#i wanted to draw your design since um *checks time* ITS BEEN 4 MONTHS?? since your first animatic

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@foileadeux ahem hem *whimper*

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Steven Universe – A Single Pale Rose reactions

Oh boy, time for what is undoubtably a really really interesting episode…

We start with a few things we’ve heard. Ruby’s testimony regarding Rose shattering Pink Diamond, Blue Zircon’s questions about how Rose got close to Pink, that dream flashback thing from last episode of Pearl drawing her sword. Steven’s eyes fly open and he’s on his living room couch.

Enter Pearl and Amethyst, talking about Pearl’s phone. She’s had it for a month, and she’s used it merely as a clock.

Amethyst IS the kinda person who would literally say the word “sigh” instead of sighing, yeah. That checks out.

Amethyst changes Pearl’s wallpaper to a selfie of the purble herself. Classy.

Meanwhile, Steven is about to burst at the seams with questions for Pearl. Amethyst dismisses him when he tries to interrupt her. Pearl learns how to send text messages, and immediately sends one to Steven.

Amethyst suggests getting a case for the phone. Pearl pulls a briefcase out of her gem. That’s a bit big for a phone, Pearl.

Amethyst leaves to get an actual phone case, and Steven seizes his chance.

Wow. That was awfully blunt.

Pearl’s conditioning or whatever it is that prevents her from talking about that particular subject kicks in and her hands cover her mouth and her phone drops to the floor. Good going Steven.

“It’s OK, you can just tell me!” It’s pretty clear she physically cannot tell you, Steven.

Amethyst comes back with the phone case. With the change of topic Pearl takes the opportunity to grab her phone, put it in her gem, and skedaddle, leaving behind Steven. And Amethyst, who didn’t get to give her the phone case and is very confused.

Later on, Steven is out for a walk, finishing off The Bits over at Peedee’s repurposed mayormobile stand thing. His phone makes an incoming text sound.

Wait shit, I just had an idea. Pearl can’t talk about the truth behind PD’s shattering. Could she communicate it via texting? Is that what this is gonna be?

“I want to tell you, but I can’t.” With a monkey covering its mouth emoji at the end.

Steven runs back home to ask Pearl about it. But…Pearl hasn’t used her phone since she put it away.

SO THEN WHO SENT THE TEXT????

Pearl tries to grab her phone and check it for herself, but keeps pulling random other objects out of her gem instead. As she gets frustrated at being unable to retrieve the right thing from her gem, Steven gets another text from her phone. Another emoji. A rose petal? I’m no flower expert but that doesn’t look like a rose petal to me, so maybe not.

Pearl freaks out and tells Steven to go inside her gem and find her phone. Something weird is going on with it, and Pearl has an idea of what’s going on, but physically cannot tell Steven the details…

Inside of Pearl’s gem is…Pearl?

“There’s a Pearl inside Pearl’s pearl?” Apparently…?

The Pearl within the pearl attempts to file Steven with other objects.

Can I just appreciate that giant Pearl Point for a moment? You know, the stickers from Steven vs Amethyst, but Steven has presumably been shrunken down enough to fit in Pearl’s gem that it’s the size of his head.

And here are…a bunch of papers with phone numbers, including Mystery Girl’s. Some of them have hearts and lipstick smooches and etc on them. Besides “S”/Mystery Girl’s, there’s one from “RH”. One from “Yeva”, one with an indecipherable gmail address…no phone. Pearl switches to another segment of the filing system, where the cellphone should be. And indeed, there’s an empty space exactly where it should be. Wait, what?

“Some other me”? Is Pearl a matryoshka doll of mini-Pearls…?

After warning Steven about wherever it is these other Pearls are, Pearl sucks Steven into her gem. Now Steven is two layers deep into Pearl’s mind.

This area takes the form of the beach in front of the Temple, which noticeably lacks the house Greg built for Steven and the Gems.

“This doesn’t look like a mess. This looks like…the past.”

Right after Steven says that, he sees a third Pearl crying behind some rocks. And she looks different somehow.

Wait. Are all these Pearls…different regenerations? Which would make Pearl the current version, Pearl 2 the version that got poofed in Steven the Swordfighter, and Pearl 3 a Pearl from before the show began. I’m gonna have to check whether Pearl 2 has Pearl’s design from the original episodes…

OK, well in between that last sentence and this one, I had two doctor’s appointments as well as lunch. But I’m back! So, looking back on the episode so far…Pearl 2 has the same design as Pearl 1. Pearl 3’s design is definitely a Pearl from before the show began, though – I specifically recognize it as her design from “Story for Steven”.

So why is Pearl sobbing? It’s because of Rose, of course.

“What was she thinking?! She can’t have a baby…” Yeah, about that. Have you noticed you’re sitting next to Steven? As in, Rose quite definitely did make the decision to have a baby, and the boy next to you is the living proof that she did.

Yeah, this particular Pearl is from the past all right. After Rose’s decision, but before Steven’s birth. Those awkward nine months where it’s clear that Rose is perfectly fine for the time being, alive and well, and also clear that when those nine months end she is going to die, for good.

“I’m going to lose her. Just like I lost my…what was it you said?” Oh, nothing, Pearl 3. Cellphones haven’t even been invented yet from your frame of reference.

“I think I know where it is.” Is it…inside of your gem, by any chance? Being used by yet another of the matryoshka doll Pearls? Are we gonna have to go even deeper inside?

Where’s the Pearl with a Myspace titled “Welcome to my twisted mind”, I wonder?

Here we go!

Pearl 4’s environs are the Strawberry Battlefields. But strawberries won’t be growing there for thousands of years. This battlefield has just been recently decimated. It glows in a blood-red light, Bismuth’s abandoned weaponry and the remnants of the Diamonds’ army’s technology being all that is left.

No, that isn’t right, actually. There’s gems, too. Gems, lying everywhere. Whole gems, not shattered ones, but broken nevertheless – when they reform, it will be into the first corrupted gem monsters.

Pearl 4’s design is a new one. Well, OK, it was leaked a while back, along with stuff like Ruby and Sapphire’s wedding outfits, but in-show, I’m not sure we’ve ever seen it. We might have gotten a glimpse of it in Your Mother And Mine, possibly? That’s the only war flashback I can think of that hasn’t been shown in a stylized fashion.

“Is this really about your phone or what?!” Obviously not, Steven

Do WHAT, Pearl? Are you allowed to tell us yet, or do we need to talk to Pearl 5 to get the details?

Pearl 5 it is!

Those sure are flowers that look like the emoji sent from Pearl’s phone. And shards of what appear to be a pink gem. Is this…the moment immediately after PD was shattered?

And there’s Rose, or at least someone who has Rose’s appearance, in a cloud of pink dust, with PD’s death cry still echoing…

Rose? stands up, tears streaming down her face, as PD’s screams continue to echo. Steven approaches where she stands next to the palanquin, only to stop as Rose’s eyes open, revealing what are unmistakably Pearl’s pupils.

OK, so that seems to confirm that Pearl shattered PD, but…why is she crying? Why is she shapeshifted to be Rose? Does this mean the sword she used to shatter PD was part of the disguise, and as such didn’t have whatever adjustments Bismuth made to the real thing that prevented shattering? Was the sword a fake, is what I’m asking? Both the sword and Rose herself?

OK who is screaming? PD’s been dead for at least half a minute, this can’t still be her death cry…right?

“Rose” opens her hand to reveal…to reveal…

Pink Diamond’s gem. Huh?

Then…whose gem is on the ground? Pink Pearl’s, perhaps?

Steven begs for answers, but gets sucked into Rose/Pearl 5’s gem instead. Um. OK.

Pearl 6’s memory places Steven on PD’s throne, within the palanquin. Strange whispers echo off the walls Behind the throne, Rose and Pearl are talking.

“…And then it’ll be done. It’s going to be easy.” So…did Rose plan the assassination, and Pearl carried it out? But why not just have Rose do it herself?

And Pearl is clearly uncomfortable with the whole thing. Rose is pressuring her into it, in the belief that this will end it all, that Blue and Yellow care little enough about what happens on Pink’s colony that killing Pink will cause them to just give up the colony without a fight. Cut their losses and scram.

Well, that worked out great for you and your army, didn’t it, Rose.

“Your status…my purpose…none of it will matter anymore. This…will change everything.” “I know. Isn’t it exciting?!” “…It is.”

Sure, Pink might’ve been an awful brutal authoritarian brat who wouldn’t have cared a damn if the planet and its people died, but…there’s something unsettling about seeing Rose and Pearl get so hyped over a plan to kill someone.

“We can leave our old lives behind. If this is really my world, I want to give it to the Crystal Gems. I want to live here with human beings! I want to live here, with you! We’ll both finally be free…” But…you already are living here with human beings, Rose. And what do you mean, if this is really “your” world? It’s either Pink Diamond’s world, or everyone’s world. Why would it be yours, in particular? And aren’t you part of the Crystal Gems? Their leader, and founder, and…? This isn’t leading to some “Rose was Pink Diamond all along” kinda twist, is it? Cause that wouldn’t make sense, would it? I thought we already went over that particular fan theory with a fine-toothed comb.

“I can’t exactly shatter myself…” ??????

Rose shapeshifts into PD. Or…PD shapeshifts out of Rose? At this point, I…I don’t know.

Can…can she do that? Shapeshift her own gem? Huh?

That flower again…

She…changed the dirt into broken shards. The shards Steven found in the last memory.

“Wait…there’s one last thing I need to do. No one can ever find out we did this…I never wanna look back. So…for my last order to you as a Diamond…please…let’s never speak of this again. No one can know.”

I am so confused right now. My current thought process is something like this, though:

Pink did used to be a brat. But Earth changed her. Changed her, to the point where she wished to abandon the responsibility of her position. To the point where she fell in love with Earth and its people. Disenchanted with the gem empire and her fellow Diamonds and their plans to hollow out the planets they used as colonies until nothing but an empty shell was left, she staged an elaborate production, with both the heroine and villain played by herself. All to fake her own death and become able to live freely.

And if that’s true, the Rose Quartz who we all know and love never existed. The person who started the rebellion against Pink Diamond was…Pink Diamond. Pink Diamond, shapeshifted into the form of a Rose Quartz, creating what was essentially a façade that would stop Blue and Yellow from searching for her after she disappeared.

That’s why Pink Diamond never managed to track Rose down via last episode’s lunar base orb, in case that wasn’t clear.

And. If all this is true, Steven was right back in Your Mother and Mine. Pink Diamond, in a very real sense, is still out there, under a different name. The name “Steven Quartz Universe”.

Also, that explains how Rose’s sword could have been the “fatal” weapon. As a sword unable to shatter gems, it was the perfect weapon to use to “shatter” PD while actually leaving her gem intact. Not only does it now make sense for it to be the weapon, this revelation means that it HAD to be the weapon, due to being unable to actually shatter her.

Holy fucking shit. Of all the fan theories to turn out to be right…and even those fan theories didn’t go far enough to claim that both PD and “Rose” were the same person.

Oh, and um. Here’s Pearl’s phone. Thanks Pearl 6.

And now to go back! Pearl shapeshifts into Rose, takes the sword and leaves. “Rose” “shatters” Pink Diamond, keeping her intact gem hidden within her hand. Garnet and Pearl fight on the battlefield, as the sky suddenly lights up with the corruption blast. Pearl sadly places her hand on Rose’s pregnant belly. Pearl sits outside the temple crying as Amethyst and Garnet attempt to comfort her. All this happens in a blur, and then Steven lands on the floor of his house.

Steven and Pearl share a moment. A moment which doesn’t last very long at all. Because, well. Garnet and Amethyst are standing right there, and they just heard Steven say Rose was really Pink Diamond, and this can only end poorly.

The episode ends with a preview of the fallout. Amethyst freaks out, but in a similar way to the way I am freaking out. That is to say, she takes this a lot better than some others, namely Sapphire, who defuses from Ruby in an ice-cold rage that quickly melts into a puddle of betrayal and, tears streaming down her face from her one eye, makes for the warp pad and fucks the hell off, leaving Ruby behind.

Yeah, that’s right. The reason Garnet exists in the first place is Rose Quartz. It was an attack by Rose on Blue Diamond that lead to their first fusion, and Rose’s advice that lead them to decide to live the rest of their lives as Garnet. w e l p

And that’s that for this special, I guess? More SU episodes coming this summer.

I…suppose I need some more time to gather my thoughts before I can say anything on what just happened.

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Apple launches new Mac os Sierra

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Apple launches new Mac os Sierra

OS X is dead. Long live MacOS sierra. Apple’s new version of its Mac operating system

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Apple has made a landmark trade to its 15-year-antique computing device and laptop working device. OS X has ended up MacOS Sierra.

The change was introduced on the level in San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium by way of Apple’s Craig Federighi, ditching the naming scheme devised under the watch of founder Steve Jobs on his go back to the enterprise in 1997.Now it is Apple Sierra July.

The OS X nomenclature had reached OS X 10.11 with El Capitan. However, Apple’s next model may be named MacOS Sierra, bringing it consistent with the naming convention for its cell and pill operating device iOS.

Aside from a name trade, Apple has overhauled iTunes and Apple track, even as MacOS will, in the end, benefit complete Siri integration after Apple’s voice assistant changed into first brought to iOS with the iPhone 4S in October 2011. And it sets an os definition.

Siri could be tied into macOS’s notification centre and answer questions, perform actions consisting of superior document searches and manage devices as it can through an iPhone or iPad.

The digital assistant will experiment thru users’ messages, calendars and other private facts to discover occasions, tour plans and other pertinent information displaying it in a way just like Google’s Now.

Apple isn’t the first to bake a voice assistant right into a computer. Microsoft’s Cortana came constructed into Home windows 10, acting comparable non-public statistics juggling as Siri, at the same time as Google’s Now voice assistant has been to be had thru Google.Com or Chromebooks for years.

MacOS can even gain greater Continuity, and iCloud power assists – Apple’s gadget that allows apps on iOS to hyperlink at once to the Mac versions using iCloud so that customers can begin something on one tool and retain it on some other.

The biggest change will be a proximity-based device called Car Liberate that lets in customers to Liberate their Mac computer systems the usage of an Apple Watch, while not having to enter their password. Google’s Chromebooks have a similar device the usage of an Android cellphone.

An update to iCloud power will even percentage documents stored on the desktop throughout Macs and iOS devices, while a new characteristic referred to as Optimised Garage will dispose of unnecessary files from computers when they’ve been sponsored up which must unfasten up space on current Macs.

Apple additionally brought Apple Pay for the net that permits users to authenticate bills on their Mac thru their iPhone or Apple Watch.

Developers can be capable of download a prerelease version of MacOS today, with a public beta in July before a complete release to consumers in September. Arguably this is the best os that you can get. And that’s why iyt isn’t a free os.

The free upgrade is available for nearly any Mac from past due 2009 and might be to be had thru the Mac App Shop later nowadays. While some might want to preserve off right now updating, given the recent hassle with new upgrades, here are five new matters to be located via individuals who do wish to trade to MacOS Sierra.

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1. Siri

The largest deal for Sierra aside from the call is Siri. The equal voice assistant from the iPhone and iPad is now on the Mac with comparable capabilities and faults. It can locate documents for you the usage of natural language as added with El Capitan, set appointments, check spellings, play tune and tell you the weather, however, how a whole lot you use it relies upon on where you work: colleagues to your open-plan office aren’t going to love the reality that you only commenced speaking for your computer.

2. Standard clipboard

Have you ever desired to paste some thing between Macs or a Mac and an iPhone or iPad? Now you could. Just copy something on one device, hit paste on the alternative and wait. Occasionally it takes some time, depending on how correct your connection is, but it works quite well. It works for text, pics and maximum other matters you might want reproduction to the clipboard.

3. ICloud pressure computer

Even as some are organised and Save all their files in cautiously arranged folders, many just have the entirety dumped at the computer and locked on a single gadget. ICloud power laptop can now sync files and folders on the laptop among machines and to iPhones or iPads, so everything not organised is on the market for multiple devices.

Four. Everything is in a tab now

The tabbed interface kickstarted via browsers has now come to extra or much less the whole thing in Sierra. From textual content editors to photos modifying, budgeting apps and electronic mail, hitting the “Merge All Home windows” alternative beneath the Window drop down inside the status bar combines the Home windows from one app into one tabbed interface. Now not the whole thing supports it right away, and a few that do have half of-baked implementations, however in case you desired tabs everywhere on a Mac, now’s your threat.

five. Apple Pay, iOS 10 functions and extra

  Aside from massive Mac services, MacOS Sierra also provides compatibility with most of the new capabilities from iOS 10. Now you can pay for things the use of your Contact Id sensor in your iPhone on the web, you may send fancy chat matters with iOS 10 customers in Messages, view motion pictures handled by using the Quicktime Participant in a floating window, and even Free up your Mac the usage of an Apple Watch, if you very own one. Apple track in iTunes now appears more like the iOS model too, and the Reminiscences feature from the iOS Photos app is now inside the MacOS Sierra snap shots app. MacOS also guarantees to free up some area in your Mac by storing available documents within the iCloud drive, however, how a lot area it may unfasten up relies upon on what kinds of documents are taking up your high force. The pleasant recommendation for most customers is to avoid the beta release altogether and wait until the formal release in September, except you have a spare Mac to strive it on. The improve can be free.

I have been previewing the Sierra beta on a loaner MacBook Pro from Apple for approximately a week now, lengthy sufficient to draw a few impressions, though most of the functions I am eager to try aren’t to be had or incomplete. Take into account this an early appearance.

The working machine incorporates the beta designation for a motive – the software is still buggy. Working example: at instances, I needed to reboot the computer directly so Siri would pay attention me the use of the device’s hidden microphone.

SIRI Helps discover files

Nevertheless, you could envision how Siri on a Mac can help, um, voice. You may ask it to dig out records – “display me all the price range files I worked on in the last week” or ask to lower the screen brightness. I also requested Siri to “post my tweets from NASA” and open web sites. Siri can seek the internet or deliver the ultra-modern climate forecast, simply as at the iPhone.

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You can get admission to Siri using clicking on icons within the Dock or menu bar. What you can not do is summon the program via the verbal “Hi there Siri” command that works on a few iPhones. You can pin some of Siri’s search outcomes to Notifications Centre.

Increasing Siri’s function is a critical strategic thrust for Apple, particularly since different virtual assistants from Google and Amazon (Alexa) anticipate a more distinct role. It’s far really worth noting that Microsoft’s personal vocal assistant Cortana has had a presence on Windows 10 Computers when you consider that its release last July.

In comparison to Microsoft’s method with Windows 10 – mainly walking the same operating machine throughout Desktops, telephones and capsules – Apple has kept its operating system for the Mac separate and distinct from the iOS software used on the iPhone and iPad.

However, iOS and (what were) OS X have had many overlapping capabilities. Including Siri to the Mac best will increase that overlap. Additionally new to Sierra is a picture-in-photo characteristic already in use on some iPads with the intention to will let you watch video from Safari or iTunes on your Mac in a resizable window that floats over your computer in both of the 4 corners of the display – at this degree, besides, the characteristic failed to work with all of the movies I tried.

The largest addition to the pics app on the Mac is a characteristic called Memories. Leveraging what Apple refers to as superior computer vision technology, the software pores via items and scenes inside your image library figuring out, humans, locations and so on. It then robotically creates collections or Memories from numerous events, possibly a birthday celebration or wedding ceremony, with photographs plotted on a map.

It is too quickly to inform how correctly Apple will pull this off, which appears to be a reaction to similar abilities in Google photographs. A Reminiscences collection built round a two-12 months business trip to San Francisco seemed arbitrary. Any other series was concentrated around the “satisfactory of last three months”. But again we speak beta software.