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Also why would you add this whole backstory of Ivan having basically a watered down version of the knowledge and support that Adrien should be getting if you weren't gonna use that to make Marinette regret everything she's done and tell Adrien immediately? Why are you having her say the shit she should be saying to Adrien to someone else? Ivan is a side character, why give him that backstory? It's not even gonna be relevant later in the show it's just a shitty one off to make Marinette see the same thing Adrien doesn't know he's going through and make her look sad at Adrien and the not have her come clean? Oh, right. Because her own discomfort at dealing with Adrien's feelings is more important. She wasn't actually sad for Adrien. She was upsette that she was being guilt tripped. She also showed Nathalie Gabriel's letter for fucks sake and like ignoring all the shit they're doing with making Nathalie still actually evil (which is stupid!!!!!!!), this is a yet another major disrespect of Adrien's autonomy. I don't even like Gabe and I think reading his shitty will and showing it to other people is just absolutely disgusting controlfreak behavior.

And yes, I did also think that this was the writer's way of passing the blame from Marinette, cause we all know they're reactive like that. TA hates that people still like Chloe? Makes her an idiot and deports her from the country to be abused. Hates that people are critical of his show? Makes a "meta" episode in retaliation. Etc. etc. Like I can believe he got sick of everyone rightfully shitting on Marinette for the absolutely shitty way she's been treating people and so they're gonna make Nathalie manipulate her so they can't blame her anymore. But like everything else with the show, it's badly done and not only are they not gonna land this one (do they ever?), my prediction is they're gonna try to have their cake and eat it too like with everything else. "oh Nathalie wasn't actually evil. She was just being manipulated by her shitty evil organization dad. she was actually trained as a child to be the perfect henchperson but it was done against her will so she's actually abused so you have to forgive her like you forgive felix and not chloe. Nathalie's actually a good person and you're stupid for ever thinking she was evil. after all, she had good intentions, she had to be manipulative. as you see in this ep, she's a double agent and she's gonna help Marinette (only Marinette, be prepared for another BugNoir appearance) bring the organization down. also, Marinette isn't to blame for lying to Adrien because Nathalie manipulated her but Nathalie also isn't to blame because she had to do what she had to do to fight against the organization and they """won""" in the end so it's fine! we planned this from the very beginning!!"

And the worst thing is that they're probably gonna drag this arc on for another 10 years and basically every single little they're starting with or inevitably introduce is gonna be abandoned or brushed off. There's gonna be no pay off to this. Marinette's gonna lose the miraculouses like several more times and somehow it won't actually be her fault. There's twelve sections or whatever in that organization. One for each of the Zodiac. Bets now on the side character heroes getting their miraculouses swiped and given to those twelve members. And then that plot point will also die out because the writers can't be bothered to stick to one thing and make it good. They gotta do a lot of different things and do all of them badly.

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Yeah, like, that's exactly it. The evil organization is just an obvious combined scapegoat and social media hype engine. It's so transparent what they're doing here and I just can't be bothered to be interested even in how they’ll fuck it up, because I already know exactly how they'll fuck it up. They're gonna do the same thing all lazy writers do with evil cabals, they're gonna pretend everything that's happened in the series has been part of their masterful evil plan all along, all villains are either working for or being manipulated by them and everything the heroes do has been predicted by them. Instead of making the story and world more interesting, it's gonna suck what little interest there is right out. Dragon Age Veilguard did it, Young Justice did it, Evil Within did it, Neon Genesis Evangelion did it and that's where Astruc most likely plagiarized it from.

Never mind that the writers have a long history of losing interest in any concept that takes them too long to implement. We still don't know what two of the power-up potions do and only the flight one keeps getting utilized. We got two additional heroes whose character arcs were improved by getting a Miraculous in Alya and Chloé with everyone else just happening to have a problem that thematically corresponds with the Miraculous they get in the episode without it really impacting the episode more than giving them more confidence or something else they could do even without a Miraculous. Or they just get slapped with a Miraculous because the writers needed to fill up the roster, especially when the last four were just handed out like free candy in a single episode because the writers lost interest.

"Hey guys, looks: We're doing Seelie It's like Evangelion, but Miraculous, aren't you interested? Don't you want to theorize adn speculate and write fanfics for us to crib off of and pretend we're masterminds!?

Aren't you engaged with the story again!?"

No.

This is just more jingling keys for the fandom. It means nothing. Like the return of the Guardians meant nothing. Like Marinette losing the Miraculous to Gabriel meant nothing. Like how Adrien's potential as anything but a love interest meant nothing.

You already wrote Tomoe as a potential villain with her being allied to Gabriel and swearing to continue his legacy last season. This is just sensationalization up for that idea of co-conspirators coming back to haunt Ladybug.

It doesn't change anything. Heck, as a potential villain Tomoe's greatest weakness was the fact that Nathalie's testimony could put her behind bars. She's a villain with an instant-win button for Marinette to beat her with. The same thing applies to Not!Seelie, and the only tension would come from whether or not Marinette pushes the win button at the expenses of Nathalie, Kagami, and Adrien.

The same problem that sending Tomoe to prison posed, just made larger for empty drama.

The akuma villians, even though they agreed to the power and THINK they are in control are still very much victims on manipulation from hawkmoth approaching them while they are hurt abd vulnerable abd can not truly consent. And that rather than punish the akuma villians...the heros win by seeing they are victims. Stopping them from hurting others but also finding out the core issue which they need to know to find the item that can represent that issue....by breaking it open it shows the heros/others ither than hawkmoth ARE listening abd paying attention which can snap the people out of those negative emotions enough to think clearly and accept better or alternate solutions. Where hawkmoth is the big bad for manipulating and taking advantage of people who are desperate and at a low point. And those villians are seen as victims compared to hawkmoth...who the heros see as simply bad for a majority of the show.

After all in real life most people aren't going to look into WHY someone is crashing out or lashing out...they are just going to deal with the attack or villainous behaviour at face value and see them as a villian. What makes the heros stand out is they find out WHY the victims became villians and don't let their impulsive villainous actions in their attempts to solve their problems overshadow that they need help and that they acted out fir a reason...and that the REAL villians are the ones taking advantage and encouraging people who need genuine help tp act on those impulses.

And so the twost that the big bad villian who has been taking advantage of all these aluma victims in fact being a hurt desperate person who is trying to solve a problem and fix someone he loves but that he is going about it in the worst way because he thinks no obe will help and that he has to solve it on his own. Like no matter how valid the emotion of a akuma victim it still gets twisted by their actions. So hawkmoth being a desperate husband trying to save his wife who ends up going about saving her the wrong way where he can't see its not actually solving the issue or might not be the onky route because his determination and hurt is blinding him...makes sense.

And so ladybug and chat should in theory based on the themes of the show...be able to truly defeate hawkmoth by seeing him as a persona and connecting to the desperate man .

The show is even clear that even kf tgey are victims...you still need to stop them from hurting others and ots onky once you take away their ability to hurt others that they might be more open to kther solutions.

The issue is the show spent so long undercutting any nuance gabriel had that we don't trust his emotions or intentions and the show deliberately plausible with that disconnect by having undercut any nuance in him for so long and them shoving him being remorseful in seemingly at the kast second. Sonething we are clearly meant to distrust now as mari clearly doesnt ACTUALLY believe in Gabriel being nuanced despite her feeding that idea to others.

Which makes sense because mari does t know all the details of how gabe ended the way he did like they normally might find out about the victims in a akuna attack. She was mostly biased due to adrien.

I actually think the council is actually meant to fix this....as in the show gabriel and marinette have STRONG parallel to eachother...not just in background but in how they can deal with problems or emotional issues which has been seen since the early seasons...the show would try to distract you from it by trying to present mari as good a d gab as bad alot but their behaviors can be errily similar. Vut they have only actually tried addressing some of those parallels in season 6.

I think marinette who we have seen as meaning well and good is going to showcase how if even someone as good as her can spiral into doing sketchy things it will help us actually understand that Gabriel could have been just as good as mari and spiraled into being bad(especially when we saw his best self in the betterfly special.

And the show runs on compare and contrast to fill in gaps about characters.

I think the council is going to be the new hawkmoth so to speak...as in the one who manipulates hurt desperate people into doing its bidding to get the resukts the council wants where their victims think they are in contrrol. They think their interests align and that its their choice to work with them...when in reality they can't think ckearly abd are being tajen advantage of by the manipulator encouraging impulses that won't actually solve the issue.

Akuma victims agree to the powers fod their own ends and justify working with hawkmlth to themselves...not realizing hawkmoth is encouraging behaviour that mkght make their situation worse. And they are still clearly victims who were taken advantage of.

We are used to hawkmoth being the big bad...but just like how the regular citizens only ever see the akuma villians doing ghe attacking/the dirty work..like stoneheart before they realized he was ivan and found out about hawkmoth..my bet is hawkmlth is the equivalent of a akuma villian/victim who is creating the scene/doing the dirty work. He THINKS he agreed and is in control of his own free will...but he has been manipulated and encouraged when he is emotionally desperate and at a low point to handle thing in the worst way that might not solve his issue ir could make it worse for him just like regular akuna victims.

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As someone from a hot country that's regularly on fire, here's some tips:

WATER IS YOUR FRIEND! WATER! IS! YOUR! FRIEND! You can transfer SO much heat into this bad boy! You cannot cool down without water!

Wrists under the cold tap. Splash your face and the back of your neck. Fan yourself.

In some countries you can buy a little handeld fan with a water sprayer.

Damp tea towel around the neck. Stick an ice pack in there on hotter days.

Half fill a water bottle with water, stick in freezer. If you use a bottle with a straw, make sure it's lying on its side with the straw side up and out of the water. When frozen top up the rest of the way with tap water and off you go.

Desperate to cool off? Wet T-shirt. Sit in front of a fan. This will nuke it, just don't get hypothermia and don't fall asleep like this.

Cold showers are also your friend in summer. Some people get psyched up by these. Personally, I sleep like a baby, so I'm good to have them before bed. Just keep in mind that it takes a bit of time for the cool to circulate, so your body will tell you that you're colder than you actually are. I find that when I have cold showers I need to step out of the spray when I think I'm cold... I'll just wait, and thirty seconds later the temperature has evened out and I actually need to step under again. Rinse and repeat until you maintain coolness even after stepping out for a bit.

If you can't do cold showers, turn the cold shower on anyway and just stick your arms under. When they're cold, lift your arms up above your head. The sensation of cool blood draining into your body is fucking weird and kinda unpleasant but less unpleasant than being hot.

Feet in a tub of water with ice. Blood naturally flows to your extremities when hot, so take advantage of this. If you don't have a tub of ice water, sticking a wet rag on your feet in front of the fan works too, it's the less powerful version of the wet T-shirt.

Drinks lots of water but make sure that water has electrolytes as well. Stay in the shade.

Keep air circulating. Fans don't actually cool rooms down, they just help transfer heat from your body to the moisture on your skin or the air via evaporative cooling.

Block north facing windows early in the morning so the sun doesn't get in. If you're in the northern hemisphere, this is opposite for you. Keep in mind that if your home is brick, the bricks will still heat up and slowly release heat into your home even after the sun goes down so this will only do so much.

If it's hotter inside than outside, close all your windows but two, making sure they're on opposite sides of the house/unit you're in. Point a fan out of one window, making sure that the doors between the rooms with the open windows are all open. This will help create a mini pressure system in your home, pulling cooler air in and pushing the hotter air out via the fan. Bonus points if you can get that fan high up where the hot air rises; even within a single room the top is much hotter than the air by the floor. Adjust the amount of open windows based on how many fans you have, but generally you want more windows with fans open than windows without fans to keep the pressure correct.

Obviously, use your common sense for these. Not everything WILL work for you, just use the stuff that does and adjust what needs to be adjusted. Some of these will be impossible to use in the workplace but others you can still use. Others are best used at home. If humidity impacts your ability to use any of these, get a dehumidifier if that's an option, or use more ice instead of evaporation.

Surgeon/Hospital au; Intern Vincent x Attending Alastor

This is their relationship later on, but they had a much more rockier and tumultuous period together when Vincent first arrived.

Bonus w/Charlie;

Link to the pdf of the tool kit

now i had the idea that lila would’ve been smart enough to enter that school; see chloe who was famous but very disliked and see marinette who was extremely liked and ALSO the class president and therefore has sway over the group of people she wants to charm

and go “oh i need to get buddy buddy with that girl and use her charm to help me”

it could still be the lying game but less of a “oh we the audience immediately know lila is bad and so does marinette”

the jealousy thing can still happen

but lila could’ve been a slower build villain to match how she’s apparently know the main villain and is operating with more sneaky tactics than gabriel

idk, old thought i had, lemme know what you think

When it comes to Lila (or whatever her name is), she's always putting on a sweet persona to everyone and it really feels like it comes from this place of control. (Or if you're me and constantly looking out for potential yuri situationships, she's doing this because she admired Ladybug a lot and wanted to be just like her but didn't know to express her feelings without manipulation and just did that). For this reason, I do believe that she wanted to be close to Marinette to gain a sense of control and power but do it because she wanted everyone at the school to do that for her, not just Marinette specifically.

They will then violently insist that this version is superior to the canon one and act like they "fixed" them and it's like. Buddy that's not the same character anymore. That's just your own oc commiting identity fraud. Like. I get the desire to experiment with different interpretations of a story. But first of all it's okay to just make an original character if that's what you really want to do. And second of all, are you even really a fan of the character you "fixed" if they're a completely different person afterwards?

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