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utterlyinevitable · 2 years

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7 from Winter Situations Prompt for Ethan and Becca please♡ thank you!

Secret Santa

Pairing: Ethan x F!MC (Becca Lao) Rating: Teen+ Summary: The gang does secret santa this year. Ethan almost has a breakdown over who he gets. Tropes: text/prose; christmas; the gang, ethan x f!mc

#7. Secret Santa gift exchange

a/n: From the Winter Situations Prompt List. Terr you requested this a year ago! I am so sorry I’ve finally found a modicum inspiration now. Also sorry it’s garbage 💔

Three Weeks Til Christmas.

“I cannot believe you conned me into this,” Ethan laments for the hundredth time since he agreed to participate in the cohort’s gift exchange last night in bed.

“Yes, you can.” Becca’s snidely looks up at him as they cross the threshold into the residents lounge.

Her friends are all there, with the addition of Bryce’s younger sister Keiki (it would be a strange sight if Keiki if the group didn’t all agree adding the teen into the pool was in her best interest. no kid deserves to get nothing on Christmas), waiting for the name picking to start. Bryce is at the center shaking a sugar holder he do doubt emptied to accommodate name-picking.

“Ready?” Bryce asks, a manicured brow raised and a jolly smile coaxing the group in.

Becca steps up to the pot first, adding the caveat: “If Ethan and I pull each other we’re drawing again.”

Bryce rolls his eyes and Becca can feel Jackie doing the same from behind them. “Yeah yeah yeah.”

Everyone pulled a name - the roomies, Rafael, Keiki, Ethan and Bryce. Bryce gives the most sinister of smirks.

Once Ethan and Becca are in his luxury sedan, the key in the ignition and engine ready, Becca wastes no time in asking,

“Who’d you get?”

“Isn’t it against the rules to tell?” Ethan chides, attention on the road and safely backing out of the parking space.

“It’s not me so....”

Ethan can’t help but shake his head at her audacity. She wouldn’t be his if she wasn’t keen on bending the rules.

She huffs and pouts, “You’re getting coal for Christmas.”

A smirk graces his lips, “So are you.”

Becca doesn’t think anything of it as she turns away from him, watching them pass the city by.

Five Days Til Christmas.

Four Days Til Christmas.

Ethan comes home to find Rebecca sitting on the floor of his living room wrapping gifts in nothing but an oversized tee.

“Need me to wrap your grab bag?” she greets in lieu of anything formal.

He doesn’t respond - just puts down his bag, slips his coat off and shoes. Small movements without any of the gusto he usually exhibits when she’s on the other side of that apartment door.

Becca looks up from what she’s doing finally. She sees Ethan standing behind the sofa, not daring to come any closer. The way he looks is utterly guilty.

Another sneaky, knowing smile graces her lips.

“Don’t,” he holds up his palm in surrender to stop whatever snide comment she was about to make. “I’m at an impasse. Can’t I give money? All your friends need money.”

“That’s not the point,” she chides. Becca wraps up the final touches on her gift, knowing whatever he says next will require her full attention. So she asks, “Who do you have?”

He looks so shameful.

“Is it Bryce?”

“Worse.”

Her brows furrow. “I have Jackie. Who’s worse than those two?”

Ethan pulls out the piece of ripped paper pressed in his wallet, places it on the glass table next to her. Becca unfolds it.

“Oh,” she tries and fails to suppress her laughter.

“See?” he says, terribly forlorn.

Her smirk is back as she shrugs, “Could be worse.”

“$25 cannot cover it.”

“You have to be creative! Lucky for you you have Amazon Prime.”

“I do?”

The look she shoots him is downright triumphant.

Christmas Gift Exchange.

The group of friends are all sat in the living room of the roommates apartment. Food and presents wrapped with various levels of skilled precision are piled at the center of the cramped space.

Sienna hands each gift out and the recipient must guess who bought them.

Jackie is first up. Without a single care she rips open the snowflake designed wrapping paper. What she finds elicits a deep, hearty and nearly manacle laughter.

“Becca,” Jackie decides without a second of thought needed and a shit-eating grin adorning her features.

“How’d you know?” Becca squeals in delight.

Jackie holds up her spoils - a mini set of flavored vodka and a bullet vibrator. She shakes the bullet and the two girls laugh, knowing they’re the only ones brave enough to give such an audacious and suggestive gift.

Sienna gets a new set of baking trays from Rafael.

Bryce gets a top up of hair product from Jackie.

Elijah, a bootleg Lego infinity gauntlet from Keiki.

Aurora, a new cardigan from Sienna with her favorite blondie swirl brownies.

Becca gets slippers and a onesie from Elijah.

Ethan gets a.... t-shirt?

“Thank you?” he says instead of guessing who thought this would suit him. He’s too confused and slightly too embarrassed to lift the fabric out of the plastic bag it came in.

“Take it out,” Keiki instructs, rather impatiently.

Ethan Ramsey does what he’s told. Carefully opens the plastic and pulls out the item.

It’s a gym towel. A white terry cloth gym towel with navy blue writing - Ethan has to hold back a groan as he reads the script. It’s monogrammed ‘YB Ripped Ramsey’. There’s only one person on the planet this could be from.

“You love it,” Bryce infers.

Ethan grumbles back something along the lines of a thank you.

“One left...” Sienna hands the last finely wrapped green package to Keiki.

The box is larger than the others. Keiki opens it with trepidation, already knowing who this is from. Instead, neatly packed is a Christmas succulent, rainbow fairy lights and an adult coloring book. She tries to stay impassive but everyone can see her amber eyes light up.

She looks from Ethan to Becca sitting on the arm of his chair. “Thank you. I love it.”

Ethan’s shoulders relax, glad to not have ruined Christmas.

And somehow he thinks Keiki will never truly like him, but at least this is her accepting him in their lives.

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a/n: i really just wanted to write ethan freaking out over getting a teenage girl for secret santa but this ended up happening instead :/

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stevenuniversallyreviews · 4 years

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I don’t need you to respect me, I respect me

I’m gonna miss writing about Amethyst.

As the most sisterly Crystal Gem, a firebrand in the new role of middle child after spending millennia as the baby of the group, Amethyst’s story is about growing from a wild teen to a responsible adult. Like Steven, she feels the need to prove that she’s a Crystal Gem too, but unlike Steven, she already is a Crystal Gem, so she carries a different kind of resentment as she continues to be treated like a child. It’s made even worse by her warrior instincts clashing with her small frame: she lives with the constant anxiety that she’s a mistake, a Gem who came out wrong and doesn’t belong in her family, so she comforts and distracts herself with hedonism and shapeshifting. Her problem goes beyond not feeling respected: deep down, she fears that she doesn’t deserve respect.

But she changes her mind.

“This isn’t normal.”

The Return and Jailbreak culminated the first act of Steven Universe, giving our characters subtle achievements (Amethyst and Pearl casually fuse into Opal, Greg reveals a deeper understanding of the Gems than we once thought, Beach City comes together as a community when Steven is in danger) and huge changes (Steven summons a massive shield, Garnet’s status as a fusion is confirmed, Lapis goes from prisoner to imprisoner). While not an official finale, Beta and Earthlings culminated the second act, narrowing the focus to five characters as they each reach one milestone or another: Lapis and Amethyst find a level of peace, Peridot defends her new home, Jasper succumbs to corruption, and Steven helps his friends but fails to help his enemy.

In a way, Change Your Mind culminates the third act with an even narrower focus. Sure, it gives big moments to a ton of characters (there’s fanservice galore, and we see the three Diamonds in particular take enormous steps), but we zero in on Steven in the same way the entire act has zeroed in on Steven, because this is a story about identity. It isn’t only about who he is, but who he wants to be moving forward, and fusing all the insights he’s learned from his human family, his Crystal Gem family, and his Diamond family into a song that encapsulates his growth over the course of the series.

We start in the most lifelike of the Diamond dreams, so real that Steven still sees himself as Steven rather than embodying Pink. Once again, this connection emerges from sleeping in a location where Pink once dwelled, but while he wasn’t feeling her impatience and rage in Jungle Moon, nor her hardening resolve in Can’t Go Back, nor her whimsy in Familiar, this time they share the same headspace when they’re both locked in a tower.

Considering how bombastic things get in this episode, I love how low-key this final dream remains until White Diamond interferes. We’re as lost as Steven at first, worrying about Connie and baffled at Blue’s recognizable mood but incongruous accusations, but as the truth becomes clear, he transforms into Pink off-screen without any fanfare, both in body and in mind: Steven isn’t questioning Blue’s warning about Pink Pearl, Pink Diamond is apologizing for her own behavior in Zach Callison’s voice. Still, looking down jolts him out of it, and after seeing the Crystal Gems poofed at the ball for a more definitive Steven memory, we cycle in Rose’s horror at her family launching a final attack on Earth. The rapid-fire identity shifts that follow inspired the most haunting piece of promo art for the episode, drawn by Rebecca Sugar herself, but I didn’t wanna display it without a seizure warning.

It’s excellent exposition, hitting the highlights of the Diamonds’ many wrongs and establishing Steven’s fraying sense of self in a way that’s both artful and brief; it’s important to remind younger viewers about the stakes, but Change Your Mind doesn’t pretend that anyone should be watching this episode without context, so it doesn’t prioritize thorough explanation. And despite how frightening the nightmare becomes, Steven gains a new sense of clarity after seeing the pattern laid out in front of him. The Diamonds are hurting him in the same way they hurt his mother, and if he’s going to help everyone, he needs to help himself.

When Blue Diamond returns to the tower in modern day, Steven isn’t afraid, and he isn’t alone. The first of many puns riddling the finale emerges (“Déjà Blue!”) before Connie proves why she’s the perfect partner for our hero, platonic or otherwise. He’s terrible at confronting the people that hurt him—this would require him to acknowledge he’s hurt in the first place, which he’s also terrible at—but if she was comfortable enough with confrontation to call out her best friend when he wrongs her, Blue Diamond doesn’t stand a chance. Connie comes out swinging, loading the bases with candor and sass despite Blue’s confusion over why a human even gets an opinion about this stuff, which makes Steven’s refusal to apologize hit the Diamond like a grand slam.

I love that Steven’s flat “no” takes Connie by surprise as well as Blue, because yeah, it’s uncharacteristically blunt for someone who’s spent his entire trip to Homeworld bending over backwards like he usually does to accommodate others. When he doubles down by explaining that he isn’t sorry about creating a show that celebrates queer characters whoops sorry I mean fusion, Callison makes it sound like the most obvious thing in the world, and this is what upsets Blue enough to inflict her tears on him. We’ll learn even more about Pink’s temper in Steven Universe Future, but the simple act of not bowing to authority makes Steven “worse than ever” in Blue’s mind: violence is more acceptable than insubordination. (Also, violence in cartoons is more acceptable than queer folks just sorta existing in cartoons, but that’s neither here nor there.)

Change Your Mind is about combating bigotry and cycles of abuse, and Blue is the obvious first test. She’s a bigot who doesn’t think she’s a bigot (compared to Yellow, who doesn’t care that she’s a bigot, and White, who’s quite proud of being a bigot). She passively perpetuates a toxic status quo (compared to Yellow, who actively perpetuates it, and White, who established it in the first place). It makes sense that she’s the first of the remaining Diamonds to change her mind, because all it takes for her to realize that something is wrong is thinking about it a little harder.

This doesn’t let her off the hook, of course: Blue’s sloth—the sin, not the animal—might not look flashy next to Yellow’s wrath or White’s pride or Pink’s envy, but she still chose to do nothing for thousands of years rather than contemplate how her actions and her society might have wronged Pink. If it was this easy for Blue to realize she was hurting Pink, it makes it that much more of an issue that it took her this long to figure it out. Unintentional bigots might be the “best” option by default, but they can be just as harmful as intentional bigots, and there’s a special sort of damage that can come from an oppressor who truly believes themselves an ally.

That said, while it’s important to acknowledge her blame (emphasized here when she only stops attacking Steven when he calls her out rather than the Diamonds in general), Blue is also a victim. She’s one of the most powerful beings on Homeworld, but she’s still trapped by White Diamond, and resorts to putting others down as a means of reclaiming a sense of that power. In the same way oppressed people often turn to sexism and racism and homophobia to make themselves feel bigger, Blue (and Yellow) reinforce White’s sweeping bigotry in the same way they echo her family-specific abuse. It’s not a good coping mechanism, in this show or in the real world, but understanding the problem is key to fixing it.

So it still feels like a victory when Blue turns, even though it should’ve happened ages ago, and even though she’s a tyrant. She isn’t just deciding to help Steven, she’s breaking out of that cycle in a way that allows for growth beyond our hero’s immediate concerns. Lisa Hannigan captures this transformation beautifully, shifting from manipulative whining about Pink’s behavior to a crushing realization that she’s the one who’s wrong. And even as she joins Steven’s side, she remains weighed down by her longstanding prejudice: Hannigan stutters as she refers to the Crystal Gems as his family, and her triumphant defense of Steven’s name to Yellow comes with the caveat that she’s still misgendering him.

But before we get to Yellow, we take a pit stop that grounds us back to Steven and Connie’s hunger. It may seem small, but this is a critical moment in establishing Steven’s humanity in a way the show has quietly done from day one: with food.

The very first scene of Steven Universe establishes our hero’s human half in a donut shop, upset about dessert. From there, the next five episodes drill in that Steven will take a unique approach to his magical Gem heritage, and they all involve food in a major way: Cookie Cats, then his father’s saying about pork chops and hot dogs, then the Cheeseburger Backpack (important enough to be the episode’s name), then the Together Breakfast (ditto), then creating a monster based on fries.

It’s not just Steven, either. The first few Connie episodes involve eating and drinking in ways that show hints of growth (worrying about trans fats, then sneaking food into movie theaters) and mark key moments in her life (sharing a juicebox, taking her parents to dinner). Lars’s development is tied with his love of baking, and on top of him and Sadie working at the Big Donut, the Frymans and the Pizzas are so tied to their food service jobs that it’s in their names. And speaking of names, we’ve got Vidalia calling her sons Sour Cream and Onion. It even extends to the Gems: Amethyst’s connection with Earth means she loves food, and Pearl’s greater distance from humanity means she can’t stomach it.

Food is fundamentally something that humans require and Gems don’t, and just like we saw in Lars’s Head, Steven’s physical body forces him to think about his own needs despite his usual focus on others. Both his humanity and his ability to stand up for himself are key to his eventual victory, and what could’ve been a generic transition between Blue and Yellow’s big scenes instead becomes a quiet Steven scene. Steven changing into his usual clothes (including his mom’s star) and Connie changing into her own outfit (including her dad’s jacket) is the perfect finishing touch before we dive back into the drama.

True to their natures, Yellow Diamond gets a starker introduction than Blue’s dream sequence: as the lights burst on, we get two shots focusing on a horrifying number of mutated Gem Shards floating around in the room, then the Crystal Gems’ thankfully intact gems in one big bubble, before panning down to the villain who caused all this pain. The menace is palpable before she even opens her mouth, but Patti LuPone’s low tone keeps the mood from boiling over just long enough that when she loses her cool, it hits like a freight train.

Blue’s passive bigotry endured because she lacked introspection, but Yellow’s active bigotry requires constantly justifying actions she knows are cruel by presenting it as a matter of superior reasoning. We’ve known from her first appearance that Yellow’s seething fury undermines her reputation for cold logic, and now more than ever the connection between her behavior and that of “sophisticated” bigots is clear. You know the type: openly, smugly hateful, but couching their hate as something derived from some deep knowledge about the subject, whether in religious convictions or whatever “science” they can scrape together to confirm their worldview.

Sure enough, even in her rage, Yellow lays down what she sees as a rational explanation for why it was okay to mistreat Pink, and why it’s okay that they themselves are mistreated: if they make exceptions for anyone, even other Diamonds, they must make exceptions for everyone, and chaos reigns. Besides the slippery slope being a fallacy, her argument is punctured by Connie’s second big retort of the night, pointing out that this extreme conclusion of Homeworld Gems living free actually sounds pretty nice. But you can’t force this type of bigot to change their mind through reason; if such a person was actually interested in logical worldviews, they wouldn’t have become a bigot in the first place. You need to change their heart.

Fortunately, emotions are Blue’s domain, so she’s just the person to help. Unfortunately, in the same way she still can’t get Steven’s pronouns right, Blue lacks experience with healthy communication, and strikes a first blow against Yellow on instinct. The ensuing brawl is brutal, switching between the massive scale of two warring titans and the smaller scale of Steven and Connie scrambling to save the Crystal Gems as Blue and Yellow unload millennia of baggage on each other. It’s so important that Blue is the physical instigator here, as it fuels Yellow’s white-hot self-righteous streak like nothing else, and it keeps the fight from being one-sided all the way through: Yellow pretty much needs to be the one dealing the final blow for the scene to stick, so it gets balanced out by Blue’s opening punch.

Blue uses her powers on Yellow, and Yellow uses her powers on Blue, but Steven’s power is talking. So just like with Blue’s conversion, Connie gets the opening words while Steven gets the finisher. When he finally gets her attention after being ignored throughout the scene, he makes Yellow listen to him by using the same food-based expression I mentioned from all the way back in Laser Light Cannon. It’d pack a bigger punch if Greg said “If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs” at literally any other point in the show, but it still does the trick.

Blue was emotionally ready to accept that Pink was suffering, but hadn’t considered the Diamonds’ role in that suffering. Yellow knew that Pink suffered thanks to the Diamonds, but suppressed her emotions to the point where she couldn’t empathize with her sister’s plight. Blue needed to be more thoughtful to change, and Yellow needed to be more in touch with her emotions to change, and thus the stage is set for the Battle of Heart and Mind against White Diamond.

Except that this isn’t the lesson of Change Your Mind. Blue and Yellow show that some bigots can be reached, which is great! But despite their differences, Steven uses the same basic strategy in both: he doesn’t let them belittle his identity, he confidently dispels their wrongheaded assumptions, and he gets help from allies instead of shouldering the burden himself. We spend the beginning of the episode seeing that in the right circumstances this approach can work, but from here we’ll see that with some bigots, it’s a non-starter.

So long as you can engage with bigots while maintaining your self-respect, it can be good work to try and help them see the light. It’s not an obligation, but if you want to change hearts and minds, Steven provides a good template for how to do it. Now the rest of the episode can focus on the bigger lesson: if someone refuses to respect your humanity when you’re steadfast and forthright, it isn’t your job to breathe in their poison, or to hold your breath until you asphyxiate waiting for change.

But more on that after the break!

I Can’t Believe We’ve Come So Far

As we reach the end of the original series, it would be criminal not to acknowledge three long-time storyboarders who are on their way out. This isn’t their final contribution to the series, as only one of Change Your Mind’s twelve credited writer/boarders didn’t go on to work on The Movie in some way (Christine Liu, whose tenure was brief but great), and Hilary Florido stayed on as a supervisor for Future. But I wanted to write the big sendoffs here, as this is the last proper “episode” that these three worked on as regular boarders. So it’s time to say goodbye to Katie Mitroff, Hilary Florido, and Jeff Liu.

First up is Katie Mitroff, who clocked two early knockouts with Alone Together and The Test alongside Florido. Mitroff’n’Florido went on to make other classics like Maximum Capacity and Joy Ride before the former teamed up with Lamar Abrams and the latter teamed up with Jesse Zuke for their next batch of episodes.

With Abrams, Mitroff deepened the lore of the show with We Need to Talk, Steven’s Birthday, Bismuth, Buddy’s Book, Three Gems and a Baby, and especially The Answer. She gave us the harrowing revelation of Back to the Moon, and the most ridiculous episode of the series, Restaurant Wars. Her final partner was Paul Villeco, finishing strong with The Trial, Back to the Kindergarten, Your Mother and Mine, Pool Hopping, What’s Your Problem?, Reunited, and Change Your Mind, 100% of which are either in my Love ‘em ranking or my Top Episodes. (Oh, sorry, spoiler alert I love Change Your Mind.)

It’s strange, because she didn’t work on any of the major episodes of Amethyst’s big arc at the end of Season 3, but Mitroff is one of my favorite Amethyst boarders: she’s the consistent thread between Maximum Capacity, Back to the Moon, and What’s Your Problem?, three cornerstones of the character. She excelled at going outside the show’s usual style, as seen in The Answer and Your Mother and Mine, and it’s no coincidence she helped animate Isn’t It Love? to bring Cotton Candy Garnet back for one last ride.

Katie Mitroff is an absolute rock star, I wish her well and you should too.

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sharethisgemwithme · 5 years

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Rebecca Sugar Q&A at Barnes & Noble - October 7, 2019

Here’s my notes from Monday night’s book release event in New York. @bismuth has posted a link to a collection of videos he took during the Q&A, which might cover the whole thing, but just in case (and because some people prefer reading rather than watching videos), here’s my list. This isn’t complete, but it’s what I could take down. If something is in quote marks, it’s as close as I could get to word-for-word what Sugar said.

Most of it’s behind a cut, but I’ll lead off up here with the final question and answer.

“What is the most important lesson to take from Steven Universe?”

“Marginalized children exist, they deserve to exist. They deserve to express themselves. They deserve funny cartoons, they deserve to make funny cartoons. They deserve to be kids.”

Advice for young creators

Make as much stuff as you can. If you think some of it’s bad, that’s great because you’re learning what doesn’t work for you.

What do you like to work on outside of SU?

She still does music for fun. She recently learned guitar, partially because she was writing songs that she couldn’t perform.

Anything you wanted in the show, but didn’t have time?

A number of things got crowded out, especially in the endgame, but several of those ideas made it into SUF.

How did you get into the industry after graduating from School of Visual Art? [not sure how accurate this recording of the question is; I just know it was something about SVA]

Started AT as a revisionist, which helped her see what doesn’t work. Graduated to storyboarder. Being in all these different roles helped her out as a show creator, because she knows the perspective of different members of her crew.

Is it true you were willing to quit SU over the wedding?

She wants to set the record straight. “In no world would I ever quit Steven.” She was warned that much of the funding comes from other countries, and some of them would refuse to air the wedding and might stop airing the show altogether. If the funding dried up, that could endanger the show. So she had to choose to take the risk that going forward with the wedding might jeopardize the long-term future of SU. “I chose the truth and we survived.”

Inspiration for stories from her personal and family life

Some of the original early-series ideas come from when Rebecca was a tween/teen, particularly when she was around 13 and Steven Sugar (Steven Universe’s namesake) was around 10.

She analogized to how Matt Groening has talked about how many moments from his childhood made their way into Bart Simpson.

How do you stay organized with long story arcs?

“Charts. Lots of charts.” “I really wish I could show you one of these charts.”

Every member of the show staff gets these charts, so that even those not working on a given episode will know big-picture what’s happening, in order to inform later episodes.

A future art book (presumably the one releasing in 2020) will have at least some of these charts in it!

How long did it take Spinel to get to Earth?

Gems have technology that allows essentially instantaneous travel to anywhere.

[When staying in the garden] she hadn’t realized she should go... somewhere else. As soon as she did, she left.

[someone behind me (way in the back) muttered, “ok but where’d she get the drill?”, which honestly is still a valid question]

Are there any Gems not made in a Kindergarten?

“Gems are technology”. They are made, “they are able to self-replicate”. There wouldn’t be any naturally occurring Gems.

Will we ever see Jasper again?

“The answer to this is YES.”

What can you tell us about the gem language?

Steven Sugar invented it and is the only person with the full key. It’s up to him if we ever get a decoder. “I’ll ask him, I’ll tell him you asked.”

Plans to continue the universe after SUF

“I definitely am not done with this universe and these characters.” Even if it’s not a TV series, there will still be more to say.

What song do you have the most personal connection to?

Definitely “Love Like You”, written over the course of a few years. Originally meant to be from an alien perspective, as she got to the bridge, it was becoming self-deprecating (I’m nothing like you) because she was personally struggling. She realized it was difficult for her to maintain connections with those around her while she struggled so much to love herself.

She doesn’t expect to ever take so long to write a song again, and certainly not to invest so much of her personal experience and struggles into one.

How does the viewing experience change for new viewers now that the series is complete?

At first, it was hard to get CN to accept a serial storyline, not just arcs but the whole chronological nature of the series. She understands how hard it was with the awkward airing schedule, but notes “When there are hiatuses, we’re not not-working.” She’s “really really really happy” that people can now watch it straight through, and that was one advantage of the movie.

Influences for Spinel

1930s cartoons, especially Betty Boop. Some specific Betty Boop cartoons were named, but I couldn’t hear enough to jot them down. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit also mentioned.

If you were designing a syllabus for Storytelling 101, what would you have people watch, read, or listen to?

“Your favorite movie, book, and song.” By studying the things you enjoy, you can see why they appeal to you and how to capture that for your own work.

She brings up Ocarina of Time and “no disrespect to Twilight Princess” but she loved how “Ganon kicks you in the face as a child” so you don’t have to be told that he’s bad, you experience it for yourself.

What are the Rose Quartz gems and the Zoo people up to?

“Please watch Steven Universe Future.”

What is the deal with the Pearl who was Pink’s and then became White’s?

“Please watch Steven Universe Future.”

What did you expect people to get out of Pink Diamond’s character from the movie?

Abandoning those around her is "a thing she does”, we’ve seen it before time and again.

“What is the most important lesson to take from Steven Universe?”

“Marginalized children exist, they deserve to exist. They deserve to express themselves. They deserve funny cartoons. They deserve to make funny cartoons. They deserve to be kids.”

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the-geeky-princess1 · 4 years

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I know this is kinda late but I saw some people posting about how SU changed them and I wanted to add my own stories of how the show helped me

It taught me how to manage my emotions and how to swallow your pride and apologise. In the episode Keystone hotel Ruby and Sapphire are upset and arguing and at the end Ruby admits she didn’t want to find a solution she just wanted to be angry which is something I did a lot, I relate to ruby a lot. At various times in the show apologing and resolving conficts by taking initiative is normalised which I am very thankful for.

I have recently discovered I am on the spectrum, and I believe I learnt a lot of social skills and cue readings off of cartoons especially Steven Universe which I am so thankful for.

Another way SU impacted me was body positivity. There were so many diverse characters and body types that I forgot all of the ideals I was subconsciously comparing myself to in my early teens and if I ever felt self conscious I’d watch an episode and feel better. I gained the confidence to cosplay as Lapis even though I was a different shape to her.

The final way the show helped me is the relatability to characters. When I was going through a tough time mentally I related a lot with Lapis, and Ruby when she was angry. Being able to see myself in characters helped me visualise how I was feeling. After I had improved my mental well-being coincidentally Lapis was healing as well. It was unreal growing with a character and it made me realise how far I (and her) had come!

So thank you Rebecca Sugar and the Crewneverse, with this show I learned to love myself inside and out at the most complicated time in my life. You have inspired me to do many things and I would not be the same without this show.

#steven universe #steven universe future #steven universe ending #the future #steven universe future the future #rebecca sugar #crewneverse #thank you #crystal gems

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CAN WE TALK ABOUT PEARL (Spoiler warning!)

Can we please talk about Pearl and how significant it is that she has the most singing lines in the extended theme song, especially after “A Single Pale Rose”?

So, here’s my thing. ASPR implies so much, but what I’m most interested in is the relationship between Rose/PD and Pearl. Yes, as suggested by the gif above, Pearl’s always hinted at Rose being “more” than Rose. Rose’s sheer abilities compared to other Quartz soldiers were a huge tip-off, thinking back on it. Rebecca Sugar did a fab job putting millions of tiny hints that Rose was always a little more than just a Quartz soldier who decided to screw the rules.

But, ignoring all that, let’s talk about Pearl (like we totally haven’t been since this dang episode came out).

So, besides the implications of how healthy Pearl and Rose’s relationship was, because of Rose’s ability to command Pearl to do things--because, despite her many mistakes, I don’t think Rose ever intentionally abused that ability--it really seems to me like Rose and Pearl are in love when they concoct this plan.

Rose as Pink Diamond is multi-faceted (hah, get it??). Steven sees her as a spoiled brat wanting her own colony in Jungle Moon; he sees her make excuses about colonizing earth in Can’t Go Back; and he sees her eventually create the plan that would lead to her new life as Rose, but would also cost the lives of thousands of gem soldiers in A Single Pale Rose. Obviously, looking back, we can figure out that by Can’t Go Back’s timeline, PD had seen the worth of human beings and used her Rose Quartz persona to attempt to dissuade the Diamonds from colonizing earth.

So, I just wanna refute all these arguments that PD was selfish and was trying to hide everything and escape responsibility. Pink Diamond was a young, spoiled, initially selfish brat who wanted to be as important as the other Diamonds. She went to earth, saw their beauty and their worth, and decided to try to save it. PD attempted to save the earth through subtle means, initially; she figured the Diamonds did not care about her because of the way they treated her (see Jungle Moon), so they wouldn’t care if a colony of hers failed.

Like a lot of teenagers, Pink Diamond was very self-involved and didn’t realize how her actions would affect the people around her. That’s a little bit cowardice or deliberate selfishness; but that’s primarily the folly of youth.

So, when she sees these plans aren’t working, that the Diamonds will insist on PD succeeding in colonizing earth, she figures her death will make the Diamonds lose interest. Again, thinking like the self-involved teen she seems to be, she’s assuming that the only reason the Diamonds care is likely because, as long as PD is alive, they have a stake in the earth colony. A lot of teens think their parents wouldn’t care if they disappear.

Now, for the point of this: Pearl is PD’s pearl. Pearl is PD’s confidant and knows everything that PD has been trying to do to liberate this planet. At one point, Pearl told Connie and Steven that Rose made her feel like she was everything.

Because Pearl wasn’t some renegade pearl who pulled a Kaiba, flipped everyone off, and walked off the job. Pink Diamond, her master, encouraged Pearl to be different than what she was used to; she inspired Pearl to be a renegade, to learn to fight, to think and speak eloquently, to everything. Everything that Pearl is now stems from the freedom Pink Diamond gave to Pearl. Everything Pearl believes in comes from Pink Diamond’s beliefs.

And after Rose’s, er...death?...Pearl has struggled to find herself in a world where no one is around to tell her to be someone. She made this mistake with Connie and Steven, where she defined herself as a loyal knight to Rose Quartz (a title that Rose apparently gave to Pearl). She struggled again when she tricked Garnet to fuse with her, and told Garnet that she’s just a pearl and she needs someone to tell her what to do--which hinted both at a pearl’s function in homeworld and at the fact that, even as a renegade, Pearl needed Rose to tell her to be a renegade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgseUOceeok (Pearl and Garnet make up)

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And it’s a fear that follows Pearl, because she feels incomplete without a master telling her what to do. It’s something that’s always been hinted in Pearl’s character, as far as Rose’s Scabbard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dknVBPvQAc (”I think you’re pretty great”)

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But since that episode (and possibly before), we see the common motif of Pearl covering her mouth whenever it seems like there’s a secret about Rose that Steven has uncovered. Now, obviously, we know that a Diamond’s command to her Pearl is final, and PD’s last command to Pearl has forced her to remain silent for millennia. The clip above, where Pearl is devastated after finding out she didn’t know all of Rose’s secrets, ends on a really interesting note; while Steven is happy and thinks he’s understanding his mother and Pearl more, Pearl’s face is not content at the end. Even with all her smiling while she told old war stories, and with her maybe feeling some catharsis after talking to Steven, there’s this haunted look on Pearl’s face that always bothered me and didn’t make sense until ASPR.

Because that’s the point that Pearl realizes that as much as she loved and devoted herself to Rose’s cause, Rose didn’t love her back and Rose wasn’t perfect.

Don’t get me wrong; I do not doubt that, at the time, Rose loved Pearl. When they were making plans to rebel and when Rose encouraged Pearl to change and grow the way Rose wanted to (because its heavily implied that Rose is fascinated by and wanted to emulate human growth), I do not doubt that Rose loved Pearl very much. But, Rose/PD at this time was young and foolish. She didn’t realize that her love for Pearl wasn’t healthy, because she didn’t realize how dependent on Rose’s approval Pearl was.

And maybe she did, later on. The gems have proven that although they do not change physically, their characters can change drastically.

In the years between the rebellion--and, we see Pearl’s perspective most, but I don’t doubt that Rose was just as devastated--and Rose falling in love with Greg, Rose probably did a lot of growing up too.

And some might argue that she didn’t grow up enough, because she gave birth to Steven without giving him any way to know the dangers he might encounter because of her actions. But...that’s the point? As much as Rose may have grown, she didn’t really grow emotionally by leaps and bounds until she interacted with Greg. The gems were mostly stagnant and stayed to themselves. Even the other men Rose would occasionally hook up with would leave--which is why Pearl never saw them as a threat.

But really, what kills my heart here is that as eloquent as Rose seemed to be, she always failed to communicate when it mattered most.

She never talked to the Diamonds honestly.

She never talked about Bismuth.

She never talked about her past.

She never talked to Pearl.

Like I said, I don’t doubt that PD thought she loved Pearl, but when that love became affection, it seems as though she never thought to talk to Pearl about that. Pearl believed herself to be PD’s most prized possession and closest friend/lover. But Pearl never got the memo that PD’s feelings had changed until Greg came along and made it obvious. How much more must that have hurt Pearl, who was there for PD for everything, to lose PD like that? Because she says it wasn’t Greg in “Both of You”; it was the fact that Rose fell in love with Greg that hurt her. She loved Rose enough to let her go, but she didn’t know she wasn’t in the running anymore.

(I’m getting to the point folks, hang in there)

Pearl singing the majority of the extended theme is so interesting to me, particularly after ASPR, because nothing in there is about her and what she wants--and the only person who could possibly understand her is Steven.

Garnet wants to exist in a world where she can be her grand, gay ol’ self (well, lesbian, but the alliteration!).

Amethyst wants to protect earth because it’s her home, and it’s the only place that considers her perfect.

Pearl...she just wants what Rose wants. She wants what her Diamond wants. What else can she want when she’s weighed down with Pink’s secrets and cannot speak for herself when she really, really wants to?

The real triumph of A Single Pale Rose? It’s finally a weight that Pearl can unload from her shoulders, that will finally allow her to follow Garnet’s advice and stop living for Rose. It a weight that she knew Steven would understand, because at one point, Steven thought he needed to live up to everyone else’s expectations based on what they knew of Rose Quartz; now, Steven has realized that he’s amazing all on his own and the only expectations he needs to live up to are his own (oh man, but that’s a whole other hour long post).

Pearl’s made progress since way before ASPR (remember when she punched Peridot??), but Pearl could never get over her feelings for Rose because Pearl based her entire identity on Rose Quartz/Pink Diamond (”It’s Over, Isn’t It?”)

Remember how snobby she’d get around Greg about how much more she knew regarding Rose than Greg?

Because Rose’s confidence in Pearl was a symbol of love in Pearl’s eyes. But then, Pearl grew up and understood that Rose was complicated and imperfect; Rose may have loved Pearl, but not the way Pearl loved Rose and not in any way that Pearl needed.

And that’s why we see Pearl try so hard to say something to Steven in the episodes leading up to ASPR; that’s why Pearl is so damn clever, cleverer than even her conscious self, that she figured out a way to tell Steven without breaking her Diamond’s command.

Pearl’s figured out that she and Rose were young and made many mistakes; she figured out that Rose made a mistake in keeping Steven in the dark about her real identity; that’s why Pearl had Steven go in her pearl to find the truth.

Steven already figured out what Pearl had been steadily learning, after all, and she knew Steven was mature enough to understand.

Now Pearl’s got to find her own reason to live on earth and A Single Pale Rose was just the culmination of many things--Rose’s real identity, Pearl’s role in the whole debacle, the reason why the gems were all destroyed so viciously, etc.

And what I love most about Pearl is that, even within the confines of forced silence, Pearl found her voice. Pearl decided that the truth needed to come out one way or another, despite her Diamond’s orders.

I don’t know if they’ll create a new, expanded version of the theme song, but if they do, Pearl better up in there singing about how she’s so fucking renegade, she even disobeyed the master that set her free.

Hell yeah, you have.

Now let’s work on that Jasper redemption arc.

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SDCC 2017 Rebecca Sugar interview

Rewind and Pause interviewed Rebecca Sugar in this fifteen-minute interview. Here’s a sorta-transcript–not word for word, but basically what the questions are and how she answered, paraphrased.

Question: A lot of the show's symbolism is inspired by Utena. Can you discuss that show's influence?

Rebecca: When I was a teen, that show was an epiphany for me! It plays with the semiotics of gender and I was a bisexual teen relating to it in a way I'd never related to anything before. The show is beautiful and I love that she decides she wants to BE a prince after being saved by a prince. And it's also funny. It's so extreme that it's funny, and that was a huge influence on me as well, that something could be so dramatic and so beautiful but also wacky. It's so extreme that it's powerful at the same time as being funny. I got to see the origins and see Guys and Dolls at the Takarazuka Theater when I visited Japan. Osamu Tezuka grew up in that town! You know, Princess Knight, which has everything to do with Utena. I got to see some of the roots there and it was a big influence. Amazing.

Question: Another influence, especially lately, you can draw comparisons between Steven's miracles and Christ figures. Are you exploring this, and potentially modernizing that allegory, with different kinds of love?

Rebecca: We're inspired by every voice that has ever spoken about peace. I think--I've been reading about Hillel the Elder and how he said "If I'm not for myself, then who will be for me?" The gentleness with which he approached everything is really inspiring to me. I think that I'm very influenced by my Jewish upbringing. I'm half Jewish and was raised Jewish. I've felt the feeling of belonging but not belonging. I've been moved by this incredible history and this wonderful community that I wanted to understand and be a part of. That's all been a big influence on the show as well. It was all about growing up with my brother, and that was a big part of my life. There's a lot of spiritualism in the show.

Question: I wanna ask you about the color symbolism? And I'd be remiss if I didn't say thank you for showing our community on TV. About Steven: His Gem is pink, his shield is pink, his sword is pink, his shoes are pink! It subverts the tropes of a traditional male hero. Was that intentional?

Rebecca: Oh, it's COMPLETELY intentional. Yeah, I think one of the things I wanted to do as I went into the show was address how intensely gendered shows for children are and dissolve that. That was my first goal. And I think it came in large part because as a little kid I always gravitated toward boys' shows, and I felt extremely guilty about that. And I don't think my child self should have had to feel bad, but I understood "this is not really for me." So as we went into this, I wanted NO ONE to have to feel that. I wanted everyone who wanted to, to feel it was for them. Especially since it's gender nonconforming as a show.

Question: Silly question: Peridot and Lapis are roommates. What do you think their biggest pet peeves are of each other? If they have any, I mean.

Rebecca: Gosh. I think Lapis is sort of both annoyed and comforted by Peridot's infinite energy. I often thought of them like the sort of old cartoon idea of a small dog and a big sort of like doesn't-really-care dog. With a small very very excited dog. I felt that that was a dynamic for them. So I think that that, like those characters, it's annoying to Lapis but she doesn't actually dislike it.

Question: Congrats on the Emmy nomination!

Rebecca: THANK YOU!

Question: I hope we get to see "It's Over, Isn't It?" and "Both of You" during the Emmys. How do you feel?

Rebecca: I'm so excited, and I'm so glad it's that one. It was such a fun dream to make a musical episode. I always loved those, they're always my favorite. I couldn't wait to do ours. Everyone was firing on all cylinders for that episode. I got to do music with Jeff Liu and Ben Levin, and Aivi and Surasshu's compositions for the finals were stunning, the backgrounds are incredible, the art is so beautiful, it's Jeff Liu and Joe Johnston's last board together, it was one of the last episodes I got to work on with Ian before he left to do his show, so it also has a special place in my heart, I remember seeing it come back and being in the edit bay watching it and my eyes were welling up because "this is it, this is everything I ever wanted."

Question: Not to mention Deedee crushing it.

Rebecca: She's amazing! And that was when she was doing Tommy! So we got her on a day she'd been doing shows all day, and she came and knocked that out.

Question: First take?

Rebecca: We did several, but all of those takes were amazing. I love writing songs for Deedee. And that one, it has some notes in it that I cannot hit. But I know Deedee can do it.

Question: Now when you write songs, you hear a lot of the demos you write on ukulele a lot, but you play other instruments. Do you find that you write differently depending on what instrument you're writing for?

Rebecca: Yes! Oh, completely. I have my go-to ukulele chords. But I also like to write songs on the omnichord, which is like a synthetic harpsichord from the 80s. And it has a row of buttons, you hit a button and you get that chord. I can use it for experimentation for chords I might not have thought of. I got one off eBay, the OM-84, and it was a little buggy, it wouldn't play right, would go out of tune, and I took it to get it looked at, and these incredibly corroded batteries fell out of it! With this cloud of red dust! So I can't put batteries in it anymore. But I can plug it in and it still works.

Question: So for "Love Like You," is it connected to any of the characters or any point of view, or was it more a one-off?

Rebecca: "Love Like You" is so unusual. It started as a point-of-view song for all Gems, and the thesis of the whole show, sort of toward Steven, and my own brother Steven, but because it was the credits, I wrote the song over three years in little pieces. I thought at the start that this is about an alien that's looking at a human, who loves them, and the secret meaning of this is that they don't have the capacity to feel this way. By the middle of it I was deep into the show and going through a real crisis of confidence, where I was like "why are people looking to me? It's not right!" and these people were coming out of the woodwork to thank me for the show, people who had been able to speak to their families in these wonderful new ways, people who had become comfortable with themselves in these incredible ways that I had not been able to do! Where I was like "I'm so inspired by everyone! Why are they thanking me?" So the middle of the song I was sort of in that place. And about a year later, I realized the beginning was not what I had thought it was about at all. It's not a secret meaning about an alien who doesn't understand humans. It's about the fact that I had always loved my brother and had these people who would love me unconditionally in my life, and because of my insecurity I had not been able to be there for them 100%, and I realized this was maybe one of the most human things I'd ever written, and I had written it by accident. So I got to conclude it. It was seriously written over 3 years.

Question: Recently we talked about how the show has been dramatic and full of conflict. It's great but do you ever have concerns about taking the show--it's a very positive show, so does the conflict have the potential to go too far, or do you like making it more challenging?

Rebecca: I'm excited to be more ambitious with the story, and the danger they're experiencing also feels like a danger for us who are writing the show. Writing stories that are more ambitious and challenging. It feels necessary, because it's about how love conquers all, but you can't write that story without showing what comes up against that. I'm excited to explore the--you're right, it's scary to explore where hate comes from in a show about love. I want to--it's a challenge to stay positive while exploring that. But that's a challenge I experience in LIFE. And that's a challenge we're all experiencing right now. So it also feels like the time to explore that in myself and in the show.

#steven universe #rebecca sugar #sdcc17 #rebecca sugar interview #long post #myblog

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ive been tagged

@swan-darkwingsOk so idk if this is allowed i should probably be doing this on my main blog but idc this got me excited umm @swan-darkwings tagged this blog in this thing and so now i owe her my life. and this post. so here

disclaimer: i. talk. way. too. much.

Rules: answer 30 questions then tag 20 people you’d like to know better

Nicknames: usually just lillie but in the past i went by Lemon and then Lavender and i had some friends who called me Impossible and i had one friend who called me Bug. but i dont really use any of those anymore cus pokemon sun & moon introduced a character named lillie and inspired me to reclaim the proper spelling of my name. representation matters

Gender: moooostly cis female right now but im probably actually some form of nonbinary im not sure at the moment

Star Sign: aquarius

MBTI Type: literally no idea. Ive taken like 8 different variations of the test and they all gave me something different. the last one i took gave me i think enfj but it included percentages of how much of each trait you had over the opposite trait and i was just barely squeaking by in like all of them. maybe i dont have a personality

Height: 5’3” and all my younger siblings are either currently taller than me or going to be taller fairly soon [cries]

Time: 11:01 pm currently but imma queue this thing to post in the morning so who knows

Birthday: february 17th and i expect all of you to send presents

Fav Bands: mmm owl city & oingo boingo

Fav solo artists: taylor swift, lindsey stirling, wait owl city is technically a solo artist too isnt he huh

Song stuck in my mind: this one like...omgsh it’s in a bunch of vines and i have no idea what it’s called but it’s like a. it’s like a saxophone i think? Or some kind of brass/woodwind thingy and it’s like agh it doesn’t have words but the notes are like a long C and then it goes up to a short A E G and then A E D and those few notes are like perpetually stuck in my head and if anyone could tell me what song it is i would be forever grateful

Last movie watched: shrek 2 but only the first half cus i got distracted by something on tumblr

Last show watched: a bunch of random adventure time clips on youtube

When did I create my blog: umm this ones been around for i think a month? ish?? a little more than a month? Idk my memory is trash. but ive had my main blog for like four years

What do I post abt: extreme couponing

Last thing I googled: the definition of ‘incur’ to make sure i was using it right when i said i didn’t want to incur the wrath of georgia w. bello’s ghost

Do you have other blogs: as a matter of fact

Why did you choose your url: cus i wasnt gonna let someone else choose it for me (ง'̀-'́)ง

Following: 301...could do with some more

Followers: 338...could do with some more (actually though this blog is the one with the most followers and it absolutely blows my mind, my main blog has 156 followers and the rest have like <15)

Fav Color: all shades of purple, all shades of pink, most shades of yellow (though the yellow part is a fairly recent development that i entirely blame on steven universe, thanks rebecca sugar. and thank you patti lupone)

Average hours of sleep: hahaha you expect me to do Math during Summer

Lucky number: 17 and pretty much anything with 7, also 39

Instruments: took a year of piano in 2nd grade (which DOES count absolutely 100%) and then violin from 5th-10th grade

What i’m wearing: brown tank top and polka dotted jammie pants that im suddenly realizing are the colors of the ace pride flag, shout out to all my awesome ace followers

How many blankets do I sleep with: there are currently 5 on my bed and ideally i would sleep under all of them. however this is summer so i just suffer

Dream job: if i could get paid for memeing i would be so happy...but honestly im gonna be going to school to be an english teacher which is my realistic dream job that i can very easily picture myself being very happy doing. my unrealistic dream job would be a disney face character which Could be realistic if i lived near any disney parks, and of course itd be amazing to make it as a full-time author or actor but i dont have the patience or confidence to really pursue those super seriously lol

Dream trip: round the world honestly. currently my top dream destinations are ireland, colombia, iceland, the phillippines, and the middle of the ocean

Fav food: okay this is very specific but a tuna fish sandwich except the tuna is mixed with a spoonful of mayonnaise, a squirt of mustard, and a handful of chopped cucumber and/or celery. bonus if you add lettuce or tomatoes or dill pickles. it’s the best lunch ever and it’s technically healthy and i love it so much

aand that’s all the questions so as far as the tagging goes i want to tag all of you because i want to get to know literally all of you so much but 338 is more than 20 so im just gonna go down the top 20 in my notes

@tanosoka@j-the-latter-gay-saint@beepala@inariedwards@hair-fiber@likenolion@afterlifeincorporated@tanosoka@trellyellyoxenfree @thepoetrytheoristcalledmoriarty @beepala @deetledeet @inariedwards @afterlifeincorporated @tanosoka @j-the-latter-gay-saint @merlissa @likenolion @hair-fiber

@truefactsaboutlies@clever-cyborg@burnt-kloverfield@ariannadon@enigmaris@kensalyn477@bean--teen@beauty-in-the-falcon @truefactsaboutlies @nermrod @clever-cyborg @burnt-kloverfield @ariannadon @enigmaris @kensalyn477 @bean--teen @beauty-in-the-falcon

(i do actually honestly want to get to know you specific individuals i recognize almost all and apprecitate all of you in my notes, though absolutely feel free to not do this if u dont wanna. And if you see this and werent tagged and wanna do it UR TAGGED ANYWAY I REALLY LEGIT WANNA GET TO KNOW U)

anyways thank you for reading and we will get back to our regularly scheduled memeage momentarily

#not a meme #ALSO MY COMPUTER IS HECKED UP IM SORRY IF THE TAGGING IS WEIRD AA #also the extreme couponing is a joke. in case that's not obvious.#i post about book of mormon memes #the rest is legit though #aANYWAYS IN CASE YOU WANTED TO KNOW WAY TOO MUCH ABOUT THIS HUMBLE LITTLE MEMER HERE YOU GO YOU CAN THANK THE BEAUTIFUL SOUL WHO TAGGED ME #GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY #i will go and queue #ACK I FORGOT ONE OF THE QUESTIONS OOPS IT'S ASKING MY NATIONALITY AND I WAS GONNA SARCASTICALLY ANSWER NEPHITE #i live in the u s of a and my ancestors came here from europe.#actually fun fact: like many born-and-raised mormons i am descended from people who came to the us to join the church #and then were pioneers #willie handcart company for the win #anyways NO MORE TAG COMMENTARY IM GOING TO BED BYE #UGH WHY IS THE TAGGING SO WEIRD I CANT FIGURE OUT A WAY TO FIX IT IM SORRY I LOVE YOU TAKE IT ANYWAY IM TIRED GOODBYE

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