#she made so much phinbella content

[authenticcadence18]

also I scrolled through the phinbella and phinabella tags earlier and yeesh half of those recent posts are from me folks we gotta step up our game 😔🙏

[galaxina-the-pyro]

Your Phinbella art is absolutely precious!

I'm gonna try to post more Phinbella myself.

Earlier, I posted a long post about how Mollibby (Molly & Libby) is so similar to Phinbella.

I don't think they tried to make those two similar to them, but it's WILD!

Sorry for the late response!

Thank you so much for your kind words. X3 I can't wait to see more Phinabella content from you - and whatever content you make, cuz I just absolutely love your compilation posts~.

I saw that post! Personally, I see Molly and Libby as friends and stuff, but I can definitely see the appeal to that ship as well as the parallels to Phinabella. Their chemistry, platonic or otherwise, is very plain to see, though it did take a little bit for me to personally see it. It definitely makes more sense than Molly/that girl whose face needs to make out with the pavement floor before she even considers an actual relationship.

Yes, her. Burn her and her generic clothing, what kinda mean girl wears a sweater? (I still say her hair is a ghost...)

Honestly, I wasn't big on Libby at first - it's like Libby said, she's an acquired taste of sorts, but she's definitely grown on me. I'm very glad that they didn't immediately become friends in "First Day", because...I'mma be real, I didn't like ANYONE in that episode beyond Molly and Scratch. Sure, Libby was being nice to Molly, so she's a stretch better, but she played along with Molly's miserable day, so, like...didn't really earn any brownie points there.

Somehow, "Talent Show" really made me attach to her character - like, I didn't expect to tear up at her poetry slam, but I did, and I've liked her ever since, and somehow she's become a more charming individual, like the writers finally found their footing with her character at that exact moment. Libby's more than just a shy wallflower, she's very eccentric and likes to learn stuff and uncover mysteries and she's just - she's just really neat. A great balancing point for Molly's exuberance, and even Scratch's...Scratchiness. Their friendship warms my heart and soul, and I'm glad I finally gave her a chance eventually because now I can't imagine the show without her and Molly's relationship.

[mysteriesofmarcy]

My problems with Star vs.

As much as I love this show, there are some things I just hate about it. So, let’s get started!

The first thing that bothers me is how they just went and abandoned the earth plot lines. With season 4 being likely the last one, I can't see them giving proper conclusions to any of the earth character arcs, including the Jackie-Marco-Star love triangle. Even in the limited appearances of the earth characters in season 3, they were either in complete one off episodes (like Stump Day) or else they just decided to ignore everything those characters already had going on just so they could help with the main plot of the season (like Janna in Deep Dive). The latter even had a moment where Marco tries to flirt with Janna, and she just silences him. They didn't want to do anything with Janna, they just wanted her to be there.

My next problem is that I believe the show is getting too political. I'm like Tom: I don't do politics. I signed up for a wacky, weird and wild comedy and action show, not a political commentary. The whole monsters and Mewmans coming together subplot in particular feels like they're trying to push a message that I don't necessarily agree with. I won't go too deep into this because I usually try not to say my political views on the internet, but suffice it to say that the show is getting too heavy into politics for my taste. Again, I want a fun and lighthearted cartoon, not a heavy hitting (and heavily biased) look at the world we live in.

My third problem with this show is the shipping. I'm generally pretty ambivalent to ships (except Phinbella. Those two HAD to end up together.) But this show is SO focused on shipping that it kinda rubs me the wrong way. Plus, there's also the problem that when Marco chooses one girl, all the others will feel disappointed.

This next point goes with the shipping. I am not entirely convinced of Starco becoming a thing. And that has earned me a LOT of flak from the crazy hardcore shippers. I just think that Starco might be the biggest of all the red herrings this show has thrown at us over the years. And I have a pretty solid record of correctly guessing these red herrings before they happen, so take that for what you will. (For example, I correctly predicted after The Battle For Mewni that Eclipsa would be assumed guilty until inevitably being proven innocent, and I correctly predicted after Divide and Conquer that she is going to be the queen to start season 4.)

My next problem is not so much about the show itself, but more about the crew. Like most of Hollywood, they seem to have bought into the philosophy that straight people, whites, Christians, and males (all of which describe me) are inferior to their LGBT-whatever, non-white, atheist, and female counterparts. I even saw a tweet once where one of the crew was excited that the episode Face the Music was entirely created by women! Ooooh, special! And when someone pointed out (quite correctly) that the gender of the writers/storyboarders/other crew members doesn't matter one bit, the original crew member gave an even more infuriating response that we should care about it because apparently, it's a big problem in the industry. I don't think that's a good enough excuse. I would much rather watch an episode made by qualified women than unqualified men, but I would also rather watch an episode made by qualified men than unqualified women. What matters is the quality of the content, not the gender of the people making it.

This next point, again, relates to the previous point: Alfonso and Ferguson. Apparently Disney execs told Daron Nefcy at the beginning of the show that Marco had to have male friends, or else they wouldn't greenlight the show. Then when season 2 rolled around, Daron just didn't know what to do with those guys, so she basically wrote them out. There's a lot of hate surrounding them, but I think they were necessary. They showed that Marco had some semblance of a social life even before he met Star. Now, I do think they could've been handled a bit better on screen. It's as if they were written to be the most annoying people possible, so nobody would mind when they were written off. In that sense it worked. But I still feel like they overall brought the show down. They were necessary, but they were a necessary evil.

Now, there is a show where I just couldn’t get into it, no matter how hard I tried. It's Steven Universe. While it was sometimes an interesting show and it had a good premise, I eventually had to leave, mostly because of the fandom. I heard about multiple incidents happening there, most notably when angry SJWs attacked a fan artist for her drawing of Rose. And I just felt alienated there. I felt like I couldn't relate to any of the fans except those that I already knew from Gravity Falls, and I didn't care about any of the characters. If I had kept watching, I would've done so for only one reason: Stevonnie. Not the giant girl, the ship. I know I said earlier that I'm usually not much of a shipper, but I do have a soft spot for cute couples. But in the end, they weren't enough to keep me on as a fan.

I like Star vs a lot, but it does have its share of problems. And I hope Daron Nefcy and the crew can make the most of whatever Disney gives them in season 4 and (possibly) beyond.