Show me the Transmale Gems, Sucrose

i understand that rose’s not-very-quartz-like palette is meant to be visual shorthand for her alignment with humans / the earth

but i feel from a worldbuilding / lore standpoint having the palettes swapped would have made some more sense so long as she still looks sort of human-adjacent / pleasing to the eye

the fact that PD could have masqueraded as a quartz – gems that, as far as we have seen (and we have seen a lot of quartz gems, counting the famethyst) consistently had pale hair as a largely undeviating trait – and not have been questioned at all is a little confusing in-universe

i get that she made the RQs so it can be handwaved but having to handwave it at all is kind of not great

ignoring the gem placement change (i’ll just believe that diamonds can rotate their gems), we’ve only ever seen reformations and shapeshifting use colors from the same general palette, not change their hues entirely. so this redesign would have their colors literally swapped / matching

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pearl called rose immature and selfish

pearl inspired the rebellion & garnet inspired the gem liberation movement

And if the theory that White Diamond is capable of mind-controlling her Pearl, or the theory that White Pearl is moreso an extension of White Diamond herself, is also true…

Then could it be possible that White Diamond seems to be aware and knowing of everything… because she’s seen everything through Pearl’s eyes?

Everything that Pearl has seen, White Diamond has seen. Pearl’s idea for Pink to shapeshift into a Quartz gem, Pink changing her mind about colonizing the Earth, the formation of the Crystal Gems, Pink’s shattering, possibly even the birth of Steven… White knows it all through Pearl, and it’s likely that Pearl is completely unaware of that.

This makes even more sense if you think about the fact that all of Homeworld was aware of Pink’s return and ready for her to set foot on Homeworld again. The other Diamonds didn’t know anything. Not that Pink was still alive, not that their ships would get destroyed, they didn’t know about corruption, and they didn’t know that Pink’s ship would still be up and running. Somehow, White foresaw all of this and had Homeworld throw a welcoming party for Pink.

There’s literally only two ways that White would be able to see this. 1) White has a fancy Era 2 version of an Observation Orb like the one on the Moon Base, which she can use to keep eye on any place that gemkind has mapped or colonized; or 2) White was silently watching everything from the sidelines through the eyes of our Pearl, a Pearl she once personally owned.

So most movies and tv shows that use potty humor do it becuase they fully believe that kids DONT have a sense of humor. That kids can’t handle/comprehend actual well written jokes, so they have to dumb it down and throw in a fart or two(or three or four…) so that they will pay attention. This form of potty humor automatically assumes that all kids are dumb, and that the only way to get them to enjoy something is to fill it with non-jokes that kids will ‘understand’.

But CU is different. CU understands kids in a way that almost every other children’s media outlet doesn’t. CU can employ that humor becuase it doesn’t use them as a replacement for actual jokes. For real, sit down with a CU book and tally up all the jokes. Sure, there’s more than a handful of potty jokes, but there’s also a surplus of actually funny well written jokes that still get a laugh out of me to this day.

Like CU is hilarious, honest to god. It has brilliant situational humor, fun slapstick, dry wit, actual irony, satire, you name it and CU does it and does it well. It refuses to talk down to kids, it’s respects thier intelligence without sacrificing a single ounce of comedy. Sure, kids love dumb fart jokes, but most meds just uses it as a filler becuase they can’t be bothered to try. Think back to old kids shows, Spongebob for an example. Old Spongbob has some brilliant comedy writing, top notch. Go back and I swear adults can still enjoy watching it becuase humor is humor and when it’s done right you don’t grow out of it!! CU has all that an more!!!

Not to mention the satire of using ‘lesser’ humor as a hung middle finger to stuck-up adults who try to police what kids consume to the point of sanitizing everything. Think The Little Prince, the same principle is as work there. Adults forget. Adults are too literal, too boring, too trapped in their shallow mindsets to actually see the world and enjoy even the dumbest of jokes, and they, we, miss some amazing, life changing stuff.

CU is something else you guys, honestly it’s one of the most brilliant series or kids I’ve ever seen. It’s revolutionary in its understanding of children and it’s way of embracing potty humor is fucking revolutionary. It stuck with me and even now it’s a source of immense inspiration that helps me believe I can do what I want to do without sacrificing the fun in life. CU told me that even a distracted, misunderstood, queer, dyslexic, ADHD riddled kid who had dreams of being an artist could do just that! That I didn’t have to listen to the stuffy adults who wanted me to sit down and pay attention to the boring facts of life. That the ones who told me that I had to change to be ‘right’ were wrong. That there is so much more out there. That what makes me different could make me amazing.

What’s essential is invisible to the eye. And even the silliest, most low-brow jokes can be worthwhile. Humans are gross! Life is gross and it would do us a lot of good to embrace that and let kids be who they are without forcing them to change. To remember that kids are smart, and deserve respect, especially in the humor department.

idk how sucrew does it but the designs got worse.  the pilot artstyle + designs were my favorite. very fluid and fun looking with nice colors and shapes. first season is alright. subtle color palettes that are nice to the eyes. amethyst has cute hair n face (she got em cat eyes!) and pearls clothing here is way more elegant, and aesthetic looking. 

Like the reveal of white diamond and white pearl, it’s interesting. Again, I like the ideas. However I don’t really feel like white diamond is some other worldly being or totally unreadable or creepy. I know alot of people feel that she is creepy- but because of my experience with lots of research in animation, directing, and just being aware of what better examples of a creepy unreadable character is like- she’s average. White diamond is not creepy at all. 

I’m going to compare a scene from A Single Pale Rose, and a Adventure Time episode. I’ll be showing an example from both and why one of them fails at being a serious, emotional moment. https://youtu.be/YOvwCBjMFaw?t=460 <Adventure Time scene. 

Bubblegum: It’s- it’s not that. I lost my hat… Marceline: We can get you another hat? Bubblegum: I lost my hat, lost my home, lost my people, I can’t even keep darn varmints out of my pumpkin patch. Marceline: Oh, Bonnie- Bubblegum: I tried.. I really really tried. I just- I thought if I shut everything out and focused on work it would all be ok. But look where that landed me… all I managed to do was push everyone away, I pushed you away. I’m sorry Marceline. I’ve been a real dinger to you.

This scene starts off with some jokey banter- nonetheless the tone is still down to earth. It’s still something serious, rather than throwing around cheap jokes. Especially with the following, when Bubblegum starts to cry. And while at first it seems sort of awkward with the hat dialogue, it continues and you realize it’s deeper than that. Her dialogue has meaning to it, and it’s not played off for a joke. This is dialogue that is written in a serious way. It was followed up in a serious way. Etc. This scene was able to be taken seriously with the way it was written, and how it was built up to this part. Now, let’s take a similar scene from SU.

Steven: Hi Pearl inside Pearl inside Pearl’s Pearl. You upset about the whole missing phone situation too? Pearl: No, it’s Rose. What was she thinking? She can’t have a baby.. Steven: Well, this is awkward. Pearl: What am I going to do when she disappears? I’m going to lose her, just like I lost my.. what was it you said?