I HAVE A PENCHANT FOR PURPLE PROSE

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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European: Americans will be like I’m going to watch a whore movie and eat a hamburger slathered in lard

Americans: it’s true I do do this.

American: British people will be like alright I’m off to eat some wheezy bangers (beans and bread out of a can)

Brit: I’ve seen this reblogged by several people I normally trust so: How mocking British cuisine and dialect has a long classist history and how it became frighteningly normalized on an American (uniquely cruel, uniquely ignorant) internet: a thread. 1/?

palezma

Anonymous asked:

Was pearl always a slave to rose?

matt-the-radar-techncian answered:

Lol no, not even a question. It’s probably more productive to ask “was Pearl ever a slave to Rose?”

From the very beginning, Rose talked to Pearl, asked for her input, and encouraged her to share her feelings. The idea to spend time on Earth together and for Pink Diamond to take on the form of a rose quartz in the first place was Pearl’s idea. Along with Rose and Pearl were the founding members of the Crystal Gems. Pearl and Rose would both step out of the roles that gem society forced on them and tried to create a new world together where they can be free to enjoy life as equals

Even after all this, Pearl still can’t help but have doubts, that her new path is somehow “wrong,” and that being independent and even thinking for herself is a bridge too far, and asks Rose to order her to stop being independent and free

And how does Rose respond?

“Please, don’t ever stop.”

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As for the vow to keep the truth about Pink Diamond a secret, I think it’s more than just than Rose not wanting Pearl to tell anyone, it’s that she truly wanted to leave that part of herself behind forever. Keeping the truth a secret effectively made sure Pink Diamond, and all the parts of herself she hated, were truly “dead.” It’s no surprise that Pearl was willing to keep the secret, even from people like Garnet and Bismuth. But when Steven comes along and starts asking more and more questions, Pearl makes the choice to help him learn the truth, even if she can’t directly tell him herself. (If she didn’t want to help him or couldn’t, she simply wouldn’t have)

Even after Rose’s death Pearl keeps fighting to protect the world that she and Rose worked so hard for. They had spent their whole lives, on the order of 6,000 years together, and Rose was the one who helped her gain freedom and to choose her own path. When Rose does give up her life (which, keep in mind, isn’t something that immortal beings like gems would usually have to deal with or learn to accept) for some reason Pearl doesn’t fully understand yet, it takes her time to overcome the pain of loss, and overcome it she does. Pearl isn’t a slave, she’s just mourning, I think she’s deserved it a little

palezma

Thank you

morgan-molliniere
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I'm kind of glad to hear that everyone does this. Because it means it isn't colonizer bullshit, it's what everyone does. It's just people discovering new things. Everyone goes:

"Oh hey these people have their own style of [language A's word for thing. Say, what do you call it?"

"Oh it's [language B's word for thing]."

"Got it, it's [language B's word for thing] variety [language A's word for thing]"

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added to which it is LITERALLY JUST LINGUISTIC SHORTHAND for 

[item] the way [culture] makes it. 

If you don’t want sliced bread, you want bread the way Eastern Indians make it you ask for Roti, not bread. Because Roti is bread THE WAY [EASTERN] INDIANS MAKE IT. Like fuck, it’s not that complicated a concept. 

OF COURSE it’s not colonizer bullshit! It’s just linguistic shorthand!