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spop-romanticizes-abuse · 6 months ago

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i know a lot of people criticized steven universe’s portrayal of war and while i agree that there were some parts that were handled badly, most of it was pretty well-written.

unlike spop, they don’t act like war only affects the heroes and the villains, we see various characters like lapis, the cluster, the humans in the human zoo, etc. who were not part of the war in any way but were still horribly traumatized by it. similarly, all the characters treat war with the seriousness that it deserves (i believe there was a quote by greg that was something like “there’s nothing good about a war” when steven points out that rose won). it doesn’t use war as an aesthetic backdrop that only matters when one specific character is affected by it.

i don’t understand people who criticize su for its portrayal of war, then praise spop for writing a “tragic story where two lovers were separated by war”.

#also i saw a lot of people who probably didn’t watch su talking about how messed up the human zoo was #and acting like the writers of su didn’t know that??#GIRL. THAT WAS THE POINT.#it’s SUPPOSED to be fucked up #these people were like “are we not gonna talk about the human zoo who thought that was okay” NO ONE lol #the story acknowledges how fucked up it was how do yall not get that #it’s not like they were romaniticizing it or making it a joke #idk man people just find any reason to hate on su #spop critical #spop salt #spop #spop discourse #spop criticism #she ra #anti spop #steven universe

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