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mlwritingprompts · 3 years ago

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Overhauled submitted prompt: Catastrophic Cat-Doption

The original prompt has been completely overhauled because I couldn’t stop myself, lol. Also changed it from being a stray cat to a feral cat, and added a lot more details.

(A stray cat is someone’s pet that has relatively recently gotten outside/gone missing/been abandoned. A feral cat is one that has lived outside its whole or most of its life, and hasn’t been raised by people. It’s still domesticated, but it’s afraid of people because it hasn’t been around them every day of its life.)

Now includes art! :)

The fic version written by me, Rjalker, can be found here on fanfiction.net!

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(Trigger warning for unsafe animal care, dead animals, and unsanitary-ness.)

Adrien adopts a feral cat, believing that he knows exactly how to take care of one because of his position as the holder of the Black Cat Miraculous. And perhaps his family even owned a cat in the past, which the staff normally took care of. It's easy, right? Adrien just has to feed and water it, and let it outside to do its business!

No. It's really not.

Strays and shelter cats aren't the same as hand-raised, pedigree kittens, and Adrien isn't prepared to deal with even one of those. And to make things worse, Adrien hasn’t even adopted a stray cat.

It’s a feral cat. And the only reason he was able to catch it in the first place was because it had a limp on one of its front legs, and wasn’t as quick as the black cat Adrien had actually been aiming for at diving away to safety. This one isn't’t as cool as a black cat, but it’s still cool, because it’s Adrien’s cat! That automatically makes it cool. He still wishes he could have caught the black one though.

This cat is skinny, with long fur that’s mostly white, with some scattered patches of black and orange across its back and sides, an orange patch on one ear, and yellow eyes.

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[ID: a simple digital drawing showing a white, orange, and black cat looking towards the camera. It's fur is mostly white, with black and orange patches on its sides and chest, and an orange stripe across its face. Where the stripe crosses its pink nose, it turns brown. One ear has a black patch, and the insides of the ears are pink. It's eyes are gold-yellow, with a darker gold spot on part of its left eye, and a ring of darker spots on its right eye. End ID.]

(special eyes taken from two of my cats. Dani has a dark spot on her otherwise orange eyes, and Nymphie has green eyes with rings of dark spots around her pupils)

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It would have been cooler if it had green eyes like him and Plagg, but he’ll take what he can get.

He names it Sidekick.

If he’d caught the black cat, he would have named it Chat Jr. But beggars can’t be choosers, and he hasn’t seen that black cat since, so there’s no chance of switching them out.

Sidekick (who he at least remembers to put a collar on) keeps returning from the grounds when he lets it outside with dead birds and mice, sometimes even presenting it to Adrien on his bed! One time he even started putting his shoes on only to discover it had dropped a mouse head in his shoe!

And things keep getting worse. For some reason, the cat can't seem to groom itself properly, and its fur is matted together in large clumps along its back and sides, which means it’s not even fun to pet it, because the rest of its fur is soft, but the mats are weird and gross. And what fur isn't hopelessly matted together sheds all over his clothes and his bed.

Adrien doesn’t know how, and doesn’t want to clean a litterbox for it, so he ordered one of the self-cleaning ones online. It’s huge, and expensive, and looks nice and futuristic and streamlined, and unfortunately for Sidekick and Adrien…the cat is terrified of it. It was all going so well until the thing turned on while the cat was still inside, and the loud noises and sudden movement scared it half to death. And now Sidekick won’t go anywhere near it.

And since Adrien only bought one litterbox despite his bedroom being as large as a house, because he didn’t bother to do any research before deciding he wanted a cat, that leaves plenty more spaces for the cat to pick from as a bathroom. No one told Adrien that you’re supposed to have multiple litter boxes per cat, because he didn’t ask anyone.

One of the corners of his library quickly becomes inaccessible and disgusting, because Sidekick has decided that the corner between two bookshelves and the wall is now a bathroom. All the books and games and DVDs on the lowest shelves are now ruined, and have to be thrown in the trash. And the same goes for by his window, and on the balcony, and at the base of his rock-climbing wall.

And Adrien has to clean it all up himself, because no one can know he has the cat. He orders everything online himself, and has them air-dropped directly through his window with delivery drones. His father never bothers to keep track of Adrien’s credit cards, and never goes near a window long enough to even look up, let alone have a chance to spot a delivery drone with a package.

Thankfully, his father also never comes into his room, and neither does Nathalie if she doesn’t have to. The cleaning staff have successfully been bribed not to tell his father about the cat, but they refuse, point-blank, to clean up after it unless he pays them even more. And he has to draw the line somewhere. He can’t go letting them think they have enough power to order him around and demand fair payment from him, now can he? So he refuses to increase their pay to include cleaning up after the cat, and they get on with their usual duties, dusting, mopping, washing his clothes and the windows and everything else. Except for the corners where the cat is using as a bathroom.

Thankfully, Adrien’s large windows all open, so it’s easy to let in fresh air so that the room doesn’t reek too terribly, and he has access to the best air freshener’s money can buy. The smell of cat waste is easy to cover up, and after arguing with the cleaning staff, he at least accepts the responsibility of taking the trashbags of paper towels and destroyed clothes down to the front patio.

He just wishes Sidekick would just use the litterbox, it would make all this so much easier.

At least it doesn’t do all its business in his room, there’s a few patches in the garden where it’s been going, digging through the grass and annoying the garden keepers.

At one point, Sidekick decides that the best place to pee is nowhere else than Adrien's bed. And it reeks to high heaven, even more so than it ever did on the floor! And it was the most ridiculous thing he’s ever seen, it didn’t even squat down or anything to give him warning! It just jumped up, stood on the edge of the bed, lifted up its tail, and sprayed pee backwards out across his blankets and pillows!

Because unfortunately for Adrien, and the cat, Adrien didn’t realize that cats that aren’t neutered spray to mark their territories. He thought it would just be like a dog, where it would just mark its territory outside while it was going to the bathroom anyways. But no, that’s not how cats work.

So now he has to throw away all his blankets and pillows, and the mattress beneath. Because there’s no way he’s ever using them again, even if they’re washed. The smell is so horrifically strong there can’t be any way to wash that out again! It has to be impossible!

At least the delivery drones have no problem bringing him his new mattress and bed sets, and the cleaning staff don’t argue about making his new bed for him.

This cat is so much more effort than he thought it would be.

The only good thing is that Sidekick doesn’t seem to mind the automatic food dispenser he bought for it, or the water fountain. The problem with the water fountain is that it likes to play in it, and splashed water all across the floor before he bought a waterproof mat to put it on.

It also enjoys the massive cat tree he bought, that towers twenty feet in the air, with bridges and beds and toys on springs, and plenty of scratching posts for it to use. Half the time he can’t find Sidekick, it’s because it’s napping at the very top of the tree where he can’t reach it unless he transforms.

Well, no, there are other plus sides. Sidekick is cute, when it’s not peeing on his bed or the bookshelves or the rock climbing wall. He bought it bells and toys to play with, and watching it run around the room with a toy mouse is almost worth getting real dead mice dropped at his feet. Almost. But not quite. It would be even cuter if it weren’t limping with every step, but that doesn’t slow it down by much.

But despite its cuteness when it’s playing, the cat doesn't seem to love Adrien! Sidekick spends most of its time hiding or asleep, and it took almost two week after he got it for him to even get the chance to see it playing! Before that, it darted away to hide whenever it saw him!

Even with all he does for it, Sidekick always squirms or runs away from his attempts to cuddle with it, and the one time he tried to play with it, it leapt away and hissed at him with all its fur standing on end, and then hid for almost the rest of the day! It only came out again when the automatic food dispenser chimed for its supper!

Sidekick is not the cuddly, fawning companion he thought it would be, it’s a responsibility that, even worse, has its own thoughts and ideas and motivations. And there’s nothing Adrien hates more than responsibility.

More and more, Adrien tries and fails to push responsibility of this cat onto the cleaning staff, but they have their own jobs, and refuse to add another one without being paid for it, and⏤they remind him⏤he wanted this responsibility! He’s the one who wanted to get a cat in secret, without permission. They’re keeping his secret, and if he wants them to do more work, he has to pay them for it. They were hired to dust and wash his clothes, not petsit for him like he isn’t fully capable of it.

Nevermind that what he really wanted was a cute cat that couldn't talk back to him and make him smell like stinky cheese, that he could cuddle whenever he wanted to, but he's starting to find that there's a worse smell than Camembert, and that's cat urine.

To add insult to injury, Plagg and the cat get along great. They get along the way Adrien thought he and the cat would. Plagg keeps trying to tell him that he needs to be more gentle and quiet and try to gain its trust because it’s afraid of him because he’s a big and scary predator as far as the cat is concerned, and Plagg keeps telling him not to keep letting it outside, but what does Plagg know?

Plagg is willing to take some matters into his own hands, mainly grooming the cat. He brushes its fur every day until the matted clumps are gone, and then keeps brushing it to make sure they don’t come back, and actually succeeds in playfully wrestling with it, despite the differences in their sizes. After the second month, Plagg finally convinces Adrien to buy some normal litterboxes, insisting that he will scoop it himself if Adrien refuses to.

Then Plagg cleans the areas where the cat had been going to the bathroom, and puts the litterboxes there, and suddenly Adrien doesn’t have to clean up after the cat everyday, because now it’s using the litterbox, and Plagg keeps his promise and scoops them every day. The only thing Adrien has to do is carry the trash down to the front patio for the staff to take out to the curb.

Plagg also convinces him to get the cat checked out by a vet for the limp on its paw, and fortunately for Adrien, he’s able to find one online that’s a fan of Chat Noir, and convinces them to help out “one of Chat Noir’s best friends, Adrien Agreste”. They’ll be getting paid, of course. The Agrestes have plenty of money. All Adrien had to do was hop over to the vet’s house, and carry them in through his window, with their equipment stored away in his baton.

Unfortunately for the cat, there’s nothing the vet can do about its limp without extensive surgery that can’t be performed in a bedroom. It’s an old injury that healed wrong, though thankfully it doesn’t seem to be causing the cat much pain anymore. But it will never regain full use of its front paw, and can’t even extend its leg out the whole way, which Adrien notices every time its stretching after a nap.

The vet gives it its vaccines, and then informs Adrien that it’s a girl cat, and that it’s pregnant.

Adrien is shocked speechless. How can that be possible?

The vet asks if he has other cats, but he doesn’t. The vet asks if he ever lets her outside unaccompanied, and he replies that of course he does, all the time. Cats need freedom, don’t they?

And then the vet has to explain to Adrien that cats aren’t meant to be outside, that it’s better for them to stay indoors all the time unless they’re on a leash or in an enclosure, and that there’s absolutely nothing stopping this cat from leaving his mansion’s grounds, or another cat from getting in. Cats can get pregnant at any time of the year, and letting her outside without supervision is why she’s pregnant now. Adrien should make sure in the future to either keep her indoors, or walk her only on a harness, or in an enclosed patio.

The vet tells him that the cat can be fixed, and the pregnancy aborted, but the cat would have to come back to the actual vet clinic in order for that to happen, and he would have to pay for it too, because it would be using up more of the clinic’s supplies.

If Adrien agrees to it, the cat can be neutered and brought back within a day. It might seem sad or cruel, but it is what is best for the cat, and the unborn kittens. There are already too many unwanted cats in Paris, the shelters are completely overwhelmed, and unless Adrien would be willing to keep or foster all the kittens, there’s no way to adopt them out right now.

Getting the cat fixed is one of the best things he can do for it, because cats aren’t like people, they aren’t able to think and plan pregnancies. Being pregnant puts a lot of stress on the body, and it’s unnecessary for the cat to be put through that for no reason, especially where there’s no homes waiting for the kittens after they’re born.

Adrien agrees after some very emphatic but silent urging from Plagg to say yes from behind the vet’s shoulder, though the matter is delayed for a few minutes when the vet realizes Adrien doesn’t own a cat carrier, and explains that, no, they cannot just hold the cat while Chat Noir carries both of them. That would be dangerous beyond reconciliation even if the cat were willing to be held, which it’s not.

Adrien of course had to explain to the vet how he got Sidekick, that it was rescued off the street, to explain the injury to its leg. The vet was gratified to hear what he’d done, but had some serious suggestions to improve what he’d already been doing.

He’d done well by taking Sidekick in, and he’d clearly been feeding it properly (it had gained a lot of weight since he’d caught it, and was no longer as skinny as a stick) and cleaning up after it (at this point, the stains and marks from the first disastrous litterbox incidents have been cleaned away perfectly, thanks to the unlimited amount of money Adrien has to throw at his problems) and taking care of its grooming, (thanks to Plagg) and he was right to call in a vet to check on its leg. (Also thanks to Plagg.)

But there was more Adrien should do if he wanted to care for this animal properly, and that started with getting Sidekick fixed, and included no longer letting it outside unaccompanied, or even at all. Adrien’s bedroom was bigger than the vet’s whole house, there was enough room to comfortably house several cats, let alone just one. There was no reason at all to let it outside where it was put in danger and allowed to kill birds and mice, which is harmful for the environment, and worse, can give the cat parasites that can make it sick or even kill it. And that’s even before you get into all the poisons that are in the world for a cat to stumble into.

The delay from the lack of a carrier is fortunately easily solved by a five-minute delivery drone, and twenty minutes later, Adrien heads back to his mansion as Chat Noir, now temporarily minus one cat (Now renamed Purrincess, now that he knows it’s a girl), having promised the very insistent vet that he would take their suggestions into serious consideration.

No more letting the cat outside unless he’s walking it on a leash, or can get an enclosed patio. Which isn’t an option, because his father might notice. So the cat just has to stay in his bedroom all the time, which the vet said would be no problem at all because of how massive it was. If he wanted to give it some more “enrichment”, he could put a set of shelves or ledges right under the windows, so the cat could sit and look outside, or put for-cat videos on one of his TVs that showed birds and squirrels for the cat to watch. He had a good amount and variety of toys that the cat clearly enjoyed playing with, and aside from being predictably skittish from growing up outside, it seemed happy and healthy.

Adrien was told that he was lucky that there were so many people in Paris, because that meant that Sidekick had had more opportunities to observe people before it was caught. If it had grown up with less contact with people than it already had, it would be a lot harder for him to socialize it.

That was a word Adrien had never heard before. So the vet explained that kittens who were raised with people were socialized by being around people, being played with, and getting attention. They learned from the moment they were born that humans were nice and friendly caregivers.

Cats who grew up outside didn’t get that treatment, which was why they were usually afraid of people to begin with. But you can’t un-domesticate an animal, and cats had been bred for thousands of years to be companions. If he kept up the good work, the cat would learn to trust people, and would probably be almost as happy and trusting as any hand-raised kitten. All it took was patience and understanding, and he already had a fairly brave cat to start with, which made it even easier. It would be no time before it had warmed up to him and learned to trust him enough that it could enjoy his company.

So maybe he should have listened to Plagg after all. This was what Plagg had been trying to tell him, this was why Plagg was able to pet and cuddle with the cat but Adrien wasn’t. Adrien was too impatient, and wanted its affection now. But that wasn’t how animals worked.

If he wanted its trust, he had to earn it. He had to prove that he wasn’t dangerous or scary, he had to prove to the cat that it could trust him and would be safe with him.

The vet gave him some tips: don’t run around loudly, because that would scare the cat. Don’t pester or follow the cat around trying to pet it, encourage it instead to come closer by offering treats and special food. Start slowly, and only go as fast as the cat was comfortable with. Let it get used to being around you first, then you can offer pets. Each cat is different, so he would have to figure out how and where the cat wanted to be touched. Some really liked having their heads or chins rubbed, others hated it. He would have to take it slowly and figure out what Sidekick wanted.

He could start by playing with Sidekick with toys, and offering it treats as positive reinforcement. Offering to let it sniff his hand, letting it get used to being close by near hm before he tried to pet it at all.

It would take time, but there was no reason Adrien wouldn’t be able to gain the cat’s trust and affection. All he had to do was prove that he was trustworthy and safe, and be patient. Rome wasn't built in a day, and you couldn’t overcome a lifetime of fear in just a few months. He had to look at it from the cat’s perspective ⏤ how would he feel if a giant kept trying to grab him without warning?

No one ever told Adrien having a cat would be this much effort. He thought he could just pick it up off the street and get straight to the cuddling, purring happiness. But that’s not how it works when it comes to feral cats.

Well, now he knows, and with Plagg and the vet’s urging, he’s going to do better.

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persianflaw · 2 years ago

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4 11 14 16 pick anything

4. what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?

i can't think of a singular "annoying person" in fandom that i've felt compelled to block in a while. most of the time, if i'm blocking someone over fandom, it's just because i don't mesh with their interpretations and it's the easiest way to filter their content out of my dash.

that being said: the first person who came to mind was this user from sherlock fandom who was convinced that they had been the first one to come up with a particular portmanteau or slang or something, and had strong feelings about that. it was their url too, and i think there was some kind of recurring drama where they got mad at people for tagging posts [slang term] because it meant they couldn't check their url tag as easily. it was this really goofy petty drama and for some reason i thought it was the most annoying thing in the world back in 2012 or whenever this was.

also, rjalker, who has since deleted their blog, and who i feel no shame about naming because they said some pretty fucking nasty things to and about me when i made about the most milquetoast "i think murderbot should kiss its friends :-)" post you could think of. they had bad opinions about murderbot and apparently about a lot of other fandoms. but they blocked me first so it doesn't really count for this LMAO

11. number of fandom-related words you’ve filtered

14, but several of those are variants. it's a few fandoms i'm not personally in (AA, critrole) plus sansmaeda and as many variants of that stupid homophobic "fingers in his ass sunday" meme i could think of, which i do consider fandom-related

14. that one thing you see in fics all the time

gushing over attributes that a character does not actually have. this is more noticeable with live-action canons, since illustration/animation/text description allows for a lot more individual interpretation. not everybody's fave has long, slender fingers or full lips or a nice ass (this is the biggest one that people delude themselves about). let's not kid ourselves.

16. you can’t understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc)

the m/m/f dynamic where it's "the girl with her shit together taking care of her silly boyz" is nothinggg to me. let the woman be messy or an idiot or a weirdo too! it's uptight sitcom wife who has to mother her goofy dumbass sitcom husband with extra steps.

also, femdom where the dom's pleasure is weirdly sidelined or-- sanitized is the only way i can think to word it? unfortunately common in het femdom but it definitely exists in f/f femdom too. all of the focus is put on the sub and what they're getting out of the experience, even if it's the dom's pov. it's kind of like the real-world phenomenon where submissive men will talk a big game about wanting to please their goddess but in reality their idea of "servicing" is ultimately still about what they think is sexy to do, if that makes any sense. let me see how she's feeling too! let me see her enjoying pegging her partner or having her boots blacked or whatever, really viscerally enjoying it.

#ask #swarovskinipples #choose violence ask meme #i went pretty broad with most of these haha #ty for sending them!! these were fun :>

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ultraericthered · 5 years ago

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@ecofinisher, @cozy-kitsune, @quietenigma678, @volperion, @rjalker, @faefae, @mintscity, @myriartz, @notall2gether, @queerinette. @thoscheian, @miracul0us-multishipper, @sweet-marigolds, @shipsallshipshoweverimprobable, @great-akuma-ideas, @my-miraculous-headcanons, @astrangetypeofchemistry

So...last night I decided to watch THAT episode of Miraculous in full. The one that kicked off the mostly lousy third season, cemented Lila as the most evilest monster on the show, and inspired a thousand salt fics: “Chameleon”. This show has seen it’s share of poorly written stupid episodes, and this one was pretty top tier in terms of stupidity, not gonna lie. It was very, very dumb. But that’s all it was.

Seriously, THIS was the episode that pissed off so many viewers, sent shockwaves through the fandom, and outed so many truly deranged minds who’d write salt fics about torturing and murdering a 14 year old girl for her actions here? The one that’s made out to be the definitive Animated Atrocity to come from this show? Sure, it relied on the “everyone acts like idiots” plot device in it’s writing in order to force the initial conflict, but it was otherwise just a basic dumb episode that doesn’t seem worth getting offended over, and didn’t leave me with any negative thoughts or feelings that lingered after I got done with it. I REALLY don’t understand the ML fandom if so many in it got triggered over something silly like this.

The few specific things I did note about it:

- Marinette is still full-on Yandere over Adrien. When that’s still a thing three seasons in, it starts to become to the character’s detriment.

- While the lie about tinnitus wasn’t bad on Lila’s part, the whole conflict over seating arrangements that it spawned was so stupid, especially since it gets so easily solved at the episode’s end.

- From the reputation this episode gets, I’d kind of expected that the class turning against Marinette due to Lila’s lies would take up more than just the first five minutes. Seriously, it took up so little of the episode and was so mild in how it was portrayed that I was kind of shocked since the class is so demonized for this is so many salts. Moreoever, Lila lying that she’d seen someone get their eye gouged out by the tip of a napkin and everyone seriously believing that made it clear what a farce the whole thing was. It was played for laughs. But I guess all the adult children in the audience didn’t get the joke.

- I get that Marinette hates liars on principle, but she just made the dumbest moves here, trying to tell Alya and Nino about how she knows Lila is a liar which could’ve risked exposing that she’s Ladybug, and making such an open display of challenging Lila and declaring her a liar to her classmates without any solid proof.

- I’ve covered the bathroom scene before, but it’s tricky ‘cause I really do believe that Lila, unusually for her, didn’t tell a single lie to Marinette. Her attitude at first was a lie rather than her words - the super sweet, thoughtful, innocent, nice and worried act she was putting on was very clearly calculated and designed to win Marinette over and make her think better of her so that she’d agree to see things Lila’s way. When Marinette was having none of it, there’s this brief little sigh Lila does before her expression, tone, and body language changes as she shows her true face to Marinette and threatens her. But all the things she was saying that whole time were things I think she believed were true, things she really meant and would commit herself to. She sincerely thought she might’ve made Marinette cry and wanted to check on her, she sincerely didn’t know why Marinette didn’t like her (since she doesn’t know Marinette = Ladybug), she sincerely did think that jealousy about the seating arrangement with Adrien might be Marinette’s problem, and she sincerely did want to be friends rather than enemies. Marinette blew her chance to get to the heart of Lila’s lying and try to make peace with her. But Lila was at least reasonable enough to give her an ultimatum and a window of time to think it over so, there’s that.

- “And I thought Chloe was evil, but Lila really takes the whole cake!” Oh, Marinette. You’ll be eating those words at the end of the season.

- I’ve seen some fans claim that Lila’s biggest Berserk Button is having her lies seen through and being called a liar outright. If this is true, then this episode isn’t consistent with that. Lila admits she respects Marinette for being “a little smarter” than the rest of her class because she saw through her lies, which is why she was going to give her a fair chance to decide if she wanted to be with her or against her. And when Adrien admits that he knows she’s been lying, that’s not what gets her upset - it’s that Adrien brings up “that time with Ladybug”. THAT’S what set Lila off on him and made her think he was being sanctimonious towards her; it sparked a bad memory.

- Hawk Moth, I love you, but what the fuck are you doing here? This is after the Season 2 finale, so why are you still a thing? Like with Marinette’s obsessive crush on Adrien, Gabe’s Akumatizing shtick has worn out it’s welcome when we’re three seasons into the show.

- Lila should get credit for at least being well aware of what kind of person she is - she jumps at the chance to snatch up that Akuma for herself and asks Hawk Moth outright to make her a “supervillain” so that she can destroy Ladybug. She really IS a costume-less villain! That said, I see her more as being “naughty” than truly evil, though I’m sure that Lila starting it off for Hawk Moth this time with “I am Lila” is fuel for the “Lila’s the future Hawk Moth” theories some fans have.

- So the conflict with Chameleon for most of the episode is that Lila, assuming the form of Adrien (and a little boy at one point), is trying to seize every possible chance she can find in her fight with Ladybug to kiss Ladybug. ‘Cause kissing another is how she assumes their form. And she wants to become Ladybug in order to tarnish her reputation. So she keeps on trying to kiss her. It’s the dumbest, gayest shit. I can’t imagine taking an episode like THIS so goddamn seriously

- Lila’s a good actress when she’s being herself, but when she’s someone else she just discards professionalism and hams it up like nobody’s business. I love it!

- When Adrien was unconscious, Plagg thought that only a kiss could wake him up and was going to do it. But he got up before Plagg could kiss him. We were CHEATED.

- For a consummate liar, Lila has a surprising amount of honesty about her evilization. When impersonating Adrien, she acts like a jerk and steals Nino’s hat, an opportunity to put a dent in Adrien and Nino’s friendship...but instead she announces that she’s actually a shape-shifting villain who’s headed to the Eiffel Tower so that Nino’s feelings are spared and his friendship with Adrien remains in-tact. Then later she’s telling her classmates all about how she was that supervillain and what her experience with Ladybug at the Eiffel Tower was like. The details were lies, but the basis is still in true events.

- Adrien was alright here, really. I liked his line to Marinette about the risk in exposing Lila and publicly humiliating her - “Making a bad guy suffer has never turned them into a good guy.” Which is especially true of a bad guy as young as Lila is. And sure enough, just doing nothing and letting Lila trip over her own lies ended up more effective at getting a good consequence than blatantly trying to expose her.

- Whoever made the ending shot had to know what they were doing. Marinette and Lila have their backs to each other, and whose eyes are pasted up above? Hawk Moth’s. Whatever Marinette and Lila’s conflict with each other is and whichever sides they find themselves on, he is the only true villain here and both girls are his victims.

I came out of the episode NOT thinking everyone but Marinette were scum and wanting to torture or kill Lila Rossi as punishment that’s disproportionate to her crimes. I’d be interested to hear any thoughts.

#Miraculous #Miraculous Ladybug #season three #Chameleon #opinion #criticism #Lila Rossi #fandumb #hatedumb #haters #crybabies!

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unusualshrimp · 3 years ago

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[ID: Image 1 is a tiktok comment with the username cropped out, reading “Bugs are incests, incests are animals, vegans don’t eat animals”

Image 2 is a tumblr post by rjalker reading “leghorn for your free blocklist, thinks someone misspelling “insect” as “incest” is funny”

Image 3 is a tumblr post reading "Free blocklist of all these ableist assholes who think it's fine to make incest jokes, and that if you block someone for making incest jokes and warn your followers about it, that means you're a hilarious parody blog! (Paragraph break.) It's especially funny with that last comment "4 blogs who when I was 14 followed that person" looks like you're probably one of those ancient mutuals I used to follow who occasionally resurface to post SPN shit from the depths of hell and i black on sight now :) (smile emoticon) (Paragraph break.) Original post is by leghorn who thinks it makes them internet famous to be blocked for making incest jokes. (Paragraph break.) Also gotta love the Adrien stans out here defending making incest jokes LOL. Show your whole evil heart why don't you. It's not enough to defend little kids learning the message that sexual harassment is romantic, now you're out here saying it's fine to make incest jokes and harass people for (all caps:) Not! Liking! Incest! Jokes!" (This post has a reblog by Walks-The-Ages that reads: "Leghorn has now blocked ME, which adds to the hilarious hypocrisy. Can't wait to have a dozen rabid proshippers in my inbox calling me slurs!"

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#how dare you say we piss on the poor #also.#''what is a proshipper'' felt this on a spiritual level #op please never find out. preserve your innocence. for me #buy a house in the countryside where you can see the open sky. and feed the little fish in the ponds #im going insane over this #SHOW YOUR WHOLE EVIL HEART WHY DON'T YOU....#fellas do you ever spend such a long time online that you forget incest exists outside of fandom blood feud bullshit #and also that posting a tiktok screenshot of a vegan BADLY misspelling insect is NOWHERE NEAR RELATED TO adrien or whoever #im going to lose it

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rjalker · 10 months ago

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tumblr won't let me directly upload the video so here you go. It's also on the Internet Archive. Also, all the frames are there too, so you can edit them and make a continuation or your own version.

this is the version that's not actually accurate to the book. I wasn't even supposed to be making an animation but I got carried away.

the volume is a bit quieter than it should be since I forgot I have to have the microphone right in front of me.

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[Video description start: A short video animation based on Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, with built in subtitles and a voiceover from a single person, showing the narrator of the book, drawn as an orange and gold square, interacting with the King of Lineland.

At the top of the screen is a long grey rectangle, with two black lines representing Linelanders on either side, each with a white eye on their points. At the bottom of the screen is a box labeled, "The King's View", which starts out filled in with light grey, marching the eye on the smaller line across from the king.

The line on the right is longer to represent the King, and the Square stands below him on the screen, demanding, "Hey, Woman! What's wth this weird line you're all standing in?".

The two lines visible think to themselves in parenthesis, "(I thought I heard something...)" "(Huh?)".

The narrator demands again, "Woman! Why do you ignore me? Answer my question!".

The King wonders to himself, "(What is that weird sound??)".

The narrator snaps, "Answer me when I speak to you, woman!".

The King things, "(Okay I know I heard something that time!)".

"Ugh! Unbelievable!" the narrator says in anger, "I'll show her to ignore me!" He moves forward and puts his face in front of the King's, saying, with sarcastic annoyance, "Excuse me!".

At the bottom of the screen, the box showing the King's view is now the same gold as the narrator's outline.

The Linelanders exclaim, "Woah," and "Agh!".

The narrator demands, "What are you all doing standing in a line like this, woman? I've asked three times!".

The King responds, "I'm not a woman! I'm the King! And where the crap did you come from?".

The narrator says, "I'm sorry for mistaking you for a woman, Your Majesty, but you didn't answer my question. Why are you all standing in a line like this?".

"Nevermind that," the King says, "Where did you come from?".

The narrator replies, condescendingly, "From the side, obviously.".

The king replies, "You didn't come from the side, you're not my neighbor!".

"Not in front of you, I came from your other side. Your South side.". The Narrator says.

"South? What does that mean?" the King asks.

"You know, South! You're facing East, I came from your South.".

The king says, "I'm facing East and West. You didn't come from the West.".

"South doesn't mean West, it means South.".

"Then what does South mean?".

"What do you mean you don't know what South means? Just turn and look!"

"Turn? What does this mean?".

"You don't even know what turning is?? Okay, look, watch, I'll demonstrate which way South is.". The narrator moves over to the side, closer to the center of the screen, saying, "Let me move over first so I don't hit you by accident.". When he is in the center of the screen, so that his sides won't hit the king he says, "Okay, are you watching?".

"Yes..." the King says skeptically.

The narrator moves forward a little, towards the top of the screen, saying, "I Nove north...". Then he starts to move backward, saying, "And...I move South." As he says this, he moves backwards out of Lineland entirely. The box at the bottom turns grey again as the narrator is no longer in the King's line of sight. The narrator says, "See?".

The King demands, "See what? you've disappeared!".

The narrator says, "I moved South. You saw, didn't you?".

The king replies, "You didn't move at all! You're using some kind of trick to hide! You are a liar!"

The narrator pushes himself back into Lineland to say, "I'm not a liar! You're just too One Dimensional to see all of me at once!".

The kind exclaims, "Of course I'm One Dimensional, there is only One Dimension!".

"No, there's two!". the narrator says.

"Then prove it!" says the King.

"I already did!".

"You didn't do anything! Stop talking nonsense or leave my Kingdom!".

"Make me why don't you!" the narrator shouts back.

The King shouts, "Maybe I will! Men! Charge!"

The King and his neighbor behin to rush towards the narrator, with other lines followin them. The narrator says quietly just a moment before being hit, "Oh crap.".

The screen goes black, the voicover says, "Boom", and two white stars slowly expand and then contract again to show the narrator being hit by the Linelanders.

When the stars fade, we see the narrator asleep in his bed, which is a purple cushion with arms wrapped around him to cover all but one of his points.

An exclamation mark appears over his head as he wakes up in alarm, then bursts out of bed, shouting, "Aagh!" in shock.

Then he spins in place, saying, "Huh? Wha?" then he subsides, sinking down sligtly towards the bed again, saying, "...huh...I guess it was just a dream..."

He sinks back into the bed and pulls one of the blanket sections over him, saying, "I'm going back to bed..." then pulls the other blanket half over, saying, "That was weird...".

The video ends. End of video description.]

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rjalker · 10 months ago

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@ranmagender :)

[ID: A short, silent animation showing a large pentagon house from Flatland, with text reading, "A house in Flatland has two doors." The large door on the lower left is highlighted in blue, labeled, "The Men's door, for shapes", with small figures of a circle, hexagon, pentagon, square, and severran triangles shown. Then the smaller door on the right is highlighted, labeled, "The Women's door, for Straight Lines", with three straight lines shown.

Then text read across the bottom, "But what about nonbinary people?" above a blue and red sphere seen from above, a straight line, a five-pointed star, a pentagon, an irregular line, a square, and a thin triangle. A blue question mark is in the center of the house to show the confusion.

"Well..." the text says, as the nonbinary shapes appear at the top right wall, then continues, "You see..." as the nonbinary people begin to back up out of frame. Then they charge forward, motion-blurred with speed, and break through the wall, causing a cloud of dust to come up. As the dust fades, we see the wall broken inward and the nonbinary people standing inside the house. A blue line then highlights the new hole in the wall, and says with a smiley emoticon, "They're custom-made". End ID.]

most of the wait time was me trying to figure out how to crop this lol...

also on youtube :) and the internet archive.

#Rjalker makes animations #Flatland #Flatland a romance of many dimensions #nonbinary #trans #transgender #described images #described video #Flatland animation

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rjalker · 1 year ago

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[ID: A video animation without any audio, with a small mouse cursor visible hovering near the side.

The first frame is of a black and white hexagonal prism, a 3D shape that is made of black lines to show all faces. Two of its largest faces are made of regular hexagons, or six-sided shapes, with rectangles connecting each hexagonal face where they meet one of the flat edges. This frame slowly pulls away from the camera, surrounded by a black border.

Next is a greyscale diagram with three sections, showing on the left a grey line connecting two points, with an arrow labeled, "Moving a Point parallel to itself creates a Line". Followed by in the center bottom, "Moving a Line Parallel to itself creates a Square", with black and grey lines demonstrating. Last, on the right, is a cube with no label.

The animation begins, showing two purple shapes, a large Square and a small Hexagon, standing near a wall with an open doorway on the Left side of the screen. on the right is a blurry shadow.

In front of the little Hexagon is a black dot. The Square asks, "So what do we call this, grandson?"

"A Point!" the Hexagon exclaims.

"That's right!" the Square praises, then asks, "And do you know what happens if we move a Point parallel to itself?"

"Yes!" The hexagon says.

The Square moves backwards a little, saying, "Okay, good, then show me!"

"Okay!" the Hexagon says, and moves closer to the dot. He drags it to the side, creating a grey dotted line, narrating, "If we move it this way...we make a line!" the dotted line becomes solid.

"Very good job!" The Square says, "What next?"

"Next..." the little Hexagon moves to the side and above the grey line, then says, "We push the line", while pushing it downwards, creating two dotted vertical grey lines on the sides.

"And make a Square! Like you, Grandpa!" the little Hexagon proudly says, now inside a grey square formed by the line's movement.

"Very good! You've got it exactly right!" says the Square, who has rotated so that one corner is facing the little hexagon.

"But Grandpa..." the little Hexagon says, trailing off.

"Yes?" his grandpa asks.

The little Hexagon says, "I know you want me to tell you the next part, to show you I've been listening, but I don't know the words for it yet."

"What?" Asks the Square, "What do you mean 'the next part'?"

"Well, the next part!" the little Hexagon says, He explains, "First we moved a Point to make a Line.", and a simple diagram apears above his head, showing a dot and a line.

The Square responds, "Yes."

The little Hexagon continues, "Then we moved that Line to make a Square.", with another simple diagram of a line and a square.

"Yes...?" The Square asks in confusion.

"Well, obviously next you want me to move a Square," the little Hexagon says, "But I don't know how to describe how it'd move..." Above his head is a diagram of a square, with a grey dotted line pointing diagonally, with a questionmark.

"Or, the little Hexagon continues, "What you would call the shape it makes..." above him is now a diagram of a cube, with a question mark inside it.

"So, since you know I know how to do it, can you just tell me what this direction is named, and the name of this shape?"

There are a few moments of silence, where three dots appear over the Square's head to show he is speechless.

"...Grandpa?" The little Hexagon asks in worry.

"Go to your room if you're going to talk nonsense." The Square says suddenly. "I was trying to teach you a serious lesson in geometry, not make jokes."

"But I wasn't--" the little Hexagon begins to protest. The grey shadow suddenly moves closer to them and gets darker.

"Go to your room!" The Square says sharply, unaware of the deeper shadow hovering above him as the lower edge of a green sphere appears at the top of the camera.

"But Grandpa--!" the little Hexagon tries to argue again, while the green sphere alights next to them.

"Excuse me." Says the Sphere.

"Aah!" Shout both the Square and the little Hexagon, moving away from the sound.

The Square moves to shield the little Hexagon as they back away into the corner, while the Square shouts, "Who said that?! Who's there?"

"I said it.", says the Sphere, beginning to move down into Flatland. The Square and Hexagon move further into the corner.

The Sphere, now halfway through Flatland, and surrounded by a black circle, says simply, "I am here."

"! A Circle?!" the Square exclaims, and the little Hexagon begins to move out of the corner as the Square continues, "Oh, my Lord, forgive me, I did not--"

"I am not a Circle, I am a Sphere." The Sphere interrupts.

"Woah!!" The little Hexagon exclaims, now fully out from behind the Square. He begins to run toward the Sphere, and his grandfather tries to catch him, shouting, "Wait! You can't just run up to--!"

"Hi! I've never met a Circle before!" The little Hexagon says when he is standing directly next to the Sphere, "You're really big!"

His grandfather huries to push him backwards by catching him on one of his edges and turning, admonishing him, "Give the Priest some space! You can't just run at people like that! You could hurt someone!"

The Square places the little Hexagon back away from the Sphere, continuing, "I know you're still getting used to leaving the nursery, but your points are sharp now, you have to be careful!"

He then says to the Sphere, "My Lord, please forgive my impertinent Grandson, he's only been out of the nursery for a week now, and it seems his Configuration still needs some time to settle..."

The Sphere says, "There's nothing to forgive, he did nothing wrong."

"Thank you, my Lord." The Square says. Next to him, the little Hexagon is once again moving past him to see the Sphere again.

"You should be the one apologizing to him!" The Sphere says, with the words you, and him underlined for emphasis.

"I--my Lord?" The Square stumbles over his words in confusion. The little Hexagon stares at the Sphere.

"Yes," The Sphere says, "He spoke the truth and you accused him of playing games!"

"I did?" Asks the little Hexagon in surprise.

"He...did?" Asks the Square, then tries to add, "But my Lord..."

"But nothing!" Says the Sphere, "Little Hexagon, come here."

The little Hexagon approaches the Sphere and asks, "Yes, sir?"

The Sphere says, "You are very bright for a LDM, so I will tell you the words you were asking your ignorant grandfather to tell you earlier."

Under his breath, the Square repeats, "LDM...?" in confusion.

The little Hexagon asks, "So I was right? The next step is to move a Square?"

"Yes." The Sphere says, then explains, "The direction you need to move the square is called 'Up', or 'Down'. You only exist in two dimensions, so you can't see these directions, but if you try, you can imagine them.

"The shape created by moving a Square either Up or Down, and connecting the points, is called a Cube."

"Woah!" says the little Hexagon. "What if you move a Hexagon Upordown?" He imagines the words "up or down" as a single word from mishearing it.

"Then you get what we call a Hexagonal Prism." Says the Sphere. "Do you want me to describe it to you?"

"Yes!!!" shouts the little Hexagon.

Under his breath, the Square mutters to himself, "This Priest has gone mad..."

"I heard that, Square. I already told you I'm not a Circle. Now hush." Says the Sphere.

The little Hexagon, not hearing, looks at his grandfather in confusion, who backs away from the Sphere in alarm.

The little Hexagon turns back to the Sphere as they say, "Anyways, a Hexagonal Prism is..." A Pause. A thoughtful, "Hmm."

"What?" Asks the little Hexagon.

"Well, how about instead of telling you, I show you?" asks the Sphere.

"Yeah!!!" shouts the little Hexagon excitedly.

Suddenly a voice comes from the open doorway, saying, "Excuse me everyone, I'm entering the studyroom! Don't be alarmed, it's just me!"

A Straight Line begins to enter the room, and the little Hexagon greets her with, "Hi Grandma! Come meet my friend!"

"Oh?" Says the Straight Line, entering the room fully and looking at the Sphere, "Who's this? You didn't tell me we had company, Raymond!"

The Square says, "Well, I didn't know we did either, dear..."

"He's gonna show me what a Hexagonal Prism looks like!" The little Hexagon tells his grandmother excitedly.

"Actually," says the Sphere, "My pronouns are they/them."

"Oh! Like my sibling!" the little Hexagon says as his grandmother moves closer to the Sphere, standing between the little Hexagon and his grandfather.

The Square rotates to try and look at the little Hexagon, exclaiming in shock, "Like who?!?!?!"

"Oh, he's just being silly, Raymond, you know how kids are, hahahahahaha...." The Straight Line says, turning to look at him while laughing nervously.

"Well, anyways." The Sphere says, "Who wants to see a higher dimension and expand their minds beyond everything you ever thought you knew?"

"Meeee!" volunteers the little Hexagon, then his grandmother adds, "Oh, I'd love to get out of the house for the holiday!"

"Wait, wait, I didn't give permission--" the Square starts to protest.

"Your wife doesn't need your permission to do anything, and she can give permission for your grandson just as much as you can." The Sphere says.

"Yay!" says the little Hexagon.

The Straight Line says, "Oh, you're so sweet!", then, "Let's go!"

"Alright, give me a moment to push you off your plane..." The Sphere says.

Then they begin to sink through the other side of Flatland, making them seem smaller as they pass through. The Square exclaims, "He's shrinking!"

The little Hexagon runs toward the disappearing Sphere to investigate while the Straight Line turns to her husband to correct him, "They, not he."

"What language are you speaking" says the Square. The Sphere is almost on the other side of Flatland, with only a little green circle left visible.

"I'll tell you when we get back." Says the Straight Line to her husband.

From seemingly nowhere, the Sphere's voice says, "Alright, you two, stand next to eachother and don't be alarmed. I'm going to pull you in a new direction. It'll feel weird, but it won't hurt."

The Straight Line moves forward a little and calls to her grandson, "Come here, Barnaby."

"Yes, Grandma!" he says, and moves to her side.

"Ready?" asks the Sphere, still invisible.

"Ready!" The Straight Line and little Hexagon confirm.

"I didn't agree to any of this!" protests the Square.

"Don't worry," says the Sphere, "You're not going."

Then, "Actually. Hold on."

The Sphere starts to reappear, saying, "You look exactly the same from above and below, so let me put some color on your upper side so I don't put your back upsidedown."

The Sphere quickly lifts out of Flatland again and hovers above the Straight Line and little Hexagon, while the Square demands, "Where did he go?"

The Sphere moves away from the two again, and says, "There, that should do it.". Both the Straight Line and her grandson are now colored cyan, with black text reading, "This side up".

"But you didn't do anything." The Square says.

The Sphere begins to sink back into Flatland again, and the little Hexagon asks, "What happened?"

"Don't worry, I'll remove it when I bring you back." Says the Sphere just before disappearing again.

The Square says, "Remove what? You didn't do anything!" then yelps, "What the--"

The Sphere is now below the Straight Line and the little Hexagon, making them slightly larger as they are pushed towards the camera.

The Sphere moves further towards the camera, brining the two Flatlanders with them, while the Square shouts in horror, "You ate them?!?! Jemima! Barnaby! What kind of monster are you???"

But the Sphere ignores him as they fly towards the camera, almost filling the screen, while the two Flatlanders they're carrying say, "Whee!!!" in enjoyment.

The Sphere flies directly through the camera, so that for a few seconds we see their insides, like a glitching computer game, with mostly black, and random squiggles of dark colors for intestines.

When the Sphere is past the camera, we see the Square now alone in the room, shouting, "They're gone! They're gone! They just disappeared into thin air!"

He runs for the door, shouting to himself, "I've got to report this to--someone!"

In moments he is out the door, and the room is completely empty.

After a beat, large text reading, "The End...or The Beginning of an alternate timeline [smiley emoticon]". appears. Then the word "Bye" in all caps, with extra Es on the end.

The video ends.

End video description.]

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anyone who wants to is free to add sound effects to this, you can download all of the frames here from the Internet Archive, which is where you'll also be able to download this video once it's done loading.

You can also watch it on youtube.

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