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[beggars-opera]

So sick of people asking why Irish names are spelled that way. "Hurr durr who decided that Seán is pronounced like Shawn???" THE IRISH LANGUAGE DID. I've never heard anyone harassing a Frenchman asking why Jean is pronounced like Zhawn! THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE HERE. IT IS A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE.

[prismatic-bell]

The only thing I don’t understand, and PLEASE understand I am not dissing Irish when I say this, is that Irish isn’t a Romance/Neo-Latin language, so why didn’t it get translated phonetically? Like to take OP’s example of Jean—the J is pronounced the same in both French and Italian, and similarly to these in Portuguese. The “ah” sound made by the presence of the “a” is the same in every Romance language I’m familiar with. An “n” is an “n” in all of these languages, too. English is a Germanic language but has an extremely significant vocabulary from Latin and the Romances, so it’s not surprising we see a little of this spilling over into English, too—our J is far more similar to the Latin J than it is to the J used in our closest sister languages (German, Dutch). If we followed West Germanic pronunciation today, we’d say the (English) Jean more like “yaeyn” than like “gene.”

Gaelige was only written down in Latin characters shortly after English was. After English, because the Celts were fucking badasses, but significantly before Old English became Middle English. So how did we end up with Sióbhan, instead of the what-would-have-been-phonetic-to-the-Romans Shovon?

Like, there had to be a reason they didn’t wallpaper it over to make it more Roman. What is that reason?

[alexseanchai]

I bet part of it is to say fuck you to English colonialism

and I bet part of it is because applying eighteen of the letters in existing printing-press fonts in specific patterns to account for specific ways grammar changes pronunciation is (1) less hassle than coming up with more letters and then making printing-press fonts for them (2) really really not going to result in anything pronounced how English speakers expect from those letters

(also I don't think Latin has 'sh' and I know 'u' and 'v' weren't reliably distinguished in English writing until like five hundred years ago)

[khanofallorcs]

In Romanian, and I'm pretty sure that in Turkish, the character "ș" is used for "sh", but that's not part of the base Latin alphabet. I'm actually curious if you would be able to reliably find it in formats like UTF-8...

[happyheidi]

🦔

This is Charles. He wants to go on a journey around tumblr. could you show him around?

[flightfoot]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but Chat Noir has never intentionally Cataclysmed a Sentimonster, has he? Every time I can think of, it was an accident.

[alexseanchai]

We have never seen him do it, and I suspect we will never see him do it, because as “Reflekdoll” demonstrated and “Queen Banana” confirmed, it only makes the battle wilder. (Unless of course he himself is one, in which case I fully expect him to.)

There are of course offscreen or minimally-onscreen battles, so I can’t say with 100% certainty that he never has. But he knows from personal experience in “Miraculer” that being Cataclysmed hurts like hell, and Reflekdoll, Sentibug, and Banana Boom Boom all demonstrated the ability to feel pain. He and Ladybug might not be able to save any of the sentis sent against them until they have the Peacock Miraculous in hand, but torture is not a self-defense tactic.

[khanofallorcs]

Am I misremembering that he deliberately hit the sentimonster in "Truth" to make it go haywire?

[dragongirltitties]

@ slack’s emoji artist turn on your location i wanna talk

[insomniparty]

astrology is gay you heard it here first folks

[sounddesignerjeans-deactivated2]

oh, to be innocent and think this is just a pride flag

[alexseanchai]

okay so what are y'all thinking this is? I know it’s not Homestuck, the idea of taking a set of things in a set order such as the colors of the rainbow and matching them up with the Western zodiac signs in their set order is a little bit older than Andrew Hussie is (see also the list of which sign rules which body parts) and the Homestuck sign-color associations are out of rainbow order anyway, and I am drawing a complete blank on what else you could be objecting to

[khanofallorcs]

No, no, this is Homestuck. Or at least, it registers as Homestuck to people in the fandom. The colors are waaay to close a match for the ones used in Homestuck canon for the joke to be anything else.

[miabrown007]

me @ me: actually, my writing slaps, you're just being mean

[khanofallorcs]

It's true and you should say it

[flightfoot]

So how come after Heroes Day, Gabriel just never gets physical with the heroes again? In a 2 v 1 fight he won easily, but in the time between then and Evolution, Marinette and Adrien essentially closed the gap. Like that was supposed to be the whole thing right? That Hawkmoth is an overwhelming force, who with each Miraculous gained becomes even more of a threat. That they would have to work smarter to beat him, but turns out they don't need to since they can just beat him up.

I think with Evolution, a lot of the problem came down to Gabriel biting off more than he could chew. Using so many Miraculous affected him badly, so he wasn't able to fight at full capacity.

And while Gabriel could try to fight the heroes more often by himself, it's pretty risky to do so. If they steal his Miraculous, it's game over. So even though he has an edge, he doesn't want to risk appearing physically unless he has good reason to think he'll succeed in his goals.

[alexseanchai]

Which he did have, on Heroes' Day. Especially if I'm right that the only person who'd been akumatized more than once up to that point was Chloe (with the Bee Miraculous presenting a potential complicating factor, like, there's reasons ML fic that old often supposes people can't be reakumatized at all), and the only people who'd been simultaneously akumatized up to that point were Etta and Ella Cesaire, and therefore LB&CN weren't expecting him to pull both at once, especially on a large scale. Also on the same day that an early-morning akuma meant LB&CN got no sleep. Probably not the only such that week. (Especially if "Catalyst" is the episode immediately after "Sandboy".)

Gabriel stacked that deck really thoroughly.

And he still had to pull an ace out of his sleeve that he didn't want to play, in order to escape with his Miraculous still on. Or rather, Nathalie had to.

Yeah, I am not at all surprised he goes back to avoiding melee combat after that. What I actually want to know is, since we already knew from earlier in S2 that the cane is a sword, why did that ace stay sheathed? The Watsonian reason, since I know the Doylistic reason is blood doesn't fit the rating.

[khanofallorcs]

Maybe in some bizarre way, he needed to keep it together in one piece since Nathalie had used it as the centerpiece to forming Scarlet Moth? Alternatively, it might be that he was less used to the sword, compared to the cudgel form of the cane.

Another option is to note that while he wasn't doing so hot with the cane, but absolutely thrashed them barehanded, so who knows???

[valtsv]

if you can be declared "legally dead" does that mean you can be illegally dead

[valtsv]

i'm sorry sir but i'm going to need to see your dying license

[valtsv]

going on trial for dying and the judge sentences me to life in prison. bit too late for that mate.

[jackie-of-all-spades]

Yes actually, there are also cases of being wrongfully found dead. Where the state declares a person dead who is in fact very much alive and not trying to fake their death (be illegally dead) and it is a beuracratic nightmare for a legally dead person to prove they are in fact legally alive.

[alexseanchai]

I know attempting suicide is, according to Catholicism, sinful, but I'm blanking on its legal status

[khanofallorcs]

It's enough to just be gone a long enough time. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/romania-courts-constantin-reliu-vaslui-turkey-deported-death-certificate-legal-system-latest-a8262196.html

[xhanisai]

You'd think Marinette wouldn't have any problems in the show. She is a baker. She can have her cake and eat it too.

Perks of English not being my first language.

I do not understand what the fuck you’re saying :D

[ultrakart]

Marinette has all the cakes in the universe which is why the universe is desperately trying to nerf her.

It’s not working, of course

[alexseanchai]

don't worry, I am a native English speaker and I also do not understand why that's the idiom for when choosing one of two options means losing the other. I mean, it's a cake. it is true that it is impossible to continue to possess the cake after serving it, but it's a cake. it's made to be eaten, not displayed. you can take photos of it and display those after eating the cake. and even if you don't eat the cake, it's perishable food, so you can't have it for long without either eating it or having to throw it out. (photos of cake, of course, don't go bad.)

the idiom for wanting something both ways when that's impossible should be about a situation where any best-of-both solution is unworkable. or at least a situation where it makes sense to want the thing both ways!

but given that that is the idiom, yes, joke funny

[khanofallorcs]

It's unfortunate phrasing. "Have" in this case isn't "to eat/enjoy", but "to keep/save it (for later)". Other languages with an equivalent idiom make it easier to parse.

[alexseanchai]

Les aventures de Ladybug & Chat Noir, 2h23m, rated 12+, available in both English and French audio

Leur mission : capturer les Akumas du mystérieux Papillon qui transforment les parisiens en super-vilains. Grâce à leurs kwamis, petites créatures magiques, les deux adolescents se métamorphosent en super-héros : Ladybug et Chat Noir. Réussiront-ils à sauver Paris de cette terrible menace ?

…

Grâce à leurs kwamis

which are not common knowledge (see "Kwamibuster"), and indeed I would expect nobody to know about them without having seen one personally; as of "Animaestro", that list is just the five Miraculous wielders whose names Ladybug knows, however many people were physically present when Chloe first became Queen Bee (and why would any of them know what kwamis are called?), and the three Miraculous wielders whose names Ladybug doesn't know

and. and this didn't strike anyone as suspicious?

[alexseanchai]

like, the movie creators guessing that there are little magical creatures involved wouldn't mean anything even though the guess is correct

and the movie creators adding little magical creatures while assuming that's counterfactual to the true story they're basing this movie on would mean less than nothing

but specifically calling the little magical creatures kwamis? how did that raise no red flags in anyone's minds? is Chat Noir credited as a creative consultant?

[khanofallorcs]

I know Chloe publicly detransformed when she was Queen Bee. Maybe that's when other folks caught a glimpse of kwamis (presumably not on camera, though). Or she might have let it slip at some point?

[little-mari-on-a-roof]

this moment truly is so devastating because neither of them wants to think that Felix, Adrien's cousin, could've betrayed them like that, that he could've known who shadowmoth was and decided to accomplish an elaborate plan to steal all the miraculous from ladybug and give them to him. you can see that they WANT to believe he didn't consciously decide to do that but they're also not convinced of that themselves. but there's still a big gap between being a little shit and dealing with a domestic terrorist and putting everyone's life in danger so there must be an explanation

[ladyofthenoodle]

i wonder how much of this is informed by their experience with chloe in the season 3 finale. while we saw queen bee choose to work with hawkmoth in miracle queen, they didn’t, and they’re left to assume that chloe, like most people that get akumatized, was a victim. which in many ways she was, since hawkmoth was intentionally setting her up to be akumatized. but with the exception of lila, their assumption is always that hawkmoth is the bad guy and everyone else is his victim, even people as casually cruel as chloe, so why would félix be any different?

there’s some pretty strong parallels with the adrien & félix and adrien & chloe relationships and the marinette & félix and marinette & chloe relationships too, where adrien has this personal attachment that makes him want to see the best in someone despite having seen how awful they can be, versus marinette who is trying to be objective and not assume the worst of people even with they’ve hurt her personally. so they have almost opposite reasons to not want to believe félix would do this, but deep down they aren’t sure of that.

[alexseanchai]

I don't think they're assuming Lila is anything but Hawkmoth's victim either. neither of them trusts her, but that's because she'll hurt Marinette and Adrien both with a smile on her face, which started out as a separate issue entirely. and at least partly still is a separate issue entirely, and I don't think they have any evidence that that's connected for any reason other than Hawkmoth exploiting it like he does every other interpersonal conflict in their class.

and Felix very much did offer to make a deal with Hawkmoth, out loud in LB&CN's hearing and entirely—to their knowledge—because Felix thought that would get Felix something he wanted. Lila has not.

[khanofallorcs]

They do know that Lila would go out of her way to sabotage them, entirely unprompted by Hawk Moth, as they learned in Onichan. I don't think they've actually suspected her of being actually in league with him (yet).

[alexseanchai]

Re: Ms. as not an indicator of marital status. As an ESL speaker at least, that's not what we're told. We're told that it's pretty specifically for unmarried women, and for married ones, we're supposed to use Mrs. Or we're told that it's used to denote age, and at one point it's polite to switch to Mrs. or Madame. That's not an argument that there shouldn't be a form of address that's agnostic of those, but I think that in terms of how the word is used, it's not currently perceived as neutral.

...Then they are teaching it wrong. Augh wtf.

[alexseanchai]

tags by theforgottenbasilisk:

nono thats pretty much right mrs isnt for unmarried women AT ALL tho otherwise yeah thats correct maybe im just southern but this is what i was taught if you dont know then default to ms

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okay yes the US South is exactly who I expect to be wrong on this on purpose, but like

Feminists coined "Ms." so that the distinction between young-and/or-unmarried woman, "Miss", and married woman, "Mrs.", did not have to be the first part of addressing a woman politely.

Nobody needs to know or guess young-and/or-unmarried vs married when addressing a man: it's always "Mr." Today's feminists have coined "Mx." to elide gender distinctions as well as age and marital status ones; it's not short for anything, or not in the way that "Ms.", "Miss", and "Mrs." are all subtly different abbreviations of "Mistress", but it's pronounced "Mix" like how "Mr." is pronounced "Mister". (I've also seen and really like "Mm.", pronounced "Mistrum", as another pointedly gender-neutral way to do the thing; this is leaning on Latin's third grammatical gender.)

But for fuck's sake, US South, if you're going to insist on maintaining the age and marital status distinctions when addressing women, use "Miss", not "Ms."

[khanofallorcs]

Thing is though, everywhere I look, I find that Ms == Miss, Mrs == Missus, although I know for me it took a while to actually be able to hear any difference between the two.

[alexseanchai]

so did we ever work out how much of what's going on around an akuma or senti is something Hawkmoth (or Mayura) is aware of? "Oblivio" seems to indicate he can see anything the akuma sees, and we know he at least heard Ladybug talking to Kuro Neko thinking that was Chat Noir...

[khanofallorcs]

I think for akumas, Hawk Moth tends to be following fairly closely, in order to be able to dish out the most situationally appropriate pun. For sentimonsters, Optigami, at the very least, implies they can receive full input and indeed precisely control their actions (Senti-Nino). I think in Senti Bubbler, Shadow Moth needs to ask Senti Nino a question about if Alya is doing what she's supposed to, but that might just be that he was not 100% focused on that. For what it's worth, pretty clearly Gabriel saw the scene where fake Ladybug tells Alya she can't be Rena Rouge anymore.

Also in Optigami, the titular Optigami links directly to a tablet where Nathalie can see the feed. I struggle to remember this detail: I don't think Gabriel can see directly through it, he needs Nathalie to keep him updated on it. Likewise, he can't control it, and when it gets Cataclysmed, it's Nathalie who feels an ache. But he can instantly destroy it, even after it becomes uncontrollable (cough goes amok cough).

[lnc2]

i will now be a full time glasses wearer when my new pair arrives so any veteran advice would be appreciated 😩

[khanofallorcs]

If you do things like rub your eyeballs, you'll have to adjust for getting the glasses out of the way first.

Related, you might have to adjust your glasses further up or down your nose after looking directly down, and you need to be careful not to grab your glasses by the lenses. Either grab by the sides or the middle part that goes over the nose.

Glasses do fog up if there is a significant temperature change, especially in the winter, and especially if you wear a mask.

[theultracharmingladynoire]

I AM SURPRISED THAT NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS YET-

Something has been bugging me since Optigami, and then more in Sentibubbler. What is that? (Warning: This post is really disjointed, far-fetched and quite random.)

Wait-

One of the things I extremely love about Miraculous is the visual clues. EVERY SINGLE DESIGN ELEMENT HAS A REASON. After all, what else do you expect when they literally showed the grimoire and the peacock miraculous right in front of our eyes?

Anyway, back to this. Nathalie's room has been shown of more importance right from the New York Special and since Nathalie's health started deteriorating. And the whole design is, for some reason, Egyptian Themed. Especially these BLACK CATS at the entrance of her room (Literally no other room in the mansion has these statues at their entrances👀). And they look soo similar to:

In Ancient Egypt black cats were representations of goddess Bastet.

Now, This instantly reminds me of Season 1 Episode Pharaoh, since the titular Akuma was very much related to Egypt. Which leads me to the next part of this theory.

THE PHARAOH, THE WISH AND NEFRITITI.

The Pharaoh wanted to make a wish to bring back Nefrititi to life. And the wish required a "pure soul" in exchange for bringing back a life from the death. Sounds very familiar to a certain fashion designer who is losing his mind over wishing to bring back his wife from dead, Huh? Some snippets from the episode:

The Pharaoh: I'm going to carry out the secret spell, to bring Nefertiti back!

The Pharaoh: To persuade the sun god Ra to give me my sweet princess, I must give him something in return. A pure soul!

The Pharaoh: But I've already found her! You look so much like her!

Before going to the next part, I have a lot of stuff to unpack here. I am assuming that the "her" was Nefrititi. And the "you" here is actually Alya.

This was the scroll depicting the wish and the sacrifice. The person on the plank like thing is probably the "sacrifice". Well, guess what? I zoomed in and-

IS SHE - WEARING GLASSES????

Yup. Looks like it.

Now, applying the same lore to the Agreste mess, Who is the person we know, who wears glasses, and who is the most probable person who could potentially fall into a comatose state in exchange for dear Emilie IF the wish is made??

NATHALIE.

In short, the Egyptian decor in Nathalie's room could potentially foreshadow the consequences of the wish, when (if) it is made.

•~•~•~•~•

FUN FACT TIME!

• The title of Episode 22, Ephemeral, is spelled "EPHÉMÈRE" (Especially with the accents, as confirmed by Miraculous Mexico). And as everyone probably knows by now, "Mère" is French for "Mother". Puns, Huh?🤡

• Nathalie's name literally means,"Born without a heart".👀

[theultracharmingladynoire]

ADDING A BIT TO THIS BECAUSE I FORGOT IT BEFORE, IN THE SCENE IN NATHALIE'S ROOM,

Scene: Nathalie's bedroom. Gabriel is furious over his defeat.

Gabriel: (infuriated) Ladybug never makes a mistake! (cracks the tablet's screen and sits on the bed where Nathalie is lying) Nathalie: Don't give up. Everyone makes mistakes, and one day, she'll make one, too. And when that day comes, (holds Gabriel's hand) your wish will come true.

🤡

[alexseanchai]

where are you getting "born without a heart"? "sans coeur" has no "born" in, and "Nathalie" means "birthday" but only if we strip out the Christian context that's the reason people started naming kids after natale domini in the first place; with that etymological context intact, the name means "Christmas Day"

"birthday without a heart" does say interesting things when set next to her role in esp "Bubbler" though

...

why is Nathalie's giant bedroom TV on the one wall she can't watch it from while in bed

[khanofallorcs]

I think the take on TV Tropes is that Nathalie relates to birth in general, not so much the day as the act of birth, which supposedly resonates with being Adrien's surrogate mother.

I guess if you take it more loosely, her full name is in the ballpark of "birth- without a heart". I think "Née Sancoeur" would literally be "born without a heart".

It occurs to me that "René(e) Sancoeur" would be "reborn without a heart"... which would be a very on the nose name for a secret Sentimonster

[alexseanchai]

*eyes Nathalie's exoskeleton*

so what exactly is that thing doing? like, obviously it is making it possible for her to stand, when either she hasn't been able to without tiring herself out too quickly or she hasn't been able to at all since approximately "Miracle Queen", but how is it doing the thing?

...and why exoskeleton, not (say) wheelchair?

[sunfoxfic]

Several thoughts:

- A wheelchair would imply the existence of other assistive devices, such as a stairlift. This could theoretically be subverted by Nathalie not going downstairs, but they may or may not have plans that conflict with that, and the implications of Nathalie being in a wheelchair without the building having a stairlift aren't exactly the most fun when it comes to her autonomy

- I would have loved to see her using the crutches we saw in her room, but that would mean she couldn't effectively hold a tablet, which was like half of her purpose in the scene

- On an in-universe level, Gabriel Agreste is exactly the type of bastard to refuse to allow those close to his image to function any way discernible from "normal"

[enberlight]

From a technical perspective, they probably found it easier to build onto Nathalie's model rather than making a working wheelchair they'd then need new animation cycles to work.

Plus, as mentioned, there's the problem that the mansion and general ML world are not wheelchair accessible. Especially the lair, no wheelchair is going down that tube. The one instance where they made the school "wheelchair accessible" is ludicrous and unworkable - it's too steep to ascend or descend, and should have been set up with a system of low ramps and landings off to the side, not just poured on top of the stairs. (Sadly this is a common building failing IRL as well.) Not to mention that "accessibility" only extends to the school's courtyard - it does nothing to get you to the upper levels once inside.

From an in-universe perspective, Gabriel probably just had that kind of money and connections (Tsurugi tech?) to opt for the fancy exo gear rather than a wheelchair. It probably satisfies his ego better, not to mention his fixation with perfection. Not to, uh, accuse him of being a lousy human or anything, but it wouldn't surprise me if he's ableist and wants his staff to appear as "normal" as possible (not to mention how he makes everyone stand at attention. Could you imagine his ire if someone was seated instead?) His ability to extend empathy and compassion has come across as rather fitful and inconstant.

[wolfyred-ks]

I’ve seen this type of tech already out there in the world.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2016/02/01/163493/this-40000-robotic-exoskeleton-lets-the-paralyzed-walk/

This article is about at $40,000 (US) leg suit that helps the paralyzed to walk. This was out in 2016 so, a very real chance that this type of thing was available in-universe.

While I look at that and think it’s expensive, for Gabe $40kUS is possibly not that much.

[alexseanchai]

the price tag's that low*? how come it took till twenty-three episodes later for Nathalie to get one?

did he make her pay for her own mobility aid? did he seriously make her pay for her own workplace disability accommodations when he is not only the main driving force behind why she needs them but also, unless her life with the exoskeleton is significantly more Nathalie-focused than her life has been shown to be to date, the greatest beneficiary of everything she's doing that she either couldn't do or couldn't do as easily without it?

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* by "rich enough to own a blimp" standards

[khanofallorcs]

My guess is that it wasn't clear how much worse her condition would get/ they were hoping she'd get better. Although, to ask a Doylist question: when is the right moment to introduce the exoskeleton to the audience? I think keeping it for a bit after the start of the season gets across both that Nathalie's wounds are still serious, but she's still dedicated to helping with supervillainy and *effective*. I'm blanking on whether Nathalie has any presence at the party in "Gabriel Agreste", but maybe they wanted to keep it on the down low and waited until after that? I admit, I have kinda lost track of the timeline here.

[ladyofacat]

Marinette’s nickname for Adrien in 10 dubs + their closest English translation Miraculous Ladybug

Special thanks to my amazing translators:

☆ @spaceoutdreamer ☆ @bisexualvolpina ☆ @sixsaltysweets ☆ @schrita ☆ @northmelody ☆ @witchknights ☆ @catnoirz ☆ @amadeleine-maddie ☆ @doctorkot ☆ @citroks ☆ @erichemical ☆ @maniacgirlxd ☆ @sonyaswet ☆ @alina0-0world ☆

Original French:

[polkadotbrat]

@crizztelcb wait marinette has called adrien kitty in the portuguese dub???

[crizztelcb]

@polkadotbrat yep! Gatinho means kitty or kitten

[marrys-dream-world]

Everyone needs to know that when Ladybug calls Chat Noir “gatinho” in Brazilian Portuguese, she’s not only calling him “kitten”, she’s saying he’s hot. Send tweet.

[ladyofthenoodle]

marinette calling adrien a “pretty little thing” in romanian is also sending me

[khanofallorcs]

That’s the quickest translation, but honestly, I’d have gone with something closer to “pretty boy”. But the one they went with highlights the diminutive, so it’s a matter of which parts are worth emphasising

[ladyofthenoodle]

i think the diminutive is worth emphasizing as i’m thinking about this specific ladrien dynamic

[khanofallorcs]

Yes, definitely important!

[ladyofacat]

Marinette’s nickname for Adrien in 10 dubs + their closest English translation Miraculous Ladybug

Special thanks to my amazing translators:

☆ @spaceoutdreamer ☆ @bisexualvolpina ☆ @sixsaltysweets ☆ @schrita ☆ @northmelody ☆ @witchknights ☆ @catnoirz ☆ @amadeleine-maddie ☆ @doctorkot ☆ @citroks ☆ @erichemical ☆ @maniacgirlxd ☆ @sonyaswet ☆ @alina0-0world ☆

Original French:

[polkadotbrat]

@crizztelcb wait marinette has called adrien kitty in the portuguese dub???

[crizztelcb]

@polkadotbrat yep! Gatinho means kitty or kitten

[marrys-dream-world]

Everyone needs to know that when Ladybug calls Chat Noir “gatinho” in Brazilian Portuguese, she’s not only calling him “kitten”, she’s saying he’s hot. Send tweet.

[ladyofthenoodle]

marinette calling adrien a “pretty little thing” in romanian is also sending me

[khanofallorcs]

That’s the quickest translation, but honestly, I’d have gone with something closer to “pretty boy”. But the one they went with highlights the diminutive, so it’s a matter of which parts are worth emphasising