#antipuff

Harinezumiko:

(ITT we never finish our goddamn fics)

god, I should relent and reread the Jaspearl Kyou Kara Maou Fake Married fic and finish it

I say knowing I went so far from canon that I would die from it

ROSE WAS STILL PINK DIAMOND THOUGH

GOT THAT SHIT RIGHT /SHOT

 Antipuff:

YOU SURE DID XD

You have amazing precog

 Harinezumiko:

I think I actually had Jasper call Pearl out on being Pink's Pearl because Everyone Knew But Steven in that fic

where's the Pearlnet Sugar woman

I came for the OTP when do I get it

 Antipuff:

You've guessed everything correctly, you deserve the Pearlnet xD

 Harinezumiko:

I. DO.

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Garnet also, by How Writing A Character Arc Works, deserves to a) have the autonomy to decide if she wants sum fuk individually and not just declare that it'd be impeding on Rupphire, b) needs to be demonstrably wrong about her future vision in a way that isn't just for comedy or just to idiot ball a plot point, c) get sum fuk damn son she and Pearl are both hopeless romantics why are they not dating, d) stop being a pillar of the group and actually make good on letting the others in where we get to see it, e) not end the series being Solitary Black [Woman] Who Don't Need No [Man]™

having said this, I would also accept option f) get down to Bismuth ;D

also permafusion needs to stop being the only romantic demonstration of love between Gems

also why did we get "Three's a Crowd" declared twice and then Steven tells Amethyst Bismuth's third wordplay namedrop would be funny and get proven wrong, why are you not giving me my rule of three with Three's A Crowd, where the fuck is the final note

I mean I guess the numbered Lion episodes wasn't 3 either but >_>

 Antipuff:

xDD

But yeah, those are some good points

 Harinezumiko:

also I feel okay with my e) point mainly because [friend] not only agrees, I think they're the one who gave me the formatting, so.

 Antipuff:

*nod nod nod I think that one's the best point!

 Harinezumiko:

I do too! Although I also don't think that the ship should sail solely to subvert the trope. But like... what was the point of Sardonyx arc if they end the series more emotionally distant than they started it?

like, Pearl lying to Garnet [and Ruby and Sapphire] is so distressing that Garnet can't exist over it

and they then make it clear that this is Not Normal and also that finding out Rose was a lying liar is at least as distressing when they drop the Pink Diamond Bomb, when do I get resolution

 Antipuff:

Right??

 Harinezumiko:

like, at least lampshade it outside of the book on fusion where the only page with Garnet as an individual component to the fusion other than Rupphire is the Sardonyx lead-in where Sugar used a line typically describing romantic relationships for it

I would not be #satisfied but like at least have someone say it in the show??

give me someone from the rebellion noticing they're domestic damn you Sugar

 Antipuff:

xD God, right? Don't just tease it!

 Harinezumiko:

right??

like, it wouldn't even be totally unprecedented, we literally have Bismuth and Amethyst who've only seen them at wildly different points in knowing each other

and Bismuth already remarked on Pearl's affectionate behavior being Not What She's Used To like a liar, because give me touch-starved overly-affectionate Pearl who lavishes affection on her friends after battle because she's afraid she won't see them again because she has to go back with Pink and pretend they didn't just fight  Yellow's troupes directly and Pink's not disposable like she is

it would be completely appropriate for her to be like Amethyst wtf they're attached at the hip, I have never seen this, and Amethyst to be like yeah no they were worse, also this is why I visit the barn always, Steven's room is too crowded now that he's got a neck

//shot

 Antipuff:

sgfbhrwbhgwal too crowded

If Bismuth isn't used to it, I wonder at what point they started being touchy-feely with each other?

 Harinezumiko:

Right?

Pearl was pretty handsy with Amethyst in the early-90s because someone had to reign in the feral child, so my assumption without shipping goggles was that they were all more physical before Rose died

and where Amethyst and Pearl clashed utterly on Not Dealing With That Shit and wound up fighting about everything, Pearl overcompensated for losing both the opportunity to cling on Rose and the closeness she'd had with Amethyst by gluing herself to Garnet's arm all the time, and Garnet allowed it because her new Leader Spot prevented her from being outwardly vulnerable

and then the +shipping opinion on my end was that they've been in love the entire time because OTP friends-to-lovers, and Garnet never said anything because Rose Reasons, and was waiting for Pearl to get her head out of the sand

...and also, obviously, in Pearl's case, a side of "oh my god the Gem I was made for is half of a meaty human baby now and everyone from the rebellion is either shattered or corrupted, I can't lose Garnet too" which only gets gayer the longer the series goes on

but I don't think Sardonyx would be who she is if the closeness was just after Rose died

 Antipuff:

No, I don't think she would be either

I don't think they'd been Sardonyx since Rose died tbh

 Harinezumiko:

I think if they had, it would've been to get shit done, but I generally agree

it would've only been short-bursts

but it'd also explain Amethyst's buttmad if she had a snag in her mane deep down that they still formed Sardonyx but she and Pearl couldn't form Opal

 Antipuff:

Yeahhhh that absolutely tracks!

Harinezumiko: