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Perlen297 wrote: Just caught this post that might be helpful~ :3

melskunk asked:

I think people sometimes forget that cartoons are drawn so you don't just accidentally have star eyes and falling into your crush and whatever. It's like back in my korra days trying to remind people if she's blushing because of a compliment it's damned deliberate because she's a drawn character. Everything we see is chosen to be on the screen. Amedot might be a ship tease in the end but everything shippy is being drawn by the crew intentionally, regardless of outcome.

amethirstyperidrunk: yeah, trust me, having worked in animation, I have come to find that almost everything is deliberate. Now misinterpretations are a thing, such as the creators adding something innocent that the viewers take in a entirely different direction. But this usually isn’t the case with character dialog and interaction. They are people too and basically if the audience is thinking it, the crew most likely did as well at some point and some. Tbh I will be quite upset if the happenings in Too Far is all just for ship tease but somehow I feel like the crew wouldn’t do something like that unless they felt it was the only entertaining way to have some necessary development within the time parameters (i.e. Peridot with Garnet). Which we know, in Too Far it wasn’t necessary for that, as Peridot could have certainly felt bad and apologized without falling on top of her and them make a deal out of it for 11 seconds. Her straddling Amethyst had nothing to do with her apology. And that’s what gets me. The ONLY purpose it serves is to make the situation between them more awkward and to hint that there might be something more brewing inside of Peridot over Amethyst or vice versa. Not only that but every interaction they had after that written in, like when Peridot tries to compliment amethyst and how flustered and outraged Amethyst was when they thought Peridot betrayed them. and the title of jokes book specifically referencing what happened in Too Far (”How to Make People Laugh Around You Instead of Feel Bad”) and how Amethyst compliments her and becomes the key to her even understanding the joke she read. I may be wrong, but from what i can tell, the crew hasn’t really had any other such deliberate, blatant, unnecessary, awkward, indisputable subtext shippy moments between two characters that simply stopped and didn’t go any further than that. So I’m hoping that’s not the last we will see of these cute interactions between Peridot and Amethyst.

Thanks for some evidence!

Yes, in animation, almost everything has a purpose. Creators of stories often try to add in little hints so the viewers can guess what's coming up. This could go for almost any ship, but probably suits ships that aren't canon but have quite a bit of evidence, such as Connverse or Amedot.

The crew didn't put that kind of stuff in there "just because". In shows like these, where even the cookie cat song hinted at future plot points, that stuff matters. And if they make it obvious *coughcoughconnverseandamedot* there's an even better chance that stuff's going to become canon in the future.