Okay but pearl is demi
Even if pearl and greg get shipped it still doesn’t mean pearl is straight. She still had a thing for rose. That’s why she would be bi, pan or demi. Ruby and sapphire are already lesbians, can’t you just let pearl be bi or pan or demi? Lesbianism isn’t the only non straight thing out there.
i’m watching this documentary about halloween and there’s a part where they’re explaining that ghost stories got really popular around the civil war no one could really deal with how many people went off and died and
the narrator just said
“the first ghost stories were really about coming home”
fuck
#but wow let me tell you about how the american civil war changed the whole culture of grief and death #because before that people died at home mostly #where their family saw them die and held their body and had proof they were really dead and it was a process #but during the war people left and never came home their bodies never came back there was no proof #people died in new horrific ways on the battlefield literally vaporized by cannonballs or lost in swamps and eaten by wild animals #and there were NO BODIES to send home #and people simply couldn’t grasp that their son or father or husband was really gone #there are stories about people spending months searching for their loved ones #convinced they couldn’t be dead if there were no body they were simply lost or hurt and they needed to be saved and brought home #embalming also really started during the civil war as a way for bodies to be brought home as intact as possible #wow i just wowowow the culture of death and grief and stuff during this time period is fascinating and sad #history (via souryellows)
#quietly reblogs own tags #also the civil war was when dog tags and national cemetaries became a thing #and during the war there was n real system in place to notify families of the deaths #like they’d find out maybe from letters from soldiers who were there when their loved one died nd stuff #but there was no real system #and battlefield ambulances were basically invented because so many people died on the battlefield when they could have been saved if they co #…could have been moved frm the battlefield to a hospital #like there was this one really inlfuential dude whose son died that way and he became dedicated to getting an ambulance system in place
I’m not doing this in the correct tag-style, but.
IIRC, the Civil War also played a huge part in forming the modern American conception of heaven as this nice, domestic place where you’re reunited with your loved ones. People (particularly mothers) responded to the trauma of brother-killing-brother by imagining an afterlife in which families would once again be happy together.
(also not doing this in the correct tag-style, because I wanna KNOW— )What documentary is this? Or is there more than one? Any books on the subject? THIS IS FASCINATING.
cool (ghost) story, bro.
reblogging because, as a us history phd student, i want to say YAY for how much of this is totally on point. i also want to rec the book where a lot of this is covered very, very well, which is Drew Gilpin Faust’s “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.”
a lot of books on the Civil War are deadly dull because they’re about battles and shit, but as a transformative moment in mindset and ideology, it becomes *fascinating*
the other book I’d even more highly rec is David W. Blight’s “Race and Reunion,” which is about how the “(white) brother against (white) brother” image of the war was invented and how throwing African Americans to the merciless viciousness of post-Reconstruction racist whites was part of constructing this “oh everybody was white men and everybody was noble let’s celebrate them all” approach to Civil War remembrance
very good stuff
Thank you! This looks like exactly the sort of reading I’m after! *adds to wish list*
Also, look for David Blights recordings of his Yale lecture series on The Civil War. 21 hours of class lectures, and its FASCINATING. He barely touches on the battles other than to use them as timestamps as to what was going on. Most of it focuses on what the mindset of everyone was going into the war, and what happened on the way out. It’s an amazing series that will change your entire perception of the war - how it happened, and how it wasn’t going to be possible to avoid it, because of the inherent evil of slavery and how it was destroying damn near *everyone* except rich white people.
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Just a reminder that there are more sexualities than hetero and homo. Pearl can still be shipped with greg while being just as gay as when she was with rose. Bi, pan and demi are still are thing.
pearl is literally disgusted by men
Di-did you not see the latest episode? Where in the end she accepted rose was gone and started warming up to greg? I mean, it’s not like they had a moment that rivals rainbow quartz or anything. She isn’t repulsed by men. And her being shipped with greg doesn’t make her any less gay. Saying shit like a “man and a women in a relationship is only hetero” is biphobic, demiphobic and Panphobic. There are more sexualities than just homo and hetero.
Anonymous asked: So, who you going to vote now? Bernie look like is fully out... and no Hilary not Tump look like promissing for the country, so seriously, Who?
Writing in Bernie
I’m glad they finally got closure.
You’re not so bad, after all
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Pearl is a L E S B I A N
Thank you
Gems dont have G E N D E R S
Thank youI didn’t say her gender, I said her sexuality. Go complain to every nonbinary lesbian. Thank you
That’s just the thing, you can’t classify her as lesbian because she likes other gems. Gems don’t have a sex. Yes, it is a representation of lesbian relationships but she is not lesbian for being in love with Rose. They have no sex, there is no label, it’s just a relationship.
Can lesbians have like one thing? There’s never been characters like these before. Let us have something, even if they’re rocks.
Also, why aren’t people crying this message for Rose and Greg? Look at him he loved a nonbinary rock. Greg is pan now. You’re welcomeI’m not trying to take anything away from you, it’s just it seems like everyone completely forgets they have no sex. None. Ziltch.
You want to use them as a representation of a love that is pushed away so much? Go for it. I’m happy that you feel joy from them. But everyone forgets the lore of the show in making it about a minority.There’s obviously no winning with you. Go find your nearest nonbinary lesbian. Talk to them. Come back to me. I’m genderfluid. Does this mean on my genderless days I lose my lesbianism? I become straight?
The lore of the show is never lost, in fact a lot of it is wrapped up in the fact of them being gay.Not to be rude or something but… gems are homosexual? like, homosexual is attraction to same gender and gems are non-binary girls? they all go by she/her beside Steven who is half human? And Pearl is a lesbian because its canon? And non-binary lesbians are real? Rebecca Sugar (The CREATOR of this show) said that Ruby and Sapphire are CANONICALLY A LESBIAN COUPLE.
Like…? can they make it more obvious? why can’t LGBT have good things once in a while?ALSO I just noticed…
YOU DON’T NEED SEX TO BE GAY OR LESBIAN OR BI OR SUCH, THAT COMMENT WAS INCREDIBLY RUDE, Y’KNOW?
Anyways sex doesnt equal gender and nb lesbians exist and pearl is an example of just one of them so shut up
^^ THIS
Peridot has only shown romantic feelings toward rose and potentially greg now. You’re both wrong, she’s not leaving, she’s demi.
This just in: Peridot is gay now too good for her I’m proud of Peri!
Fucking autocorrect. I mean pearl
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