I found it interesting that the musical sequence wound up playing up the similarities between not only Connie and Ruby, but also Steven and Sapphire. Or am I just reading too much into things?

I'm probably misrepresenting the show a little by not bringing up episodes like "Alone Together" and "We Need to Talk", which this episode has more in common with than "Sworn to the Sword". SU's capable of being very naturalistic when it wants to be. But I do think the show's changed, and that this episode's themes…

Jeff. And, much like Jeff Liu, he's Asian. Makes you wonder.

One of the things I've really liked about SU recently is that the big stuff has felt smaller. For a while in the second half of S1 and S2, it felt like every few episodes we'd have an episode that hinged on personal conflict that escalated to either a personal betrayal ("Full Disclosure", "Cry for Help") or putting…

It's also plenty of time for ruins to collapse and become buried under topsoil, but you don't see all that much of that, do you?

No, no, Gearl is the femslash version.

Jeez, this comment section is lousy with librarians.

Just an aside: the Adventure Time fandom's response to "Breezy" was utterly infuriating. People were convinced that because LSP forced Finn to make out with her, that the show must have been implying that she *raped* him. Not to minimize what happened— the violation of consent already makes it bad enough to work as a…

I ship Preg, but with Pearl as a man. Guess what I call it.

This is pretty much where I'm at. I feel like it's worth noting that some of the coverage of Zuke's deletion made it sound like it was entirely based on what happened over the last few weeks, when this isn't the first time she's expressed sentiments like this by a long shot. I'm sure Lapidot and Amedot fans had…

Eh, Star vs. is pretty clear about how terrible, e.g. colonialism is. Remember that episode about Mewni's history? It could've been a stand-in for relations between American colonizers and Native peoples. The show has a big heart and sees beauty in most aspects of modern life, but I don't see much in the way of actual…

Of course the Quartz would have epaulets.

I have to wonder whether Jamie was struck with an inexplicable urge to go for a very long walk while Steven and Connie were in the library.

I've always thought there was something incongruous about Rose idolizing pre-antiquity human culture (which, let's remember, was pretty violent by modern standards), so it's funny to see her hanging around with lions. I guess she likes the idea of a creature that lazes around for 22 hours a day and violently murders…

Well, I said "in the Genocide route" because that's the only context in which you actually fight Sans.

Yeah. If you go and look for stuff about Lauren Zuke on tumblr or reddit right now, you will see nothing but across-the-board positivity. Don't judge the fandom as a whole by the drama.

Cards on the table: I'm a furry and a fan of both MLP and SU. However, there is nothing new under the sun, and people criticizing new fandoms for being uniquely toxic should understand that.

The Simpsons was mocking fan culture well before the Internet, Dennis Falk was stalking VAs from Tiny Toon Adventures all the way back in the 90s. Social media's just lowered the barriers to entry a lot.

I'm really sad about Lauren Zuke leaving twitter, but I don't know how I feel about this making the news outside the fandom the way the Zamii scandal did. (I saw Freddie deBoer using this as an opportunity to rail on about fan entitlement, and he's not the only one.) Lauren's always been skittish about the attention…

I'm really sad about Lauren Zuke leaving twitter, but I don't know how I feel about this making the news outside the fandom the way the Zamii scandal did. (I saw Freddie deBoer using this as an opportunity to rail on about fan entitlement, and he's not the only one.) Lauren's always been skittish about the attention…