#Steven universe finale

[haystarlight]

You people who think Steven should've killed the Diamonds, I just have one question for you:

How?

How? With what weapons? With what powers? With what army? How, exactly, could he have killed them?

Even if Steven wanted to, he couldn't have done it, he wasn't strong enough. He wasn't powerful enough. At least, not at the time of CYM.

This isn't like Avatar where Aang could've easily killed Osai if he'd wanted to, he was just some guy with really strong fire bending, he wasn't that difficult to kill.

The Diamonds were the biggest, strongest, most powerful things in the universe. How, exactly, was Steven supposed to kill them? Even if he wanted to, it wouldn't be possible for him.

He has powers and he's strong, but he's not strong enough. He's only 14. How is he supposed to kill them? He's short for a 14-year-old and those things are FUCKING HUGE.

What? With the Breaking Point? The Breaking Point's design is actually really flawed. You have to get super close to the other Gem to be able to kill them. It's not like a gun, where you can shoot from far away, you have to get super close or it doesn't work.

Little potato Steven wouldn't have been able to get close enough to any of the Diamonds to use the Breaking Point, they would've stomped on him.

Any way I try to slice it, there's no way Steven or any of the other good guys could've killed the Diamonds. They were too strong. They couldn't even poof them.

And I guarantee you. The same people who say Steven should've killed the Diamonds would probably have said "Deus Ex Machina" if Steven had suddenly found some great, powerful weapon or some insanely strong power up that would've allowed him to do the deed. You people are never satisfied. You always find something to complain about.

Also also, if Steven killed the Diamonds, then they wouldn't have been able to cure the Corrupted Gems and that would've been a crappy ending for fans of Jasper and Centipeedle.

So, if you have an enemy and you can't kill them (you literally, physically can NOT), you can't lock them up in prison, you can't even ignore them.... what's left? Talking. You have no choice but to use words. It's the only thing you have. Steven had no choice but to talk to them. He wasn't strong enough to do anything else. Talking was literally the only option.

Steven couldn't have killed them even if he had wanted to, he couldn't even poof them. None of the good guys could have done anything. They couldn't lock them up or punish them. It wasn't even an option. Talking was the only thing that had a sliver of a chance at working.

If Steven had tried to kill them, he'd be dead now.

If you want to argue he should've killed them, I need you to explain to me HOW.

#steven universe #su spoilers #change your mind #cym spoilers #steven universe spoilers #steven universe finale #long post #sorry for the long rant #ranting #venting #sorry for the rant #su change your mind #the diamonds su #the diamond authority #blue diamond #white diamond #yellow diamond #controversial #swinging a bat at a hornet's nest

[stevenuniversidad]

I GRADUATED!!!!

#steven universe future #steven universe #su #steven universe fanart #cartoon network #steven universe movie #here we are in the future #graduation #grad cap #2022 #class of 2022 #steven universe future fandom #fanart #steven universe finale #goodbye steven universe #thank you steven universe #hyperfixation #my hyperfixations

[vividaway-art]

i love these two so much :’)

#art #my art #digital art #digital artist #nonbinary artist #lgbtq artist #artist on tumblr #drawing #original art #steven universe #steven universe finale #su #suf #steven universe bismuth #steven universe peridot

[spooksier]

steven knows how to do a somersault i promise amethyst just keep watching dude i promise

#art zone #fanart #steven universe #su #amethyst su #got so ?!?!? over these siblings last night so have this #finally feel like ive figured something out about my su fanart bless up

[welcometoamphibia]

#amphibia #cartoons #animation #the owl house #gravity falls #adventure time #steven universe #kipo and the age of wonderbeasts #she ra and the princesses of power #spop #Centaurworld #avatar: the last airbender #infinity train #voltron #brooklyn 99 #b99 #meme #season finale

[kiapet2]

Alright, it’s less than a week since the Owl House finale aired and as expected I’ve already seen two direct comparisons to Steven Universe’s ending and several more vague-blogs, because one of this site’s hobbies is using other queer shows to put down Steven Universe. So let’s do this, then. Let’s compare the endings of Owl House and Steven Universe, and what each is ultimately trying to say.

Steven Universe and the Owl House are both shows that deal heavily with the clash of individualism and self-expression vs. socially-mandated conformity, and both shows’ final villains ultimately embody this conflict. One major difference, however, is that Owl House approaches this from the perspective of legal/societal structures, while Steven Universe approaches it from the perspective of family structures.

Steven Universe has always been about family--and particularly the ways traumas and biases are passed down through a family--and it has always heavily used the language of metaphor to discuss these topics. The Diamonds are the ultimate extension of this theme, something a lot of bad-faith (or just bad) takes on the ending miss; they interpret the diamonds in their literal capacity as dictators, rather than the way Steven Universe always portrays them, which is as matriarchs, i.e. the heads of a family who dictate and control all the family’s other members. This metaphor becomes more and more blatant until it outright becomes text, with the Diamonds turning out to be Steven’s literal family members, with whom his part of the family is estranged because of their previous controlling behavior.

In accordance with this theme, we ultimately find out that the Diamonds’ toxic ideology, with its rigid standards of perfection, are not only something they enforce on the gems below them, but also on themselves. They are suffering from the system in their own ways, unable to live up to the standards they themselves created. And who among us hasn’t known someone like that? A parent or grandparent who grew up under a cruel, oppressive worldview, and instead of rebelling against it internalized it--who turned around and said “I dealt with this, and so can you”? And so the ending of Steven Universe is the Diamonds realizing exactly how toxic the rigid ideology they’ve spent their lives perpetuating really is, and confronting the fact that their adherence to this ideology is what destroyed their relationship with Pink, and that the only way they’re going to have a relationship with Steven is if they’re willing to commit to changing both themselves, and the family structure they’ve enforced for so long.

Emperor Belos, in contrast, is not suffering from the structures he created, because his rules were never meant to apply to him. He sees the witches (and demons, and so-on) as lesser beings, evil beings, who exist to be controlled, and ultimately, exterminated. And every element of the society he built--the schools, the government, the police force, the religion--he intentionally constructed to keep these lesser beings under his control. The real-world allegory isn’t hard to see, here. And because what Belos represents in the story is, in fact, a fascist leader, the story shows that he can’t be reasoned with in any way that matters, and instead he is ultimately ground into paste beneath the boots of the people he sought to destroy. Different themes, different endings.

Now the usual argument that comes up here is as follows: but the Steven Universe ending isn’t as realistic! Not everyone is going to change, not everyone is going to be able to be reasoned with. Not every older, conservative family member is eventually going to accept you for who you are. And while that is true, ultimately SU isn’t meant to be realistic; it’s meant to be a power fantasy. Rebecca Sugar has come out and said before that they wrote a world in which there was good in everyone, because that’s the way she wishes the world could be. That’s the world they want to be able to believe in. And I am never going to begrudge a person, much less a queer person, for finding healing in writing that kind of world.

But you know what else is unrealistic? What else is ultimately just a fantasy? Grinding your government’s fascist leader into paste under your boot, then taking over and remaking society into something that accepts everyone. Sadly, Trump is not likely to get his ass beat any time soon. And more generally, punching fascists, while ideologically sound, is something most people are not going to get to do, due to real-world consequences such as “getting beat up by the fascist’s angry friends” and “being arrested for assault”. And even if you did depose one leader, our very society is set up in a way that perpetuates all manner of injustices, and systemic change is a complex and lengthy process that almost certainly won’t be completed in our lifetimes. But it’s fun to imagine we could, isn’t it?

Both endings are power fantasies. Both show the way they want the world to be, rather than the way it is. They are very different power fantasies, which fill very different--and at times conflicting--needs. And in situations like that, internet culture really likes to pick one to be the right fantasy, the right way to look at the world. 

But the truth is, both fantasies are needed! Some people need stories about your queerphobic relatives finally realizing the error of their ways and taking the necessary steps to accept and reconcile with you. And some people need stories where you get to grind fascist bastards beneath the heel of your boot. It’s okay if you prefer one type of fantasy over the other! But in the end, both are valuable, and both are important. 

And isn’t it wonderful, for us to have such a diversity of great queer stories? That we can explore both of these deep, conflicting needs? Let’s appreciate each of these fantastic works for what it was meant to be, rather than trying to pit them against each other or make them conform to a single, “best” way to tell a story.

#owl house #the owl house #toh #toh finale #toh spoilers #steven universe #sunset #su spoilers #meta #discourse #my meta #queer fiction

[spaciebabie]

Where did we go? What did we do? I think we made something...entirely new....

some closeups under cut :)

and here's the first image w/out text :)

im normal. su makes me feel so normal

#su #steven universe #sapphire #ruby #su ruby #su sapphire #sapphire su #ruby su #FUCK FUCK FUCK OHHHGHGH MY GODDD THIS SCENE HAS BEEN IN MY HEAD FOFR DAAAAAAAAYYYYS #GOD HELPPPP OUGOGOHGGHOG #THE FIRST ONE TOOK SO LONG. I SWEAR #THE GROUND WAS SO HARD 😭😭 #SORRY 2 THE PPL I IGNORED WHILE WORKING ON THIS I WAS IN THE ZONE #spacie scribbles #OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH IM #FINALLY DONE #SO PROUD OF THIS TEEBEEACHE #rupphire #THIS SONG IS SO BEAUTIFUL I COULD CRYYYY #GOD I LOVE THEM SO MUCH

[pansy-picnics]

they had at LEAST 3 dramatic costume changes MINIMUM for the entire ceremony

#theyd be 21 and 23 now #i hope they finally got to have their wedding #they ruined my life #steven universe #connie maheswaran #steven universe future #connverse #stevonnie #steven quartz universe #pansy-art

[kittenscookie]

Okay I've been thinking about Owl House a lot lately and...Guys I'm just so damn angry. Because I rewatched the first episode of the finale and realized something. That first episode is a season finale—That whole episode is one season's worth of content crammed into a single episode. That's at LEAST 12 episodes in 60 minutes—five minutes for each damn episode. But remember the first season of toh was nineteen, the second was twenty-one. If we assume the team would have continued with around that many episodes the average is around twenty. Twenty fucking episodes is sixty minutes—THREE MINUTES AN EPISODE.

This then led me to thinking about my other cancelled show with LGBTQ+ representation—Steven Universe. It's basically the same shit, except somehow fucking worst. The diamond arc should have been it's own fucking season, curing the corrupted gems and them having to get reintroduced to gem/human society should have been a damn season too! The two year time skip makes sense when you really think about it—that's the least amount of time it would have taken to get all that shit done in universe! A year to get the gems readjusted, a year to dismantle the diamond empire—plus episodes filling in gaps/unanswered questions. No wonder Rebecca fought so damn hard for SU Future and the movie! It was a desperate attempt to give herself and the fans some kind of closure! And don't forget! Steven universe seasons were LONG—the median amount of episodes was twenty-four.

This shit wasn't bad writing, it was rushed writing. Desperate attempts to cram what should have been at LEAST two seasons into a few short episodes. Can you imagine this? Sitting with your coworkers and trying to figure out how to make at least forty episodes only 3–6? What can be kept and what has to be left to the imagination? Think of what we fucking lost at those tables—Spinel could have been teased and had a better build up, we could have gotten a Wittebane Brothers flashback, we could have explored the characters in both shows trauma. I'm not just mad—I'm livid and not even for us. For Dana Terrace, for Rebecca Sugar. To have something you created thrown away without a care. I'd be in fucking tears.

Fuck Disney, fuck Warner Brothers.

#the owl house #steven universe #owl house #fandom #su fandom #toh #su future #toh season 3 #su season 5 #toh season three #fuck this #we were robbed #Dana and Rebecca were robbed #there's a special place in hell for TV executives #su movie #toh finale #dana terrace #rebecca sugar #i'm so sorry #You didn't deserve this

[artistakai]

Spooky season is almost here

#finally posted something #su peridot #peridot #steven universe #peridot fanart #su fandom #my art

[liquidcatt]

#haikyuu x reader #one piece x reader #my hero academia x reader #naruto x reader #sailor moon x reader #helluva boss x reader #deltarune x reader #undertale x reader #the owl house x reader #steven universe x reader #final space x reader #fluff #multifandom imagines

[pogostikk]

SHREK AUDIO

#anyways #Star really is. a silly guy #because like #everyone finally reunited #everything calmed down #maybe there was a celebration (maybe ste and Star had their first real bday party) #and then Star goes to Steven and is like #hey buddy boy :))((( let’s go over there and have a silly chat :)))))) #no but he is truly complicated bc all he be wanted is for his human half is to be safe and happy #but then ste finally gets that #and Star feels like he has to take him from it to protect him #hes got this funny learned helplessness #this idea that they’re stuck in their predicament and he can’t do anything abt it #now he’s actively making the one person he truly cares abt unhappy :( #maybe Steven would respond to Star with resistant behavior #it would probably be #deep down #just acts of denial #who knows… #steven universe #su au #human steven #pink steven #connverse #connie maheswaran #anyway Connie is coming for them

[d0not-disturb]

EMERALD TIMELINE‼️

Clear ver.

So yeah! This has been collecting dust in my drafts for so long 😭😭😭

Oh ye and to add, these are NOT all of his forms, these are just the main ones over the 3 eras. And here are the Era 2 forms since I haven’t posted them:

AND AGAIN, GEMCYT AU NOT MINE🔥🔥🔥 it’s @chrisrin’s

#hermitcraft #mcyt #grian #mumbo jumbo #hermitblr #my art #art #grumbo #grian fanart #gemcyt #mumbo fanart #waffle duo #UGH I FINALLY FINISHED THE ERA 2 DESIGNS. #I WAS BEING SO LAZY 😭 #steven universe #steven universe alternate universe #su

[dorkspine]

Goodbye to peak Mickey Mouse cartoon.

#mickey mouse #mickey mouse shorts #rottmnt #gravity falls #regular show #winx club #clarence #atla #the legend of korra #tmnt 2012 #my little pony friendship is magic #star vs the forces of evil #the owl house #amphibia #adventure time #she ra and the princesses of power #we bare bears #ok ko let's be heroes #steven universe #I haven’t felt this sad at a cartoon finale since MLP #cartoon #disney #nickelodeon #cartoon network #rainbow #hasbro #netflix #meme

[animationfanboy2k4]

"That's what friends are for, right? "

#international friendship day #gravityfalls #stevenuniverse #gravity falls #steven universe #ok ko let's be heroes #craig of the creek #amphibia #the owl house #final space #inside job #kid cosmic #star wars visions #tuttle twins #monkie kid #dead end paranormal park

[partywithponies]

Say what you will about the Steven Universe finale, but few single lines of dialogue in any show finale ever have the same sheer emotional catharsis of "she's GONE!"

Especially as the ultimate payoff of five solid seasons of everyone, even his own family, making the absence of this kid's mother his problem, and either treating him as just an extension of her, or making him feel bad for not being her.

#the fact he knocked both all the crystal gems AND all the diamonds to the ground by yelling this? #the symbolism of the fact that finally plainly stating this fact is the thing that finally left him standing firm and confident while #literally everyone else is on the ground? #poetic cinema #steven universe