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@mlsecretsanta gift for @thequeenofspace! happy belated holidays and apologies for the delay, had a serious family emergency followed by sickness! I had so much fun making this though, was so excited to finally draw these two 🖤 hope you enjoy!!!

imagine, say, Bunnyx went back to Origins Season 1 and pulled Gabriel aside as he was considering picking up the Hawkmoth mantle and showed him, "Look, Gabriel. If you continue on this path, you WILL succeed in getting the Ladybug and Black Cat miraculous. You WILL make a wish. But getting there will tear you apart. You will lose what humanity you have, you will literally rot away from the inside, spend the last months of your life in agonizing pain, Nathalie and Adrien (the only two people in your life you can even pretend to care about) will spit on your name and Nathalie will grow to despise you so much she will attempt to kill you. And your wish? It will NEVER bring Emilie back. You won't even be able to bring yourself to do it, because you'll realize that you've become everything that she hated and never wanted you to be. Emilie WILL STAY DEAD, and in the end, all you will be able to wish for is an end to your now-miserable life. All this gamble will win you is your grave."

idk I just don't think Gabriel's response to that would be "oh yay! I win!"

particularly inspired moment from ch 2 of mine and @sha-nwa‘s new enemies au fic call it even 🫶

Alright so...

You're telling me that the reason why Adrien said this to Kagami in Miracle Queen after they almost kissed

It's because he previously felt something in Puppeteer 2.0 when Marinette "kissed" him?

And he unconsciously noticed it was just not the same????

Also anybody else was wondering what an Akuma battle was gonna look like with Ladynoir VS pregnant woman cause....

one does not love breathing / “emotion”, my beloveds. 

The Miraculous Ladybug movie cleansed my face and watered my crops.

"I cannot believe this is how I spend my Sunday night off"

Omg, what do you MEAN “Éphémère” doesnt just mean “short-lived” in french but it’s a butterfly type too??

THIS is why Adrien as Éphémère/Ephemeral looks so similar to the Collector but in purple! Gabriel turned him into a Collector/ Butterfly hybrid with time powers in nature of the 'short-lived' Éphémère butterflies!

op has only watched till episode 12 (perfection) of season 5 as of the creating of this post, please don’t drop any spoilers of the later episodes in the tags or reblogs or replies thanks!

you can definitely take into account those out of order episodes when comparing lmao just don’t tell me about them

You hating on movie!ladynoir is so hilarious for some reason aofjnwjdsk

But for real they didn't do anything they never saved the day the gargoyle got hit by a train the balloon thing got popped after tripping where were the heroes these were literally just two kids singing in costumes and flirting and getting lucky like???????? Superheroes where?????????

That's Fanny... and that's also Fanny.

Adrien is unlikely to learn about his father in the next season. This is most likely to be the main driver of the plot of the next arc. Most likely, there will be no reveal until at least season 8. Season 6 will be more like season 1-2

Once I'll be able to think rationally about this finale I'll probably say things like "yes the fact that Adrien and the rest of the world think Gabriel is a hero and don't know he was Monarch will be a plot point for the next season(s), and Lila who were here will maybe reveal to the world that Ladybug lied to everyone so there'll be dramaaa and confusion and mistrust" or that "the reveal will happen once the love square's back to have identities being part of its plot and it will involved Ladybug lying to Adrien about the whole thing & it'll probably happen once that part's been dealt with"

but right now I'm just. yeah maybe there won't be a reveal cause it looks like identities stopped being part of the lovesquare plot the moment Adrinette starting dating whatever fkghhjfd

the other thought I have is "fuck you Gabi" but that hasn't changed since he first appeared onscreen

I just like to think about Lady Noire / Kwami Swaps

while i agree generally with your takes on miraculous, i don't think it's in completely bad faith to criticize aspects of marinette's character that were clearly created by a male writer. marinette is still a character written by a male perspective, not a real person. her story toes the line of what is assumed to be stereotypical behaviour of teen girls and prioritizes her romantic relations and her connection to the main boy over most things. i don't criticising that aspect of the show is bad faith or salty.

I don't know where this ask is coming from because I haven't said anything remotely related to anything you're saying here today?? But ok, I guess we’re having this conversation now

I HAVE criticized the way the writing falls in to men's stereotypes of women plenty. I've made it no secret how much I hate the fact that all of the girls who like Adrien were shown to be catty and jealous with each other while the boys who liked Marinette/Ladybug were for the most part able to be nice to each other (though I have more thoughts on this I won’t get in to here). I can ALSO criticize the way the majority of fandoms see the realistic failings and flaws of a female protagonist, especially when a fan favorite male character is involved, and point out how the criticism would be far more lax if she was a male character and how insane it is of the fandom to attribute things to the writers having a personal bias against the male character. That has nothing to do with forgetting Marinette is a fictional character written by a man, and everything to do with fandom biases and perception, because I've been in fandoms long enough to see the patterns.

Then there's the opposite end of the spectrum where people want Marinette to be less "boy crazy" because that's a teenage girl stereotype, want more focus on her fashion design career, want the show to be primarily about her #girlpower with the romance as a side dish, like Mary Jane to Spider-Man, etc. As usual those people are completely missing the point.

Marinette is written to be a very fleshed out and human teenage girl character, “stereotypical” traits included. Sorry to say that even though it doesn’t fit some people’s #girlpower ideal, having her focus so much on her crush is pretty realistic to the teenage experience, since romantic love is such a new and big and exciting and overwhelming feeling when you’re young. Maybe your experiences were different, but Marinette’s antics definitely remind me of how most of my friends were at 14. It’s also not only one way, so while it might be a “teenage girl stereotype,” the teenage boy is shown exhibiting the same traits. She's shown sighing dreamily out of windows over her crush, and her crush is shown sighing dreamily out of windows over her the same way. She has a stash of pictures of him, and he has a stash of pictures of her. His story prioritizes his romantic feelings for her just as much as her story prioritizes her romantic feelings for him --- enough that plenty of Adrien fans also complain about everything “always being about his feelings for Ladybug,” as if it doesn’t go both ways. If that weren’t the case, you might’ve had a point here.

And sorry but I do think criticizing the fact that the show prioritizes her romance with the male lead is idiotic. The argument that "a male writer writing a show prioritizing the female protag's romance with the male lead is bad" sounds true enough by itself, and might mean something if you applied it to a completely different show, but it's complete nonsense when you apply it to Miraculous. As I've said before, ML is first and foremost a ROMCOM whose plot revolves around the love story and the power of love itself.  If I hit play on a romcom/romance, I want it to prioritize the romance.

If someone walks in to a romcom and then complains about it focusing too much on the romance because it’s unfeminist .......... there’s no helping them. They either missed the memo on what they're watching or they just want a different show. Idk how to make this any clearer for y’all. ML is a romcom. It was intentionally written to be a romcom and focus on the love story. That is literally the point.