#ml animaestro

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i have a personal hatred for the episode animaestro so i rewrote it

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Since I'm ignoring the intended episode and season order, I decided to watch Animaestro since I remembered the controversy this episode spawned upon release due to the meta commentary bashing the fandom, the creator's obvious self insert, and the reminder of what we could've had with the reused PV animation.

My notes on this episode are longer than my notes on both Chameleon and Volpina combined so you could say my thoughts on Animaestro are... Extensive.

Miraculous Ladybug Season 3 Animaestro - Live Notes and Opinions.

The beginning 2D section is cool, don't know how to feel about the narration - hold up, it's just from the PV trailer, maybe new animation comes later in the episode.

Oh yeah, this is the Thomas Astruc self insert episode.

Wow, Marinette didn't care to show up to the movie premiere about her alter ego until the news revealed Adrien would be there, she only offered to help her parents as a server after learning Adrien would be present. Why not have her helping her parents because she loves them and only learning Adrien would be there after he arrives? Not all her decisions should revolve around her crush cough cough obsession writers.

Ooo Sabine clocked her about Adrien immediately.

She just broke a bunch of plates and a bowl and they still let her help with serving at the premiere? Granted it was an accident but still.

"You guys don't trust me, then again, I'm such a klutz, even I wouldn't trust me." Did she just guilt trip her parents so she can see Adrien at the premiere? WTF?! Why couldn't the episode have started at the premiere to avoid Marinette guilting her parents to get closer to her obsessive crush?

She didn't even finish cleaning the mess she made after her parents agreed to let her help, she leaves it for Tom to sort, at least help him with the mess you made Marinette.

She just kept a "special macaroon" in a draw in her room for who knows how long? Won't it grow stale or begin to grow moldy? I get that it's packaged and I don't know if macaroons get moldy like bread and cheese can but it's my knee jerk concern, ok?

Why wouldn't Adrien like the other 800 possible macaroons and must get the passion fruit one specially made for him? Doesn't he hate being singled out to be the center of attention and treated like he's above everyone? Plus with the "ordinary" macaroons, she'd have more opportunities to talk with him rather than a single shot that the "special macaroon" supposedly gives her.

Oh, she bakes a new macaroon every Sunday according to Tikki, it's still going to go stale in a few days though. "He can't have a stale macaroon" it'll be stale by Tuesday.

There's a scene with Thomas's self insert explaining to the security guard how they didn't actually film the heroes IRL, meta jokes and commentary I don't care for tbh.

The maid outfit Marinette is in is a little basic and plain but I understand why others like it, I think it came back in Werepapas.

Scene with Jagged Stone "not getting" what a director does aka meta stuff, Marinette instantly being clumsy with macaroons in the background. Not even 5 minutes into the episode and I'm already on page 4 of an A5 book about the episode.

Marinette glaze by the other characters.

Adrien arrives, Sabine and Tom panic since they know how Marinette acts around him.

Marinette puts the "special macaroon" on top of the other macaroons, why not keep it in your pocket where you had it until you talk to Adrien and then give it to him so it doesn't get lost, broken, or eaten by someone else?

Case and point, she instantly drops it and it bounces into a horde of people, insert my sigh at the realisation the conflict could've been avoided if Marinette didn't bring the stupid macaroon.

Of course there's a scene with Chloe "not appreciating" Astruc - how am I only just now spotting the small gold pendant necklace she's wearing, can't tell if it's a heart or oval but it's cute either way.

Marinette crawling around everywhere to get the macaroon back is wince worthy, cut your losses and try to retain your dignity. Wait a minute, what would the crowd think of seeing the server the Dupain-Cheng's hired crawling around everywhere for a single packaged macaroon that's clearly different from all the other macaroons served, how would that reflect on the Dupain-Cheng bakery?

IDK the name of Kagami's attire but she looks so happy in it, she's so precious when she smiles - Tomoe's smiling too.

Oh, Marinette picked up the "special macaroon" off screen in time to complain about Kagami's arrival simultaneously with Chloe, what a coincidence.

Kagami trying to ignore Marinette and Chloe glaring at her to enjoy spending time with Adrien.

More proof that Derision was a sloppily written excuse masquerading as a retcon, Marinette needed 15 seconds of shallow convincing from Chloe before agreeing to work alongside her to bully Kagami.

Marinette hating Kagami for being close to Adrien.

Marinette goes through with what Chloe plans with little to no hesitance "for Adrien."

"It's for a good cause." You're targeting another girl for daring to talk to your crush, quit lying to yourself.

Marinette faked a fall to put gum on Kagami's shoe and give Adrien the "special macaroon", why are you talking - stop talking and just give him the fucking macaroon.

Adrien, just brush the macaroon crumbs off one of the chairs, they look like they're only sprinkled on but panic can screw with the tough process so I'm not holding it against him.

Oh, so he put the macaroon down ok.

Astruc scene, skip.

12 minutes in and he gets akumatized, the episodes are roughly 20 minutes when excluding the credits.

The 2D animation for the akuma is a nice change but imagine if everything was 2D animated during the akumatization.

"I'll never take Chloe's advice again." Marinette, what advice? It was all actions you willfully participated in because you deluded yourself into thinking it was "justified".

Animation error, she's in the maid outfit but is in her regular clothing when she enters the transformation sequence.

I still hate the Ladybug Costume, I don't care about any Watsonian reason why it's an atrocity of a superhero design, a purposefully bad and bland design is still a bad and bland design.

We don't see Chat Noir transform, gutted.

More meta commentary about the show.

The lucky charm being a camera to see the akuma needs to be watched by a live audience is a clever idea, I like it.

The voice for the one background character is so ill fitting it's goofy, probably intentional and still got a quick smile from me.

I do not like the unicorn design or the voice.

Ladybug smashed the news castor's camera, just ask him to turn the camera off or point it to the ground, they're already listening to everything you tell them to do.

So the butterfly wielder can detransform and the akumatized person stays akumatized? Sounds like a set-up clue for a big brain plan for a butterfly holder to remove themselves from an enemy's suspect list but I don't think the show ever used this.

Why doesn't anyone hear Gabriel yelling "no" as he's running through a crowded street to get closer to the akuma fight? If even one person opened their eyes Gabriel would've been exposed as Hawkmoth, or at least suspected to be Hawkmoth.

Dude's monologuing 3 feet away from Chat Noir and in an open street, at least wait until you're home to monologue in the safety of your lair, you won't risk getting caught that way.

Scene of Marinette gassing up Astruc.

Marinette gets rewarded by the narrative as she gets to sit next to Adrien to watch the movie which is what she wanted. What she did to Kagami is never brought up again. Marinette got away with bullying Kagami without any consequences while Chloe got kicked from the movie theatre for the exact same actions.

Kagami barely had a line of dialogue in the episode, poor girl.

Final thoughts, Animaestro is not an episode I'll find myself rewatching any time soon. I hate how the narrative twists itself to protect Marinette from the consequences of her own actions while punishing Chloe for the exact same thing, blatantly revealing how much of a Creator's Pet she is. I hate how Astruc portrays himself as a tortured artist while never explaining what a director does in a movie production. I despise the needless sniping at the fandom and the constant meta commentary I find lazily written and boring.

If there's any season 3 episode I'll rewatch for entertainment, it certainly won't be Animaestro.

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Lesbian Headcanons Pt. 1: Chloe

I seriously enjoy writing all kinds of headcanons and analyzing this show. I want to talk about Chloe. She was such a queen from the start and Thomas just hardcore assassinated her character. So, I’m gonna put a good spotlight on her.

Also there are a ridiculous (utterly ridiculous!) amount of signs that backup this headcanon.

Her crush on Adrien seems theatrical & superficial

Chloe has always been very over the top acting as like she has this big crush on Adrien and that they’d be so good together. But, it seems very superficial.

What proves this superficiality is the way she talks about him in Sole Crusher. When she’s trying to teach Zoe how to behave, she talks about Adrien like he’s arm candy.

“Rule #148: you obviously need a guy BFF to wrap around your finger, preferably gorgeous and very rich. That one over there is mine!”

That is the direct quote from Chloe. Also take note as to how she doesn’t mention him being her crush nor claim that he’s her boyfriend. She only calls him her BFF.

Does she even value him as her friend? That’s tough to say. But, he’s given her ultimatums on multiple occasions and she hasn’t really followed through with trying to better herself. It’s sad.

She only goes after him when Marinette gets in the way

Have you noticed this? Chloe doesn’t really make much of an effort to pursue Adrien unless Marinette is stepping in to make a move on him. She makes it her mission to specifically target and sabotage Marinette. There’s less of an effort to get Adrien and more of an effort to sabotage Marinette.

There are very few times that she actually goes after Adrien on her own. But god forbid Marinette takes action, things start to blow up. She’s gone great lengths just to stop Marinette. For instance, in the Gabriel Agreste episode, she takes a video of Marinette and her friends planning to break into the party at the Agreste mansion. Then, she keeps running around the party trying to make sure the video gets exposed.

I feel like she’s secretly crushing on Marinette but either doesn’t realize it or is purposely hiding the fact that she does.

Try and tell me this sounds like a stretch, but I stand by what I say lol. Let’s do a comparison as some back up: Sharpay Evans in High School Musical is a rich, blond “mean girl” type just like Chloe. She’s friends with Troy and is very over the top about the crush she has on him. However, the difference is that she pursues him on her own plenty of times, not only when Gabrielle gets in the way. She did a fantastic job of impressing him in the second movie, going as far as to give him a scholarship and a connection with people who work for the college he wanted to attend. Chloe has never gone that far to try to impress Adrien on her own, despite having the ability to do something like Sharpay did.

She fits the “Enemies to Lovers” Trope

One could also argue that she’s bullied Marinette for years, which is obviously cruel. If she cared for her, why would she treat her that way? Well, this fits the “enemies to lovers” trope and that unhealthy narrative of “if (so and so) makes fun of you, it just means they have feelings for you.”

Bullies typically have a lot of underlying insecurities which is what makes them bully others - projection. And, while yes, we see Chloe has a bad relationship with her mother, she’s pretty damn confident in herself (like, seriously, this girl thinks she’s so popular knowing damn well most people in school don’t like her) and doesn’t really show many signs of having loads of underlying insecurities. So, with that being said, if it’s not self projection, then what is it? A crush on Marinette doesn’t seem too far fetched.

Will the enemies to lovers trope come to fruition? Will she ever get with Marinette? Obviously NOT. Marinette and Adrien are end game. Chloe won’t get with either of them. But this doesn’t mean it’s completely impossible for her to have a secret crush on Marinette.

Kagami intimidates her

Kagami is very upfront and serious which can be intimidating in itself. But she somehow scared Chloe right away, Chloe - a girl who’s supposedly a big bad bully. 

In their very first interaction, Kagami is the one to dish out the very threatening line, not Chloe. In the span of this one sentence, she’s able to make Chloe back off which is very unlike Chloe.

After that, notice how Chloe now targets Kagami. She went great lengths to humiliate her in front of Adrien in Animaestro. And even fast forwarding all the way up to Perfection, she gangs up with Lila specifically to sabotage Marinette and Kagami. So, with that repeated behavior on Kagami, there’s that possibility that she’s secretly crushing on her, too. 

Her & Sabrina play as Ladybug & Cat Noir

Of course any friends can dress up as Ladybug and Cat Noir without the possibility of them liking each other romantically (like Ladybug and Cat Noir do). But, Sabrina has shown signs of being fruity, too, which makes this a bit different.

Sabrina dedicates a lot of time to Chloe and has this undeniable super strong admiration for her. Unfortunately, Chloe abuses this and constantly asks her to perform favors for her. To do another character comparison, if you’ve ever watched Dan and Riya’s YouTube series Beverly Valley High, Rhubarb mirrors Sabrina in a lot of ways. Rhubarb is the dopey friend of the popular mean girl, Cinnamon. She’s often her sidekick in her plans to wreck the two main characters, and is also asked to do favors for her. Initially, the audience is led to think that Rhubarb is sticking by Cinnamon to be popular and benefit from her wealthy lifestyle. However, in recent episodes, it was revealed that Rhubarb has had feelings for her this whole time which is why she doesn’t leave her side. With that being said, I feel like this same thing could apply to Sabrina.

Her own half-sister is canonically queer

It can no longer be denied: Zoe isn’t straight. Not only were there pretty obvious signs in previous episodes, in Deflagration, she openly flirted with Scarabella.

It isn’t said how Zoe identifies, but what’s interesting is that her color scheme is all the colors in the pansexual pride flag. Obviously there’s many different sexualities that involve attraction to the same gender that Zoe could potentially be, but the colors are just a little sign I noticed.

Anyhow, considering she is canonically queer, that means Chloe could be too. It’s definitely not impossible. There obviously doesn’t have to be “one straight sibling and one gay sibling.”

She has really high standards

Chloe makes it very clear many, many times that she wants a guy who’s gorgeous and rich. She won’t consider or talk to any guy who she doesn’t think is attractive and isn’t rich. This can be seen as comphet behavior.

In case you don’t know what comphet is, here’s the definition: compulsory heterosexuality (comphet for short) - When somebody experiences "attraction" to the opposite gender because that expectation has been pushed on them by the patriarchal society, this is quite often experienced by lesbians.

Unnecessarily high - or completely unrealistic - standards can be considered as comphet behavior because it gives the closeted lesbian a reason to deny men and validate the fact that they don’t want to date a man. Chloe has only shown desire for Adrien and Prince ? (I forgot his name, oops) who are both rich, good looking guys. But, again, both of those “crushes” are very superficial.

Conclusion

Chloe seems like the stereotypical mean girl chasing after he popular boy in school. But, taking a second look, she doesn’t seem to really be all that attracted to Adrien nor any of the guys in the show like she tries to claim.

I think Chloe shows a lot of comphet behavior and there seems to be far too many reasons to back up the headcanon that she isn’t into guys. I like this headcanon that she’s a lez. It makes sense and seeing her in this way makes me like her more! She has so much potential to be a more well-rounded, in depth character.

This is going to be a multi part headcanon because Chloe is definitely not the only girl in Miraculous who seems fruity. I plan on writing about any who have shown a lot of signs.

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Marinette being relatably clumsy for @burntwaffle12!

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Maribun in Animaestro 👌👌👌 Ngl I'd definitely fall in love with her instantly.

How tf did Adrien walk pass THIS and didn't propose at the spot? I mean take a look at her!!!!

There was a reason why Kagami was jealous and Chloé didn't tell Adrien Marinette has a crush on him. Marinette is a strong rival. She defeats you with cuteness.

That's also why uncle Jagged was bragging to everyone about her. He was like "LOOK AT THIS THIS IS MARINETTE THE PRECIOUS CHILD"

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"It would've been better (and more hilarious) if Psychomedian was Jeremy Zag's equivalent to Animaestro (i.e. Akumatized Self-Insert)"

- submitted by anonymous