#rebecca’s rants

[acoraf]

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[dorkycreature-89]

y'know what. fuck it. i was gonna hold this off until i was calm about this but i'm heated. i'm so goddamn annoyed

i really don't get why most of the peeps in this fandom isn't talking about how the sketches were FUCKING LEAKED and instead talking about "oh. pearl bi. oh. amethyst freaky" like, guys no. this shit was leaked. and i'm assuming without rebecca's permission

and it makes the backlash against the gregpearl sketches even worse since rebecca NEVER EVEN POSTED THEM. some ASSHOLES decided to leak their sketches and no one's saying ANYTHING about it

i know this is a hellsite but at the very LEAST can someone call this out????? i feel like all people care about is their rarepairs being noticed. really shows how some of y'all feel about artists

if you genuinely didn't know that these were leaked, i'm sorry for being aggressive. i'm just......why isn't anyone calling out the fact this didn't come from sugar themselves???? why are we allowing this fellas????

i.....i hate this. i hate everything about this. what the fuck y'all?

[rosenotactuallyquartz]

i can’t be the only one who thinks rose’s flings with humans were partially self destructive

rebecca sugar often describes rose as self destructive. people self destruct in many ways.

i say this as a girl who’s been in relationships where i knew i was treated poorly but subconsciously believed it was what i deserved. if a good person who knew me well showed interest, i’d feel confused. i think you’re so good and i’m nothing like you type of thing.

(if you couldn’t already tell, i also deal with self hatred, though i’m a lot more self aware than i used to be)

rose saw the good in everyone but herself. she was naive, impulsive, & had a tendency to “worship” those around her, believing they were better than her. she was fascinated by humans but didn’t know the norms or labels of human relationships. she didn’t know or understand much about humans, period. i.e., letting a human baby climb a ferris wheel in greg the babysitter.

rose was initially drawn to humans out of fascination. she saw so much beauty in the most simple parts of humanity.

but people don’t always have the best intentions

i can’t help but wonder if some people took advantage, knowing that rose didn’t understand everything about human relationships. for some humans, i’m in no doubt that they found her intriguing & her powers were obviously beneficial for them, but they didn’t respect her or care to try & get to know her. i’m sure some humans weren’t horrible, but clearly her connections with all of them until the 90s were unremarkable. they’d be attracted to her for surface level reasons.

rose thought this was just how human connections worked. even though it would feel…bad sometimes, rose believed she deserved to feel that way. after all, she said herself that it was “a good thing” if people didn’t know her well.

she didn’t think she deserved genuine love from someone who truly knew her, someone who knew her past self. when a relationship felt good, she’d feel guilty, despite deeply & genuinely loving that person who cared for her.

that’s why she’s so surprised when a human treats her with decency in we need to talk. why she laughs when he says the word respect. why she says, “is this not how this works?”

she’s never had a relationship with a human that was caring & respectful. having conversations about respect & wanting to get to know a person are very simple things. this doesn’t make him “better” than any of the crystal gems—he’s just better than the other humans she knew.

as the next three years go by, rose continues to be self destructive. they don’t know about each other’s pasts & they have a shared coping mechanism: escapism. this is why sugar has said that they enable each other, which is unfortunate yet unsurprising because they cope in similar ways. she never opens up to him about her feelings surrounding past trauma, and he doesn’t either—even when some serious decisions are made. rose couldn’t stand herself & she didn’t feel deserving of love. the more people know about her, the less deserving she feels, which makes her avoidant & confusing in relationships.

nevertheless, she genuinely loves those around her, which is partly why she passes her life on to someone she believes deserves to live & be loved more than she does

as she said in nora’s tape in lion 4, i’m so excited for everyone who’s going to know you. from the very start, she believed that the best thing she could do for the people she loved was leave behind someone who deserved to be around them. someone who was worth loving.

with all of that said i hate the way the fandom talks about her character sometimes

[resizura]

“but EVERY character has brown eyes its boring😫” NOPE, YOU’RE BORING MORE BROWN EYES FOR EVERYONE

[sadlittlecountess]

stop comparing rebecca and wanda. both are billy’s mothers. in the comics, wanda loves and appreciates rebecca, and rebecca loves and appreciates wanda in return. both accepts and respect that they share a son. wanda is accepted into the family, and has been to family gatherings. they are literally close friends. stop invalidating rebecca as a mother, because wanda created and gave birth to the boys first, and stop invalidating wanda because rebecca shares blood with billy, and raised him longer. wanda loves rebecca, and doesn’t compete with her —- so why should you?

[somewhere-in-the-rain]

Sick and tired of people saying Fourth Wing “isn’t actually enemies to lovers”.

(Spoilers for Fourth Wing and Iron Flame)

You people are confusing enemies to lovers with hate to love.

Xaden and Violet’s parents were on opposite sides of a revolution. His father was responsible for the “death” of her brother. Her mother killed his father, not to mention was responsible for 107 scars on his back.

They have every reason to fucking despise each other, and they do for a period of time. They are enemies.

Even with the deal he made with Violet’s mother, Xaden has confessed both to Violet’s face in Iron Flame and in the bonus chapters in Fourth Wing that there were times when he did want to kill her and had strongly considered it, despite the deal.

Violet hated (and even sometimes feared) Xaden for his father’s crimes and the role she thought he played in the death of her brother.

They were enemies.

They are now lovers.

That makes them enemies to lovers.

[hidingoutbackstage]

Colored them

[hughesgarnet]

the power was out for about half an hour; I didn't have internet connection so I skimmed through the last quarter of The Burning God by RF Kuang and reread the last two chapters with Sign of the Times (H. Styles) and my tears ricochet (T. Swift) blaring out my headphones. Now I feel like a depressive episode is coming after months of not having those........

also hozier's pen blazed when he wrote

Do you know, I could break beneath the weight Of the goodness, love, I still carry for you? That I'd walk so far just to take The injury of finally knowing you

[kyliesiobhan]

for the time being this is turning into a Fourth Wing account because reading those books has given me the best sense of comfort in my life since I was a teenager.

[acoraf]

Iron Flame,

Page 30:

"Sgaeyl doesn't like anyone but Xaden, and she only tolerates me, though I'm growing on her."

"Like a tumor," she replies...

I laughed so hard omg! Sgaeyl is a savage!

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[spaceastridxx]

The amethyst and Sadie art is insane..-/

****make fanfics of it now writers.. I will read it.

That dynamic is crazy bro…

I want more.

[rosenotactuallyquartz]

an overlooked part of the “why won’t you just let me do this for you, rose,” scene.

notice the lines before she accidentally calls steven rose:

pearl: you shouldn’t be anywhere near the fight! you’re too important!

steven: i am not!

pearl: yes, you are.

steven: no!

pearl: why won’t you just let me do this for you, rose?!

rebecca sugar said this about rose in the book end of an era:

“Rose is her own worst enemy — literally, she fought herself. The way she felt about herself caused so much pain for everybody around her, especially the people who loved her and the people she wanted to love. One thing I find really interesting is that the way she idolized everyone around her was very sincere. She thought everyone around her was so much better than she was.”

this says so much about pearl, and about pearl’s relationship with rose.

she says the name rose after steven tells her that he is “not important.”

often, coming off as being very attached was pearl worrying about her and wanting to take care of her; there’s so much more depth than simply seeing her as this brilliant strong leader.

people remember that pearl knew rose as a diamond, but it’s easy to overlook the fact that she witnessed a lot of the things pink went through. she saw how blue and yellow treated her… and she also knew how white treated her. we all heard the things white diamond said about pink in change your mind. we all know how terrified pearl was when steven was left in a room alone with white for five minutes.

people remember that pearl kept a lot of rose’s secrets, but it’s easy to overlook the fact that keeping so many of her dark secrets and having such a close connection in general likely involved rose dropping facade and telling pearl about her dark thoughts when she was sad.

rose was the first gem that pearl fused with, and vice-versa, which was very special as a diamond and pearl. fusion is about trusting an individual completely. this was before they lived together for over 5,000 years.

when we watch pearl, even in the early seasons of steven universe, she is protective of steven, extremely intelligent, nurturing, and strong. a major part of her character is that she takes care of everyone around her. and this is while she’s grieving.

pearl’s love for rose was never just about devotion to a leader. she also loved rose as… a person, really.

she knew the most about rose and she loved all of her, even the parts that rose could not stand. she loved versions of rose that no one else knew about; she loved every single aspect of her.

people like to call her obsessive, heck, even white did, but their love is so often misunderstood because of their former roles in a traumatizing environment that they were both trying to escape from.

pearl’s love for rose went far beyond loyalty and admiration for a leader.

she wanted to protect rose from the war. but she wanted to protect rose from her own mind, too.

[edeadinside]

public service announcement

Hello, gamers. It is I, the number one fan of random JRWI npcs that show up for ten minutes and then fuck off into the void forever! And today’s underappreciated jrwi character is: Rebecca! No. No, not the blood in the bayou character. That would be far too correct of me. I’m talkin’ Riptide, babes! Episode 66! A Grimm Murder Mystery. Comb through your brain, dear reader. Past all the hot topic fashion (yeah) and sapphic vampire romance (HELL YEAH) and absolutely bangin’ ambience to that one girl. Remember her? She was a lil’ merchant gal with big round glasses and a general swagless aura. Did she have some rock bottom standards to dance with Chip of all people? Of course. Did she get murdered brutally about 5 minutes into her existence? Absolutely. BUT! guys she was so damn nice i really really liked a whole bunch i don’t know where this is going

Anyways! When she wakes back up after Chip makes his wish? Holy shit. That right there, is some tasty slop. Her ass got resurrected. And good on Grizzly for not making her be all like “Oh fuck cool thanks man” and making her rightfully mortally terrified. She went to the first fancy party of her goddamn life and danced with the 19-time-winner of the ‘Least likely to take a goddamn shower’ award and got fucking murdered. And then basically got told that the one guy she danced with at this party was just a bitch ass liar. And then she was like all “Hey! Can I talk to you after this?” And Chip, who is so goddamn allergic to women, fucking forgot to talk to her. No closure, no peace for my main girl. Is this a dumb post? Yes. Is this an ultimately unimportant NPC? Yes. But please, go out into the world and give my girl some love. Watch the episodes. Write a fanfiction or something. Hell, even just occasionally think about her and tell me about it. Noctius was a damn good arc. And I think it shows that even one of its less popular characters was able to stick in my mind that much. So yeah! rewatch the Noctius arc and shout out to rebecca for being the greatest. peace and love

[jamethinks]

My headcanon is that Anya is going to do Culutral Studies/Linguistics when she grows up.

Picture this, twilight was from a small border town in south Westalis. During world war 2 the area was bombed and occupied by the Nazis. After that the region was left neglected and deemed a white supremacy hotspot. By the end of the war barely any authentic from their culture remained.

One thing leads to another and Twilight (who is now worried his culture was about to disappear and was also going through an identity crisis for another issue) decides to help Anya learn his culture. The dialect. The foods. The songs and dance.

Anya grows up and even though she herself is not Westalian she recognized how scared her father was about losing his culture and so she decides to work at a museum with the explicit goal of trying to preserve his culture and make sure everyone learns the truth.

It’s especially relevant to the conversations about war bc while a lot of people focus on the parts about death and property destruction no one talks about the cultural loss. A major part of my fanfics I intend to focus on culture and politics in a post war society.

[moisok20]

“Surface Pressure” but it’s just Jasper aggressively singing to Steven

[hidingoutbackstage]

Icons (including my own) of the Biohazard Team Survivor Halloween cards

Feel free to use with credit!