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after school nap time!

request! @thatabitcryptic​

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My queen Eclipsa YES!

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How to help Amazônia:

You can donate to SOS Amazônia which is one among the 100 NGOs selected as “The Largest NGOs in Brazil”.

> > > ( ENGLISH: //doe.sosamazonia.org.br/en ) < < <

And remember: - 1 USD is 4,04 reais. - 1 EUR is 4,47 reais. If you donate only $2,50 USD (10 reais) you’re helping a lot.

If you donate only $2,30 EUR (10 reais) you’re helping a lot. About people saying “the minimum value is $10”: Even if you’re not from Brazil you can donate in REAL instead of donating in USD or EUR via Paypal, so… YES, you can donate less than 10 dollars or euros. (Just don’t change the currency to USD or EUR, Paypal converts your dollars/euros to reais.)

Please. Boost if possible, this is REALLY important.

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DON’T SCROLL PAST THIS

for the last 2+ weeks, the Amazon has been catching fire. Yes, it’s the season where that’s normal but because of the sayings (aka incentive) of our new president, some farmers are taking advantage of that and intentionally setting the trees on fire. Yesterday, because of this, the sky of São Paulo looked like this. AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON.

Hospitals of the northern states are filling up with people (especially children and seniors) claiming they can’t breathe properly. ALREADY ENDANGERED ANIMALS ARE DYING. THIS IS SERIOUS.

Germany and Norway, huge donators to the Amazon cause will stop sending money because they don’t see results (that can also be credited to our president, who has been tweeting angrily ever since - not because he cares about the environment, btw). That money gives this guy and his team equipment to save little guys like these:

THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE, NOT JUST BRAZILIANS. The Amazon is the largest rainforest in the world, and it’s being destroyed. WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING.

If your country is holding elections, vote for someone who cares about this. Don’t let another Bolsonaro or another Trump have the power to do something and then do nothing. This is going to shape our future — if we have one.

PLEASE REBLOG, EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE THIS!!

side note: not to sound bitter or ungrateful but also like what’s up with Europe… y’all exploited South America for centuries but just because you “aren’t seeing results” you stop helping altogether?? if you really wanted to help you wouldn’t stop because you think you aren’t helping lol

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Been three months. Reblog if you still miss Star

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Was it a bad decision to save up Starco for the finale? It upset a lot of fans.

It was a decision. Hard to objectively tell whether a good one or not. We can say for sure that the way SVTFOE handled romance didn’t shook the very cores of the industry standard for love stories, nor it did attempt to erase the idea of “will they won’t they” drama being used as a way to keep the viewers’ interest high (and this explains in great part why they might have decided to keep Starco for the finale), but at the same time the execution of the trope was, in my opinion, excellent, and hardly matched in animation for kids (and probably even what little animation for adults exist, but I’m not exactly knowledgeable), having the final episode be the climax for a lesson about love and friendship that spans the whole show. So objectively, it was a safe decision. Subjectively, it was a subpar one compared to what the show could have been had they decided to do things vastly differently, but they still executed what they chose to work with in a way that ranged from good to outstanding for the final stretch of the show.

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Did I ever post this? Because I don’t think I did

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What would have happened if Tom didn't break up with Star? She would have broken up with him later?sometimes I think not instead of facing her feelings and she would have married him but she would have realized her mistake years later but already with Marco and also with a commitment, both with family, which would be something very depressing and sad I just hope Star had matured enough earlier for her to marry Marco.

It’s always hard to speculate about this kind of things, because the show always had big changes for Star and Marco be favored, caused or pushed by external events, and not spontaneous reflections. This being said, it’s clear that as soon as Star wasn’t focused on Eclipsa anymore, having some time to look at her life as a whole (similarly to what Marco did in The Knight Shift), she immediately started noticing the cracks in her relationship with Tom, if in a completely unconscious way, being naturally drawn toward Marco, her first and main “commitment” and priority. So in a completely different show, with completely different events and structure, I think things would still have come crashing down soon after Doop-Doop. Marco would have confessed to her in Mama Star anyway, and that’d have probably been enough to make her understand everything even without Sad Teen Hotline first - not that it would have been as good for the narrative, just speculating here, looking at the characters as if they were real individuals and not fictional pawns.

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seddm there is something I do not understand why marco stopped being break-up buddies with kelly if star was with tom that gave hopes to marco to believe that the star ends together

Following The Knight Shift Marco probably thought about his priorities in life, what he truly felt like committing to, and Kelly wasn’t one of them. If he consciously made the connection “I don’t feel like truly committing to my relationship with Kelly, but I just told Star I’d always commit to our friendship!”, or if it was simply a case of “this already happened with Jackie and I know I can’t be in a relationship I’m not fully invested into, best to end it now before I hurt Kelly”, I don’t know. The latter seems more in line with how compartmentalized feelings have been during the show, even if in this specific case the whole “breakup” happened offscreen so we can truly just speculate.

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Star Butterfly’s IG stories archive

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Hello, I'm new to your blog and I have seen really good analysis from you (especially the big Starco post of the development of Starco in all the seasons) but I have to ask you why did the writers waited until close to the finale to may Starco canon, why not make Starco canon in the middle of season four, so that way people does say that it was rush.

The easiest answer is “because keeping the tension high until the end to then resolve it during the climax is easy”.

The most complex answer, which is mostly speculation, is that the limits of a Disney show would have probably prevented the series from properly exploring Star and Marco’s relationship with the same depth it had in episodes like The Knight Shift and Beach Day (it wasn’t a Starco episode per se, but it addressed themes of “finding your own happiness” and the future and it clearly relates to Starco, since Star and Marco are the tool to each other happiness) had they already been romantically involved at the time, so they preferred to develop it as much as they could while it was still platonic, to then immediately have ALL the accrued depth and emotions explode in “I love you” from the get go. And having “I love you” happen midway through the season would have understandably be kinda anticlimactic from the point of view of a showrunner, so they kept it for later on.

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at the end of S3 I was liking a little of the Tom shows when LHF arrived and when it showed that it was he who built the moon moon carriage I did not like it so much because it made me think of it as a forced attempt to make people to tinker with him and make him a victim of that poor soul's misunderstood thing and to bring more support to TomStar

I didn’t like that specific scene either, since I don’t think anything from the past needed to be re-contextualized for Tom to be forgiven for his past actions, since they had never been an issue - the show is big on not sweating over that kind of stuff. But I don’t think that was the episode’s intentions were to give support to Tomstar, not like that at least. I interpreted it as a somewhat clumsy attempt at showing that lots of growth took place since S1, reminding the viewers of Blood Moon Ball. 

Still not a fan, but I don’t think it’s anything particularly huge or important either - it definitely doesn’t seem to affect the characters at all for sure, it just sets a generic mood for “Tom and Star have some history together and breaking up over a silly argument would be a mistake”. Even if it’s a wrong moral because said “mistake” was obviously just the tip of the Starco iceberg but hey, it’s going to take until Doop-Doop / Sad Teen Hotline for that.

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Between Star and Marco, who would be the one to suggest starting a family?

Well we know that Marco is canonically interested in having a family one day, but Star seems to like babies a lot as well, so I think they’d both be in agreement over it. Marco might be the more eager one, mostly because having a kid is a huge responsibility and even with all her growth and development Star is still not the biggest fan of things that limit her freedom - but we have seen that she’s more than ready to commit to them with incredibly tenacity once she’s in, like with Eclipsa during S4.

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Did Jackie ever have feelings for Marco?

Sure, there clearly was physical attraction on her side,

as well as a decent understanding of deeper reasons at the basis of her attraction for Marco

Clearly this wasn’t “love” in any meaning of the word, it was a standard first relationship. Could have evolved in more, in different conditions, but Marco’s commitment was clearly with Star, it had been since S1, so their relationship, for what little it lasted, had real feelings on both sides for sure, but wasn’t ultimately meant to evolve into anything more than that.

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dont you think was weird for Star to be jumping into Marco arms in the next day after the break up with Tom?

Nah, not at all. I mean, from the point of view of us viewers, of pacing, I can definitely understand why it might look weird or jarring to some, that’s fair. But as far as the characters’ actions and desires go, it absolutely make sense. Please keep in mind that both Star and Marco had been dancing around their feelings for each other for almost two full seasons by then, and that after Curse of the Blood Moon they were both in a “…I don’t think the feelings went away but he / she doesn’t seem interested in me anymore so I’ll try to bottle them down”. They were worried they would have been in the way, as Marco says, and they were both terrified by the idea of change, especially Star, who probably essentially felt like she might have lost both Tom and Marco if she did anything to change the “comfortable” status quo she was in.

Then Tom, in a single swift move, kicks down both her fear of change, and her mental “NOPE MARCO IS JUST A FRIEND” barriers, so her reaction to Marco telling her “I love you Star” is absolutely understandable, because all the feelings were already there, she just needed a combination of events that could confirm her that they weren’t in the way, and that they wouldn’t have hurt anyone anymore if they embraced them.

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I kind of understand what you're saying but I feel like at least having one episode with Marco on Mewni could have worked. Like, one of my biggest gripes is them delaying the confession for way to long, so in a summer episode, we could have had Star and Marco try talking to each other about the confession but both hesitate for different reasons. Star tries to talk to Marco about the confession but hesitates at his door when he hears him and Jackie having a conversation and she doesn't 1/2

want to ruin Marco and Jackie relationship. IN the same episode, we could see Marco about to talk to Star about the confession but decides not to once she overhears Star talking to her parents about how she needs to be less distracted in order to become a better princess (this would also show the scene of why Star decides to become a better princess, something we never really see in season 3) while also explaining why she decides to stay on Mewni instead of going back to earth 2/2.

The way Marco’s character and arc had been set up by the end of S2 and beginning of S3 prevented him from being able to address Star’s confession in any way. Thinking about it to any extent, being conflicted about it, it’d have painted a whole different scenario, and a whole different kind of drama for S3, a “I thought you thought” kind of situation, instead of the way more personal arc the show had in store for young Diaz, one intertwined with his search for a “red belt”, a purpose and a role in life. 

I’m not saying it couldn’t have been done, just that it’d have been a different kind of story, with different themes and, above all, a different kind of approach to feelings, one vastly less compartmentalized, but also less directly progressing with the development of the characters. And at that point I’d sayd it’s purely up to personal preference saying “I’d have liked it more than what we got”, and not something that could have changed the objective quality or enjoyability of the series - for most viewers, there would have been those with whom it might have resonated more.

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I think that what Tom had gone through is something you can call a "negative development"- instead of showing more pleasant, mature, relatable and likable sides of him, we were mostly shown why his connection with Star weights him down and holding him from truly growing.

Eeeeeh that might have been true for part of Monste Bash and Is Another Mystery, but other than that he still had a mostly linear improvement in any episode he had a major role in: Junkin’ Janna evidenced the issues in his approach to the relationship with Star / the idea of a relationship in general, sure, but he still partially improved from it, by bonding a bit with Janna and having a “solo advendture”. If we called that negative development than we should call the same 90% of the episodes featuring moments of growth for Star or Marco or any other character, since most of the stem from flaws and shortcomings in their personalities that get fixed little by little as part of larger arcs. I mean, Star’s S2 arcs revolved around showing us how much she liked running away from problems and ignoring her responsibilities as a princess and wand owner.