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my name is 0.jpg, any pronouns are fine. 25, sigh. This is a fandom sideblog for nonsense and nsfw :)

[quasi-normalcy]

So...how much of the bad discourse surrounding Steven Universe is just because people were really hoping that the Gems would beat up Andy DeMayo in "Gem Harvest"?

[quasi-normalcy]

I was astonished to learn that there was controversy around this episode, because I felt like it was just kind of a normal children's cartoon about getting along with difficult relatives; and then I looked it up and learned that it had the extremely inauspicious timing of airing right after Trump's 2016 victory, and, yeah, okay, I can understand why a children's fantasy about reconciling with your obnoxious conservative relatives and getting them to accept your alternate family structure would play rather poorly at the time.

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that Rebecca Sugar probably assumed, like most of the world that wasn't my specific flavour of extremely online in 2016, that Clinton would crush Trump and that this episode would maybe help to smooth over divisions; but of course what ended up happening is that an episode about how you should be empathetic towards your bigoted relatives ended up airing just as your bigoted relatives were going around victoriously hate-criming people in the street.

[quasi-normalcy]

Watching it now, though, it ends up feeling wistful more than anything. Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did? It feels like a pleasant dream.

[livingauthorssociety]

Steven Universe is fundamentally a power fantasy—but the fantasy is being able to get through to people and heal things. The power is love instead of strength.

[lilly-kittyeyes]

"Like, yeah, sure, it doesn't work like that, and we all know that now...But wouldn't it be nice if it did?" Yeah....

[andreii-tarkovsky]

Gaycation - “USA”

[gravitycoill]

concrete sliding across the floor sound effect....er hey! been rewatching this stupid fucking anime hhggnnhhg im still figuring out how to draw these guys its been 6 years

[wizardarchetypes]

I’m at my friend’s apartment in dublin. she’s been trapped in her bathroom for like an hour and maintenance just showed up with KITCHEN UTENSILS??? 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀

[wizardarchetypes]

I’m giving them 15 more minutes and then I’m walking across the street to the conveniently located fire department bc he just tried to pry open this metal door with a kitchen spoon

[wizardarchetypes]

he’s giving me attitude for asking for a locksmith. i was going to be polite for as long as we needed him as an ally but he’s run his use.

[wizardarchetypes]

just realized he’s wearing a single latex glove. for why

[wizardarchetypes]

like i know sometimes the most unassuming tools do the job but i cannot stress enough that he simply tried to pry open a metal fire door with it. he didn’t try to employ it on the lock in any way. the slotted spoon told me immediately this was not our man. pack it up chef boyardee

[the-ladyguinevere]

So what was it like having the fire department axe open the door

[thememedaddy]

[evergreen-femme]

[professorsparklepants]

A list of thoughts about Bakudeku with fem! Midoriya

They're not dating but nobody believes it (because Bakugo is a teenage boy who lets a girl call him Kacchan)

They're dating and nobody believes it because they're exactly like they are in canon

Some reporter asks future!Bakugo if it's emasculating to have a wife who's more powerful than him and his face just does the "Brazilian woman who can't do math" meme

Baby Bakugo asked his dad what he'd do if a girl kept acting like she was better than him and Masaru says "Marry her, probably" in a fit of nostalgia without considering the consequences

The entirety of Class A, watching the first training exercise: this is.... domestic abuse

Someone asks if they're dating during the first week at UA and Bakugo says no and Midoriya says yes, and after staring at each other a second Bakugo says yes and Midoriya says no. This only makes the class more confused.

[professorsparklepants]

I want to be clear here: baby Bakugo interprets "Marry her, probably" as "don't settle for anyone lesser than you" and then decides that if Deku thinks she's so much better than him she's going to have to prove it! So Midoriya spends the next decade of her life being told by her best friend that she needs to work harder if she wants to be worth anything and then going home to lie on her bed and yell "but what does that MEAN?" while Inko rubs her back sympathetically.

[cannimumsable]

Looks at you. I remember you saying you enjoyed a Sleep Token song (I went and looked it was Euclid) do you like any other Sleep Token songs. Looks at you with giant eyes

looks at you sadly. unfortunately Euclid is kind of an outlier, I can't remember how I found it? I didn't really like it that much originally but the lyrics really made me lose my mind and after multiple listens it was accepted by my nervous system. I unfortunately don't think I've ever listened to any other sleep token songs, or at least none of them r in my likes on spotify :(

[smoothjazzdigit]

Have you guys seen that clip

Go off Kermit

[juliathefacesofevil]

we're just normal men

[oddjoblin]

Why the heck is this dude trying to confirm if the frog puppet is hetrosexual???

[karnalesbian]

assessing the situation before he shoots his shot

[defilerwyrm]

Happy Pride to Kermit the Frog, questioning king

[waterlappingal]

Concept: Class 1A is trying to hold a birthday party for Bakugo and the girls are in charge.

[shit-hdb-would-say]

Change lawyer to cop and this is perfect methinks

Harry du Bois would do this

[walkingeverywhere]

Generally I think straight men should not say faggot but this trea turner (baseball player) tweet is so fucking funny that it’s allowed I think

[hcnnibal]

just got back into gardening so i’ve forgotten. are basil leaves supposed to be this big

[hcnnibal]

am i the problem

[mousegirlheart]

op are you a hobbit

[poetrymist]

Notice how every ship with THE Ochako Uraraka looks good? That's because Ochako Uraraka, herself, is THAT good 🥰

[miscellaneous-marios]

[bloop-doop-woople-deactivated20]

Repairing with gold, kintsugi

[elminx]

Y'all want the real shit, but can't handle that somebody else's spiritual catharsis is going to sound like ranting nonsense if it's not meant for you.

[promiseiwillwrite]

Inspirational.

Please refer to my earlier post.

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Hana Lock

[sunderwight]

Mulan AU where she does get caught by the other fresh recruits while she's bathing but Mushu helps her spin it like the lake is cursed by an evil lizard demon and will turn men into women if they stay in it for too long.

From there it's not actually difficult to get the other soldiers onboard with covering up the fact that poor Ping took one for the team and got afflicted by the vagina curse, especially since it would have been all of them if they hadn't gotten the warning ahead of time. So they agree to help him cover it up, because obviously the army's not going to understand.

Shang is... tentatively glad that the men are bonding and getting along, even if they continue to be deeply weird about it.

[great-art-and-a-purple-tongue]

Ling: Hey man, what's up— you've got boobs?!?!

Mulan: Uh, what boobs? Huh? Where did these come from?

Mushu: *facepalms and thinks quickly* (speaks from the shadows) I AM THE SPIRIT OF THE LAKE! BEWARE MY CURSED WATERS FOR THEY WILL TURN MEN INTO WOMEN!

Ling, Yao, and Chien Po: Oh no! The spirit of the cursed waters!

[scribeofchaos]

Chi-Fu: SHE'S A WOMAN LI SHANG!

Mulan: Look-

Ling, Yao, and Chien Po: WE CAN EXPLAIN!!

[One convoluted, chaotic explanation later]

Shang: ...is this why you've all been insisting we don't camp anywhere that doesn't have a lake.

Shang: and then none of you actually swim in it.

Shang: and you all keep jumping at shadows.

Shang: wait a second Ping did this happen before or after you became insanely good at fighting?

Shang: did you get better at fighting after you became a woman.

Shang: are women better at fighting than us.

Mulan: ....uh. well. maybe? no one's ever tried to find out.

Yao: [thinking very fast] y'know Captain it's just so hard to find recruits these days.

Chien Po: Real shortage of men.

Ling: Lots of women, though.

Mulan: [catching on] Without marriage prospects.

Shang: You're right, men. The spirits must have done this in order to show us that we should be recruiting women as fighters.

Mushu [from the shadows, seeing an opportunity to do the funniest thing]: EXACTLY, LI SHANG. I HAVE TRANSFORMED PING INTO A WOMAN BECAUSE YOU HAVE TOO LONG OVERLOOKED THE TRUE WAY TO WIN THE WAR.

Mulan [seeing an opportunity to get all the stories straight]: O Great Spirit, is it reversible?

Mushu: WHY WOULD YOU WISH TO REJECT MY GIFT? I HAVE SEEN YOUR HEART, CHILD, AND HAVE ALREADY ALTERED THE MEMORIES OF EVERYONE WHO KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU LEFT FOR THE ARMY. YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THEIR DAUGHTER.

Li Shang: Welp, the spirits have spoken. Ping - wait is your name still Ping if you're a woman now?

Mulan: Uh. Actually, I was thinking of renaming myself. How do you feel about Mulan?

BONUS:

Mulan [climbing out of the eleventh lake the men have arranged for her to swim in]: Yeah no, it didn't work. Still got boobs. [tries to appear dejected].

Chien Po: If it makes you feel better, they're very nice boobs.

Mulan: Thanks, Chien Po.