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I just discovered that the “unrequested poly” wank started with a request for a Steven Universe fic. Dear, I think you might be in the wrong fandom.

Multiple posts on Tumblr: Steven Universe is a kids’ show. How were you expecting it to end? A trial in The Hague?

Actual fucking post on Tumblr: “maus is a kid’s story.”

If kids can read Maus, they can tolerate anything.

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.)

My issues with Steven Universe run so much shallower than the “SU critical” crowd. They post all this stuff about race and class and sex and what SU says about them, and I don’t think SU said most of those things, not even accidentally or in passing. In fact, I think SU said the exact opposite of some of the things it’s criticized for.

My issue with SU is that I think it needed to either ditch the ending, or else ditch Keeping It Together. Keeping It Together, specifically, went a thousand times harder than it needed to, and even though it’s one of my favorite episodes, it casts a shadow over every other episode involving the Diamonds. SU could still have Nightmare Hospital, and a slightly modified Gem Drill, as long as it didn’t have Keeping It Together.

You know how Undyne from Undertale is what Jasper from Steven Universe would be if she wasn’t a sex offender? Masa from Meta Runner is the non-sex offender version of Adam Taurus.

Seriously, you have no idea how many Steven Universe ending posts I’m sparing you. I’ve thought of doing “the Steven Universe ending is bad, contrasted with the ending of Omensight.” I’ve thought of doing “the Steven Universe ending is bad for the same reason some critics didn’t like the endings of The Babadook and The Cabin in the Woods.” The sky’s the limit.

Okay, I know I was arguing AGAINST the nutjobs who think Steven Universe is for Nazis. But Steven Universe Future is like The Wall for kids.

Edit: I looked through my old posts, and I already said Inside Out is The Wall for kids. I guess The Wall is fertile ground for a kids’ show.

The problem with creating a Steven Universe alignment chart is that none of these characters are Neutral Evil.

Peridot from Steven Universe/Futaba Sakura from Persona 5. It’s “child coding” all the way down!