cant wait for taylor swift to drop a couple of grand on some environmentalist organization or some shit in a couple of days so her fans can say “see??? she is a true eco queen <3 she cares sooooo much" and absolutely bully you and call you a misogynist if you point out shes still rich af, STILL has a private jet she uses irresponsibly and without a doubt used the cottagecore image to make herself trendy popular and sell shit when in fact she dgaf about nature and sure as hell never seen a farm without workers doing shit for her like the true american wealthy white woman she is. 

So I stumbled into the pit that is ML salt for the first time in a while and @geekgirles post about Lila's character assassination made me realize something:

Zoé isn't just a character full of Chloe's potentially good traits, she's also who fans wished Lila was all the way back in seasons 1-2 (and maybe still? idk).

Let's take a look at who Zoé is as a character:

New girl from another country with connections who acts differently around other people and exaggerates aspects of her life for attention and friendship. She wants attention and friends because her mom is neglectful (and possibly worse), and isn't around enough to give her the attention she needed and craved growing up. She has a potential to be a Miraculous hero and possibly has romantic tension with Marinette.

...Is that literally not who fanon!Lila was back when Volpina first aired and everyone was talking about her? Like quite literally, the only difference is that Lila hates Ladybug and likes Marinette whereas Zoé has no reason to hate Ladybug. (Also I'm not sure if Lila's mom was ever portrayed to be worse than neglectful).

Yes, now canon and fanon versions of Lila are demons from hell who need to have consequences for lies and wrongdoings but Lila's potential became the basis for Zoé's character, and any character growth and development for Lila went out the window and now she has 3 moms who presumably don't know about this triple life, I guess???

I mean, in the end, they ended up both being bland and I can't even get excited for fics where Lila faces consequences because she's an anonaly who doesn't matter in canon, and Zoé is essentially more of a prop than character. But still, they really took a look at what fans wanted, plucked the ideas with potential and gave them to a new character that didn't need to exist.

today's hot(?) take is that miscommunication plots/conflicts where "none of this would have happened if they'd just talked it out" DO work and make a particularly compelling kind of tragedy when done well, but they specifically only work if the characters involved are defined well enough that you understand why they wouldn't have "just" talked it out

maybe if we had gotten more songs that had rap in them this release wouldn’t be so polarising but lol man eng fandom really didn’t vibe with hiphoppia huh

probably taking your post too seriously, but it’s really nice to have a friend who says “can I kill them for you” when you tell them about a shitty person in your life. like I’m sorry, I’m sick of the therapy talk. tell me how you’d gut my boss because he yelled at me.

lmao no genuinely like when you've been hurt sometimes you need someone to be like "that person is a shithead for hurting you i'm gonna clothespin them upside-down by their toes" none of this mutual friend diplomatic neutrality where they're like "omg that sucks but there ARE two sides to every story so i AM gonna fuck with this person still lol"

What an awful curse to be a person who theoretically loves maximalism but hates seeing stuff that has been stored outside cupboards, hates dusting, is terrified of somehow decorating The Wrong Way and being laughed at, is extremely clumsy, and has no real motivation to purchase nicknacks

i think it’s funny when companies give youtubers their games for free so they can review them quickly and then said youtubers go on to make a video completely trash talking said game

nothing more depressing and frustrating than trying to cook something you've never cooked before and your mom is in the kitchen

there are fundamental differences between donghua hua cheng and the manhua hua cheng. The donghua hua cheng hes just a little guy, nooo he’s just a little guy it’s his birthday comee ooooooon he didn’t mean that when he told u to kill urself cause u annoy him. he’s pathetic and epic at the same time and loves his husband. manhua hua cheng looks like hes heterosexual and listens to corpsehusband