Fluffy Baby Raptor Squad!!!!!!!!!

Thank goodness im not the only one

shipping renkaza fucking sucks because you either get people who hate real enemies to lovers and call it toxic or pr*ship because they actually are enemies who want to kill each other instead of friends who bicker sometimes (these people are the weakest link and will not survive the winter)

or you get people who do ship it but only in the gooner dumbing-it-down-to-hardcore-porn way where they romanticize and get off to abuse and r*pe (these people are just gross sick individuals and i hope they go extinct)

and the few people who do see the emotional depth in the homoerotic minutes renkaza spent together and the potential in that for top tier doomed yaoi are few and far in between and i rarely find good fics that aren't just insanely ooc porn

NEWS OF SOON-TO-BE FANFIC!!

I might have to write a story about Tianami, AKA, Nanami (JJK) and Taina (Princess and the Frog)

My three reasons

I dislike Naveen now

Nanami is perfect for Taina

They hot together

(bonus) because I don't remember what happened in Shibuya...

I will inform all when posted

Unpopular opinion: I think Marinette's backstory in Derision works better for Zoe.

I personally don't dislike Zoe, the writers just didn't do a good job with her, but there's a couple of things about her that I really like that would make her less boring than she is if they were explored more.

We know she was used to keep up an act in her old school, and when she couldn't keep doing that, she started to get bullied. They put roaches in her locker and called her a loser, but despite all that, Zoe still had one friend, the one who wrote "I ♡ U" on her sneaker as she explained when she met Marinette.

That's literally Marinette's whole backstory with Chloe and Kim pranking her with spiders and the only person being there for her being Soqueline. I hated this backstory because it was used as an excuse for Marinette's stalking tendencies.

But what if it was instead Zoe's backstory shown in that episode? Let us know how she acted with her classmates and why she couldn't keep up the act anymore. Why did they dislike her when she just wanted to be herself? Instead of spiders, she got roaches in her locker. It was confirmed somewhere that Zoe's only friend was Jessica, the girl from the New York special. It would be interesting to see her again in a flasback, defending Zoe or comforting her.

And this whole story would be an explanation, not an excuse, for Zoe's tendencies of bottling up her true feelings, which is definitelly not as bad as stalking your crush.

I don't know, Zoe is kind of a bland character that I can't hate because I made up my own AU in my head where she's more fleshed out and isn't just a piece of cardboard meant to replace Chloe.😅

8, honestly Marinette’s backstory can work for anyone really other than Marinette. And this proves it, since this makes a lot of sense and would give more insight into Zoé’s character. This backstory also works for Nathaniel as well. In Evillustrator, Evie says this after it was revealed to him, that Marinette is working with Chat noir behind his back.

Which made some fans think he had a crush on Chloé but I think what happened was, that he had a crush on someone and Chloé found out about it. Chloé, his crush at the time, and Sabrina plan on pranking and leading him on. This goes on for awhile and the day he confessed his feelings to his ex-crush, the prank and Chloé humiliated him along as Sabrina and his ex-crush. That’s why he said that line to Marinette in that episode. You can see that has some similarities to derision and he doesn’t react in creepy like our main character did. With my theory and your idea for Zoé, that I kinda like, shows how much Marinette doesn’t need this backstory. Rather, she needs consequences and being single.

Also if you need anyone you want to discuss the au with, I’ll be that person since I’m like Zoé’s character and wish for her more than being a cardboard cutout.

So there's a strange "defense" of Miraculous I've seen crop up on occasion. The idea that everything wrong about the Lovesquare powerdynamic is deliberate and will all be explored next season (lets put aside that this defense has been cropping up for 3 seasons now). The claim that Soon(TM), the writers are gonna make the characters face the concequences and explore the fallout of the entire jenga-tower of BS they've been "carefully" setting up all along... Which... isnt a defense I vibe with, cause it fundamentally boils down to "its not a Kids Rolemodel Show, its a deconstruction of a Kids Rolemodel Show". It's a defence that would place Marinette alongside Tyler Durden, Walter White and Rick Sanchez in the "you werent supposed to relate to them" pantheon. And while i think there are plenty of reasons that deconstruction is a usefull tool (even if i hate the dime-a-dozen "Childrens Fairytale but its depression" and "Superman, but psycho"' decon-stories out there). I'd argue 'Kids Rolemodel Show' is the one genre that should never be deconstructed, or at least not in the slow-burn,long-form way the people arguing this claim the show to be doing. And i hold that stance for one simple two-part reason: Poe's law, and the fact that the deconstructed genre is aimed at an audience with absolute zero media-literacy. (reminder: "5-6 year old kids" is the one audience where that is not an insult, simply a statement of fact.) A show aimed deconstructing a genre with an audience for whom it may actually be their first big piece of media is legitimately dangerous. Because there is no way a 5 year old can be expected to tell "deconstruction of a formulaic kids cartoon" from "Formulaic kids cartoon". The idea that "they've been making Marinette into a bad example deliberately and are going to reveal the entire show to have been a carefull ruse in season 6/7" is supposed to be a defense? Its frankly absurd. A 6 year kid who watched the show when it first aired and idolised Ladybug, could be old enough to drink by the time S6 reveals she was supposed to be a bad example. A little girl who based her relationships on the way Mari pursues romance would have a restraining order by the time the show indends to pull this twist. And some of y'all are claiming that "actually its a long-form deconstruction" is a defense? I legit don't get y'all.

I think one of the main gripes when it comes to Midoriya fan’s, who specifically speaking suffered bullying and/or abusive friendships (I do consider their relationship an abusive friendship due to being childhood friends and Midoriya considering Bakugo as a friend) and actively dislike BKDK, is the lack of portrayal of his feelings particularly negative ones not the positive ones which are emphasized in the manga (To the point where some people think Horikoshi is using Midoriya as a mouthpiece to elevate Bakugo which it doesn’t sit right with a lot of fans especially with the kind of history the two of them have). It doesn’t help the fact that Horikoshi technically has the right ingredients to start addressing this type of bullying/abuse such as having actual friends that look out for him which can give him another reference point and the narrative opportunity (actually, I think it should be extremely esencial for his character because you can’t portray a decade of bullying/abuse, especially physical and verbal, without at least showing consequences and showing him heal from those experiences) to actually question which can help address one of Midoriya’s flaws, specifically hero worship and low self worth. It doesn’t help that his admiration of Bakugo is not contextualized as a coping mechanism (and show the actual consequences such as emotional repression) and it isn’t challenged unlike his admiration for All Might where at least it was partially addressed. Actually, I’d argue that Bakugo’s redemption arc is incomplete because of the lack of elements mentioned earlier which is why you have so many fans thinking that Bakugo’s apology is more closer to gaslighting rather than genuine apology because he never directly addresses the specifics and is far more vague (Most of his peers don’t even know or understand why he’s apologising in the first place which is a missed opportunity when it comes to the rest of the class especially considering that there’s characters with anti bullying stance such as Ashido Mina).

This is a general problem with Horikoshi's writing. He's using RL issues like bullying / domestic abuse / institutional indoctrination / racist discrimination / neurodivergence as "spicy setting" that he manipulates as he pleases but never really takes a moral stance on it.

I feel like he "copied" much of his "themes" from existing comic books, but without fully understanding how those comic books used the superhero setting to make social commentary. That's why he doesn't really land well any of the issues he's raising, because it's just a patchwork of stolen settings without a moral guideline.

Deku's writing is especially problematic, because on top of the above, Horikoshi is so afraid to make Deku unlikeable that he never lets him feel negative emotions or fail at anything really. The saintly portrayal became the biggest flaw that dragged Deku down as a character.

For all the my hero academia fans who are disappointed for that ending i have three recommendations for yall!

-invincible: superhero comic/show that explores the superhero genre in a interesting and smart way, very good writting and good actions scenes

-Worm (parahumans): superhero web serial that you can read here for free, also a very good writer history that explores the genre in different aspects and with a large female cast!

- Witch Hat atelier: not superhero manga but still a very good written one! If you liked mha for the academy part and for the students you will love this! Children chart are written like Children the mc, coco shares some similarities with deku and her dynamic with agott (another student) has some similarities with deku and bakugo dynamic (but better!)

This are just some recommendations of things i been reading/watching and enjoying a lot while also thinking "damn i wish mha was more like this" so have fun! c:

CONFESSION: i love mp100 but i wish the fandom didnt pretend it's perfect. ONEs a homophobe and has used imperial japanese imagery in manga promo art. BONES made that uncomf dakimakura art of mob ritsu and teru + they made takeuchi look like that. theres also panty shots of minors in s1. again mp100 is my literal favorite show ever but i think its weird no one talks about it

My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

A zoom in at the male and female Caudipteryx in my painting, called "The Duet," commissioned by the University of Bristol.

Why do I keep seeing people say Marinette is poor, comes from a lower-class family and faces a lot of hardship? This girl has a design as a hobby and that is by no means cheap because she's not only designing but also creating it! She never even needed to work in her parent's bakery, the only time she's shown to work on it is when she temporarily dispelled from school and I don't think it even lasts for a day or two for most. The bakery is in Paris, we can even see the Eiffel Tower from her balcony, she's far from poor. The only hardship that Marinette has in her life is juggling her double lives, one that she's done poorly because of her control freak tendencies. Chloe? She has already taken care of her since Origin. Derision is just trying to show us a flashback that no longer matters except for "justification" for Marinette creepy behavior. I feel like Marinette is the protagonist who hardly faced any hardship in her life and even if she did, everyone around her would take care of it for her. Unless failing to confess to her crush is considered hardship, but even then Adrien already takes care of it. Guardian duty? I feel like Alya has done a better job than her at it. I don't think I know any protagonist who got so many compliments for zero achievement as Marinette did.

Yeah, the Marinette is in the lower class thing is such an annoying misconception just cause rich kids like Adrien and Chloe are in the same room as her. Its not helped with how s5 seemed so fixated to cast Marinette as this simple girl from a working class family going after the uptown rich boy Adrien. Emotion definitely put emphasis on this in the Diamond Ball, not to mention the show's gotten more upfront about their stance against the upperclass (while being highly sympathetic to rich upperclass men, as if Chloe is the only one representing the rich). Finance is the least of Marinette's real worries, she is far from poor and I will die on this hill.

Also yeah, it feels like Marinette's personal problems are such 1st world problems. Confessing to the boy she likes, accidentally ghosting friends... sure superheroing and guardian stuff are serious problems, but also yeah. Maybe the sympathy fatigue is kicking in for me cause I personally can't bring myself to feel for Marinette and whatever she's going through. All that suffering and what does she have to show for it?

The show be like "Marinette is the bestest best Ladybug to ever best. She only lost the Miracle Box twice and missed out on a chance to grab it all back because she was feeling smug that day and wanted to rub it in until Monarch got out from under her nose. She has such a strong sense of justice, she made Paris sing the praises of the man who terrorized them and erect a statue in his honor! This is the greatest Ladybug of all time! But pls excuse her for her mistakes cause she is 14 and traumatized and its all Chloe's fault anyway."

... Yes, I'm paraphrasing. Please only take it as seriously as I do: which is not at all.

The show itself couldnt put in the work to get me to take it seriously again for the past 2 seasons, I ain't going back now.

He most likely is there's no excuse.

For someone that's lived for 1000 years I'm not surprised if he's slept with any men.