su critical sideblog

“no one can ever know about this”

“pearl risked her destruction for rose; she put her over everything. over logic, over consequence, over her own life”

so uh, if rose had been poofed, the secret would have been out

thank you! i do really appreciate that. it’s very kind of you to take time out of your day to send me such a nice msg

i know i havent really posted here as often anymore either but mostly its just kind of draining to do so and then immediately get swarmed with hate. and i DO like a lot about the show -- i wouldn’t be criticizing it so much if i didn’t! 

a large part of what led me to feel disappointed with it was how good the first 2 seasons were; i absolutely adored them and i think in a lot of ways the writing has slipped, and the art quality definitely has. 

children’s media should not be exempt from critique by any stretch of the imagination. i want to go on to write for children’s media. this is pretty relevant for someone like me who is going to college for this.

that said, any su critical person doesn’t honestly need to ‘justify’ why they feel like criticizing a form of media that they have the right to consume. (and ANY form of media that IS to be consumed should NEVER be ‘exempt’ from criticism!) 

the majority of su’s online fandom are teenagers and adults. the show writers know this and have encouraged this. are they also wrong for supporting the idea that ‘kids shows’ aren’t just for people under the age of 10?

considering that a good portion of pearl’s character was supposed to revolve around her belonging to nobody and rebelling against her ‘intended role’, the reveal that she was PD’s pearl and basically never actually rebelled against her original owner at all (and was some kind of ‘happy slave’ who loved her slave owner) is super fucked up, imo

i understand that rose’s not-very-quartz-like palette is meant to be visual shorthand for her alignment with humans / the earth

but i feel from a worldbuilding / lore standpoint having the palettes swapped would have made some more sense so long as she still looks sort of human-adjacent / pleasing to the eye

the fact that PD could have masqueraded as a quartz -- gems that, as far as we have seen (and we have seen a lot of quartz gems, counting the famethyst) consistently had pale hair as a largely undeviating trait -- and not have been questioned at all is a little confusing in-universe

i get that she made the RQs so it can be handwaved but having to handwave it at all is kind of not great

ignoring the gem placement change (i’ll just believe that diamonds can rotate their gems), we’ve only ever seen reformations and shapeshifting use colors from the same general palette, not change their hues entirely. so this redesign would have their colors literally swapped / matching

uhh… if connie turned the color of Lion, that would definitely be whitewashing?

her skin would be getting considerably lighter, even if it turned pink in the process as well. thats… the definition of whitewashing? like… thats whitewashing, bud

as such, i’m sure you can understand why it’s the exact same with lars

also, uh, what? my edit is definitely off color from lars original color palette, as you can see here:

?????? the biggest difference from the canon one is that i didn’t lighten his skin or make him totally pink.