This particular speculative view concerns the state of Earth prior to the rebellion or Visitation of Homeworld.

This headcanon is based around legends, stories, conspiracy theories and pseudohistorical/theosophical theories that there once existed lost continents and islands in the past and that on these lost landmasses, Humanity once had one or more highly advanced civilizations spanning across different parts of the world that were all destroyed in a massive war/cataclysm and that all civilizations that came after, descended from these civilizations and were colonization attempts by the surviving peoples of these civilizations.

The ancient humans in this time were able to build these advanced civilizations as there once existed elements and natural resources (all of which do not appear on the periodic table) as well as natural or unnatural phenomena that can no longer be harnessed in the present day that enabled the building of advanced and powerful technologies far more sophisticated than what humanity has in the present day. these resources were siphoned out of the earth when homeworld came, hence it made earth a perfect colony for homeworld. the modern civilization in the present day is less advanced due to these resources either being gone or extremely rare.

The Generation of Humans during this time was more diverse and powerful thanks to exposure to these exotic and powerful elements and materials. No ,not superpowers, but something along the lines of having increased/extended longevity and for a very small minority, the ability to control elements. Even more races of human existed in this world. Many of which were wiped out during or after the rebellion. it's not just skin color but also physical qualities such as height and physical features. From 12 foot tall giants to 2 foot tall midgets.

No, these wouldnt be lampshaded as gem related constructs as the following criteria would distinguished these human civilizations from the Gems:

-Gems build singular temples and facilities, not cities. They do not require the biological needs that humans have.

-Humans can access the technologies of these civilizations.

-Portrayal of male figures in art and architecture alongside female figures.

-Cities and other settlements of these civilizations lack warp pads and do not appear on Homeworld's colony plan for Earth.

When the rebellion comes around, the humans are quick to side with the crystal gems to defend their home. using their advanced technologies, weapons (energy/crystal based weapons) and superweapons (giant robots, "weapons of the sun" etc.) to make up for their shortcomings.

In this headcanon some of the geological damage to earth can be linked to human involvement in the war. The area now known as the Tunguska sea being one example. once being the largest battlefield in the rebellion, the ancient humans used a powerful superweapon to end the battle which also left a massive crater in the process. other uses of human superweapons in this war resulted in desertification or unending nuclear winter in some regions on the planet (This particular aspect is inspired by alleged descriptions of ancient nuclear warfare in the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and the baghavad gita as well as the theory that mohenjo daro was destroyed by an ancient nuclear bomb or something similar).

The human allies in Rose/Pink Diamond's Army turn out to be extremely helpful. Perhaps too helpful.

It becomes clear that despite their vulnerable organic physiology, the humans are extremely brutal and barbaric when it comes to defending their home. The Breaking point supposedly being created from a suggestion by an extremely xenophobic human who believed that the only good gem was a dead gem.

After 1000 years of fighting and angered by the revelation of Humanity's true advancement. The Diamonds decided to corrupt the remaining crystal gems on earth with the corrupting light and punish the Humans (whom they now see as horribly barbaric creatures that are "unworthy" to keep the advanced technologies they recklessly wield) by delivering a Great cataclysm to destroy the continents and the civilizations that beat them. However, prior to that the Diamonds launched heavy sieges on the capitols of the civilizations in an attempt to plunder them of the power sources (Giant non-polymorphic sentient crystals) and technologies that assured their loss.

After enough damage had been done, the Homeworld troops were ordered to leave the planet. The great cataclysm soon took place.

The cataclysms succeeded in destroying these civilizations and sinking their respective continents to the bottom of the sea in a single day and night of misfortune. however in doing so,Earth's geography was mutilated even further to its present appearance.

By the end of the rebellion. Nothing remained of these wondrous civilizations on the surface and the survivors, now being threatened by the corrupted remnants of their former allies were forced to revert to a more primal level of survival. rebuilding their civilization from there but never being able to achieve the same technological status as before.

Bottom line: Trying to make the legend of atlantis compatible with the steven universe lore without lampshading it as being rooted by gem shenaniganery.

I am starting a new blog about using text mining and natural language processing tools to analyze cartoon shows, and of course I am starting with my favorite Steven Universe. The blog is called Cartoon Analysis, and I have one post up about what character talks the most in Steven Universe. Please check it out at cartoonanalysis.com!

I genuinely want to know people's reasonings for liking her, so please, tell me any and every positive aspect that you think she has.

In "Do It For Him" Pearl has a very clear flashback in which her appearance is different and she sees Rose about to be attacked by a broad-shouldered assailant with an axe. It is obvious this is an emotional and well-recalled moment for Pearl. It is significant to her.

I could be reading too far in... but then again - it's never what you think with Sugar!

Does anybody have any ideas who it could be?

So while there are still some people arguing that it is still possible that Pink Diamond was shattered by Rose Quartz (and, to be fair, that is still entirely possible. The Blue Zircon didn't have to be right), I think that it is safe to say that most people believe that Pink Diamond was shattered by a plot by one of the other Diamonds, either Yellow or White (I can't imagine it being Blue, considering how she has acted).

If this is true, then why did it happen? There are some common theories going out around there. The one I see the most being that it had to do with Pink being "nicer" than the other Diamonds, with her Human Zoo clearly being there to take care of humans and protect them from Gem expansion.

But I don't buy this. So Pink Diamond was the "nice" Diamond? So what? She was still a Diamond, and could do whatever she wanted. Her eccentricities might have been seen as curious and unusual by Yellow and even Blue at first, but they weren't interfering with Homeworld's desired agenda, so there is really no reason to shatter her just for that. Not only that, but Homeworld was in the middle of a civil war when the shattering happened. Enacting a massive plot to assassinate one of the four leaders of Homeworld while you are fighting against a much more direct threat?

Not to mention, Pink Diamond was implied to be one of the major leaders of Homeworld against the rebellion. Shattering her would have been like the South assassinating Robert E. Lee during the American Civil War. It would have caused a massive drop in moral and made the Rebellion seem much more powerful.

No, I think that if Pink Diamond was shattered by one of the other Diamonds (or at least, her shattering was planned by one or more of them) then it would have been because she threatened their authority and Homeworld directly.

Why then do this? I already alluded to what I think the reason is earlier. I think that Pink Diamond was planning on ceasing combat and joining the Rebellion and the Crystal Gems. I think that Pink Diamond was conflicted by the war, both at the loss of life and because on some level she agreed with the beliefs of Rose Quartz and wanted Rose to be right, but at the same time felt like she had a duty to Homeworld and was afraid of what her "sisters" would do and say if she turned against them.

It was a gradual thing, and likely during the whole ordeal, Rose Quartz would have reached out to her several times. Eventually however something happened which pushed her over the edge. Maybe she saw for the first time the happiness of the Crystal Gems like Pearl, or maybe Homeworld suggested she do something horrible to win the war that she couldn't live with. Either way, she finally responded to Rose that she would meet and talk about an alliance.

The power of one of the 4 Diamonds siding with the Rebellion would have GREATLY raised their power, as well as made Homeworld seem weak and broken. Somehow word got back to Yellow or White Diamond what she was planning and, well, that couldn't be allowed. Betrayed by one of their own Diamonds? Human Zoo eccentricities are one thing, but that could never be allowed.

Whatever happened after that, how the Diamonds framed Rose Quartz, I don't know. But I do believe that Pink Diamond was shattered because after years of fighting, she was planning on turning against Homeworld and siding with the Crystal Gems. This would have been the only thing that would have a great enough crime for the Diamonds to shatter one of their own in my opinion.

What say you? Am I completely nuts?

(crossposted from /r/StevenUniverse)

Let's begin with the centerpiece of Bismuth’s ideology, the Breaking Point. What a ridiculously impractical weapon that was. Seriously, from what we see, it's only functional at ultra-close range.

If you interpret Bismuth’s plan to involve shattering anyone not on the CGs’ side, there's no way the Breaking Point could be useful in battle. Like, not only do you have to get super-close, but you have to point exactly at their gem, which would be like a gun that could only be useful at point-blank range, and would only injure the target if it struck their hand and nowhere else.

Even if they poofed Gems first and then shattered them, in the heat of battle it would just add extra steps, no? And even if you did it after the battle, do you really need a dedicated weapon for shattering, especially when Amethyst can get a crack from just falling on a rock?

And if it was only meant to be used as an execution device like the guillotine, that just makes it even worse! Like, you know what happened to the French Revolution with the guillotine? It practically turned into a bloodbath by the end of it, with numerous overthrows of each consecutive government, eventually resulting in Napoleon being almost-enthusiastically welcomed into absolute power to put an end to the whole mess.

Even if you go with the interpretation that she only wanted to take down the Diamonds, her plan gets even more stupid. We learned in The Trial that to get near Pink Diamond, Rose would have needed nothing short of a miracle.

So how exactly did Bismuth think she was going to get that close to any of the Diamonds? Heck, how did she think the Crystal Gems would even get off Earth? Pearl says in Adventures in Light Distortion that they had no way to get to the Zoo after the war, implying that the CGs essentially had no interstellar spaceflight capabilities at or even before the end of the war (Bismuth unveiled the Breaking Point 300 years before the end of the war, going by Pearl’s estimates).

Let's look just how big Gem Society is. From the murals in the moonbase, we can gleam that at the time of the Rebellion, the other three Diamonds had 28 colonies among them. According to Peridot, a colony of an Earth-sized planet would have had “89 Kindergartens.” And in Off Colors, we find out what a finished Kindergarten looks like, and the little bit of it we see implies HUNDREDS of Gems. Being generous and estimating that one finished Kindergarten produces about 300 Gems, that means that if (for the sake of simplicity) each colony was Earth-sized, the Gem empire as a whole would produce over 700,000 Gems in total. We don't know how completed any of these colonies were, but I imagine they're farther along than the Earth ever got.

Why do I bring this up? Because despite liberating all of Gemkind being a noble goal, from the standpoint of Rose's rebellion it simply wasn't feasible. They got lucky with Earth: It was Pink Diamond's only colony, meaning any of her soldiers would either have to come from the planet’s one Kindergarten (later two, but that one was a botched rush-job), or from Homeworld, which is a bit of a distance away.

Since none of them had any idea about Corruption or the Cluster, their best case scenario would be for the Diamonds to just get fed-up with the fight and let them have the planet in frustration. And that was still incredibly unlikely.

I mean, did Bismuth seriously think the Diamonds would not only just let them have Earth, but also allow them to get off-planet somehow? There was no way for Bismuth to take the fight to Homeworld, because the second she started attacking any one of the other Diamond’s colonies, they would probably be overwhelmed in an instant by soldiers from the multiple Kindergartens on multiple planets.

And even if, by some miracle, Bismuth and her stupidly impractical Breaking Point made it to Homeworld and, by some ridiculous amount of luck, somehow got close enough to the Diamonds that she could shatter them, what next?

Just look at how many Gems were affected by the loss of Pink Diamond, and were out to get Rose Quartz. How many do you think would be angry at the loss of all of them? Shattering the Diamonds would be a necessary step towards liberation, but it wouldn't be the end of it.

And that's to say nothing of the fallout from the use of the Breaking Point to begin with. I mean, if it's able to spark controversy and divide an internet fandom, then how do you figure it would go over with the Rebellion? It's not like everyone but Rose agreed wholeheartedly with shattering and would eagerly go along with it when given the chance. That's highly unlikely.

What's more likely is that the Rebellion would split apart into factions, each with slightly or radically different goals, and would therefore be easier to destroy.

Rose may have denied the use of the Breaking Point on principle, but I think she bubbled Bismuth away because she realized that something like the Breaking Point would be so controversial that it could potentially tear the Rebellion apart. (After the war ended, she should have told them about her, but that's a discussion for another time)

Rose's goal was to save the Earth. And on Earth, almost everything was in her favor. On any other planet, under any other Diamond, going against any other army, I doubt she would have made it as far as she did.

Not only were Bismuth’s goals lofty and unrealistic, her oh-so-brilliant weapon was impractical and useless, and any plan she may have had was idiotically short-sighted.

She may have been right about shattering, I'll admit, but she wasn't very smart about it.

Hey there fellow SU fans! I've had this theory in my mind for a while. i don't know if anyone one else has thought it up so i guess i'll just put my idea out there.

We all know how fusions work and come about to exist, but what about the extra parts that come to the fusion? and the parts that seem to mesh together when fused? Why does Smokey Quartz have only one pair of eyes? Why does Garnet only have one pair of arms? When i first thought about this i thought it had to be representing something in the relationship of the two (or more) gems in a certain fusion. It's kind of a weird theory but i think my theory, if its true, could bring light and meaning to some of the more deeper aspects of some of these gems relationships with one another.

So, I came up with this idea that for every shared part (or single pair of something) there has to be a meaning of what kind of relationship the two gems have with each other.

I thought that if a fusion shares eyes (only has one pair) that they must see eye to eye (pun intended). But really, I think if a fusion of two gems, like Smokey Quartz, has only one pair of eyes, it means the gems see the world the same or they have the same outlook on everything, even themselves.

Now, If a fusion has only one pair of arms, it's not a final decision on this but i think its because they have the same goal's in their future, but to be fair i'm only basing this on Garnet and Stevonnie since i don't know of another fusions like them(not including the big Ruby fusions since its just them but bigger). And if you wanna know my thought process to that conclusion, its like they are both reaching for the same thing so they only need one set of arms.

Now for legs, i don't think this is a real thing because all the stable fusions we've seen only have one set of legs and for obvious reasons, so i don't think there would be a emotional reason behind it.

As for that, there's no other body parts besides eyes and arms that i can think of. and i mean the one nose and one mouth makes sense (excluding Alexandrite) since the face would be crowded.

I really think that the people behind designing these fusions would put meaning behind why there are conjoined parts instead of a set of 2 of the same part. I don't feel like that would just be a random decision, i think it does have meaning behind it cause the crewniverse is always hiding little things that mean something bigger. So thank you if you read this far and feel free to add any meaning to a body part or a body part itself if I missed one or critique my theory! Have a day!