Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

bing bong

It is raining and thundering outside, and I am cozy in my bed

oh no, the snoozening is approaching

it's time for squash!

squash your plushes and cushions and such!

I want to push my fashion and appearance in a more interesting direction - something more than just my usual outfits (top, jeans, cardigan)

But I'm not sure where to start - what can I do to mix up my fashion in small steps at a time?

You can always tell when you're getting close to the old city - the air raid sirens were turned on many decades ago, but no one stayed to turn them off again.

sneks!

rewatching steven universe makes me want to make some gem OCs

gloog morngi

I also love how Sardonyx is nothing like either Garnet or Pearl, but she also totally makes sense as their fusion - she's so very careful with her speech, even though she's hamming it up and putting on a good show

I love all the character designs in this show, but I had forgotten how good Sardonyx is!

I have noticed for the first time that the devices in the kindergarten (used to make new gems) are shaped like viruses!

That's a really cool design choice

What this does is it gives the worldbuilding and the characters space to breathe - it allows us to get used to everything before giving us something really meaty to chew on, rather than just throwing all these facts at us right out of the gate.

I honestly think that only 3 or so episodes of the first 50 are truly skippable, and it's only because they add very little to the characters.

I remember back in the day, people were saying "hey, you can skip most of season one, just start at the finale"

And I hated that advice - because the first season is full of great episodes.
The big thing I've really enjoyed from rewatching the first season is how they build up these mysteries and only *very slowly* explain them.

They don't explain fusion until episode 12, for example, and they don't talk about how the monsters are actually just corrupt gems until way later.

I've been rewatching Steven Universe, and a number of things have stood out to me

I forgot how early into the show Stevonnie appeared. And I love that everyone thinks they're amazing!

In the same episode, we get some nice foreshadowing for Garnet being a fusion:

Pearl: Nobody expects you to be able to perform fusion right away, steven
Amethyst: Yeah! It's really hard, even for us!
Garnet: Not for me.