#steven universe s5

[artianwen]

I was thinking and realised that monster?? steven from steven universe (idk I only watched the last episode once and forgot a lot of the details) reminded me of the shadows in persona 4 so I made the concept real

#persona 4 #persona 4 golden #shin megumi tensei #shin megumi tensei persona #shadow world #p4g #steven universe #shadow steven #monster steven #steven universe s5 #steven universe future #i am thou thou art i #i am a shadow the true self #fanart #su #sufanart #persona4 #persona 4 fanart

[faeriegutz]

watching steven universe and i forgot how depressing it got omg

#steven universe #steven universe s5 #the chaos of mars

[smellypire]

chuuya: there's no need to keep shooting a dead body 🙄

also chuuya: pew pew pew pew pew

#he really blew dazai's mind! #sorry i find the new episode funny #bro really shut him up cuz he mentioned the power of friendship #he was like: this bitch is cringe #if i was chuuya i'd shoot him too #this ain't mlp mf #bro really thought this was steven universe or mlp #goofy mf #bsd #bungou stray dogs #nakahara chuuya #dazai osamu #shit post #bsd season 5 #bsd s5 #prison arc #bsd 109 #15 arc #skk #double black

[uselessalexis165]

hinted from the very beginning 🐵⭐️

#i just realized that s5 #is gonna be the ending of the show #lmk spoilers #my text #lego monkie kid #monkie kid #steven universe #mk #lmk mk #qi xiaotian #rose quartz #su rose quartz #pink diamond #su pink diamond

[celestiall0tus]

Redemption is a noble idea, but...

not everyone is capable of redemption. It is a sad, but honest truth. I'm not saying this to be a negative nancy, but I work with people who are down on their luck, at odds with the law, and I see this. I see people given a chance to better themselves, to get a fresh start on life, but they don't always take those chances and opportunities. Some are just genuinely in denial while you have those that know they have a problem but can't find the strength to stand back up again. After all, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Now, I know in media we get an escape and something we wouldn't normally in life. A fulfillment that can only be found there because of how shit life is. However, not everyone is worthy of redemption, especially a fast redemption.

I'm going to rip this old bandaid off. The Diamonds didn't deserve a redemption. Yes, Diamonds. Yellow, Blue, and White (I'll get to Pink in a whole different post as her story wasn't about redemption) The Diamonds were evil tyrant dictators that committed atrocities across the universe in their conquest. Immediately, Yellow and White aren't exactly deserving of a redemption. Now, Blue had redeeming qualities. She cared more for Pink than the others, mourned her, kept her memory alive, and actively sided with Steven first, but there's one big thing that really taints it for me. The gaslighting and abuse that Blue participated in towards Pink. I don't care what your opinion of Pink is, but the fact is that she was a victim of abuse. She was locked away, told she was "loved" and constantly treated as less than a Diamond. I have no doubt that Blue truly loved Pink, but the way she participated in the abuse and how it was quickly wrapped up will never sit right with me. Especially in the end when Pink is damned while the other Diamonds are redeemed.

To my Miraculous fans, we recently saw this. Gabriel, the worst of the worst, given redemption. This one is a little... muddy. So, he was granted redemption, but he granted it to himself. Mari tried, but was stabbed in the back. That I appreciate. He was able to use the wish to get what he wanted. He didn't need Mari to keep a promise or anything like that when Gimmi gave him exactly what he wanted, at the cost of himself. So, it's really muddy. No, he didn't deserve a redemption, but he won. He got what he wanted in the end. If he lost, but was offered redemption, that would be one thing. However, he actually won. He got his wish and rewrote reality to what he wanted. Again, it is extremely muddy and unclear. I do hope that in season 6 we get some answers. However, even I know that is too much to wish for.

On top of that for my Miraculous fans, I'll briefly touch on the big ones being Felix and Chloe. One who was given a redemption while the other who was started to give redemption, but then given a damnation.

Felix is a mixed bag. He definitely was a little shit at the start and it was genuinely jarring to see him again in Emotion wanting to help Adrien when he actively tormented Adrien. He was a good candidate for redemption, however, it needed time. As it stands, Felix's redemption was so jarring and quick. And, this could be just me, but is a little tied to Kagami. He really changed when Kagami was introduced into his life, and it's cute. But I'm so tired of this. I'm so tired of a romantic interest being the reason a person changes. I get love can change people, but I'm so fucking sick of it. I do wish we could have seen more of Felix's shift rather than drops of vague intrigue.

Now the sore spot: Chloe. Allow me to say this, I will be using the correct terminology for this when addressing her arc. It is my duty as a writer to address this as professionally as possible. If any of my phrasing or terms upset you, grow a pair.

Chloe, like Felix, was a perfect candidate for redemption. What made her redemption far more compelling is that we had time to digest it. It wasn't just dropped on our heads like Felix. We got to see the horrible mother that Audrey was (bitch was straight savage), the trauma that she endured because of Audrey's abandonment. It doesn't justify what she did, but it gives context. On top of that, you can buy her actions as a coping mechanism as she tries to act just like her mother. This does lead her to doing horrible things, that which is pretty bad, but it doesn't make her completely irredeemable. What ultimately led her to a damnation arc was Ladybug. I'll just say it, Ladybug was hypocrite. She told Chloe no more Queen Bee, but then acted rashly and gave Kagami the dragon again, despite Kagami revealing herself. It is no wonder that Chloe would turn to Hawkmoth in her most vulnerable moment.

Speaking of, there is a reason villains attack during a person's weakest. Chloe was a die hard Ladybug fan. She was utterly devoted because Ladybug was her hero. However, her hero tore her down and destroyed her, much like her own mother. This brings her to a vulnerable point. It's a lot like the original Disney's Ariel when Ursula goes after her. It is directly after Triton destroys the grotto and Ariel is shattered. The moment that they are at their weakest. And yet, both Ariel and Chloe are blamed for their actions without analyzing the events that lead them to it. Ariel had everything she loved destroyed by someone she loved dearly. Chloe had her devotion and hope shattered by a person she idolized. And yet people wonder why they did the things they did.

Chloe was someone that was on the right track to redemption, but was damned by her idol. I honestly think it is poetic, but wished there was acknowledgement. The damnation could have worked more if Ladybug acknowledged her own faults and tried to actively right them to put Chloe back on track for redemption. You want them to be seen as grown up by season 5, Astruc, add these moments. Ladybug blaming Chloe was not right by any means. Ladybug is at fault. She was the final straw that destroyed Chloe's redemption arc and pushed her towards damnation.

That is all for this post. I have one more to address a little later, but first need to collect my thoughts on. Stayed tuned for that one

#miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculoustalesofladybugandcatnoir #miraculous s5 #mlb s5 #mlb s5 spoilers #steven universe #redemption #let's talk #ml season five #mlb season five #miraculous season 5 #mlb recreation #ml recreation #ml recreation spoilers #ml critical #analysis #ml analysis #writing analysis #writing critical #critical #miraculous chloe bourgeois #mlb chloe #miraculous chloe #felix graham de vanily #felix fathom #miraculous felix #mlb felix #diamonds #gabriel agreste

[self-spaghettification]

anyone else have a playlist of just a few songs that in the context of the dragon prince emotionally wrench them like a lot or just me 😃

#1 the moon will sing: viren pov on virrow #2 never love an anchor: virrow or terridia or rayllum god its flexible really #3 weird fishes/arpeggi: claudia s6 but also viren end of s5 really it fluctuates between the two #4 i bet on losing dogs is aaravos bc everyone he ever cared for died while he was trying to help them and im not ok about that #5 yeah yeah yeah i need to make a whole ass animatic for it at some point um but just. imagine #i knew it in my heart with him getting betrayed —literally stabbed by the novablade haha oops knew it in the start bc future vision or what #6 change is ezran and aaravos bc im delusional but also fits like themes of redemption in the show in general like it could be viren idc #+ i am an unforgivable steven universe lover (oxymoron) #7 pale machine is aaravos learning to love again like a normal person :’))) #8 evelyn evelyn as soren and claudia those poor traumatized children #but also thinking specifically about when soren leaves in s3 :( #but it fits lots of moments in their dynamic really #the dragon prince #tdp playlist #hahahah normal #self spaghettification #mine #Spotify #magefam #aaravos #virrow #but really yk its up to ur interpretation

[rowanthefierce]

back on my steven universe bullshit which means i'm finishing the series (+ movie + Future) for the first time...i stopped watching late s4 cuz it just wasn't doing it for me anymore and i picked it up again yesterday and now i'm almost done with s5...

feels like coming home tbh the show is so much better now that i'm no longer a raging teenager and actually able to appreciate the show like i be almost crying every other episode

i think the other reason i stopped watching was cuz watching s4 contemporaneously meant being on tumblr and engulfed in the maelstroms of Fandom (iykyk) which made it less enjoyable to watch the show for what it is

it's good. it's not perfect but it's really good. i'm glad i can appreciate this now lol

#steven universe #just got to A Single Pale Rose and pearl is so fucking traumatized #taking compartmentalization to a whole new level #anyways #s4 is one of the weaker seasons imo but s5 is solid #peace and love on planet earth etc etc #rowan speaks

[burr-ell]

broke: post-apocalypse where it's right after the end and the world is destroyed and everything sucks

woke: post-apocalypse where it's been centuries after the end and society rebuilt but the characters find ruins of what used to be

bespoke: post-apocalypse centuries in the future where the ruins have remains of real-life modern or futuristic technology while the rest of the setting is far behind, suggesting that what was destroyed was an extremely advanced society, and the characters connect to the human experience of those who came before and strive to avoid their hubris while the antagonists want to bring it back, discovering that both cruelty and kindness are never unique to one time period or people group and the past is only a great teacher if you look at the whole of what it's saying, and furthermore

#critical role #fe3h #if i had a nickel etc #also this is about steven universe. s5 rewired my brain #ishkabibble

[puppygirldanhowell]

LAPIS IS BACK LAPIS IS BACK LAPIS IS BACCCCKKKK

#I MISSED HER SO FUCKING MUCH #turns out she moved to live on the moon and has been spying on peridot ever since. girl has got it so fuckign bad #she just ran bc she was scared :( #im normal. her song did not make me cry. #lapis #steven universe #su posting #ash is mentally ill #su s5 #su s5 spoilers

[thatone-highlighter]

What’s ur favorite SU songs

The first song to come to mind is actually Be Wherever You Are. It seems like such a random song and def not one i see talked about much, im not even sure why i like it so much but its just one thats Stuck with me. I have such clear memories of singing it to myself every week when i walked to soccer training for at least a year. Its such a nice and and simple song with a lot of repetition, and while the repetition does make it s but hard to keep track of if you sing off the top of your head im never one to turn some down.

That said, while i would have to call Be Wherever You are my favourite there are still a good few that hold nice little places in my heart.

Love Like You has to get an acknowledgement, even to this day if im standing somewhere wasting time not listening to anything its the first song to pop into my head to hum, i have so many memories of walking around school, around shops, a soccer field, in a game and humming or singing it to myself. Around the time season 2 and maybe early season 3 i used to love to think about who the song could be sung by and sung at, because all the answers i could come up with none of them fit the lyrics perfectly.

Peace and Love because like, u mean come on its peace and love you can tell me anyone hates that song, it was also the first i learned to play fully on my ukulele. The song is lovely and it shows up in a nice place during peridots arc, whats there not to like. Oh yeah and because Steven actually plays his uke on screen at the start it was the song that made me realise they accurately animate his hands to the chords hes playing. I dont know guitar or piano chords well enough to be able to say anything about a few other songs where they diegetically play the instrument but i thought that was a nifty little detail

Tower Of Mistakes id like to mention as well. Il always a sucker for songs with amethyst in them, and ToM is actually Amethyst‘s only solo song, every other time she sings(on the run, extended intro, peace and love, for just one day, no matter what, happily ever after) theres st least one other person (usually steven) singing with her in the song as well

There are only a few songs on the SU soundtrack i dont really like (Sorry but the Sadie Killer and the Suspects songs arent really for me) but those ones id say are at the top of my list uwu

#controversial opinion also: i like Both Of You more than Its Over Isnt It #dont get me wrong theyre both great songs and i 100% see why the attention is put on Its Over Isnt It. but ive always liked BoY more #why do all the songs i keep abbreviating keep becoming words what is this. tom boy. good news guys new word association just dropped #i might also bring up Distant Shore. that one i got into for a good little while through a combo of #i had been waiting on lapis getting a song for Ages and also at the time i had just been convincing a friend to catch up to S5 #imagine ur me. age 12. you stopped bringing up su years ago even tho it consumes your every waking thought. #you havent discovered word vomiting into a notes documet yet. Single Pale Rose airs. #the emotional rollercoaster of taking the chance and mentioning SU to ur only friend. they know the show. they stopped watching at season 3. #they say theyll catch back up #anyways that was my mental state for a while after SPR waiting to be aböe to talk about it so i went around humming distant shore #dont u just love 2 episode blocks. oo yeay lapis song! theres a really oninous noise in my head i dont know how to convey #thanks for askibg me this bestie! #ive been trying to answer ur other SU ask but i dont even know what to be insane about ive started so many things and then left them #Tree Man Posts #asks #steven universe

[botslayer9000]

sigh. maybe i don't like she-ra after all

#man. returning to it after a few years has been both joyful and painful #i still love so much about it #but goddamnit its another steven universe #the execution was so fucked in s5 #its official im gonna write some kind of fix-it/alternate universe/rewrite fic #because i cannot take this anymore #why do all of my favorite cartoons always disappoint me. why god why #its like i watch them. i enjoy them. i get a bad feeling about them. i rewatch them. i find several dozen things i hate #and it hurts every time because every time its a show that i loved. adored even. a show that was formative for me #or at least influential on my being #it would be so easy to just be a steven universe or she ra hater #but i loved those shows first #and i loved them hard #so the betrayal of my expectations hurts twice as bad as something i didnt care about #rise of skywalker was absolute trash but tbh i didnt even care because i didnt care about it #i can be an easy hater there #not for these shows though #and i still love the both of them. somwhere deep down inside of me #or whatever #anyway

[partnersincrimesuau]

Here are the full versions of the wall murals I designed for Partners In Crime!!! I got inspiration from the opening scene of the Steven Universe Movie, and some episodes including "Your Mother And Mine" (S5 E13) and "Now We're Only Falling Apart" (S5 E19). I'll only take credit for the layout, design and time I spent drawing these, the rest of the credit should go to the original artists of Steven Universe - they're such an inspiration!!! XDDD

Click the pictures for better quality ^^ 🌼🌸✨

#steven universe the movie #partners in crime #steven universe #steven universe fanart #steven universe rose quartz #pink diamond #firealpaca #steven universe diamonds

[spopsalt]

More miscellaneous She-Ra pins I found while sorting through Pinterest that made me want to die and my commentary on them. Pt. 2

Don’t you have to at least like eachother to be family? Thaws guys aren’t even friends. The only ones that get along are Scorpia and Perfuma, which was forced as hell, and Frosta is on okay terms with most (not all) of the characters listed. Everyone else tolerates eachother at best, or seem to flat out hate eachother at worst.

For example… Just gonna drop a little fun fact here, Mermista is the only Rebellion member who can breathe underwater. So, pairing that knowledge, along with Mermista’s subtle-as-a-bat-to-the-face hatred for Entrapta, and her overall unpleasant personality that leads me to believe she would do this without batting an eye, I’m fully convinced this fanart is just Mermista trying to murder Entrapta via drowning, and they made Entrapta seem too stupid to realize it. Listen, I watched Steven Universe, and specifically remember one of the eventual protagonists did try to drown others the same way. But at least they called her out for it at some point. Lapis didn’t seem to regret it, but at least they call her out. Knowing that Perfuma yoinked Entrapta off a high-ass rock, and could’ve killed her by doing that and didn’t seem to care… Idk, I feel like Mermista casually trying to drown Entrapta and Entrapta being portrayed as obliviously smiling because she’s treated as too dumb to live could easily be something I could see happening in canon. No, it hasn’t happened in canon, but it’s just so in line with the writing that I could see it.

Double whammy here. Some fans must be gymnast level flexible with how much they’re reaching. This is literally just her sleeping. Lots of people sleep that way. I mean, if it was the canon reason she does this, I wouldn’t take it so much as a sign of shipping as much as it’s a sign of Catra being entitled. Girl has a bed and chooses to take up half of Adora’s. I get that real cats do it, but real cats are also not the size of a teen girl and taking up that much space. I definitely don’t think the way Adora sleeps has anything to do with Catra. I’m just saying if it did, it wouldn’t be great anyway.

Idk about same, but it’s definitely similar energy. But these fans gotta realize it’s not a good thing…

Also, I hate how Glimmer and Bow are just smiling and letting it happen. I don’t even like Glimmer or Bow that much, but I can confidently say that they’re better friends than this. I swear, their writing in S5 was utter trash.

Like how you said, most of these people just tolerate each other at best, and hate each other at worst

Yeahhh given the Mermista is VERY obvious in her distain for Entrapta, I doubt it's just some cute silly thing

Damn Catradora stans back must hurt from all the streching their doing. That's a common sleeping posistion? I sleep like that, does it mean I'm making space for my abusive sister to sleep at the edge of my bed like a dog?

Ah yes, two people disobeying their love interests boundaries while nobody does anything to stop them when the other person is clearly uncomfortable..how romantic

#spop salt #anti spop #spop criticism #spop crit #spop discourse #anti catra #anti c//a #anti catradora #spop critical #antic//a

[gnougnouss]

Ya know I feel like there's a shit ton of hyprocrisy going on when people compare RTD's writing and Moffat's on dw but nothing irks me more than when they say Moffat era made the doctor too important when he was portrayed as just a guy in RTD. Like. Are you fucking kidding me. Be for real.

In the GODDAMN first episode, one of the first thing we learn about the doctor is through Clive (rip) in that scene :

The Doctor is a legend woven throughout history. When disaster comes, he's there. He brings the storm in his wake and he has one constant companion. ROSE: Who's that? CLIVE: Death.

So yeah the Doctor is a Legend. Next, in New Earth he is called "the lonely God". Very normal guy core.

It gets worse, who could forget this wonderful speech in The Family of Blood ?

LATIMER: Because it was waiting. And because I was so scared of the Doctor. JOAN: Why? LATIMER: Because I've seen him. He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. DOCTOR: Stop it. LATIMER: He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and he can see the turn of the universe. DOCTOR: Stop it! I said stop it. LATIMER: And he's wonderful.

The Next one is by Steven Moffat but crucially still during 10s era so STILL part of how the doctor was characterised. RTD approved you might say.

DOCTOR: Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked. That is not a safe place to stand. I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest library in the universe. Look me up. (There is a pause, then the shadows withdraw.) ANITA: You have one day.

I added it because I saw people act as if the Eleventh Hour's resolution with a doctor boast was completly out of character and not something he literaly did one series before.

Ok now for the real silly, that scene in Last of the Time Lords where the power of PRAYER turned 10 young and hyper powerful. For real. Yeah like a sort of Space Jesus.

Bonus: that part in Voyage of the Damned when he flied with two angels lifting him like ok lmao.

Those were just the ones I could remember out of the top of my head but "just a guy" my entire fucking ass. Go rewatch that show.

I feel like Moffat is often accused of turning the doctor into too much of an incredibly powerful figure not because he did it more than RTD but because he discussed the trope and as such put a lot of attention on it . All of those I pointed out in RTD are played incredibly straight but in Moffat's era the doctor's legend is a problem. It's the plot of the s5 finale, he became so big his ennemies allied. It's the reason he gets called out in "A good man goes to war"

RIVER: This was exactly you. All this. All of it. You make them so afraid. When you began, all those years ago, sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this? The man who can turn an army around at the mention of his name. Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word Doctor means mighty warrior. How far you've come. And now they've taken a child, the child of your best friends, and they're going to turn her into a weapon just to bring you down. And all this, my love, in fear of you.

It continues in Asylum of the Daleks where Moffat tries to erase the doctor's legend and is concluded somewhat in s8 finale with the proposition that what the doctor actually is, is in fact an idiot.

DOCTOR: I really didn't know. I wasn't sure. You lose sight sometimes. Thank you! I am not a good man! I am not a bad man. I am not a hero. And I'm definitely not a president. And no, I'm not an officer. Do you know what I am? I am an idiot, with a box and a screwdriver. Just passing through, helping out, learning. I don't need an army. I never have, because I've got them. Always them. Because love, it's not an emotion. Love is a promise.

But nobody saying stuff like "Moffat made the doctor too important" ever watched Capaldi's era anyway so it's not like they would know.

#doctor who #RTD #Moffat #bit salty here

[novantinuum]

I am genuinely disinterested in entertaining debate about Steven Universe S5 tbh, thank you. All of my followers and folks who reblog from me are entitled to their opinions, but I am also entitled to mine.

I am tired as all get out from the literal years I've spent having to nonstop "defend" my own position and do not consider said activity fun or stimulating in any way. Please kindly make your own posts instead of arguing your counterpoints on mine, thank you.

#jen rambles #basically: if you think season 5 is 'rushed' or take issue with its plot beats we agree to disagree. the end.

[bluebear-d]

Five act structure: reason to hope

I don't usually make posts on Tumblr, but i think after st4 maybe i should.

I agree with a lot of criticism for s4 and share everyone's pain. Hope all of you are well or at least getting there.

But here's something I've been thinking, so read on if you want to get another perspective or a little bit of hope in the magic of storytelling.

If the Duffers knew for awhile that they would have 5 seasons, they might have planned s4-5 together, a two-parter of sorts. So the reason s4 feels incomplete is because it is! And the reason it doesn't offer all the things the marketing implied is because those were meant for s5.

I think the Duffers are playing the long game using the 5 act structure. You can read about it on the internet, for example here is a good general article which i'm gonna quote a little.

I want to talk specifically about the final suspense, which is an important narrative tool occurring in act 4.

In 5 act structure, the forth act is where everything that can go wrong, does. It's the darkest before the dawn part, the part where we, along with the characters, lose all hope for things to end well.

It's like Sam's speech in The two towers: "how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad happened. But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."

I think there's reason to assume this is the structure the Duffers are planning.

First of all, the show is 5 seasons long. What better way to structure it than with five acts?

Secondly, other seasons seem to fall neatly into this structure.

For example, s3:

If we go by this structure and try to imagine what s5 might look like, it also fits perfectly:

Sound familiar? After the brutal and incomplete s4?

So if we assume Stranger Things is supposed to have this structure (which i think is reasonable and highly probable), then s4 is exactly the season where everything is so wrong it seems to never be right again.

But a new dawn is just around the corner.

A new hope if you will.

So take heart.

p.s. I know we've waited three years for this and didn't get much of anything resolved. I know we're all having trust issues right now irt the Duffers' plan and writing, but i'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. We've loved this show for so long, it gave us a lot, we put so much passion, effort, skill and love into it that i think it's not entirely fair to anyone to just abandon all hope and judge an unfinished show.

We're all hurt and frustrated right now, and afraid to be hurt again in two years. But hope is hardly a bad thing. Remember: the story is not over yet, and some wonderful storytelling just might be still happening.

p.p.s. With byler and Robin x Vicky and Will's potential coming out it's also possible that it's just not allowed to make any of that explicit until well into s5. It can be part of the deal with netflix or something, for fear that anything more than "up to interpretation" will cost the platform a chunk of its viewership.

It's a sad possiblity to consider, but I'm speaking from experiences with other shows and fandoms.

Just as an example: the creators of Steven Universe faught tooth and nail for a lesbian wedding and a kiss on screen, WON THIS, but immediately got cancelled and faught some more for additional several episodes to conclude the series.

Obviously, they aren't the same shows, I'm not saying it's the same situation.

But stuff like this still happens, unfortunately.

#byler #stranger things 4 #stranger things