Being The Topic Du Jour And All

being the topic du jour and all

The problem with the Adrien-is-a-sentimonster thing isn’t the no-man-of-woman-born whatever, since they’ve bent over backwards to insist that a sentihuman is completely 100% physically for all intents and purposes a human being like anyone else. Yeah, someone on this show is a sentimonster or at the very least there’s going to be a plotline about someone thinking that they are one.

The problem is that in the case of Adrien specifically, “posessing his own amok” could never be anything else than a tangible allegory for breaking free of his father’s abuse. And the problem with that is that they’ve already discarded the option through the very framework of how sentimonsters work. ~Controlling the amok~ has long since been tested and proven false. 

In “Feast”, Nathalie blackmails the sentimonster with a threat of removing the amok, and Feast clearly, physically reacts to her powers. In “Ladybug”, Marinette gives Sentibug the amok and Nathalie promptly wipes her out of existence. 

Posessing the amok will never be enough. 

In order for any sentimonster on this show to be truly emancipated, it needs to posess not only the amok, but the peacock miraculous. And with that, the amount of provisions for the allegory has sunk any elegance to it, turning it from an apt narrative device to a matter of plot mechanics. If Adrien has to carry two pieces of jewelry in order to be a free man, then the show has also set up a clear precedent of miraculouses and other magical jewelry falling into the hands of relatives with sticky fingers. 

That’s why I’m still not convinced - because this setup would amount to some MASSIVELY CLUMSY STORYTELLING. If Adrien is a sentimonster, then the only tidy way out of it is if The Wish ends up being used to turn him into a Real Boy or something to equal effect, and then what was the point except just adding another item to the list of Adrien Agreste’s life is despair. 

(again: Those Rings clearly have some kind of magical abilities beyond any possible amoks, because this entire Felix-Gabriel feud can not be over a family heirloom. If that’s truly all they are, then Gabe’s redemption is going to be his using The Wish to set Adrien free once Felix completes the set and I’ll probably sit here pulling my hair) 

i’m not over this. i don’t think i’ll ever be over this

I’m so glad that we’re finally getting payoff for the “using multiple miraculouses at once can make you lose your mind” thing from Kwamibuster.

Like. Gabriel isn’t acting himself anymore. He’s growing more and more erratic. He seems to be having difficulty keeping the composure that used to be so integral to his character.

I can’t get over how sad it is that Adrien felt like he couldn’t tell anyone about how upset he was, not even Nino. He’s been so conditioned by his upbringing to believe that nobody cares about his feelings or what he has to say that he just… doesn’t even attempt to tell even his closest friends.

It’s nice that he told Marinette, but the fact that he only told her because A. She prompted him on the subject and B. He was affected by akuma magic is just… sad.

He saw “telling a close friend of mine that I’m upset at my father” as a RISK. That was a RISK to Adrien, and something he needed an akuma to force him to do. I can’t get over that.

These people who are raising voice against war and human rights violation atm are the same who turn their eyes blind and become mute spectators when it comes to Palestine, Libya, Iraq, Yemen, Bosnia, Burma Kashmir and etc.

Almost everything everyone has already said here is why I'm incredibly OUTRAGED!

And this is along with my outrage for Israel continuously discriminating against Palestine by destroying key centers for information to put the Palestinians behind and ruin them.

The thing is, this is a loss to everyone, not just the Palestinians (but mostly them) since it just leaves more people with less resources to have them educated, and we don't know the true extent of how that education, or any of the information that was found within the Palestine National Library, the Azhar Library, and the National Culture Center, could have been used to help others or to learn about new things and ideas from different perspectives.

So in conclusion,

FREE PALESTINE

yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame