#gem talk

[foldingfittedsheets]

Time for another ex-jewelry store worker PSA.

Don’t sleep with your jewelry on.

Really.

It’s so bad for most jewelry, but especially necklaces and rings with stones. Studs are more alright generally if they have a threaded back though it does still wear the back down, but honestly the wear and tear simply from sleeping on jewelry is insane. Solid rings are pretty much always fine but taking them off regularly is still a good practice. An alarming number of people get rings stuck on that need to be cut off.

Chain links stretch and with most chains once they start breaking from the cumulative wear there’s no fixing them because every link is gonna start giving out one after another.

Prongs used to set stones in rings literally wear down twice as fast when slept with and you lose stones more easily if fibers from your sheets catch on your prongs.

Earring backs loosen and clasps wear down.

As someone cleaning jewelry on the daily it was instantly apparent when it was slept on because it showed exponentially more wear and tear across the board than jewelry that got taken off.

If you’re like I used to be and worry that if you take it off you won’t remember to put it back on try to set up a bedtime routine at the place where you get ready for the day. It takes some getting used to. Sometimes I forget my ring. But it’s worth maintaining something I want to last me the rest of my life.

[kitskiis]

He keeps doing this I’m gonna cry

[egophiliac]

I have SO many thoughts about everything and they are in no kind of order yet, so here's just some quick little bits in the meantime!

I am not normal about any of these characters!

[bixels]

vague-posting about this here cuz i don't feel comfortable yapping about my su takes on twitter, but after everything that's happened the most interesting thing about the su fandom to me is that so many are 100% there for applying the "everyone can change and deserves a second chance" message to everyone, even the diamonds. except for one ☝️ she doesn't count. cuz she's dead.

[huggywuggysuppy]

Gem leaving out in her vid Pearl’s “I want us to be friends, you know Scar and I were allied at the end of Secret, why are you so cranky, I haven’t tried to kill you once this season, you’re telling me we could’ve been friends all along but you wanted drama?” But Pearl keeping it in mnmnmmn Gem wants to seem spontaneously forgiving and like she’s made no real grievances while Pearl is genuinely hurt/confused by Gem’s sudden cold shoulder this season. The drama is manufactured for content, sure, but the way they’re telling it diverging like this…

[octoling-wearing-gauges]

best pals on an adventure :)

[vegley]

gemgem!

(rbs > likes <3)

[volcanocraft]

you ARE right it's a matching icon to a puppy pearl but there's actually TWO puppy pearl icons!! it matches to the scarlet pearl one <3

also I love your art so much <3 you're one of my biggest inspirations!

-hallowedlaboratory

@hallowedlaboratory your art is so fantastic! i love how youre able to seamlessly capture emotion in their simplified blocky forms. there’s a very professional edge your art style that is both incredibly impressive and extremely charming

[octopuspot]

I am not immune to his cutie beam 😔

[mandareeboo]

I think a lot of people forget that Garnet's future vision isn't, like, accurate? That's the whole point of Future Vision; Garnet sees so many timelines, and she has to pick and choose which to follow, and they aren't' always accurate. Pool Hopping reinforces that concept, with Garnet being unable to pick which future Steven will follow because she's ignored his development.

She even does it in Future! She's so sure that Steven is in the "pepperoni timeline" that she doesn't even consider that he might be taking the vegetarian option.

Garnet has an approximate knowledge of many things, and she just kinda picks which future she thinks is true based on characters and how they act. Her future vision isn't a solid thing that she can just Know how things will go down. She guesses. A lot.

[dredgesnails]

thinking about ren's new skin and how when martyn died last session he turned into martyn as if to preserve him one last time. but something went wrong, and now he's stuck as himself and martyn, a lingering effect of his superpowers and a mark of his grief.

we know from gem and grian's videos that while gem is astral projecting grian can't copy her powers. grian even said the real gem isn't there anymore; there's just an empty shell until her soul returns to her body. if ren had tried to copy her dna while she was out of body would the same thing have happened? does the soul need to be present for their powers to work?

maybe that's why ren's stuck as two now. maybe, in his desperation to preserve martyn, he's irreversibly changed himself. when he looks in a mirror he'll be reminded that he's always got a part of martyn with him, but he'll also be reminded of all the ways he couldn't save him.

[moomoorare]

Autumn Gem inspired by my Scales of Fate AU and based on Alfons Mucha's Autumn painting. This will be the first of four art pieces, hopefully coming soon.

In the meantime you can find my SOFAU ao3 fics here, and Alfons Mucha's The Seasons Paintings wiki page here 🍇🧡 leave your thoughts in the reblogs if u want, have a nice day, it's Autumn!!! 🍁🌼💜

[agarafile]

is it to early to say that gem's attitude with her snail (ready to accept it full hearted, treating it like family and fawning over it) even with it being intent on hurting and killing her says a lot about her relationships with people in the life series? how it makes sense that she lets dangerous things get close enough and endears herself to them until she forgets that they may cause her harm? that she prefers things this way?

[oh-no-its-bird]

In the running for my all time favorite incredibly niche naruto fanfiction trope has to be "Obito somehow knocks Kakashi up (omegaverse, trans Kakashi, whatever, doesn't matter) and fucking dies before either of them realize (with things going as they did in canon) leaving Kakashi to deal with the consequences and do his best to pretend like the very obviously an Uchiha baby does not belong to Obito. Bc Obito is literally The Worst and very much well known to be at fault for most of the war. But also there's literally only 4 Uchiha out there so his options to cover this up are incredibly limited"

I've only ever seen it done 2 times but man if it isn't funny as fuck (and kinda tragic) every time

Love when they involve Sasuke as an uncle and go down the route of pretending Itachi was the dad bc at least Itachi was exonerated for his crimes while Obito remained The Big Bad(tm) in the hearts and minds of quite literally everyone in every country, so like, lesser evil. Very funny

I need to see more of those tbh, peak comedy

[eposiemc]

"You betrayed me last season so I don't love you!"

guys i can't believe the gempearl divorce is real guys LOVE IS DEAD wl!gem is salty and bitter about how everything ended in secret life. how is it possible that none of us even thought about that possibility

[glitchedmagic]

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