#‧͙⁺˚*･༓Blue Pearl & Diamond Authority༓･*˚⁺‧͙

[themitrich]

Sketch drawing of Blue diamond with pearl that will have finished version finished in February.

[sudiamondszine]

💎 PREORDERS OPEN

Preorders for "The Great Diamond Authority", a zine all about The Diamonds from Steven Universe are officially open from January 25th to February 25th!

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[empanadastheresurrection]

Can you draw Steven when he was 14 and just arrived/ still getting used to being on homeworld?

there was no chance that he was stopping from holding a Pearl's hand like a lifeline at all times

[fae-sodapop]

"I guess I'll have to face that in this awful place..."

Everything stays AU

🗣️<[I didn't feel like adding pink pearl in the 2nd image leave me alone!]

Also Blue & Yellow design reveals yay! Designs based on their murals & first appearances.

[deadboystims]

steven universe earrings/charms!! source

[chronic-clod]

All over again, Ruby & Sapphire made something entirely ‘new’. What else is new that we’ve never seen in SU? the kaleidoscopes

Garnet is THE Queen of invention💙💖

[sparklingemeralds]

The Diamonds

This is a redraw of a set of Diamond drawings I made and posted here almost 6 years ago!

How time flies! I put in an unfinished White Diamond here. I redrew these about a year and four months ago, I just never got around to posting them. I don’t think I’m going to finish White Diamond, so enjoy!

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST, THANK YOU! 💕

[dreamy-pill]

Has a Hospital AU been done for Steven Universe before? I had a more than a few ideas for it.

White, Yellow, and Blue are three different types of doctors.

Yellow is a surgeon: she’s all hands in when it comes to performing surgery on her patients. She doesn’t really care for empathizing with her patients unless it gets the job done faster. She is known to be very skilled in her profession, but is very cold to her staff members and helpers.

Blue is a little more practical: she’s the head of her own team, who she orders around with regular tasks. She pretends to show compassion to her patients. It’s usually to cover up how nasty she can be when one her nurses or other do something wrong in the work place. She can be very strict, and also extremely mellow when she has to deal with some of the more emotional people around her (like when she might find one of her nurses crying after her yelling).

White is a little less… orthodox: she’s old-fashioned, and by old-fashioned she used to perform experimental lobotomies many years ago. She’s very much less enthusiastic about how the practice of “modern medicine” changed over the years. After her old profession became obsolete, she was able to sustain a decent public image with a new name and scratching out her old patient records from history, all thanks to Yellow and Blue. White still has a distaste for her new profession as head of a new hospital, but she’s able to cover it up with a facade. Yellow and Blue are the ones who can keep White in check from her unwanted and sadistic tendencies.

Pink was an unruly child. She used to be locked in “padded rooms” for the “safety” of others and herself after some of her more awful “outbursts.” Really, it was just a cruel tactic of discipline that White chose for her and enforced Yellow and Blue to follow. Yellow was uncaring, yet Blue seemed to find pride in how much of Pink’s “self-control” seemed to improve after every punishment, so Blue would occasionally neglect to check up on her for longer than usual. Yellow would sometimes have to be the one to let her out after experiencing some pity for Pink, or either White would let her out after wanting her back home earlier.

Pink used to want have her own profession like the rest of her “family.” After years of mistreatment, she slowly became adjusted to society by repressing her memories of being in the hospital, and going to school. She finally had a break point after becoming an adult and had to flee.

Pearl was one of Pink’s college tutors. Pearl also didn’t know what was the matter with Pink until she observed one her “scheduled” appointments to the hospital.

Pearl helps Rose escape. There’s a breakout from the hospital, the one where White used to work at. It’s abandoned now.

Pink’s hospital records were also scratched away along with the rest of the other patient’s names by White, Yellow, and Blue.

Pink changed her name to Rose, then formed an alliance with Pearl, Amethyst, Garnet, and Bismuth. She had many other friends who weren’t able to return back home. Rose worked hard to find homes for many of the patients, that’s where Rose started on a project.

If I get too deep into it, I’ll forget why I even shared some of these ideas in the first place. Here’s the ending.

In Change Your Mind, White basically relapses and almost performs an open-heart-brain surgery on Steven, until Yellow and Blue finally barge into the operating theater and put a stop to her.

The Gems don’t even know about what White put Steven through. They were all trapped in different parts of the hospital like: the fenced-in garden, the rooftop, and the boiling room*. Steven hasn’t opened up to them about it, but he and Connie can’t handle watching any hospital dramas anymore.

*One of the Gems has to get through a bunch of the in-patients to get past security; one of them is deathly afraid of heights and can’t get down from the fire-escape; one of them was ordered to maintain the boiling room by a wall of staff while being observed the whole time.

Steven has heart problems in the future and struggles with stress daily. He loses complete consciousness in the confrontation with his family

Steven recovers from his hospital visit and focuses on trying to continue living everyday life with his condition.

[db-andromeda]

FORGOTTEN DIAMOND AUTHORITY:

♦️ GREEN DIAMOND ♦️

Years after Steven left the gems, a disaster occurred in Homeworld where a black hole appeared out of nowhere in the skies, from which five lights were projected to the other end of the galaxy, this event is known as "The Blackhole Sparks". Given this, The Great Diamond Authority contact Steven again to decide what should be done, so they chose that the Crystal Gems would go on an expedition to the last point where those lights were seen landing; upon arriving they were surprised to find a new civilization of gems in the same and pure style of the Era I, where apparently the lights were Diamonds brought from an alternate dimension: Black (which hides a great secret), Purple, Green (which we're talking about), Orange and Brown (will be important believe me); the CG decided to infiltrate taking their old roles to learn that before everything these Diamonds were in another universe where they had a great empire and recognition, but the disaster made them lose everything except their Pearls (and maybe Spinels?) and they were brought to this reality resigning themselves to start from scratch

POWERS: Phytoanimation but not like Steven because it's much more powerful being through her mind, she also possesses standard gem abilities. Her aura acts as a fertilizer by making plants and logs flourish around those affected, preventing their movement; although if used positively it makes a plant armor grow on the gem that makes more resistant to attacks

COLONIES: Six planets with several moons in this universe, another three with also moons in her original universe which were lost thanks to the event mentioned before

GEM LOCATION: Left eye

HEIGHT: Taller than Blue and Yellow

PERSONALITY: Too elegant but also fashionista, creative and a little mysterious

[onyx-da-clod]

Possibly hot take, but I hate the sexualization of blue Diamond

[honeycoveredstarlight]

My favourite SU headcannon that won't leave my mind (especially since it hasn't technically been disproven in cannon) is that Pearl used to belong to White Diamond, or at least was intended to be hers, before Pink traumatized Pink Pearl. Where Pearl was then rejuvinated and given to Pink as a replacement.

My evidence: all the pearls have the same gem placements as their diamonds; Yellow Diamond, Yellow Pearl, Blue Diamond, and Blue Pearl all with their gems on their chests; Pink Diamond and Pink Pearl with their gems on their navels; it only makes sense for White Diamond's Pearl to have her gem on her forehead like White's. Like Pearl's.

Each Pearl also looks as much like their diamond as possible in terms of skin tone and hair style, and Pearl most matches White in those respects as well. And wouldn't the Diamonds want their Pearls to look like them as much as possible? Their Pearls basically extentions of themselves, their representatives to the court when they're too busy to be there themselves as well as the first line of contact when seeking an audience with a Diamond. They have to look as professional and regal and high-standing as possible, and what look is more those things than that of their Diamond's?

Based on all that, I think that Pearl was either White Diamond's, or she was meant for White Diamond but ended up going to Pink instead just by virtue of the accident she had with her own Pearl.

[themitrich]

Finally managed to finish my previous sketch :)

[sudiamondszine]

💎 MERCH REVEAL: PEARL PRINTS

Next up is our set of Pearl Prints by our very own Art Mod Vanilla! You can't be a Diamond (or start a Rebellion…) without your loyal Pearl by your side! 🦪

[matt0044]

“y’all couldn’t even handle the moral complexities of steven universe”

You've probably seen this type of post make the rounds every so often and either agree or disagree with it. I'm of the former camp and have often pondered some of the reasons why this thesis holds water.

To start, Social Media has really changed the game in Fandom for better and for worst (the latter being too often the case). Namely in how on platforms like Tumblr and Twitter (Musk can shove that X up his ugly a-), we get fun fandom nonsense along with a 24/7 news cycle of whatever's trending.

Which means we have constant intrusion on our timelines about how the geopolitics across the globe are pretty crap. Many of us retweet things we feel may be relevant, especially when misinformation has become a vertiable economy we need to be aware of.

We also have people raising awareness of social issues that our world still endures such as sexism, racism, every kind of bigotry you can imagine. Ironically, this brings about those railling against the notion that they either still exist or need to be worked on at all in a display of said prejudices. #Gamergate didn't just spring from the ether.

Many celebrities of various levels of fame were turning out to be… pretty bad. Social Media would empower them to speak their minds and not all of it was just “their beliefs.”

To keep this focused of when Steven Universe was coming out, the end of the Obama era and Trump planting his stanky ass in the Oval Office, this was when people’s trust in each other was at an all time low.

Hell, I remember when Trump’s campaign and Brexit got many bigots to feel like they can be prejudiced without consequences. Whole reason he made it to the final two at all.

As such, how else would Uncle Andy Demayo come across as anything other than a MAGA hat wearer? How else would the Diamond Authority come off as but the powers that be who “need to be stopped?”

Steven Universe came at a time when fandom was intermingling with the real life. Fans were starting to feel insulted whenever something like fighting the government or interacting with problematic family member wasn’t answered with “Burn it to the ground!”

Notions of compassion to those who are troubled or maybe in need of a shoulder to lean on were disinterpretted in the least favorable light possible. How could SU even humor the notion that narrowminded family members or even people of power could be redeemed let alone humanized?

Essentially, it didn’t speak to the emotional climate at the time for millennials or Gen Z. It’s why we’ve celebrated Big Jack Horner and those who harken back to classic Disney villains. The kind you cheer on to be taken down a peg.

Lily Orchard didn’t start the fire. The flames were already being fanned.

[fae-sodapop]

Baby Pink Diamond 🥺

(Basically a sister AU to my "Broken Shards" AU where the imitation pink diamond reforms as a baby?)

Quick info

* Why a baby? Her gem doesn't really have a purpose so Pink/Rose's emotions & personality affected how she formed. Her gem having no code besides a consciousness w/ endless potential + roses affinity for human life = gem baby, I guess?

* The Diamonds don't understand what she is. They brought her back w/ everything they could think of (Basically jasper's resurrection bath in future 💀).

* Development: Baby Pink formed into the equivalent of a 8 month - 1 yr old and she stays like this for (human equivalent of) A WHILE. The Diamonds task their pearls to try and make pink feel better but half the time she's crying anyways, she "won't" even speak or stand for herself "demanding" to be carried around by the pearls nearly all the time.

* Development cont. : The diamonds originally tried to communicate with Pink but she wouldn't speak, all she did was cry. They tried to give her some time to cooperate, then when that didn't work they threw her in a tower. Not cool to throw a baby in a tower guys, even if you don't know what a baby is. Eventually they realized pink wasn't going to let up so they let her out & brought Spinel back to the Diamond palace.

* Caretakers: Pink's primary caretakers are primarily Blue pearl, Yellow pearl, Spinel, Eyeball ruby & her pearl - Coral. She hangs w/ the Zoomans too cuz 1 day spinel put 2 & 2 together & was like "Hey, humans make little things that look like Pinkie all the time!" And realized they could probably help. The diamonds adore her but they're very busy, White took over Pinks current court & paused production on the earth. Blue sings her to sleep when she has time though it's rare, and she doesn't know what sleep is but pink seems happy! Yellow tried explaining gem tech to Pink but given that she's an infant she falls asleep less than halfway through but Yellow still assumes she's listening so it continues, bonding???

[fetusscentedwanderer]

💗Random💗

🎀 Pink 🎀

🩰Diamond🩰

🌸Headcanons🌸

💖⭐️-After going to Earth, Pink picked up a bunch of flowers and turned them into flower crowns for her colony

💖⭐️-When she's bored she draws a random gem she finds interesting to look at

💖⭐️-When she's locked in the tower she counts gems based on their colour like "457 blue gems, 627 purple gems, 246 green gems" etc

💖⭐️-When they saw her, humans thought she was some goddness and bowed to her (Pink was extremely confused)

💖⭐️-she absolutely loves making stuff from the things she find on earth and sometimes she steals from organics

💖⭐️-she likes to climb stuff and is an expert at doing so. (Blue sometimes finds her climbing upside down on the wall and gets scared)

💖⭐️-White did fucked up something about Pink while she was still developing (which is why she's Pink and is KINDA immune to whites powers)

💖⭐️-On earth she would literally pick up the most disturbing most horrifying most cheek clenching most nightmare inducing most giant most devilish thing ever with ease and call it a cutie

(Ps. This was my first time writing headcanons so please tell me what I can improve)