#faith in humanity: restored

[devilsofficialfanfic]

You are one of my favourite people, and it is a genuine joy whenever I get one of your notifications

Just thought you should know 🥰

🥺🥰

Thank you!

[vinn-ny]

Dire Wolf: Man, what the fuck?

[theanonymousninja247]

The Wild Robot

My Response After Watching it

Y’all. I believe in humanity again if THAT is what people can create. What a story. WHAT. A. Story.

Please. Please. PLEASE. Take the time to watch it. It is BEYOND worth it.

[thatlonelycactus]

We’ve all heard that thing about how the first sign of civilization was a broken leg but I just need to go on about something real quick.

Can we take a moment to talk about the golden ibex from Akrotiri???

For background archaeologists found this golden ibex in the ruins of Akrotiri on modern Santorini:

And like it’s cool and all but the thing about this statue that makes me go mad is ibex aren’t native to Santorini. This has made archaeologists think that it was either used for religious reasons or it was a gift (I like to think the latter and so that’s what I’m gonna be talking about)

This statue was found hidden in a little box stored for safe keeping.

There are basically no human remains in Akrotiri. Wanna know why?

They all ran away. They all tried to escape. Why?

Because the island was about to experience one of the biggest volcanic eruptions of the Ancient world so everyone took what they needed and left.

They all left and hoped that they’d come back.

And in my mind someone was given this ibex as a gift and maybe they treasured it. Then they had to leave so they placed it in a box where they thought it would be safe.

Then they left and never came back.

Someone tried so hard to keep this ibex safe maybe because they had to or maybe because they treasured it for whatever reason. Someone out there, someone lost to time, said goodbye and hoped they would see this statute again.

I like to think the golden ibex meant something to someone whether it’s because the thought restores my faith in humanity now or because it means that, at our cores, we’ve never truly changed. And frankly I just wish that whoever hid that ibex all those centuries ago would know that even though they themselves are forgotten they achieved their goal. They did it and the ibex that they might have loved is still loved by people today (aka me).

[ducktracy]

THIS IS A DAY FOR PEACE ON OIT’

HAP-PY NEW YEUHHHHH

[drawberry03]

So before anime my first love had always been cartoons, I only recently watched Hey Arnold! recently (I blame betaruga's art I've been sucked in ever since) and its been a hyperfixation for months now. I wanted to make a comic based on one of my fave fics of Shortaki.

I wanted to show my appreciation via this project, which has been fun and challenging so far (tell ya what my environment and angling of panels have never looked as good lmao). And I have fallen in love with pencil textures.

Here's the fic made by Reinamy (I love everything you've written!): https://archiveofourown.org/works/6896269/chapters/15734773#workskin

I never told @reinamycloud about doing this but I hope they like it anyway. I'm planning to eventually make the other chapters as well but it will take time cuz I'm going back to school.

P.S. Idk who Trevor is, so I just made up his face lmao.

[irished-lads]

irish lads mario party on the western map . Needless to say my crops are thriving my face is clear im hydrated and well nourished

[disappointeddyke]

Another really good night at the lesbian bar I’m so lucky and happy I get to work here

[uhbasicallyjustmilex]

feeling very grateful for the cute barista today who clearly clocked a) my fontaines d.c. tote, and b) the fact i was stuck on a spectacularly bad date, and proceeded to play me an entire playlist of fontaines d.c. and sneak me extra vegan marshmallows with my hot chocolate

[satanarchaeoluegenialkohoellisch]

Ich bin in der Vorweihnachtszeit auf der Suche nach Geschenken auf YouTube über einige D.I.Y Channel von älteren Frauen gestoßen, die dir erklären, wie man selber Seife und so macht, während im Hintergrund etwas zu laut track 42 von 'best of copyright free christmas music' läuft.

Ich scrolle also durch die Kommentarsektion während ich so halb dem Video zuhöre. Wahrscheinlich die beste Entscheidung, die ich die ganze Vorweihnachtszeit getroffen habe.

Egal wie wholesome euer Fandom ist, die Kommentarsektion eines Videos von Kanälen wie 'Brigittes Bastelecke' mit so 50 Abonnenten topt das.

Nichts hat mich bisher so sehr in Weihnachtsstimmung gebracht, wie die süßen Kommentare von Omis, die nicht wissen wie man Emojis verwendet.

10/10, would recommend.

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

What do you think about theory that Lila is Manon from future?

I am vaguely aware that this is a thing, but I'm also assuming that it's a joke and not a serious theory because that would be one of the most asinine things that I've ever seen. This fan theory is even worse than the pigeon feather thing in terms of absurdity. It should be reserved for crack fic and nothing else. However, this show never fails to impress me with its poor-quality writing choices, so let's take a quick moment to talk about why this wouldn't be a good twist.

The issue isn't the time travel thing. Lila being from the future is perfectly in line with the sort of crazy stuff that Miraculous does to the point where I wouldn't be shocked if Lila is from the future! Maybe Ladybug and Chat Noir "wronged" her and so she came back in time to try to stop them from being a thing or something like that? It fits her characters. Lila has been shown to be incredibly petty and, whatever is going on, it's clear that she came to Paris with an agenda otherwise why go the multiple identities and parents route?

However, if this from-the-future twist ends up being a thing, then Manon would be the worst choice for Lila's true identity because Manon is a well established character who shares no obvious traits with Lila. The only things that the two characters have in common are their hair and eye colors (or, at least, the hair and eye colors that Lila now has). Nothing else ties them together.

Yes, Manon does her baby-doll-eye manipulation thing, but that's not a sign that she's secretly a master manipulator or a compulsive liar! It's just a thing that little kids do. Boundary pushing is par for the course at that age.

For Manon to be a good baby Lila, we'd need to see Manon doing some actual quality manipulation tactics that trick people instead of just standard little kid pouting and boundary-pushing techniques. There's no point at which Manon is successfully lying to get what she wants. Her requests are always rather blatant and no one but Marinette falls for her "manipulations" because everyone else knows how to deal with little kids as we see in these two exchanges from Puppeteer:

Nadja: Alright, now give the doll back to Marinette. Manon: NO! I wanna keep it! Marinette: She can if she wants. I told her she could borrow it. Nadja: And that's sweet of you, Marinette, but Manon already has so many toys at home, I wouldn't even know where to put it.

Marinette: Manon! What are you- Manon: I left my bag here! Can I have Ladybug? Marinette: You heard what your mom said. Manon: She wouldn't know if I hide it!

Not exactly gold star manipulation tactics here. They'd fail if Marinette had a backbone.

Could you really picture Lila acting like this? I can't and that's the problem. Because Manon is an existing and well-established character, they have had time to make her into baby Lila. Time to set up the twist. But they haven't. They've just written your standard boundary-pushing little kid. Her behavior is really not all that different from Ella and Etta's (Alya's little sisters), so why would Manon be Lila and not one of them?

That's another problem. If you're going to have a big twist like this, then Manon needs to feel different from the other kid characters and she doesn't. Really think about this for a minute! As far as the kid characters' behavior goes, what's the difference between Puppeteer and Sapotis? I'd argue that there isn't one. In both episodes you see little kids pushing boundaries, leading to them being punished, leading to them getting akumatized.

In Puppeteer we get this:

Manon: But, Marinette wanted me to have it! Nadja: You disobeyed me. I told you the dolls were to stay at her house. You won't be needing these anymore. Manon: NO! Mommy, please don't! Nadja: I'm not happy about this. Wait for me here.

In Sapotis we get this:

Ella and Etta: It's not us! It's the—! Alya: That's it! (picks up the twins) Ella and Etta: Come on, Alya! We won't do it again! Alya: Yeah? Well, it's too late! (takes off both twins' propeller hats) We'll all go to the park when you can behave, some other day! Now go to sleep!

Extremely similar scenes with extremely similar outcomes.

Another similarity is Manon, Ella, and Etta's behavior in Simpleman. They're basically interchangeable in that episode, further killing this theory.

If this twist was going to be a thing, then I'd also expect us to see Lila and Manon interact at least once since we do let Lila talk to the kids on a few occasions. And if we didn't get that, then I'd definitely expect us to see a moment between Lila and Nadja or even a moment where Lila avoids Nadja. Anything to establish some sort of tie between Lila and this little family that she was once a part of. As-is, canon has done diddly squat to tie them together so I don't understand why the fandom is making this tie. Do people just really dislike Manon and want her to be evil?

In summary, Lila is - at most - a decade older than Manon, so we should see seeds of Lila already starting to form, but we don't. Lila holds grudges, Manon doesn't. Lila lies left and right, Manon doesn't. Lila plots, Manon doesn't. Lila hates Ladybug and Chat Noir, Manon adores them. In other words, nothing in the text backs up the idea that Manon would become Lila in a few short years, so where did this theory even come from?

[binabadaboom]

it’s so funny to me seeing someone post a quote on pinterest and the comments are FULL of “where is this from?” “who said this?” etc as if it didn’t take me a total of 2 seconds to type the quote into google and find the author immediately

idk it makes me grumpy how lazy people can be, not surprised though

[burquillos]

Dilulu as el woowoo

[spinachjuice]

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

Bonus R.O.U.S. + me being sick watching film

[bokunodumbassery]

One thing I love about erasermic as a ship is how both the characters aren’t infantilised in the majority of cases.

Like, it’s sun/moon troupe, but the moon isn’t an uwu pastel anxiety boi. And the sun isn’t sunshine happy rainbow who is incapable of intelligent thought. Both are grown-ass adults who spend their lives fighting crime, but who also have incredible capacity for care and love and appreciation.

I do see an occasional tendency to dismiss Mic, because he looks like a loud dumb blonde, but I’ve seen more and more authors looking at Mic from a more manipulative, cutthroat angle and I’m living for it. This ship has largely been taken in an incredibly mature and nuanced light that the BNHA fandom lacks in a lot of areas.

(If you’re looking for some brilliant characterisation of Present Mic, AWeeBitRustyEh on ao3 is your lord and saviour. They’ve also written some other great works such as ‘A Line Drawn in the Sand’. 100/10 absolutely recommend. Manipulative Mic brainrot is a rabbit hole that you’ll never truly escape, but I would love you to join me there.)

I think a lot of this outlook is due to the fact that both characters are adults with a fairly strong/stable in-canon character relationship. Still, it’d be nice to see some other ships as well written as this one tends to be.

[greedandenby]

The official shot is adorable and all, but the side view is just... 😍😭💀