#not gonna lie: the (anti-)fandom surrounding steven universe was a huge part of the reason i couldn't give it a shot for a long time

[gynoidgearhead]

[Image caption for addition: tags by an unknown user reading: "#I'll never shut up about how the last season ate a 20 episode cut because it was either that or cut the wedding #And the crewniverse stuck to their guns #Of course it was rushed. they were literally punished for being queer #This is why we keep saying 'you couldn't even handle steven universe' because not only was it actually good #but it did REAL WORLD good and FOUGHT for real world human rights #but because the fiction wasn't hayes code enough y'all lit the crewniverse on fire for it. #Abysmal priorities. Pathetic. #problemnyatic thoughts #steven universe". End caption.]

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.