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heyo! this isnt really about the comic, but i was wondering---do you ever feel weird talking about rose's identity as pink diamond? ive been thinking about it and ive always felt strangely odd about referring to rose as pink diamond. i think it almost sort of feels disrespectful, like deadnaming? its just something thats been on my mind haha

I actually really appreciate you giving me a chance to rant about this a bit.

This is a thing that bothers me. A fair bit.

No. No you shouldn't.

Alright, but let's step back and discuss.

The truth is, I don't actually think my stance on this is THAT extreme.

There are people that make a direct connection from Rose's predicament to deadnaming. And while I agree that this is an apt metaphor, it's also slightly more complex than that. Should we, as an audience, constantly refer to ALL iterations of the gem now known as Rose as only "Rose Quartz"?

I personally don't think so. I think there are times when it's narratively appropriate to refer to her as Pink Diamond.

When?

When she's Pink Diamond.

Like, yes, there are entire spans of story when Rose Quartz simply did not exist, as a concept. And if I am talking about her time living as a Diamond, I think it's fully appropriate to refer to her as Pink.

But the thing is. The thing IS.

Rose CHANGED. That's the entire--that's the whole POINT.

PINK changed. Into Rose.

And was it something that wiped her slate clean? No. Was it something that erased her past mistakes? No. Did it magically, all at once, make her into a better gem and a better person?

No.

But. She did give up that identity as Pink. When she started a war - that wasn't as Pink Diamond. ROSE started that war. When she had Steven - that wasn't as Pink Diamond. ROSE made that choice. It's an important distinction, and it's not only more respectful to her character, it's also important AS A VIEWER to realize that Rose is responsible for things in the same capacity as Pink.

If we just erase her transformation into Rose, and call her Pink Diamond across the board, we are making a statement - no matter if it's consciously or not - that nothing Rose did to change herself MATTERED. That her past, her Homeworld-assigned identity, will FOREVER be more important than anything she did to change herself thereafter.

We are submitting to the same ideals that Homeworld pushed on us as the antithesis of the whole show.

I just can't get behind that.

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And look, I get it. It's fun to be in the comments when things like THIS happen in my comic:

And go off like "OOOOH, PINK, YOUR SECRET'S ALMOST OUT BABE, YOU BETTER WATCH YOUR BACK"

I don't necessarily want to shame those people because I think it's the same impulse that makes people scream like baboons when they're at a sportsball match and one little guy in a colored shirt gets the ball from ANOTHER little guy in a DIFFERENT shirt and it activates some sort of neuron that makes the thinking stop.

However. It does feel weird to me because

That's not Pink!

That's not Pink, fellas! It's Rose. She's been Rose for like 5000 years.

She WAS Pink Diamond, yes. She isn't any longer.

Pink Diamond is gone. ROSE has to deal with Pink Diamond's past now.

Give her some credit. Let her carry the sins of BOTH people. She deserves it. And there's more drama in it, anyway.

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The Reluctant Victor, inspired by The Reluctant Bride by Auguste Toulmouche - I just thought that this painting was SO perfect for Katniss and I had to draw it!

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I just wanted to draw, but i didn't know what to draw, so I drew nonsensical crack. You're in the wrong timeline if you're expecting quality art from me.

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heh. i got into to be hero x

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I may have said this before already, but I still really really REALLY hope X is just Some Normal Guy without and epic/tragic backstory. It'd honestly make him 50 times more interesting (not to mention funnier) if he is just some random character that believed in others' belief in him so much that it manifested his powers. It'd also be fitting for the whole "anyone can be a hero" theme.

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huntrix covering catallena except rumi does nana'a yell as a whole gd demon roar

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A little fanart for the wonderful story Whit How It Started from @captaincreative!

Legend gave me tenderness, he misses his brothers a lot but especially Rulie, their reunion after the adventure was incredibly soulful <3

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he says "catboy" with such dripping venom i'm crying

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#I admire them so much for giving the catboy depression#he deserves a proper former-child star crashout #how the trust system affects someone like Little Johnny who entered the public consciousness VERY young is extremely interesting to me #because while I can believe that he is generally a peppy genki kind of person #it is stark as hell how much younger he seems than most of the cast #despite being the 3rd oldest out of the main ensemble with the second longest tenure as a hero

Little Johnny: “I’ve spent nearly two decades stuck in a dead end career where I will only ever be known for who I was at 9 years old, desperately hoping I can still somehow discover the truth behind who in the industry had my father murdered despite my only lead dying in a freak accident years ago”

The actual idiot who did the murder: “Sorry I don’t read so I don’t even know why I killed him. My bad. He seemed like a cool guy. Bet he deserved it. Also you were really annoying in the car ride here”

The audience(me): What do you MEAN you’re TWENTY EIGHT?!?!?

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Him.

So apparently, I draw MUCH better when I'm sad : ' D

I'm proud of this anyway, so I'm gonna get offline soon—leaving you guys with this, and be on a little late tomorrow x'3

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esp when one of those 2 is (part of) the reason why little johnny doesn't have his dad anymore...

Little Johnny was honestly so real for going "you can't just parent your child sometimes, you're their parent always" in front of the two deadbeat dads of these last two arcs

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What I'm getting from this episode is that E-Soul and Ghostblade's hero agency is putting out hits on heroes who chose to walk away from the business. Both Moon and Little Johnny's dad tried to quit and go somewhere "no one knows [them]", and both were hunted down and slaughtered.

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I love going to barnes and noble and daydreaming about replacing the Banned Books table sign with a more accurate Mandatory Public School Middle and High School Reading List

seriously it’s comical.

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I was racking my brain trying to figure out how to draw this song.

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list link here