The Death of Pink Diamond

I had this idea that Pink Diamond’s death was not a strike by the crystal gems. There are a few arguments that go with this idea, so please hear me out. I apologize for how long winded this is going to be, but HERE WE GO!

1: Gem placement and personality.

Fans have theorized for a while that the placement of a gem on the Gem’s body shows their personality. As far as the show has let us see and/or what the diamond insignia suggests; Blue and Yellow both have chest gems, White has a forehead gem, and pink has a belly gem.

Chest= Impulsive/passionate/emotional Belly= Kind/loving/compassionate Forehead= Logical/intelligent/detached

This means that Yellow Diamond and Blue diamond are most likely to do things based on impulse. This can be seen as true based on a few events including:

Blue Diamond keeps Pink Diamond’s zoo running, visits earth, and kidnaps Greg all on her own whims and impulses centered around grief.

Yellow Diamond does not have any logical reasoning for not keeping earth around. in her own words, she tells peridot that she doesn’t care about potential or resources. She just wants the planet gone. (note that this appears to be the first true interaction between Peridot and Yellow Diamond. Peridot thought Yellow Diamond was the most logical and wise, but is taken aback by the lack of those traits. more on that later).

Based on these two exhibiting the impulsive and emotional nature of a chest gem, I can say with confidence that White Diamond is driven by logic and probably so focused on it that she is detached from any emotion. Along the same argument, Pink Diamond is driven most by love and emotion (she might have been the one who made sure that their decisions would not negatively effect gem-kind)

2: No Real Witnesses

This is a slightly shorter argument, but as far as I have seen, there weren’t any witnesses to the shattering of Pink Diamond. Jasper says that Rose did it. Eyeball Ruby says so too. The Crystal Gems mention it too, but they never explicitly say that they saw it happen. They knew she kept secrets. They knew that she did things for the good of the cause, even if she didn’t like what she had to do. They might have just not talked about Pink Diamond’s shattering because they didn’t want to question Rose’s judgement. I really cannot remember one instance in the show where a character comes out and says that they saw it happen.

3: Pink Diamond’s Compassion

Garnet at one point says that the Earth belonged to Pink Diamond. Pink diamond might have loved humans. She kept a human zoo (maybe out of interest, maybe out of love for the creatures) and even made sure it was an environment that was suitable for them to live in relative happiness. She took the time to learn about them and do whatever she needed to to make life nice in her zoo. The voice that the humans in the zoo hear (her voice, in my opinion) is very soft, kind, and motherly.

What if Pink Diamond was unhappy with the plans for Earth? What if she wanted to abandon the project because, like Rose, she saw beauty in the life there? It is possible that Pink Diamond actually secretly supported the things the rebellion stood for.

4: The Change of Homeworld

There was something that caught my attention in Lapis’s message to Steven. Homeworld changed after the war. Lapis could barely recognize it anymore. Technology had flourished. Things had advanced so far and far too quickly. Things were so different. On top of that, the gems made after the war were inferior. Peridot points out that a lack of resources meant that more recent gems, “Era 2” gems, don’t have powers. Era 1 was before the war and was characterized by stronger and healthier gems. Era 2 is the age of technology. Perhaps the lack of resources was CAUSED by the advancement of technology. The material for more advanced tech has to come from somewhere after all.

5: Opinion of the Diamonds

Although we have little evidence of what Blue Diamond’s Gems think of her (it seems more like Blue isolated herself and is not there for them, based on Yellow’s line “Where’s their diamond when they need her, Blue? You’ve got to be a leader, Blue”), Peridot gives us a great example of the view of Yellow Diamond. Peridot describes Yellow Diamond as being the most logical and intelligent diamond and takes great pride in serving such a wise leader. As I mentioned before, the interaction on the diamond line seems to be the first time Peridot actually spoke to her diamond directly. She tried using logic to get her diamond to listen to her side, assuming that was all it would take.

Peridot is immediately disillusioned. Yellow Diamond has no care for logic and reason. She wants what she wants. Yellow diamond is clearly being driven by emotional impulses instead of any intelligent reasoning. This tells me that the ideals Peridot associates with Yellow Diamond are wrong. They aren’t Yellow Diamond’s traits, so who’s?

Well, of course the answer is White Diamond! This could possibly mean that all of the orders Peridot and other Yellow Diamond subordinates receive are just being passed down from White Diamond. Yellow Diamond is either not involved in passing orders at all, or she is just spitting out the orders that White Diamond tells her to based on White Diamond’s plans. Either could be valid, since it seems like Yellow Diamond might have needed a moment to look Peridot and her mission up before asking about the status. Was she unaware of the mission at first, or was it that she didn’t care because it was somebody else’s plans?

Conclusion:

It is close to the end of the war. Pink Diamond, being the compassionate one she is, wants this all to end and would like to cancel plans for the Earth. She is hurt most by what the war is doing to her planet, the life there, and all of the gems, both rebel and not, who are being destroyed by the fighting. White Diamond, being the Gem driven by intelligence, is who she approaches with her argument. If she can sway White Diamond to her opinions, the others would follow as well.

White Diamond is not happy with the argument. Pink Diamond wants to leave the planet alone after everything that has happened there. It was not the logical thing to do after how much they have already built on the planet. They had also already put a lot into fighting this war. There was no possible way the rebels would just come back to Homeworld’s side just because they stopped fighting. if they ended the war peacefully, there would always be a separation of their people. It was a risk they could not afford. There was, however, a very easy way to solve all of their problems… More importantly, a way to get rid of the one person holding their people back from the ways of science and logic.

Emotion is the enemy of logic. As long as emotion was one of the ruling powers, reason would never have full control. With the rebellion going full force and no witnesses to speak against her, White Diamond shattered Pink Diamond and claimed that it was Rose Quartz, leader to the rebellion. Nobody questioned it. Rose had personally attacked their bases before, so there was no doubt that she could have done it again and somehow destroyed one of their leaders.

From there, getting her way was easy. Blue Diamond and Yellow Diamond were easy to sway. White diamond, acting sympathetic to their pain and anger over the loss of Pink Diamond, gave them a new plan of attack. It would be cruel to keep Earth around. perhaps they could use it to incubate the ultimate gem weapon, one that would destroy the planet so they could wipe it from their maps and never have to look back on that terrible stain in their history. They would plant the weapon, order a retreat, and use a last resort attack to destroy the rebels and make sure their weapon would not be tampered with. none of them ever had to see Earth again.

The grieving Diamonds agreed without any argument. The Cluster was planted. The retreat was ordered. The attack was launched. As far as any of them were aware, all gems remaining on Earth were corrupted and would pose no further problems.

From there, Era 2 began. White Diamond took the lead. Without Pink Diamond around, there was nobody to argue against the negative effects her plans would have on the Homeworld Gems. The other diamonds agreed with her logical arguments. Under her plans, technology flourished. Advancements were made. New weapons. New tools. Augmentations. Better Ships. Efficient, clean, perfect. A new Era is marked by new controlling power bringing new ideals.

Era 2 gems suffered losses under this new system. With more resources being used for the advancements in technology, there were less materials left to give them all the strength and power that the Era 1 gems had. Without Pink Diamond to argue for the well-being of their kind, these drawbacks are easily ignored and considered unimportant. The world changes so much that gems who have been away, like Lapis, would no longer recognize it.

White Diamond has everything she wanted. Rose Quartz and the rebellion are the villains. Nobody is there to argue against her plans. She becomes the ultimate power with the other diamonds agreeing to whatever she says. The world changes in the ways she has wanted right from the beginning. Pink Diamond’s death benefited her more then it could have ever helped the rebellion.

The shattering of Pink Diamond was not an act of rebellion; It was a hostile power play by one of her own kind.

hey, this theory actually has a chance to be freaking right! most of it is still speculation, but I still like my chances. what do you think now that the newest episode is out @the-a-j-universe

Have you ever...

Seen someone complaining about something that they could very easily change or fix themselves but when you ask them why they don’t their response is along the lines of, “because i am too lazy to” and they keep complaining?

Cause im about go lose my shit.

I work at a store with a salad bar. One day at work this woman comes over and tells me she wants a cobb salad. I tell her that i make salads in about an hour. That is unacceptable. I tell her all the ingredients are on the salad bar and it would actually be cheaper for her to make her own salad instead of me prepacking it for her. Nope. So she follows me while i drop everything to make her salad and she tells me "yeah, so I know it is cheaper the other way but, uou know. Better you do for me than me do for me." I got so frustrated by that attitude after she made me drop what i was doing for something she could have done. I asked someone else to cash her out because i had to get away from that lazy attitude

Ryker x Ash OCs of my buddies @hikaricotta and @violethibine

Hehe. Yuuuus! You are such a sweety!

Hah, i was the same. Even worse was that i was the only alto who could hold a tune. All the other altos kept singing soprano notes. So the choir teacher would point me out and tell other altos to try focusing on me to hit the right notes, but that made me shy. And when i am shy about singing my voice gets very quiet, shakey, and reaaaally high pitched... oh it was a nightmare. Once he gave me a solo part for a song and i damn beat started crying when i walked to the microphone...

Sometimes I think back on the time I spent working as a barista, and it seems SO STRANGE to me that “coffee shop AU” has become synonymous with narratives that are low on conflict, high on wholesome romance. During the year I spent working at a coffee shop:

Like, working on the front lines of food service was the most operatically sordid professional experience I have ever had, and one of the most surreal; and it is hilarious to me that THAT, of all jobs, is the one that has come to stand for soft-focus domestic romance in fandom circles. 

This is the Coffee Shop AU we deserve.

Two of my managers got fired for having an affair with each other. There was this guy I never really talked to, so one time I see him and ask how his weekend was. He says “I wanted to drop some acid but I couldn’t find any.” Never saw him again.

I had a friend whose manager used to sit in the backroom doing lines of coke before opening at 7am. It was and I quote ‘the only way to deal with this shit’.

My own manager, who was heavily pregnant at the time, told an asshole customer to take their latte and shove it up their arse, before walking out and promptly going into labor.

We had homeless people sleeping in our dumpsters who used to throw the trash back out at us when we opened the lid.

I have myself uttered the phrase “M'am, I am the manager” after they dumped a cream cake over my head because it wasn’t what they ordered except it was. They even pointed at it first and said “that one”.

I had a customer piss themselves out of defiance when we asked them to leave. Then when the police were called they did it again, like some vengeful piss camel. I’m telling you friends, I have stood at the precipice of hell, I have stared into the void and plummeted into the depths of humanity and it tips less than 20%.

I feel honored to have met all of you darlings

WHERE IS MY COFFEE SHOP UNDERTALE AU WITH THIS SHIT

I want to try to make this happen. What do ya think @hikaricotta

If you are anti-darkfic, you are anti-survivor

I’ve had a bee in my bonnet since this incident the other day, and I figure it’s probably time to get it out of my system.

Darkfic is not a new phenomenon. It’s as old as the hills. For as long as there have been fic writers, there have been fic writers using the medium to explore themes that are taboo in mainstream fiction. Torture and gore, death and destruction, rape and sexual abuse. Every author has their own motives and inspirations for the content they produce, and there’s no ‘average’ darkfic writer. But what I can tell you - anecdotally, from a full decade’s worth of experience drifting in and out of various darkfic communities - is that when you involve yourself with these authors, you start meeting survivors. Lots of survivors. In what I think it’s fair to call a statistically significant concentration. 

For some, their survivor status is incidental to their controversial interests; for others of us, past trauma and mental illness are intrinsically tied to what we read and write. Darkfic can be a lifeline, a validation, a liberation, a profound and unbeatably intense catharsis for the shit we’ve got stored in our heads. Darkfic enclaves within fandom are places where we can air our darkest and most desperate fears and fantasies in a safe, supportive environment, in the company of others who remind us that we are not broken or defective just for wanting the things we want.

And here’s the thing: literally no one in these communities wants to force outsiders to join us. We recognise that our content is stuff that the majority of people don’t want to see, and we do our best to protect the rest of fandom from involuntary exposure by using appropriate trigger warnings. We don’t want to hurt anyone, we don’t want to ruin anyone’s innocence - we just want to be left alone to do our thing. But tumblr callout culture has taught people that “speaking out” against things they don’t like is cool and brave and socially progressive. It has created an environment where virtually the automatic response to distress, discomfort or personal offense is to look for a perpetrator, a culpable oppressive villain to whom the offended party can deliver a vicious “smackdown” while their friends look on and cheer.

I’m not going to argue just now about whether that’s ever an acceptable way to treat people. Regardless of anyone’s personal feelings on callout culture as a whole, there’s an intersection between darkfic and trauma survivors that you guys all need to understand before you go targeting darkfic authors as convenient representatives of everything you think is wrong with the world. So let me lay this out as simply and clearly as I can:

If you are anti-darkfic, you are anti-survivor. I’m sick and tired of watching vulnerable members of my community get harassed and bullied by people who claim to be acting in the interests of survivors. I’m sick of being told that survivors like me aren’t survivors at all, that our very existence is toxic and harmful, that we have no right to speak and be heard on an issue that affects us so intimately. 

Anti-darkfic fans, you need to pull back. You need to realise that your comfort and safety, while important, are not more important than the comfort and safety of other people. You need to understand that it is your responsibility to learn how to peacefully coexist alongside people who experience the world differently from you, even if their experiences make you unhappy or uncomfortable. You have no right to ask us to stop existing so that you can feel at ease. You have no right to demand that we prioritise the needs of some survivors over others. You don’t own fandom, and you have no right to dictate who does or doesn’t get to participate.

You are not brave heroes speaking out against the spread of moral degeneracy in fandom. You are bullies, deliberately and systematically targeting trauma survivors with your abusive tactics. It really is that simple. And it needs to stop.

I am really glad to see something like this. Honestly, I write a lot of dark-fics... but I usually am too afraid of posting them because people I know irl tell me that the subjects make them uncomfortable and they don't even want to hear me out about what I wrote and why... so I usually keep them to myself and eventually delete them. Hearing people tell me I shouldn't write horrible things makes me feel a little bit attacked.

So I shouldn't write about rape because it is too terrible? I shouldn't write about characters being beaten because it makes you uncomfortable? No spiritual abuse, mental abuse, emotional torture because that triggers you?

Well, what about the fact that I have a long history of all of these things? What about the fact that I write from a place of experience? Writing these thing actually makes me feel so much better. It is great therapy and lets me share my own experiences. I like the idea that someone who was never abused could read and gain a little insight into how hopeless the situation is. I like that other victims could see what i do and know that another person understands and can sympathize with them.

I wish I knew about dark-fics when i was little. Maybe if I know about this community, i would have had the strength to speak out about what was happening. I was so alone and afraid and i felt like my abuse was all my fault. If I would have known that other people understood what was happening to me, maybe it could have been different. Maybe i wouldn't have felt like I was going through something I needed to hide. Maybe I wouldn't have been ashamed. Maybe I would have gotten help.

IDK. It is all a bunch of what ifs at this point. I think I am rambling now. Point is, dark-fics are a good thing. It isn't just about being edgy and dark. Most of it is about healing. Either way, writers shouldn't be attacked. If you don't like darkfics, just read the tags and don't read stuff you don't want to! Most people are really great about tagging things properly so you can avoid what you hate. We aren't forcing you to read what you don't want.

Meaning of your birthday in Japanese

1日：欠片（かけら）： Fragment 2日：天使（てんし）：Angel 3日：涙（なみだ）：Tears 4日：証（あかし）： Evidence 5日：夢（ゆめ）：Dream 6日：心（こころ）：Heart 7日：しずく: Drops 8日：ようせい：Fairy 9日：音楽（おんがく）：Music 10日：光（ひかり）：Light 11日：鮫（さめ）：Shark 12日：けっしょう：Crystal 13日：ささやき：Whisper 14日：おつげ： Prediction 15日：おぼじない： Spell 16日：偽り（いつわり）：Lie 17日：祈り（いのり）：Pray 18日：猫（ねこ）：Cat 19日：みちするべ： Signpost 20日：熊（くま）：Bear 21日：保護者（ほごしゃ）： Guardian 26日：バナナ：Banana 27日：狼（おおかみ）：Wolf 28日：翼（つばさ）：Wings 29日：お土産（おみやげ）： Souvenir 30日：かいとう：Thief 31日：妄想（もうそう）：Delusion Month: 1月：月（つき）：Moon 2月：愛（あい）：Love 3月：空（そら）：Sky 4月：水（みず）：Water 5月：花（はな）：Flower 6月：宇宙（うちゅう）： Space 7月：太陽（たいよう）：Sun 8月：星（ほし）：Star 9月：森（もり）：Forest 10月：影（かげ）：Shadow 11月：天（てん）：Heaven 12月：雪（ゆき）：Snow

water banana??? water banana………

Star Prediction. So cute

Cat heaven, now that sounds good

Crystal snow….. I like it

Bear Forest

Delusion Shadow

Banana Shadow

Thief snow? SNOW THIEF?! SWEET!

Water prediction

Music Snow …Perfect~ - v -

*FLOWER BEAR*

…its angus

water music

UNDER DA SEA~ UNDER DA SEA~

Wings Heaven or Heaven Wings

Shark Heaven…..wut? @violethibine

Fairy Love apparently. Well ooookay then

Salt and Sugar

Aries: 70% salt, 30% sugar

Taurus: 75% salt, 25% sugar

Gemini: 50% salt, 50% sugar

Cancer: 40% salt, 60% sugar

Leo: 65% salt, 35% sugar

Virgo: 90% salt, 10% sugar

Libra: 20384% salt, fAKE SPLENDA SUGAR

Scorpio: 30% salt, 70% sugar

Sagittarius: Depends on who you are tbh. Either 666% salt of 666% sugar

Capricorn: 60% salt, 40% sugar

Aquarius: 99% salt, 1% sugar

Pisces: 420% salt (surprise!), you gotta deserve their sweetness

source:risingimini

@littlemissdeath267

I’m 99% salt but I only need one percent sugar and that’s @heyasugar

I’m a Libra XD so much salt and fake sugar XD

Aquarius... and i have to agree with this. Yus. But at least my 1% is the sweetest damn sugar you will find! @hikaricotta knows it =P

It’s a boy!!

@violethibine got a little bundle of joy this morning.  Happy birthday, kid!  And to his happy parents - KISS YO SLEEP AND FREE TIME GOODBYE! XD

Thank you! Doctor said i was a real rock star. No pain meds or anything

I’m a demon arcanist and I’m okay with that.

I’m a Dryad Sky-Pirate

Fae Alchemist… I went into this with a laugh. How dare I get called out like this…

CENTAUR DEATH KNIGHT

Demon Thief!

Troll White Mage.

I’m a human merchant…like I can be that now

i got vampire merchant.

i’d be fucked.

vampire summoner!!

troll assasin? heck yeah!

Dark Elf Alchemist Holy shit yes

@violethibine

Hell yeah, Demon Assassin. I can work with that. Let's be parners in crime @joker-the-cat