#ml rambles

[bklily]

I hope any and all that come across my blog know I'm a Maribug defender until I take my final breath.

I simply do not care. She could murder someone on screen and I'd be wiping the blood off her hands and giving her a pat on the head. Your honor I fear she is just a girl. She just got too silly.

[nervousbelieverstarfish]

Last night I dreamt about Hawkmoth giving Ladybug parenting advices

[sofilandstuff]

after determination I'm accepting that headcanon that adrien broke his wings in simpleman just so he will have an excuse to see marinette

[dedahblog]

Miraculous Ladybug Is Kind Of Sexist

I was planning on writing something about an aspect I didn't like in ML, then I realised, in order to write salt, you have to actually care about the said show and that was no longer the case for me.

However, I found this video and it really seemed as if this guy read my mind. This obvious misogyny is exactly what I hate about ML.

Then I read the comments and I found unsurprisingly fans missing the point again, they have been brainwashed by the show that always portraya Adrien as a victim so it triggered me to rant a bit about it.

This will be the last time I will ever talk about ML.

.....

I got sick of all that drama around Adrien. He's always portrayed as a pitiful rich boy who needs to be pampered. Even when he's being forceful towards ladybug, the writers always find a way to make the audience feel bad for him.

Then, to make things worse, they turned him to a sentimonster to make him totally immune of any blame.

This show is misoginy at its finest.

Boys are portrayed as poor meow meow who are victimes of their instincts and insecurity. Poor creatures who love too much to the point it can be destructive and girls should just pamper them (Felix, Gabriel, Andre, Adrien in some ways)

It is not only disrespectful to women as it restrains their role as nursing support but it also doesn't respect men as self sufficient individuals

In the same context, the show is fond of making boyfriends act like toddlers and girls being the only proactive members in the relationship. That line about Ivan dreaming about being a malewife and supporting Mylene future's career threw me off

Wtf are you teaching kids ? Isn't Ivan, before being a boy, like ... a kid ? He should have dreams that are not focused around someone else's goals, whoever that person was.

Who gives a f*** if he loves her ? What is Mylene worth in comparison to Ivan's healthy mental independence ?

I didn't even mention how they made adrigamii almost kiss 3 times and being comfortable doing so and that basically meant they kissed out screen

In contrast, Luka and Marinette only attempted once awkwardly and it clearly seemed that they never did that before

It reminds me of sexist stereotypes : if a girl has an intimate relationship with another guy then she is tainted. However, of course, that's not the case for the guy.

Writers keeping the main girl's lips "virgin" for the male lead ... how very progressive for the show that is adamant about girl empowerment. Are you sure ISIS didn't cowrite that shit ?

Last but not least, the fact that the only irredeemable characters in ML happen to be girls is so damn disgusting.

It's that perspective that men are prone to be evil because that's their instinct. You just have to pamper them and make them feel good about themselves.

Woman, however, are either madonna or whores. If they are being evil then no matter how much you advise them, they will never change and they should almost be crucified for it ( Lila and Chloe ... and probably Tomoe in the future )

Anyway end of the rant.

Goodbye ML

[caffeinatedmuggle]

Made a “favorite kpop b-sides of 2020” playlist over the weekend to add some variety to my collection of work music and have realized, as I listen, that only 5 songs in my top 30 aren’t BTS or Day6. The consistency with which I love their discographies is truly unmatched.

[midnightluck]

Just talk about sabo (and maybe ace and luffy too) and I’ll be happy. I’m kinda starved for sabo content . Also have you seen stampede? I think it’s funny how ace fought with smoker while sabo tried his best to cooperate with him

I have yet to see Stampede, actually! Keep meaning to get around to it; maybe I finally will during this quarantine thing.

An invitation to talk about Sabo? Don’t mind if I do! Cause, see, I’ve been having thoughts lately, and, y’all, hot take incoming. Also, I am not caught up, fair warning.

The thing is, okay, is I love Sabo, but he’s really, y’know, not…necessary? No, wait, wait, come back–

Look, it’s just? For something as well-plotted and -told as One Piece, Sabo’s backstory stands out as a sloppy last-minute addition.

He has a lot of potential of being a really cool character and bringing in a whole new side to the story, mainly the Revolutionary Army. That fits with the whole idea of the Strawhat armada, even; Luffy is growing and making a name for himself, and he’s causing ripples. It’s what we’ve seen yonko do, and having a literal Army for backup is both impressive and terrifying. With the political stuff we’ve seen going on behind the scenes at Reverie, etc, it could even be important.

Instead, Sabo is just being treated as a carbon copy of Ace.

It feels sloppy, too, because he wasn’t even introduced until after Ace’s death. Given what we’ve seen Oda do, it would havemade a lot more sense to have him remember just before and be unable to make it in time, or any other tragic way to do it.

It’s not entirely unprecedented; Luffy didn’t mention Ace until he showed up, after all. But the only clues we have of him are Ace’s tattoo and then the sake cups in 558 (only 25 chapters before the reveal), and for someone as good at  foreshadowing as Oda, it strikes me as odd. (I’m not counting the tophat at Loguetown–it’s circumstantial at best.) It wouldn’t have taken more than a page or so to have Luffy and Ace mention it when they were together in Alabastia (“Say, Ace… you think he’d be proud of us…?” “Yeah, Luffy. Yeah, I do.”). And Ace, unlike Luffy, has a history of bragging about his brother.

Apparently Law was meant to  be a one-off and was brought back, and yet that’s much more smoothlyintegrated than Sabo’s sudden ret-con. It was sudden, out of nowhere,and–I dunno, it feels like a response to the backlash over Ace’s death more than something planned?

Granted, the relation to the Revolutionary Army is important, but there’s Dragon, there’s Ivankov, there’s Koala; there needs to be a Sabo-shaped character there, sure, but not Sabo himself. Sabo has, to this point, not had any actual effect on the plot that is related to him being Luffy’s brother. Anyone powerful enough could have showed up post-Dressrosa. Dragon could have done it. Coby could have done it. Jinbe could have done it. Koala or any other RA member could have done it. Boa could have done it.

He defended Luffy, and he ate the mera-mera, but until we see how those shake out, I’m not convinced he needed this backstory to do it.

I write a lot of Sabo, and I am very well aware that the Sabo I write is not canon!Sabo. That’s because I like the idea of Sabo more than the canon reality of him. I like his potential, and the dynamics we could have had. I like a Sabo who has his ownpersonality, who is a product of his environment, and is more than just the ghost of his brother.

I’m gonna withhold judgement until we see if he actually has any real impact on the storyline going forward, but as it stands? Right now?

I love Sabo, ya’ll, but as far as current canon goes? Whether Ace died or not, Sabo is still completely unnecessary.

[jockallensworld]

about rapheal route proposed by @andreearonox

i dont know what will be rapheal route but I have some ideas :

he give me italian vibes and romeo and juliet vibes. according to his clothes, i would say ... he lived when leonardo de vinci or napoleon was still alive as a noble man

about his blindness, he doesnt look like he have a scar on it so he is maybe born with this or something like bran from game of thrones

for his sword, he has the enhanced hearing ability like daredevil so its pretty simple for him to fight

edit 1 : THIS GOES WITH A RAPHAEL X MC DRAWING OF @miomiofan maybe his eyes are covered because with a look of his eyes he can control everyone and used them as a marionette

edit 2 (i watched the trailer) : im sorry but that a lieeeeee 😭 he cant be sweet he cant be the 100% light i swear he has a dark side, he wont fool me

but he is a musician?? or a music lover ?? according to his bedroom though but honestly i dont know

[vampexx]

Thoughts on Luka and in general

Well, I have been working on an analysis for Luka’s character for a little while now and every time I worked on it, I just didn’t like the way it was turning out. As in, it wasn’t flowing well, it was super messy and patchy, and it was so long that I was losing track of all of the points I was planning on making....yes, that long. SO, I thought I would not only spare myself the headache, but that I would spare you guys too lol.  So I just threw this together hoping it would sit better with me and luckily, it does :) .

I was going to make this post some grand master-analysis on my theories, thoughts and opinions of everything from characters, theories, different ships, etc. and yikes, that idea was scratched pretty quickly because someone who rambles as much as I do, that’s the worst decision ever lol I do not have the time nor patience for any of that mess lol.

Besides, most of what was in this post before I scrapped it has all been said before so I didn’t want to be repetitive.

So instead, I have decided to include mainly my new thoughts on Luka since coming to a different conclusion and stance on his character. The rest will be included, yes, but in the form of links to my other theories and opinions that I was planning including originally to some degree for anyone who may care what my opinion is.

With all that being said, let’s talk about my new found opinion of Luka.

I have always agreed with those that said that Luka’s character was flat, 2-dimensional and too “perfect” to be true. Now here’s the thing, while I was writing the scrapped analysis that was essentially going to reiterate those same things, I came to the conclusion that Luka is, in fact, not perfect. 

For instance:

In the episode, “Silencer,” Marinette and Luka go to XY and his manager to defend Kitty Section when discovering their style and song were wrongfully stolen/ copied. Of course, Luka is a very reserved and subdued character so his flaws are more easily unnoticed at first glance. To spot his flaws, you have to look less at what he is doing (writing melodies, being compassionate, etc. you know, things that make him “perfect.”) and look more at what he is not doing. Back to my point in, “Silencer.” So, Marinette, as she normally does, is quick to defend and argue over the wrongful use of Kitty Section’s style and song. She ends up in a pretty heated argument with XY’s manager. Where is Luka, you ask? While he is in indeed angry like Marinette, but he is standing in the background not really helping nor backing her up in said argument when he arguably should have. Now, this is in fact a flaw. It is due to his non-confrontational and reserved nature that he does not get involved in the argument, neither to back up / defend Marinette, but also not to defend Kitty Section, his own band. He just let’s Marinette do all the arguing and talking while he’s just there watching, getting angrier and angrier, eventually being akumatized. 

Granted, Luka has shown to be not as good with words as say maybe someone like Marinette. What I mean by that is, he usually seems to speak via music so maybe he struggles with verbal expression although that would contradict his poetic words in, “Silencer,” and compassionate words in, “Felix.” Not that expression primarily through music is a bad thing, it is easily endearing to his character however it can also be viewed as another “flaw,” being that he is not a communicator unlike Marinette, who sometimes over communicates lol. It’s pretty clear that Luka does have some nice choice of words to say, however when he does talk, he doesn’t say a whole lot as in, it’s fairly brief. Otherwise, he keeps to himself it seems. Now Luka’s lack of communication can be foreseen as kryptonite to the Lukanette ship, just as I have said above, Marinette is a communicator and not Luka. For someone like Marinette, that could easily be a “turn off” for her, who is a very (sometimes overly) outwardly expressive person, although sometimes not by choice lol.

I may not have found many flaws for Luka, however I feel it’s enough to combat the statement of his character being too “perfect.” I agree, he seems that way at first. Due to his “laid back,” and “go with the flow,” type nature, it’s easy to potentially misinterpret him as a “too good to be true,” type of character. To reiterate, his flaws can be more easily found in what he is not doing, rather than what he is doing. For comparison, a good example of someone having flaws based off of what they do/ their actions (as opposed to inaction) would be Kagami, basing this statement off of her vastly differing personality from Luka. 

To sum up regarding Luka’s flaws, the ones that I have found so far are inaction, seemingly distant and disinterested (mentioned more in depth in link #2) and lack of general communication. Why he possesses those flaws are open to anyone’s interpretation. I for one, am not digging that deep.

Thus being why I have changed my opinion of Luka from being neither good nor bad, just generally indifferent to his character, to actually now being a Luka stan. Now, I’m not necessarily his biggest fan and I am certainly not a fan of Lukanette, but I’m ok with his character and  I do stan Lukagami because they are both Adrien and Marinette’s mirrors, therefore they are also arguably yin and yang like Adrien and Marinette.

Now this post is titled, “Thoughts on Luka and in general.” Meaning, there are some other things I wanted to include that don’t necessarily involve Luka’s character. 

1st being - As of the season 3 finale, I would like to state that no one is officially dating. Nothing official has happened. No one even kissed. 90% of Lukanette’s actions were essentially friendly, nothing too romantic. Marinette does not appear to really reciprocate Luka’s feelings (as backed by, “Luka as seen by Marinette,” video where she never mentions returning his feelings). Also, Adrigami didn’t officially happen either. Although a kiss was attempted, it did in fact fail on Adrien’s end. Some kids sat next to each other, hung out  and ate ice cream which normally doesn’t suggest that people are dating. If anything at all romantic happened in the very end of the finale, it’s that the two pairs are in the, “testing the waters,” phase at best. No more no less, in my opinion.

Remember: The theme of the finale was, “You don’t always get what you want.” That doesn’t just apply to Adrien, Marinette and especially the fandom. It also applies to Kagami, Luka, Chloe, Hawkmoth, Mayra and hell, even Andre lol.

Let’s be honest, we’re not even guaranteed to pick up where we left off in the season 3 finale when season 4 starts.

2nd thing - Now that the peacock miraculous is fixed, I will be shocked if we don’t see the butterfly and peacock miraculous unified, and whatever fresh hell that will bring lol.

Third thing - The kiss in season 2 finale was not just friendly unless when a friend kisses you on the cheek, you look at them like this...

To which I must ask....are they just a friend lmao? (Lol sorry, don't @ me, trying to make a MLB pun....)

4th  thing - I really don’t know which love square ship will be primary in season 4. Like, Adrien still loves Ladybug, obviously, and always will but seems to be taking a break from pursuing her romantically. It is also made crystal clear via a forgotten confession in, “Chat Blanc,” and through increasingly prominent heart eyes from Adrien that his, “more than friends,” feelings for Marinette are growing so much and so fast that they’re quickly reaching the point for him to no longer be able to ignore it. So Adrien, “changing his target,” will not shift to Kagami, rather it will shift to Marinette. I mean, there was no mention of Adrigami vs. Adrinette having a decided victor in season 4 like Lukanette vs. Adrinette, which leads me to think they will not only end first, but also end pretty early on in the season if the ship takes off officially at all, which is still unknown. Next, we have Marinette who is in a more complicated position. She believes that she cannot love Chat due to thinking, for what she knows to be some outrageous reason that she refuses to look into, “will end the world.” She is also trying to move on from Adrien, who obviously she will also never get over. So for Marinette it’s trickier because she feels like she can’t have either, while Adrien seems to get a simple shift in “targets.” 

So how this love square business is going to play out in season 4 is kind of up in the air for me. Marichat is a possible route, where Adrien is pining for Marinette as Chat and Marinette is pining for Chat (while believing they can’t be together) however that makes it seem less likely. It could also be Adrinette, which I feel might be the most sensible route, because Adrien pining for Marinette after finally coming to terms with his feelings for her, and Marinette I guess then deciding to give them a shot romantically assuming Adrien confesses, otherwise if she is still trying to move on without knowing Adriens feelings for her, then I don’t know how well that would work. Ladrien I guess could work, like an unrequited love type deal although I don’t know how likely that is to happen given both main character’s head spaces. Ladynoir I expect, at least for most of the season, to be mostly platonic temporarily. Ladynoir, in my opinion, will probably be the last corner of the love square to be resolved, which I think will take place in the movie after season 4. So, yeah.....more than likely to be played out either via Marichat or Adrinette in my opinion.

That’s all I have to talk about for now....I have just been kind of sitting on those thoughts for a while. Now I will include the links as mentioned earlier:

Link 1) https://vampexx.tumblr.com/post/190128222840/just-my-opinion

Link 2) https://vampexx.tumblr.com/post/190054338050/uh-ohi-used-my-brain-againget-ready-lol

Link 3) https://vampexx.tumblr.com/post/189482028990/just-a-thought-there-are-spoilers-in-case

Link 4) https://vampexx.tumblr.com/post/189856458390/alright-sorry-but-im-gonna-be-salty-real

Sorry this was lengthy, but believe me, this is way better than what this post would have been originally lol. I’m still so tired after all that though...oh well. Worth it I guess.

Have a miraculous day and thank you for your patience!