I Have Had This In My Head For Longer Than I Would Ever Admit But Never Drew It Because I Knew It'd Take

"I'm only doing what's best for Adrien."

I can't believe that it's already Day 6 of Sadrien Week (actually, it's more surprising that I've been able to get every day done so far). Today's prompt is Isolation and I'm back on my 'Marinette and Gabriel are incredibly similar' bullshit.

I'm still in love with Barbie Swan Lake 15 years later, so I would cry if they did that

No one:

Absolutely no one:

Me: What if there was a Distractible episode where Mark, Bob and Wade had watched some Barbie movies (probably the classic early 2000s ones) and give us their hot takes constructive intellectual analysis of these cinematic masterpieces

Her wins are like "The boy I like asked me out! :)"

Her losses are like "I let my enemy rewrite the universe! Oopsie! :)"

remember seeing a post that said marinette was a girlfailure and just. no. she's just a failure (derogatory). her "wins" in the show are usually personal but her losses far outnumber all of that.

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Yeah, like, “gilrfailure” is supposed to be the opposite of “girlboss”, a girl character that’s endearingly pathetic and pitiful. This is because it started off as a self-deprecating joke for women and girls online who didn’t see themselves as having the drive to become “girlbosses”. From there it snowballed into this idea of female characters that purposefully go against the girlboss mold to show femininity as more than just being a constant go-getter.

While Marinette is pathetic and pitiful, that’s only because the writers failed so utterly at making her a girlboss. There’s no deliberate subversion here. We are supposed to read Marinette as a girlboss, but she fumbles every single goal she had and the only reason she’s still around and kicking and dating the guy of her dreams is that the villain changed his mind about what to do when he won and the boy she was into changed his mind about who he was into and decided to pursue her instead. We aren’t supposed to laugh about Marinette getting the world destroyed and having Adrien just decide they’re dating one day; we’re actually supposed to view Marinette as winning here. The writers literally say so in the commentary for the season 5 finale.

I feel like the new “girlfailure” moniker being applied is either Maripologists trying to make every positive/quirky character trope apply to Marinette or them getting wise to the growing criticism of how much Marinette accidentally sucks at everything the writers insist she’s good at and are trying to turn that into a positive. It’s like “it’s okay Marinette isn’t the competent, intelligent hero we were told she is because failing is cute!”

THE CARPET WASN'T EVEN RED, GUYS

rb to have a super gay 2023

Another Jax canvas

being a Felix fan but not into feligami sucks man but I can't help it they just slapped romance on those two and pretended that solved all of their problems

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