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Some more Steven Universe sketches I've done for folks~

Look at these pictures. How long will this continue? Yesterday I narrowly escaped death, and today a residential block near my home was targeted, and we miraculously survived again. How long will this silence last? It will kill me and my family. Please help me. Donate to us. Donate to my nephew to save him from death and get him the surgery he needs. I'm afraid if anything happens to me, no one will be able to save my nephew. Please, please donate before we die. Donate! 😭💔

We haven't received any donations for three days. Why are you ignoring me? If anything happens to my wife, I will never forgive anyone who ignored me, didn't help, and didn't share this post.

You have no idea the extent of the pain and the dire circumstances we are enduring. Here, there is daily Israeli bombing, destruction, and the killing of innocent people. Women and children die every day because of Israeli bombing. What is the sin of the children and women who are being killed? This is genocide in every sense of the word.

The pain of loss is unbearable. I lost my mother and older brother in this war. I feel as though I am dying every day. I cannot bear the thought of losing my wife or any other member of my family. Please help me and donate to save my wife. Don't leave me alone.

If we don't provide treatment for my wife, her condition will worsen. Please help me, don't leave me alone. I don't want to lose my wife.😭

If just 5 people donated 50 euros each, we could provide the necessary treatment.

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My name is Sahar. Like any young woman, I dreamed of a stable and happy life. I was engaged to Mohammad, and together, we dreamed of building a warm little home where we could start our life. We spent years preparing our house, but just before our wedding, everything was destroyed in an instant by the war.

I was faced with a choice: to leave Mohammad in the midst of this chaos or to stand by him and begin our journey together, no matter how difficult it might be. I chose him. We got married, not in the dream wedding I had envisioned, but under the harsh reality of war. Our new home became a fragile tent, offering neither comfort nor security.

Today, I am seven months pregnant and living in constant fear for my unborn daughter. I am terrified of the world she will be born into—a world of poverty, hunger, and freezing cold. We’ve been displaced over nine times, carrying nothing but the weight of loss and the hope for survival. The house we dreamed of is now rubble, and the tent we live in barely shields us from the rain and cold.

How will I protect my daughter? We struggle to find enough food. Basic necessities like milk, blankets, and clothing feel impossibly out of reach. The cost of survival has become unbearable. Every night, I am haunted by the thought: how can I bring her into this world, knowing I cannot keep her safe?

I write to you with a heavy heart, pleading for help. I don’t ask for much, just the chance to give my daughter a safe beginning, a life with warmth and dignity. Every small donation can be a lifeline for us, and even sharing our story can make a difference. Please, help us survive this storm and rebuild our shattered lives.

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Raneen, @a00h2, is my friend. She is trapped in Gaza, Palestine, with her family. She lost everything in the bombings and is now in poverty and homelessness. Her whole family, her baby, her husband, her husband's mother, are in mortal danger from the bombings. And her 1-year-old baby is in a respirator; he has very dangerous lung cancer. She needs to pay $5,200 more before the 1st of July to get the family out of Gaza, so the baby can receive proper treatment and her other loved ones can be safe. My friend doesn't have that money. She can't help them alone. Please, I beg of you, don't just reblog. Donate, whatever you can. $40, $20, $10, $5, whatever you can, it will all be useful. Thank you so much.

Her account is vetted by @90-ghost here, by @gazavetters (#576) , and by @bilal-salah0. This Chuffed fundraiser goes directly to her; for transparency, you can dm @a00h2 if you want to confirm it.

PLEASE, HELP MY FRIENDS' BABY AND HER FAMILY LIVE!! THIS IS THE FINAL EFFORT!!

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Gwen has a broken crown because her kingdom isn't really hers. She's the face of it, titled the "princess", but she has no control over her situation nor anyone else's. She's a symbol with no power, trapped in violence.

But with her escape, her first true act is to protect her "subjects", to defend them. Gwen wants to take control over her life, and by consequence, control over the "kingdom".

Andi has a broken sword, and Frankie has a broken shield.

Andi is someone that has been badgered down by life so much, she no longer fights against it. Andi took a job that she knows makes her just a cog in the corruption, but she just thinks of it as something inevitable. She recognizes the problems with the park, with society in general, and sees it as so huge and unfixable that she's given up on even entertaining the idea of fighting against it.

Frankie is a dreamer in a world that doesn't support that, especially for those in poverty. By being idealistic in her situation, it leaves herself vulnerable to getting hurt. She's stumbled her way into mingling with people that will keep her in line with violence, working tirelessly to work for a place she idealizes, not realizing that due to her lack of conformity they wouldn't hire her as is. She's built no walls around herself to defend against the harshness of the world.

But despite this, their instincts to protect and defend each other remain, and this is something they show time and time again.

For example, in this scene, when facing off against Sparky. When he approaches them, Andi moves behind Frankie (the shield), leaving Frankie to be the first line of defense. Sparky is listing off the many reasons why giving Gwen up will benefit not only him but her, but Frankie is unyielding. Then when Sparky attacks, Frankie performs solely defensive moves, dodging and blocking attacks, all while making sure nothing hits Gwen. It's even commented on by Sparky, after she bites him, how she never seems to "fight back proper". But after Frankie goes down, Andi, thanks to Frankie kicking the weapon out of Sparky's hand, is now armed (the sword), and wastes no time pointing it at Sparky. She goes on the offense, listing proper reasons why he should let them do this, how it'll benefit him as well, until he relents.

Frankie is able to be the shield because of her idealism. She provides the strong foundation, the belief in the idea to see it through to the end despite what might happen. And Andi was able to go on the offense because she understands reality all too well, able to "slice" through the obstacles the world will throw at them through this idealism.

But whenever Frankie talks about wanting to be a Park Planet imagineer engineer, Andi gets that pained look on her face. On the surface, it's likely because she doesn't want Frankie's dream to be crushed to death by the gears of late-stage amuse-metainment, but I think it's also because she knows Frankie wouldn't be accepted by "crownies."

Frankie's casual explanation of the problem helps Andi fix the animatronic and she (Frankie) wasn't even trying.

Frankie is very clearly neurodivergent, which is unsurprising considering the creative team behind KoG. To me, it seems like AuDHD and schizophrenia. Despite being extremely intelligent, she works labor jobs that are more about physical strength (you won't catch me calling that unskilled labor lol). We don't know the nature or background of her relationship with Sparky, but it feels very transactionally parental. Instead of firing her for whatever she did to piss him off, he takes her teeth out. See? Anyone else would've dumped your ass in the gutter for that. But I'm doing you a favor.

So Frankie puts up with the abuse. She shows up to her factory job and does more than what she's paid to do by fixing machinery for other employees. Because her coworkers know that she's good with machines. Everyone knows Frankie is good with machines.

So why does Andi get to be an engineer while Frankie is stuck on the surface?

Andi doesn't seem even a little surprised that Frankie is unresponsively staring at a screen of static. Andi doesn't act like anything is unusual until Frankie starts talking to herself about Sparky dismembering a woman.

Andi and Frankie grew up together. They've always had each other's backs. Andi knows Frankie better than anyone else. Andi knows that Frankie, despite her skills and intelligence and desire to be an engineer, would be destroyed by working in the tower. Not just because her idealized view of Guinevere would be crushed by cruel reality, but because those people would never see her as an equal. They probably never saw Andi as an equal, but Frankie with her "daydreams" and forgetfulness and her-ness would be infantilized and ridiculed and Andi couldn't bear to see that happen. She also can't bear to tell Frankie that. She wants to protect Frankie from that cruelty.

What I didn’t pick on on my first watch was the balloons. Balloons are associated with joy and celebration. With birthdays. Park Planet was a birthday present for Olivia. Olivia isn’t a little girl anymore, she’s a frail, bedridden old woman, but she’s surrounded by remnants of her childhood.

The bedroom floor is dirty. Pills are scattered over the floor. Cracked bowls spilling sugary, colourful cereal over the floor. Children’s cereal. Is cereal her comfort food? Considering her condition, all that sugar can’t be doing any good for Olivia’s health.

Look that how the robots are positioned: knights standing guard over the princess.

Eyes in animation usually have a shine to them, and when they don't, that means the character is dead, either literally or inside

The flashes of the fireworks putting a shine into her eyes, doing the exact thing they're supposed to, hide that she's dead inside?

If you were to ask me what the SCARIEST thing in the Knights of Guinevere is, it would be the tragedy of Olivia Park and the cruelty and malice she's endured at the hands of her father

I find it very interesting that when she talks to her father about Princess Guinvere's escape, she speaks in a way that feels cold and detached, without any of the energy or liveliness you would expect from a child of her age. Now contrast that with how she reacted to her going missing as an adult, as she completely breaks down if a very dear family member of hers has gone missing.

What this tells me is that her father's fanatical and toxic obsession with making everything perfect, comforting, unchallenging, and aesthetically pleasing wasn't just suffered by the people in his corporation, but also by his own daughter, as I don't doubt that the behaviour she displays as a child was something he forced her to do. On top of that, the way she reacts as an adult to the android going missing also implies that her father isolated her and stopped her from forming any close connections to anyone besides him and his company, which made that android the only source of warmth and comfort in her life.

Putting aside the whole "Princess trapped in a tower" symbolism which is *painfully* explicit here, this conversation with her father makes it clear what role she's supposed to play: while it's not clear if this scene happens at the beggining of the Park's history or if it had already existed for a while, what IS clear is that Olivia's father is, well, grooming her to continue his legacy and take over the Park's operations, watching over the guests from afar and keeping the magic flowing while sitting contently in her gilded cage, with all her shiny toys and machines. He frames it all as a big shiny gift for her, compensation for something that happened in the past while also urging her to forget that same past and accept the now

So naturally Olivia complied and became some sort of "ruler" of the Park, at the very least acting as a (human) face for the public. And she has kept this role for YEARS, so much so that in the present she STILL remains on the same damn room, just now bedridden and surrounded by medical staff and freaky androids instead of toys. She's a much of a prisoner of the Park's underlying structure as Guinevere is, the main difference being that while Gwen apparently recognizes that and is constantly trying to escape, Olivia probably never realized she was one to begin with (how could you, if most of what you've ever known was a prison?)

That is also the reason why adult Olivia seems so distraught about Gwen's scape: she doesn't realize she's living in a cage and so can't for the life of her understand why Gwen, her friend/toy/surrogate mother figure(?), keeps escaping. She rationalizes it as an error in Gwen's programming and thus is always trying to "fix her", not necessarily out of malice but because she's desperate to keep her one and only companion at her side, jailed together, forever

We urgently need only $500. If just 10 people donate $50 each, my mother could have another chance at life.

No donation is too small when someone’s life is at stake. Please don’t ignore our cries for help , your support today could be the reason my mother survives.

If you cannot donate, please at least share this message. I’m begging you, don’t leave us alone in this nightmare… please do something for my mother.