#; sapphires and rubies

[ratective]

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[weedle-testaburger]

You know, since it's Pride Month (and also I miss them), I feel like reminding everyone how fucking important Ruby and Sapphire were.

The way they were both unambiguously conceived as queer characters and let the writers make an established character queer retroactively. The fact that as soon as they share the screen, they immediately show how in love they are, without any ambiguity to please the censors, and they do that almost every episode they're in.

How their relationship isn't always 100% perfect, and they do conflict and fall out, but make up in the end because they genuinely love each other. How they were allowed to be iconic parts of the show, not just through being the focus of two of its most famous songs (Stronger Than You and Here Comes A Thought) but also through the book version of The Answer.

The fact they got the first gay kiss...

...and the first gay wedding in the history of kid's TV.

The way their reception showed networks that yes, people do enjoy media with queer characters, and so they contributed to many other series with prominent LGBTQ characters getting greenlit.

I honestly don't think it's exaggerating to say they're among the most important queer characters in the history of fiction for all that. And people need to say it more, and demand stuff like them more.

[discount-supervillain]

[adobe-outdesign]

Babe wake up, massive GameFreak leak just dropped

Literally like a terabyte of info just came out and stuff's still leaking in mass from Twitter as I type so bear with me. I'm only including a few highlights (including the most legit-seeming ones) because there's potentially over a hundred beta sprites/art/assets being leaked.

All of these leaks were pulled from r/PokeLeaks. I'm doing my best to verify as I go, but will update the post if any of this turns out to be fake (though this is unlikely).

^ Unknown water starter concept art

^ Unused Pokemon

^ Unused Pokemon part 2 electric boogaloo

^ Beta Honchkrow with a mustache (that explains the random crescent around its eye in the final version)

^ fear.jpg (Beta Kricketune)

^ Beta wash Rotom

^ Beta Lickilicky (now we know why it evolves via rollout in the final version)

^ Beta Skunktank

^ Beta Reshiram/Zekrom

^ Beta team Galactic admins

[zukaichu]

Today's Pokémon Mystery Dungeon Day!! I still remember my first run in Blue Rescue Team! The battle against Rayquaza was EPIC! Have this drawing to celebrate!

Ps. This print is available on my shop! (Link in bio!)

[sun-square-moon]

your light is like star sapphires

relentless shades of blue and piercing white,

rare and forever going beyond.

and i observing you,

suspended in time,

a statue of marble and ruby eyes.

we are found

in some otherworldly atmosphere

and i can no longer imagine me

without you here

[retrogamingblog2]

[sunnyirry]

rupphire dancing based on art by rebecca sugar ^^

[not-kat]

here's one more steven universe throwback

[norazingrid]

screw the osc im rejoining a dead fandom

alts

[tacobellabeanburrito]

Aww you guys are such a cute couple! Which one of you is the red one and which one of you is the blue one?

[ratective]

do you guys think garnet would ever wish to exist beside ruby and sapphire to give them a hug

[chipsncookies]

In an interview with IGN, Polish artist Rafal Gosieniecki (@rafpointzero) mentioned that he was in charge of the redesigns of the villainous team members, while Ken Sugimori and his assistants were in charge of their settei. (source)

I finally found the person responsible for designing my favourite teams. This is important to me.

[discount-supervillain]

[adstreier]

[redrrrre]

redraw of that comic i drew four years ago when steven universe ended. FOUR YEARS!!!! there will never be enough words to describe how much i love this show and how much of an impact it has had on me.

to every single person who has worked on the show, on the movie, the games, the comics, and to every person who has been a part of the fandom, thank you. from the bottom of my heart, thank you.