#su gems

[skinny-box]

THESE ARE my part of an art trade with @cyclic-laughter! these are there very pretty gems! celestial lazulite and gilded lapis lazuli! these were fun to draw i enjoyed shading!

ocs obviously belong to my buddy!

#art #steven universe #su #gem #gems #gemsonas #gemsona #art trade #my art #digital art #artwork #drawing #steven universe gem #su gems

[ghul-wein]

Rocks,,freaky freaky rocks

Been a wee bit fixated on Steven Universe again despite it all..these 3 were always my favorite u.u

#oaks art #artists on tumblr #accessible art #alt text #artist of color #illustration #fan content #steven universe #su #su gems #su lapis #lapis lazuli #su jasper #su peridot #su homeworld #crystal gems #steven universe future #cartoon network

[paragonrobits]

i firmly believe that the Gems, antagonistic and Crystal alike, are best considered not as an allegory or metaphor but in being taken at face value for what they are; alien robots (or something so similar to robots as to have no funcitonal distinction) built for specific purposes and functions that give them some psychological value to fulfil but ultimately are compelled to grow beyond it even as the society around those functions hamper and hurt them, but knowing no alternative other than to Obey.

Born to be tools. Created not as people but as services, as weapons and accessories. A life with no choice, from the legions of rubies too the quartet-that-was of the Diamonds. Even they have little choice. They might seem to be the leaders of Homeworld, but by all indications they REALLY don't like it, are poorly suited towards it on a personal level, and much of the tragedy is based on them fully buying into everything being tools; every Gem they make, and the Diamonds themselves, created to serve a purpose and nothing else.

And so, this is a cruel system. Any deviations from it is harshly punished. There is no choice in the tyranny of programming; at the top the Diamonds conflate their feelings and lashing out in grief as the proper function of things, and their pain spreads outwards, destroying worlds not in the malice or self-interest a human might do, but because it never occurs too them NOT to. To never ask questions, because they're not supposed to. A saw doesn't get to ask if its supposed to cut this tree, or a lumber mill muse that perhaps it doesn't have the right to destroy the trees these termites live in.

But Gems might be made to BE tools, but that doesn't mean they ARE tools. They are people, with the ability to choose if only they realize the possibility exists.

So that's what the show brings us; a species of robots constrained by their programming, suffering under the compulsion to do as their function demands without any person choice, until Steven does as Rose did before him, introducing the concept of choice inspired by how humans do it, organic and messy and unpredictable but free.

This, I think, neatly addresses all the issues people have had with the show; the metaphors may seem screwy at first glance unless you conclude there ARE no metaphors. The Diamonds aren't a stand in for some flavor of human dictator; they are producer units put into a position of authority they honestly don't want to do, and have screwed up tremendously due to a lack of understanding. Gems in general might be seen as applicable to various experiences, but in practice as a textual element, they're not really allegorical and read best as what they appear to be at face value: alien robots struggling under the horror of being built to serve.

There are certainly some series that benefit from allegorical implications; SU, however, feels that it is NOT one of those.

#su #su Gems #queued

[creepieart]

#sketchbook #fanart #traditional art #ohuhu #ohuhu markers #copic markers #markers #copic #pink diamond #su #su gems #su homeworld #homeworld #pink diamond su #pink diamond steven universe #steven universe #steven universe fanart

[aguinhaac]

So, I was just revisiting the lore of Steven universe but then something came to my mind "how old are the diamonds?" So I searched it up and..

20,000 years old? Are you telling me that it's confirmed by Rebbeca herself that the diamonds, planet colonizers, have an technology Thousands of years more advanced than ours, WERE ABLE TO CREATE LIFE FROM ZERO ARE 20,000 OLD?

THE HOMO SAPIES ARE 300,000 OLD.

IS REBECCA REALLY TRYING TO TELL US, THAT THE HUMAN RACE IS OLDER THAN THE DIAMONDS?

at this point even real diamonds are older than them.

Rebbeca.. what the hell?

#steven universe #su #su diamonds #steven universe diamond #steven universe diamonds #su gems #rebbeca sugar #why?

[wickedlilwolf]

Okay, but...

what happends to Gems who has threre gems on the same place?? like. or that is not possible?

like two rubys with a gem on the same left hand... and they fuse. just one shousup or WHAAAATT?????

#steven universe #gems #steven universe gems #su gems #su fusion #question about fusions

[apawcalyptic]

#apaw art #su #su gem oc #su gems #su fanart #Fanart #art #digital art #clip studio paint #character design

[femslash-omegaverse]

#jasper buffgem #su gems #female alpha aesthetic

[stingywiththeirusername]

Question about Steven Universe, formally to Pearl:

Was Pearl self taught how to use a sword? And why did she use a sword when her gem's weapon is a spear? Was it because pearls are only meant to be "seen not heard" so pearls go through their existence never to know their pearls' weapon? Was that why Pearl took the sword and not her spear? And where did Pearl learn how to use a sword? All the other weapons I see in the gems and I don't think I've spotted a sword, and I'm sure human civilization didn't take off when the gems started to colonize their planet. Was Pearl just swinging her sword all willy nilly at the start, then when human civilization took off and they started using swords did Pearl sneak in to observe them and try to copy/practice their moves? How many sword forms does Pearl even have?

Tl;dr I'm curious about Pearl's sword technique, technically I think she's the only gem who doesn't just use her gem's weapon in combat, I'm not sure about Bismuth, I don't even think she has a gem weapon since she's a blacksmith. And also Rose's sword, we rarely even see her use it unlike Pearl's sword. So yeah.

#question #thoughts #steven universe #su pearl #su gems

[amphibimations]

Homophobic Pearl

im like 99% sure you mean pearl from ace attorney because of my latest drawing, but I didn’t realize that until after the power of these words made me black out and make this comic in under 10 minutes , so…

So uh. Here you go i guess.

#steven universe #su #pearl #su pearl #pearl su #pearl steven universe #crystal gems #comic #comics #webcomic

[kaekolormore]

idk how to draw the crystal gems

#steven universe #crystal gems #amethyst #pearl #garnet #su

[octoling-wearing-gauges]

They were so cute

#lemme offer you one of my favorite gem pairings in this trying time #steven universe #bispearl #bismuth #pearl #su pearl #su bismuth #bismuth x pearl #su fanart #my art #wlw #this one was on my backburner for aaages haha #cam's camshafts

[cherryfull]

More amys cuz shes fun to draw

#my art #cherryfull #artists on tumblr #fanart #steven universe #amethyst #su #crystal gems

[jamonsetee]

my little broongkly goongly my babyboy my silly little humanrock my my my my my little fart

#fanart #cartoon #drawing #sketch #digital artist #steven universe #steven universe future #jasper #su future #crystal gems #amethyst

[dyspunktional-revan]

As a womanenby part of whose nonbinary realization was “wait, not everyone wants their aliens/etc to not have a concept of gender?”, I love the SU gems so. fucking. much. Pry them out of my cold, dead hands, fuckers.

#leviathan.txt #nonbinary #enby #womanenby #steven universe #su #su gems #swearing cw #death mention #aaaaand I extremely don’t vibe w it as an identity (but it is part of my gender) but related and afair it’s Rebecca Sugar’s identity: #nonbinary woman

[chrisrin]

lineup of all my designs so far!

#gemcyt #mcyt #su #lizzie is probably technically taller but i didn't want to make EVERYONE so small #gem is similarly realistically smaller but i wanted her to be yknow visible #ok we're gonna go from left to right tagging everyone #ready? #here we go #pearlescentmoon #docm77 #smajor1995 #solidaritygaming #ldshadowlady #smallishbeans #tangotek #bigbst4tz2 #ldshadowlady (again) #bdubs #impulsesv #geminitay #grianmc #skizzleman #goodtimeswithscar #mumbojumbo #zombiecleo #rendog #inthelittlewood #ethoslab #wow that's a lotta dudes