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Welcome to my blog where I post about (but mainly reblog) a variety of animated series!

Currently Watching:

Miraculous Ladybug / Invincible / Knights of Guinevere

Most Posted About:

Steven Universe / Miraculous Ladybug / The Owl House / Over The Garden Wall (in the fall)

Other Animation / Media Blogs:

Anime @theroserevolution

ATLA / TLOK @guccigaang

Star Wars @chibazed

DC Comics @koriqndrs

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some adrininos

btw i have a print of this on my inprnt

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reverse doodles, sorry theyre kind of rough, my hand is fucked right now

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Tweaked his design a wee bit

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been thinking abt like early pearl and garnet because they have such a funny dynamic to me. Like garnet’s the leader and we see especially in s1 how high of a pedestal pearl holds her on and she’s like constantly clinging onto her but garnet Wasn’t always like that. When we see her rejuvenated shes very naive and innocent and has no clue whats going on ever and she was GENUINELY terrified of pearl when they first met. I feel like for a while they had this dynamic that was like the scene from tangled w eugene and rapunzel right after raps left the tower

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peri for fun

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local alien talks to a baby like you would to a peer. he has a marble in his brain girl 💔

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Rose Quartz fountain statue drawing for the February VGen Challenge "Rose"

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Bestie💖

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Her full name is Connie cuteness maheswaran!!!

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Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl…

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I saw a post a couple of days ago that said one of the most important things about Steven Universe, thematically, is that everybody in the core cast has done at least one completely morally unjustifiable thing, regardless of how likeable or sympathetic they are otherwise, and that this is important to understanding the show thematically. This is true. 

But it also reminded me of one other thing I really like about Steven Universe, which is that it’s the emotional-toxicity equivalent of all those posts about how cartoons have to come up with unimaginably worse forms of death and violence in the course of avoiding getting censored for depicting plausible forms of death and violence.  All of the ways in which SU characters cross those emotional and interpersonal lines are wrapped up either in their fantastic abilities or their bizarre life circumstances in a way that makes it all esoterically awful and often much more existentially horrifying than any of the real-life dynamics it’s alluding to. You’ve said nasty things to people in the heat of the moment but you’ve never shapeshifted into the guy’s dead wife to twist the knife a little more. No violation of bodily autonomy is ever gonna involve contriving a situation in which the other party will believe that it’s necessary to fuse with you, body and soul in order to do demolition work. The most toxic relationship in the world isn’t gonna involve imprisoning someone at the bottom of the ocean for several months and only emerging to participate in humanoid-sacrifice rituals. Your codependency will never last 8,000 years, be frontloaded with a faked death you’re biomechanically incapable of confessing to, and end with your partner’s suicide-by-childbirth. Your worst roommate situation will never end with one party stealing the apartment and taking it to the moon. Et al. Et al.

I don’t remember where I was going with this, precisely, (and I may have drifted sideways from the original discussion topic of crossed lines per se, but whatever.) I mean part of it’s funny because it exists in a series with tons of mundane, non-metaphorical examinations of interpersonal issues, like everything to do with Lars and Sadie, or Sour Cream and Marty. And there’s an extent to which I’m just describing how cartoons are written. But there’s something special about how Steven Universe does it. Something delightfully fucked up about it all. I think maybe part of it is that it’s a considered and embraced fucked-upedness, none of this is just an ill-considered fridge-logic by-product of something else they were trying to do. Like for every one of these, someone in the writers room probably went, “Man, this has some fucked up implications,” and then everyone would go, “Yeah!” and hi five and put it in specifically because of that. Great Show. Great show

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death, thrice drawn

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Goth Adrien thoughts. One of us! One of us!