It’s not that I mindlessly hate Miraculous. It was an extremely promising show. Only, trying to articulate why I (and so many others) find it profoundly disappointing from a creative standpoint is important.

Mediocre cartoons like Miraculous, or even downright bad series and films and whatnot, are tremendously useful teaching material, a neat series of counter-examples for you to learn from, in terms of worldbuilding, plotting or character writing. Shows are made up. Characters are made up. Understanding how they work or do not work can be really interesting, and dare I say, fun!

Well, if you think about that for long enough, you might find some answers, and subsequently learn how not to fall into the same pitfalls as Miraculous did when you write your own thing. Likewise, you will be able to anticipate similar creative decisions you may not like in other works.

Saying “X is garbage” alone isn’t very good criticism. Being truly able to explain why you (subjectively, there is no objective appreciation of a piece of media, no matter what anyone might tell you) think that is, in good faith, thanks to a close reading of the text, on the other hand… 

Knowing what you don’t like, learning how to identify it and articulate it in other terms than “thing bad” can allow for constructive conversations with fellow fans that may not agree with you. It can help you become more aware of your own tastes as well!

Criticise the hell out of the things you watch, be it positively or negatively! All criticism isn’t negative! From an etymological standpoint, criticism comes from the ancient Greek krinein, “to judge”. Not “to spit on”.  And, well, you can have little a positive judgement, as a treat! There’s nothing worse than a strictly passive attitude towards what you watch/read/listen to. Absolutely no piece of media should be exempt from being looked at critically, not even a “dumb cartoon”.

Yes! For me it’s like a writing prompt

It gives you an idea AND the added bonus of what NOT to do!

so, you’re telling me killua has the same english va as marinette? they sound nothing alike but then they do at the same time lmaooo

WOAH WHY AM I JUST HEARING OF THIS??

ML FANDOM! WHERE U AT?

let’s go clowns

Marinette Dupain-Cheng

{p.s. send me rants/posts about Marinette/Ladybug - I will love the heck out of those}

Luka Couffaine: My thoughts now. (Gale Rants about ML)

I want to say this is strictly my opinion.

Rant below.

(I’m on Mobile so this is my warning)

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I use to not really like Luka when he first appeared.

Then I was neutral towards him.

But now, I realized how badly this character got f***ed over. I pity him.

I feel like I should be clear, I don’t think there is any scenario at this moment where I would ever ship Luka//nette. To be honest it has nothing to do with the character. By all logic and preference, I should be able to ship it. I use to think it was just like an irrational mental allergic reaction to it, but I figured it out. I can say I don’t ship Luka//nette because of two major Factors.

1. The canon Writing outside of the Luka//nette encounters:

I feel like this needs some context on why I say this.

First of all Luka has a massive handicap in terms of Love rivals. For one, he is a classmates older brother. Old enough that they are in different schools. If Marinette was in the same school, this probably would not be as huge of a disadvantage. So Marinette’s only real interactions with him will be actively seeking him out, him seeking her out, or something regarding costume/ designs for the band. Marinette isn’t even in the band officially. This really cuts Luka’s chances for natural interactions.

Kagami is the opposite, she has a Lot Of advantages. She is on Adrien’s fencing team, her mom and Adrien’s dad are business partners and it results in Kagami and Adrien having more encounters naturally. This allows for more development.

Another issue is how little interaction he has with other Characters. At the very least we don’t see it. Luka has more verbal interactions with Marinette then any other character combined. We don’t get to see what’s his personality to people he is friends with, even his own family. It’s so limiting. It’s like his personality is Musician that likes Marinette. That’s it. For me to ship something, I need to have something more to grasp about the character cause I like seeing how the ship brings out the best in eachother. That’s why fanon Luka is a lot more interesting and I think that if Fanon Luka was canon this issue would be null.

2. The fandom, spite/salt shippers:

To be honest, this is 90% of the reason I just can’t ship Luka//nette. (I can ship Mari with so many others. Even though I love the love square). The spite shippers just paint Adrien and a lot of others in such a nasty light. It sucks that like it seems like 40% of that tag is filled with just character hate of others, specifically Adrien. For those that like the ship for reasons outside of hating Adrien/others, I am completely fine with it. But the spite shipping has just... ruined it for me.

To end my point. Luka got screwed over a lot. I use to think I hated him but really, there is nothing substantial about him for me to hate or love. He is just sort of a plot device for the writers and a weaponized salt weapon for spite shippers.

I honestly wish he gets more development, any kind of development even if it paints him in a negative light. I want to see flaws, I want to see growth and development.

I want a reason to grow to like this character.

I do wish that he would interact with his own sister. Like they barely look at each other.

When the ending sucked, but fan artists and fic writers got your back

Shout out to the fan creators! You guys are the best and are validated!

I just saw this on Instagram and it's the smartest thing ever. Wtf

Kagami: *makes faces at Marinette but doesn’t really do any thing*

Yall: omg I hate her 🤬🤬😡

Marinette:*actively goes out her way to sabotage Adrien and Kagami’s time together*

Yall: well [insert a shitty ass excuse to justify this]

IKR?? Like Kagami has morals and STICKS to them. She may be an “ice queen” but from my POV she’s just likes to keep to herself and knows what she wants. That doesn’t make her a bad person