I draw cats and bugs

this is a pretty broad question and im guessing/hoping you meant “how do you color in black and white in your comics” so have a few random tips about values and paneling and stuff i guess

adrien in a dress is everything i never knew i needed until now

HE'S JUST?? SO PRETTY??? AAAAHH?????

hey, im still thinking about this,,

god, this took me so fucking long shhdhfg i actually don't want to look at it anymore im just done with it,, i like how it looks tho!

anyway, THE ADRIEN ANGST THIS SEASON ACTUALLY OBLITERATES ME EVERYTIME I THINK ABOUT IT

my eyes were seeing things at first…

hello im back w an update for this collab after 84 years askjlfadskjl

Ch. 6: In Which Adrien Narrowly Avoids Hamstercide

Marinette was in love. Adrien could tell.

He could tell by the way her eyes lit up and her face went soft with awe. He could tell by her blushing cheeks and her dreamy sighs and the whispers she thought he couldn’t hear.

Marinette was in love. With Sir Squeaks-a-Lot the hamster. And so was Adrien.

He cradled Squeaks in his palms, laughing at the tickle of his tiny claws. “You’re eager, aren’t you, Squeak-a-saurus Rex?”

“Yes, you are. You are so cute!” Marinette’s fingers, gently scratching the hamster’s head, froze. “I–I mean, Squeaks is cute,” she said quickly. “Not … not you.”

“Aw, you don’t think I’m cute too?” He pushed his lips into a fake pout. “I’m hurt.”

“No, no! I mean, yes, of course you’re cute! Or, like … not—you know, in a professional way. You’re professionally cute. Because it’s your profession. As a model.”

Adrien waggled his eyebrows. “Marinette, I had no idea you found me so irresistible.”

Her cheeks flushed. “That’s—that’s not what I said. You are very, extremely resistible.”

“Hmm.” Adrien lifted his hands to look Squeaks in the eye. “Do you think she’s lying? I think she’s lying.”

Squeaks nibbled at Adrien’s thumb. Adrien nodded solemnly.

“There you have it,” he said. “He agrees. Marinette finds me overwhelmingly cute and extremely irresistible.”

Or in his bedroom, the main feature of which is bar-like windows

that’re always casting a shadow over him when he’s at home.

Do you ever think about how this kid with the power to destroy anything, anything he wants, uses it almost exclusively to disintegrate bars,

and chains

And anything that keeps people apart?

Because I think about this all the time and don’t know if I’m capable of stopping.

ESPECIALLY THE THING WITH THE BARS AND CHAINS, BECAUSE LIKE

I have been commenting for months now on Miraculous Ladybug’s tendency to keep putting Chat Noir in bondage-esque situations - having him tied up, handcuffed, put in chains and fetters. It happens all the time:

I just thought it was a coincidence, or at most a knowing wink to the adults in the audience. I never stopped and thought about it more. But shame on me that I didn’t, because I AM ALREADY SO FAMILIAR WITH PEOPLE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT WONDER WOMAN.

To those who don’t know, people are constantly making jokes about how often Wonder Woman got tied or chained up in the Golden Age WW comics: 

You hear a lot of bondage jokes about it, and some of that is fair, because WW’s creator (William Moulton Marston) is known to have been into that. But it also ignores that in that era it was a powerful feminist symbol to show a woman breaking free from the ties that kept her bound, and the chains they’d show her breaking were also metaphorical chains. Her creators weren’t exactly subtle about this:

The point wasn’t just to show a woman being bound, but to show a woman being bound and breaking free of it, in the same way that Marston hoped women would break free of the ways society kept them trapped.

And the thing is, I know all of this. I literally have a book about the origins of Wonder Woman that goes into all of this in detail. And yet it never occurred to me once that showing Adrien tied up and chained was supposed to represent the ways he’s metaphorically trapped, but oh my gosh, that makes so much freakin’ sense.

To start with, Adrien is clearly valued for his beauty over his personality and not just by his father, either.  Chloé and Lila are both guilty of treating Adrien like good-looking arm candy and don’t seem to care he’s very uncomfortable in their presence.  It doesn’t help that he’s been trained not to be rude or upset or upset anyone or be anything other than calm from what was likely a very young age, making it hard for him to do more than politely brush them off.  You know, how most girls are socialized to act from a young age.

Then there’s the infamous scene from Jackady/Simon Says where Gabriel literally tells his son he’s had too much emotion for the day.  Most people focus on how horribly emotionally abusive that is.  And it is abusive.  But it’s also a pretty standard example of, “You’re being hysterical.”  Full original meaning.  Woman starts arguing with a man like Adrien did to his father at the start of that scene?  “Hey, you’re getting too worked up about this.  Calm down.”  And it’s still fucking emotionally abusive, even if the people involved aren’t related.

Then there’s Gabriel himself.  As a character, he manages to be both neglectful and extremely controlling.  Which makes a lot of sense if you consider he’s basically the proxy for the Patriarchy.  Distant to the point it’s hard to pinpoint where he/it actually has any power over the situation but the control he/it exerts over any particular situation in Adrien’s life is so very omnipresent.