Spoiler: Horror dream I had some weird body/mind horror dreams about humans trying to shove gems into their bodies to get powers like Steven. A couple sorta worked, because the gems took partial or total control of the human's body. One was a weird bad end au where Greg was desperately trying to save Steven from something. Green gem, in an eye socket, it went... very badly.
playing around and coloring sketches on pixlr and making transparent icons matching disgruntled girlfriends
I made an icon out of the best lapis face ever the lapis faces would probably make good emotes if someone could shrink them to a reasonable size I love pixlr but idk if I like it's resize function the pictures look weirdly sharp and grainy to me when you shrink them edit to add matching grumpy girlfriend
beauty ...Also, is it weird that Say Uncle isn't actually my least favorite episode and that my least fave is actually House Guest? Seriously, I skip House Guest every fucking time because it is the one episode I genuinely dislike.
I don't dislike House Guest, except the animation felt really off that episode, and I think fixing the geode with duct tape was pretty weak even if it works from a storytelling point. What Greg did was messed up but knowing that he has lived with Steven up until ... possibly right before before the start of the series? maybe a year or two earlier? (Steven really didn't look that much younger when Greg left them with the gems to start his training, though I guess he didn't change in appearance between 8 and 14...) it is a little more understandable, he went from living with his son to having pretty much no contact unless Steven stops by to visit him. iirc Greg doesn't seem to have any real friends in Beach City, we only really see him talking to people if they stop by at the car wash. The closest thing he has to friends are the crystal gems, and at that point in the series they still kinda think he's a useless screw up who would just get in the way. That has to be really difficult and depressing. Also he just saw Lapis stealing the ocean and wrecking everything and almost drowning Steven and Connie. They would have died if Greg didn't run over Steven's Water clone with his van. So he is probably depressed from living on his own and only really socializing with customers (heck, he was sleeping in the middle of the afternoon in Laser Light Canon) and then he had to actually watch how dangerous his "magic adventures" with the gems are and is anxious about him going on them and possibly dying. It's still really messed up the way he was manipulating and guilt tripping his kid because he missed spending time with him, but I get it. He feels remorse about it, tries to fix the situation. In future episodes he still panics about Steven when he's in danger, but he doesn't pull that bullshit again. Since he is so good in other episodes, I kinda have to think he had a lot of stuff going through his head that would motivate him to do that. if every porkchop were perfect we wouldn't have hot dogs?
I think my main issue with the episode is that his behavior in it just...doesn't seem to fit him. Like, yeah, some shit had gone down recently and his living situation is far from ideal...but he's never been terribly manipulative or prone to lying, except in that specific episode. I don't mind good characters fucking up (see: Maximum Capacity, literally every episode about Pearl and Rose, the Sardonyx arc...), but I felt that the specific manner in which he fucked up was extremely OOC for him.
for me his behavior just...made me uncomfy. like, yeah, he apologizes in the end, but he undermines Steven's confidence and his actions reminded me of something my mom would've done, although for different reasons than Greg probably had--even so, anything that reminds me of something my mother would do is A Bad and not something I can bear with. additionally, it just seemed so....out of character for Greg, like Acey said. I just can't see him doing something like that for any reason, really.
yeah I can respect that. Greg is Rebecca Sugar's favorite character and she is super involved in the show so I don't know if she would approve anything she thought was super ooc, so I have to justify it to myself that he was pretty whacked out mentally/physically/emotionally after having his son almost die, Lapis wrecking his van with him in it, and living by himself for who knows how long because that is literally the only episode where he is like that.
GUYS THEY'RE RELEASING A KIDS' PICTURE BOOK BASED ON THE ANSWER ON SEPTEMBER 6TH AND I AM SO FUCKING HYPED
In principle I like House Guest, especially wrt the "even really good parents can do shitty things that fuck up their kids" thing, but the execution felt, yeah forced and out of character. I dunno if I could put my finger on why, but my first guess would be that trying to set up "greg actually was healed!" as a Twist undermined the character writing that you need to see how he got there.
is it weird that a big part of me can't wait until June, not just for new episodes but also because Spoiler: su leak spoilers I want to have a happy malachite icon without spoiling anyone just look at that happy fluffy haired abomination and her goofball smile
The sucky part is that it actually does have plot relevance, because it's why Spoiler: spoipers Steven seems to have lost his healing powers for the time being.
