#ML Sublime

[wisteriasymphony]

I don't know, I just, I thought about it and you breaking my running prosthetics was kind of romantic, right? You just wanted to get closer to me, right? Just like Adrien said? It's okay, they can always be fixed. You should follow me and Adrien next time we go running, maybe even bring one of your cameras, I'd love to see what pictures you can secretly get of us this time...

[s4tvrnsays]

Someone said this over on twitter and oh my god

I couldn’t care less about sublime as a character but this is cute, i have to admit

[plumsaffron]

Wow it’s 2025 and the dumbass miracusalters are still going on with the Lila/Iris/Bianca hate?? How pathetic for a bunch of adults seething in their hate. I think their thinking process has become inconsistent or even nonexistent because they’ve been too fixated on hating a specific character.

They keep on creating hate content and we can keep on roasting them for fun. I mean at least we’re speaking here and not leaving comments on their blogs. They really do be allergic to the slightest bit to criticism and block anyone, not just being too lazy to do canon research.

Canonically speaking, the other franchises’ characters who’ve actually been abused and/or tortured? Even those who weren’t abused would still act better than Saltinette. They wouldn’t want to be dragged into Saltinette’s petty school drama just to punish her opps. Because they had to grow up fast and are more mature than she’ll ever be. They’d rather use their time, skills and resources for much bigger priorities such as helping those in emergency and hunting down dangerous criminals.

Saltinette in her Ladybug costume: “Why aren’t you supposed to help me out?! I thought we are heroes who were supposed to support each other! There’s this liar in school that needs to be outed!”

Other franchise’s characters look dumbfounded: “Ma’am, it’s just a minor inconvenience compared to the enemies you and your team face.”

“Yea, at least that high schooler didn’t take things too far. I didn’t hear any rumors or news of her committing any crimes yet.”

“Sigh* We have better things to do than involve ourselves in petty school fights… At least I ignored the idiots in my school and pretend they don’t exist. Or just lightly use my powers to make them look crazy or bad and ppl would not believe them. Alternatively, I let karma kick their asses aside from the responsible authority figure actually doing their jobs.”

“Bruh, I didn’t use my powers to get back at my bullies that much. One time I did, someone else thought I was a bully so I didn’t do it again in school. Otherwise that enemy would send me to another dimension again.”

“Why didn’t you just do it yourself in the first place by telling that young reporter about the liar? Then you would’ve saved yourself a lot of trouble by saying something along the lines of, ‘I don’t know this person claiming to be best friends with Ladybug. That’s dangerous and she’s a huge target.’”

“It’s overkill I tell ya. Overkill for a minor issue. And I thought I overreacted several times in my life…”

They’re hopeless and wank off of overkill until it is the favorite at risk. Very ironic for their whining of Lila but then don’t want Saltinette to be exposed & outted for the crap she spams and holds (including being a liar too) .

Marimites get highly Upsette whenever characters don’t align to what they see fulfills their fantasy thirst over a minor inconvenience. If they think something should happen this way, it gets ingrained in them.

They really think characters (should feel like remembering everything or caring to remember when they have other things in their life to do.).

Similarly to what you said. If someone tells me something, I’m likely going to forget or not care in a range of minutes to hours. I have other things I’m interested in or care to do or focus on.

Never will understand these Miraculous buffoons and their fixations. Selectively deleting everything they see and know happens, just to fulfill their strange delusion(s).

Unfortunately people increased levels of stupidity and went immediately after that new girl Sublime and went out their ways to try linking her to Lila. They also seem to choose when foam upon Sublime being good at things. Went on a route of trying to excuse Marinette’s nonsense towards her (that’s putting it lightly) that she didn’t have to create to begin with.

Also heard crap of people saying oh Sublime is an antagonist cause oh she’s with her parents, while they talk to Tomoe Tsurugi. Magnificent tryhards for defending Marinette by any means be like. Whining over Sublime being good at multiple things too.

They look for anything of another character’s actions. Marimites look for anything to label, pin, or mark against other characters. All to distract themselves and others from Saltybug.

[familyagrestefanblog]

What leak did I miss that people are now suddenly coping so hard again that yall are trying to convince yourself that a 14 year old disabled girl with two prosthetic legs wants Maribug as her violent dommy mommy?

Gosh, I hope yall are just being incredibly transparent with how irrelevant it to you now awful of a look that is yet again for Marinette, and not the show actually doubling down AGAIN on romanticizing Marinette's excessive amounts of violence as "girl power".

[alteanroyals]

i want you guys to know that my whole personality now revolves around the ladynoir song in the movie thank you pls don't unfollow me i promise i am sane

[nixthelapin]

If I had the Rooster miraculous, I would call myself “Crow” because:

It’s the sound a rooster makes

It would absolutely frustrate everyone because it’s the rooster miraculous, not the crow miraculous!

Then I’d sit back and watch chaos ensue.

[pandaofsecrets]

I really really really love the idea of the Miraculous being based on broad abstract concepts. It makes them super versatile in what powers they can provide, which helps keep the plot from going off the rails while still being fresh and interesting. The problem is that the concept (heh) wasn't utilized well at all. So, indulge me in a long-winded breakdown of ML's power system.

The cracks started showing almost immediately. The Cat and Butterfly Miraculous are okay, but the Ladybug for some reason can purify akuma and has restoration abilities, which. First of all, purification should be the Cat's ability, because it represents the destruction of impurities. Second of all, how does the power of creation allow you to restore things? I know someone will say Marinette is recreating what was destroyed, but if that's the case then Adrien is long dead and the character we're seeing right now is just a replica. Fun! Miraculous Ladybug also does more than just recreate, since we've also seen it destroy byproducts of the akuma attack, like Horrificator's slime. So if anything, it should be a combined ability of the Ladybug and the Cat. I'll talk about unifications later, let's just stick with the Miraculous for now.

The Fox and the Turtle started out great, but ended up being disappointing. Here's the thing, both Protection and Illusion have a lot of potential applications, like for example someone who uses the Fox could convince someone that anything they're saying is true, stick them in an illusionary dreamscape or even induce pain in them without actually wounding them. Someone who uses the Turtle could deplete moving objects of their momentum, make themselves immune to the opponent's magic, or imbue objects with durability. This would have made the fact that Volpina can do multiple illusions while Rena can only do one a lot less infuriating, because Rena would have had a bigger power set to draw on. Volpina on the other hand would be limited to just illusions, so she'd be able to get more mileage out of them, like a breadth vs. depth thing. Instead it's just. Rena can only do one illusion. Carapace can only do one shield. Boring!

Things got really shaky with the introduction of the Bee Miraculous, because that one isn't even related to its stated concept! "Subjection" means "bringing someone or something under one's control or influence". I don't know about you, but to me that sounds like mind control and telekinesis, not paralysis—paralyzing people sounds more like the Turtle. The writers sort of tried to fix this by changing the Bee's concept to Action, but that's almost worse because it's power is to prevent someone from taking action.

The Dragon and Rooster have a similar problem of power not really matching concept. "Perfection" means "the act of improving or making better", which sounds like the Dragon should've been a healing or restoration type Miraculous. In fact, the Rooster should've had the same power, since "sublimation" means "making nobler or purer", so the Dragon and Rooster should've really been one Miraculous instead of two. Speaking of which...

Where things really went off the rails was the Peacock Miraculous. The Peacock honestly warrants an entire separate post, but I'm getting ahead of myself. First of all, what does the concept of emotion have to do with the ability to summon a kaiju? Second of all, if the power to create a kaiju should've gone to any Miraculous, shouldn't it be, you know, the Ladybug? But no, I guess the power of Creation loses to a turkey with delusions of grandeur.

And this got even worse once the Zodiacs were introduced. Just about all of them have powers that could've easily gone to the main 7 we already had. The Ox's concept was already covered by the Turtle, the Tiger, Monkey, and Eagle do basically the same thing as the Cat, and the Mouse and Goat are basically just the Ladybug again. The Butterfly might be the worst afflicted by this. Not only is the Rooster's power of giving any power already covered under it, but one of the meanings of "to transmit" is "to send from one place to another", so the Horse's teleportation ability should've gone to the Butterfly. We could throw the Dog's power in as well, since all Fetch does is teleport an object instead of a person. Heck, since space and time are the same thing, the Rabbit's time travel should've also gone to the Butterfly. I mean, I'm glad it wasn't because that would've made the Butterfly extremely OP and would make it very hard to explain why Gabriel hasn't won by now, but you get the idea.

The only Zodiac Miraculous that are somewhat unique are the Dragon, Pig, and Snake, and even then the Snake Second Chance ability could be expressed as Butterfly (time travel) + Turtle (stasis) and the Pig's Gift could be expressed as Butterfly (empathy) + Ladybug (object) or Fox (illusion). Even the Peacock can be basically be broken down into Butterfly (empathy) + Ladybug (creation) + Bee (control) + Cat (destruction).

This brings me to my last point: unification. The way we were told combining the Ladybug and Cat works in Origins, you'd expect that unifying the Miraculous would create a new power that is the combination of the already existing ones. This means that the writers wouldn't have had to invent a new Miraculous every time they wanted to use a power, which would have saved money on character models and lead to a lot of interesting teammate match-ups. Instead, all the heroes get is the ability to use the two powers at the same time.

[dangermousie]

Upcoming 2024 cdramas (maybe???) from least appealing to most

We got less than two months, so let's gooooo! Now with cdramas, you never know if something will air until it drops and sometimes not even then, so this is rumored.

The Immortal Ascension - Yang Yang is my least favorite cdrama actor and that topic is boring as hell to me so yeah, nope.

Duoluo Continent 2 - aka "we can't afford Xiao Zhan any longer, sorry." I couldn't even get through the first season of this "Harry Potter Chinese edition" mess despite my love for XZ, so I am highly unlikely to check this one out.

Moonlight Mystique - aka a rainbow vomited. Honestly, I hated the trailer. And while I adore Bai Lu, her leading man? You know how there are apparently those antis who think Liu Yuning is ugly and I go are you blind? It's the reverse for ARP for me - clearly the industry finds him hot enough to be leading man material but I find him genuinely ugly, which is a feat for a cdrama actor to be. It might be OK if I found him a good actor but...

Brocade Odyssey - I hate women empowering themselves through business (of a suitably feminine nature, of course) narratives as much as I do ML is the specialiest wuxia boy in all the world narratives. I am fond of Seven though so here is hoping.

The Demon Hunter's Romance - I was way more excited for it before SZE got into a limbo. Now I am sort of meh. Plus, despite my soft spot for RJL, he's a terribly uneven actor so you never know what yu will get with him. This said, if this does air, we might actually have a chance to see Prisoner of Beauty.

A Moment But Forever - an old school xianxia in vibe from the trailers but sometimes that's what you need. Plus, Tang Yan being sent to kill fragile gorgeous Liu Xueyi but choosing to protect him instead is my jammy jam jam!

Blossom - out of all the trailers for upcoming dramas, this is my favorite, I adore Meng Ziyi, LYR is getting upgraded to ML status and it's the director of Provoke, Butterflied Lover and A Familiar Stranger.

Guardians of the Dafeng - can't believe it's my most anticipated but here we are. Now, this could either be truly terrible or truly sublime but I am a fan of high risk/high reward concept. I have never been impressed by Dylan Wang except for CLJ but I was blown away there. Director of Shen Li and screenwriter of My Perfect Husband. So...anyway, I want to gamble.

[wisteriasymphony]

hold on I have a funnier idea than adriblime: hybristophilic mariblime

[princess-of-the-corner]

Cursed Headcanon: Sublime's mother appearance, when she was in early 20s, was used for ML-Verse!Barbie doll's appearance. As effect, she "sleeps on money", due to getting "her share" from each sold Doll.

not entirely cursed but also who knows

[plumsaffron]

I don’t know how boneheaded you gotta be to really think Lila Rossi is Sublime.

Lets see.

Lames think she is Manon, then Aurore, now her (and much worse)

Oh right. You gotta to drag and link Lila to anyone or vice versa.

You can’t let other characters be.

Lack of purpose behavior be like.

[dedud3d]

I'm bored so:

ml au where the ladybug miraculous is the one that creates sentinel/sentimonsters and the bee miraculous is the miraculous of synergy (or promotion maybe?) so it has a sublimation like power and I can rest in peace knowing the three powers that work really well together all share the same theme of bugs instead two being fowls (or whatever rooster and peacocks are considered) with the butterfly being an odd one out.

(also, the colors don't clash too much this way)

[jacquesthepigeon]

Also I think Sublime is Bob Roth's granddaughter cause her mom called Bob "Dad".

I don’t know why but I misread it as “Bob Ross” and immediately the chia plant in ML animation style came to mind

[thebeautycove]

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[zoydraft]

February 18, 2024 Draft

List: cubecobra.com/c/pink

3 player draft. 4 packs of 15 each. Take 2 cards each pick. Discard the last 3 cards of each pack. 3 Cogwork Librarians each.

This is a case study in draft parameters. On the spot, I decided to go with the quickest, simplest, draft procedure I could think of. It worked, kind of, but ended up (predicably in retrospect) feeling a lot closer to Sealed than I would like.

There's a whole bunch that goes into what experience you get from a draft procedure, but I was going for quick and simple, and parameters. Most importantly, I had a lovely time with my friends, and I'm glad they had me over to hang out, and playing Magic was a small part of that 🩷.

But since I can't shut up, once you've figured out satisficing draft parameters (i.e. you have a procedure that will give players a pool of cards of the desired size), the biggest driver of "draft feel" is the percentage of cards you see that you get to pick.

Some key limited set ups:

Typical 8 players, 3 packs of 15: 360 cards opened, 276 cards seen, 45 cards picked = 16%

8 player roto draft: 360 cards opened, 353-360 cards "seen", 45 cards picked = 13%

Sealed: 90 cards opened, 90 cards seen, 90 cards "picked"= 100%

This draft format: 180 cards opened, 156 cards seen, 51 cards picked = 33%

There is nuance when it comes to hidden, public, and inferable information, pool sizes, the way drafters influence each other, and so on, but I find this number is a great first order approximation of player agency and the expected level of focus in deck building. Where a draft procedure falls on this spectrum trickles down to deck power, focus, the draft experience, and gameplay.

This draft, as a result, felt a lot more like Sealed, as we had to make do a lot more than you normally would. Decks have more hole-fillers (and conspicuous gaps) than you'd find in a typical draft.

This was my 1-1 (3-2) Gruul Field of the Dead deck. Field came online repeatedly, fueled by my suite of check lands, which felt almost free here. Who needs ABUR duals (especially when you've got no fetches)?

I was leaning to forcing Green, cuz I don't play it much, but ML was taking a lot of the pieces so I ended up here. I was able to power through the Mono-White matchup, with Plow Under sealing off both games for me. Pest Infestation for X=2 was repeatedly great.

As we've seen many times, Sublime Archangel can provide the game-defining clock. SH used it in this 1-1 (2-2) Mono-White build in combination with Angel of Invention to quick swing a game where the life totals had been at 28 to 8 or something.

Elspeth continues providing value that isn't super exciting but helps alter game states. I also keep getting higher on both mono-colour lands, and cards that reward commitment to colours, like Figure of Destiny and Spectral Procession, both well-used here.

On the other end of the spectrum, here's one of the grindiest decks I've seen in a long time: ML's 1-1 (2-3) Abzan Tokens. This machine makes big boards. We got cats, wolves, and zombies going all at once. Grave Titan keeps being a menace that feels just this side of fair. The Achilles heel was the sky—faced up against angels and failing to draw End-Raze Forerunners, this deck ran out of gas.

In my match I didn't have anything that could help me break open the board, and it reached the point where decking myself was a possibility, but Parallax Wave provided a merciful finish.

Really interesting was seeing how much this deck was punished for running 3 colours. We see a lot of 3 colour decks, and with the lands I took to fuel Field of the Dead, ML didn't have the strongest fixing suite, which lead to some disappointing plays for Intrepid Adversary and Wolfbriar Elemental. I love 3-colour decks being viable, but I also like the dynamic of some cards being knee-capped in those situations.

Tyvar got some use, and Parallax Wave wasn't too too confusing. Love that. Wizards, steal my templating.

[notallsandmen]

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“Defiling the Sublime: emerging technologies and their methodological implications”, by Dr. Robert Gadling, PhD

August 2021. It’s the third and final day of the annual conference on Elizabethan literature, taking place over Zoom due to the pandemic. It has been a long day — they had started at 9 am this morning, and everyone is now thoroughly ready to call it a day, but they still have the concluding discussion to get through.

Disintegration (Dream Therapy part 1)

11 PM, 7th of June 1989. 
Twice in his long life, Hob Gadling is touched by Despair. Hob doesn’t know that yet, yet he remembers all of it.

Lullaby (Dream Therapy, part 2)

03:00, 8th of June 1989.
The needle of the record player skips, and then the eerie pizzicato strings of The Cure’s “Lullaby” envelops Hob in a claustrophobic embrace. It is so seductive, so hypnotically mesmerizing, that Hob doesn’t even notice the moonlight being spun into spider silk, reverently wrapping across his hips.

Dream nonsense (Dream Therapy, part 3)

After six centuries without a name for his stranger, the onslaught of names which Hob finally received during their reunion at the New Inn had almost been overwhelming. He only ever needed one, Hob reminded Dream later that evening; their limbs entangled, panting against each other with breaths neither of them needed.

Putting Out Fire With Gasoline

Hob Gadling would come. He has to come.

It’s the 7th of June 1989, and Dream arrived at the White Horse early this time.

Nocturnal Emissions (In Somnis Veritas, part 1)

“You look tired.”

“I am tired.”

“When was the last time you slept?”

“I do not remember. Millennia, perhaps.”

License my roving hands (In Somnis Veritas, part 2)

Get it together, Hobsie. You’ve kept it together (well, sort of) for centuries. You’ve been a chaste saint for one day every 100 years, and then you’ve gotten to wank and fuck and get this out of your system for the next 99 years.

Exam Week

”C+. 66 % — It’s still a Pass, darkling!”

This was apparently not the right thing to say, since it made an already seething Dream begin to pace around his living room.

”Hob Gadling, you cannot grade me based on your nightmare.”

Perennial Polaroids

Hob could not help but grin at the sight before him; his lover wrapped around him, having jealously kicked the duvet between them off the bed. ”Dearheart, as much as I enjoy wearing you like a cape, you will need to disembark me now, — I need to take a piss.”

The Oneiros Complex

Dream could be painfully oblivious sometimes, especially when it came to evaluating his own appearance.

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