I Wosh I Could See More Mari Appreciatation Posts Like This! It's Sweet

I wosh i could see more Mari appreciatation posts like this! It's sweet

Sometimes, I just want to marvel at the complexity with which Marinette Dupain Cherny was written

Like, it is a known fact from canon that Marinette loves fashion and loves pretty things. When we meet her, we see that she is interested in becoming a designer and has a bedroom displaying her affinity for all things pretty and girly. She’s a girly girl who has an eye for her aesthetic and that part of her personality is something integral to who she is.

You’d expect from this information for Marinette to gravitate towards pretty things or dare I say, to even be materialistic or shallow

And yet, she isn’t

When Marinette comes into contact with things we think she should adore, she hesitates, she treats them with uncertainty, she’s mistrusting and cautious until she can be proven otherwise.

We see this with how she is introduced to her miraculous. How she doesn’t immediately put on a new piece of jewelry and does not give the foreign entity a lavish disguise. She keeps the earrings at a distance, and even after being convinced of their trustworthiness keeps them plain and inconspicuous. Unwilling to sacrifice utility and protection for the sake of something looking a certain way. She however, does not let the plainness of her miraculous get in the way of her “personal brand” and still manages to fit the earrings to her style. In truth sacrificing neither her safety nor her taste.

We also see her act with these conditional aesthetics, when it comes to Adrien. Adrien, the model and the son of her favorite fashion designer, should be someone that Marinette immediately gravitates to, and yet, she doesn’t. Adrien is rebuffed and rebuked immediately by Marinette, and even after learning who he is, Marinette still chooses to treat him with disregard and coldness. It is only when Adrien proves himself, proves that he is not merely a gilded object, but someone golden to the core, someone instilled with kindness and empathy, that Marinette lets her guard down and lets herself fall.

What I am saying is, thank you Marinette Dupain Chen for breaking every stereotype of the “girly girl” and for bringing complexity, compassion, care, and depth to this character and letting us see her for the person she is

Omfg i wanna see more analysis' about these two and Tobey in general! It's very enjoyable to read about!

Tobecky is one of those ships where it's like, at first glance, you ask why people even see it as a viable pairing. It's not like Becky and Tobey are exactly shown getting along often, it's not the healthiest ship out there, as a matter of fact there are... certain episodes that make the pairing downright toxic (Looking at you Go Gadget Go).

Yet at the same time, I think that's what I like about the ship. In real life, relationships are never a straight path, they require effort from both sides and nine times out of ten there will be road blocks, times when partners do objectively questionable things, that's just how relationships are, and in a weird roundabout way, I feel like Tobecky is a good example of that. Sure Becky and Tobey fight a lot, they disagree about a lot of things and do things that upset each other, but they also understand one another on a fundamental level.

Seriously the parallels between these two is actually sort of surreal. They've both been lumped into this box of being one thing, said thing being expected of them. Becky is expected to do hero work as WordGirl, and Tobey, while nothing is forcing him to be evil, episodes like "Tobey Goes Good" show that when it comes to his mentality, doing bad things is the only way to get people's attention, to make people care about him.

They're both child prodigies who, in a lot of ways, are locked out of a lot of the things that other kids have. Both have families who could never really understand them. Becky for obvious reasons, and Tobey because, as made pretty clear through episodes the center around him, his mother doesn't tolerate his behavior and as far as we can tell, has never tried to understand why he does what he does, instead giving him corporeal punishment via ear pulling (which by the way, she does that to him even when he hasn't misbehaved, kinda fucked up if you ask me, coming from someone who had parents who used physical punishment as a way to reprimand their kids).

Another thing to point out when it comes to these two, is that they are both pretty arrogant, Tobey more apparently so than Becky, but Becky clearly takes pride in being WordGirl, and even beyond that there are times where she views her own opinions as above others, whether she realizes it or not. Obviously Tobey is called out on it more, but there are clear signs that Becky's status as a superhero has lead her to gaining a bit of an ego.

Really though, the big thing that I think draws people to this pairing is the rare moments where they aren't fighting, and are instead sitting down, talking, and it's when that happens that the two of them are actually able to get along, that they're able to understand each other, because in a lot of ways, they are the same, just on two different sides of the moral spectrum. I think this is best shown in "The Robot Problem" where the two of them are shown to legitimately be able to work together, Becky even saying that they make a good team.

So to summarize, the thing that makes Tobecky good, at least for me, is not that it's the safest ship, or that it doesn't have moments of toxicity, but rather in how it feels more realistic, more complex than your average pairing, the fact that when it comes down to it, Tobey and Becky understand each other, loathe as they are to admit it.

Alright, that's all. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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This Week's Verified Gazan Evacuation Fundraisers

hello again! just like last week, i am putting together a round-up post of the evacuation fundraisers of those who have reached out to me this week and who i have had the privilege of donating to and sharing. please do also check out and share last week's post, as those campaigns are still ongoing and in need of funds! i am so, so happy to see how many of those numbers from last week have gone up. please continue to support all these wonderful people. (there are also some repeats on this week's list).

To everyone who reads this: I challenge you to donate! Do it right now, before you reblog, or right after. Pick at least one of these funds, any one of them, and donate any amount -- €10, €5, even €1. Pick one right now, and donate right now. And then share!

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Bro writing Tobey is too fun 😭

I cannot wait to post this fic i swear!

Me talking abt Jimmy Neutron:

Also i will be making fan content for Jimmy Neutron

I don't wanna @ anyone because I understand how fast things seem to move in today's landscape of streaming shows dropping entire seasons in one day, and networks pumping out new series constantly to try to attract more subscribers with no intent to actually maintain those shows over time but I just saw someone self-deprecatingly lament that they are still thinking about a show that ended almost a year ago, making fan art and playlists for it, and I want to be very clear:

you can still create fanworks when it comes to old media!! PLEASE do!! there are always going to be new fans who will appreciate it, and veteran fans who are dying for new content and new perspectives. also, less than a year is NOTHING. the original Star Trek series was on TV six decades ago and there are still people losing their minds over it, writing stories and reblogging gifsets daily, and that's only one example.

a fandom lasts as long as there are people who love a thing, even if it's only a handful of people. love what you love and write and draw and make gifs and playlists about it!