Im sure im not the first person to notice this but

I found a bit of parallels between the diamond’s story and the song “Both of You” while I was rambling about su to my bf.

There’s a bit of color symbolism in the song, with yellow being linked to Greg, blue linked to Pearl and pink to Steven/Rose. But then I got the thought “Hey wait a minute thats the diamond colors….”

It parallels how Yellow was able to seemingly move on from Pink’s death, She acted strong and like a leader, like how Greg had to be strong for his kid, and he seems to be happy with his new life, even though Rose isn’t there. He’s accepted it.

Pearl is linked with Blue who WASN’T able to accept Pink’s death. Even after all those years, she still can’t believe that she’s gone… it feels wrong! Just like how Pearl feels towards Rose.

Whats the use of feeling blue exemplifies these themes.

And through it all Steven is the one who brings it all together. In both of you the pink background ties them together as Steven sings to try and mend the relationship between them. He also sings about mending the diamond’s relationships in “Familiar” and in change your mind he’s there as the one to try and fix blue and yellow (and eventually white’s) relationships

anyways su music is like the best thing ever and steven universe is gorgeous and has great themes that i still love so very much

su steven universe steven quartz universe yellow diamond blue diamond greg universe pearl pink diamond rose quartz

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More gay and bisexual men will now be able to donate blood under finalized FDA rules

While the number of people eligible to donate blood has expanded, the agency says it will continue to monitor the safety of the blood supply

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The article says that the guidelines have been updated. Instead of asking if you’re a man that’s had sex with another man in the past 3 months it asks everyone regardless of gender if they’ve had anal sex with a new partner or if they’ve had anal sex with multiple partners in the past 3 months.

This both opens up blood donation to msm in exclusive relationships or who don’t have anal sex and more accurately identifies hiv risk from people who aren’t msm. This is exactly the sort of guidelines we’ve been fighting for for years. This is a major win for both gay rights and blood donation in the US. Now a bunch of people who couldn’t donate before can donate now.