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steven universe future is your sign to never let the haters win because damn was the breakdown of stevens character needed

you cant spell teenage angst without at least a couple of letters in manslaughter!

behind the scenes of this piece is a goofy ass photo of me which looks like a grandma who accidentally took a selfie and doesnt know how to close the camera app, and for my own sake i will not be sharing that with the public <3

without water + progress shots below the cut

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hate when im going through fandom tags and they dont just use ___ x reader, they use ___ x YOU

girl do NOT drag ME into this shit

hate an x reader fic do not put me in a situation

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Shoutout to Pearl's shotgun that she keeps in her gem

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shedletsky drawing then pin slop … im almost done with the designs, just three more :)

(c00lkidd, shedletsky, and noob pins are revamped versions of pins that were already available. added stuff to a lot of older designs today, hopefully they look better because to me they do. hopefully shedletsky doesnt look too out of place with the others, im sure the favoritism is obvious there lol)

its cool tracking my small amount of improvement through these pins, comparing the new noli design to the old one feels like night and day to me

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it comes with the territory of being raised by 5 genderless lesbians ♥️

Nobody talks enough anymore abt the fact that steven canonically made a self insert camp pining hearts oc

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grian doing watcher lore in 2025 is a recession indicator

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got asked in a pet store by a child as I was explaining to her how hermit crabs work, "are you a boy or a girl?" and i looked her in the eye and i said, "that's for you to decide." she thought for a moment and said "boy but im gonna call you a girl" and i think thats my peak in nonbinaryism

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oh i also did a little drawing for my discord pride pfp :3

feel free to use it, just please credit me and link back to me if you can!

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crystal gems lineup!

the characters of steven universe are very much a product of their art style, so it was really fun warping them to fit mine :D

and a background study featuring rose and greg :3

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i feel like personally i noticed that he did kinda start othering steven when connie became a more present part of the team, because those scenes where they did their whole "human beings" thing while steven was just around the corner listening in on them had me fucked up emotionally 😭

Do you guys ever think about how greg never “othered” steven. like in the beginning i mean. in three gems and a baby we see that as worried as greg is about the gem part, he never ultimately sees steven as anything more than just,,, a normal human kid. Like it truly feels like greg wanted to just give steven a normal human life,,, or at least as normal as possible

Do you ever think about how the gems avoided greg as often as they could. How judgemental they are towards him in the beginning. How they genuinely think they’re better caregivers for steven to the point that theyre willing to take him forcefully themselves. And yeah obviously that was a one time thing and they regret it now but like,,, yk how they clearly cling onto steven Because of their grief for rose, and their desire to keep that part of her as close as possible? Doesn’t it feel like greg, in the earlier seasons, is kind of more like a friend to steven than a father? it almost feels like at a certain point he started to. Agree that steven was better off with the gems?

we can see that they started building the beach house when steven was Very little- like its hard to say exactly how old but he’s like. still missing baby teeth. And like yeah obviously steven should get to grow up in a house and not a van but why would greg want the house specifically built at the temple and be okay with just. Not being included in the accommodation? Greg is essentially just accepting giving steven up to the gems when hes still so young and. Why would he do that unless…He specifically feels like he isn’t fit to care for steven to begin with…? I mean like,, when he even Tries to actually parent steven after this point the gems literally stare at him like HE’S the alien in the house. Like for a solid 3 seconds

Essentially. Specifically in the early seasons we can TELL the gems think very lowly of greg. its made explicitly clear that they dont respect his judgement or his decisions regarding steven let alone. Anything really. Hell pearl fucking tries to take him to SPACE after greg explicitly tells her Not to do that. I think they get a lot better as the show goes on but like in s1 especially it is very clear the gems just do Not gaf about Anything greg says 😭😭

And obviously pearl is the most vocal about this…Garnet its hard to say since she isn’t very vocal abt Anything but she definitely feels similarly to pearl. amethyst is p chill with greg but she also doesn’t really Object to the gems’ treatment of him. They all deep down truly believe that they are better suited to care for steven than greg is— they literally say this outright in three gems and a baby and pearl says “He’ll thank us later” after they literally KIDNAP HIM. and obviously they dont. kidnap him again. and they realize that they cant raise a human baby. Obviously. But this doesn’t prevent them from clearly “othering” steven— insisting that he’s a Gem and he’s Different from other kids. (Also they still do a LOT of other fucked up shit like. AGAIN. pearl literally taking him to space despite greg NOT consenting to that WHATSOEVER is essentially the same thing as kidnapping him LMFAOOOO)

And like they do also eventually realize how important of a figure greg is in steven’s life….especially in the later seasons, and that’s when we really start to see greg be more of a Parent to steven i feel. It’s honestly why i think they kind of instilled this blatant “othering” of steven onto greg— because not only is he clearly willing to give steven up to them, but later in “mr. universe”…. greg pretty much implies exactly the same thing the gems did. That steven is Different. that he Can’t be raised like a normal kid.

Im not saying he wasn’t worried about stevens gem half before ofc, I’m sure he’d still be hesitant to take his fucking half rock alien son to the doctor or to enroll him in school but like— i truly do think greg wanted steven to have a normal life!!! and i feel like the gems kind of poured salt in the wound when it came to these preexisting insecurities, and because these are Rose’s Friends, they’re Steven’s family too and like,,, greg is completely clueless when it comes to the gem stuff!!! He doesn’t know what to do with ANY of that, but garnet, pearl, and amethyst Do— so rlly who is he to object???

Obviously i dont think either party is a Saint or the Devil in this situation or anything but hopefully I dont have to say that because this show is well known for incredibly nuanced characters so i Hope people understand what im saying here— basically i think the gems, in their grief, genuinely instilled this belief in greg that he just Wasn’t suited to care for steven. That steven was Different. that They were the only ones who knew what was best for him. And so greg truly felt like giving steven up to them was what was Best for him

And I don’t think either situation, whether living with greg or the gems, would’ve necessarily been “better” or “worse” for steven— i think his whole magical destiny is inevitable or else like the earth is gonna get hollowed out by the fucking cluster, and both living situations had their pros and cons. But like. Man the fact that the gems probably Genuinely made greg feel like he wasn’t good enough to be a parent to his own kid makes me want to scream and throw up and punch the walls sometimes

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the ‘kind character snapping’ trope has been co-opted by too many people who don’t understand it fundamentally. you can’t have your character actively think of themselves as that kind of person bc that makes it like bragging. ‘you wouldn’t like me when i’m angry 😡’ ’no more mister nice guy 😈’ ’demons run when a good man goes to war 👿’ ’honestly i scare myself sometimes 😰’ WROOOOOONG. those are all threats. first off a truly kind character should be humble and not even consider kindness a thing of theirs. and second off please. if they’re truly gentle they should be ashamed of the very thought of their own wrath and not like openly talk about it. yeah i bet they do scare themselves and others when they finally get pushed too far but like don’t have them say or consciously think that without shame… it should be like a tragic thing that happens to them against their will and not like an alter ego they’ve been gleefully looking for an excuse to slip into

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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You’re not depressed. You just need $250,000 in your bank account.

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yeah this is the shit i like to see

yall HAVE to stop saying "hear me out" and then posting the most conventionally attractive and/or humanoid character. no one needs to hear you out on spike spiegel, we can ALL tell hes attractive. we heard it long ago.

now if youre begging for people to hear you out with an image of something like a gelatinous cube, NOW we're talking, and go chase your dreams my man

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hello tumblr… sorry for my absence, ive actually been busy with an ETSY SHOP!! WOAAAAAAH!! how cool is that! if anyone is interested, i’m doing custom object show pins and also selling forsaken pins! :D wowee! anyways. going to post some of the unreleased and alt designs of the forsaken pins here! Thumbs Up Emoji.

okay thats it i need to get back to work now… will post personal art whenever i. do it. yeahhhh…

also. its not letting me link the shop but if you find me send me a message saying youre from tumblr that would be funny

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yall HAVE to stop saying "hear me out" and then posting the most conventionally attractive and/or humanoid character. no one needs to hear you out on spike spiegel, we can ALL tell hes attractive. we heard it long ago.

now if youre begging for people to hear you out with an image of something like a gelatinous cube, NOW we're talking, and go chase your dreams my man