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#current opinion #AWO at five is insane but I think it’s the truth

Oh yeah about writing. Even though I must visualize every scene in detail before I can write it, turns out that visual descriptions are rarely necessary in a story. A well chosen word here or there, sure. But rarely are they adjectives. Reader will visualize effectively if you just tell them what happened. Turns out descriptions are more distracting than anything. Best to save them for when you really need them. Good thing I really despise describing things in my writing, anyway. (I say as I edit out useless descriptors)

#current opinion #writing #of course there are exceptions #probably complete bullshit #as soon as I open one of my stories i guarantee I will spot a description

The fact that Yellow diamond is dedicating herself to reassembling broken gems. The fact that Blue is spreading drugged up calm. The fact that WHITE is amplifying the voices of the forgotten brings up my favorite thing about this season. The addition of nuance to a world where “Everyone Can Change”.

When the evil of the world repent and start putting out good, what do you do with the victims’ anger?

There’s no common sense answer to that because most popular writers don’t ask that question. They kill off their villains. They forgive their villains without taking repentance seriously. They take repentance seriously but never apply it to the biggest evil. They take redemption seriously but the heroes don’t have to deal with them. But the show actually redeems the worst of the worst and Steven aids their improvement, displaying its dedication to the thesis that People Can Change.

Steven recognizes that the diamonds are actually doing the work for redemption and that’s partly why Homeworld Bound is so frustrating for him. How can he act like the past doesn’t affect him? How dare they be doing better than him? How can they move past their actions? Why is he angry at people who are trying? Feelings the show both validates and highlights as irrational.

I think his efforts to be fair to the diamonds change (everyone’s change really) has led him to downplay his trauma. I think that’s going to be the point. So how do we have an ending that validates an irrational trauma response?

I think the show will end with Steven distancing himself from the diamonds, gradually healing his relationship with his parents and quickly healing things with Connie. Giving us 3 valid options for going forward: Removing yourself from the situation, salvaging fraught but important relationships and uncomplicated reconciliations.

I think Future is going to update the show’s thesis: “People can change” to “People can change but you don’t have to be there for it”.

#steven universe #steven universe future #diamond #current opinion

On John Stuart Mill

The stupidity of regulating thought and belief is witnessed in the persecution of Socrates and Jesus, Mill says, who now are held up as two of history’s greatest figures. If every age sees that people who were considered “bad” are now “good”, they must perceive that current opinion is usually flawed. Whenever there has existed in history a society or nation that has held some principles beyond dispute, or prevented discussion of some big question, Mill observes, “we cannot hope to find that generally high scale of mental activity which has made some periods of history so remarkable.” A nation becomes great not by a mere imposition of order and power, but by letting go, knowing that there is much to gain by open discussion. Indeed, this is what frees the best minds to come up with the greatest advances.

- ‘50 Philosophy Classics’ by Tom Butler-Bowdon