maybe people like butterfly vomit sometimes

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

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The last day of the inktober challenge! It was hard but a lot of fun! <3

Which makes Fullmetal Alchemist so much funnier because Edward Elric very very much does join The Organization. He’s in fact quite famous for joining The Organization. Where The Organization is a hostile fascist dictatorship with immense military power which is good at both giving orders and punishing defectors.

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Quick step by step originally asked by @floatingmegane-san and @suke1234.( thanks for asking! )

i doesn’t really explain anythin’ but that’s how i do it !

(ex: chose to not watch anything pg13 until turning 13, no adult content until you were 18)

ID: A youtube comment with 11 likes by Niceone, it says "I've lived 46 years without knowing this. How nice of life to save some of the best bites for later." End ID.

no, it does not have the moral that you can just cut out shitty family members, because your average eight year old is not afforded the agency to do that

Rebecca speaks a lot about how they talked with higher ups for CN’s anti bullying campaign and did their own homework on child psychology and how to solve problems and conflicts, and they wanted to portray conflicts being solved through open communication, and they talk about how they wanted to do this from the start because CN had an audience of mostly young boys, and they had never seen shows aimed at kids in that regard actually portraying problems being solved with anything But violence. they wanted to show problems being solved with communication and to do that they also had to humanize the other party so there was understanding as to Why the bad action was done which is actually sooo important for tweens and teens to see in media, to be able to see nuanced conflict, because not only is it more interesting but it sets them up to understand conflict in the Real World much better— the people who hurt you arent irredeemable evil cartoon villains, but they’re not right. they’re hurting you because they have their own problems to sort out and are taking it out on you and that’s THEIR problem. In the magfest q&a rebecca says that in the early stages of the movie higher ups were just repeatedly insisting to them that steven just HAD to fucking Kill spinel and they were like. NO? LMFAOOOOO

The thing abt this argument and why it falls flat is that the show still blatantly shows that their actions are BAD and shows that they do have to face consequences for those actions, even if they had reasons for doing so. It doesn’t matter if steven “forgave” the diamonds or not (which objectively he Didn’t he’s still visibly uncomfortable around them and LITERALLY TRIES TO KILL WHITE IN A MENTAL BREAK LMFAO) because he still called their asses out on their abuse. The show DIRECTLY tells the audience that this Isn’t normal, people can’t do this and your family cant treat you like this, and you deserve better than that. It tells you that nobody has the right to tell you who you are, even the people who claim to love you.

Like i think often the reason a lot of people stay with their toxic family members is out of guilt, or a feeling of obligation— even feeling like they deserve to be treated that way. But steven… doesn’t. Not only does he NOT forgive the diamonds like objectively (he just doesn’t think anyone deserves to DIE especially if they’re Willing to make the effort to do better and hold themselves accountable) but he just objectively knows he DOESN’T deserve to be treated that way and he Doesn’t let that shit slide. The diamonds were needed for the plot to heal the corrupted gems and it’s just not in character for steven to kill them or whatever, but the narrative was also just Always about family and connection and humanity while also acknowledging that people will do fucked up things and treat you badly and you DON’T DESERVE to be treated that way. Whether you choose to forgive them is Your Choice— The show never said you Have To!! And again, objectively, steven doesn’t forgive the diamonds— he just wanted to give them the chance to change. And frankly i think forcing white to be nice to people was a punishment far worse than death for her /j

Not to mention its also important to show that people CAN take accountability for their actions and do better and become better people but they have to make the effort to do so and still face consequences— that’s what su was about the entire time!!!

I think about the blue diamond scene in cym sooo much bc i think it sums this up perfectly— it doesnt matter whether or not they got redeemed bc steven called them out on their abuse and said, in text, “this isn’t normal. this isn’t what a loving family does”. The message this gives to kids is SO FUCKING IMPORTANT.

(to the point where fans kinda just...made shit up that wasn't even in the text, like the idea that hundreds of other sapient civilizations had been wiped out by the Diamonds over thousands of years, and then got mad at Ian JQ when he corrected that humans were actually Gems' first time encountering other sentient lifeforms)

And not without merit, since the show *does* include those themes, but it kinda came at exactly the wrong time for a "using the themes of imperialism to educate children about abusive family structures" when a good portion of the queer progressive online space was (rightfully) kinda out for blood against real-world oppressive governments and were hoping that the show would be more of a call to action or at least an extreme catharsis (seeing the evil empire get overthrown and the rebels being victorious), instead of the 'sci-fi empire' archetype being more of a backdrop to tell this story of generational trauma.

Which I can understand to an extent, but for one thing there's countless other works of fiction that would have satisfied that desire easily, and also there's an alternate catharsis from the idea that "what if this WAS how things worked and meaningful change COULD happen completely peacefully, wouldn't that be nice?"

Rebecca talks a LOT abt the idea for the show in the end of an era artbook and how they came to base it around that idealized fictional world— and i think it touches on this very well.

I feel like people had the wrong expectations for the show, and its completely understandable for people to be disappointed considering the state of the world that it didnt have that stereotypical “overthrowing the oppressors” kind of storyline— but darker twists on that can always be made, through fanfics and aus and the like. but for the show itself, the idea was always that “escapism” of a place where kids can feel loved and accepted. theres a reason why there are so many like, my little pony self insert fics and stuff— people love a world where everyone is accepting and caring towards one another and communication and respect is valued above all else. But the real world allegories SU introduced muddied this, making some people interpret it as watering down fascism or something, when like, it just is barely touched on at all and like you said I think a lot of people do just end up filling the blanks and making false assumptions about the narratives the show is portraying. And a lot of people take that and then just end up being insanely toxic and acting like rebecca is the most evil person alive. The amount of people i see calling the diamonds space hitler is actually so disturbing as if they aren’t talking about a show MADE BY A JEWISH CREATOR!

“For a lot of kids and people that I know, a fantasy can be as simple as ‘I want someone to tell me that it’s OK that I exist,’ or ‘I want to be loved by somebody,’ or ‘I want to be in a family,’ or ‘I just want someone to care about me’. That can be a fantasy also.” Is a line i think about SOOOO FUCKING OFTEN. Also it’s like, it’s not like the show Wasn’t about the gems liberating themselves from their oppressors??? like wasn’t that kind of the second main theme of the show??