After i heard the so called” Korra and Asami thing” and read what the producers said— I was completely bewildered the entire time! It’s not right and people should understand that couples are dude and a gal not gal and gal :P But we do live in a falling world all we can do is pray and try to get Nick to wake up and smell the roses but i dont think that’ll happen anytime soon.. Lord help us all
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Oh, great, another Korrasami hater. These have been popping up a bit too often lately.
I'll just say it again: butthurt bigoted shipper is butthurt.
Seriously, I didn't even ship those two and even I think it was done really well and they do fit perfectly together.
Besides, it was left a bit ambiguous on purpose...
Why should people understand that? It's a lie; couples are two people, that's it.
We do live in a falling world, where people don't know how to use proper punctuation.
As George Carlin might say if he was still with us, I think this calls for a sentence that's never been written before.
I'm sure I'll have a better understanding of your obsessively persistent point of view once I saw off my own foot with this hacksaw.
Lord help us all
If Will was a good and proper Christian, he would boycott the show.
A quarter says troll. A dollar on disgruntled shipper thinking internet bigotry is an adequate cover for their butthurt. A week's pay says this is an idiot.
Dude, it has occurred. Deal. I personally didn't ship Korra with anyone (Seemed like a disaster in the making to me. I mean, it is Korra we're talking about here), but I was satisfied with the conclusion. I remember a warm smile, actually.
Now, someone conjure more of this world to my screen!
@Gearhead mk2
*applauds* Nice
Let's ignore that the Korra finale also had a traditional pairing and marriage in it. These people act like you can only have one or the other when both happen.
Verrick and Zhu Li still happened people. In the same episode.
@Scolipendra: I hate to be that person, but the gems are canonically sexless/genderless, with the exception of Steven and, arguably, Rose for a nine month period, so while Ruby and Sapphire are definitely precious, they aren't actually lesbians. (Although I'd consider them 'gay', as a blanket term.)
(I can't pinpoint the second couple you're referring to, but I assume it's the lesbian moms from Bubble Buddies & Sadie's Song.)
(Ebon)
It pertains to the four-chapter Nickelodeon cartoon series The Legend of Korra . After subtly shipping the female main character, Korra, with her female friend Asami over the course of the latter two chapters, the final scene of the series finale shows their friendship graduating to Official Couple status (confirmed as a canon pairing by the show's two main creators a few days afterward), walking hand in hand into a portal to the Spirit Realm before clasping both hands and gazing lovingly at each other.
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(Asami L, Korra R)
@Indicible
Metalhead correction: Actually, black metal has its origins as a separate genre of metal in the mid to late eighties, built of the rather edge for its day Slayer's particular (kick ass) brand of thrash. The earliest of metal was its classic predecessors, with a strong early point being Black Sabbath. It grew out of some of the psychadelia of the late 60s mingling with some of the harder (heavier, in the day's slang) music that was also arising at the time [Debate continues over the Jimi Hendrix Experience as metal/proto-metal].
As to metal and Christianity, the two are not mutually incompatible, despite the ravings of both fundies and the "Black Metal is the ONLY metal" crowd.
*goes back to his Freedom Call, Adagio, and Megadeth*
@TEQnique There's that, and Pearl's heavily implied feelings for Rose, and it's been hinted that those feelings aren't entirely one-sided. And for all the moral guardians know, R&S are lesbians because they present as female. Well, Ruby is very androgynous, but...
Re: Christian Metal. Technically there are some Christian metal bands like Extol, Antestor, Horde, Crimson Thorn and some others, but I don't listen to them because Christians tend to be homophobic, or to use their term "disapproving." Same reason I don't like Megadeth anymore, since I found out Dave Mustaine's a massive bigot.
@Azereaux
If folks want to do "Left-Wing Honky-Tonk Country" or "Right-Wing Folk Protest Songs", who's stopping them?
A lot of folks just like the way a genre sounds. Sometimes different genres fit certain moods.
I find "Hate Rockers" using Rap to be pretty stupid but if they want to do that, I won't stop them (even if I find Hate music nothing but sick, destructive propaganda).
@Scolipendra
Mmmneeeeh...I'm not going to deny that Pearl has an unhealthy infatuation with Rose Quartz, but I've seen nothing to suggest it was /ever/ requited on the part of Rose.
And I don't know that employing feminine pronouns really qualifies as presenting as female. While there's a chance I could be wrong, to my knowledge the gems have /never/ referred to themselves as female or as women. Only the humans--and Steven--have ever referred to them as women. The gems pretty much exclusively use 'gem'; "Take it like a gem," "Gems, move," etc. Even in the episode Giant Woman, when Opal sings Steven's song about giant women, she never actually calls herself a woman.
I mean, the moral police might look at the characters and say, "That's a woman, those are lesbians" but they'd be wrong, and this site has never been shy about calling them out on being wrong before.
In all fairness, while this "will hero" is a fool, the blog post he was responding to was refreshingly supportive of the couple, especially for a Christian. True, they didn't like them being a romantic couple, but the person seemed to gracefully accept it, and happened to greatly enjoy the two of them as a platonic pair. They also appear to have great respect for the creators in their decision to leave the ending just ambiguous enough to satisfy both sides, even though one side is demonstrably canon.
TLDR: Commenter is a tool, but blogger seems like a pretty nice dude even though we're on opposite sides.
@Renon
That IS refreshing!
@ Renon
Eh. I honestly can't agree with you on a lot of what you said on the post. It left me feelings less than pleased.
To be fair, the poster wasn't a hateful raving lunatic like a lot of the fine upstanding cretins we see on this site. Still though, I find the 'love the sinner hate the sin' argument to be another form of bigotry if one that's more subtle and less full of overt vile.
I do acknowledge that the poster has a right to their beliefs, and not everyone likes or agrees with non heterosexual orientations.
As far as posts like this go, it was tactful and fairly graceful, but still leaves a bad taste in my mouth due to the anti gay sentiment and the preaching at non straight people. Equating disagreeing with the Christian philosophy on the same level of homophobia does tend to piss me off quite a bit. It isn't, and arguments like that are reliant on the fact that homosexuality is a choice and a lifestyle.
"shrugs"
My own personal views and two cents.
@TEQnique
I just went through the transcripts over on the SU wiki for episodes I was pretty sure used she/her pronouns.
In Keystone Motel Ruby uses she to describe Pearl. Sapphire uses she to describe Ruby. Pearl uses she to describe Peridot.
Sworn to the Sword has Pearl's song "You do it for her" about Rose. Garner refers to Pearl as a her.
We Need to Talk has Pearl reference Rose as a her.
Jail Break has a home world gem, Jasper, use she in reference to Ruby. Ruby also says "she stopped singing" about Sapphire. Garnet sings "and every part of me is saying go get her" about Jasper.
I'd say it's okay to call them female, and thus the second most adorable couple on the show lesbians, if home world gems use female pronouns.
We really need quotes about fundies finding Steven Universe. The end of Sadie's Song should have made the moral guardians apoplectic.
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