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...The london special could've been completely avoided if Marinette just told Plagg to go home 🙄

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Stayed gone but vox narrates his passive aggressive insecure ass scrolling text from the bottom of his broadcast 👊💥📺

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theyre gay and from mars and coming to kill CEOs

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Aunt Rosie brought a weird cat as a present for the residents of the Hazbin Hotel 🌹

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He’ll become her dad, eventually.

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Apparently, in the daddycop episode, after marinette shuts the door in front of sabrina she sulks because adrien didn't come. Mind you, he didn't even agree to come to the girl's night out, and yet she's upset that he goes by his word. Then the rest of the girls realised it was sabrina and go after her, AND NOT MARINETTE. Who continues sulking. Wow

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Yeah, like, that’s an issue that I noticed with the new season, that there’s an increase in wackiness, but then the episodes suddenly start treating the joke stuff as the emotional core of the episode. Like, Marinette wanting a star-blessed 100th kiss with Adrien was meant to be so stupid and over-the-top it’s funny. The fact that we’re supposed to take Marinette’s hijinks as an exaggerated joke is the number one thing protecting her from coming across as incredibly selfish when she devalues the girls’ night for her Love Quest. But then she sees Sabrina behind the door and she’s genuinely devastated, it’s suddenly played completely straight.

Sabrina: “Surely something can be done?”

Marinette: “Do you know how to make the Hoa Tinh star return to Jupiter another day?”

Sabrina: *silently shakes her head*

Marinette: “Then no. Nothing can be done.”

Like, what is this melodramatic nonsense? Considering this show’s track record, I was so amazed that the girls actually picked Sabrina’s sadness as being more important than Marinette’s that I was willing to forgive the episode for this, but it still should be at least brought up. This stupid, petty bullcrap, where Marinette actually eventually admits she’s in the wrong, is treated as an actual tragedy because god forbid we feel more empathy and sympathy towards Sabrina, the one with an actual problem, rather than the Queen of Self-Caused Petty Bullshit.

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Marinette stans: treat Marinette risking to kill Adrien like a little moral hiccup, but nothing important bc she didnt feel pretty about it and that's "already punishing her enough"

Also Marinette stans: clutch their pearls and go screaming on the defences at every tiny in-universe syllable or action that isn't happening to Marinette's comfort or praise, no matter what the context is

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It's so incredibly annoying, especially when you look at the later seasons where anything Marinette is stressed about, feeling guilty about or crying about is almost every single time something that wouldn't have happened if Marinette didn't keep making the same mistakes and took some responsibility for being the head honcho big superhero she's supposed to be. Even her punishments are self-inflincted, mostly consisting of her flagellating herself verbally until someone comes over to coddle her some more.

It's making me think about that one "causing your own bike to fall and then blaming something/one else" meme. Except the ones crying foul are Marinette stans.

This is the sequence of events that cause Marinette stans to cry about how unfairly she's treated.

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You know, for a long time, I never really liked the implication in those “Lament” type fics that if Marinette was in the position of her bullies/enemies (Privileged(tm) and rich), she’d be oh so humble about it and loved by everyone X100, but I could never figure out why.

Then I read one of your posts about how Tom and Sabine were overprotective helicopter parents that sort of indirectly spoiled Marinette, and it kind of hit me that these fics kind of fall into that same pitfall the Paris Special did where it’s assuming everyone would have the exact same personality regardless of the change in environment. Like yeah, maybe Tom and Sabine wouldn’t have indulged her the same way Andre did Chloe, but I don’t believe that Marinette growing up in all that excess with her parents being so powerful (and permissive) wouldn’t become a little entitled.

(Plus it just kind of makes for a boring story cause it’s basically still canon but Marinette’s rich now)

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Marinette is already so spoiled, self-important and entitled in canon, there’s no way she’d be a humble angel if her parents had the means to pamper her even more. Like, maybe they’d spot how spoiled she is more easily if it was something they thought was a concern and were actively keeping an eye on. Like, if they were self-aware of their increased privilege, they might purposefully try to raise Marinette to be more aware of her privilege, but, yeah, the “angelic rich kid Marinette” trope leans into this idea that she’d be a rich kid who totally deserves her privilege with the rich kids in canon not deserving their status being implied.

But we must take into account that Marinette, despite having two jobs as repeatedly designing for at least Jagged Stone and as babysitting for Nadja, apparently couldn’t use her own funds to buy her mother a present, and instead used false pretenses to get money from her mother for that. She has also repeatedly gone out with her boyfriends, even made the plans for these dates, while having them pay for everything. Marinette is frivolous with money and doesn’t pay attention to her own spending, thinking the people around her will just pay for her. I don’t see this attitude lessening if she was rich unless her parents were actively teaching her to avoid such attitudes pre-emptively.

Like, Marinette already canonically has the same type of social clout people give her opponents in typical salt fics. She has connections, she's the most popular girl in school and, as of 'Daddycop', she has a girl posse that will shun a classmate they otherwise wouldn't mind hanging out with if they just think that Marinette is bitter at her.

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Do you have any theory why anti-kuma always target Chat Noir and what does it even have to do with Butterfly Transmission concept?

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Now that Cat Noir is no longer distracted by being attracted to Ladybug, he’d be too competent if he wasn't nerfed. The girl power fantasy demands all boys be incompetent, so he’ll get smacked with whatever the writers can think of to make him less effective. Or maybe the writers debuff him to make him less powerful and justify Ladybug calling in more allies, or just because they think it's funny. Maybe I’m reading maliciousness where there is none, but I have genuinely been getting really mean-spirited vibes from the way Cat Noir is treated by the narrative since season 4 and season 6 hasn't broken that trend.

Frankly, in universe, it might be a fun concept if Lilerise McButterfly was constantly trying to nerf Cat Noir because she's realized how dependent Ladybug is on his emotional support and is sabotaging his ability to be there for her. Like, Sitch in Time already went with this idea, how Shego figured out that Kim got so much invisible support from Ron that she was significantly weaker as an opponent without him, and so she created a timeline where they were separated to take over the world and it worked.

I mean, Lila already called out Marinette being the crisis friend in ‘Perfection’. All she wasn't correct about was when she applied purposeful malice into Marinette selfishly taking advantage of her friends to deal with her petty crises (which implies the writers think Marinette would only be in the wrong for this behavior if it was purposeful). She could very well twig on the fact that Ladybug is also using Cat Noir to manage her constant emotional crises.

The Butterfly Miraculous can give powers so it can also take them away, I guess. Now that would have been a cool concept for the New York Special with all the hero characters.

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Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

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ive been sitting on the bad boys for a month now just finished them up

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Day 30-31 of Old Art

I'm finishing with repostober today, but as it's tecnically two pictures, you can say I've fulfilled the promise

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so glad i can finally share this- here's something i did for a secret santa event!!

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might morphin power rangers x tmnt 2 might be peak just for giving casey a ponytail