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just took a DNA test but it turned out I didn’t have any and the doctor got really mad at me

#m'gann m'orzz #miss martian #young justice tv #Do Martians have DNA? #I don't think the show was clear on that #Anyway I know it's been like a year but I just saw this post on Pinterest today

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Okay but how funny would a ITSV au where Hobie was the one pulled into Miles dimension instead of Gwen be?

He shows up at Visions Academy, steals a uniform and immediately begins arguing with teachers about the classist nature of private education and the voucher system, but he’s so smart and well read that no one ever figures out he’s technically not enrolled at the Academy. Meanwhile Miles immediately starts crushing on this cool punk rock rebel who defies expectations but can’t work up the courage to go up and say high.

Miles tries the shoulder touch, Hobie flirts back, and Miles turns invisible on the spot.

#miles morales #hobie brown #into the spider verse #across the spiderverse #spiderman #Look. I ship Gwen and Miles. I totally do #But I still think this would be an awesome au.

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#miraculous ladybug #marinette dupain cheng #adrien agreste #alya cesaire #chat noir #scarabella #hack san #i loved this episode #and this artwork summarizes it perfectly

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felix exuberating theater-kid energy nonstop this season just makes me imagine his pv chat noir design being a parody of adrien's chat noir

#miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #felix fathom #Ladybug #chat noir #argus #I love how Ladybug can always tell when Felix is pretending to be someone else #this is the nice fanon version of Felix btw #Not the jerk we normally see in canon #fanon Felix #The thigh highs are a cool addition btw

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Marinette Being a Special Powerful Girl is Good, Actually, and Not for the Reasons You Might Think

Can’t believe I’m doing this but, uh, let’s do some Miraculous Ladybug meta.

I’ll start by saying that the following is my opinion and just one way of looking at the text. If you read it different, you aren’t inherently wrong or bad or anything like that. I’ve just noticed people starting to engage in “Mary Sue” style discourse, and I’d like to disagree with that, and explain which I think that there’s another more valuable way to read the show.

See, MLB is sort of “casually woke”, and by that I mean the show, through passive representation and metaphor, clearly supports diversity. The show doesn’t typically go out of its way to promot this - we don’t get a lot of stories about directly confronting racism and sexism and tearing them down. When we do, it tends to be in code. “Rice flour” is a pretty great example of talking about racism without actually talking about racism.

Because it’s so passive, I feel like a lot of people miss that valuing diversity and rejecting these hierarchal systems is a huge theme of the show and has been from the very beginning. Season One is hard for a lot of people to get through, and the reason why is because of the repetitive nature. MLB values it’s background characters - everyone matters, everyone has problems, everyone has gifts. That means we get a lot of stories about people who, in most shows, don’t matter. But they do in MLB.

That’s what makes Marinette so special. Marinette is able to acknowledge the diversity of the people she’s surrounded by. She values the differences in people, and encourages people to follow their own path, and scolds people for trying to force others to hide who they are. Marinette represents change and progress - she makes change and progress, and these changes are good. The point of “Furious Fu” is literally that Su-Han shows up, antiquated and out-of-date with values from nearly two centuries ago, and is forced to acknowledge that the changes happening in the world are positive.

You know. As if a different perspective has incredible value.

Although the holders appear to come from a variety of backgrounds, the show is currently implying that the guardians have been, for a very long time, a group of isolated men. These men determine who is worthy of power and when it should be taken away. They have very specific rules about the type of people who are allowed to receive this power on loan. The “on loan” part is important - because the guardians are always the one with the “right” to take away the miraculous from other people. They even have rules about keeping the young from holding the miraculous but…. Not against their own children training and becoming guardians and having uncontrolled access to the miraculous.

That’s not a plot hole. That’s the way power and privilege work systemically.

Marinette represents the first time that the miraculous holders are no longer borrowing their power, but control it. This change is depicted as positive, and it’s not just because Marinette is a super special cool girl. It’s deeper than that.

Because. LIke. Lemme talk about our girl Alya.

I cannot understate how powerful the moment is when Alya is permanently handed her miraculous. It’s not a mistake or an accident that the first person Marinette permanently hands a miraculous to is a black girl. That’s important. It means something. The show easily could have been written so that Marinette gave it to Luka, but they didn’t go down that path. They wrote the story in such a way to ensure it was Alyra.

Alya is the person who supports Marinette while she’s breaking down. Alya is the only person Marinette can trust enough to confide it. Alya is the person who figures out how Marinette can make protective charms, as well as providing countless pieces of important intel across the series from her own, independent research - before she’s ever handed the power of the miraculous. Alya, this absolute angel of a girl, is shown to reject Hawkmoth. She hands back her miraculous every time, returning the power she’s been given. Even when she thinks that Marinette will never trust her to wield it again, she hands her power back to Marinette.

Marinette was trying to follow the old rules and the show has answered this with a forceful, resounding “No.” We hear Marinette say directly that she was wrong. It is not her place to choose when and how other people use their power. It is wrong for her to keep it and pass it out when she feels it’s necessary, rather than trusting her friends who have proved themselves worthy of this power.

So then why is Marinette so strong? Why can she wield all the miraculous? Why is she the best Ladybug? And, to me, the answer is simple. If Marinette couldn’t wield this power herself, what would giving it away really mean? If the kwamis were useless to Marinette, how much would it really say for her to permanently give them out instead of temporarily?

Marinette could hold every miraculous if she wanted to. She could use multi-mouse every mission and take every role for herself. We have proof of that now. Technically, Marinette could do this on her own. She doesn’t need to trust others, like other people in the past were required to. Others had no choice but to loan out the miraculous to others. Marinette does.

When Marinette permanently gives Alya the miraculous, she’s saying, “You matter as much as I do.” She’s saying that it doesn’t matter that Marinette has the ability to use all this power herself. She shouldn’t. She knows that other people are just as worthy as she is, with their own strengths and weaknesses, and that their differences and diversity make them stronger. Miraculous Ladybug is the story of Marinette creating a team of superheroes, and this has become more and more evident every season, especially with the time travel. This is not the story of super special Marinette saving the day. This is the story of Marinette choosing to be a leader, and a team player, and creating the strongest team of superheroes the world has ever known because of it.

Marinette’s not a Mary Sue. She’s acknowledging her own power, her own privilege, and then doing her best to dismantle it.

And, honestly, I think that’s absolutely fantastic.

#miraculous ladybug #miraculous meta #marinette dupain cheng #alya cesaire

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Some thoughts on Across the Spiderverse (in no particular order)

The animation was awesome. This movie has even better animation than the first one and trust me, that is high praise. The animation here was so detailed that the individual chain links and beads in Rio's necklaces moved independently of each other. That's incredibly difficult to pull off. I can't wait until it comes out on DVD/streaming services so I can take a short video to show everyone.

In typical superhero tradition, Miles Morales tries to talk the bad guys out of being evil. 'No, you're a great villain, I'm sorry I called you a villain of the week, please don't jump into the particle collider', 'Uncle Aaron, please, you don't have to be the prowler'. I mean, the kid doesn't succeed either time, but he gets points for trying. I always love it when heroes try to reason with the villains before punching them.

Dimension 42 Miles has at least 5 different fanon nicknames at this point, but I think "Miles Immorales" is probably my favorite.

I've noticed that Miguel O'hara is a pretty polarizing figure among the fanbase, so I figured I'd add my 2 cents. I don't know if he's right about Miles or not, but I do know this: while he may very well be wrong, he definitely isn't lying.

The ending was epic, but also really frustrating. Longest animated movie that's ever been made in the US, and they still couldn't finish the story?

Jokes aside, I had a lot of fun with this movie, and I can't wait until Beyond the Spiderverse comes out.

#Across the spiderverse #atsv spoilers #miles morales #Miles Immorales #miles 42 #miguel o'hara

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Ms. Marvel #13 - “Crushed” (2015)

written by G. Willow Wilson art by Takeshi Miyazawa & Ian Herring

#i've always loved this scene #I'm glad to see so many others who appreciate it as much as I do #ms marvel #kamala khan

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Do yourselves a favor and check out some of the tags. They're hilarious

if the satanic panic was happening now a lot of you guys would be like “DNI if you don’t believe survivors of satanic ritual abuse at daycare”

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[DC] oh no…I turned timkon into a miraculous ladybug lovesquare 🤒

Anyways this will barely make sense but Conner -> Tim / Robin -> Superboy is sort of supposed to be like the early timkon dynamic in the comics where they’d sometimes butt heads, but then the Tim -> Conner/Superboy-> Robin is supposed to be like later timkon where there’s more obvious admiration lololol

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#timkon #tim drake #conner kent #superboy #robin #ml love square but for YJ #they're so cute omg

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It doesn't surprise me that no one in that house explained where babies come from. Think about it. Gabriel doesn't talk to him, the bodyguard doesn't talk at all, and Emilie probably told some lie about the stork and forbid Nathalie from telling Adrien the truth until he was old enough to get married.

It doesn't help that he's an only child and he wasn't really allowed outside his house for the first 13 years of his life. This is probably the first time he's ever talked to a pregnant woman.

Can we talk about how cute this moment was?

And how everyone was happy she’s pregnant

...except how confused adrien looks

Gabriel please tell me you’ve made Natalie tell your son where babies come from??

#miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #miraculous new york

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Sounds like fun! It's been about 5 years, so I think it'd be cool to add powers for some of the newer characters.

Lila has some kind of magic persuasion ability (think of what she can do in canon and bring it up to 11).

Max has no powers, which is why he built Markov. Who needs powers when you have awesome tech?

Kagami has superhuman agility, which works to her advantage as a fencer.

Luka has music based powers of some kind. Even in canon, he seems to have some kind of low level telepathy (he can sort of hear people's emotions as songs), but in this au you can take that to it's natural extreme and give him the power to influence or even control people's emotions using music.

Monster AU

“I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.”

- People with superpowers exist - Nino can control water, he likes to make bubbles - Alix can teleport - Ivan is super strong etc. - Everyone loves Marinette because she brings good luck and she can even use her powers to create things, she doesn’t use it often though because she has to use a lot of energy to do it and is really tired after - Adrien though…  - His parents always hated him and were saying that he is a monster and shouldn’t have been born - His powers are very dangerous - He can kill and destroy everything - One day he accidentally killed someone - They closed him in some sort of asylum - But he kept destroying the walls and running away - Until everyone said fuck it and let him go - He lives deep in the forest in a small house - Even though everyone says he’s a dangerous monster, he is very kind and nice - He wears gloves so no “accidents” happen ever again - One day, Marinette gets lost in that certain forest - He saves her from something - Guess what - She can touch him  - She’s the only one living thing in the world that can touch him and not die because of it - She realizes that he’s not a monster like everyone says, he’s a normal person with feelings - They fall in love or one of them fall in love with the other one, idk That’s it for now?? I was inspired mostly by my fav book and a bit of one anime I really like

#miraculous ladybug #alternate universe #shatter me au #max kante #lila rossi #luka couffaine #kagami tsurugi

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Cat Noir let Ladybug tie him up and blindfold him, no questions asked.

A magical hot dog man gave superpowers to Miss Bustier's entire class.

A guy got turned into a cucumber and happily rolled down the street.

A different guy tried to take over Paris using pigeons 72 times

Actual things that have happened in Miraculous Ladybug which I still can’t believe

Ladybug rode a giant flying hairdryer

Ladybug rode a dragon

A guy tried to take over Paris with pigeons

A chef encased an entire building in caramel and tried to cook a girl alive in a pool of soup

A 15 year old challenged a panther to a race and the owner was so upset he turned into a dinosaur and ate Ladybug

A rock star was sword-fighting with Chat Noir on a plank suspended at the top of the Eiffel Tower, using a guitar

Said rock star has a pet crocodile

A girl tried to fight off a butterfly with an umbrella while stuck in a lift

Chat Noir was murdered by a supervillain and died in Ladybug’s arms, in an early episode. No, really, he actually died, I’m not even kidding

Ladybug kissed Chat Noir for like 10 seconds while lying on the floor, and he didn’t remember it and she didn’t tell him

Chat Noir threw his bodyguard down a lift shaft from the 8th floor. This has never been brought up again.

A kid used magic bubbles to kidnap all the adults in Paris so he could throw a birthday party

Marinette went on a date with a supervillain

Ladybug tossed Chat Noir in a river

Some smartie in the 19th century invented the hologram and then… didn’t tell anyone?? Except their family?? Why would you keep such awesome new technology a secret??

A 186 year old and his turtle sidekick started shipping two teenagers because of an umbrella

A guy cut the entire Eiffel Tower in half

A strict rich fashion designer pretended to be a butterfly and then pretended to be an aeroplane, and also another time said he was the Easter Bunny

A ridiculously competent toddler managed to brainwash Chat Noir

Santa Claus dabbed

#miraculous ladybug #i'll add more to this list if I think of anything else to add

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We can assume, just based on this piece of information, that Alya speaks Creole fluently. The word fox isn't one you'd learn if you only know a few phrases in a language, and the fact that she was able to quickly recall and use that word when she needed it shows that she not only understands but also speaks the language.

About Rena Rouge

If some people are still asking of why Alya heroine name is Rena Rouge and not Volpina is because Volpina is an Italian name not French. Also Rena Rouge is suppose to mean Red Fox.

#miraculous ladybug #rena rouge #alya cesaire #I'm sure some of you are reading this and thinking #“well duh” #but it's important to remember that a lot of 2nd gen immigrant kids don't ever learn to speak their parents native language fluently #like #Marinette never learned her mother's native language #but now we know Alya did learn to speak her parents' native language fluently #and I think that's really cool

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You know what, he probably found the idea of Rena Rouge and Chat Noir falling in love with each other ridiculously funny.

I can just picture it now. Adrien's first time reading the script was probably interrupted with fits of laughter every 3 seconds. (His second, third, and fourth readings probably weren't much better.) The director would be all exasperated like "is there something funny about this dramatic romance scene, Adrien?" and Adrien would politely deny it while still shaking with laughter.

can we talk about the fact that adrien voice acted this. what did he think of this script.

#miraculous ladybug #adrien agreste #rena rouge #plagg probably got a good laugh out of it too tbh

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Most Jedi don't remember their parents or siblings very well, if at all. (In fact, a lot of the Jedi generals and padawans probably associate the word "brother" with the clones, not with their own families.) But the Jedi spend a good chunk of their childhood and teenage years with their masters, so they would actually remember their relationships with them. The word "master" would hold a lot more meaning for them than the word "parent".

Thinking about how the words the Jedi use to talk about their lineages, and the way they generally refrain from using typical/standard family terms (not that they never do! Aayla and the disaster trio all talk about lineage in 'like a father/brother' ways, it's just not as common), and how a lot of fanon paints that as... diminishing their relationships? And discouraging closeness?

Which is just wild considering how important master-padawan relationships are in their lives.

Civilian: Oh my god, the Jedi can't have families... they totally refuse to acknowledge that their bonds are parent and child, even though they totally are. How cold their philosophy and upbringing must be that they can't even use the most basic terms to acknowledge their own feelings!

Jedi: Get your hands off my life and the language I use to describe it. That is my master and that is my padawan and you don't get to dictate the words I use to describe our relationship.

Civilian: That's such a heartless and distant way to talk about your family, the Jedi truly--

Jedi: To you! These words mean something to me, a lot more than the words you use do!

#star wars