He works hard at the car wash so he can provide for Steven and The Crystal Gems (which might also explain why he lives in his van)
Greg is a great dad who always looks out for Steven and overall is very sweet and his life hasn’t been easy and everyone should be nice to him
I think what I love most about Greg is that none of his life is set up as a joke.
Think about it - how many TV dads have you seen with Greg’s problems, or problems like them? He’s half a Homer Simpson or a Matt Foley. Balding, overweight, washed up musician, runs a car wash, lives in a van. In any other show, those would be the gags about Greg - haha, he’s bald, he’s broke, he’s going nowhere, haha - jokes made at him, not by him. He’d be sidelined as an incompetent, overweight dunce. He’d be comedy relief, not a father figure.
Steven Universe’s writing shines because it doesn’t frame or treat Greg that way. Instead he’s a genuinely great person, chipper and musical. He’s a huge part of his son’s story - supporting Steven even in his own awful living situation, doing everything he can to help the cause, despite being an average joe with no super powers. He’ll crack a self-deprecating line about his poverty or his hairline every now and again, but those are jokes coming from him, fully aware and accepting of how he must appear to the world. Greg’s not dumb, he’s not unaware, and he’s not selfish. He’s not an alcoholic, he’s not a deadbeat. He’s just a big, happy 1980s kid, who’s been through a lot.
He loved his wife. And he loves his son. And he’ll do whatever he can to chip in and help save the world, even if he has to do it from the back of a dirty old fuckin’ van. Would that we could all have dads - be dads - as amazing as Greg.
This website was literally so fucking stupid. You used to be able to just fucking edit somebody’s post. Like just change it entirely. Nothing was stopping you. What the fuck. Imagine logging into your youtub account and some bozo changed your funny comment to say you love being a dummy. That’s what used to happen here. Every single day.
one time when i was six i saw an infomercial claiming that their product would make you look ten years younger and my sister said she was gonna use it on me and i became really scared
OK SO I wanted to do a complete overhaul of rubys design and character for the longest time!!!! (The hair isn’t final and I still need to draw her in her burlesque outfit) but here she is!!! I want to move away from her being a club owner/gangster and decided that her being a hotel owner and theif is MUCH more suited for her. She’s also a lot more loving, friendly, and silly!!! But I also have her being a cuphead boss too so of course at times she’s going to be menacing and intimidating when she wants to(the hotel business can be rough!)
Of course she still dances but that’s when her hotel holds shows during the weekends and she’s the headlining act on their Friday or Saturday night shows. She’s also more eccentric because I like the idea of the mysterious elusive (like a cryptid) hotel owner just sneaking around their own establishment! It has plenty of secret passages so she can (and it also helps when her and her staff start doing big heists to steal their guests expensive belongings).
Day bump!!!! But also a hair update!
I think I’ll be going for the second style solely because I have another oc with a similar style to the first one Fjdjfjsmfm
A research tip from a friendly neighborhood librarian!
I want to introduce you to the wonderful world of subject librarians and Libguides.
I’m sure it’s common knowledge that scholars and writers have academic specialties. The same is true for subject librarians! Most libraries use a tool called Libguides to amass and describe resources on a given topic, course, work, person, etc. (I use them for everything. All hail Libguides.) These resources can include: print and ebooks, databases, journals, full-text collections, films/video, leading scholars, data visualizations, recommended search terms, archival collections, digital collections, reliable web resources, oral histories, and professional organizations.
So, consider that somewhere out there in the world, there may be a librarian with a subject specialty on the topic you’re writing on, and this librarian may have made a libguide for it.
Because you’re searching library collections, you won’t have access to all the content in the guides, and there will probably be some link rot (dead links), but you can still request resources through your own library with interlibrary loan, or even request that your library purchase the resources! Even without the possibility of full-text access, libguides can give you the words, works, people, sites, and collections to improve your research.
Search [your topic] + libguide and see what you get!
This is…amazing. I am angry that I didn’t know about this until now. Now I can ~academically~ indulge my fascination with the 1918 flu pandemic? When I have organic chem homework and a lab report due tomorrow? I both love this and hate this.
Use the libguide community site and search by topic, institution, or even your friendly neighborhood librarian! (If you have a librarian or two who you trust to put you on the right path, you might be able to get that guidance even if you don’t have time to reach out directly!) If their site says “LibGuide” it’ll show up in THAT community somewhere!
Interested in browsing until you find something that catches your attention? Springshare (the vendor that manages LibGuides) curates lists of interesting, amusing, and innovative libguides! (Okay some of these are boring because they’re geared towards UX and data visualization for librarians, but still…)
Interested in seeing the stuff that YOUR local or institutional librarians are trying to promote? Looking for ways to make the most of the resources that are freely available to you just down the road? Libraries from Atlantic City to Saratoga Springs to South Australia are making guides for their various resources, which describe everything from how to search databases to how to read call numbers to how to access online resources like e-books and video subscriptions!
Even major institutions like the New York Public Library have guides, on everything from genealogy to the history of New York neighborhoods!
OP is evil. *disappears into link forest, is never seen again*
