Hi everyone,
As you may have heard already, Lauren Zuke (one of the Steven Universe storyboarders) has recently been harassed on Twitter because of shipping. As she often posts her own artwork depicting Peridot and Lapis together, and because she storyboarded the recent Lapidot-heavy "Beta" episode, she's been the target of abuse from a small (but vocal) minority of Amedot shippers who aren't happy about this. As a direct result of the harassment, she's deleted her Twitter account.
Tensions in the shipping side of the fandom have recently been running high as it is, because of the so-called "shipping war" that's been going on be