bismuth concept art (The writing about her is kek)

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>>93763157
>Ruby for hitting that _____!

What did Sugar mean by this?

>>93763157
i loled, I need to pick up that book

>>93763157
>High class trophy wife

I like it

>>93763157
I dropped the show before badass blacksmith got introduced.


Were they recurring?

>>93763157
I'd been wondering what Bismuth's opinion on Sapphire was.

>>93763157
You already posted this

>>93763398
Nope. Was in a two episode special then got bubbled and hasn't been back since.

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>>93763398

>>93763398
She was voiced by a pseudo-celebrity they couldn't afford more than once, so she was very clumsily and controversially written out of the show after her debut episode.

>>93763157
>outrageous non-PC construction worker

So she'd sexually harrass Pearl and Sapphire all day while working...?

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>>93763398
It's really best just to watch her introduction before finding the answer to that.

>>93763426
Ah okay, did they go rogue or something?

>>93763445
Yeah, they (Bismuth) disagreed with Steven about how to fight Homeworld gems so they got in a scuffle and she ended up getting shanked then bubbled. Shame because she was cool and would have really flipped up the dynamic but what >>93763430 said. This show is fucking terrible when it comes to expensive celebrity voice actors.

>>93763157
>revolutionary radical extremist gem

Didn't this trigger tumblr?

>>93763157
>Not P.C.
LADS, she is LITERALLY /ourgem/!

>>93763642
Why would it? Nothing Islam does is wrong.

>>93763642
It triggered Tumblr that she was the bad guy in the episode

>>93763157
Pearls confirmed trophy wives

>Bismuth
>Some shitty nonmetal people go crazy for cause it looks pretty from pictures on the internet
>Bismuth never looks as good in nature as it does on the internet, in fact it looks like shit in nature
>completely useless
>can poison people
I know almost nothing about this show except everyone's named after rocks. But fuck why did they pick the worst rock to name after a character?

>>93763719
Well she was portrayed a bad guy in her episode so...

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>>93763719
Seriously, this shit is gaudy as fuck.

>>93763489
So that explains no sugilite

>>93763157
Racist niggers are the worst kinds of niggers

>>93763642
The episode came out right at the height of BLM and some parallels were drawn up.

>>93763653
No, she's not. She's "not PC" in the way a black person is allowed to call white people crackas and fellow black people niggas and get away with it, not the way that a white person tries to do the same thing despite knowing they can't.

>>93763157
I think it's cute sugar draws character sheets. She knows no one will follow it but still tries.

>>93763719
All gems' gems are presented as cut and polished. They even identify one another according to facet and cut numbers instead of names.

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>>93764016
They even had a fourth wall breaking joke about Sugilite.

>>93763832

It is impossible for nature to be gaudy.

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>>93764499
It is when it looks this garish and fake.

>>93763832
>nature makes perfectly straight lines
since when?

>>93764310
Not really a character sheet, more like concept art.

>>93763832
looks like a colorful computer chip or something. Is this the natural form of Bismuth?

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>>93764536

Impossible. Nature is always in good taste.

Goron + Ninja Turtle

Hey, Bismuth isn't a gem, it's just a base element!

SUGAR'S A HACK

>>93764632
Have you never seen a crystal?

>>93763719
>pick the worst rock to name after the worst character
Makes sense

>>93763489
>>93763430
Are voice actors really that expensive?
Can't they hire literal who's straight from the actor's collage?

>>93764775
Pearls aren't really gemstones either.

>>93764794
They could. But Sugar sometimes goes out of her way to pick famous celebrities.

>>93764816
As far as I know, all the fusions had a singer as the VA, correct?

>>93764851
Not sure. I think Smokey Quartz is voiced by a comedienne.

>>93764851
Except Fluorite and Rhodonite.

>>93764775
Diamonds are also base elements dumbo

>>93764668
Crystallized, yes. Check out some other minerals, like fluorite or pyrite. They all come in awesome geometrical shapes because of pressure, temperature and other factors affect their formation in rock layers.

Has anyone scanned the entire book, yet?

>>93763157
>Bismuth is not P.C.
>Respect for Ruby for hitting that.

Damn, now I want more Bismuth.

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>>93763642
>Didn't this trigger tumblr?

>>93763157
>Construction worker turned revolutionary radical extremist Crystal Gem
Crystal Gems confirmed Dirty Commies.
Gemseph McCarthy when?

>>93764706
How many minutes later you die after touching this thing?

>>93766807
I sure hope that comment is a joke

>>93766854
having hope was your only crime.

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>>93764668
Raw Bismuth is more messy

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>>93766886
They also come in smooth eggs which look like this inside

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The real question is.

Was Bismuth right?

>>93766919
No. Her weapon was a joke, and Earth got nuked over a single shattering.

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>>93766807
>she was the most peaceful gem in the goddamn show
>she just wanted to kill a couple of dictators
>w h o w o u l d n ' t d o t h a t ?

>>93763216
So sounds like fusion is confirmed to be a sexual for experience.
Unless the gems find other ways to fuck.

So that means Amethyst at her lowest and most desperate point decided to fuck her 12 year old room mate. And that abomination was the result.

>>93766919
Nope. Melee weapons suck against sound ones.

>>93767027
Fusion is just meant to symbolize relationships.
For Ruby and Sapphire it's eternally fucking between lovers.
For Steven and Amethyst it's broing it up to fuck up Jasper's shit.

>>93763430
You make it sound like the writing was dictated by the cost of the VA rather than them splurging on voice talent for a character who was always planned to be short lived.

>>93766919
She was just a builder-turned-soldier that had become broken from the horrors of war

Her weapon was stupid, it had no place on the battlefield and only works as a tool of execution for an already restrained gem

>>93766919
If Rose listned to her they would have effectively got stomped.
It was a fucking stupid weapon. Its like what if the Roman empire went up against a high tech alien world

>>93766919

No. Every single CG was a defector and he wanted to kill homeworlders instead of letting them defect.

>>93766919

Even if her weapon did function well and wasn't completely outclassed by high tech Homeworld weaponry, she'd STILL be wrong because it takes less effort to just poof a gem and then bubble them than it does to shatter them. It makes far more sense to keep casualties at an absolute minimum until the Diamonds can be deposed, then to reintegrate gems gradually back into the Post-Diamond society that develops afterwards.

>>93766919
She would have been right if her weapon wasn't shit.

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>>93763157
>Outrageous! Not P.C

>>93767154
But surely the smartest thing to do is give loyalist gems a legitimate reason to be terrified of the rebels and want nothing to do with them while also prematurely executing any potential recruits.

I see nothing wrong with this plan and neither does tumblr.

>>93767193
What could she have really made in her cave, with scraps of minerals?

Unless she somehow managed to create a homeworld-destroying nuke and her plan was to personally allahu akbar the entire core of the Diamond seat of power while they were there, which at least would have worked even with the cost in collateral damage.

Her plan to somehow break through all the armies of the regime and 1vs1 each of the Diamonds ala Dark Souls? Not so much.

>>93766807
Ah, yes, the George W. Bush of tumblr comments.

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>>93767253
>Ah, yes, the George W. Bush of tumblr comments.
What's that supposed to mean?

>>93767273
Bush just wanted to kill Saddam Hussain. He did nothing wrong.

>>93766919

Killing your only source of new recruits is full retard.

>>93767193

No, she still would have been wrong because gems do not function like humans do. Humans, in a time of war, do not often have the luxury of using nonlethal force. Gems do, because it is arguably far easier to poof a gem than it is to shatter one, and Rose's objective was always the FREEDOM of the greatest number of possible gems to decide their own fates out from under the tyranny of the Diamonds, not simply winning the war by any means necessary.

>>93763157
>Not P.C.
so thats why they killed her off the show

>>93766919
Only about shattering the Diamonds. Homeworld is an absolute embarrassment, and the thing holding back is the absolute hierarchy of the Diamonds choke holding any kind of progress or change in their society. Turns out having a caste system with four immensely powerful being at its apex as prone to the exact same neuroses and emotional instability as your lowliest worker drones is a really fucking bad idea. Especially when said incompetent neurotic giant bitches can easily destroy any dissenters who object to their poor leadership.

Blue Diamond spent 5000 years being a fucking crybaby rather than getting on with her fucking job, and nobody could tell her to do otherwise. How could they, she's a diamond.

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>>93767394
Is 5000 years that long when you are one of the immortal god giants leading a race of immortal peons?

>>93766919
On the battlefield? No.
For ceremonial execution of captured Diamonds? Yes.

>>93763157
bismuth always brings out the worst in the fandom

I like her but she really does, a shame she can't be brought up without the thread turning into retarded tumblr and/or /pol/ posting about her

>>93767273
George W. Bush is the origin of the "Islam is a religion of peace" meme.

>>93764310
It's height charts that are what's needed.

>>93767567
its better to think relative to how long she has been alive, not how long she will live

it doesn't matter if you will live a billion years, if you have only lived 5 so far than 5000 years seems like a very long time

>>93767623
why so they can be ignored?

they don't have height charts but they do have relative heights, in reference to one another, as an example Pearl is taller than Lapis, however in some shots we see even this basic guideline is ignored and Lapis appears taller than Pearl

>>93767567
That's his point
Years fly by like seconds for Diamonds. Their perception is absolutely warped compared to their subjects.
I'd bet on Pink Diamond was the youngest of them, and even then was probably some 100 thousand years old

>>93767688
No anon, their subjects are equally immortal.
Gems live forever barring violent trauma to their cores, they are space elfdar.

>>93766919
She did everything wrong, at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way.

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>>93767688
Did you forget Pearl casually talking about humans being hunter gathers during a power-outage as if it was something that happened a couple of years ago?

>>93767717
Are they though?
new gems are constantly being produced and their castes being upgraded, very likely meaning old gems get busted
Diamonds though? Perfect by all accounts.
I doubt there's very many, if any at all, lower class gems that are as old as the diamonds.

>>93767782
you realize there are hunter gatherers around to this day right?

hell they still existed in the continental US in large numbers over 150 years ago, before electric power was wide spread

its not like she was confusing today and 5000 years ago

>>93763642
It triggered me because Bismuth was in the right

>>93767788
The gems have an interstellar empire, they spread like a virus by consuming worlds of their nutrients into husks then sending the new gems out to repeat the process on new worlds.

Plus they seem to create gems just for the sake of creating them rather than having any need to, either in terms of their 'biology' or outside forces.

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Since this thread is about concept art. A map of SU's "Earth" was posted here to give us some idea of where certain locations are

Notable things:

Mexico is Aqua Mexico
Australia and New Australia
RUSSIAN SEA
South America = Pangea


https://m.imgur.com/r/stevenuniverse/RjCAJ

>>93764499
Yes it is, that's how evolution works

>>93767842
Well I fucked that link up.
Here's the actual link to the album lol
Found in the Steven universe subreddit

https://m.imgur.com/a/RjCAJ

>>93767826
The way the quote was phrased, she pretty much was.

>>93767788
The "Era 2" gems as they are classified were only created due to the events of the rebellion, and they have powers they just aren't told they have them seen with Peridot.

>>93767842
wait the Galaxy Warp is in the middle of that sea in Siberia?

didn't Steven and Lapis fly there? Like not even on purpose they just happened by it

>>93767842
>Russia has been DIAMONED
truly a better world

>>93767842
>South America = Pangea
I don't think that tectonic plates work like this, but then I am not a geologist.

>>93767842
This map has to be fake, it makes no sense

how could the communication relay be in the west, Sugelite walked back from it and came out of the ocean?

>>93767918
There's a theory that Beach City is a Peninsula and the beach they usually hang out on is facing inland. Something about how the sun would be setting in the wrong direction otherwise.

>>93767956
But in ocean gem they go out to the middle of the ocean in the same direction

>>93767918
It's called "concept" art.

>>93767987
so your saying its useless as a map then

>>93767918
maybe Sugilite was just so dumb that she walked the wrong way around the earth

>>93763157
>goron + ninja turtle
So this is what female gorons look like.

>>93766919
Are racist and bloodthirsty BLM extremists right? Because that's literally what Bismuth is.

>>93768194
>Literally

How is Bismuth anything like blm

>>93763157
Communist Gem is best Gem

>>93763489
Bismuth was right

>>93768018
well i am sure you can roll it into a cup and drink from it.

>>93767834
No she wasn't. Shattering gems is dumb as fuck when they're so easy to imprison indefinitely, and just makes the other side more willing to commit atrocities against you. Like the Corrupting Light and the Cluster

>>93768194
She's not BLM, she's a commie.

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>>93768248
>Gorilla nigger (bismuth) wants to kill whitey police (diamond authority) by any means necessary.

>>93767253
>>93767273
SJWs black and white thinking is partially the result of growing up under Dubya Bush and his "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists" mentality.

>>93768307
But homeworld could free them at any moment, also homeworld was not holding back in any way to the point they murdered pink diamond and nuked the planet to ensure no rebel survived

>>93768329
>SJWs black and white thinking is partially the result of growing up under Dubya Bush and his "You're either with us or you're with the terrorists" mentality.
No it's not, terrorism and antagonism always rise at some moment no matter what, Bush had nothing to do with it.

>>93768248
She wants to kill everyone who is has upperclass "privilege" and claims to be fighting against racism (or classism in this case) while being racist/classist herself. She refuses to acknowledge that not all upper class gems are oppressors and are capable of change because of her murderboner, it's a lot like racist BLM fucktards who hate all white people because a few of them are the ones that are making the rules at the top of the foodchain. She is even slightly racist to her own friends if she objectifies Pearl as a trophy wife and thinks Sapphire is only cool because she gave up her "privilege"

so for those who have the Art Book, any interesting concept art for Connie and/or Stevonnie?

>>93768361
Please explain, I don't quite understand your statement and how it contradicts mine.

>>93768339
As far as I'm aware, they only nuked the planet because one of them shattered Pink and the others believed Rose did it. Why shatter her if the others were willing to nuke Earth anyway?

>>93764851
with a few exceptions,
Garnet is voiced by Estelle: solo musical artist
Opal was voiced by Aimee Mann: bassist and vocalist for 'Til Tuesday, as well as solo artist
Sugilite was voiced by Nicki Minaj: hip hop pop trash
Sardonyx was voiced by Alexia Khadime: West End theatre star
Stevonni is voiced by AJ Michalka: part of the Aly and AJ duo and also solo artist
Yellow Diamond is voiced by Patti Lupone: Broadway and West End theatre veteran and legend
Blue Diamon is voiced by Lisa Hannigan: member of Damien Rice's band, and solo indie folk artist

but then Malachite and Alexandrite are just all the component characters' actors talking over one another.

And Smokey Quartz was voiced by Natasha Lyonne, who isn't a singer at all

>>93768390
How much does it cost the show to keep Estelle as a regular?

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>>93764632
o boy. you're not gonna like pyrite, son

>>93768383
No matter what if bush started his little "war on terrorism" there would be black supremacists and blm extremists everywhere, minorities always feel opressed for their lack of power:indian muslims, chinese muslims,palestinians,kurds,irish, arabs in europe etc.

This always led to this "we or them" or "help ourselves fuck the others" mentality.

>>93763157
This is fucking degenerate.

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>>93763157

Huh. Was Peasmuth ever a ship?

>>93764536

...Does Bismuth naturally occur in that form, however?

>>93764632

Uh. Pyrite? Many other crystals, too.

>>93764851

Check it.

>>93768265
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94UYkRTMnic

>>93766886
>>93766917

That would have been more beautiful than what we got. Oh well.

>>93766919

I do not think so.

>>93768435
I mean if you're arguing that opression breeds extremists then sure, but the scenario is exacerbated by the kind of mentality the other anon was talking about.
Anon is stating that the Bush administration specifically fostered an Us vs Them mentality which permeated into modern culture, which I would say is accurate.
In a sense you're both correct.

>>93768517
>Anon is stating that the Bush administration specifically fostered an Us vs Them mentality which permeated into modern culture
Us VS Them is literally in our genes.

>>93767688
>Years fly by like seconds for Diamonds

Don't see why they would.

>>93767834

No she was not... they had a means to incapacitate their enemies without killing them.

>>93767856

THANK YOU!

>>93768559
A lot of logical fallacies are built into the human genome. It's best to be aware of them and avoid them, before you blow all your money at Vegas.

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>>93767981

That's nothing. Check this out.

Where the fuck is that school?!

>>93768611
>avoid them
you literally can't

>>93768559
Which is why, until recently, we were raised to see shades of grey.

>>93768559
Sure, but then people are genetically predisposed to a lot of things sociologically, doesn't always mean they will act completely according to genetics. This is the Nature vs Nurture argument effectively. If we acted completely according to genetics then every single straight couple would attempt to have children, many people simply choose not to.
I suppose my wording was poor, Bush pushed for a greater culture of Us vs Them.

>>93768052

It would explain why it took so long.

>>93768194

She's not racist, she's anarchist. If she was a racist she would despise Sapphire and Pearl.

She's also not bloodthirsty, because gems have no blood and do not get thirsty.

Her struggle doesn't have anything to do with BLM - Bismuths were not persecuted, they were simply expected to do their job and stay quiet.

If anything she was like Nat Turner, I guess.

I would not have gone into so much detail if you hadn't used the word 'literally'.

>>93768380

...And maybe nude studies?

>Half a dozen sketches for tentative genital designs
>Several angrily scratched out with big, frustrated NO!'s next to them

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>>93763157
>Ruby for hitting that _!
>flirty w/ Pearl
Based Sucrose

>>93768617
It doesn't exist since the comics are only canon if they don't contradict the show.

>>93768663
We're told to see shades of grey, but it often gets oversimplified to "those who see shades of grey are good, those who see black and white are bad" reverse moralizing. That sort of thinking is meant to be more "advanced" and "true", but in practice just as simplistic as what it's trying to mock, just swapping black and white for black and clear.

>>93768387

If that is what happened. So far we have always assumed that the mass-corruption that is consistently misnomed as 'nuking' was deliberate. But we don't actually know that.

>>93768408

I don't know... but apparently she also voices Spoon on 'Crying Breakfast Friends'.

>>93768641

Yes, you can. It's called 'using your brain'.

>>93768706
>...And maybe nude studies?
I'm just wondering one thing.Does Stevonnie have extra body parts?

>>93768758
But those who can see shades of grey are objectively better.

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>>93768663
>we were raised to see shades of grey

That explains why those movies were so successful.

>>93768723

It's still a silly mistake to make.

Also: Rehoboth bay in real life.

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>>93768809

And the town...

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>>93768722

>>93768805
It doesn't make them better than the people they consider evil, because it doesn't make them DIFFERENT from the people they consider evil. The fact that someone thinks there's a clear right choice in certain situations doesn't mean they're incapable of comprehending that other situations don't have clear-cut answers, just that they think some situations DO have such answers.

Sometimes, people take issue with those answers, and rather than debating whether they're actually good, choose to demonize "black and white thinking" by treating it as Bad and Evil.

>>93768641
>>93768769
>Expecting anyone who habitually posts on 4chan to have any inkling of willpower, self-control, or personal responsibility.

>>93768675
>Sure, but then people are genetically predisposed to a lot of things sociologically, doesn't always mean they will act completely according to genetics. This is the Nature vs Nurture argument effectively. If we acted completely according to genetics then every single straight couple would attempt to have sex

>oh look wow they do

>>93763398
It was one episode but they're likely to return later.

>>93768910

I do. Partly because I come here to train.

>>93768924

How I love ridiculous simplifications. It saves me so much wasted effort.

>>93768809
Which movies?

Also
>Dewey Beach

>>93768885
I'm complaining about the sorts who refuse to acknowledge shades of gray in any issue that they feel strongly about.

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>>93767842
>>93767856
DELET, CYKA

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>>93768769
I think both Rebecca and Estelle are friends because Rebecca has done album artwork for Estelle in the past. Pic related.

>>93769011
I'm complaining about the sorts who claim they're doing that, because they're usually attacking people who aren't doing what they're complaining about.

>>93769264
>Dem puffy nigger lips

Might want to check whether she is also bff with Veyll. :^)

>>93769011
>Which movies?

'Fifty shades of...'

>>93769264

Pretty neat.

>>93769264
Friends or not, I am pretty sure Estelle has a tight schedule. In fact there's a row of episodes in season 4 in which Garnet has no lines or just straight up doesn't appear because Estelle was on tour while they where making the episodes.

>>93769041
Get fucked, commies.

>>93768769
Didn't centipeetle say through drawings that the diamonds did it? Or maybe she just assumed that, because the diamonds were probably the only ones capable of such attack.

>>93769412
Sugar has a lip focus. That should be obvious by now.

>>93769463
d'oh

>>93768371
But she was right, and you can't really conflate classes fighting with legit war.

>>93768390
Alexandrite has a voice actor

>>93764786
o-of couse I have. b-baka

>>93768418
>sweatingguy.jpeg
h-hot damn. how?

>>93763157
why does the concept art look so much better than the design they used in the show?

>>93769495
That's shit, looks like some sort of slave of the machine that licks her masters boot and asks for more

>>93770876
Because it wasn't fat or ugly enough

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>>93768849
"But captain! We're already hitting five mega-Mckellans on the gayometer! that's nearly as much pure faggotry as one whole OP! The DeGeneres fields cannae take the strain!"

>>93769495
>>93771086
Huh, maybe that's what a Homeworld Bismuth looks like.

I really like the hair.

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>>93771464
Damn it Scotty! Don't give me science; give me results.

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>>93768769
>Yes, you can. It's called 'using your brain'.
>thinking your brain tells the truth at all

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>>93763719
>useless

>>93771626
"Right captain! If ah can reroute the excess homo-watts through the Bi-lithium matrix we may just make it! ,we might have ta mince back tae star base like a Klingon drag queen wi a wooden leg, but we'll get there!"