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The bitchin' car in 1955, on stereo slide.
Antique Art Nouveau 14K Gold Winged Goddess Brooch
Source - Boylerpf
Nike of Samothrace,
The Louvre Museum, Paris, France.
I feel like the fascinating if frustrating discourse revolving around Marinette seems to be more about one's own discomfort.
That is to say, the show might give out life lessons to follow, sure, but it won't act like everyone should be a clear-cut good guy/bad guy. Yet so many want somebody to take the full blame rather than take the time to empathize with every single person. Even if a few might be in the wrong than others, it's important to understand them.
14 year old Marinette can let her control freak nature get the better of her, often leading her to do things that she will look back with the utmost cringe. She might be our protagonist and our hero but that does not free her from being only human. A very young human at that.
In fact, her neurotic nature as Marinette will often be channeled into her strength as Ladybug. Those Lucky Charms are only as effective because she's keen to overthink, especially when it a tight spot. One might say it's a kind of duality like... creation and destruction? Two sides of the same coin.
People bring up her heroic speeches as hypocrisy but just because one might not always practice what one preaches, it doesn't make it have any less of a point if applicable. Fact is that us humans always try our best but we can never truly be free of our foibles.
Now... we all have our thresholds for what we find cringe in a character at best or over the line at worst but there's such a resistance to giving Marinette any sort of empathy.
Like, say, the heavily fudged truth she gave out to Adrien and Paris by proxy about Gabriel Agreste. So many take the CinemaSins approach of expecting cold logic out of her when it comes to emotional moments.
Why do so many question why the 14 year old girl didn’t deliver what was a close equivalent to the news a soldier gives to his dead squadmate’s family? Because for as much as she might mask well as Ladybug, Marinette is a teenager. Practically a kid.
Why do characters have to act like logic machines who only make the smartest decisions? Why can some fans actually put themselves in her shoes? What was she suppose to say:
"Hey, Adrien. You know your father whom you have complicated feelings about but ultimately want to love and be loved back by? He's dead. But hey, he was Monarch, the villain formally known as Hawk Moth. Not only did Chat Noir basically give him magical cancer but he was trying to revive his wife with a wish that would've sacrificed another for her own. He still made the wish but did it to revive Nathalie instead. But... hey, dude was an asshole and you're free."
NO!
FUCK NO!
Yes, this is a decision that will not pan out well. SHE KNOWS THIS! This eats her up! Part of why she's like "that" in Sublimation is because of the hole she already dug herself into.
Construction Study, ca. 1927, Bauhaus Dessau,
Student: Lotte Gerson,
Three dimensional piece of paper from Josef Albers' course at the Bauhaus.
Albers annotated photographs of this construction with the statement that it was over 80 cm tall.
Silver gelatin print, photographer unknown, possibly Edmund Collein