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I like to add points to this because there's so much about SLF that makes it a love letter to games and gaming community through anime.

(Warning minor spoiler alert)

The lack of real stakes that OP mention? Yo, there are real stakes in the form of tens of millions game money and rare magic items collected and bought after a year of gaming that if you fail the battle/quest you can never get them back. Failing an investment is a such a relatable stakes to any gamers.

The shy girl who has a crush on MC? Instead of continuing being static character and be the butt of a joke throughout the season for a cheap comedy, she actually grows a backbone! She manage to talk to him irl after she did it in the game! As someone shy myself that becomes more outgoing the more I play games with people, I relate to her a lot when seeing her improvement in her dynamic with the MC.

Then the Alpha bitch in game? Boy is she one of the most interesting character in the anime. She is an absolutely ruthless gamer and you can see why she becomes a Dictator in another game through her wit and charm. Inspite of that, she is not at all an edgelord. Moreover, you could tell she's a gamer through and through from her being competitive, hot-headed, being invested in story, the range of her expression. Plus, because death isn't a big consequence, we can see her enjoying PK and be able to laugh about it even though it was a dick move.

Trash talk. Lots of trash talks it felt so real. I'm more of a tabletop RPG gamer than a video gamer, but the amount of trashtalk I had with my friends when the stress is high or just being shit to each other is the highlight to most gaming experience. Seriously, any other gaming-theme anime wish they'd be this bold.

Diverse playstyle. MC's build is powerful, sure. But the narative never proclaims or established it to be OP build, simply a playstyle someone like Sunraku likes to play. They showcase build like tank with buff attacks, a build that focus their stats for attacks, someone who loves to PvP. There's just a subtle substance in the narrative that all those playstyles are as good as any other and it all depends the better gamer to make the character shine.

The importance of Role Playing. As a DnD player, it's cool to see RP becoming an integral part of of the gaming mechanic. Your dynamic and dialogues with the NPC matter, and players act accordingly to it. I have read more than a few MMO webtoon that simply being "nice" like in real life or "curry favor" to the NPC is enough to unlock hidden quest. In SLF, there's tension and weight in the scene where the MC has to carefully consider what he says and the keyword to get support.

Heck, one of the most surprising and great subvert would be how characters other than ths MC cares about the NPC. Just loving a character and the backstory is reason enough to gamble with their whole wealth is such a relatable feeling. The vibe of "Yes, the NPC is fiction, but fuck I like them and have form attachment so I wanna make them happy" is something I don't see often in video game anime without the isekai or trap-in-game troupe.

Then, there's the prep and tuning. The amount of thought in the game mechanic during a Boss Fight where the MC put the cooldown timing and weapon into a condition to create this buildup where instead of spamming attacks or a cheat OP skill, it's one strategic and powerful attack that just blow us away during the climax.

It's Okay to Fail. Anime with no deaths may not have stakes, but the feeling of failure is still there. The oppressing air of fighting an enemy so above your level, and the daunting feeling of the long climb you have to grind and train to get to that level. Without death as the stake, this story show us how to climb back up from failure, to meet the challenge in the eye and have fun growing stronger. It makes the anime that much more distinctive.

Have I said I love this anime? I love this anime

Shangri-La Frontier seems like a direct response to every annoying VR MMO trope of the last 10 years and goes out of its way to subvert them.

Invincible overpowered protagonist? Dude beefs it all the time and only gets through most encounters through pure gamer skill.

Cheat skill that gives him an unfair edge? Only if you count years of playing broken games that gave him the skills of a professional playtester.

Build thought to be underpowered is actually OP? He’s a crit stacker who was forced into an agility build bc a debuff from a superboss made him unable to equip armor, and some bosses counter his build pretty significantly.

Party full of waifus? He tries to solo most of the early content, the one friend request he gets is from a girl he barely notices exists (and whose help he explicitly turns down), his bunny npc party member can’t keep up a human form for more than 5 minutes and he calls it out as trash game design, and his other two party members are a minmaxer and a player killer that he knows from other games.

“You die in the game you die in real life?” Respawns are established as a thing in the first episode and the real stakes involve finding and completing unique content that 30 million active players haven’t experienced.

This anime is everything Sword Art Online wishes it could be.

#shangri la frontier #shangri-la frontier

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Legend has it she still flops around ireland👀

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young me especially would have hated hearing this but networking is literally the most important thing you can do to improve your situation like forget economic barriers to education etc just keep making friends with different people and eventually someone will offer you a hand up just because they dig your vibe and that is exactly all that's happening when undeserving people surpass you anyway

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People underestimate how much it fucks you up to be subtly excluded as a kid. I would try to talk to my classmates and be met with disinterest or annoyance. The one friend I had, who I clung to and nodded along to his every word, had other friends he liked just as much or more. And his other friends didn’t care for me at all.

I look back at pictures from the time and see how separated I was from them. I remember knowing I was different. I remember posing questions about the world to the girls playing next to me and realizing that they had never asked the same ones to themselves. That the ways we thought couldn’t be more different.

I kept myself amused with my own fanatical stories and musings in my head. I would wander the playground on a circular path, imagining a friend and being sorely disappointed when it didn’t feel as real as I’d hoped.

There was a bubble separating me from everyone else, thin, and nearly invisible, but with a pearly sheen you could catch under the right conditions. I knew it was there, they knew it was there, and it changed me

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What it looks like: I've abandoned my fic

What's actually happening: It consumes my thoughts every single day. The urge to write gets stronger but my putty brain just. won't. let. it. happen.

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Why Do I Not Like BnHA

Yes, I am aware I'm just fishing Academia fans to just roast me with this post. But I'm honestly just want to word vomit into the void with my opinion because I have nowhere else to share my thoughts so let me explain myself for myself.

Let me first disclaim that while I don't like Hero's Academia, I did watch up to Season 5 , I do love the worldbuilding that's filled with potential and colorful characters, and Hawks is precious and I would die for him.

So... to explain myself it is more accurate to say that I do not like the major theme of BnHA. Speficially, the exposition of Being given power to become hero and a society that dress down Quirkless without ever addressing the problem throughout that 5 seasons. In fact, I was so put off by the first episode that the only reason I kept watching was because a lot of good fanfics has crossover with it that I watch the anime for context.

But then I ask myself why I was put off by it so much. Giving power to people who have proven themselves isn't exactly a new concept and objectively, there's nothing wrong wanting power in order to be a hero and saves lives by being the best.

Then recently I started rewatching my an old favorite anime and I realized why.

Because the climax of Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is the antithesis of BnHA's exposition.

And no wonder I was put off by Academia so much.

Here's an anime after struggling for 5-6 arcs and came to the realization that power doesn't make you more or less human, doesn't make you a god or a devil, and found the answer to beat Truth is to accept that humans don't need power in order to be with each other.

Compared that to BnHA, where the protagonistist Izuku doesn't have a single friend in his life until AFTER he has a quirk.

How fuck up is that?

I know Boku no Hero Academia has a different story theme they are going for, and it's a bit unfair to expect the story to have the standard of a different anime.

But I suppose I'm a bit dissapointed because I want to love Hero Academia, and I would have if being a Quirkless was addressed properly throughout that 5 seasons as a minority and powerless that needs to be treat as equals, instead of Heroic Quirks vs Villanous Quirks discrimination. If maybe Izuku helps people; whether his classmates, heroes, or villains by sympathizing or using his experience as someone as a former Quirkless people.

Not that there aren't any, but in my perspective, those decisions were made influenced by him being a bullied child. And while the experience of discrimination and bullied are similar, the fact that he was bullied was adressed more than the fact he was a person of minority and it has influenced his decision more. As if erasing his identity as quirkless, thus erasing his status of minority.

Of course I might have miss the mark of some plot point, but again, this is just my perspective.

I guess what I'm trying to say... it's a bit of a pet peeve of mine to watch how Quirkless people felt powerless and seen with no agency in the story and no strength to be a peer in society.

I haven't watch season 6 since I have other animes to watch, but I'm not expecting that theme to change anytime soon.

#meta #anime review #anime analysis #bnha #fma #analysis #word vomit #mha #quirkless

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I think the problem with Lukanette is that they're too good for each other.

Literally, the biggest wall blocking them from being a power couple is Marinette's secret.

I'm not a huge fan of Luka, but as a viewer I felt that his character has been wasted to be a narrative device or an excuse for Marrinette to keep chasing after an "unrequited" love. She had a high chance of moving on if not for her secret.

Realistically, sure, sometimes relationship don't work even if they're good for each other.

Narratively speaking? Luka walk away from that relationship without having anything to learn or better himself. This is more of a preference than anything, but it would have been more satisfying to see Luka find flaws in himself while in their relationship so he knows how to be a better person and a better partner in the future instead of solely relying on Marrinette's circumstances to break up.

At least that way, Luka has a dynamic character development. That way, Adrinette isn't made as an excuse as to why Lukanette can't be together. That way, Luka is actively part of the storytelling and be part of the reason why he and marrinette doesn't work out instead of being an "accessory" as mention in OP post.

Also, despite the fact, Marinette got a reality check of "Hey, I can't have a steady relationship with a guy by keeping secret." she still tries to have one despite never coming up with a solution on how to balance her secret and relationship, risking a repeat performance with Adrien.

Then they became canon, and Marinette instead of learning her lesson is piling up MORE secrets in her relationship by the end of Season 5.

I mean...

what even is the point anymore???

You know, at this point I agree with Adrien salters that say he should be replaced with Luka. After all, a character with a personality of a blank piece of wood and whose existence revolves entire around his relationship with the female lead(seriously how many scenes does Luka have with his own sister?)  would work much better if this show’s male lead is only allowed to be an accessory. “Generic uwu soft perfect guitar boy”is the exact role Ken would play in those “Teenage life of Barbie” movies from my childhood.

Side note, I’m willing to bet that the Barbie movie’s gonna give Ken much more agency than Astruc would’ve ever given Adrien

#ml spoilers #thomas astruc salt #thomas astruc #ml salt #adrien deserves better #luka #I think he deserves better too #marinette dupen chang #ml meta #mlb #miraculous #ladybug #chat noir #adrien agreste

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Brace yourselves, folks… We’re about to enter the dark, dreary and sometimes disturbing world which is Thomas Astruc on Twitter. 😧

Those possessed of a weak disposition, prone to nausea or an complete intolerance to utter bullshit may want to turn back now. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED. (but still leave me a ‘like’, if you’re feeling generous 🙏)

Anyway, what ‘delights’ has this stand-up guy, this pioneer of mediocre cartooning, this dude on the cusp of arguing with little kids on Twitter been sharing with us, the great unwashed, at this present time? Let’s run through a brief checklist of the ‘highlights’, shall we?

*Telling people the upcoming Miraculous movie is what the fans ‘want’ but the show is what we ‘need’ (whatever THAT means, typically modest reaction from the epitome of humbleness himself).

*Saying that anyone who DARES criticise the show should ‘keep it to themselves’ or they’ll be ‘blocked for spreading negativity about the artists’ (dude thinks he can police Twitter… good luck with that!)

*Informing fanfiction writers that their work is ‘pointless’ and the only people who know what they’re doing are him and his team (If you mean ‘How To Destroy A Franchise In Five Easy Seasons… I guess he’s right)

But his favorite topic (seriously, check out his replies… we’re talking more than 50% here) concerns a fictional teenage girl he constantly decries but can’t seem to get enough of moaning about. It is of course… oh let’s face it. You know the answer to that one already. ROLL THE TWEETS!!

Yep, you guessed it. Apart from the OP being uncommonly accurate in their opinion, now apparently ‘Chloe’ has become The Not-So-Great Bearded One’s new insult of choice for anyone who dislikes what’s been done to the show. Poor ‘Karen’ never stood a chance… 😢

What a mature, grown-up type chap he is! I have no idea why he’s no longer referred to as ‘Hawk Daddy’ in polite circles, and instead called ‘Man Baby’. Just look at him, REALLY giving it a bunch of teens on Twitter who DARE imply his show is nothing but da best! You go, Thomas! Go change your dirty diaper, that is. 🤢

So, abandoning all her subtleties and nuance , reducing her to a shrieking monster and choosing to actively give characters who have arguably done FAR WORSE throughout the series much better endings means they ‘wrote it well’? Gosh, maybe getting an F in English stands for ‘Fabulous’ after all!

Guess in Thomas’s somewhat warped worldview, everyone who doesn’t like 💯 of his show from top to bottom should be placed on a plane with their main abuser to be forcibly deported and probably tortured for the rest of their sorry lives. That’ll teach them!

And who cares about stupid stuff like ‘build-up’ or ‘character-development’ if they genuinely were preparing Chloe for… what was that thing he described it as again… a ‘damnation’ arc? Let’s just flip a switch at the end of S3 to turn her into a pathetic caricature of her worst excesses without explanation, then introduce a ‘perfect’ sister out of nowhere to throw all those undesirable traits into sharp relief! And that’s not even getting into that detestable retconning flashback episode… What an absolutely fantastic idea to make everyone hate her as much as Thomas does!

No-one will notice the sudden incongruity here… after all, the average age of their audience is 5-8 so if they just throw excrement like crazed baboons about Chloe at the young audience time and time again caveman-style CHLOE: BAD. EVERYONE ELSE: GOOD the kids will chow it up like cheap chocolate ice cream! The older ones that do kick up a fuss? Who gives a ****. They don’t buy the merchandise, and where would all those hard-working producers if it wasn’t for all that cheap plastic crap?

With considerably less cars, swimming pools and exotic holidays to hard-to-pronounce destinations, that’s where! Let’s keep that bandwagon of shit a-rollin’… 🤑

Ah, now I believe this is that classic tactic otherwise known as ‘gaslighting’. When you say something as a fact over and over again, when the opposite is clearly true. Those of lesser willpower may start to accept it as reality while others (mostly those with functioning eyes, ears and brains)… won’t.

You know who was also good at that gaslighting thing, don’t you? A few clues… A Former (thank God) President? Very orange? Initials DT? Yep, that guy.

…And coincidentally, someone Thomas has been known to compare Chloe (14 year old girl, let’s not forget) to regularly. I mean, with THAT kind of accolade hanging over her head from the guy who created her, how could she ever fail?

See? What a great influence he is on the young too! Now he’s got his own handpicked gang of sycophants out of the street labelling anyone with the slightest complaint from a)pointing out the animation was slightly better last season or b)saying they miss the old transformation sequences as a ‘Chloe’. I think we’ve found his new favorite insult, and it’s the worst word he can possibly think of. Figures.

I bet he’s putting together a petition as we speak, for an official entry into the dictionary. Fortunately, there’s already one for ‘Thomas’, as in ‘Doubting Thomas’… someone who talks so much nonsense you should disbelieve anything they say. Or Thomas The Tank Engine, because whenever you mention a certain Blonde’s name in his presence, he tends to blow steam, look very heated and… you get the picture. 😆

On top of everything else, now he’s issuing threats. I have to hand it to him though… that’s a pretty good one. NO PLEASE TAKE MY MONEY MY LIFE I’LL EVEN GIVE YOU A FOOT RUB A BACK RUB AND LEARN TO LOVE ZOE ANYTHING BUT THAT NNNNNNOOOOOO….

Seriously guys, we need an immediate intervention. THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO HAPPEN. I’m about to book an emergency flight to France, to barricade him in his office until he promises to never again even entertain the notion of… this. Who’s with me?

(And incidentally while I’m there, does anyone want me to pick them a souvenir? A beret? Frog legs soup? One of those miniature replicas of the Eiffel Tower? Let me know by tomorrow at the latest, and I’ll see what I can do) 😊🇫🇷

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Having had time to process the Season 5 finale, and read people’s very interesting takes on it, my one remaining issue with it is…Adrien and Marinette’s character arcs.

Looking at Adrien first…he was on a journey, man. He started out so naïve and helpless, like this precious little bundle of light and joy who wanted to love everyone. You knew it wouldn’t last. You only hoped he retained that spirit even after he was broken…and you knew he’d break hard.

We watched him grow. Strike Back was huge. Season 5 was huge. We saw him speak up and try to take action. That fight with Gabriel in Representation? One of the best things in the show, in my opinion – what I’d been waiting for, for five seasons.

But what I’ve been saying for years is…I didn’t want him to be ‘saved’. I wanted him to save himself - with her support, of course. After all that growth, I didn’t want him to continue to be the damsel in distress. It doesn’t matter that it’s a boy being saved by a girl, this time. Sure, that turns tables, but it’s not enough. Boys shouldn’t need coddling any more than girls. I wanted partnership.

Maybe I built it up too much in my head. It doesn’t help that I wrote my own Season 5 before the TV version started airing. I guess it’s taking me some time to let go of my ideas and accept that none of it went remotely the way I expected. In a way…that’s a good thing. It’s good to be surprised. Just…

I wanted Adrien to face off with his father, knowing who he was. I wanted him to see his mother and learn the truth of it all. I wanted him to get that closure. I didn’t want everyone continuing to lie and keep him in the dark as if he’s still the same naïve, helpless, precious little bundle of light and joy he was at the start of the whole story.

I’m okay with Gabriel winning. I was actually hoping that would happen, because it’s a great idea. It was also such a Chekov’s gun – we had to see it happen, after all that teasing. Not to mention, there was no way they’d simply kill Gabriel or lock him away in prison, because both would have been too anticlimactic after all the drama. We needed something big and we got it.

I just wanted Adrien to be there for it. Not off-screen, locked in a room. And I know, I know, he took part in the battle in his own way, by having the self-awareness to remove his ring in order to save humanity and avert a Cat Blanc scenario. But Ladybug doesn’t even know what he did. She doesn’t know the extent of the part he played. She thinks she saved him. But he saved her, too…and everyone else in the world…and even he probably doesn’t realise that in full, because he doesn’t know just how bad it could have been, had he learned Monarch was his father.

Looking at Marinette…she has spent this whole show keeping secrets from people. Cat Noir really deserves to know about Cat Blanc - how much trouble has that secret caused? Now she’s keeping from Adrien the whole fact that his father was the villain, and that it all revolved around his mother. When is she going to learn that it’s not up to her to decide what someone should or shouldn’t know? That she doesn’t need to treat this boy like fragile porcelain? You cannot be in a relationship with someone where you treat them like a child. That’s called being his mother, not his girlfriend or partner.

Unless she doesn’t know. I keep coming back to this, in my mind. Maybe in this reality, she’s under the same delusions as Adrien and remembers things differently. Maybe she’s been duped into thinking Gabriel was a hero, too, because he changed everything for everyone in it, including her. If so…yeah, that’s really interesting…and horrible….

But I still wish Adrien had been there.

I just wanted him in the basement. Is that too much to ask for??? In Risk, we saw him pick up that eyepiece thing Felix left behind in the mansion. He pocketed it. He was meant to use it at some point, to find the spots on the painting and find the lift and find the basement. It never materialised, I think because they changed plans when the show got signed for more seasons. That scene was meant to happen and I can’t stand that it didn’t. I accept everything else. I just wanted him in that finale.

And as awesome as Marinette was, unifying the miraculous like no other holder before…it kind of showed that she could do the whole thing without him…and I’m not okay with that. She needs to know what he did.

So, now I’m back where I already was, waiting for everyone to realise he isn’t made of glass and he can stand on his own. Come on, Adrien, come on – show them all what we know you’re made of!

#ml meta #ml analysis #ml recreation #ml spoilers #ml s5 spoilers #ml s5 #adrien agreste #mlb #miraculous #ladybug #chat noir #ml salt

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superhero fans how's it feel to be winning

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DDoS Attack Against AO3: Correcting Misinformation

Normally I don't make any posts like this, but I have an interest in cybersecurity and sadly I've seen people are being really ignorant about this recent DDoS attack against the site AO3 (Archive of Our Own), so I thought I'd remind people of a few things:

Anonymous Sudan appears to have no actual link to Sudan at all, or to any previous hacktivist groups that once operated there. This masquerade is probably based in anti-immigration and other racist sentiments, and utilizing those sentiments in other people to scare people and set up Muslims and Sudanese people as a target. This should be obvious from the language used in their note, but this was already known prior to this particular attack.

This so-called Anonymous Sudan has actually been very active recently—remember that they claimed to attack Reddit, Flickr, Riot Games, a huge number of Microsoft web portals like OneDrive and Outlook, etc. before AO3, so AO3 was totally a logical target for them since they've gone after smaller entities before. DDoS attacks like this are easy for any script kiddie to set up, so it's not weird that they'd go for a smaller target like this.

Honestly this group of posers probably just wants money, everybody. They sent AO3 a ransom note asking for Bitcoin (and just in case people don't know, do not pay a ransom if at all possible if this ever happens to you).

My advice to people who've noticed this attack is two-fold: calm down since this is part of a larger pattern that has literally resulted in basically no loss for the end-user of any of the sites, and... I don't really know a better way to put this, but don't believe everything you read. A religiously-motivated hate group wouldn't use terms like "LGBTQ+" and "smuts," and it's so blatantly obvious that the timing of every single one of these attacks is being used to smear Muslims and Sudanese people if you think about current events for like. One second. And if you look up Anonymous Sudan, you'll see their string of attacks and how all experts know that they have nothing to do with Sudan at all. Even AO3 itself told everybody that the group is lying about their motivations... though I think I'd go further than that personally because even their name itself is almost certainly a total sham.

To be clear: this post isn't targeted at anyone in particular. I've just seen a lot of people falling for this overall or not realizing this is part of a pattern, and I also wanted to remind everyone that this isn't anything to be concerned about. What is something to be concerned about is not doing research or thinking critically and then unwittingly spreading racist ideas.

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DO NOT GO TO AO3 RIGHT NOW!!

I really mean it. Apparently Anonymous Sudan is getting desperate because this isn't the out come they're hoping for and are trying to do a DNS attack! Which means they will try and redirect you to a malicious website to obtain private information!!!! SO DO NOT GO ONTO AO3 AT ALL FOR YOUR SAFETY!!!!!!!!

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A bit behind, but Archive Of Our Own is officially back and operational!!

I would like to make it very clear that any kind of hate is not acceptable here. If you're a TERF, transphobic, homophobic, acephobic, racist, sexist, Islamophobic, antisemitic or hold any hatred or prejudice against people for their identity, do not interact with me. Go find status updates somewhere else, and certainly don't interact with me. As a Queer Jewish person I deal with enough hatred and stereotypes day to day and I will not put up with any of it here.

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AO3 is under a DDoS attack meaning that the servers are purposefully being overwhelmed by an attacker. Please do not refresh ao3 related links because each time you do, another request is sent to the servers meaning you are contributing to the DDoS! Wait for the official announcement from their twitter and then visit the site because the servers will keep crashing otherwise!

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SPOILERS FOR ML SEASON 5 FINALE

This is the message of Miraculous. A neglected child who gets manipulated into doing horrible things ends up with nothing and everyone chooses to leave her to be "tended to" by a mother who doesn't give a shit about her. All the while, we're supposed to treat her as completely irredeemable. Meanwhile, an abusive father who happened to be the main person who manipulated her gets a last-minute sob story to justify all the horrible things he did before making a wish that ERASED THE UNIVERSE only to be treated as a hero even by the main character who he TRICKED into giving up her Miraculouses just to spare his abused son's feelings. And we're expected to be happy about this ending.

I'm not sure there was any more of a "go fuck yourself" they could've possibly mustered with the last stretch of this season. Message received.

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Based on what I’ve seen and read, it would appear as though...

…Adrien is the SECOND most underused and underappreciated character in the show (after Chloe, of course).

How could someone, with SO much going for them in terms of relevance to the plot (his dad is the main baddie, him being the main love interest and co-superhero, his NAME being in the title for God sake) be so wilfully ignored?

Let’s just say, Fu’s words about Ladybug and Chat being ‘equals’ sounds awfully hollow when presented with the actual evidence in canon. 

From what I understand, he even spent the big S5 finale locked up with Kagami ROBBING VIEWERS OF SEEING HIM CONFRONT HIS FATHER AND DISCOVERING THE TRUTH.

Inexcusable from a storytelling POV IMHO, but so is having your only apparent agency in the show being Marinette’s arm candy and messing up a LOT during superhero duty so Ladybug can look good by comparison.

What are his other interests, besides trying to make her happy in and out of costume? What are his other personality traits, apart from being a pliable doormat to her every whim? None, as far as I see.

‘Girl Power’ isn’t intentionally writing male characters to be subservient to their female counterparts, it’s about making them EQUAL in terms of importance & relevance. In as far as what I’ve learned about Adrien on the show of late, it looks like they failed miserably on both those counts.

Bring this up with Astruc, and naturally he’ll accuse you of being a ‘sexist’ or worst a ‘misogynist’ (talk about the pot calling the kettle black) and say something along the lines of ‘you just don’t want a GIRL in charge’.

Well considering about 99.9% of the people who bring this up with him ARE female, I fear he may have got his wires crossed on this one. EVERYONE wants a more equal partnership between the two title characters, and suggesting if you do you’re some kind of bigoted chauvinist is gaslighting of the highest order.

(Mind you, this coming from a guy who recently said Ladybug was Barbie and Chat Noir was KEN, so we can’t expect too much from him)

I must say, being an absolute Chloe stan (as if you didn’t know) I was a bit out of my comfort zone during this short rant, but I think it ties in nicely with my problems with the show’s formulaic and contradictory writing in general, so I thought I’d give it a go anyway. Hope I did okay!

 (Don’t get me started on that ‘Marinette must learn a lesson in every episode’ bullshit, either)

Agree? Disagree? Feel free to get in touch. Oh, and one more bonus meme to add to the collection… 

…Hopefully, you’re beginning to see my point. :p