Carmen and Utena remain scarred from the horrifying sights in Yokohama, Japan, but Peridot and Lapis have moved forward, and are realizing their dream to host a talk show. Even though this boosts everyone’s spirits, for Carmen, desperate times call for desperate measures, while Lapis, Peridot, Steven, Connie, Bih, and Pumpkin are drawn back to Japan to face evildoers who want to use the candy people to their own ends…

I am using my map (https://i.imgur.com/fuEJMcD.jpg) for locations in this story. I have used the name Peri as an abbreviation for Peridot, apart from the first mention, to make her more personable. This is reposted from Archive of Our Own.

The pages for Peridot, Too Short to Ride, Pumpkin, and TubeTube on the Steven Universe fandom, the official Steven Universe-Lapis and Peridot video chat animated short, the “Dove Self-Esteem Project x Steven Universe: Media and Celebrities” animated short and two fanfictions (https://archiveofourown.org/works/19810567, https://archiveofourown.org/works/335107). The name of Peridot and Lapis’s show derives primarily from Peridot’s plea for Lapis to stay in Raising the Barn, when she says “I think we should stay…we should find for this life we’ve built…I think we can win…Earth is our home now. Isn’t it worth fighting for?” Additionally, in Gem Harvest, Lapis retorts when seeing Andy DeMayo “we’re not leaving our home,” although she is singularly talking about the barn rather than Earth itself. For the section about their show, I used John Constine’s “YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal” (TechCrunch), Bob Lonsberry’s “How to Be a Talk Show Host” (Talkers), Sam Ashe-Edmonds’s “How to Become a Host of Your Own Interviewing Show” (Chron), Krishna Reddy’s “How to Become a TV Show Host? 15 Awesome Tips” (wisestep), Thomas Tennant’s “How to Be a Talk Show Host” (liveaboutdotcom), “Learning How to Host a Talk Show Just Became a Lot Easier” (Broadcasters Mentoring Group), Thomas Tennant’s “10 Tips on How Best to Start an Online Talk Show” (liveaboutdotcom), “How to Create a Talk Show on YouTube” (wikihow), and “How to Create a Web Show on YouTube” (wikihow). I also read out the whole section about their show to ensure that it actually takes 10 minutes to read through, making it as genuine as possible, modeling it a bit on what the morning C-SPAN radio show, which I have listened to a good deal, often sounds like. To describe Peridot and Lapis’s unscripted kiss, I used “How to Describe a Kiss” on wikihow as a guide. The mentions of Japanese foods they cooked derives from “Weeknight Meal Ideas: 15 Easy Japanese Recipes” on Just One Cookbook.