#because they're presenting it like abuse victims are too emotionally immature too infantile too potentially volatile | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

fernsnouveau · 9 months ago

Text

Not really the issues I was talking about, there's the "make your own posts" etiquette, etc

If the Miraculous writers want to make the point that abuse victims are immature and infantile and volatile and need to be controlled by an authority for the sake of their own and the greater good, and therefore Adrien simply cannot be treated as an equal to the Great Marinette, then... I don't think they should be writing the two of them as a romantic couple. The inherent power imbalance is just no good.

(Don't get me wrong, even more so I just think that they shouldn't have taken that stance on abuse victims to begin with.)

#this one wasn't for the sentitheory (which honestly turned out surprisingly irrelevant in how Adrien was treated-#- and the canon in regards to him probably would have gone badly the exact same way if they'd left it out entirely)#(okay a difference would have been that feligami would have turned nonsensical BUT it was ALREADY nonsensical ANYWAY so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)#this post is even less about complaining about completely unrelated story reveals in completely unrelated fandoms #seriously guys tumblr etiquette. fandom etiquette in general.#this post was about the unhealthy power imbalance that the showrunners normalised for abuse victims and Adrien in particular #because they're presenting it like abuse victims are too emotionally immature too infantile too potentially volatile #to deserve agency #this. this isn't even ABOUT the sentitheory. stop reducing the problem to that on my posts. I wanna talk abt the actual problem.#make your own post if you wanna talk about your own issue.#or reblog some of the many posts by many people that already talk about the issue you wanted to talk about.#also don't drag other fandoms discourse into this one it's not even the same tropes/themes #sorry I'm tired #it's... if people reblog it with the irrelevant comment or the even more irrelevant tags it just means that the further perception-#-will be that the post is about that instead of what I actually made a post about #disclaimer: I'm not interested in arguing about this. I'm tired.#my issue is how the show handled the actual onscreen abuse and the victim(s) 'deserving' it #not the fantasy element that could have been a metaphor and could have gone a lot of ways but honestly-#-in the end they barely even USED it.#tbh they used like... Chat Blanc and Adrien's sudden random edgy murderboy issues more (not very coherently either)#the OG Chat Blanc & Ephemeral episodes worked more to argue why *GABRIEL* can't responsibly handle finding out that Adrien is CN #than to argue that Adrien can't responsibly handle... uh.. anything. yet here we are.#Gabriel is still somehow considered Mature Enough to overwrite entire reality and it will be better that way just trust the writers!!1 🙃#because the showrunners think that the audience is stupid and predisposed to just take the patriotic divine right to abuse for granted.#they just use whatever content from the show to '''justify''' it not caring whether it actually makes any sense #plenty of fiction uses artificially created persons to tell pro-agency pro-free will stories that's usually the POINT #and like... yeah clearly many people critical late-stage ML also don't like that trope and that's fine. you don't have to.#but to me it's such a red herring. my problem is the way they perceive/justify victims of (parental) abuse and power dynamics #and that problem is NOT about the fantastical trope it's about the very non-fantastical implications...#I don't wanna argue about this. if you wanna talk abt disliking the trope or.. idk unrelated reveals in different shows... make ur own post

58 notes · View notes