#stevenbomb

[cartoonfan21]

I SOMETIMES MISS THE STEVENBOMBS.

Aw jeez, here we go again.

[thecrystalthems]

happy veterans day to all the strong soldiers out there who survived the StevenBombs of the 2010's 💔 NEVER FORGET 💜

you are strong as a quartz and as patient and wise as a sapphire, may your sacrifices be honored on this day 💜

[tigergendermoved2tigergender]

Remembering the toxic hellscape that was 2015-2019ish SU fandom and just how much hate the show got is really insane when you rewatch the show after it's been a while. Like the show is good what the hell were any of these people talking about

[charliemeon]

GF had never seen Steven Universe before and i was in the mood for a rewatch since i havent watched most of the episodes since they aired so we started watching it and ita actually so lovely to both revisit a series that i have a lot of nostalgia for AND see her experience everything about it for the first time without any spoilers or interactions with the fandom. Truly the best way to relive the story

[megafighter343]

So, as it turns out...

I had not just fallen behind one or two episodes in posting These Hot Idiots to Tumblr, but in fact FIVE IN A ROW! Holy shit, allow me to rectify this now! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AENE61TkFY

Really sorry if you guys get our episodes through your Tumblr feeds because good lord, I dropped the ball on this one. Enjoy what will hopefully be the first, last and only Idiotbomb.

[hibiscuit-rose]

forcing my gf to watch she ra with me (she watched the first two seasons before then stopped) and maybe ill do screenshot redraws for that show cause why not

[crackedgemroom-26]

Pulling herself into the ocean.

[holdharmonysacred]

Man I do think there’s something a little bananas about the recent movement of like. just dunking on and mocking the “su critical” tag. Because first of all, I have checked the actual /tagged/[insert tag name] page for it for funsies, and that things is very inactive these days, to the point where mocking it specifically is beating a dead horse. The tag itself isn’t dead, there are still posts in it, but we��re talking about a tag that gets posts like. maybe once or twice a week? tops? The point is this is a very unthreatening tag, it’s very much a ghost town and it’s kinda dumb to hold it up as The Great Evil Of Discourse when literally no one is discoursing there anymore.

And second of all like... “su critical” is a blacklist tag. It’s a tag you’re meant to pop into your blacklisting function so that you don’t have to see even mild complaints about SU. That’s how all “x media critical” tags work, they quarantine the complaining with an easy-to-block tag so that people complaining about a thing and people who are upset by complaints about a thing don’t have to interact with each other and come to blows. Complaining about the tag Existing is like complaining when people use a content warning tag for character hate. If you wipe tags like it out from existence, you’re not going to get “and then all the complaining magically goes away!” you’re going to get “the complaining is completely impossible to avoid”. (This is also why people would make discourse blogs for SU by the way - it gives them space to complain while allowing them to quarantine it all away from their main blog so that their followers and friends don’t get annoyed and people can more easily block the stuff).

[sabertoothwalrus]

idk how many of my followers remember watching adventure time as it came out from the beginning, but I think people are starting forget that, from episode one, it aired new episodes weekly, without skipping more than 1-4 weeks per year, for YEARS. the entirety of season 1 and almost a third of season 2 aired in 2010 alone. hiatus weren’t a thing. It kept up this momentum until june 2015, when it did its own version of the “stevenbombs”, and then didn’t air anything new for 5 months after that. like. this is what they took from you.

[lazarusphenomenon]

some others:

I'm Running Towards Nothing - tba

The Universe is Lame, Without You Now - tba

And So I Run Now to the Things They Said Could Restore Me - tba

Even if We're Just Dancing in the Dark - tba

i'm like vibrating. i want to post the first fic of summerween sooo bad.

[storm-of-feathers]

i blame CN and the stevenbomb schedule for how ppl treated SU bc people straight up forgot what was going on in between bombs. ie we saw rose quartz' character growth backwards but bc her as pink diamond is whats focused on bc its what was in the late series.

[ironghost828]

Looking back at my time as an SU fan...

I think I finally get why I was so put off by the twist and ending of the show despite being obsessed with it.

I think I was more interested with the show's concept and fandom than the show itself. And I think I know why.

For one, I'd taken a 3-year break from cartoons in general during my last year of high school, but had gotten back into them during college in 2015. Gravity Falls was first, but I mainly watched it as a background show. With SU, I was watching it attently, not knowing what to expect. The concept of the show was so new and original that I immedately latched onto it and became obsessed with it. I loved the premise, the characters, and the story.

Second point, the fandom. Not only was I back into cartoons, but I had the addition of social media to dive even deeper into the shows. And SU was a goldmine for me. I read so many fanfics and read and wrote so many Reddit posts. I even started writing fanfiction because of it. It was my first time realling interacting with a fandom and I loved it. I loved being able to chat wth and talk to fellow SU fans.

Third, the hiatuses. With so much time in between StevenBombs, I spent most of it indulging in the fandom side of the show. Reading fanfics, looking at fanart, reading theories and stuff on Reddit, overanalysing everything. And the waits fueled my interest in the show even more! Unlike GF, which was available full to stream when I watched it, I, like every other fan, had to endure the infamous hiatuses that made the show somewhat infamous. I spent nearly two years binging fanfics and theories in between Bombs.

And fourth, the time period. I started SU while starting my first dorm semister in college, so I was experiencing SU while also experiencing the freedom of living on your own. In short, it was one of the happiest, most fun periods of my life and SU was the cherry on top.

I'm not kidding when I say that SU was a high for me. A high that I spent two years riding. It was all I could talk about, all I could think about. I was obsessed with it.

In all the excitment and fun, however, I think what happened was that I got TOO into the fanfics and their alternative ideas and paths for the show. I spent so long reading about what COULD happen that I stopped really focusing on what the show was actually about (forgiveness and non-violence). A lot of fics involved war and combat, so I started thinking (and hoping) the show would do that too. I wanted another Gem War.

So, you can imagine my disappointment when I realized where the show was going and how it wasn't (and hadn't really ever) been aligned with the headcannon I'd made for it. It left me in a funk for a while.

HOWEVER, as I explained in a previous post, I've come to terms and accepted the show's ending. I get it now. I understand what the writers were trying to do and appreciate their efforts. The show was never at fault, I just was too distracted by all the glitz and glamor surrounding it to realize what story they were really trying to tell.

I've seen the movie and thought it was okay. I still haven't gotten to finishing Future (and am debating on whether I want to do so due to the depressing subject matter), but I have no problems with it. Both are good shows and I still consider myself an SU fan.

It brought a lot of fun memories and moments, inspired me to take up writing fanfiction, and even helped me make a few friends in college. I'm glad I watched it and I hope it will be remembered for a long time as a revolutionary cartoon.

[lightbluesleeper]

woah you hit your head pretty hard… covid? chatgpt? silly, it’s 2017!! lets go watch the new stevenbomb

[daphneblakess]

oh thank god i thought i was the only one who saw steven universe fans like that

what's wild is most of them were barely even fans by the end of the show's peak; they did tune into every stevenbomb but only to nitpick inane details of whichever new episode they liked the least and make borderline defamatory reaches about rebecca sugar's personal politics. it's why i disengaged from the fandom and it left such a bad taste in my mouth that it took a while for me to be able to enjoy the show again. i was there gandalf, when the 14 year olds running 'su crit' blogs like it was their full time job to drive the hate train bad faith engagement grew up a decade later into uwu tenderqueers who still shit a brick every time gay people have sex on their tv screen.

(also afaik sugar has yet to helm another project of su's scale since future ended and i truly wouldn't blame them if they never wanted to again. the entire fucking internet owes them an apology idc)

[inu-jiru]

You know, it's funny when you've watched SMG4 a long time ago because the YT Channel recently made an Indie Animation studio of their own (they're most likely famous for "Murder Drones" and "The Amazing Digital Circus") if you haven't checked them out yet.

I recommend them.

I need to watch TADC (and Lackadaisy) aaa, I just have a problem with starting new shows or following new content, like when I finally began Steven Universe it wasn’t until the first Stevenbomb aired. I’ll watch them eventually tho 😩

[botchbehemoth]

people talk about how king gizzard release a lot of albums (they do) but not enough about how the results of their musical stevenbombs are also like. consistently their best material. changes, ice death, and laminated denim together would be more than solid enough to fill the entire discography of another band but for kg that's just October '22. what the hell