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.
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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)
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Another home remodeled! This time: Anabelle, the variety streamer!
Before: Cute, but didn't reflect her much.
After: Colorful, but mainly pink!
On my island, Anabelle loves to make things in the kitchen and share what she makes with her neighbors! She loves to cook in general and got internet famous that way. She also likes to game (what streamer nowadays doesn't), and her favorite types of games are simulators. She's really been into this Maglev Mike dating sim recently...
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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.
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rocks 🪨 ✨
so going clockwise from the top right. the ones on the right, Mom got me off temu as part of my birthday present months ago. the ones on the left, I got last night along with the key. and then there's dice I got forever ago to the left of that, and my blue bag of runes in the background.
can't remember what the red is. green looks like jade, purple is amethyst, brown I assume is tiger's eye, and two small smooth pieces of quartz. it's missing lapis lazuli that threw itself down the drain the first night I shadowed a tour at the shop/ company I'm gonna be working with.
the rest on the left I got last night at a local witchy store. well, they appear to have expanded here to New Orleans but got their start in Salem? I went into Omens but apparently they're the sister store to Hex: Old World Witchery. (old world they say, but have voodoo stuff on their shops, smh. xP)
there's a hunk of quartz there at the bottom that's the clearest, and to the left of it is opalite. the black is supposedly jet and the purple with green specks is grape agate?
both the brown one, and the clear one with orange, were in the bin that said aragonite
the bright green with the swirls is malachite and the green with white is apparently tree agate
some more pictures from different angles. the picture with the black background is from last night right after I'd gotten them because that's my skirt, lol
so according to the labels in the shop I got them from:
opalite: to work on self-love, improve mood, & attract business
jet: for divination & "to invoke the Great Goddess"
grape agate: prophetic dreams, visions, & intense meditation
aragonite: to draw upon the energies of "the Earth Goddess"
tree agate: to restore energy, relax, & connect deeply with nature
malachite: for love, balance, guarding children, & protection
Idk how I feel about those descriptions but they definitely jumped out at/ called to me, and for similar feelings to what the description said even if the descriptions didn't feel or seem quite completely the most accurate.
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gem
fusion | corrupted gem
crystal gem | homeworld gem
role systems based on steven universe gems!
gem system genders are genders related to being a gem of [x]/an [x] gem. they are connected to [x], [x] aesthetics, gem aesthetics, and being a gem in the 'steven universe' sense. these terms should be named as ‘gem[x]’ or ‘[x]gem’ - for example, a kitten gem system gender might be called ‘gemkitten' or 'kittengem'.
fusion system genders are genders related to being a fusion of [x]/an [x] fusion. they are connected to [x], [x] aesthetics, fusion aesthetics, and being a fusion in the 'steven universe' sense. these terms should be named as ‘fus[x]’ or ‘fusi[x]’ - for example, a kitten fusion system gender might be called ‘fuskitten' or 'fusikitten'.
corrupted gem system genders are genders related to being a corrupted gem of [x]/an [x] corrupted gem. they are connected to [x], [x] aesthetics, corruption aesthetics, corrupted gem aesthetics, and being a corrupted gem in the 'steven universe' sense. these terms should be named as ‘[x]ruptem’ - for example, a kitten corrupted gem system gender might be called ‘kittenruptem'.
crystal gem system genders are genders related to being a crystal gem of [x]/an [x] crystal gem. they are connected to [x], [x] aesthetics, earth-related aesthetics, crystal gem aesthetics, and being a crystal gem in the 'steven universe' sense. these terms should be named as ‘[x]crysem’ - for example, a kitten crystal gem system gender might be called ‘kittencrysem'.
homeworld gem system genders are genders related to being a homeworld gem of [x]/an [x] homeworld gem. they are connected to [x], [x] aesthetics, space/alien-related aesthetics, homeworld gem aesthetics, and being a homeworld gem in the 'steven universe' sense. these terms should be named as ‘[x]homem’ - for example, a kitten homeworld gem system gender might be called ‘kittenhomem'.
the top three stripes of each template are from:
gem system: the steven universe logo and younger steven's shirt
fusion system: sugilite, sardonyx, and opal's gemstones
corrupted system: jasper's corruption splotches
crystal gem system: garnet, amethyst, and pearl's gemstones
homeworld gem system: the diamond authority logo
to use these templates, place them over a ten-stripe flag template and color in the five blank stripes. typically, terms in these gender systems use the same color on the two stripes surrounding the large middle stripe (here’s one example and another), but they don’t have to.
tags: @radiomogai, @en8y
flag id: five flags in a nine-stripe format, with the fifth stripe being twice as large as the rest. only the first, second, third, and fifth stripes have color, while the rest are transparent. the top flag's stripes, in order, are soft red, light red-pink, golden yellow, and cream.
the middle left flag's stripes, in order, are dark indigo, light pinkish-red, very light blue, and cream. the middle right flag's stripes, in order, are dark teal, light faded green, pale yellow-green, and cream. the bottom left flag's stripes, in order, are dark pinkish-red, purple, pinkish-white, and cream. the bottom right flag's stripes, in order, are very light pink, very light blue, very light yellow, and white. end id.
banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.
dni link
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