shoutout to everyone who’s still following me through my many changes of fandoms and don’t get pissed off whenever I flood your dash with things you don’t even like. thank you.
@ the people who followed me for one specific thing i’m really sorry my interests are all over the place and that sometimes i will suddenly start posting a fuck ton of something i’ve never mentioned before whoops
how in steven universe selflessness at your own expense is outright condemned
in so many SOOO MANY children’s and adults’ media wearing yourself ragged for others is toted as the Epitome of Virtue like, from fucking Frozen, “some people are worth melting for”
but in steven universe they say Fuck That. rose teaches pearl that she is a person beyond what her superiors want of her. steven keeps this line of thought going by very clearly demonstrating to pearl that such self-sacrifice does not help anyone and working TOGETHER, where everyone counts and nobody is expendable, is how it should be
every time ruby is like “who cares about me, you’re the one who’s important” to sapphire, sapphire cuts that shit down. “who cares’” “i do!”
SU is doing the lord’s work and teaching kids to have healthy supportive relationships that go both ways
But sometimes there’s no other choice but selflessness at your own expense. Sometimes people in your life are gonna get sick, sick enough to need 24-hour care, so what other option do you have but to “wear yourself ragged”? It’s not a good message for kids, no, but adults – no, one day you’re gonna have to be selfless, and it will wreck you, but Good or Bad or Condemn-able or not you’re just gonna have to do it, because there’s simply no alternative-
“There exists, for everyone, a sentence―a series of words―that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you’re lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”
