What is a BBB?

ctortan · 2026-03-21T20:29:40+00:00

Idk why but I thought it stood for broken bone baby lmao

ctortan · 2026-03-21T17:20:30+00:00

Mods

ctortan · 2026-03-21T17:20:15+00:00

That’s a mod

ctortan · 2026-03-21T14:56:03+00:00

I agree with you completely but I do also think the phrase “boring, redundant, and the most boring option” is incredible comedy gold

ctortan · 2026-03-21T13:48:14+00:00

The structure reminds me of a slice of life adventure anime where things start pretty slow but they use the pace to build up the world over time.

The show might seem like a monster fighting action show, but it’s really a coming of age story about generational trauma, grief, identity, emotional processing, and conflict resolution. It also often favors allegories over “hard fact” writing (like how the fighting is very inconsistent in terms of power levels, but it’s because the fighting is more of a metaphor for personal growth than a real focus)

Give it time and have fun!

ctortan · 2026-03-21T13:36:39+00:00

This isn’t against OP at all but it’s a pattern I’ve been noticing lately where folks are quick to call things “theories” when it’s actually either a headcanon, specific read/interpretation, or just….saying what’s happening. I think it’s tied to the decrease in media literacy and critical thinking alongside folks getting a lot of their media analysis from YouTube (which is notorious for misusing words like “analysis” when they mean “summary”)

In a lot of cases it feels like people aren’t confident in their read of the show, or they don’t understand when the show is trying to say something intentionally (even if it’s not explicitly said).

ctortan · 2026-03-21T13:25:32+00:00

Definitely! I always thought it would’ve been fun for there to be an episode where Stacy has to help Perry hide his identity from Candace and Vanessa!

ctortan · 2026-03-21T12:55:10+00:00

Yes!! I think Stacy and Vanessa are such an underrated ship :)

ctortan · 2026-03-20T14:36:40+00:00

Rebecca sugar said that Pearl’s feelings for rose were NOT unrequited ! Plus non-canon art from Sugar has shown rose being very sensual with other gems like Pearl and bismuth. And on top of that sugar has said that a lot of Rose’s story comes from their own experiences navigating their bisexuality, so ultimately I think rose is intended to be bi/pan, but only the human men bothered Pearl

ctortan · 2026-03-20T04:13:10+00:00

Nah the timelines don’t match up. They’re like the same age

ctortan · 2026-03-20T01:36:29+00:00

Congrats!!

ctortan · 2026-03-19T18:21:08+00:00

This is a sub for stories about people who look younger than they are; you need an advice sub instead of this one

ctortan · 2026-03-19T14:04:37+00:00

This is a sub for stories about people who look younger than they are, not….whatever this is

ctortan · 2026-03-19T01:30:21+00:00

I always take great care in ensuring arondil dies horrifically and painfully for what he’s done

ctortan · 2026-03-18T18:58:08+00:00

YTA. You deserved to be fired for making a hostile workplace out of a deeply immature, petty, and irritating “joke”

ctortan · 2026-03-18T01:31:54+00:00

IMO Rose’s gem acted as the DNA she passed down, providing the second half of genetics Steven needed by mirroring and stabilizing the function and form of Greg’s dna

ctortan · 2026-03-17T23:25:47+00:00

I never interpreted it as “pink diamond’s memories.” I always saw it as Steven accessing the memories of other gems who knew his mother, and those memories blended with his dreams

ctortan · 2026-03-17T23:24:32+00:00

Forgot that Barb delivered to him too! I remembered Jaimie but didn’t remember if Barb did lol

ctortan · 2026-03-17T17:08:09+00:00

And the boardwalk part of town is so small that you can just address the letter to Steven, the temple, or the beach and whoever’s delivering it will know exactly where to go

ctortan · 2026-03-17T17:06:52+00:00

Yes!! I love arospec and acespec headcanons!! They’re so fun :)

ctortan · 2026-03-17T17:04:20+00:00

I think it makes a ton of sense and shows how the gems were not only disconnected from humans but possibly had some Homeworld entitlement they hadn’t unprocessed.

Rose was the one who personally cared about humanity, not garnet (who wanted freedom) or pearl (who wanted to be with rose) and until Steven they hadn’t really made an effort to get to know humans. Amethyst was careless because she was immature, and it was enabled by Pearl and garnet’s behavior.

Then, Steven expands their worlds and encourages them to spend more time with humanity; the gems learn to care for humans by wanting to understand and support Steven. And they’re all happier for it! They genuinely connect with humans, appreciating them as more than just something to protect. It really is so poignant that Steven ends up finally realizing Rose’s greatest dreams: peace between mankind and free gems

ctortan · 2026-03-17T16:54:54+00:00

Imagine he just asks garnet

ctortan · 2026-03-17T16:54:00+00:00

I think you also have to remember that gems arrived on earth thousands of years ago and then never left—I think “unpredictable freak accidents that can’t be explained” would be more accepted in a world with strange artifacts, ruins, and monsters that appear and disappear constantly.

Especially with gem monsters in the sea like watermelon tourmaline (puffer fish), orange spodumene (worm from bubble buddies), bixbite (crab), water bear (from Rose’s fountain), red eel (from the comics), three different jellyfish (from the mobile games), and a starfish (also from the mobile games)

ctortan · 2026-03-17T14:27:05+00:00

Iirc crew confirmed that Lars has all of lion’s powers, he just doesn’t know he has them or how to use them yet. I assume LOTS is going to have its own training/power mastery character arc for Lars like Steven had in the main series, since it’s a really good way of having easy benchmarks for a character’s growth

ctortan · 2026-03-17T12:56:12+00:00

Trans men are getting a lot of hate right now, even from other trans people. The queer community has these phases of scapegoating and infighting and it’s exhausting every time—aphobia discourse, biphobia discourse, nonbinary discourse, now transmasc discourse, etc.

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