every steven universe post: can’t believe amethyst endorsed lebanese consociationalism as an optimal electoral structure for post-conflict power sharing when the definition of consociational democracies is shaky at best and it’s arguable that even lijphart’s archetypal consociational case study doesn’t meaningfully fit the model he presented. also it’s typical that this fandom would demonise pearl for pointing out that consociational democracies require a level of existing cooperation between sectional elites which implies a preceding peace process, one that can rarely be presumed… tbh if you still reblog amethyst after this I’m going to murder your mother
forgot to say its ASTOUNDING how incompetent and irresponsible Rebecca Sugar is
steven universe and my little pony frirndship is magic has the exact same major fandom problem that makes it impossible to take eother seriously as a fandom
and its that both are children’s cartoons for children that were designed to push morals like friendship, forgiveness, pacifism, and love
but the fandom consists mostly of adults who want it to be what they want instead who ignore these lessons in favor of wanting the shows to be about things like steven universe’s violent communist revolution and twilight turning evil and just grimdark grimdark grimdark
and man i’d really hate to see the cartoons you guys want honestly
a cartoon about a boy’s coming of age story about resolving a space war thousands of years old conflict with peace and love is more interesting than that boy just murdering all his enemies
I was wondering if the way Steven and the Diamonds temporarely cured Centi reflected something about the individual Diamond, like maybe:
Yellow is Body. She cured Centi’s physical form, but her behavior was still animal-like.
Blue is Mind. She reverted Centi’s mind back to that of a person, to the moment before the corruption ocurred, but she seemed still “trapped” in that particular moment emotionally.
Steven is Heart / Emotions. He helped stabilize Centi emotionally so that she would calm down and become aware of the present again.
And, theorically, White would be able to make the change permanent. I’m not sure what that would mean about her? Maybe White would represent Essence? Soul?
The soul does seem to line up with her Pearl being empty, like she’s without soul
You’re right, if she has power over the “soul” that may mean in a positive and negative way.
Like Yellow, she can cure the physical form of a Gem but also she can destroy it (her power is that energy ray that destibilize the physical form of a gem and poof it).
Maybe White can cure the soul and also destroyed it/take it away?
AND THEN WHEN THE THREE DIAMONDS ATTACKED THEY DESTROYED THE MIND AND BODY AND SOUL BUT NOT THE HEART OF THE CORRUPTED GEMS, THATS WHY THEY ARENT GONE
well i guess this is it 