#ML Mini

[thejolteonmastertj]

Yoooooo I love everything about this update so much! It all flows so perfectly together! 🤩

Mini rightfully being a menace is a treat. 🤭

& The entire composition for Sky’s “two can play that game” panel is *chefs kiss. The way the feathers on his head are being highlighted? Brilliant! Balances the composition while thematically reinforcing how Mini is challenging Sky to his own game!

Yet while I emphasize with Mini here, Sky’s to-the-point & understandable question: “Why can a child do that?” Is SO well represented! The way Mini’s looking pointedly at the rupees & celebrates with a video-gamy looking symbol over his head… he looks so happy & unfazed! & THAT’S what disturbs Sky the most in this moment!

Meanwhile even Ravio & Twilight’s shenanigans thematically add to what’s going on. Ravio freaking out & screaming over a lil spider while Mini kills a monster? The dissonance!

Then towards the end, Twilight, a kind & gentle soul, saves the spider rather than killing it. IDK where I’m going with that point really, but it’s just the perfect balance of lightening the mood with something funny while still feeling thematically appropriate. 💞

I'm really proud of this update but PLEASE don't look too closely at which hands the boys are holding their swords I made a mistake sketching and had to flip a bunch of panels and I didn't think to check that part until it was too late aaAAAAAA-- Mini is left handed.

Also thanks to Moya for helping with this part 💛

[teethmarrk]

Lukadrientte Au where the miraculous holder take characteristics of the animal :)

part 2/?

[roseletterchan]

small Felinette comic I’ve been working on for a while. I wanted to make this another silent one, but well I couldn’t. So yeah, the small amount of “dialogue” is pretty crap. Feel free to comment down your version of it

[m4rschat]

adrichat mini animation 🐈‍⬛

(im still practicing so if it looks off thats why)

[clemnoir]

“Chilocorus stigma is commonly known as the twice-stabbed lady beetle. It has two red spots on its wing covers and a solid black body.”

[ozzo-the-wozzo]

I need to you guys to stay with me and imagine Adrien Agreste experimenting with what to wear after he quits modeling but being hopelessly lost on where to start so, after much consideration, he gets the brilliant idea to mimic his friends clothing aesthetics.

So naturally one week he’s wearing a backwards cap and baggy jeans in an attempt to mimic Nino who is ecstatic and another he’s wearing a lot of flannel which makes Alya roll her eyes and another him and Marinette are practically twins much to his delight until she gently tells him he only likes it because they are matching and he should probably keep looking until he finds something that is his own.

But instead he just keeps on mimicking classmate after classmate until he runs through them all and he starts talking to Kagami who’s figuring things out herself and doesn’t provide much to go off of and he settles on wearing suits until someone mistakes him for Felix.

So then he decides to move on from people and starts to look on Pinterest at Marinette’s suggestion and he copies the outfits down to a science but why does everything STILL feel not right? He decides it’s the website so he moves on and copies what he sees in magazines and in ads and it feels a little better but he also feels a little sick when he does it and why isn’t anything right and he’s twisting the ring on his finger so much it’s leaving a mark and hes pacing around the mansion and it has so many portraits and his dad is in all of them and why is he suddenly getting the feeling nothing he puts on will ever be right and why in the world does this stupid ring feel so heavy.

And so after a month of experimenting, he gets up in the morning one day and decides to try on the outfit he always used to wear and attempts to do his grown out hair the old way and looks in the mirror and stares at himself for a while. He slips on his sneakers and then the door rings and he heads downstairs to meet Marinette for school. As they’re walking he is still trying to decipher what he feels and he suddenly realizes that his dad would like this outfit a lot. He smiles to himself and tells Marinette and she smiles weakly and says she supposes he would and then avoids his eyes.

Adrien feels that familiar twist in his stomach that tells him something isn’t right, but when he tries to reflect on why that would be he’s only met with the same fuzzy memories of his father that he can’t quite sort out. He wonders if that’s where the unease comes from but then he shakes his head because those memories must be good because his father died a hero.

And so he wears the same outfit he always wore, ignoring the fact it feels a little too tight on him and that it makes his new ring feel heavier than ever.

[miraculousdoodle]

Spots on!.. Plagg?

[wield-the-mighty-pen]

What I love so much about the loveybug au, is that it showcases the dichotomy to Marinette's character that we often seen ignored or overlooked by the more obvious example of Adrien's.

The truth is that Adrien and Chat Noir simultaneously exist as attributes within the complexity that is Adrien's character and psyche. While they are different, they are not opposites, they are compliments of each other, and the show does a great job of highlighting that.

Marinette on the other hand, is never really questioned for her alter-ego, she is Ladybug, plain and simple. Except, it's not so simple, Marinette's personality is actually close to being, if not as much, as complex as Adrien's.

Adrien often uses Chat Noir as an escape from the personality repression he faces as himself. Marinette on the other hand, is more repressed as Ladybug. She is focused on goals and on the safety of others and she cannot act on her emotions. She does not find it to be the time and place to let free, to truly be herself. But at least she lets herself be free as Marinette, right?

Well, it's actually not that simple.

Marinette has quite a bit that is keeping her from feeling free as herself. The claims that Marinette was the more free, the more open personality of the two never really made much sense, as Marinette is still pretty tightly wound, she is constantly reacting to and experiencing a level of anxiety that keeps her grounded and pulled together.

What I find so admirable about the Loveybug au, is that Loveybug is a direct response to what Adrien does as Chat Noir. Even Catwalker is not a complete reflection of Ladybug, for it isn't a true repression in the way Ladybug is, it's more of an imitation of his Adrien mask.

What Loveybug does is introduce a new method to analyze Marinette, in acting as a foil to the "Chat Noir persona", this alter-ego actually and explicitly exemplifies what Marinette would be if she really let loose.

The Loveybug au accomplishes the task of showing how deeply misunderstood Marinette is by so many people. In showing her at her most open, we can see what she is actually holding back as herself. She is not simply an optimist, she is not naturally brave. She, like Adrien with his persona, have to fight and struggle to keep their heads high and a smile on my face. The fact that this au can display this is part of the reason I love it so much.

[actually-factually-anonymous]

The unnecessary lack of personal stakes of Marinette Dupain-Cheng in the Agreste Arc

Inspired by a recent post by @starguardianniom, with half pinched again from my own reblog:

Marinette has zero personal stakes in the main conflict of her show, except that she happened to be the first girl who helped Fu across the road, and was thus chosen to wear the earrings. She doesn't even really seem to have any reason to be Ladybug aside from the basic "I can't sit back and do nothing" she stated in Origins. So a sense of responsibility conferred by being the bearer of the earrings, and an ostensible general desire to do good.

This would be fine, except that Adrien very much did have a reason to continue being Chat Noir. Plagg's Miraculous is the source of his freedom, and a new identity of his own making separate from the carefully curated child of Gabriel Agreste. Most importantly he had so much personal connection to the core plot that his narrative potential dwarfed Marinette's beyond compare.

His mere existence is the very axis of the plot, putting it in motion by the apparent desire for a designer child seeming being the very reason Gabriel and Emile sought the Miraculous all those years ago, and the consequences of his creation being the very reason that Gabriel devolves into magical terrorism. Hawkmoth being his father whom Adrien clearly cares for and whose goal of restoring his much mourned mother setup a truly impressive case for split loyalties for when Adrien (seemingly) inevitably learnt of his father's identity and true goal:

I made a comparison before between Avatar and Miraculous where Avatar won without question. Allow me to balance the scales here: the setup for Adrien potentially turning on Ladybug, or having to sacrifice his familial bonds for the sake of justice outweighed Zuko's own setup for choosing his ''honour"/loyalty to his family over his burgeoning sense of justice.

In potential at least. Rest assured that Zuko's character arc still far eclipses anything Adrien was ever allowed.

But the point I'm trying to make here is that in the very story that bears her name, Ladybug's only reason to be involved comes from the fact that she happens to have Tikki's Miraculous. She has no personal investment in the fate of Hawkmoth than other citizen of Paris, she certainly has no conflicting loyalties.

She doesn't even have a personal reason to continue being Ladybug. You can draw a parallel if you like with one of her ostensible inspirations Peter Parker, who learnt the price of personal inaction in a harsh and unforgiving manner that selflessly drives him to protect others. You can say that the Stoneheart incident fulfills a similar role.

But here's the thing: Peter Parker is Spiderman thanks to his radioactive blood. Ladybug is whoever wears Tikki's Miraculous. If Peter retires, he takes his powers away from the protection of New York. If Marinette gives up her Miraculous, a new Ladybug will arise in her place within a day. There's no need for her to be Ladybug, to take on that responsibility, and until the season three finale there's no personal stake for her to be the girl under the mask any more than any other Parisian citizen.

And that means that Marinette isn't the heart of her own story. In Avatar, it's Aang's quest to defeat the Fire Lord because it has to be him that restores balance. In Star Wars, it's Luke whose connection with Vader that has to restore Anakin's better nature. In just about any series there is a pressing need and personal stakes for the protagonist to be that The Protagonist of that story, that make that story their story.

But the setup here has all the pathos and personal stakes placed upon Adrien. Marinette is the centerpiece of the show, but Adrien's handed all of the narrative potential even as the writers let it go to waste.

It's like preparing a finely seasoned meal, then leaving it to rot as you serve plain vegetables. There's just no reason to have the vegetables when the fine meal is ready for consumption: and if that's a problem? If the plain vegetables were always meant to be the centrepiece? Then you should have seasoned the vegetables and made something delectable with them.

Because the saddest apart about Marinette having or actual ties or pathos to the Agreste Arc is that once upon a time that was not the case.

In previous Miraculous proposals, before the PV, Marinette Cheng was at least as part of the main story as Felix/Adrien was. There were various versions of how the story would go, with one echoing Cardcaptor's plot, and the later proposals looking more like what we got in the final product.

But all had Marinette having a personal stake in the story. In the Cardcaptor-esque plot, Marinette was Fu's granddaughter (or granddaughter figure), and Fu was the caretaker of the The Orb. A crystal that contained all the "fairies" (beings that served both the roles Kwamis and Akumas would later take). The story kicked off because Marinette brought her crush Felix into her Grandfather's store and accidentally broke The Orb, shattering it and allowing the Fairies to escape across Paris and empower countless people- heroes and villains both.

It was her mission to retrieve the Fairies, because she was the one who had released them. She was Fu's granddaughter and it was her responsibility to clean up her mess. It was her story, and Felix/Adrien was the one with less direct connection.

Later proposals ditched The Orb as the Kwamis were developed, but up until the most recent and final versions of the story Marinette retained Fu as either her blood Grandfather outright or at least a mentor so close from her childhood that she thought of him as a Grandfather. She also was usually being trained to be a Guardian or something like it herself from childhood.

She wasn't just a girl Fu found on the side of the road. She had as much connection to the Guardians and their world as Felix/Adrien did to Papillion. It even added a certain Montague-Capulet tragic element to the romance, since if Felix/Adrien and Marinette ever got together it would mean one having to choose between their partner and their family.

But for some reason, in the final product Marinette was stripped of all pre-series personal connections to the Miraculous.

The question is why? Was there really so great a need for Martinette to be "a girl like any other" that all of the plot relevance needed to be stripped out of her and added to Adrien, only to then completely ignore all that potential pathos by sidelining Adrien at every turn?

Because if you weren't going to do anything with Adrien, then all you've done is needlessly undermine Marinette's potential as a character.

Seriously, if you had given me the backstory of these two characters and asked which one was the main character: there would have been no chance I would have selected Marinette. Because all the writers have given her backstory is side-character material, whereas Adrien's very existence, as well as his relationship to his family and the Miraculous is at the heart of the story.

And I doubt there would be many others who would think otherwise.

[socialiseisnotinmyname]

Happy 2 years Anniversary to episode: EMOTION🦚🩸🌕🎶🕺

(By Gloob's air date!!! when they LEAKED the episode themself)

[yapping alert]

Really sorry for not posting for a while but I knew I had to get my sh#t done when I remember the release date- or when the episode got leaked? whatever cus I have it in my notes since like the start of the year

When the bird boy showed up and start flaunting around Paris (as he should) with his song and dance and I got encased more with his character by his emotions hahagetit he showed. It so RAW and He's so free and Can set Adrien free and it goes all out in this big "Everything I did, I did for you" like Yes that's what happens when a child in need doesn't get the needs and-

ok I need to stop before I yap about how I think Felix will let his emotions get to him and lashed out at first to regret it terribly and he thinks that he fucked up everything and there's is no redeeming this and guilt just piles up on him like-ouUuuhHh..just need to get that out

Oh what are we talking about? OH YEA so I know I had to get that done and I did and I hope guys liked it as much as I had fun drawing it(#> □ <#)

(Also half-way through rendering Fe's face I realised it looks like I put make-up on him and I'm like "What if I actually put a full face of make up on him" and I did... lmk if you see it *wink* *wink*)

[beehive-comic]

Chapter 2: Page 5-7

With his old rival out the way, Ripper seeks to expand his business.

Featuring a special guest! (Look, we all knew this would happen eventually.)

So yeah, uploads will be every Saturday for the foreseeable future if we are all okay with that. I'll give notice in advance if there is a break or anything.

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[d011zk1ll]

Im hate thise so much thank you also i lied i ddi get it out today yay idk i wasnt supposed to but my dad turned off th internet so i got the sketch and line art done and then i went and did whichy fairy autumn makeup before ewating dinner and palying roblox and then i coloured it bc i was bored

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[storge]

ZHAO JIA MIN as Liu Yueqing The Deliberations of Love (2023)

[skoobug]

Part 1 Part 2

Ahhh I’m so sorry it took so long for me to post part two of this, the holidays are a busy time mannnn. There will be one more part!

Check out part one for context! & click for higher resolution!

[m4rschat]

take a mini adrienette animation i did last night

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