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THE CRUCIBLE FAN 🫵🫵🫵

YES YES YES !!! 🙌🙌 I’M INSANE ABOUT IT. So insane I’m in the process of an entire rewrite (w/ backstory and all) that’s like three years in the making HANSNDNF

Abigail is my BABY GIRLLL I love her to an insane amount, but I similarly adore Elizabeth and Tituba sm. I want to HOLD ALL OF THEM DEARLY. HECK, I WANT TO HOLD ALL THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THIS SHOW (Hale can join too, he’s cool)

I could write a whole 20+ page essay on The Crucible I love it dearly to the ends of the earth.

#my favorite book #my favorite play #one of my favorite things #Abby is one of my comfort characters no question #she is mecore #I kin her sm #(not the accusing innocent people part tho) #the crucible #salems bond mention oop #live laugh love the crucible #I could go on about the crucible and Abigail Williams for forever

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they’ll be calling us witches abby !

#ABBY MY BELOVED #GOES INSANE #I LOVE THIS #OMGGG #the crucible #abigail williams #mary warren

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“You’re a Disappointment,” An Analysis

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Seven years. Seven. Years. And it only just now finally hit me what Toffee truly meant when he called Marco a disappointment in Storm the Castle, and I feel pretty silly for not realizing it before.

Before Storm the Castle, Toffee has only seen Marco on two significant (canonical) occasions, Fortune Cookies and Mewnipendance Day. (As you may remember, Marco was MIA during Marco Grows a Beard, considering he was… physically trapped in that bathroom as his beard overwhelmed the house)

Fortune Cookies:

The entire plot of the episode, besides the ever enjoyable introduction to our favorite lizard, is Star once again being amazed by another Earth oddity: fortune cookies. She believes that the fortunes are genuine predictions of the future and are infallible and to be relied on for all of her future decisions (not helped by Marco who did influence this misconception by messing with her). This immediately establishes in Toffee’s mind— after learning from Buff Frog that she believes the messages in the messages in her cookies are fortunes— that she’s naive, impulsive, easy to stray, and immature. Of course, he very quickly learns about her impulsivity, fighting prowess, and stubborn will, but her naivety is what sticks out to him in this moment, and it’s what he takes full advantage of. (Note: I don’t think he actually looks down on her for these traits alone and expects her to be mature at all, I think he sees those traits going hand and hand with her age. She’s only 14, after all. Nevertheless, they are still traits he can use to his advantage to further his goals.)

This is something that Star has in common with the monsters Toffee has found himself within the company of. The only difference here? These are grown adults who he expects to have a bit more dignity under their belt, ESPECIALLY Ludo. While I’m sure he’s grateful that Ludo was naive enough to hire him with clever wordplay alone— overall assisting to further his goals— he can’t help but feel annoyed by the plain stupid amount of immaturity he possesses.

I think this is less so with Ludo’s army. Even if they share very similar traits, he knows they’ve been living under Ludo’s childish tyranny, and probably has a bit more faith that they can be molded into proper soldiers. Though, his patience is still worn extremely thin by their shenanigans.

Toffee takes advantage of this by planting a fortune in her bag, “Love is Always the Answer.” While I personally believe there’s a deeper meaning, it’s not relevant right now. But anywho, the core purpose is to let Star’s guard down enough so Ludo can gain ownership of the wand.

While Star believes the message hook, line, and sinker, Marco immediately sees past the ridiculousness of the fortune in such a dire situation. “What? Not in this case! Fighting is!”

“Really? Now??”

He immediately sees past the fortune, relying on logic to reason that such a simple trick is just that: a trick. Clearly Star’s pacifism isn’t working, and they need to make the rational decision to fight. He’s immediately proves himself to be the level headed one of the duo, the one who keeps his head on straight and is clearly the maturer of the two.

Marco saw right through the trap and displayed common sense and logic. And he was later vindicated when it was revealed to Star that the fortune cookie was a trap.

And I can guarantee you Toffee noticed this, and it was only further cemented in the next time Toffee sees him again.

Mewnipendance Day:

In this episode, Star is celebrating what she knows as “Mewnipendance Day”, also known as the Great Monster Massacre, where the first Queen of Mewni attempted to wipe out monsters from the face of the planet, an attempted genocide of innocent people who lived on the land she stole from them.

Star explains the entire story from the Mewman’s propagandized perspective, going through a pop-up storybook to demonstrate the beginning and the end of the massacre. She gives an explanation of the beginnings, skips past the actual genocide and fighting itself, and ends with “And the Mewmans won!”

And guess who’s the only person who notices and brings attention to it? Marco Diaz himself.

“Wait, but you just blew past all the important stuff.”

Once again, Marco is the one who’s calling out important things, looking deeper and more critically at the situation, opposed to everyone else who just goes along with it. He shows very clear and obvious signs that he’s more mature than his peers.

And let’s not forget, Ludo and Toffee are watching all of this through the surveillance device (the “all seeing eye”). Sure, Toffee is a tad distracted by the book he’s reading, but with how intelligent he is I’m almost positive that he’s multitasking here.

And Marco only proceeds to exceed expectations, actually going through the book and starting to see, at least in part, the true reality of the situation, calling it out and bringing it to Star’s attention.

“Star, I know the monsters are bad and all, but this seems… unfair.”

Marco demonstrates that he is willing to see past biases and to see reason. He sees past the blatant propaganda and revisionist history, at least in part.

Overall, he is actively more mature than the others with common sense that aids in critical thinking skills and nuance beyond what’d Toffee would expect at his age, especially contrasted against Star. And I think taking off rose colored glasses and seeing the monster massacre for what it really is (again at least in part) really helps with Toffee’s perception of Marco as some levity amongst the childish people he’s been surrounded with.

That is, until their third interaction in Storm the Castle.

Storm the Castle:

Toffee clearly sees Marco as a competent fighter, considering the double imprisonment with not only the chair that confines him but the crystal box prison too. He knows Marco is more competent and mature than most people in his vicinity

At least. He did.

During Storm the Castle while Marco is imprisoned, he takes on the traits seen with Ludo, his soldiers, and Star. He’s acting immature, he’s being impulsive, and he’s talking back with what he assumes is witty dialogue. He’s trying to act all tough guy, which clearly doesn’t work with Toffee. Toffee humors him a little bit during the sandwich dialogue, releasing him from the chair, and Marco immediately takes an impulsive swing at him, leaving him to punch the crystal and immediately writhe in pain at the impact. Marco then immediately throws away Toffee’s genuine attempt at offering him a meal. Toffee is a monster, and being a monster in Mewni means that food, especially good food, is invaluable, because it’s so hard to come by. Seeing Marco waste and make a mess of it without a second thought is probably the nail in the coffin.

Marco isn’t the slightly more mature young boy Toffee assumed he was. He had witnessed from afar Marco’s knack for nuance and critical thinking, a breath of fresh air amongst incompetence.

But as soon as they get one on one all of that is immediately washed away.

Marco is acting like everyone else he’s come across lately, openly defying the nuanced maturity Toffee had witnessed previously. He’s just like the others. He’s being childish. He isn’t special.

“You’re a disappointment”

It’s not some profound statement, there’s no weight behind it. Toffee had no expectations for Marco and wasn’t planning on using him for his goals. Marco just genuinely was not who Toffee assumed he was by his previous actions. Toffee was mildly genuinely disappointed to learn just how kiddish Marco really is. He really expected better.

I also think this explains why Toffee didn’t bother to put him back in the chair restraints. He really didn’t need to go that far with trapping him in the first place.

I don’t think Toffee is surprised, or even phased by it, Marco is a 14 year old child after all. I don’t even think Toffee’s expectations for his maturity were big, period, just the slightest bit of relief that Marco was a breath of fresh air amongst the sea of incompetence. But no. He wasn’t, as far as Toffee concludes at least. This one interaction completely killed any hope Toffee might have carried, and he would just roll his eyes for even allowing himself to put even a little faith in someone.

“Well, that’s unfortunate. Anyways…”

I know there were tons of theories on this, but the actual answer, as far as I’ve figured, is incredibly simple lol. And now that I’ve finally realized what that line really meant, I think it’s important to share.

#svtfoe #star vs the forces of evil #toffee of septarsis #toffee svtfoe #svtfoe toffee #marco diaz #marco svtfoe #svtfoe marco #svtfoe analysis #analysis #cartoon analysis #I can’t believe it took me seven years to realize this #it was in front of our faces the whole time #has anyone else noticed this ?? #it feels so painfully obvious now that I point it out

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i think it is important to recognize the ways in which your favorite thing sucks. i think it keeps u normal

#when you’re a fan of star vs this is easy #a lot of things suck #when you’re a fan of the crucible this means acknowledging the misogyny running rampant #it’s a play from the 50s written about the 1690s #so I’m not surprised

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Oh god someone take my brain away from me.

Here’s a potentially weird concept. That I just came up with. Minutes ago.

Forget the Citadel of Starco, yeah, forget it. What about a fucking… Citadel of Toffee’s wives/husbands/partners. They’re just. All together. In one place. Mingling.

I know he’s shipped with a ton of OCs maybe I just want to see them interact yk?? I feel like a lot of them are so different yet would get along so well.

Don’t ask about canon characters since I feel like there’s a ton of different versions of those, and I wouldn’t want ALL of them to be there, there’d be WAYYY too many Moons and Rasticores if that happened. They’d kinda overflow the place yk?

But crossover ships. I think. Those would be acceptable. Maybe.

Maybe this would be primarily OCs though. I dunno, and maybe this idea is so cursed, but I had the thought and had the impulsive urge to share it with the world.

Yeah. A place where the numerous amount of OCs that people made to ship with Toffee. Just. In one place. Perfect. It’d be a really sweet place for a collab I think.

#svtfoe #star vs the forces of evil #toffee of septarsis #toffee svtfoe #svtfoe toffee #toffee x oc #oc x toffee #would Oreo be in her canonical cat form or her outdated human form?? #I think it’d be funnier if there was #all these people #and then just a fucking cat #so yeah Oreo is a cat here #I’ve seen so many toffee x oc pairings #and it’d be fun if they mingled #since they all technically dated/married a different timeline version of the same guy #guys I’m so weird #I’m working on half a brain #if I get pulled through the ringer for suggesting this oh well #I may delete this out of shame if that happens 💀 #TOFFEE X OC PEOPLE SHOULD COLLAB MORE #MAKE THE WIVES AND HUSBANDS INTERACT #INTERACTIONNNNNNNN !!! #god I hope no one has come up with this before #I’d be so embarassed fr

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i miss this show

#I miss it too #SHES SO PRETTYYY

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The more I think about Ovelia and her childhood in Echo Creek, the more I realize how much of the cast she probably knows-ish

Like, Jackie and Janna clearly have a history of a long-standing childhood friendship. And Marco’s had a crush on Jackie since kindergarten.

With how much Ovelia and Jackie hung out, she’s bound to have known Janna long before Mewni Creek happened. They probably had sleepovers. (Though Janna and Lia would be the type to stop talking to each other when Jackie left the room 💀 that is until they both discovered they both love collecting oddities)

As for Marco, I’m almost positive they’ve seen each other before. Ovelia may not have noticed him but Marco might’ve written off Ovelia as “the one space brunette girl who Jackie hangs out with” and not payed attention. They probably don’t recognize each other when confronted and it’s only after they talk about their relationships with Jackie that they go “OHHH I REMEMBER YOU!” (even if it’s very basic level stuff they know about each other.)

I wonder if Marco ever bothered to question the cheekmarks after he found out about Star and Mewni. Maybe he forgot about them after a while, so probably not. Maybe he feels like something’s off about Lia when he meets her again and wouldn’t ever put the dots together unless he sees a picture and goes “OH that’s what’s missing!”

Maybe that’s when he questions it…

#septarsis dragonfly au #ovelia dragonfly #oreo rambles

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Mortodonte: Of course, Toffee isn't my real name, that would be ridiculous.

Torrence: Yeah, who'd actually name their kid Toffee?

Toffee, through clenched teeth: Ha, yeah, that'd be crazy

(Mortodonte is my interpretation of Toffee. Torrence is @lil-oreo-crumbles interpretation of Toffee. I love how some of us think Toffee is an alias/nickname and others have decided that, no, that is his honest-to-god birth assigned name)

#so real so true #I thought it was his honest to god name for so long #it’s only relatively recently that that’s changed

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Some of you have never shipped a rare pair and it shows.

#aurichat #Auriana from Lolirock and Adrien/Chat Noir from MLB #my best friend and I made this crackship crossover rarepair back in 2017 #I’ve written the only fic for it #in 2018 #but it’s only on amino 😭 #thank god im not the only one who ships it because my friends do (or at least did) #but it feels that way sometimes #it’s not a crackship they’re my otp

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I think this goes without saying, but the “swamps” mentioned by several monsters in the show are much different than the swamps of Septarsis. I don’t even think most monsters know what Septarsis exactly is, they just know that when you go in that direction it gets warm real fast.

Idk I’ve been rewatching some episodes and I forgot how much the monsters bring up swamps and I’m just like

“Wait maybe I should emphasize that Septarsis swamp ≠ most Mewni swamps”

#svtfoe #star vs the forces of evil #septarsis dragonfly au #septarsis #septarians #felt compelled to post this for some reason

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#always and forever #draw them to your hearts content #I will eat it #I will go insane #any art I get of my babies I get so giddy about it

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Did a little redraw of an ancient drawing of mine, the og under the cut is from 2018-19? somewhere there!

i still have a long way to go, even if i do feel like ive not improved enough i still did improve yknow? and that pretty cool :)

#OH MY GODDDD #SHES SO PRETTY

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Live timeline of how/why I started working on my AU again

Me in early 2021: Wow I’m kind of feeling nostalgic for my old AU again. But I’m not into the show that much anymore… what if I made all of them OCs and changed the plot and made an original story based on my AU? The AU is different enough anyway

Me, later that year, around September 2021: Yeah, honestly, this story feels too familiar to the show. People will be able to tell it came from Star vs. But you know what I’ve always wanted to do? Rewrite the show. Yeah, I should do a Svtfoe rewrite! Let’s get working on that

Me in November 2021: You know, I should redraw this old drawing. And you know what, the old female protagonist isn’t working for me anymore. What if I… redesigned her…? And.. gave her a new name! And basically create a brand new female protagonist from the ground up. FOR FUN OFC HAHA I won’t actually do anything with it.

December 2021: Ah shit my AU has me in a chokehold again. I guess I’m working on this full time now ✌️. Let’s change 95% of it why don’t we.

And the rest is history.

#my au was like #HA YOU THINK YOU COULD FORGET ABOUT ME #WELL NOOOO YOU CAN’T #The old female main character is still canon to the AU btw #she’s just #a cat now #a literal cat

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inspired by boop day, reblog this post if its ok for people to send you random asks and interact on your posts with no judgement. i want to talk to people.

#yes yes yes #I love questions I eat questions #questions give me life #asks always open #i love you all very much #🫶🏻

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We’re posting svtfoe brainrot now?? In 2024??

#holy?? shit?? #this?? is?? gorgeous?? #I LOVE her hair #💗💗💗💗💗 #svtfoe

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Ahhhh...Eclipsa my beloved

#oh this #this is beautiful

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If Glossaryck has million number of haters i am one of them . if Glossaryck has ten haters i am one of them. if Glossaryck have only one hater and that is me . if Glossaryck has no haters, that means i am no more on the earth . if world against the Glossaryck, i am point and laugh. i hate #Glossaryck till my last breath.. .. Die Hard hater of Glossaryck . Hit Like If you Think Glossaryck Worst player & Most Racism Man In the world

#so real so true #appreciate the chatacter and writing; hate him morally #reblogging so i never forget this wonderful post #saving for a future reblog #I have an oc who would repeat this 500 times a day #alas I haven’t revealed her to the world yet