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Just to be clear
I don’t want to pedophiles near this blog.
I also don’t want MAPs, recovering pedos, pedophile apologists, pedophile sympathizers, etc anywhere near this blog.
People are getting way too laxed with pedophiles in fandom spaces and I don’t need them near this blog.
su complaint of the day
why did they change from the pilot designs.. all they needed was to fix garnet’s afro
okay Yeah i was just thinking of this the other day,,, honestly,,,, Have You Seen Beta Lapis
BETA LAPIS BETA LAPIS BETA LAPIS BE
Something I personally loved about Beta Lapis (beside her incredibly messy hair that I miss so much) its how her skin seemed to melt when she felt down (specifically, when steven told her no)
An alternate Season 2
I talked a bit about lack of payoff in the second season in a previous post and I got asked to expand a bit on what I would have liked to see the show go on to do after the first season. (I’m going to be honest I wrote that post under the impression Mirror Gem/ Ocean gem were the end of the first season but I mean…since basically every episode after that with maayybe four exceptions was filler up until Jail break can you blame me for thinking that?) Since by that point the audience was still under the impression that the war for earth destroyed the entirety of the gem civilization save the crystal gems we know and gem monsters.
I thought that the show was about rebuilding a lost civilization out of and with the help of broken people healing.
The set up made steven learning his powers integral to the story, it made his human side vital to the theme of new beginnings
SO what if we did get something like that? Here’s some ideas trying to take the themes brought up in the first half of season 1 to their logical conclusions
So in no particular order:
Steven tries to heal centipeetle early on, right after his success with healing Lapis. We get something similar to Monster Reunion, but this time he’s actually successful and centipeetle doesn’t disappear from the narrative
Maybe centi’s whole crew is healed and they begin to work on fixing their ship
It’s either at this point, interacting with another gem unfamiliar with Garnet, that Garnet is revealed to be a fusion OR
Garnet is revealed to be a fusion during or right after the stevonnie episode
Steven begins trying to heal other corrupted gems and we get some interesting conflict between the crystal gems and some newly healed gems that fought for homeworld
Or gems that fought for Rose and maybe regret it
Just some characters with conflicting viewpoints! Gems that see the crystal gems as the destroyers of everything they once held dear! Gems that see Steven as a hail mary for their species! Gems unsure how to live in a world that is not a rigidly-structured heirarchy!
Steven treated as someone still learning and growing out of his naiveté and not the sole voice of reason all the time
Newly healed gems that dislike the crystal gems finding that they really enjoy the humans of beach city
BISMUTH! She gets unbubbled earlier on and is fucking livid that after she got imprisoned finding out what Rose did
Bismuth winds up still liking Steven despite of this, maybe she’s the one that tells Steven he absolutely does not have to be like Rose at all
Bismuth becoming the first (besides the crystal gems) to actually join the cause Steven started of rebuilding a better gem civilization on earth. Steven is “do no harm” to Bismuth’s “take no shit”
Lapis returns at some point, after finding out that the war Rose led had been won, at the cost of Homeworld
Lapis doesn’t forgive anyone, really, but despite being more than a little wary of her she bonds with Bismuth over their shared imprisonment experiences
The two spend a chunk of time (that we get to see! Without Steven there!) excavating and rebuilding sunken Gem buildings and architecture like the Lunar Sea Spire. They hash some things out, to a varying degree of success.
Still want our favorite crystal gems to punch some evil space bad guys?? I want that to!
Some surviving gems from Homeworld turn their eyes toward Earth and we get a Peridot arc that plays out relatively similarly, but Peridot is not working on a kindergarten but assessing the planet to plan how to turn it into Homeworld 2.0
Her last message to Homeworld gems hanging out in space was that Earth was ripe for colonization, then the crystal gems destroy her devices and she cannot get more information out to the higher ups
Peridot keeps her mildly threatening and cold personality but finds herself impressed with the progress made by the crystal gems and friends to rebuild gem culture (without the shitty hierarchy)
Peridot finds she likes this set up more because her intellect is no longer hindered by the ambitions of others but the damage was done by that last message
Homeworld gems come a-knockin
We get the crystal gems and the friends they made by Steven helping to heal corrupted gems fighting against a force of colonization fuck yeah
The scattered gems that had been healed and had not stayed with the crystal gems had grown to like the earth the way it is. They enjoy not being under the thumb of a tyrannical regime and do not like the idea of their new home getting turned into one
Steven becomes the focal point for these gems, since he is a product of both Earth and Gems he becomes a symbol of “Look! You can be a gem and still be a part of earth!” sort of thing
This would be the end of the second arc of the show and the beginning of the third
The third arc of the show would be the many healing gems that Steven and his moms helped against the last of the Homeworld gems
Tentative third arc ideas?
Leading the last of the homeworld gems would have to be White Diamond
White diamond is a character I imagine to be fucking terrifying, just a brutal bitch who thinks of other gems in terms of what they can do for her
She has a strangely hard time understanding that other gems might have wants and needs that do not align with her own
She thinks she’s a god, basically
(this is getting really long so heres some last thoughts) Theres a few badass episodes of the new crystal gems and the old crystal gems fighting against homeworld gems
some enemies they manage to talk into joining the fight for earth
At some kind of climax, because Steven universe seems to like to defeat bad guys in unconventional ways, in the final showdown with White Diamond is maybe betrayed by a once loyal confidant
The betrayal, getting injured maybe, and faced with the rebellion-age soldiers that killed her sisters (sisters? Other diamonds? Idk if they’re familial) and faced with the reality that her soldiers are no longer extensions of her will White diamond does not break but she corrupts
Maybe she becomes monstrous at first, but then just shrinks down into a tiny white lion
Hm this became a lot longer than I thought it would
Feel free to add your own ideas! I would love to hear them!
things i want to see in future SU
-Smoky Quartz with Rose
-Peridot/Lapis fusion (turquoise???????)
-JUST A MOMENT OF HAPPINESS FOR JASPER PLEASE
-a stable Malachite (this is really stretching it but she would be so cool)
-Steven fusing with other gems
-Pearl and Garnet being jealous that steven fused with amethyst first
-PLEASE HAPPY JASPER
-more info on the diamonds
-what weapon the Diamonds used to corrupt
-what the FUCK lion is
-I JUST WANT JASPER TO HAVE FRIENDS FREEDOM AND FUSION
-a Tiger’s Eye gem!!! (there’s a design for this type i’ve been thinking about but haven’t worked out yet)
-Pink Diamond
-Evil! Rose! Quartz!
-how the Rebellion affected Homeworld on an economic scale.
-what’s going on on Homeworld?
-gems from Blue and White courts
-P E A C E F O R J A S P E R
Also almost none of these were shown lmao….. Maybe blue court gems but that was like…..One…..
“You’re getting answers” my ass.
You know what I would like to see now???
Consistent character models!!!
An overarching plot!!!!
Consistent air time!!! (Directed at CN but still)
Literally anything with Garnet!!!! Anything that’s not ruby and sapphire!!!! Please!!!! You’ve just reduced garent to a placeholder until she can unfuse which is undoing all the stuff she said about preferring to be together and fusion being good and stuff!!!
Jasper and Bismuth!!! Literally just mention them. Neither of them got close to what they deserve, which should be so much better than being crammed away in some room never to be talked about.
Stuff about corrupted gems!!! They are still out there doing stuff and the gems just….forgot about them?
I really want someone to just….put the Crystal Gems in their place. They didn’t really win the war. They didn’t help anyone. All they did was sorta help themselves (they’re still kinda miserable….) and make everyone else sad. Humans weren’t even gonna go extinct…. And they go around acting like they’re some big heroes. (This is mostly directed at Pearl, honestly). Look at the diamonds, too sad to be proper leaders, at Pink’s gems who are stuck at the zoo, at the effect the war had on gem production. I wish Lapis, who was the best bet, would stop living in some caricatured emo sitcom and actually have some development or plot or SOMETHING. She had so much potential, so much power, so much everything and now she’s barely a side character. Same goes for peridot.
sorry im just really frustrated with su and how…..shitty it is lately. and lately’s been a long time. And I know Sugar and the other people working on the show don’t actually have that much influence, that it’s mostly up to cartoon Network, but I feel like someone here could be doing something more.
“I really want someone to just….put the Crystal Gems in their place. They didn’t really win the war. They didn’t help anyone. All they did was sorta help themselves (they’re still kinda miserable….) and make everyone else sad.”
Okay
So you spark a rebellion for freedom and the sanctity of life, yadda yadda, that’s all good.
Then your leader imprisons/silences the one member who starts to talk about proactively fighting to free your brethren offworld from the oppression of the intergalactic empire you’re battling.
Then your enemy attacks and wipes out the vast majority of all of your forces… yeah, that totally counts as a victory.
Spend the next few millennia just chilling around on the planet, casually trying to subdue corrupted gems, turns out you still have a colonialist mindset towards the local humans and think they should only be shepherded and protected like animals.
From a strategic perspective, it sure seems suspicious that an empire with numerous armies and fleets would just give up the ghost and leave you alone after bringing you to your knees. But nah, it’s probably nothing.
Then your leader decides that it’d be nice to become human and abandon her current identity without dealing with/noticing her subordinates’ considerable emotional problems that will certainly prevent you from being an effective force even further. You know, at least give them some proper pep talks, briefing, assistance, instead of leaving your son a goddamn VHS and a magical lion that he will not have the knowledge or experience to properly use.
A few years later, Homeworld starts sending recon probes again. So you blow ‘em up and go back to acting like nothing’s wrong.
Then they send a manned ship to investigate. So you blow that up, and go back to acting like things are normal. Never mind that your world is back on their radar, and you have to come up with contingencies fast in case they try to check up on you further.
Then you capture one of their technicians, the one who started this whole mess by being sent to investigate your planet. She is visibly very frightened and speaks of a “cluster” that will soon destroy the planet. So you bubble her and go back to acting like the whole situation has been solved, never mind the basic use of interrogating your prisoners for vital intelligence.
Only your youngest member’s curiosity actually gets you to bother listening to her crucial knowledge on the superweapon that will soon destroy the Earth. Any break in this chain of lucky decisions, the planet goes kaboom. All thanks to a complacent force that is woefully incapable of fighting a war.
Bismuth should have been in charge. Rose was ultimately a failure.
you ever think about how Garnet apologized to Steven in Future Vision, as compared to Pearl’s “apologies” in Rose’s Scabbard and Friend Ship?
Don’t forget how Garnet apologizes on Warp Tour. She doesn’t make excuses, she just says upfront she made a mistake and apologizes for it
Meanwhile Pearl just bemoans how bad her fuck ups make her feel until the people she hurt are guilt-tripped into forgiving her.
RIGHT!! God fucking damn it she always walks away and expects people to pity her. It explains why she was so shit at her apology when she was forced to confront garnet. She STILL felt the need to play the victim lmao and act as though what she did was justified
i remember one of the reasons i love amethyst so much is because she’s... like me! she’s fat, she loves to eat junk food, and she has a flawed image of herself in her own brain. she has my body type, she’s coded as a person of color, and that was so important to me in the beginning of the series.
but now she’s just... skinny but still “thicc” and her mental illness has suddenly disappeared in the span of one (1) episode. amethyst is so, so important to me and no doubt to others as well but it’s so jarring to see how drastically she’s changed.
gem harvest is harmful not only because it implies that a presumably mixed child is 100% okay with racist relatives, but the whole anti-immigrant thing is so forced and poorly handled i couldn’t finish the episode without cringing.
my parents are immigrants. my great-grandma was an indigenous person in the clusterfuck that is mexico!! we’re all mestizos! it was such a bad episode with a bad message and anyone who defends it can come talk to my brown ass.
ese cabron “andy” se puede murir en esa pinche granja.
hi everyone! i’m soledad (or sole, or chole..) and this is my su critical sideblog since stephen university has been letting me down a lot & i guess it’s time to be bitter and angry and join other bitter and angry people
su blogs that inspired me to make my own: @tiredruby + @critical-doc + @liberalbismuth + @su-critical + @stevenuniverseredesigns + @badanimation + @badstevenuniversescreencaps
hey noah Fence but when a black aro lesbian tells you a major dynamic of your aro/ace headcanon for a black character plays into antiblack/misogynoir sterotypes dont throw your arms up and call them an “"aphobe”“ for telling you that Mayhaps. Like. Think For Two Fuckin Seconds Thanks.
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