#steven universe inverted

[letmesleepwhileiwork]

Doodle Dump (Multifandom)

Sorry there ain't nothing concrete yet

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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.

[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

[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.

[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.

[uselesstaroth]

Keeping a tab open on the list of Steven Universe episodes so I can find titles to invert

So far I've got: Gem Gloom and History for Nora. Nora Sinks might be one. Forgetful Fusion, The Old Crystal Gems, I Am Not My Mom

This is so fun

Funniest part is that the show already did this with Together Alone and Alone Together

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[inktog]

I've mostly left the psychoanalysis out of Steven Universe. Yes there's some "return to the womb" energy coloring Steven's relationship with Rose (it's exceptionally funny that he crawls between his mother's legs to get the Nora tape), but not much else.

However, I often miss the forest for the trees. I haven't found any psychological storytelling on the level of scenes or episodes, sure—but what if we take the long view?

The series is organized around its three secondary protagonists, in the order presented in the theme song: Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl. Steven deepens his connection to each guardian in turn, slowly inverting the group's power dynamic as he grows more competent and self-assured. (And Steven! He confronts his own flaws in the epilogue.) So if Garnet is the body, Amethyst the heart, and Pearl the mind, then you might read SU—in broad strokes—as the story of Steven integrating his component pieces.

Dunno if I like this yet, but I'll pay attention to it during my next rewatch.

[modernistdelights]

A Leeds University Public Art trail Mooch [10/08/24]

In order:

Roger Stevens Building

Perhaps my new favourite university building, sorry to the Renold Building x

Barbara Hepworth - Dual Form

I believe there's also a Barbara Hepworth sculpture in one of the courts at Lancaster University, which I didn't find out about until last year, due to my minimal attendance on campus while I was a student 🥴

Mitzi Cunliffe - Man-Made Fibres

A gorgeous stone carving, commissioned as part of the Clothworkers Building South to reflect the progress in the field of synthetic fibres.

Juanjo Novella - Curtain

Detail shot.

Staircase at the Henry Price Building

An unnecessarily extra, geometrically askew staircase, especially delightful coming west from St George's Field.

School of Chemical and Process Engineering building

Staircase detail shot.

School of Healthcare

Staircase detail shot at the rear of the building.

Quentin Bell - The Dreamer

Inspired by a magician's trick that Bell saw as a child. There's something melancholy about the sculpture at situated in a quiet courtyard, surrounded by leafy vegetatation. It's been moved several times but this feels like the right place for it.

P H Y S I C S

At the rear of the Physics Research Deck.

Bank House

And finally, away from the campus, en-route to the train station, the striking former regional headquarters of the Bank of England. Via British Listed Buildings:

Inverted ziggurat of in-situ reinforced-concrete construction with grey Cornish granite and bronze cladding. 5-storeys plus basement

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The Public Art Trail at the University of Leeds is inexplicably only available to download as a PDF, but is well worth it. I far prefer architecture to sculpture, but luckily this has both, and anything which gets me on a guided walk is a win in my book.

[moltensmusings]

As I rewatch/finish steven universe a highlight for me is always going to be seeing all the gems learn to connect with humanity and grow out of their worst traits.

Getting to see rose/pink on an inverted version of her journey means we get to see her humanized before us and grow up. Her meeting Greg is ultimately the catalyst for her properly beginning to grow and understand those around her because finally she has someone capable and willing to call her out on her flaws.

The crystal gems and the proximity to Steven means they similarly have a human who challenges them and prompts them to grow and be better for him.

The filler episodes focusing on characters really are when this show shines most in my opinion and I love it so much. Watching through it now as an adult really allows me to appreciate the nuance of the characters more than I did as a teenager.

[whatchild]

Day 8 of fusing randomly selected Kirby characters together- Dark Meta Knight + Meta Knight!

Note: this is not intended as a fanchild or descendant oc. "Fusion" in this case is similar to fusion in Steven Universe, but can also be read as an entirely different character that merely borrows aspects from the original's designs.

Great. Scott. This has been the hardest fuse yet, as well as the fusion that I've put the most amount of spit and elbow grease into. Tezcatl Knight. Peep those double wings and double swords, a'ight? That's some cool cruising right there. Awright here we go longwinded color explanation time, strap in kiddies, this one's long. Dark Meta Knight's colors, when color picked, are literally just de-saturated Meta Knight colors. That isn't a satisfying fuse. So instead, I inverted both of them and mixed from there. Why inverting them specifically? Not only is it a nod to the Dimension Mirror, but Meta Knight's wings are red-violet and pink. The direct opposite of green on the color wheel. Green, like the silvering coating the backside of mirrors, the part that makes them reflect. Yup. Went that far. Fusing Galaxia and DMK's unnamed sword (Aixalag is funny, but Singularium is cool. You guys pick.) was so interesting because Galaxia turns a bright printer-ink cyan when inverted and [SWORDNAME] becomes this rusty, copper-ish color. Going halvsies was surprisingly hard thanks to all the color vibration. In any case I am beyond satisfied with how Tezcatl Knight came out.

[raveneesimo]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: SU Large "Survival Is My Only Friend" Horror Club Concept & Warm Up Drawings universe