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darkabomination Since: Mar, 2012
#33426: Jun 9th 2016 at 2:19:13 PM

Now Lapis is getting a lot of that it seems, if not nearly as much sheer hate.

@scheduling. CN just kinda airs SU when it feels like it. It's a bit inconsistent.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#33427: Jun 9th 2016 at 2:42:47 PM

Also, I don't think the objective of NGE was the plot. Since the backstory was mostly in supplemental material. The objective of NGE was Shinji (and other characters' to a lesser extent) emotional journey. That's what Anno was most interested in.

Pretty much, for many this is darker and more pyschological slice of life that for some reason is mecha series and it make clear Shinji dosent give a damn about whole thing(and why it shouldnt?) and like I said is mecha series which create expectations and one of them is protagonist being pro-active bad ass time, SU doge the issue by focus in Steven and hell, everytime the show focus in gems figthing alone is not good for them(lapis by them,malachie,etc)

Shinji was perfectly capable of taking down external threats and defeating monsters.

And he did while other "badass" chararter like vegeta are fool but you see, sometimes is not what you do but HOW you do it

Confirmation that Steven was right and the Gems really do resent him.

Well this twist is true....granted, not in the "I wish you didnt born steven" but is obvious Gem have trouble understanding why Rose did what it did(and to be fair, so Steven AND the audience) she is gone and nobody really understand Steven role as half-human-gem which bring problems to time to time(like him almost againg himself to death in too-many-birthday) or when Amathys lashing against Greg for "stealing" Rose from her

Some fans tend to treat characters who can be pretty intentionally flawed or/and abrasive at times with the Death Eater treatment.

It also depend of intensity of the chapter, in first season Pearl fight a lot with Amathys and make some rather coment against her that take diferent light in "run away" and her devotion of Rose is rather unhealthy, even more in sworn to sword or rose scrabald, compare that to Garnet who have very few chapter with her issue and almost all of the are related to fusion or amathys who show her flaw in more sympathic light(except when she shapeshift into Rose to taunt Greg, fuck her for that)

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randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#33428: Jun 9th 2016 at 2:49:35 PM

[up]Resent was the nice word, you don't want to know the actual word I meant by that.

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AegisP Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
Kindhearted SSSSSNAKE Man
#33429: Jun 9th 2016 at 4:12:51 PM

@Blue Blaze, let them what? I hope you meant let them go because that would be for the best.

As long as this flower is in my heart. My Strength will flow without end.
JBC31187 Since: Jan, 2015
#33431: Jun 9th 2016 at 4:26:59 PM

Was there supposed to be an episode tonight?

randomness4 Ghost '11 from The Land of Inconvenience Since: Sep, 2011
Ghost '11
#33432: Jun 9th 2016 at 4:35:57 PM

No.

We're on brief hiatus.

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MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#33433: Jun 9th 2016 at 4:52:18 PM

I hate how cannibal-sarracenian's tumblr has this imperial eagle thing blocking part of the page and there doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of it.

De Romanīs, lingua Latina gloriosa non fuī.
diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#33434: Jun 9th 2016 at 5:35:41 PM

[up]Do you have an adblock? You might be able to block if it's an image.

Yeah, tumblr pages have that problem a lot, it's really annoying.

MightyMatilda Mr. Clueless from New Jersey, USA Since: Jan, 2015
Mr. Clueless
#33435: Jun 9th 2016 at 5:54:40 PM

I have adblock, but it does nothing. I don't see how it would affect something that's not an ad, though.

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SmartGirl333 New account is voidify Since: Nov, 2014
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#33436: Jun 9th 2016 at 5:57:01 PM

Right click on the image and select "block element". Or click on the adblock icon, select "block element", and click on the image.

diyedas Since: Feb, 2010
#33437: Jun 9th 2016 at 6:34:04 PM

For mine you right click on the image, hover over to the thing that says adblock where another small menu comes up and click on "block this ad". It works for me.

edited 9th Jun '16 6:34:38 PM by diyedas

Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#33438: Jun 9th 2016 at 10:43:20 PM

I just realized that since Gems aren't really female, then technically neither of them are gay. At least no more then you can say that talking computer that doesn't know What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? is asexual or shapeshifter can be trans.

So that would mean that first reference to gays in show would be....Peridor's mad shipper rambling, then?

Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#33439: Jun 9th 2016 at 10:44:54 PM

Nope, its still Garnet's first appearance.

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Bocaj Funny but not helpful from Here or thereabouts (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Funny but not helpful
#33441: Jun 9th 2016 at 10:58:58 PM

She's literally made of gay.

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lycropath Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
#33442: Jun 9th 2016 at 10:59:24 PM

Gems may have No Biological Sex but they still identify as a One-Gender Race of women.

Sunchet Since: Oct, 2010
#33443: Jun 9th 2016 at 11:14:56 PM

1) Is it really "gay" when your species don't have men? It's like saying that aliens that reproduce asexually are as good example of asexual as asexual person from Earth.

2) we didn't even know that when we first met her anyway, so if anything "Jail Break" would be first reference or perhaps of Pearl episodes.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#33444: Jun 9th 2016 at 11:16:12 PM

Eh, the crew says they're gay so they're gay.

Oh really when?
lycropath Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: I like big bots and I can not lie
SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#33446: Jun 9th 2016 at 11:31:57 PM

Literally speaking, the Gems do not have a gender, but look like what we would commonly consider female. Figuratively, though, they are still meant to be read as women, and the relationships between Sapphire and Ruby, and Pearl and Rose, are meant to be read as lesbian.

BlueBlaze64 The Watcher on the Tower from Empire City Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Watcher on the Tower
#33447: Jun 9th 2016 at 11:32:44 PM

I think that's how they got away with the themes they cover in this show. It's their fallback excuse for when the inevitable questions pop up.

"No, they're not gay. They're a race of sentient rocks that all simply look traditionally female in their physical forms. Plus, only a few of them have learned to love at all."

I told my mom about the show once, mentioning Garnet's character and Pearl's Type 4 Love Triangle with Rose, and she said was leaning towards not being okay with it. Her reason was that its subtlety means the ideas go straight to the kids' heads, without being upfront about it. She said that the show becomes less about the content and more about having a message. Although, when I asked her what's wrong with simply introducing kids to the idea of a same-sex romance, she couldn't come up with an answer.

edited 9th Jun '16 11:33:22 PM by BlueBlaze64

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SilentColossus (Don’t ask)
#33448: Jun 9th 2016 at 11:34:38 PM

Was that article where Rebecca Sugar said that you can't wait until people are adults to tell them LGBTQ+ people exist linked here yet?

edited 9th Jun '16 11:36:56 PM by SilentColossus

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#33449: Jun 9th 2016 at 11:38:57 PM

Man I was literally just reading that an hour ago. I don't have a link either.

Oh really when?
BlueBlaze64 The Watcher on the Tower from Empire City Since: Sep, 2012 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Watcher on the Tower
#33450: Jun 9th 2016 at 11:50:14 PM

[up][up] I remember seeing a quote from it once, but I don't think it's been posted here.

And if it has, it's probably been a while since then.

"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't." -Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

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