A Look Back At This Blog
Hey there,
I haven’t touched this blog for years but it’s really been haunting me haha. I don’t think this blog experiences much activity and I generally don’t have an online presence, so there probably isn’t any need to make a post like this. I guess it’s mostly for my own sake and to put to rest some concerns I’ve had about the content I put out on the site.
When I look back and really think about the ship discourse and content I created (i.e the moontoffee debacle), it kind of makes me feel embarrassed. I’d always been very mindful of the fact that younger people checked the tags, and I never wanted to make anything M rated for the community, especially as I was 21 at the time the blog was made. I liked being able to keep my content accessible to the demographic star vs was aimed at. I still feel uncomfortable with the moontoffee art that I made, though, despite me shipping them more platonically as friends rather than potential romantic partners. Before the canon backstories of these characters were established, I was enamored with the idea of two characters who were once close friends being forced apart by political ideology and their cultural environments. The moment the trailer for Battle for Mewni came out, my interest in the ship dropped. First, it was because it was shown in the trailer that Toffee was responsible for Moon’s mother’s death, and that he had no prior involvement in the butterfly family’s history. Then the episodes aired and it was established Moon was 14 when she first met Toffee. That was definitely the nail in the coffin and the reason I feel really uncomfortable when I think about the art I made on the blog. I never saw the two as being anything other than platonic but the ship leaves a bad taste in my mouth now for obvious reasons.
Over the past couple of years, I’ve often considered deleting the blog completely without a word, but I certainly don’t want to run away from the content I put on out in the tag. I’d like to address it rather than pretend it never happened. All this to explain why the art on my blog might be taken off. I struggle with the question of whether or not my content should stay posted. I think for now, I’ll ruminate on it, but I may remove the moontoffee content later on.
Star vs still has a place in my heart, and it was the first time I’d ever gotten deeply involved with an online community. I hate the idea that I made problematic material for the show and didn’t address it sooner. I’m really sorry about that.
I don’t know if anyone will read this, but I feel better knowing I’ve addressed it. Of course, no one has to feel the need to forgive me, but I’m glad I’ve expressed my feelings regardless.
Thanks for the good times, tumblr.
