This is an art blog featuring mainly my original characters. You can find specific characters under the tags #sokol's oc: name
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And weâre back, baby! Miraculous fanfic inception- Spiderverse, but if it were involving all of the Miraculous Ladybug AU's here on Tumblr.
That being said, I have a couple of ground rules that I need to put in place (so that it can stay up).
First off, this wonât operate like a regular au, seeing as how most of these auâs arenât mine. I donât plan on doing much in the way of writing a full length story for this (like Iâm doing with Miraculous Coccinella). Maybe just a couple of comics. Iâm hoping this will act as a creative springboard for everyone seeing this to create their own stories/artwork.
Feel free to send me your head cannons on how specific auâs depicted here might interact! (I have some fun ones in mind already)
I wonât be answering asks about adding specific auâs. Just assume all auâs are included in this, but I wonât be making comics for/theorizing about auâs that arenât already in this artwork. Please donât send me asks about auâs outside of this artwork in connection with this concept (not because I donât love other auâs as well, but just for my own mental sanity).
Please do create your own artwork/stories based off of this concept! If youâre thinking you would love to explore how your au would fit into all of this, create your own art, comic, story, text chain, you name it, exploring just that! Tag me so I can see!!!
Now with that out of the way- go forth! Have fun with this concept!
AUâs involved:
Cannonâs Miraculous Re-Verse (by Zag)
Re-verse AU by @revolutionary-thoy
Scarlet Lady AU by @zoe-oneesama
Lady Fairy AU by @beebeebombam
Miraculous Coccinella AU by me :)
Villain/Villains AU by @bigfatbreak
Dad Villain AU by @bigfatbreak
Bakery âEnemiesâ AU by @buggachat
Lovey Bug AU by Miraculous Tumblr (jump-started by @pisoprano @wolflover2426 and @blur0se).
Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.
A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.
Arguably Game of Thrones.
If we broaden it outside of televisionâŠI think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I canât help but think of every band thatâs ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.
In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they wantâand think they deserveâthe time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.
They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they donât want us. And they donât really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audienceâs demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.
And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.
It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they wonât usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.
Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesnât perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasnât a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.
And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didnât necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.
Young Justice
Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs donât want largely female audiences
#WhereIsRey (initial)
#WhereIsRey (ongoing)
The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi
#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because heâs actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)
OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like âHey folks, this girlâs getting us more viewers, letâs put her in more scenes!â It just doesnât make sense to me. MEN donât make sense to me.
The 100 too. Iâll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.
Star Trek from TNG on was also a boyâs club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, âWomen donât understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.â
(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron ⊠đ€)
Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isnât the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.
Simply, theyâre trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. Itâs not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. Itâs that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.
(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)
I think a lot about an interview I heard with Bo Burnham a few years ago, where he talks about this phenomenon with his own work. He gained a large audience of teenage girls, and people in comedy spaces would look down on him for that or say what a shame it was, but he responded differently:
âThe real truth is, I would perform my show and I would meet kids after and young girls would come up to me and they understood what I was expressing in that bit onstage way more than guys my own age. Way more. So if there was a bridge between us that I had to cross to write the movie [Eighth Grade], it was built to me by them. I felt understood by them before I presumed to understand them.â
Instead of trying to change his comedy, he decided to lean into and celebrate the audience that he actually had by making a movie specifically about the experiences of a teenage girl. Itâs fascinating to hear him talk about how he got there, but also to acknowledge how rare that reaction is.
The idea that if you hook an 8-year-old boy you have him as a customer for life is baked into a lot of media, while completely ignoring the reality that adult women with no kids have more disposable income and therefore the 18 to 35 female demographic is more profitable for everyone. and in fact women do buy big ticket items like cars. Itâs just that the rest of the world is still running 80 years behind reality and itâs really fucking annoying. anyway thatâs why people sent bras to Bonnie Hammer to prove that women watched farScape.
That beautiful blue mop is 100% dyed, hereâs why:
In Makoâs intro chapter a mild hooplah is had over her and her delinquent hair:
Which is understandable because I canât imagine most 14 year old Japanese girls naturally have wavy brown hair. But they also probably wouldnât have blonde hair and we donât ever see Usagi getting called out by this guy. But even though itâs unlikely, blonde is still a possible natural hair color, and just as likely here as brown. Usagi may not be a good student, but she just doesnât have the âFuck Authorityâ reputation following her around like Mako does. This teacher is blatantly targeting Mako solely because he expects her to be a disrespectful delinquent about it (kinda like when the police pull you over for no reason hoping they can MAKE a reason).
Point is, hair dye is against the rules but thereâs a huge bias in how thatâs enforced.
Now bring in sweet, sweet child Ami. The golden girl who does everything thatâs expected of her and is a shining example of a perfect teenager. The anxious, insecure, lonely kid who thinks the only thing that makes her valuable is her academics and desperately wants attention that sheâll never ask for.
Before Usagi waltzes into her life, Ami has pretty much no way of reaching out to anyone. Normally when someone wants attention but doesnât know how to get it, they act out. For this ever-so-lonely but far-too-pure child that acting out needs to be something specific. Something that isnât disrespectful, something that wouldnât hurt anyoneâs feelings, something that could easily be fixed after the fact, BUT something that absolutely canât be ignored.
A bright blue head of hair? That pretty much fits the bill. It canât be written off as naturalâlike Usagiâs blondeâso her teachers HAVE to address it. They HAVE to see her as something more than a human calculator. They HAVE to talk to her about something other than academia. Sheâs going to be the blue haired girl and someone is going to HAVE to aknowledge that sheâs a human being with feelings and flaws and she canât just sit silently in the corner of the classroom her entire life.
So she dyes her hair blue.
And it doesnât work.
Because as I said, thereâs hair bias here. It takes a fists-up-punk like Mako for the âno hair dyeâ rule to be brought up. Of COURSE worst-thing-sheâs-done-in-her-life-was-accidentally-step-on-a-bug Ami is going to get off scot-free, sheâs the schoolâs Golden Noodle. Maybe she gets a few compliments sure, but no âwhy did you do this?â
Hell, her mom probably doesnât even know untill a week later.
#of course then usagi shows up #and then the blue stays around as a big fuck you to the system that let this happen #sheâs the good kid and sheâs fuckin blue #fight her #and you bet your ass if mako had actually gotten in trouble in that panel #ami woulda swooped in like #hey asshole you have to punish me too and of course this extends to the greatest secret in the universe #miss kaiohâs hair is dyed too #haruka your wifeâs ocean hair is a lie
ok yeah considering THEY are the people who wrote Jasprose's therapist-update talk with Davepeta recently, and it doesn't make logical sense for John's LE fight and and Terezi Car Moment to be undone let alone forgotten (forgotten is what matters) just from destruction of most of the suicide notes, I trust the current writers to do a good job here.
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