#whispersfromthecrypt

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Look, I’m just saying if you don’t explain Onslaught as “Professor X and Magneto’s aggressive psychic love child” you’re doing it wrong.

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Omg PLEASE. I’ve been on tumblr since like 2012 and it is so exhausting seeing the same things recycled over and OVER again😅🤣 like come on. Already been there, seen that, moved tf on.

Being in a long-term fandom really makes me wish we had like, Fandom Supreme Courts, just so that every time the same stupid discourse rears its ugly head for the umpteenth time in ten years, we can just be like, “Actually this argument was settled in the 2006 Fandom Supreme Court ruling in the case of AngelPotter vs. Xx_goth1c-r0se_xX, so everbody can shut up about it now.” Imagine the wank reduction.

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Seriously is anyone else obsessed with this man or is it just me??

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So I haven’t been able to watch the new Monster High episodes yet but I have seen a couple of clips. I feel like someone needs to clarify that aromantic and asexual are not the same thing. A lot of the time they do go hand in hand, but asexual means a lack of sexual attraction. Not romance. That is very different and that’s why we have two separate terms. I myself identify as a biromantic ace. Romantically attracted to people but all that dirty stuff can stay far away.

Based on what I have seen, Deuce falls under the aromantic umbrella. Happy with his platonic relationships and having no interest in pursuing romance.

If you want to view Deuce as Aro and Ace, that’s totally within your right, but please clarify when doing so that what was seen in the show is pretty clearly just Aro confirmation. Unless Shae Fontana herself says otherwise, it’s really not helpful to the Ace community if who we are and what we experience keeps getting mixed up.

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I lost touch with Nickelodeon content a long time ago, so I am just now learning that according to Spongebob lore, the Davy Jones who owns the famed Locker--the same one the Flying Dutchman tried to stuff Mr. Krabs into when he died--is just Davy Jones from the Monkees and this is my new favorite thing XDDD

It's so SILLY and so clever and so perfectly Spongebob XDDDD

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I went through this in middle school and early high school before I was free to hang out with the group that turned out to be my forever friends. Sometimes you just don’t click and you won’t ever click and I was very lucky I found people who embraced and celebrated the creative baby weeb that I was. I felt safe with them to come out of my shell, and for a socially anxious teen, that meant the world. It breaks my heart to think of those who weren’t so lucky.

People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

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Decided to watch the new Miraculous special after falling out of the show years ago. I love role-reversal parallel universes and this didn’t disappoint at all! Honestly, it was better than anything in the first four seasons I remember.

Toxinelle and Claw Noir made for such tragic villains without being over the top💔 Marinette’s breakdown scenes broke my heart. They’re just teens dealt a really bad hand; I don’t blame them for heading down a villain’s path.

And Gabriel!! Omg, by far the best part for me. Loved him from the second his theme song opened the special. He makes for such a more compelling hero than the generic bad guy he’s become over the years—even if he does apparently now hold all the Miraculouses?? I want to see more of this Betterfly/Hesperia version. A lone hero seeking redemption in a world controlled by this mysterious dark overlord?? Sign me up!!

And now he and his son are on the same side but don’t know each other’s identities?? Aaah I love the idea of him mentoring the newly reformed Ladybug and Claw Noir - and now he and Adrien can rebuild their familial relationship too😭

I need more of this universe. I hope Zag revisits it. I’d absolutely reinvest in this franchise if they bring this universe back

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Manny x Twyla is the most adorable couple EVER and I really hope we see more of them in S2

Also I’m gonna be so sad if Toralei and Clawdeen don’t start dating. They’re so precious 🥺

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Look, I think it’s great the Miraculous Amazon store released a Shadybug+Claw Noir collection…but whyyyyy is there zero Hesperia merch?? Not even a shirt??

Like I know the main two and Ubiquity are the three most likely to appeal to the target audience but Good Guy Gabriel was the entire reason this special even happened so can his fans please get some merch?? Please?? 😭

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I was in high school during the late 2000s. This was during a time where a lot of people used “gay” and “homo” as casual insults. Tells you something about sensitivity at that time.I had a friend who eventually came out as trans I later years but at the time, no one knew that word, not like it’s known today. There just wasn’t the language for it. I myself as a nonbinary knew there was something different about me, but I never got farther than “I don’t feel like one or the other” because I had no frame of reference. Gender was only taught and spoken of in the binary, at least from what I remember. Sexuality a little less so, but even then concepts like asexuality referred almost exclusively to plants or cells. I can’t tell you how often people I knew poked fun at me for that even as late as 2012.

I did have a friend who years later came out as a trans man but no one in my friend group clued into this back then. At least, not to my knowledge—we wouldn’t have even known where to begin. Granted, I was sheltered and naive and didn’t realize I wasn’t straight myself until much later in life but I wonder…if those terms and knowledge had been more readily available, would I have figured myself out sooner? I really don’t know.

I graduated high school in 99.

There was a student at our school named Wayne.

Wayne was gay. It was obvious. He was unable to stay in the closet even if he wanted to. To make matters worse, he was also Black. From a bullying standpoint, that was not a great combo. Both Black and white students made fun of him relentlessly. He was ostracized from the only community that may have given him protection. Only us theater kids stuck up for him, but not to significant effect.

Wayne was bullied so much that at one point he finally snapped and attacked his bullies with a lunch tray. I was actually seated in perfect line of sight and just sat there chewing my soggy fries in stunned silence. It didn't even seem real as I was witnessing it. The image of him wailing on his main bully as the food on his tray flew off is permanently logged into my long term memory.

The bully he attacked had blood all over his face and went straight to the nurse. Other than superficial cuts, he was not injured.

Before the attack, Wayne went to teachers for help. He went to guidance counselors for help. He went to the principals for help.

He did all of the things you were supposed to do. No one helped him. They wagged a finger at the bullies and warned them to stop.

Wayne's lunch tray melee was the only thing that worked. His bullies stayed far away from him. But a week later Wayne was expelled and the bullies were given no punishment.

So... no.

No one in my school talked about being trans.

Because the only way to survive being openly queer was to bash people with a lunch tray.

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Seriously though what I would have given for Monarch’s identity reveal to Hesperia and then subsequently protecting Adrien from him with this kind of horror because not only is he the bad guy in this universe but he’s also a terrible father…the irony being that he seems at least somewhat unaware why his own son hates him.

But of course when he returns to his universe I wouldn’t be surprised if his Adrien, now in the process of reformation, greets him with an apologetic/desperate hug and they can have an emotional heart to heart and be one universe out of so many where the pair actually have a healthy father+son relationship 😭🥹❤️

And of course, Hesperia reinforcing his vow and determination never ever to wander down a dark path again. Seeing what he could have become still unsettles him…

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Miraculous isn’t my primary fandom, but I still circle back every so often. Right now my brain is filled with Zoenette and it makes me so said Marinette does not return Zoe’s feelings😩

I do love Adrienette, I do, especially after watching S4+5…but still. Zoe is so sweet and attentive. She is to Marinette what Marinette is to Adrien, able to see past the mask and jumbled excuses offered to friends. She cares so much and deserves to be with the girl of her dreams💔

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Okay but like what would’ve happened if not only had Monarch and Hesperia learned their identities but Monarch was the one who told Toxinelle and Claw Noir about the wish?? What if he learned of Claw Noir’s identity too and managed to sway him with his plans of bringing Emilie back?

And what if he tried to make a wish with their Miraculous but learned just like Toxinelle that he couldn’t because of the seal?? Would all three fight harder then to corner Cat Noir and Ladybug?

OR did Hesperia accidentally open a portal into Monarch’s lair and then Monarch subsequently hijack Ubiquity’s portal before Toxinelle and Claw Noir followed Hesperia in, and learned all of this in a parallel world where Emilie is still gone? What would he do then?

Meanwhile how is Good Guy Gabriel adapting while he figures out how to get back home? Is it a shock to see Natalie alive? A son that loves but fears him?? And why does everyone treat him like a kettle set to boil over?

I just want a Prince and the Pauper situation with these two so BADLY. If I can finish the oneshot I’m working on in a timely manner, maybe I’ll try exploring this in fic form…

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Had this mismatched dream last night where the Straw Hat Pirates were among many caught in the midst of a world-wide zombie apocalypse. I don’t remember too much except this one scene where Sanji got really sick but all the hospitals had shut down and though Zoro desperately tried to encourage him to keep fighting, he ended up falling unconscious and dying in Zoro’s arms💔💔

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I think one reason I love family friendly monster media, apart from growing up with the Munsters, is that it takes something I love (monster lore) and presents it in a way that’s safe and fun and relevant and healing to the wounded child in me. Growing up as the creative, repressed, sheltered queer kid in a conservative family was awful: I would’ve related to media like Monster High and Vampirina and Hotel Transylvania and the all the rest of it, I’m sure. I’m glad we have such a budding genre today. Hopefully any kids growing up in situations like or close to mine will feel less alone, and understand that their true self is perfect the way it is ❤️‍🩹

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Them: it’s Romeo and Juliet but with lions

Me: Simba’s Pride is about healing generational trauma and standing up against the expectation you’ll grow into someone you’re not.