I want my voice to be heard by all the free people of the world.🌍
I write ✏️to you with a heavy heart, not seeking financial support, but simply to share my voice, my family's voice 👨👩👧👦, and our daily struggles. We are living in challenging conditions in a tent, where my wife, Manar, cannot find the comfort she needs for her kidney treatment 🏨. My children 👨👩👧👦, Muhammad and Haneen, could not complete their education📚 because of the war. My young son, Yazan, has been severely injured🚀 by explosions that shattered his safety and childhood.
All I ask is that you remember us🌍, ask about our well-being, even if with just a few simple words that let us know we are not alone 🫂 and that there are those who feel for us. Just shedding light on our suffering would be enough to ease this heavy burden and give us hope that kindness still exists.🙏
May these words reach those with compassionate hearts who will remember us and keep us in their prayers. This gesture alone would be enough for me.
For anyone interested in following our story, you can find it through the following links .
My original story link
The story of Muhammad and Haneen and their struggles with education, along with my sick wife.
The story of my injured son, Yazan.
My donation campaign link
Ali Jendia lived with his family of nine in Gaza when war ravaged… Nimr Aburass needs your support for Help Ali Jundia and his family to mov
lukzoe but it's a butch lesbian with an awful personality doomed to die alone (also a mets fan) and a douchebag with an awfuler personality giving her ""advice"" on how to pick up women
---
"How could I have missed it?!" His hands shook, staring in a sickening sort of wonder at the rings. "I'll propose, and she'll be safe! All of the agreements with the Tsurugis have been nothing more than verbal, it's– I just need to get my hands on something legally binding. That’s when we go to the press. The press will be on my side, why wouldn't they be?" Adrien began to choke on his own words. "It'll be a Cinderella story, they'll devour it, and with that as my insurance Gabriel won't be able to get rid of her without the world as his witness!"
---
This. will NOT end well.
It’s crazy what taking Adderall during Finals prep can get you to do! I’m sure you remember me vaguely alluding to what we now have up back when Chapter 61 dropped. The Princess is back, and Matagot gets a brief shoutout, and there’s a little blip of Freud’s model of the psyche going on in their exchange and I think that’s fun.
There’s a little mini-thesis I’m sort of building to in this arc with how circular everything is. Characters will repeat the same phrases in slightly different ways, and so on, and yet it’s all treading the same ground the same way, say… multiple fics for a ship occupying the same trope would be. Claudrien revisits this trope again that was introduced in very early Part 1: Adrien wants to get married, Claudia does not. It is not under that new context, but with the added bonus of self-awareness that we haven’t really gotten anywhere—And that this lack of progress is part of the construction of his world. Whether it’s more of “Adrien is diegetically predisposed to being a love interest because he’s Adrien Agreste from Miraculous Ladybug” or “we’re revisiting this again because Wisteria Symphony is forcing us to revisit it”, well… maybe it’s subjective. But the recursion is being brought up on purpose.
Then, to set things up a little further, with the almost-cyclical nature of things, and what Adrien says in Chapter 64:
---
What is a ring if not its own little prison, domesticated to civil life? We are all prisoners, different yet the same.
---
I’d like to have us put a pin in the idea of rings symbolizing bonds. Well, duh. Wedding rings, high school graduating class rings, etc. Adrien’s miraculous is his bond to the story manifest. The stolen ring from Chapter 12 is his bond (if one she’s always been tenuous to acknowledge) to Claudia. Any further gifting of rings would thus be imposing the bonds they symbolizing on someone else.
...Uh oh.
when you are an impressionable 17-18 year old and you fear that you have no internality because you have been produced by a board to be as broadly appealing as possible there will be a devil on your shoulder that will tell you to propose to and marry the only person you feel understands you. and it is imperative you listen to that devil (- Tikki, probably)
more thoughts under the cut
the feeling of constant circling that is becomes all of this kind of (in Adrien's purview, justified) manic desperation and the (enforced) 'inevitability' of romance tropes and the sort of addictive possibility of said romance through cultural story... they made your coping mechanisms metaphysically satisfying, Adrien, you're absolutely fucked. and it captures the RGU Apocalypse arc's vibe very well, this sudden dawning realization that things are starting to move in the way they hadn't before but you still don't know what's going on.
I really enjoy the extent to which roles and playing roles factors into Adrien and his cope/his self-perception is used in this fic. like, he can't even confront his warring impulses and desires without sublimating them into an act, which is always done for someone else (in the way that theatre is observed). reinforced by, of course, his quoting of Shakespeare, which is what kicks off his manic spiral about the only out being the ultimate romantic end goal of MLB as a project.
of course Adrien's solution is also very RGU-esque, missing the actor for the role as it were, and the (as you say) imposition of pre-existing bonds given how they met each other. it's about to become Miraculous: Les Aventures de Cynique et Chat Noir /j/j/j. so I can't wait for Claudia to try and navigate this quagmire
now I'm just going to do a rapidfire list of things I kind of just wanted to yap about that kind of made me go Ourgh... the implications
Gabriel acting as though Félix being around Audrey is a favour being done to Adrien as opposed to (ostensibly?) being his own mistake insofar as he can't tell the difference, any deviation from the median has to be recaptured as a favour. Do the right thing Adrien kill your father you will be reincarnated as a lotus flower.
every 20 minutes... at first I was like wait is this an Outer Wilds reference before I realized it was. an average MLB episode length. I'm really good at this whole fanfic reading thing
I like the specifics attributed to each character when they're not being the chorus, like Chloé's "the only thing people have in their hearts is themselves!". in Adrien's mind-palace everyone can be who they are (or, perhaps, in his own way, what he thinks they are lol). of special note to me personally was 'Marinette' being the one to say "if they're telling you what to do, it's because they know better"; god's favourite victim would believe that.
I also always love a turn towards the fourth wall/audience... like yes, the rest of us sick bastards are out here, watching you being watched as Adrien the product, good luck :)
nooooted 🫡 definitely considering venturing into work skin land for it, yes.
Adrien's tendency towards role-playing and processing his emotions through performance is definitely a fun one, though. I was so psyched for Revolving Revolving Revolting that I even posted a snippet of it on my twitter's strawpage just so I could have it up somewhere a bit earlier, and it has the left-wards(?) orientation plus some extra little flourishes that I thought make more sense tonally for a work presented on a webpage that exists in a sort of vacuum.
A reader told me that this section was very Pirandello-esque, and while I haven't done too far into looking at Theatre of the Absurd works, I guess I sort of wrote something very close to it on accident? I found a Wikisource version of Six Characters in Search of an Author, so I guess I've figured out what I'm going to start reading in my free time next, haha. I can't say I'm not immensely happy with myself for being able to compare my children's show fanfiction with Theatre of the Absurd and existentialist classics, though. Feels real good. Can't wait for the Diamond Ball Arc to finally begin in 67.
Could you elaborate on what you mean by that? Maybe this just confirms what you already said, but when it comes to Adrien's paranoias especially—not just about possible murder, but even, say, the possibility of Gabriel being directly incestuous one day—the point is never whether or not it is true. (That sort of ties into my philosophy surrounding writing dread a la DOLLHOUSE but that's it's own thing.) What is "serious" is that regardless of whether or not it could happen, he has been affected by his environment to believe such and the ways in which he's been affected to have these thoughts is ultimately the important thing. He is definitely an unreliable narrator, yes. Gabriel was not the one who gifted the basket, and Adrien kind of convinced himself of that immediately despite it not being true. But his environment has also deliberately worked to convince him of untrue things before...
Especially which it comes to, say, that all-too-important scarf that Marinette gifted him in canon, which in canon he still doesn't know the truth about.
Anyway, yes. Libido/Matagot. He's really fun, and since I have a habit of hearing every character's "voices" in my head while I write/read over what I've written I reaaally wish I could recreate the voice he has. It's so whispery and... fae-like, maybe. He's always twitching a little, which you could take either as symbolic of him being more attuned to the physical body (and thus nerves), or as him sort of acting as the "holding space" for all of the imperfections that the Princess Garçon despises, neurodivergent stimming included.
Agh, just look at these lines!! So good! Love them!
