Critical Alexandrite

do y’all realize that characters aren’t real? that someone like wonder woman did not “decide” to wear a miniskirt and heels? someone else, a creator, a designer, chose that?

somewhere down the line, a real life human being is making the decision for the female character in question to be oversexualized. that’s not a character “reclaiming” anything. that’s some guy in charge being horny on set. and that guy is probably joss whedon.

The Creator of She-Ra Princesses of Power and Lumberjanes everyone

Oh, and FYI, children who get abused by their parents actually exist. So….yeah. Stop this “Forgive your family no matter how abusive they are” message.

This is literally the crewniverse stole fan theories thing all over again omg

Also I know it is cus i started it. It was lowkey a joke and lowkey serious not my fault y'all blew it out of proportion. snsndnxnx

We literally know nothing right now. It could explained in the new episodes. Just wait, then you can talk about actual inconsistencies.

I saw some synopsis recently and I’m under the impressions we go back to Earth to get this outfit and Connies new sword, I feel like this is gonna be a uhhhh boring 5 arc bomb

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@bitterlapis 

I don’t talk about it much but I’m super mad about how bronies ruined FIM. FiM is taking a very painfully slow nose dive into the same problems that SU has. Except in FiM’s case it was supposed to have a specific demographic audience: young feminine girls. But then t eh creators of FIM saw that it gathered an audience of anti SJW anime obsessed men. For awhile listening to the anti SJW anime obsessed men sort of helped the show. Sadly though the FIM creators didn’t use enough critical thinking when taking advice from bronies. They soon began to think that everything bronies wanted was good for the show. Including…making a villain character that looked like an exaggeration of a design you’d see from old MLP cartoons. (And no I’m not talking about Cozy Glow, I’m talking about Starlight who was the catalyst for the show’s downfall.) The problem with this is that while the old MLP cartoons were often superficially girly they were supposed to be that way. They were basically the Western media industry’s version of the magical girl genre. But the FiM writers quickly lost their understanding of MLP’s original purpose as they got dollar signs in their eyes over the brony craze. The original MLP cartoons were more strongly pro feminist leaning. At least originally, until that garbage that was MLP FIM G 3.5 (the half with the toddlers) came out. Anyways the point is that FIM was supposed to be as proudly pro feminist as the other MLP cartoons. But the brony community started on 4chan which was and is a very pro anti SJW site. You should be able to see where the problems with that would arise. The show after making Starlight Glimmer be this evil pro feminist stereotype that was meant to bash feminism comes in and the show gets more and more pro anti SJW. Now the show has the same problem as SU. It’s lost its original purpose in a bad way and the FiM creators don’t know how to take criticism. Just like SU. The FiM creators have gotten so bad at taking criticism that they legit made a whole episode portraying their critics as irredeemable bullies. I won’t lie I still love some aspects of FiM but the bronies ruined the core purpose of the show and I won’t stop being mad about that. Like bronies literally looked at a pro feminist show made for PRE SCHOOLERS and went “How can I make this about me.” And the FiM writers only listened to these anti SJW bronies because of money. Then to hammer in the nail in the coffin they make Cozy Glow, a character who is the epitome of a young girly girl and have her literally sent to hell for being manipulated by a male villain worse than her.  Like wow, way to miss the message you guys were originally sending before Starlight came in. And before anyone tries to cry “It’s just Twlight having character development!” I don’t care. It’s bad character development lmao. if you went to me when I was new to the FiM told me that Twilight in season one would eventually become an incompetent God who can only stop a corrupted toddler by banishing her to hell I would’ve said “0/10 bad shitpost.”

i’m 100% not calling you a liar in any way- i just have more than one person saying the opposite.

Excuses, excuses. It’s still ableist as all fuck.

The issue is that so much of its fan base are adults who’re convinced it’s a show for adults talking to them. If you’re in your teens, 20s, or later, Steven Universe isn’t going to help you navigate the world (that goes for Harry Potter, too). It’s not a blue print to a Marxist revolution. It’s really not a show about toppling dictators. Tuning into Cartoon Network should have been your first hint.

Like teaching kids to talk it out is fine but like dealing with adult themes like oppressive genocidal space aliens then solving it with a kid friendly solution of “talk it out! :)” is very… Contradictory, like the shows trying to have its cake and eat it. Setting the morality of that aside, having the diamonds come over to Steven’s side in less than five minutes of conversation isn’t great from a writing perspective, especially since he didn’t actually convince them through conversation, they came over cause he was one of them so it didn’t even successfully teach the talking lesson out here.

If your horror hinges on demonizing the mentally ill, odds are you’re a shitty writer.