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After Thomas confirmed that he sees spending too much money on the writing of the seasons as a waste of money (cause he said that the “American Way” of many drafts for a plot is a waste of money), which kind of implies the show uses their first or, maybe a second draft to write the seasons), the inconsistencies, retcons and wasted potential start to make sense…

Again, this is what I understood from his tweets. Maybe you guys will have a different opinion on what he said.

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Fun fact, in addition to being the name of the giant whose eyes Hera put on the tail of her peacock, Argos was also the name of Odysseus' dog. There's an actual connection between Félix using the Peacock and Dog Miraculous.

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"He would NOT fucking say that" does not apply to yoda, who could plausibly say anything

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Padme Amidala

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ML Birthday/Zodiac Headcanons

Aries: Anarka (March 28th), Alix (April 6th)

Taurus: Marinette (May 3rd), Nathaniel (May 14th)

Gemini: Nino (June 12th), Lila (June 15th), Jagged (June 17th)

Cancer: Sabine (July 1st), Zoé (July 6th), Mylène (July 14th)

Leo: Kagami (August 6th), Kim (August 9th)

Virgo: Sabrina (August 27th), Prince Ali (September 2nd)

Libra: Émilie (October 3rd), Marc (October 6th)

Scorpio: Adrien (October 28th), Juleka (October 31st), PV Félix (November 13th)

Sagittarius: Alya (November 25th), Ivan (December 12th)

Capricorn: Nathalie (December 24th), canon Félix (December 30th), Chloé (January 10th)

Aquarius: Gabriel (January 29th), Max (February 4th), Luka (February 8th)

Pisces: Tom (February 27th), Rose (March 8th), Fu (March 15th)

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She had to give up her relationship with Luka? No. No she didn't. Once she spilled the beans to Alya, there was no reason why Luka had to be excluded from the truth.

Not only that, but Luka found out her identity anyway. In the same season, no less.

anytime i see the "marinette's just a stressed teenager" angle it's like, i can see where you're coming from but she literally did not have to do any of that. she didn't have to lie to adrien about his dad. she didn't have to keep chat in the dark. she didn't have to promise anything to the guy that literally backstabbed her to make a wish for his own selfish reasons. girl you saw your boyfriend who you claim to love oh so very much in a padded white solitary confinement room and you decided that you wanted to lie to him. if you have a guilty conscience from your actions it's your own goddamn fault

Preach.

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Surprise Toby! ♥️ (We're at Thought Bubble in Harrogate, UK this weekend, come say hi!)

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zuko x katara

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this post's hypothetical by itself is already ridiculous but the thing that gets me is how the wording implies two very funny things that become funnier in tandem

1. "Accidentally, the pitcher tosses a Christian baby" means this is a mistake on the pitcher's part. i imagine the pitcher is breastfeeding on the field and they pitch and they look down at their hands and they see the ball still in the glove and they go "fuck"

2. hitting the baby will still win you the game

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Miraculous is written like baby's first fanfic. Which honestly makes sense, because most of the writers don't have a lot of experience, and out of the two people who actually seem to know what they're doing, one of them left after S3.

Can't have your cake and eat it too

This is a common MLB writing pitfall I've been observing as of late: how the writers want this one cool thing to happen but think they can wave away what it cost to get there.

Like, they wanted Marinette to have this sympathetic trauma backstory in Derision to explain her stalkerish traits... Nevermind how much the episode itself contradicts a good chunk of what was established in the previous seasons. Also nevermind the many ways it makes Marinette look bad now that we have to take her actions more seriously.

Or how they want Chloe Damnation to send what could've been this meaningful message to all bully victims out there that they don't have to forgive the people who hurt them... Right next to this long line of even worse people getting sympathy, forgiveness or even redemptions. The utter hypocrisy ruins it ngl.

Felix redemption and Feligami are both fun twists full of potential... But after everything Felix has done and considering where Kagami is on the road to getting over Adrien (far from there yet last time it got any focus), it just can't be rushed but the show can't dedicate more than an episode for all of this. Like nah can't afford to chuck one of the anti-Chloe episodes to give Felix the development he needed for either of these to work.

There's how they want Bugnoire to be the most badass thing ever and they were so excited about it... Except most of us came here for the dynamic DUO and there are more people upset about Chat Noir's absence than Bugnoire showing up out of the wazoo.

And of course the king of all this, Gabriel Agreste. They want him to be this tragic sympathetic figure at the end of the day but before that, they need someone to shovel coal into the angst furnace and to do that, Gabriel has to be a huge abusive ass. They didn't intend it, probably, but that's what they wrote. Adrien needs to be isolated, and the best person to keep it that way is Gabriel. Adrienette needs drama, and the best way to do it is have Gabriel disapprove. Chat Noir needs to be out of the final battle so Bugnoire can shine, and the best they can think of is have Adrien get a whiff of nightmare gas, never get over it like literally everyone and their dogs, and have him trapped in a sensory deprivation cel. Despite all this, we're not supposed to see Gabriel as irrevocably abusive.

Just my two cents. The show wants a lot of things, some of which shouldn't be possible so long as the other previously established things stand. Always moving on to the next cool idea regardless of how well or not it meshes with what's already there. It's why it has trouble with consistency. It wants to have its cake and eat it too.

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Fandom Problem #6354:

in a vaccum, the term "anti-anti" is very funny to me. i am against againstness.

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I don't want to get blocked by buggachat, but I've been thinking about what they said about Miraculous being a show of Would rather than Should; characters do what they would do and not what's best for the plot, and the more I think about it I realize the problem is that what a character would do isn't just determined by their personality and circumstances, but also the will of the creator

Miraculous actually has an example in Gabriel Agreste, what Would Gabby do if he knew his son was Chat Noir? Under Thomas Astruc he would immediately use Adrien to get the Miraculous and get his wish; under Jeremy Zag he would reconsider his actions and turn himself in out of guilt. Both fit his character and make sense given the circumstances but they're opposite because of the creators choices

It keeps going back to the fact that this is fiction, these people aren't real and they have no agency beyond their creators will