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It's really because of that 1 questionable report of people having a problem?????

#someone needs to burn this sport to the ground#it doesnt deserve to exist#f1#formula 1#absolutely fucking ridiculous#even for the fia#also no communication about this to merc seems a bit iffy
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ok ko episode: My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad (season three edition)


#ko kincaid's family tree is insane#three dads (four if you're counting shadowy though i would argue he doesnt deserve that title).#ten siblings including every robot made by boxman tko and fink#also unnamed grandmother.#he seriously went from having one direct family member to THIS. impressive#imagine the family gathering it would be weird as hell#ok ko let's be heroes#ok ko#ok ko fanart#ok ko ko#ok ko mr gar#ok ko professor venomous#ok ko boxman#do people tag chameleon jr#well i will. we love you chameleon jr (there are like four people in the world who remember his existence)#ok ko chameleon jr#my art
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Wrong Twin Bozos 🙄
First ever DC x DP prompt because I've been getting brainrot reading yall prompts and I need a nap :> this is crac–
A classic twin Damian and Danny AU, where Danny ends up with the generic fuckery of having the GIW/Bad Parents!Fentons after him from a bad reveal gone wrong, Vlad outing him, or escaping after getting vivsected and injured badly.
Who Knows? But Danny's GOTTA GO-
Now in some scenarios, we get Danny hitting the deck and going to Gotham, to Batman and Robin aka Damian for help and revealing himself. But some au prompts I've seen of Danny ORIGINS about leaving the League of Assassins is via fake death, help or the pit, etc. Danny left for a reason that got him away with a new life- he's FUCKED if he goes to his bio dad and his twin brother, he tells himself =͟͟͞͞(꒪ᗜ꒪‧̣̥̇).
Going to Gotham aka the BatFam would blow Danny's cover, getting the attention of the League of Assassins after all this time is definitely not on Danny's to-do list. He's got enough on his plate, thank you :']
So instead, while Danny leaves Amity Park with the help of his friends, he doesn't aim for Gotham, he instead goes to hide in other cities such as Star City, Keystone City, or Central City. Honestly, doesn't even have to be a city, he straight up leaves the country if yall feel like it, guy deserves a break dammit. Can't have laws of legal torture affect you when you're in open seas ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Now cue Danny's pursuers scrambling to find the Halfa, a constant chase- that is until they finally get a photo of Danny, scowling with his green eyes, trying to hide his ghostly traits that mustve leaked through when the photo was taken in Gotham.
They begin to get ready.
It's time to capture the creature once and for all.
#Basically: Danny doesnt go to Gotham but the GIW or Bad!Fentons do to capture Damian#Mistaking him for Danny since in various twin prompts Danny is assumed to be a clone at first#cue shenanigans: the GIW or Bad!Fentons trying and failing on catching Damian and immediately getting jumped by the batfam#the batfam jump their asses soon learning they want Damian/Robin is because he looks like the ghost boy theyre after#thus Damian/BatFam learn that not only do ghosts exists but also the antiecto acts but also that their target is Damian's twin#who is ALIVE???#cue batANGST#meanwhile Danny: fucking chilling on a tropical island 😎🧉✌️ he's healing from his trauma dammit he deserves this#Sam Jazz Tucker and Ellie making sandcastles#the batfam: losing their shit looking for Danny's goofy ass AND trying to get rid of the laws before the GIW/Fentons god forbid the LoA#dc x dp#dp x dc#dc x dp crossover#dp x dc prompt#danyal al ghul#twin au#batpham#batman#danny phantom#danny and damian are twins#gurlies mtired af but brainrot REAL 😤👊 first prompt idea hope this is legible lmao so much 😭
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The reason I took interest in AI as an art medium is that I've always been interested in experimenting with novel and unconventional art media - I started incorporating power tools into a lot of my physical processes younger than most people were even allowed to breathe near them, and I took to digital art like a duck to water when it was the big, relatively new, controversial thing too, so really this just seems like the logical next step. More than that, it's exciting - it's not every day that we just invent an entirely new never-before-seen art medium! I have always been one to go fucking wild for that shit.
Which is, ironically, a huge part of why I almost reflexively recoil at how it's used in the corporate world: because the world of business, particularly the entertainment industry, has what often seems like less than zero interest in appreciating it as a novel medium.
And I often wonder how much less that would be the case - and, by extension, how much less vitriolic the discussion around it would be, and how many fewer well-meaning people would be falling for reactionary mythologies about where exactly the problems lie - if it hadn't reached the point of...at least an illusion of commercial viability, at exactly the moment it did.
See, the groundwork was laid in 2020, back during covid lockdowns, when we saw a massive spike in people relying on TV, games, books, movies, etc. to compensate for the lack of outdoor, physical, social entertainment. This was, seemingly, wonderful for the whole industry - but under late-stage capitalism, it was as much of a curse as it was a gift. When industries are run by people whose sole brain process is "line-go-up", tiny factors like "we're not going to be in lockdown forever" don't matter. CEOs got dollar signs in their eyes. Shareholders demanded not only perpetual growth, but perpetual growth at this rate or better. Even though everyone with an ounce of common sense was screaming "this is an aberration, this is not sustainable" - it didn't matter. The business bros refused to believe it. This was their new normal, they were determined to prove -
And they, predictably, failed to prove it.
So now the business bros are in a pickle. They're beholden to the shareholders to do everything within their power to maintain the infinite growth they promised, in a world with finite resources. In fact, by precedent, they're beholden to this by law. Fiduciary duty has been interpreted in court to mean that, given the choice between offering a better product and ensuring maximum returns for shareholders, the latter MUST be a higher priority; reinvesting too much in the business instead of trying to make the share value increase as much as possible, as fast as possible, can result in a lawsuit - that a board member or CEO can lose, and have lost before - because it's not acting in the best interest of shareholders. If that unsustainable explosive growth was promised forever, all the more so.
And now, 2-3-4 years on, that impossibility hangs like a sword of Damocles over the heads of these media company CEOs. The market is fully saturated; the number of new potential customers left to onboard is negligible. Some companies began trying to "solve" this "problem" by violating consumer privacy and charging per household member, which (also predictably) backfired because those of us who live in reality and not statsland were not exactly thrilled about the concept of being told we couldn't watch TV with our own families. Shareholders are getting antsy, because their (however predictably impossible) infinite lockdown-level profits...aren't coming, and someone's gotta make up for that, right? So they had already started enshittifying, making excuses for layoffs, for cutting employee pay, for duty creep, for increasing crunch, for lean-staffing, for tightening turnarounds-
And that was when we got the first iterations of AI image generation that were actually somewhat useful for things like rapid first drafts, moodboards, and conceptualizing.
Lo! A savior! It might as well have been the digital messiah to the business bros, and their eyes turned back into dollar signs. More than that, they were being promised that this...both was, and wasn't art at the same time. It was good enough for their final product, or if not it would be within a year or two, but it required no skill whatsoever to make! Soon, you could fire ALL your creatives and just have Susan from accounting write your scripts and make your concept art with all the effort that it takes to get lunch from a Star Trek replicator!
This is every bit as much bullshit as the promise of infinite lockdown-level growth, of course, but with shareholders clamoring for the money they were recklessly promised, executives are looking for anything, even the slightest glimmer of a new possibility, that just might work as a life raft from this sinking ship.
So where are we now? Well, we're exiting the "fucking around" phase and entering "finding out". According to anecdotes I've read, companies are, allegedly, already hiring prompt engineers (or "prompters" - can't give them a job title that implies there's skill or thought involved, now can we, that just might imply they deserve enough money to survive!)...and most of them not only lack the skill to manually post-process their works, but don't even know how (or perhaps aren't given access) to fully use the software they specialize in, being blissfully unaware of (or perhaps not able/allowed to use) features such as inpainting or img2img. It has been observed many times that LLMs are being used to flood once-reputable information outlets with hallucinated garbage. I can verify - as can nearly everyone who was online in the aftermath of the Glasgow Willy Wonka Dashcon Experience - that the results are often outright comically bad.
To anyone who was paying attention to anything other than please-line-go-up-faster-please-line-go-please (or buying so heavily into reactionary mythologies about why AI can be dangerous in industry that they bought the tech companies' false promises too and just thought it was a bad thing), this was entirely predictable. Unfortunately for everyone in the blast radius, common sense has never been an executive's strong suit when so much money is on the line.
Much like CGI before it, what we have here is a whole new medium that is seldom being treated as a new medium with its own unique strengths, but more often being used as a replacement for more expensive labor, no matter how bad the result may be - nor, for that matter, how unjust it may be that the labor is so much cheaper.
And it's all because of timing. It's all because it came about in the perfect moment to look like a life raft in a moment of late-stage capitalist panic. Any port in a storm, after all - even if that port is a non-Euclidean labyrinth of soggy, rotten botshit garbage.
Any port in a storm, right? ...right?
All images generated using Simple Stable, under the Code of Ethics of Are We Art Yet?
#ai art#generated art#generated artwork#essays#about ai#worth a whole 'nother essay is how the tech side exists in a state that is both thriving and floundering at the same time#because the money theyre operating with is in schrodinger's box#at the same time it exists and it doesnt#theyre highly valued but usually operating at a loss#that is another MASSIVE can of worms and deserves its own deep dive
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Trouble? You're only in trouble if you get caught. So don't let me catch you ~
uhhhhh say hi to jamil and yuusha's kid jas(mine) pt 2 (also here and here are like my only two other posts of her)
HFDDF OKAY SO - i actually had these unfinished sketches from months ago of jas as a nrc student and scarabia housewarden
this sneaky little bastard (affectionate) had never left my cranium she was just sitting idly by
im sobbing i hate jas so much (lie i love her)
jamil and yuusha still aren't supposed to have a kid so i just imagine this to be an alternate timeline for them 🤧🤧🤧
soooo info dump time ---
━━━━━━✦ scarabia housewarden nrc jas
jas has a vice-housewarden who is her childhood best friend (figuring out if i want them to be twst rajah or abu)
also thinking about if i want yuusha to be a staff member in nrc with grim or just dead during this time (why? just because)
no further info tbh, scarabia housewarden jas is just vibing
━━━━━━✦ child jas stuffs




i'm SO indecisive about her design as a toddler/preteen lowkey 😭
she was very sweet as a toddler but somewhere along the line she just became more carefree and chaotic
jas is a mama's girl but is more alike with her father than she cares to admit
octavinelle trio and heartslabyul duo + grim are like the honorary uncles (jas's favorites are floyd, ace, and grim bc they sometimes enable her with shenanigans)
even though jas has favorite uncles, najma is the favorite favorite. i imagine she's just the cool aunt
if mama yuu is "shrimpy" then jas is a "tiger prawn" (bc rajah)
jas LOVES doing people's hair including her own; would rather do them by hand rather than by magic
jamil showed jas how to breakdance once and it became ingrained in her personality ever since
(there's probably still more about her that i'm forgetting but this is it for now)
━━━━━━✦ bonus future jamiyuu stuff because i miss them
jamil took yuusha's last name surprise surprise (if they get married)
i imagine after nrc they'd be travelling together actually, not necessarily settling down
(i'm REALLY not 100% on them settling down and having a kid but i still love jas a lot so im so conflicted) (that's why aus exist 😔✨)
(and if hypothetically they do settle down i think yuusha being staff in nrc with grim + maybe jamil who travels for work (or being a house husband??? maybe they alternate roles) can be adorable ideas)
━━━━━━✦ (i also had this thing that i never posted about that one trope of a fankid finding themselves in nrc bc of portal/time/mirror shenanigans)
(jamil found both of them asleep somewhere and refuses to wake them up)
also some bonus tidbits about this scenario with them:
💜: Is she a family member of yours? How'd she get here?
🐍: I have never seen that child in my life before now. And there's no way I could have missed news about a new relative of mine.
💜: You know how ridiculous it sounds if she's related to me. I'm not from here. She even looks more like you!
🐍: Jas has the same color of eyes as you. Didn't you tell me she mistook you for her mother?
💜: ...Yeah, but I don't like what you're implying.
🐍: Well, I'm not exactly happy with this either.
they're just both in denial of the implication of this child existing and neither of them is saying it out loud.
and the angst/wholesomeness(???) of jamil asking jas's full name and hearing that she has her mother's last name instead of his
eventually they grew attached (unfortunately) until somehow they send jas home to her original timeline
and then they finally have a real conversation about what all that was about
anyways thank you for reading if you've made it this far;;; end tweet
#hdfsdfkjs another brain dump but i feel like i'm giving inconsistent lore 💀💀💀#i’m bawlin#i dont write these down they just exist so all my thoughts are scattered#anyways i screenshotted the ask so that tumblr would keep the formatting with the photos >:(#anon i hope you still see this bc tumblr doesnt even notify anons anyway 😭😭😭#and thank you for giving me the excuse to info dump about her the best i can 🙏#[—✦-#-✧ oc rambles#-✧ my art#twst art#twst#twisted wonderland#jamil viper#twst oc x canon#jamil x yuu#twst yuu#twst yuusona#(💜) yuusha tala#(💜) curry noodles#(🌺) jas#nextgen💜#twst fankid#twst fanchild#twst oc#-✦—]#i think the girl finally deserves her own tag#but i'm not sure how much more i'm going to post about her 😭#even though i enjoy her character concept hnghhh
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[S A F E T Y scene] | MOUTHWASHING Animation
Made this in two days because I AM obsessed with this two!! I love this game and I felt my heart shattered sm. YES i am in denial theyre alive. SHUT UP
YOU CAN WATCH THIS ON MY YOUTUBE TOO!
Yipie yipie yipieeee :3
#mouthwashing#mouthwashingart#mouthwashing fanart#fanart#animation#curly#anya#mouthwashing curly#mouthwashing anya#jambalaya can kill himself#jambalaya doesnt exist fuck him#i hate jambalaya#i love curly#curly my boy#curly makes me happy everyday#anya deserves all my love and care#anya is my world#anya is so pretty i love her smmmmm#I AM NOT OBSESSED#I THINK
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directly vagueposting but this website is so suffocatingly exorsexist oh my God. transmasc does not mean "every trans person assigned female at birth". transfem does not mean "every trans person assigned male at birth". they are not "bad labels" for not adequately describing every trans person, you should be able to accept that TRANS PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT TRANSMASC OR TRANSFEM EXIST AND SHOULDNT BE SHOVED INTO THOSE LABELS.
#context: saw a post calling transmasc a bad label because it didnt correctly describe all non transfem trans people and its like welll yeah#thats not. what it fucking means. transmasc doesnt mean 'trans but not transfem'. and it is really gross to define transmasc identity#on LACK OF TRANSFEMININITY instead of . PRESENCE OF TRANSMASCULINITY.#and same vice versa with essentially implying transfems are just 'not transmasc'#transneutral people exist and deserve visibility and love for their labels and not to just be shoved into the boxes that dont fit them#same w unaligned and multigender and genderqueer and cistrans and intergender and etc.#and transmasc/transfem people dont deserve to be defined by what they are not. thats gross too.#beckonings
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Every new thing I learn about the Sahdmahdi family has me wanting to chew drywall
#WHAT DO YOU MEAN#okay actually spoiler tagging this one be aware. these notes contain spoilers#What do you MEAN they were robbed of the opportunity to even exist as a family together#what do you MEAN Apollo got removed from the picture because it was the only way to keep every one safe#and dhurke thought his son would immediately forget and spent years looking for his biological parents#meanwhile apollo only ever wanted his REAL father back#he doesnt give two shits about Jove and Thalassa#and his brother had to watch him get sent away and then he got his mother and a new sister#and then THAT got taken from him#and now he's stuck in a catch 22 where saving two of his family members means condemning another two to death#and poor rayfa doesnt even KNOW any of this (I think)#she was robbed of two brothers and she doesnt even KNOW#meanwhile Amara had to watch as another woman raised her daughter#and she never even got to meet apollo#and she watches her son suffer and hears snatches of her husband on the news#and watches as her daughter is taught to loathe everything they stand for#at this point i HOPE amara is the murderer she DESERVES it#ace attorney#aa#aa6#aa6 spoilers#spirit of justice spoilers#ace attorney spoilers#ace attorney spirit of justice#soj spoilers#aa soj#spirit of justice#aa spirit of justice#aa spoilers#spk plays soj
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fuck everybody who makes fun of "useless" animals
#it's kinda like the rfk jr autism debacle#first of all NO animal is useless. but more importantly even if an animal is literally completely useless to its ecosystem and to the world#that doesnt make it less deserving of existence or respect#if that rings true for humans why should it be any different for any other living thing#we're all just weird little guys
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can people agree to acknowledge being hurt by religious experiences without being disrespectful to religious people like come on, there's so many Christians and Muslims suffering in impoverished countries and concentration camps and to villainize and disregard people's suffering existing because you had a bad experience is uncalled for. Not all christians are skinheads waving signs who wish people death and not all muslims are terrorists??? The same goes for other religions but I tend to see it a lot with these, calling them derogatory terms, thats just disrespectful?? Just because one group under this label treat people evil doesnt represent the people as a whole nor does it undermine someones suffering by their hands either. Like being hurt by horrible people is wrong and that crime should be called out. But it's just insane to me people will just not believe christianity is a real persecuted religion outside of the US but everyone seems to think it's a USA exclusive religion full of bigots or something even though there's a severe need with real christians suffering (like palestine, like china, like north korea, and so on)
#theres christians in Gaza along with muslims and multiple people just dont care#both extremes they dont care#people who want palestinians removed dont care#people who want to save palestinians dont care#its like they only want to help an idea but then will spit hate on the beliefs of people they say they want to save#im so im so just who will actually care for the palestinians and not be just pushing an agenda it makes me so upset to see both sides#ones just praising freakin tyrrany and the others praising terrorism#im glad theres some people who genuinely want to help palestine but a lot seem to be almost some kind of agenda behind it#it just feels weird to see people saying save palestine and then say u hate christians but like then what abt the christian palestinians??#they exist too?#like all muslim and christian (and athiest) palestinians dont deserve this#tho its insane to me some people are supporting hamas but thats a diff giant vat of worms im not going to open#and then some people who are christians who are OKAY w this happening is also insane to me this is wrong#like#man idk#and i dont get people censoring xtian or whatever like cmon we dont say xslim or xrmon or xdhist idk like why??#just bc u have a bad experiencr doesnt mean its ok to disrespect??#idk it feels like such a minor thing but i dont see people doing this with other religions they dont believe in#idk i rant i guess im all over the placr
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in season 8 when house is answering questions for chase's hearing, and the interviewer pauses the recording and house says "is this the part where you hit me" like... the few times where he mentions getting hit in the series its always implied that its a pattern in his life
#and sometimes he does go to bars and does things because he wants to get hit#because even if he doesnt think he deserves it#which sometimes he does think that#at the end of the day he feels its like 2+2=4#like yeah this course of events makes sense to me#even when he suggested wilson punch him its like deeply troubling if you really think about it#like its no big deal to house#its literally his normal its how he is absolved of things#but at the same time like he doesnt know how to exist in another way#house md#gregory house
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hurts i didnt like most of the p5r content n anything i did like was given next to know time to exist in the story and also all the akechi moments are such fnservice thats meant to not go anywhere to not interfere with the cishet power fantasy of the main plot it kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth to be like yayy my canon akeshu. i do like the midwinter outfits though
#> refuse to play p5r for nearly 5 years bc im so pissed off at the thought they mightve brought akechi back for bait#n then i have zero interest in anything new im seeing#> finally play it#> it IS bait and i dont like any of the new p5r content#> i dont know what i expected#qhen the character whose arc is abt being used and turned into a puppet for others amusement gets used n turned into a puppet#for others amusement by the company#i dont like how they gavd nothing time to exist also it uosets me maruki doesnt die. like he actually deserved to die
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i cant believe theres actual people out there that complain that people dont die enough in kh?? like yeah i will concede its kind of annoying when someone you thought was dead is actually alive the whole time but like i also have the ability to acknowledge that kh is just not that kind of story??
#im not articulated enough to explain why people are wrong for wanting that#but its like#either youve never realled watched or read a piece of media that kills literally everyone and its sad as fucking hell#or youve never watched or read a media that REFUSES to kill anyone not bc thats not the themes the story is trying to express but bc litera#or youve never watched or read enough things that absolutely refuses to kill off characters and its not even thematically important#you people wouldnt survive reading fairy tail#i just remember seeing people be actually upset that roxas and xion came back bc it detracts from the tragedy of their story#and like? do you not like seeing your fave characters thrive?#kh has never been about that kind of tragedy you know?#its core message has literally been everyone deserves to live and have a life simply bc theyre hear they exist and they interact with other#or something dont quote me on that#like thats its core theme!! existence and your right to it!!#and roxas and xion coming back doesnt do shit abt the tragedy they endured bc they still lived it?? it still happened??#i can play kh2 right fucking now and id still cry over roxas??#if anything in so happy hes his own person now??#and thats the thing bc even narratively speaking it wouldnt make sense for them to not come back BC THEY HAD HEARTS!!! they were their own#people!!! that they had to go back to sora was less bc sora needed his nobody back in his body to become whole again and more bc they had h#his memories. the moment they were separated from each other roxas and sora were fundamentally different. and as they grew and roxas gained#new memories and connections HIS OWN HEART grew and he became his own person#like it was established he had a heart thats just fucked up as hell to not give him his own body??#and again not the kind of themes the story is telling!#michi tag#(drafts) also still correct!!!! i am soeaking only the truth
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Clarification I definitely should have done ever since season 4 and the Ladynoir conflict started escalating, but hey, let's just get it out:
There are reasons why I'm harping down so badly on Miraculous' Girlboss feminism and defend Adrien as much as I do.
To get the feminist (in-universe) explaination out of the way first:
I would be lying if I said that I like the direction the show has taken Marinette's character and the story in general. But regarding her specifically I simply have to say that most of my problems with her are how she is written as Ladybug, Guardian, and especially leader & partner. Not in her civilian self. Hence why you won't find that alot on my blog, only when it contributes to the overarching double standards problem from s4 I take issue with.
I simply cant deny it, Ladybug is a kind of leader I just came to not be able to respect alot anymore in how she operates most things bc she doesn't really ever look passed how things look & stand for herself, and what SHE needs & wants. Marinette is a very low empathy person in the sense that she struggles putting herself in other people's positions, or remembers considering that at all.
But that's not the reason why I can't respect her as leader. I have ADD, that would be really hypocritical of me.
What leaves me unable to respect her as leader though (& honestly kinda even wanting Alya to take her position) is the fact that the show doesn't see much wrong with Maribug doing that.
They don't properly depict this as flawed leadership she actually NEEDS to grow out of by making up for her shortcomings by, for example, making other people her official co-leaders. Instead the show since s4 (& kinda s3) will proceed to put it's feminist foot down if Maribug isn't actually in the end 100% correct and "totally girlboss justified" in any given case - with CN & authorities specifically - no matter the context. Ergo she's barely ever truly improving her weakpoints in partnership skills for example & continues doing the same mistakes over n over.
like she genuinely would benefit from having Chat Noir as her co-leader too, not just Rena Rouge. But no. The neurodivergend low-empathy girl can't have a high-empathy boy co-leader bc apparently thats misogynistic now, huh ?
Again, I have ADD and I'm also a woman. In fact, I actually have alot in common with Maribug (hence why it hurt so much once s4 took her away from me), so forgive me when I still say: I am NOT going to lower my standards of my believe that neither of those aspects get to be an excuse on everyone else's expense regarding LEADERSHIP (which I do also am in the position of in my life).
And I repeat: LEADERSHIP. Not Marinette herself as a person necessarily & esp not her civilian life.
People always say that her critics wouldn't be so hard on her if she were a man, but I strongly disagree. In my experience, if Marinette were a boy people would actually draw a line nowadays and call out that Mariano is too stuck in his own head to be a good leader (& partner). And maybe even demand that he shouldn't be in that position anymore either at all or until he's in a better head space.
Bc with male characters people are actually drawing lines now in important factors when it comes to power & the accountability coming with it, bc in the end being in change means it ain't about you
Hence why e. g. Steve Rogers (Captain America) was then a fucking fugitive from the law when shit got real in the MCU. They had to do that bc of his leadership morality not being able to exist well within a corrupted & complex law system under fire and attack. My man's an amazing battle leader, but the MCU did VERY well leaving taking care of all kinds of social & political matters to Tony Stark. This kind of nuance ain't Steve's strength. Marinette & Steve are actually a EXTREMELY similar type of leader and it's interesting that I don't exactly vibe with him too much either in that regard, but like him as person the way I did Marinette. So for me it's definitely an issue with their type of leadership.
But the mainstream female leader characters are often still "too female" to get held to the same regular standards bc telling a female leader character in a complicated and not entirely beneficial situation & position 'yeah, it's sucks but you're not the center of the universe'' is now more often than not still "too mean/ sexist"
again, Steve was made an outlaw for a reason and you can bet if he had been a Stephanie people would have made all her struggles about sexism & called the 'outlaw leader' route after Civil War misogyny, merely bc "society doesnt respect women". This is whats happening with Maribug & it clashes with her leadership style.
Hence why there AREN'T ALOT of mainstream female leader characters. And if we get some, most of them are narratively defined by how powerful & in control they are for THEIR OWN BENEFIT and it being depicted as 100% right & just in general (like with Marinette) which goes against what a normal leader should be, so alot of people don't like them (ignoring the actual sexist people for a sec)
The first Wonder Woman movie for example was so well-received for a reason. They did it RIGHT (& may I please also recommend Wakanda Forever? Fuck, that movie was GOOD)
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But yes, it's notably how Maribug treats Chat, who is supposed to be her partner and friend, that I take alot of issues with.
And yes, I would say the same if LB were male and CN female. Ladynoir is so rooted in toxic femininity that this "partnership" (or just the entire LS) the way it is could NOT exist today in gender bend. S4 and the s5 finale in particular are unthinkable in gender bend and they sold it as "justified female empowerment" & "unparalleled loving treatment" from Ladybug's side Chat Noir needed to learn to be GRATEFUL for.
All while, and I will never stop stressing this: the show has never stopped writing Marinette to treat Chat Noir as if he basically just spawns into existence once he puts on the mask. He's HALF a human being. Even once she falls in love with him in s5.
This is the fundamental and deep seeded problem of where my issues come from here. It never stands in question if Adrien views Marinette and Ladybug as full human beings, but the other way around that very much is the case. In whatever way it's depicted. Yes this is a line I draw, especially because of the whole Sentihuman thing.
I personally am alot more like Adrien regarding Friendship and partnership (or what his character initially started out). They are heavy & meaningful topics for me. So seeing Marinette being utilized to girlboss all that into the ground with Chat Noir, esp in s4, while she apparently barely ever even noticed anything wrong with how she treats him in the first place as she literally replaced him with Alya/ Rena in everything but name
cause buring him under a wall of secrets & lies meant she can still 100% benefit from his eternal devotion by letting him believe she's too alone to be a partner anymore AT ALL. (Kuro Neko onwards and then NEVER stopped letting him think she's just as alone as he is. NEVER. She's still doing it in s5 while leaving him 100% isolated which was then his demise in the s5 finale.)
and gives Alya the deluxe partnership entirely on his expense, while barely ever sparing him even the most basic thought in anything; & by "Risk" then literally having them switch status. Rena is her actual partner she fully treats that way and he's merely her favorite temp hero with no rights, which Rena was previously.
And the only reason why Chat was treated with something resembling to fairness or dignity again in season 5 (& finally wasn't a rag doll for her every little mood anymore...) was because Maribug plainly had no other choice and had her team & position of power taken away by force while Alya renounced for her own safety. And yet she's still treating him as half a human being even by the end of S5. AFTER her character development. He's Chat Noir and that's where his existence ends in her leadership & friendship. CN and Alya in s5 are literally 2 halves of ONE PARTNER.
All that was painful to watch to say the least. Bc it's imo honestly a disgrace to friendship and partnership. I can't put into words how ashamed I would be of myself if I treated someone the way Marinette treats Chat Noir (again, HALF A HUMAN BEING).
Much less a friend I claim to love dearly and don't want to loose (another thing the MCU did better regarding Steve's fall-out with Tony over Bucky... I should really make that comparison post why Steve works for me & Marinette doesnt)
Just the mere fact that Marinette in "Elation" even told Chat "It doesn't matter who's underneath your mask" is honestly outrageous.
Because thats simply what it is for me. If s4 & 5 Marinette were portrayed from a similar morality angle to Emonette in the Paris special I would have much less issues with her. Cause thats ironically an angle female characters barely get & is mostly used to redeem the broken bad boys with a hidden heart of gold™.
Double irony: s1-s3 actually DID put civilian Marinette often into that angle, hence why I really liked her, but then s4 suddenly said "well, her methods & actions really dont matter. She's wrong, but actually not really; ergo she should get rewarded in the end. Always. But with a few exceptions. Here n there she loses to claim otherwise. But actually the world just needs to learn how right & amazing she is."
She makes countless mistakes but often either doesn't really learn from them anymore or they just don't "count" bc that's 'what makes her quirky & loveable', so having any issues with her now means you hate women. And she's a very flawed leader but actually never did anything wrong. Ever. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I will be VERY blunt now: The moment you put a female character into the leader role the FEMALE aspect is supposed to be of secondary importance. And a leader, by the nature of the position, ALWAYS has to be questioned morally wise in my opinion bc of the fatal blindspots that will automatically occur in every leadership.
And it happened here too: Chat Noir's treatment. But they demanded that her being the (female) leader means she's OWED to treat him badly & gets to keep him as blindspot on HIS expense bc she doesn't like thinking about him existing as civilian person.
A leader is ALWAYS somebody who is NOT going to sit well with everybody regarding their approach. That's a normal instinct, and in fact it would be highly dangerous if that wouldnt happen at all. So if I, or other people, don't respect her as one that simply means she has an opposition the way every leader has & is being held to normal standards a leader should be held to, regardless of gender.
Sorry if you think thats sexist, but in my opinion that's a YOU problem. I personally respect female leaders too much to not acknowledge them as anything else but the potential threats they are. The same way I do with male leaders.
You're leader first, woman second. If you can't handle that get out of the leadership position (yes, oc that also applies the other way around). Feminism was about making sure that women cant be excluded from e. g. position of power just bc we're female. The goal wasn't to have yet another group of people stomp their foots, now claiming that they are OWED power once they wanna have it to feel powerful. But that's what Marinette was used to teach an entire generation of children, especially girls.
The last thing you will EVER get me to do is accept that I should be holding women - specifically for equality, female empowerment and leadership - to LOWER (moral) standards as I would the men in her position.
Buddy, I am NOT gonna fucking do that. Just the thought is pissing me tf off, and has ever since s4, cause it directly plays into the misogynistic thinking of:
"Women can't be given power, status or even too much focus as human beings because they're too irrational and immature to be able to then lay proper priorities & take rightful accountability for their shit like a man in power could; and not just scream and cry while playing the oppressed victim card the moment things don't work out & they aren't being given the special female treatment to let them mostly off the hook consequences wise.
Leading to everyone around them, especially the MEN, having to step up, do the work & basically babysit the women like children - while still having to give her the credit as person in charge - turning the women more or less into toddlers wearing a queen's crown"
Which, by all means, Adrichat in every dynamic of the love square by season 5, Gabriel at the end of "Recreation" and even Luka & Félix (& "thankfully" Alya too since s4) had to do for Maribug in alot of ways.
Pick up all of her slack in several major areas & catering to her while simultaneously having to still give most of the credit to HER or else they would be "mean to the female lead" (it's also telling that Alya is treated the best here, & goodness dont get me started on Su-Han...).
And with that out of the way, a few more meta reasons:
1) I'm NOT watching a damn documentary. Marinette is NOT a 14 year old, she doesnt exist & isnt based on a real person or story. She's a fictional main character and narrative tool, so forgive me for approaching this differently than a real life case.
and 2) in everything I watch I automatically look out for the narrative's blind spots and victims of the writings' favorites. I take it this seriously because this is career related for me.
Hence why I have barely ever liked a main character and ironically Marinette/ Ladybug was once one of the few exceptions (alongside Korra from Legend of Korra and Blitz from Helluva Boss)
Look, when I for example watch Helluva Boss or a Yugioh show I will automatically pay extra attention to how the female characters are being treated bc they are obviously treated worse by the writing and much more neglected and scapegoated than the male characters.
Meanwhile when I watch Miraculous and She-Ra, I do the opposite and pay attention to how the male characters are treated bc now they have the gender-biase against them.
And when I for example watch Avatar the last Airbender or Legend of Korra [and She-Ra, that show is great], then I actually get to be mostly fucking happy for once in my life jfc
I'm not going to elaborate too much more on this because I already named by my main point in the beginning: Chat Noir's - not even Adrien's, I mean CHAT NOIR - sometimes honestly awful treatment being the biggest moral and narrative blind spot of the entire show, and honestly where most of Maribug's problems then are also rooted in. Hence why I started focusing so much on Chat Noir since season 4. I look at the overall narrative and circumstances and look for the blind spots that needs to be solved to get to the core of the problem of this whole mess, to get effective results.
And that was and even by the end remained the fact that Adrichat is treated so badly, scapegoated in every possible way in the name of "feminism" and kicked out of the story where HE is at the core of most everything going on, just so the show can force Maribug into everything, make things about her that have no business being about her
Just so she can then be made to constandly turn around and scream, cry and stress about problems - and go about them in the least effective way - that wouldnt be there in the first place if she wasnt the main character of a story that isnt hers.
Mate, I dont know what to tell you here, but the fact that we are following Marinette Dupain-Cheng ,who has nothing to do with anything besides being the cool action girl, is and will always remain of the of core problems of this show. I WISHED that wasnt the case. But for the love of everything, Kagami would have made so much more sense as the female lead, but no.
Anyway, I will leave it at that now cause I already elaborate much further than I initially wanted to, I just wanted to finally have all this stated.
This Blog is not a full representation of how I lay priorities in (feminist) media in general, my view adjusts to the piece of media I'm watching.
And unfortunately, ever since season 4 Miraculous turned into a full blown extreme case and has only gotten better somewhat recently. So I will continue doing what I always do: focus on the fucking VICTIM whose bad treatment pulls down the whole show's quality, and here that's plain obviously Adrien Agreste/ Chat Noir.
And with all due respect: Die mad about it.
#miraculous ladybug#miraculous#Sexism in Miraculous#ml critical#Season 4 critical#Marinette's leadership is simply my main issue here#Marinette critical#My opinion on leadership#Ladynoir critical#Ml#adrien deserves better#Chat Noir deserves better#Marinette deserves better#And Ladybug DEFINITELY deserved better#I just miss loving this girl so much#I remember how happy I was that she was one of the few main characters I liked and also a female leader#And then s4 came around and took all that away from me#I just cannot respect her leadership 100% on Chat Noir's expense#Sorry for respecting female leaders too much to not drop my fucking standards bc Marinette doesnt like thinking bout Chat existing#That's shit leadership#And even worse partnership and friendship
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you know what breaks my heart the most?
seeing sylvie hate in the sylvie/sylki tag
or if not hate, just straight up passive-aggressiveness and praises abt l0kius
in the, lemme remind you, sylvie/sylki tag
#:'(#my baby#she doesnt deserve this#sylki might be the only thing she has been genuinely happy abt#and now yall stupid antis want to hate on her in her own tag#like yk there exists anti sylki and anti sylvie tags right?#sylvie#pro sylvie#sylvie laufeydottir#SHE IS A FUCKING QUEEN.#YOU HEAR ME???#A.#KWEEN.#pro sylki#sylki
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If Israel really gave a shit about their national security, or whatever line they're using this month, they would stop the killing and allow a Palestinian state.
Oh, you need to be safe from the scary freedom fighters? So that's why you murder whole families, leaving the survivors with nothing but a desire to prevent this from happening to their neighbours?
The people willing to fight and die for freedom are just so threatening that you have to give them more of a reason to fight?
You're scared that there will be violence against you so that's why you walk away from the few truce talks you bother to show up to?
If national security really was their priority they would take peaceful steps to ensure future security, rather than ensuring they have generations of enemies.
They don't want security. They want supremecy, and violence is their only means to get it.
But they won't have it. Palestine will be free, and the world won't ever forget this.
#they bombed a fucking displacement camp and called it a hamas compound. these soulless cunts just want death#israel doesnt have a right to exist. and they dont seem to want the world to tolerate them any more#everyone who has allowed this genocide to go on deserves to get the wall
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