Citizens of beach city: hey Steven who are these giants and why are you hanging out with them after they attacked us
Steven: oh these are my new moms who also were technically my moms before any of my other moms. But that was back when I was my mom so I dunno if it counts
A recent fan-commission I did forΒ steven-universe-rebornΒ as a title card for their comic. If you visit their page you can see a finished version (their artist colored it).Β
Something about Rebecca Sugar coming out as a nonbinary woman is a huge surprise but it also makes so much sense in retrospect. The Gems arenβt nonbinary because theyβre aliens or because she wanted to look Woke or whateverβ¦.she was literally just representing her own gender identity this whole time, even if she admittedly did make it subtle (except Stevonnie, she said the fandom knows theyβre very obviously nb) but I think making subtle representation for a group you belong to is very very different from a cis creator who just wants to throw the nb community a bone but not quite commit to it, if that makes sense
If anyone would like a transcript, I wrote up what was said on the topic below!
βOne of the things thatβs really important to me about the show is that the gems are all nonbinary women, um, they, theyβre-theyβre very specific in their coming from a world where the donβt really have the frame of reference, uh, uh, theyβre coded female. which is very important, and them being coded female, I was really excited because I felt like I had not seen this – To make a show about a young boy, who is looking up to these female coded characters-
[Interviewer: Iβm- Iβm sorry, when you say theyβre coded female, what do you mean by that – βcodedβ? ] Uh, they, they appear to be female, uh, theyβre a little more representative of nonbinary women, they, they wouldnβt think of themselves as women, um, but theyβre fine with being interpreted that way, amongst humans, um and I am also a nonbinary woman, which is- itβs been really great to express myself through these characters because itβs very much how I have felt, throughout my life.
[Interviewer: I do want to talk more about that as we continue but is that a challenging thing to relate to kids? I mean is that something that they actually say in the show or is that just something thatβs implied in the background?] Uh, I think it has everything to do with the way that the characters act and relate to each other, um, I think that, Stevonnie is very clearly a nonbinary character, uh, I think thatβs something that everyone in the audience can understand, with the gems it- it may be subtler, but itβs definitely part of – a huge part of who they are.β
Something about Rebecca Sugar coming out as a nonbinary woman is a huge surprise but it also makes so much sense in retrospect. The Gems arenβt nonbinary because theyβre aliens or because she wanted to look Woke or whateverβ¦.she was literally just representing her own gender identity this whole time, even if she admittedly did make it subtle (except Stevonnie, she said the fandom knows theyβre very obviously nb) but I think making subtle representation for a group you belong to is very very different from a cis creator who just wants to throw the nb community a bone but not quite commit to it, if that makes sense
[id: a screencap of steven universe with bismuth putting her head under lava and stress-screaming while steven looks worried. bismuth is labelled βmeβ, and the lava is βthat gay shitβ]