People were asking for fusion AND THERE SHE IS!
Continuation of my Good Omens SU!au, Aziraphale’s and Crowley’s fusion.
Her name is Kunzite, another stone strongly associated with love. To quote: «Stone of Emotion, opening and connecting the heart to the mind and stimulating a healing communion between the two. Kunzite encourages one to release walls built around the heart for protection, and to be receptive to the experience of unconditional and abundant love»
GOOD OMENS SU AU BECAUSE I CAN
gem!Aziraphale is Moonstone and gem!Crowley is Red Beryl Both gems are associated with love, moonstone being comforting if love must be hidden, while red beryl associated with lasting love and commitment. It surprisingly fits them even tho i picked up stones based more on the color.
Before Steven was born Amethyst used to say ‘fuck’ all the time & so when he was a baby Greg had to sit her down and explain that she has to stop swearing around Steven because he’s young & impressionable
So Amethyst is like “but that’s my favourite word, when will be stop being young & impressionable so I can say it again??”
And Greg is like “uhh I don’t know, 15 I guess? 15 is probably old enough”
“Got it”
flash forward to Steven’s fifteenth birthday and he is woken at dawn by Amethyst yelling “wake the FUCK up Steven it’s FUCKING TIME”
& he spends the entire day losing his mind
Steven: w-what’s happening
Garnet: *deadpan* Amethyst just got her favourite word back
Amethyst: *running around the house* FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
Greg: what’s going on
Amethyst: you said once Steven was 15 I could say fuck again
Greg, who only hazily recalls the conversation in question: ……i DID?
Amethyst: *runs outside* FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK *distant sounds of spooked birds*
Pearl: Steven the *whispering* F-word is a bad word that Amethyst USED to say before-
Steven: I know what fuck means Pearl
Amethyst: *stopping dead in her tracks* WHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATT??
Pearl: who taught you that word mister!!
Steven: um… Lars and Sadie… *mumbling* five years ago…
Amethyst: I’ve been denying myself my favourite word for FIVE YEARS for NOTHING??
Greg: uh even if he knows what it means it’s still not really appropriate for you t-
Amethyst: *running outside* FFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCK
Steven: …
Greg: …
Pearl: …
Garnet: …*quietly* fuck
Everyone else: O_O
Garnet: what. I missed it too
also Amethyst made a banner that says HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY STEVEN in very large writing
Connie: what’s going on
Steven: Amethyst is allowed to say fuck now
Connie: oh! are we all allowed to say fuck now??
Greg & Pearl in unison: NO!!
Peridot: what’s fuck
(whispering urgently under my breath) I’m in Bellow Hell
“She’s so strong, but so weak when it comes to Blue”
They’re so cute together! Yellow’s apparently got jokes and Blue loves it!
wifes? wifes
You know what I love to design? GEMS! This is a character design commission I’ve been working on this month for @gerbilfluff - they asked me to design three gems for them: Honey Calcite, Hematite, and their beautiful fusion Shamanite. This was such a fun experience! <3
stay tuned for more Honey, Hematite, and Shamanite content! for now - thank you, Gerbil!
Guess who lost their mind and caught up on all of Steven Universe in roughly a day and a half so they could watch Change Your Mind this week. :’ D
All these Gems and such crossed over with Splatoon, so I designed Marina and Pearl as Gems! Marina is a Peridot, but she’s off color - she’s much too dark and cool-toned, so while she is within acceptable parameters she was put under constant pressure to perform correctly. Meanwhile Pearl is a very fancy Pearl, but she was overcooked and came out with a shrunken stature and a real chip on her shoulder. Her owner tried everything to make her behave, but it was a lost cause from the start… Pearl was eventually sentenced to be shattered for her insubordination, but Peridot!Marina understood her plight and took it upon herself to save them both - commandeering a ship and taking off to a place where they heard tell of a rebellion… Earth.
and then they lived and were gay :’3
outfit swap w mum!!!
Rebecca confirmed on the podcast that Rainbow Quartz 2.0 goes by he/him and they/them and Sunstone goes by she/her and they/them. Discourse is canceled now because you’re BOTH right and nb people can go by more than just they/them.
HERE’S GRUNKL STAN SINGING “GIANT WOMAN” WITH REBECCA SUGAR ON THE UKE
(beautiful drawing by dana)
the internal lore of my steven universe AU where all the gems are cars and all the humans are still humans deepened on twitter tonight
now at this point it’s clear that in this AU part of rose (her gem; her life) became steven and part of her (her body) became greg’s van
steven has wheels and his eyes light up
thanks for reading
when the debate is so good u just kinda…
im gonna talk about steven universe crying
theres been a lotta talk lately abt how su has changed and isn’t like, as good anymore ? and i dont rly have a comprehensive conclusion about that bc the amount of analysis id have to do to sufficiently back anything up is BONKERS, but like. heres just a quick personal observation of little to no value, so. grain of salt
i went back and watched episode one of steven universe today just by chance. it was one of those dealies where somebody had, like, posted it in parts on youtube, and i saw the thumbnail and steven was making a weird face that would never happen in current su and i was like ahah, lets give this a look. lets look at our boys ugly baby pictures
and what i think im feelin based on that is that,,ppl arent imagining that things are changing, or have changed.
and i think in a lot of ways, some things have changed for the better, like. the designs are a little less awkward, the voice acting is more consistent. like, stevens voice in episode one does not even sort of sound like current steven and i remember thinking he sounded weird back when it premiered. like, less like a little boy and more like an adult man talking through his nose
but i watched that scene where they all collectively point the light cannon up into the sky and fire it and, yknow. something has changed. the literal entire visual style of the show, which i will remark, is PART of storytelling. it changes what we take away from the story.
and for some people that might JUST be a good thing; if you LIKE the current visual direction of steven universe, you might very reasonably argue that the trend of change is just artists getting better at their craft. and if the crewniverse is getting closer to what they want to make rather than farther away through these changes. and id be inclined to agree. ultimately that is decided by the artists, and whether or not theyre being loyal to their own artistic vision. whether or not a piece of art is what the artist wanted to make is up to the artist. if they wanted to make steven universe a cartoon where steven sits on a toilet and farts for eleven minutes and made that change, regardless of how we criticized it, if it was what the creators wanted to put into the world with their art, they would have been technically successful in doing so
but i wanna say that i do think theres meat to the argument that its losing what made it good. and im not saying that as a generalization bc, again, some people like the direction things are going in and thats valid, You could very very reasonably argue that all of this is actually a mark of success. but it seems like a large portion of the su audience (or at least the piece thats adults who post here) do not like the way things are, and i think i know why. or, at least, part of why, or part of why for me, or part of why that i remembered when i watched that light cannon fire into the sky
outside of my criticisms of su’s pacing and story problems (of which there are many, and i will fight anyone over su’s unstable, regressive narrative structure) su is generally pretty solid in addition to being visually gorgeous. but as its creators become more and more comfortable with what they’re creating, as theyre falling into a rythm (which they chose, so i cant fault them for it) su is kind of losing a piece of what made a lot of people fall in love with it in the first place
like, theres none of the visual awkwardness, first of all, any more. and by that i dont mean, like, off model drawing (bc theres certainly plenty of that, even for a board driven show) i mean theres no more amethyst picking her nose or chewing with her mouth open. thers no awkward conversations. the most common complaint and hands down the most legitimate one is about stevens body, and it rly serves as a good example of what im talking about. in their effort to streamline and create more visual appeal, the crewniverse has scrubbed away “ugly” or “undesirable” imagery from the cartoon. sure, amethyst still eats mayonnaise with her hands, but now its done in one clean gesture in stead of in some gross, awkward way with a big closeup on her face
but that gross awkwardness was part of what humanized steven universe, i think, to me and to a lot of people. that steven was actually fat and not just a tube, that they used to draw pearls butt like a weird awkward C when she turned around, that amethyst chewed with her mouth open, that all of the characters were allowed to have conventionally “undesirable” visual traits. greg and steven were ugly when they cried. they arent any more.
and thats kind of what i took away. i havent done any proper analysis, but. that was the feeling i got. that there was something rly human about the first few episodes that rly got lost the more things got streamlined. like, when was the last time steven ugly cried ? or pearl screeched and made a silly face ? or amethyst did/said something gross? or garnet did/said something rly awkward or weird? now they’re all “perfected” versions of themselves bc the crewniverse have been drawing and perfecting them for so long, but for some of us, perfect is less human
and in some way, yes, the way things are now is better. pearl, for one, looks less like a weird alien in the face region. voice acting is more consistent. characters do have a generally more “appealing” “”cute””” look to them. steven is tinier, everyones bodies are smaller with bigger heads, bigger eyes. do you remember the first time we fucking saw garnets eyes ??? they were small and kinda scary and weird, and they reminded us that she was an alien and brought up so many weird theories about why she had three, and we all began to suspect she might just have been, MAYBE, a fusion. now theyre three huge anime eyes on her face
and thats cute ! i like that about garnet, that she has a baby face. but shes not a slightly scary, foreign being any more. that served to remind the audience of her alien-ness, and in a way to remind us that she too was flawed. that she had things to hide, that she was different from us, but that we loved her anyway, scary eyes and all-and there’s value to that, i think. value to that visual storytelling.
when you wipe something clean, sometimes you take some of the texture that made it good with the dirt, yknow? these days steven is more like an always-right jesus figurine than an awkward teenager. what he says these days comes out of his mouth perfectly and poignantly phrased rather than broken and confused and through an ugly cry. how he was in season 1 was totally different. and a lot of that can be chalked up to character growth, which is important. but i think an important piece of who he was-and the identity of the show, with it-kinda got lost in the polish. and a lot of people rly enjoyed and now miss that, i think. i think a lot of us miss the “ugly” in ALL of the characters, bc it was part of who they were that we now perceive as forgotten by everyone but us.
ANYWAY !
the look now is more generically appealing. but it lost a very humanizing element, i think, that a lot of people really liked about the show in earlier seasons and id appreciate if everyone stopped jumping on the “oh anyone who critiques su is doing it out of SPITE bc its COOL NOW !!” kneejerk-bandwagon as a result of anyone criticizing something they like, as if people arent allowed to change their fuckin minds about things, bc things HAVE changed, and for some people that might be a good thing, but for others it may not, for equally legitimate reasons
Pearl and Cyclonus are almost the same character. And I know they’re very far removed characters but hear me out because WOW.
They both:
• Disliked their former government, but still care a lot about their culture.
• Are more sympathetic towards people they know rather than ideas or movements.
• Fight best when they are fighting for or are ready to die for someone.
• Are old people who are pretentious and prefer “the classics”
• Just fuckin love swords
• Are really Dramatic and Emotional but pretend they’re above that
• Love to sing and use it as a coping mechanism
• Really Gay
• Pine very obviously for those they love but never confront them and somehow everyone notices except their love interest
• Are Birds
