#grant ml

[acciopotator89]

Grant is a better person then Remus or Sirius will ever be

[dollyssparkle]

I want her so bad

[bittersweetresilience]

so do you think he succeeded?

[wisteriasymphony]

Because we're the good guys! // Everything I do, I do for you // I am motivated chiefly by self-interest; Someone has to be.

[gale-gentlepenguin]

Do I think Movie!Marinette would have fallen in love with Show! Adrien?

Yes, very easily. If Movie!Adrien being nice and helping her up after she fell had her crushing. The umbrella scene would have MELTED HER.

But do I think Show! Marinette would have fallen for movie Adrien?

Yes, but it would be so much more of a slow burn. I actually think Show!Marinette would have fallen for movie! chat noir before falling for Movie!Adrien.

The reason? Marinette fell in love with Adrien AFTER the umbrella scene, in which Adrien showed himself to her. She got to see the real him. Show!Marinette would not think twice about movie!Adrien aside from him being a friend of Nino. She wouldn’t hate him or anything, but show!Marinette is locked up tighter emotionally. It’s that scene in the movie when chat noir exposes his feelings in that duet. That would be show!Marinette’s/Ladybug’s umbrella scene

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

I've recently come across a couple of season 4 fanfics that dealt with the Chat Noir feeling left out and quitting thing and every time I read one I can't help but think "man did they chose the wrong side of the masks AND the wrong characters for this conflict. Chat Noir comes across terribly here". It's weird to see people try and justify his behavior and act like Ladybug was in the wrong.

Was Ladybug being the best friend ever? No, but friendship is secondary when they're wearing the masks. Paris comes first. Chat Noir quitting because he doesn't feel special enough is literally him endangering everyone he loves because his crush isn't paying enough attention to him and I truly can't tell if the show wanted us to feel like he was in the right or the wrong here. In Kuro Neko, Catwalker actually does acknowledge the lesson he needed to learn

There's nothing wrong with you. Maybe the boy who was Cat Noir was more sensitive than it seemed. But his feelings for you shouldn't force you to pay more attention to him than to others. You take care of everybody equally, Ladybug. 

And Chat Noir apologizes at the end of the episode for causing Ladybug trouble, but the whole thing is incredibly lackluster. They don't actually have a meaningful conversation about why he was feeling that way and the rest of the season seems to present Ladybug as being in the wrong, especially the final! Trusting Alya leads to nothing meaningful and not trusting Chat Noir loses her the miraculous. Basically, I still have no idea what season 4 was trying to do with this conflict and it's been dropped forever now that Adrien is fully reduced to nothing more than arm candy.

HOWEVER, this basic setup could have been a fantastic b plot if the "Adrien doesn't feel needed" conflict wasn't a Ladynoir conflict, but was instead a conflict between Adrien and Nino. Move Rocketear up to earlier in the season and have the fallout from that be that Adrien's relationship with Nino is strained. He can still feel leftout because Ladybug has a bigger team now, but instead of him pouting about it and skipping fights, focus on how that need for connection has transferred to his civilian life, but he doesn't have Kagami or Nino now and he's lost. Then you can either have an Adrien and Nino b plot because that relationship needs more screen time OR you use this to make Adrien and Marinette start to grow closer because Rocketear's fallout is also Alya paying more attention to Nino. Then, when season 5 does the whole crush switch, it actually feels earned.

[ozzo-the-wozzo]

Something something rings being used to symbolize Adrien’s freedom but also his imprisonment something something

[ladygoofus]

Sliiightly older Ladybug doodle :3

[coffeebanana]

look i'm not gonna be salty in OP's post but there's a poll going around about fanon vs canon characters and honestly if you prefer "fanon" marinette to canon you can unfollow me

[plumsaffron]

And so Hesperia managed to actually remain as the very symbol of what Ladybug is supposed to represent.

He truly is the Betterfly LOL.

And helped Ladybug grant multiversal beatdowns to Monarch (Hawk Moth)

[iguessitsjustme]

I swear to god I'm gonna start rewriting MDL summaries for shows. None of them are good. This is why I rarely read summaries before watching anything and prefer to go in blind. Because it's better than being tonally lied to. Like MDL will have a summary that leads me to believe a show is just a lighthearted fun show and then 10 minutes into the show I'll be like "Oh, oh no. This is gonna be traumatic." But by that point I'm invested

[avaetin]

Why do I watch "short" Chinese drama, knowing they'll aggravate me?

It's the usual plot of FL and ML are engaged/married, and then there's this homewrecker who assumes the identity of being ML's saviour previously, when in truth, it's the FL. And then the ML's family usually gang up on FL. FL is lucky if she has at least one member of ML's family defending her. And then yaddy yadda, truth comes out, and suddenly all of FL's hardships with ML and his family disappear and they "live happily ever after." But, oh, did I mention the ML is a douchebag? He's one toxic m*****f***** who makes FL's life miserable.

Like in this one, ok, it's slightly better than most. ML's family actually treasures FL. Only ML and FIL are the *****. And FIL takes the cake cos 1) he had an affair with a maid and tried to kill his son 20+ years later, and 2) he was all, "FL is a country bumpkin. FL is a gold digger" and tries to get ML and FL to divorce after using FL as a caretaker for ML for 3 years, until he finds out that FL is from a rich family - the true heiress - and then he changes his tune to, "FL is an ambitious woman. Oh, I can see that ML really loves her." Like DUDE. That wasn't what you were saying minutes ago (in the video).

FL should have just gotten together with 2nd ML, and FIL should have gone to prison for trying to kill his other child, is all I'm saying.

[awakefor48hours]

Since genies canonically exist in Miraculous Ladybug, why didn’t Gabriel look for genie instead of jewelry from teenagers who constantly kicked his ass

[thetimelordbatgirl]

You know what I just realized? Gabriel's "redemption" was sort of like an unironic take on when the Collector tried to reach out to Belos in the final episode of The Owl House, only instead of pointing out how much of a bastard Gabriel is, they play his last-minute change seriously.

Its funny that both came out in the same year as well, so we literally got The Owl House running and calling out this idea that every villain needs redemption... ...Just for Miraculous Ladybug to trip and fall onto its face with forcing a redemption for an abusive father whose motivations varied between taking over the world and wanting his wife back and basically having the city make a statue in his honor even and just to top it all off, have Adrien praise him.

[baenyth]

Bethany's Bizarre Miraculous Reviews Episodes 5-25 and 5-26: The Ladybug Miraculous: Monarch Fucking Wins

This is it, Luigi.

Summer, the season of freedom.

Now there's tourists!?

Wait, did that kid just dab? This really is 2016!

Kagami's fucking pissed

Oh right. This plan. It's a good plan, very evil.

Wait, it hit Adrien and Kagami as well!? What the hell was the point of locking them up in there, then!? Monarch, you idiot!

I like the Ladybug-Motorcylcist-Knight fit, honestly. It could use some smoothing but the concept is cool. Same with the recycled assets from Weredad. Not fond of the repainted Dragon Fang, though.

Don't worry, Marinette. He's also Monarch!

So are those meant to be nightmare flashbacks? They give me more migraine vibes.

Purple-skinned Chat Blanc

And now Adrien becomes useless for the finale. I'm hoping that it becomes the exact opposite in the season 6 finale.

The end of the world.

High as shit on Adrigami

Yes! Mylene keeping up!

Oh. Never mind then.

Yes! Kill!

Goodbye, Nathalie.

Really? I know everyone's doped-up but Ladybug and Chat Noir would not fucking say or do that.

Oh hey! Alya's using her brain!

Skinny-ass mass-produced model

Man, everyone got past that stuff fast.

Oh, wait. They're still here.

Same-ass model

Same-ass lines

The final battle.

She's immune, the shapeshifter.

Get his ass! Get his ass! Get his ass!

Yes! Rose!

Everyone's back for the finale.

The monologuing

Quickly! Take more given the chance! Or just cataclysm him! The world will understand! He has it coming!

Oh right. The Buffalo now?

Well at least the show remembered Luka and Juleka are siblings.

Also I must admit I do like Knight Owl's new form.

"I miss my wife, Marinette. I miss her a lot."

GET!

HIS!

ASS!

Yoink his last rings too. Just in case.

Treachery.

Honestly their true forms are too long and humanoid for my tastes. Give me some biblically accurate angels and eldritch horrors.

Yep. There goes all of reality. Everyone is dead.

This is nice. Too nice.

Well, at least it's a city you don't need a car for.

He got a statue of himself. He won. He fucking won.

MATHS

Hm. Seems a little bit too freeform for me. Are we sure it'll work?

Oh god he's doing the thing Gabriel Agreste did.

The song is in minor key, I think. It's sinister. The world is fake.

Yeah, it changed the world alright.

The gang's back, but at what cost?

And there's the cliffhanger. Something happening to Lila.

Alright. I don't think that was meant to be a good thing in and out of universe. Monarch betrayed Bug Noire. The ending felt overall unsatisfying. Something happened to Lila right at the end. The London Special including someone managing to do a wish. Marinette's grown a strong sense of justice. She'd tell Adrien who Monarch was if she could. And possibly even more. If Chloe is meant to be so irredeemable, then what was the point of her showing self-loathing issues back in Maledictator? And why was Felix allowed to get away with far worse? If Marinette is supposed to be so flawed and make a mistake every episode to learn from, then why is this show enabling her stalking so much? And why doesn't that show follow that exactly? If this is meant to be such a baby's show, why is it so in-depth and serialized like a show for far older kids? I don't think we can trust a word Thomas Astruc says. TV show creators can lie and misdirect us. It's happened before with Gravity Falls. Something's up. Something's not right. And hopefully Season 6 will explain and resolve it.

[mindoirschild]

The way everyone felt about the marichat kiss is exactly how I feel about Chat Noir starting a classic tween movie-style boy brawl with Kim on sight. I’m giddy, they finally let Adrien express a Negative Emotion TM. So proud of my boy.