#the new crystal gems

[subestu]

Round 1: Introduction

[vhsripstevenuniversescreencaps]

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: February 10…

While Steven, Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet head out to rescue the captured Greg from Pink Diamond’s Zoo, back on Earth, Connie, Lapis, and Peridot stay behind and team up to protect Beach City from potential threats while they are away under Steven’s orders. “The New Crystal Gems” premiered on this day, 7 Years Ago.

[spotaus]

Eyy, King Reaper and his beloved Mage Geno designs <3

[cruucigerglobus]

the woke mob (my friends) are making me rewatch Shawn Galaxy. here’s my almost redesigned rock moms.

- garnet looks like a superhero cause she is one, also more “spiritual” gauntlets for her

- amethyst is barely changed because she is perfect. other than that she has snakebites and an eyebrow piercing somehow, as a projection of light. she’s also wearing orisises

- pearl gets a more dramatic poet look cause she is one.

none of their chosen aesthetics match at all cause in my head i exaggerate how unfamiliar they are with normal human culture. they think they’re super on trend

[pastelpinkillustrator]

Happy New Year, all the way from Australia! (And from Steven & the Gems) 🎉

[wolfnellz]

Some Steven Universe Fan Art of Lion. (Available on Live Wall Paper Engine from Steam) More on my Ko-Fi Page https://ko-fi.com/wolfnellz

[eskititgay]

haha fuck you *ponifies your gems*

[kittydoesthings]

gem brainrot is real

[artbyblastweave]

Your description of yourself is the guy with Opinions on Steven Universe so say what you think of Peridot

Fond of her. I don't think I've got much to say about her that the more singularly fixated SU analysts haven't gotten to. I will say that she's a pretty salient example of a quote-unquote "redemption arc" that's facilitated in large part by the villain being "redeemed" never having actually caused serious, lasting, unfixable harm before switching sides, such that the story being told in practice is the story of an interpersonally unpleasant person working on themselves and learning to be less of a tar pit- jazzed up with ray guns and cartoonish doomsday devices. This is interesting taken on its own terms, but not necessarily morally interesting in the way the phrase "redemption arc" would ideally imply.

Contrast (unfavorably) with Entrapta in She-Ra, where they're clearly chasing a Peridot-adjacent energy, but the narrative treats the conflict between her and the protagonists as a similar kind of souped-up interpersonal miscommunication when no, she's in fact on the hook for very literal war crimes in a way the narrative was never really prepared to weigh seriously due to the use of a handful of Princesses as a metonym for everything meaningful SPOP is interested in trying to say, to the exclusion of more literal, non-metaphorical worldbuilding. Zuko, meanwhile, sits in a happy middle ground where he genuinely is attached to some morally heinous shit that the show is interested in weighing and unpacking, but not so deeply attached as to become synonymous with it in a way that would make his redemption come across as apologetics. (I sort of use these three as reference points when calculating how annoyed to get at the writing decisions of whatever children's cartoon I'm currently watching- this does not translate very well outside of that space methinks)

[voltage-stims]

Vivian stimboard one two three .. four five six .. seven eight nine

with transgender theme. bc. happy pride [is soooo late]

[thedruidsforest]

Some new items I'm working on for my Etsy shop! 💚 I have a craft show coming up in November that I'm SO excited for, I'm hoping to have everything listed online before the show as well.

If you're interested in any of these before they hit the shop (for a cheaper price as well), as always please message me!

Link to TheDruidsForest on Etsy

[yahoo201027]

Day in Fandom History: February 10…

While Steven, Pearl, Amethyst, and Garnet head out to rescue the captured Greg from Pink Diamond’s Zoo, back on Earth, Connie, Lapis, and Peridot stayed behind and team up to protect Beach City from potential threats while they are away under Steven’s orders. “The New Crystal Gems” premiered on this day, 6 Years Ago.

[wuzhere75]

procreate curves save me

[pyrocherub]

Moonstone, my Steven Universe oc / gemsona!! :D

She's deemed defective since her gem's placement makes her mute n kinda blind.

Her second eye is in her axe, so she's gotta coordinate her attacks to not get dizzy because of it

Even though she isn't in the best situation, she's always up to joke around :D

Her glove has a light-up tablet she writes on to communicate and ofc she doodles on it too!

[hifi-walkman]

Thoughts on that kids show from the 2010s that changed the course of my life:

So, season 1 of Steven universe is really clever, because it shows the world from the perspective of a child in such an effective way. For example, the plot.

The viewers become aware of homeworld as a threat in ocean gem, but the crystal gems (other than Steven) know homeworld is coming from episode 2.

The red eye is the first thing homeworld does to check on earth, and the crystal gems are *powerless* to destroy it until the laser light canon is used (and that's *old* gem tech, not even the new stuff!)

In serious Steven, Coach Steven, and Steven's lion the gems are actively working to dismantle structures they had previously left untouched for thousands of years. Why? In case the diamonds try to use them.

Even after lapis' two parter the extent of why and how the gems are preparing for homeworld to attack isn't spelled out.

Pearl is trying to *escape* just like lapis did in Space Race, she knows it's possible... She knows if they leave earth they can be safe. Warp tour shows more explicitly that homeworld was already coming before lapis left, that even though she was Steven's introduction to the concept, homeworld was already interested in earth for other reasons. In rose's scabbard, they're clearly cleaning up the battlefield to keep extra weapons out of homeworld's hands, as it happens right between two major homeworld episodes, and just barely before the finale itself. Steven may not have known homeworld gems were coming for them, but the crystal gems did, the message only told them just how little time they had to prepare for it.

When you're watching Steven Universe for the first time, all this context slips past, you don't consider the reasons for the crystal gems going on certain missions, because the viewer doesn't have the information to even realize there was anything to consider (because the crystal gems are obviously keeping that info from Steven early on). Only on a rewatch does the exact level of urgency weigh in on the viewer, only when looking back do they realize exactly how much danger Steven was in even in the first season. It's a really clever set of details.