#<- sugar crystals

[not-kat]

here's one more steven universe throwback

[oathkeeper-of-tarth]

Then all those years of building - were they worth anything? Yes - they're just hoping you don't realize it.

Rebecca Sugar going in for the kill with some sketches out of absolutely nowhere. Here's my best attempt at getting an okay-ish image out of a blurry vertical phone recording of a screen. Original video was posted on the official rebeccasugar account on TikTok - a big thank you to @jeejyboard for bringing it to my attention.

[romancemedia]

The Most Romantic Anime Scenes of 2023

[reallysleepymermaid]

I love her so much 💕

[I.D: Sketchy digital drawing with warm colors of Amethyst from Steven Universe. She is in her movie design, preparing her whip with a smug smile and her tongue out. End I.D]

(Thank u so much @klavier-gavins-lesbian-boyfriend for the id!!)

[sromars]

Garnet 💙❤️

[sweetoothgirl]

Edible Crystals (Kohakutou)

[rosenotactuallyquartz]

rebecca sugar’s sketches of pearl + rose in gym clothes

[clnclm]

[not-kat]

been thinking about steven universe lately

[dornass]

Hi! I'm new in Tumblr, and I'm in the SU fandom for a while, so I wanna met people at the fandom here (I hope it's still alive lol) What's you're favorite character and song? My favorite characters are Steven and Lapis, and my song is definitely It's Over Isn't It? I hope I can meet you! :)

[romancemedia]

💖The Most Romantic Anime Scenes of 2023💖

My gif version of my picture post of the same name.

[reallysleepymermaid]

30 minute doodle of your favorite toxic bestie

[sromars]

We are the Crystal Gems 🎵

⭐💙❤️💜🩷⭐

[jabberwockypie]

Friend of mine just got a POTS diagnosis and was ordered by her doctor to have at least an extra teaspoon of salt per day.

Which is just to say that she does have one of the few illnesses where crystals actually do work to heal her.

[denkit0ri]

lapis lazuli painting!! yeah now i guess i do paint sometimes

[rosenotactuallyquartz]

i just got involved with the fandom on social media, and i’m surprised that the pearlrose “unrequited” misconception is still a thing, after all these years. i’m also surprised by how hated they are. as a ship, individually, etc.

even if sugar + burnett didn’t state that pearlrose was requited, i would know from the behavior of their friends.

in the movie, amethyst referred to rose as the “love of pearl’s life.” sapphire told pearl that she “swept rose off her feet.” pearl + rose lived together for centuries, but they also lived with garnet + amethyst. if the love was unrequited, they would have behaved very differently.

pearl herself would have behaved differently, too. she’s incredibly intelligent. many girls crush on her and she’s survived a lot, even prior to rose’s death. i could never picture a situation in which pearl lives with someone she is so clearly in love with for so many years, while that someone doesn’t feel the same way. pearl survived a war, escaped from homeworld, then raised a child & fixed the issues between her & greg during the early stages of grief. she loved and protected someone for thousands of years, and then lost her. if it was unrequited over 5,000 years ago, pearl wouldn’t be saying rose made her feel like she was “everything” and pearl probably would have taken space. rose would encourage this, because pearl’s happiness was always important to her.

their requited love and deep emotional connection that they had with no one else is evident, even without all the clear evidence in the episodes. rose wouldn’t blush and exclaim, “please don’t ever stop” as a response to pearl’s love confession if she didn’t feel the same way. she would simply say, “yes, you should imagine things on your own, but…” and they absolutely would not have nearly fused.

the flashbacks with greg are confusing and there’s information about pearlrose left out *because* this is a story told by greg to his child. of course there are missing perspectives and details left out. and also, there are thousands of years between the war flashbacks and the greg flashbacks. pearl and rose spent centuries together and we only see about ten years in total. the creators confirmation that pearlrose is requited *can* make sense.

every steven universe relationship is complicated with undesirable aspects. pearl and rose were two very traumatized individuals who went through so much together. yet they don’t seem to get much sympathy, from what i’ve seen on some platforms. one or both characters are often viewed as “toxic,” and their relationship being nonexistent and unrequited makes less sense than the opposite. are there some unhealthy aspects? of course! but i also think the unhealthy aspects of so many other relationships in the show are overlooked. just like how the beautiful parts of pearlrose are ignored. the *love* between pearlrose is ignored.