#adrien monk

[skipblebee]

Omg,, is that,,, Adrien Monk from hit series Monk 2002?? And what's this?? H-h-he's a danmei fan?!?!?!? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🤯🤯

Psst everyone say thank you @starleska for the template :] I saw it and had to make these hehe, HE LOOKS SO SILLY I LOVE HIM

[waffle-bubbles]

I’m writing a speech for my public speaking class about the show Monk (2002) about its representation of OCD/autism, and I want to know the difference of opinions.

In your opinion, is the representation good or bad and why?

[pollyna]

Leland Stottlemeyer really said if you don't let a spot for Adrien Monk in the force I'm going to quit right the fuck now and I think it's beautiful.

[tostitosaretheshit]

Monk, ‘Mr. Monk and the Candidate’, (2002)

[sasukesofficiallawyer]

I’m rewatching Mr. Monk and The Kid. sobbing my eyes out and screaming into my pillow.

[my-pfp-is-my-current-intrest]

Mr. Monk and Marci is the darkest timeline/AU of Argos and Mr. Plant

[appendingfic]

Monk unpacking his groceries like it's 2020

[sasukesofficiallawyer]

Thanks for tagging me! I don’t really know which one suits my vibe the most

I’m a weird combination of all of them I think

@the-real-sasuke-uchiha @madelinemayfair @moon-trees @kittencrazy

rules: choose 4 of your favorite characters from 4 pieces of media as options and let your tumblr pals decide which one most suits your vibe.

Thank you to @cool-thymus for tagging me 🫶💕💕💕💕💕

I’d like to invite @inzuinzudesu @obitobi-simp @clackclackboom @ferymary to join :,D 💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[fishybehavior]

when your rewatching an old show and the main guy just runs you over with a truck with one sentence

[skipblebee]

Watching the Monk season 8 finale gang I'm absolutely terrified

[waffle-bubbles]

Monk says he's not a people person, and then he can't spend a day by himself

[mothdogsart]

Characters for a oneshot(ish) I’m DMing with my buds. Clockwise from the top right we have Finch, fire genasi monk; Marigold, weretiger barbarian; Adrien, custom-lineage firbolg/elf ranger; and Patina, dragonborn bard. They’re all level 11 and currently kicking asses throughout the lands of the Radiant Citadel lol

Paging @blissandbookstores and @likesirensinthenight 🥳

[verfound]

Any thoughts on the Season 5 finale?

I stopped watching during S4 😂 I've only seen a handful of episodes from S4, and I definitely haven't seen the S5 finale. I'm debating if I even want to, mostly because what I've heard feels like a fever dream. 😂

From what I've heard/seen, it's all bullshit. 🙃

[kincalling]

Hello. My name's Adrien Monk from the show Monk. I'm a fictive in a system(and our current host so I front quite often as of now) I'm looking for Trudy, Sharona, Benjy, Leland, Randy, anyone really. In the system headspace I am around 28? Maybe, but bodily we are a minor, sooo, I'd maybe like nobody older than 17, however if your a fictive and older in headspace, I'm fine with that. my memories are all pretty canon compliant i guess, me and sharona were really close and i considered benjy practically my nephew/son. if you want to talk please interact I'll dm you, I'd love to talk about literally anything.

🎧

[noircherri]

if I don't abandon this:

I might make an miraculous AU where mari is a saintess and theres like magic and shit and adriens like a crown prince or something i was doodling this all in my notebook today and finished maris so yeah!!!

(edit) bonus:

lilas still lying (context in this would be mari, as a saintess, helps a village by curing it similar to her miraculous ladybug, and lila claims that it was her doing and mari overhears it and is likw wtf. idk im just my brain is rotting and i need something for it to rot on..)

heres my extra rant:

I guess this is all in the same universe and it’s a historical one? But I made her clothes too modern-esque so it’s like that’s getting partially thrown out the window. It just suited her and I feel like she has a futuristic type of fashion. Lila is a commoner while Mari is a priestess/monk sort of vibes where she studied magic and shit and is a really good saintess. She can cure and do martial arts, but she’s also clumsy when it comes to it. She’s also not super communicative, but she’s smart and strategic. She only steps up when she’s needed to be, and I guess the growth would be she gets more and more confident because she was always capable to begin with.

[actually-factually-anonymous]

To be blunt, I don't care at all for Luka myself specifically because he was a nothing character for so long.

I'm going to quote someone else here who already summarized things:

You know; I don't like Luka as a character.

I don't hate him, I just find him annoying and without any depth- sans for those brief moments like in Truth when he actually showed something besides an impossible-absurd patience and nigh-vapid acceptance. For most part, I find him to be a 'gentle hippie' relationship sue with less depth or signs of inner life than Adrien at his most basic, like he's some kind of programmed doll who just doesn't experience jealously or frustration or anything else beyond what would be good for Marinette. An android that smiles, acts like a perfect boyfriend, plays guitar and spouts off supposedly insightful metaphors for human nature that could have been found in a fortune cookie like they're hard-won wisdom to be cherished.

The design of his eyes and eternally static 'gentle' expression does not help with this.

I just think he's a ken doll of a character. A pretty teen boy guitarist who exists solely to support Marinette and occasionally give out silly music metaphors about the nature of life and relationships as some stereotypical 'old soul in a young body'. All the while wearing the exact same expression twenty-four seven with those hyper-detailed eyes- I find that he falls into the Uncanny Valley in a way that the actual character named that doesn't.

Ironically, between him and Adrien he's the one who comes across as having an artificially perfect personality- even compared to the Adrien the public sees. That's not a favour to his character, as compared to Kagami who actually has her own motivations, problems and a character arc based around them that lasted through a season, he's just bland on a good day. He's not even allowed to be legitimately upset with Marinette in the same way that Kagami was with Adrien, presumably because that might put a dent in his Relationship Sue persona.

However you bring up a good point: Luka did develop. But even if it gave his character some much needed shades and depth, it wasn't necessarily in a good way.

He's still inexplicably devoted to Marinette- even though a boy like him should have multiple options and Marinette was anything but a good girlfriend to him- but now he's also spineless.

At least it when it comes to Marinette.

The two obvious incidents are what condemn him, the first being in "Wishmaker" when he decided to place Marinette's peace of mind over being responsible and admitting the truth. But what really, utterly buried any semblance of a backbone for him was in "Ephemeral":

Not only does he go along with Marinette's backstab of Chat Noir without a word when he could have attempted to dissuade her of her plan under the basis of acting like a human being to her (alleged) friend and partner.

Not only does he enable it by using the snake when he could have told her to find someone else to help her in her pointless manipulation (seriously if I were Luka and Marinette came up to me with this I would have lost all attraction to her as a person there and then).

Not only does he not finally admit that he already knows their idenitites so the whole thing is pointless, or even just half-lying and saying that he actually knows Chat Noir's identity from "Wishmaker" but not hers.

He doesn't even take the easiest option of just immediately rewinding Second Chance on the first loop (or just pretending to use Sass even) and lie to say that the plan was a success and he knows his identity that way. There was zero reason for "Ephemeral" to happen in-universe beyond Luka not wanting to defy Ladybug in the slightest that episode.

Sure, he has a few moments of respectability elsewhere but seriously: this boy makes Adrien at his most pathetically compliant look like Felix. It's just that it's for Marinette's benefit so apparently his greatest flaw is actually his greatest virtue.

I swear, I see people writing fanfics about how Luka would make a great friend for Adrien, and no. No, Luka has already sold Adrien out to his Boss just so said Boss wouldn't have to be honest with him or have a hard conversation with her Boss. That's not friend material.

That's doormat material at best. Which is more or less what Luka seems to have been designed as for Marinette, whereas Kagami was written as an actual character.

And that's probably why the salters were all but silent about him lying to Marinette in "Wishmaker". He barely has any motives at all beyond "be nice to Marinette" so it was taken as just an extension of that. Any negative implications of that choice can therefore be forgiven because he simply loved Marinette too much, and that's no fault at all.

Do you think Luka was a doormat for Marinette? If so, how?

Sort of? One of the reasons Luka annoyed me so much during seasons 2 and 3 (Aside from Lukanette shippers having a habit of demonizing Adrien, Alya, etc), was that he didn't actually seem to have any emotions or ambitions beyond being there for Marinette, to the point that it felt like he was some imaginary boyfriend she cooked up. I really like to try to see things from other characters' perspectives, but when I tried to do that for Luka, I just felt like I was getting brainwashed.

Luka doesn't feel any emotions that would be inconvenient for Marinette in those early seasons, like jealousy at being a second choice, desire to actively compete for her perspective, or anything except wanting to patiently be there for her if she decided she wanted him, and complete acceptance without a hint of bitterness if she chose someone else. I'm not saying he should have been a jerk about it, but he's so chill and has so few problems that it feels inhuman. I far preferred the plotline with Adrien's and Kagami's relationship, Kagami reacted way more like a normal person who has wants and desires of her own. During seasons 2 and 3, the most that Luka was developed outside of his relaitonship with Marinette, is the 30 second clip in Reflekdoll where we see him assuring Juleka. That at least indicates that he HAS relationships outside of just Marinette.

That being said, Luka DID improve in seasons 4 and 5, if only a little. He's still more chill and accepting than I think is natural or healthy, but with his playing therapist to so many people in Migration, it's shown to be a "him" thing, rather than him inexplicably being warped around Marinette in particular. In Truth, it's shown that he IS bothered by Marinette constantly running off and lying to him, even if he's way more accepting about it than he has any right to be. He DOES feel hurt, even if he suppresses it.

Most importantly, he's given emotional baggage of his own, with feeling insecure and abandoned due to his father abandoning him and Juleka, not even knowing who he was. I love that as Truth, he actually got to be ANGRY at Jagged for that abandonment. And afterwards, there were several episodes that touched on his and Juleka's developing relationship with their father, giving Luka more of an anchor in the story outside of just Marinette.

So basically, yeah, I do think Luka's a doormat not only for Marinette, but really for anyone he cares about. He's good at standing up to random jerks, but not at standing up to those who knows don't have any malicious intentions, but still end up hurting him.

But I also think that with how the newer seasons have developed Luka, there's some interesting space to delve into WHY Luka feels the need to subjugate his own emotions, wishes, and desires so much - because it's been proven that he does have them, and doesn't just exist for any particular person's sake in the story.