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haystarlight · 1 year
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You people who think Steven should've killed the Diamonds, I just have one question for you:
How?
How? With what weapons? With what powers? With what army? How, exactly, could he have killed them?
Even if Steven wanted to, he couldn't have done it, he wasn't strong enough. He wasn't powerful enough. At least, not at the time of CYM.
This isn't like Avatar where Aang could've easily killed Osai if he'd wanted to, he was just some guy with really strong fire bending, he wasn't that difficult to kill.
The Diamonds were the biggest, strongest, most powerful things in the universe. How, exactly, was Steven supposed to kill them? Even if he wanted to, it wouldn't be possible for him.
He has powers and he's strong, but he's not strong enough. He's only 14. How is he supposed to kill them? He's short for a 14-year-old and those things are FUCKING HUGE.
What? With the Breaking Point? The Breaking Point's design is actually really flawed. You have to get super close to the other Gem to be able to kill them. It's not like a gun, where you can shoot from far away, you have to get super close or it doesn't work.
Little potato Steven wouldn't have been able to get close enough to any of the Diamonds to use the Breaking Point, they would've stomped on him.
Any way I try to slice it, there's no way Steven or any of the other good guys could've killed the Diamonds. They were too strong. They couldn't even poof them.
And I guarantee you. The same people who say Steven should've killed the Diamonds would probably have said "Deus Ex Machina" if Steven had suddenly found some great, powerful weapon or some insanely strong power up that would've allowed him to do the deed. You people are never satisfied. You always find something to complain about.
Also also, if Steven killed the Diamonds, then they wouldn't have been able to cure the Corrupted Gems and that would've been a crappy ending for fans of Jasper and Centipeedle.
So, if you have an enemy and you can't kill them (you literally, physically can NOT), you can't lock them up in prison, you can't even ignore them.... what's left? Talking. You have no choice but to use words. It's the only thing you have. Steven had no choice but to talk to them. He wasn't strong enough to do anything else. Talking was literally the only option.
Steven couldn't have killed them even if he had wanted to, he couldn't even poof them. None of the good guys could have done anything. They couldn't lock them up or punish them. It wasn't even an option. Talking was the only thing that had a sliver of a chance at working.
If Steven had tried to kill them, he'd be dead now.
If you want to argue he should've killed them, I need you to explain to me HOW.
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soupcorvisquire · 1 year
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there’s something so special about ftf coming out on the anniversary of cym. crying rn
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faelapis · 7 months
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sometimes i worry that *i'm* wrong and SU is bad/rushed/blah blah. then i remember whites fragile need to be perfect and ego defense of thinking she's fixing things. i remember how its perfectly mirrored by stevens need to fix others. how its both beautifully symbolic in CYM an made more explicit and heart-rending in future.
yeah that shit rules. white being reformed is great. its the ultimate rebuttal to the ideology that only good/useful/perfect people deserve to live- which is exactly the standard white held herself and everyone else to. it mirrors stevens arc of selfless heroism. it mirrors the toxic, insecure selflessness thats plagued everyone from pearl to jasper to rose about what it means to "deserve" to live it ties into "love like you" of how learning self-love is intertwined with loving others. it ties into how steven can't let go of his hero role until he's confronted by *literally* having his own mind in white's body, hating the idea of being like her yet ironically reacting exactly how she would - "this is someone bad for society, they should be shattered, this is what's best for everyone." trying to hurt her only hurting him. trying to help her helping all of gemkind - from the corrupted gems to dismantling a system that was held up by those exact ideals.
yeah no SU is fantastic. i'm so sad that its reputation is "oh well it wasn't that good, but it had some lgbt+ rep :)" which is just about the most condescending crap ever. i would gladly flip it. i think most cartoons that have come after SU haven't been that interesting, they've just been mostly generic stories with some lgbt+ rep.
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novantinuum · 2 months
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no, so like-
i watch a lot of reactors, yeah? and they all have varying opinions on SU s5 and what they thought about the pacing.
gonna be real here.
i genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, can not imagine Any other pacing for the end of the season at all and literally just think. it's fine.
i feel like people kinda like... take the behind-the-scenes knowledge that Crewniverse had to pull some storytelling strings to wrap up in a limited number of episodes and then copy paste that Real Life situation and all the nebulous what-ifs over the actual Fictional Story that we got, which. is not a "poor" ending at all, as i've seen some claim. it hits all the beats it needs to for the ending to make thematic sense. it re-introduces plot points when they're relevant. the moment the wedding happens it all moves forward at a swift clip yes, but like. god i am so, so fucking tired of the term "rushed."
(also bc when people say it isn't "rushed," then they're saying it's "filler," and. damn. what the fuck do y'all WANT lol you get nonstop plot heavy ep after ep and call it rushed and the moment you get a few fun little breather eps as a courtesy you're complaining that you're not getting plot. geebus.)
because honestly, like. okay. pretend for a moment that the wedding episode still happens completely as-is. exactly what are people proposing takes up the space of a complete season and a fourth before moving to its conclusion, without compromising the entire theme and vibe of the ending? the precise second the diamonds know who steven is, you're already in endgame territory. there is Zero situation in which the show can dawdle after that, because if steven has revealed himself to the diamonds then he's going straight to work, and he's going to press them about healing their corruption damage. in my mind there is Zero way to insert any meaningless fluff here that is not one hundred percent steven gunning to get white diamond's support because it would not make Sense for him to run off on little side adventures when he has the pressure of his mother's biggest goal bearing down on his shoulders.
in sum the diamond days arc is FINE, it serves its purpose in ramping up to the climax of CYM perfectly, and i just wish more people would stop letting the nebulous "what-if" game tint their view of the already really, really good show we GOT, and stop arbitrarily "warning" reactors that season five is "rushed" and thus swerving their opinions of the end of the show before they can even make any themselves
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georgi-girl · 9 months
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More Trolls Character Fusions
A continuation of my SU inspired Trolls fusion list. Note that when two trolls from the same tribe fuse, they just become a bigger version of their species. When trolls from different tribes fuse, they gain extra limbs and appendages.  
Biggie + Cooper = Big C. A fluffy, muppetesque llama centaur. with four stumpy legs, long furry midsection, and extendible arms. Covered in blue fur with indigo dreadlocks. Always smiling and making jokes. Uses he/him pronouns.  Song style is based on Tiny Tim and Weird Al Yankovic. 
Poppy + Viva = Star. I hope this isn’t presumptuous, but I’m seeing them as friends. The fusion has dark pink skin, star-shaped orange hair, and a white leotard with a blue tutu. Also has stockings with dance slippers. Partly inspired by Rainbow Quartz. Voiced by Selena Lopez. Uses she/her pronouns.  
Reggaeton Trio (Tresillo, Marimba, Tambora) = Taino. Named after the Indigenous people of Puerto Rico. Androgynous features, Pastel body with tie-dye patterns. Uses they/them pronouns. Speaks mostly in Spanish. 
K-Pop Sisters = Korea. Inspired by the five Ruby fusion. Big, shiny, with pastel rainbow hair and an all-white leotard. Uses she/they pronouns. Speaks mostly in Korean. 
Branch + Hickory = Brick. Incredibly handsome, with four arms, green skin and dark violet hair styled in a cowlick. Wears a vest made from orange leaves and black pants. Uses he/they pronouns. Music style based on early Elvis. Also sounds like Elvis. 
Branch + Barb = Screech. (This fusion is strictly platonic, I wouldn’t ship these two if you paid me.) Dark blue skin, four eyes, gigantic indigo mohawk. Wears black leather jeans and denim vest. Inspired by the SU fusion Sugalite. Uses the pronoun It. Warlike berserker. Song styling is Goth Rock. 
Barb + Hickory = Studly. (I can picture these two as friends) Goat centaur with light orange skin, shaggy red hair that covers his eyes, and two left arms. Wears a brown vest and studded wristbands. Hunky stud. Uses he/they pronouns. Very Tarzan-like, even speaks in third person. Grows more savage the longer they’re fused.  Song style (surprisingly) is Tibetan Throat Singing
Hickory + Poppy + Branch = Blum. Something special for my favorite ship. Named after the German word for Flower. Beautiful deer centaur with brown skin, CYM streaked hair, three yellow eyes with pink petal eyelashes. Uses neopronouns ee/em/eir. Very kind and loving. Speaks in rhyme. Song styling is folk covers. 
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spaceagebachelormann · 11 months
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𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒌 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕!
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hii!! made a little frank sinatra event cause i’ve been rlly into his music lately!! anyone can participate in this, i have no restrictions, just read the dni on my nav first if you’re not already following me.
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rules.
FANDOMS OPEN FOR THIS: peter pan, grishaverse, ride the cyclone, keeper of the lost cities, the mighty ducks, the outsiders, the maze runner, scooby doo, little women, phantom of the opera, the school for good and evil, and hamlet.
please only send one event per ask, and one each until i answer yours so i’m not overwhelmed.
this event will go from may 1st to may 4th.
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𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐂𝐇𝐂𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐓 — tumblr games! (kmk, cym, would you rather, etc.)
𝐈’𝐌 𝐀 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐋 𝐓𝐎 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔 — (moots only.) give me a fandom and a character and i’ll write some headcanons for your friendship/relationship! please specify romantic or platonic or it will be deleted.
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐊 𝐓𝐎𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 — matchups! tell me about yourself + give me a fandom and gender preference and i’ll ship you with a character.
𝐈 𝐋𝐎𝐕𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 — (moots only.) send me this and i’ll assign you some of my favourite things!
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𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐈𝐑𝐋 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐈𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐌𝐀 — (moots only) send me this and i’ll write you a little letter.
𝐈’𝐋𝐋 𝐍𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐒𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍 — tell me a random fact about yourself and i’ll give you a fandom i think you’d belong in.
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tagging mutuals!
@juneberrie @presidentroarie @likefolksong @saturnband @sophierequests @tw-5 @starlit-epiphany @orange-juice-glass @su-alteza-emia @imshiningjustforyou @sluggmuffin @goodoldfashionedluvergirl @literaturewithliz @madwickedawesome @ricky-pxtts @moonlarked @shefollowedthestars @doyouknowwhoyouare13 @plantbasedvampire @it-be-me-ella @ell0ra-br3kk3r @woahlifehitsyahuh @unadulterated-syd @fairyofthehollow @starstruckwillows @janesociety @faeriieblush @sevssquared @meredarling @herrscherofsentence @deftoners @maddipoof @sorebelflower @mysemantics @manuscripts-don-t-burn @larsgoingtomars @bealovesmarauders
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love-takes-work · 11 months
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Looking for rare SU merch - list April 2023
Hi! Steven Universe merchandise collector nerd here. I figured I’d post my latest updated wish list again and see if anyone who’s still hanging around here knows where I can get anything I’m still looking for or happens to have some and would be willing to make a deal with me. :)
Fleece Blankets: 
Looking for these CN blankets:
Two-sided Pearl fleece
Two-sided Steven fleece
Single-sided Pink Diamond/Rose/Steven fleece
Two-sided Garnet We Look Awesome fleece
Two-sided Sadie/Lars/Steven fleece
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Watches:
A Cookie Cat digital watch.
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CN Hotel merch:
Some of the merchandise sold in the CN Hotel gift shop is exclusive to the shop. (Most of it isn’t and I have it.) I live nowhere near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Things I can’t get elsewhere:
All the travel cups with lids/straws
CYM outfit Gems on a shopping bag
Amethyst, Pearl, and Garnet star shirts
4 Diamonds shirt
Coffee cup of Gems in CYM outfits
Coffee cup of Diamonds
Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl, Steven baseball caps
Smaller items with the “Cartoon Network Hotel” logo on their packaging that I can’t tell if they’re magnets or stickers or something else
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Zines:
Crewniverse Zine 1
Crewniverse Zine 2
Crewniverse Zine 3
SU Eatin’ Zine
Initial SU Zine
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Wallets:
I think they make a bunch of wallets I never managed to find. Here are some I’ve seen:
Black and White Bifold Steven Wallet
Gauntlets and Garnet Bifold Wallet
Garnet Face Wallet
Amethyst Bifold Wallet
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Ata-Boy Buttons:
A specific set of buttons is out there somewhere and only mass-merchandisers can get a case to sell. I have not found ANY retailers selling these and no distributor will sell me a box because I’m not a business. The ones that are Xed out here are the few I found being resold on eBay.
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Promotional-Only Items:
These I have only seen sold from conventions or merchandising as promo items. They may not be available anymore.
Steven Universe mobile
Steven Universe the Movie Soundwave
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Toy Fair Items:
As far as I know these were never actually made; these are prototypes from a toy fair. But maybe some prototypes are lying around?
Garnet Gauntlets
Giant Steven plush
Series 2 Clip-On Plushies (only Series 1 was made)
Rose, Peridot, and Lapis Mystery Mini Plushies
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demonicintegrity · 1 year
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I’ve been seeing a lot of old su clips on my fyp as well as one of those criticism videos on the movie.
And for a while I’ve been able to look at the show more objectively because time has passed since I’ve watched it. Not that I was like a huge fan to any degree, but still.
My general opinion these days is that “the executives actively made it harder on the crew and definitely were unfair and unreasonable in certain aspects” and “the crew actively fumbled the writing” can be two coexisting statements.
Honestly didn’t form that latter part until I was getting into TOH that I realized some crews can have strong writing still despite executive nonsense. Not to say there aren’t still flaws, but still. A couple of things were messy in SU, and unfortunately they all happened one after another and it was all important plot points that needed to be handled well. And that’s why a lot of us were unsastified with Change Your Mind.
(SU was the last long form tv show I remember. It have five seasons. I can’t help but wonder if such a poor reaction to CYM scared off producers from having any more longer form stuff. Which sucks cuz it was at least in part set up to fail. They shot themselves in the foot.)
The other two coexisting opinions I have of the show was “it wasn’t complete garbage like some people suggest but it’s also not amazing. It’s just kinda. A Show” and “SU is vitally important in terms of what had to be done in order to pave the way for future representation in shows. Bordering on/is historical significant in that way.” I genuinely believe we couldnt have shows like She Ra and TOH without the work Sugar and the crew put in to push back against executives.
(We claim great fame and importance to most if not all Shakesphere’s works. But I can’t help but think at least some people of the time just thought of it as a play. Not a good or bad one, but just a play. Because they didn’t realize the historical significance of it yet. Because there’s this idea that historical significance must be only done by outstanding and shining works. A classroom full of high schoolers reading Shakespeare or Edgar Allen Poe sure would disagree.)
It seems like whenever I look at media I want more out of/see great potential in I just deeply y e a r n for better Creative Commons legislation. I want other people to take a crack at this, see what they could do. I want people to try again and again and again on media, rewriting and reworking and see what we could get from it.
One show could be a seed that blooms a beautiful field of new media, we know this because we see how actively imaginative fandoms are. I just wish there was a way to encourage that into the mainstream a lil more.
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tricobicoart · 2 months
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steven universe human self insert
So one of my first self inserts for su was just me as-is in 2019, but then i decided to make them the age i was when i started watching the show, 15, so they could grow up with steven & connie. So here are some concepts & references i use for her!
I never decided whether they knew steven from growing up in beach city near him, or met him on the beach after they both had a bad day, or met him post-bubble-buddies thru connie bc they both liked unfamiliar familiar (su athena liked the happy ending, but disliked the romance jumpscare, bc she's aromantic but didn't know it yet, & open book ends w her admitting she thinks the protagonists do make a cute couple).
She gets trained in swordfighting by pearl and then spearfighting at her own request, then given a bismuth-made spear from the early days of the war, when pearl was having trouble summoning her spear for a second time. Pearl kept it in her gem post-bis-disappearance out of grief, and when bismuth came back, gave it to athena to replace her human practice spear(athena equivalent of connie getting rose's sword). Then, sometime from cym to sum(su movie), bismuth gifted her the 2nd spear(athena equivalent of connie getting her own sword from bismuth)! I put pearl's summoned spear in both pictures of athena's spears for comparison. Also i found a note that says she's the same height as steven & connie in suf (5 foot 5 inches), but this might change later down the line.
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autistickaitovocaloid · 4 months
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Speaking of SU I remember when I was like 12 and my parents were helping me look for something in my room and my mum found the A2 coloured pencil drawing I was working on of my hc design for Obsidian (this was pre-CYM so she was just the "Temple Fusion") so she asked if I was drawing some sort of goddess or smth. I told her it was from a cartoon and I could hear her voice visibly deflate when she replied with "oh..."
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madwickedawesome · 1 year
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Cym moulin rouge
RAAJKFGKJFGNBFBNBGB BB B BB B BB VN VN N running around in circkes bouncing off the walls hehebhjjejevejwwejhbhjwehjbww actually this is so much harder w people who do Not know the characters so im gonna go off vibes
christian - ok listen i wont even compromise w my bias this time i would play christian SO WELL. literally watching moulin rouge changed my whole life bc me n christian r like THIS 🤞. i could go on but theres more characters
satine - hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. ok . either @manuscripts-don-t-burn or @su-alteza-emia (and im going to pretend both of u r as Abnormal about moulin as me) i feel like u both understand her character on like a critical level enough to play her past Cold and then Warm . bc i dislike when ppl play her like that <//3 her character has so much nuance that only a couple ppl understand fully ykkkkkk
zidler - @pop-roxs WATER U WOULD PLAY THE SHIT OUT OF ZIDLER u capture his energy so well and like despite the more serious moments i think u could So pull him off <333 hes just a real silly dude
toulouse - @connor-cant-drive i feel like u would be able to PERFECT his silliness and his general Insanity IDK
santiago - @envyvstheuniverse I Cant Explain Why
nini - BROADWAY NINI IS SILLY. OK . NOT MOVIE NINI. @spaceagebachelormann again idk why
i feel too bad doing the duke
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lucyjung · 2 years
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Favorite episode of SU?
That's.. so many.....
But i love... The Trial and CYM.
I can't choose between this two....
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faelapis · 2 years
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White Diamond analysis: post-SU future
i've spoken about why i like white diamond before, but i want to update it. i've made a mediocre little video ages ago (i think its called "white diamonds cognitive journey" but i don't wanna link it here because while i stand by a lot of the conclusions, i was very bad at youtube and cringe at my editing)... but that's somewhat outdated now. because SU the movie and SU future happened.
so i will summarize my old thoughts, and add new ones.
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i will say that i don't think white's arc, whatever you feel about it, is meant to read as "complete." i think that's where a lot of fandom cognitive dissonance comes from. i think it's meant to read as a continuous, breathing thing that could change more now that steven is gone. i wanna thank future for that, both problematizing white's current mindset and giving her a jumping-off point - along with jasper and the other diamonds - to keep changing.
so. what do i mean by this?
in CYM, white falls apart. then the movie, and future, are extensions of the mindset she gains at the end of CYM. people complain about an "offscreen" redemption but i don't think that's true. what i will explore is how white submits herself to what steven wants because she doesn't trust herself or her own judgement anymore if she's not perfect. the movie and future are just natural extensions of that.
let's start at CYM.
by the end of it, white finally questions herself, to perhaps an extreme degree because she'd built herself up around the idea of having to be perfect. to her, perfect means being wise, correct, unquestionable. she's kept watch over gemkind, she's always looking from afar. how its played, its ambiguous as to whether she could Literally see everything pink did, or if she just put herself in denial that of course pink was alive, of course this was all one of her games.
but if its the former, if she can Literally see all of gemkind through her divine light, i think the reason she can't predict steven is that he's half-human. she can't see him as clearly. she knew he was human from the get go, calling pink "hiding" and "embedded in that human child", so perhaps part of her obsession was not being able to see.
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anyway, what others say they feel isn't that important, she knows what they "really" need and feel. she can see them, better than they can. she's their creator, their goddess "mother", after all.
and if she can, in a meta sense, see everything, she is the opposite of steven and the audience - they are subjective, and they know that. "we" can only see from steven's pov. white is a challenge to that, someone who represents the standard tv drama where an omniscent audience gets to see everything. we don't, we are limited to steven. because the point is that no one can truly be objective.
but anyway - white styles herself as being objective. she's facts and logic, she doesn't care about feelings (tm). so yellow and blue's emotional pleas don't matter. what matters is if she can be logically proven wrong. if she SEES that steven isn't pink, then she is objectively wrong. that's something she can't handle. she can't justify it, so her worldview falls apart. she's not perfect.
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the question then becomes how she responds to this. and the answer is, well, like someone whose world has fallen apart! someone who trusts her own judgement so little that she has to follow someone else. so she acts like most homeworld gems, at some point.
as we see at the end of CYM, and made more explicit in the movie and future... she starts following whatever steven wants. the era 3 diamond symbol is flipped on its head - steven is the "highest" diamond, and white sees herself as the "lowest."
i don't think white, personally, has reached a conclusion on how she feels about corrupted gems. i don't think she has anything but gut feelings - some base disgust (as drawn throughout CYM, there's a great shot about getting into the pool but looks conflicted, that i think someone in the crew described as her "hesitantly getting into a public pool", which can be read through several different lenses of prejudice.) , but also wanting to help because she feels bad enough about herself to do whatever someone else tells her is helpful.
and that someone else is steven. even if she herself is conflicted, she spends the end of CYM looking to him for approval. its only through his joy and acknowledgement of her that she allows herself to hesitantly, awkwardly smile. despite everything.
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and then the movie shows this at its logical extreme. like white, yellow and blue are also following steven - they are almost obsessed with him. he's made things better, after all! he's a hero! he even guided them at their worst, the way white was supposed to do. he's surely worthy of worship as the superior diamond.
when steven understandably wants to leave, they beg for him to stay! they whine about how they've done everything he asked. they're clearly doing it for him. because of him. just let us worship adore you.
in a way, they are extremely childish. they're not really changed in the sense of a mature understanding of the world based on their own experiences and moral compass, but they know they are flawed. and they love and adore steven, so HE will tell them what to think. what to be. what to do.
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we'll do it all. whatever you say. you know better than us!
then future happens.
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our heroic, superior steven isnt the perfect golden child anymore. perhaps he never was. he's no longer able to hide it, at least, because now that the war is over, he's not able to focus on a life's purpose ("living up to rose quartz" first, "being a hero" later), so he is haunted by his PTSD. everything catches up to him. he even questions his own relationships - a lot of them having formed around him being that "good," helpful person. someone who needs to be needed. someone who doesn't know who he is when he isn't perfect.
are we really surprised he went to the diamonds, at his worst? of course he did. on some level, i think he hoped they could heal him... but failing that, maybe he would find a fellowship of flawed, broken people who had abused others high opinions of them. instead, he found them doing good things, being useful, being better than him, despite how he himself was still suffering. suffering because of them.
another huge reason steven was "set off" by white was by literally seeing himself in her body, right after shattering jasper and making a bunch of other mistakes. the fear of becoming like her, an ignorant or cruel person in an abusive chain. but the poison was already in him. and in trying to hurt white, he was literally hurting himself. trying to focus on destroying everything imperfect around you, you become incapable of accepting the imperfections within.
anyway. this is still about white!! i just wanted to "catch us up" on my interpretation of steven in future, and also lay some groundwork of the parallels between white and steven here. i think steven, in all of future, is a disharmonic, symbolic mix of white and pink.
anyway, now this messed up, openly broken steven has to meet the diamonds. and of course, when they fail to heal him, despite his pain being partially their fault, and seeing himself "as white", fearing being like her, deluded instead of a true hero... he doesn't take it well.
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and that brings us back to white. while she's clearly scared in this scene, "i am my monster" clarifies that she doesn't hate him, and certainly doesn't blame him. she and the others still come to call, they still help him however they can. even if he doesn't love them (as spinel puts it, he never writes or calls), they still love him. he still helped them. he still made them better.
and i think that's a crucial bit of progress, because it shows them putting the pieces together. yes, steven isn't the perfect diamond they hoped would guide them, he isn't their holy "father" the way they tried to be authoritarian "mothers" to gemkind, but they don't turn on him for that reason. blue and yellow aren't disgusted with steven "turning pink" like white did. and white isn't even mad at him for trying to kill her. she knows why:
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spinel: this is my fault!
white diamond spinel! don't be silly! everyone knows that all of this is because of me!
spinel: NO, it's because of ME! i tried to wipe his friends memories so he could die alone on a barren world!
white: but that was because you were angry with pink, and if pink hurt you, it was because i hurt her! like i hurt yellow, and blue, and steven, and everyone in the entire universe! *sobbing* this is all my fault!
and after that, of course, chad connie comes in and focuses their attention on the fact that yes, they did hurt him. but this pity party - this obsession with self-punishment - is just making it about themselves. like the way some parents respond to their children hurting with "where did i go wrong?!" instead of actually helping.
but what's crucial is that despite the diamonds following steven almost blindly, it wasn't completely blindly. they understand the concept of generational trauma: it wasn't just spinel, and it wasn't just pink. it was all of them. and white may in some ways be the "source", but connie still insists they all try to help anyway.
the diamonds are not fully "there yet" in terms of emotional development, but they did learn one thing - you can't abandon or destroy people because they are flawed. through steven, and through being there for each other, they have seen how even they, themselves, can help despite their own flaws... and so, they are forced to accept that part of steven too. that is something they're able to process and turn into practice by the end of future.
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so then... steven leaves.
earlier, when he left homeworld, he told the diamonds the exact same thing he told jasper: don't follow me.
that can be interpreted literally, but also figuratively. with jasper, its explicitly about looking up to him: "find something better to do with your life." so that leaves them all - white diamond, yellow, blue, jasper... adrift. but now, with some morals and experiences to guide them. they're not children anymore, they can't rely on steven to tell them what to do. maybe they'll even have PTSD and existential crises of their own! we don't know, because we are bound to steven - someone who has decided that's not his business anymore. he has to heal himself, regardless of what everyone else does.
so the show prompts us to accept that no, we don't really know whether the diamonds (and jasper) will "fully" heal, what the world will look like to them in 10, 100, 1000 years. but it gives them all hope. it gives them a starting point, recognizing that their flaws are not the end of the world. jasper goes to little homeworld. the diamonds have each other. they just have to keep going without an authority to guide them... the same way all of gemkind must find a way to exist without the diamonds.
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i'm not the first to say a lot of this. there’s been a lot of digital ink spilled to say the diamonds are only doing what steven wants, and that steven is "using" them... but that’s usually in the service of saying they're not “really” redeemed, end of story. because steven doesn’t like them, the show ITSELF must hate them and have no real desire to redeem them. it’s usually a reactionary stance to “defend” SU against “soft on crime” allegations lol.
but i don’t care about that kind of punitive bs, nor do i think that’s the shows intended message. they could’ve had steven actually shatter white, but it would’ve been at the cost of the societal goods of rehabilitation. this is a show where revenge and healing are contradictory - rehabilitation is necessary for true structural change (literal and figurative healing). people are flawed and they can change. they could’ve written revenge to be more important or equal, but no. steven doesn’t need to kill them, he needs therapy.
as i’ve hopefully shown, while the diamonds are far from perfect, they HAVE learned something. they accept steven despite his flaws, they’re well on their way to accepting the concept of flaws in general. they seem happy with their new powers to heal and find meaning in helping people. and in future, they continue to do good despite how steven never calls or visits. even humbling yourself and admitting you’re wrong is, i think, more than many of us could do.
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as much fun as the 4K word CAWM post is I’m moving this to the ask box since I don’t have as much to say.
I would totally recommend looking through bmos room and the stuff in there ! There is just sooo many references in there it’s so cool, (and there is so much to pick through in the 1000+ theme song/intro)
Oh yeah 100%, BMO makes me sad in a way, how they r basically destined to outlive most of their friends (except for the few immortal bunch like Marceline n PB) 
Heheheheeh I’m am gonna procrastinate on SO much stuff while infodumping about fern to you >:3
Oh yeah the Gumbald arc is definitely one of the ones that got most affected by it getting cut short, oh yeah the adventure time finale is pretty well received, even with some of the pacing issues n stuff, DEFINITELY WAY BETTER ECIVED THAN THE SU FINALE HO,Y SHIT, yeah I feel like people can be way to harsh on su, it’s definitely not perfect but god,
Lmao fanon lumpygrab is obviously a mixed bag like with literally every ship but it’s not really a ship i go seeking content for ? So when I do get it’s from accounts I already follow and stuff,. idk where I was going w this, you probably get what I mean, hopefully,
Tragic characters are my everything, just,, god I just don’t get people who don’t enjoy any angst at all. Like cmon I love my blorbos and wish for them to be happy but I also want to throw them into a fire and vivisection them and just make them go through so much shit.
Yeah yeah, the Finn losing his arm in golb thing is just intresting to think about, although is definitely not something I would have wanted in the show .
adventure time music grrrrrrrrrrrr
(Also I wrote this while listening to still alive from portal 1 on repeat. why did I tell you this ? Why not tbh)
I cant belige you could abandon the giant cawm post like this- /j
Okay so i actually just started having a look at the intro and bmo’s room so im just gonna say a bunch of stuff i noticed
I think its pretty cool that Shermy and Beth live in Marceline’s old house and then Finn and Jake also lived in Marceline’s old house too it seems poetic in some kinda way. I wonder how many other iterations of them shes leant her house to over the thousands of years, because thinking about that first introductory episode shes in, from memory if almost feels like shes done that before. So.
Why does BMO have a guillotine on the damn roof of their house . Is going around decapitating ppl a thing they just Regularly do or- . We got statue of KoO, the crowns, IKs drum but it looks kinda busted, lady rainicorns translator thing(?), bmo’s skateboard from that one episode, that soda girl, james baxters balls, the hat from the lady armour, oh the broken clock! , lsp’s number plate, amo just. Open on the table like its normal, one of those books looks like ones of the ones IK was reading on how to get bitches or smthn, is that lsp’s star??!??!, jake’s viola, a portrait of banana man?
Also that Is meant to be sweet pea right? The giant walking around?
The idea of characters who live forever is so sad to me. Im glad that bmo Isnt the only one because if they were it wiuld just be awful, Bonnie and Marcy have eachother but i hope they go visit bmo from time to time it would be really sad if they ended up all alone :(
I am taking this as a chance to go Insane over SU because somehow all this being insane over AT has made me want to do that. I could kinda i guess see how people could be unsatisfied with the ending of SU, i didnt have many expectations to be let down by by the finale but i also watched it when i was like 12 so. But even if you had issues with it once you found out that they got ruched into a finale and Why they got rushed into a finale you would think you’d cut the writers a but more slack but people Dont. And even outside of DD and CYM most of the issues people have with the show aren’t even that big a deal, “oh the art-style is inconsistent” okay? And? They let the storyboarders have a bit of creative freedom “oh the characters are off model a lot” okay?? As long as you can tell who they’re meant to be and as long as character a is taller than character b who cares??? “Oh the writing is really badly paced with a bunch of filler episodes everywhere all the time” 1. Thats not what filler means and 2. Its written like that because of the stupid fucking steven bomb format that it got aired in. Its a kids show thats just trying to tell a story about this kid with a magic gem in his belly that gives him super powers calm down okay tje first episode is about him thinking his powers come from eating ice cream(i mean this in the most affectionate way possible). No one is saying the show is perfect nothing is perfect if you personally dont like it just say you dont like it you dont have to try and come up with reasons why you dont and you especially dont have to insult and be mean people who do like it for no reason. Man
I get what u mean with the lumpy grab thing. Like most the stuff you see for it are from creators who make other content you already like so chances are when they make that content youll like it too even if you’re not overly fond of the ship itself. Brain to brain communication
TRAGIC CHARACTERS MY BELOVED. Weve been over this so many times but theyre so !!
Holy shit still alive!! I love that song i used to listen to it a bunch before id ever even played portal properly its such a vibin song i put it on whole i was writing this out <3 thank u for reminding me of its existence
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I don't know about asking thisl it since I don't really feel comfortable asking something like this off of anon but its that was kind of bother me from time to time due to due people Believing it. You don't believe in the idea that somehow Rebecca sugar lied about the wedding canceling SU? I feel like the answer is you don't think she lied and it's insane but people do believe that very strongly.
I mean, what other explanation is there? CN worried over how SU portraying openly gay couples would hurt them in other countries that are outwardly homophobic.
The Rupphire wedding basically made it impossible to censor (many of the dubs/subs gave Ruby male pronouns so putting her in a dress was basically lose-lose, either use the right pronouns or show a "male" character in a dress).
I really don't get exactly why Rebecca would lie about that. I just don't see what she'd have to gain. In fact, she lost a lot of time to tell her story which is why looking back I feel like CYM is a pretty weak ending and it makes sense if she had to throw it together to wrap up the main conflict of the series.
I just don't see any other immediate explanation.
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hello! this is my event for reaching 0.3k followers <3 this is open to everyone and anyone, i only ask that you send one request for each event, send them separately, and be nice! this event will start march 17th and end march 24th. have fun!
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there’s a different paths! which one should we take?
✾ the light path, filled with animals — tell me some of your favourite things and i’ll recommend you a song from my playlist!
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