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★ ✩ ★ ✩ G E M S O N A · W E E K ✩ ★ ✩ ★ ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦ July 25th-31st, 2017 ✦ ✧ ✦ ✧ ✦

We’re back at it again, this time for our fourth year ♥ !! Please reblog this post to let everyone know gemweek is on! ✧ What is Gemsona Week?

Welcome to Gemsona Week! Gemweek is a fandom appreciation week for the Cartoon Network animated series created by Rebecca Sugar, Steven Universe. “Gemsona” is a portmanteau of “crystal gem” and “persona”, meaning, create your own gem characters! There are daily prompts throughout the week and the gemsona community is encouraged to interact, roleplay and create! So go make or update your gemsona! Get drawing and writing, browse the prompts and post in the tags #gemsona & #gemsona week!

♥ IMPORTANT ♥ - 

No 18+ content in the tags, forum or chats please! This is an all-ages event. 

It’s essential to use the tag “#gemsona week ” in the first five tags of all your gemsona week posts. I will be queueing for this blog straight from that tag! Help me find your prompt responses so I can share it with everyone!

✧ Check out the ★2017 PROMPTS & CHALLENGES page → ✧ Join the ✩ GEMSONA WEEK DISCORD SERVER! ✩ → Gemsona Week | | Gemsona Archive | | Gemsona HQ

Before “Wanted”

Normal person: “Don’t you think you’re reading into a kids show a little too much? I mean, it’s not that deep.”

Me: “I mean, it’s got a little depth to it, but yeah, you’re right. Maybe I am looking a little too into it by attempting to analyze every line spoken and every little detail in the background.”

After “Wanted”

Me:

My advice? Keep your original idea. I think it’s very clever and clearly something you put a lot of thought into. Fancharacters are made for fun, they do not need to be canon-compliant and it’s not anyone’s place to come at you and demand you change it. If they personally don’t think coal should be used as a Gem, that’s fine, no one is forcing them to making one. But it’s not their place to say no one can do it.

But if you want something more concrete to shush naysayers trying to ruin your fun, it’s worth noting that there are already canonical Gems that are not, in fact, gemstones. Including Pearl (not actually a gemstone, or a stone at all), Lapis Lazuli (a rock, not a gem), and Bismuth (a metal). So saying that using anything other than gemstones for Gems “doesn’t fit with lore” doesn’t even hold true in regards to the show’s actual established characters.

Further, the crew have always been very adamant that fans should create fanworks and fancharacters however they see fit. And, in fact, Ian Jones-Quartey even tweeted that any mineral is fair game for Gems

(here)

You’re not suck-ups for reblogging, or annoying us by sending asks.

We see you. And your support means the world to us.

YOUR ART IS NOT AWFUL  

Art is 10% talent and 90% work. Your art isn’t bad. You’re still learning. You’re still developing. If you continue drawing for a long period of time, take a drawing from something a month ago and compare it to the present. You probably improved.