Welp, It's Time To Calm Myself Down And Draw Some Cute Little Pony-gems

Welp, it's time to calm myself down and draw some cute little pony-gems

OTP HOW?

Person B: Have you ever had a boy/girlfriend?

Person A: No

Person B: *Generally surprise* HOW?!

Person A: *shrugs* I do know, never asked, never got asked.

Person B: *under breath* But you’re so beautiful.

Person A: what?

Person B: what?!

Hi, if you are a teen or an adult who watches/uses things that were “made for kids” or where kids were the target market,

(ex: Disney movies, stuffed animals, Steven Universe)

Please like or reblog this, I’m trying to prove a point.

someone: lapidot is abusive

me: lapis and peridot genuinely cared about each other so much but their ways of showing their affection were not necessarily beneficial to the other. peridot who is very intellectual and analytic lives by figuring out all the facts and taking the correct course of action, but while this works fine for being a gem scientist and a kindergarten worker this does not work for puzzling out emotions social interactions and most importantly relationships and love. she loves lapis and this love manifests in a strong desire to mechanically fix lapis’s depression and ptsd. she figures out lapis’s aversion to physical intimacy her triggers and her need to be left alone sometimes to process her own thoughts but she also figures out there are situations where lapis is left more happy via lies and or omission and that peridot bringing up her own needs and wants causes healthy normal conflict which makes lapis more upset than if peridot never brought it up, leading to peridot reaching incorrect conclusions in the name of her desire to make lapis the most happy possible. in the metaphor for their relationship of the prime kindergarten in back to the kindergarten peridot sees the barren place and tasks herself with “fixing” it to fill it with life, finally finding a healthy flower growing where things normally don’t grow, but what she doesn’t understand is you can’t “fix” somebody. the flower monster was lapis trying to reward peridot’s tireless efforts to fix her mental illness by faking the appearance of being neurotypical again for her. in reality the path to healing for lapis is the one delivered by amethyst having names now for the holes and adding positive memories and new meaning and sentiment to a place she used to think was dead and could never change. peridot tried to show lapis love by healing her, she just didn’t know that that isn’t how people and emotions and recovery works. peridot’s consistent goal was lapis’s happiness she just does not understand emotions because she is trying to understand them scientifically. for lapis, between her trauma spent alone in the mirror passed between gems finally to pearl then steven, to her trapping jasper in a fusion to save steven’s life, and struggling in a constant battle between her and jasper in malachite, lapis’s life is Intense and lapis consistently shows a need to escape from intensity in her life, mostly by flying away somewhere quiet and peaceful. her friendship with steven is silly and that’s why she values it so much, it’s a respite from her life, which is what she needs as a person. lapis cares about peridot a lot and the way her love manifests is by joining peridot in enjoying pointless silly relaxing and non-stressful activities together, which is therapeutic for lapis, and also by lapis including peridot in her own alone time and letting her in emotionally that way. the reason lapis leaves is peridot is essentially tying herself to a massive source of stress and intensity when before she was lapis’s source of peace. peridot is still lapis’s peace however and so in seeking peace in the only location that won’t be a warzone, space, lapis takes her memories with peridot and her home in the positive experiences she made together with her, because she can’t leave peridot behind despite needing to leave peridot behind. lapis and peridot definitely loved each other, they just show their love in ways contradictory to the reality of the other, causing peridot to think of herself as a hopeless failure for being unable to “fix” lapis and lapis to leave behind the real peridot when taking her emotional home in peridot with her. there was no abuse and no taking advantage of anybody in their relationship at all. it was not toxic. it was just flawed, like Any relationship.