A Disturbance In Agustria

Hi! This is @22degreehalo's sideblog for anime, video games, and anything else colorful and fandomy that I wasn't so sure fit on my main blog! :) I like: Ensemble Stars! / Fire Emblem (FE4, Heroes) / 100Kanojo / A:TLA

[spoiky]

It's usually Yosuke that yearns pathetically, but I think Yu should too, as a treat

[owlmeh]

he wants that cooking so bad

[festivalofthe12]

Something I respect the fuck out of Steven Universe for is its commitment to making its aliens Alien without forcing their biology or culture into 1-to-1 metaphors with human concepts.

Fusion isn't sex. It's comparable to it in its intimacy, and there's definitely something reminiscent of prejudice against queer or interracial couples in the way it's policed by authority, but it's also very much not: it can be down between family members and children, and the creation - the fusion - is a whole new identity existence, without destroying the ongoing identities of the components.

Shattering, too, isn't death. I suspect that the reluctance to reckon with this is a large part of the show's backlash; refusal to shatter gems isn't the same as refusing to kill in self-defence. Shattering is torture. There is no such thing as human 'death' for a gem: some aspects of mental consciousness will always remain, straining painfully to reform with its other parts.

There are aspects of Steven Universe that are definitely Saying Something about the real world - and unlike how it's been portrayed in social media, the matter of Steven and the Diamonds feels very much more like 'what can you do when it is not possible to violently overpower an enemy? What can you do when your opponent is objectively much more powerful than you?' - but it's also a story where some things are Different and imagining how things might work under those circumstances, all while connecting back on the things that matter most: the complexity of emotions and relationships and the world.

It's a show that isn't afraid to be weird and different and incredibly alien, but is also so utterly grounded in love and respect for all these things as well as the everyday mundanities of earth and nature and society and human beings, comedic and heartfelt and messy and tragic and hopeful and so incredibly, unbelievably well-crafted as a world...!!!!!

[sherrickmads]

now put your whole body into it! 🌹

[rosaq]

The fact that Rose says "my Pearl" to Pearl... A lot of people wonder, "oh, she belonged to Rose". No one calls their Pearl "my Pearl", people only say that to their superiors. So there's actually a lot more going on in that scene.

—Rebecca Sugar, The Truth About Rose Quartz

[permanentrose]

Landmines by St. Vincent || Rose Quartz and Pearl

I’m crawling through landmines Just to feel where you are Under cover of night, I put a pearl in the ground

Where’d you go? (Not so far) Please don’t go (Not too far)

Oh, my dear My love Do you know, my love? Do you know?

Disclaimer: I did not create these gifs. 

[roseiral]

[rosaq]

[hetalianboot]

[festivalofthe12]

'How could she not after you swept her off her feet?'

'Yeah! You showed her the beauty of earth and she decided she wanted to run away and live with you there forever!'

and the Explicit and Textual comparison of PearlRose with Ruby/Sapphire

and yet there are still people who have claimed all this time that there was never any indication that Rose might've had romantic feelings for Pearl

[festivalofthe12]

How are there not a gazillion fanfics about Pearl and Rose exploring the earth and slowly falling in love and waging war and discovering cross-gem fusion and winning and getting to enjoy living among humans and exploring the planet for two thousand years and then eventually there's a tragic ending and it hurts because it all meant so much but it all still Happened that love and joy and wonder and it's sad but it's more important than almost anything in the world?????????

[festivalofthe12]

I'm finally watching season 5 of Steven Universe after never getting around to it (for, like, a decade. lmao) and. god. I really do love this goddamn show and Pearl/Rose in particular so fucking MUCHHH

I love the chiptunes I love the bright pastel colours I love the magitech I love the lady/knight dynamic I love the secret keeping and secret identity I love the messy power situation I love the words unspoken and ambiguous relationships I love the grief that lingers but never entirely fades I love the joy and curiosity and wonder and love with the earth I love the self-hatred and self-destruction I love the juxtaposition of fantastical politics and seaside village mundanity I love Cookie Cat I love Pearl's autistic traits I love the thousands of years of history to peek into I love the romance and the tragedy and the weirdness and the crackiness and the humor and the genuine alien-ness I just really really love it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[velvetvexations]

OK because I’m not a persona fan, I think I’ve watched a place through a persona 2. So would you mind elaborating on how and in what ways persona 4 is transandrophobic? I’ve never played persona so I have no idea what you’re talking about?

In Persona 4, every party member is confronted with their shadow-self, who embodies parts of themselves that they dislike. One girl who doesn't like being sexualized has a shadow-self whose an exhibitionistic bimbo, the shadow-self of a boy who feels stifled by his environment is like "I totally hate my hometown!," so on and so forth. They all kidnap the real person and try to harm them in some way while claiming it's what they actually want.

(The tough gang member's shadow-self is camp gay, but that has the somewhat redeeming pay off of the character in question later being shown to be more at peace with his less hyper-masculine traits. I disgress.)

When you're introduced to Naoto, you're led to believe he's a boy, being called "the Detective Prince" with a reputation for being a Meddling Kid. In actuality, she's a girl, but let's people assume she's a boy because she gets taken more seriously that way.

Her shadow-self...is literally just trying to transition her, with "transition," per the MO of the shadow counterparts, being an elaborate form of simply murdering her, which the Shadow Naoto disingenuously insists is what the real Naoto actually wants. Transition is a metaphor for suicide, essentially.

Shadow Naoto gives like, the most wacked out fuckin TERF-webcomic-villain speech:

And then, Naoto, you know, learns her lesson that it's wrong to "pretend to be a man" to escape misogyny:

It's wild it was ignorance and not deliberate radfemmery because that shit is so something a TERF would write years later, like, it's utterly ludicrous.

And people are like, "well, it's not transphobic because she's not trans," like yeah no shit because the writers wrote her to be a cis woman you have to save from being horrifically forcemasced.

[silentglock]

guy who ruins everything

[mansand]

[crescentfool]

ikanaide (don't go) 🚉 for @souyomixtape

[festivalofthe12]

Everyone who thinks that Shen Jiu would be great with children are wrong. He would be a cunty fucking diva who genuinely believes (and shares at every opportunity) that little kids shouldn't be allowed in public because of the way they scream and cause trouble but would also unapologetically smoke in those same places and shoot death glares at any mums bold enough to passive-aggressively remind him there are kids nearby.