I’m realizing i never shared my crappy practices with calamity girls that I partially finished
(no, I did not keep the dice in marcys sketch |:])
and if you can’t tell, I hate hands. Paws and hands are the bane of my existence right in front of the name sue.
And yeah I messed up on anatomy but this was mostly to try and brush up on humans anyways so,, thought I might as well post em and maybe I’ll finish em when I get the chance
Back to your regularly scheduled cartoon characters as animals soon
Tackling Social Structures Within The Narrative: Where Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil failed while Amphibia and The Owl House succeeded.
Before Amphibia and The Owl House premiered, there was Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil. The latter show in some way help the 2 former show get greenlit by Disney. Even though they all shared some similarities Star’s show didn’t really have much of a story structure going on for its earlier episodes. It was basically just Star and Marco beating up Ludo and his gang and basic cartoon shenanigans. It was apparent the creators were just winging it which lead to its very undercooked finale.
Let’s start with the protagonists and how it affects the overall plot dealing with prejudice and power dynamics.
Star Butterfly is a princess of her realm. As someone born to power and privilege, she rarely deals with the consequences of her own actions. She was told from birth, from day one that monsters were all evil and anyone who isn’t wealthy and/or allied with the Butterfly family are automatically enemies. She thought nothing of a holiday where Mewni celebrated a massacre of monsters so their land could be taken for the Mewmans. It took Marco pointing out just unfair the fight was did Star realize the monsters were at a great disadvantage. Star didn’t really think about her prejudices until an outsider made her see the light and since then resolves to make things right.
Anne Boonchuy and Luz Noceda are young WOC (women of color) who were born on earth to regular families. Anne being the only child of immigrant parents who run a humble restaurant while Luz is the only child of her widowed mother. They both probably dealt with prejudices in their own lives at some point. They could relate to the other worldly beings they ended up living with. Anne lived with the Plantars, a poor farm family of frogs who are at the bottom of the food chain in their world. Luz lives with Eda, a woman who’s a wanted criminal mostly for the fact she refused to join a crooked coven system. A woman who had to scavenge human junk so she could afford potions to keep her curse at bay. Anne and Luz can see the problems and learn for themselves the kind of social injustices their adopted families had to live with.
Dimensional travel and how they deal with the consequences of their actions.
Star is able to move about different dimensions easily because of magic scissors that her best friend Ponyhead stole and didn’t have to worry about being stuck any place. Anne stole a music box from a thrift shop and ended up trapped on the death world of Amphibia. She had to wait months until she could travel to get her much needed answers. Luz ditched the summer camp she was forced to go to and went to live in the Boiling Isles thinking it would be temporary. She ended up giving the portal up to save Eda and had to go research ways to make another one from scratch.
Dealing with consequences.
When it comes to dealing with consequences Star rarely deals with the fallout or actively chooses to ignore responsibility. Whereas both Anne and Luz actively learn from their mistakes and are able to grow as people whether it’s standing up for what is right even when it’s not easy or realize that good intentions doesn’t make up for making decisions without the consent of others. Star just pushed everything down and lock everything into her secrets closet.
Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil stopped short of its potential. Amphibia and The Owl House are able to live up to theirs.
good news everyone! i finally finished the drawing i started (checks date) almost 2 months ago! it took so long cause i just stopped working on it for... a while lol anyways @when-wax-wings-melt you asked to be tagged when it was done so here it is!
drawn on paper and colored with kleki paint tool
id under the cut
[I.D. the words "spranne against the world" in the font of the Amphiba title screens and colored blue is spread out around the page. The background is light gray. There are three images in blob shaped areas on the page: the first has a dark green background and is a screenshot redraw of the first time Anne and Sprig met. The second has a lighter green background and is a screenshot redraw of Sprig on Anne's head, pointing forward. The final drawing is a screenshot redraw of Anne and Sprig's last hug. The background is blue, and Anne has a flower crown of blue flowers on. In all three drawings Anne and Sprig are colored with the colors from the screenshot. End I.D]
I really hope this is Sashas worst fear because I’m really curious
Like my best guess is it’s her slipping into old habits and hurting Anne or especially Marcy which would be so fun to show like imagine she runs at Darcy with her sword and then an illusion of one of either Marcy or Anne shows up and she doesn’t have time to Swerve and accidentally stabs them in the back. Angst (:
And if it is I hope we get to see Anne’s to because I genuinely have no idea what hers would be and it would be some fun insight into her character.