#I graduated HS and College and lived through awful life events

[dazednstoned]

Modern Rdr2 hcs:

-Abigail dresses like it's the 2000s (I'm talking miniskirts, low rise jeans, heeled flip flops w the fucking sparkles). She will never change too.

-Charles and Arthur go on dates to those adoption events to pet all the dogs and cats

-the whole gang frequently gathers for family bbqs. Every time someone ends up getting punched, passing out, or storming off

-Abigail puts Jack on one of those backpack leashes for kids (John too if we're being honest)

-Tilly, Karen, and Marybeth do full goodwill, garage sale, and vintage market days. They do not mess around either

-the only thing hosea knows how to do on his phone is play chess

-Sean still can't read in modern time

-john plays guitar and writes really horrible love songs for Abigail

-Javier and john r for sure in a band together, they're pretty good when they sing the songs Javier wrote

-Lenny and Sean co-parent an extremely neglected widgetable

-Arthur listens to facebook reels on full volume in public w no shame. Isaac is mortified every time

-john has various tattoos, half of them are god awful. He definitely got Abigail's name or initials tattooed somewhere and she was livid

-Karen gives herself piercings with a really shitty piercing gun

-arthur and John work together in construction, an auto shop, or in the equestrian field.

-Dutch has a very rigid and lengthy skincare routine

-john uses 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner, but he says it's 3 in 1 bc it also counts as bodywash

-Tilly is the only one of her family to graduate college (Arthur dropped out of hs when Eliza got pregnant and john never went)

-Hosea is one of those old people you just see walking around the neighborhood at like 8am

-john and Arthur don't wear sunscreen or put on lotion. Abigail sometimes manages to force some sunscreen on John's face before he goes to work tho

-bill refuses to go to gay bars but uses Grindr

-Abigail cuts John and Jack's hair bc she refuses to pay for something she thinks she can do herself (she cannot do it herself)

-Kieran is a hair braiding god. I'm talking French braids, fish tails, you name it.

-john owns a really shitty pick up truck. Jack was either conceived or birthed in the backseat of it (maybe both)

-Sean falls for those free iPhone scams every time

-the only videogame charles plays is stardew valley. He thought it would be relaxing, it wasn't.

-Tilly and Mary Beth are in a book club together

-Abigail is the type of parent to not let her kid play w nerf guns or watch pg13 movies (John is the exact opposite)

-Sadie spends her weekends at rage rooms

-everyone's fridges are covered in drawings Jack made for them

-John, Javier, and Sean game together. Violence always ensues

-dutch does not tip waiters

-john tried to play catch w Jack once and ended up getting hit in the groin by a baseball. He didn't know 4 yr olds could throw that hard

-Abigail and Karen (& sometimes Charles) drink cheap wine together every Sunday and discuss the dumb things their boyfriends did that week

-Lenny and Hosea do the wordle everyday

-Jack is in little league soccer. John sits back drinking a beer as Abigail shouts at the referee

-Abigail got a tramp stamp of a little bow when she was 17 (she regrets it)

-Hosea exclusively sends emails

-Abigail hides John's weed socks bc she doesn't want Jack to see and "fall into a life of drugs" when he's older

-Arthur is a hiking dad through and through. While John is a sit on the couch drinking a beer w his kid in his lap kinda dad

-uncle is the old drunk that lived in the same trailer park as Abigail and John did when Jack was a baby. He kinda just stuck around after

-Miss Molly O'Shea would be a makeup god and u cannot convince me otherwise

I might do a pt 2 late in the future!

[gemsona-hq]

End of An Era

(Don’t worry, this post won’t contain any spoilers from tonight’s episodes. Gemsona-HQ still has a “one week spoiler-free” rule we abide by, even for the season finale!)

If you’ll indulge me, I wanted to share a little bit of this blog’s history. 

In 2014, Steven Universe was already nearing peak popularity. The first Gemsona Week had wrapped up, we finally got our introduction to Sugilite, a long-anticipated character and episode, and gemsonas were popping up faster than Gems out of a Kindergarten. Fueled by love for the show and love for the wonderful gemsona community Gemsona Week exposed me to, I created Gemsona-HQ April of 2014 and posted our first monthly prompts in May.

In the nearly 7 years since I started this blog, I’ve never once stopped being impressed by the amount of love and creativity the gemsona community puts into their characters. From fanart to fanfics to animation and music, this community has always been bursting with positivity, and it’s something I’m proud to be a part of. As both a professional writer and educator, I’m always amazed by how people can take inspiration from the series they love and make their own creations from it. When I first designed this blog, I wanted to give advice on character design and give young creators a nudge in the right direction in the hopes that they remembered my advice when designing original characters for their own stories. Now, I think what I enjoy most is being able to give people time in the spotlight by sharing their work on Gemsona-HQ.

As Rebecca Sugar put it best:

So what’s next?

Like with all shows that experience *cough* setbacks due to poor network scheduling, it’s unsurprising that both the Steven Universe and gemsona community have seen a slowdown lately (especially within the past few years, due to the fact that Tumblr is, frankly, a dysfunctional social media platform that seems incapable of not shooting itself in the foot). I don’t expect to see this trend do a 180 anytime soon, especially now that the series is over.

What does this mean for Gemsona-HQ?

I like running this blog. I wouldn’t still be here if I didn’t. I may feel a wild range of Abject Unquantifiable Emotions every time I remember how many years I’ve been doing this, but it’s true. For the foreseeable future, as long as the gemsona community continues to exist, I’ll stick around and keep queuing things. As for the prompts, I may start phasing out the Monthly Prompts within the next few months. I always try to keep prompts fun and relevant to the show, but now that the series is finished, I worry they might become repetitive or stale. To compensate, I could continue to do the Monthly Gem Challenge posts if a significant amount of people are interested, but as of right now, I haven’t decided.

For the time being, I wanted to say thank you for sharing your gemsonas, and thanks for sticking around. I know some of you have been with Gemsona-HQ from the beginning, and I always smile when I see your Gems show up in the tag.

I hope you and your family and friends are all staying healthy and safe during these stressful times. Take care of each other.

Thanks!