This Is From The Keep Beach City Weird Official Book, Published In April 2017.

For whatever reason you’re in the closet, you deserve to enjoy pride! 

Aro culture is liking free shipping (fee)

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Bismuth and Peridot fusion,please??

I’ve drawn Pallasite before but she needs a redo so while I’m waiting on renders…

She can pretty much make anything out of anything

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️ My favourite characters from Hataraku Saibou BLACK in a very quite moment between Chapter 10 and 11, and I thought of this scene: the beautiful U-1196 presenting a chocolate box to AA2153, but initially hiding it behing her back… Because “Valentine’s Day in countries which observe White Day is typically observed by girls and women presenting chocolate gifts (either store-bought or handmade), usually to boys or men, as an expression of love, courtesy, or social obligation. On White Day, the reverse happens” (from Wikipedia)… maybe I’ll draw something for White Day too, who knows. Fangirl power! :3

And on that note: happy international asexuality day!

based on rs’ recent hoodie sketches

she would love a big baggy hoodie

Mostly Pokémon sketches from the past 3 years! ✨

(ft. Everything else living rent free up there)

I spent way too long on this

She’s here!!! The trash queen has arrived.

Steven Universe Comic #36 (2020) - Outline & Review

The thirty-sixth installment of the ongoing comic series for Steven Universe is about Connie and Steven’s latest trip to Buddwick library. Steven learns about the organizational power of libraries, but it’s all for naught when all the books they want are missing even though they’re not checked out. Could someone or something be snatching Buddy’s books?

Plot:

Steven and Connie head back to Buddwick Library, where they had an adventure once upon a time reading about Buddy Buddwick’s adventures touring the world documenting Gem stuff. They decide to find more of his books, including the original journal, but Steven doesn’t know how to use the library’s systems. Connie helps him learn.

After they use computers to track down a bunch of Buddy’s books and write down their locations on cards, Steven and Connie split up to find them and mysteriously, none of the books they’re looking for are on the shelves. They ask a librarian, but the books are listed as checked in. They’re not sure what to do.

Connie suggests the books must all be shelved improperly somewhere in the library, and when they begin to search more thoroughly, they find evidence that a creature is lurking among the books. They track it down and find that this creature is a corrupted Gem who has snatched all of Buddy’s books and has thrown them all into a closed-off room!

The Gem attacks, so Connie and Steven battle it and poof it. And when they get a look at the books it’s been hoarding–all of them Buddy’s–they find all kinds of books documenting Gem history.

They enjoy reading and looking at pictures of places they’ve been and creatures they’ve encountered, and Steven is surprised how much Buddy got around. He speculates that the corrupted Gem collected all these Gem-related books so it wouldn’t have to feel alone and could be surrounded by something familiar. But now, it does not have to be alone, and someday soon it will be okay.

Notable:

1. Connie mentions that a new book is out by the author of Unfamiliar Familiar. I wonder if it’s a new series? Neither of them said anything about how Connie didn’t like the ending of the last one. I wonder if she still considers herself a fan.

2. Connie’s hair is short in this comic, so it takes place after “Kevin Party,” but Steven still mentions “Mayor Dewey” even though he stepped down to let Nanefua be mayor in “Dewey Wins” (several episodes before “Kevin Party”). I guess this is either an inconsistency or a manifestation of Steven just doing what lots of fans also do–still calling him “Mayor” even though he isn’t because we’ve known him that way for so long.

3. The Diamonds’ murals as depicted on the Moon Base are included in one of Buddy’s books. The comic does say that the murals are “across the world,” so I guess it’s suggesting that the same murals that are on the moon are in various locations on Earth too. This struck me as strange that there would be a bunch of Diamond murals around and we’ve never seen them in Steven’s travels on Earth, but I guess they wouldn’t necessarily have to be in protected Gem locations.

4. There’s a monster listed as “The Leviathan” that looks kind of like a monster in a previous comic, but I’m not sure whether it’s a specific show monster. It looks like a Centipeetle but with a wormy tail, in the water. I wonder if it’s supposed to be what William Dewey encountered while coming to Beach City. Other locations and images are familiar–the Sky Spire, the Communication Hub, Rose with her lions, the Centipeetle, the Great North monsters, more Diamond murals with speculations on what they’d really look like, and even a cute old-timey image of Ruby and Sapphire in old fashions. When the heck would he have seen that??

5. This comic implies that Buddy’s work primarily focused on documenting Gem activity and Gem places, since his books were the ones the creature stole. I kinda thought the episode “Buddy’s Book” implied that Buddy documented his Gem-related travels in one book and then was encouraged to become an author by Rose, after which he went on to write about other things because he didn’t want to just be “a tourist.” But she did emphasize that his documentation was unique and that he was talented at it, so maybe that’s what encouraged him to keep finding and writing about Gem stuff. There are dozens of books in that room, though, and I had trouble picturing that many volumes all with the same format.

[SU Book and Comic Reviews]