#manifaction

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Manif'action en basse Ariège

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honestly yeah. They built up some nuance in her. like we saw her sincerely care about adrien and sabrina at different points and sincerely apologize a few times as well. How am I suppoused to stay that angry at someone who had to ask with her own mouth why her mom doesn't love her? and yet the show tried to act like she was always the 10nth level of irrdeemable despite all the build up where whole POINTS of episodes was to notice that chloe wasn't pure evil and one note as it seemed?

Personally I think there is still a way to save Chloe's arc becuase while its true the show tried to make chloe WAY meaner after siding with hawkmoth which felt out of character since it wasn't feeling natural or inline with her motives before...I actually thought it feeling a bit forced was intentional as chloe was relying on something familar as a crutch to distract herself and others from chloe's real vulnerable feelings about the situation...which actually paralleled how both adrien and Marinette relied on putting on a bit of a front and relied on previous behaviour to distract themselves and others from their problems.

Mari went back to her crush on adrien to make herself feel more normal like she wouldnt have to give up on things due to beinng guardian and becuase it reminded her of the time before she became guardian and before everything was changing and she tried to focus on being guardian and seemed on the surface to rely on her firendship with alya to distract herself from her guilt and feeling pressure after the loss of master fu while subtlely we see her pushing people away at points.

Adrien tried to go back to his crush on ladybug to distract himself from how chloe spiraled and wasnt his friend, kagami broke up with him and wasnt his friend, nathalie was getting sick similar to his mom and he was being shut out of information again, his dad was still distant from adrien and trying to distract himself from how he was shaken over not being able to be there is battle as much as he used to before no matter how much he tried....using the crush was easier that confront his issues definitly weren't crush based and how he was trying to use it as somehing familar to be ladybug's rock wth everything changing and connect to when the partnership felt more equal.

where Chloe spiralling and being mean to distract herself from her guilt and truly facing all f her feelings after siding wth hawkmoth that first time...feeling like she burned her bridged with LB entirely since being mean is familar and hurt less trying to be good and failing.

I actually thought what was interesting was while mari and others thing chloe sided with hawkmoth due to a entitlement due to being the bee hero.....Chloe had actually understood in miraculous she couldnt be the bee for pollen's safty and so she wouldnt be targetted....only for chloe to be targetted anyway...unable to defend herself where NOT being queen bee didn;t protect pollen either...

Gabriel literally set up a scenerio where he isolated chloe on a rooftop by targetting her parenst and letting her know chloe was the reason her family was targetted to her face,cutting the ladybug signal then digging into chloe's insecurities and framing things to target chloe;s frusteration at ladybug...where chloe only agreed to side with him when he took pollen and the other kwami's hostage....and when he agree to release her parents.

with mari's tendency to be incosistant with her rules and giving gabriel a edge.

CHloe agreed only when he released her parents and the fatc if she had said no she would have been defensless with a displeased adult villian where he would have kept pollen and the rest and after he manifactered a scenerio where chloe would HAVE to say yes.

considering the show has made a point of pointing out that the akuma villians are victims who were taken advantaged of when they couldnt think clearly in the heat of their negative emotions and that the REAL bad guys are the ones who emotionally manipulate and take advanatage to encourage and enable the worst ways to handle the situation.......

I feel like chloe represents a victim who isn't a good victim...the whole point of emotional manipulation is the victim thinks its their idea....they dont want to feel powerless so they aren;t going to admit to themselves their choices weren't entirely their own but thats what the manipulator NEEDS. the show has made a point of showing that the akuma villians are victims who are being manipulated....so I actually think a interesting factor is its CLEAR to US that chloe was manipulated and that she agreed in a situation where it WASN'T feelings of feeling entitled to being a hero that was the main reason she agree...the undercurrent was he took people hostage and said things in a way to give chloe's frusterated feelinng of helplessness to target LB instead of him.

Where chloe doubled down after returning to normal becuase she has no reason to think LB would trust her or being understanding when there was permanent damage in the side heros being known and how chloe fell back on the old habit of blaming someone else becuase blaming yourself feels bad and no one likes to do that.

Where then chloe pushed others and adrien away and eventually Sabrina so no was was there to REALLY try to reach out to Chloe becuase chloe was pushing people away and acting out to cope...

which can show what happens if you have a bad coping mechanism and push others away and how its easy to NOT REALIZE there were signs chloe was acting out becuase she needed help becuase we were used to Chloe being mean. She's giving them what they had expected from her and it was her trying to feel in control by owning her action....even though it was clearly not something she had REALLY wanted to do before.

We even see chloe then enabled by her dad...but also manipulated and enabled and pushed further by lila and Hawkmoth at other times the more she ended up isolated herself much like akuma victims...only without the butterfly coming at the same time as the manipulation....

I think chloe facing some karma for how far she fell makes sense since your still responsible for your actions and people aren't always going to look into why you were acting the way you where....

but it also feelings disctinctive that something feels off becuase the show made a point of using chloe to help teach mari to look deeper into people..even people she dislikes and to see they aren't simply evil or bad and can be redeemed and complex.

Mari seeing chloe as irrdeemable makes sense becuase mari doesn;t have all the information WE know and mari's most consistant flaw )even if it can work in mari's favor at times) is mari's tedency to jump to conclusions and judge people harsher and a bit too soon at times without having ALL the facts.

So I actually think chloe's arc could be saved if a point in future seasons is for mari to find out that MARI was wrong about chloe being irredeemable and realizing the manipulation or deeper aspects.....kindof like in antibug. that it points out the dad dumping chloe was wrong of him and that he is responsible for how chloe acted. Maybe finding out that good reason chloe had agreed to side with hawkmoth initially that git hidden by a surface bad reason.

Like it could have a benefit or pointing out as a victim of bullying its not mari's job to fix chloe if chloe improves more now that she's reached rock bottom and how your still responsible for the fallout when you get manipluated...but also pointing out once again that to REALLY defeat a villian you have to try to understand their root cause for acting the way they have...and how you can't just disregard the manipulation of someone you dislike.

and it would point to one of mari's weakness in the show which is mari might SEEM like the logical one...but mari is VERY driven by her emotions and bias for better or worse and how lowkey usually a main reason mari has learned to look deeper into people was adrien and chat...and her initial reason for giving chloe a chance was due to more shallow reasons of liking adrien rather than REALLY believeing in chloe.

it honestly reminded me of what happened when Mari tried to 'save' Sabrina and show her better friendship by taking her from chloe...only to kindof half ass it(ot thanks to evilstrator but still eve without evilstrator getting involved mari was clearly flubbing it up a bit). Where Sabrina got hurt by Mari just leaving her behind that Sabrina went back to Chloe.

Even more when its still not PROPERLY addressed that mari has a issue with being consistent with the rules and doesn't look at things from others perspective accurately and mari's inconsistency with the rules tends to backfire at times ALOT.

Chloe has reached rock bottom...but that means Chloe COULD really change on her own now.

and if they are smart about it they could point out chloe feeling replaced by zoey WAS pretty valid at this point as well even if it didnt meant choe acting mean to zoey was right...like what if zoey was more worried about Chloe now that Chloe was left just with the mom? or finds out about the hostage situation from pollen? or what is Zoey showed some of her bad aspects that they SAY she had but never actually show...where she might be nice to our main caste but kindof sus when it comes to her sister...or heck maybe zoey could worry about chloe and be a bit upset no one else is or something.

or maybe adrien will find out more since a point is things are not as they seem and since we know Chloe was manipulated by not just gabriel but LILA who is now even more sus.

considering mari never really HAD to get over her struggle when it came to tough conversations and confrontation since the show had adrien fall for mari on his own and find out through andre the icecream man and had her mainly seem right in how she handled gabe depsite it resulting in a wish........

i think that inconsistency with Chloe COULD be intentional where they could use it in the future when it comes to mari REALLY starting to adressing the core of mari's main flaws which the show usually side steps.

Mind you I'm still tryig to wrap my head around that weird out of character episode which gave mar pool and love trauma regarding kim and chloe whihc had kim look worse, chloe being WAY worse than they ever implied and adrien almost catacysming kim even though adrien is generally the understanding one....

but considering that episode was inconsistent as well in continuity we'll see if that still gets used.

and considering the show has been consistent in pointing out the ones who do the manipulating are the REAL bad guys...I don;t think we'll see the last of chloe at this point...especially when I think they could use Adrien with Chloe to adress some things since Adrien is still being lied to by his loved ones and chloe's downfall was tied to them as well.

I like how you pointed out chlie feels like a punching bag at times...honestly chloe basically never WINS in the show...and mari and chloe has alot more in common than the show actually adresses which I hope gets pointed out again..

like just saying now that felix is 'redeemed'...what if he gets those videos in adrien's phone back and adrien sees the one chloe left him which was sincerely sweet?

though DAMN it I need them to do SOMETHING interesting with zoey///like whats the POINT of her when they haven't done anything with zoey aside from have her replace chloe as the bee?

OKAY FINALLY ABOUT CHLOE. last time i tried to write something about her it turned into frustrated screaming so ill try not to do that this time.

"i can fix her?" well i can accept her as she is, you don't like the murder? grow up. the atrocities are part of her and i think they're funny.

chloe is built for people to hate, everything about her- from her appearance to her personality everything is engineered to take as much hatred as possible like a punching bag. she's rich, spoiled, a bully, wears make-up, treats her friend like garbage, ungrateful etc. basically, the mean girl archetype you see in a lot of children's tv shows. either the opposite or the wrong love interest (shes mean go for your best friend who is not like other girls instead) to the perfect main character.

the important thing about characters like these is that there's always something charming about them. i can name pacifica from gravity falls, marsha from the owl house, sharpay from high school musical (if i spell any of these wrong im so sorry). you can trust that there will be a line they won't cross- and that there will be something important to them. once a character is fictional you tend to be entertained by their antics regardless of how unpleasant their personality may be in real life- because they aren't real.

the problem with chloe is that- she did have a line she wouldn't cross, things that she would protect- but they took that away from her for no apparent reason

prior to season 3, chloe, while still being herself was a fan of ladybug to the extent that makes me think this poor 14 year old has no idea about lesbianism yet. which in turn made her want to save people and want to apologise for several things that she'd caused.

other episodes in s2 that focused on her development includes her-

-wanting the approval of her mother to the point where she imitates her entire demeanour and personality

-being one of the first people to actively deny getting akumatised

-obtaining the bee miraculous - leading her to work in a team.

all things that lead to a possible redemption arc, right? you think spending an entire season dedicating episodes to her growth would've meant something right?

but.

the end of season 3 had her completely hating ladybug and willfully getting akumatised to defeat her. im not going into what happened - but it was.. really weird? especially because a season later they replaced her role of bee miraculous holder with her half sister, zoey, in the episode after the one zoey was introduced in.

you see, there was no reason to give a character a redemption arc if you're going to destroy it and give what gave her arc some meaning to another, "better" version of her character. there seems to be the misconception that chloe needed to change completely for her to become "likeable" but, she already was likeable to a lot of people in the fandom. hell, i still like her, like the red text earlier suggested, i think she's funny. you couldve used the bee miraculous and zoey storyline as a "who deserves to be a holder and who doesn't" thing, but not after an entire season of writing chloe into a possible redemption arc. not after the show confirms her as a miraculous holder. it genuinely feels like zoey herself was a preteens wattpad self insert oc.

"gave her chances but she didn't take it" arc could have worked as well, but it doesn't feel like that, it felt like you wrote yourself into a corner because giving chloe the bee miraculous was something marionette would've never done in the first place! because giving chloe the bee miraculous a se c o n d t i m e would'nt have made sense in the first place. i get that you can blame it all on marionette being inexperienced and too trusting, but.. god, this doesn't feel like good writing.

look at the season 1 ladybug fangirl chloe and season 4 chloe. season 4 chloe is a punching bag made by a fanfic writer because she's the most evil person in the world and season 1 chloe is a troublemaker. even if i dont really mind what direction they couldve taken her the very fact that she had so much potential but they just decided to make all of that mean nothing is just, so disappointing.

she deserved better.. rest well my queen #slay #girlboss #gaslight

[borisbubbles]

Eurovision 2010s: 315-311

a little caveat before we start: We’ve now entered a pretty big zone of songs that I am neutral on, but that does not mean my opinions themselves are. My feelings for the next 30-40 songs are mostly negative but there’s always something (semi)-redeemable there to balance it out to neutrality. Saying this now so I won’t have to repeat it over and over and over again for the next  ~7 updates or so. 

Anyway,

315. Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivat - “Aina mun pitää” FInland 2015

I don’t hate PKN!!! Yeah, sorry, but I think it’s *wrong* to blame PKN specifically for going to Vienna. They won UMK fair and square! I think it’s great that they’ve found an outlet to express themselves, in spite of their disabilities. If you want to blame someone, trashtalk those who are responsible for their win (ie the DUMBASS producers of UMK who decided not to rig for one of the many better acts, and um also the Finnish voting public). Blaming PKN themselves, however? Never! 🤗

Any criticism towards the song is valid in my book though, because “Aina mun pitää” is, with all the euphemisms in the world, is not very good. 😬 Then again, “Aina mun pitää” lasts less than ninety seconds in real time. Hardly detrimental to my viewing experience, folks.

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314. Ermal Meta & Fabrizio Moro - “Non mi avete fatto niente” Italy 2018

[2018 review here]

“Non mi avete fatto niente” is  hard call for me. On one hand it’s the first genuinely good song I’ve ranked on this list: It is a well-written, evocative pamphlet AGAINST terrorism, murder and hate crimes and confronts them HEAD ON, transposing in a hopeful end. More charity songs should be like it!

On the other hand, the 2018 live takes the opposite approach of what I like in my social critiques: the one where we, the audience, are non-stop beaten over the head with the message, in this case with awful hokey PowerPoint-esque overtitles and cringe lines such as “non essista bomba pacifista”. This opposed to not doing any of that guidance crap and instead trusting that the audience is clever enough to understand the song by simply listening (if any of you are wondering: this is why I haven’t ranked ’Amar pelos dois’ yet and won’t, for a few more updates)

Overall, I really dislike “Non mi avete niente” much more than I like it. It really just is the BALLS it takes to deliver such a jarring, no-nonsense message and Ermal’s excellent performance that keep it afloat for me. As I wrote last year, it’s a good song, but the whole package is just not for me. 

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313. Freddie - “Pioneer” Hungary 2016

Freddie is one of those few contestants that falls within a category of entry that I’d like to describe as the “Uncanny Valley of Music.” On the surface, “Pioneer” has all the tools to be really good, but just isn’t. It’s a really silly song and Freddie has some of the worst dress sense ever shown by a Token Hot Guy. Some of the bad parts go even as far as being FRUSTRATING STUPID, ie: Freddie’s diction. 

Look, I don’t mind bad English that much (I point it out all the time only because it’s easy to point out), but holy cow Freddie’s brand of overenunciating non-enunciation pisses me off FOR REAL: He speaks excellent English in casual conversation!!! So why does he then resort to some horrific, hammy vocal technique that transforms every fucking sentence in a variation of “HENumiiHIUho0oMYYY” STFU FREDDIOT!!

This makes one MASSIVE negative point in a song that I don’t enjoy... but also not not enjoy? Based on how much I dislike Freddie’s singing, he should rank in red/orange, but #Stockholm2016 is such a wonderful experience that he doesn’t detract from, so sure, he can be Neutral Yellow for me. ^_^

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312. Monika Kuszynska - “In the name of love” Poland 2015

This is just uncomfortable, and not the type of uncomfortable that I enjoy watching. First of all, “In the name of love” is boring as sin and second of all holy fuck THOSE IMAGES OF WALKING MONIKA ON THE SIDE-SCREENS no no NO NO!!!

However, the most overwhelming feeling here is one of utter sadness: I feel really bad for Monika. It’s always a risk to send someone with a physical disability and not go for a cheaply manifactioned sob story angle (which is exactly the case here!), but whatever substitues for my heart breaks each time I see this. Has this woman not endured enough misery? BACK UP OFF HER!

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311. 3JS - “Never alone” The Netherlands 2011

We all give Albania a bad rap for shitty revamps, but my choice for the worst of all time is “Never alone”. The Dutch version of “Never alone” is a beautiful, touching piece of poprock excellence, with a great message of positivty and uplifting lyrics... and for some reason the English version turned into a marble-mouthed, mumbly mess that is just painful to sit through. 🤦‍♂️

I am willing to give 3JS a pass, though. While “Never alone” is pretty shit, it’s more of an organic, regular type of badness and in 2011 regular incompetent mediocrity is almost like a fresh breath of air compared to all the diabolical rubbish.

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Tract pour une manifaction contre la dérive sécuritaire à l'UQAM.

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Oh my God this mentality pisses me of so damn much! The way museums and art galleries are set up has nothing to do with racism whatsoever.

(like would you accuse the Uffizzi of being racist because it ONLY has Italian Renaissance art in it?)

Many have already said this, if you visit a western museum - especially if of recent ish foundation- you can't really expect to find lots of eastern culture pieces of art because usually a museum focuses of its local art, which is the most respectful way of act on a cultural level.

Apart from those cases when there has been a loan or a purchase from a museum in Japan for example and that it's always noted, mentioning the original collocation of the piece.

But even in those cases, given the rightly difficult conditions of these kind of transitions in order to avoid the impoverishment of the heritage of a country, that section of the collection would be definitely smaller as the bigger part would generally be the consequence of a donation from a private.

This said whenever you find a relatively wide section dedicated to eastern art in a huge western museum in the majority of cases is the result of all those archeological expeditions happened between the nineteenth and the twentieth century, generally promoted by colonising countries and that nowadays are considered as thefts because the transfer to western museums never involved the permission of the country where the manifact had been found. (The Parthenon marbles being a clear example of this kind of procedure).

We should also consider itinerant exhibitions that generally focuses on particular themes, artists and definitely geographic areas of the world being in most cases very very specific and rich in terms of manufacts and pieces of art as they've been loaned for the exhibitions from the museums that own the artifacts.

It could also be said that in many parts of the world, sadly, still there aren't the proper conditions to maintain its artistic heritage or maybe there are different conceptions of art exhibition but that would need argumentations about those area's culture and a deep knowledge about it which I don't have.

Now, a lot can be improved in the way museums and art galleries work, but it has already been done a lot of improvement since nineteenth century's mind set about their management and we should rejoice for that; as an art history student I really feel my heart bleed whenever I hear people trowing hate against the whole institution of Museum which is, honestly, purely a showing of ignorance.

Got to museums around the world people, and learn something.

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Manif'action en basse Ariège

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Manif'action en basse Ariège

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Tract pour une manifaction visant à perturber le Grand-prix 2012 de Montréal.

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Affichette de mobilisation appelant à la perturbation du Grand-prix 2012 de Montréal.

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Affiche de mobilisation en vue d'une action de perturbation.

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Tract pour la manifaction « Augmentons la pression ».