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sweetcloverheart · 2 months

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I can't stop thinking about how upsetting it is that in MLB the "Power Of Love" only applies to the villains instead of the heroes, and for such flimsy reasons

Marinette is never allowed to truly nor fully rely on her relationship with her classmates to help with interpersonal problems because if she does, then she can't be the "super strong female protag" the show totes her as. So the show will constantly/actively discourage any cooperation or reliance on her friendships (even as it "punishes" her for failing to do so like in "Penalteam" and "Strikeback") by having it always end in failure or a worst situation, while presenting the others as too "naive and trusting" of her enemies or any adults/solutions as useless (Oh hi Su Han!) to justify it, thereby forcing her to have to tackle whatever issue she faces alone while presenting it as necessary. She's even made to lie to her partner because telling him any relevant information regarding their previous main enemy would mean removing Adrien's glued-on rose-tinteed glasses regarding his father and what an awful human being he was in his final moments of life.

Meanwhile, Gabriel can do everything short of tax fraud and always be presented as our deeply conflicted "morally grey" villain who's actually totally in the right, because everything he does can be excused because it's being done in the name of obsession love for his comatose wife. Nothing he does is worthy of persecution because in the narrative's eyes, he hasn't done anything wrong actually, since it's all for love. Emotionally abusing his son and trying to take advantage of his depressive episodes for his own goals? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Using a clearly emotionally vulnerable child and a super exploitive one for his plans and then abandoning them to the consequences? It's fine, it's for Emilie (and Chloe and Lila are She-demons, so they deserve it!/s). Harassing his son's girlfriend (through both his position and magic) to either try and get them to break up ("Protection" and "Pretension") or getting a magical servant for his own ends ("Chat Blanc")? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Leaving his friend and secretary to die from the same broken miraculous that magic coma-ed his wife? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Using his adult friends and his son's same age ones for his activities as Hawkmoth by purposely upsetting them? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Exploiting his son's image despite said son being clearly uncomfortable with it? It's fine, it's for Emilie. Instructing one of his Akumas to allow his son to fall to his potential death to confirm if he's his teenage nemesis (Edit: was incorrect about event. Have corrected)? It's for Emilie, so he's good! Locking his child in a bleach white rubber room (Unfriendly reminder that Adrien has canonical claustrophobia) because he went to visit his friends and to have him out of the way of his ultimate plan via using the previously mentioned image exploiting? Emilie, Emilie, Emilie - so long as it's for her, anything he does is golden! Even at the very end, where you have Marinette pointing out how much he made his son suffer, Gabriel does no proper reflecting or is forced to have his goal denied of him as a result - instead, he's given posthumous hero status (along with a statue and another adult villain who skipped consequences giving a speech about what a great and noble man he never was) and made directly responsible for the utopia the world became because he threw the heroine's mercy right back in her face; all because the "Power of Love" makes it so that everything he does for Emilie is moral and good, no matter how vile.

#Clover Rants Miraculously #ML Salt

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awakefor48hours · 1 year

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After seeing Lockwood and Co get cancelled I'm finally going to take my own damn advice and make content for cancelled shows that isn't just me ranting about how I would fist fight all the higher ups that cancelled the shows in a McDonald’s parking lot.

"Will you still be in The Owl House fandom?" Yes

"Will you finish that fanfiction?" Definitely

"Should I watch any of the shows that you post about?" Absolutely

For the most part my main hyperfixations (The Owl House, Black Clover, and Miraculous Ladybug) will stay the same (who knows how long). Not to mention, I still have posts queued to come out in the future, another thousand posts in my drafts, mutuals who are still in the fandom, 5 other fanfictions that I plan to write (and a few AMVs). So don't think of it as I'm out of the fandom, I'm just in the backseat.

#toh changed my life #i don't think i'll ever stop posting about it

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iheartsunset · 2 years

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Why everyone is banned from Papa Louie’s Netflix (part 2)

Clover: Got way too excited watching Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World and used Papa’s antique glass table and $800 ivory chopsticks as a drum set.

Marty: Kept bugging Clover to do a Vi and Jinx cosplay with him after watching Arcane. Additionally forced the rest of the Shakers to learn Enemy by Imagine Dragons and proceeded to sing it every day to the point where Papa could hear it in his nightmares.

Cooper: Thought Bojack Horseman was gonna be a funny kids’ cartoon and ended up crying over it for a week straight. He cried at home, work meetings, in bed, and especially at work.

Taylor: Accidentally spoiled the ending of season 2 of The Umbrella Academy during a work meeting. His permission will be reinstated once season 3 comes out and Papa needs someone to watch it with.

Cecilia: Watched Cheer with Timm and roasted all the contestants. Then did her own rendition of the moves in the living room and broke Papa’s cheeseburger chandelier.

Timm: Same as the above situation, but he’s the one who basket tossed her into the chandelier.

Chuck: Watched every Nickelodeon show and wouldn’t stop using iCarly and Victorious humor in every day conversation.

James: Watched Marriage Story with one of his dates (before his character development) and during the argument scene, James and his date also got into a loud argument. It was very upsetting to everyone else in the house.

Utah: Got Alberto, Penny, and Gremmie to recreate Outer Banks with her and accidentally flooded the Freezeria. And the Pastaria. And the Donuteria somehow.

Koilee: Was so offended by Fate: The Winx Saga that she went on a 4 hour rant in both irl and on Twitter about how much it differed from the original Winx. But her permission was reinstated after she introduced Papa to Children of the Whales and Mischievous Kiss.

Carlo: While watching the Chef Show and Iron Chef, he got hungry and decided to cook in Papa’s kitchen. But it was 3 AM and he was sleep deprived, so the kitchen caught on fire. His permission was reinstated because after the fire, Papa ate his lasagna and while it was a tad overdone, it was delicious.

Mitch: After watching The Cuphead Show, he would imitate the characters’ voices when sneaking up behind the others to scare them. This happened with just about every cartoon, so now Papa is trying to get Mitch banned from TV altogether. His permission might get reinstated because he won’t shut up about needing to watch the live action Scooby Doo.

Allan: Made fun of Joy for watching Miraculous Ladybug when he was secretly streaming Mako Mermaids. His permission was unofficially reinstated by him just watching Netflix with Roy and Olivia since Roy still has full permission.

Akari: Let Willow, who was banned from Papa’s Netflix, watch Castlevania and Charmed with her. Willow then got possessed once again and this time, they had to play the actual Stranger Things soundtrack.

#papa louie #flipline studios #flipline #papa banned everyone from his Netflix

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robbyrobinson · 3 years

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When the Wind Blows: Alternate Ending

When the Wind Blows. That was a title I hadn’t heard in a long time. It was just obviously a British animated film based on a graphic novel by Raymond Briggs. You know, the guy who did The Snowman? It centered around an elderly couple then one day, word came out that war would break out in three days. The graphic novel was written around the height of the Cold War. The threat of nuclear war was as high as it is now.

I’ve always had morbid affection for dark animated films. Watership Down; The Plague Dogs; Felidae, you name it. When the Wind Blows fit snuggly in that bubble. Having watched it religiously on YouTube, the film was ultimately removed most likely because of it violated the website’s terms of service with its objectionable content. My thirst for the darkness of the animated feature was unquenchable and I hadn’t watched it sense.

That would all change one day. While I was browsing the internet, I came upon an online forum dedicated to dark, more obscure cartoons. It must’ve been my lucky day because one of the users happened to discuss When the Wind Blows. It was boring at first with just him elaborating on how he was immensely disturbed by the film when he saw it at 7. Then the discussion took a swerve.

After he explained what he considered the most horrid aspect of the film, he added an interesting tidbit. Apparently, it was an interview with Briggs himself. In the interview, Briggs explained that what contributed to his penning the graphic novel was the reality of a nuclear war and how virtually impossible it was for anyone to survive a nuclear holocaust. As such, there was a secret ending embedded in the home releases of the movie. To further his point, the user left an link to download the movie.

Curiosity overwhelmed my reasoning. For all intents and purposes, he may as well might’ve fabricated the whole thing. But, if it was in fact real, it would prove a good nugget of knowledge. So, I clicked the link. As it loaded, I was growing concerned that I was hoodwinked and that some sort of virus would crash it. I glanced back at my computer screen seeing that it was finished.

The film surprisingly started off without a single lag nor freeze. David Bowie performed the title song per usual followed by the real-life footage and Jim returning home from reading the newspapers in town. He lived with his wife in his country home in Sussex. He conversed with his wife again without issue. I felt a building dread. This was likely the third time I’ve seen the film so I already knew how everything would play out. Its saccharine mask would crumble away exposing its sinister underbelly. I hadn’t the faintest idea as to why this was the case. If I could put money on it, I’d have to guess Jim’s tone of voice. He was voiced by John Mills and yet rather than his jovial, more informed self, he had a forlorn expression on his face. Hilda immediately took notice.

When she asked her husband what the matter was, he informed her about the likelihood of war being inevitable. After she went through her tirade of war being wicked, the radio shuttered to life announcing that war could be expected in three days. The film segues to Jim preparing the house for the nuclear missile such as by painting the windows white or making a makeshift bomb shelter all according to the Protect and Survive pamphlet the government handed out. He called his son Ron only to become disheartened with his son's seeming ignorance. Ron's laughter could be heard over the phone. A mixture of humor and melancholy. He quoted famous songs much to his father’s chagrin. To me, it was clear that Ron was aware than he was letting on. He was losing what little sanity he had left by partying his troubles away.

The film progressed with the couple mentioning previous world wars and D-Day. Hilda was making a cake while her husband further desecrated the house in accordance with the pamphlet. The radio sounded again, the announcer explaining that an ICBM would arrive in three minutes. Jim became more hectic, and shoved Hilda underneath the door after calling her a bitch.

The screen turned to symbolize the missile dropping. A deafening siren blared through my headphones nearly sending me sprawling on the ground. Violent images of civilians' bodies littered the scenery. Fire rained down from the sky and engulfed the bystanders.

A school bus full of children was hit by a wave of the flames; each child’s body bloated up from the blast and ruptured like water balloons. Their skin melted off gorily. Imagine placing a stick of butter being placed in a microwave. Other people were glued to the streets due to their legs fusing with the concrete. Faces burned off as buildings and houses were leveled by the onslaught of chaos.

The sound wave struck the couple’s house, decimating it. Miraculously, or rather unfortunately, they survived. Hilda in typical fashion wanted to tidy up only to be held back and told that she couldn’t leave until the fallout subsided. In a new addition, Jim assured his wife that they would be fine. Another voice spoke out one that Hilda could not hear. Jim reacted in disgust becoming further unsettled.

“Old boy, while are you sentencing your wife to death?”

The conclusion I drew was that it represented Jim’s innermost thoughts, or more directly his conscience. It was a monotonous voice bereft of any emotion nothing there but a cold, pure logic.

The two attempted to survive as long as they could off what little rations they had left or whatever survived the blast. Their water bottles were disintegrated and subsequently, their water lines were cut off. The couple were immeasurably famished. Throughout the week, they made offhanded remarks about how people lost in the wilderness resorted to drawing lots and sacrificing the weakest member so the others would live. The thought they were so hungry they'd be willing to eat each other was horrible.

Jim once found a meat clover and walked over to his life as she laid on the couch sleeping. He contemplated his options but got cold feet when Hilda was stirring awake. He quickly hid the weapon away, instead telling her that she was hearing things because of her age.

One day while they were walking in their yard, Jim smelled something in the air. Hilda followed him also smelling it. Roasted pork, she thought. Her stomach was so barren, she’d waste no time gorging on the pork.

They walked over a hill, their thoughts immediately turning to sorrow. A family of four was huddled together tightly and were roasted dark by the blast. They were the remains of a husband and wife and their two small kids. Hilda and Jim looked at each other then at me with that thousand yard stare. The camera focused in on Jim’s beady eyes. Fire danced in them. He knelt down and ripped off an arm from one of the kids. Hilda prayed over the bodies before digging in as well.

"The Powers That Be will get to us in the end.”

A few weeks passed by. The couple were somehow still alive. The camera panned to the fridge showing scraps of flesh that were left of the family. Around that time, Jim had also collected the rain water, unaware that it was radiated and unsafe regardless of boiling it. Their water supply had vanished again. Rat carcasses were thrown all over the floor. It then segued to Hilda vomiting into the toilet ranting about hating the taste of rat meat and blood. Boils were all over her body and Jim’s. They were skeletal in appearance with their leathery skin barely being held together.

“I just hope that Ron and Beryl made it out okay,” Hilda weakly said.

As she said this, a jump cut of Ron popped up. He was animated with clay alongside his wife and children. They were melded together in a fleshy blob with their limbs conjoined together. Jim assures her that their son's family would always stick together. Hilda's hair began to fall out by the time she suggested to Jim that they should return to their bags because another attack could come. Jim agreed to her suggestion still assuring her that help would arrive.

The voice from earlier returned now violently criticizing Jim on withholding the truth about their situation. Hilda got into her bag and waited for her husband to join her. It felt like hours before he returned, and when he did, I was taken aback. In his hands was a rifle. He cocked it, and pointed it behind his wife’s head.

“Dear, are you there?” she asked.

Jim choked back tears as he tried to speak coherently. “Recite the Lord’s Prayer for me, would you?”

She obliged. Hilda recited the prayer louder as if hoping that her prayers would be heard. A single tear rolled down Jim's face. A loud gunshot is heard when the camera panned to the outside of the house. Jim looked at the gun in horror and tossed it beside his feet. Kneeling down, he clutched his wife as she laid dying. Tears dropped on her bosom. He remained in that position until the film faded out. The voice reappeared after the Morse code spelled out MAD.

"Old Jim died clutching his beloved wife to his dying breath due to radiation poisoning. But what he ultimately learned was that when you die…nothing happens.”

I was speechless with what I had witnessed. The film was dark, but never would I have thought that Briggs had a more sinister ending in store for the elderly couple. I took a flask and hard copied the download so I could watch it every now and then. Good too because the user’s account was terminated with the only indication of its existence being the other responses that the users gave.

Briggs said it himself that the wanted to show the utter hopelessness of surviving a nuclear war, and he succeeded.

#raymond briggs #lost episode #lost episode creepypasta #when the wind blows #when the wind blows 1986 #nuclear #nuclear war #nuclear holocaust #when the wind blows raymond briggs #bloggs

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c0rpsefuck · 2 years

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I posted 183 times in 2021

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I like a lot of things, like dsmp, mlb and a variety of anime.

Recently I started writing my own fanfiction for MLB, which is basically my way to cope with the awful feelings Chat Blanc gave me. (It's a wholesome MariChat fic which is also kinda sad)

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ranboo talking about alternate universes cleared my pores and made my day

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So I made a piece of fanart for Ranboo since I hella adored the stream where they were decorating Michaels bedroom/playroom. Hope the quality doesn't magically drop to the floor when I have this uploaded.

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salutethepig · 7 years

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"Lie, steal, cheat & deceive & trample people under their feet"

The @2SFGofficial have been exposed as food criminals & @Tesco “admits error over repackaging of returned Lidl chicken”…

“Error” as in “bald faced cynical lie designed to screw over the buying public”:

They’re not alone in this; all of the supermarkets try and con you into believing that their cheap, crap produce actually — and almost miraculously — comes from happy animals, left to run free, gambolling in meadows in the sunny uplands, eating acorns & clover and bugs and worms, whilst grubbing in the deep dark earth outside their straw strewn warm huts and really, really, truly, pinky-promise honest, not, in anyway, shape or form actually originating from horrendous factory complex giant mega-farms where antibiotics are scattered around like Smarties, animals live short brutish lives and the farmers are paid pennies for product that costs them pounds, so they’re forced to cut corners under the cosh from the rapacious demands of the supermarkets who need more & more money for their hedge-fund backers.

But you, dear reader, you’re not fooled are you? I hope not. I’ve been ranting about this for long enough along with lots of other good people with far higher a public profile than I, who are also fighting this good fight.

Here’s another example of their mendacious advertising. Please, if you still do this, stop, stop, stop buying this rubbish. Support a local farmer and butcher. Support your community. Let’s get rid of the supermarkets.

And as today’s bit of light relief after this crap running along the food supply chain, how about some of the old orders names from 1950s US diners? “Burn The British” anyone?

“Lie, steal, cheat & deceive & trample people under their feet” was originally published on Salute The Pig

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sweetcloverheart · 5 months

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Genuinely wondering how TA and Co's gonna handle it when a twitter fan inevitably asks "So wait, if young holders who use their miraculous for evil get their timers turned off and are hit with major magical backlash that slowly kills them, how come Chloe and Felix are fine? And what will happen to Lila?" because no matter how they answer, a part of the fandom will likely implode

#Clover Rants Miraculously #ML Salt

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sweetcloverheart · 6 months

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What did they say about Gabriel in the interview? (Also is this different from the episode commentary?)

(I am talking about the commentary - specifically the final two episodes. I just refer to it as an interview because that's how I saw it. Here's the link of the translation if you want to read it yourself - https://www.tumblr.com/little-mari-on-a-roof/732920291246882816/along-with-finally-airing-the-season-5-finale)

Spoilers (and salt below)! Readers beware and all that!

Apparently - Gabriel is supposed to be seen as a hero at the end of the day. His backstabbing Maribug and getting the wish are him "Finally mourning Emilie and giving up power out of love for his son" according to the writers since he and Marinette "have the same wish for Adrien to be happy" 🤦‍♀️ (Oh but it's fine since it's "still Marinette's victory" despite losing to her main villain since she got him to "lay down his weapons" (which she absolutely didn't but whatever)). Also, apparently the woman in the last episode next to Nathalie is Amelie, which also means Gabriel didn't use it to revive Emelie and "chose to die with her since he couldn't live without her", which means we spent 5 seasons watching him tormenting all of Paris and his own son for nothing. Gabriel won for no reason other than a twist no one wanted (except the writing team). Nothing actually mattered in the end! Ain't that just something!

Oh and bonus - Adrien not being part of the final fight was planned from the very beginning (The writers really wanted the Bugnoire VS Monarch fight, so they had to get rid of Chat instead of...anything besides that), so there was never going to be a confrontation between Adrien and his dad. And the writers said that they "already discussed/covered what they wanted to" with Gabriel in Season 5, so no Adrien finding out the truth or any sort of backlash/consequence to the main villain wining and rewriting all of reality to fit his personal whims. We're just moving on to Lilamoth and whatever circus they're going to pull out for S6!

Doesn't this make you feel like you dedication to the series was properly rewarded! Don't you just feel all sorts of narrative satisfied and fulfilled!

#asked and answered #ML Salt #Clover Rants Miraculously

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sweetcloverheart · 3 months

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You know, thinking about it some more, by "Derision"'s own premise - Marinette should have absolutely hated (or at least distrusted) Adrien day one regardless of the Umbrella apology, because him being friends with Chloe would have been the major issue/deal breaker. The moment she hears he's Chloe's childhood friend, she would have been doing utmost to avoid him at every turn despite him being so nice to her (After all, Kim was nice to her too, and look what happened there) because all the apparent deepseated trauma Chloe's prank left her.

Also, by extension, the class would have distrusted him too (and Kim maybe)? This is a dude that's apparently besties with the girl who's been harassing them for years and made their beloved favorite classmate go through a super traumatizing event the year before. A good majority of Adrien's first few months at Francois Dupount should have been the miraclass all avoiding him and playing interference whenever he tried to interact with Marinette, with the only minor exceptions being Nino (Who is the goodest of boys and also wasn't in the same class as Mari and Co when it happened but really should know regardless considering Chloe videotaped it and put it online?), Alya (Who just transferred in and likely wouldn't know what's happening either), and Chloe+Sabrina (The former of whom is more than happy that the losers are keeping away from her precious Adrichou! More of him for her then!). (And maybe also Kim? He probably sees it as Adrien going through what he did after the prank and deciding to buddy up/help him out since "nobody here knows how to take a joke")

Meanwhile, Adrien would feel so confused and isolated because his class all just hates him for some reason and he has no clue what he might of did to make them all mad at him? And it just makes school feel like home except 100 times worst because at least he (thinks he) knows why his dad often ignores and avoids him. And speaking of, he can't go to him about the problem because he'll just use the class's actions as an excuse to lock him back up in the manor for homeschool because it just "proves" he was completely right about Adrien not being safe at public school, and Chloe's no good either because her "help" (i.e Calling daddy or the principal to take away a class privilege or get a trip/activity cancelled those mean losers made her precious Adrien sad - so fix it or else!) ends up just worsening the divide, so he's basically on his own except for Plagg (who sadly can't really intervene in a way that would actually solve the issue). It also ends up funneling into making his crush on Ladybug 220% more codependent because it's literally one of the very few relationships he has where he isn't being treated like a leaper, idol, or a nuisance...except it turns out she also hates Adrien - but that's fine, because Chat Noir hates Adrien too! Dude's just the worst, don't you think my lady? So everything fine because they can hate Adrien together and bond through that (self hatred and poor coping mechanisms go brrr~)!

Basically the first 2 and a half seasons should have played out like an "Enemies!AU" where Marinette and most of the Miraclass is convinced Adrien is Chloe's new vice chief bully and act accordingly as Adrien desperately tries (and fails) to make friends and figure out why everyone dislikes him so much, while the Ladynoir side has the two bonding over how much they hate that lame blonde modeling twink from the magazines.

...Ah crap, now I want to make an AU.

#Clover Rants Miraculously #ML Salt

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sweetcloverheart · 7 months

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I feel like if the writers genuinely wanted the end of "Strikeback" to be Marinette's fault, there were ways to actually make it her fault -

Have Felix act suspiciously and several characters comment, only for Maribug to ignore/dismiss it because of her Adrien-shaped rose tinted glasses

Have Chat be in on picking him as the Dog holder and be suspicious because of what happened the last time his cousin cosplayed as him, keeping a close eye and being a bit aggressive towards him, which leads to Maribug interfering and accusing him of being unfairly jealous (this could also be used as a reveal to Marinette's crush on Adrien for Adrien, giving him something to chew on during S5)

Have Luka be in the episode and realize what's happening, and try to warn Ladybug to be careful of Flairmidable- but because he's also trying not to let her know that he knows both her and Chat's secret identities, she misunderstands it as a warning to "watch out (as in protect)" for Flairmidable and proceeds to be overprotective of him while overlyharsh towards anyone trying to get close or expressing concerns over his behavior, which makes her miss a bunch of red flags in the process

Have Marinette know it's Felix and because of that, not tell anyone because she thinks she can handle him herself now that she's aware of the ruse, leaving her vulnerable to him stealing the other miraculouses because she didn't warn the others (specifically Chat, who could of helped) to keep an eye out for him doing anything strange

Pull a "Heart Hunter" - Have her and Chat agree on who to give the dog to (or have Chat say he saw Sabrina not be affected by Risk and tell Maribug where he last saw her), only to see the unmarked Felix-as-Adrien getting ready to board the train and impulsively pick him instead in a bid to keep him in Paris (Plus this would justify Chat being pissy about the new guy because he felt Maribug went back on her word and also because she didn't tell him until after the change was made)

And the last but most simple - don't let Marinette get affected by Risk. That's it, nothing else to it. Make it so that the Froggy mark hit one of her plushies, or got one of her parents twice, or hit Tikki. Just make sure she doesn't get hit. That way, all of Marinette's choices and mistakes in the episode are her own and not the result of having her decision making abilities magically impaired

#ML Salt #Clover Rants Miraculously

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sweetcloverheart · 9 months

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Clover Rants Miraculously: (Not) Your Own Villain

Relating to what I reblogged earlier, I think what ultimately hurts and delegitimizes any argument the canon storyline tries to make about Chloe being a amoral and irredeemable monster who will always be selfish and stupidly evil is that all of Chloe’s most major acts of cruelty and evil have always been facilitated/set up by a separate and more actively malicious third party. Outside of “Queen Wasp” (which I personally put under the category of “stupidly misguided to the point of being near lethal” than an actively malicious act), “Derision” (which I refuse to acknowledge as it contradicts several canon events and is a recon on it’s own even without the Chloe stuff), and her two “willing” akumatizations in “Penalteam” and “Kwami’s Choice PT2″ (Which they...really weren’t, or at least for the first one - Chloe just waited for a butterfly to show to get akumatized like normal there), the girl has never once be an major threat on her own, especially at the start of s4 - it’s always her ending up being the tool of another bigger player for whatever the overarching plot was focused on:

Miracle Queen: The penultimate result of Gabriel, Nathalie, and Lila working together and emotionally backing Chloe into a corner (while isolating her from anyone nearby to help) to convince her Ladybug didn’t care about her and only worked because the writers had Marinette went for Kagami to break up the Adrigami date (Legit, I think if Marinette as Ladybug had at least stopped by Chloe’s and let her know she wasn’t going to call on her but that she would work hard to save her parents, Hawkmoth’s plan would have likely failed at the jump).

Deflagration: Lila was the one to egg Chloe on into interrupting the Adrienette date. Girl was just sitting there eating her food at that point.

Confrontation: Again, Lila’s running point on all of Chloe’s nonsense during this.

Collusion: Lila is the one to tell Chloe to get Bustier fired and basically sets her towards Gabriel and Tomoe, who then facilitate her coup by giving her the robots and support necessary to do it

Revolution: Gabriel Akumatizes Chloe into Queen Mayor to help capture Ladybug and Chat, which only happens because Lila convinces her to.

Chloe is only ever dangerous is someone else is at the helm, otherwise she’s just her normal annoying bratty self. How the hell do you expect me to take her seriously as a threat or villain when she can’t/doesn’t do anything majorly harmful without someone else whispering in her ear first?

#ML Salt #Clover Rants Miraculously #I spotted a queuety

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sweetcloverheart · 10 months

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Clover Rants Miraculously: No Victory For The Simple Soul

(Full disclosure - this is a vent post more than analysis so don’t expect anything deep)

I feel the S5 finale highlights the biggest and most glaring issue that this and the last three seasons have had - Marinette (and by extension Adrien and the rest) not being allowed meaningful victories.

The entire point of a finale battle (specifically one that has your main villain giving his Swan Song) is that the character gains something at the end of it. Even if the battle ends with the loss of a friend or the MC no longer having access to their extra helpful powerup/superform, it’s not supposed to be a complete defeat - they’re supposed to learn something and resolve themselves to do better, or gain a new insight into the villain and go investigate their new lead, or promise to never allow another loss like what they faced again.

Miraculous doesn’t have that in their finale battles. All of them always end with Mari and co taking the bigger loss compared to Gabemoth, and it’s never in a way that’s used to either foster character growth or drive towards a meaningful story development. In fact, the loss only seems to happen because the writers need them to lose so Gabe looks like a bigger threat than he is, and then do nothing with it. They do it all the time -

Miracle Queen - Fu’s removal causes Mari considerable stress over having to do Guardian work solo now and needed to reach out to the temps more often as she unconsciously pushes Chat away. Aside from Alya and the Anti-Akuma charms (which are then rendered worthless by the introduction of Mega-Akuma), Mari gets nothing out of his departure except having to accept she can’t date while being a superhero (unless it’s Adrien, and even that still has issues the show won’t address) and constantly having to babysit the Kwami. She doesn’t even get help in the form of backup mentor!Su Han.There’s nothing positive gained out of having to deal with no longer having a mentor to guide her, and eventually, the loss of him is forgotten all together.

Risk/Strikeback - Marinette losing all the Kwami after getting tricked by Felix gets her a mental breakdown, a broken heart after trying to pursue Chat, and even more stress as she basically has the lives and freedom of three characters shoved into her hands with no one able to help her. She doesn’t gain a new power or new ally like last time either, which just serves to further put her against the wall. Hell, her eventual “life saving powerup” doesn’t even come from being directly cornered by the main villain, but from being faced by the spoiled brat bully he’s manipulating and deciding “Actually we aren’t detransforming anymore”. Meanwhile, the peak of her “character arc” for her civilian life is highly reliant on a newly introduced character that wasn’t even built up to and a recton episode that just serves to put every questionable act the writers had her engage in in a bad light just so they can foist responsibility of whatever flaws the fans complained about onto another character (as opposed to just going “yeah, but I got better” and moving on). She lost so much, but got very little out of it in the end.

Even when taking down her minor antags, Marinette gets nothing out of the deal - “Revolution” had her finally get the chance shut down Chloe for good and show she had no power over her, but by that point Chloe had become kind of pathetic in terms of villainy (not to mention her being the pawn of a bigger scheme that allowed the real masterminds to flee judgement) and Mari’s been dunking on her since episode 1 anyways, so it really wasn’t all that satisfying from a cathartic standpoint, nor does she gain anything character wise. Meanwhile, Lila getting exposed did nothing to really impede or harm her, and now she’s out in the wild with her 800+ fake families and the Butterfly miraculous, so what was really even the point of Marinette’s bathroom plan?

And then there’s “Recreation” and Gabriel - who gets to have his wish, his comatose wife alive, his son no longer (rightfully) hating his guts, the city adoring him, a goddamn statue, being credited for the city turning into a “utopia”, and all sorts of praises and perks he didn’t even earn/deserve, all at the small cost of his death and the plot forcing Marinette to keep her mouth shut for him. Gabriel gets to have everything he’s been throwing a tantrum over for 5 full seasons, while Marinette once again gets nothing (actually no, she did gain something - tons and tons of fandom salt aimed at her for the writers choices) as she’s forced to take on the burden of hiding his crimes.

and it just makes me feel we wasted our time with the story because seriously, what was the point? Why have Marinette lose when this should have been the point where all her losses so far helped her achieve victory when it matters most? Why let Gabriel win and reward him for all his abuses and crimes when the entire story seemed to be building up to getting him to either accept Emilie’s death or be forced to face the consequences of his choices? Why be building up that conflict between Adrien and his father about his wants and needs vs Gabriel’s constantly escalating expectations and not have them confront eachother in the end? Why focus so much on the idea of Mari finally getting the butterfly away from Gabriel if you’re just going to just give it to a new (old) villain and render the entire 5 season long battle for it pointless?

What was even the point in Marinette suffering all those defeats if you weren’t even going to let her win at the end, or at least stop Gabriel from getting what he wanted?

I’ll admit the leaks didn’t raise my expectations for this season but DAMNIT, after seeing them actually change stuff like Andre terrible dialogue in “Collusion” (though what he ends up saying is worse somehow), I expected something to prove it was going to be worth it in the end - and yet just like Mari, I’m venomed in the back by the show for daring having some expectation for them to actually care about making their Heroine’s suffering actually matter!

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