Reblog that if, despite all the drama and controversies that had happened that time, 2015 was the best time of the SU Fandom.
Gemsonas were at their peak back then…
oof i miss it
Remember when SDCC 2015 happened (the first SDCC after the fandom exploded in numbers) and they showed a clip of Sardonyx and the extended opening (with the first Yellow D glimpse!) and people lost their shit?
Remember when CN released all of the Summer of Steven episode titles a whole year before they actually aired?
Remember when people thought all three of the CG’s backstories were on that list (Gem Harvest being Pearl’s, Know Your Fusion being Garnet’s, and The Kindergarten Kid being Amethyst’s)?
Remember when Back to the Barn came out and almost everyone combusted because it was the first time the show stated that there are multiples of each gem on Homeworld (and the people freaking out over Pearl’s status being confirmed just as theories predicted)?
Remember when Stevenbomb 3 was announced and people groaned “another one?” We were so naïve
Remember when misseps leaked the whole plots for Cry for Help and Keystone Motel the week before they aired?
i think white pearls design is almost too effective because i had a dream last night that i forgot everything about except that she was in the distance the WHOLE time. just within view and standing there
I love that the general feeling in the fandom about White Pearl is “she’s terrifying,,,,,,,,,,,I love her.”
I love her so much. What happened to her. Why is she so distant. Why is she so unsettling to the point that Blue and Yellow Diamond are both so unnerved by her mere presence. Holy god. I love her, fucking superb you funky terrifying pearl.
Could you give an example of some blogs that give a lot of information out? I rely on that blog for a lot of merch/other info
Sure! I give some info but most of it is on my previous blog, theres also @/disgustedoleak, @/crewniverse-tweets, @/artemispanthar (and their leak blog @/artieuniverse albeit it rarely updates), and the official crew blogs like @/hilaryflorido and @/stevencrewniverse. I’m definitely forgetting some but those are pretty good on providing official stuff and leaks!
Remember this scene way back in Catch And Release?
We never got any sort of elaboration or explanation as to what “harvesting” (which is clearly something absolutely terrifying) actually is.
Let’s take a look at the definition of “harvest” for a moment:
If we look at the verb definition: of course, Gem harvesting isn’t going to be of the crop variety, nor would it be to prepare Gems for “human consumption”!
So, that leaves us with two other possibilites…
remove (cells, tissue, or an organ) from a person or animal for experiment or transplant; or
collect or obtain (a resource) for future use.
If we consider the idea of removing cells etc from someone…
…that leads us nicely onto White Pearl here, who is very clearly missing an eye (which, for all intents and purposes, should be impossible for a Gem). Is she missing anything else, perchance - like part of her actual mind? The way in which she speaks is incredibly robotic, and her movement has an eerie stillness about it (as you can see in the above gif, she also just stares forwards with an unblinking eye).
Does harvesting take a Gem and repurpose them into a different (perhaps more obedient) form - taking a part of their mind and/or physical form away in the process?
Could White Pearl have been repurposed from being Pink Diamond’s original Pearl…?
Their outfits are incredibly similar, and their Gem placement matches up. Which begs the question - did White and Pink Diamond swap Pearls, leading to something quite horrific happening to Pink’s original Pearl (White’s current Pearl) for reasons unknown?
If White Pearl hasn’t had her physical/mental form repurposed, I have to wonder if she’s suffered a similar fate to Lapis - by which I mean, her Gem has been placed inside a shell and is being used to power a tool of-sorts. In Lapis’ case, it was the mirror; in White Pearl’s case, could it be a robot that her gemstone has been inserted into and is now powering? In other words, her actual gemstone was “collected or obtained or future use” (the other remaining definition of harvest), just like Lapis before her.
This would perfectly explain how she’s been able to take some physical damage - as I mentioned earlier, this should not be possible for a Gem, but it would be possible for a robotic shell. It also, of course, explains her strangely robotic speech and movement. And ties in nicely to something that we’ve seen previously on the show (the mirror).