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OUHH OOOUUHHHHWW 🥹 the animators know how much we love and miss ladynoir, i'm sure of it
I suppose the reason I can't care a lot about Zoé/Brina is that it *again* feels like Zoé is just a replacement for Chloé. For now Zoé's got her sister's home and dad, she obtains the power that Chloé used to possess and the recent episode actually has indicated that she would date Chloé's might-to-be-ex-girlfriend... What is ridiculous unfair on Zoé! The girl already shows some interesting traits, Zoé deserves her independent character arc. Like she has always wanted to step out of the shadow of her cruel sister, but the narrative just can't allow her to do it...
So, we've got a brand new episode about Chloé... I wonder what people actually thi...
oh, never mind
I'm not trying to rub salt in the wound, but like... We realize Chloe is never being redeemed at this point, right? Like that has been made abundantly clear both on screen and out of the creator's own mouth how many times now? How many times do they have to say, "She had the option to change and chose not to"? I don't understand why people are surprised that she acted the way she did in this episode or that they didn't magically make her good. Zoe was introduced to replace her as the bee Miraculous holder. Chloe is done, yall. She's not coming back to be the bee again. She just isn't.
Do what you want in fic, but stop pretending like that show hasn't been clear for the past 3 seasons that Chloe is not going to get better. Her redemption is not canon, and in hindsight, it was never going to be. They explored a storyline to see if she would, and the outcome was that she didn't. You don't have to like it, but I think it's high time to accept it.
I suppose that the most puzzling thing about this brand new Marinette's hate era is how people react to her behavior. The show constantly points out Marinette does a wrong thing when she doesn't reveal the true to her boyfriend. They have even demonstrated us directly this parallel between her and Gabriel's attitude towards Adrien. The plot doesn't try to hire or justify Marinette's decision. Yes, the whole situation is complicated. The girl obviously has her reasons and issues. But once again, the series is so straightforward in its depiction of protagonist's deeds.
'Marrinette acts problematically'
Yes, that's the whole point!
She's not losing time (he can't hide)
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Anthropology major answer: “There absolutely was such a time! Modern humans and our ancestors shared territory numerous times over prehistory with cousin species like homo neanderthalensis, homo floresiensis, and many, many others!”
Folklore student answer: “Also, almost all cultures have something like djinn, faeries, hulder, fox spirits, and other similar creatures who can appear at least human and are very, very dangerous to humans!”
Both of these things are true, and may be connected both to the above and to each other. :D
Biology majors: it’s dead bodies guys. Corpses.
Listen I hate this take on the uncanny valley so fucking much because many subpsecies of homonids lived in the same areas but some of them got along well enough to coexist and neandertals had enough desirable genetic traits to the point where human women (see here for a blanket on female vs male choosiness) would often pass up incel homosepian for the chad neandertal.
Genetics aside, various hominid species didn’t start visually looking all that different until 50,000 years ago, while under the skin changes began as early as 89,000 years ago (ie the development of the Y chromosome but I might be oversimplifying at this point) Point being, even our non-human cousins didn’t. look. that. different. from. us. Especially comparing the diversifying of humans themselves crossing trans continental as it was. And even then neandertals still had advantagious traits for living in the Eurasian hemisphere.
Also I digress, regardless of it being intentional, and with few perserved records from that chapter in our species’ history, I don’t like the implication that the uncanny valley effect stems from humans being inherently racist (for lack of a word for hatred of non-human intelligences). I know that sounds off the wall but prejudice and sense of superiority by birthright is vastly different than othering by means of the sucess of social groups and the need to compete for territory or resources. Racism is entirely a Eurpean fabrication and it’s been proven time and time again to be a cultural outlier and purposfully designed to further the agenda of corroded theocratical religious divinity (here, here, here) and the financial benifits of the exploitation of colonism that otherwise has not been replicated by other cultures to the same degree. (this is the only example off the top of my head but I’m know there’s more.)
You know what’s older than racism?
You know what’s more flesh crawling than neandertals?
fucking rabies
You know what LOOKS like a human but doesn’t ACT human ENOUGH? Do you know what might bite you and get you sick or turn you into something that also moves about in a non human way? Brain parasites that give you painful headaches and intensifies agression and confusion.
Say you’re a monkey and one member of your troop gets bitten by something. Later he starts twitching and swaying about. He keeps stumbling out of trees but barely feels anything when he hits the ground. He won’t eat sleep or drink. He makes guttural noises that keep alerting predators and he’s in obvious writhing agony. Suddenly he’s not your friend anymore. He doesn’t recognize you and he attempts to bite and claw at anything that moves.
Up until preventitive oral medications and vaccines were developed in the 1970s there was NOTHING stopping rabies and it still prevails today and kills hundreds of thousands of people in third world countries with limited medical resources a year. There’s no cure for rabies once youve got it and the only reliable diagnostic is a brain autopsy.
Rabies. TB. Leoprosy. Syphilis. Meningitis. Toxoplasmosis. Anthrax. Mercury Poisoning. Prion disease. These are all bad and in different varying degrees can cause limps, sores, agression, confusion or dazed trances, ambled pacing, convulsions or uncharacteristic behavior in humans.
Basically everything that people are terrified of when it comes to zombies. Vampires bite. Werewolves rip people apart. Demonic possesion? Easy. Changlings take the place of your loved ones.
Also I don’t think that it’s a conicidence that the things we find uncomfortable with the uncanny valley also just happen to line up with predatory behavior, smiling too wide or staring you down, blinking too slowly or moving towards you with a slow steady speed. It’s just a danger signal to keep other monkeys in a troop from getting bitten by an infected monkey. Simple as that.
After all what’s scarier? A dead body, or moving body that will MAKE you dead?
I’m not going to be a hypocrite by pointing out racism being excused as a stemmed human behavior without claiming that the deep seated primal fear of disease doesn’t make a good excuse for ableism as well. I mean we use othering to discern friend from foe, and then at some point decided that was a good enough excuse for racism. Theres legitimate proof that ancient homonids could and would be hospitible to the disabled out of compassion. The point of having these initial fears is to guage saftey measures first, but once someone or something is proven to be harmless that normally should be the end of it. I mean if an adult wild silverback gorrilla can look at a spycam and decide it’s chill after a moment of inspection then there’s really no excuse for any of us.
Healthy othering =/= newly invented racism.
healthy fear of infectious diseases =/= excuse to hate disabled people.
But yeah rabies is more likely the reason for the uncanny valley effect thanks for coming to my goddamn ted talk.
Reblogging this version bc of sources and I personally think this makes for much more interesting (and terrifying) lore than any other post in this thread.
Holy shit. I never thought of the “zombie virus” to be this take. It makes total fuckin sense. Shit
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