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djluongo · 5 months
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Ring of Salt #5 Feat. The Killer Klowns from Outer Space
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I am obsessed with the idea of devil traps and salt rings in supernatural. That a simple chalk line is what remains between you and something that can rip you apart with ease.
The question isn’t if the thing trapped inside will get out, but when
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alaryheart · 5 months
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Okay, I couldn’t resist turning my sketch into a Pool Scene moment (minus the icky sensory feeling of layers of wet robes)
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uncanny-tranny · 5 months
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I love you smile lines and worry lines and grey and white hair and wrinkles and purple spiderweb veins and the process of aging and living in a body that is standing the test of times. I love you experiences that make you wiser and stories that make you laugh, and every little process that happens to get to the point where you have so many memories because you have the fortune to be here and be so radiant
#positivity#pro aging#also i hate you 'anti aging' scams that capitalize on fear of aging. death by 1000000 papercuts for ye#saw a hair video where they restored the salt-and-pepper colour in an older clients hair and it looked SO GOOD at the end#i love when people throw in the towel and embrace their aging however that looks#it isn't productive to shame people who are ashamed of aging and i just want to. celebrate aging#in a world that simultaneously venerates youth and adulthood and hates BOTH you need to find some sense of freedom#as a Young Adult(tm) please please PLEASE older folks seeing this/following me know that i look up to you#older folks i need you to know that your worth NEVER diminished when you added a new number on your birthday cake#and your body and mind and soul NEVER lost worth because it started to creak a little at the joints#and i might be wrong about this because i'm still young but it can be SO tempted to miss your youth when you feel like...#...you've somehow LOST part of yourself by growing older. and so much of aging is about change and some things don't stay the same...#...and that IS scary and i will never once fault somebody for that. but please don't fall into the trap that because you've aged that...#...you somehow have forever lost fundamental pieces of Who You Are and you could never come back from that...#...for your own sake and sanity you deserve to find comfort and solice and understanding in who you still are...#...because you are still - at the core - the same. you can never take this away from yourself#and i know this might ring hollow because i just don't get what it's like to be older#but i have looked at my elders and felt awe at their age and their experiences#and i know what that is like and it's awesome. i just wish more older people knew that so many of us look at you with awe...#...and - if you can believe it - some of us ENVY your age or experiences or even body#i'm watching an 'older' content creator (older by internet standards 🙄) and i envy him for how eventful his life was#i envy that he experienced a different world - one that i have only heard about from my dad because i was too young to remember it#and i admire this person for their wisdom and thoughts because they've come from his experiences living in a Different World#it's that type of stuff that makes me unafraid to keep on living#inspired by following somebody like. twice my age posting about their excitement abiut growing older and !!!!!!! YEAHHHHHH#didn't realize they were closer to my dad's age but that's so cool???????????
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wildwren · 2 years
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anyway halbrand is a mood
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bebopbonko · 5 months
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More wandersong stuff (I forgot to mention in the first one but the hairstyles correspond to who voice acted the character in the play through)
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radarchives · 7 months
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The most annoying thing about the Rings of Power boycott is people ignoring why there's one in the first place.
No, actually, it's Not irrelevant that Good Omens, The Boys, Vox Machina, The Wheel of Time, The Expanse, Invincible, Vikings and everything else on Amazon's platform didn't get boycott too.
It's actually Very Significant that those shows didn't get this level of backlash.
Because people didn't decide they suddenly cared more about Amazon being evil than they did about these stories.
They decided "Amazon is evil" was a good excuse for their prejudice.
Because heaven forbid People of Color exist anywhere white people don't want us to.
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absynthe--minded · 2 years
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a brief list of things that the Amazon show cannot include
(due to not having the rights to Unfinished Tales, the Histories, the Silmarillion, or The Nature of Middle-Earth)
the story of Erendis and Aldarion
the demographics, population distribution, full religious practices, and full geography of Númenor
the full extent of Númenorean colonization and religious persecution against the Faithful
the full story of Tar-Míriel and Ar-Pharazôn
the name “Zigûr” and the extent of Morgoth-worship in Númenor
the full political nuance and long history of the King’s Men as an ideology
any information on Sindarin population movement into Lórinand and the Greenwood
Oropher’s ancestry and relationship to Doriath
Galadriel’s family history, Sindarin marriage and assimilation, and political ambitions
any details on the War of the Elves and Sauron, possibly including the fact that it happened at all
information on Celebrimbor’s captivity and the fall of Ost-in-Edhil (beyond the fact that it happened)
the name “Annatar” and the name “Gwaith-i-Mírdain”
details on the Last Alliance (such as Oropher’s xenophobia and his troops’ suffering for it)
the names “Aegnor/Aikanáro” and “Angrod/Angaráto” for Galadriel’s other brothers, and possibly the name Finrod
the full extent of the Darkening and the political drama surrounding House Finwë
who Fëanor was and what he did
Fingon, Maedhros, and the other Finwëans of that generation (except maybe Turgon and Idril)
details of the War of Wrath
the names of most of the Valar, probably also the Khuzdul name “Mahal”
full details of the rounding of the world
in essence, they’re inventing everything.
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goggles-mcgee · 9 months
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Ashes of Rage: Act 1 - Prologue
New story for @miner249er
Ao3
Summary: [Inspired by Wish Me Away] Chat Noir betrayed her. It wasn’t something Marinette ever expected, they were partners, friends, so this betrayal hurt more than she could have ever put in words. Finding out he was Adrien only added to that pain, to that betrayal. Watching him give Hawkmoth, his father, her earrings was like something out of a nightmare. Gabriel now had the power to make The Wish and Marinette wanted to hold out hope he could be reasoned with or that her team would realize something was wrong but there was no hope in her heart. Not anymore. All there was, was rage.
Notes: I hope you all enjoy this story! This chapter itself does contain graphic description of the transformation into a Red Lantern. If you would rather skip that stop reading at the line "The ring slid on her finger perfectly.." and resume reading at "The pain was gone and in it's place..." Besides that description there are minor acts of violence in this chapter.
Prologue:
They say that in times of near death experiences or even death itself, a person’s life flashes before their eyes. Marinette had never dwelled on that before, she didn’t like to think about it, that your life could truly play out in front of you in a flash and then boom...you were gone. Yet here she was, her life playing out like some sad teen movie as the light engulfed her. Why? Why did this happen? She knew how it happened, but she still couldn’t wrap her head around the why? Why did Chat betray her like this? They had a plan, they knew Hawkmoth was Gabriel Agreste and that his assistant Nathalie was Mayura. It was going to be an ambush. Chat’s kwami Plagg had found his lair and had told them how to get there. It was perfect. Next akuma they would have Viperion (Luka), Donryu (Kagami), Fox-Tail (Nathaniel), Noc-Turtle (Marc)  and Bee-Witch (Chloe) distract the akuma while Chat and her went to the Agreste Mansion to break into the lair then ambush Hawkmoth aka Gabriel. Ideally they were hoping to catch Nathalie off guard and deal with her before they entered the lair but when they had arrived she wasn’t at her desk in front of Gabriel’s office which meant she was most likely in the lair with him, but they knew it was a possibility so they proceeded down as planned. Then...then her own hell manifested. She hadn’t realized it, not at first, she had been battling Mayura, she had managed to pin her and had turned to see how Chat was faring against Hawkmoth and was shocked to see they weren’t even fighting, they were staring at her. 
Before she could ask what Chat was doing, or rather what he was not doing he darted toward her and she thought with relief, he was going to help her. Why was that not what happened? Chat grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her away from Mayura, Marinette tried to struggle against him and she would have won if Mayura hadn’t started to help restrain her. It was a blur, but she knew she got some hits in, she did everything she could, she kicked, she threw punches wildly, she bit, she threw her head in every direction hoping it would strike and smiling viciously when it did. They took her yoyo as she felt herself forced onto a chair, it creaked from the pressure, she still tried to fight. They tied her to the chair using everything at their disposal it seemed, rope, cables, duct tape, she still tried to fight. Hawkmoth was yelling, Chat was trying to soothe her, looking at her like he didn’t just fight her and restrain her onto a chair, she reared her head back and headbutted him, she was still fighting. 
“What the fuck My Lady!? Here I am trying to help you and you go and break my nose! Me-ouch!” Chat spit out from behind his hand a bit of blood followed the words.
“Help me?” Marinette screeched indignantly. “How is fighting me and helping the enemy tie me to a chair helping me!?”
“I’m helping all of us! Why don’t you see that?” 
“We don’t have time to waste. The earrings.” Hawkmoth commanded and Marinette had this sick feeling in her gut as she looked from the villain she had been fighting since she was 13, back to her partner, was he even my partner to begin with? , and saw how he nodded and smiled before looking back at her with his wide, wild toxic green eyes. She leaned back as much as she could scowling and baring her teeth, she would do whatever she had to if it meant keeping the earrings safe, when Chat reached towards her she turned her face as quickly bit his hand. The answering yowl made her want to smirk in vindication, even as he shook his hand she still held on with her teeth till she felt someone yank on her hair, hard . She didn’t immediately let go even if the pain was great, her teeth scraped the leather of Chat’s suit the whole time she was pulled away but she didn’t care. What she did care about was the fact that the hand in her hair didn’t let go, she briefly glanced back to see the unmistakable blue of Mayura. Before she could even think to try and struggle still she felt another hand grab her jaw to keep her in place, seeing as Chat had both hands visible she had to assume Mayura was holding her with both her hands since she could also see Hawkmoth standing in the back. Not being able to do much other than growl, she opted to growl out her frustration.
“Growling isn’t very lady like Ladybug.” Chat of course put emphasis on the ‘lady’ in ladylike as he went for her earring on her left ear first. Marinette did her best to keep her tears at bay. She would not cry in front of them, she would not allow them that satisfaction.
It was like a rip when he removed the first earring. It made her gasp, it wasn’t exactly pain, not at first, it was more this overwhelming sense of discomfort, like having a popcorn kernel stuck between every single tooth and gum. Why does it feel like this? It’s never felt like this before? Then the pain hit and Marinette had to grind her teeth in order to not make a sound, she wouldn’t give them that pleasure, but God , it hurt so much. She could feel parts of her transformation bubbling, almost sizzling and falling off. It was bizarre, never had a transformation falling felt like this, but then again, never had she had her earrings forcibly removed. There was barely any time to brace herself when she felt Chat go for the other earrings and this time, this time she couldn’t hold back the scream that clawed its way out. The pain was too much, it was so different that the first one, this time it was a burning sensation coupled with her muscles feeling like every single one of them had been pulled. She could distantly hear voices, but ultimately they were muffled by her screaming. 
“Stop being dramatic Bugaboo.” She could hear Chat laughing, when she opened her eyes it was to see him looking down at the earrings in his hand. There was a soft gasp coming from somewhat behind her so she willed herself with the small amount of strength she had to look back and saw Nathalie Sancoeur staring back at her with big eyes. It almost made her snort, the older woman may have been surprised to see that Ladybug was none other than her, plain Marinette, but Marinette had guessed Nathalie was Mayura. Who, by the way, did not look so great. Her transformation had been dropped and she was pale, there were bags under her eyes and her breathing was labored. Even though she had just helped to take her earrings, Marinette still felt pity for the woman, she knew she was going to die if she continued to use the peacock, but seeing as Hawkmoth, no Gabriel seemed to have won, maybe there was hope for her to get better. Marinette knew better though. She had read the Grimoire pages about damaged Miraculi, she knew the damage they dealt stayed unless the broken Miraculous was fixed and the kwami of the Miraculous was feeling merciful. 
“Marinette? It’s...Oh my God...You’re you!” Her head snapped back to Chat fast enough she felt a slight strain. The look in his eyes made her want to puke, he looked in awe and almost in love. There was no way she would say it was actual love, more like obsession that he in his deluded mind convinced himself was love. 
“We don’t have time for this. The earrings and the ring, now.” Gabriel growled, his transformation was also dropped, Marinette saw Nooroo for the first time and wished she could comfort the kwami. He looked so drained. 
“Chat. I’m begging you. Don’t give him my earrings or your ring! You don’t understand what will happen!” Marinette was desperate as she pleaded.
“Plagg, claws in.” There was a loud gasp, it took a second for her to realize it was her who had made the sound. Standing where Chat had been was her ex-crush, ex-friend, Adrien Agreste and gone was the lovesick look he had been giving her as he walked over to his father. His father! “No. You don’t understand, Marinette! This! All of this is for my mother. Don’t you...Don’t you want me to have my mother back?”
“Listen to me Chat-Adrien...even you Gabriel. You don’t want to make this wish! It might bring your wife back, yes. But every wish comes at a price!”
“I think you’re lying to save your own skin Mlle Dupain-Cheng.” Gabriel replied as he took the earrings and ring from Adrien and put them on himself carefully. 
“What would I gain from lying? Nothing! If you make this wish there is going to be a price you aren’t going to be able to handle!” 
“Adrien. Quiet her. Now.” Gabriel gritted out. Marinette could tell he was experiencing the clash of power between good and bad luck. Creation and Destruction. He wasn’t even transformed yet and Marinette could tell the power was overwhelming him. When she had read the Grimoire about the “Balanced Yet Always Fighting” Power, or that was the closest translation anyways, Marinette liked to call it the Ambivalence Power, the book spoke how many could not handle the Power and themselves would decay on the spot. It was considered an instant action of the Power, instant Karma, to bring the two Miraculi together was considered an evil act, so to counterbalance it, the Power would take the life of the user if they could not bear it and make a wish quickly. 
“Yes Father!” Adrien hastily agreed and all Marinette could do was glare at him, and when he approached with a piece of duct tape she did her best to lean away even if her energy was all but gone. He was anything but gentle as he slapped the duct tape over her mouth. 
“Now I can begin. It’s finally happening Adrien, we’re going to get her back.” Gabriel gave his son a smile and Marinette pitied the joy on Adrien’s face, knowing that was probably the first real smile his father had given him since his mother had gone missing. “Tell me your names Kwamis.” 
“T-Tikki…” Tikki grit out, the look in her eyes promised harm.
“Plagg.” The black cat Kwami spat out with disgust as he hovered as close to Tikki as he could.
No.
No this couldn’t be happening. Not after everything she and her team had gone through, not after everything Paris had gone through. She couldn’t lose to her former partner, to betrayal. A betrayal she should have seen coming, it felt so obvious the more she thought about it and the more she thought about it the more the dread turned into a blinding white-hot rage that was consuming her alive. Adrien as a friend had ultimately been lackluster but she had wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt, since he was a sheltered kid and all, granted he was rich, but being rich did nothing for neglect and sheltering. It hid it a little better but it was like a layer of wallpaper slowly stripping away. But there was only so much you could ignore and excuse. Then there was Chat Noir. Where to start with Chat Noir? She had wanted to make excuses for him for so long but the longer they remained partners, the more annoyed and uncomfortable she got. 
And yet, even to the end, she made excuses for him. She told herself he was just going through some things, that’s why he had been acting weird about the plan. Why he had looked so hesitant to bring the tormentor of Paris down, she thought it was just because they thought they had eliminated him as a suspect before. Obviously she had been wrong but the hurt she had felt over the realization turned into slow flames licking at her heels. The heat grew more intense the more Gabriel and Adrien spoke, the more she looked at Emilie Agreste in that stupid coffin and the more she felt the presence of Nathalie behind her, quiet as could be. It was suffocating and she knew she was trembling and she hated to think these jerks believed for one second that it was out of fear, because it wasn’t, it was out of pure unadulterated rage. Things seemed to be happening in slow motion around her as she tried to rein in the overpowering waves of rage that seemed to want nothing more than for her to drown in them. 
Her heart was pounding in her ears, she couldn’t stop crying, the trembling increased and she couldn’t help but curl her fingers into her palms as much as she could while being tied to the chair and all. The nails cut into her palm and she felt multiple sharp stings and a feeling of wet warmth and yet she couldn’t find it within herself to care. All she could focus on was the way her ears buzzed as she tried to focus on Gabriel, she couldn’t even make herself look at Adrien, if she was doomed she would face this head on even if everything sounded like it was underwater. She had no clue what Gabriel was spouting, Marinette had no interest in his self-important monologue, but she did care about the way Tikki and Plagg looked at Gabriel. Looked at her. They were just as hurt and betrayed as she was and that only made the fury inside her boil more. She had never felt so angry, she had never felt such hatred but she had felt fear and she hated how she felt it at that moment. She didn’t want to be afraid. But emotions were rarely logical even if they were predictable. 
Marinette couldn’t tear her eyes away from Gabriel, apparently he was done monologuing because she watched as he got into a stance, one that suggested he was going to transform and all she could feel was an overwhelming desperation in combination with her rage. Maybe it was pointless, maybe it was stupid, but she struggled against her restraints with all the energy she had left as she saw Gabriel open his mouth, no doubt to transform and unify Tikki and Plagg. She could hear a cruel laugh or two when she fell on her face due to her efforts, but it didn’t matter, none of them mattered. If her fall distracted Gabriel, even if just for a few precious seconds it would have been worth it. She growled as she used the adrenaline coursing through her to somehow get herself onto her side, she was still tied to the chair but it was better than being on her face. Her nose was bleeding, her wrists and ankles were raw from struggling and yet she couldn’t and wouldn’t focus on those. She had to do something, anything!
Before she could yell in the hopes it would distract Gabriel enough to stall for time, so that maybe, just maybe, her team would realize something was wrong, she heard a whistle. Not a human whistle, more like the whistle of an object traveling at a great speed, it distracted her and thankfully everyone else. Its pitch got higher, which meant it was most likely getting closer and though Marinette wanted to hope it was her team, she just couldn’t feel any hope at the moment. Then there was the sound of impact… multiple impacts actually, like the thing, whatever it was, was penetrating the house from the roof. She could hear the panic from the others, someone yelled something about a bomb but somehow Marinette knew it wasn’t. Whatever it was though called to her rage that painted a red film over her eyes, to the destruction she wanted to wreck upon all those around, to the betrayal that had poisoned her heart. Before it even broke through into the room they were in, Marinette knew this thing was there for her and her struggling efforts tripled until she managed to get one hand free. She ignored the dislocated thumb and possibly broken finger. 
Finally the thing broke into the room and washed it in a brilliant red light, a red light that seemed to only shine on and around Marinette. It was a ring. A simple red ring but it sizzled with power, Marinette could practically smell the burning metal, though it could have just been the blood that had dried under her nose. She was transfixed, this ring was meant for her, she knew it, so she reached out her hand towards it, not minding the pleading scream she could vaguely hear and recognize as Tikki’s voice. The ring slid on her finger perfectly, snugly, and that’s when the pain and her own screaming started. Her heart hurt more than she could explain before the pain was just suddenly gone and all she felt, all she could feel was rage. Pure rage and nothing else. She couldn’t even dwell on that because as the pain from her heart faded, the pain in her veins began. It was a hot burning pain that felt never-ending. 
Everything burned. Her eyes burned. Her throat is burned. Her skin burned. Her very blood, BURNED . Nausea came as quickly to her as her rage had. It built and built and built till she couldn’t hold it anymore and vomited. It was anything but normal. It was violent and messy and RED and she couldn’t stop. It was like something from a horror movie, the amount was as worrisome as the color and once it finally stopped Marinette recognized the contents of the vomit. It wasn’t vomit at all, it was blood. Her blood. Honestly, what looked like all of it, maybe if she had been in her right mind she would have questioned that, she would have freaked out about that, but the fact of the matter was Marinette wasn’t in her right mind. Or more like, she wasn’t in her same mind, she felt different and was but it wasn’t something she consciously recognized. The pain was gone and in its place was power, power like she had never felt before but she knew it wasn’t at its strongest due to her not being at her strongest. She needed to heal, she needed to get better, she needed to go home. 
Without much thought at all, Marinette pushed off the ground. There were no thoughts spared for how she got out of her binds, none for how she had this newfound ability to fly, none to the destruction her transformation left in its wake. The only thought on her mind was following the tugging from the ring, the call of home, 
Wherever that was.
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nixthelapin · 8 months
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Ok but really- why is Adrien so famous in the miraculous universe??
He’s literally just a child/teen model. Like yeah he’s the son of famous and renown fashion designer, but do those things together really explain why this kid has fans swarming and chasing him whenever they get the chance, and even recognition internationally? (Like when Ladybug said the hat she made was from a Brazilian fan club- for a 5th name’s day of all things- that was perfectly reasonable to him.)
And yeah, he gets into things like voice acting later on, but he just started out as the son of s famous guy who modeled for his father’s company. I’m also pretty sure he only got those roles bc he was already famous. Even Marinette, being a huge fan of Gabriel because of her love of fashion, only thought Adrien was familiar looking when she first met him (she had to look him up just to know the connection).
(Granted, she does fall into that creepy obsessive stalker mode later, but I’m not making this post to talk about bad character writing.)
Obviously, people have always had crushes on and gone crazy over public figures, but I don’t really see how a teen clothing model from France could get this much global attention and devotion?
…then again, a kids weather girl competition also got a massive amount attention and fans, so I guess obsessing over children (unfortunately and creepily) a normal occurrence in this universe. Not to mention how people later treat Adrien and Kagami’s “relationship” on the Alliance rings.
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djluongo · 2 months
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Hope you all have a Happy “Bloody” Valentine’s Day. Ring of Salt feat. The miner from My Bloody Valentine
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verfound · 8 months
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"For all the times I still wanted to punch Adrien in the face, it's still better than S4/5 at least? 😂"
What did he do in the movie?
It's honestly more of the same, so truthfully speaking I don't know why I was surprised.
(Spoilers for the Miraculous Movie below the cut.)
When he first meets Ladybug, it's immediately nothing but flirting and going off about how she's his "sidekick". I can't entirely blame him for that, because there's a scene with Plagg later on where it seems like that's the rhetoric Plagg's feeding him, so ok? Not entirely his fault.
He's still running hard with the pity parties and the "no one has it as bad as me woe woe what to do?" thing. I will never be able to hear Careless Whisper again without laughing my ass off. So. Thanks for that, Zag. 😂
And in the movie's defense, they do try to show more interactions between Adrien and Marinette. There's double dates (or at least hangouts) with Nino and Alya. Marinette and Adrien are actually shown talking about his mother on a bench/spending time together alone. She's still awkward around him, but she can at least hold a conversation? So there's interaction. There's a BASIS for Adrien feasibly liking Marinette AND Ladybug (though, to be perfectly clear, he is still very much 100% "Ladybug or nothing" - and don't even get me started on his "The girl behind the mask saved my heart" bullshit). I still don't think Adrien would be a good long-term boyfriend/spouse material, but as a first boyfriend at 13-15? I could see it.
But then you get the Confession and Final Battle, and the little bit of "ok maybe I can see it" was lost again. Chat sets up this big elaborate "I like you" scene, and Ladybug flatout tells him in the song "I like you, I could like you, but I love someone else" - and whoops, there's Adrichat again. He immediately starts with the "BUT WHAT ABOUT ME?!" shit, handling the rejection with all the grace of a bowlegged bullfrog. And maybe I could forgive him for that - he's just been rejected, he's allowed to be hurt - if it wasn't so painfully On Brand for Chat and I didn't have five seasons of baggage making me dislike this guy?
Cut to the next day (or whenever), when Marinette asks Adrien to the school dance. And Adrien just...rejects her. Because "he's in love with someone else". And sure, that's fair, she did the same thing, but he does this in the middle of the hall at school? And maybe that's on Marinette for asking in such a public place, but it immediately sets it up for everyone in the hall to be snickering/mocking this already crazy insecure girl (let's not even touch the vaguely suicidal themes they gave her that I'm praying are just poor translation choices) - and of fucking course Chloé is right there to pounce. I honestly don't know who I was more frustrated with in this scene - Marinette, Adrien, or the writers - because it just smacks of more "Let's beat Marinette into the ground, shall we?" (See: lying facedown in a rainy New York street chasing after Sunshine's limo.)
So Hawkmoth, meanwhile, has decided that "If I can't bring Emilie back, I will join her!" and akumatizes himself? Because that's a great idea? And kicks off Apocalypse Now. Paris is burning, magical bombs going off all over, Hakwmoth on the Rampage. Ladybug runs into the fight and is getting her ass handed to her. She needs Chat. She's calling Chat. Where the fuck is Chat, you ask?
Lying on his fucking bed whimpering while he listens to Careless Whisper and Paris burns right outside his bedroom windows.
I wish I was lying. This is your hero. This is the guy the show is painting as Absolute Perfection, Sunshine of My Soul.
I should note that a device the movie worked in is that the Miraculous will glow/pulse? I'm still unsure if it's just when an akuma's on the loose or if it's a sign that their partner is calling them on the comms, but either way Adrien could see from his glowing ring that he needed to get his ass up and go fight. But his feelings were hurt, and holding a pity party was more important than saving the city.
So after Plagg forces him to get his ass up and do his job, he swings in to save Ladybug from Imminent Smooshing, and immediately starts a snit. "Oh, your boyfriend too busy to lend a hand?" (I'm not even paraphrasing. That's the actual line.) And, once again showing he really can't learn and ignoring everything they've set up for the "we're stronger together/we're partners" thing, Chat tells her "I've got this - stand down" and barrels ahead to fight Hawkmoth himself.
Now, up until this point, I'd like to note that we have seen NOTHING of their powers. There have been no Cataclysms, no Lucky Charm, no Miracle Cure. They've used the yoyo and staff, but it looks like the extent of their powers is enhanced abilities and weapons? While Chat's fighting, he DOES power up a Cataclysm. It's unclear if he knew about this power/used it beforehand or if this was the first time he was using it.
Regardless, he swings, misses, and accidentally Cataclysms the Eiffel - which is immediately destroyed.
And that's kind of where I just lost it with Chat? I was screaming at Min while I watched this, and she reminded me we don't know about the Miracle Cure yet. So Movie!Chat is doing all of this without the reassurance/confidence that Ladybug can Fix It. At least in the show he's seen her powers and knows it will be all right? It's no less reckless, but he knows it'll be all right in the end. He has no reassurances here.
What's even worse, when it's all said and done and Ladybug DOES cast the Miracle Cure? We're clearly shown this is the first time she is using this power. So she didn't even know she could fix it in the moment. So Chat's here, letting the city burn, destroying national monuments, and it's all cool. No plan - just nine lives, night vision, and more puns than you can swing a stick at. Cool. Cool cool cool. 🙃
It's just...Adrien. He's perfectly on brand - I should not have been surprised. All of this shit he did in the movie he's done before in the show. (See: all his fans clutching their pearls and going "My boi would NEVER!", and now their fucking boi fucking did twice. In two separate canons. I'm sure if I read any of the comics/novelizations he'd do it there, too.)
I cheered when the Eiffel debris knocked him out in the Seine. LB should have let the lava get him. 🙄
Basically, I'm not entirely mad I watched the movie. It had some great moments. Guardian School Dropout Fu screeching in Marinette's face the first time they meet how "EVERYONE WILL DIE" was excellent. Hawkmoth in a top hat? Loved it. Hawkmoth's villain song was hilarious - I want to know if Juleka knows about the Mountain of Skulls and regularly petitions Kitty Section to rehearse there (and please let's discuss the Supervillain Prison already waiting in the catacombs?). Luka being RIGHT THERE - Juleka telling him all about the girl that blew up the chem lab the first day of school, be still his Boat Kid heart. I'm sure I still enjoyed it more than S4-5.
But no, it did not sway me to the Sunshine side. 0/10 would not recommend this kid again.
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morethansalad · 9 months
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slavonicrhapsody · 1 year
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Still mad that bikard (bi rykard) is cut content
Fromsoft WHY
LITERALLYYYY like I understand that the revised Daedicar’s Woe description makes more sense for Rya’s quest but come on they could’ve referenced Rykard’s previous lovers elsewhere. Make that random ghost knight his ex. Add an extra line in the Ghiza’s wheel description. Don’t tease me like this Fromsoft
Ok, but putting my Serious Lore™ hat on, like I said in the previous ask I answered, I still think that cut content has some lore relevance… re: Rykard, the identity of Daedicar has been changed and thus the specific scenario of the old description is now explicitly non-canon.
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However, Daedicar’s identity is the only thing about the description that now contradicts canon; everything else about the description still feels in accordance with Rykard’s character: The description implies that Rykard was frequently sleeping with people in his employ during the inquisition era, which absolutely tracks with everything else we know about him — his manor is decadently decorated and he dresses extravagantly (even as a snake), and he seems to have a vain, self-absorbed streak (owns multiple portraits of himself and hangs them on his walls)… this man is a hedonist. Plus, his relationship with Tanith makes it clear that he’s into nasty violent freaks like 1.0 Daedicar would’ve been.
So, if the other character-related details of this cut description are still in accordance with Rykard’s character, then it isn’t a stretch to believe that his bisexuality is also an established facet of his character intended by the writers. His sister Ranni is also textually bi, as she can fall in love with the player regardless of gender. So basically Bikard may not be explicitly canon in the text of the game anymore but it’s still Real. In my Serious Lore™ opinion
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crazymiraclecat · 1 year
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