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Four Years Later
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Hi y’all! Today marks the fourth anniversary of my first post in this project, and I wanted to thank everyone who’s read through it (again (again (again))). Life is good! Just hit my first year at the "new" library, and prepping for the annual rewatch with my wife later in the fall (adult readers: consider pairing the show with mulled wine). Time flies!
Fourth anniversaries sorta feel like a drumroll to the Big Five; after all, I wrote these reviews for the fifth anniversary of the show, meaning it'll be the Big Ten for Over the Garden Wall next year! But it's the length of a presidential term, the span between leap years, and your average stint in high school or college. Plus in just three months this blog will have existed for longer than the Confederate States of America managed, which really puts the racists who claim it as their Very Important Heritage in context. Wirt's Union jacket approves!
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I hope today's readers have an excellent Labor Day weekend, and future readers can think fondly on excellent Labor Day weekend memories. As ever, take care!
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doitforpink · 5 months
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annabelle--cane · 7 months
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her pronouns are HE/HIM
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thecollectibles · 1 month
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Steven Universe - Art Nouveau Series by Alexa Rockman
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turtle-kidddddd · 3 months
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Why did I only find out today that the “I think we need to kill this guy meme” was a fucking Steven Universe vs Hitler comic?????
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I was just caught so off guard by this
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professor-pants · 8 months
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Genre of character: submissive like a guard dog is submissive
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tenpixelsusie · 1 month
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you're so right hen
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get mad. get rageful. debate all you like because im sending them to the death arena and you can't stop me
avtually editing this incase anyone checks the original post you shouls go check out hen's art blog @chickenscribbles and reblog his art ok? hes my friend and awesome
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strawberry-crocodile · 6 months
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i love how garnet and pearl are just continuing to use the name of their infamous guerilla military organization while their current jobs are fighting lv4 rpg monsters and giving each other basket weaving seminars. and steven has no context for this and just thinks of "The Crystal Gems" as basically the name for his mom's side of the family. so he walks up to lapis and says "you should hang out with me and my treehouse friends, the Viet Cong!"
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artbyblastweave · 4 months
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I'm not the first to mention this, but one bit that I thought was really clever in Steven Universe is the ways in which the show subtly justifies the cartoonism of the principle cast always wearing the same outfit for ease-of-animation purposes. The gems are a gimme in that they're all hardlight-projections, and even before that's solidified as a plot point they're otherworldly and superheroic enough that you don't really think to question it. But Steven canonically just owns hundreds and hundreds of those star shirts, which are leftover merchandise from his father's fizzled-out career as a rock star. Into which you can read a whole bunch of other stuff if you really want to, right? And I do want to. It's reflective of Greg's misplaced optimism that he got hundreds of those made in the first place, and it's a benign but visible example of how Steven's life is shaped by the knock-on effects of decisions his parents made before he was even alive. He's got his mother's superpowers and he's wearing his father's shirts.
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ober-affen-geil · 11 months
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calamitydarcy · 6 months
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"we need more traumatized characters/characters with ptsd and/or who are abuse victims portrayed realistically with symptoms that Arent cute and soft and pretty!" you guys couldnt even handle lapis lazuli
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Three Years Later
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Hi y’all! Today marks the third anniversary of my first post in this project, and I wanted to thank everyone who’s read through it (again (again)). Man, what a year! Got married to my favorite person, we're back in the East Coast, just started a new job, and this October said person and I will be watching Over the Garden Wall once again; it'll be my eighth autumn with it, and her second, although she's been wanting to rewatch all year because spoiler alert she's a huge fan. Even roped in a few of her friends to catch Wirt Fever.
Not much to report on show update terms. Patrick McHale co-wrote the upcoming Guillermo del Toro stop motion Pinocchio movie where the story takes place in Fascist Italy, so that oughtta be weird! It has, as always, been a blast to get the occasional notification that folks are reading the archives throughout the year. COVID finally got me for a spell despite vaccinations, but it didn't hit too hard and somehow my wife still dodged it, so I suppose my sentiment til next September is to keep safe and healthy and don't take those things for granted! And as always, take care!
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procyoren · 3 months
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Pebble content no one asked for
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cirrocula · 4 months
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my rendition of the steven panel
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soy-sauce-and-mothra · 6 months
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Hey! Are there blacksmiths in your story? I'm a hobbyist blacksmith and I'm here to help!
Blacksmithing is one of those things that a lot of people get wrong because they don't realize it stuck around past the advent of the assembly line. Here's a list of some common misconceptions I see and what to do instead!
Not all blacksmiths are gigantic terrifying muscly guys with beards and deep voices. I am 5'8, skinny as a twig, have the muscle mass of wet bread, and exist on Tumblr. Anybody who is strong enough to pick up a hammer and understands fire safety can be a blacksmith.
You can make more than just swords with blacksmithing. Though swords are undeniably practical, they're not the only things that can be made. I've made candle holders, wall hooks, kebab skewers, fire pokers, and more. Look up things other people have made, it's really amazing what can be done.
"Red-hot" is actually not that hot by blacksmith terms. when heated up, the metal goes from black, to red, to orange, to yellow, to white. (for temperature reference, I got a second degree burn from picking up a piece of metal on black heat) The ideal color to work with the metal is yellow. White is not ideal at all, because the metal starts sparking and gets all weird and lumpy when it cools. (At no point in this process does the metal get even close to melting. It gets soft enough to work with, but I have never once seen metal become a liquid.)
Blacksmithing takes fucking forever. Not even taking into account starting the forge, selecting and preparing metal, etc. etc. it takes me around an hour to make one (1) fancy skewer. The metals blacksmiths work with heat up and cool down incredibly fast. When the forge is going good, it only takes like 20 seconds to get your metal hot enough to work with, but it takes about the same time for it to cool down, sometimes even less.
As long as you are careful, it is actually stupidly easy to not get hurt while blacksmithing. When I picked up this hobby I was like "okay, cool! I'm gonna make stuff, and I'm gonna end up in the hospital at some point!" Thus far, the latter has yet to occur. I've been doing this for nearly a year. I have earned myself a new scar from the aforementioned second degree burn, and one singe mark on my jeans. I don't even wear gloves half the time. Literally just eye protection, common sense, and fast reflexes and you'll probably be fine. (Accidents still happen of course, but I have found adequate safety weirdly easy to achieve with this hobby)
A forge is not a fire. The forge is the thing blacksmiths put their metal in to heat it up. It starts as a small fire, usually with newspaper or something else that's relatively small and burns easily, which we then put in the forge itself, which is sort of a fireplace-esque thing (there's a lot of different types of forge, look into it and try to figure out what sort of forge would make the most sense for the context you're writing about) and we cover it with coal, which then catches fire and heats up. The forge gets really hot, and sometimes really bright. Sometimes when I stare at the forge for too long it's like staring into the sun. The forge is also not a waterfall of lava, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.
Welding and blacksmithing are not the same thing. They often go hand-in-hand, but you cannot connected two pieces of metal with traditional blacksmithing alone. There is something called forge welding, where you heat your metal, sprinkle borax (or the in-universe equivalent) on it to prevent the metal from oxidizing/being non-weldable, and hammer the pieces together very quickly. Forge welding also sends sparks flying everywhere, and if you're working in a small space with other blacksmiths, you usually want to announce that you're welding before you do, so that everyone in a five-foot radius can get out of that five-foot radius. You also cannot just stuck some random pebbles into the forge and get a decent piece of metal that you can actually make something with, Steven Universe. It doesn't work like that, Steven Universe.
Anvils are really fucking heavy. Nothing else to add here.
Making jewelry is not a blacksmithing thing unless you want jewelry made of steel. And it will be very ugly if you try. Blacksmithing wasn't invented to make small things.
If there's anything here I didn't mention, just ask and I'll do my best to answer.
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tortol · 7 months
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i really think rose quartz is the voice of our times she was suicidal she was bisexual she was a libra she was fat she was horny all the time she was pink she went to war against herself she fumbles people who demand emotional intimacy from her she has a very loose grip on reality she loves everything and hates herself she somehow has mommy issues despite belonging to a species where mothers do not exist her boobs are self-made she was into soundcloud rappers she has committed identity theft and a hundred other war crimes she has several pet lions one of which is a zombie and she couldn’t break out of herself. peace and love on planet girl
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