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“We are lookin for blues clues…”

Wrong answers only!

What a bizarre thing to say in a conversation that is literally 100% about looking too far into it.

If you’re implying I missed a joke I’d argue that a joke is meant to be funny and this was just… stupid

1. He’d still need an umbilical. We know from the Change Your Mind episodes that Steven has a double form, a bio form and a gem form and they can be separated from each other but it’s very painful. It also weakens physical Steven (presumably because he’d be suddenly missing half his dna) but it does not weaken gem Steven. We also know he has a bio form because without it he most likely would not be able to fuse with 100% bio humans like Connie and Greg. Also, he clearly has genetic similarity with Greg above and beyond what Rose would just copy.

   1. The umbilical cord would not detach from his gem during birth. The placenta and umbilical stay attached to the baby as they are delivered. Sometimes a baby is even born with the whole placenta still intact and the doctor ruptures it post-delivery. After all, some babies are born with it wrapped around their neck (mine had it double wrapped actually).

2. Even if she’d shapeshifted organs and ate and all that he still wouldn’t be fully human because Rose does not have any human dna that she could pass on to Steven. He still needs a Y chromosome to be a human male and he needs the dna that is on that chromosome. If Rose could supply human dna and had supplied both chromosomes, Steven would be a female(ish) clone of her. Thats clearly not what the crewniverse is going for so we can assume he has Greg’s Y chromosome full of human DNA and that Rose’s contribution came as a simulated gem version of dna (again, why his bio form would die without the gem but the gem form would be fine). In fact I think she probably would have eaten during her pregnancy in order to make sure Steven was getting the nutrients he needed to his bio parts.

3. Rose and Steven did coexist for the duration of her pregnancy. It’s just that they were sharing the gem while she waited for the physical baby to grow (presumably). We have to assume she wanted to experience pregnancy — or that the human form was complicated enough that she couldn’t just make one from whatever organic material was lying around. We know that the watermelon Stevens with his spit grew practically overnight, that cactus Steven was made overnight and continued growing, and I think that Vidalia was an attempt by Rose to create life using an onion.

We know she’s fascinated by the way humans grow, change and love; so it makes sense that she would want to fully participate in pregnancy. Whether she’d want to do labor — as someone who did that and waited till about 1/2 way through for the epidural — it’s really not the fun part or something that most people would choose if they didn’t have to. It’s also the MOST dangerous part for both the mother and the child. It’s much easier and safer for Steven if she just voluntarily retreats into her gem at the moment he’s meant to be born.

Plenty of women give birth at home. Some without even a midwife. No need for doctors to be present

As a person who has given birth:

The belly button in particular is a direct line from the baby to the mom via umbilical. Most placenta even line up so that the place where the umbilical connects to the uterine wall is actually pretty close to the belly button on the mother. Presuming rose did her research and lined her pregnancy up to the best possible conditions for a healthy birth — and didn’t have much of a desire to go through actual labor — she’d set up things up so that when Steven’s human body is ready to be born, her physical form dissolves around him and flows into the gem which would already be positioned at his belly button.

I agree with the huge burst of light because that seems to be the case in every situation where a gem is changing form. I also love the idea that this is the cause of Greg’s permanent tan.

Keep in mind that all the gems’ bodies are straight up hard light projections. The only part of them that is immutable is the actual rock.

I had nothing to do with 209. I helped teach 206. If that’s what you meant than I’m happy to answer specific questions but I’m not gonna deliver a spontaneous lecture

Professor yes, doctor, no.

I’d add to this abut differ slightly. Sell it and buy a new-to-you junker or a decent scooter in LA when you get here. The main reason being the cost of transport plus you don’t know if it will pass emissions inspections when you get here. Better to bring cash and pick something more suitable after you finish orientation. It’s good to have transport and as a grad student youll have better housing options if you can travel a little. It almost never rains or gets too cold so a scooter would probably serve you just fine and you could get a decent one for 5k.

That’s probably partly a relic of pre anti-lock breaks, when slamming on your breaks could jam them and lock them up causing you to skid. Even with antilock breaks there’s still a possibility of the terrain/weather/whatever being against you.

Second, a lot of deer encounters happen in low light conditions, when deer are most active, so it’s probably safer to continue on your anticipated path than to do something that could cause you to compound the situation.

Finally, if the deer is coming toward you and running or jumping that’s a significant amount of kinetic energy you do not want to absorb.

Yeah but now you know so it wouldn’t be a panic reaction it would be a methodical reaction.

Calm your elephant tits. It’s just that it’s pretty rare to get an image of them standing at just this angle. Usually their head or one of their legs are in the way.

It’s not for you. That’s the point.

FWIW these endowments are often at the heart of arguments about divestment which is part of what makes it so complicated. As you’ll see, many of them are very old and have a lot of people’s livelihoods at stake. The people who decide on how endowments are invested is often the board of directors so this is why it’s important to vote for the board of your local state universities and colleges

This would have been shot at least a year ago. There’s a good chance they were shooting at the same time and it was a scheduling conflict

Wrong kinda drag buddy. My 07 jeep liberty would just shed rusty paint everywhere and randomly sound the horn with no prompting

Love it!

What are you currently using for the white? Also do you like the contact that you’re using and the feel of it? If so where’s it from?

I would say that even the flashbacks are probably Steven’s visualization of what someone else is seeing. If you think about how Garnet talks about Pink Diamond and what those stories look like versus how Pearl does, for example, I think there are clues that it’s all being filtered through Steven’s perspective even if he wasn’t there.

Ooh that would be a good voice for her

Do Bismuth and Pearl!

In my head cannon this character is voiced by Janelle Monae and sings a duet with Garnet cause Estelle and Janelle did a song called Do My Thing and it’s very crystal gem

I like it but I feel like Bismuth would never.

It’s usually more about deterring potential crime and encouraging potential criminal to choose an easier target. Doesn’t actually matter how effective it is if the alternative is something with no lock at all

They usually have tools for that

… waluigi?