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tj-spankoffski

You aren’t a Team Starkid fan if you shit on every single other Starkid project that isn’t Hatchetfield.

Yes this is about Tombquest and Cinderellas Castle.

catbritta

if you’re a starkid fan and you haven’t seen anything except hatchetfield you are missing OUT

hatchet-creek

it's always "you're autistic" and never "thank you for telling me everything you know about the Hatchetfield Universe"

4-cool-frogs-in-a-trenchcoat

STARKID!!!!!!!! DROP THE CINDERELLA'S CASTLE SOUNDTRACK!!!!!!!! AND MY LIFE!!! IS YOURS!!!!!!

#cinderella's castle

dryadwannabe

it doesn't matter where i am, i see art of steph and pete being cute, i audibly go "yippie" and hit reblog

oishen

If I loved you

I had this sketch for a while in my gallery and finally I remembered about it

patronsaint-ofthedenial

So tomb quest is based on a game and will have a cast of only six people. Close enough, welcome back, the trail to oregon

dizziful-clown

tomb quest predictions

-corey dorris gets a solo

-did i mention a corey dorris solo

jame-dumb

I love Corey Dorris and Bryce Charles and James Tolbert and Britney Coleman and Lauren Walker and Tiffany Williams and Janaya Mahealani Jones and Darilyn Burtley and Virginia Vass and I don't know if there are any other Black StarKid actors but if there are I love them as well

#starkid

patronsaint-ofthedenial

Upon my last viewing of Cinderella's Castle I have become convinced that most "modern fairytale retellings" don't really get the point. The complaint about Cinderella is always that "oh she's so passive and has to be saved by a MAN" and the people making these complaints don't think about how for a very, very long time, marriage was the only way for young women to leave their abusive families, and marriage is not guaranteed to be abuse free. Cinderella's Castle doesn't take the story about abuse and make it "she doesn't need a man, she can save herself", it's a revenge story. That's what "feminist" retellings lack. Cinderella is a fantasy about escaping abuse and for girls today, the fantasy is no longer "I wish I could get married to a rich powerful man and get away from my abusive family" it's "I wish I could enact revenge"

Many attempts to make stories more progressive for a contemporary audience fail to analyse what exactly the outdated or regressive elements of a story actually mean and think that simply removing those elements is enough to make it modern and feminist, when in reality you just removed all the layers without adding any new layers or rethinking the narrative in a way that is compelling. Let's say that Cinderella doesn't need the prince to save her. She still needs to escape somehow. If she can just save herself because she's a #girlboss then what's the point of telling the story? That's boring. I like that CC doesn't turn Ella into a generic girlboss character. She does need help! She needs the help of Justine and Lucy, the help of the fairy queen, the help of Sir Hop-a-lot and Crumb, and the help of Tadius. She doesn't need the prince! She doesn't marry him! She isn't rescued in the end, instead, she gets to take revenge on her stepmother! And the revenge is cathartic because of how much she has lost over the course of the story!!!!

Also I just want to note that having one of the stepsisters marry the prince only for both of them to die is a really clever way to get Ella to the throne without making her get married

#cinderella's castle #starkid

mae-maia

I know it’s because her dad is canonically black and we’ve never met her mom but I love that everyone in the Starkid fandom has collectively agreed that Steph is mixed. Like people choose different interpretations in their fanart (hair texture, skin color, etc) but the one thing they all have in common is Steph is almost never fully white.

wups-up

The moral of Cinderella’s Castle is that black women deserve to take revenge

spongewormedpants

i think those nerdy prudes should get more genderqueer and polyamorous

#nerdy prudes must die

duke-keane-irl

L + ratio + ur from clivesdale

evilwriter37

Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I’m not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go to the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction.

kokichis-dead-dove-club

this is the best way i’ve seen this put!!

lynati

And just like with food, what might be harmful for one person to consume could be quite *beneficial* for others. One man’s trigger is another man’s catharsis.

randomslasher

AND if you lack the maturity/self control/awareness to stop yourself from eating things that could potentially harm you, you either 1) are too young to be making your own food choices and should be supervised by a parent/other adult who is supposed to be responsible for you (and the store clerk who put the food on the shelf is NOT) or 2) need to take accountability for your own actions, because if you deliberately consumed something you knew could hurt you as a fully autonomous adult, then you really have no one to blame but yourself.