#DOES nothing at. all.

[possamble]

hiii everybody are you normal about Falin showing Laios the same little spell that Marcille showed her? are you normal about Falin remembering it fondly enough that it was one of the first things she showed her brother while trying to teach him magic?

[akanemnon]

I don't like this place. It's turning everyone edgy and sad.

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[egophiliac]

he did it! 🐍 and it only took...uhhh...well, there probably could've been less punches, but why hold back!

PUNCHES FOR EVERYONE

[crazycatmilo]

We don’t talk enough about how Martin was likely mostly running the institute by himself (cuz Peter probably wasn’t all that helpful, Martin for sure never wants to see a spreadsheet again) while in a depressive episode AND manipulating Peter to make him think he’s on his side. Like holy fuck bro. It pisses me off when people act like he’s dumb because did we listen to the same show??

[sourkreem]

interrupting Jason's saturday afternoon book binge is one way to make him pissy

spot as many easter eggs as you can :>

[pikechris]

yeah the doctor hasn't kissed a man since 2005 but they also haven't kissed anyone on screen since missy in 2014. ten actual years. do you understand the significance of this

[bluegiragi]

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[gauloiseblue]

This is Price. You can't change my mind

[littlelightfish]

He cares very much about his elemental just look at this man

He raised this bubble monster since it was a baby and worries about her getting mixed with other water things... Dad behaviour...

It's like he asks her to come out to fight.

He can't ask her that, he alredy sent her to battle. Is it either them or the quimera and he knows it damn well, that's why he looks at Marcille with something close to pity. He can't ask the undine to stop. He needs, they all need, the monster to be dead.

And then his baby droplet gets obliterated by this monster. He's not recovering up emotionally from this anytime soon. He freezes a few seconds in absolute shock.

"I even find it cute now". His baby is dead. It's gotta be something akin to adopt a stray cat since baby and then he gets run over. He starts tearing up. Look at this man's poor face, he's destroyed.

Here he's mourning the loss of his undine possibly, all sad faced. He is, at the end, the only one that lost someone there (many died but revived, and Falin doesnt count because she's alive). Either that or he managed to, somehow, save a bit of her and put it on the bottle and it's feeling sorry for his elemental or saying sorry.

[libellule-saphique]

Good points, actually great points.

Unfortunately the show will always use Marinette's psychological humiliation and character persecution for a "good laugh"

No other character in the show has been subjected to this much and caught backlash for their actions.

Adrien stans have so many excuses for their support of his character "He doesn't get as much screentime" "He's been sheltered all his life and abused" "He's not as bad as Felix" "poor Chat uwu *dramatically sobs*

At this point they make any claim they can to back him up no matter how much in the wrong he is or how ridiculous it sounds.

For many other reasons I don't care for Marinette salt as much as I do general MLB salt, MLB writer salt, or Adrien salt because while Marinette's salt is reasonable and not bad (if reasons are logical) there are many MLB fans who go from salting her to downright bashing her. It's no surprise to anyone that Marinette's crush on Adrien has been the face and reasoning for salting her to began with, the obsessiveness, the irrational jealousy, the awkwardness in which she herself can't escape from because the writers desperately need some form of humor so why not make our female protagonist the butt of jokes right? While giving the second lead who happens to be a white cis male everything on a silver platter and our female lead a slap on the wrist.

It's a slap in the face. Especially to the younger audience who look up to the show. It's a huge contradiction mediocre disappointment preaching girl empowerment & romance on one hand and also teaching the audience that it's ok to harass the one who's affections you're trying to win over no matter if they object, no matter how many times they make themselves clear, that they don't feel the same way you got to try, try, try again. And eventually you'll get them in the end. With good determination and enough charm & persuasion you will get what you want in the end.

What kind of message is that to younger audiences? Why not teach them in life, they will not always get what they want no matter how much they want it, or work for it and that it's ok for people to not reciprocate your feelings. It is your individual responsibility to handle rejection in a positive manner? And not only do they teach the opposite they use the male deuteragonist as the perpetrator of harassing our female protagonist constantly episode to episode, season to season to no avail.

And we're supposed to support his efforts in winning his Mi'lady's heart, because they're "soulmates" despite Ladybug being visually upset, disgusted, and annoyed by his behavior. His stans get equally pissy because of her rejection and go out of their way to call her a "bitch" "mean" "cruel" and not appreciative of him though, she handles most of Paris by herself just fine even when they're working together (it's not like he helps her in any major way anyways if anything he harms more than he helps) He practically distracts her with corny and very cringey puns and failed flirtation attempts to which she is expected to explain to him time after time it's not the appropriate time. She should not have to do that.

Marinette is expected to apologize for things that aren't her fault like in Copy Cat when Chat Noir lies to Theo out of jealousy about the relationship he has with Ladybug causing Theo's akumatization, by the end of the episode Ladybug does the explaining and apologizing despite not being the one to cause the mess in the first place. This leaves him to not have to take accountability for his actions because "our good protagonist Marinette did!" this happens with friends, Adrien, even her bullies. Marinette has to calmly explain and apologize for other people's short comings when she shouldn't have to.

And as I said before Adrien stans complain about Adrien's lack of screentime despite taking up majority of Marinette's by being the conversation topic, goal, or thought in someone's mind (someone being Marinette) like in Pigeon it focuses on Marinette creating a derby hat for a school contest, doesn't seem bad at first until the narrative decides to add Adrien in it by being the face of his dad's fashion brand therefore modeling her hat. Why couldn't someone else do it. They do this for next 3 seasons which usually consists of Marinette's crush on Adrien and trying to confess to him.

Marinette's characterization somewhat goes somewhere from seasons 1-2 to seasons 3-4 being wrapped up in Adrien, awkward, shy, and less confident to trying to focus on herself more, confident with herself, and less focused on romance but ofc the writers have to find a way to humorize the show and they can't possibly think of any other way than to humiliate Marinette. This is simply bad writing, not humor. Showcasing your protagonist's crush in the center of her life and not allowing her form a single sentence when interacting with him isn't humor. the writers do this 4 seasons straight for the sake of their idea of "humor" because sure there isn't another way we can make our fans laugh? Having your male deuteragonist harass your female protagonist ,not taking no as an answer and getting petty, snarky, sarcastic, knowingly unhelpful, rude, & vindictive because of rejection isn't the "height of romance" not acknowledging your male deuteragonist's flaws and problematic traits while consistently highlighting your female lead's flaws isn't perfect, its blatant misogyny.

Having the protagonist's classmates blind as bats to the protagonist's bully's lies, manipulation antics, and tricks to where no one believes her not even her own parents isn't good writing. (hell it doesn't even makes sense)

Not allowing your female protagonist to move on and potentially have character development and maturity just for the sake of the male deuteragonist's feelings isn't good writing.

Pinning the 4 love rivals (Marinette, Lila, Chloe, Kagami) for the male lead's affections against each other while allowing the male characters (Adrien, Luka, Nathaniel) to get along just fine despite liking the same girl (Marinette) isn't good writing. it's misogyny "cause girls are catty right? and boys are peaceful negotiators

(there's no valid reason why the girls couldn't get along)

Writing off love rivals so they don't interfere "too much" with the main Love Square ships isn't good writing.

Stating your male lead is perfect therefore needs no development isn't good writing. It's honestly just lazy half ass writing at this point.

I can argue confidently Thomas dislikes most his female characters if not all of them. The writers give Marinette, our lead some development to only knock her 3 steps back to square 1. She tries desperately to move on only to be forced by her own best friend to dance with Adrien (NYC special) which is already problematic itself because Alya is supposed to be Marinette's bff but she constantly disrespects her boundaries, breaks her trust, and believes/ sides with her bully/tormentor over her multiple times. After Lukanette's breakup Marinette voices how a relationship wouldn't be the best idea with all the responsibilities she has, the things she has to keep from her s/o (her identity as Ladybug), a lie she would have to make to protect her identity which is highly reasonable and justified despite this, Adrien somehow now knows he has feelings for Marinette (after being just a friend) and all that matters is "his feelings" no one takes into consideration that Marinette doesn't want a relationship for good reasons and is overwhelmed by alot already. but the writers don't care, they make Adrienette canon to coddle Adrien's feelings.

[above shows an image of two hands giving high-five to the left representing the MLB writers and Marinette and one hand drowning to the right representing Marinette]

At the end of the day we are told one thing

"Doesn't matter what happens in Miraculous Ladybug, as long as Adrien Agreste is coddled, babied, and sympathized with because who has it harder than a rich white french boy who harasses the main female lead who happens to be bi-racial all because he likes her right?"

Marinette's Suffering

I just realized something.

As long as Marinette has a crush on Adrien she'll always be humiliated.

She'll always be a anxiety ball.

She'll always be laughed at.

She'll always brought down.

She'll always be in distress.

She'll always be putting his feelings before own.

She'll always be putting his needs before her own.

Her crush on Adrien brings out the worst of her. When she's a mess, stuttering, fumbling, falling.

Then when there's a guy who is 10x better than Adrien they take that opportunity away from her, because Oh! If Marinette loses interest in our pretty predatory rich white boy then he'll lose relevance to the plot as if he contributes any fucking ways. The only way the male writers of this awful show can keep their favorite predator white boy in the picture is if Marinette has a crush on him which derives off her suffering. As long as Marinette has feelings for him she'll always suffer. Adrien can't be out of the picture for more than afew seconds because the writers are so cowardly that they rather have their protagonist suffer than let any other character shine. It's ridiculous how in order for Adrien to stay relevant that means Marinette has to suffer because of her crush on Adrien. It's not fair. Marinette has to suffer just so he can stay relevant?

That bastard. He does nothing to contribute to the plot whatsoever. All he does is harass Marinette and make her life a living hell right with Chloe.

Marinette finally does move on from him and somehow despite being happy with Luka they decide to bring her crush on Adrien back so the audience doesn't forget about the pretty pervy rich white boy! Yay!

He's a pervy white guy. A creep. His creepy harassment is fucking disgusting and he always has to be in the plot because little poor Adrien is so fucking important without actually doing anything important.

I hate this Eurobrat pred.

[stil-lindigo]

the machine.

a comic about being a 'creator' online.

creative notes:

[wolfandrain]

UMM???? GUYS????

[pinkseas]

thinking about. how siffrin seems to have declined so, so much more rapidly than loop did. and part of me thinks it's because of the objective- loop had the clear, unchanging goal of beating the king, where siffrin was able to accomplish that much earlier on and was struggling to find ways to move forward in the aftermath. but.

siffrin has loop there. talking to them, helping them remember, helping to keep them sane. a safety net of sorts, someone to fall back on, someone to depend on at least in the specific context of the loops. loop didn't have that. loop had absolutely nothing and no one but themselves. if they forgot, if they started slipping, if they lost sight of their goal- all of vaugarde was doomed. they couldn't afford to lose hope. they couldn't afford to slow down or take a break or rest for even a moment, because if they'd stopped moving forward, they'd have fallen apart, and then what would happen to vaugarde? to themselves? to their party?

siffrin's lack of clear direction for so long definitely contributes very heavily to their breakdown, i just. keep thinking about how loop Did Not Have That Choice. how easy it is to imagine that after a countless number of loops, after finally achieving their ONE goal, their ONE purpose, it's over they're free they're finally, finally free. after forgetting everything about themselves and their party, forgetting everything except for the fact that they have to defeat the king, they've done it. and then they wake up again.

the despair!!! the hopelessness!! the loneliness!!!

if they'd gone into that fight thinking "this might not be the end, i have to keep my guard up," i think they could've gone on for an eternity. but in defeating the king, they can stop. they can rest they can breathe they can relax that's it!! they're done!!!!! and in finally stopping, that really is it. they can't pull themselves together enough to keep trying, now that they know defeating the king isn't it. i dont know that there was enough of them left that they could've even tried again. their entire reason for existing rendered useless, meaningless in the context of the way they're trapped.

and they STILL don't actually give up!! they could've wished to die. for everything to just be over. but they didn't want that. they wanted to be saved. they wanted to keep existing, to keep going, to stay with their friends they wanted vaugarde to be saved they wanted everyone to be okay!!! themselves included!!!!!!!!!

and then, because of them, vaugarde is saved. their party is saved. siffrin is saved. every last person is saved, except for them.

[egophiliac]

still rolling around on the ground over the contrast between Jack and Mal. it's so...🤌🤌🤌

[novelconcepts]

A thing I find really important about the way Kevin Can Fuck Himself goes about its job: Allison is kind of a mess. She’s self-centered, she doesn’t put other people’s needs first, she makes reckless choices that endanger herself and others. And the show says: yes. Right. She’s flawed as fuck. And she still does not deserve any of what’s happening to her. It could be argued that she is, in fact, this flawed as a direct product of her trauma. Her self-absorption, unlike Kevin’s, is actually self-preservation. It puts Patty in danger. It tunes out Diane’s pain. It capitalizes on Sam’s relationship problems. And still, the show says: yes. Right. She’s going about this in fumbling, worrying ways. And she still does not deserve any of what’s happening to her.

Know how we know this? How we really know this, outside of our own objectivity, our own awareness of the abuse she’s enduring even to the soundtrack of laughter?

Because Tammy is the one to find her. Because Tammy is the one holding the cards at the end of the game. Tammy, who does not like Allison. Who sees so clearly the complicated, messy, dangerous person Allison can be. The mistakes she is prone to making in the name of desperation. How imperfect she is at every level. And Tammy, who is the character most explicitly set to call Allison on all of her shit, to drag her before a court of law, to lean on that hot-button of whether or not she’s a “good person” until it breaks—lets her go. Folds the cards up, puts them in her pocket, and leaves.

Because Tammy, like the show, like the thesis statement of abuse is never earned, never deserved, never warranted, understands. This is a world that so often sanitizes women after it’s too late to save them. A world that insists she should have done more to get out. A world that insists you should be kind and moral and perfect, or maybe you got what was coming to you. This is a world that sees fighting back as an equally heinous crime. As punishable, if not more so, than the actions of the instigator.

But this show doesn’t want to play that game. This show doesn’t want to fuck with it at all. Allison doesn’t have to be perfect and moral and above reproach. Allison has blood on her hands, and a DUI neatly ignored, and knowingly has an affair with her married boss. Allison hurts her friends sometimes, and she makes awful decisions out of desperation, and she doesn’t always pay attention to other people’s plotlines. And the show says: yes. Right. She’s making choices you probably should not agree with.

And she still does not deserve any of what is happening to her.

[sypy-cup]

Introducing my super cringe DRV3 AU I made back in either 2020 or 2021, I recently revamped it a lil so have these dumb lil Twitter post redraws... Drawovers??