deluxetrashqueen:

God bless Steven Universe.

We have the character Greg, who works his ass off at a crappy job to provide for his kid. He lives in a van. He has nothing. But he always makes sure Steven has everything he needs. He never begrudges the fact that he had to give up on his dreams to stay in Beach City. He’s never resentful about his lot in life. He’s just a fantastic guy in general.

So an episode comes up where he, after years of being very poor, ends up with a lot of money. A TON of money.

 Everything in cartoon history tells me that he’s supposed to go nuts spending all the money or he’ll be scammed or tricked or some crazy event will happen that costs a ton of money, or it will turn out it was all fake, and just somehow, by the end of the episode, he ends up back to being dirt poor and learns some cheap message about humility and money not buying happiness. I spent the whole episode “Mr.Greg” waiting for the rug to be pulled out from under him.

But it wasn’t.

He spends money somewhat frivolously, but it’s all to have a good time with his son, which he does, and he still has the vast majority of the money left at the end. It probably only cost a few thousand out of his 10 million at most.

He doesn’t become obsessed with being wealthy. It doesn’t change him at all. He stays in his van instead of buying a big fancy house because it’s where he feels comfortable. He keeps working the car wash because it’s something to do. When he buys a tablet, he decides it isn’t for him and lets Steven give it to someone who would like it more. He buys a car he always wanted, but he buys it used. It’s not showy or extravagant, it’s just a car that he’d always wanted and can now have. 

The only difference now is that, when something happens like someone stiffing him at the car wash, or the gems destroying another diner booth, Greg doesn’t have to worry about it. He can just live his life comfortably and without stressing about money.

It also makes me happy that Greg earned the money through his music. It’s not the way he’d originally envisioned it, perhaps, but he is now an incredibly successful musician. 

There was no lesson about not “selling out”. There was no moral about how money won’t fix your problems. There was no joke about a poor man being totally clueless about money or overwhelmed with greed.

It’s just a great, humble, hard-working guy who becomes monetarily successful and remains a great, humble, hard-working guy who just now doesn’t have to worry about money and can afford to treat himself right after years of neglecting himself to make sure that his son was always provided for.

I don’t know, maybe they will still pull it all out from under him yet. Maybe it will still all go away and he’ll be back to being dirt poor. But for now, I’m loving the direction they’ve been taking with this story line. I’m so sick of seeing shows be so afraid to change anything about the status quo of the show that they have to undo all progress anyone makes by the end of every episode. It’s refreshing to see a show where things change.

genderqueermercury:

kunaigirl:

“Pearl doens’t love steven blah blah she just sees him as a burden and it’s terrible and she’s terrible!!!! shE’s Terrible!!!!!”

Pearl is raising the child that the love of her life made with another person who she at the time hated deeply. She’s been in love with Rose for probably hundreds upon hundreds of earth years and she’s only been dead for 14. That’s gonna be hard for fucking ANYBODY. Also, she’s proven time and time again that she loves him dearly and NEWS FLASH! You can be heartbroken and still love a child. You can help raise a family and still stumble back into symptoms of your depression. 

Stop pegging Pearl as some horrible monster because she has realistically human struggles. 

Stop. 

Stop giving Pearl a Snape Complex 2k16

turing-tested:

lesbianahsoka:

junkrat sadstuck in whcih someone bathes him and he just dissolves….theres no boy underneath the grime thre never was

th is is a good post but I can’t believe someone used sadstuck to describe a thing in a fandom that isnt homestuck in this, the year of our lord, 0 AH

jsyk if you play pokemon go near me and own a gym with a name like ‘fukkt*rrd’ and ‘cumragf*g’ then i will fucking decimate u at any cost i will go out of my way to get to your gym i will sit for an hour whittling u down to nothing

even if ur pokemon is 1000 higher cp than mine i will through my weak ass pokemon at u over and over until i have no more potions

when you see a post talking about stuff you gotta try not to do to others to do with your mental illness and you generally agree with it and think its important to consider

and someone at the end just calls it ableist and doesnt explain why

Before European Christians Forced Gender Roles, Native Americans Acknowledged 5 Genders

hodarte:

cubanflagemoji:

frankiefreshness44:

immaculateimmortal:

bubanflagemoji:

i am 150% DONE with hearing all you non-asian bitches call your nail techs “ling ling”.

dont fucking think that shit is okay. im constantly hearing this shit, along with you bitches complaining about how people who work in nail salon’s speak their own language while in your holy presence. its their first language for god’s sake. it comes much more easier and naturally to them, why wouldnt they speak it? if youre so uncomfortable with it, take your fucking business elsewhere because these women work way too hard to get disrespected with crude, racist comments.

“ling ling needs to hurry up with my nails” shut. the. entire. fuck. up.

^^^^^^

I worked at a nail salon last year and when the nail techs spoke to each other in their native languages, it was almost always to coordinate things like “hey you, make sure to help that customer gets some slippers on” or “that customer needs to pay 25 dollars” or “hey can you cover the front desk?”… or even just talking… about their weekend or something…. like you’d talk to your co-workers yk?

Yet non asian customers are always so rude and suspicious that we are somehow talking shit about them. Like… trust me. They have got better shit to talk about.

When laughter bubbles up after an exchange of excited vietnamese or chinese words, customers are so quick to assume that they are talking shit when they’re literally just talking about something funny that happened last night. Or something silly one of their kids or spouses did. Or a pun.

And honestly, if they -were- talking shit about you, you probably deserved it bc you were a rude or unpleasant customer.

Asian workers get ridiculed by non asians so much for how our language sounds smh.

^!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yeah and they have the audacity to mock their accents….childish bullshit i swear 

cstia:

can we just agree that poc lgbt+ don’t get as much recognition as white lgbt+ because that’s something i think we can ALL agree on