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👁👄👁 bish what the hell!?!?!

MY GIRL BUILT THIS??????? HER BIG BRAIN???????? OMG????????? SHE’S LIKE 15????

ONLY MARINETTE YALLS…

Because you made a blog for thirsty miraculous addicts who love au’s.

People like me.

This side blog has exactly 3,300 followers and my question is why.

SGE Fancast

I've chosen these people without looking at their age cuz Hollywood doesn't give a shite about that anyway.

AGATHA

Isabelle Fuhrman: she killed it as Clove and Esther. She has the death stare down to a science.

Deva Cassel: She looks similar to the actresses I've chosen for Sophie (since they're supposed to be twins), but still has the dark hair and hazel eyes we see on the cover of the 6th book. The only caveat is that she doesn't have much acting experience and her mother is Monica freaking Bellucci, so I don't know how they'd portray her as unattractive. But regardless, she has that dark and brooding look I'm going for.

Also, I've been following Deva for a while and literally gasped when I saw her in this dress. This is literally how I pictured Agatha during the CoT!

SOPHIE - Whenever I read Sophie I can only ever think of these two

Dove Cameron: She's just so good at acting bubbly and smug! She's so preppy in Liv and Maddie and Schmigladoon! S1. But in Descendants, we see her play a more serious character as Mal. And with her background in singing- ugh, she's just phenomenal. I get such Glinda vibes from her.

But she totally rocks dark hair and a more mature vibe. Just imagine that scene in the first book where Sophie dyes her hair black 😭. Anyways, moving on.

Elle Fanning: She has the round face, blonde hair, and green eyes. If you watched The Great, you can see just how well she plays a sassy and more mature character. There's also the fact that she played Aurora in Maleficent, and I feel like with Sophie herself wanting to be a princess, it would have just been so ironic XD

VANESSA - I was heavily debating on whether I should post this but,

Amanda Seyfried: She really has the range in terms of acting. She also has blonde and green eyes. I can't explain it, but I just see her as Vanessa. And I don't want to hear anyone mention that she's on the younger side because Vanessa is dead.

CALLIS - I've yet to see somebody as Callis, but I have an idea:

Monica Bellucci: In my casting, I have her daughter as Agatha, so I figured why not? It could be this thing where like even though Agatha is not Callis' blood daughter in the book, she is irl.

TEDROS: I don't pay attention to men very much. But I might as well complete the trio-

CHARLES VANDERVAART: specifically blonde Charles Vandervaart. Will not elaborate.

Have a good day!

Marinette in the 4th picture has the “I FUCKING KNEW IT” face

IT IS FINALLY DONE @gale-of-the-nomads ! ! ! ! FOR YOUR CRACK AU

This was fun to do~ enjoy!

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Thank you so much for this. As a biracial person (half black half white) with very light skin and European features, I have been isolated from other people of African ancestry and I have even once been told that I'm "not black enough", despite the fact that I had only been raised by the black side of my loving family. I hate it when a multiracial person is called "not - enough" because we don't look a certain way. It's why I get so upset at the fact that people consistently used that to describe her. Her looking less Asian doesn't change the fact that she's half Asian and denying that is denying her existence/people who look like her. I get that people are upset, and it's perfectly alright, but that doesn't give you the right to be salty and racist. And the people getting upset that Marinette has blue eyes are just w a c k. Juleka has RED eyes. Sabine, a completely Asian person, has GREY eyes. You can't get mad that Marinette has blue eyes yet not get upset that a completely Chinese person has grey eyes, a European person has red eyes, and that many background characters are shown to have a variety of unusual hair/eye colors. Picking and choosing doesn't validate your argument, it actually undermines it. Okay, I'm done ranting. Have a nice day.

Marinette, biracial and whitewashing

Okay, I have been seeing a lot of posts about Marinette Dupain-Cheng from the Miraculous Ladybug series. For those who don’t know, Marinette is Half Chinese/Half French-Italian.

She has blue hair and blue eyes, so she looks more “white” than Chinese, but does still have some Asian features to her, albeit subtle. I have been seeing a lot of posts saying she is “whitewashed.”

I want to address this because, like Marinette, I am also half Asian, and like Marinette, I have more prominent white features than Asian ones. I am half Vietnamese/Half Scottish-Irish.

I have light brown hair with red highlights due to my Irish side, light brown eyes and look more white than Vietnamese except for subtle Asian features, like straight hair and slightly slanted eyes.

I’m going to break this post up and address each issue.

Issue 1: “Marinette is white washed because she has blue eyes and blue hair! She looks white! Why couldn’t they have given her brown eyes and black hair?!”

Okay…

For one thing, that isn’t how genetics work. Even if one “gene” is more dominate than the other doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. Like I said before, I have RED HIGHLIGHTS in my hair. When I’m in the sun, my hair in a certain angle looks red as heck. It doesn’t mean I am any less biracial. I look more like my mom than my dad, who happens to be white.

I have a friend who is half white and half Mexican. She’s as white as can be with dirty blonde hair and light HAZEL eyes. I didn’t even know she was biracial until I met her mom, who happened to be so dark skinned, I thought she was black, with dark brown eyes and dark brown hair.

Biracial people can look exclusively white. If you don’t believe me, look at Keanu Reeves. He’s half Chinese and sure doesn’t look like it! So yes. It is possible. I will also link some pictures of my family under a cut if no one believes me.

I also want to point out the hypocrisy of this statement. Anime. How many times have we seen anime characters with blonde hair and blue eyes? Yet no one seems to claim those characters are “whitewashed” and they have less chance of getting those features than a biracial person does!

People claim “that’s different, it’s a stylized choice” …well, guess what. So is Marinette’s blue hair. You can’t say one thing for a media and then deny that for another. It’s called being a hypocrite. It’s even mentioned that Marinette’s hair is actually a stylized black and serves as a homage to that kind of style in old comics.

At least Marinette has more chance of having blue eyes than Japanese anime characters, because, you know…she’s BIRACIAL.

Issue 2: “Marinette doesn’t know her Chinese culture or language/Sabine is a bad parent for not teaching her/She’s whitewashed because she doesn’t know her other half culture!”

It may come to a surprise to people, but this actually happens a lot. I don’t know a lick of Vietnamese or about Vietnamese culture because my dad wanted it that way. He wanted me to fit in, so he never taught me any of it. Does that make him a bad parent? No, it doesn’t. He was a great dad (he’s long passed now), and I find it insulting that someone who thinks they don’t teach their children about their culture is a bad parent. How about appreciating Marinette has kind and loving and supportive parents instead?

Issue 3: “Why make her biracial then if they are just going to whitewash her? What about representation?!”

Yeah… representation. It’s still happening. I’m the one being represented. Someone who is biracial who looks white and doesn’t know about her culture. Me. And I’m sure many others like it. Just because her “Asian” side isn’t being represented as much, doesn’t mean she isn’t representing.

Issue 4: “Biracial people should look more like their non-white side than white side or else it’s whitewashing! Miraculous writers are racist, because they are white!”

As I addressed before…looking exclusively white doesn’t make biracial people any less biracial. By saying this and getting offended by “white-looking Marinette”, you’re basically telling people who look like Marinette that we don’t exist or shouldn’t exist.

You are invalidating our existence and that, in turn, actually makes you the racist. Being “white” isn’t racist. It’s just the way people are born. In a time where white supremacy is going around, it’s hard to forget that white people can be the object of racism from other communities. It has happened to me A LOT.

Asians are actually EXTREMELY racist at times. I often went to the Asian market to get Asian food with my dad and Chinese friend. Because I was the only “white-looking” person there, I would get stares and whispers from the Asian Community. I have been told I don’t “look Asian enough”, so I have no say or opinion in how I feel about an Asian issue that involves me, just because I look “white.”

ANY race can get racism directed at them, even white people. It’s just not as often heard of because “white privilege” or something along those lines. Yes, white privilege exists, but it isn’t always prominent. Sometimes white people are the ones who are setup by a minority and those quick to defend a minority will often believe the non-white person over the white person. It does happen.

That is all I have to say on this issue. Thank you all for reading. And as I said, here are some pictures of me and my family, further proving my claim that white looking Asian people do exist.

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adrinette in love

i had this idea a while ago but i finally sat down and just drew it out in like six hours so please enjoy