#clarified

Dear honey boo,

Please get the fuck away from me,

you’re stuck in me like a flu,

Please just let me be.

You got me obsessed,

managed to get me possesed,

just from your touch,

I liked that so much.

But I’ve not satisfied,

and my thoughts clarified,

and I realized that this feeling is true:

1: Tom is not abusive. There is no evidence on screen that he ever was. He has anger issues, and is extremely possessive, but has never been shown to even consider emotionally or physically abusing Star on screen. Attacking Marco, sure, but never Star.

2. Star and Tom are a canon couple. No, I am not throwing the word around, they literally confirmed it in the beach episode yesterday.

3. The writing quality has not gone down. If you think that, you clearly have forgotten much of season 1.

4. Star did not move on from Marco too soon. Rather, she spent a little too much time hung up on him. Her fits of jealousy in season 2 were some of the most unpleasant things in that season for me to watch personally. The writers decision to focus on letting things go this season was probably the smartest decision they have made story-wise in the entire run of the show, in my opinion, because it gets to the root of a problem which is all too prevalent in our society: the idea that because we want something, that is must happen or must be true. Just because Star wanted to be together with Marco doesn’t mean she can have what she wants. Just because Marco wanted to be with Jackie doesn’t mean the relationship was healthy (one of the more recent episodes revealed that it wasn’t healthy for Jackie in particular). Wanting is not a justification for action. All those times in which Star was using her powers out of jealousy were times where she was using them wrongly.

To make this point more clear, imagine is Star and Marcos genders were swapped. Star spying on Marco during his date with Jackie starts to look a lot more creepy, doesn’t it? But you all gave it a pass, because she’s a girl, and the main character. When she knocked over Jackie’s skateboard, or when she blew up the sign with her magic? Well, that was just petty. In fact, it was the exact sort of thing that Tom would do.