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(The Grimm Legends vs. Disney)

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My Issues With Starboy and Fandom Nostalgia Blindness

DISCLAIMER: This isn't an attack on fan artists who like Starboy. This is a critique of the misconception and I don't condone bullying of any sorts towards people who make and consume content they like.

As I have written in my previous posts about Wish, I am just generally not a huge fan of the Starboy. Well, specifically the fandom centered around him and what they represent.

Context for those who don't know, Star was originally going to be a shapeshifter with a humanoid base form, basically a mix of Peter Pan and the Genie in terms of personality. The misconception that he and Asha were originally going to be a couple was the result of people misreading a line from the art book about how Star and Asha are "soullmates".

As you can read above, the book says "Once Star became a mime character" meaning they meant the current plushie Star, and that they and Asha are connected.

But what about the love song? Well, someone already made a post dissecting the topic. At All Costs was always intended to be written about the wishes but the song writer wanted to make a love song but there wasn't needed for the movie so it sounded like one out of context. Which isn't a bad thing as Disney has been subverting the True Love trope that love does not come from a romantic partner but also from friends and family as seen in films like Frozen and Maleficent, hence why the song sounds like both a lullaby and a romantic duet.

However, even after this was disproven, some fans still insisted they were "robbed" of this non existent romance. Even with the fact that in this early draft of the film, Star was considered to be a younger version of Sabino who passed. Yet, fans still wanted their romance and decided to make fan content based on the unused draft. Well, more accurately the draft they imagined in their heads.

Honestly, I have never read a single one of these rewrites of the film and I am in no position to judge content I have never seen. I do encourage people to make their own version of Wish based on this concept wether it's romantic or not. However, I don't condone the behavior that some of these Starboy fans have.

Even though the art book says the early draft Star was a combination of Genie AND Peter Pan, fans opted to picked just Peter Pan. And that's also factor in the Star was a shapeshifter like Genie and Maui yet most of the general fan art I seen is just Star as a human very little if not rare have him drawn as an animal or as the abstract more alien designs the creators considered for Star after they scrapped the human shapeshifter draft.

Speaking of designs, a common criticism I and others have is that most fan designs for Starboy is just a blonde Jack Frost. Heck, fan edits of the film straight up use Jack as a stand in for Starboy but with his colored yellow.

There were attempts to alter the Jack Frost inspired design to be close to the concept art but the effort is just the equivalent of a Deviantart base being recolored in MSpaint.

The funny thing is that there's already a canonical design for human Star in the artbook.

Even though there's several considered designs for him, the fact that there's plenty of official concept art with this facial structure suggests this is the closest to a canon human Star we got.

And if you notice, this human Star doesn't look as attractive to the Jack Frost inspired ones. It's pretty telling they favored the fan made pretty boy one over the closest canonical one with thicker eyebrows, freckles, large nose, darker shade of skin, facial hair and slight tooth gap.

Not only that, in an animatic of a scene in the early draft, Star was a more comedic character.

And that just make notice how very rare it is for a romance to have one of the partners be conventionally looking and also be the comedic character.

Despite that this fandom makes content about Asha and Star's romance, it doesn't feel like about the both of them. This is less of Starsha and just Starboy.

Not helped is that Asha is already mischaracterized as selfish my media illiterates who didn't payed attention to the movie. So, seeing Asha, a character who is treated like the villain in her own story being shipped by a version of a character who mostly designed as light skin by a fandom who clearly hasn't leg go of their old fictional crush where she's suddenly cared for by audiences comes of as a little iffy, since Asha's is a bi-racial black girl, and that the people who treated her as a villain are in support of the film's actual villain, who is light skinned.

Asha is pretty much like Tiana in a way, being somewhat a discarded character but is only liked by her status of not being single, with Tiana's in film and Asha's in fanon.

Coming back to the plagiarizing Star design , this may come of weird and out of no where, but I partly think Jack Frost is responsible for this mess. Now, Jack Frost is a hot piece of snow, I agree. He was pretty much Tumblr's biggest dream boy of the period of his film's release to the point he is being shipped with characters outside of his film.

Remember the time where people make crossovers of him with Rapunzel, Hiccup and Merida? That was the hit fandom back in the day and like with all fandoms, shipping fights were present and take a guests who gets the most paired with.

This crossover shipping extends over to the Frozen fandom where Jelsa was created. I mean, it was obvious, lonely ice girl and lonely ice boy. The fact remains is that people still have the hots for Jack that they use him as a stand in for a character in a romance that doesn't exist.

And that's what the vibes I'm getting. People just want a romance for the sake of it but don't consider how it would affect the movie and its themes.

I mean, it would be nice if Asha gets a romantic partner but she has bigger priorities. Disney romances have been infamously bad, especially with the older films where the princes are more like plot devices than actual characters. They got better over time with Naveen and Eugene, but that's mainly due to the fact that they're obligated to because they're in a Disney fairytale movie made in the 2010's, of course they should fall in love. With their own princesses, not with each other. You're welcome for that visual.

If Wish had a romance, it would clutter an already cluttered film. Despite that most of Wish's ACTUAL criticism dwells on how half baked it is, a romance isn't going to fix it. It's like adding an extra ingredient to an otherwise fine but half baked cake, that's not gonna make it fully bake.

And this brings us to the fandom's nonexistent issue that they were "robbed". I don't like the usages of "rob" this way because they weren't robbed of anything. Robbed is when someone takes something away from you. Human Star is not theirs but Starboy and his romances with Asha is because they created it after misreading a line about soulmates in the art book and assumed they were romantic partners.

Not helped is that Wish is accused of being made with A.I. and then we have this person crying over a slideshow of A.I. generated images of her stolen romance.

I wrote in my previous posts about Tastes and Preferences and briefly brought up Wish as an example and I intend to expand it right here. The people who want Asha and Star as a couple to be canon is not because of they think it would have improved the film, but more so for their own tastes.

I literally saw a posts from someone saying the potentials if Asha and Starboy being canon would mean them appearing in the Disney parks. Now, that just shows where their priorities lie. This eerily reminds me of the time Tumblr users fangirled over a Peter Pan face performer at the parks where it got so heated that he was allegedly fired.

And remember how human Star was inspired after Genie and Peter yet fans mostly prioritize on the Peter inspiration? This pretty much confirms what I get off of them, they're still crushing on Jack Frost and Peter Pan got mad when a character they perceived to be just like them was scrapped. If human Star was kept, imagine the poor actor being looked after by fangirls. If Reylo fans got angry when Daisy Ridley didn't sat next to Adam Driver during that one time, imagine when some derange fans find out that the performers for Star and Asha weren't actually dating.

Heck, this general unhealthy behavior from shippers is even more oddly similar to Zutara fans.

I get the appeal that fanon ships are more immersive than the canon ones, but this behavior saying that it's better than the canon already established ship is just wrong. You're just coping you didn't get what you wanted.

This isn't to say that most Starboy fans are bad. There are those who genuinely love the idea so much they want to make their own take on it. Some even make their own non Jack Frost inspired designs but they are just as rare as the people who like Wish as it is, flaws and all. They just don't want to be lumped in with the obsessive ones.

I'm not against the human Star idea, or giving Asha a romantic partner at all. I even consider Dahlia to be a potential love interest given that she and Asha are close and since I am not a fan that most romance stories are about characters getting together and becoming official AT the end instead of BEING together from start to finish, why not have Asha and Dahlia be established girlfriends.

I'm rather fond of the cat monster Star design because I'm a furry and would love to see fan content of him but I don't necessarily need it that bad I would be pointlessly unreasonable salty.

I'm disinterested at the Starboy craze at best and annoyed at worst. I still hold my opinion that most designs are just so samey you could practically make NFTs out of them but I am aware there are fan designs that take a different approach and make no mistake that's genuinely alright.

As much as I don't like, as in neutral towards most Stargirl fangirls, I do appreciate the work and effort they put into their art and I highly encourage them to take risks with their creativity and think outside of the box.

However, I highly discourage the behavior some of them have about being robbed when they are literally making and consuming content that was taken away from them for themselves and acting that a work with the things they like in it is better than those without them.

Thank you for reading and I am sorry for wasting your time.

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This might be just me, but I’m not a huge fan of the Asha X Starboy fan art where Starboy is just recolored Jack Frost when some of the concept art looks like this

I find it so weird that people are only interested in ONE concept of star, and that is the star twink... and you know what i found out in the art book...

THAT THE FACT THERE IS LITERALLY AN ENTIRE PAGE OF THE OTHER CONCEPTS OF STAR!!!

We were going to have star as a deer... WITH WINGS!!

We were going to have alien star

Star with a big ass head

And we were going to have star as a f🫢king BALL!!

Also, star with wonky hair

And the list goes on. There were MANY concepts of star most of him being in many different forms/animals.And also I love the creativity behind the making of star there were so many ideas of star was going to be.Some were weird,others were very odd but all in all the concepts are amazing...to bad the Internet was focused only on yellow jack frost(🙁).

Here’s yet another meme I made to vent my frustrations about the Disney/Wish Hatedom and toxic Disney fans:

Whenever we see Magnifico engaging with his subjects, he's always standing on some platform, towering them and making them focus their attention on him.

When he reaches almost full power, he visual rises above them all, practically untouchable.

After absorbing Star's power, he covers the night sky full of stars to prevent anyone to wish on them, ie seeking help from them.

While unintentional on the creators' part, this gives him a theater motif where he stands on a very high stage and wants to outshine the other stars.

Like stars that shine the brightest, they burn out the fastest. After his defeat and imprisonment in his own staff, he is visually below everyone, right down to their feet.

(A thing to note is his and Star's light and fire motif. Star's light is a comforting warmth while Magnifico's magic after he uses the book resembles flames, dangerous to anything, everyone and himself)

Somewhat related, while Magnifico is always on a platform whenever he engages with his subjects, Amaya is on the ground level when she helps her people. Visually, Magnifico is distancing himself from his own people while Amaya is standing along with them.

the thrilling sequal

You mean to tell me everyone was losing their shit over a Disney property only for it to come out and for it to be good or just okay?

That’s NEVER happened!

Except for EVERY SINGLE TIME IT HAPPENED.

...Overwhelmed?

Is this just me or does this tweet imply that Australia is just a furry ethnostate and that the rest of the world is normal in the bluey universe

Puberty

Say something good about this couple!

Luisa!!!!

Congratulations to Hiro Hamada from Big Hero 6 (2014) for being the first biracial (Japanese & White American) main character in Disney films!

Congratulations to Ethan Clade from Strange World (2022) for being Disney's first gay biracial (Black & White) protagonist!

Congratulations to Asha from Wish (2023) for being Disney's first biracial (North African & Iberian) heroine!

big thank you to Don Hall for the first two. also very cool that out of these three characters, Hiro is the only one from a real place (San Francisco, California) albeit one with a fictional history causing it be renamed to honor it's Japanese immigrants. i think that makes his representation even better since it's more 'real'

Comics - Mark Kennedy

genderbent Asha idea, idk what his name would be

she takes after you too gus

"Am I glowing? I feel as if I am. Yes?"

Wish (2023) | Chris Pine as King Magnifico

anyway.