#the diamonds make me ill!!

[berryblu-ocs]

@youjustfeelthemforever hello dear friend who is holding me at gunpoint <3

*deep breath* IM SORRY IM SORRY IM SORRY IM SORRY IM SORRY- I DONT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT IM SAVING AS MANY AS I CAN *sob* *wails*

also ok, not a ship, THEY'RE FAMILY!!! but i need to inflict a bit of Blake lore on you now

so Blake is a Diamond, diamonds are a special category of guardians of which there are only 4 at a time (hence the ♦️diamond symbol lol)

they stand in "tecnically immortal" territory, they dont die of old age* , but theres definitely been diamond deaths before, at which point a new one comes into existence somewhere on earth, growing up as normal until the horrors start acting up <3

*i mean they *could* die of old age but theyre yet to find that one out lmao

Blake grows up as an only child to a commoner family in the Time´s end era (so a couple centuries behind modern time), after a particularly bad encounter with a Void, he decides he's getting away from them and only coming back when he knows how to handle himself and protect them.

problem is so many things happen after this, that what was *supposed* to be a short journey gets overshadowed by the mass memory wipe and world rearrangement (fun!) so he never got to properly say goodbye *or* come back home since he´s a Diamond and deffo on the list of things theyre trying to sweep under the rug and away from the general public at that point

he (illegally) visits them often though! always with fake identities and never staying for too long or getting too close. subtly helping wherever he can, food, money, supplies... he finds out they had another son a while later, he always wanted a little brother...

(And this is where the OC brainrot demons took over agdhsgdhgs)

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it´s a sunny, breezy spring afternoon. Over half a lifetime has passed since he first left home, his brother already married and had children of his own.

The family is together today, no one dares say why, but Blake knows, he´s sure everyone knows. His mother´s health hasn´t been the best for years now, but it´s really been on a nosedive these last couple weeks. From this distance, he can tell theres a freshly made rhubarb pie on the table, his mother´s favorite, and a vegetable stew brewing in the fireplace. it´s a little different, the ratios are probably off and he´s sure they´ve added a new ingredient, squash, maybe?

Anyways he always hated that stew, he´s sure a little change won´t be able to fix that, the carrots were always a little undercooked and the potatoes were always too big, and whatever spices his mother added always came with the threat of dirt crunching on your teeth, they'd always have to bribe him with a trip to the library and-

He finally registers the tears streaming down his face and hastily wipes them away. Its a miracle no one's noticed him yet, he's been stood here for way too long.

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That night, he sneaks his way into her room, he doesnt care if he´s getting an earful and a half from Sage and Gwen later, this is more important, he'll take whatever consequence he has to.

His Dad isnt there, he´s in the living room placating one of his precious grandchildren, whos kicking up a fuss over the creaky sounds of the woods sounding like "big scary monsters with sticks", whatever that means...

Blake stands before his mother, sleeping peacefully aside from her shallow breaths.

It´s the first time he´s seen her up close in several decades. Her once dark brown hair now almost completely white, her face as beautiful as ever but now adorned with the blatantly obvious signs of age, the way she always smiled permanently etched into the wrinkles of her face even while resting. Her once strong and firm hands, fit for a hard worker, now wrinkled and frail, yet still bearing the scar from that nasty injury she got while protecting him from the Void, the reason he left home in the first place.

Blake takes her hand without thinking (just like he used to when he was a small child, when he´d had a nightmare and was scared of the dark) (Just like he did after they´d been attacked bu the Void then drew it away covered in blood)

He holds on a little tighter, kneeling at the side of her bed. If he wasnt crying before he definitely is now. He has so much to say even if she won't hear it. But he can´t seem to get anything but choked sobs out.

"Blake...?" He´s snapped right out of his thoughts, feeling as if time has slowed down

"Mom?" He replies, barely in a whisper. Blake's heart breaks a little, if the memory spell is wearing off it means her energy is dangerously weak, this is it.

"Oh honey did you have another nightmare?" She weakly outstreches her other hand, gesturing for a hug "Come here"

"Yeah, a nightmare" Blake sinks into her side, holding on as tight as he can without hurting her "I'm okay thought".

"Of course you are, my big, brave boy!"

They stay in silence, aside from his muffled sniffles and sobs. He tries to carve everything from this moment permanently into his brain. Like a heartfelt inscription on a gravestone.

"I'm sorry I took so long" he sobs "I'm so so so sorry"

"You have nothing to be sorry for" She smiles that radiant smile at him, the one that told him everything was going to be okay "you're here" She ruffles his hair sootingly "you're home"

"I missed you so much mom, I love you, i-"

"It's okay, shh it's okay, we love you too"

Before he can say anything else, he hears footsteps outside the door, with a turn of the knob soon it creaks open, Blake sinks into the shadows before he can be spotted.

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Later, when Sage finds him, culrled up near a tree with a broken swing just outside of town, Blake expects him to berate him, ban him from the entire town or maybe turn him over to the Ensata clan.

He does catch a hint of anger in his expression, but it's quickly replaced with something else, pity? Guilt? Empathy? He doesn't look at him long enough to figure it out

they sit in silence in the cold of the night for hours, until sunlight starts peeking through the tree tops. Then Sage finally speaks up "I should get home, they'll be looking for us soon"

Blake is the first to stand up "lets go then" he dusts himself off, giving one last wipe to his puffy, tear stained mess of a face " no use worrying them over nothing" Blake offers his hand

Sage frowns but still takes his hand.

[quazumi]

Literally josuyasu:

[cyphyree]

funk it 456 gang au

[phonemixer]

once again im here to plug my bi-weekly dadroog art twitter account cough cough @/weeklydadroog

[im14andivebeen14foramonth]

and if i said paul and darry were vampire by olivia rodrigo coded from darrys perspective. what then.

[hearts4golbach]

help this took so long (tagsss)

[squishosaur]

not everything will be rewarded, even time and money can be wasted; someday everything will fade into the past— still, i sing because i was born here. // 生きるよすが

[faygh0st]

i dont think he would say it like this but u get the idea

and yes this is me coming out as an idikei shipper soz

sorry the art isnt rly good this was drawn in samsung notes 22 hours into the day ^_^"

[vparka]

After 3 days on the grind, i finally got the pickaxe everyone on tiktok was talking about !! it, indeed, is very pretty!!<333

I bet this one def looks amazing on Montague and Emma Frost while they're on their diamond styles😭😭😭 💖 💖💖 aaanddd!! bet they would look even more royalty-like ('cause oh boi, DO they have STYLEEEEE)

I also hope Shadow Midas comes into the store today, I wanna see if this one also looks good on him ('cause i don't have Montague😭😭)

[zaynes-left-chesticle]

2 days to manage 32 pulls?? Can she do it??!

Hell no.

And we all know this game isn't going to give it to me before that. How did some of you freaking pull it early?! Agghhhh!

[butnobodycame627]

why didn't peridot stay disabled… it would've added to their whole message of being different being okay and diversity and…. sigh….

[artnerd1123]

add this to my ask if 16 hasn’t already been asked again, but 16 for the salty ask!

Good job everyone ty for endorsing my insanity 🫡🫡🫡

ANYWAY spinel should NOT have been sent off with the DIAMONDS at the end holy FUCK?????? Easily the worst outcome for her at the end of the su movie. I understand they needed to put her somewhere relevant enough that we’d still see her again! But! U could do that without putting her with THE RECOVERING SPACE DICTATORS. WHO OPENLY SAY “yes we know that you’re not [pink] but you were hers” AS IF THAT WAS NOT THE WHOLE SOURCE OF SPINS TRAUMA. AND WHO STEVEN HIMSELF HAS DIFFICULTY CONVINCING THEM TO BACK OFF AND NOT MAKE HIM A MINI PINK.

SPINEL IS A GEM WHO THEY KNEW AND WHO THEY MADE TO BELONG TO HER. She is actively shown to be struggling with reconciling her own place in the world, what to do with herself, and how to live without pink being around. How does placing her in an environment where people are still mourning pink and looking desperately for ANYONE to replace her make sense? Especially when she’s so desperate to fit in and make friends? And literally would remake herself to be whatever her ‘friend’ wanted her to be??? I just. Dude. No.

Like with the concept of “little kindergarten” that implies gems are being rehabbed/taught to live for themselves and their own purpose in other places too. Just. Put her in one of those places? Instead??? Of a place with gems clearly still in their own process of moving on and learning their fellows aren’t toys??? WHEN SHE WAS MADE SPECIFICALLY TO BE A TOY AND THATS WHY SHES GOT SO MANY ISSUES?????

Yeah yea the diamonds can ‘relate’ to her loss. Yes they lost the same person. But u kno who also did that and isn’t a space dictator/tried actively to fix that beforehand? ALL OF ROSE’S OLD FRIENDS. SO AGAIN. LITTLE KINDERGARTEN. MUCH BETTER. CHRIST ALIVE

[alangdorf]

& btw I’ve lost about a week of my life to thinking about this egg. Hi

[phonemixer]

dadroog au info

i still have some kinks to work out in the story but this is kinda the basic run down of my dadroog au

id imagine the au probably takes place right after the kids make it to earth c? just cause im not really a fan of no sburb aus

jane is living with her dad, their house probably looks a little different/more customized than on earth. droog is the caregiver for what he thinks is one of the last aradiabots on derse(?) and he starts hanging out with crocker more at bars n stuff and they eventually move in together.

i imagine it like a corny old sitcom (like a house of dirk for dadroog) and theres a pretty clear distinction between dad and jane who are pretty affectionate people and droog and aradia who are not really used to those kind of interactions

(also jane and aradiabot would probably both id as nb transmasc later on because i rly like those headcanons but idk if itd be super relevant)

mostly the au would focus on droog adjusting to a chill domestic lifestyle and his relationship with dad and jane trying to create a sister-like bond between her and aradiabot which aradiabot doesnt understand

tldr; dadroog au takes place on earth c and is about droog and aradiabot learning to be less emotionally distant with their family or something

[officialsollux]

what they don't tell you about trauma is it's the lost time and life that gets to you.

[weafurry]

so guess who has fully given into the rainworld brainrot and made an oc

ver. without the cloak and dress