steven universe fanfare

steven universe is like a warm hug

[ruki-32]

사랑이들

[angelthist]

lapis doggified

[rosaq]

[ruki-32]

?!💥💥💥

[procyoren]

The little tinkerbell shoes are my favourite thing ever

[pandalana-art]

Happy #pridemonth !! Here’s an old drawing I did of Ruby and Sapphire✨

[lucyjung]

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[hyuburt]

Some might say… She’s a gem

[lord-king-saint]

-- Rebecca Sugar, "Steven Universe: End of an Era"

[alexisr294]

That really gave me such a better insight on both Rose and Greg.

[taikova]

these are my fave drawings i did from 2021, and all of them have backgrounds... what does it mean.

[zonchzone]

There’s a starman waiting in the sky He’d like to come and meet us But he thinks he’d blow our minds

[lullalli-blog]

Lapis

[fruitytooty]

I finsihed this after a billion years

[ahirucafe]

ふたりでひとつ。

[onmu]

i started crying when ruby proposed and i havent stopped since

[faelapis]

because everything in the world is obviously about steven universe, i feel like contrapoints' new video "envy" does a good job distinguishing between the desire for positive social change from schadenfreude and envy.

this is related to steven universe because steven universe fundamentally gives you real social change without the emotional rage satisfaction of killing the people on top who were better off than you. it gives you a destruction of class roles without a destruction of those who you once envied, and makes you deal with things getting better without getting your petty, hateful revenge. this is in contrast to most cartoons, and most media, in which your emotions of rage and hatred for the 'villains' is seen as just another valid part of your social justice instincts for a better world.

in most media, not once are you confronted with the fact that wishing pain on someone else is not the same thing as wishing things would get better for yourself and your peers. its a destructive impulse, not a constructive one.

in SU and SU future, you have to confront that. especially in the episode homeworld bound, where steven is presented again and again with all the good the diamonds are doing in this new world without class boundaries, and it doesn't make him happy. it makes him envious, because he himself has not found a new purpose in life after no longer being the hero. it also makes him angry, because he feels like after his trauma, they don't "deserve" to be happy, even if they're objectively making society a better place.

this, i think, distinguishes fans who like SU's bloodless conflict resolution from those who don't. its not just being able to empathize with the worst sides of yourself as portrayed by villains, but whether you're able to recognize envy that someone else didn't suffer as much as you did, or revenge that someone once caused suffering (even if they're helping the world now), as destructive impulses.

[minar-artwork]

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