celticpyro:

backinbizmuth:

“she LIED to us!” “SHE USED EVERYONE!??!” ‘None of what the Crystal Gems fought for matters now!!” “The entire Rebellion was a joke!” “All those lives wasted!” “SHE LIED!!”

Yes. She did. She lied to everyone. I’m sorry she hurt us all, but once again, I’ma have to ‘splain you a thing …cuz god dammit, this fandom needs some emotional intelligence. ffs

First off, lets get this straight right now; Pink didn’t want a colony. Pink wanted her fellow Diamonds to love and treat her like they treat each other; with respect and care for one-another’s feelings. Pink acted like a brat because they shoved her in that role; The second Blue and Yellow treated Pink with prejudice for not being what they expected, and withheld listening to her feelings until she lived up to what they expected, they doomed her, and everyone else. 

That hate! Yuck! But, Blue finally gives her a colony. At first, Pink thinks this is what she wants! Her fellow Diamonds are teaching her how to be like them! Great!   

Then she sees organic life, and humans, and falls head over heals in love with all of it. She tries to tell Yellow and Blue, but..

They never listen. Yellow and Blue try over and over again to shove her into an identity that she feels doesn’t fit her, and when she tries to tell them, they won’t listen. So she makes excuses; the human cities are hard to dismantle, she doesn’t want to destroy organic life, and when those don’t work, she thinks up the Rebellion, and Rose Quartz! Surely they’ll understand now, right!? She’s not a Diamond. She doesn’t want to be a Diamond anymore! Her experiences on Earth have changed her mind!!! 

But still, they don’t listen. Instead, they seal her fate;

Now she understands; “Pink Diamond” has to die. The concept of, the identity of “Pink Diamond” as they see it, the one they have pegged onto her form, the one they try to force her to be. She has to die for the Earth to survive. She felt making up a fake version of “Pink Diamond” as the tyrant, and a real version of herself, Rose Quartz, was the only thing everyone would accept, and the only thing that would free her, her Pearl and her rebellion followers from their roles.

I’m so tired of this fandom going “BUT SHE COULD HAVE DONE THIS, SHE COULD HAVE DONE THAT!”

NO👏 SHE👏 COULDN’T👏 HAVE👏 
SHE👏 TRIED👏 ALL👏 OF👏 THAT👏 ALREADY👏 
IT👏 DID👏 NOT👏 WERK👏 

Ａｒｅ ｗｅ ｃｌｅａｒ ｎｏｗ， ｆａｎｄｏｍ？

In order to win her fellow Diamond’s approval, she’d have to kill all life on planet Earth, something she loved. She was expected to kill a part of herself in order for them to accept her. That is unacceptable. As unacceptable as her lie. They sent her the message, “I’m not worth love on my own. I have to constantly prove that I am worthy, as though I were a lowly Quartz to them.” and she read it, loud and clear.

So she became one. She chose herself over her Diamonds when her Diamonds failed her. 

“SHE STILL LIED!!” 

About her status, yes! And a good thing too!
Blue Diamond was on Earth while her colony was being made and her subjects were indoctrinated to expect (and maybe even want) their Diamond to be a tyrant. Not to mention, it’s been their society’s culture for all time for a Diamond to be god-like, untouchable, unrelatable. Culture is extremely hard to topple. If Pink came out in the open, gems like Eyeball might have turned on her, gone to Blue or Yellow and told them that she’s failing in her Diamond duties, that they were right, or go Bismuth and try to shatter her and her followers themselves.
What then? 

What do you think would have happened to her Pearl, the cinnamon roll?
The one who very clearly was meant to check in with Yellow and tell her how Pink was doing? The one Pink Diamond clearly cared deeply about, even though it wasn’t the same kind of love? 
Hello?????? Y’all need some Slytherin cunning–and Jesus. You don’t think these things through!

Pink wanted her colony to be free, like humans. She wanted her gems to live care-free lives, like the one Amethyst is enjoying. And she thought Blue, Yellow would have sooner shattered her, and all of her subjects, than allow that to happen. 

I really didn’t understand the whole “SHE LIED TO US!” thing. It’s only a lie if she wasn’t herself… and clearly, this entire Rebellion happened, because she wanted nothing more than to be herself, and no one would let her. This whole “Your identity is a rigid concept and if you change, you’re a liar!” mindset is toxic.
Let me put it to you another way: Do you call it a lie when a trans person comes out to you with their new name and identity? No. I see no real difference in this situation; Respect who she tells you she is. The name/form never mattered, people!!

There’s a reason she asked Pearl never to speak of this again; Pink Diamond is her dead identity. Don’t force her to reveal that to everyone she fucking meets afterwards… jeeesus.

And finally, why did Rose Quartz want to become a human?? Welp, isn’t it obvious?

🎵  “I could even learn how to loove… like youuu..” 🎵  

The thing about characters with Grey Morality is, they often know…and they try to make up for it. That is their arc. Unfortunately, the people they’re doing it for, often do NOT deserve the effort, because no one sees them for who they are until they’re dead, which means all that effort only gets acknowledged when its too late. And that is some bullshit.

This is who she started out as vs who she later became. 

It’s a show about love and compassion.

                               Acknowledge Her Efforts.
          Forgive Rose Quartz. And Love Her Anyway.

This whole “Your identity is a rigid concept and if you change, you’re a liar!” mindset is toxic.

BOOM! There it is.