I Love That School Buses Are A Standard Unit Of Measurement For Dinosaurs And Dinosaurs Only.

I love that school buses are a standard unit of measurement for dinosaurs and dinosaurs only.

I know people are sad that marinette support system is declining with her barely talk to her parents anymore and it is really saddening, but adrien support system is now nonexistence with nino just throw the secret out of window and it hit me harder because his support system is never been as huge as marinette and he just lost the last person he could potentially tell his secret at.

It really is sad for the both of them yeah..

The thing is, Marinette has all the resources of a good support system: she has good parents, has lots of good friends, has Alya, heck even has Chat Noir. But she choses to not use them or to distance herself from them (except for Alya - for now) because she doesn't think it's safe and is scared of so many things.

Adrien however does not have the resources Marinette has for a good support system. His home life don't offer him this chance (even more so when his family is literally the villains of the show), he has friends but less than Marinette and cannot see them as often at all, he doesn't have anyone knowing his identity and well, we can't really say he has Ladybug these days as she is distancing herself from him just like he's also distancing himself from her the more he doubts.

The difference as well is that Adrien never planned on telling his secret to someone (well, neither did Marinette but she had reached a point where it was impossible for her mentally to do so, except by being the guardian she's giving herself this option, while Chat Noir has been told repeatedly how secrets identities are important and he'd see that as himself betraying Ladybug's trust to do it, so it doesn't even consider it an option).

But yeah if he was to ever consider revealing himself to Nino, it's been kind of discarded for now because... Nino told him that 1. him and Alya had no secrets 2. he told Adrien their heroes identities which might not make him want to entrust Nino with his 3. he basically called Chat Noir annoying to his face... and that makes me very sad because it's a lot of a misunderstanding but it'll have big consequences

So anyway, I'm rambling (as I do lol) but it's hard to compare the two as they're in two very different situations, none of which are very enviable at the moment... and they're both getting more and more isolated

ANIMAL CRUELTY IN CIRCUSES

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Link to the Instagram post.

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Behind the Closed Curtain | Circus Animal Abuse Documentary

Animals in the Circus Hit, Bullied, Chained, and Deprived

Meet Ringling Bros. Circus’ Elephant Beaters

INFORMATIVE LINKS

Why is the circus bad for animals?

Animal Cruelty by Doris Lin

Wild Animal Act

Circuses: No Fun for Animals

So... about how Adrien refers to his father

So I was just thinking about Adrien's home life (as one does), and remembered the way he addresses Gabriel and how absolutely heartbreaking it is.

First of all, he uses "vous" (formal "you") when talking to him instead of "tu" (informal "you"). People only use "vous" when referring to teachers/strangers/etc., but never their parents.

(for a bit of context, Marinette uses "tu" to talk to her parents, and so do Chloé, Alix, Mylène, Luka, Juleka, and probably some other people that I'm not remembering now)

The only other people who use "vous" to refer to their parents in the show are Kagami and Félix (and Zoé when talking to André but that's just because he's her step-dad and they're not exactly close yet. Most children use "vous" to refer to adults who aren't related to them, unless they're extremely close).

To make things even worse, Adrien calls his father "Père" (Father) instead of "papa" (dad), but he called his mother "maman" (mom), as we can see in the episode Chat Blanc.

Again, the only other person who is that formal with their parents is Kagami, who calls her mom "Mère" (Mother).

Even Félix calls his mom "Maman," despite using "vous" to address her (so I assume that Adrien also used "vous" with his mom, which is still sad but I guess he was less formal with her than with Gabriel).

Something even sadder? In Chat Blanc, while Ladybug and Chat Noir were confronting Papillon, Chat Noir is using "tu" to talk to him, which shouldn't be used by children when talking to an adult that they're not close with because it shows how little respect they have for that person. So of course, Ladybug and Chat Noir are going to use "tu" with him.

However, the second that they find out it's Gabriel, Adrien immediately switches to using "vous," which, again, children only use with adults who they aren't close to nor related to. Literally the only reason you would use "vous" with a family member is because you're not close to them and/or are afraid of them (it's probably both for Adrien).

And can you believe that it gets even worse?

Here's a scene from the Climatika 2 (or Stormy Weather 2), directly translated from the French dub:

Adrien: *smiling widely* This photo shoot was awesome, dad!

Gabriel: *glares at him* Hm?

Adrien: *his expression changes immediately, he now looks really sad* Um... sorry, father. Uhh... It was very interesting.

So the only way I can interpret that is that Adrien used to call him "papa" in the past, and only started calling him "Père" recently. He accidentally slipped back into the old habit of calling him "papa," and Gabriel was able to correct him with just one glare.

So yeah anyway here's your daily reminder that Gabriel Agreste is a trash human being who doesn't deserve to be a father.

if we’re bound to be something, why not together? (chapter six)

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Notes: I will finish this, I promise. Don’t worry. Day six: clown. @ladynoirjuly

Chat Noir noticed right away that Ladybug was in a bad mood.

Considering the increasing burden of protecting the city from the now duos of Akumas and Sentimonster, plus the frustration of not getting anywhere particularly telling to find Hawk Moth with the help of the grimoire, it shouldn’t be a surprise. But his Bugaboo had been in high spirits in the last few days, Alya’s support and his own making a dent into the stress that was piling up on her. So when she showed up to an akuma fight all frowns and curt words, he did a double take. 

Caught up in his thoughts, he was nearly hit by a bunch of small, red balls, only dodging because Ladybug’s yo-yo wrapped around his wrist and pulled him away.

“Thanks, my lady!” He grinned. “That was a nice je-”

“Not now, Chat Noir.” She snapped, with an angry flush to her cheeks. “We have to end this now. Lucky Charm!”

The smile dropped away from his face as red and black cotton candy fell on her hands, making her angrier, if possible. He could admit that he wasn’t very fond of this akuma, either. Not that he actually liked any, but some were easier than others. The Jester was proving themself to be a problem, though, with the weird ability to infinitely take off their clown nose and turn whoever it hit into a laughing mess that can’t do anything else. It looked right up his alley at first, puns making his tongue tingle, but since the akuma was too fast, he didn’t have the time he needed to quip. 

“Chat Noir!” He heard Ladybug calling and cursed himself for getting distracted again. When he looked over, she saw her throwing an object at him. “Cataclysm it!”

It was one of those plastic flowers that squirts water. “On it! Cataclysm!”

The flower came undone and the small black butterfly flew out, barely flapping it’s wings before being capture by Ladybug’s yo-yo. Uncharacteristically, she purified it quietly and sent it away. 

“Miraculous Ladybug!” She called out, releasing the healing lovely that shut down the hysterical laughter from the affected citizens on the streets. 

“W-what happened?” The plain-looking girl sitting on the ground stuttered. Chat Noir did a double take when he realized that it was the akuma victim.

“You were akumatized.” He explained softly. “You were-”

“I-I don’t really want to know, Mr. Noir.” She said, cheeks flushed red. “Can you please get me down to the streets? I wanna go home.”

“I can take you-”

“No, really, it’s fine.” The girl said, withdrawing into herself further. 

He sighed. “Okay, climb on my back.”

She did just that, hiding her face against his neck. As soon as they were on the ground, she climbed down as fast as she could and stammered a “thank you” before running down the metro steps, leaving her now fixed joke flower in his hands. His heart hurt, he hated when the victims weren’t even willingly to talk about their problems by the end, it was much harder to help that way. 

“Tough akuma, huh.” Chat said when he arrived back at the top, Ladybug waiting with an annoyed expression. “Pound-”

“What were you thinking?!” His partner shouted and he took a step back.

“What are you talking about?”

“You almost got hit today just because you were joking around! I told to stop doing that, Chat Noir!” She snapped and he shrugged, trying to keep a nonchalant stance. 

“Couldn’t let the akuma outshine the true comedian of the hour, huh.”

“You can’t let the akuma hit you just for a stupid joke!”

“It’s not stupid, bugaboo. I know you love them, you already confessed.” He cooed, pleased. 

She turned even redder, if possible. “Not all of them are funny! Some are just stupid!”

He started to laugh, before it quickly faded away. A memory came to mind, one which he tried to suppress because it haunted-

“It’s not funny!”

“Yeah, I know.” He supposed the muted tone of his voice was jarring enough, because Ladybug deflated. 

“… Chaton? Is everything okay?” She asked and, if it wasn’t for the growing pit of regret growing in his stomach,  he would have found the fast change from annoyance to concern in her voice funny.

“Of course, why wouldn’t it, my lady?” He tried a smile but her face didn’t change. 

“You’re doing that thing again.”

“What thing?”

“Smiling, but not really.” At her words, the smile dropped from his face. “C'mon, you know you can tell me anything. Is it your dad again?”

“No, not right now.” He said, rubbing the back of his neck. “I just remembered that my jokes really aren’t all that funny. A friend of mine would certainly agree with you.”

She clicked her tongue. “I told you loads of times that you aren’t funny sometimes, that can’t be it.”

“It’s not that, it’s just that I played a joke on this friend of mine and she didn’t think it was funny. She cried, Ladybug. I felt awful and she did forgive me, but maybe I’m just not good with jokes at all." 

Marinette had been incredibly upset when he pretended to be a statue in front of her and he could see her hurt blue eyes as if she were standing in front of him. 

Ladybug frowned. "But she did forgive you, didn’t she? Was the joke that bad?”

“Well, I didn’t think so.” He said, having spent tons of nights thinking about what exactly went wrong that day. “It was a simple prank, really, but she got really upset. Maybe she just doesn’t like pranks.”

Marinette had been extremely upset when she found the gum on her seat on the first day. Then again, it was because she thought it had been Chloé’s doing. 

“Yeah, your friend could be a downer.” His partner teased. He was acutely aware of her elbow nudging his arm.

“Nah, she’s the best.” He said fondly, thinking about Marinette’s kind nature and bold personality. “I’m probably not that funny, really.”

“If you say so.” Ladybug said and he caught sight of a sour frown on her face.

He raised an eyebrow. “It’s okay, really, my girlfriend didn’t think I was funny either.”

“Well, it doesn’t matter. I think you’re funny.” She said firmly, seemingly unaware of what it did to his poor heart. 

“If my lady says so, it must be right.” Chat grinned, elated. “Hey, did you feel that? Think it’s going to rain?”

“What? I didn’t feel-” Ladybug sputtered as water squirted on her face from the flower in a laughing Chat’s hand. 

He waited for her to shout an angry “Chat!” and turn red, but she just stole the toy from his hands and aggressively squirted water on him, laughing when he hissed. It was a loud, beautiful laugh. 

He could listen to it for days.

You know what, I am gonna say it. I’m not holding back anymore.

If Adrien is a Sentimonster, his life is worth less than the human characters’.

That’s not my opinion, that’s what the show literally tells us with every single episode with a Sentimonster in it.

The show kills Sentimonsters left and right, and the heroes aren’t concerned about this at all. The idea of a Sentimonster’s life being worth protecting has been brought up only because the Sentimonster in question looked just like a person who already existed. And even Sentibug got killed off casually. They got over her death very easily.

It doesn’t matter that the characters say Sentimonsters are real people. It doesn’t matter if the lore is that they’re just like real people. It doesn’t matter if the audience views the Sentimonsters as real people. The narrative doesn’t treat Sentimonsters as real people, because they are killed on-screen casually and constantly.

If Adrien was a Sentimonster,  him throwing his life away for Ladybug so thoughtlessly would be the right way for him to behave. Because Sentimonsters’ lives aren’t as worthy of being preserved as real people’s.