It's not that I hate spinel, or even (some) spinel fans. It's how you guys completely ignored the show's continued message of how people can grow and change and overcome if they are given the chance, the space, the support, the understanding and turned it into a one note, black & white, "Rose is the show's villain!!, she was so cruel to everyone!!!, we saw her redemption backwards!!!!!".
People think su fans lack critical thinking for a reason.
I'm going to be kind to some of you who I think are young and still trying to develop these ideas/thinking but listen up, we did not go through so many examples of how people can be awful and still given the chance to change for you guys to do the shit you do to Rose.
I get it, a character you like, love even, got hurt but spinel hurt people too. The diamonds did, Steven did, Connie did, the crystal gems did, Greg did. ALL of them fucking did. But you people do not give Rose the grace you do to most of them. Maybe it's because she's dead and can't defend, or argue or whatever shit you need for herself but that doesn't mean shit.
Spinel was hurt, lashed out, didn't know how to change, to grow, but she was given kindness, love, grace and respect to. She was given the opportunity to. Rose/Pink was the same. She was hurting and chose to change and get better.
Pink/Rose didn't have a support network. She didn't have a 'steven'. Yet none of you commend her for that. Shocking! Who knew! That the journey of bettering yourself would be ugly and still full of hurt. That sometimes you cannot go back. That sometimes you cannot undo the things you've done. That you did the best you could in that moment, and in that moment you still felt that instinct to rely on the same behaviors of the past (fear, avoidance, isolation, etc).
Rose had no support network. She a had abusive guardians, an unsafe home, traumatized people she loved, and enablers (Greg and pearl love you guys but shit was a mess). She tried to change and it was ugly at times, but she had to learn how to do it on her own! Rose is what laid the groundwork for the characters to end up in the place they were by the end of the show!!! Better and healing! And none of you fucking consider that! None of you give her the understanding and love the characters in the show were asking you to do! That were trying to teach you this lesson. This is a major theme of the show!! We got many characters showing that! WE FUCKING GOT SPINEL'S MOVIE ABOUT IT. I'm SO fucking sick of it. I'm not in the mood to list all the "crimes" every other character did in the show that they were just as "bad" as Rose (that was the whole plot of the final season. Characters we love being "exposed" as being able to royally fuck up while still having good intentions and doing the best the could in the moment).
That's why it's tiring to interact or sometimes acknowledge spinel fans. Or just Rose haters in general. You have all this love and care and understanding for spinel and others but when the show asks you to take in their message and give the same to all, you suddenly lack it. It's enraging and disappointing.
I'm not asking you to love Rose because I can't force people to like characters they don't, just please stop running with this stupid as shit narrative that she's the great 'bad', great demon, true evil of this show. She was a person trying to be better, and if she hadn't, we wouldn't have ended up with the situation we got. We would have no Steven. We would have no lesson that, no matter what, you can change and grow. No change is ever truly beautiful, remember that
