Exactly. Good sci fi takes the social and political relationships of our time and envisions radical futures that anyone can understand. Steven Universe without its queerness isn't really so great a show at all.

I'm 99.9% positive that they were supposed to be Takis, especially because of the class-action lawsuit. And the intense burning.
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