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OMG I didn't even know that scene in Optigami existed!

Now I feel sad, because Marinette was already on a low bar for me, and now she's just digging past hell 😫

I haven't seen the London special—and I don't want to—but I've read the plot and something just occurred to me.

Why did Bunnyx need Ladybug's help? Why couldn't Bunnyx have figured things out and fixed the timeline herself? I know only the 14-year-old Bunnyx was left, but that gives her ample time to do SOMETHING.

According to Marinette, she believes that the Rabbit Miraculous is actually the most powerful of all the miraculouses. That means a whole lot of responsibility, which she gave to Alix when she let her keep the Rabbit Miraculous PERMANENTLY.

So, why didn't Alix just fix the timelines herself? She was the Present Alix, which means nothing has happened to her at the moment. She could've brainstormed her way into figuring out what happened, who it is, and stopped them herself.

I don't know. Maybe it's just me, but I feel like if you give someone a miraculous that YOU YOURSELF BELIEVE IS THE MOST POWERFUL MIRACULOUS, YOU'D GIVE IT TO SOMEONE WHO CAN ACTUALLY WORK BY THEMSELVES???

And it's not like I'm saying Alix can't ask for help, but it just feels like her first thought was: "I gotta get Ladybug!" And not "Oh my God, the timelines are changing, I have to figure out who it is!"

If Alix is going to run to Ladybug every time the timeline changes, why give her the responsibility of making sure nothing happens to the timeline in the first place??? If it's going to be like that, Ladybug might as well have just kept the Rabbit Miraculous herself, since it seems like she'll be the one shouldering the job anyway.

The show's obsession with making Marinette do everything herself has created massive flaws in the narrative and makes a ton of characters look bad - or at least poorly suited to their hero role - because they generally default to only doing what Marinette tells them to do. The show will even go out of its way to punish characters when they take initiative. If your name isn't Marinette, then initiative is always, always punished. And if your name is Marinette? The it depends on the writers mercurial whims and not anything like logic.

Alya suffers the the initiative = bad curse all the time like in Optigami where she decides to take the turtle to the day's fight even though she was only told to take the fox and the bee:

Rena Rouge: Mirage! (an illusion of Ladybug is created) And voila! A cool little Ladybug illusion to keep Style Queen busy while I'll… (Rena Rouge looks at the Turtle Miraculous container on the Miracle Box and takes the Miraculous) Longg: Did the guardian ask you to do that? Rena Rouge: Just a precaution.

This should have been Alya's moment to shine. A moment where she took initiative and it paid off, showing Marinette that she could trust others to make their own calls. Instead, this choice is painted as Alya being blinded by her love for Nino and leads to Shadow Moth almost getting the turtle because he just so happened to make a perfect clone of Nino and Alya unknowingly gave the clone the turtle. (Why does this show love evil twins so much? This is basically a the same plot as the season four final. Get a new gimmick! This one is just dumb.)

Even more annoyingly, the one who unmasks sentiNino isn't his girlfriend, it's Ladybug even though the thing that exposes sentiNino is something unique to him and Alya:

Ladybug: I guess it was only here to help repair everything. (looks confused when she sees her compact mirror) (Sentinino gives Alya a simple hi-five) (Ladybug remembers Alya and Nino's special hi-five in a flashback) Ladybug: (looks at both of them with curious look) We're gonna have to be a lot more careful now. Shadow Moth knows the identities of some of the people I have given a miraculous and apparently he's decided to use this information. (looks at Sentinino) Isn't that right, Shadow Moth? (Alya becomes shocked, and Sentinino panicks as he got exposed) Ladybug: I'm sorry Alya, you better move away from him. This isn't Nino, it's a Sentimonster. Alya: Huh? (gasps)

It's Alya and Nino's special handshake!!! Alya should be the one to figure it out, not Ladybug!!! Writers, stop this! Let Marinette have competent allies! She's not suddenly less cool if other people are useful! Also, stop making love a bad thing! Alya and Marinette both suffer every time they're open with their love interest and I hate it. Whatever happened to romantic love being a good thing?

Anyway, all of the Optigami nonsense leads to an ending that makes zero sense:

Alya: Shadow Moth almost unmasked you because of me. I should have never taken the Turtle Miraculous. Marinette: It's true, you did make a mistake, and that's why I'm gonna have to make a difficult decision. The most important thing is to learn from our mistakes. And today, I learned that I need an ally who can replace me in case something happens to me one day. (hands Alya the Fox Miraculous) From now on, you will keep the Miraculous of the Fox with you, and I'm gonna tell you everything I know.

This ending does not fit the episode in the slightest. Why does Alya's failure make her promotion material? How was the turtle even a failure when it would have been fine if that was really Nino? How was anyone supposed to tell that wasn't Nino when the peacock is so stupidly overpowered? It's so dumb!

This episode should have been Alya earning her promotion by being awesome, taking initiative, and noticing things Marinette didn't. What is the point of having a reporter who never notices things? Why does Marinette decide to give Alya secret knowledge and a full-time miraculous in an episode that was all about Shadow Moth almost winning because he knows the temp heroes identities? Why does nothing about this show make sense? Writers, what are you doing???

The saddest thing about this Marinette-first approach is that it's not even making Marinette look good. I don't just mean the asinine "Marinette must always be wrong" rule. The problem here is that the narrative has made many of the secondary characters feel incredibly important. As a result, the audience naturally expects those characters to have important roles. When those character are then denied the roles that they should have, the audience gets angry and the anger usually gets directed at Marinette. For many viewers, it feels like she's hogging the spotlight and denying herself help even thought those things are poorly thought-out choices made by the writers and not intentional flaws that are meant to be part of Marinette's character.

I know one person whose favorite character is Alix, Alya is one of mine, and a huge portion of the fandom love Adrien. All characters who should have been allowed to shine, but who got shoved to the side in favor of Marinette. The casual watcher is not going to blame the writing for that. They're going to get mad at Marinette because she's basically the avatar of the bad writing, forced to do the most asinine things so that she maintains the spotlight even if it's slowly killing her character while making every other character look pathetic and/or ineffectual.

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Drinking Mountain Dew after a long time of not having it.

Tastes like spicy water with a kick of sugar.

Would buy it again.

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That was my first thought, that if this was my kid I would've given him a spanking, see how he likes it. I would've been MORTIFIED if my kid did that, and he'll be getting that spanking then and there, public be damned.

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Watching some Dr. Pimple Popper rn. I may be freaky, but I Iike how the vid doesn't censor what happens.

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"Excuse me" to make them move, "S'cuse" while I'm moving them

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This is just me, but sometimes I wonder if the kinds of pop-up ads I get are prompted by AI.

I could be doing something on my phone, and for five game ads straight, they're always "I'm pregnant/have a kid, I'm ugly af, and I found out my millionaire baby daddy is cheating on me with a Kardashian—and instead of picking the move on option, I decide to win the scumbag back, but the player is such crap at the simplest things that they shave my head, bathe my face in acid, and still somehow put me into a sexy dress, after which I get humiliated all over again."

Either that, or "my baby daddy cheated on me with Kim Kardashian, threw me and my child out of the house, and I'm now squatting in a broken-down house that I'm begging the player to fix, but they're a dumbass and ruin everything".

Or the third option: "the player just sucks".

It's so stupid.

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Yeah, that's basically my headcanon too, and it would explain how Gabriel just threw caution to the wind without making him seem like an irredeemable bastard.

Another thing I never understood about Marinette and wearing multiple miraculouses in Kwamibuster is that they make it out to be a big deal, like some sort of accomplishment that no one else has achieved before.

Obviously, no one else had achieved it before! There were GUARDIANS—Master Fu, ahem ahem—to make sure it never happened!

It's not like it's a bar Marinette set, like it's a testament to her capabilities, when no one else even had the freedom to do what she did.

Speaking of a miraculous making someone insane, the show was always very vague about what happens when someone wears multiple miraculous at the same time so I had a hc that a holder can get insane the more miraculous they wear.

One or maybe two miraculous is fine, most holders can do that. But the more they wear they become more daring, have trouble with risk assessment and makes more mistakes as a result. They overestimate themselves, become more reckless with their powers and in the end lose control over themselves

That's a fun headcanon! As is, the rules around multiple miraculous are nonsense. I have no idea if it's normal to be able to wield two or three or ten! Canon made a massive deal about Marinette wielding multiples in Kwamibuster only to never have her wield more than three again. It's annoying.

Your idea would have been a great way to explain Gabriel's behavior in season five. He's constantly wielding multiple miraculous while being on his worst behavior, the setup for that reveal is there! Instead, canon acts like wielding three+ miraculous on the daily is no big deal. Such wonderful, quality world-building (that was sarcasm).

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Oof, I didn't even think about that.

If that's legit, then things are just gonna get real dramatic, and I'm pretty sure they'll just butcher this too.

Found this on Facebook, wether it's real or not it makes me think how hypocritical the fans are given that Marinette was in a relationship with Luka and still attempted to be with Adrien, she had a romantic dance with him and she even cried in the ground saying "I love you" as Adrien left

We really needed a scene like this in both "Truth" and "Lies".

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Not only that, even told Marinette to forgive Chloé because "there are worse people in Paris right now".

Yeah, there are worse people in Paris right now. But Marinette wasn't talking about the worse people in Paris, she was talking about the bad one she had right in front of her.

Telling someone to forgive a bully because there are worse people is like telling you to forgive your verbally-abusive boyfriend because other people have partners who beat them.

It’s weird that the show claims Ms Bustier tried to help Chloe …

…yet all she did was tell Marinette that she needed to be a “good example” for Chloe to learn from as if it’s her job as class rep to guide her with her issues, not Madame Bustier's.

Now there’s nothing wrong with Marinette helping Chloe change, but claiming that Bustier tried to help  Chloe by having somebody that she hates (for reasons unknown) do the work for her is like sating Chloe tried to do her homework by making Sabrina do it.

Here's a fun little story related to this ask.

Before I started this blog, I went to college to learn to become a teacher. I dropped out thanks to complications from the pandemic, but I still managed to complete two years. One of the introductory education classes I took had a lecture on ways to treat students. The professor said that a teacher shouldn't single out any students in a positive or negative way, meaning you can't put someone on a pedestal or be extra strict to someone.

In other words, something Ms. Bustier does that was depicted as a sign she's a great teacher is one of the first things I was told NOT to do when learning to be a teacher.

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For a murderous green owl, Duo kinda cute sometimes 🤗

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And even worse is that it's so obviously pushed by the plot.

It's not an unusual trope to have the main character constantly skirt around the main issue until it blows up, after which it then causes some sort of catastrophe that serves as the next obstacle.

BUT

The main problem here is that it's so obviously done for plot's sake, instead of something that naturally happens. They've constantly toted Marinette as being so smart and perceptive and observant that missing such an obvious problem with an even more obvious disaster is practically impossible.

Then, when it actually counts, she oh so coincidentally misses the problem sitting right in front of her and is shocked when it blows up in her face.

Every viewer knows what plot is. But in a show, you can't have it be that obvious. The plot needs to be present enough that it makes for a good show, but not so much that they look like puppets on a string with the puppeteer in plain sight.

You can't have your main character dancing on a pedestal as the smartest and most observant person in the world and then have her miss such an obvious issue, then paint her as a victim when it all goes belly-up. You can't have both, you need to pick one.

With Marinette you really gotta ask "ok so they say she's suffering in this scene but what happend to cause it and what happened afterwards?" cause most of the time at this point the cause is "herself" and what happened after is "she was forgiven/it was literally nothing that she didn't bounce back from immediately (with the help of her yes men friends extremely extensive "support group")." It kinda negates the whole "poor Marinette she's going through so much" idea

Ikr? Like daaaamn pity. While there are some exceptions to this like, S4 finale where it's really not her fault Felix came into town to throw a wrench at her plan, as of late her most colossal sources of stress are a hell of her own making. Oh poor Marinette, this and that keeps happening cause she keeps avoiding the problem until it blows up in her face.

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OMG DUO

OKAY, OKAY, I'LL RENEW MY STREAK

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Why do I feel like I felt the pats???

if you need a pat on the head right now I got u covered

*pat pat*

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HAPPY NEW YEAR BITCHES

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WTF Why does he look so cunty with that face??? 😭😭😭

High res. Relaxing in room Lilia Vanrouge base art

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And since the replies are restricted, I'll just do it here:

HIDDEN MICKEYS

Jack Howl: to Jack's left, on the little twig-looking arrangement covered in snow

Malleus Draconia: second tree to Malleus's left

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! EVERYONE ATE NEW YEARS UP AAAAAAA

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DEM EYES

THAT EXPRESSION

DA LIPS

😍😍😍

Such beauty, such grace... Literally the most beautiful creature to exist in Twisted Wonderland.

MAN. That hair is just too beautiful. GOD. I'm so glad he loves changing up his hairstyle. DAMN.