I Cant Get Over How Sad It Is That Adrien Felt Like He Couldnt Tell Anyone About How Upset He Was, Not

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.

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

I’ve seen a lot of different layouts from other people on Tumblr that are really pretty and I do like it, but I honestly prefer how my account looks.

Does anyone also like my layout?

I wanted my layout to be pretty with what I like, and still be kind of simple enough where it wouldn’t be too much to look at, and that my posts could be read with ease.

Non-Human’s aren’t worth much

Today, I’m gonna talk to you guys about a narrative device / story trope called “What Measure Is a Non-Human?” This device refers to the choice a creator might make to question the distinction between human and non-human. In terms of censorship, it refers to how, especially in children’s media, you can inflict worse fates on explicitly non-human characters than human ones without the people funding your project trying to axe your story. It’s basically an excuse to rack up a body count without there actually being a body count because the things being “killed” are not human and are, therefore, not really being killed. You can’t kill something that’s a thing.

Thomas Astruc has worked with children’s action/adventure shows for years. He knows about this story device, he has even taken advantage of it. Aeon and Sentibug were killed on-screen and Miraculous Ladybug is still rated TV-Y7 or the equivalent in most countries. In contrast, Batman: Mask of Phantasm, an animated kids’ superhero movie, where human characters die nonviolently on-screen, is rated PG.

Even in the case of the Special, Aeon’s death was undone almost instantly after. This story trope is often called a Disney Death, where a character can die and it won’t affect the rating as long as it gets undone quickly enough through a fakeout or resurrection. Even so, Aeon was in her robot form when it happened, to make sure her non-humanness was explicit. In contrast, Sentibug’s death doesn’t get undone, meaning a Sentimonster’s life is worth even less than a robot’s in the eyes of the arbiters of the Miraculous Ladybug universe.

In other words, Sentimonsters are considered explicitly enough “non-human” that they can be killed irreversibly on-screen without it affecting the rating. They cannot be killed. They do not have lives that can be taken away. They are not human.

This means that, if the writers then turned around and revealed one of their main characters to be a Sentimonster, an explicitly non-human creature that can be killed with no out-of-universe repercussions (aka, a rating bump) because they are not really alive, then he isn’t human in a metatextual sense. If Adrien is meant to preserve his worth as a human being or as close to human being as possible while being a Sentimonster, every single other Sentimonster needs to be treated as fully human and their deaths have to be undone.