#i was gonna answer this this morning but then the Ephemeral trailer melted my brain cells and the only word i knew was 'umbrella'

[chatonnoir]

You are the reason I am sane after this saltwave due to Glaciator 2 really THANK YOU SO MUCH

I absolutely loved this episode and think the writing was pretty amazing. And people saying that it sucked and I am like wtf-

I also saw people bashing Mari for the Adrienette scene saying she was taking advantage of Adrien's sadness and literally comparing her to FUCKING HAWKMOTH I-

She just wanted to cheer him up and that was actually pretty sweet. Moreover if people want to blame her for that, I think they are the same nutcases salting on Chat for GoS where he took LB to a movie💀

Anyway, what did you think of the confession scene? Because that seems to have pissed off people too (Never mind Chat was actually having the time of his life in the scene lol)

I’m glad to be of service lmao those of us in the fandom with brains really are the only ones who can keep e/o sane every time things like this go down

This fandom has a thing for acting like romantic love somehow “taints” platonic love or is shallow or an "ulterior motive" and it's not cute at all.

Marinette saw Adrien was sad and wanted to cheer him up because she loves him. Oh no, how terrible /s

Adrien wants to be more genuine and vulnerable around Ladybug because he wants to be closer to her because he loves her. Oh no, how terrible /s

Loving someone isn't wrong. Wanting to be closer to them because you love them isn't wrong. Adrien loving Ladybug is not a character flaw or something for him to overcome, the way he ACTS on it is. Marinette loving Adrien is not a character flaw or something for her to overcome, the way she acts (or fails to act lmao) on it is. The show has long since established how deep and genuine their love for one another is. This isn't them being like, "oh if I do this thing for this hot person they'll kiss me." It's actual love, not a shallow attraction. They're already good friends as Adrienette and best friends as Ladynoir ON TOP of their romantic love. Like I said in a different post, this series is a ROMANTIC COMEDY, so if you hate when things are always made to be about their romantic love or see it as somehow making their platonic bonds less genuine or expect them at any point to lose their feelings for one another, you’re definitely looking in the wrong genre.

And that kind of helps me segue in to the confession scene - the second part of that genre title is that it’s COMEDY. Chat Noir was clearly having fun laughing his ass off and being goofy doing his dramatic reading and I'm sure it was a pleasant and welcome distraction from the heartache and internal conflict he was going through at the time. They made Marinette get angry for the comedic effect of her angrily reading a corny love letter. Not because "haha she's yelling at Chat Noir and its funny when girl yells at boy" or whatever people might try to spin it as, but because of the juxtaposition of the words she's saying and her actual tone ("I'M NOT ANGRY WITH YOU I'M IN LOVE" she says while angry) and it was fucking hilarious

In addition to that we know the idea of confessing to Adrien is something that stresses her out big time, so she was on edge and acting accordingly -- people don’t always act rationally when they’re under stress. Chat Noir noticed her stress and that’s why he offered the distraction of going to the movies. At no point was he legitimately bothered by anything she was doing --- he would have spoken up if he was, because he wasn’t Adrien in that moment but Chat Noir. People take this shit way too seriously for the kind of show that it is. I literally didn’t even think anything abt that scene beyond “haha dumb and dumber” and then I came online and saw people salting and I was like “wait .... y’all actually care abt this?? y’all actually gave this dumbass scene, which was made solely to show both of them having 0 brain cells, more than 3 minutes of thought?” Idk people in fandom are always gonna throw a fit whenever female characters so much as Breathe near their fan favorite pretty white boy wrong and that has been true for decades in every fandom under the sun, you can’t ever win with those lmao