I watched puss in boots: the last wish again and realized that THERE LITERALLY THEM I’m gonna redraw so many scenes
Goofballs? Sillies, even.
Inspired by the end of Three Thirty to Four (this is my best attempt to not just draw the entirety of Sweet Baby Useless Boy… it’s not working) go read it✨
do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button
Do I think Movie!Marinette would have fallen in love with Show! Adrien?
Yes, very easily. If Movie!Adrien being nice and helping her up after she fell had her crushing. The umbrella scene would have MELTED HER.
But do I think Show! Marinette would have fallen for movie Adrien?
Yes, but it would be so much more of a slow burn. I actually think Show!Marinette would have fallen for movie! chat noir before falling for Movie!Adrien.
The reason? Marinette fell in love with Adrien AFTER the umbrella scene, in which Adrien showed himself to her. She got to see the real him. Show!Marinette would not think twice about movie!Adrien aside from him being a friend of Nino. She wouldn’t hate him or anything, but show!Marinette is locked up tighter emotionally. It’s that scene in the movie when chat noir exposes his feelings in that duet. That would be show!Marinette’s/Ladybug’s umbrella scene
“I personally think Rachel was glad to see her life go this way. Rachel always was a warrior hiding inside a fashion queen.”
- Marco, Book #20: The Discovery, pg. 104 (by K.A. Applegate)
Yes we need more chaste twee baby gay romances like heartstopper and yes we also need more shows where men fuck raw to express their love for one another like Élite and yes we need more toxic gays having hate sex like Interview with the Vampire and yes we need more incidental gay characters like the dads in cartoons like Owl House.
It's not a competition! It's a hoard and I'm like a gay little Smaug.
the normalization of porn in mainstream media is a weird take to have
Normalization of gay desire and yes, even gay sex, is paramount to gay liberation actually.
I say this as a sex averse ace person who gets nothing from sex scenes 99% of the time(the 1% is the gorgeous cinematogrophy and composition and character the wachowskis get out of their sex scenes please more people treat sex scenes like an incredible expression of film art)
Yes actually queer sex in mainstream media is good and puritanical reactions to sex work, and art that contains sex, is antithetical to queer liberation.
Also massive agreement to the original op that we need a wider array of queer rep and its not either or.
What did they do with Emilie's body?
In the movie Emilie is apparently dead, but she's not decomposing. She's remained in this state for at least 10 years.
At the end of the film we're lead to believe (so I've heard; I haven't seen it) that Gabriel is going to give up his pursuit of the miraculous in order to revive his wife. That both he and Adrien are at peace with letting her go.
But . . is she technically dead?
If they bury her in a coffin will her body remain youthful forever? Which is creepy as fuck.
No way they could cremate her like that.
Can the spell, or whatever it is, be broken so she finally dies?
The screenwriters never seem to think things completely through, in either the series or the movie.
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #96 - "Win or Lose II" (2023)
written by CRC Payne art by Starbite, Geoniya Acuna, & Suzi Blake
i genuinely ate up every second of the reveal like-
like marinette’s little “chat noir?”
you can tell his brain is trying to put the pieces together but he won’t let himself believe it until she verbally confirms it
the hesitancy in her walk up to him, even the hesitation before she takes a deep breath and dives in and faces her fears and tells him!!!!
the way he starts crying IMMEDIATELY!!!!!!!
their little shared, knowing look absolutely bursting with fondness on both sides like “so do you wanna kiss orrrrr”
marinette initiating the kiss but hesitating and then adrien being the one to actually lean in and do it!!!!!!
uuuuugggghhhhhh FINALLY
Miraculous the movie
10 yrs later
Marinette: hey remember that one time in middle school when we defeated your dad and became super heros
Adrien: oh yeah lol
Marinette: lol
oh my god i have no idea how i missed this
but YEAH IT WAS SO FAST
honestly when it comes to ladynoir i kinda eat up preconceived notions. like whenever Chat tells Ladybug a story about himself, her brain comes up with something oh-so-totally different than if she imagined it for Adrien.
like if he mentions his room? she would NEVER in a million years think of the grandiose room Adrien has in the Agreste house in the context of Chat Noir. her brain would likely come up with a dimly lit, smaller-to-average size room, probably a little messy, absolutely teeming with anime posters on the walls and a desk with a big monitor and a silly gamer chair with cat ears. just absolutely screaming personality.
and when Ladybug lets slip that she works for her parents? Chat Noir, who has been an employee of the Gabriel company for pretty much his entire cognizant life, would never have his go-to guess be his Lady being a baker’s daughter. No, his brain weirdly enough goes straight for her doing office-type work for her parents, even though she’s 14 and this makes literally no sense lol. (but he’s been extorted by his parents for his entire life so is that really shocking)
she’s always imagined he’d have siblings, but has never been able to decide if she thinks he’s the youngest or oldest
he’s always been fairly convinced she’s pretty athletic in her real life, and probably plays some sports competitively
I just love love love the idea of them being so absolutely flabbergasted when they find out bc they had all these ideas in their head they thought were on the right track and end up being beyond incorrect.
Marinette especially has her brain oh so totally shattered bc the mental image of “civilian chat noir” was so absolute in her head that when it comes out to be reserved, clean-cut Adrien she’s just like ?!?!?!?!? blue screen
honestly when it comes to ladynoir i kinda eat up preconceived notions. like whenever Chat tells Ladybug a story about himself, her brain comes up with something oh-so-totally different than if she imagined it for Adrien.
like if he mentions his room? she would NEVER in a million years think of the grandiose room Adrien has in the Agreste house in the context of Chat Noir. her brain would likely come up with a dimly lit, smaller-to-average size room, probably a little messy, absolutely teeming with anime posters on the walls and a desk with a big monitor and a silly gamer chair with cat ears. just absolutely screaming personality.
and when Ladybug lets slip that she works for her parents? Chat Noir, who has been an employee of the Gabriel company for pretty much his entire cognizant life, would never have his go-to guess be his Lady being a baker’s daughter. No, his brain weirdly enough goes straight for her doing office-type work for her parents, even though she’s 14 and this makes literally no sense lol. (but he’s been extorted by his parents for his entire life so is that really shocking)
she’s always imagined he’d have siblings, but has never been able to decide if she thinks he’s the youngest or oldest
he’s always been fairly convinced she’s pretty athletic in her real life, and probably plays some sports competitively
I just love love love the idea of them being so absolutely flabbergasted when they find out bc they had all these ideas in their head they thought were on the right track and end up being beyond incorrect.
Marinette especially has her brain oh so totally shattered bc the mental image of “civilian chat noir” was so absolute in her head that when it comes out to be reserved, clean-cut Adrien she’s just like ?!?!?!?!? blue screen
“Adrienette never met AU” Ladynoir identity reveal is like
[they drop their transformations]
Adrien: Wow… I can’t believe it’s finally happening…. this feels like a dream… my Lady you’re so beautif–
Marinette: YOU’RE THE FUCKING PERFUME GUY!?!?!?!
My favorite thing about nimona is that everyone already basically has their identities figured out, its their place in society that has to be worked on. Ballister and Ambrosius don't struggle being gay, they struggle being on opposite sides of a conflict. Nimona doesn't need someone to help them understand themselves, Nimona is Nimona. It's society that needs to understand.
It sounds silly and simplistic to make this point but it means we are finally at a point where this is not niche content. You can make "gay" movies that aren't "gay movies" now. Imagine being queer in 2005 when broke back mountain released and seeing how much backlash there was, so much so that people still make derogatory jokes about it.
Gay content where the conflict isn't about being gay is so refreshing and I love seeing it. It's like a little encouraging note to closet me back in time, I'm glad younger people for the most part are being given more content.
My favorite thing about nimona is that everyone already basically has their identities figured out, its their place in society that has to be worked on. Ballister and Ambrosius don't struggle being gay, they struggle being on opposite sides of a conflict. Nimona doesn't need someone to help them understand themselves, Nimona is Nimona. It's society that needs to understand.
It sounds silly and simplistic to make this point but it means we are finally at a point where this is not niche content. You can make "gay" movies that aren't "gay movies" now. Imagine being queer in 2005 when broke back mountain released and seeing how much backlash there was, so much so that people still make derogatory jokes about it.
Gay content where the conflict isn't about being gay is so refreshing and I love seeing it. It's like a little encouraging note to closet me back in time, I'm glad younger people for the most part are being given more content.
she-ra is still so so funny to me like. as a concept
dreamworks/netflix/mattel: ok mr. stevenson, we’d like this reboot to be a fun kids show with a good story for the whole family and lots of nostalgia to bring in revenue for the franchise etc. sound good?
nate stevenson, planning a story in his head where pop culture icon & beloved 80s childrens hero She-Ra is a brainwashed christian imperialist soldier who has a sexuality crisis over her gay arch enemy for 5 seasons then kills god by kissing her: mhm yes absolutely
I got bored so here's a few things I noticed in Nimona that either made my day or made me cry or made me question everything I know. No in-between.
Also, yes, I know, almost everyone already pointed most of this out, but I just had to do it as well. It was destroying my brain. This is gonna be a long one too.
Nimona Spoilers!
Hugo after getting saved by Varian during a trial: Out of all the people I thought I might have a chance of being saved by, I can say with utmost certainty that you are the last person I expected to actually do so.
Varian: What can I say, your insufferable sweetness grew on me.