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Dear Apple...

You have awakened a sleeping beast. Our war cry will ring throughout the world, an unending dirge for the girls and the weed we’ve lost.

We are Superwholock.

We are Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons.

We are Steven Universe.

We are Bee Shrek Test in the House.

We are Danganronpa.

We are the Hunger Games.

We are Karl Marx and Frederich Engels.

We are Lord of the Rings.

We are Undertale.

We are the Once-ler.

We are touching butts and buying pizza.

We are One Direction.

We are BTS.

We are Marvel.

We are Avatar: The Last Airbender.

We are Gravity Falls.

We are Free!

We are Ouran High School Host Club.

We are My Little Pony.

We are Dan and Phil.

We are Loki.

We are Spamton. We are IBS Warriors.

We are flower crowns.

We got the booty.

We are all of that, and much more.

We are Tumblr.

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Cafeteria (1956) of the company “Linde’s Eismaschinen” in Mainz, Germany, by Hans-Joachim Lenz

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SUPER METROID

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happy 420 and day i reserve a spot in hell

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FEEL GOOD - Gorillaz fan art by Gendy mohammad

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LOOK AT THEM OH MY GOD LOOK AT THEM

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They more I think about it, the worse the whole Steven Universe series looks in retrospect.

Besides the horrid ending of SU Future, which was just awful, there are severel key points of the story and the series overall which could have been handled a lot better: the constant fixation of Steven´s viewpoint, the completely nonsensical Pink Diamond plottwist, the rushed ending of the last main season, the instantanious epiphany of the diamonds instead of holding them accountable in any way, the constant disappearances of characters for several episodes and even seasons besides being essential to the plot (it felt like Jasper was missing for 90% of the series), the shifting between gratuitous slice-of-life-episodes and actual plot progression and the many contrivances the series took in later episodes.

I think the apparent fault was the lack of a clear antagonist, or an antagonistic force, from the very beginning besides the occasional non-threatening gem monsters, and the series even introduced a lot of fan-favorite villains like Lapis, Jasper or Spinell who could have  easily filled this role! (In relation to her movie-backstory, Spinell would have possibly been the clear choice, but she wasn´t conceived back then, and a huge factor must have been the uncertainty of a continuation of the story after “Ocean Gem”).

In the end, the story clearly lacked focus and an overarching idea or plot in order to become coherent for a series structured in 10-minute episodes, and had, if we are honest for a moment, very little to say about the topics it handled.

There was no deeper conflict that actually challenged the main character (besides “I must save my friends or the big evil space dictator destroys earth”) or their beliefs and the writers missed out a lot of opportunities to do so.

#steven universe #SU #su thoughts #spinell #lapis lazuli #jasper #steven universe future #diamonds

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Oh oof

This is fucking beautiful

God damn.

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happy Thursday the 20th

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