#su sequel

[faelapis]

i feel like i'm in at a lonely table for one here... but i don't want any SU continuity to be a prequel. and i think some people who want a prequel, haven't really thought through what that would look like.

either a war prequel or a rose quartz prequel would end up as a huge downer. the steven/post-steven era is the only one that has any HOPE for the vast majority of the characters.

idk. i feel like if you really want flashbacks, there's nothing STOPPING a post-SU future series (whether an anthology series or a new main character) from having flashbacks. maybe pearl's the main character for an episode, and its mostly her telling old war stories. maybe bismuth and garnet finally have that beta raid flashback.

but if you set it in the past, definitively, then its going to be a bummer. because all the characters end up corrupted, shattered, deeply traumatized, or fleeing to homeworld. nobody feels like a winner right after the war. not a single character.

most gems are only beginning to heal from it now.

SU, thematically, has always focused on the possibility of hope and change. that's only possible in the future, not the past.

you want lore? you can have that in an anthology or post-future series. there is nothing stopping peridot or the diamonds from having a "explaining gem origins and religion" ep. you want action sequences? again, pearl can narrative war flashbacks, or we can even set an anthology episode in the past proper. or have a new conflict!

personally, i don't see a reason to set it only in the past. that's just an unnecessary limit on the stories you're able to tell.

[qourmet]

[ prev ] you guys will Never believe what someone asked me to continue LMAOO

c0mm'd by @micchikureshima & @thebiscuiteternal

+ an extra (cw for canon-typical violence & slight blood)

[its-to-the-death]

Glasses Swag Sequel Round 2

Odile (In Stars and Time) vs Garnet (Steven Universe)

[the-cosmic-blogger]

Idek how many days passed for this one, but Ch6 isn't done. However, I'm breaking the rule and posting Ch5 anyway!

Enjoy!! :3

[btxtyuri]

so in the novel william didn't recognize who mike was by his last name but i guess because of some other information he saw in the file?? it's good that they changed it, otherwise it would too confusing and this flows way better but i wonder what he saw there that made him act like that

[uncharted-constellations]

Been a minute so- some doobles/wip pieces while i work on other projects

[likealittleheartbeat]

You won’t understand LoK until you can learn to appreciate an aesthetic of disappointment

[hood-ex]

Watched The Mummy for the first time yesterday and The Mummy Returns tonight. Now I can't stop imagining young Dick as Alex, Bruce as Rick, and Talia as Evelyn because I think it would be funny if Dick was exasperated about the fact that he had to use the Book of the Dead to bring Talia back to life.

"Do I really want to bring her back?" Dick muses while scanning the hieroglyphics in the book. "I know Bruce loves her and all but is that a good enough of a reason?" He glances at the crimson stains surrounding Talia's stab wound. The wound she wouldn't have gotten if she hadn't come all this way to help Bruce save Dick's life. The realization makes a shiver roll down Dick's spine and a feeling of resolve settle in his heart. "Come on, Grayson, it's the right thing to do."

Dick puts all of his focus into pronouncing the spell correctly. He starts off slow at first, but as his confidence swells, he finishes the rest of it quickly.

One second Talia is rigid as a board, and in the next, her limbs are loose and wild as she propels herself upright with a gasp. Dick backs away from her to give her some space. The movement draws Talia's gaze to him.

"Where's my beloved?" she asks.

Dick immediately rolls his eyes but still offers his hand to her. "Gee, you'd think the guy who saved your life would at least get a "thank you" or something."

Talia grips his hand and pulls herself to her feet. "The art of revival isn't new to me. You do remember when you watched my father put me in the pit don't you?"

"I don't see what that has to do with you not being able to say "thank you" but whatever," Dick says. "We've got more important things to worry about like helping Bruce."

Talia nods. "Let's go."

[strawmates]

The official key visual of Shugo Chara's! upcoming new manga sequel this Summer 2024.

[goldensunset]

maria i was SO confused by that joshua post for a second i was like "wait i've been mutuals with her for several years at this point and i don't. think this is how she thinks about joshua???" and then i got to the end 😭

I’M SORRY I’M SORRY i realize the first part of that post must’ve been a shock to read LOL. i forget sometimes that not everyone has timestamps enabled that post was from exactly 3 years and 1 day ago. i am wiser than that now. i only reblogged it bc someone else did and i was like worried it would gain traction off of them ig

[keep-on-trying]

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[marshmallowwitharubberband]

Was Mo Xuan Yu REALLY an insane cutsleeve? Or did JGY spread that rumor to justify himself?

Because we don't ever get to actually *meet* the guy, we just have what others said about him as evidence in both accounts.

And the whole novel is precisely about how wrong public opinion can be about someone, it's the whole *point* of the story.

For all we know, he could have been a perfectly normal dude, who knew too much. We know for a fact everyone would believe the one in power first, so who would question JGY's accusation? Especially seeing how cultivation society valued your worth as a human by your parentage, MXY was just another lowly b4stard, and weak to boot. No one would want to defend him.

And he may have NOT been insane, just desperate but unable to escape, and the Mo's would obviously try to make themselves look better by claiming he wasn't in his right mind. He had no one to vouch for him.

Even when he resorted to making the ritual, his soul leaves without ever speaking to WWX. He obviously wanted revenge but many other non-insane characters did too.

I'm just sayin'.

Unless MXTX clarified that at some point, hehe, I've been in the fandom so long that fanon, author's word, canon, and canon invented for adaptations get all mixed up in my head lol.

[mizi-sua]

honkai part 2 has the chance to be either the best thing ever or the worst shit you've ever seen. nothing in between. so until we have more info, I'm excited but also SCARED

[its-to-the-death]

Glasses Swag Sequel Round 1

Tech (Star Wars: The Bad Batch) vs Garnet (Steven Universe)

[the-cosmic-blogger]

DID I SERIOUSLY FORGET TO POST CH6 HERE?! anyway, I finally did it!! I'd finally finished Ch6 of A Vacation in Beach City!!

Enjoy!!

[phoenixiancrystallist]

You know, I should probably have written the Susurrus/First Tanta AU before I wrote the epilogue, but I did not. Gonna share that epilogue, though, because I enjoy what I've done and I want to share :)

Cuff murmured in his sleep, a sleep that was apparently fitful and riddled with nightmares. Frey debated waking him up, but before she could get far in that thought, he gasped a name and she felt his consciousness return with a start.

"Astra!"

"Hey," Frey said to catch his attention and help pull him out of that nightmare. "It's just us here. You good?"

"Good...? I... Was I asleep?" Cuff asked. Frey guessed she hadn't given him enough time to come back to Athia. There was a lingering feeling of panic in his voice, probably the last shreds of whatever dream he'd been having.

"You had a nightmare."

"Did I? I wasn't even aware that I could dream."

"Really? Huh. Learn something new every day." Frey considered waiting for him to finish coming out of that nightmare, but she knew if she waited too long he'd clam up and she'd never get an answer. So: "Who's Astra?"

"I, I don't... I don't know. I don't remember. She was... important to me, once. My whole world, it... revolved around her, I think." He hissed, a pain in his voice that Frey couldn't figure out. There wasn't anything around to hurt him. "Ah, what is this emptiness...?"

Oh. That kind of pain. Was Cuff in love once? Man, that must have been a long time ago, if he'd forgotten who she was. And, somehow, just knowing he had loved someone made Frey regret asking. Like she'd pried into something private she had no business sticking her nose in.

"Never mind," Cuff said before Frey could figure out if she wanted to say anything. He sounded back to his usual sharp attitude, and made a sound like he was clearing a throat he didn't even have. "How close are we to Rheddah?"

"See for yourself," Frey offered, her eyes fixed on the horizon where she could see the leading edge of land. It looked nothing like the Visorian coast they'd set out from. Nothing like Praenost, Avoalet, or Junoon, either. Athia was bordered by jagged and rocky cliffs, and beaches of black sand that Cuff said were the result of the land Breaking.

Rheddah looked a thousand times worse. Even from here, miles from shore, Frey could see Break glowing against the setting sun. Black, twisted strands and spires rose into the air, clawed at the sky and shredded the clouds passing overhead to ribbons.

She counted at least three structures that looked horribly like the Tree of Offering.

"Are those what I think they are?" Cuff asked, something caught between awe and horror in his voice.

"I really, really hope not," Frey admitted. "I don't think I can handle three more of you."

"There's only one me, Frey," Cuff scoffed. But he hesitated, and his next words wavered with doubt. "I think."