#this show is such a gem (as are all steven shows)

[pink-onyx-au]

I had asked if Steven was corrupted a while ago, since he fused with jasper. Your response was that hi human suit was in the way, from what I remember. But, your recent comic shows corruption on his shoulder, is this a sign of his skin "letting go"? Like, tearing apart? And then having light (like full gems) cover that part of his body?

Sorry for all this, my inner theorist came out

That might be the case! I love theories and ideas so I'm happy to listen to all of them. (Sometimes my answers might be spoiler- friendly, with clues) but the boy is looking a little tattered. When he corrupted the first time, he did kinda... open right up.

#pink onyx au #mun mumbles

[insomnious-illustrations]

Finally finished Steven Universe Future!

#im crying and returning to my roots as a su fanartist #cringe culture is dead embrace the show with its flaws and all #sad i didnt watch while the fandom was alive lol #its okay ill make my own content #steven universe #su #pearl #garnet #amethyst #the crystal gems #digital art #artists on tumblr #my art #when you procrastinate so hard during finals week that you end up binging the show you've been avoiding finishing for three years

[tigergendermoved]

Remembering the toxic hellscape that was 2015-2019ish SU fandom and just how much hate the show got is really insane when you rewatch the show after it's been a while. Like the show is good what the hell were any of these people talking about

#do NOT quote me on those numbers i pulled them straight out of my ass #like the ending was rushed and the diamonds didnt get to be fully developed but liek #the whole reason that was the case is there was an entire 6th season planned #and then the show got axed early because rebecca sugar and crew refused the back down on the rupphire wedding. #and even rushedness aside like the point of the show was never that you should hug fascists and forgive people no matter what #the diamond were rose's (and his) dysfunctional family whose personal suffering became the basis for the cruelty of gem society #bismuth in The Real World would have been right to want to kill the diamonds as a force of revolution #but the point of the show is that even the most complicated people are still people who can change. even if you dont forgive them #even steven quartz universe the most loving boy in the world very obviously does not like being around the diamonds. but that is how it is #it was a children's show that emphasized compassion and communication and family as themes. of course steven didnt kill the diamonds lol #i really fully believe the stevenbomb format (which was not the crew's choice or fault) cooked peoples' brains #you had months between major arcs so every wrongdoing by a character had months to be warped and misinterpreted and so no resolution could #ever satisfy fans who were festering with their own opinions for way too long #like these arcs looking back are not that long and they resolve in fairly reasonable manners but they took fuckin forever in real time to #wrap up #and ppl on the internet with no other hobbies than arguing made the fandom suck to be in and gave su a bad name #even if you dont like steven universe i think the amount of vitriol thrown at the show is/was fucking INSANE for what it is lmaooo #people were so so jolly to accuse rebecca sugar (a jewish lady) of being a fascist/fash sympathizer and paint every writing shortcoming or #morally dubious character action as a sign of pure fuckin evil #ok that was a long ass fuckin rant in the tags i am so sorry i'm just kind of opinionated on this matter as i am all matters #i've been rewatching su with my dad lately and this very normal and well paced and fun watchthrough experience has been illuminating #just how insane and uncalled for the hellish discourse sphere around su was/is #i say was/is i have no idea what su discourse is like nowadays. i'm too scareds to look in the su crit tag

[captainshyguy]

i do wish that people hadnt been so rabidly critical and vicious towards steven universe back in the day, because now it feels like u cant discuss any parts of the show u didnt like without getting lumped in with those guys lol

#like idk man i liked the show a bunch #but i did also fall off becayse like. yeah i can see the tragjectory of the show now! #i can see that it was always gona be about this broken family of the diamonda and all that #but like. idk man. i tend to prefer when we focus on the little guys #and yeah we did do some of that. but that (planned) swerve near the end there really lost my interest #like i know rose being pink does make her infiitely more complex and its a fine choice to make but it still didnt do anythng for me #i still would have mich preferred to focus on the corrupted gems #on the people with no power in this struggle #its lik how i understand that the diamonds are basically a metaphor for someones like. bigoted aunt or something #but that still doent mean that i like that the people who razed dozens of planets to the ground were given time and priority #over the footsoldiers man!!! #like yes yes i get it its a metaphor its a escalation what else where they gonan do but like idk man i can still not like that turn!! #i can still wish they just....idk overthrew them or bubbled them or something. idk pull an anndrias from aphibia. community service lol #i can still wish that steven had healed the corrupted gems like it felt like it was foreshadowed #(since. yknw. rose can heal physical things- and stevne can a bit too but he can astral project into -peoples minds.) #and the corruption was an inury of the mind first and formost. #like. why would u set that up and not do that jgsnsgknkjdnjkgds #i can stil lthink the proportion inconsistenies were weird and too me out of the moment #eh idk its frustrating #like it feels like u say somehng like this and u have one guy going 'ikr the ahow SUCKED steven shoulda KLLED THEM' #and another going 'omg its a KIDS SHOW SHUT UP FORVER NO CRITICSM' #abd im sitting here in the middle like i tihnk theres some nuance here lads. i think we can habe a middle ground #luke rambles

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

yes there are more and more childrens works nowadays that do talk about the moral implications of putting children in dangerous situations but it’s usually like. really clear if that’s what the work wants to talk about. otherwise children’s media have child protagonists get up to funky adventures and save the world because it’s children’s media. targeted towards children. who have rich internal lives outside of their interactions with adults. who want to see people like themselves be the hero of a story same as adults do.

like as a fan of childrens shows myself im certainly not going to scoff at adults who like children’s shows bc some of them are genuinely good but. if youre not part of the target audience then it’s expected that you go into children’s media with some suspension of disbelief? like no a plucky 12 year old irl probably can’t fight god no matter how much they love their friends and if a creepy old man beams out of the sky to tell them to then you should probably call the police. but if the show is positing the plucky 12 year old as the protag and the creepy old man as their mentor then just. go with it?

there is media that shows how a child protagonists’s adventures could be traumatizing and how the adults around the protag have failed them by letting them go on an adventure in the first place. that kind of story can resonate with kids too. but your takeaway from that kind of story should be “sometimes adults put kids in unfair situations and this is a fantastical representation of an irl situation.” your takaway shouldn’t be “the adults in this story suck for letting a 10 year old fight a dragon therefore every single story where a 10 year old fights a dragon should also talk about why all the adults involved suck and if they don’t then it’s a bad story” like. the dragon is not the point here!

frankly if you look at children’s media and cannot bring yourself to do the one bit of suspension of disbelief needed to keep the story going then. what are you doing here? if you want to explore how adults put children in dangerous situations and use an adventure style story as a backdrop then there are many works, both for children and adults, that explore this. but just because a piece of children’s media has the same vibes as another piece that explores something doesn’t make the first piece bad if it doesn’t explore it.

what you want is just a different story at that point. possibly one targeted at older audiences. or you’re just trying to be edgy. either way if you’re complaining about something like that then you need to understand that there are some stories that you’ll only be satisfied with if you rewrite the entire plot itself. at that point just reread/rewatch the thing you actually like instead of rewriting the whole book/show/movie to be a clone of it.

#shut up pandora #this is about all the pearl clutching folks out there who havent read anything higher level than YA #being like WHERE ARE THESE KIDS PARENTS #my dude i doubt the teenage target audience cares about these kids parents they just want to see katniss everdeen shoot a bitch #same with kids shows like #just because steven universe did a miniseries on how the gems and greg were bad parents doesnt mean every show needs to nowadays #also yall stop comparing the owl house to amphibia i know they have the same isekai gimmick but theyre shows of completely different vibes #just because camila is a good mom for going with luz to the demon world doesnt make the boonchuys bad for sending anne to amphibia alone #and i like comparing the owl house to other shows but the adults wanting to protect the kids is something that specific show wants to explor #this is a welcome addition it shouldnt be a requirement for the show to be considered good #miraculous isnt bad bc they put two 14 year olds in charge of saving paris this show is targeted towards kindergarteners #miraculous is bad because its badly written and hasnt seen a plot development since the pilot #these are not the same

[ice-block]

Can always tell when I’m selling rocks to a Steven universe fan because they pronounce sugilite wrong

#it’s SOO- JUH - LITE not SOO- GUH - LITE #in su they say soo-guh-lite and it bothers me #Steven universe is alright but my biggest critique is clearly no research was done for the rocks at all considering at least 2 have their #names pronounced wrong #(peridot and sugilite) #(peridot is a little grey because technically a western pronunciation COULD be pear-ee-daht but it’s a French word and the original #pronounciation is pear-eh-DOH) #what also bothers me is in Steven universe future there is a larimar gem and larimar is really cool except 1. the gem persona looks nothing #like larimar. and 2. larimar is from the Dominican replublic and forms in VOLCANOS and in the show larimar has ICE powers. which is probably #just because it’s blue. when they could have literally had the blue character with fire powers and a fun call to larimar a origins #but whatever. WHATEVER. #also it annoys me how there’s just a ‘jasper’ when jasper is such a broad category and there’s a million fuckin types of jasper. that’s like #having a character who is just ‘quartz’

[yardsards]

opalite is such a lovely stone (or, "stone", cuz it's manmade like glass). it's different colours depending on what angle you look at it and where the light source is and what's behind it. in the light, it gets a cloudy yellowish colour like the morning's first weak rays of sun. but on a black background it practically glows blue. very underappreciated, tbh.

#eliot posts #wearing my opalite pendent with a black shirt makes me feel like i have a magic amulet #i had a steven universe oc named opalite when i was like 14 #she was an early attempt by homeworld to make gems with very little resources #she was the closest they came to a success but she still was far from perfect #her body was basically falling apart at the seams and she had to regenerate every often #they declared the experiment a failure and decided to destroy her but she escaped and eventually wound up on earth lobg after the war ended #she was bad at EVERYTHING but she meant well #she was part of a team me and my cousin made up called the stardust gems. who were all gems that made it to earth after the war #the crystal gems knew they were but never enlisted them for help because they WOULD fuck everything up #it was such a funny fucking concept #and this was EARLY in the series too like peridot wasn't even introduced yet i don't think #i like to believe their existence is still canon compliant with the show #like. homeworld invades but the four of them have been lost in a cave for the past week and had no idea.

[azureblooet]

Gurl animated kids shows are gonna need a chiropractor the way they're carrying character writing like-. why these bitchass turtles and sad gay witches more emotionally complex than most adult television?

why does this gum person and her demon vampire girlfriend have a more realistic relationship than half of romance stories? Why was the gay space rocks show so fucking stylish? Why was the writing cooking with fucking GAS?

#Like dude I saw pearl and went oh “mom?” #like bro #why did the funny gay space rock show give better insight on generational trauma than all of netflix? #why is said space rock show the literal only peice of media which ive seen touch on “yeah they fucked you up” #“but like now that they've had character development you can't even still be mad which is fucking infuriating?” #Why was steven universe out here cooking with #“societal opression mirrors familial and relational abuse” #which is like some fucking TEA #like gurl people got mad at the gems being toxic as if that wasn't the entire ass point smh #like it said “colonialism and violence against minorities by governments mirrors the ways children are abused by parents” and- #GURL HELLO? /pos #BRO THAT IS SOME FUCKING TEA? #steven universe #steven universe appreciation #su appreciation #rotmnt #cw mentions of abuse #cw mentions of bigotry #not vividly but still #Gurl help why is Mikey the most “this u?” youngest sibling I've ever seen? like- #Bro literally gives his family therapy with a sweater and everything this is just youngest sibling culture dude #Like I shouldn't be suprised that tmnt has good autsitc rep #“everyone's a TMNT fan. It came free with being autistic🙄” #also rise was so fucking gay and it was everything to me #like I will never forgive nick for what they did istg #LOOK AT THESE MASCULINE MEN CRYING HELL YEAH #LET THEM FEEL THEY EMOTIONS DESTROY THE PATRIARCHY! *window shatters in the backround* #like the number of cartoon characters which are like “they aren't dating and they're also not friends but instead a secret third thing” #queerplatonic relationships my beloved #no but like Mikey being the one who sort of jumps around and coaches both sides of an argument is so fucking real.

[hall0wedwyrm]

Hello I have never watched Steven Universe.

Anyway here's some Gem OCs I made

Basically, the premise is that theres a group of gems who are very pro-fusion and take in other misfits or malfunctioning gems. These three are the main members of the group. I wanna doodle the rest of the group soon but all of this SU research and doodle practice was so much fun omg.

I doodled DS and Mags' components. Verdite is a permafusion and its very rare to see her unfused so i haven't drawn her components yet.

Mags is an Amethyst and a Rose Quartz. They met while doing their roles on Earth and eventually ran away together. RQ avoided capture because of Amy. (also these doodles are semi-old but i still think they portray Amy and RQ very well)

The Sapphires!! I really really like them lol. I dubbed them Blueberry and Bluebird to define them (and also I had the idea of them calling eachother those nicknames too and its very sweet). I know that the whole thing of Sapphires is "they read the future" but i had the very smart and very original idea of "what if... one didnt??" and thats how i made Blueberry. She CAN use her future vision, but it takes a bit of time to unlike other Sapphires. I wanted to draw them as their fusion because I liked the idea I had for them so i had to draw it lol

I have other ideas for members of the group and I have an idea for one of the members that I think is funny.

#Why did this take such a grip on me. Its all ive been doing literally all week #Like from Sunday to today and probably next week too #All of my knowledge is from the Wikia and also from watching clips of it when it was at its peak #so if some stuff is inaccurate its because ive literally never seen an episode #I was gonna watch it when it was on Netflix... but why the hell does it start at season 5 on there???? #i also know you can rent shows on Youtube but idk if i even want to actually watch it now lol #im totally gonna go draw more gems now bye bye #steven universe #steven universe oc

[kaleuh]

every day i'm like . if i were steven i would have just Simply been nice to spinel

#every gem: (tries to destroy earth) #steven: its okay! we're friends now :) #spinel: (does the same thing) #steven: fuck you :) #future was a bad show and i'm glad we all decided it's not canon #BETTER show: spinoff called Other Friends where it follows Spinel and her endearing roger rabbit hijinks

[howhow326]

... so are we ever going to talk about the fact that Pearl traumatized every member of the crystal gems or?

#i dont think Pearl is evil or anything #but a lot of the stuff she pulls is really bad #and we see all of the crystal gems are hurt from it #pearl is half of the reason why amythest has self worth issues #pearl r worded garnet #pearl trauma dumped onto Steven #Pearl is just very messy #and I dont think the show ever really talked about that excpet as a joke #steven universe #su #su pearl #sorry if this is too negative #just getting my thoughts out there #anti pearl #i guess??? #again #i dont hate Pearl #but i feel like the show never really talked about this stuff #the same way it talked about amythest being bad in s1

[i-am-bored]

So I started watching Steven Universe for the first time

Pearl was in love with Steven’s mom right? I’m not crazy? I’m not that far in but that’s the vibes I’m getting 

#steven universe #all i know about this show is that its gay #and garnet is two gems or something #and they get married #but pearl is so overprotective #and the way she interacts with steven #and talks about rose #its not very heterosexual of her

[artbyblastweave]

I'm not the first to mention this, but one bit that I thought was really clever in Steven Universe is the ways in which the show subtly justifies the cartoonism of the principle cast always wearing the same outfit for ease-of-animation purposes. The gems are a gimme in that they're all hardlight-projections, and even before that's solidified as a plot point they're otherworldly and superheroic enough that you don't really think to question it. But Steven canonically just owns hundreds and hundreds of those star shirts, which are leftover merchandise from his father's fizzled-out career as a rock star. Into which you can read a whole bunch of other stuff if you really want to, right? And I do want to. It's reflective of Greg's misplaced optimism that he got hundreds of those made in the first place, and it's a benign but visible example of how Steven's life is shaped by the knock-on effects of decisions his parents made before he was even alive. He's got his mother's superpowers and he's wearing his father's shirts.

#steven universe #steven universe analysis #greg universe #thoughts #meta #su #contrast Connie who actually does have a range of diverse outfits #and tastes in outfits which evolve over the show! #because she's part of Steven's Universe #but she has somewhere to go home to

[sevenines]

the framing of gems-as-robots is one of my favorites. the role of biologist and engineer are the same! gems directly interface with their technology!! they glitch when hurt and have circuitry as veins!!! the are born, programmed, with a purpose!!! they call other life organics—they are not!!!!! white diamond is the equivalent of the tetris ai that paused to avoid losing at all costs, hiding herself away in her head as to never be wrong about pink-rose-steven and the nature of gemkind!!!!!!

#steven universe #*thinks about rebecca sugar’s quote about gems being ‘solar-powered robots’* #*thinks about it again* #*and again* #the ai-realization/robot uprising genre has its own set of assumptions and affordances that are interesting when applied to su #of course it all hinges on the idea that the robots are created by another race and therefore all blame can be shifted to /them/ #just a bunch of victims! which makes it understandable why a lot of people wanted the show to delve into ‘who created the gems’ #but ultimately su shows itself to not be of that genre and not really be about those sorts of themes #and i’m not trying to fit a square peg into a round hole!! but things like these are fun to think about #people would be much more forgiving of many of homeworld gems’ actions #if thought through the framework of ‘programming’ #but they have agency as is and i quite like that #in general i’ve seen many say that calling gems ai would diminish the story or even just not add anything at all #i disagree! but i sorta see why (maybe) (not really)

[justanotherinsanity]

Steven Universe.

#literally obsessed #i never watched the whole show as a lil one #now i did #at 18 #best life decision #ever #steven universe #crystal gems #they're all so amazing #and the growth is immaculate #here comes a thought #playing on repeat #in my head