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i could never be hannibal lecter because i hate lying theyd be like and whats for dinner hannibal and id be like it's beef SORRRYYYYY its actually a guy who i killed and cooked up 😬 are you mad at meee and theyd say no hannibal you told the truth and thats what matters and then we'd all hug

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On grief and guilt of Adrien in the season finale

Just taking a moment to rethink the events of the season 5 finale and the London special from Adrien's perspective.

You are locked in a cell in a different city while your partner fights your nemesis. You send your Miraculous to Ladybug and sit out the final fight. Then Ladybug comes to your cell and tells you that your father sacrificed himself because she, by herself, wasn't enough to beat the Monarch. Your father dies a hero, but well, he has still died, and unbeknownst to LITERALLY ANYONE (as far as you know), no one knows that you're actually Chat Noir, yes, the one with superpowers and could have saved his father if only he were there during the final battle.

He's blaming himself so much for his father's death. Imagine being LITERALLY THE ONLY PERSON who could have fought alongside Ladybug at that definitive battle, and not being there. Because you just weren't good enough to get out of the cell.

The final scene of the London special hits hard:

Ladybug: (Do you know what it is like keeping) a secret so heavy that you really want to share it now, right now, because it is too hard and you want to cry and you need someone to console you? Chat Noir: Yes. Yes, I'm familiar.

What you think his secret is?

Realistically, if he really wanted to tell Ladybug his father died, he could; he could tell her that he has lost someone really close to him, and that would have been enough to protect his identity while getting his partner's support and consolation.

The reason why he can't tell is because his secret is the guilt. The guilt of knowing that he is responsible for his father's death. But of course, he can't tell that to Ladybug, because then, he would need to reveal his identity.

If only, if only he knew that his father wasn't the hero everyone was making him out to be. If only he knew that he needn't to feel guilty for missing out the battle, because he had already lost his father the day he'd lost his mother.

Truth is, grief was unescapable for Adrien. He had already grieved his mother, and he would eventually grieve the loss of his father, literally or metaphorically, the moment Gabriel Agreste decided to use the Butterfly miraculous to bring back his wife.

But by hiding the truth about Gabriel, Ladybug is adding guilt to the mix. Because now, Adrien has not only lost his father, but he also thinks that he is the one responsible for it. While it was ENTIRELY Gabriel's own actions that brought his demise. And neither Ladybug, nor Chat Noir, could have prevented that. They couldn't have made him unevil.

So ironically, by trying to protect him from pain, Ladybug is inflicting more pain on Adrien. Except that it is not only in the form of grief, but also guilt.

This is not to diss on Ladybug; she is doing her best with the information available for her. But it certainly isn't the best for Adrien.

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Natalie has done a lot wrong in her life, but you gotta respect how she was on the brink of death and could barely stand, but grabbed a freaking crossbow to murder her boss/ex-crush. Then she nearly/actually dies, but she wakes up perfectly healthy for reasons she doesn’t yet understand, and her first thought is: “I gotta murder my boss again.”

What a woman.

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And another thing before I see any bad takes about it, can we talk about Adrien and Ladybug? And more specifically about Adrien’s tendency to internalize issues or redirect problems at himself?

Because I know people are gonna be like buhhh Adrien hates Ladybug bc she let his dad die, but that is not at all the takeaway from those scenes or this special. Adrien had an emotional outburst when Ladybug was breaking the news, and rightfully so. How would you respond if someone came and told you your father was dead? After all of the other traumatic shit he just went through. Keep in mind where Adrien was and what he was dealing with mentally and emotionally prior to her showing up. He was already down. He was already in crisis. Where we last left him in the finale, he was having a full breakdown. Ladybug showing up and dropping the news is literally a few hours after all of that. It's still fresh, and then Ladybug shows up and tells him that his father is dead now. He has no family left. He's an orphan. Of course, he spiraled. Of course, he lashed out.

But his immediate next thought is what's important. "If I had been there-" Adrien immediately deflects blame onto himself. We see it at the end of the episode too when Chat tearfully declares he should have been there. Adrien does not blame Ladybug for his father's death. He blames himself.

And that's been a staple of Adrien’s character throughout the show. His tendency to point at himself and sacrifice himself. He had a brief moment, but we also have to keep in mind that Ladybug is his partner. He knows how tough these battles can get. He knows that she did everything she could because he knows what kind of hero she is. He's seen what she can do. He trusts her. So, naturally, to him, the blame is on himself for not being there to help her. For not being her partner in the moment when he was needed most. He let her down, and as a result, he sees his father's death as his failure, not hers. And I think that's gonna weigh on him this next season. Or at least I hope they allow him to reflect on it and forgive himself.

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Miss you, darling. Miss you so much. I hurt you so much when I was hurting, and it was the same from you to me. I hope you're doing well and I hope you don't ever get near me. I'm sorry for resenting you

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adrien never went to public school / adrienette have never met AU where Ladynoir are dating but Marinette has beef with Adrien Agreste™ on twitter, spurred by her interest in the fashion industry and her friendship with Mylene. ads are all over the place of Adrien promoting products like air in a bottle and NFTs and just generally so many products that are extremely poor taste/bad for the environment. Marinette tweets about beauty standards in the industry and all the shit Gabriel brand does to the environment and how Adrien Agreste perfectly encapsulates it all.

Adrien, of course, never responds to any of her tweets. her tweets are just white noise in the background. she is nowhere near on his level. one day Marinette tweets out something akin to "if I saw Adrien Agreste irl i'd punch him in the face" and her twitter gets banned for Threats of Violence, Alya draws attention to the injustice of it via the Ladyblog and suddenly "I want to punch Adrien Agreste in the face [gets banned]" becomes a bit of a meme. NOW people know who Marinette is and are listening to what she's saying (on her new account or whatever). Chat Noir also tweets that he wants to punch Adrien in the face

A hashtag trends. Marinette caves and starts tweeting about the scandals of the industry on her Ladybug twitter too. Adrien's twitter and instagram comments are flooded with both threats to punch him but also just generally critical comments like "nice pic and all but are you not going to address the sweatshop allegations?". Adrien still does not address it. At most he turns comments off. Marinette is gnawing at the wood of her desk.

Then a Ladybug and Chat Noir identity reveal happens.

Marinette is stunned. Absolutely mouth agape. Cannot form words. Chat Noi— NO, ADRIEN— ADRIEN FUCKING AGRESTE looks at her and is like "oh ha :) .... Marinette Dupain-Cheng, right? You're the girl who wanted to punch me hahaha"

after recovering from her world being shattered, she's like...... "hahaha...... um............... yeah...... uh..... so you... DO know who i am. and you're just. ignoring it then. hahaha... ok... thats....... fine..... anyway..... u-uh...... im not... gonna actually punch you. but. um. k-kitty do you um. maybe want to stop promoting deforestation and all that"

he's like "I don't"

she's like. "yes you do. literally in your newest ad you said to the camera 'who needs trees when bottled air is the way of the future'. like did you really read that line out loud and not see a problem with it"

"yeah, that wasn't me"

"what are you talking abou—"

"it's deepfaked"

"..... what"

"all of my ads in the past few years are deepfakes. I complained too much so my father fired me. turns out that i signed away all rights to my face and voice to him when I was 13 or something. he can just use my face and voice and name however he wants. he generates ads. i dont even have access to the 'Adrien Agreste' twitter or insta accounts. sometimes he makes me do runways but beyond that I'm not involved in all."

"... ... ... ... ... what"

"yeah haha... :") im sorry. i wish i could help you more. but he never listens to me. i don't like it either, i.... i've asked him to stop sooo many times. but he never listens to me. i hate seeing my face used without my consent but haha.... i don't... have any rights here so. sorry. i really wish i could help more"

and now marinette hates "Adrien Agreste"™ ads/posts EVEN MORE and is threatening to kill Gabriel Agreste himself. all while kissing the real adrien agreste silly

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on being alive.

@delepiphany on pinterest // lucy dacus, please stay // @arthoesunshine // @leaf.guy_ on tiktok // bo burnham, that funny feeling // @peepuddle

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and if i could give you the moon,

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steampunk au.

machanical designer!marinette/machine boy!adrien

in this au the human ad died at 6. then gabriel made a machanical copy of him just to see their son smiling and running in the mansion again, but they found that this machine boy could do much more.

(i spelled his name wrongly in the pic. )

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Made transparent ladybug too!! making keychain prototypes, i wanna have a nice store like some artists i follow on tumblr are but i have no clue where to start ;v; meanwhile, i still have redbubble!

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stupid thing I did

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Ryan Gosling’s career has just been one long quest to climb the Warner Bros water tower

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*looks at you like this*

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layout and composition is my passion