I'm Cole. 21. He/Him/They Melbourne Australia "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master." The act of becoming is a defiance of all expectation
Man, this episode was chilling for a bunch of reasons, but the thing that gets me the most is Jasper’s view on Rose Quartz.
Because…hell she’s right.
Rose became a sort of safe haven for the Gems who didn’t fit into their intended role somehow: fusions, runts, non-conformers, you name it. And she was appealing in part because she was the last resort for those sorts of Gems. Jasper makes it clear these Gems would otherwise be shattered under the Diamonds. Joining Rose may not have always been a free, voluntary, ideological choice; maybe, sometimes, it was pure desperation.
That leads me to this: Jasper didn’t swat away Steven’s touch because she suspected him; she swatted him off because she understood him.
She understood he was doing what Rose Quartz always does: identifying a Gem so destroyed beyond its original purpose, and then offering to help it, offering compassion and comfort and gentleness. Against the dawning realization that only shattering awaits them on Homeworld, what Gem wouldn’t reach for Rose’s hand?
And no, Rose wasn’t being compassionate strictly as a military strategy. Not at all. But that’s what Jaspersees. And from an objective standpoint, she’s not wrong. This is how Rose recruits Gems–with kindness in a hopeless situation.
At that moment, Jasper saw Rose’s hand extended to her. And knowing what she knew, that could only mean that Rose has pegged her as something irredeemable to Homeworld. She had broken down into something defective and corrupted enough to seem worthy of pity in Rose Quartz’s eyes, worthy of being swayed.
In the society of the yuan-ti, the pureblood caste act as spies and the halfbloods
as warriors, but the leaders of their race, the head that directs the
serpent’s body, are the abominations. Blessed by their serpentfolk
creators with bodies more snake than human, abominations possess the
physical and mental might necessary to cow the fractious yuan-ti into
submission and direct them in tearing down the works of humanity.
Abominations are deeply chaotic and see each other as threats, but work together for the sake of survival. To limit clashes of personality, roughly half of a yuan-ti settlement’s abominations tend to rest for months at a time in a state of torpor, conserving their energy. In spite of this, a single abomination–typically a high-level cleric or psychic–often dominates the tribe and turns into a cult of personality.
Abominations recognize serpentfolk as having divine authority over their race, but also remember the decline and fall of their ancient civilization. Abominations may lend their tribes’ strength to serpentfolk allies, but are always watchful for signs of weakness. Yuan-ti believe in the survival of the strong, and in their eyes, their creators’ ancient fall is no sign of strength. They see all other reptilian creatures as inferior kindred, not to be accorded respect but useful as servants, especially the strong and fecund nagaji and lizardfolk.
aries: the microbes inside you outnumber you billions to one, but you are bigger than they are. fuck off, small fry.
taurus: we have read all the letters of your DNA but they will not tell us how your body will die.
gemini: the insides of your intestines replace themselves weekly. do your laundry.
cancer: you are your body. you are not a ghost wearing a meat tuxedo. there is no ghost; the ghost is meat. you are your body.
leo: don’t cry over spilt milk. drinking milk is a genetic glitch. (mistakes are so important.)
virgo: pure white tissue is dead tissue. the vibrant ugly stuff – that’s alive.
libra: to understand your body we flood it with light and waves and rays and see what gets through.
scorpio: move your fingers. move them again. you made that happen but do you know how?
sagittarius: when you were small you had so many teeth, crammed jigsaw-like in your skull waiting to erupt. what happened?
capricorn: sure, your atoms sprayed from the heart of stars, but it was plants who pulled that carbon out of the air for you. pyrotechnics first, then hard work.
aquarius: read this and you notice how much you’re blinking. oh god. again and again, smear your eyes with water and salt.
pisces: there is a terrible disorder where bruises turn to bone. you hurt so much and now you are so stiff.
did i ever tell ppl about the time me and my family thought my older brother was gay and dating his best friend? they used to hold hands and cuddle and shit all the time and cause my brothers super quiet we kinda just thought that was him coming out and didn’t really say anything about it. this went on for maybe two yrs and then one day he arrives home with this girl and is all ‘id like you guys to meet my girlfriend’. at this point everyone is ’????’ and my mom is literally crying and like ‘u broke up with James?!?!?!’ and honestly I’ve never seen a man more confused in his life and yeah that’s the time my family fucked up for like 2 yrs
