Lol holy shit I've seen this happen, like first thing I see when I go over to a trans couples house and there's tension about the dishes and laundry, it's hilarious. You're both women!
My wife and I often talk about the episodes that specifically tackle how pearl and amethyst interact with garnet and her experience as a loving and (mostly) stable relationship and how their feelings of loneliness and inadequacy cause them to unhealthily idolize garnet and fusion in general
It parallels our experience in the community so much as a t4t couple, seeing folks who feel desperate for that kind of relationship but knowing its not something we could ever provide for them at the level we do for each other. Its something we try to always be conscious and careful of.
Its actually really impressive how many complex topics SU was able to cover when you think about how they parallel real life and that it was able to do so in a really mature way? I think people get distracted by the (forced early) ending and miss how well it tackled so many interpersonal conflicts
Absolutely agreed. During the 5 years we were together, my ex-NP and I watched the program with my son (who was 7 and 8 at the time). I was consistently blown away at how they modeled so many complex emotions and relationships under the guise of sci-fi.
Even jasper & lapis, when you remember fusion is a relationship metaphor, tackles much more than what you'd think, especially how jasper kept trying to chase the feelings lapis gave her by fusing with corrupted gems, even as it corrupted her, being desperate for any relationship even if its harmful
You are in fact right lol, I say this as somebody who has not always been a perfect roommate. A steven universe episode about doing dishes would have fucking fixed a lot of people. (not me tho lol, I'm worse than them)
speak not of the cursed afterbirth which followed the already insufferable but survivable main show, the watching of which was a favor to who I was dating at the time. I realized too late that I should have deleted it, so had to see it finish. had to pray something consequential happened.
so, lets take for instance, u have 50 dishes in your cabinets. if you have 3 people, you divide this by 3 and times it by 1.75 (which scales quadratically with residents) and you have the amount of dishes youll be expected to clean before the days done (only graduated highscool idk)
Last time I had two partners, I lived with one of them but not the other and I was the only one who cleaned my house AND the only one who cleaned the other partner's house AND the only top. I was fucken tired
As someone who was in an unofficial and unwanted polycule who did literally all the housework and paid all the bills that is a question I WOULD ALSO LIKE THE ANSWER TO
ya whenever they talked about chores it always devolved into
amethyst: "pearl will do it"
steven: "that's not fair to pearl!"
pearl: "but i like doing [chore]..."
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the ending seems to have pissed a lot of people off
“We … are the crystal gems! We'll always save the day! And if you think we can't, we’ll always find a way!”
The subtext was not subtle.
(If I whine about about they fuck me harder)
the issue is that more people in the household creates an outsized amount of dishes that one person simply cant handle alone.
1 person = 1.75 dishes
x=dishes there are
F=amount of dishes needed to be done in a day to keep clean
y=number in household
e=1.75
f= x/y(e)
amethyst: "pearl will do it"
steven: "that's not fair to pearl!"
pearl: "but i like doing [chore]..."