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Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

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This is only tangentially related to the current Chloé Discourse™, but I always find it weird whenever people say Chloé "didn't want to change", or that she had multiple opportunities to change but refused. Her views were never meaningfully challenged. In fact, every time she needed a kick in the ass to realize that her way of doing things was wrong, the story surrounded her with enablers. If the other characters were constantly trying to talk sense into her and she dug her feet in at every possible opportunity, then we could talk about a problem on her part.

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An Alternate Transfem Adrien

So a few weeks ago Tumblr user WisteriaSymphony posted this, and it got me thinking heavily about transfem Adrien and how it could work without constraining her to misogynistic tropes.

My way of making it work is to make transitioning a way of breaking free from her constraints rather than working with her girl-coded constraints. A key facet of Adrien's arc is that she's (he's? I'm using she/her pronouns for now but please tell me if I messed up,) under the controlling thumb of Gabriel Agreste who has molded her into this perfect model boy everyone should love. Radiant. Dreamy. Carefree. Adrien the Fragrance. Heck, Gabriel literally puppets the kid with the feather rings!

So yeah, Adrien breaks the mold of the handsome polite athletic model boy. Heck, since Chat Noir is an overcorrection, why not break that mold too! Absolute freedom! Not just breaking free from your allegorical shackles, but what pieces of those shackles you're happy to keep. Maybe she still fences or has Chinese lessons because she likes them.

One thing I don't think she should or would do after all this character development is date Marinette. If you've seen my reviews you should know I'm not too fond of Adrienette as a ship, but Marinette is controlling as hell like Gabriel Agreste. Following him everywhere to be with him, trying to monitor any friends not connected to her, lying to the entire world that his shitty father wasn't a shitty supervillain so Adrien wouldn't feel bad, etc. She also, especially pre-season 5, is blatantly in love with the image of Adrien put up on the world, rather than the true Adrien Agreste. Also Marinette gives off the vibes that she's bi but convinced herself that she's just a really good straight ally. She may be able to come up with crazy plans in the heat of battle, but isn't smart when it comes to social stuff like this.

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She’s so handsome she’s my hero

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bringing this over from twitter bc this person literally gets it. watching su for the first time i was literally shocked by how wonderfully toxic the yuri was there. thank you women 🙏

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I'm having quite the mental experience tonight.

I have relived a childhood formative experience in the 2010 Nickelodeon TV movie, "The Boy Who Cried Werewolf." Hooooooo boy this movie. Not gonna say it's a cinematic masterpiece, it's pretty standard kids' channel TV movie, but like. This movie had a massive effect on my life and why I'm a furry.

Seeing a trailer for it aired on TV when I was 9, by random chance, I was completely entranced by its concept and effects. Then finally finding out about the release date and behind the scenes online, watching it when it first aired and recording it, followed by rewatching it... many times. I was not normal about it for so long yet it really only consisted of me wanting to rewatch it over and over. That was the only way I knew how to react.

After a time, my interest in it died down, the recording got overwritten, and I forgot about it.

And then I had a dream in like, 2013? Around then, about "Thunder Wolves" which was the name came up with in there (I point to my brain). It involved various typical werewolf tropes in a story about an outcast. Wasn't too detailed or vivid, but that dream was just enough for my brain to be completely sold on werewolves forever.

From there, I'm 99% sure I would never have been on the path to becoming a furry I ended up on. Werewolves are why I'm a furry.

Rewatching The Boy Who Cried Werewolf tonight with my girlfriend and others, I got to re-experience that formative moment and realized just how fucking much I still take from this movie in terms of my love of werewolves, the tropes I enjoy, how I enjoy them. Werewolf curses being caused by werewolf blood injection, shifting into wolf form every night rather than ONLY on full moons, the slow transformation at sunset leading into the full form, the struggle of trying to keep it cool when others can potentially see the transformation, changes even in your human form and demeanor after werewolf-ing. Even the visuals of like, the eyes changing and fangs coming in before the full transformation was something that's stuck with me for all my life.

Every fucking memory of this movie came flooding back to me, I knew everything that happened, basically nothing was a surprise to me. Being age 9-10 when I was watching it probably means this movie might be the earliest Vivid memory I have.

The visuals were honestly better than I remembered. Like, not gonna lie, they could've been BETTER for the adult furry-brained cow that I am, but like. They actually had the full wolf form on screen way longer than they had the half-human half-wolf ugly looking transformation stage. I'm also 90% sure that the full wolf form was all practical effects with a suit? Maybe some of it was CGI, 2010 was capable of good CGI, and this is exactly the type of production (especially at Nickelodeon) where I'd imagine they'd do CGI. But instead from what I can tell with the lighting and interactions with the world, I feel it's most likely a practical suit with puppeted/controllable expression in the face and ears. My main complaint is a lot of the wolf scenes DID utilize really quick, choppy cuts that made it hard to see the form in full force

Design-wise the wolf form is a blend of like, ferocious, beastly, scary, but also a bit... cute, in a way? If the wolf transformation wasn't turning into a bloodthirsty monster and instead just turning into Big Ouppy I could see this being made to be made out to be very cute.

Actually yeah also 9 year old Meadow almost certainly was crushing and she didn't even know it, her brain wasn't built for that

Overall, 23 year old Meadow's experience with this: I really really enjoyed it! I started off watching it clutching my pillow from embarrassment and fear that it was going to be total crap, especially seeing so many high school teen drama tropes and painfully obvious foreshadowing, but being with people willing to give it a chance and who also knew the context of why it's important to me was like, suuuuper important for allowing me to even touch it again.

Basically, I am now in an extreme werewolf mood, and feeling things about werewolves I haven't felt in 13 years. This movie is my playbook. I have knowingly or unknowingly used this as my basis for Werewolf Curse things all my life.

I understand myself better than I ever have, having seen this movie.

So anyway...

Any werewolves out there wanna bite me or do a blood transfusion?

Please?

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HM? What is that?

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The Rosalina x Pauline Archive 🩵❤️

Haven't done a lot of shipping until the beginning of last year, when I found my hyper fixation: Rosalina x Pauline. Why? I don't know. But their my comfort ship. This will be a likely ever expanding collection of sketches/doodles/pieces of this ship I've posted on social media. For archiving purposes mainly. Enjoy.

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Monster Inhabitants [Character design practice]

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This is GAY PRIDE Kirby! Reblog for 20 Years of good luck!

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NFTs are hideous, useless, and a complete detriment to society, just like Reflekta, and Hawkmoth loved using her over and over again.

As a businessman, Gabriel Agreste wouldn't want to get involved, but as Hawkmoth, he'd adore the concept.

i think gabriel agreste would make nfts

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Oooh, I've had ideas for these brewing for a while! I'm not much of an artist, but I am a bit of a descriptor:

Red Powerup (Heat): Boilbug and Flame Noir. Heatproofing and swimming through lava and similar molten fluids. Paris' heroes are covered in smooth full-body armor to protect themselves from the elements, and gain reflective flame designs on said armor.

Orange Powerup (Earth): Ladydrill and Burrowcat. Digging underground. Paris' heroes are covered in armor with a rocky texture, as well as having helmets to protect them from cave-ins and digging tools such as drils and shovels.

Yellow Powerup (Storm): Lightningbug and Thundercat. Movement in in extreme weather. Paris' heroes are given rubber armor that water slides off of to protect them from lightning and heavy rain. They also have wings that allow them to fly with more control but less speed than the space powerups, as well as a cloud and lightningbolt theme.

Pink Powerup (Super): Hyperbug and Ulticat. Immunity to all other Miraculous powers. Bypassing Resistance and shattering Shell-ters. Seeing through Mirages. Venom, Gift, Clout, etc. all wash off them like nothing. They remember all previous second chances done from when they activated the powerup. They're also immune to akumatization and amok generation. Ladybug's red turns into a glowing pink, while Chat Noir's

CALLING ALL MLB ARTISTS!!

You know how they didn't show us some of the power ups? Red, orange, pink and yellow.

I propose designing your own!(I'm not including myself because I'm bad at drawing).

draw your guess of what those power ups are!

(Please, I need designs of these things so bad)