great you are? Like I'm sorry but you're so boring. How boring fiction would be if it cathered to you

[preserving-tiktok]

[sarahsscrapbook]

If you're wondering why this was important, just read the replies on this post.

[ahunkahunkaburninlove]

The answer is love.

[birdinabowl-deactivated20250317]

@calamitydarcy :3

[teaboot]

Stop me if you hate the concept: short, fat, hairy lady gets isakai'd into a high fantasy, and instead of "oh look at all these ethereal elves woe for I am but a flawed mortal" routine she lands in Dwarf territory and is immediately revered as the most enchanting and desirable maid in all the land. This immediately becomes a zesty romantic drama. Thoughts

[akiyty]

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

It's just like. Relating to characters that a huge chunk of the fandom hates specifically bc their damage is similar to the damage you had to overcome as a badly abused and neglected child who grew up with a lot of anger and hate and internalized bullshit and then seeing those characters often get killed off whether they start to improve or not and seeing their deaths celebrated is deeply exhausting and depressing and a fucked up way to learn that you will always be seen as a monster even by people who think they understand mental illness and trauma

[sophiamcdougall]

[bikuwana-still-on-discord-deact]

girls when the media they're obsessed with is never going to be as good as they wish it could be

[centipeettle]

An animatic I have been working on for a while :o) !!! It took around 2 weeks to finish, so enjoy!

[stenuniverse]

Is this all that’s left of her army?

[neurotypical-karen]

I wanted to reserve my judgement until I finished watching Steven Universe but now that I have. Why the fuck is there so much discourse. This is literally just a normal kids show. With an insane amount of good queer rep AND erasing gender roles in a way thats still groundbreaking today. Even with the complaint of the series finale being rushed, if you go into it with the knowledge that it got cut short so they had to cram it, that satisfies most of my Media Critique. You are all being insane about this for no good reason.

[ahunkahunkaburninlove]

Glad you enjoyed it, at least that’s what it sounds like? 

A lot of the discourse I experienced was my friends and I being called abuse apologists cuz we talked about liking/drawing fanart/writing fic about one (1!!!!) character.

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Source

[itasasu]

Some rando: This character should not have the chance to become a better person

Me: Why

Same person: Because they are a bad person!

Me: But what if that character was allowed to become a better person so that they are no longer a bad person?

Same person: You’re an abuse apologist

[fictional-me]

I would love for every bad person to become a good person. I’d think most humans think that it’d be a cool and great thing if all bad people became good. 

A cool and great thing, which we can play pretend with in fiction, knowing it’s not realistic, just to feel a little better about the shitty real world we live in.

[jaspurr]

tbh, I think the problem is that people confuse “getting a redemption arc” with “being rewarded with what comes after a redemption arc”

like, redeemed villains are generally friends with the heroes. they get to experience love and The Power of Friendship for the first time, if they haven’t already. they generally get to experience forgiveness. if their motives are based off of some kind of trauma or pain (like a lot of redeemed villains) then they will probably have that resolved and get some sense of closure or inner peace from whatever is hurting them.

so when they say that “this character doesn’t deserve a redemption arc” what they mean is “this character doesn’t deserve to be loved. they don’t deserve happiness, peace, or companionship”. the alternatives I have seen are:

“I hope that this character realizes how awful they are and they kill themselves”

“I hope this character is redeemed by a heroic sacrifice” (meaning they would be redeemed but wouldn’t be alive to experience the “reward” afterwards)

“I hope this character begs and pleads for forgiveness over and over again, but is never forgiven”

it’s pretty disturbing tbh, to treat basic things that every human needs (like being loved) as a “reward” that you get for good behavior. or more accurately: never being bad in the first place. that once you fall from grace you’re damned for eternity.

[idreamtofmanderleyagain]

I think this post exposes a really gross underbelly to purity culture bullshit that I don’t think I examined quite this way before.

If redemption is unacceptable, if bad behavior can never be forgiven, what is the alternative?

Because it sure seems like the alternative is “Indefinate suffering = justice.”

[doomhamster]

BINGO.

[dovewithscales]

That’s what purity culture has always been.

“Everyone who who has ever made a choice I disapprove of should suffer for eternity” is the origin of the concept of Hell. Fandom purity culture is fundamentalist Puritanism without the religion.

[bellaboww]

I absolutely LOVE the scene in “Huntara” (season 3 episode 2) when the Best Friends Squad meets Huntara for the first time and Adora is just…totally whipped.

And how could she not be? With Huntara’s ~muscles~ and the light framing her like THIS

Totally understand why my girl Adora is staring at her like this

I also love that this is the first time we really see Adora find someone attractive and try to be all ~smooth~ but more than that…we get to see Adora be absolutely awe-struck by another person and express some chaotic unrestrained happiness.

Her expressions are kind of reminiscent of Drunk Adora but arguably just as great.

[ahunkahunkaburninlove]

Do you agree with the supposition held by me (and many other members of the fandom) that Jasper is/was a child soldier, or at least the Gem equivalent of one?

It's been a hot minute since I've thought about Jasper.. But yes. In effect you can really consider every Gem soldier, Jasper included, to have been essentially a child soldier. We only get a few scenes, honestly even just the one, I think, where we see the disposition of Gems after they have just emerged from their Kindergarden. Considering that Jasper was thrust into a fight the moment she emerged.. I mean, if it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

(ps thanks for the ask!)

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✨jasper✨

[ahunkahunkaburninlove]

TFW you see the Sugar woman doing a benefit for the Trevor Project and you're still emotionally scarred from Jasper being shattered.