#season 5 is in progress

[doriandrifting]

Sorry you mean to tell me this man had a panic attack because his “ready made family” with his girlfriend and kid is too much but he deadass secretly put his coworker bestie in his will over a year ago to take custody of said child if something were to happen to him instead of his biological family??? and told him to stop acting like he’s expendable bc he’s a vital part of both his and his child’s life??

eddie diaz u r insane

[liar-or-lawyer]

[violetrashie]

I just miss my favorite magical giant lesbian 😭 (wip)

[beefosaur]

malevolent finally picking up again❤️

[phoebebuggers]

guys if we get a scene of will sleeping on mike's bedroom floor next to his bed paralleling the scene in s2 where mike spends the night on will's floor while he's possessed i am going to go fucking insane. in a good way

[catbox730]

redrawing my favorite comic panel from the AU (this is a WIP)

Original panel ( this is from @kyri45 AU )

[toast-in-a-cowboy-hat]

oh everyone's out here "What if Ty starts dating Mike" this and "What if Mike starts dating Ty" that, what if Edgar starts dating Ty? Huh? Mike branched out of his dating type before, maybe this time it's Edgar's turn. Did you ever consider that? Maybe Ty's not gonna steal Mike, maybe he's gonna steal Mike's boyfriend. Maybe this is the #TygarTimeline. How would you know? Exactly. You wouldn't.

Think about that.

[gh0stlyscooter]

Little doodles of John and Arthur :}

[alastair-1205]

"You don't alway have to be the hero! It doesn't always have to be you!"

You cannot convince me that Macaque isn't at least partially talking to Wukong during this whole exchange. He's trying so hard to keep the past from repeating itself and letting another person he's come to care for become a self-sacrificial idiot.

don't touch me I'm gonna cry-

[marksartsypalace]

Morro painting✨ kind of inspired by the one I did last year

[gingergofastboatsmojito]

Making each other better at this comes with a price

Why is everyone operating under the assumption that Carmy "escapes", "runs away", etc, outta fear of facing his own actions, and Syd is not operating from fear? They always mirror each other, and they have the same traits, only expressed differently because of their different backgrounds and psychological makeups, that´s all.

Syd is definitely coming from a place of fear and insecurity and lack of self confidence and she even said it herself at some point too. They both admitted their shortcomings and both vowed to work on them, remember? The only difference is that now they won´t be working on them together (that´s yet to be seen) because Carmy feels he has to walk this part of his healing journey alone and, truth be told, he has the right to- That being said, he 100% should have told her that before changing the agreement and for that only he deserves to be sooo punished lolol! I can´t believe she went so lightly on him, she clearly adores the guy. But other than that lack of honesty (which is COMPLETELY unacceptable BUT totally understandable because he didn´t tell anyone so no one could try to change his mind, especially Syd who he knows is the ONLY ONE WHO COULD) what he chose is valid and should be respected as any valid choice a person makes to get better or at least to not make things even worse, as damage control. But my point is: Why do you think Syd is not operating under the fear of not being good enough to manage The Bear? And that is not exactly the whole point of the drama, not Carmy, but Syd and how this can benefit her primarily (even when she doesn´t see it that way) and Carmy secondarily with his workaholism. Which is to say: mutually but in this very fucked up way. Thanks, sadist.

Why are only Carmy´s shadow aspects the ones that most ppl see? Why the love for Syd has to blindfold ppl and not let them see her by who she truly is, with her fears and shortcomings included, and love her anyway, unconditionally?

Emotions can co-exist and often do. Humans are THAT complex, and the more complex the characters are, the more human and interesting they look. So I embrace it, not just because I love realistic takes but also for entertainment purposes and because that kind of art or media are the only kinds I love to consume.

Like I said, Syd is coming from a place of fear too (also disappointment, ofc) when she says: "You are supposed to fucking be here". Yes, she´s saying she doesn´t wanna do it alone, she wants to do it with him, which is what we know since S2 (under the table moment of truth), sure. Yes, she feels hurt by perceiving him bailing on her, yet again, absolutely, and none of that means she´s not also operating on her own impostor syndrome level of "I fuck things up" (under the table moment of truth). She doesn´t think herself capable of not fucking up unless she he´s there with her because, and I quote: "he´s the best in the world, the fact that he wants to work with me is low-key an honor". And I will die on the hill that when Syd was describing the "energitically musty house" to TJ, she was also talking about the Big Brother of that house, not just the restaurant. So all those beautiful things she said about how that house on a good day gives her "the best feeling in the world", were also about how Carmy makes her feel sometimes, on good days. Carmy wants to have more of those and doesn´t know how. He´s basically trying whatever he can think of to get more good days and get that good feeling himself, and he thinks he won´t get any of that at a restaurant. He´s allowed to change his mind, and Syd is too; they are both scared, and they are both doing things for the right reasons.

BTW, those things I mentioned come from an episode Ayo Edibiri wrote herself, and I´m positive, she´s knows her character better than me, TYVM.

Carmy is fucking up trying to do good, as usual, and Syd gets hurt by his fuck ups because she´s the closest person to him. They are intertwined. And that´s part of the risk of being in a relationship and letting ppl in, that closeness, that intimacy, makes you vulnerable and you might get hurt by the other person, even if they don´t mean to hurt you, and vice versa. That´s why emotional avoidance is a self-defense mechanism a lot of ppl resort to. Syd does too to self-protect, which means out of fear. But she loves Carmy so much that she can´t fence him out enough. He always gets to her, no matter how hard she tries to keep him emotionally at arm's length. You can´t choose who you love or how much you love them; it either happens or it doesn't. And the intensity at which it happens when it does is not customizable either. And it comes with risks, bad days, good days, awful days, and yes, sometimes it ends. And that is it. Now, I don´t think it ended in their case, actually. I think it´s just getting started TBH.

Back to her fear: With Carmy gone, she will have to tap into her fear of "fucking up again", like she fucked up with Sheridan (I don´t think she did but she experienced it as her own personal failure) and by doing that she will overcome her fear, her insecurities, she will heal her impostor syndrome because she can´t do that with Carmy there, she has to do it on her own, it´s a part of the path she has to walk alone too, just like him. I´m not saying that she can´t be part of a team, but her fear of not being good enough, that is rooted deep inside her, will be gone once she proves she can indeed do it without Carmy, even if that´s not what she wants. And I´m pretty sure she will win a star in the process.

There´s always the chance that Syd will open up and say the words she knows she chose not to say during the fight and that IMO could be a game changer for Carmy, so he will stay and they will win the star together and she will have to work on her impostor syndrome in a different way, maybe even going to therapy, which is also something Ayo mentioned she would like her character to start doing because she thinks Syd needs it.

My point is that fear is not foreign for either, Carmy and her are scared shitless and affecting the other with their fears.

And they both have to overcome them, and in the process, they might hurt each other and themselves. Growing pains are real, and when you function as a system, even a dysfunctional one, nothing you go through or do, or don´t do, won´t affect the rest of the system.

Sydcarmy is a system (the primary one), the family they raised at that restaurant is a system, and their respective blood ties are a system. The whole show is about overcoming trauma and evolving as a part of a system and how all components of it affect each other, but not always in a good or healthy way and how we can find beauty and healing in that part of the process too, and how we should, because it´s inevitable and ultimately that "ugly" part of the process is what ends up making us better TOO.

Remember to follow my tag #Gingerpovs 💋

[pinkerthings]

just saw someone say “they wouldn’t end mileven out of nowhere after building it up for 4 seasons”

did we watch the same show? first of all, it wouldn’t be out of nowhere, and secondly, where has this ‘build up’ of their relationship been?

[arttsuka]

My Phineas and Ferb season 5 review of the 10 first episodes.

Spoilers, obviously, but mainly vague. But still, spoilers.

So, so far the season has been 60/40 imo. Some episodes are great, really good even. Other episodes are some of the worst pnf episodes, either because they're just boring or because they feel like they belong in another show instead.

The jokes land half of the time, the other half they seem too self aware if that makes sense. I also really dislike the animation. It feels stiff for the majority of the time with some exceptions when it comes to the characters' facial expressions, but that's it. I thought 'maybe it's just me, I'm imagining things' but after watching some of the old episodes I can confidently say that the old animation WAS better. A big part of the visual comedy is lost a bit, at least to my eyes, because of this. The jokes had better timing in the older episodes too (if you don't believe me I strongly suggest you go and rewatch or watch some of the older episodes. Not the best of the best, just some random episodes. See for your own).

Also I think they used that farmer and his wife as a gag to explain where the invention ended a bit too much, in a short time. It felt like we were seeing them every episode (which I know isn't true but they usually made their 'cameos' a bit more spaced out from each one of their appearances).

Now about the characters.

Burford was legit the one consistently good thing about the series, he carried the episodes. I really liked what they did with him so far, how they leaned into the 'theater kid' part of him. I hope we see more of him, maybe even a whole episode.

Doofenshmirtz used to be one of my absolute favourite characters but I really don't like what they did with his character this season (then again his decline had started in season 4, I can't blame the new season too much). They're too in love with him. He always was a likable guy, never really evil. But they really tried to make him a 'good' guy, then they took it back. Idk. The Loki effect. Well see how they handle him in the next episodes.

Most of the other preexisting characters are basically how they used to be. Not any major changes, they're the pnf cast. That's about it.

A lot of the new characters on the other hand can't seem to shut the fuck up. They talk so much oh my god make them stop. Shut them up, zip their mouths, whatever. And they feel like they belong in other shows, like 'Milo Murphy's law' or 'Hamster and Gretel'.

The songs so far range from 'kinda bad ngl' to 'mmm that's pretty good', so I'd say it's like the average pnf soundtrack (and people who compare these songs to the literal best songs of previous seasons are just wrong. The other seasons had bad or mediocre songs too, they just forgot them).

The worst episodes were probably 'the haberdasher' (because it was actively ruining the shows logic and continuity. All of the animal agents wear the fedora why was there this whole song trying to ask Perry if he wanted another kind of hat in the first place? The organisation probably wouldn't even allow it. Also that hatman or whatever his name was was one of the most annoying characters) and episodes 2 and 3.

Episode 1 was a neat start but the premise felt a bit more like one of these special mid-season episodes rather than a reintroduction to the serie.

I'd say everything after episode 5 (including ep5) was pretty great, with one or two exceptions.

'The Candace suit' would have given me nightmares as a kid. This has nothing to do with this review, I just wanted to say it.

One of my favorite episodes so far probably was 'no slumber party'. It felt nostalgic, in a way. Like it belonged to season 2.

So yeah, I'd say this season started off a bit rough. The first few episodes didn't really land that well but they progressively got better.

Did I like this season so far? Yes and no. I had fun, but the negatives are there to stay (mainly the animation).

Will I watch the other episodes when the come out? Yes, duh. Obviously I will. I still have faith that the rest of the season will be great. I hope I'm proven right.

[starguardianniom]

The emotional immaturity of Adrien and Marinette

This need to be said.

You cannot tell me Adrien lacks the emotional maturity to handle his father being the villain he fights for 5 seasons, his assistant helping him, and his mom being alive in a coma in the basement and tell me he can't handle it. Who the hell would?

And yet, he still should have been there for the final battle, because after spending 5 seasons trying to break free from his caged life that Gabriel threw him in, he deserves to have a final face off with the man and see the reality of the situation, while also denouncing everything his father fought for by saying he was wrong, and he's gonna fight to end his madness.

Somehow, Marinette gets to be in the final battle alone with 2 miraculouses against her boyfriend's father who's the antagonist, and at the end when he wins, she complies with his last request to not say anything to Adrien.

How the hell is that her handling it in any kind of mature way possible, or saying she didn't have her emotions messing with her judgement here?

Cause I'm sorry, but past seasons proved time and time again that Marinette is just as emotionally immature as Adrien, if not more, when it comes to world shattering stuff thrown her way.

Starting with her being very immature emotionally whenever it concerns Adrien.

We saw her screwing up in 3 seasons finales because of her feelings for Adrien having a factor in it.

In season 1 Volpina, she impulsively humiliated Lila in front of Adrien to not only call her out on her lies, but also to get her away from Adrien, after spending a lot of time following them around because she was jealous, before Tikki noticed the Book.

Season 3 in Heart Hunter, her being heartbroken over letting Adrien and Kagami be together and then later seeing them together as Ladybug mess with her feelings and she choose to get Kagami away from Adrien instead of finding Chloé who told her she was ready to fight, and honestly there's no way she chose Kagami purely for selfless reasons 100%, she was still affected by her feelings of being crushed, and when choosing which miraculous she should take, she was clearly debating either to choose Chloé who was already aware of the situation and it was her parents, or choose Kagami who was having a romantic moment with Adrien. Do not tell me she was completely focused when she had been distracted earlier as Ladybug at seeing Adrigami in display, she freaking crashed into a tree when seeing it.

Season 4 Strike Back showed her, after spending the last episode being driven impulsive by Risk, which she became aware of in the end, she decided to go fetch "Adrien" to pull off her plan, despite having much easier options to go as. Not to mention her Lucky Charm saying she had to go in the past, knowing the entire city was affected, yet somehow Adrien wasn't, yet it didn't tip her off that maybe if Adrien wasn't affected it was because he wasn't there the day before, and thus couldn't have been Adrien, but maybe his cousin, since she knows he pulled a twin switch once with him. She could have fetch Sabrina who was already familiar with the Dog Miraculous, heck better yet, she could have just unified her miraculous with the Rabbit and the Dog without having the Horse, and do the travel herself, if she use the beyond broken Rabbit miraculous, then she can freaking use the Dog, but she decided Adrien was trustworthy. She even questionned herself if the idea made her reckless. But since she can't shake her crush is perfect, she stood to her initial plan, and got completely fooled by him which gave Gabriel all the miraculouses but hers, Chat Noir's and the Peacock. She thought with her heart, not her brain there.

It's not the first time she does it either.

When it comes to Adrien, or perfect guys, Marinette becomes one of the least emotionally mature people on the show.

We saw how in Desperada, her knowing Aspik was Adrien couldn't make her focus at all.

In Kuro Neko, having a new partner, which was basically Adrien's model routine up to the max, she couldn't concentrate at all on the mission, let alone KNOW HOW TO USE HER FREAKING LUCKY CHARM.

And now Marinette herself when it doesn't have anything to do with being Ladybug, just being Marinette, or it being about Adrien in any way.

Marinette is a girl who is insecure, nervous and prone to self-spirals to the simplest mistakes, and goes above and beyond to try to either salvage the situation, or try to cover it up with others being none the wiser if she wants to and plays her cards right.

She will go to extreme answers to basic problems, which usually cause more trouble for herself in the long run.

She is extremely reckless in that aspect and doesn't think things through completely like she thinks she is doing.

Mostly because she has an immature response to anything that could cause her any embarassment or having to confront a though situation she doesn't want to deal with or just hope it goes away on its own.

Accidently leaving an embarassing message on Adrien's phone?

Break into his locker, steal his phone, learn his password and delete it, instead of maybe explaining herself calmly.

Accidently erasing a video of Ladybug on Alya's phone? Steal the phone, lie to her bestie, try to redo the video so she won't notice, being afraid she'll break her friendship with her if she finds out, not thinking Alya might have posted it on her blog before showing it to her.

Juleka needs to be in the class photo? Go steal the memory card of the photographer and erase the previous photo so he'll need to take another one instead of just asking to redo it, because she is sure he won't want to.

She didn't do anything grand like her classmates for Heroes Day? Lie about what she actually plans to the entire class and get caught up in her plan when she can't pull it off, despite Alya defending her earlier, her parents and Tikki telling her she needs to come clean, and her classmates, sans Chloé, not being bothered by it, probably understanding that she was very busy and did what she could on a short notice.

Adrien is at a movie premiere with Kagami? Team up with Chloé to humiliate Kagami so she'll be seated next to Adrien and prevent him and Kagami from leaving Japan, instead of trying to stop her bully from 4 years from pulling a cruel prank, a bit similar to what she went through the year prior, being humiliated publically in front of a guy she liked.

Can't give Adrien a gift at his house? Abuse her powers to transform and break into his room to deliver his gift, instead of waiting at the front gates until he arrives like a normal person.

The guys having a boys only party at Adrien's house? She needs to ditch her friends to go to that party, and pass herself as a boy to join, instead of just letting them be, because how dare they have a guy only party the one time they all group together, not like she only hangs out with her girl friends all the time without any guys.

Doesn't know why her grand-father is estranged from her dad? Pretend to be someone else, and lie to him, instead of coming clean from the start.

Learned Kagami and Adrien broke up? Push Kagami to try to make her fall in love with him again and ignores everything Kagami tells her, at one point literally lifting her to get her to talk to him, projecting her feelings on Kagami the entire episode, instead of listening to Kagami and trying to learn what happened.

Ghosted Kagami by ignoring her calls because she didn't want her to be disappointed in her not being able to tell Adrien "I love you" despite dating him at that time.

She doesn't want to see Luka because she's afraid to break his heart again and get him akumatized? Ask his twin to tell him to not come to HIS OWN BIRTHDAY PARTY BECAUSE SHE'S TOO MUCH OF A COWARD TO FACE HIM! Not to mention not listening to Alya telling her she exaggerate and that Luka would like to see her again, as unlike her, Alya has been talking to Luka and knows he would prefer to stay friends with Marinette even if he still has feelings for her, cause Luka is that mature.

Su-Han wants to know Chat Noir's identity for safety reasons in case anything happens to him? Why, lie to Chat Noir about wanting to knows each other's identities, have 2 people knowing his without his consent, then erase the deed so neither he or she will remember it, her thinking Chat Noir will never reveal himself to anyone but her, without her ever bothering to talk to him and explaining the reasons, which given how much more understanding he is than her most of the time, he would get it and would do so without complains, but nope she goes behind his back and immediatly thinks she knows him better.

Learns Adrien is sended to Shangai without her knowing? Welp, time to lie to her parents about wanting to connect to her maternal origins from China and wanting to go there to know her roots, making them pay for what was supposed to be a family trip that they had planned since she was born, just to go stalk her crush whom she basically sees everyday in class in another country, just because she was miffed that she didn't know about it, despite boasting how she knew everything about him and she would know if he was going.

Those are the many emotionally immature actions that she made throughout the show, and you tell me Adrien isn't emotionally mature enough for the final fight in the finale of season 5?

Fuck you, the main protagonist is even more emotionally immature than he'll ever be with all the crap she pulled.

The creators even said Marinette has a very poor control of her emotions. Even as Ladybug she's not immune.

Adrien is probably more mature than her because of all the mental strenght he builded up just to keep up with his life before getting a miraculous.

Marinette is just a normal kid who kids herself, she is very clever and intelligent, but in the emotional maturity department, she is one of the worse, out there with Chloé, Lila and Gabriel.

Any minor problems she faces she tends to go to extreme lenghts to solve, despite many people telling her time and time again that she's really thinking way too much about it. Namely Tikki and Alya.

Her first responses are most of the time, lie, manipulate, steal, in the hopes she can undo her mistake before someone sees it, or to save face and prevent herself from being embarassed. Heck, a lot of the time, it doesn't have anything to do with being Ladybug, she just want to save face.

Honesty isn't her first answer a lot of the time.

Not being honest about making mistakes and just trying to avoid them by lying or fixing them before someone sees them is emotionally immature on her part.

Because she's a stupid 14 years old teen who does a lot of stupid 14 years old stuff.

Like Adrien is a 14 eyears old teen who also does a lot of stupid 14 years old stuff, mostly as Chat Noir, Adrien, a bit less, but sometimes too.

So to hell with Adrien not being emotionally mature to handle his dad being a villain and all that, Marinette is just as worse.

The fact she lies to him at the end about it all proves it.

She is not emotionally mature about him, she has never shaded her rose colored glasses that are glued to her face when it comes to him.

To her, Adrien is the perfect boy who needs protection from anyone and anything that could harm him or cause him grief.

She sees him more as an idol than a real person. Even when he confess his insecurities to her, she's more concerned about his safety rather than trying to learn more about why he feels that way and connect to him more than just drooling over him like the hardstuck fangirl that she is when around him.

She sniffed his pillow. Pulled hair and kissed what she thought was a statue of him. Stalked him to another country. Humiliated 2 girls who were interested in him. Makes tons of complicated schemes to woo a guy she can barely talk to because she was traumatized before by a prank and the lesson she learned from it was to learn everything about the next guy just to be sure she wouldn't be caught again, instead of just listening to her friend's advice, taking it to an extreme form of creepy.

Again, not the picture of emotional maturity here much. So do not ever tell me that Adrien is not mature enough to be able to take emotionally the bad news.

If Marinette's response to the bad news was to lie to the entire city about the villain and make him a hero instead, and lie to her partner, and boyfriend, because she listened to Gabriel's last wish, then seriously, it outright says in blinding lights neon that she was not emotionally mature for it either.

Especially since the villain was her boyfriend's dad, and we all know how she acts when it's about her beloved.

She didn't have to change her views on Adrien, never did, for that she would have needed to treat him like a person instead of an angel gracing the earth.

The shrine she saw him from was so high up in the sky she never saw what was really happening with him, even when told, she just went back to drooling over him as if nothing happened.

[evilwickedme]

Alon and I finally finished buffy tonight!!!!

[catbox730]

l have Lmk brain rot help (this is a WIP by the way)