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S5 EP6: FOUL PLAY (2/2) is now out exclusively for Patreon!

As a reminder, you can read episodes EARLY (sometimes as early as a month or two) on my Patreon, where I post new updates as soon as I finish them.

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Is Earl's crack getting wider the more Steven is controlling Jasper with his mind powers or his powers have nothing to do with Earl's problem.

Earl's crack and Steven controlling Jasper are, indeed, two separate issues. They aren't related.

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Question about Rose - I recently rewatched a few episodes of SU and was a bit surprised by how childish and immature C!Rose was even a few years before she had Steven. I feel like your version of Rose is a bit more mature/empathetic by comparison (even the way she speaks is slightly more sophisticated). Are there events that played out differently or occurred before Steven showed up to cause this difference?

Yeah! This was already touched upon, but basically

1) Rose spent more time with Greg here

2) Greg has severe anxiety due to past traumas, and Rose had to learn to meet him on his level

3) a lot of early Rose interacting with Steven was colored by him being a new gem, and her wanting to make a good impression

4) a lot of 'Rose is more serious' here came after she realized who Steven is/was and she is not necessarily acting more 'mature' as she is acting more cautious and anxious due to him being there. She isn't necessarily empathic until she realizes he IS Steven instead of WD, and even those realizations change her fundamentally.

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I didn’t see this specifically in the FAQ so sorry if this has been asked before - is it okay to draw fanart of our OCs and WDAU characters interacting?

Oh yeah, absolutely! Go for it. :) it's been done before, and I'm always thrilled to see it! Please tag me and please tag #wdau-fanart just in case!

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Hey Chekhov, this is completely unrelated to the comic but I wanted to emphasize how much I appreciate that you put your money where your mouth is in assuming good intentions and always answering/speaking in good faith. I started reading this close to the beginning, when I was a really high-strung kid, and I can say without a doubt seeing a blog that made something as awesome as WD!Steven behave like a rational adult made me want to do better. You rock 🤟

This is a very sweet message to receive, and I feel bad that I'm answering it just after I answered a (joke) ask about assassinating my readership. 😂

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Has there been anything that changed from when u started the comic to now? (Like characters or plots that got scrapped or changed)

Also If u could rewrite the comic, would there be anything that yu would have liked to add from the beggining?

Actually, it's funny that you ask because I was recently going through the document and noting all the little differences that ended up happening in the plot from my initial conception.

It's nothing Major, because the plot of this comic has been relatively solidified since its conception, but there are tons of small things that happened differently to how I had planned it.

I was thinking of making a video about it, since I haven't done that for a while. If you guys would be interested in that, let me know in the comment section, because maybe it'll give me the motivation to finally do it!

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have you ever considered hiring assassins, to help you deal with the readership?

I have.... I have thought about it.

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Have you ever thought about hiring assistants to make the comic?

I have thought about it.

I have thought about how much I would hate it.

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when the comic ends, are you gonna spill the prediction folder?

Oh yeah, absolutely! That's the plan haha

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How did you come up with the new Steven powers?

Unless they aren’t new, but I thought WD’s power set was just “mind control pew pew” and “reverse mind control pew pew”.

Well, that would be one way to do it. But given that Pink, who we are more familiar with, ended up having a whole SLEW of powers, it makes more sense to me that the powers we see the Diamonds using aren't the only ones they have (the potential for).

And honestly - I just extrapolated.

White's power ("mind control pew pew") is literally pushing herself into the consciousness of other gems and pushing them down. That's technically two things. She can suppress others' will (the current Geas that Steven uses on Jasper, but snipped down to its basic form) and also see through their eyes (Steven did this with Earl in season 2).

The glowing was just... glowing.

The power to poof gems was simply another extrapolation of White's ability to control others. She's big, yes, but SOMETHING must be making her scary.

Anyway, I suppose the simple answer is that yes, I am just making it all up. That's the nature of fanfiction! :)

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How is the Diamond's relationship in this? Are they sisters or more like the typical family structure?

You know, Pink is the daughter, Blue and Yellow the moms and White the grandma

Because if it's the latter then we can say that White Diamond stole her granddaughter's boyfriend and that would be goddamn hilarious

It's funny that this topic keeps coming up. I think back about... 4 years ago? We had a HUGE discussion about this, and now it's back again.

Here's the thing about me, personally:

I dislike trying to put gem-relationships into human-shaped dynamics.

I understand it might be useful for analysis! I understand it might be fun. I understand it's just a way to interpret the text.

But to me, the bottom line is that gems, including diamonds, AREN'T human. That's the fun of it. That's the frosting on top of the worldbuilding cake.

They don't HAVE mother-daughter relationships. Nor sister-relationships. They don't really even have the same romantic relationships as humans do, although I understand that Garnet steers very close. But it's still inherently different because their culture, their history, their very physiology and psychology-are all inhuman!

The Diamonds' family structure is just... that they're all Diamonds. That is their relationship to one another! And yes, that can be compared to either sisters OR mother-daughter-granddaughter, etc. But none of those are really 'truly' the one.

Anyway, sorry. I think that might be overthinking it. But I like to overthink. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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So, I had finaly read the WD au after like, an year procrastinating, and it is amazing, but, there is something I keep wondering, keep in mind that I had read it all on Tapas, so I might not know if it is the case, but why dont you try working with the au? I mean, I dont know if you gaing enought from donations to sustaing yourself just with that, but it whould surprise me if you didn't, because your art is amazing and the story is even better, so, there is a reason you still work? That is, if you do, as I said, I only read the au trought Tapas, so I whould'nt know if you said thatbon Tumblr. English isbnor my first language, so sorry if I messes up some sentences or words, I love your au, have an amazing day! <3

Hey, thank you for your kind words!

The reality is, even with the very generous support of those people who subscribe to my Patreon, I simply Do Not earn enough money to live off of my art.

Most of my fans are kids, which means they don't have means to pay, or have to save their money for better things - and even those who DO read my comic and are adults are rarely able to/inclined to donate money. The comic is available for free on Tapas, after all. I don't want to paywall it - Patreon is entirely for perks.

Of my total followers on tumblr (not counting instagram and twitter follower count because there's probably a lot of overlap)...

...only 1.25% subscribe to my Patreon.

And I'm LUCKY for that number. That number is enough to allow me to work part time at my IRL job and devote a couple of days a week entirely to art. Which is great!

But WDAU is not MY comic. It's a fancomic based off of original material. I cannot/do not want to put it behind a paywall and sell it as a product. I can monetize some sketches and give people benefits through Patreon, but that's not the same thing.

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Idk if you've done this before but could you show people's predictions that already happened?

Unfortunately, that folder is a relatively recent thing so there are no predictions in there from before mid season 4.

As in, I think I made it a couple years ago, but most of the predictions people make are end-game stuff details. So I don't have anything in there that is old enough to be a prediction AND have come true at this point.

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You should know I'm so insane about this comic that I'm going through the comic again to collect evidence for a theory so I can present my theory. I have no idea if it will be true but I am afraid it might be and if it ends up happening I'm going to spin around in pure delight at having noticed The Clues

I absolutely love it when people do that - give me theories and etc. Please, do it! I always have fun reading. Even if they're totally off base, or very close to correct, or 100% spot on - I won't react, but the knowledge that someone is thinking about the story as deeply as I am tickles me. :)

And if you DO happen to stumble upon something I actually planned, I shall silently put you in my personal secret hall of fame:

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Alright I know the gag of people asking for spoilers has been run into the ground by this point but I think it’s still funny so here goes:

Hey can you describe the upcoming plot in very specific detail? Actually maybe you could draw it so it’s easier to follow the action. Although drawing and writing all of that at once might be a lot to handle, so you could release it in batches every once in a while instead of all at once. It would be like some sort of webcomic! Then we could read the updates and learn the plot as we get new pages! What a neat concept, am I right?

idk man, that seems like a great concept, but I'm afraid it's a bit far-fetched.

Do you really think anyone would read that? Like, pay attention to the dialogue and understand what the characters are saying? Figure out small bits of foreshadowing in order to theorize effectively about what could happen next? Consider larger themes and put them together with how the characters act to understand the author's intended meaning beyond just the surface-level, at-face-value reading and shallow interpretation of only what is immediately apparent on the page?

It feels like it could be something... but I just don't know.

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Given that Yellow Diamond was putting shattered cluster experiments back together during Future, it's always possible that Boomy and C43 could get put back together, right?

... right?

Anything is possible, if you believe and write fanfiction.

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Did Boomy and C43 appear in Steven’s Cluster memories from Reorder? I saw two gems who look similar but I’m not sure

Ah, the big colored page in the very first episode of Season 5?

It might seem like it, but no. Those two specific gems were not visible anywhere in that page. :)