my brief was to “Ask someone for instructions in what to do and then obey them” and i think i did pretty well! i asked my friend “what should i do for this assignment?” and she said the above quote and then i had to make a record of it!!
It’s like a journey from compulsive femininity to embracing her butchness.
Also, it’s kind of like a big 🖕 to Homeworld since they were all about sticking her in dresses and she put on pants at the first opportunity while defying her intended role.
Exactly. To me it feels like everyone saying Pearl can’t be butch because she wears dresses, pastels or what have you are consciously forcing that femininity onto a character that actively chooses to wear masc attire. “She wears dresses in the beginning, and has a bow or a bit of lace so she can’t ever be anything but femme,” ignore the fact that she continually chooses to wear suits and pants and leather and forwent the dress entirely in her casual attire. She was initially dressed up to be Pretty and Cute and Good but she rebelled against that system completely. Just the visual jump from Pink Diamond’s Pearl to Rebel Pearl is huge. I would love to have seen Pearl choosing her rebel attire like >:3 and going for the plain leotard like it’s her most rebellious act yet.
Whether she’s butch doesn’t depend just on what she wears, butch is more than how one looks, but since she took the role as Rose’s chivalrous knight and protector and would ride or die for her femme 4 lyfe ON TOP of saying “fuck dresses and every other expectation this backwards ass society is trying to force onto me, I’m going to be a SWORD FIGHTER and a MECHANIC” yeah I don’t give a shit about her bow.
She was even dressed in men’s court fashion in a flashback! (Although it was Connie imagining her, but Connie knows Pearl well enough to know her tastes.)
I’m hoping her next regeneration’s outfit is just the most obnoxiously fancy pastel tux ever. Like “18th century French nobleman” levels of obnoxiously fancy.
nah that was steven’s imagination, since he knew what she actually looked like back then (from that picture WAY BACK in so many birthdays)
…but nobody needs their introduction to fandom to be “here’s a 25,000 word fic showing you in an ABO sex pollen orgy.” And they really, really don’t need to see the accompanying artwork.
Between the various ComicCons and talk shows, if they’re potentially interested in fandom, they’ll discover it – someone who knows them personally will mention, oh hey, did you know this exists? And if their response is “yeah, I know that stuff exists; I don’t care for it,” don’t pester them about it. Those who think it’s great, will say so. Let THEM come to US, not the other way around.
I feel like this used just be a known unknown rule in Fandom but in recent years people have lost all sense of fucking boundaries. It’s very weird and unsettling
Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire
Reblog to actually save a life
To explain. The latter works because you’re cutting off the supply of oxygen to the fire and suffocating it
as opposed to slapping oxygen inside the pan with the downward motion
Reblogging, because this is so important. When I was learning how to cook for myself in my tweens, I had at least a five years of fire safety seminars from school drilling this into my head, and I STILL had that instinctive put-the-fire-out-with-water reflex. Didn’t even think. I saw our oily burner catch fire after frying eggs, whipped around towards the sink for water, and my brain immediately screamed NO!!! NO WATER!
I mean that fire safety stuff straight up bitchslapped me out of REFLEXIVELY setting my house on fire. I found a pot lid and inched it over the burner before turning off the heat. Even if you think you know this stuff, panic is powerful shit. Make knowledge more powerful.
Cannot overstate how important this is. Baking soda also does a good trick, but this is still just so, so important!!
