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Hello, how are you feeling these days? Even if you're still not taking any requests, I hope you're doing well!

I'm doing alright, just have a lot going on regarding classes, getting a job, stuff going on with my parents, etc, so I haven't been up to continuing the blog quite yet. I do hope to get back to it at some point, even if not as frequently as before, cause I do enjoy it. But for now it's just been put on a back burner. Since this was supposed to be something I do for fun it has a lower priority than other stuff so that it doesn't become something that I might stress about. But I do still want to get back to it eventually when I'm able and willing. I thought I should give a bit of an update though at least!

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Hey guys.

So I'm ending up having to put my dog down today. She's elderly so it's not unexpected or anything, but I'm going to be taking a break from posting for a little while. What I might end up doing is going back and reblogging some older posts or something, but I just thought I'd provide some info for why I won't be making new posts for the next little while.

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Mouth Squiggle of Displeasure.

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You're alive!

I am! If I ever stopped making content for this blog for any reason I would definitely announce it rather than just disappear. I just haven't been as able to get onto the computer as much lately because I've been helping my dad. He just had back surgery, and it went well but he can't bend over, lift anything over 10 lbs, walk very far, stand or sit up for long periods, drive, etc, for a while afterwards, hence the slower activity. I'll still be making posts when I'm able to though!

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I’ve been looking stuff up about methods for speaking with trauma victims for some scenes in my SU fic, and there’s a bunch of notes in literature about what professionals shouldn’t do when treating a client.

A lot of them say to avoid stressful interventions such as group confrontations, avoid confrontations that are too challenging for the client at their current mental state, and avoid direct confrontations with clients who have a history of being physically assaulted because they may instinctively feel like it’s a prelude to being attacked…

… Whoops.

There was a lot of info on how to get people to be open to talking about their trauma and receiving help, and I don’t want to go on a huge tangent about it, but a lot of it was about providing an environment where the person feels safe and building trust with them, and then giving them the tools to express themselves in a way that they’re comfortable with.

It was interesting to read cause I’ve been thinking of how the gems could have done things differently and tried to address the problem without pushing Steven to go nuclear like they did in canon. I’m thinking a big thing they could have worked on was building trust so Steven could feel safe talking to them, since he obviously didn’t, considering what he said in Prickly Pair. Likely due to bad past experiences when they were having their own issues and didn’t always handle it well in regards to him.

And don’t get me wrong, the gems were trying to help him. They did notice that he was struggling. They told him they cared and that he could talk to them. But I think the problem was that they hadn’t built that trust he needed to feel safe doing so. He even had multiple experiences where he tried to open up or seek help but they backfired on him, like with with Cactus Steven, Garnet, and Greg. They ended up betraying Steven’s trust in certain ways, even if it was done unintentionally. Cactus Steven couldn’t maintain Steven’s privacy, Garnet prioritized teaching him a lesson over listening to him, and Greg ended up projecting his own past issues onto Steven in a way that made Steven feel alienated. All things professionals are told to avoid doing. To be fair, Cactus Steven gets a pass because he was just a sentient cactus who was born like two days ago, but that doesn’t mean Steven wasn’t negatively affected by it, and the other experiences would have added to that and compounded the issue. Then after everything that happened in Mr. Universe when Steven was in a really bad place mentally it was followed up by Jasper nursing the idea that his friends and family don’t understand him and can’t help him.

But I think everyone embracing him, accepting him, and loving him in his worst moments, even when he’s literally a giant monster, is a good way to start countering some of that, and it can allow them to start building a new foundation for him to feel safe and supported in the future.

Anyways I’m having a lot of feelings in this Chili’s tonight.

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I haven't had much time to go through End of an Era all the way yet since I've been busy plus I want to take my time, but these are some of my fav Stevens from the back of the cover.

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“Mayor Dewey was hiding things from you, but he was doing it because he didn’t want you to worry!”

“Do you guys want to talk?”

“And why would we need to do that?”

“Everything is fine!”

“You’re just learning from the only role model you’ve got!”

“Is there anything you need to talk about?”

“Nothing’s wrong!”

“Besides, I don’t want you to worry!”

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There's this cute little moment in the Steven Universe movie that I really like, during the part where Steven's looking for Amethyst:

He stops off at the Big Donut, and just as he's leaving he pops back in to ask for a couple of donuts to go.

The following scene shows that he got them to lure out Amethyst, which makes sense since she loves junk food.

But if he only needed one to use as bait, then why'd he get the second one?

He got it so Spinel could have a donut too.

Idk, I just thought it was cute how he didn't bother to get a donut for himself but he made sure to get one for Spinel.

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Steven said the swelling didn’t hurt but we know he has a history of obfuscating about whether he’s alright or not and whenever he grew it looked like it hurt him

so honestly I don’t believe that it didn’t hurt.

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