Whenever I see a stingray skeleton I’m like oh that’s just one of those fake Target Halloween decorations like the skeleton spiders and shit but NO stingrays are actually Like That and it is concerning
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Evolution was like oh you wanna be a vertebrate?? You want some fucken cartilage??? We can make that happen…….
the trouble is humans are literally structured to find “a wizard did it” a more plausible explanation than things just happening by accident for no reason.
one of my favorite things about SU is how you start off knowing nothing about Rose, and you see Greg and you’re like ‘how did such a beautiful powerful inspiring rebellion leader of an alien race fall in love with such a doofy shlub of a man?’ and then as the show goes on you slowly start to realize that it was, in fact, GREG who was too good for HER
I’ve been saying this since relatively early on: Greg’s just… such a good person. And Rose needed that. She needed to learn it. How to be just a good person, to see others as equals, to relate to other people in an equal level. We learn that that’s something she struggled with even after the Rebellion. She didn’t know how to be good and loving without also being distant and treating others like she herself was treated by the Diamonds. She was also incredibly conflict averse, like, most of her issues are because she won’t. talk. to. people. when there’s disagreements. Greg taught her how to be kind, how to forgive mistakes and set boundaries without blaming others for their flaws, and realize that people’s imperfections can be amazing and perfect in and of themselves (If every porkchop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs).
Her tragedy, I feel, is that she was too scared of herself and her own flaws, and too scared to confront them, and still feeling like she herself was unable to grow and learn and to confront people- first of all herself- in a healthy manner in order to fix her mistakes.
What’s really sad and interesting is how much Rose really internalised that idea that the magical power humans have that gems just don’t is the power to change. That gems could maybe change their behaviour and they could change their minds but they could, somehow, never truly change who they are. Diamonds gonna lead. Rubies gonna guard. Bismuths gonna make stuff. Amethysts gonna fight. etc. She became Rose rather than Pink to try, to make sure that the rebellion wasn’t just gems choosing which Diamond they wanted to continue to follow, but it kind of just compounded the problem because she never felt she’d truly be able to not be a Diamond. Which led to her misguided belief that the best thing she could do for the world was to die and create Steven, because if gems ever could become more like humans then they’d ALL need someone like Greg - they’d need a Gem with all the human virtues.
In a way, she wasn’t entirely wrong. Steven was clearly a hugely positive influence on so many gems, and where Rose could teach them to fight to defend themselves and how they wanted to live, she couldn’t ever truly teach them how to reform Gem society or respect individuality and love differences because she struggled with those things still, because of the conditioning of years and years behind her. She couldn’t even really conceive of a truly equal Gem society, she knew she was just on the first steps to something good by accepting anyone into the Crystal Gems. She can’t really imagine a life without Gem society as it is - like, god, the fucking buildings are conscious Gems there - so her solution seems to be just ‘anyone who wants to be a Crystal Gem can be! And everything’s fine in the Crystal Gems!’ and homeworld can kind of just do whatever, as long as Earth is safe.
Problem number one, of course, is that it wasn’t fair to put all that on Steven, and birth someone with the expectation that they’ll hopefully fix all your mistakes and be the good person you couldn’t be.
Problem number two is that she was absolutely wrong. Gems can and do change and grow, perhaps more slowly than humans but given the right encouragement and environment Gems are as capable of radical change as humans are. And it’s weird that she never really thought to question it when the most obvious example (besides herself, which she thought didn’t count) - ie, Pearl - was right there with her the whole time.
I went to the pet shop and the owner said he had a talking centipede for sale.
I said ‘no way, centipedes don’t talk.’ The owner promised me it was a talking centipede so I purchased it and took it home with me. A little later in that evening I went up to its tank and said ‘alright mate, I’m just popping down the pub if you fancy a few pints?’ The centipede said nothing, I scoffed and went to the pub. The next evening I thought I’d give it another try so I went to its tank again and said ‘alright mate, I’m just popping down the pub if you fancy a few pints?’ Still absolutely no response from the centipede, so I went on my way, cursing the pet shop owner. The following evening I thought I would give it one more try, so I went over to its tank and asked ‘alright mate, I’m just popping down the pub if you fancy a few pints?’ The centipede replied ‘I heard you the first time I’m just putting my fucking shoes on’
So I’m currently enslaved employed by a cable company, and I can offer a few pointers:
Find a copy of the customer agreement online. Read it. Have the “big cats in boxes” YouTube video on standby so that you can renew your will to live periodically while reading it.
Focus on the sections about cancellation
Examine any terms regarding early termination fees, notice required, proration of the time between cancellation and the end of the billing period, and equipment return policies.
Send a letter requesting cancellation to your carrier via certified mail. Include the date you wish for it to be cancelled. If you are not the account holder but have power of attorney, or the account holder has died and you are managing their estate, send copies of the relevant documentation with the letter.
The day after, when it isn’t cancelled, call back. Ask for “retention” or “loyalty” and when asked why, state that you wish to cancel.
They’ll ask you why you want to cancel. Say “I don’t want to discuss it, I just want to cancel my service.” (note: there are times when it pays to disclose your reasons; my company will waive all early termination fees and penalties if the account holder is being entering military deployment or a nursing home. Check their policies.)
They’ll offer something nice. Bundles, discounts, free channels, etc. Say “as nice as that sounds, and as much as I appreciate the offer, I just need to cancel my service.”
When they deflect again, ask how to return any leased equipment. They’ll launch into another spiel about that, thankful that you aren’t making them process the cancellation. Write down the process – they’ll either tell you to bring the equipment to a local office, or they’ll state that they are sending recovery kits. If it’s the latter, ask for the address that the recovery kits return to and write it down (you want to use the recovery kit if you get one, since it’s prepaid, but if they aren’t sent you’ll want to be able to return the equipment yourself.)
After all of this has transpired, state “As I stated in the letter sent via certified mail on [date], I am ending our contractual relationship and terminating this subscription. Has my cancellation order been processed?”
If the cancellation order has not been processed, tell them to process it. Listen to their spiel. Ask for the date that it will be terminated.
Hang up, wait thirty minutes. Call back, ask if your account is pending cancellation or not. If not, ask to be transferred to retention and ask for a supervisor. Demand that your cancellation be processed and advise them that a complaint will be filed with the FCC if it is not.
If more than an hour has been spent on the phone, file a complaint at FCC.gov. Forcing a customer to continue a service outside of the terms stipulated by the contract is illegal and the FCC hates it.
This went from really funny to “holy fuck what kind of nightmare dystopia do we live in that we need to be educated on how to get a company to actually cancel an account with a company that bills you monthly” really fast.
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.
