#weeping the miraculous

[sporesgalaxy]

Victims of Circumstance?

I passed out in the middle of drawing this last night but it's been in my brain for days!

this is how I can know so little and so much about them at the same time lol. The themés

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I feel like I owe Kim Possible a minor apology. In a recent post, I used Kim and Ron's romance as an example of how the love square should have been written. I've also talked about how Ron's the perfect example of a male comedy sidekick who is more than just a comedy sidekick because he's treated as Kim's perfect partner. I've probably mentioned Kim Possible other times, too, because it's such a good match for what Miraculous is trying to do.

Because I keep singing Kim Possible's praises I decided that I should rewatch the show to make sure that my nostalgia goggles weren't blinding me to some major flaw. So far, they weren't. If anything, I've been underselling the show. This is where we get to that apology I mentioned at the start.

Prior to this rewatch, I would have told you that Ron's importance wasn't really discussed until the later seasons because the first season of a formulaic kids show is almost always a testing grounds to see what works, so things can be a little rough. Plus Ron's importance isn't exactly something that you need to dive into early on when you've got a two person team. No one is questioning Ron's importance right out of the gate. He's there to be the comedy sidekick. No explanation needed.

Imagine my surprise when the plot of episode six is all about Kim and Ron getting into a fight about Ron excelling at their part time job while Kim kinda sucks, leading to Kim going to fight alone while Ron keeps working. Kim fails, Ron gets a call that she's in trouble, and:

Wade: Not important. Kim's in trouble. She found Drakken at inside giant Cheese Wheel but I lost contact. She needs help. Your help. Ned: Well, well, well. Looks like you've got a choice to make, Stoppable! What's more important? Your sacred duty as assistant manager or your role as goofy sidekick? Ron: Well, that's no choice at all. I guess it's time to say buenos noches, Bueno Nacho.

Dude doesn't even hesitate. Doesn't matter if they're fighting or if he's feeling underappreciated, Kim needs his help? He's there. Their fight can wait until after Kim is safe. This is why I love Ron. Total dork, but you can't ask for a better partner.

Ron's rescue attempt initially goes south, but instead of getting mad, we get this genuinely sweet moment:

Ron: Guess that wasn't much of a plan. Kim: Not as great as your Bueno Nacho bathroom-break chart. Ron: I gooned on assistant-manager power. You were right. Kim: I did resent your superior burrito technique. You're entitled to excel. Forgive me? Ron: Duh! Forgive me? Kim: Totally.

Boy do I love these two! Their friendship was so genuine right from the start. This whole episode is just oozing how much they care for each other, it's great!

After this moment, they save the day with Ron playing a big part in Kim's plan because right from season one, season one, the writers understood that Kim could never be shown to win when Ron wasn't around.

As you may have guessed from the cheese wheel line, the plot of this episode is pretty absurd even for Kim Possible. That's been the case for all of the early episodes, but I think that the plots are going to improve as the seasons go on because I remember the later seasons having much stronger plots. We'll see if that proves true. Even if the plots stay kinda weak, I've still gotta give full credit to the writers for their early character work. They really understood Kim and Ron's relationship right from the start, didn't they? And in a show like this, that's the most important element to get right.

Don't worry, I'm not going to flood your dash with Kim Possible love, I just had to take a moment to appreciate how good the character work was here. They really did want Ron to feel like more than Kim's goofy sidekick and they pulled it off while sticking to the show's absurd writing and formulaic structure. As Miraculous has shown, that isn't something that just naturally happens. It takes effort, so I had to take a moment to gush because I don't get to gush about good character work often while running this blog. I hope this also makes it clear that, when it comes to writing, I'm not looking for perfection. I'm just looking for a good time. So far, that's what this rewatch is giving me.

[bittersweetresilience]

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Félix Fathom Characters: Félix Fathom, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Colt Fathom, Original Animal Character(s) Additional Tags: Time Loop, Blood and Gore, Animal Death, Temporary Character Death, Heavy Angst, Suicide, Catatonia, experimental fic with horror elements, Identity Reveal, Trauma, Past Child Abuse, sentimonster félix but it's only relevant in one scene, Violence, some comfort but the comfort hurts, HOWEVER we have a, Hopeful Ending Words: 4,933

Félix is always watching Adrien die.

[miraculous-magicalconnections]

"Statuesque, I am Monarque!"

Aka my design for an Akumatized Nathalie

Nathalie gets Akumatized into Statuesque during Origins rather than Ivan/Stoneheart, but I wanted to keep a similar vibe while also making it its own Akuma

Statuesque's design is heavily based off of marble statues along with the art of kintsugi, which uses gold to fix broken pottery

When I finally got to designing her, I realized how boring a grayscale character would be and when I remembered kintsugi, I was so happy to add it since this brings her backstory and reason for Akumatization into the design which is something I love about visual storytelling

Her powers work as a mixture of Timebreaker and Reflekta, as when she touches someone with her cane, she gets stronger and turns them into a marble statue of themselves that then act as weeping angels (the statues can't turn others into statues)

[tootyfrootycasbooty]

walked 10km with my fifteen yr old blind dog in a backpack because i love her and want her to feel the sun and breeze even when she can’t take herself there

[dolichomorph]

manifesting a new bee!chloe in season 6 🕯️🙏🕯️

[mistboundmoon]

The figure that trudged through the Parisian night was unknowable under her disguise, but the determination and steel in her voice was a balm to the few nervous citizens who encountered her. As they watched familiar spots disappear into the gloom, they took solace in the fact that miraculous or no, Ladybug would never give up on them.

[evanescentsun]

shadybug 🐞

she isn’t impressed with u.

[gloryseized]

the most natural place to be is your hand in mine. independent, selective, dash-only, multimuse sideblog feat. L.ink from Bot.W/Tot.K. ( Other muses include characters from Persona 5, Miraculous Ladybug, PJO, and Princess Tutu )

promo by the amazing @flockrest / follows back from @stygicniron . personal dni

[sentient-stove]

Trick or treaters to my inbox get a snippet from one of my aus that they specify :D

[inner-sakura]

Same anon as before, technically the songs aren't compiled together in an official playlist, it's more just a mental list of songs that remind me of HEA/TF due to the lyrics, similar vibes, or due to me being into that song when I was reading

But I will share that list (and I apologize for my eclectic and strange music taste in advance):

The story of Us -Taylor Swift Friends -Chase Atlantic Budapest -George Ezra Golden Hour -JVKE Lush Life -Zara Larson Cruel Summer -Taylor Swift Heaven -Niall Horan August- Taylor Swift Forever and Always- Taylor Swift Poison & Wine- The Civil Wars I Wanna be yours -Arctic Monkeys

Anyways, thank you for allowing me to fangirl over your fic for a moment!

OMG never apologize for eclectic music taste i LIVE for that!!!

ok first of all i cannot wait to check out the songs i haven't heard on this list and secondly i LOVE all the t-swift on here. i think i have like three or four songs minimum by her on the playlist i listen to while i write??? i have a problem......

anyway since you so kindly sent me your list, here are a few off of mine that i always go back to! in case youre interested~

love story by taylor swift (because of course LOL)

what if i love you by gatlin (this is literally the first song i added to the HEA playlist when i started writing. idk why but it just stuck with me)

would you be so kind by dodie (the pining! the rom-com vibes!)

you were in my dream by laur elle (love love loooove this one)

you are in love by taylor swift (THIS ONE!!! HNGHNHGNHGNHG)

i loved you first by joan (this one has adrien allll over it)

backseat by charli adams (specifically for the scene where they're driving home from the first party in HEA. such a throwaway scene and yet it has its own song LOL. explain the logic. [spoiler: there is none.])

better off by trousdale (listen to this during the breakup scene towards the end of HEA and you will KNOW. PAIN.)

and finally, hypotheticals by lake street dive, which inspired not only the series title, but also the titles of both HEA and TF!

[sporesgalaxy]

hip youth pastor vs. the death cult duo

[meetherinparis]

Emilie Agreste, her golden portrait, when she sees how her husband neglects thier son.

[taraxacum-vulpes]

[insert the most disgusting sound known to man i can't do this]

[loveandpeaceanddoughnuts]

postwar!Levi absolutely chafes under enforced bedrest, unfamiliar and uncomfortable with doing nothing

his useless legs feel like cinderblocks holding the waterlogged sack of his body to a riverbed, drowning slow

his nervous system hasn’t caught up to the uneasy peace, flooding his veins with adrenaline that has nowhere to go, leaving him gasping for air and sick over the side of his bed

he can’t clean the mess, and that might be the worst thing of all, the helpless wait for someone to witness his weakness

postwar!Levi can’t tell his fevered dreams from reality, follows the green smudge of Erwin’s cloak across an endless battlefield, calls to his commander till he’s lost his voice and wakes up tasting copper

the people who come to check on him are not who he wants to see- why hasn’t Hange visited, changing his bandages with their steady hands?

he leads Isabel and Furlan up a set of stairs that never seem to end, crunching over the hollow bones of birds that died searching for the sky

postwar!Levi finds his clarity has returned one featureless morning and he weeps for the first time since the battle of heaven and earth, mourns the loss of the delirium that had left the door open for his loved ones to creep through

he begins to recognize the recurring figures at his bedside, the gentle touch on his forehead that signals your arrival with water or blankets or bread

the light of anything more than a candle burns his blind eye, so he learns your face only by the flicker of firelight, the absence of shadow

postwar!Levi is desperate for something to occupy his fractured mind, painfully empty without the urgency of strategizing survival

you hide your surprise when he asks you to read to him in a voice rasped with disuse, saying he doesn’t care what it is, just something to focus on outside of himself, and you understand

you begin to visit him every evening, reading softly from your favorite books as he lies taut and silent in bed, brow furrowed in concentration, breathing through the pain that wracks his battered body

postwar!Levi finds unlikely comfort in your voice, your consistent presence, the slow walks along the winding paths of the stories you tell him

you take a quiet pride in the way he seems to soften each night, just barely, the deep black shadows under his haunted eyes fading into the color of an old bruise, his furrowed brow smoothing into satin as you read

postwar!Levi is sitting up when you arrive one evening, gives you the barest incline of his head in self-conscious greeting

he frowns and shrugs off your praise for his progress, doesn’t want to hear of how miraculous it is that he can heave his once-superhuman body up against the headboard, doesn’t confess how long it took or how much it hurt

he does, however, ask you for tea, not telling you that it would be the first time he’s accepted a cup he hadn’t prepared himself, swallowing a sick resignation with the request

postwar!Levi makes eye contact with you for the first time when he offers gruff thanks, shivering as your fingertips brush around the warm ceramic

something clenches in your chest and you turn away to hide it, occupying yourself with invisible specks of dust on his bedspread

you’re busy swiping the corner of your apron over the nightstand and miss the way his eyes go wide, then soften as he watches you bustle around him

“it’s alright. you don’t have to-” “-I know.”

the two of you speak at the same time, fall into the same embarrassed silence, watching each other warily in the low candlelight

your shadows overlap where they are thrown onto the wall as if they don’t realize the distance between the bodies that grew them, or refuse to recognize it at all

[andhumanslovedstories]

I closed the bathroom door to pee with a little privacy (other people with cats are already shaking their heads at me) because Weevil is being particularly clingy this afternoon, and when she’s like this and I go to the bathroom, she immediately jumps on my naked lap, which is cute but also. Honey I am trying to piss. So I closed the door, and now the baby is CRYING, she is WEEPING, she is scrambling her little claws against the wood and mewling, all of which is turns out is actually more distracting to the whole process I’m trying to start in here, on account of it being hard to relax when you are also wondering if you’re history’s greatest monster, so fine fine, the cat wins. I got up, shuffled over to the door, and let her in, at which point she ran between my legs and jumped up on the toilet bowl. I’m not sure what her end goal was here because Weevil is the clumsiest cat I’ve ever met, so she instantly slipped, got her front legs soaked in in the miraculously still unused toilet, jumped six feet in the air, and knocked over every knock overable item in her immediate vicinity. And now she’s SO SAD again because I won’t let this creature still damp with toilet water sit in my lap. I am raising a toddler with claws.