Oh. Was I not supposed to break your hearts? Yeah sorry, I didn’t get the memo.
But yeah, count on Pearl to always give me inspiration for some angst pics~ Sworn to the Sword was great, as per usual with SU, but I’m sad that Pearl’s getting a lot of shit from some people for her behavior again. 😦 Same with Rose, but to way less of an extent, since people are just automatically assuming she never actually told Pearl to stop getting herself killed for her sake.
The way Pearl & Steven argued & the way she burst out at him, calling him Rose…I feel like she might’ve been taken back to a time when she & Rose were having that same discussion. Like, before the war, I think. Rose might’ve just learned to accept that Pearl would always risk her life to protect her, no matter what she said, which would probably take us to that moment on the strawberry fields (<-clever, writers~) they had in the Rose’s Scabbard ep.
After I watched the latest Steven Bomb episodes up until “We Need to Talk,” I was ecstatic. The series seems to keep getting better and better, the characters richer, as toxic tropes were continually subverted. I was especially excited about the obviously canon nature of Pearl’s romantic feelings for Rose Quartz. I found Pearl’s micdrop hilarious and the way she grappled with her sacrifices for Rose touching.
So when I logged onto tumblr and saw the fandom spewing hate toward Pearl, even aiming criticism at those who celebrated her feelings for Rose as queer representation, I was shocked and confused.
Other bloggers have pointed out the incongruity of the harsh criticism of Pearl paired with fandom’s affection toward Peridot and Jasper, villains who have sought the annihilation of humans and have harmed and imprisoned characters against their will. Even after Peridot’s horrific experiments on gems, that force them to fuse, the vitriol has primarily been aimed at Pearl, despite the fact it’s completely unwarranted. So why is fandom so harsh toward Pearl? Why are they going so far as to call her abusive, bitchy, a jerk? In my view, some of this vitriol stems from both ableism and homophobia.
AngelMihe 