#steven callout

[a-sad-rat]

baby's first callout post (wowza!) hey guys don't like. follow @koldiy or reblog any of their stuff, they steal and repost art from other artists w/o credit, and it kinda sucks to see the really high amount of notes they get off stolen content

#i looked through their profile and it was ALL uncredited reposts #i should probably block them since tumblr keeps recommending their blog to me tee bee eich #callout post #blocklist #im gonna tag some of the fandoms of the art they repost #undertale #bendy and the ink machine #steven universe #the owl house #murder drones #batim #toh #uhhh fuck thats all i remember #WAIT I FORGOT SOME #fnaf #helluva boss

[mister-celery]

#this is a self callout #comfort characters are the only thing keeping me alive rn #garnet su #steven universe #eda toh #the owl house #stolas helluva boss #helluva boss #michiko malandro #michiko and hatchin #urbosa botw #the legend of zelda #botw #tloz botw #rose quartz su #rose su

[supercalloutfragilistic]

Steven Universe

Just reporting about Raven Molisee being a pedo, since that hasn’t been covered yet by the blog. Credit to EZ PZ on youtube: [Trigger Warning: Slurs, ableism and queerphobia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLxVO018r4w&t=2602s and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlzl0gUdb3I&t=1912s

Because despite Rebecca Sugar drawing childporn,

and despite a second animator on the show drawing childporn, who I later discovered was Raven Molisee [...],

Note: This doesn’t look to be Eddy, but Eddy’s adult brother raping child Double D so hard his ass bleeds.

despite a third animator, who was considered for the show, turning out to be grooming little girls for sex,

despite Ian Jones-Quartey liking borderline loli art on tumblr,

despite him hiring the borderline childporn artist Zone to work on Ok Ko,

despite how two children fusing is an obvious metaphor for sex,

despite all of this, [the fans will claim that] there are no pedophiles working on Steven Universe and there are no pedophilic themes in the show.

Note: Shmorky is okay with being referred to by he / him pronouns.

Molisee also wrote and storyboarded the episode Frybo, where the child Steven runs around naked.

#steven universe #callout

[washoepine]

I’m just a guy. Just a regular guy.

#I did this back in 2016 and had lapis lazuli from Steven universe in place of Mob #dipper and jade are just consistent lmao #this may also be the biggest callout at myself

[katarascape]

You ever overhear a conversation in public and think 'oh ok, they run a bluey blog on tumblr.edu'

#I have never heard so many tumblrisms spoken aloud in my life #The whiplash man #Was not expecting to hear that #Was like listening to a callout post for steven universe drama

[skull-pun]

POV: rewatching Steven Universe in 2023

#this is a self callout btw #steven universe #steven universe future #su #suf

[guillermothegreat408]

wwdits fans when the tv show does a thing tv shows do: OH MY GOD I CANT BELIEVE YOU HATE WOMEN AND ME PERSONALLY IM GONNA BOYCOTT THIS PROBLEMATIC PIECE OF GARBAGE OH MY GOD HOW COULD YOU FO THIS TO ME, SPECIFICALLY???!?!?!?

Wwdits fans when the evil demon monsters from hell do something evil: waaaait that wasn’t very uwu smol boy cinnamon roll of you ): why can’t you be the perfectly sanitized, sexless, pg-13 flanderized version of u that exists only my head )))):

#wwdits #god I fucking hate y’all #I don’t even care that it’s mean #I hate it when a good show gets a teen tumblr fan base and then any discussion around the show sounds like a Steven universe callout

[drifloonz]

steven/mocha is canon

#wispy talks #im going off my deep end mode . i no longer care about peoples perception of me outside of not being a jackass to ideas i dont like #bc no matter how low i get im not. like. uber popular. but most of this fandom is minors. i do not want to sway easily swayable opinions #for like. nonserious shit if its not a problem. this is unrelated tho basically dont be a jackass 2 ppl Anywyas #context: my oc #context: rp partner and i rp it.. yay #fuck EVERY OTHER STEVEN SHIP XCEPT THIS ONE !!!! ( /j ) #this isnt no Fandom ship that erases their personality and characterization for unseasoned yaoi this is REAL SHIT!1!!!!!!!!! #that isnt a callout to anything particular other than fandom culture in general #You dont know how many thoughts i have youd never survive a day in the asylum they raised me in. Why the fuck did i quote that. #the 'asylum they raised me in' was miiverse and 3ds youtube. #so i dont know what that adds to anything #if any of my ex friends turned back into current friends see this i am so fucking sorry my hyperfixation shame runs deep #but its my hyperfixation now. I have become more autistic. Welcome back CHEATER. ive reclaimed him essentially. mine now. #dont let me type online within 20 mins of waking up #anyways (goes insane #mocha makes him breakfast in bed and mails him little letters by togekiss and visits when hes not busy at work... and steven just opens up. #bit by bit by bit... and he misses mocha so deaaarly. he misses her. he misses his beautiful doeboyfriend. and his scent. #and his good as fuck pancakes and the way he worries about stevens mental health and if hes taking care of himself. etc etc... #hes scary and intimidating. but not to mocha . not anymore...

[mrlechattm-iii]

Heartbreaking: Someone you thought was really cool and funny is actually so fucking annoying about a piece of media you like.

#this is a callout post #for many different people #because I’ve noticed that you can be so funny and cool #but then turn around and be relentlessly annoying about something for literally no reason #and I don’t mean annoying as in #critique or debates within a fandom #I mean shitting on that thing constantly and acting like people who like that media are tasteless #five nights at freddy’s #Hazbin hotel #Steven universe #sonic the hedgehog

[skoople]

in like 20 years all this bullshit about getting a callout for kinning sardonyx from steven universe or something will be explained by a specific hallucinogenic toxin found only in wacom tablets

[radioreprise]

I CAN GET MAD ABT VIDEOGAMES IN WAYS U'VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE! 💥

#if i wasn't abt to go to work u would be getting a dai rant so long it'd double a callout post 4 a jasper steven universe kinnie in 2017. #kat talks

[utopians]

I feel like the recent crop of posts that go like "yall claim to want morally gray female characters but couldn't even handle (cartoon character)" are funny but like. I'm going to be honest I feel like the people making posts about how they want a girl version of AM from I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream and the people who make callouts for someone enjoying pearl from steven universe are probably different people. probably not the same person holding both those opinions

[deerlirium]

Please tell me there is someone out there somewhere who also was in the my little pony fandom on wattpad when they were younger and also got blacklisted and called homophobic for not knowing that colt cuddler and filly fooler were my little pony slurs for lgbt ponies

#my little pony #wattpad #there was like one specific person doing it too but they mained steven universe #the my little pony callout posts were kind of a side hobby I guess #liri.txt #please I am literally begging somebody to validate this experience and make me feel valid #ah wattpad culture. it was like tumblr but almost exclusively 13 year olds

[txttletale]

average callout post:

pages 1-18: bdsm sexts pages 19-47: problematic steven universe opinions pages 48-52: opposed the PATRIOT act and FOSTA-SESTA (suspicious??!?) page 53: HD CCTV footage of the person in question killing someone with a hammer (NOTE: this part is optional dont sweat it. if youre calling out a trans woman more bdsm sexts will do in a pinch) pages 54-55: obscure forum beef from 2012 (guest section) page 56: call to action / affirmation that You, the Reader, are a Good Person, and perhaps even a National Hero, for reading this,

#tattletxt

[chongoblog]

The Steven Universe fandom might be “cringe” and “bad” but imagine a fandom so bad that a bunch of fandom members had ran a scheme to say “if you pay us money, your blorbo will know you’re valid” and the fandom permanently split over a 95 paragraph callout post of these people.

[renthony]

In Defense of Shitty Queer Art

Queer art has a long history of being censored and sidelined. In 1895, Oscar Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray was used as evidence in the author’s sodomy trials. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the American Hays Code prohibited depictions of queerness in film, defining it as “sex perversion.” In 2020, the book Steven Universe: End of an Era by Chris McDonnell confirmed that Rebecca Sugar’s insistence on including a sapphic wedding in the show is what triggered its cancellation by Cartoon Network. According to the American Library Association, of the top ten most challenged books in 2023, seven were targeted for their queer content. Across time, place, and medium, queer art has been ruthlessly targeted by censors and protesters, and at times it seems there might be no end in sight.

So why, then, are queer spaces so viciously critical of queer art?

Name any piece of moderately-well-known queer media, and you can find immense, vitriolic discourse surrounding it. Audiences debate whether queer media is good representation, bad representation, or whether it’s otherwise too problematic to engage with. Artists are picked apart under a microscope to make sure their morals are pure enough and their identities queer enough. Every minor fault—real or perceived—is compiled in discourse dossiers and spread around online. Lines are drawn, and callout posts are made against those who get too close to “problematic art.”

Modern examples abound, such as the TV show Steven Universe, the video game Dream Daddy, or the webcomic Boyfriends, but it’s far from a new phenomenon. In his book Hi Honey, I’m Homo!, queer pop culture analyst Matt Baume writes about an example from the 1970s, where the ABC sitcom titled Soap was protested by homophobes and queer audiences alike—before a single episode of the show ever aired. Audiences didn’t wait to actually watch the show before passing judgment and writing protest letters.

After so many years starved for positive representation, it’s understandable for queer audiences to crave depictions where we’re treated well. It’s exhausting to only ever see the same tired gay tropes and subtext, and queer audiences deserve more. Yet the way to more, better, varied representation is not to insist on perfection. The pursuit of perfection is poison in art, and it’s no different when that art happens to be queer.

When the pool of queer art is so limited, it feels horrible when a piece of queer art doesn’t live up to expectations. Even if the representation is technically good, it’s disappointing to get excited for a queer story only for that story to underwhelm and frustrate you.

But the world needs that disappointing art. It needs mediocre art. It even needs the bad art. The world needs to reach a point where queer artists can fearlessly make a mess, because if queer artists can only strive for perfection, the less art they can make. They may eventually produce a masterpiece, but a single masterpiece is still a drop in the bucket compared to the oceans of censorship. The only way to drown out bigotry and offensive stereotypes created by bigots is to allow queer artists the ability to experiment, learn through making mistakes, and represent their queer truth even if it clashes with someone else’s.

If queer artists aren’t allowed to make garbage, we can never make those masterpieces everyone craves. If queer artists are terrified at all times that their art will be targeted both by bigots and their own queer communities, queer art cannot thrive.

Let queer artists make shitty art. Let allies to queer people try their hand at representation, even if they miss the mark. Let queer art be messy, and let the artists screw up without fear of overblown retribution.

It’s the only way we’ll ever get more queer art.

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