#Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil

[inbarfink]

Okay, with the 2010’s era of cartoons now firmly in the rear view, I’m curious…

If I missed your favorite 2010’s cartoon, feel free to add them in the tags. If I get enough ‘what about X’ comments I’ll probably do a second poll with all of the write-in answers. Please just note that I’m talking about cartoons that started between 2010 and 2019 (and preferably ended before 2020, that's less mandatory but I want to prioritize cartoons that did all or at least the majority of their run during the New Tens), there’s a reason why ‘Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts’ or ‘The Owl House’ are not on the list.

[disneytva]

In honor of Disney Television Animation's 40th Anniversary, the studio did an art gallery by artists from the multiple crews from the studio.

Wander Over Yonder Artwork by the talented Israel Sanchez (Disney Television Animation Multiplatform")

"Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil" by the talented Kassandra Heller ("Big City Greens" franchise)

40th Anniversary Logos by Suzanna Olson ("Gravity Falls", "DuckTales (2017)", Disney TVA "Development")

"40 Years of Disney Television Animation" by Emily Carson ("Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure", Disney TVA Development)

[bones4thecats]

Their S/O Is Related To Their Enemy

Type of Writing: Random Idea Name: Their S/O Is Related To Their Enemy Characters: Toffee of Septarsis, Bill Cipher, and Lord Hater Idea-Giver: Random Thoughts

A/N: Much like with my Vivziepop pieces, I will have the species of the reader underneath their header images. I had no ideas for HIM since I couldn't find a good connection for a reader and him in the relation to the girls context. I hope you do like this first creation of mine! Have great rests of your nights/days!

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Mewman! Reader ; Big Sibling of Moon Butterfly and Aunt of Star Butterfly

☄️ As the eldest child of Queen Comet Butterfly and Count Lazlo Marmalade of Lushreach, you were always held into high regards when it came to political affairs

☄️ While your parents mainly handled the more detailed affairs, you would watch over Moon as she aged. From looking over her when she was a toddler till when she grew old enough to organize herself into the many issues your kingdom faced

☄️ During those many years, you had held her hand throughout every single hardship that came her way. And you planned to hold her hand throughout this war that the Mewmans and Monsters faced

☄️ And even during these kind of dire situations, you always stayed strong to your family. But, when your mother and father decided to pass you up for your sister, saying she would fit better as the ruler, you snapped

☄️ You knew the only reason they chose her was because she was more like them; close minded on Monsters and Mewmans regaining trust in one another. While you were far more accepting and willing to work with the Monsters

☄️ Jumbling up all your stuff and jumped down from your room's window before sliding and sneaking outside with expect parkour practice, you landed by the woods and looked back at your sister's window, seeing the light turn off

" I am so sorry, Moon... but I cannot stay in such a corrupted land any longer... "

☄️ During your expedition to find some kind of Monster civilization, you had dodged many forced from your kingdom, each speaking of how your family needed you back home, much to your annoyance

☄️ It was during this travel that you came across an injured Septarsis, one that you learned the name of, Toffee. And, during your many years of living alongside one another, you shared your life stories, from your childhoods to your wishes, it was all out in the open to show your trust

☄️ Toffee wasn't very big on the royal family, viewing the abuse of power they held as illogical, and eventually viewing the magic they hold as overkill. But, for some weird reason, you didn't bother him

☄️ And he had to admit, watching the little offspring of his enemy Moon Butterfly look at you in shock as she tried fighting her blood made him smirk

" Uhm- Toffee? Why are you smiling at this? Isn't Y/N supposed to be just grabbing the wand and coming back here? " " Oh, you'll understand in a few seconds... "

☄️ Star was trying not to harm you, sending minor spells at you, trying to just knock you on your butt so she could just ask you why you had left and why you were siding with Ludo and the rest of his gang

☄️ Once she did, she was shocked to see that the markings on your cheeks, the ones that matched your mother's, but they were faded and covered with thin-lined x's

☄️ You then burst up and kicked the young girl away, bidding farewell as you pocked your cheek and stuck your tongue out mockingly before winking at where the camera laid for Toffee and the forces to see

" I-Is she...? " " I told you. You would find out soon... now! Y/N, I would like to congratulate you on retrieving such an important tool; Star's mistrust of her mother. Good job, my royal. "

☄️ Smirking at your husband, you pecked his cheek and looked at the boys as you handed Ludo a small portion of magic sealed from Star's wand, and just this amount would be good for now

☄️ Toffee then looked at your marks, which slightly glowed with magic... how troublesome could it be if that little brat got to your mind? He didn't want to even think of that...

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Human! Reader ; Older Cousin of Dipper and Mabel Pines (Early-30s)

👁️ Being only a baby when the incident occurred between your father, Stanford Pines, and your uncle, Stanley Pines, you had often questioned the point of why there were so many weird things happening in your small town

👁️ Gravity Falls always had small details that made no sense to you, and as you grew up being raised by your money-obsessed uncle, you had written these things down in a journal that you had numbered 4 with a hand-print that, by what your uncle said, was your father's

👁️ You always had these small visions growing up, from seeing some kind of weird gnomes around the woods to seeing a kind of large minotaurs (which were supposedly called 'MAN-otaurs for some reason?)

👁️ But none of those compared to the small triangle man that appeared in your dreams and would mess around with you from time to time as you grew older

👁️ And, when your little cousins, Dipper and Mabel Pines, had come by to spend the summer at the Mystery Shack with you and your uncle, these visions seemed to happen more often and get more and more vivid

👁️ This 'demon' has you labeled him, had been caught by you staring at your cousins as they slept for weeks, and because of the worry you felt for the two, you began to lose sleep, alarming your family and friends

👁️ Eventually, after being scolded by Stanley and having been forced by Mabel and Wendy to lay down for at least a couple hours, you had fallen into a deep rest as Mabel's pig, Waddles, laid beside you

👁️ You had awoken inside of a dark field, one that you had been in multiple times beforehand, and hearing the very light-sounding maniacal laughter of a triangle demon you called a 'friend', you turned around

👁️ A flaming yellow triangle appeared and allowed the 'one-eyed Dorito' as you called him to be summoned

👁️ He adjusted his bowtie and floated with his cane leaning against literal air as you groaned and motioned for him to come nearby, making him laugh and ask if you missed him

" Oh, I didn't miss you par say... I just missed doing THIS! "

👁️ Wrapping your arms around his frame you wrestled the three-sided demon into the grass and made him laugh at your actions, his arms and legs flaying about to try swatting you away without any use of his powers

👁️ Once you finally stopped wrestling the demon, or rather, stopped wrestling Bill, he had popped his hat of his head and began to ask you the questions you always said you had no comment on

" So, about the two flesh-bags your related too. " " You mean my cousins? Dipper and Mabel? " " Yeah! Pine Tree and Shooting Star! They've been getting far too close to my plans, and you know what happens to those who get too close. They go- "

👁️ Holding his palm up to the sky, he made a small figurine of an unknown man before lifting his opposite hand and smashing it, making a paint-like substance flay onto yours and his 'faces'

" SPLAT! And, I know how much you care about those life-forms. Now, since your father and uncle aren't in my reach anymore, I figured that you could talk to them about maybe taking a couple days off from monster-hunting, y'know, and allow me to work on this more~ " " Bill. We've talked about this once and we've talked about it a million times- " " Actually more like 7, but go on... " " A million times. Anyone with a somewhat functioning brain like Old Man McGucket's can notice how stubborn they- well, Dipper is on unraveling this town. It'd take a miracle to show him enough to get him to back away from his mission. " " Yeah, a miracle. Interesting point, human. "

👁️ Cocking an eyebrow and holding your hand out as if to grab something, Bill narrowed and widened his one eye largely as a small cat with silver hair and yellow highlights appeared in your hands, obviously with one eye that's colors were opposite (white <--> black)

👁️ Smiling and petting the demonic-looking feline, you looked back at Bill and held the cat as he made a ball of yarn to play with the animal, underneath his eye a small pink flush growing

👁️ You were by-far the most entertaining human he had ever met- even if you were related to that traitorous man you had to call your father

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Alien / Star-Nomad! Reader ; Wander's Older Sibling and Main Guardian

⚡ Your younger brother is a very energetic being, and if you were for certain, you'd call him the most energetic being in the whole Universe

⚡ You had spent most of your life watching over your brother as he and his friend, Sylvia, spread themselves around the many different worlds during their travels. With you being the one who had to get them out of many bad situations

⚡ But, a few years prior, you had given the two permission to travel on their own, meaning they could not afford to get into massive trouble since you wouldn't be there

⚡ They had been doing well as you traveled on your own, and during one of your more random leaps to another world, you had met a small eyeball with a tiny body who called himself 'Commander Peepers'

⚡ You had stared at the guy and cocked an eyebrow and heard a yell of Peeper's name, making you both look up in shock, though yours was hidden far better

" L-Lord Hater! To what do I owe the pleasure? " " You owe everything to this pleasure! Also, we're out of cheese dip. "

⚡ The cloaked man had looked up at you and lightly tilted his head before looking down at you and furrowing his eyebrows in both frustration and confusion

" Who is this, Peepers? " " I'm not sure myself, Sir. They had just appeared out of nowhere. " " You! Who are you?! " " I'm Y/N. Intergalactic Traveler. "

⚡ Lord Hater looked at you up and down, you looked like what the average Star-Nomad would appear, but you had a height advantage, maybe being a couple heads shorter than the Lord himself

⚡ You looked right back at him and scoffed lightly before asking him such a bold and broad question that not many would dare ask on that planet

" Why do you look like some kind of rock-emo with a deep voice? "

⚡ Commander Peepers looked at you in shock and back at Lord Hater, fear consuming his soul as he wondered one thing and one thing alone; How in the name of everything did you just ASK him that?!

⚡ Lord Hater began to chuckle and smirk at you, his skeleton eye glaring at you as they glowed lighter green in irritation

" Why do you look like some kind of wannabe villain? "

⚡ So, to sum it up, your first meeting wasn't the best one...

⚡ But, after a few more attempts to be civil to one another landed you a part as a new member of the Hater Army, your spot laying alongside Commander Peepers, though you were more of a spy than anything

⚡ And life was doing pretty well, you and Lord Hater had begun to court and try getting your traits to collide and mix well with your new lives together as Peepers had to keep you from snapping the hot-head's neck every week

⚡ When Wander, the brother that you had sent away, came back and found you alongside Lord Hater, his eyes sparkled; had you found someone that you loved like him?!

⚡ Sylvia and Hater do not get along at all, only putting up with one another for you and Wander, since they both knew how dear you guys were to one another

⚡ Commander Peepers and you always have to keep Hater from jumping up and trying to kill Wander for his antics, such as trying to play tag with him, resulting in you taking the day off and heading to a nearby planet

⚡ He and Wander see each other far differently

⚡ Wander adores your lover, whenever you ask him what he thinks of the Lord, he always laughs and gives you an honest and optimistic opinion as you smile and laugh at his small story of his last game with him

⚡ Hater on the other hand, does not share well things. Instead, it results in him whining about how annoying your younger brother was, and that turns into a sob story of a failed accomplishment, which led to him being curled in your lap with a large pink blanket around his frame

⚡ While they may not have the best bond, Hater can put up with your brother if it means you'll stay by his side. You're the best thing he had ever held to himself, alongside his planetary conquers of course!

[ts4ritsa]

Can I request Tom Lucitor having a s/o that’s best friends with Marco?

₊˚ପ⊹ jealousy headcanons ;

ft. tom lucitor from star vs. the forces of evil * ˚ ✦

tags / cw: angst, gn!reader, you are best friends with marco here, clingy tom, he’s afraid of confrontation

- tom considers his relationship with you dear to him, and anyone could see that. he’s truly head over heels and would do anything for you

- he’s very protective and attentive with you, he makes sure to show you just how much he loves you every chance he gets

- so when you recently started to drift away from him a little, he started to worry

- tom began to find himself in situations where he’d ask if you’d wanna go out together, only to get turned down & for you to say you already had other plans with your friends from school and that you would go another time

- but that was almost never the case, and he felt like you were just growing distant by the days

- did he do something wrong, perhaps?

- finally, in a desperate attempt to figure out what might really be going on, he decided to sneak out and follow you back into the human realm one night after you went with him to a small get-together with his friends

- he is not proud of what he did by the way — he just felt scared that he’d start to annoy you if he asked even one more question about what you’re up to and saw this as a last resort

- that day, he learned that you weren’t lying about your whereabouts at all. you were always with your friends and together, you’d go and explore the city, mess around at parks, and have sleepovers almost every day

- but, amongst your circle of friends, one boy in particular caught his eye

- the one and only marco diaz

- given his recent encounters with marco and him being one of the many reasons he and star didn’t work out, he was not very happy to see him

- tom could also tell that marco was someone quite close to you

- but nobody — not even marco — could possibly get in between your relationship, right?

- that is what he wanted to believe, oh so badly

- but seeing how you would just let marco take your arm and drag you around as you both laughed with one another, he couldn’t help but feel his heart break a little

- ever since that night, tom became much more clingy with you. you find he wraps his arm around you more often in public, he holds your hand much tighter, and constantly asks you questions like “isn’t this just the best?” “aren’t we having so much fun?” “we should do this more” and it’s literally the most simple date you’ve ever had

- and whenever you’re out hanging with your friends, his mind can only wander with thoughts of what you could be doing with marco. tom texts you frequently, wanting to know what “you and your friends are up to” (but he really only wants to know what you and marco are up to) and asking if you’re alright at all times

- he can’t help it, he just wants to be involved in your life as much as possible — even when you’re apart! he knows he shouldn’t be doubtful of your relationship, but he has yet to find the courage to tell you how he truly feels

a/n: thank you for requesting anon! I combined the other two requests that I am positive you also sent me asking for “clingy tom” + “tom feeling jealous s/o wasn’t giving him attention” hcs and put them with this request. I hope you don’t mind. enjoy!

© ts4ritsa (do not repost w/o credits)

[suzumori521]

My favorite character.

[silviacrossdresser]

Marco Díaz as Princess Turdina, from “Star vs. the Forces of Evil”, by Slemka, based on a Sealguy idea.

[marimo-n2m]

As soon as I finish drawing the face, I lose motivation😐💝

[docgold13]

Cartoon Heroes Paper Cut-Outs

Star Butterfly

Created by Daron Nefcy and developed by Jordana Arkin and Dave Wasson for Disney XD, Star vs. the Forces of Evil centers on the adventures of Star Butterfly.  Star is the mischievous heir to the royal throne in the dimension of Mewni.  In an effort to curb her impulsive behavior, the princess is sent to Earth in the hopes that it would mellow her recklessness.  

On earth Star befriends Marco Diaz and begins a semi-normal life in Echo Creek, attending school and meeting new friends. Star and Marco travel to exotic dimensions using the princess’ dimensional scissors while preventing the Mewman monster Ludo, and later, Toffee from stealing Star's magic wand. As the series progresses, Star and Marco fall in love with each other, meet new friends, take on new enemies, and travel to even more weird and wild dimensions.  

Star vs. the Forces of Evil was the first series at Disney XD to be created by a woman.  Actress Eden Sher provided the voice for Princess Star Butterfly.  The series premiered in January of 2015 and ran for four seasons. 

[matthewmadrigal]

And now screen grabs from last night's Chibiverse.

SCOTT DENOGA HAS RETURNED????? CRAZY! WELCOME BACK SCOTT DENOGA WE MISSED YOU PLEASE COME BACK TO DISNEY+ DISNEY+ MISSES YOU!!!!!

I'd rather take Polly as a girl boss

Never though that Star Butterfly would be a boyband stan. I wonder, would Star Butterfly like BTS??? I think it's likely

Taylor Swift, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappel Roan have been real silent since Tater of Primos, Kristine of Hailey's On It, Kiff from Kiff, and Penny from The Proud Family started their girl group

The QSB looks very charming here. The combination of Barry Buns, Dewey Duck, Scott Denoga, and Cricket Green was so cool.

CHIBI DEWEY IS CUTE AF!!!!!

And my boy Cricket Green, he brings the country vibebto the group

[coolchevistianofficialsite]

Parallels

[opinions-about-tiaras]

Ten Years Against Fascism: Star vs. The Forces of Evil in 2025

Today is the 10th anniversary of the premiere of Star vs. the Forces of Evil.

During the 2010s, Disney had a pretty epic run of extremely high-quality YA animation series. They were characterized by being intensely creator-driven, and beginning as humorous episodic adventure shows that eventually morphed into strongly serialized affairs focusing on plot and character development. That run was kicked off with 2012’s Gravity Falls, and would come to an end in 2023 with the abrupt cancellation of The Owl House. Their sophomore outing, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, premiered on January 18th, 2015 on the Disney Channel, before beginning its regular run later that spring on Disney XD.

Of the “big four” series of that era (Gravity Falls, SVTFOE, Amphibia, and The Owl House) SVTFOE is probably regarded as the weakest, and is the least well-remembered and engaged with a decade later. It was far from bad; at the time it was one of Disney’s hottest hits, with crazy high ratings, heavily promoted, with celebrity guest voices (they brought in the lead singer of Fallout Boy to perform music), tie-in books and comics, the works. But it suffered from a flabby last season and an ending that left almost nobody happy. If you look at fandom engagement and the prevalence of fanworks compared to any of the other three series on that list, it isn’t even close to which one lags behind.

And that’s a damn shame, in my opinion, because I re-watched the series in its entirety in preparation to write this post, and SVTFOE slaps hard.

Let’s take a look back at this magical princess from another dimension.

SVTFOE starts off in a fairly direct and nearly formulaic way; frenetic humor, big personalities, straightforward plots that grow out of wacky premises. (Essentially the Adventure Time playbook, really.) It dispenses with secret identities and the pretense that this is taking place in anything other than a fantastic setting. Take Star Butterfly, magical teenage princess from the dimension of Mewni. Give her a wand and a distinct lack of self-control. Send her to Earth and high school and pair her with a straight man. Sic a bunch of monsters who want to GET THAT WAND on her. Let the hijinks ensue.

I mean, hell. Star Butterfly turns her math teacher into a literal magical ogre in the second episode, and she stays that way for the entirety of the series. It’s just… whatever. That’s how it rolls.

That was the premiere, in 2015. In fact, said premiere is still available in its entirety on Youtube, even if you don't have Disney+. The first ten minutes are worth your time as an example of "how to immaculately pace your show" if nothing else.

Wacky and fun and as light and airy as strawberry soda, yeah?

By the series finale in 2019, Star Butterfly was conducting surgery on the universe because the magical powers that were the source of her family's entire identity for hundreds of years had in fact been a tool of conquest, imperialism, genocide, and terror, and in order to prevent a mass campaign of ethnic cleansing she has to detonate them, because her power, privilege, and identity are less important than basic justice.

It was a hell of a ride to get there.

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Before we get into the giant myth arc, the political drama, and some of the shipping stuff, I want to jump into a big under discussed aspect, and strength, of SVTFOE; its willingness and ability to be gross and weird and filthy on a lot of different levels.

The animation is the obvious place to start with here; it was rather unique, at the time. All of the big four series of the 2010s adopted very obvious anime-inspired aesthetics; big eyes, small mouths and noses, thick black borders on characters and objects (as opposed to the thinner linework on something like Phineas and Ferb or Kim Possible) with lots of solid, bright, contrasting colors to make things pop. But SVTFOE went in its own direction away from this “house style,” by adopting an explicitly Ren and Stimpy inspired level of being willing to squash, stretch, and deform its characters. There’s an entirely deliberate grossness about it. Smash cuts to peoples fucked-up faces and arms, often covered in pustules and leaking all kinds of fluids, were common. 

It’s a much grosser show in this regard than even Amphibia, and Amphibia takes place in the middle of a disgusting swamp and features at least three characters with poison skin; SVTFOE out-grosses it.

This is unusual for a Disney show. What was also unusual was how filthy it was willing to get, and when I say filthy I mean “this is a show with a predominantly teen cast, and it wasn’t afraid to lean into how thirsty and horny and emotionally twisted up and weird teens can be.”

Let me put it this way. This is a show that wasn’t afraid to show a bunch of high school girls flocking around a boy’s tentacle arm, cooing over it and remarking how they want a tentacle boyfriend.

Yeahhhhhh. That's... look at Janna there, in the middle. The animators knew what they were doing.

Shows of this type (by which I mean TV-Y7 rated shows intended for a primarily Young Adult audience) don’t eschew romance. But it tends to be… very chaste, and very straightforward. Love triangles can be a thing, sure. But usually it isn’t messy, and characters who are weird about it usually have it played for laughs or are depicted as warped or wrong in some way. “Girl character is a crazy stalker girl that lets us make a few Fatal Attraction jokes the parents will get” is practically a trope. (I’m looking in your direction, Mabel Pines.)

That isn’t how SVTFOE rolls.

Star, herself, is a deeply thirsty person in the way that only someone who is fourteen can be thirsty, and the show basically revels in that. She is not traditionally boy-crazy, adopting the aforementioned stalker-style behavior and suddenly becoming a dumb idiot when romance is in the air. Rather, she is a fourteen year old with an active desire for romance who the show allows to be quite open about it (by Disney standards) when she sees someone whose abs she wants to run her face up and down on. Her dumb decisions aren’t “I will entirely deform my personality for the cardboard cutout of a boy I have a crush on” but rather “my ex has invited me on a date, and he is very cool and my feelings about him are ambivalent, so I will accept against my better judgement.”

The show is very up-front that parts of it are a straight-up romantic drama; Scott Pilgrim is specifically cited by the showrunner as an inspiration and influence. Things get messy. People cheat on each other. There are multiple love triangles. People hurt each other and are hurt in turn in ways that, despite them happening in the context of demon battles and court intrigue, are highly believable as “these are things that teens in high-stress situations would do with, for, and TO each other.”

This isn’t something you’re going to get from just about any other show, especially any other Disney show. Those shows usually involve straightforward meet-cutes, adorable crushes, unrequited love played largely for laughs (Phineas and Ferb) or at best a well-executed enemies-to-lovers arc (The Owl House.) That’s when they bother with romance and, yes, let’s be blunt, lust at all. Teens in mainstream YA fiction tend to often be either curiously sexless, or sexy desires are portrayed as kind of gross and weird and shameful.

SVTFOE allows its cast of colorful adolescent weirdos to get filthy with each other. This is still a Disney show; nobody is getting to second base or, god forbid, having premarital adolescent sex. But it really goes the extra mile and it feels real. It feels raw, in a way most other mainstream shows of this sort never, ever do. One of the bigger and more important sub-plots is literally about how sexy miscegenation between a queen and her sexy monster man lover she committed adultery with might bring down a whole kingdom, and this isn’t portrayed as shameful or said queen a disgusting harlot in any way. 

Speaking of the queen of darkness…

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One of the big narrative strengths of accomplishing the shows transition from episodic adventures to longer, more serious arcs was establishing ridiculous setting conceits as jokey fun things, and then later revealing them to be of serious, critical importance.

The magical princess has an overbearing mother, just like regular teenage girls! How will they learn to communicate? (Her mother is overbearing because their family line has DONE SOME SHIT.)

Aww, this twelve-minute episode is devoted to Star meeting one of her heroes, who is mysteriously living as a hobo on Earth, and trying to be her apprentice until she realizes that her hero is a bag of mixed nuts. The larfs! (Said hero is an ancient genocide engine and a walking war crime, and will secretly be the series final boss.)

Monsters are trying to steal the magic wand! Fights ensue! (The monsters are trying to steal the magic wand because the humans have magic, the monsters don’t, and the humans have been using that magic to impose a racial hierarchy.)

Star goes through magic-inflected puberty and becomes boy crazy! (The magic inflected puberty is because her family has been fucked up on a basic level by constant exposure to magic and is dangerous and deadly.)

The queen of darkness had returned from her terrible crystal prison! She’s corrupting the youths! (The queen of darkness is a wrongly convicted political prisoner and  the most empathetic, concerned, responsible adult in the whole show.)

All of this is slowly unpeeled over the course of four seasons. Almost everything that shows up as a total joke in season one will turn out to be fairly plot-relevant by season four. Again, the Adventure Time playbook. And it serves as an underpinning to the series main political thrust.

Because, yeah, SVTFOE is an intensely, almost uniquely, political series.

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The politics in Disney shows tend to be paper-thin. They’re functionally nonexistent in Gravity Falls, for example, except as jokes. Amphibia and The Owl House approach them through bog-standard “fight the evil empire” lenses. (Yeah, I’m sorry, fellow Owl House fans, Emperor Belos is a great villain but his religious-inflected bigotry is very much soft pedaled; he’s functionally Palpatine in so many ways.)

SVTFOE doesn’t do that. SVTFOE faces this shit head on.

The show starts as basically “Oh, the goofy, somewhat comedic, but also very threatening monsters are obvious villains, out to steal magic for their own nefarious ends.” The theme songs and opening credits and basic structure of the show all support this. Then they pull back the curtain a little bit, and it's like “Oh, okay. The monsters are fully fleshed-out characters and some of them will be Star’s friends. Aww, they have cute monster kids she babysits for!”

Then they pull it back further, and further, and further, until eventually what is made clear to the viewers is that Star Butterfly’s magical kingdom of Mewni is a colonizing force. They have magic. (And corn!) The monsters do NOT have magic. (Or corn.) The humans therefore view themselves as having a manifest destiny to subjugate, drive out, or exterminate the monsters. In the service of this, the Queens of Mewni have at times used their magic to attempt to develop spells of mass destruction, create super-soldiers, and other such mayhem. There have been people who tried to stop it. Those people have their names smeared, are imprisoned in a kind of endless living death for the crime of miscegenation, and have their legacies erased from history.

This isn’t really a giant secret anyone has been concealing, some horrible revelation. (For the most part. There are… SOME horrible revelations.) It’s just part of the background noise. Star never really questions it until one day when she does. She has the privilege for it to be something she doesn’t need to engage with.

And when she tries to stop it, it isn’t easy. The show is very up-front about that! There is no single source of evil that Star can point her magical wand at and make go away by blasting it with multicolored sprinkle unicorn lasers. It’s a constant, unending miasma she has to try and plow through. When not met with hostility, she is met with indifference, which in some ways obviously cuts her even deeper. Her own mother, the walking embodiment of centrist idiocy, becomes so nervous about the social change Star is trying to usher in that she makes common cause with straight-up genocidal fascists.

(A lot of people think the show engaged in character assassination of Queen Moon. I say that given her background, personality, and place in the world Moon’s actions were entirely overdetermined.)

The show is not subtle about this. The physical embodiment of this is a seemingly goofy, out-of-it crusty old relic of bygone days, who clearly is not that smart, has several screws loose, and can’t utter three sentences without it seeming like her brain is going to leak out of her ears.

She seems entirely unthreatening until you discover she’s a thin shell of humanity over a bottomless lake of hate… and that all she has to do is start saying things like “Our Kingdom used to be great! But not anymore!” and she’ll get many worshipful followers willing to do whatever she says, and what she says is “ethnically cleanse Mewni.”

The final climax of the show, which remains endlessly controversial to this day, presents Star with a choice. Magic and the use thereof is central to her, her history, her family, and the life she leads. But magic has been an absolute nightmare for everyone but a thin slice of privileged humans, who are the only ones who can use it and who have the literal embodiments of its various aspects dedicated to upholding their racial supremacy, and a horde of magical crazies have juiced themselves up on it and are going buck wild with the aforementioned ethnic cleansing.

So Star just destroys it. She removes access to magic from the universe, despite the personal cost.

The hell of it is, and this honestly the bravest decision the show ever made, was that this doesn’t secure victory. You can’t kill bigotry like that. Sure, Star stopped it and removed its most powerful tool… this time. All it does is scuttle off into the woods and wait.

“You can get rid of me. It’s soooooo easy. But the sweet thing is… I’ll never really be gone. ‘Cause I’ve got GOOD IDEAS.”

So yeah, that was SVTFOE. It was brave, and bold, and achingly relevant, and despite its flaws doesn’t deserve the bad rap the final season got.

Here’s to ten years of fighting the forces of evil. Because if there’s one thing you should take away from the show, it’s that that fight never ends, but there’s meaning and even joy and love in the struggle.

[disneytva]

The Season 3 premiere of Chibiverse comes out NEXT WEEKEND!!! ✨✨

Finally had a moment to draw something for the occasion. This season is so CRAZY and DIFFERENT and means a lot to the entire crew so I hope you tune in!!! 👀 --- Mike Cat

[ciipher-arts]

Working on more stuff for my college's Artist Alley! This time, it's various stickers of characters I like!!! YAY!!!

Life's been kinda hectic for me in a lot of ways lately, so I haven't been as active on here as I'd like to be. Hopefully, I can get back to posting a bit more frequently once my schedule and especially my mental health lets up again.

Also!! Hopefully, if all goes according to plan, these stickers will be available for YOU to buy starting sometime in either April or during summer! (If I can have a better production schedule this time...)

More info at a later date :P

[ts4ritsa]

Headcanons for Tom lucitor with a human s/o? Or just fluff headcanons for him in general >_<, I just need more content of him

₊˚ପ⊹ human s/o relationship hcs ;

ft. tom lucitor from star vs. the forces of evil * ˚ ✦

tags / cw: fluff, gn!reader

- tom loves to explore your guys’ worlds together. he usually takes you to magical realms to show you the wonders of them. he also introduces you to the friends he has there and they all really think you’re a cute pair

- and when you show him the beautys and nature of earth, he is amazed. he makes an effort to get used to human customs and fashion as a way to try and connect with you

- tom also likes to give you gifts as his way to show love for you. letters, flowers, royal jewelry, anything you lay your eyes on he’ll get you really

- he is constantly burnt out by all the duties and responsibilities that come with being a prince, so he is super glad to have you there to support and be there for him. he always returns your kindness in full by always giving you his full attention when you’re together and encouraging you to pursue your passions always

- you help bring out tom’s playful side — sometimes you’ll engage in silly competitions and play pranks on each other. he also has a thing for having impromptu dance sessions with you in your living room or at enchanting forests you both like to hang out and relax in with your shared friends sometimes

- you were a BIG part in his journey of personal growth. you helped him find ways to manage his anger and insecurities and learn how to communicate his thoughts and feelings effectively, and he literally does not know what he would do without you, so he makes sure to shower you with his love everyday. he truly believes you are the one for him <3

© ts4ritsa (do not repost w/o credits)

[polymathart]

I'm gonna say it:

Jinx and Ekko remind me of Star and Marco.

That unmatched chaos dynamic reunited me with something from a past life.