O-colt

Non timebo mala. I will fear no evil. לֹא אִירָא רָע. -Psalm 23, Old Testament

[graceskrafts]

“Opal’s Day Off” - Steven Universe #8

[graceskrafts]

Now that things have calmed down a little after the Stevenbomb, here is my 4th guest comic for the Steven Universe comic from boomstudios!  This one definitely has to be my favorite out of the guest comics I’ve drawn.  I had a lot of fun with it from start to finish and I’m still thrilled I got to make an official comic featuring Opal!

I also had fun adding some extra little details to this comic, so see if you can spot them all!

[wiishu]

Look out, it’s the coolest mom in the universe!

[maariaaargh]

Giant hairy hippie Steven is best Steven

[presently-kate-blog]

You would think that Andrew Jackson was giving you his undivided attention, and then you would glance over and notice that he had devoted the last several minutes to making a laborious sketch of an alligator. “Mr. President!” you would gasp, indignantly. “I have a bullet lodged inside my body,” he would say. “From killing a man in a duel. A better man than you.” He would resume drawing the alligator.

-On Presidential Doodlers

Said alligator:

(via thedancingtoast)

[purex-deactivated20241110]

i just walked past 2 construction dudes and one of em just said “i don’t think they’re right-handed or left-handed. they’re just dogs.”

[fatalcrash-deactivated20201221]

my stupid gemsona meet the rhinestone

[oldpinkyena]

Help I’m in love with Greg.

[dragoplateau]

“The Return,” the First Gem War for Earth, the Diamond Authority, and the Evidence for a Second Gem War

it’s already been two weeks since we were bombarded by the Stevenbomb, and we’re still sifting through all the loads and loads of new developments, information, clues, and hints there are to glean!

one of the scenes that’s received quite a bit of attention is the somewhat cryptic conversation Greg has with Steven about the gems’ history, particularly because of the way he feels the need to disclaim that he wasn’t there, thousands of years ago, during the conflict between the crystal gems and the Homeworld gems. and with good reason! that line does stand out as particularly shifty.

what I found most interesting about this scene, however, lies in the first gif. it’s the wording Greg uses, “…the first time they…” right before he catches himself about to say something he knows he shouldn’t and cuts himself off. granted, he goes on to tell Steven that the gems invaded and harmed the Earth thousands of years ago, which was what prompted Rose to turn against Homeworld. he could very well have been about to say, “They didn’t the first time they invaded Earth,” and that line could be as innocuous as it seems. I could be jumping at shadows here, but…

remember: Greg and Steven are talking about what Peridot will do when she arrives on Earth. Peridot’s arrival signals Homeworld gems’ return to Earth for the first time in thousands of years. that’s what this episode is titled for, “The Return.”

so with that in mind, what if Greg had been about to say, “…the first time they came back…?” after all, a great deal of gems did care about the people and life on Earth during and in the aftermath of the invasion–not just Rose Quartz, Garnet, and Pearl, but the entire crystal gem army that followed Rose into open rebellion.

even if Greg was referring to gemkind’s original invasion and colonization of Earth, that “first time” connotes that there have been other times since then. of course, he could be counting Peridot’s impending arrival as “the second time,” and if this were the only piece of evidence pointing to a second crisis the crystal gems dealt with between the First Gem War for Earth and Peridot’s mission to reactivate the Kindergarten, then this argument wouldn’t have much to stand on.

but it isn’t the only piece of evidence, so I will posit: there was a second crisis tat the crystal gems confronted at some point after the first war. as for what kind of crisis it was or when this crisis happened, that’s part of what I’ll attempt to uncover!

before we go any further, let’s use only those events we are absolutely certain happened in an order relative to one another to establish a tentative timeline.

–

“over 5000 years” pre-series:

1. shortly before the war breaks out, Rose and Pearl affirm their devotion and loyalty to one another and to their decision to fight for Earth (“Rose’s Scabbard”)

2. Rose, Pearl, Garnet, and their crystal gem comrades make their stand against–and claim victory over–Homeworld gem forces on the Strawberry Battlefield (“Rose’s Scabbard”)

3. Rose, Pearl, and Garnet find Amethyst alone at the abandoned Kindergarten; Rose takes Amethyst under her wing as a crystal gem (“On the Run”)

[When Steven asks Amethyst how long she lived in the Kindergarten, she responds…]

–

note that we cannot definitively place the abandonment of Earth’s Kindergarten or the end of the First Gem War for Earth on the timeline yet.

while Pearl confirms that the crystal gems won the historic Battle of the Strawberry Battlefield, we still don’t know if that battle decided the entire war, or if the crystal gems and Homeworld gems fought more battles until Homeworld finally withdrew its occupation forces from Earth. similarly, we also don’t know if the incident where Rose could only use her shield to save a handful of her closest friends happened during or after the Battle of the Strawberry Battlefield…or if this incident took place before Amethyst joined the crystal gems or once she was already one of them.

the only reason we can determine that the crystal gems found and took in Amethyst after the Battle of the Strawberry Battlefield is because she confirms as much when Pearl tells Steven that she, Rose, and Garnet fought there:

we can’t be certain at this point, but it does seem likely that the crystal gems found Amethyst once the Kindergarten had already been abandoned. it’s also likely that Amethyst emerged from her hole in the canyon wall after the gems running it left, especially given the fact that Amethyst talks about and points out the rocks she played on and with to Steven, but makes no mention of other gems. the fact that the position of Amethyst’s hole is so low to the ground and separated from the other gems’ holes in the canyon wall also supports the idea that she emerged much later than the other gems that were incubated there.

it’s also important to notice that Amethyst doesn’t specify who was with Rose when the two of them met. by “the others” she could have meant Garnet and Pearl, but Rose had a whole army at one point, and “the handful of her closest friends that she saved with her shield” that Greg mentions is also vague with respect to who these friends were, or how many of them she managed to save. both Amethyst’s and Greg’s comments leave room for enough ambiguity that we can’t say for sure whether other crystal gems were still around when Amethyst joined them, or whether it was before or after the incident where Rose saved her closest friends.

…so now that we have the limitations of our knowledge and the imperfections of this timeline noted, let’s move on to the main argument of this post.

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[deadwooddross]

So I tried drawin my fave gemblies, today….

[roachpatrol]

yeah seriously tell us how wizardry’s done in the new world tell me how the wizards from france and spain and britain stamped out the brujos and the medicine men and set up their own schools tell me what the fuck the british raj did to fucking india because the patel twins are going to school in scotland and what are they told about their history, tell me about native american kids learning to say wingardium leviosa with hate in their hearts and tell me about wizarding rabbis bickering about whether you can use potions on the sabbath tell me about the slaves on their ships with their wands broken, mouthing curses in the dark tell me about the runaways that made it with garter snakes wrapped around their wrists that told them when they tasted dogs in the distance, tell me about the underground railroad and abolitionists with unbreakable vows and home-spun invisibility cloaks and disilusionments, using obliviate, using imperio, knowing that they served a higher justice, tell me about what happened to black wizards in the fifties, about what gates they were storming in the sixties tell me about queer wizards taking love potions every morning in their coffee to stay married to their husbands and their wives because what else could they do?

the world only begins and ends with straight white christians if you don’t bother looking any farther than that and too many people don’t and i am tired, tired, tired

[misterracoon]

Oh. 

[hoolygun]

i only feel how i want to feel

[ocolt]

armellin said: Why!? I didn’t know you were coming(( We could have met there!

That would have indeed been awesome, but alas university and adult responsibilities are enough to put a strain on my more expansive hobbies :(

How about next year? ;)

[ocolt]

Looking to sell my pass for JIB con, Sinner Pass #16, send me an ask if interested :)

[cheese24k]

Walter is my cousin’s dog. He really has a thing for swimming.

[willow]

BABY

[entersthebattlefield]

If I had a chance of casting Planeswalkers for an M:tG Film

Sorin - Built like he could take prey down, check. That wise and aged look, check. Grim and Haunting stare, double-check.

Garruk - A toss up between The Rock or Jason Momoa, but I really wanna see a cursed Khal Drogo rampaging through planes

Jace - Accents aside, I kinda wanted John Cho for the part but man, Gael Garcia Bernal looks like fucking Beleren… at least to me.

Gideon - Sean Bean deserves this, an aura of a warrior, that tired and beaten look like he just fucking went through a bunch of eldrazi

Venser - This is hands down Chris Evans

Koth - Chiwetel or Djimon? How bout Michael Ealy!

Tezzeret - Dominic West just owns antagonist roles, he’s perfect as an agent of Bolas

Ral - Look at that fuckin smirk. Just look at it.

Who would you guys cast as Bolas, Ajani, Ashiok?! Next up, as I ponder on whether I am brave enough to post my choices for the kick-ass planeswalking ladies of Magic. Let the firestorm of internet rage begin!

[kenway]

[lkjtq]