Hit That Diamond

Steven Universe sideblog. Honestly, I started it just as a place to keep all my garbage, but now I'm in deep enough to justify having an Actual Blog(TM). Call me Lu.

[turnaboutnerd]

Buy Dimitri a Coffee. ko-fi.com/noodlerama001

Become a supporter of Dimitri today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love with no fees on donations.

One of my best friends in the world is really struggling after his bank account was scammed out of nearly 11k, and Wells Fargo still refuses to refund him. He’s still working on getting his money back, but he’s in a tight spot. Any help for him would be greatly appreciated!

[annadesu]

Please vote

If you are 18+ and from the US, care about POC, women, LGBT+, climate change, health care, defeating covid, defeating white supremacist’s, etc. you need to vote. If you haven’t sent in your mail in ballot at this point, go vote in person and surrender the old ballot. Make a plan to get to the polling location. Wait in line, no matter how long it takes. Know your voting rights. Know the phone numbers to call incase the Trump “poll watchers” are there, or other forms of voter suppression happen. 

If Trump wins again, people will literally die. You think the covid numbers are bad now? Do not protest vote for Kanye, do not vote third party, do not stay home and say there’s no point. Get your ass to the polls and vote. Yell at your lazy ass friends who told you they’re not voting.

This is it, guys. This is our last chance. We are not getting a do-over. Do not repeat 2016.

[poguesgold]

HOW TO DONATE TO BLM WHEN YOU HAVE NO MONEY

a black woman named zoe amira posted a video on youtube. this video is an hour long and filled with art and music from black creators. it has a ton of ads, and in result will rack up a ton of revenue. 100% of the ad revenue from the video will be dispersed between various blm organizations, including bail-out funds for protesters. it will be split between the following, dependent on necessity

brooklyn bail fund

minnesota freedom fund

atlanta action network

columbus freedom fund

louisville community bail fund

chicago bond

black visions collective

richmond community bail fund

the bail project inc

nw com bail fund

philadelphia bail fund

the korchhinski-parquet family gofundme

george floyd’s family gofundme

blacklivesmatter.com

reclaim the block

aclu

turn off your adblocker and put the video on repeat. do not skip ads. let it play on loop whether you’re listening or not. mute the tab if you need to focus elsewhere. but let. it. play.

youtube will donate to blm for you.

please, please reblog. for people who don’t have money to spare, this is incredibly important information to have.

[pipiipek]

Love Like You from the Gems POV

Watch here on YouTube for better quality: ( x )

[cyndavilachase]

(Swear Warning!) Self care during a hiatus is boarding your own fan content.

Audio is from Mailboxes (2019), written by Grace Rolek, starring herself and Zach Callison (Steven and Connies actual VAs)! Please watch it! It’s really good. I added the smooch and reordered a few lines to fit the characters better. Sfx from freesound.org. Done in Storyboard Pro.

Keep in mind that Grace and Zach aren’t just Steven and Connie, they deserve to be recognized for their talent by themselves. :) I just really wanted to do this considering the short’s themes and how they coincide with SUF super well, it was a fun boarding exercise.

[cringebun]

Alright! There it is, I hope you are gonna like it! (>///<)

[timehuntress]

“…but home is wherever I’m with you”

[turning-the-tides]

♪♫ Happily Ever After Never Ends ♫♪

Yeee I’m still crying folks

[desnaa]

Visit Original Link

and that GOOFY headstand.

HAHAHAHA.

i like this gem :)

[novantinuum]

oh you know.mp4

no, i do not apologize for this combo shitpost/amv in any way, shape, or form

[pearl-likes-pi]

“everything stays”

Immediately after the movie ended i was making this, and now here it is–I felt like this song matched Spinel’s story so perfectly that I knew I had to make something with it.

[view in HD on YouTube]

Credit for Spinel gem 3D model: klo works!

[lemonrock]

I feel like the three of them shared one brain cell throughout the whole movie

[taikova]

catching up about some identity stuff.

[artemispanthar]

I think, personally, Pink Diamond had the idea to retrieve Spinel after the war, which is why she wanted her to stay there, and not move, so she could find her, but then, as we all know, the Galaxy Warp was destroyed, and no one had the tools to fix it.

Honestly, I'm with you there. I mean, I think Pink just kind of... flippantly left Spinel there because at that time she was pretty much full-on Diamond Authority-minded and probably didn't really see Spinel as a person, but rather a toy. She just discarded her in the garden like an old toy and at the time probably didn't give a second thought on whether she'd ever go back.

But I think Spinel was probably one of Rose's many MANY regrets from when she was Pink Diamond. And I think Rose fully intended on rectifying those regrets. I think she intended on dismantling the Zoo and intended on retrieving Spinel. Heck, she probably intended to spread the Crystal Gem way of life to other planets eventually

But everything changed at the end of the Rebellion. They drove Homeworld off Earth at the cost of the Crystal Gems being absolutely obliterated. Every single Gem Rose knew and cared for was brutally corrupted, except for the two who just happened to be literally standing right next to her. The Crystal Gems ranks were reduced to three Gems in a blink, leaving them with little to no resources. Any other grand plan they intended to do was no longer an option without the gear and Gems to do it

But even beyond the lack of resources, the toll to morale would've been devastating. This big rebellion she led that was supposed to fix everything, free everyone, create a happily ever after backfired so hard and everyone, every single Gem affect by it, it was because of her, because of her actions. And she has healing powers but they do nothing to help. Can you imagine the guilt? The absolute feeling of defeat? I can't imagine how hard it would be to fathom mounting another attack or move on Homeworld to dismantle the Zoo or retrieve Spinel when the last move against Homeworld was that devastating.

And, like, the Crystal Gems' time on Earth wasn't a pleasure cruise. Sure, they lived life and enjoyed things, but they were also working hard to retrieve and contain the corrupted Gems, a task they were still doing even when Steven was around, and trying to find a cure, not to mention doing all this in a quiet world that was once full of Crystal Gems, a ghost town of a Gem refuge that never was. I imagine it would be hard to face that every day and not lose the will to try for another big plan

So, yeah, I think Pink discarded Spinel very coldly at the time, but I also think that, years later as Rose Quartz she wasn't just kicking back relaxing without a care of the hurt she'd done. I think she was very painfully aware of it (honestly, Rose always seemed to kind of hate herself in flashback episodes) and I think it just got filed away in her long, long, long list of regrets out of necessity/a lack of feeling she could do anything about it

[jen-iii]

Imagine you’re a kid going to space camp, and you sit next to this really nice but REALLY weird girl. Like she’s really smart but she keeps gently interrupting the professor to talk about how no, it wasn’t HUMANS who did that in space, but ALIENS named after gemstones???

After a while you probably just tune her out but out of fucking NOWHERE, a giant PORTAL opens in the middle of the room and a PINK LION jumps through and the weird girl like, jumps up and is like ‘LION!! WHAT’S WRONG??” and the fucking lion just looks at her and like, motions to the portal??? (it seems SENTIENT??) and the girl is like “RIGHT” and fucking just pulls a HUGE ASS PINK SWORD FROM HER BAG?? (HAS SHE ALWAYS HAD THAT WTF?!?!) and just straight up JUMPS on the PINK LION’S BACK and just YEETS herself through the portal?? Isn’t that fucked up or what??

[hit-that-diamond]

PSA: The subtext of “Independent Together” indicates that Opal will never be a permafusion — Amethyst and Pearl are too independent for that, if you will, and it’s why they can’t ever stay fused as Opal for long periods of time.

Furthermore, the song plays to Pearl’s character development in that she’s learned to be more independent on her own. She doesn’t need Rose or Steven or Garnet. She’s her own gem.

However... the song is also about choice. And Pearl can choose to be with Amethyst. And that’s what they did. They chose to be together.

[hit-that-diamond]

I just want to take a moment to remind everyone that Steg’s opener for “Independent Together” is:

It’s a big, old universe out there—

And when you get crushed under the weight of them stars

Sometimes you need that special someone to remind you that you’re so much more.

And then Pearl proceeds to fuse with Amethyst in the song to form Opal, proving they can be “so much more” together, though they are independent souls.

Folks... Amethyst is Pearl’s special someone now. She’s the new love of her life. And this explains why Amethyst was visibly uncomfortable forming Rose to try to seduce Pearl as her “first boss” and “love of her life,” because Amethyst loves Pearl too... except, it didn’t work. Pearl looked away.

Rose is no longer Pearl’s special someone.

Amethyst is.