👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 Not👏🏾 A👏🏾 Service 👏🏾

I love bbc merlin so much because despite the variety of plot points that drive me insane they’re all needed for everything to play out correctly.

I hate that Merlin’s magic isn’t revealed till the very end but also recognize how incredibly powerful he is that if everyone knew their external threats just. Wouldn’t be a threat anymore.

And I hate that Arthur never repeals the ban on magic but if he did than Mordred wouldn’t have had a reason to turn and the finale would fall flat.

I can’t stand Agrivaine but I understand that Arthur being betrayed by him is necessary in order to make Merlin’s perceived betrayal hurt more. That it serves to break down Arthur’s confidence in a time where he only trusts Merlin, who brings him back to himself. Then to realize that foundation of trust he’s had has been wrong and that he has literally been deceived by every single person he lets get close to him.

I hate how they ruined morgana’s character and while I still think it could have been done with more nuance, there is literally no major antagonist besides her. Plus she’s such an interesting one because of her connections to everyone before she slipped.

I hate that merlin tries to kill her, especially like that, and so early on. I get why he does it, and I get that it’s necessary to break morgana’s trust in him. I get that the whole point is that every choice he makes is to try and stop things and he does the best he can every single time, and it’s still never enough.

I don’t always like how we get there but GOD do I love the tragedy of it. For a show that’s so happy on the surface the tragedy of knowing there’s nothing any of them can do to stop the ending is SO GOOD.

It’s devastating to watch merlin lose huge pieces of himself, watch his morals change and shift, watch as the lines he won’t cross get pushed farther and farther away. He loses so much of himself to save Arthur and he STILL LOSES ARTHUR.

And listen I can and I will complain about some of the goofy ass plots but it’s so important to me that people recognize the seriously tragic narrative at the Center of it. I could go on for AGES about how each and every one of the leads is doomed by the narrative.

Did not expect Law to be such a fanboy.

Day 4

Saturday

Plagg

@adrienagresteseptember2021

He’s a pain in his ass.

His best friend.

The sinker of Atlantis.

His kwami.

The one that killed the dinosaurs out (but they still somehow exist?).

He’s in love with cheese, especially Camembert.

He’s quite a handful.

He’s a lot more than words.

Not even his name can completely get him.

Plagg.

“Adrieeeeen~”

“Why are you obsessed over Ladybug?”

“Go. To. Sleep.”

“I love you.”

“I want cheese.”

“I’m hungry.”

Some of his favorite sentences.

But now their time is over.

Every evil is defeated.

And they don’t need them anymore.

Now they’ll have to say Goodbye which is hard.

“I’ll muss you kid and I already told you this but you’re the best Cat Noir I ever had.”

Tears were already welling in Adrien’s eyes because Plagg was the last piece of his family he had. His dad turned out to be Hawkmoth, his mum is dead, ladybug and he still didn’t reveal identities, Nathalie was Mayura and the police thought Gorilla was tangled up in this mess as well.

And now Plagg has to leave him too.

“I don’t want you to go, you’re my best friend and the last family I have. I don’t know how I’ll be strong enough to continue without you at my side.”

Plagg flew to Adrien’s shoulder and hugged him as big as he managed. “I don’t want to leave you either, I-“

“Hey.” Tikki, Ladybug’s kwamis arrived to retrieve the miraculous.

“I’m sorry. Ladybug just-“

Adrien stopped her. “Thank you, Tikki. But I really don’t want to hear about Ladybug.”

“Adrien, we don’t have to do this. You could transform and we would run away and open this shop we talked about and-“

“I’m sorry, Plagg. I wish things could be different but,” Plagg knew that this was going to hurt even more than it did the last time “Plagg, I renounce you.”

With those words Plagg was sucked into the ring. Adrien took the ring of his finger and put it back into the box he had carefully stored away into the top drawer of the small shelf, next to the Camembert.

“Here.”

He handed the box to Tikki and turned away to cry and scream and break down until all his tears were shred, all his screams turned silent and everything inside him was broken to a level not even Cat Noir’s cataclysm could reach.

complaining for a living

gothic horror rlly is just. aw fuck look at what youve done. the house has inherited your inter-generational trauma and in response has transformed itself into a metaphorical device to track the decay of the family. we're never gonna pay off that mortgage now

i think a lot about how Leo didn't use his cabin on the Argo II, and instead just always slept in the engine room or on deck (or let's be real, probably in the walls once or twice). And how Nico and Reyna never even got cabins on the Argo II, since they were unexpected passengers and so probably had to just sleep in the sickbay (if they slept at all, which they probably insisted they didn't need to - or fell asleep in odd spots around the ship) and so were forced to be roommates for a little bit before their quest, or shared a room with someone else on the ship.

Mel might easily have the prettiest character design I have ever seen in an animated show/movie. They popped off as hard as they could. Made a deal with satan I swear to god. How is she so goddamn gorgeous?? Every time she’s in a frame I want to paint her, and I don’t even paint.

Ladybug: We’ll handle this the way we always do!

Rena Rouge: We’ll ask my followers!

Ladybug: *you kidding me look* ...

Carapace: We’ll just sit back and wait for it to fix itself?

Ladybug: *still looking* ...

Queen Bee: We’ll call Daddykins?

Ladybug: ...

Master Fu: We’ll hand out Miraculous to random people, we don know, without saying a word.

Ladybug: *slowly losing hope* ...

Cat Noir: I’ll sacrifice myself?

Ladybug: * completely lost hope by now*

Ladybug: No, by sticking together and never giving up!!!

Bonus

inspired by @dittolicous post abt the parks n rec bee scene but make it zosan

comic in single panel layout under the cut for more reading comfort:

Day 24

Friday

Lucky Charm

@adrienagresteseptember2021

Spy AU

“I don’t care if they have our assigned lucky charm. Youare my lucky charm!”

“But-“

“No buts. I love you. And we never won because of some dumb lucky charm. You are the one who brought us victory.”

“Chat, I-“

“Go!”