But if she can’t experience what Steven is experiencing, then there isn’t any next big new thing for her. All her things are done and she won’t get to have anymore. Steven might get to have big new things, but there’s a substantial risk she won’t ever again.

Or okay, here’s another thought I just had. In “Rose’s Scabbard”, Pearl freaks out because Rose had secretly kept her sword safe for Steven, and Pearl didn’t think that Rose kept any secrets from her.

At the time, that just seemed like Pearl having an inflated idea of her own relationship with Rose (which again, still…

So here’s my question: how much of the earlier series does this recontextualize? I bet Ronaldo predicted this somewhere and it was dismissed as a crazy theory.

The first thought I had was about that episode where Greg cleans out his storage unit, and he and Amethyst get sucked into watching Li’l Butler (like they did…

But that doesn’t even make sense, because the Homeworld Gems thought that Rose and the others were all corrupted and gone. I mean, Rose didn’t necessarily know that, but after 5000 years of radio silence from Homeworld, it would have been pretty clear that was the case. What would she be escaping from? She had already…

Rose didn’t commit sexual assault (at least I hope not) but the love of Ruby and Sapphire? Pearl’s independence? Amethyst’s ability to find her home? All positive things, but all based on a lie and all paid for with the lives of their comrades in the Gem War.

It also explains why her bubble was strong enough to resist the corruption song when no other quartz clearly survived.

Homeworld’s plan was to destroy Earth and all humans. Rose fought a war to stop that from happening. And then she stayed hidden from the diamonds, because if they knew she was alive they would attack Earth again to capture her and (from their perspective) deprogram her. And most of her friends died because Homeworld…

I think that’s going to be important later since we still don’t know the whole story with “Era 2" gems not being as good as “Era 1" gems and the “resource crisis”.

Who says it was unrequited? If you go back and rewatch The Last Jedi, the last interaction Luke has with any of the Resistance is a saucy wink he gives C-3PO. He couldn’t say anything in front of the others, but he didn’t need to.

Amethyst has soooooo much junk in her room. Which could mean that Pearls have way more space than other Gems, or it could just mean that Amethyst likes being surrounded by human junk.

But that assumes A. that she can experience stuff that’s happening to Steven and B. that she knew that would be the case. We don’t know either of those things, and the other Gems don’t seem to know either. For all we know, Rose is perma-dead, and if Steven ever gets poofed it’ll be him that regenerates. And that would…

And it’s a great contrast because from the very beginning of the series, Steven has already understood that about Greg (“if every porkchop were perfect”). A lot of Greg’s arc over the series has been “Steven appreciating that he’s actually very competent and level-headed in a lot of ways”, which makes a nice parallel…

I dunno, Rose’s “terms” were that she wanted to experience life on Earth, among living, changing organic things. Even if she had selfish motivations for that, her terms still lined up with fighting for the preservation and freedom of human (and other organic) life. And then after the war, she totally could have set…

Pearl? Projecting her own desires onto a situation and stubbornly insisting that those desires are an accurate picture of reality, even as reality loudly insists that’s not true? No, that doesn’t sound plausible. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to rip out this baby’s gem so that it turns back into Rose.

I dunno though, I feel like the obvious answer to that problem is for Pink to say “hey Pearl, I order you to treat all future orders from me as non-binding” or something like that. Or if the restriction is hardwired into the gem, something like “hey Pearl, I order you to ignore all future orders that don’t begin with…

Premise: Raleigh St. Clair was an expy of Oliver Sacks.
Premise: When Sacks recently died, it came out that he was gay.
Conclusion: Raleigh St. Clair was also gay, and that’s why he wasn’t super concerned about Margot fucking around on him?

I dunno if that was intentional on Wes Anderson or Bill Murray’s part, but it…

Here is a write-up of the case. I don’t know anything about technology, but I do know administrative law, and the court’s decision seems broadly reasonable.

Basically what happened was, Congress wrote a law that says ‘autodialers “have the capacity” to store and dial a bunch of random numbers’, and then Congress handed…

You know what I think? I think you’re some kind of deviated prevert.

This is 100% true, but at the same time, I think Spaceballs is so much funnier. I mean, it has as many misses as hits, but the hits are as funny as Brooks’ 70s work. Whereas his 90s stuff only has a few good gags per movie.

The toucan character is pretty prominent in that Hot Dog Taste Test book Hanawalt put out a couple years ago. It seems like kind of a self-insert for her. The comics were pretty good, except a lot of them were about restaurants she ate at, because apparently it was originally a series of comics for a food magazine or…