People who haven't seen Madoka Magica might not know this, but both the characters Mami and Homura are magical girls who use guns as weapons. But while Mami's gun are magical, Homura's are literally just normal guns she stole from the government.
One of the reasons why Miraculous Ladybug fandom discourse seems so weird to people who rarely watch is that it usually goes like this:
The episode
Aliens are real and Max's mom is in a volleyball league with them
Kagami is teaching the entire girl group how to fence. In Marinette's bedroom.
Mylène is so good at bicycling that an annoyed car driver gets akumatized.
The akuma has a neon coloured beautifully rendered VHS era design and ends up dragging the Eiffel Tower through the streets of Paris. Ladybug and Chat Noir ride on top of it like a chariot.
Ladybug defeats him using a rental bike, an abandoned gamer chair and a car that is a modern reinterpretation of the classic Renault Dauphine. Her lucky charm is a bike helmet, despite her never actually getting on the bike.
In a post-credit scene, sinister music plays as Lila looks at the TV screen where Madame Bustier is saying something. Lila goes, "we'll see about that… mother."
The discourse
Adrien looked at a picture of his father and a different one of his mother; apart, not together. What does it mean? What does he feel? Were Emilie and Nathalie actually fucking or just metaphorically?
Marinette told Ondine and Kim that they're a cute couple, even though we all canonically know that she's too good for him, which proves Marinette is a liar and problematic and enabling abuse and if you disagree you lack media literacy. Others say that the first group is lacking media literacy. Nobody can agree how "Adrien" is spelled.
I'm saying this with nothing but love. I love the show and the discourse. I just think it's hilarious how disconnected they often end up being.
people will say here is my rewrite where the lovesquare isn’t Obsessive and Possessive and they don’t put each other on Pedestals and it’s Realistic. here’s my meta on why Gabriel never really romantically loved Emilie so I can safely ship him with Nathalie. why did Felix take out the entire world and try to make something new for Adrien? it’s just so weird to love someone so much and to put that in a story. my god why don’t we all watch paint dry and eat cornflakes and abstain from jerking off. you tuned into the obsessive over the top romance story you milquetoast walnut.
james ortiz provided some of his own personal rocky backstory on the sag aftra podcast, transcribed by me because we all have to be miserable about it together.
link to the podcast, this section below is from timestamp 24.35
“andy weir provided a packet to the creature shop that was like a packet of eridian biology and stuff but there wasn’t much about eridian culture or eridian sociology and i made a bunch of choices going in because i just needed to have like a ‘who am i?’ right?
[…] and i made a decision that rocky’s species, that eridians are really social animals that in fact are like a beehive or a pod of dolphins - it’s a unique and really integrated ecosystem of everybody doing their [specific] part. and the fact that rocky had to fly that ship for about 45 years - longer than grace has been alive, i wanna point that out - he’s been alone on that ship, having to run that by himself and- ryan and i would talk about that, one day we sat down and he was like “so what’s the movie from rocky’s perspective?” and i was like “oh it’s like ‘alien’, […] like he’s in a ‘contagion’ movie by himself and he has no idea what’s going on.”
he’s basically in castaway by himself which of course ryan is too but like, one reason why we never cut to the past of rocky is like, i think it was really horrifying! i don’t think rocky has slept in however many years and so a thing i was really struggling with is this idea of like “rocky must watch sleep” because how do you make that a need as opposed to like, a cute idea? and i just had to make the decision that […] he has a lot of unprocessed trauma around the things that he doesn’t understand and how much he is blaming himself because he’s the guy who fixes, he’s the guy who fixes and there was something really freeing about deciding that rocky was a deeply emotional, deeply anxious, deeply horrified person - being - that is trying to move through that in some way and how that affects the early scenes with him until there’s a point in the story where you can see we’ve physically softened rocky’s behaviour, because he’s finally feeling more safe and ok but all of that lore, all of that information [was essential].
i also decided, this is just a small nerdy thing, that there was actually some of his family, was on that ship too.”
Apparently there's a limit of 50 mods (downloaded from the workshop) to be loaded at a time by Paralives. Downloaded Households and Lots count to that limit unfortunately. So if you have mods disappearing from the game and not showing up in the "Mods" list, that's probably why (it was happening to me and was driving me CRAZY).
EDIT:
Someone made a plugin where you can install plugin mods for the game, including one to REMOVE the 50 limit for workshop downloads! Here (click) is the link for the plugin!
From inside the game, on the main menu go to Mods > Plugin Hub and there you'll find the option to install the Workshop mods limit fix.
Thanks @honowo for sharing! 🫶
Below the cut is the previous workaround I had posted.
Here's a workaround:
I'd recommend doing this just to Households & Lots only. DON'T DO IT TO MODS and custom content, in case the creator updates their mods you won't receive them.
The folder for items downloaded from the Workshop for Paralives is this one:
I fucking love when people give in-universe reasons for omegaverse shenanigans being a relatively new phenomenon and not just a fact of life. And this is probably my favorite out of all of them. Insane choice, and I want to kiss the author sloppy style about it.
As we all know, the Spanish Flu caused the omegaverse. Iconic.
A lot of "egg" discourse can be improved by making it clear that it's less "you are gravely insulting a cisgender millionaire youtuber John Johnson by assuming being gnc makes him a woman" and more "you're assuming performing femininity is tied to womanhood around a lot of queer/trans/gnc people who have their own experiences with these things".