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So in theory, Adrien having an arc about breaking free from Gabriel should affect Cat Noir, let Ladybug see that he's more than the indomitable spirit he makes himself out to be. He should be more open to his pain, let himself be vulnerable without hiding it behind his jokes and bravado, and just like he was there for Ladybug, Ladybug should be there for him.

Instead canon went "yeah, Adrien should be a submissive, perfect boy, and Cat Noir's useless."

Are there any takes of yours from the past where you looks back and think "this aged like fine wine" or "this aged like spoiled milk"?

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I called everything that would go wrong with the SentiAdrien concept two years in advance when it was still a theory. I said it would be used to excuse his abusers and no one but my fellow sceptics believed me. Call me Cassandra, I guess.

As for a take that’s way past its best before date, I used to think Marinette was a good team leader because she could direct the different Miraculous holders so well. Now I just see her being such a control freak that her teammates can't jump without her say-so, never mind the inconsistent expectations and team rules as well as her being so detrimentally secretive that the team isn't even aware of their command structure.

Seriously, no one but Marinette and Alya know Alya's the second in command. Who does that benefit? No one! It just means Marinette doesn't have to explain to the others that she picked her civilian bestie over her longtime partner because of favoritism and nepotism.

On the other hand, the Fae Creature Cat Noir take is still so accurate, but in the worst way imaginable, because the canon decided to make him a literal fae creature and ruin the entire point of the take. I was so proud of that analysis I made an entire music video about it, complete with translating a Finnish song for it, and now it just fills me with such bitter disappointment. I hate it here.

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Ko-Fi Commissions Start Now.

Hi, I'm Steve. Years ago, I started a Ko-Fi page. It did not gain traction.

Until now. Since I've been more active on Tumblr, I decided to revitalize my Ko-Fi page. I need at least $1,300 for a gaming PC, and while my relatives are willing to pool together money for it, I want to do my part in contributing too. So I decided to put my spriting skills to use.

You are able to buy a non-OC sprite for $20, and an OC sprite for $15. I repeat, a non-OC sprite for $20, and an OC sprite for $15. Simply click "request this", tell me what character you want (please attach a screenshot or a reference image for a non-OC or OC character.), and I will do it.

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Cat Noir: What's the point?

I know this is a common criticism regarding later Miraculous seasons, but I ask this with absolute sincerity: why is Cat Noir here?

I get it in the first two seasons: it was just him and Ladybug, and he was the one who provided help for Ladybug. Sure, he was also kidnapped or brainwashed a couple times, but in one way or another, he always helped defeat the akuma.

Now? Marinette doesn't need him anymore. The world doesn't need him anymore. Since Season 3, he's slowly taken a backseat to more heroes, more people with superpowers, until now he's nothing more than the distraction, someone to be the human shield and nothing more. He doesn't get an on-screen transformation anymore, even Plagg feels minimized in terms of screentime.

When it comes to akumas, Marinette has more powerful and more capable heroes to help her. Minotaurox with his invulnerability, Viperion with Second Chance, Miss Hound with her fetch ability, you name it. All of them can do the job better than Cat Noir, and that's just the superheroics. Since Season 4, Alya's become Marinette's confidant in both civilian and hero life. So Cat Noir can't even be the confidant anymore.

At what point should Adrien accept he's no longer needed, hang up the ring, and be Marinette's full-time boyfriend? Merch sales might drop, but it's not like the writers care about him. It's not like Ladybug would care if he disappeared. He may as well be gone this season with how utterly useless he is.

It's just...this is what the Agreste Arc was leading to? Adrien's increased benching, his increased softening, until he's just a boyfriend and a human shield? For crying out loud, Tuxedo Mask does more to help Usagi in her civilian and hero life than he does. And for what? To what end is Adrien pushed aside?

Had it not been for me deleting my Twitter account, I'd personally ask Thomas Astruc myself. I would ask him straight away why Adrien is reduced to being a distraction, a token boyfriend.

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Zack Fair from Crisis Core

... I tried... I really did. The spiky hair in the final fantasy series are hard enough as it is but this guy in particular looks like Sasuke with a sense of humor and its so disorienting... Please accept my humble offering.

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Y'know what?

While it's fun criticizing Miraculous, even I feel like I need to do something on this site other than that show.

I'll see what I can do.

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redesigned my boys Null and Rush Ranger

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Revelator is meant to be a critic callout episode, but it all rings so hollow. Because the critics are right. Marinette did control Adrien through lying to him. She did become just like Gabriel, lying to Adrien "for his own good". And it did ruin Adrienette. Saying "the critics are losers and everyone who believes them don't want the truth, they want sensationalism" is irrelevant, because you made her do this. You didn't need to, but you did, and you're doubling down.

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"Adrien came back to life, so it's no big de-"

NO! I won't accept that, not even for a moment. Do you realize how easy it is to disregard life this way? To keep sacrificing someone because you know they won't be dead for long?

This is what the writers did to Marinette. It made her kill Adrien. It made Adrienette even worse.

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"But her legs were fixed, so it's ok-"

No, no it isn't. Prostheses and disability aids like them aren't toy cars you can buy a replacement for on Walmart. They're expensive, very expensive. The cheapest prosthetic leg can go up to $3000, so Sublime's legs are probably in the $10,000s or even $100,000 range.

Sublime would and should be angry at Marinette and Ladybug for breaking her legs, but no, she's apparently calm and forgiving, and Marinette just feels soooo bad, so let's sweep it under the rug, no problem. I don't believe I'd lash out (I hope), but I'd still have a hard time forgiving someone if they broke my hearing aid (Cochlear Implant for right ear).

Point is, can it with the "saintly disabled person" crap, writers.

It's kinda baffling to me how so many people are like "well Marinette got called out for her bad behavior" and completely omit the fact that no, she didn't. Not in any meaningful way anyway. This is just Marinette doing the same thing she does all the time where she does something awful, realizes it and then throws a pity party for herself until her victim has to comfort her. No, the lucky charm doesn't count, because it can't hold her accountable for her actions. She never faces any meaningful consequences for her actions, she just gets upset about the mistakes she made so that the audience can feel sorry for her.

That's not even getting into how abhorrent her actions were in this episode and how it was downplayed to make her smell like roses. She broke a disabled person's prosthetics. That's deplorable. I was genuinely so uncomfortable, both that she did that and that the show used that as a plot device at all. This season is off to a rancid start.

Part of why I haven't watched the episode is because just watching some clips made me kinda uncomfortable... Like gurl, why are you soaping up the lockers shouldn't those prosthetics make you a little more conscious of how that's gonna be bad for Sublime... Not to mention how she spent all day being so "conscious" (or as the saltier people would say, STALKING) of Sublime trying to find some inconvenience to help her with, you'd think looking out for slippery floors would be one of them.

Also yeah. Pity parties don't count for being called out.

And even if they do, for every pity party you get another character reassuring her so it cancels out. Even the victim of her actions is absolving her.

For even better equivalence, she may think the Lucky Charm is calling her out but then the akuma's power to turn you into your best self didn't work on Ladybug cause the universe thinks she's already her best self as if there's nothing she should improve on, like, I dunno... jealousy, insecurity, inconsideration, or self-centeredness to name a few just for this episode.

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I should check it out. In fact, tomorrow, I'll put on the first episode and see where it takes me.

Twin Peaks Day ‘24 - That Gum You Like Is Going To Come Back In Style!

Happy Twin Peaks Day! Sorry for the extended disappearance, but I’ve found great time and I’m ready to get back into the swing! In my time gone I’ve become obsessed with Twin Peaks, so expect to likely see a lot more of that.

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Elaborate for the uninformed (if this is about Chloé, I already knew that. But the way you worded this, it sounds like something else is at play.)

Someone asked me thru message if I'd watched the new Miraculous London Special...

...And, being the fool I was, I assumed this was because Chloe might be featured in it. Whoops.

Anyway with a bit (read: lots) of difficulty I managed to find it, and was it worth the effort?

Does Ladybug have stripes?

It was entirely based around the S5 finale (which was terrible) gave Ladybug an opponent where it was virtually IMPOSSIBLE to lose (talk about infinite lives) and barely had any other character in it at all apart from the terminally dull Marinette & Alix (Zzz).

If they were trying to make Cerise (The Villain Formely Known As Lila) into an intimidating villain, well... it kinda fell flat. I will note however, that Mr Astruc continues his grudge against blonde teenage girls. Who hurt you, baby?!

Oh, and what the heck is a Chromo... you know what, don't bother.

The ONLY thing I liked about it was the line 'I feel like I did this ten years ago' when Ladybug was putting her earrings on from the pilot.

Someone must have written that uncharacteristically clever snatch of dialogue for Thomas while he napped on his moneybags. Maybe... it was a ghost?

So in short, in may have been CALLED the London special... but we got precious little of this city in the special proper... no Buckingham Palace, no Trafalgar Square, not even Big Ben.

BIG BEN for goodness sake. Practically sacrilege.

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We are so screwed.

Minecraft movie trailer dropped this thing looks awful my skin itches just looking at these things

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Wanna know the weirdest thing?

He doesn't hate Chloé. Astruc has gone on record multiple times to state that no, he doesn't hate her. Which means two things:

1) If you go by the idea he sees characters as tools to serve whatever plot they're writing, then Chloe, to him, is just another tool made to teach kids that there are truly evil people in the world. Although you already had Lila and Gabriel for that, so even then, she doesn't serve that purpose well, especially when they ramp up the dumb blonde jokes in S5.

2) If this is how he writes a character he doesn't hate, I shudder to imagine how he'd write a character he does hate.

Watching videos commenting on miracolous episodes talking about racism is interesting (Especially when I'm older than when I watched them + I'm European, specifically Polish)

Note, if you are outraged by Chloe's defense, I'm sorry, but Europe and the US don't really have the same approach (Which can be frustrating for non-white Europeans)

First of all, the text about sushi… Sushi was created in China and then came to Japan, which means that this particular text by Chloe is not entirely racist, I know, shocking, but Thomas didn't do his homework before writing the episode, so it came out strangely

As for Chloe confusing a Chinese with a Japanese, unfortunately I have an explanation, it is related to the fact that in Europe they speak collectively, i.e. "Asian", so yes, if we assume that Chloe only dealt with Japanese, and not Chinese, it was unconsciously confuses them with each other (I remind you, this is Europe, not the USA, here the topic of racism is more complicated), anyway, I don't believe that she's the only one who confuses Asians with each other, because we're talking about Europe, where such confusion is more "Normal" (however it sounds), why is she the only one? Why don't any adults do this? This is unrealistic and distorts the reality in Europe

Besides, the very fact that the series is written by a Frenchman who has no clue about racism says a lot, hello, you live in a country where Muslims are persecuted (There is a ban on wearing hijabs), so what more can I say about all this?

It's unrealistic that only Chloe confuses a Chinese and a Japanese with each other, older generations should also have a problem with it, because the action takes place in Europe, not in the USA, plus, older generations are more racist than the younger ones (Because the younger ones have access to for information), so it doesn't make sense that none of the adults are racist, Thomas, do you know what country you live in?

So yes, taking the action in France, i.e. Europe, in practice made Chloe's racism seem even more strange, because they could make it seem that she is not the only person in the whole country who has a problem with it, but it is known that Thomas Astruc prefers to pretend, that in his country and in the whole of Europe racism does not happen (And only a white fourteen-year-old child is the only racist… Yes, it sounds bad)

Europe is not the USA, you could have searched the Internet for information about current acts of racism in your country or Europe itself to present them in your series, but you decided to do something that makes no sense because of the place of action which is France, it looks so unrealistic, when you are European and you know the approach of people from Europe, antagonizing Chloe for racism when she is a fourteen-year-old living in Europe (where such racism is more common, because it is not the USA), to punish her for… As a European, she does not have an attitude like Americans and she took bad examples from adult Europeans

Thomas' attitude towards Chloe is even worse for this reason, he forgets that children are not born racist, they acquire this through adults, the Internet and other media (Like the news), throwing Chloe on the pile for being racist is harmful, yes, we should talk about racism and fight it, but hate a child for being a racist, because adults taught her that? A child's mind is still developing, it shouldn't be done, educating children is necessary, so Thomas, you fucked up the whole series

As a European, I have more reason to criticize this series for how it ignores the very topic of racism in Europe in order to antagonize a child (Fictional, but a child), if you want to show racism, then use information about it, not create worse versions of racism from the 70s -those from America

I had to describe it because it's frustrating how Americans hate Chloe for racism and they have no idea what it looks like in Europe, instead of bashing Thomas for showing racism in such an unrealistic way, they attack a fourteen-year-old cartoon girl, it's fucked up on many levels

Thomas doesn't know anything about racism, especially in Europe, if he did, only Adrien and Marinette would know it's racism, and the adults, including Chloe, wouldn't see it as a problem because they're fucking adult Europeans and we have unrealistic shit that pretends to be that it is progressive because it talks about racism, but the truth is that there is nothing there, no realism in this topic (Compare to US productions from the 70's, even they did it better…), this episode would be better if it showed real racism, and not the one just to show how stupid Chloe is -_-

Yes, I had to get this out of the way because a lot of people in the fandom are Americans and they look at Chloe from an American perspective, the problem is that Chloe is not American, she is French and that changes the perspective, yes, racism is bad, but remember that in Europe operates on different levels and Thomas Astruc presented it so badly that if you are from Europe, you it hurts

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I have a counter to that:

Mandy from "I Am Not Starfire". Not because she's fat, not because she's Mariko Tamaki's self-insert. It's because she is a whiny, entitled, unlikable brat we're supposed to sympathize with.

She has no powers, is seen as Starfire's daughter, and thinks she gets the right to complain, lash out, and see people as either sheep or freeloaders. And as soon as she gets powers? The tantrums end.

Even if her name was Max, I would dislike her.

“this female character is badly written” [loud incorrect buzzer] you would love this exact same character if she were a man

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Marvel Superhero Squad Online.

I forgot a bunch so here's a part 2! As always please reblog for a wider range of answers

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WOKE Mario! TRANS AGENDA shoved into BELOVED CLASSIC!

SWEET BABY INC remains a BLIGHT to VIDEO GAMING!

holy fucking shit we won so goddamn hard

source

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I thought Chloe was returning for S6. Selah Victor said as much.

Chloe Bourgeois 🐝

I miss drawing her so much you guys have no idea🥲🥲🥲💛💛💖💛💖💛💕