Steven Universe premiered 10 years ago today so I had to make some Cookie Cats!
(I couldn’t find my original Cookie Cat cookie cutter that I made way back in the summer of 2013 so I made a new one.)
Gem that belonged to Black Diamond's court; one of the several spies in the various Diamond colonies, too important since she received a Pearl from Homeworld for her great guard work in posing as part of Pink's court until her shattering, passing into the hands of White. When Era III arrived, she adapted to Steven's rules and has been softening, now has a new form cause she was poofed by an accident; perhaps his Diamond will be surprised by what could happen if she continues to let herself go
Edited from Hiding In Private's fantastic video which you can watch here.
Hiding In Public: "It's unreasonable to attack Rebecca's character as if the most malicious interpretation of everything in the show was their personal idea. The writing and storyboarding team of Steven Universe is one of the most diverse in cartoon history.
On a show that pushed diversity and inclusion, a lot of this criticism starts to stink of right-wing co-opting of progressive language, without understanding context and sentiment, in order to have a "gotcha" moment. Considering a lot of videos pushing this also include racist and homophobic jokes (as I've covered in my own series).
Even then, the argument that you're trying to make is that there was a malicious characterization of minorities made by those same minorities...so the next question I guess is: Why Steven Universe?
A show about pushing diversity, inclusion and acceptance was being specifically targeted by countless takedown videos (and posts) on this specific thing.
It seems to me-at least-that even if someone were to concede all the bad things being said, that it would make more sense to target-more loudly-the shows (and other media) that do the same thing more often with less tact and who are also not led by minority communities rather than one of the only shows intentionally trying to support these communities. Especially when most the people making the criticism, show by virtue of their own comments, are neither coming from these communities or are at worst actively vilifying them with homophobic and racist comments.
Say there are two shops: One that sells apples and the other that sells grapes. The apple owner overhears a customer complaining about the grapes not tasting good. Does the Apple owner then run a campaign pretending to be a grape fan in order to make grapes better? Or is it more likely that they stoked a flame to ensure that their business had less competition?"
rebecca sugar is holding a virtual concert fundraiser for the trevor project to celebrate pride! itll be june 12th at 5-7pm PST! she is joined by ben levin (writer for SU) and jeff liu (storyboard artist for SU). if you can, you should absolutely donate to this important LGBTQ+ charity!
also, ian jones-quartey shared an interesting little rumor 👀
we might get new music from rebecca sugar if y'all donate!!
UNFUSED RHODONITE 💘
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Rose Pearl 💝 + Pink Ruby 💖
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Yeah, this is also an old drawing that's barely seen the light today, however it's obviously inspired by Rebecca's doodles from the book "End of an Era"
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I dunno what’s funnier, Luke Weber drawing cringe worthy art of himself being in a relationship with Pearl, him getting fired from Steven Universe after story boarding a single episode, or the fact that he’s become an Alt Right weirdo on Twitter.