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Yoooooooo

So the government just defunded PBS and NPR which is fucked. That being said, the public can cover the damage if we orginize and donate.

Only about $1.60 of tax dollars per US citizen per year are spent on the public broadcasting budget. NPR and PBS offer beong able to make small monthly donations, some being 7$ per month or lower if you want.

If you want to donate 1.60$ per month to your local station, you can multiply how much funding they get from you by 12. If you do their monthly donation of $7 per month, your donation can equal the tax dollars of 54 people spent on public broadcasting per year.

If you want to donate to your local station, look them up by your town here to make sure your local stations get helped specifically:

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The "Woke Progressiveness" leaving the ML exec's bodies the moment they have to make merchs of their diverse characters

"We have a plus size superheroine isn't that exciting? Oh you want a doll of her? Well we can't do that because we prioritize our skinny gals soooo, thin girls only"

"Look guys we made a dark skinned black girl with dreadlocks isn't it cool?, oh but we can't have dolls of her because her hair is textured and will look ugly, whitewashed black girls with straight hair only"

"Look guys we made a character who's native american, oh but we don't want to make a doll of her because that will showcase her heritage, girls with no tie in to their cultures only, now if you'll excuse us we're going to release a Ladybug dios de los muertos"

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Reblog if you ship Jumba x Pleakely!🦟🥼

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happy "closer to 2050 than 2000" day everyone

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THEN WHY THE FUCK IS SHE IN SEASON 6??

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My hero

"This homeless man won’t leave so I’m spraying him with dirty brown water”

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I have no words

Woman in her 40's btw

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The first Black male Doctor and the first female Doctor: both plagued by terrible writing, inconsistent characterisation (or barely any at all), shortened runs, and they regenerated into actors from a more popular era of the show (David Tennant and Billie Piper).

They deserved better.

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STOP WITH THE VOXVAL MERCH PLEASE!!

STOP TRYING TO MAKE THEM ALL CUTE WHEN ONE OF THEM IS A LITERAL R*PIST!!

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Thank, I hate it here <3

(literally the only worthwhile stuff on here is fanart pfft....)

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You wanna know what really bothers me about Jumba being turned from a redeemed antagonist to an irredeemable villain? Besides the lack of faith in the audiences ability to understand narrative nuance it shows?

It’s that the excuse is stupid and would have a far better solution.

Because the excuse they use is that the films original major antagonistic force Gantu wouldn’t work in 3D. Either due to sizing issues or budgetary stuff.

So they made Jumba an irredeemable villain (something even gantu wasn’t) to fill a role that was no one was there to fill. Except there was a cheaper character that could fill that role.

Literally just introduce dr hamsterviel a little bit earlier than he was in the original franchise!

Everything they were trying to awkwardly staple onto Jumba would work significantly better on him. He the only straight up villainous force in the original lilo and stitch series!

And he’s significantly easier to animate than gantu. He’s small and simple with no complex shapes or features. Which not only makes him easy to animate but also for the liver actors to act against!

If the writers cared so little about characterisation that they were comfortable retconning an entire characters personality and motivation?

Then they’d be perfectly comfortable messing with continuity to introduce the antagonist they clearly want earlier.

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“Lilo and Stitch” 2002

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Lilo plays a trick on the tourists.

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person in fandom: eeeyikes!!! i hope im writing this character in this short little fanfic right >_< eeekkk what if my takes on my meta are all wrong and everyone will Kill me!!

guy in professional comic industry: okay lets mischaracterize every single character that appears in this comic for 50 or so issues

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https+://www.tumblr.com/miraculouslbcnreactions/+781555779458187264/this-might-be-a-question-long-overdue+-but-i-just

Out of morbid curiosity, what are the sole major fatal flaws with the canon couples (individual or singularly shared amongst them)that bothers you?

(Post that spawned this ask)

In the linked post I said:

I think Juleka and Rose are the only couple I actually ship in canon and that's only because homophobia is keeping the writing from making them an official couple. I'm sure they'd have some major flaw that I'd hate if they became canon because none of the canon teen couples feel healthy. They all have at least one glaring issue.

So let's run through the list and give the fatal flaws for the other teen couples. I'll go in rough order from minor to major in case anyone was curious about that.

Ivan and Mylène

In Confrontation, we see all of the teen characters list off their career plans. This is Ivan's:

Ivan: I'll be a stay-at-home dad! While Mylène saves the world, I'll be taking care of the kids.

There is nothing wrong with being a stay-at-home parent, but that should NOT be your entire life plan at 14-years-old. Is Mylène going to get pregnant as soon as you two turn 18? I hope not in which case what is Ivan planning to do between graduation and parenthood? And what if they break up or can't have kids for some reason? What's his plan then? I don't think that he has one! He's building his whole life around his first girlfriend which is a terrible thing to glorify for the kids at home.

It would have been much better if Ivan left Mylène out of his statement and said something like "I want to be a stay-at-home dad one day, so I'm going into child development! I'll work at helping other people's kids grow up until I'm ready to have a few of my own!"

This is really my only issue with Ivan and Mylène. They're by far the healthiest couple in the show. I just found this line incredibly off-putting and flashed back to codependent couples I knew in high school, none of whom lasted.

To be clear, it's fine if the teen couples stay together, this is a story after all, but the show shouldn't be glorifying teen romance to such an absurd degree. The show should be giving these characters lives and dreams outside of their romantic interests. This kind of thing isn't okay just because they're making a boy be the one pinning everything on romance instead of a girl.

The show has a ton of issues with it's treatment of women, but there is a bizarre subtle trend of acting like it's progressive to put male characters in positions that people complain about female characters being put in as if switching the genders solves the problem. It's wild and shows a severe lack of critical thinking. Adrien is usually the one who suffers from that, but this is a good example of another character hitting the same issue.

Nino and Alya

I discussed these two in depth here, but Nino and Alya are mostly fine. I don't cringe every time I see them, but they are one of the many couples given the insta-love treatment and I'm rarely a fan of that. I think it cheapens their entire romance. That's extra true here since they go from wildly uninterested in each other to dating over the course of about an hour with the audience given no information on why their feelings changed.

There's also the issue of Nino's blabbermouth which is not a great trait for the boyfriend of an aspiring reporter and part-time hero. Alya needs to be able to trust Nino to honor her secrets and canon hasn't made him the type of character who will do that. There are multiple episodes that see him unable to keep his mouth shut! I have no idea why canon did that, especially since Nino is a superhero in his own right!

Marc and Nathaniel

Marc and Nathaniel are fine outside of the episode where they met (Reverser). That doesn't change the fact that I have no idea why Marc ever spoke to Nathaniel again after Reverser. Warning this will be the longest section since I have to break down what was wrong with this episode as the problem is the entire thing and not a specific moment or general trend.

Reverser sees Marc introduced to the art club as a fan of Nathaniel's work. Seconds later, Nathaniel is informed that this shy fanboy could be the script writer Nathaniel has been looking for. Marc freaks out and runs away ending the scene. Marinette chases after Marc, convinces him to let her show his writing to Nathaniel, and then gives that writing to Nathaniel in a weirdly cryptic way:

Marinette: Nate! (puts book down) Someone gave me this for you. Nathaniel: Who's someone? Marinette: I can't tell you who just yet. (whispering) It's a secret. (starts running off, but turns around) Read it and then we'll talk. (starts running again) Nathaniel:(gasps) Diary of Ladybug!? (covers mouth) Is this... for real?

Let's take a moment to appreciate the sheer absurdity of Nathaniel thinking that Ladybug would want him to turn her private diary into a comic. It's especially wild when we remember that this scene is implied to happen the same day that he met Marinette's friend Marc and was told Marc might be a good script writer. How this mistake happened is beyond me.

If this was played for laughs, then it could have fit the show's over-the-top style of humor, but it's not. This is yet another time when the show used an absurdist writing style for a serious story beat and it doesn't work because the show tries to pin the mistake on Marinette, but no reasonable person would blame Marinette. Nathaniel's read is not a logical mistake that Marinette should have seen coming. That makes what happens next feel like Nathaniel's issue and not Marinette's. A fact that is extra true when you remember how Nathaniel reacted to this reveal.

When Nathaniel learns that this was a story written by Marc and not a secret message from Ladybug he destroys Marc's book and yells at him, a wild overreaction that is 100% on Nathaniel:

Nathaniel: You were trying to make a fool of me, weren't you? (Points accusingly towards Marinette) Do you think it's funny to toy with my feelings? Marc: No, not at all! I-I just want.. to make.. a comic book, if you want to, that is. Nathaniel: A comic book? Us!? Together?! Never! (He tears Marc's book in half)

Nathaniel, darling, why the hell would you think that they were making fun of you? Nothing in this episode set that up! Marc is the one who's uncertain about his art. Nathaniel is painted as incredibly self-assured. We also don't see him being bullied in this episode so why did he think that this was Marc and Marinette trying to bully him? Has Marinette bullied him before? Nothing about this tracks.

Writers, just have Nathaniel be embarrassed by his mistake, leading him to throw the book at Marc and run away. But oops, they were beside a fountain and the book falls in the water instead accidentally ruining it! Same story beats, but Nathaniel no longer looks like an asshole who destroyed another artist's passion project in a fit of rage.

Everything about this was a terrible choice if you're going to end the episode by making these two friends. It's an even worse choice if you're going to have them be a couple. Things that are extra true because this episode never sees Nathaniel apologize or otherwise redeem himself in Marc's eyes. The episode doesn't even seem to see Nathaniel as being in the wrong. Instead, Marinette is blamed for this nonsense because of course she is...

Marinette: I'm so relieved you're not mad at me, guys. Nathaniel: In fact, we've dedicated our first issue to you.

That could have worked if the story went the accident route since everything happened because Marinette was needlessly cryptic and Nathaniel wouldn't hold any blame in that setup. No one would, really, but it would make sense for Marinette to feel responsible there. The way canon played it? Hell no! Marinette should not be blamed for Nathaniel's wild and totally unpredictable over reaction!

It's glaringly obvious that canon doesn't want us to view Nathaniel as abusive or having a hair trigger temper, so I think it's fair that people ignore this episode when approaching his character, but it was still a horrible way to make these two partners. Who thought it was okay to take Nathaniel this far without ever addressing his bad behavior??? It's especially concerning when you remember how timid Marc is because is a character like that going to defend himself if things go south?

The love square is obviously unhealthy at this point, but their falling in love moments from Origins are adorable and I don't understand why no other couple gets that kind of treatment. It's all insta-love or BS like this or both which brings us to:

Felix and Kagami

The post that spawned this ask goes over these two in detail, but they're yet another insta-love couple with no substance to their romance. They're also easily the worst insta-love of the bunch because it makes no sense on Kagami's side. Felix only likes Kagami because she's a sentimonster and Kagami only likes Felix because the plot says she needs to. Between kidnapping her and snapping away everyone she loves, she should not see him as a potential romantic interest. I thought dating Adrien gave her standards??? The fact that she falls for Felix is character assassination on the highest level and I will forever headcanon that it's her senti programing forcing her to fall for an Adrien clone.

The Love Square

Unsurprisingly, the couple with the most screen time has the most problems. Between the lies, the season four nonsense, and Marinette's trauma choosing Adrien as it's main target, they just aren't fun anymore. There's way too much toxicity here for any couple, but especially for a teenage couple. They should break up and find someone else to date.

Final Thoughts

I think that's all the canon teen couples? As you can see, not a single one is flaw-free because of course they aren't. Miraculous has systemic writing issues that effect every character and couple. It's just less in-your-face for the side characters and couples.

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So I just saw your post on the writers and I will say everything you said is interesting and spot on although if there's one additional thing I've learnt from the analysis is that there's no writer there who apparently knows anything on cultural adaptation which you know has always been a criticism of the show like the fact that Kung food was written by the last two writers on that list and there's the controversy on kung food design and how Chloe's racism apparently is portrayed in that episode and even though Croquet didn't write Qilin that episode is another example of how bad other cultures are portrayed apparently.

I mean, both of them are white French people—I'm not expecting them to not have a lot of biases to examine. It's also worth pointing out that being a good writer is not exactly a high bar when it comes to this show. All it usually means is that particular writer's episodes have some interesting elements and the plot doesn't fall apart the moment more than one second of thought is applied to it. As much as I like to call Croquet Choquet the best writer (because like, he is; the show took an immediate and noticeable nosedive in quality after he left), that's a bit like being the tallest dwarf.

That said, TV production isn't a one-man affair. The script has to make it past a lot of different stages, so the fact that some of the more rancid ideas made it into the final product with isn't an indictment of just one writer, it's of the whole team. This is why I have the most beef with Thibaudeau out of all the writers; even if Lenoir or Choquet write something stupid, as story editor it's his job to shoot that shit down before it goes into production, and we do know that he has used that veto power before on that scene where André sends Chloé to live with her mother. Then again, he also apparently had to do it without telling Astruc, so... w/e.

Conversely, writers aren't allowed to just write whatever they want. Aside from time and target audience constraints, they need to stick to whatever story ideas the executive producer and head writer have approved, as well as the show's story bible.

[Sidenote here, now that I look at the story bible (and I can't believe it's completely slipped my mind to do so previously), it's credited entirely to Astruc with seemingly no input from Thibaudeau. So I guess everything you see in the show bible was Astruc's idea. Make of that what you will.]

As for the designs, those aren't Lenoir or Choquet's job. That's Astruc along with Nathanaël Bronn, the art director. They're the ones who made the graphic bible that everyone else is working off of.

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KPOP DEMON HUNTERS SPOILERS

this entire scene crushed me i'll be honest

Both of them swore to protect something. For Rumi, it's Huntrix and the people (following her duty as a huntress). For Celine, it is what is left of Rumi's mother; her daughter, and her legacy as a huntress. Celine seems to be the only surviving member of the prior trio of huntresses, and so the responsibility of seeking out and training new members of the triad to maintain the Honmoon, as well as taking care of the daughter she unintentionally left behind, fell to her.

Despite promising to protect and care for her, she hesitates to cup her face and give her the comfort she clearly needs. Everything she was taught tells her that demons are a pest to be eradicated, and so she can't bring herself to hold her despite how much she cares. She only holds her first when she brings her to her feet, and again when she covers up her demon markings with her coat.

When Rumi stands up, she holds her hand out defensively. While she loves and cares for her, she's also afraid of a part of what she is: a demon. It was instinct in the same way she first drew her weapon upon hearing Rumi approach her from behind in the beginning of this scene.

For a second, Celine does actually look at Rumi before closing her eyes again. She can't bring herself to look at her because, to her, doing so would mean accepting what Rumi truly is. Prior to this, she had also "closed her eyes" in a way to Rumi's true nature by making her hide her demonic markings.

Rumi picks up on this. Celine keeps her eyes closed as if trying to separate the sight in front of her from the version of Rumi that she can accept, however, that hurts Rumi even further because her demonic side is just as much of a part of her as her human side is. Celine, what is left of her family after her friends drew their weapons on her, refusing to acknowledge it only causes her to feel more isolated.

Celine seems to be talking more to herself than to Rumi, repeating something she'd likely been told when she was younger. She passes this same mantra down onto Rumi, Zoey, and Mira, thinking that it would keep them safe and allow them to fulfill their duties as huntresses.

Instead, it isolates them from the ones they care about the most.