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turntechgaykid · 1 day

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Steven Universe Redesign: The Diamonds

In my redesign White diamond is formed from homeworld an her emerging is what cracks the planet in half, she then chooses to make 3 other gems so she's not alone but none are as perfect as her.

Blue diamond is in control of the more mystical side of homeworld, most of the gems in her court have special powers or abilities that stem from her and can all morph into/from liquid, Blue diamond is also blind.

Pink diamond is in control of entertainment and the workforce on home world her gems are all partially organic with more animalistic or humanoid bodies, Pink diamond is also seen as the kindest/most forgiving diamond

Yellow diamond is in control of homeworlds technological and military powers and her gems are the most obedient

#steven universe #steven quartz universe #steven quartz demayo #steven universe fandom #steven universe future #steven universe redraw #steven universe redesign #redesign #rewrite #white diamond #pink diamond #blue diamond #yellow diamond

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inbarfink · 3 months

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So one of the cool and interesting ways ‘Steven Universe’ used to try and balance being both a series of 11-minutes episodes that each have their own satisfying emotional resolution and being an overarching story with complicated character arcs that take multiple seasons to resolve is the… I’m going to call it the ‘Not Quite Right Lesson’ episodes. Episodes where a character kinda learns a Very Important Lesson… but a more careful and retrospective look at the situation shows that what they learned is not Quite the Right Thing for them. They internalized something in that adventure which just ended up causing more Emotional Troubles for themselves farther down the line.

‘The Test’ is the most classic example.

As a standalone thing, it’s just a sweet episode about Steven learning to accept that his caretakers are also flawed and confused and figuring this shit up as they’re going along just like he is, and then doing a nice thing for their sake.

But looking back at this episode, it is quite obviously the nadir of Steven appointing himself as the Family Therapist and repressing all of his problems so he could better help the Gems’ with theirs. Like, there have been some early warning signs for this Complex, but this episode is the one that really cemented that idea in his mind and probably the reason it took him like the Entire Rest of the Show Including a Post-Finale Season to really untangle it.

But… also, I’ve been thinking a lot about the episode right after that, ‘Future Vision’. I think it’s also a very important ‘Not Quite Right Lesson Episode’ for the character of Garnet, and to some extent, the Crystal Gems as a whole. In many ways, it is to the CGs' character arcs' what 'the Test' is to Steven's.

So in this episode, Garnet reveals to Steven the fact that she has Future Vision. She hoped that telling Steven a little bit more about herself and being honest with him will lead to a greater understanding and a greater bond between them… but it backfired. It just led Steven to become a total paranoid, terrified wreck stuck in a total existential crisis.

And it seems like the lesson Garnet learned is that… she should’ve never taken that risk at all. That it would’ve been better for everyone if she just kept Steven ignorant of the truth forever.

Extremely reinforced with the ending of the episode, where Garnet chooses to once again hide an uncomfortable truth (that he just came very close to dying again) from Steven, for the sake of his own ‘peace of mind’.

So, like, the Gems were already hiding uncomfortable truths from Steven since day one. “If you could only know what we really are” and all of that. But I think… With the actual truth of Homeworld encroaching on them more and more at this point of the story arc, this would’ve been a great time for the Gems to reconsider their attitude and actually Explain to Steven What the Hell is Going On.

But instead, I think Garnet saw the events of ‘Future Vision’ as a reinforcement of the idea that there’s just some things Steven is Better Off Not Knowing. Actually being frank with him about Homeworld and the Diamonds and the War right there and then, that would have just overwhelmed Steven with fears and worries and would’ve ended up doing nothing but hurting him. And Garnet can’t accept that possibility, not again.

And so, Garnet, alongside Amethyst and Pearl, keep all these truths from Steven as long as possible. Only revealing bits of information when they have to. For Amethyst it’s about her emotionally-evasive attitude (also, she legit doesn’t know all of that stuff herself). For Pearl it’s about how she learned to romanticize Rose’s own fucked-up obsession with secrets. For Garnet, with her usually very direct attitude and preference for the most straightforward solutions, I think it’s very much the events of ‘Future Vision’ that were still playing in her head every time she had the choice to actually Explain something to Steven and decided not to.

But that, indeed, was Not Quite the Right Lesson. While being bluntly and directly told by Garnet all about the Many Ways He Could Die caused Steven to go into an anxiety spiral and an existential crisis for an episode - the way the Gems have been consistently secretive and evasive with Steven ended up causing him so much more emotional grief to him in the long run. As all of these secrets ended up revealed to him in the most surprising, dramatic and traumatizing way possible.

And the secretive attitudes ended up driving a wedge between Steven and the Gems.

Even after they promised to be more honest with him. Because the sight of Steven crying on the roof that day is one that Garnet can easily move away from. Because Garnet’s Not Quite Right Lesson was almost as difficult for her to unlearn as Steven’s own.

But after the big confrontation at the start of the Zoo Arc, Garnet ended up being the most upfront about the Crystal Gems’ history. Almost overeager to share what she knows about the past.

I mean also, again, Amethyst just has less to tell and Pearl is hiding secrets for reasons beyond her control - but I think it’s also important to consider from the perspective of Garnet’s arc.

Because the fallout of the Pink Diamond Reveal is very much centered around Garnet (or, well, Ruby and Sapphire). That was the Truth that was hidden from her 'for her own good'. And at the end of the day, despite all the grief that unveiling that truth has caused

It has also brought them, all of them, a lot closer.

There's a reason why 'the Truth' is Garnet's Final Missing Piece in the movie. It is as central to her character arc in the series as Lesbian AngstTM grief over lost love is to Pearl.

And still, some remnants of the Trauma of 'Future Vision' remained...

After all, even the very last episode of 'Future' was centered around the Gems once again trying to hide things from Steven (at that case, their turmoil about him leaving) for his own sake

Even though it once again just caused Steven a whole lot of grief.

It's maybe notable that at the end of this episode, Garnet, once again, tells Steven what's waiting for him in his Future...

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0eight0nine · 10 months

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Rose

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wormsinsdirt · 11 months

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Slilly boy!!!!!!

#steven universe #steven universe fanart #steven quartz universe #steven quartz demayo #wormsinsdirt art #su #su steven

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shmukeums · 1 year

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Hes being silly (Don’t repost.)

#steven universe #steven universe future #steven universe fanart #steven universe fandom #fanart #art #myart #steven quartz universe #steven quartz demayo #hes just a little baby

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birdinabowl · 1 month

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@bobamilkk steals ur headcanons and runs

#Love all ur hcs #steven universe #birds doodles #digtal art #art #artists on tumblr #steven universe fanart #steven quartz demayo #steven quartz universe #steven universe future #su

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rupphirever · 1 year

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do me a favour and never forget that gems may seem human because they’ve copied behaviours and features and stuff but at the end of the day they’re like pigeons

#ITS MY FAVOURITE THING I LOVE ALIENS #also peridot and pearl definitely show this the most #steven universe #su peridot #su lapis lazuli #steven quartz demayo #su amethyst #su pearl #su garnet

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imaplatypus-art · 1 month

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Surprise!

Second entry for @glowweek simple comic inspired by my own old comic here: tumblr.com/imaplatypus-art/613709783973937152/part-2 even though it was sketchy, I never planned to revisit that comic but it fits the prompt very well lol

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creathechiboi · 4 months

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Seven Minutes

"Connie was left facing a very awkward Steven, who had finally broken eye contact and was staring up at the ceiling, hand rubbing his neck. She couldn’t see his face very well, with the only light being that which seeped through the edges around the door, but she imagined his cheeks were still very red. She knew hers were."

A drawing made for @willowwillowbun's fanfic Seven Minutes.

#art #my art #traditional art #fanart #ink drawing #steven universe #connverse #traditional drawing #steven universe future #steven quartz demayo #steven quartz universe #connie maheswaran #su fanfic #su fanart #su connie #seven minutes in heaven #traditional illustration

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matt0044 · 6 months

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“y’all couldn’t even handle the moral complexities of steven universe”

You've probably seen this type of post make the rounds every so often and either agree or disagree with it. I'm of the former camp and have often pondered some of the reasons why this thesis holds water.

To start, Social Media has really changed the game in Fandom for better and for worst (the latter being too often the case). Namely in how on platforms like Tumblr and Twitter (Musk can shove that X up his ugly a-), we get fun fandom nonsense along with a 24/7 news cycle of whatever's trending.

Which means we have constant intrusion on our timelines about how the geopolitics across the globe are pretty crap. Many of us retweet things we feel may be relevant, especially when misinformation has become a vertiable economy we need to be aware of.

We also have people raising awareness of social issues that our world still endures such as sexism, racism, every kind of bigotry you can imagine. Ironically, this brings about those railling against the notion that they either still exist or need to be worked on at all in a display of said prejudices. #Gamergate didn't just spring from the ether.

Many celebrities of various levels of fame were turning out to be… pretty bad. Social Media would empower them to speak their minds and not all of it was just “their beliefs.”

To keep this focused of when Steven Universe was coming out, the end of the Obama era and Trump planting his stanky ass in the Oval Office, this was when people’s trust in each other was at an all time low.

Hell, I remember when Trump’s campaign and Brexit got many bigots to feel like they can be prejudiced without consequences. Whole reason he made it to the final two at all.

As such, how else would Uncle Andy Demayo come across as anything other than a MAGA hat wearer? How else would the Diamond Authority come off as but the powers that be who “need to be stopped?”

Steven Universe came at a time when fandom was intermingling with the real life. Fans were starting to feel insulted whenever something like fighting the government or interacting with problematic family member wasn’t answered with “Burn it to the ground!”

Notions of compassion to those who are troubled or maybe in need of a shoulder to lean on were disinterpretted in the least favorable light possible. How could SU even humor the notion that narrowminded family members or even people of power could be redeemed let alone humanized?

Essentially, it didn’t speak to the emotional climate at the time for millennials or Gen Z. It’s why we’ve celebrated Big Jack Horner and those who harken back to classic Disney villains. The kind you cheer on to be taken down a peg.

Lily Orchard didn’t start the fire. The flames were already being fanned.

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projectgwyn · 8 months

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ITS FINALLY DONE!!!

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wendystarseed · 6 months

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This started as an inktober prompt (pillows) but I didn’t get it finished in time! Oh well! Here is is now.

They nap! 🥺💜

#steven universe #connverse #honey and liberty au #steven universe au #artists on tumblr #steven universe fanart #connie mahaswaren #connie maheswaran #steven quartz universe #steven x connie #honey steven #and steven!#steven quartz demayo

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inbarfink · 3 months

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#steven universe #su #steven quartz universe #steven quartz demayo #su steven #steven universe steven #steven universe future #monster steven #steven universe the movie

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beababoobies · 29 days

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Steven universe fandom, if you’re still alive, I noticed something in “Together Forever” that I NEED to talk about.

so we all obviously know how the episode goes - Steven proposes to Connie, and she obviously says no for extremely valid reasons. But I was rewatching, sobbing a lil, and I noticed something. First of all, there’s the jam - kind of obvious, for jam buds -

but then, something caught my eye. Juice boxes.

Why would you bring juice boxes to proposing to someone? Well, they’re not just any juice boxes. Steven fucking remembered the EXACT juice boxes they were drinking when he first realized he had healing spit. The day he accidentally fixed Connie’s vision.

(S1,E24, An Indirect Kiss.)

This is all to say Stevonnie is so good together and my heart is fucking melting. I may be late to this though, if I am, I apologize.

#steven quartz demayo #steven universe future #steven universe #steven universe connie #connie maheswaran #connie mahaswaren #stevonnie #MY BELOVED…

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small-goth-clifford · 4 months

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New year, same obsession with SU. Also I finally managed to get Steven to look the way I wanted, he was incredibly hard to translate into my style for some reason

#they do say the simplest things are that hardest to replicate #steven universe #steven quartz universe #steven quartz demayo #steven universe fanart #su steven #steven unvierse au #diamond in the rough au #smallgothclifford’s art

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birdinabowl · 6 months

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he sit

I need to finish rewatching season 5 tbh

#i literally have no idea what to draw so have a doodle #please give me ideas I’m begging #steven universe fanart #steven universe #digtal art #art #artists on tumblr #steven quartz cutiepie demayo diamond universe #steven quartz demayo #steven quartz universe #birds doodles

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