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Me, everytime I see someone complaining about Adrien's new design:

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I don't know if this is an unpopular opinion or not, cause I've seen either opinion in the fandom before, but I don't really like Marinette's hair when it's down. I just think it looks a bit weird, BUT I do think that's just an issue with the old animation. I mean the other characters seem to like it. So, what I'd like to see is her having her hair down in the new animation, I'm sure it would look a THOUSAND times better and we'll finally get to see what Adrien saw at the start of Determination

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My Ao3 account

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Adrien in Chat Blanc, deciding not to tell Marinette his identity or that he found out hers: And that's when it hit me, the best idea I've ever had in my entire life.

Chat Blanc, after causing human extinction: That's the worst idea you ever had in your entire life.

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Show!Gabriel: You two are just soft.

Movie!Gabriel: You akumatized Adrien. Twice.

Show!Gabriel: ...Not in this timeline.

Betterfly: How did my Adrien turn out to be evil one??

Show!Gabriel: I did all of it for him. So he can be happy.

Movie!Gabriel: Who would you have sacrificed for Emilie anyway?

Show!Gabriel: I'm sure I could've convinced Ladybug eventually if I had had more time.

Movie!Gabriel: Oh, great.

Betterfly: So, Adrien would have his mother but the love of his life would be dead instead? You think that would make him happy?

Show!Gabriel: Well, it certainly would have solved two of my problems at once.

Movie!Gabriel *to Betterfly*: Can I punch him?

Betterfly: We shouldn't stoop down to his level.

Movie!Gabriel: I'm already in prison. I really don't care.

Show!Gabriel: You couldn't hurt me anyway. I'm already dead.

Movie!Gabriel: Right, why are you dead?

Show!Gabriel: On contrary to what you two might think, I'm not all evil. I sacrificed myself to heal Nathalie-

Movie!Gabriel: Huh.

Show!Gabriel: -and told Marinette to tell Adrien I was a hero so he'd have a good memory of me.

Movie!Gabriel: What?

Betterfly: You manipulated a 14-year-old into lying to her boyfriend about his father being a supervillain so you could be considered a hero and she'll have to live with that guilt?

Show!Gabriel: Yes, so?

Movie!Gabriel *to Betterfly*: You know, maybe a ghost can still be cataclysmed.

Betterfly: I'll get my Adrien. I'm sure he'll want to do it.

Movie!Gabriel: I can excuse domestic terrorism but I draw the line at hurting my son.

Betterfly: You can excuse domestic terrorism?

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With us getting such big gay wins recently, I wanna take a moment to appreciate how inherently queer Miraculous has always been, even when it was far more subtle. I don't know if it was corporate pressure, actual meddling and censorship, or simply the writers being afraid of such things and finally taking off the gloves now, but I do know you could always feel it, and I don't just mean the previously implied couples now made canon, though maybe more in them than most really appreciate too.

It's in Marc's whole everything, how he's a walking gay pride banner to a point his name is a pun on "arc en ciel" (rainbow), yet his episodes have always been about belonging and acceptance and his personality revolves mostly around his passion for writing (and occasionally sports!) rather than Liking Boys being his defining trait as many shows with such an obvious design would do.

It's in how WAY back in season 2 Rose straight up kissed Juleka on the mouth, just slightly off-screen, and under the Zombizou effect.

It's in Kitty Section's whole vibe, and multiple characters directly assigning Luka the David Bowie song Rebel Rebel. (The song starts "You got your mother in a whirl, cause she's not sure if you're a boy or a girl." Bowie was also openly bi.)

It's in the ways the Love Square plays with gender norms. In the way Chat Noir's aesthetic would be traditionally only be for Catwoman and (Spider-Man's) Black Cat types. The way Marinette is frequently portrayed as the Knight to Adrien's Princess, the way Adrien is allowed to be a "damsel" in a lot of ways and still worth of love and treasured just as he is with no need to "earn" that, in Adrien being the Yin and Marinette the Yang with their symbolism. The ways their presentation and energy varies between personas. Etc.

It's in Alec, and the fact that they were one of the first characters we ever met in the show, and maybe the writers hadn't planned anything with them yet but even if it was retroactive that's still cool. The fact that their change was so casual and just remains a thing now.

It's in the pregnant lesbian dressed as a French flag sans-culottes wielding a fucking guillotine as a weapon storming the Paris capitol a day or few before Bastille Day and yeah okay maybe the lesbian part is relatively small but come on that was just one of the sickest things ever lmao. But yeah Miss Bustier and her wife are nice to see, as are Majestia and Knightowl while we're talking about relatively minor but still present adult queer couples. (I hope we'll meet Kim's dads in the show this season, too!)

It's in the occasional crumbs of polyamory acknowledgement. When Andre says he could make a three-person ice cream, it just "might throw off the delicate balance" (which is more than the vast majority of everything would give us). When Marinette says Zoe's crush could like two people. When Marinette acknowledges her feelings for Luka and Adrien as valid at the same time even though she still pressured herself to choose and then to shift flavors with Luka. Nathalie's whole everything and arguably the implications she was in love with both Gabriel and Emilie.

It's in how Alix is only said to be aromantic via Twitter but she's clearly so happy in her solo time guardian role, just chilling with herself. And the ways her reactions to Marinette's issues occasionally vary from the rest of the cast, i.e. "Wouldn't it be more logical to buy her a smoothie and help her work out her love problems?", are so good.

It's in how they treat chosen names in the series. That one I feel is so easy to overlook or take for granted, but whatever someone identifies as right then is their objectively true and correct name (see: the Book of Truth identifying Pharaoh, not Jalil, in Reunion). Every time Gabriel changes his villain name everyone uses the new one immediately. It's just really nice.

Nearly all of these things individually are so small, but there are so so many of them and I'm probably forgetting more. The series has always had queer influence, and it's honestly not surprising that they went through the steps needed to use the Progress Pride flag in a commercial work, let alone that we're finally getting more loud and explicit rep this season after the bolder steps they took in s5. But I'm so glad for every bit of it, deeply glad that it's finally more front and center, and I hope we get more moving forward, too!

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Movie!Gabriel: I can excuse domestic terrorism but I draw the line at hurting my son.

Betterfly: You can excuse domestic terrorism?

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marcaniel? subtle (not really, it was so obivous) criticism against homophobia? Adrien thinking he smells like camembert? Caprikid and Rooster Bold reveal???

Oh, how I love this season

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just some Miraculous (mostly Ladynoir) doodles I drew in class while bored

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Movie!Gabriel: I can excuse domestic terrorism but I draw the line at hurting my son.

Betterfly: You can excuse domestic terrorism?

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God, I'm so glad Adrien holds onto Marinette on the scooter now.

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I don't think we talk enough about the fact that Alya has the fox Miraculous which creates illusions and yet, she hates lying SO MUCH that she willingly got her memories fucking catacysmed so she wouldn't have to keep the secret from Adrien.

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Chat Noir: *to Kim* Also, if you ever treat Marinette disrespectfully again, I'll kill ya.

Chat Noir: Sorry, that sounded like a joke.

Chat Noir: I will actually kill you.

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I just had such a fucked up idea for the reveal.

What if Marinette does lose her memomries?

What if Chat sees Ladybug giving up the guardian title but not her identity?

What if Adrien goes to see Marinette the next day?

And she doesn't remember him

In fact, she doesn't remember anything since the first day of school in year nine

What if Adrien found out that his partner and his girlfriend are the same person because both of them lost all memories of him and everything they've been through?

Wouldn't that just be the most messed up thing ever?

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ok. so. obviously part of the show's charm is that we, the audience know so much more than the characters do. this results in a lot of, for us, ironic and funny situations and it's nice to watch the characters find out things that we already knew, or, at least, highly suspected.

But. I really love how we know next to nothing about the new main villain. She's talking in riddles and we can't understand it because we only know that she's Lila (which isn't even her real name) and other than that...

We know nothing.

And it's so fun.

Like, in the first five seasons we already knew a lot about the main villain. We knew who he was, what he wanted, and a lot of his plans before he enacted them too. (I know his identity was still a secret in s1 but it was already heavily implied.)

But now? We get to find out as the characters do. We can make as many crazy theories as we want with nothing proving us wrong (at least for quite a while). We can do so much with this mysterious character.

I love it.

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YES! YES! YES!

(especially when Englisch isn't your first language and you got most of your non-basic vocabulary from reading)

the problem with reading and writing leading to a strong vocabulary is that you tend to know the vibe of words instead of their meanings.

if I used this word in a sentence, would it make sense? absolutely. if you asked me what it meant, could I tell you? absolutely not.

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This feels very Adrien Agreste to me

"being traumatized made me funnier!" no you just say out of pocket shit and people laugh as a stress response