Love Like You 2016

Rupphire Rose Sword Fighting! + Roses for Steven!

Steven Universe has been a growing artistic influence on me since it first aired. I love both the art direction and the storytelling and I could never get enough of the colorful characters we’ve come to know and love. And it’s such an empathetic show.

Ruby and Sapphire’s debut was a huge thing to both me and my partner, @jcstitches! Two canon lesbians whom we have come to identify with! I can’t be jealous of the younger generation having this progressive cartoon to grow up because it probably wouldn’t have been as personally relevant to me as a kid/teenager than it is to me now as an adult. I didn’t have my Sapphire back then. Now I do and I’m so happy that I get to laugh and cry over this show with her everyday.

My love for the show increased once the Ruby Squad showed up, and holy dang, I don’t think I can tell you how much I adore those little cuties! I’ve come to really love Eyeball over time and relate to her as much as I do with our Ruby. I actually got depressed over what happened to her in Bubbled and thought the show would just forget about her for a long time. Then came Mindful Education, one of my favorite episodes, and it turned out that Steven still thinks of her. And feels awful about it.

And it was really… cathartic for me.

So now I’m hoping that Eyeball will get a redemption arc someday.

Thank you for making this wonderful show, @stevencrewniverse! I can’t imagine my life without it now!