“I am the son of this nation. My voice is yours. And our voice will ring out for time immeasurable. We are thunder and quake and hurricane and hellfire and all who oppose us will know what we can do.”

Hail the King Imperial

Night Train To Terror (1985)

Commissioned this angsty scene from my upcoming MariBlanc fic from artist @emari-13, and I'm just stunned by how amazing it ended up! I barely have words. <3<3<3

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“No–”

Her transformation fell away.

“Marinette, NO!”

Somehow, she had missed when Chat Blanc had lifted her into his arms as they huddled together on the floor.

She didn't miss the devastation in his eyes as he stared down at her in horror.

~~

Here's the first chapter of the fic, though I'm not quite finished yet and will update it regularly when I do (should only be a handful of chapters).

Behind Those Eyes by Ladynoir_Fan on AO3 - Rated M (mind tags)

nya

Im way too lazy to color them in, the rain makes me sleepy 🫠

cata quests sketches mb part 1

my beloved girl Thisalee crow😭

no comment…but the cult of the twilight's hammer deserved to see Jarod without a shirt

this forest keeper just made my day

and just an ass with horns

(sorry i repost this)

Godzilla: Cataclysm #1 (2014), cover art by Dave Wachter

This kitty is done

My very first attempt at animation!

Following up on my post last night, which got a ton of likes and reblogs (thank you so so much, everyone!)

Btw, this show needs to add more incorrect uses of cataclysm (I know they won't, cause its still a kids' show. I can dream though)

CATACLYSM CLASSIC

Key art by Dmitry Prozorov

Catastrophe of Global Proportions

[prints]

The Paris Special and Cataclysm

So the special happened right after Destruction ended, so right after Monarch deliberately made Chat Noir use Cataclysm on him so Ladybug could not longer have any leverage on him and escape with the Lucky Charm, dooming himself.

A bit later the same night Claw Noir, while fighting Chat Noir, Cataclysm himself and doesn't seem bothered after letting out a scream. Or the physical pain doesn't even reach the level of emotional pain he feels during that time, who knows.

So Chat Noir has his own father and an evil alternate version of himself who literally had him hurt themselves and he's horrified.

They are willing to hurt each other if it means they can win in the long run, showing their goals have past reached their own wellbeing. It just shows how unhealthy they are mentally and how it poisons their minds.

Cataclysm here seems to be the symbolism of their destructive grief and negative emotions, they let it consume and hurt themselves rather than trying to heal and move on. And grief can literally kill you, dying of a broken heart is a real thing, and I feel that in the special it showed us the 2 possible outcomes of it.

Negative emotions can lead you to spiral that can end with you also destroying yourself emotionally and physically, though I don't feel like I need to go into details, I feel the special kind of showed some ideas well enough.

In the first one outcome, which would be Gabriel since he got Cataclysmed first before Betterfly, Shadybug and Claw Noir showed up, Gabriel never let go of his grief and negative emotions, doesn't want to move on from Émilie and wants to bring her back no matter what, that's the outcome of letting grief and negative emotions consume you entirely.

The second outcome is Claw Noir not minding to get Cataclysmed himself and keeps using his power all the time, but in the end after a talk with Adrien, he choose to let it go and finally start to heal rather than stewing in his bitterness, sadness and loneliness and the all consuming, numbing pain of grief and all the dark emotions that comes with it. Of course he still has work ahead of himself, but he did the first most important step, and it was to accept that his mother was gone and would have prefered him to be happy rather than being miserable and mourning her loss for the rest of his life, and sure you can keep mourning your loved ones, but it doesn't mean that you can't learn to live with it and move on and be happy yourself, they still stay with you in your heart, and they would want you to live a long and happy life even if they're aren't around anymore.

I think this is why in the end (apart from the other reason of plot device since we still had the rest of season 5 to go through) Claw Noir got healed from his Cataclysm wound by Shadybug's Miraculous Cure, whereas Monach wasn't, because Claw Noir was ready to let go of his grief, Monarch wasn't, so Claw Noir got healed cause he wanted to stop hurting over his mother's disappearance after a talk with his alternate self who completely understood his feelings and situation and told him his own experience and offered advice that helped him be in a much better mental state that he was, but Monarch didn't want to give up on Émilie after getting most of the miraculouses after he feels so close after all this time so he wasn't healed because he couldn't let go, as he is obsessed over Émilie and his goal.

Which brings to their fate, Claw Noir lives, while Monarch at the end of season 5, dies, well choose to die and join Émilie and fix Nathalie rather than facing the consequences of his actions more would be it, getting what he wanted and also not entirely, given he was supposed to bring Émilie back and sacrifice someone else so that they could be a happy family again, but instead he chose to orphanate Adrien and be with Émilie and have Nathalie guard Adrien at the last second, he's still a horrible excuse of a parent and while I'm beyond pissed at this ending I'm also beyond done watching him do anymore crap for the following seasons.

So in the Paris Special there was the lowkey message of either you let your grief and negative emotions destroy you or you choose to accept them and start moving on to heal, and it was symbolised by Cataclysm.

It doesn't mean you aren't allowed to feel grief or negative emotions, you can't be happy 24/7 for your entire life, but letting them out in a healthy way instead of stewing in them without letting them go is what I feel the Special was about.

Thoughts?

Feel free to add your own piece of interpretation to it too.

ok guys you all voted for the best expac, now it's time for:

Removing Dragonflight from this one this time since some folks made good points that it's too new for these kinds of polls, and this time, this poll is a WEEK long for better data !

VOTE AND PASS IT DOWN

Night Train To Terror (1985)

Scientists appear to have found evidence that remnants of a long-lost planet called Theia, which allegedly smashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago, have been buried under our feet all along.

Here's hoping