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This is one of the best things I've ever seen, Saij! Thank you so much for this commission, it was worth every penny!

“Do yourself a favor, kitty, and stop worrying about us,” she said gently, stroking his face. “Make the choice that makes you happy, and see what the consequences are. Because they’ll be worth it, I promise.”

Her heart all but fluttered when he turned his head to kiss her palm. “Then, with your permission,” he gave her a smile as he stepped closer to her. “May I kiss you?”

She nodded, feeling butterflies in her chest as he drew closer. Finally, a kiss. Something to complete those new fantasies of hers.

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On Ladybug salt for “not treating Chat right”

You know, I wonder… sometimes I see Marinette salted for not appreciating Chat enough and sometimes for belittling him (mostly on reddit. Tumblr and AO3 tend to go waaaaay far in the other direction). And she does sometimes tease him or throw a bit of banter his direction that I can see being interpreted that way. Though I don’t think he takes that to heart quite as much as some of Marinette’s salters do. (See the same thing happen when it comes to Alya’s salters salting her for ribbing Marinette. Marinette can dish it too, she just tends to do it more with Chat on-screen than with Alya.)

Chat definitely has some major insecurities, showcased especially prominently in Syren, when he’s feeling like Ladybug doesn’t trust him and doesn’t need him, and that no one would know or care if he was gone. It also rears up a few other times a bit less prominently, like in Anansi when he’s afraid that Ladybug will replace him with Carapace, Sandboy when it’s revealed that one of his greatest fears is that Ladybug has never cared about him and would like to get rid of him, Reflekdoll with how after he struggles and fails to come up with a workable plan for the Lucky Charm himself he believes that he could never measure up to her, never do what she does, and in Desperada he believes that she doesn’t need him as Chat Noir… admittedly because she told him as much.

I don’t think Marinette realizes how much these things actually affect Chat. Even in Glaciator, she didn’t realize that he’d been serious about his feelings the whole time. She does try to comfort him in individual circumstances when she notices him feeling down - In Anansi she tells him that he’s irreplaceable after he seems put out about Carapace, and in Desperada in a later timeline, she tells Viperion how important it is that Chat Noir is with them while he’s in earshot. In Syren she noticed that Chat had been feeling like he was being shoved aside and being treated as lesser because he wasn’t permitted to know what was going on, and in Sandboy she asked him whether he really thought she was as evil as his nightmare of her was.

But she doesn’t seem to realize the full extent of how deep these feelings run. She throws out a line or two comforting him when she notices he’s feeling down, but then he seems to perk back up and get back to business, so she thinks everything’s fine. 

Chat has a tendency to express his feelings more bluntly than Marinette does, but he also tends to cover them up more afterwards - or tries to at least. So she thinks that it’s taken care of, for the most part. Even when there are some MAJOR red flags, like Chat’s nightmare version of her hating him, having ALWAYS hated him, and wanting to destroy him. she doesn’t seem to understand what it really represents.

Ladybug: Cat Noir? You don’t really think I’m as evil as your nightmare, do you? Cat Noir: ‘Course I don’t. You’re the lady of my dreams. (Ladybug smiles to the spot where Cat Noir had disappeared)

She sees him as thinking she’s evil, but that’s not the case. He’s insecure about whether she really cares about him, and whether deep down she’d rather have someone else as her partner, and merely tolerates him because he’s there. 

But Marinette doesn’t GET that. And I think I can see why. That’s a relatable, realistic insecurity, but not one that she can easily imagine him having because… well, it’s just not true. She KNOWS it’s not true. It’s easier to think that he had a nightmare of her being evil because of how insanely absurd that thought is, and because that plays into her own insecurities of thinking she’s done things so terribly wrong that she’s come off that way. 

The more realistic, smaller-scale insecurities that Chat actually suffers from? That’s harder for her to imagine. I think partly BECAUSE she suffers from her own, similar insecurities about not being good enough and messing up and having the people she care about hate her… but she doesn’t react the way Chat does. When she’s deeply insecure about that and feeling very anxious, she comes up with wild scenarios that spiral out of control and verges on having anxiety attacks, and doesn’t calm down easily unless either some solution is presented or someone takes her by the shoulders and calmly, reassuringly tells her that she’s got this, they’ve got this, that things will work out, that she’s not alone. Her anxiety is more obvious and it takes more to (seemingly) calm her down from it.

Chat’s anxiety is more subtle. It tends to manifest as seeming more slightly grumpy and put out, rather than the full-blown anxiety attacks that she suffers from, and he tends to direct his hurt outwards towards others (though pretty mildly, considering matters), while she directs her hurt inwards at herself, sending herself deeper into a spiral unless someone’s there to break her out of it.

Because they manifest so differently, she doesn’t recognize that they’re similar sorts of hurt, and that Chat would benefit from more frequent and in-depth conversations and reassurances. She only really knows her own type of reaction to those feelings of inferiority and uselessness, so Chat’s displays fly under her radar.

Honestly, this is part of why I like to emphasize just how YOUNG these children really are. They both have very limited frames of reference (Adrien especially), so they both can miss out on what others are thinking and feeling, especially when they react differently to similar thoughts and feelings. Combine that with neither of them having fully developed emotional control or coping mechanisms, and they can sometimes hurt each other without intending to. They’re kids, they’re going to be inexperienced and immature at times.

But they love and care about each other, and if either of them realized the full pain (and the reason for that pain) that the other was going through, they’d try to help as best they could. 

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Poor kitty

@ Gabriel honey :) turn on your location :) we need to talk :) :)

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This post was made with a minimum amount of salt. 

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Zag and Astruc are honestly just a bunch of bumbling idiots

i do gotta say tho, how funny is it that astruc started going off on a ‘no stealing’ twitter rage almost right after my possible design theft for a toy, and then right after THAT there was this big hub bub about the zag store stealing other peoples designs

the joke writes itself

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i do gotta say tho, how funny is it that astruc started going off on a ‘no stealing’ twitter rage almost right after my possible design theft for a toy, and then right after THAT there was this big hub bub about the zag store stealing other peoples designs

the joke writes itself

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Plagg get out of the shot!

Bonus: The comments

Return of the hand ghost XD

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This is actually very upsetting, and I'm kind of mad no one is really talking about this.

By now, most of us have seen the new toy leaks for Miraculous Ladybug, and while the new designs look great, one Ladybug in particular stands out. Specifically, the Talking Ladybug.

Here she is, she looks great, but the design is stolen.

Back in 2017, @simplystefanie-rae here on Tumblr designed a new Ladybug suit and posted it.

Clearly, it lacks the wings and hairstyle, but the costume is the exact same.

The FNaF fandom had a similar problem before, so there is a good chance that this design was simply mistaken for an official one, but this is theft nonetheless. Why aren't more people talking about this???

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Emma: Mommy! Daddy! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

Adrien: Your daughter's awake.

Marinette: Before sunrise, she's YOUR daughter.

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[I’m in a soft mood tonight but] I’m still not over that scene in Chat Blanc when Marinette learns her partner’s identity –

And like – she went to break up with him but when she sees Adrien is Chat Noir she’s just going “nope nope, not doing that, I’m sorry but I’m not strong enough if Adrien is my partner that I adore, can’t stay away from kitty I love him too much now” and literally throws herself in his arms even he is not expecting it and UGH they are adorable why are they like that

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The US is the perfect breeding ground for a pandemic because americans can’t afford to go the doctor and can’t afford to miss work.

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Kim: Look we all have had at least one dream with Chat noir in it. It is a Matter of appreciating beauty

Nathanael: True

Marc: Yup

Ivan: I’ve had a few

Max: Affirmative

Nino: I had one last week.

Kim: So I don’t buy it when you say you haven’t dreamed about Chat noir. You are either lying or you’re actually Chat noir.

Adrien: (unsure of how to respond but extremely flattered)

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GOLY

SHIT

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Please remember that the design for the Talking Ladybug is stolen. Credit to the original artist should be going to @simplystefanie-rae.

So, Miraculous just posted pictures of their new toys, and...

I...um, noticed some new suits.

Like this one. It’s pretty cool, but...

ZAG, please explain because I need to know.

Please tell me that this is what Ladybug looks like powered up.

PLEASE TELL ME WE GET TO SEE LADYBUG WITH HER HAIR DOWN.

BECAUSE WE ALL REMEMBER ADRIEN’S REACTION TO MARINETTE WITH HER HAIR DOWN.

PLEASE.

I need this.