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[raphaellight]

Revelator reviev - From hero to zero (spoilers warning)

I loved this episode UNTIL ... let's start from the beggining. It starts in some basement, God knows where. Heroes train so that the hole team is fully powered. Mixed feelings about it. So is it "growing up" that let's you use powers without limits or is it some training? But it's fine, actually good direction, heroes should be shown to work for their achievments. It shows writers didn't yet decide what are exact rules, but knowing Miraculous, they never will.

Then we jump to the beach. I don't follow discussions everyday, but I figured from thumbnails and such that people thought it will be beach episode? Well, we get scene in the beginning and in the end. Which is great.

Alya and Mari talk about how hard it is for Alya to be superhero and blogger at the same time. It made me laugh, how they talk about needing to keep secret identities ON THE BEACH, in the open, but sure, nothing we haven't seen on this show. If character is not in camera focus, they can't hear talking characters, simple as that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Then we jump to Adrien and Nino bringing ice cream. It fall and Marinette takes the occasion to use one of pick up lines you can't convince me otherwise, she stole it from when Chat was still hitting on her. And I love that about her, I want to see more of it. Marinette is not being a stalker but a cute girl. I would love even more if one of previous episodes centered about Mari trying to be flirty and going to Chat for advice. It would be so cool to see "You always had something to say to Ladybug, teach me." And Adrien either dying inside or laughing his a** off at teaching his own girlfriend how to flirt with him. Either way, no, you can't convice me she didn't take from Chat.

Then episode went from fun to GREAT. The plot of dishonest influencer pushing dramatic narrative in social media to gain followers without regard of who will he hurt along the way, it was amazing. And the villain himself 'chefs kiss'. Guy was a clear bad guy, but he was also charismatic and well spoken. He has the talent for media, he just is to selfish to do it the right way and it is great. To often Miraculous pushed the idea that "terrible people" are also actually trash at what they do, this producer and his son being main examples. His son is musician and terrible person stealing ideas. But he couldn't build actual career if he wasn't a good singer/musician. I am very happy this episode brought us talented villain. My only critique is, why are Mari and Adrien like "noone is that mean" AFTER having expierienced Lila? You know there are people that are THAT mean. Or did you forgot already? But apart from that, great plot.

And that line from the future Revelator:

All they want are axciting stories to make up for their boring lives.

It just sticks. It's true. It's harsh and cynical judgment of reality, but you can't say he is wrong. After all, WE ALL are looking for exciment out of teenage superhero romance animated drama. It's one of those characters that puts a dark mirror in front of us. And I hope to see more of him. I know his platform was ment to be seen dismantled of any followers, but please, make him maybe a detective that wants to uncover superhero identity to rebuild it? And make him actually get dangerously close? Or even better, put him as a person that finally reveals the truth about Gabriel. Writers, you created another great character, don't waste him.

Speaking of Gabriel, this secret was brought up as well. It was a bit throwaway line from Marinette, as our antagonist, apart from commenting on Marinette's and Adrien's relationship, he also commented how LB didn't defeat Monarch and that Gabriel is the hero of the city, not her. Another headcannon, he was also the source of news that Alix was forced to leave her family by Ladybug, leading to Jalil to get akumatized in season 5. But I digress, secret that Monarch was Adrien's father weights on Ladybug. And then, we get the akumatization. Revelator's design is crancky like any Miraculous akumatized villain, but his power is well thought out and presented. It reveals the truth in the form of orb, whoever touches the orb sees the secret, if Revelator get's it he can broadcast it thruout the hole Paris or world, we don't know the range. It's well defined, dangerous and challenging, but also balanced with it's clear conditions.

The fight starts and you know what? In a second I realised it's not Ladybug's identity that is at stake. It's the Gabriel's secret. And that made me engaged, because I know she wouldn't get her identity revealed. Not in the middle of a season. But this secret? I really believed it can happen. The stakes were real. And it DOES get revealed. To Alya. She picks the ball and sees Marinette speaking about it. And OW BOY was she pissed.

She is pissed at Mari for keeping a secret from her. And she is pissed for Adrien, believing he deserves the truth. In this episode, from the way she argues Mari and Adrien about "politely talking" and then get's on with using her powers to put the dude down, Alya is everything that led me to view her as my favourite in the beggining of the show. She is the sassy friend, great, proactive character with opinions she voices and rational person having to deal with Marinette's BS. Except this time it's not crazy crush but something far more serious.

The fight goes on, they manage to defeat Revelator. They use Miraculous, which Ladybug hopes will erase Alya's memory. It didn't work however.

20:43 minutes mark. 😮‍💨

This episode was going so great. And they had to ruin it in two minutes. Miraculous ladybug didn't erase memories and Alya clearly states that she won't keep this secret. So Ladybug says that Chat can do it. And he does it, while Alya waits for it. I'm sorry, I need you to understant how much of a let down it was for me. Alya, defender of truth and "real journalism" just accepted and even wanted to get her memories erased because "people should chose when they share their secrets"? If it's your secret, sure, BUT IT'S NOT Mari's secret and Alya states that a minute before. Adrien deserves to know, she should not accept getting her memories wiped out for the sake of "people chosing their time to share secrects". Went from great character to completly contradictory in seconds.

Then Chat's clears the world, because Ladybug miraculous can't destroy and erase things, so they need Chat to do it. Remember what I wrote at the start? Heroes should work for their powers and achievments? I'm Chat Noir fan but no, he should not get power up for free.

And also, if you need Black Cat's miraculous to clear people's minds of unwanted information, then what the hell happened in Oblivio? Miraculous Ladybug could bring their memories back, but according to this, they should not get their newest memories erased so they should kinda "wake up" knowing all that happened, who they are and that they just kissed. Or how many times Ladybug's miraculous got rid of Akuma's creations, like the Werepapas tree? Wouldn't you need Cat's ring to do so? Miraculous does bend the continuity, but here they BROKE cannon rules they themselfes established in a way that undermines the plot seasons back into the show.

And Adrien is to blonde of course to notice that Rena, supposedly after learning Ladybug's identity, is extremly upset and doesn't press the issue at all, of course, because the only times Adrien is allowed to have braincells is either when he is ment to be rational to Mari's shenenigans OR he is ment to cause the end of the world. There is no in between with him.

All that set up with secrets, one of greatest antagonists of the show and great, well written plot of dangers of social media influencers and character build up goes to waste with a bang that also takes hole cannon with it. 9/10 with 1/10 ending

[hoaxghost]

Girl failed the med school exam like 8 times I dont think she'd do all too well when faced with the burnt crisp of her captain

[akkpipitphattana]

the amount of ways we have to qualify the geoncide in gaza in order to get people to care is actually sickening to me. “it’s a feminist issue!” “it’s a disabilities issue!” “it’s an environmental issue!” like i’m sorry but even if this was happening solely to able bodied men and was causing no harm to the environment, it would still be wrong because it’s a genocide and these people are being bombed and killed and starved every fucking day. you shouldn’t need an extra label to give you a reason to care about people that are dying.

[hotdogmchiggin]

Company Mandated Fancy Fits on the Tulpar 😏

Also had to include the REAL star of the show (and a bonus)

Based off of this and this. Thank you very much joetastic for being inspirational 👍

The REAL reason this is late

[tiresomespaceplant]

old portrait assets for these tma id cards i layouted since june

it's free to download on my kofi! :D

edit: blank png files are now included! if you've availed one, check your reciept with the link to the downloads and the updated files should be there! ^^

[velvetwyrme]

aHhh okay so the discussions of Titan!Megatron on @callsign-relic's blog have fully. FULLY taken over my brain and ive been drawing stuff for it for like the last few days nonstop

the tl;dr of this is AU is pretty much "what if Megatron got turned into a titan/cityformer as a form of penance/imprisonment and now roams the empty wasteland of Cybertron forever" plus "IDW Megatron has really fucked up internals so... what if that, but as a City?"

and of course since he's a Titan, that also means he has a cityspeaker... or three. One per sub-AU thing. Theres 3 options. 3 flavours of AU.

i have so much art to make. but in the meantime, for more info! check out the #titan au tag on Relic's blog :]!! (also uhh potential ns//fw warning for the link shfjbdkd)

Hi. My battery is running out once again so design and art notes get chucked here instead of an image.

The cuffs and collar are hardwired into Megatron, so I made the lights the same colour as his biolights!

I imagine that on the tops of his shoulders there are solar panels, even if you can't see them here lol.

I really wanted to keep the swirly bits on Megatron's chest from IDW

Other art notes:

The second picture with the seekers is (loosely) inspired by a discussion about whether or not Megatron gets visitors or not. I thought about who would visit him and well... I think this is as close as Starscream realistically gets to visiting him.

Extra detail about that piece is that Thundercracker and Skywarp are keeping watch from above! Also drawing Megatron took me like 8 hours because I was struggling with his legs really badly kshffkbfkdsbdk,, the background went much faster, funnily enough.

Optimus specifically isn't wearing his Autobot badge any more.

This isn't relevant in this series of images, but Ultra Magnus's eye markings are only on the Magnus armour. His other two forms do not have them :] (... until he begins to discard the armour, that is.)

Megatron is roughly 3200m/2 miles tall. Technically he could have clouds around his knees, but I thought this looked a little bit cooler lol.

Also, height chart! Him big. I didn't even attempt to put a human for scale because that'd be. near impossible with this scale.

[blabberoo]

I'm still busy with finals but I have another au idea.

Stan becomes a very successful business man, while Ford fails school because of his extreme fascination with pseudoscience (not really pseudo in the world of gravity falls) at a young age.

Aka Ford gets kicked out instead of Stan

[what-am-i-doing-in-this-fandom]

Yeah, I don't know about you, Fidds, but I'd fold at this 🙏

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[teaboot]

Any tips for being a suicidal 15 year old?

When I was a suicidal 15 year old everyone told me “it gets better”, and it sounded like bullshit. And frankly, it still sounds like bullshit. Like oh, what, I’m living in hell and you’re not gonna help me or *do* anything or give me any useful advice and I’m supposed to just hang in there on the nebulous, pithy promise that things are just gonna work out on their own? And you can’t tell me how or why, I’m just supposed to take it on the faith that I don’t have that something might change in ways I haven’t considered?

But yeah. It does. And it’s frustrating as hell.

Yes, things are gonna get better, and they’re gonna get better in ways I can’t describe even after experiencing it myself. Things you don’t even know CAN be different WILL be different. One day you’re just going to step outside and realize things got better somewhere and you didn’t even notice it happening.

And there’s really nothing I can say that makes that sound even a little bit believable.

I guess all I can tell you is that you have to want to believe it.

[akanemnon]

THAT'S A LOTTA DAMAGE (emotional damage that is)

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[simplydm]

Impulse leading the emergency hermitcraft meeting voice: okay now everyone vaguepost online

[yyyeowza]

young justice if it was even funnier

Based on Young Justice 1998 #20

[justladders]

This is your protagonist, everyone. This is the man sap that we’re supposed to cheer for.

[paper-mario-wiki]

Drake - Pregnant Drake (2024)

[xxplastic-cubexx]

alternate apocalypse ending or something who the hcrist knows anymore

[aegis-egg]

mitsunaru for my soul and sanity in college 🫶