#the homeworld gems

[dharr5]

SU Doodles! Some little human versions of Peridot and Lapis as well as a good ol' Normal Jasper

[gojira007]

the stark shadows work fantastically here, at once making the characters feel so striking and graphic (and REALLY making the intensity of lapis' eyes click) while also all the more effectively enmeshing them into the photo-background.

[djnart]

This is old but posting anyway (⁠ㆁ⁠ω⁠ㆁ⁠)

[yipyapcoyote]

[thechekhov]

For once in my life, I feel relatively interested in and willing to do background work. I guess SU had what it took to crack open that part of me all along!

Here's some Homeworld colonies: a hydrothermal vent outpost, one of Blue Diamond's many waterworlds, and an abandoned colony on a gas giant.

[stevenuniverse-described]

[Image Description: a meme titled "Wake me up" with three options below.

"Before you go": Peridot crouching down with an excited grin.

"When September Ends": Lapis kneeling on her tower of water, looking upwards with glassy eyes.

"Wake me up inside!": Jasper falling to her knees as she starts to corrupt.

End Description.]

homeworld gems

[phosphorus-noodles]

Do it for him. (Do it for her.)

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My new favorite gemcyt headcanon is that Joel offered to teach Jimmy sword fighting because he wanted the practice for when he infiltrated homeworld to see his diamond again it'd be nice if Jimmy could defend Scott in a battle ^^

(based on this post by @playername-player-of-games + au and Jimmy design by @chrisrin + Joel design by @zellie-x)

[mimilllion]

im cringe but im free

[gojira007]

lol there's a lot of great touches here-the bloated cheeks and crushing hand from jasper, peridot's li'l sweat drop-but my absolute favorite is the tiny little chef's hat on jasper's other horn.

Let Jasper eat Cake

[pastelpinkillustrator]

The Beginning of the End - Pink makes the decision to fake her own shattering

"I can't live like this any more. There's no other way."

[joitiks]

you cannot fathom how much i've mourned, what thousands of years of grief has done to me

[rosenotactuallyquartz]

love like you & rose’s love for pearl

i love relating love like you to pearlrose. particularly, from rose’s perspective. here is how i’ve always looked at it.

the war

do it for her + love like you are exactly how pearl and rose felt about each other during the rebellion.

“You have nothing but the way you feel, your strategy and a sword, you just think about the life you'll have together after the war.”

“If I could begin to be half of what you think of me, I could do about anything! I could even learn how to love… like you!” 

“Deep down, you know you weren't built for fighting but that doesn't mean you’re not prepared to try!”

“I always thought I might be bad… now, I’m sure that it’s true ‘cause… I think you’re so good! And I’m nothing like you!”

“And then you do it for her. That's how you know you can win.”

“Look at you go, I just adore you, I wish that I knew what makes you think I’m so special.”

[Image description: Pearl’s blue hologram of Rose is depicted in this image as she reenacts a memory. She wears a dress with a star emblem at the chest, and she looks down, her expression appears to be one of concern. The background is a soft purple.]

a single pale rose

remember the night that they escaped from the other diamonds ?

“When I see the way you act, wondering when I'm coming back, I could do about anything.”

“When I see the way you look, shaken by how long it took, I could do about anything… I could even learn how to love like you.”

to fake pink’s shattering, she obviously vanished for a moment. in a single pale rose, we see a shapeshifted pearl crying and holding the diamond in her hand.

eventually rose came back, then, you know, “endless honeymoon” as rebecca described it. rebecca continues this in the book “end of an era” by adding, “pink is gone and pearl is free to love rose.”

meanwhile, rose saw how much pearl cared about her that night. she admired her so much–her courage, how much she meant to her because she definitely saw someone who was shaken and wondering when she was coming back after she reformed as rose.

[Image Description: this image depicts a pink flower in Pink Diamond’s palm. She wears a pink glove and there is dirt underneath the flower. Pearl’s hand is taking the flower from Pink]

after rose’s death

the final line of the song is: “love ME like you…”

i like to interpret this as the… truth, really. rose loved pearl more than pearl knew. sapphire had to remind her that she swept her off her feet.

rose loved pearl just as intensely, just as strongly and deeply as pearl loves rose.

rose could love pearl the way pearl loves her.

… but she could never love herself.

pearl knew rose the best. she lived with pink and then she lived with rose for the rest of rose’s life.

the only other individual who knows rose entirely like that… is rose herself. and yet, she hated herself.

“Her lack of respect for herself makes it impossible for her to respect everyone closest to her. She reveres them instead, because they are better than she could ever be, and that reverence is so honest and intoxicating that it draws everyone closer to her, without them understanding the deep self-hatred that pull is coming from.” — Rebecca Sugar, End of an Era, page 88.

meanwhile, there’s:

Interviewer: “Pearl obviously has some unrequited love for Rose, you know, and…”

Rebecca: “I don’t know if I would call it unrequited!” — Comic News Insider Episode 679

and there’s:

“Rose falls in love with Pearl's surprising boldness that comes out of left field.” — Steven Universe: End of an Era, Page 86

all of the flashbacks with rose are told to her son from the perspectives of others. they were either from the perspectives of people who didn’t know pearl or pearl / rose very well. sometimes, pearl would tell a story, but the focus was on how much she loved rose. there are also a few times in the show where her friends remind her that rose loved her a lot more than she knew.

if you think about love like you from rose’s perspective, the ending is meaningful.

the story didn’t end because she couldn’t feel the same love for pearl. the story ended because she couldn’t love herself. it was never about choosing anyone, if anything, she chose steven. pearl’s protectiveness, garnet’s wisdom, amethyst’s playfulness, and greg’s kindness made rose believe that her child would grow up in such a wonderful environment and she was “so excited for everyone who’s going to know [her child].” she didn’t realize that her death would hurt people, she thought they would be better off without her. and besides, she didn’t want to live with herself.

pearl barely knew that rose did love like her !! she was in awe of her; she would blush and show vulnerable parts of herself and smile all the time around her.

the problem is, she never loved like pearl in a way that she could see herself through pearl’s eyes. if she could, then maybe she would have been able to love herself.

[Image description: The Crystal Temple, a gray stone statue of a fusion between Pearl, Rose Quartz, Amethyst, and Garnet with long curls and four arms. In front of the statue, at the bottom, is a house. In front of the house is a sandy road leading to a beach, and the background is a soft purple sunset.]

i know that this song isn’t about any character in particular, but it also fits so many characters. i love relating this to many others—ame & the crystal gems, pearl + rose with garnet, sapphire with ruby, and steven with connie. here’s the pearlrose perspective !

[angstandhappiness]

AMAZING I do envy your confident flowy style. I haven't reach that level yet

Some SU doodles

[sparklingemeralds]

The Diamonds

This is a redraw of a set of Diamond drawings I made and posted here almost 6 years ago!

How time flies! I put in an unfinished White Diamond here. I redrew these about a year and four months ago, I just never got around to posting them. I don’t think I’m going to finish White Diamond, so enjoy!

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST, THANK YOU! 💕

[g-h-0-s-t-s-a-r-t-2]

Introducing...

Choices for the Steven Fashionverse comic...

(if you have better AU name suggestions PLEASE tell them to me, my friend told me Steven Fashionverse as a joke and I kind of loved it 😭)

First up is Lapis Lazuli and Peridot's escape from Homeworld!

This storyline will detail the events of the war from all sides. Lapis and Peridot are runaways and refuse to be associated with either side, but fate has other plans when they meet Rose Quartz on the planet YD:ACXG (Yellow Diamond: ACXG) . Do they risk their lives and join the rebellion to fight for a planet they've never even seen? Or do they fade into the background of the war, keeping their gems safe in the meantime?

Next up is Rose Quartz's Revolution.

This storyline will follow the perspective of Rose Quartz and how she balanced being a diamond and fighting against herself in a war. Pink Diamond was always the least respected diamond out of the four. Even if no one said it, everyone knew it. That's why when she was finally given her own planet, gems expected her to be excited to start her colonizing journey, but she was quite the opposite after seeing what she was doing to Earth. She decided to take a stand as Rose Quartz and fight for Earth! But how exactly was she going to keep up appearances with the Diamonds while also inspiring her gems to fight for themselves?

Last is You're Not the Only One.

This storyline will follow the Crystal Gems' vacation!! After a mysterious email landed in Steven's inbox, the gems travel to Bangkok, Thailand to find the mysterious sender. But run-ins with the law and curious citizens make it difficult to find this certain someone. Who is this person, and how did they know about Steven and Little Homeworld?

These are all ideas I am willing to explore, and I might even do the others if enough people like this au and want to see more!

[yipyapcoyote]