#trees of diamonds

[gargoylesinthegarden]

8/14 🪐🌵 Looking for Greater Treasures

[maureen2musings]

elliotmcgucken

[alienlowlife]

two mlp sibling headcanons

[signanothername]

Doodle requesting more wholesome Josuke family moments because I'm in love with your art style 🙏

CHCHHVHC THANK YOU SM! <33333

And hell ya, kinda took your ask as an excuse to clean up a comic I already had sketched before but was lacking motivation to finish

Tomoko and Josuke best son and mom fr

And you also get Joseph and Jotaro lil sketches cause they’re the best family ever <3333

[thesixthduke]

[rabbitcruiser]

West Diamond Lake Highway, OR (No. 2)

Mount Bailey is a relatively young tephra cone and shield volcano in the Cascade Range, located on the opposite side of Diamond Lake from Mount Thielsen in southern Oregon, United States. Bailey consists of a 2,000-foot (610 m)-high main cone on top of an old basaltic andesite shield volcano. With a volume of 8 to 9 km3 (1.9 to 2.2 cu mi), Mount Bailey is slightly smaller than neighboring Diamond Peak. Mount Bailey is a popular destination for recreational activities. Well known in the Pacific Northwest region as a haven for skiing in the winter months, the mountain's transportation, instead of a conventional chairlift, is provided by snowcats—treaded, tractor-like vehicles that can ascend Bailey's steep, snow-covered slopes and carry skiers to the higher reaches of the mountain. In the summer months, a 5-mile (8 km) hiking trail gives foot access to Bailey's summit. Mount Bailey is one of Oregon's Matterhorns.

Native Americans are credited with the first ascents of Bailey. Spiritual leaders held feasts and prayer vigils on the summit.

Source: Wikipedia

[dreamy-pill]

My entry for today, Steven Universe fanart. Gravity Falls edition: book cover template.

It remains unfinished; I’m actually unsure how to proceed with it. If you are still interested in content like this, I would sure like to know you’re out there and still support the fandom.

Plus, notice how Mabel looks a little beefy? That was an old headcanon design I had months ago. I decided to just keep it until further notice. If you’d like, you could also help me change my mind. That’s cool.

[sesamenom]

Finarfin in the War of Wrath

inspired by @actual-bill-potts' amazing writing

[harusuki]

songs from my likes (in no particular order): ORANGE TREE (marina)

tips?

[thatone-highlighter]

I just got through the Earthlings arc during my SU rewatch and im absolutely facinated by Jaspers character

She’s such an effective antagonist for so long because she clashes with every other character so fundamentally. She’s got this completely foreign to the show worldview that is shown to be contrary to what the rest of the show is trying to say but she still feels like a real person and when you think about her she’s just as much a product of her circumstances as anyone else. She doesn’t want to talk it out with Steven because why would she? She was literally born to fight as has been doing so since the second she was born, it’s all she’s ever known and has been drilled into her head that that’s what’s expected of her, she’s rewarded for fighting well and watches as others are punished for doing badly, either by losing or by facing consequences for failing.

And then there’s the whole “perfect solider” part of her character. She was literally born more capable and with a higher status than everyone else. But because of the way home world is structured to reward her and punish people like the off-colours, she’s been indoctrinated into thinking that the reason she came out on top had nothing to do with how she was made and everything to do with her behaviour and attitude. Peak “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” type person but because it’s a fictional story you can see what happened to make her this way. Her and amethyst are fundamentally different, they’re different quartzes, they were born in different places, they were just created differently, from the start jasper was always going to be better at some things than amethyst and amethyst would be better at others than jasper. But because of the way jasper has been “raised” for lack of a better word she doesn’t see that, she doesn’t understand that her and amethyst are simply different gems who were made different, she’s better at fighting and is picture image of what a quartz “should” be so that means it’s possible and anyone who can’t live up to that standard simply isn’t trying hard enough. And she even manages to get that into amethysts head, if jasper is capable of this then that means that amethyst must be too, even tho that’s simply not true. Through no fault of her own amethyst would have to try infinitely harder to achieve even close to where jasper is, jasper started out with a huge head start and trying to play catch up does nothing but hurt amethyst. It’s such a good analogy for so many things I think

Her main role in the story is serving as a character who simply refuses to talk it out with Steven, but again, why would she? From her perspective the entire reason her life is like this, she reason shes spent her life fighting endlessly, all the suffering shes lives through, its his fault. Rose Quartz started the war she was quite literally born to fight in. Rose Quartz also ended that same war by killing the only person jasper ever had to look up to, forced her out of the only reason she had for existing (both as in to fight the war and to serve Pink Diamond). And then heres Rose Quartz once again, saying she wants to help her? Where was she offering help when jasper when she was living to fight as much as she was fighting to live? Where was this „help“ when she shattered Pink Diamond and Jaspers entire world with her? „Help“? Help my ass shes the reason everything thats gone wrong in jaspers life went wrong in the first place

And then she gets poofed at her lowest point, gets removed from the story entirely until Future, and Future does nothing to make anything better for her! Last jasper knew the person shes been seeking revenge on her entire existence cant even be bothered to remember what she did, and then she loses herself to the Earth and corruption, the very things she prided herself on being better than.

And then suddenly shes brought back and „hey guess what! That war we created you to fight in? The one you created your entire person around? The one you lost Everything in? Yeah so it was pointless. Actually the person you idolised for the past 6000 years is the same person who you thought killed her and have been seeking vengeance on for the same amount of time. Crazy how that happens. Anyways so do you wanna come hang out with us now that we sorted that out and were chill about it?“

Can you even IMAGINE what that feels like? No wonder she runs off into the woods and becomes a hermit what else is she supposed to do! Shes got nowhere to go! Her entire life has been turned on its head and she’s expected to just move on! That’s ridiculous!

And thats just the backdrop for her appearance in Future. When she finally does appear they kill her and thats the first and only time we ever see her happy. Someone Finally speaks to her in a way she can understand and she actually dies, and uses that to find herself a purpose. If steven is powerful enough to shatter her, a feat never before seen by a gem, then sure she can serve him, anything to give her life purpose again. and then they just forget about her! Steven literally ditched her in his house! They pull the rug out from under her Once Again. but now she can be „normal“ now she can do what other people want her to do so they all assume shes „better“ now.

I think future did her so dirty the original show handles her character So Well and im not really sure how else they could have gone further with her character because people like Jasper in real life dont really change. And if she were to change and agree with steven it would feel like the show saying steven was right and jasper was wrong and she should have listened to him from the start. Shes such an interesting character to delve into because shes the antagonist yes but shes a very specific type or antagonist that doesnt appear very often and when it does its not with as much backstory, even if just implied, or delving into the thoughts behind the actions. Its so interesting to me

[poisxninthewater]

arthur “where you told me even if we died tonight, that i’d die yours (so i died there under you every night, all night)” pendragon

[gentlebliss]

Started playing Animal Jam again and I looove this part of my most recent den.

[sleepyorchidmonster]

Speedrunning the Fontinalia festival in Genshin made me think of the possibility of a similar TWST event, where we make a film alongside the characters.

Maybe a Vil hometown event, where we can meet his father and create a film via twstunes, with the main problem being Vil's old bullies trying to sabotage the production/ compete in the film festival.

Since it's in the Shaftlands, it can even be a Vil, Jack AND Cater hometown event, with each of them bringing a few classmates (Vil brings Ortho and Epel to help with filming, Jack and Ruggie drag Leona along, and Cater brought Riddle because there's a festival with SWEETS). The groups all run into each other in the fair and come together to create the film, based on Beauty and the Beast.

Funny moments include Leona and Vil bickering, Cater as the lead actor, Riddle using magic for special effects, the bullies running for their lives because they insulted Vil, causing Ortho, Epel, Jack and Riddle to get mad, etc.

They also got snowed in for a night at an abandoned castle near the outskirts of the town. Most of the film took place there.

[rabbitcruiser]

West Diamond Lake Highway, OR (No. 4)

The Cascade Range or Cascades is a major mountain range of western North America, extending from southern British Columbia through Washington and Oregon to Northern California. It includes both non-volcanic mountains, such as many of those in the North Cascades, and the notable volcanoes known as the High Cascades. The small part of the range in British Columbia is referred to as the Canadian Cascades or, locally, as the Cascade Mountains. The highest peak in the range is Mount Rainier in Washington at 14,411 feet (4,392 m).

The Cascades are part of the Pacific Ocean's Ring of Fire, the ring of volcanoes and associated mountains around the Pacific Ocean. All of the eruptions in the contiguous United States over the last 200 years have been from Cascade volcanoes. The two most recent were Lassen Peak from 1914 to 1921 and a major eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980. Minor eruptions of Mount St. Helens have also occurred since, most recently from 2004 to 2008.The Cascade Range is a part of the American Cordillera, a nearly continuous chain of mountain ranges (cordillera) that form the western "backbone" of North, Central, and South America.

Source: Wikipedia

[dreamy-pill]

Ok, ok, ok. Listen, here’s what happened…

I rushed this painting. That’s it. I pushed through with it anyway and here’s the final product.

Steven Universe & Dipper Pines fusion.

This one has been under the works for awhile and I decided to just update the old style, only a little bit, whilst doing the speedpaint. It looks rushed because it was. 🙂

Hope you like it!