This Goes Both Ways Btw

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.

"No one remembered my birthday-" Well, but did YOU tell anyone it was coming up and you wanted to celebrate it with them?

"I wish someone would see through it when I tell people I'm fine-" Well, but have YOU considered not lying when people ask you how you're doing?

"I am so resentful of my friend because they keep doing this thing that really bothers me-" Well, but have YOU directly communicated that the thing is bothering you?

"I am burning out because my friend keeps expecting me to help them with serious struggles-" Well, but have YOU tried to establish the boundaries you need to feel okay?

"No one ever asks me about this thing I really care about-" Well, but have YOU brought it up yourself?

"I miss my friend but they haven't texted me-" Well, but have YOU been reaching out to them?

Sometimes people are mean, uncaring assholes, in which case you get to be mad. But sometimes you just need to communicate better. Try communication before you assume someone doesn't care!

Was sketching portraits for a project and a young Silco appears ! Brainrot rotting

#arcane #youngsilco #silco

THE SLEEPOVER.

LA TERREUR 02

Part one / part two

script: @wisteriasymphony @needlebeetles @clemnoir

art: @sillysiluriforme, @wormzandgutz, @clemnoir

😩😩👌👌✨quality✨

hi welcome back to ladybug hell

"You're the only one I have left..."

once there were four children, by Liridi.

Here you go!

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I’m sorry-

No ur not

And then in his drunken state, Hawkmoth realizes how pathetic he is and that he’s probably not gonna get the Miraculouses anytime soon, given how many times he’s lost against Paris’ favorite superhero duo. He gets in the “fiNe, i’LL dO iT mySeLF” mood and starts to heave himself out the window, still transformed, with newfound drunk confidence thinking that he can take the both of them on.

Poor Nathalie is pulling the dumb birdman by his cape, completely done with his bullcrap but still concerned for him.

Nathalie, sweating and cursing: “M-mister Agreste! Please! Get ahold of yourself!!”

Hawkmoth: *screams as he is pulled backwards and starts to crawl to the open window that’s like six floors up*“NO NATHALIE!! I MUST!! I’LL MAKE THEM SEE- I’LL MAKE THEM ALL SEE!!! I AM NOT A FORCE TO BE TRIFLED WITH!!! WOMAN, L E T M E G O-”

AU where Gabriel is a mostly decent father, but he frequently drinks when he’s not working and whenever he gets blackout drunk he turns into Hawkmoth. Nooroo tries to be Drunkmoth’s voice of reason

Drunk Hawkmoth just gives me the vibe of like

"LOOK-LOOK THAT DOG IS SAD GO MY AKUMA AND LET HIM GET REVENGE AGAINST THOSE THAT WRONGED HIM"

"sir that's a statue-"