#fuck thomas astruc

[not-rigel]

ok ok edible kicked in and now i want to share a little something that i think is funny. so arcane actually isnt my main hyper-fixation. my main hyper-fixation is miraculous tales of ladybug and cat noir.

[nasturtiumgarden]

would anybody ever be interested in me rewriting the entirety of Miraculous Ladybug?

(by entirety I mean the miraculous jewelry, animals, power system, characters, taking the original concept and screwing it up)

[muggle-born-princess]

"AnDrE iS a GoOd FaThEr!"

Newsflash: Disowning your child all because they're a brat that you refuse to discipline and help them, and forcing them to live with an abusive parent or family member, which FYI, she literally calls her own daughter "a loser" in the end, isn't good parenting.

Oh and to any Chloe haters that think this is karma for all the bullying she did, do it yourself a favor and fuck off from my page now.

Abuse isn't discipline. Get the fuck over it.

[chloenism]

throwback to the time someone asked TA about his opinion on lukloe and he said they wouldn't be good together because they're total opposites and i was just like "lmao well sucks to be you because that shit is my jam"

brooo he said that as if THE FUCKING LOVE SQUARE ISNT THE “OPPOSITE” OF EACH OTHER ??? 😭

and like total opposite tropes are so GOOD tho!! its not boring if its well-written

[stellarlex]

You know what really pisses me off about Alya having Tikki?

It’s the fact that it’s been proven she can’t be trusted to keep her mouth shut about miraculous matters on her blog or otherwise, (i.e telling Nino she was still Rena) consistently makes bad decisions when it comes to the miraculous and otherwise (i.e Lila and the whole taking a miraculous from the box without permission) and yet in the bible it says that she thinks and Marinette doesn’t.

Marinette, whose plans have been the ONLY saving grace that Paris has had since the beginning, the one who made a plan and prepared for months to put Hawkmoth off her trail if he ever caught the kwamis and tried to force the kwamis to reveal herself and would have succeeded if the writing didn’t force her to fucking monologue is the one who doesn’t think? The one who outsmarted an akuma made to force her to take unnecessary risks and had the kwamis stolen ONLY because Felix was involved. Marinette doesn’t think?

Fuck this show, fuck the writers, and fuck Thomas. Anyone who hates on Marinette and believes she deserves hate when the show constantly gets in the way of any character growth she gets for no reason other than for her to suffer is brain dead. If I could rewrite this whole damn show, I would. The story is garbage and it’s an absolute mockery to consider it in any way “Girl Power”.

i have to ask .... has anyone brought up the fact that marinette is still the guardian of the miracle box in transmission. like is that not a massive plot hole. how could tikki take the earrings from her and try to absolve her of miraculous obligations when shes still technically tied to the box?

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Now that I have your attention:

[688199]

Astruc’s bullshittery: Debunking his tweets

Astruc’s tweets and claims about Felix is something I would never understand. He contradicts himself, for what? To make people hate Felix?

Case 1:

Sure he isn’t referring directly to this “version”. But when the PV was made, the concept of polar opposites was established, even shown through the early storyboards with Chat Noir presenting Ladybug with candles. It may not be a curse here yet, but it shows that Chat Noir was always meant to genuinely love Ladybug.

So it proves that the concept of Felix pretending to love Ladybug is a very “one-off” idea. Heck, even in the PV, you can see Felix being quite eager to transform. Does he look cursed to you?

Lastly, the existence of the 2012 bible is evidence that it’s possible to make Felix/ Chat Noir have an ulterior motive behind being flirtatious yet at the same time not moving away from his love for Ladybug.

Case 2:

In what way is this mysterious and evil? Again, even though Felix has the “Adrien” name in the bible, it’s obvious that Astruc is separating Felix (suit wearing, dark personality boy) with Adrien (the canon one).

It is true that Felix may be a bit evil, with that one singular image of him dropping an apple on Marinette’s head. But it’s a super early concept that isn’t present in the bibles (further supported by the fact they are shown to be able to use powers without transformation, and Felix being a pure misfortune manipulator.), meaning the idea didn’t reach that far into pre production.

That version of Felix is also shown more in Quantic Kids concepts, and even then, he was shown being slightly affectionate towards Marinette (cue that image of him smiling at her).

Instead of mysterious and evil, Felix had been long moulded more into someone who is driven, confident and dark (sarcastic). There’s way more art and descriptions depicting him that way.

Astruc even contradicts himself here when he says he cannot imagine Marinette liking Felix because it’s so clearly stated here why she does.

Not only that, Felix is written to have a soft side which he doesn’t show others. He even has fondness towards Marinette. But he doesn’t allow himself to fall in love. This means he actually sees himself falling for her if he gets distracted.

Overall, Felix might have underwent a very rough patch with him being mysterious and evil like what Astruc says (though in the fandom this version is often referred to as Nathan), but the development of his character shows that there was a lot of focus on improving Felix.

The time where Felix officially “became” Adrien is a few months after the earliest bible we have, where you can see the most changes being applied to the “Adrien” name. He doesn’t have a picture attached to the description (showing how they were still coming up with his design), he’s Papillon’s son, and has the goal of wanting to fit in rather than healing his leg. This is “Adrien” and no longer “Felix”.

Based on what Astruc said, he came up with “Adrien” because blah blah blah, but the Felix we’re seeing in the earliest bible is the same Felix he was dealing with before he came up with “Adrien”. Which, in my opinion, had quite a bit of depth to him that could be written well.

So is Astruc just straight up lying/ exaggerating Felix’s development and character in order to justify his decision to replace him with Adrien?

Adrien is significantly easier to write about as he’s more one dimensional, whereas Felix has a lot more inner conflict happening.

Maybe that’s why Astruc said: “Try writing Felix for 72 episodes”. He’s admitting to being a bad writer :/

[weirdgirl92]

Dear Mr. Astruc,

You can call Chloe irredeemable and a lost cause all you want, but this moment will forever stay in my head rent free.

[chocoplagg]

Another fun fact for today:

Chloe DESERVED A REDEMPTION ARC.

Let's just pretend Derision, Collusion and Revolution are just a bad dream, like: how stupid you have to be to think the "a 14 girl who does have problems it's the perfect election to the government" story it's a perfect idea?

Oh yeah, Thomas Astruc.

[its-dark-girl]

I feel like the miraculous power creep issue could've been solved if the 12 zodiac miraculouses were the ones lost instead of astruc and his team making more. it couldve also solved the problem of the eagle miraculous being the miraculous of freedom, when it shouldve been like the miraculous of love since thats what the eagle represents in the 7 grandfather teachings which ties back to its user being an Indigenous person. it probably would not have been correct representation but woudlve been better than the eagle miraculous representing freedom of all things.

that way the black cat and ladybug miraculous would make sense to be bad luck and good luck respectively, since in China they both mean good luck in general.

also the black cat miraculous holder should always be the one to destroy akumas

[fl4ky-sc3nek1d]

me when thomas zay any zhit that comez of hiz mouth:

[wisteriasymphony]

me: :/

me: *thinks about how Viperius's whole gimmick as the "hot one/ ladykiller" of the group is because he's a pun on "snake charmer"*

me: :)

[muggle-born-princess]

So wait.

When Chloe uses a Miraculous for selfish desires, she is condomed for her actions.

But when Gabriel uses a Miraculous to literally DESTROY the goddamn world, he's considered a hero?!

[artzychic27]

Actor au: EVERYONE QUITING MLB. ASSTRUC yelling at them come back only for them to reveal their job offers

Asstruc: You can’t leave me! You think anyone’s gonna hire a bunch of hacks like you?! I’m all you have!

Denise: Actually, all of us got job offers to work for Miraculous: Tales of Scarlet Beetle & Ikati Black. Ever heard of Books R Better Studios?

Gabriel: We’re all getting paid double of the little to nothing you pay us, costume changes, and the background characters are getting recognized.

Juleka: Best of all? *Grabs Rose by the collar and kisses her* On screen gay stuff.

Marinette: And I’m not being written as a stalker who gets everything she wants while everyone else gets ostracized for literally doing what I just did.

Lacey: What else? What else… Oh! There’s no love square, no fake feminism, no secrets kept between friends, no shitty redemption arcs, and no bashing of minors with horrible parents… Unless, you know, they cross a huge line.

Lila: And I don’t have a horrible hairstyle.

Lacey: That, too!

Nathaniel: Face it, Asstruc. You lost. You took a show that was meant to be wholesome, and turned it into something trifling.

Nora: So, naturally, we refuse to be associated with the likes of you. Let’s go, people!

*The entire cast leaves Asstruc’s office. And before leaving, Cosette throws an apple at him and flips him off*

Cosette: That’s for depriving people of my scene with Zoé in New York!

[jeankirsteind]

Anyway, I know either you or your staffs are stealing fan contents both characters’ designs or story (like Chat Blanc) and you’re keep making your virtual daughter with your ex-girlfriend like a saint who always right on everything around her.

Congrats sir for making Chloe irredeemable as possible by using many excuses which comes out of nowhere. And you know what, your characters are sucks man. They’re either just being nice like a saint who got immune from the consequences or make them like a devil incarnation.

I know I’m not a good writer but I hate someone like him making a bad moral through their creation just for sake to fulfill his revenge fantasy and self-insert that he’s better than the others.

For another fan content makers who find this post, just keep going on making a good story from this wasted potential. You’re only one who can fulfill the void that made by him.

[gryficowa]

Boycott!

Now that I have your attention: