Why does everyone say that they played someone ‘like a fiddle’? Fiddles are actually pretty difficult to play? Why not say ‘I played him like a recorder’? ‘Like a xylophone’? ‘Like a triangle’?
I think it’s got to do with detail and subtlety. If you play someone like a fiddle, that’s like, Iago or some shit. If you play someone like a triangle, you just told them there was free food somewhere when there wasn’t.
I’ve once read the following exchange:
“You played me!”
“Like the cheap kazoo you are.”
Which in my books is a pretty epic burn if we’re going to be making musical comparisons.
hamlet had a sick burn where he told either rosencranz or guildenstern (i forget which is which, and i suspect sometimes so did they) to play him a song on the flute, and when the guy was like “well prince bossypants i can’t actually play the flute” hamlet was like “really? that’s funny cuz you just tried to play me…”
and the reason that’s the sickest is not only was it a reversal of the ‘played you like an instrument’ thing, flutes are kinda phallic and you blow them so there is an implication of ‘get off my dick’
salt truck hamlet strikes again
Honestly like 80% of what Hamlet says to R&G consists of sick burns, I’m not really clear on why they keep hanging out with him.
HERE IT IS, the beautifully dumb Patreon exclusive comic I did in friggin’ 2014, detailing the origins of our beloved shelf. …As told by an extremely unreliable narrator, so IS IT CANON??? WHO KNOWS
I feel like there was a 7th page I was going to do where the audience was like “Ummm here’s a list of reasons why that story is bullshit,” (such as all the anachronisms) and Sombra would have been like SHUT UP but alas, never finished it if that was ever the case. It kind of works as-is, though.
OLD ART IS OLD. Featuring a bunch of OCs I can’t remember all the names / owners of so scream in the comments if it features your horse.
I’ve only been in the fandom for a few months now but I just realized how Rose Quartz died. See the show and the fandom always talk about how she gave up her physical form to be half of Steven. And I think a lot of people get confused by what she meant.
Like I’ve seen a lot of fanart, metas, theories, etc. which suggest that Rose actually physically gave up her physical form so that she could transform into part of Steven and keep him alive. In other words, Steven is her reincarnation. (Well, he’s half her reincarnation and half of Greg’s DNA.)
Which never made sense to me but then again I’m new to the show, so I’ve just sort of gone along with it.
But now I’m here to present you all with a simpler (and ironically, darker) theory.
Steven isn’t a reincarnation of Rose. Steven is just Rose’s child. Which is still impressive and groundbreaking since he’s the first human-gem hybrid. But he’s not a human-gem reincarnation. He’s just their child. All of his powers are inherited from his gem DNA, not from being a reincarnation. I’m going to go so far as to say that even his gem was a product of DNA and not a symbol of the fact that he’s Rose 2.0.
“Ah, but marauders4evr, the show and Rebecca Sugar are always talking about how Rose gave up her physical form to-”
To give birth to Steven.
Yeah.
According to Rebecca Sugar, “Rose shapeshifted a womb for him to be born from.”
Pretty impressive Gem magic.
But here’s the thing.
According to Amethyst in Steven’s Birthday, “Steven, you can’t just keep stretching forever. If you hold it too long, you could really hurt yourself.”
Hmmm…fascinating.
It appears that if a gem shapeshifts for a prolonged period of time, they’ll have severe consequences. And we see this even further when Steven does…
…that.
Now for some odd reason, that turns Steven back into a baby, but that’s not what I’m getting at. I’m getting at the fact that Steven’s body took an extreme physical toll after just a few hours of shapeshifting. Because, as Amethyst said, prolonged exposure to shapeshifting can cause someone to “really hurt themselves”.
Rose Quartz shapeshifted for nine whole months. And that’s not even counting the stretching she did to push Steven out.
My friends…
When Rebecca Sugar and the show talk about how Rose Quartz gave up her physical form to give birth to Steven, they literally mean that Rose Quartz stretched herself out for such a prolonged period of time that her body (ie: her physical form) eventually faced the consequences and withered away into nothingness.
Steven’s Birthday wasn’t just a filler episode. It was the key to showing us the process by which his mother died.
The Mayans had mastered water pressure and had fountains and toilets as early as 750 AD.
Aztecs had running water and sewage.
The Victorians In the mid-1800s were dying of cholera because they just dumped their raw shit in the river Thames. They wouldn’t shower for months at a time because they were afraid of the polluted water.
Incans had created aquaducts in the slopes of the vast Andes mountains to reach the emperor, cities and farmers who used agricultural terraces.
Mayans, Aztecs, and Incans were far more advanced than the savage Europeans.
I’ve always loved pre Colombian Native American cultures. People always assume they were primitive but they were advanced in many ways that the rest of the world wasn’t at the time.
Some more examples:
The Maya invented the number zero which allowed them to have a sophisticated system of astronomy and mathematics and an extremely precise calendar. They accurately predicted solar eclipses up to the present day!
The Inca invented suspension bridges. Europeans were afraid to walk on them because they had never seen a bridge with the truss above rather than below. Some of these bridges are still in use.
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
