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[su-inverted-au]

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Here we go!

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

And here we have @su-inverted-au !

This story takes the very first episode of Steven Universe and turns it on its head to create a very different alternative! Instead of simply summoning his shield, Steven has a mysterious experience and ends up a little... changed... for it. :) I absolutely adore the style this comic is drawn in!

Read @su-inverted-au from the beginning HERE!

Thank you SU Inverted AU for your inspiration and your absolutely adorable fluffy haired son! May nothing bad ever happen to him.

[letmesleepwhileiwork]

Doodle Dump (Multifandom)

Sorry there ain't nothing concrete yet

[quasi-normalcy]

Anyways, for my money, the real problem with the ending of Steven Universe wasn't that the Diamonds were too easily forgiven, it's that they (and everyone else) were too easily reformed. The first series always had an edge of darkness to it that was offset by Steven's wholesomeness. The Future series was disappointing to me because it inverted that logic; everyone else was being overly wholesome whilst Steven was spiraling.

[votederpycausemufins]

And here's my Evil X gemcyt design sheet thing. I already posted the Xisuma one, so check that one out too.

the whole gemcyt au got kicked off by @chrisrin so make sure to check out their stuff and all the stuff they reblogged if you haven't already.

Another version of the sheet above but with more notes on and for it is below the cut.

Alright! I had a lot of fun figuring Evil X out, probably bc of him being one of my blorbos.

Evil X has a lot of 'theories' surrounding what he is and I've seen some variations. He and X are siblings, they're X's clone, he's a glitched version of X, they're X's hels. etc etc. And so trying to figure out what to do for him.

While I already borrowed sweetest-honeybee's design in the second part of my Zed/WM gemcyt post, I didn't want to do like that and make him corrupted. I know the gemcyt stuff seems to play with corruption a little looser, but it still didn't feel right. So, I went researching and found a fun lil mix that seems to fit well.

First off, the closest thing you can get to a glitch in terms of gems is being off-color. I mean technically you glitch when you're cracked, but we're not doing that. Anyway, off-color gem Evil X, which is why there's the gem comparison. Next, the clone/hels part. I don't mention it on the sheet, but specifically, I think of this Evil X as a sort of gem experiment. No wait wait don't leave let me explain!

We saw that there were gem experiments of some type on the show. They were more fusion experiments using shards, and were experiments for the cluster (which technically don't work since they only emerged slightly before the cluster so there was no telling if they worked and if then the cluster would work). Also on the show, we're told that there's a resource problem on Homeworld which results in 'Era 2' gems like Peridot, who don't have all the abilities a normal gem would have. Also also in the show, when Steven and Lars are with the off colors on Homeworld, we see the kindergartens there. And while there are normal holes, there are also holes that overlap, as well as holes that look like there's been a chunk scooped out of them.

The analogy I could think of was like when you're making cookies. you roll out the dough, get a cookie cutter, and get all the cookies, but assuming you weren't using a square cutter, there's extra dough left between the cuts. Instead of just leaving it, usually you reroll it to cut out more cookies. Well, why can't Homeworld try the same?

Evil X is meant to be an experiment on if Homeworld can successfully do that. They scooped out extra rock from a kindergarten or two, compressed it into a new boulder, then used an injector on it. Eventually after a long while, out came Evil X. And that whole thing also leans into the clone thing because I imagine some of the scooped rock was from part of where Xisuma emerged.

Anyway, with all that, I originally thought about making Evil X look similar to Amethyst's pseudo buff reformation, but trying to draw that was a mess. I meant to go back and make him look a little more lopsided, but you'll have to just imagine that. Whoops. At the very least he has the funky stripes. I imagine that's probably from where the different rock pieces met or something, and since it wasn't as solid as regular rock, he was like that.

Coloring him was tough, but eventually I just copied Xisuma over, inverted his colors, and then shifted the hue to be more red. I considered making the green parts more black, but it didn't fit, so they're just more purpley to show that Xisuma connection or smthn.

Speaking of his gem, I show what I picture a normal Cuprite to look like. Meanwhile Evil X's is a bit misshapen, as well as that darker area that mimics the one reference I had. specifically that darker bit is chrysocolla, but he's still just cuprite.

Instead of a mask, he's just got a visor similar to what we've seen with Peridot and Doc and technically those zircons. And also instead of a mask he has those... blade things. Look, the best name i could find for them were blade gauntlets, but they look more like sword brass knuckles to me so I don't know. Also yes they are based on a weapon a digimon had, what of it?

And then, he is hella amethyst coded. Popped out of his rock thing in a chamber under the kindergarten (similar to the other experiments in the show) with no one around. He was an experiment and uses rock from different gems and is off color, so he doesn't know what he's for. Doesn't even know what diamond he should belong to, so that's why he's got a grey one on his chest. And there's a lot of little things and ideas for him that are inspired by Amethyst's characterization on the show, to the point I was planning a screenshot redraw even before I had his and Xisuma's designs even close to finalized.

I also have a fic I'm working on with him and Gemsuma, as well as that quick Jevin design plus a few teeny tiny references to other people's gem designs. If my adhd allows it, i should post that 1 shot fic tomorrow.

[weird0artgalonsocialmedia]

Thinking about making another beast CRK AU. But, I need y'all's help.

"The So Called 'Former'?" is heavily inspired by @sunseed-fandump "lost lamb" AU.

This is almost the same plot of it, but the versions of the beasts before they got corrupted goes into the present timeline.

Headcannons:

・The Ancients were like successors of the Virtues when they were kids.

・Blueberry milk[Shadow Milk before], was a professor at Blueberry yorgurt academy where White Lily and Pure Vanilla used to study magic.

But I wanted to make it not similar, instead of the beast versions meeting their Former selves[like that one post of sunseed-fandump where present Pure Vanilla gets to see Young Vanilla]. They... Actually don't exist yet. But the sidekicks still exist despite that, cause while planning I thought: 'would it be weird if I didn't make the beast versions not exist?'

Cause generally I thought: If the virtues existed in the timeline where they WERE supposed to be corrupted, wouldn't they not exist? The sidekicks were still likely to exist since they still weren't made during the timeline before the beasts got corrupted.

Ik some of this doesn't make sense, please don't come for me. ;-;

"Inverted to the past" is heavily inspired by that one part of Steven Universe Movie. Almost follows the same part like in the Movie, but I'm not sure if I should add the part where they go back to normal like in the movie ;-;

[damnfandomproblems]

Fandom Problem #5403:

When people fuck with anatomy for xenomorphic creatures. As in nipples. I can see titties potentially justified, even in a physical means beyond an apparent feature of clothes, as long as they aren’t sex linked, or they’re inflatable or the gender and sex connections are inverted ala Fairly Odd Parents but nipples? Especially on Steven Universe Gems? They come in many forms, yeah, but nipples don’t make sense. The only way I can see it is with a fusion of two gems with their gems where those’d b

[animatecorvid]

Hey Gemcyt! I have an offer for you:

You get: Doodles of Grian and Scar (inverted version included)

I get: someone tell me where the heck I can rewatch steven universe please I am suffering

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[ilikemicrowaves]

Me n @friedbrainzz were on call while they were drawing their character watermelon, and inverted her colors, and we both decided on make up an entirely other character, and we came up with:

Sugarplum of the Rainwings

She/her

74 (almost 60 in human years)

Disabled

Voice claim: White Diamond, Steven Universe

Sugarplum is quite the opposite of her name. She is not sweet like sugar, but rather sour like gooseberries. Sugarplum lives in the Poison Jungle, a short flight from a nearby village in a tree house. She is out of her house often, gathering items for her witchy doctor activities. Oh yeah, she's a witch doctor and considered an urban legend to the village, despite frequently being in it. Parents would tell their dragonets that if they misbehave, the dragoness will come into their room at night and wisks them away into the Poison Jungle to be fed to her snake, which is just Carlos (we found a loop hole to make Carlos a valid wof name). Carlos is the milk snake on her tail. She has a terrible scale routine, constantly forgetting it. Due to her elderness, the affect of her venom is weaker, but she still has great accuracy if she wants to get a bullseye in your.. eye.

She once had a lover, a nightwing named Nox (she has a thing for nightwings). They loved each other deeply. He loved her nastiness, her vindictive aura. She loved him for the undeserving love and sweetness he provided for her and his usefulness. She's not evil. Btw, she's just kooky. One unfortunate expedition to obtain sap from a dragon trap was the cause of her lover's Demise. After he was trapped, there was nothing she could do. Once his body had dissolved, she pride open and took what remained of his skeleton. She made herself a necklace, with the center peive being his horn, and made a memorial with his skull mounted on a wall surrounded by his other bones. They did have a child, Orion. They were an ambitious child.

Despite being focused on her personal benefit, anyone with her blood, she loves. Including her great-great-granddaughter, Watermelon. She brags about her and talks about how smart of a girl she is, but she does not like Starsealer.

She has no actual reason to hate or distrust Starsealer other than that they remind her of Nox.

[brocolini-st4r]

I'm literally going insane. For a while, I've been wondering why i feel the way i do about Rose until somebody told me. ROSES ARC WAS BACKWARDS

THE FIRST WE SEE IF ROSE IS THE END OF HER ARC

THIS IS ROSE AT THE START OF HER ARC

THIS DIRECTLY INVERTS HOW WE SEE STEVENS ARC

START

END

ROSE WAS NOT A VILLAIN. SHE WAS THE GOOD PERSON, WE THOUGHT SHE WAS AT THE START OF THE SHOW , BUT UNLIKE STEVEN SHE WAS FROM AN ABUSIVE HOUSEHOLD WHICH IMPACTED HER. Yes. She's a coward, but people need to understand that seeing rose as pink daimond rose WAS pink but went through her arc and became rose. Rose was originally a persona who she slowly became.

DAMN YOU REBECCA FOR WRITING SUCH AN INTERESTING CHARACTER.

[jirachibaby]

So…I’m just thinking about your inverted au and I just wanted to ask if this is going to be the last au you made?

My partner and I made an AU where Steven is half sheep actually so maybe I'll post more about that

[myrandomsuaus]

Did you know @jirachibaby’s @su-inverted-au just came back today? Would you like do draw Sophie meeting and fusing with their cotton Steven as a welcome back gift? :3

Little late to answering this (just a couple of days), but I wanted to say I’m really happy to see that Jirachi is back with Cotton. I’ve been following that au for a while (back in like 2020?) and I’m glad to see more of Jirachi’s art :3

However, as much as I adore Cotton and his design I won’t be having Sophie and Cotton meeting & fusing simply because I don’t want to. I love doing little interactions and fan fusions, but I think I’ll just stick to supporting Jirachi and su-inverted-au how I always have by eating enjoying the art.

I can’t get enough of Jirachi’s art. It’s just so goooooood!!!!! (I don’t know how else to say I love their art - it’s seriously some of my favorite art)

I’m glad to see they’re back finishing the au how they want to (honestly just happy to see more of their art, can’t stress enough how good their art is)

I’m slowly starting to sound like a broken record with saying how I just love their art, but it’s true! (I’m just nom nom noming their art lol)

But yeah. I like their art and I might do something in the future when everything is said and done, but for now I’m just going to make the executive decision not to since I just don’t want to. (Plus I have like 20 or so more asks in my inbox just for interactions and fan fusions I gotta decide which ones want to do versus which ones I don’t - still just one person after all)

[fatehbaz]

The ordinary practitioners of the city live "down below," below the thresholds at which visibility begins. [...] [T]he everyday has a certain strangeness [...]. The city serves as a totalizing and almost mythical landmark for [modernist, imperialist] socioeconomic and political strategies [and ideologies] [...]. The Concept-city is decaying. [...] [But there remains] practices which [...] [this powerful] system was supposed to administer or suppress, but which have outlived [...]. Their story begins on ground level, with footsteps. [...] Their intertwined paths give their shape to places. They weave places together. [...] [T]he city itself [can seem to be] an immense social experience of lacking a place [...]. Numbered streets and street numbers (112th St., or 9 rue Saint-Charles) [...] orders of identities [...], constellations that hierarchize and semantically order the surface of the [landscape] [...]. [But] stories and legends [...] haunt urban space [...]. It is through [...] their capacity to create cellars and garrets everywhere, that local legends [...] permit exits, ways of going out and coming back in, and thus habitable spaces. [...] Stories about places are makeshift things. They are composed with the world’s debris. [...] [The hegemonic] order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning [...]. [People, through stories and engagement with landscape, can] produce effects of dissimulation and escape [...]. Objects and words also have hollow places in which a past sleeps, as in the everyday acts of walking, eating, going to bed, in which ancient revolutions slumber. [...] “Memories tie us to that place. [...] [T]hat’s what gives a neighborhood its character.” There is no place that is not haunted by many different spirits hidden there in silence, spirits one can “invoke” or not. Haunted places are the only ones people can live in -- and this inverts the schema of the Panopticon.

Text by: Michel de Certeau. "Walking in the City". The Practice of Everyday Life. 1980. As translated by Steven Rendell, 1984.

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[W]hat has to be forgotten to make things [legible to hegemonic systems] [...], the survivals of other ways of thinking that creep in as ‘lapses in the syntax created by the law [...]’ where ‘they symbolize a return of the repressed [...].’ [L]ook at the authority mechanisms through which speech is credentialised [...]. The propre creates objects through transforming the uncertainties of history into readable spaces [...]. These are the ruins of non-hegemonic systems [...]. Instead he seeks a mode of knowledge through travel to open space to difference [...]. Stories are not about movement, but make movements, not objects but effects, they transform [...]. [R]eading, narrating and speaking. Where ‘pedestrian utterances’ [engaging, commuting, interacting with the landscape] speak the city [...]. [S]pace is practised place. [...] The gaze of power transfixes objects but also thus becomes blind to a vast array of things that do not fit its categories. [...] Control of space is a matter of strategy which is orientated through the construction of proper knowledge. In contrast, there are tactics -- the arts of making do, like reading, or cooking --  which use what is there in multiple permutations. This practical knowledge of the city [or other types of places] transforms and crosses spaces, creates new links [...], comprising mobile geography of looks and glances. A crucial well spring is memory. [...] The alterity is that these memories contain not just events, but still carry the remains of different conceptual systems from whence they came. These then are the ghosts in the machine. Walking [moving, exploring, engaging] is to create [...] haunted geographies.

Text by: Mike Crang. “Relics, places and unwritten geographies in the work of Michel de Certeau (1925-86).” In: Thinking Space. 2000.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Mike Damiano and Hilary Burns at Boston Globe:

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump and his allies have lambasted universities as “woke” indoctrination mills that radicalize youths against America and rip off students with inflated tuition.

Trump has said that, if elected, he will “reclaim” universities from the “Marxist maniacs and lunatics” who currently control them. His running mate, JD Vance, who once exhorted supporters to “attack the universities,” has praised the authoritarian leader of Hungary for seizing control of that country’s institutions of higher education. Such remarks could be dismissed as Trumpian bombast. But a Globe review of a year’s worth of campaign videos, policy statements, and recent remarks by top Republicans suggests something else: that behind his incendiary words lies a set of specific policies that a second Trump administration could pursue to exert wide-ranging influence over American universities. “There’s a lot of levers and tools that will get their attention day one,” Steve Scalise, the second-highest-ranking Republican in the House of Representatives, said at a meeting with a lobbying group early this month while discussing ways to punish universities for alleged civil rights violations.

Trump and his allies have said a second Trump administration would replace universities’ existing oversight agencies —which wield clout over funding and fair practices —with new ones that would defend “the American tradition and Western civilization.” Trump says he would ramp up civil rights investigations into antisemitism and racial discrimination, a term conservatives have inverted from familiar usage to refer to affirmative action and campus diversity initiatives. And, crucially, he would cut off federal funding to universities deemed to be in violation of federal rules.

The plans are aggressive but feasible, higher education experts said, because they call for using existing federal powers that are under the control of the president. If Trump wins the election, he could follow through on these and other proposals through regulation and executive actions even if the Republican Party does not control Congress. “You have a lot of jurisdiction as president with all of these different [executive branch] agencies,” Scalise said at the Washington meeting held by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The Guardian first published video of the remarks. To his campaign and its supporters, Trump’s promise to crack down on higher education represents an overdue reckoning for institutions that have become, in their view, excessively left-leaning and have strayed from their founding missions.

[...] But some critics hear Trump’s pronouncements about higher education as the rhetoric of a man who revels in executive power and wants to move against his political enemies and quash dissent. “This is what authoritarians do,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard government professor who studies democracy and authoritarianism. “Authoritarians of the left, of the center, of the right go after universities.” Trump himself has praised the authoritarian leaders of China, Russia, and Hungary. Vance said in a CBS interview reflecting on Viktor Orbán’s takeover of his country’s universities that the Hungarian president “has made some smart decisions there that we could learn from.”

In some ways, the Trump plans for federal higher education policy are an extension of Republican ideas that have already been implemented in some states. In recent years, Republican governors and state legislatures have banned diversity and inclusion offices, replaced public university leaders with ideological allies, and cut back on courses viewed as having a liberal slant. So far, those efforts have mostly been confined to red states, but higher education insiders fear that Trump could implement similar policies nationally. “We already see the way that state governments have been politicizing higher education, and to do that at a federal level would be devastating,” said Natasha Warikoo, a Tufts University sociology professor.

[...] The plan’s primary target is the federal funding — in the form of student financial aid and research grants — that most colleges and universities depend on to stay in business. In total, it amounts to tens of billions of dollars a year. To receive that crucial funding, institutions must be in compliance with federal rules, including civil rights laws. And to benefit from student financial aid they must have the stamp of approval of an accrediting agency recognized by the federal government.

[...] Another lever Trump and allies say they plan to use is federal civil rights law. “I will direct the Department of Justice to pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination and schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity,” Trump said in the campaign video. [...]

In practice, the more typical outcome has been an agreement with the federal government in which the university promises to change its behavior or policies.

In addition to using the Justice Department, a second Trump administration could investigate alleged civil rights violations through the Department of Education. In the last year, the department has fielded dozens of official complaints alleging that universities are violating civil rights laws by allowing antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate to fester. Republican congressional leaders have summoned university presidents to Washington for hearings on campus antisemitism, which contributed to the resignations of three Ivy League presidents, including Harvard’s Claudine Gay. “We’ve had the hearings. We’ve got it teed up,” Scalise said at the meeting held by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. If Trump wins, it may be possible to withhold billions of dollars of federal funding from schools that the federal government decides are violating students’ civil rights, he said.

Coward, the free speech advocate, said there was nothing inherently concerning about vows to enforce civil rights laws. In the past year, since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war, there have been assaults on Jewish students and instances of protesters blocking students from accessing parts of college campuses, which could amount to civil rights violations, he said. But he also warned that civil rights enforcement can go too far, imperiling free expression. Even under the Biden administration, he said, the Department of Education has urged universities to clamp down on pro-Palestinian speech protected by the First Amendment. Some of the policies proposed by Trump and his allies could further increase the pressure on universities and lead to more suppression of speech, he said. “When the institutions are choosing between their students’ First Amendment rights or losing their federal funding, almost all of them are going to choose censorship over loss of federal funding,” Coward said.

Wood, the former Boston University administrator who is now the president of the right-leaning National Association of Scholars, said some of Trump’s plans struck him as reasonable, including the prospect of accreditation reform. He and other conservative critics of higher education say the accreditors have strayed from their original mission of merely ensuring that schools are financially sound and providing an adequate education. Now, Wood says, they are overtly political and push DEI priorities. But critics of Trump’s plans see a power grab that could undermine universities’ independence.

If Donald Trump gets re-elected, he will follow the Viktor Orbán model of suppressing higher education and remaking it in his image to a tool of fascism.

Vote for Kamala Harris to keep academic freedom in universities.

[whumpfish]

One of the best illustrations I've seen of how conditioning actually affects people once they're out of the grip of the ones who conditioned them is actually Peridot in Steven Universe.

Peridot has a hard time adjusting to her newfound side. She was created and raised (for lack of a better term) where her needs were subordinated to those of someone above her, who had no regard for her, with the understanding that the natural consequence of anything else would be total destruction. While she accepts this as normal for a long time and can't really cope with a life where that paradigm is inverted, she doesn't try to make Steven or the Crystal Gems her new Diamond in order to cope. She doesn't respond to their displeasure the way she responds to Yellow's, because even in the grip of conditioning, she can distinguish between individuals.

When she thinks she needs a Diamond to have any significance, she doesn't try even subconsciously to put the people who are now effectively her "caretakers" into the Diamond role. She doesn't give Garnet the diamond salute or address her as "my fusion" because she's used to behaving that way toward Yellow. She just tries to either run back to her Diamond or convince the others that they're on the path to total destruction and need to "correct" their philosophy "back" to hers.

Her meltdown after standing up for herself to Yellow is a textbook conditioning freakout.

Her new context (independence and confidence) is slugging it out with her old one (subservience and fear) in her brain, in real time, and there's no clear winner for a while. And while Steven wants to get her adjusted and comfortable right away, and is ready to just up and drag her down the road to redemption, Garnet knows it's not that simple, and gives her space to process until Peridot is ready to come to her. She's there, but she's not up Peridot's uniform and around the corner shoving blankets and Therapeutically Approved Conversation at her.

And honestly guys, Garnet's response is the healthy, supportive, productive one. Not Steven's.

I think a lot of people, like Steven, are uncomfortable with others' discomfort. And I think they misread the dynamics at work here because of it, and then that gets reflected in the way they write the caretaking of their own conditioned whumpees.

Once someone subjected to heavy conditioning is removed from that environment, the world they find themselves in is as new to them as if they were just born, and they have to learn how to exist and function in it all over again.... but it doesn't mean they have the mental capacity of a baby or toddler who is learning how to exist and function in the world the first time.

Get comfortable with your whumpee's discomfort. Don't try to shoehorn them into a mismash of before and after where they can't even distinguish which is which. Let them be confused and frustrated because they know things are different now, they just don't know what they should do or feel about it.

Get comfortable with discomfort, period. That's what this genre is all about.