#justmenoworries

[the-heart-of-a-monster]

WHAT IS THE TEA THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTINGGG

the tea is HOT. too hot. they're burning

[jackie-gremlin-ghost]

Since a lot of the “Alternate Bens” in Omniverse have different outfits than Ben Prime, I figured I’d do something similar with @justmenoworries’ Omniglitch AU… and I ultimately wound up doing a design for Gwen, too.

(Ben’s was inspired by his very early concept art, and Gwen’s was my own spin on the outfit she wore in the Mall scene in “Secret of the Omnitrix”)

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Maybe I'm being ignorant, but is Earl genuinely seeing nothing wrong with Homeworld? A place where the slightest mess up can get you killed by the higher-ups and your place in society is decided for you based upon your gem, with you having no say in the matter? Yikes.

Hmm.. I wouldn’t call it ‘seeing nothing wrong with Homeworld’. That’s simplifying things a bit, especially because we’ve had in-comic evidence that Earl is uncomfortable when discussing Homeworld stuff. 

 But escaping damaging cultural practices - or oppressive systems - is not as simple as just deciding ‘ok that sucked let’s move on! I’m a rebel now!’ Even CG Pearl took 5000+ years to fully cast off her internalized Homeworld beliefs that she’d been forced into - despite being an otherwise exemplary Renegade Pearl! 

(Don’t @ me about her issues with putting Rose on a pedestal. I know. I also hold the belief that this was something more complex and nuanced than just her following ‘her diamond’.)

For Earl, this long trek out of her ‘programming’ so to speak is still in its early stages. She has only been ‘free’ for 14 years, and the majority of them she’s spent wondering if White Diamond would straight up shatter her for running away (when Steven was a baby). She spent the good part of last year slowly learning that Steven ISN’T like that, but her feelings on the matter are muddled. 

Add to this the fact that we KNOW her feelings for Pink Diamond to be muddled. Out of all the other diamonds and their Pearls, Pink and Earl seemed to have had the most amiable relationship.

I’m in no way saying this excuses the damage Pink did, but the fact of the matter is, even in SU: Future, Volleyball Earl doesn’t BLAME Pink for her accidental injury due to the tantrum. She refuses to even acknowledge that Pink hurt her and excuses it with the fact that it was not done purposefully.

From this condition, do we really expect her to springboard into a full-fledged, anti-Homeworld rebel? She’s got TONS of stuff to work through before she even begins to heal. 

Compare it to exiting a cult, if that helps. People who are in cults sometimes recognize the damaging mindset of the community/culture of said cult and try to get out on their own - and that’s comparable to what Rose and Pearl did. 

But in Earl’s case, it was more that she was pulled forcefully from the cult and plopped into a completely new world with new ideals and very different mindsets. She has to unlearn all the damaging rhetoric she has been taught, she has to emotionally understand what happened to her, and how that is wrong - and she has to somehow do this while understanding that she has nO IDEA what is going to happen when Homeworld comes. If she rebels and joins the gems, her life is most certainly in danger, as well as possibly Steven’s. If she doesn’t defect Homeworld, she has a higher chance of surviving, and possibly helping Steven survive if they pretend to be part of the system. 

I get that it’s easy to point a finger and go ‘that’s bad!’ but we must also consider how this world looks from HER point of view as well. Recovery, changing your mind, escaping an abusive system - none of those things are easy, and we shouldn’t expect the people who suffered under them to make a quick turnaround because it’s honestly not realistic and sets impossible expectations to those that are in recovery from those systems. 

Above all - it takes time and it takes introspection. Diving from one ideology into another without examining it thoroughly is, arguably, even worse than remaining in the same ideology. Because if you don’t take the time to think about what you believe in... well... 

[caretaker-au]

Frisk: *finds a way to save absolutely everyone and proves that life is worth living even without erasing all of your mistakes* Chara: Pure evil. A brat. I am the true hero and victim here.

There is nothing I can add to this to make it funnier than it is.

[slylock-syl]

Well CP, maybe if you would treat Necros less like a child you can order around and manipulate "for his own good" and more like the adult individual with his own choices and opinons he has become, he'd be more willing to listen to you. Also, maybe don't constantly try to exterminate his family. Just a thought.

[meg-noel-art]

Top 5 favorite/least favorite She-Ra moments!

All of Season 4! Haha... jk... 👀 unless...

Top 5 favs in no particular order:

1.) Angella’s sacrifice

2.) "Now live with it"

3.) The entire end of the Coronation episode

4.) "You're a bad friend" - Scorpia/DT Vibe check (basically the same thing)

5.) "I know you" - Adora @ Glimmer in White Out (idk it's so cute to me)

Least favs:

Literally all of S5 - uhhh

That entrapta leash one

[kabukiaku]

Would it be okay to write fanfiction about your Leaguer AU?

Yeah dude! Go ahead ! Awesome to hear you wanna write stuff on the baseball bots!

[houseki-no-suffering]

Do you think Shinsha was really shattered? I dunno it seems kind of anti-climactic, for lack of a better word, to have them go down without even putting up a bit of a fight after all that prolonged, dramatic eye contact with Phos a few chapters earlier. And the way the perspective just conspicuously shifts away from them, with only some sound effects to presumably tell us they were done in. Hmmm...

i dont think they were shattered (yet) bc they should be with sensei at the moment.

but i swear if ichikawa had shinsha die off screen like this i’m flying to japan to have a word with her