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An indirect thought on Steven Universe:

There was this thing on TV Tropes a while back where some people kept adding Mr. Krabs from Spongebob Squarepants to the Complete Monster page, and other people kept deleting him. The people who added him cited that he did this and that and the other that were Complete Monster things. The people who deleted him didn’t seem to think an argument was necessary. To them, it was obviously silly to call this character a Complete Monster. I’d stopped watching Spongebob at this point, but it felt strange to me that people didn’t even conside it worth addressing whether the character’s behavior could actually merit the Complete Monster tag.

I’m one of the people who argues that Homeworld in Steven Universe does some spectacularly messed-up things, in ways that go beyond the usual cartoon villainy. The general response to this is “you’re crazy.” I feel like I’d be more satisfied with it if the argument was more “Homeworld really isn’t that different from a lot of other cartoon villains,” and to be fair, I do see that sometimes. But more often, the reaction is that it’s too stupid to bother arguing with, and that just annoys me.

(TBF, I also disagree with the folks who compare the Diamonds to Nazis. The Diamonds are a hybrid of multiple different kinds of terrible government, from kleptocracy to Communist dictatorship, without clearly matching any one real-life society.)

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Hot take: whatever you think of the Human Domestication Guide shared universe, it’s better in every way than the Conversion Bureau shared universe.

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I don’t think there’s a limit to how anti-corporate the messages in corporate-produced art can get. If you want art that condemns corporations and encourages corporate overthrow, I think the market can provide in the name of short-term profit. But if big corporations aren’t making it yet, the way to prove to them that it would make them tons of money would be to give tons of money to smaller creators who’re already making anti-corporate art.

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Looking at a writeup of The Occupation Saga; debating whether I have enough dignity to stop myself from reading a Humanity Fuck Yeah story.

I am still fucking mad about the ending of The Wishing Stone

You can’t let me go. There’s too much of a risk I’ll tell someone what I’ve learned. But that’s not true. I’ll never speak a word of it to anyone.

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Less Blue and Orange Morality as “they’ll kill you if you do this seemingly innocuous thing.” More Blue and Orange Morality as “they’ll think you’re weird and gross if you do this seemingly innocuous thing.”