It wasn’t the 80s

dreadbeasts:

Ok. Story for Steven didn’t take place in the 80s. As someone who was old enough to remember the mid 90s, I present the evidence thus:

- the gems are detached from human society. We cannot use their fashion as the signpost for what year this occurs in
- music like Greg’s was outdated but not uncommon in the mid 90s. We hadn’t quite reached the glittery pop and techno phase of the 90s until the Spice Girls got big in 1997.
- the way that Vidalia and Marty are dressed was absolutely mid 90s fashion. Go watch a Goofy Movie. That is a great capsule of how people - especially teens and younger ppl - dressed in 1995
- Greg is selling CDs. The technology for them was invented earlier than the 90s but wasn’t really used widely enough that a struggling new artist would be selling them at his shows until 1993 or 1994. He would have been selling cassettes if it were earlier.
- Marty probably knocked Vidalia up with Sour Cream. If we assume it’s late 1995 or 1996, that puts Sour Cream at being born in 96 or early 97, thus making him 17 or 18.

If Greg is 20sish in this ep, then he’s just hitting 40 in the main show timeline, which matches up with his health and appearance. Assuming Steven is 10, he and Rose would’ve been together for 10 or so years before Rose gave up her physical body.