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capminn · 1 year

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i drew this back on his birthday but never sent it here so- Happy 3rd Birthday cactus!

he means a lot to me

#my art #cactus steven #cactus steven au #steven universe au #steven universe #su #su au

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goosemagician · 10 months

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Oh also https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5TUOAr8oDXuC1PsvxH53Sp

I made another playlist but this time it's dedicated rather than inspired (ngl I interpret your au as very angsty so there's a lot of rgb and hero angst songs in there whoop)

I don't even know if it's obvious why i chose most of the songs i did lmao but they all relate to them in some capacity

Also the song "Soup Song" feels fitting to them for some reason like

"Your name is an anagram and mine is a joke"

"People ask me why you’re acting so strange, and I say I don’t know"

And "My backpack’s full of hate mail that makes me want to cry" and "I hate you and I loved you for a very long time" especially like-

Feels like how hero might act under the influence of hate (if it even works like that, i always imagined it as hate making hero despise rgb or strengthening those thoughts she might've had when she was younger)

And then some of it being rgb like "The shoes I bought you crunched my necklace" or "I wish that I was lovable like a warm cup of soup... I try to be lovable like a warm cup of soup"

I'm not crazy right this kinda fits

Lmao

Oh shoot this ask got very long, much sorry

The angst and sheer family feels in this au just kills me in a very good way

aaaAAAAALDSJFKLD YESSS

this is so so SO SO GOOOOD THANK YOU FOR SHARING

This accidentally turned into a whole essay so it's under the cut if you'd like to read just so many words of excitement about characters

The combination of Angst/Family in this AU is STRONG, and that Hate and Hero interpretation is SPOT ON. It's what Hero fears the most about Hate. She spends a lot of the (eventual) story telling herself that all of the anger and sadness and trauma just marinating inside her and causing her to lash out is because of Hate herself, but Hate explicitly tells her that "It's all you. Everything. All the anger, the regret, the guilt, the Hatred. I'm just a magnifying glass."

The Soup Song is actually SUCH a perfect song for them, and especially Hero with "If I had the tendency to yell your ears would be numb. If I had it in me to tell you off you would be done. I'm not used to feeling so down and so dumb." She doesn't WANT to be mad at RGB, and she Hates the part of herself that IS, so she tries to ignore it entirely. (Spoiler alert! It Does Not Go Well.)

She loves RGB SO much but there's a part of her that is just SO mad at him for dragging her into this. Emotions are complicated, and she's the master of feeling two things at once. She understands his motive, and even sympathizes with him, but that doesn't change the fact that she wishes he hadn't. But then again, if he hadn't, she never would've known him at all, and she is in fact extremely grateful to know him and LOVE him as both a friend, and as a father figure.

They're So similar and So different at the same time and it's just...AUUUGH

There's an animatic I have planned from the radio drama "Dangerously Yours," where Hero's in her Knight form, but she's also very clearly not just parroting Hate. She's saying stuff and it's coming from her HEART, and it TERRIFIES her. She feels betrayed, and lied to, and conned, but she also LOVES him and how he's cared for her and tried SO SO HARD to make up for all that he's done and for bringing her here in the first place.

The Hero Knight thingy is basically a way for Hero to finally voice everything she's been trying so hard to keep in and under control. If you've ever seen Steven Universe Future, you know that cactus episode, where Steven talks to the cactus about all his feelings and problems but then the cactus gets out of control and Steven ends up fighting it in front of the people he loves, but also has complicated feelings about. (I'm aware of how strange this sounds if you've never seen it, but just trust me). Hero NEEDS to let all the contempt, and guilt, and regret, and, yes, Hate, go, but there's no way in hell she would do that on her own, so...Hero Knight!

It's pretty much just a glorified version of me shoving them into a locked room, shaking them violently, and saying "TALK ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS"

There's a line in that radio drama that I LOVE for this AU, and it's "You forget how close Hate is to Love."

They have to fight with themselves and each other OFTEN, but in the end, they just want the other to be alright. They want to PROTECT each other, and BE THERE for each other, because RGB shouldn't have had to beg for another chance, and Hero shouldn't have had to help him try to save the world. Their situation is SO unfair, and they both know it.

They both have things they despise themselves for, as well. Hero Hates herself for not saving the world and, in her eyes, letting RGB down. He needed a Hero, and she couldn't save him, or anyone else for that matter. RGB Hates himself for dragging all those people, but most of all Hero, into this whole mess. He wishes he would have just given up, but he didn't. He fought, but did so in the most clever but cowardly way a person could, and others paid the price HE should have paid.

This AU is about the characters working through their flaws and the complexity of emotions. "When you first revealed your betrayal by first reaction was 'how dare you rob me of my trust?' But not even this would be able to shake out foundation 'cause it was created by us." (My Heart Still Beats--Marina Mena). Hero and RGB have been through SO MUCH together, and the bond that they share, despite the undercurrent of other feelings that may reside there, is something truly special. they LOVE each other, and nothing can change that. "It hurts but I'm not about to give you up" (same song).

In short--This playlist is AWESOME and I love EVERY SINGLE SONG CHOICE AAAAAAAAAA <3 <3 <3

#Don't mind me just going insane over these guys #Their family is not by any means perfect but it is a FAMILY <3 <3 <3 #tpoh #the property of hate #tpoh rgb #tpoh hero #tpoh au #Anti-Hero AU #I love seeing other people's takes on this AU I am eating WELLLLL #You think your ask was long??#HA #*writes an essay*

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wtl-archive · 1 year

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Intermission 03: Monster Line Epilogue

Read all the pages in order here.

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Artist Credit: NugatorySheep

Okay. We can finally talk about him. Because this? This is the last you're ever gonna see of him. (Which, to be fair, was the original intention.)

This was always planned. I know I've said that before, but I think it needs to be restated.

Before I had any idea how much I'd fall in love with these characters or their stories, before I had any idea of how I wanted anything organized, before I had any plans to keep Druid around after the first chapter, before I even had the explanation for what happened to Druid's timeline to have it be so bleak in the first place, I had this scene in my head. Its one of the only elements of his story that managed to stick throughout all the changes to the plot and all the additions to the story. This one bit stuck, and I actually managed to keep it close to how I initially envisioned it.

In the grand scheme of thing this isn't some revolutionary moment. I think that's why I managed to keep it at all, because in terms of getting Druid back into the story after chapter one it isn't absolutely mandatory, but it's not detrimental either. It has significance, but if it were never in the story to begin with the entire AU wouldn't fall apart. Besides the fact that it has Cactus' cameo, there's nothing objectively wrong with it. But this still means a lot to me, and it's not something I'm willing to just throw away.

When I first started scripting this AU, it was meant to be a series of snapshots in each of theses timelines. You get a glimpse of what the world is like, but there's plenty of room for people to fill in the gaps with their own interpretations about things. There's cliffhangers and unanswered questions that you're never supposed to get an answer for. You visit for a bit, get a snippet of the world's story, then you leave. Think the Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, or Love Death and Robots.

I like to joke a lot that I was going to kill Druid at the end of the first chapter, and while his death was pretty much an unavoidable ending for him even after I decided to make him a more permanent member of the cast, the original ending for him wasn't quite as simple as that. He would manage to capture White, and he would still get fully corrupted in the process, but that was it. We would never see him again, dead or alive. His final fate would be a mystery.

What we would see however, is where the bubble ended up: back at the temple, where the only sentient life that wasn't a gem monster was waiting. The oldest version of this was not a cactus Steven, just a generic plant Steven with a few other variants that were an array of different plants/veggies/fruits. And, now that all of the other Diamonds were caught, they would begin the process of healing the gems, starting with Pearl. Druid's timeline might be bleak, but this little moment gives a potential way out of the nightmare. Maybe there's still a chance for the gems to find a cure even if Druid can't.

You might think that's terrible storytelling, and that an ending should more satisfying than that. I'll agree to disagree. This story might be unorthodox, but it's not bad. There's things I wish I had done differently, but this isn't one of them.

So much of this AU's story got changed, deleted and shifted around. So much of it got taken out of my hands. That's to be expected of course given the nature of it, and I certainly wasn't expecting to be able to keep all of my original vision intact, that's just unrealistic. I said yes to a lot of things, some of which in hindsight probably shouldn't have. I tried my best to be accommodating at every possible turn. I tried, I did my best, and somehow it wasn't enough. Everyone thought that I didn't care. A year and half of work, but sure, I didn't care!

This first chapter was the one thing I could say was actually mine. Besides some things here and there, it was all me. Its the one territory that I owned, and it was the only thing I had left that I could say with any real confidence I did all on my own. This was me.

I'm saying all of this so you can understand why it bothered me so much when I was told to just delete it. There were so many things that I was okay throwing away prior to this. I removed a bunch of posts from the blog. I gave away two of my favorite characters. I relinquished control of so many things. This was the last thing that was MINE. This was ALL. I. HAD. LEFT. I was so tired of saying yes, or being pressured into doing what everyone else wanted to do. So for once in my worthless life, I said "no". I said no, and I wasn't going to give any other answer, Cappy and Liam be dammed.

Fact of the matter is, Cappy and Liam stopped being a problem for me the second they walked out the door, it was everyone else making it my problem that continued to make working on this AU a fucking nightmare. Cactus' overarching role in this AU was irrelevant the moment Cappy left, but this cameo was decided upon well before then and the original agreement was just this cameo and nothing more. All the stuff that was planned after that was just a bonus. This intermission was finished before he chose to leave. It still would've happened regardless of whether or not Cappy decided to expand Cactus to have his own timeline, and I refused to destroy the one thing I had left because of other people insisting Cappy keep being an issue for me despite him having fucked off months prior.

At the time I said no and left my answer at that. I didn't bother trying to pour out my heart and explain why this was so important to me because, well, every other time I tried to say no and explain why, it didn't matter. Any time my opinion was different, there was nothing I could say that would convince anyone to side with me. Despite being the supposed leader of this project, my voice was completely useless and I had no authority. Whenever I tried to set my foot down, I was the bad guy. It was always a fight and I always lost. This time there wasn't going to be a chance to fight, because I wasn't going to change my mind.

Just for once I wish I could get someone to take me seriously without having to be an asshole about it first.

#chapter one #the monster line #story post #walk the line #walktheline au #au/niverse #steven universe #su #comic page #intermission #kinda went off but... this has been bothering me for a long time.#old wtl content

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dori-artz-blog · 4 years

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Can you do a fusion between Cactus Steven, Nephrite Steven, and Gamer Steven?

NO REPOST MY ART/Reblogs are appreciated

@cactusstevenausblog

@a-single-pale-nephrite

Bingo bongo :p

#fusion!#cactus steven au #a single pale of nephrite au #player universe au #su au #steven universe #su #art #digital art #fusion time

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cactus-steven-au · 4 years

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Sketch of the first one....

#Cactus steven Au #Cactus steven au #sketch #steven universe #art #drawing #doodle

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adrianpurplelet · 3 years

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I was entirely bored when my wifi got oofed for 4 days... so here’s a random su content I thought of... yes it’s su with its aus coz why not lol

A fanart or short comic? idk i cant tell which is which lol Steven AUs used:

WDAU Steven @ask-whitepearl-and-steven

Faded blue Steven from @teamfadedblue

Yellow Steven by Matsuthemoth

Druid Steven from @walktheline-au

Cactus Steven by @cactusmcfactus

Pink Steven from @suaugonewrong

I still messed up on some details ( like the hairstyles qwq) since all my references are in the internet (which i didnt have for the pass 4 days) lol

(yes it’s angst at the end)

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follychromatic · 3 years

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@walktheline-au characters in the @follychromatic artstyle!

This one was fun. All Stevens are essentially just circles, so this was also just a quick exercise to do. Spinel was the easiest (for obvious reasons), but everyone here was pretty easy to draw. 10/10 highly recommend.

As for why some characters have pie cut eyes and some don't... well, that's a secret. ;)

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cynthi-universe-archive · 4 years

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Lol still got @suwantedau on the brain and some doodle cynthis

#su wanted au #su doodle dump #monster steven #steven universe #steven universe future #steven quartz universe #steven universe fan art #steven universe fanart #corrupted steven #lab #connie #connie maheswaran #su connie #connverse #cactus is adorable #doodle cynthi #tw needles

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the-sleepiest-melon · 3 years

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My submission for @walktheline-au’s draw this in your own style, for the Elysium image. Despite the name, I went out of my way to try and do a completely different style. Its honestly one of my favorite things I’ve ever drawn. Characters belong to @cactusmcfactus and @feralbeaststeeb.

Feedback and criticism are greatly appreciated. I’m always looking to improve.

#steven universe #su #steven universe art #su art #walk the line #walk the line au #my art #not my ocs #dtiys #elysium #cactus #cactus steven #feral #feral beast steven #i grew up playing super paper mario #one of my all time favorite games

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nanuuiy · 4 years

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