(The Emoji Spam Is for Comical Effect)

[bedes]

Do you ever see a piece of fiction that you wish you had gotten into as a kid? Like, you love it Now, but you wish you had the experience of enjoying it as a child, too? Although I often wish I could experience pieces of fiction for the first time again, too, so I suppose the grass is always greener.

I guess what I’m saying is that, in a universe slightly to the left from ours, a tweenage Azure became SICKENINGLY obsessed with Riku Kingdomhearts. Just an absolute BLOODBATH. Because if I have one thing in common with my tween self, it's undoubtedly that we both love mean queercoded characters who experience SHAME 🔥🔥💥💥💥🍾🎉🔥💥💥💥🎉

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[matsushima]

I used to think about this a lot when I was into Steven Universe, like, smol!Meep would be a completely different person (in a good way) if that had been on TV when I was, like, 12.

[bedes]

I am regularly so grateful to have grown up with Steven Universe! It made me feel so much more comfortable with my queerness, and Peridot directly lead to my autism diagnosis, lol. Don't worry, young me was insane enough about SU for the both of us!