just saw a youtube vid in my recommends that was called something like 'in defense of steven universe' and i dunno if its any good as a video but i immediately thought of @sarahzedig 's INCREDIBLE post about queer wish fulfillment and parental death in SU - this hunk here of second paragraph is the thing i think of every time i see someone make a video titled something like that or "was steven universe BAD actually??" or anything along those lines:
has the culture turned in such a way that "we" have decided it was bad? i feel like i keep seeing people "defend" steven universe in a conspicuously, uh, well, defensive way, against a bunch of haters i rarely see, and i just can't tell if that's because people actually hate the show now or what. maybe it's just that folks had issues with the ending, issues with the movie, then issues with su future, and since that was the most recent canonical conversation it's the one that dominates our collective memory.
it's a banger hunk of text in a post that is entirely spot on, and it's what my mind goes to now whenever i see shit like that
