#In Episode 20

[problemnyatic]

the steven universe hate is insane bc people are (or at least were) more upset that fictional war criminals got fictional hugs than they recognize that it singlehandedly advanced queer rep in children's media by lightyears and then straight up ate heavy retaliation for the nerve.

It does have real flaws that are worth discussing, but it also put their male protagonist in dresses and skirts and played it straight and even empowering, they aired a lesbian wedding on television, it was a genuinely queer, genuinely diverse piece of media through and through. It did a lot of real good for the real world.

But also the fictional characters caused fictional harm to other fictional characters, and didn't get an onscreen firing squad sentence. So, you know, it's basically ontologically evil in real life.

[bixels]

That one Rarijack episode where they're on the verge of making out the entire runtime.

[slugbutterfly]

Izutsumi loaf was animated!

[nosnexus]

Thank you Aabria and Brennen for one of the quietest and scariest descriptions of the death of a character I've ever heard.

[breadnoise]

the last stand

[egophiliac]

you know, I've been thinking about it, and there is actually one single scenario in which I would be okay with not getting a big ol' "Silver Vanrouge" out of Lilia.

(just kidding, I still need some "call me Silver, Mr. Vanrouge is my father" in my life, please don't let me down on this one Twst)

[morningsaidthemoon]

“I know who’s in those ducts. It’s my freak-ass uncle.”

[fulcrvm]

illya is so dramatic oh my god i love him

[moonlightmagical]

i feel insane. bazoongo.

[justsalpals]

it was played as a joke but

there's something genuinely harrowing about gorgug and kristen on the deck of the ship, pelted by rain, swarmed by dragons, these two teenagers looking at each other with wide eyes trying to bury the fear down deep, and

do you remember when we died?

they were freshmen, they were children, they were two years younger but it feels like a hundred hundred years ago

it feels like yesterday, because deep down they're still that boy hiding his too large frame behind a metal flower and a girl stuffing her too large personality into the pages of her bible

do you remember when we died?

the ship rocks violently with cannon fire, hands of fear and divinity and loss creeping from the clouds

do you remember the day you lost your faith?

do you remember a forest so sharp it cut you clean through?

do you think we ever woke up?

[xiewho]

i WILL take any excuse i have to draw the abernant sisters Btw

[foggysirens]

adaine calling porter a freak after he threatens to bite off gorgugs head and then immediately following that up with “you don’t even know me???” and “what’s my name???” is my absolute new favourite thing like idk about porter but if a teen girl did that to me id never mentally recover

[zoe-oneesama]

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[5ftboy]

"Can I do a snoop check to see how horny The Fix is?" "That's gonna be snoop one."

[istayawakereading]

Going from this (smug as can be)

to this (utter defeat)

is the universe giving Brennan the biggest vibe check ever

[re-reclass]

Creating a more unhinged clone of Kristen has been such a boon because she gives Beardsley a way to fulfill their impulses for absurd bits without compromising the real Kristen's arc of realizing chaos isn't cute.