Ok So I Love Steven’s Universe For A Lot Of Reasons, But I Just Noticed Something:

ok so i love steven’s universe for a lot of reasons, but I just noticed something:

everyone who watches the show knows that Rose is seen as beautiful, and elegant and likely the most attractive character in the show.

But then we also see stuff like:

Mayor Dewy thinking Pearl is beautiful, and even calling her “hot”

Jamie thinking Garnet is literally the most beautiful thing he’s ever seen.

Stevonie, a non-binary but mostly female appearing character, being seen as very attractive by multiple other characters, and Sadie finding her attractive instead of being catty.

Then we have these two. Saphire is a tiny blue one eyed ice smurf and is also seen as beautiful. Ruby is a tiny red angry square with almost no traditionally female characteristics and is also seen as attractive enough to find true love.

Vedalia even says Greg is hot. A+ body positivity despite gender and body type.

What I haven’t seen EVER in Steven’s Universe though is any of the characters being portrayed as ugly or physically unappealing to anyone. Fat characters get body positivity, skinny characters get body positivity, curvy characters get body positivity, tiny characters get body positivity. You know what else? No two characters have the same body type just like real life. It teaches you that there are endless different ways to look and still be beautiful.

No one gets left out. No one gets called ugly. The only “bad” characters arn’t bad because of the way they look, but the way they act. Fat characters are never seen as ugly because they are fat.

This is so important for little kids to see.

And I know the counter argument to children being taught that it’s “ok” to be fat will always be “well being fat is unhealthy and they should feel bad about being fat so that they will work on loosing weight”. But guess what, that kind of thing leads to eating disorders, and kills children’s self esteem, and makes them hate their bodies. Some people do need to loose weight if it actually does affect their health but a lot of the time they really don’t, or they can’t for whatever reason. Some people feel more comfortable being on the heavier side. But even if you are concerned for a person’s health, the stress and depression that comes along with having a poor image of yourself is much more unhealthy and limiting than a little belly fat.

It also shows you that the Gems choose their appearance, which is also supper important. Pearl, and Lapis choose to be skinny, Amethyst and Rose choose to be fat, Garnet chooses to be a giant curvy square, and all of those things are completely accepted and ok.

Love yourself.

5 Things

As tagged by @ittybittypearlygirly I know it’s late but I have a job and am preparing for a mission so tumblr went on the back burner

5 things you’ll find in my bag(usually I have a jacket of some sort the number of pockets varies but things I will have include

3 pairs of wireless headphones (I got a pair from my boss and they are like 10ish bucks at Walmart so I use them more than traditional headphones)

A portable battery for my phone (it’s not used often but it’s always there)

Pens( usually have 2 or 3 stuffed in random pockets)

Pocket knife (I tend to walk home from work I’m just a little paranoid about it)

Wallet (never leave home without it)

5 things you’ll find in my room:

Various posters from all my different fandoms and memorabilia hanging as well(my graduation cap, and eagle scout scarf. Tickets for school dances an entire shelf dedicated to stuff I’ve built or designed (I’m an engineer so…))

A cup of pens and multiple note pads (writer)

Overflowing bookshelves

A radio or speaker

Stuffed animals (my favorite is a dragon my girlfriend got me)

5 things that make me happy:

My paycheck (a steady income is something I’m still getting used to)

Reading

Music (this explains the headphone situation)

My friends (I relyed on them a lot more during my mental health struggle and they are always there for me (over a year since last major incident))

Orange Soda and Andes mints (my comfort foods)

5 things I’m currently into:

Doctor Who

Sherlock

Girl Meets world fanfiction (most of which involves Rilaya)

Descendants (slowly writing a collab fanfiction may post it later :/)

Tumblr

5 things on my to do list (guessing this means bucket list but mine is always changing so currently)

Go on a Mission (something my religion really focuses on)

Get married

Go to college (I have half of my associates in engineering)

Have a family

Don’t relapse (TW:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx used to self harm as of Jan 14 2018 I’m over a year clean it’s worth it)

5 people: @jellobugg and any other people who follow me that feel like doing this

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pixie718

2 years ago

I found it at a DI I laughed my friend laughed we bought it we all died everytime we played until we used characters from pirates as our party of people

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pixie718

7 years ago

We were all waiting for this

you’ve heard of sister daniel

now get ready for

mother danresa

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pixie718

2 months ago

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pixie718

7 months ago

u gotta be hedonistic about vegetables. they're not good boy food that u eat to prove you're mature, they're the food that you can shovel into your mouth at 5 am without getting nauseous

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pixie718

8 years ago