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"She told me Gabe had left mysteriously—disappeared off the face of the planet, in fact. She'd reported him missing to the police, but she had a funny feeling they would never find him." (drawn while recording the first episode of the monster donut podcast!)

raviollies

🐍

knowing

pandemoniuosrex

@kittyko

Im yours and you’re mine, forever and never.

water-aesthetics

pandemoniuosrex

This reminds me of you now, the sad longing my mind used to do is now guided by your shining light calling nd guiding me back to your shore.

Sometimes it is the simple things that have the greatest impact, like sending me clips in Chile of rain falling gently on the lake. Just to try to calm my anxious soul, even the slightest amount when you couldn’t be there to wrap me up in your endless warmth.

With you I’ve discovered that the simple things you do, mean more than any grand gesture or promise ever will.

trashyeggroll

This is Pickle

sinhalerr

I would fucking die for pickle

trashyeggroll

Pickle accepts your fealty

suspiciousgiggles-deactivated20

Are there still job openings as a vassal for our rightful ruler?

trashyeggroll

Pickle accepts all who swear loyalty or bring treats

flyingluna

Will Pickle accept humble offerings of chin scratches or belly rubs?

trashyeggroll

Chin scratches, yes.

Belly rubs, at your own risk.

drosenkatzen

In der warmen Küche ist gut liegen 😻😻😻

dreamyvixen

“She is both Hellfire and holy water And the flavour you taste Depends on how you treat her”

— Sneha Pal (via okashiii)

midnightshine

let-us-taco-bout-it

keleficent-deactivated20220714

I was thinking about why Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond is so hated.

The obvious answer is because of the horrible things she did.

But the other diamonds did horrible things too…worse things even.

Pink abandoned Spinel, which is wrong, but Spinel was planning to kill every living thing on Earth to spite the son of a person who was no longer even alive. Yet, no one talks about what a monster Spinel is.

So many Steven Universe characters have hurt people, but we forgive them and are happy to see them redeemed.

So why not Rose?

Then, it hit me: because Rose’s redemption arc is told to us in reverse.

The first time we see Rose is toward the end of her life when she is pregnant with Steven. We see her appreciation for life and how full of love she is for Greg and her future child. She’s willingly sacrificing herself to bring a new life into the world.

But then, we start learning who Rose used to be, all her mistakes, all the people she hurt.

The loving mother in Steven’s video becomes a distant memory.

For those of you who hate Rose, imagine her backstory unfolded a little differently for us.

We’re introduced to Pink Diamond: she’s spoiled, bratty, immature, irresponsible, and inconsiderate.

She throws temper tantrums when she doesn’t get her way.

Not exactly an endearing character, right?

But one day, her tantrum injure Pink Pearl, her best friend. From that day on, she keeps everything to herself. Now we see her dealing with a consequence of her bad behavior.

Then we see how she’s abused by the other diamonds. We start to sympathize with her.

We see her try to save Earth. We see her trying to do the right thing for once.

But it backfires horribly.

She spends the rest of her life trying to fix it, but she can’t.

She meets Greg. Here is where Rose has the most emotional growth as a character. She learns what is truly means to be a “real person.”

Finally, she grows such an appreciation for human life, that she decides to sacrifice her form to bring her son into the world.

The reason Rose is so much more controversial than other characters who have done problematic things is because her story is told in reverse, her redemption comes across as a fall from grace.

But there are plenty of characters who have a fall from grace who are still not as controversial as Rose. The reason why many people are less sympathetic to Rose is because we never see how Rose reacts to her mistakes. We never get much insight into how Rose feels about herself and the things she’s done. We get small hints:

For everyone who hates Rose, I get why. But I think we need to remember who she became instead of who she was.

pre-party

tbfhprincess

“I wish I knew where I went wrong, where you stopped loving me and decided you had enough. But that is so difficult to figure out because you told me you loved me only a day before you left me. Were those words fake? Tell me, where did we or I go wrong? Did I love you too much? Were you tired of my love? Were you tired of having someone loving you unconditionally? Were you tired of me thinking we had a chance at our happy ending? Were you tired of the fighting and decided that I was no longer worth it, worth the promises you made? Were you tired of me trusting you and for thinking I could tell you whatever was on my mind? Were you tired of me believing you so easily? Tell me, where did I go wrong?”

— Excerpt from a book I’ll never write