[standing up boldly] I don't think pearl actually fumbled rose though
everyone makes the joke posts about how if they fumbled a bbw to a soundcloud rapper they would also start eating their own organs but i don't think pearl actually fumbled rose under any definition. pearl inspired some of the most positive changes in rose's life and rose spent thousands of years loving being with her while also fully convinced that she was undeserving of her. you have to place the whole thing with rose dating greg in context of the gem timescale. it's canon text that rose was occasionally dating earth men during the course of their time on earth, not as some sort of monogamous break-up situation where she would leave pearl each time, but where her gem relationship with pearl was one long ongoing thing, and humans were the cute little aliens she sort of objectified and treated as a novelty to occasionally date before she got bored of them/they died/whatever. rose presumably did not in any meaningful way drop pearl for greg, she just deprioritized spending time with her--which pearl was fine with at first, because she was fine with being deprioritized for novelties that might only last a few years while she'll last for thousands. pearl became upset and envious after she realized that rose actually cared about this one in a way more comparable to how she cares about pearl. but this didn't happen because she fumbled rose by any reasonable stretch of the term. this happened because even after reinventing herself once thanks to pearl's idea, rose still believed that she hadn't really changed, and hated herself, and saw herself as unworthy and undeserving of the people around her, and was very suicidal. she was so enamored with greg and with humans because she saw them of being capable of changing & growing in a way that she believed she was fundamentally incapable of. and so she decided to kill herself through the route that involved what she perceived as reinvention into someone beautifully capable of that growth. pearl just simply could not have done anything about rose still privately having those hang-ups or about the fact that they're both gems. I Do Not Believe It Was Pearl's Fumble When Her Wife Killed Herself
#“I Do Not Believe It Was Pearl's Fumble When Her Wife Killed Herself”#SOBBING#you're right OP#but i would still be eating my organs obviously#if my wife killed herself for a van dwelling soundcloud rapper and i had to raise her kid
right yes of course. goes without saying that it's impressive pearl doesn't eat her own and other peoples organs more often than she does. that said although it is a fine distinction i DO think we need to draw the distinction that she is not killing herself FOR the soundcloud rapper. she is killing herself due to PRE EXISTING mental illness and using the soundcloud rapper to kill herself WITH. Thus irreversibly altering the course of his life. Kills myself in front of you by giving birth to your half-alien child to irreversibly alter the course of your life forever. also i might make the critical distinction that unlike the average white soundcloud rapper man greg has a cool and fun space themed bisexual situation going and his music is actually listenable
