Silver Tongue

phantomrose96:

You know, I think it’s important to consider the massive time dissonance the Gems experience.

The war was over 5,000 years ago, and Pearl seems to remember it clearly. She casually remarks to Dewey how humans used to hunt and gather, and asks him “whatever happened to that?” as if Dewey could have even possibly been alive back then. She tries to take Steven out to space for a bit of a test run and reassures Greg that she’ll have him back in 50 years.

This stuff is usually played for laughs until you consider that Rose has been dead for, probably at most, 11 years. To humans, that’s a pretty decent amount of time to grieve, adjust, cope, and move on. Some of us probably don’t even have distinct memories from 11 years ago.

But to Gems, where 5,000 years is nostalgic and 50 years is as casual as babysitting for the weekend, Rose may as well have died yesterday. 11 years is nothing, less than nothing, in Gem memory. And even with all their memories of Rose so raw and recent, the Gems still pretend for Steven’s sake that they’ve already moved on. …I think about this a lot every time one of them breaks down over Rose’s death.

  1. oceanlaceagate reblogged this from mostlyanything19
  2. curiobjd reblogged this from msmewz and added:
    @renthony
  3. level-17-spheal reblogged this from redstonedust
  4. aspirationatwork reblogged this from japhers
  5. inkxplashes reblogged this from harleyeve
  6. snowflakesincalifornia reblogged this from harleyeve
  7. yasper-reblogs reblogged this from calypsolemon
  8. lovelikeyou2 reblogged this from diosmio-lacreatura
  9. faithful-grigori reblogged this from phantomrose96
  10. talisman975 reblogged this from yulesend
  11. yulesend reblogged this from phantomrose96
  12. griffith-did-nothing-wrong reblogged this from pangodillo
  13. pangodillo reblogged this from q-is-a-letter
  14. juliainfinland reblogged this from christophoronomicon
  15. obsessiveaboutthings reblogged this from singyourjjong
  16. lizzard713 reblogged this from themetaphorgirl
  17. phantomrose96 posted this