Lokifan

So I haven’t got too deeply into Steven Universe fandom yet, and I don’t think the conversation about Jasper & Lapis Lazuli is the top one right now. But I had an interesting conversation about it at Nine Worlds yesterday. So my reading based on what we have so far is that Jasper and Lapis had an abusive relationship, in which Lapis was the abuser.

Totally happy to expand & discuss in comments/future posts, but that’s not really what this one is about.

It’s about setting something from a fantasy world up as a metaphor for something from ours, and the confusion that can result when your characters’ reaction to the something, while logical within their in-universe laws, messes with the metaphor.

( cut for discussion of sexual assault - allegorical and otherwise - in Steven Universe and Buffy )

( cut for extended Tru Blood example of extending a metaphor in terrible ways )

This stuff is so hard. And that’s without even getting into changing what something in-universe is a metaphor for - I actually don’t have a problem with this, but I know a few people who really hated how in S4 of Buffy magic was lesbian connection/love/sex, and in S6 it was drugs.

...I have no snappy concluding sentence, apparently.