#the answer steven universe

[annabelle--cane]

SU Future unironically goes hard in most episodes and it's a shame that it's panned by both rantsona antiwoke youtubers AND by online gays for being "for cringe white shitlib tenderqueers (unlike me, I watch black sails)"

it's sooo effective in what it does. I'm not going to pretend it's the most hardcore emotionally gritty media out there, it's still a colorful musical cartoon for a target audience of middle schoolers, but it pushes the tonal boundaries of that medium about as far as is possible, maybe more, I straight up don't know how rebecca sugar got the go ahead for half of those episodes. hey kids, do you wanna see your beloved protagonist try to make amends with his late mother's abuse victim, get diagnosed with pstd, fall out with all of his friends and parental figures, accidentally kill someone, and have a four episode long complete emotional breakdown with psychotic features as he spirals into believing he's beyond help? so do we! it's even got a character leitmotif that gets more distorted as the character it symbolizes deteriorates!

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Favorite Connie headcanon?

My favorite headcanons shifts to which one every now and then, recently it's design-wise!

I really like the headcanon that Connie's hair gained a more spiky/sharper silhouette as she got older. I make her eyebrows angular too to push it.

It's not something I draw her in all the time, but that's my headcanon.

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

I know it seems like a dumb question, but I'm a little confused about the issue of gem weapons, do they create their own weapons? So all gems can have weapons if they want? Were the crystal gem weapons created by bismuth or by themselves?

That's not dumb - it's a fair question, especially if you aren't super familiar/obsessive when it comes to SU lore.

The answer is - yes, gems create their own weapons.

Gem weapons are a kind of temporary projection of their own bodies, which are made of light. They can be summoned - sometimes multiple times in a single fight - and disappear naturally when they take damage.

We see this with the main Crystal gems. In the original show, Steven's weapon is a shield.

They're not made by anyone but the gem themselves, and they're intuitive and personalized - though the gems don't really get to choose what weapon they have. They seem to just have one that doesn't change. Once they discover it - that's it! It's donezo.

Do ALL gems have weapons? It's debatable. I personally like the idea that all gems COULD have weapons, but there are many that never bother to learn how to summon theirs. Maybe because they don't care about it? Maybe because they were never trained to, or asked to try. Maybe because they have other skills and powers that are way more flexible that take the place of a gem weapon.

Regardless, there ARE gem weapons that are just... made.

If you're fighting in the gem war and your summoned weapon ends up being, for example, a shield - well, you're kinda shit outta luck on the offensive side of things. During the war, therefore, Bismuth did indeed act as a weapons supplier to the Crystal Gem Resistance.

She made Rose's sword, for example. That sword isn't summoned nor can it disappear - it's just a well-crafted weapon that Rose carried.

So the answer to your other questions is - kinda both!

[izzybluebell]

i think about alone together a lot

[montaha1999]

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[artist-issues]

“At least it's not ferociously attacking God quite as directly as Steven Universe did…”

Not that I’m surprised by this statement, but can you elaborate on this? Kinda intrigued by your thoughts on Steven Universe.

Okie dokie, you’re not the only one who has asked me about this, so I suppose I’ll poke the hornet’s nest. 😅 I haven’t talked about this before because I assumed that everyone who wanted to hear my kinds of opinions on stories wasn’t watching or interested in Steven Universe.

It’s like asking vegetarian if they enjoyed a turkey dinner. The turkey dinner was so obviously not made for vegetarians to enjoy, so why would the vegetarian even bother analyzing the turkey?

But I think if some people are asking me why I think Steven Universe is anti-God (of the Bible) its because maybe they don’t know what the turkey is. Not completely. (Maybe not you, because like you said, you’re not surprised by my comment.) So I’ll explain my thoughts on Steven Universe.

If you’re just following me because you liked some stuff I posted, but didn’t realize that I’m a Bible-believing Christian and don’t want to hear about it, unfollow me now. Because I’m going to talk about some hot button issues here and the trolls will come out.

Steven Universe is really well-done. The jokes are funny, the writing is believable, the characters have great chemistry, great design, the concept is fascinating, the slow build-up and reveal of the plot elements is great. But when you watch the throne room scene in the last episode of Season 5 “Change Your Mind,” it’s alarmingly clear how much the whole show is not just settling for defending and championing the LGBTQ+ worldview—it goes all the way to attacking what Christians believe, on the other side.

Anything that’s pro-LGBTQ+ is doing that by default, but this show goes out of its way to do that.

You have to understand: God created and designed us. Deeper than that; He created and designed romantic relationships, and invented marriage. He didn’t just create love—He is love. So when humans come along and do what we’ve always done since the fall, and say, “I’d rather define what Your thing is and how it works for myself, God,” it’s not only an incredible slap in the face, it’s an attack on God’s actual identity—and it’s destructive for us and the people around us. Like a fish insisting it can breathe oxygen.

But Steven Universe goes beyond that. It knows that the Christian worldview is it’s biggest opposition. It digs right down to the heart of the worldview-battle. LGBTQ+ worldview says, “I should get to love what I want and be who I am, because I’m me. Love is love. (By which I mean, any action or relationship I choose to call love is love, because I’m the one calling it that.)”

Biblical worldview says “No, wait, you shouldn’t base your decisions on you alone; what you want changes day to day, and you’re broken, so you can’t ever be satisfied based on what you want—the Bible says God made you for something, and you rejected that, and it broke you. You’re not how you’re meant to be: even what you want and what you think love is is twisted up and can hurt you and others. But if you submit to God He’ll help you, He’ll fix what’s broken and give you new life by making you how you were supposed to be: He’ll live in you and through you.”

Are we beginning to get the picture?

See, the whole thing with the opposing views between LGBTQ+ and Christian people is as old as time. It’s not a new debate. It’s Satan and Eve in the garden. She says, “This is not how God said things should be,” and Satan says, “Are you sure that’s what He said? He knows if you do this thing, you’ll be like Him. You’ll be god: you’ll get to decide ‘how things should be’ for yourself.”

He lied and said that disobedience would satisfy her. That she knew what her own heart needed better than the God that made it did. That the very act of being imperfect would make her godlike.

And then Steven Universe comes along and says “if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hotdogs.”

And has a cast of created being characters who’s imperfections (Garnet’s forbidden “love,” Pearl’s obsession, Amethyst’s insecurity) are supposedly “the best thing about them; what makes them who they are.”

And has a main character who used to be a part of the god-like creator relationship, but used her power to come down to earth and completely change who she is into a fully different person.

And has a godlike Creator character who claims she “doesn’t need” her created beings (just like the God of the Bible) but they all have a little part of their creator in them so she has to repress their imperfections; she holds them all to a standard that’s impossible to reach called “perfection” and punishes them when they don’t meet it even though it hurts them to try; she expects them all to do what they were created by her for; she fixes them when they can’t meet her standard by shining her light through them and making them extensions of their Creator.

And has a main character who argues, fights back, tries to stop her, and is answered with lines that sound surprisingly like what LGBTQ+ people hear when Christians argue with them: “you’re only making things worse; you’re just deceiving yourself; even while you resist it your actual light can’t help shining through,” etc.

White Diamond just wants everything to be perfect. Like her. She just wants her created beings to “be themselves.” But what she means is, be how she created them to be.

And she’s the bad guy. She’s playing God in this show, and Rebecca Sugar is saying, “If God is telling us that can only be happy by being perfect, as He is perfect, and doing what He created us to do, then He’s wrong. Our imperfections are what make us special—unique—individuals—free—and there is nobody who has the right to take that freedom away from us, not even out creator!”

And you know what?

If God were like White Diamond, like Rebecca Sugar believes Him to be, Steven Universe would be right.

But He is NOT.

God is not a dictator who forces us to conform to a standard of perfection and then smashes us when we don’t meet it. He is a King who made us perfect to begin with, and we rejected him, because He allowed us to do that. He knew that true love was love that had to be chosen, and He wanted us to love Him by choice, so he gave us the option. But Rebecca Sugar doesn’t understand—there was never “Choose God or Choose Yourself.” There was only, “Choose God or Choose Nothing.” There was nothing except God. Then He created everything. There is no version of reality where you have something better than God, or even slightly less good but different, to pick. You’re not jumping from one ship into a smaller one, but at least it’s yours—you’re jumping from one ship into a void, and then complaining that there’s no other ship. That’s humans. That’s not God. / White Diamond didn’t make her creations perfect (Amethyst) and she didn’t make them for love. She made them for power. That’s not the God of the Bible.

Even when we did choose to try and love ourselves instead of God, and therefore warped our ability to perfectly love at all, He didn’t smash us. True, everything fell and was cursed, which is exactly what He warned us would happen if we chose it, but it was a natural consequence of breaking ourselves. And then He didn’t leave us that way. He didn’t give up on us. And He certainly didn’t just zap us, snap His fingers, quick-fix it and turn us all into robots who are extensions of Him, who say they love Him but only because it’s His voice puppeting us to say it.

No. He came to us, chose to give up His life at the exact point on the timeline when Romans, masters in the art of slow, humiliating, torturous death, would be the ones to carry out His crucifixion, and saved us Himself. Through the sacrifice of His own life. And even then, we still have a choice. We get to choose to accept that incredible self-sacrifice when we don’t deserve it, and be given new life and a relationship with the Creator who knows us and loves us better than we can love ourselves or receive love from others—OR we can just keep stubbornly insisting that our slavery to the opposite of what God wants is somehow freedom, and our twisted versions of love are genuine, and we’re not broken, and die like that. Die broken creatures who lived their whole lives stomping their feet and screaming “I’m not a creature, I’m a god!”

White Diamond sacrifices nothing, because Rebecca Sugar doesn’t know the God of the Bible. She just knows her idea of Him. She’s never actually gotten to know Him. If she had, she’d learn how silly and twisted her idea is.

Because you know what, yeah, if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs. But people aren’t pork chops. And hot dogs have flavor (not better than pork chops) but they are awful for you.

Christians aren’t perfect cuts of meat with no individuality or flavor. Just because we all know and love the same God doesn’t mean we have no personalities. It just means we don’t think so freaking much about what we are, or who we get to be, or what we like and want. Jeez, what a self-centered, narcissistic, self-obsessed way to live. She plays Steven like he’s this wonder-child, innocent and full of heart, who encourages his friends to love and keep trying. But honestly?

This is very pretty animation but it’s not real. Steven looks happy hugging Steven but self-love doesn’t ultimately get you that.

That’s all based on the premise that what he’s encouraging them to do is actually good, and will make them happy, and will help them love better. And it just won’t. Not in real life. That’s not how any of this works. Self-love is just self-obsession. And that is a sure-fire way to hurt you, and everyone around you.

You’ll never be free by choosing to run to a worse master. You’ll never be satisfied with your crappy attempts at loving yourself, because you were made to be loved flawlessly and forever by someone who is Love Himself.

And choosing to identify with your imperfections doesn’t make you uniquely you. It just makes you exactly like every other human being marching in the same line since the Fall.

White Diamond’s not relational. She’s up high and distant. That’s not God. He made you to be in relationship with Him. He loves you, totally and perfectly, and He proved it by sacrificing for You.

So yeah. That’s the problem with Steven Universe. Come get me, SU fans.

[drawsdenfiles]

Your art looks like someone ran Steven Universe through a blender babe. Don’t quit your day job.

[love-takes-work]

Happy "The Answer" premiere anniversary

So can we just agree that this is the official pose of the accidental highly unexpected fusion or

together they will conquer the world with the power of floofy hair

[saiscribbles]

I see that there are hibiscus flowers in the Wulfenite comic.

Did the fusion take place before or after the reveal?

Since I have never drawn Switcheroo in any sort of chronological order in my entire life luckily you can tell where we are in the timeline by Jasper:

The split in her face stripe and broken horn? This is after Future. 😝

I pretty much picture their relationship actually starting a bit after the main show timeline.

[female-hysterics]

Waking up with Steven in between your thighs though-

Listen...I fully believe that the second you start getting intimate with Steven it's like you've unleashed a beast.

I think he would quickly grow needy and almost addicted (until he gets used to it) to the pleasure he gets from your body. He has a lot of pent up desires so he is definitely on you whenever he can. Of course, he would also grow desperate for your pleasure as well, and would give you orgasm after orgasm until you are a shaking crying mess.

So, waking up with Steven between your thighs isn't that uncommon.

He would love to go down on you and he would happily spend hours licking between your thighs while palming himself. So when you wake up to him settled between your spread thighs you know you're not going back to bed anytime soon.

Steven has an almost dazed expression when you finally drag him from your soaking pussy after your third orgasm, like he's unaware of what's going on even though he was just growling filthy praise against you, and your entire body is trembling and jerking from the constant overstimulation. You would beg him for a break and he would simply nod while kissing you breathless before trailing those sweet loving kisses back down your body.

"Just one more, yeah? Give me one more and then I'll fill you with something better than my tongue, love."

And you are helpless to do anything but obey his soft urging and hungry touches.

[stevenquartzcutiepieuniverse]

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Hey if you're taking requests, I have a very specific one. Steven and Connie on the red carpet of an award show. Steven looks like a pink Cinderella and Connie is the prince

I ate and forgot I was drawing requests so I slept the whole day. ;-;

So here's them dressed up as Charming and Cinderella because I can't think of a design for the prompt. 😶‍🌫️

(I'm not taking requests now. I was just going over the requests I didn't fulfill when I did!)

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

hello!! would you consider posting the art of steven's gem inside his head from the faq page on its own? i just think it's really cool and would reblog it!! absolutely love the comic.

I think I've posted it somewhere before, but I can't find it at the moment so sure, let's have it again! :)

Here he is!

[pastelpinkillustrator]

Do you have any more art of pastel pink Pearl? She's SO cute!!!

As it so happens, Pastel Pink Pearl recently attended a Little Homeworld class called Cellphones 101!

(◍•ᴗ•◍)❤ I'm so glad you think Pastel is cute, she sends her love!

[montaha1999]

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[annabelle--cane]

you know of the hannibal vs steven universe poll me and my friend moderated holy shit............. ive been a fan of your blog for years now i hope you're doing cool

it was such a good question to pose. steven is a demigod and could probably kill a human in an instant, but his whole thing is deescalating situations through communication before resorting to violence, and hannibal's whole thing is taking advantage of people's trauma and repressed violent impulses to escalate situations as much as possible, and steven has both of those in buckets. if you just set them up to Brawl then steven is absolutely winning, but if they're up against each other in a more relaxed setting then something beautiful and unique might happen.