steven universe is the only show that’d present you this and expect you to either take it seriously or proceed to lose your goddamn shit over it for the next 10 hours
[Steven] Mom was a Diamond who invaded Earth, Saw its beauty and its worth. Mom made an army and she fought herself Did that even end up mattering when she faked her own shattering?
Mom lived in hiding by the name of Rose With the friends she’d made and the form she chose Now all that’s left of her exists in me And I think that we can all agree
That is a little bit upsetting I’d rather think about a wedding!
Let’s think about cake, let’s think about flowers Let’s think about dressing up and dancing around for hours There’s an awful lot of awful things we could be thinking of But for just one day, let’s only think about love
[dialogue interlude]
[Steven] We could think about lies that we told in the past [Pearl] They took it so hard [Steven] We could think about hurt feelings and how long they can last [Pearl] How can we move on? [Steven] Or we could think about hope ([Pearl] Hope?) You know I’ve been hoping ([Pearl] About what?)
That everything’s better now everything’s out in the open
[dialogue interlude]
We could think about flowers, we could think about cake We could think about wonderful promises we have the power to make There’s an awful lot of awful things we could be thinking of But for just one day, let’s only think about love!
[dialogue interlude]
We could all rethink how we feel about Rose When it comes to Pink, and the things that she did in the past, I suppose
([Amethyst] Yeah)
Or we could both feel better, ‘cause we could think about how We could think about us and we could think about now.
[dialogue interlude]
…but for just one day, let’s only think about…
We could think about war, we could think about fighting We could think about long-lost friends we wish we were inviting We could think about the broken gems in the Cluster at the planet’s core Or we could think about the bubble we made
So that they can’t be hurt any, they can’t be hurt anymore We could think about joy, we could think about pain We could think about sunshine, we could think about rain There’s an awful lot of awful things we could be thinking of But for just one day, let’s only think about…
Just one day, let’s only think about… Just one day, let’s only think about… Loooooooove!
Half of me: Blue and Yellow are going to have to confront eons worth of sins, war crimes, prejudice, the creation and enforcement of biological castes, the removal and dismantling of the very notion of consent, their part in upholding the lies that gems are solitary, unchanging, incapable of love or companionship, downplaying gems own physical abilities leading to entire swaths of gem culture untapped, and that’s not even mentioning the eugenics, use of unconventional (by gem standards) weaponry, the corruption weapon. They’re going to have to face the fact that they won’t be able to atone for all of that (especially re: Pearl) even if it turns out that the theory that White Diamond outranks all other diamonds in terms of superiority and my personal theory that Blue and Yellow are off-color diamonds like Pink was is true and that I’m actually spot on about Blue and Yellow not knowing the full extent of the corruption weapon’s effects on gems (as implied by Blue and Yellow thinking that they’d simply killed all the gems on Earth instead of corrupting them). There’s just no way they’re going to get all of the Crystal Gems to trust them just like that, at the very least not without a big rant from Pearl about how they could have just listened to Pink 5700 years ago instead of ignoring her and continuing to expand their genocidal colonialist empire.
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