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college student wrapped:

you skipped 40 lectures!

you spent 12 weekends alone in your room!

you handed in 7 assignments overdue! your most delayed assignment took you 2 weeks after the deadline!

you missed your bus 42 times!

you've consumed a total of 100000 mg of caffeine!

your most common sunday evening moods were: scared, desperate and depressed!

on average, you considered dropping out 1,5 times a week!

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Oh, so Gemini is also related to a god of Plague, Pestilence and the underworld,,, kinda like Plagg,,,,

So,, I haven't seen the latest episodes, but apparently the rings are significant again. And the sentimonster theory is running rampant again.

I saw someone (a while back, I don't remember who, I'm so sorry) theorize that the Twin Rings were a miraculous specifically based on Gemini (the Twins) from the Greek Zodiac, but they didn't know what the power would be.

But this could easily stand, considering the different boxes all appear to have a zodiac theme, and Alya in Feast hinted at Hercules being the holder of the Lion (Leo). And like, what if the Gemini Miraculous' power was to create a 'twin' or clone of someone of the holder's choosing?

Like,, how Adrien is suspiciously similar to Félix,,,

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So,, I haven't seen the latest episodes, but apparently the rings are significant again. And the sentimonster theory is running rampant again.

I saw someone (a while back, I don't remember who, I'm so sorry) theorize that the Twin Rings were a miraculous specifically based on Gemini (the Twins) from the Greek Zodiac, but they didn't know what the power would be.

But this could easily stand, considering the different boxes all appear to have a zodiac theme, and Alya in Feast hinted at Hercules being the holder of the Lion (Leo). And like, what if the Gemini Miraculous' power was to create a 'twin' or clone of someone of the holder's choosing?

Like,, how Adrien is suspiciously similar to Félix,,,

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Yes! I have to agree!!

When I was little, so many of the 'cool' girl characters on tv/cartoons were super punk/tomboyish. And yeah, that's great! Represent the skater girls who love rock and all that! But the problem was those characters were usually also at odds with the 'girly-girls' - (who were either airheads/sorta stupid, or the prissy prada narcissistic types) who were going to be ~famous models~ and drowned themselves in fashion magazines and followed trends, and wore pink, and makeup, and nailpolish, and only listened to pop songs. They were scoffed at, and portrayed like their views and opinions were ALWAYS shallow, and cliché. (And ngl, for me, that DID sink in as something to Avoid At All Costs)

What's great about Marinette is that she's a bit in between. She's more average, like you said, more normalized! She loves pink, and fashion, and enjoys memes and trends, but wears the bare minimum of makeup, she listens to rock and pop (so long as it sounds good), and she's shown to appreciate both sides of those stereotypes.

What I ESPECIALLY LOVE is that Miraculous ALSO portrays these other girls, though!! We have Alix, we have Chloé, we have Rose, and we have Juleka!! All of these girls are on this spectrum, and ((for the most part,)) they respect each other's opinions!

Alix, the Skater Girl is also an artist! (a street artist! And the fact that it was shown as art?? Amazing!), and as far as Creator Cannon says: she's Aro! She's not pining after anyone! She's said to be an activist for gender equality! She doesn't scoff at Marinette, and encourages her fashion aspirations. She calls Chloé out, but mostly for being a bully, and a drama queen. (Though the selfie collage scenario might've been handled better, I do feel like there were reasons for her to act that way)

Juleka, the Goth Girl wants to be a model (and has a love for fashion/alternative aesthetics-- [steampunk derby hat!]) she plays bass guitar in a garage band, but she's also an introvert, with severe anxiety, that is also afraid of being invisible.

Rose is the airhead 'Girly-Girl' type, NAMED after the color pink, and she fully embraces that! Because why not? Rainbows, Unicorns, Princesses-- Totally her jam. But she's ALSO the lead singer in a metal band! She's an activist(? Maybe? I don't remember) And seriously looks up to people who are doing good things, and clearly thinks that everyone is capable of being good! (Even Chloé!) And she supports Juleka through everything she wants to do, too!!

Chloé is that girl who's a bit too obsessed with her appearance, is a total snob, loves fashion, and unironically listens to the earworm popstars that are the latest craze. But! She'll also jam to rock songs, and lowkey seems to respect Alix? She's definitely awful to the other three I've mentioned, though, not disregarding that.

But my point is! Yes! Miraculous Ladybug has such a great representation of girls! Their personalities are so diverse, but they all have common interests, and will support each other, both in their shaired, and unique interests!

And they do the same thing for the boys!! (boys who love sports, and videogames/coding, or are musicians, or who are in more feminine coded professions/a bit of all of the above, but never teased over it!!) and it made me SO happy when I first watched it, and even now.

came across a post of yours about miraculous ladybug and highly agree but what was "marinette normalizes non-tomboy female protagonists" about?? non-tomboy female protags are literally The Norm already for centuries and the relatively much fewer pieces of media with "less fem" girl protags are largely the newer things

actually what i meant was

aHEM

marinette is ONE OF THE MOST normalized non-tomboy female protagonists (correct me if im wrong)

lemme just tell u something from my toddlerhood/childhood

now im not sAYING that women HAVE to love the colour pink and love fashion, but what im sAYING iiiiiiis, 

majority of the little girls i knew loved the colour pink and took a huge interest on fashion, something that marinette loves too, which is good especially since this show is aimed at younger kids even though there are teenagers and grown adults here and marinette is designed to be relatable

but its normalized because those little girls were sometimes made fun of (especially by some boys) because of their love for pink and fashion, no one question marinette for HER love of pink and fashion, so it IS kinda normalized (pls pls pls correct me if im wrong)

and instead of her being a mary sue (just like tons of other characters) she has BAJILLIONS of flaws which are sometimes addressed for example - (marinette admits she is madly clumsy, kagami told her she is scatter-brained, etc.)

sometimes when people want to design female characters, the problem is that it might lead to a tomboy trap.

i hope i made sense and PLS PLS PLS correct me if i went wrong!!

and i also need to edit what i said brb

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When I say I was not expecting to wake up to 80+ notes and counting, I mean it, but this made me really happy!

Space suits :)

The second one is a gif but I don't think it's working here.

I wanted to enter a space themed challenge in another community, and figured I would fan-design their space/moon suits, or whatever they're gonna be.

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I know-

Bruh you want me to spam your arts? I just am bad at remembering to give notes for anything, but i can make a more concious effort, bc your drawings are always really pretty and you should know i think that anyways

Hhdbsjshd Its really nice but you don't need to-

I just really had to scream a lot for a minute there because if I don't get the monthly yells out on every blog I have then what's the point-

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this took me 14 hours.

my wrist is dead

Honestly I just thought up some human designs for Ion and Novis, and this is what happened from that.

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Ok so i know i said i was gonna draw King next, but i got a wee bit offtrack

Anywho this Pyre, a blaze, and they’re kinda the equivalent to the no name squads antagonist. Basically they’re trying to bring Ghost back to the nether and also just having fun creating general chaos.

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Oof,, I finally drew King >:3

He didn’t really die like the rest of the nns per-say, he more slowly got turned into an enderman while he was trapped in the end, and forgot his name overtime (Which let me tell you he was there for quite a while, a few hundred years, give or take))

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I made a character based off the the abro flag!!

Xir name is Melony!! I lov xem

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Anyway, this is Cosmo, they’re kinda like the universe creator in rs??? (Well it’s more like the universe is a plant they grew)Also they kinda?? posses Ion?? Well i guess it’s more like they don’t have a physical body that they can use to travel around in the universe they created so they kinda just watch everything through Ion and sometimes slightly influence his decisions.

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Oof,, I finally made a new ref sheet for Ion

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Beehaw!! Vinny’s ref is now done!! uwu

[That’s 2/34 refs for the solar eclipse crew!! (god help me-)]

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Oh yeah, here’s this I drew a few day’s ago.

(Honestly their relationship would’ve been been p fun to write had Beaxe not turned out to be such a dick :/)

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AAAAAAAAa

she QwQ

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Its they!!

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I've been scrolling for quite some time now-- why has no one brought up the fact that Marinette being the "first-person-in-the-history-of-ever to weild more than one miraculous without major side effects" JUST MIGHT be FORSHADOWING for her USING THE ULTIMATE POWER???

BECAUSE THAT WAS THE FIRST THING THAT CAME TO MY MIND.