it's embarrassing

per tradition, I bought some miraculous kinder surprise this year. I let my infant son play with the little cat noir that came with it. as he threw the poor kitty across the floor, I realized the scene looked familiar...

sooo I finally got around to read the Renegades trilogy by Marissa Meyer after having it recommended to me as a Miraculous fan

while I was reading I kept having déjà vu, like "wait, I knew this was going to happen" or "yeah, I remember this happening". turns out when I first got recommended the series I read the whole plot on Wikipedia because "who has time to read 3 books??". well, a nap-trapped new mom does 😂 I swear I forgot every spoiler I read and still got surprised by the twists

spoilers ahead. I said "the political plot is lackluster" and I'd like to vent a little about it. there are two points of view in the books: Adrian and Nova, Renegades and Anarchists. for the most part the narrative was working on a "gray area", "look, both sides make mistakes and cause pain" and "there's no good or evil". that is, until the very last chapters, in which suddenly "jk, Ace Anarchy is cartoonishly evil and killed his own family and wants to be god". nevermind that the Renegades did human experiments without consent, imprisoned a minor without so much as a trial, and planned on executing said minor publicly with ice shards. they're the good guys! the only path to happiness is to become one of them and be accepted into their family

sooo I finally got around to read the Renegades trilogy by Marissa Meyer after having it recommended to me as a Miraculous fan

while I was reading I kept having déjà vu, like "wait, I knew this was going to happen" or "yeah, I remember this happening". turns out when I first got recommended the series I read the whole plot on Wikipedia because "who has time to read 3 books??". well, a nap-trapped new mom does 😂 I swear I forgot every spoiler I read and still got surprised by the twists

Watched the MLB movie and I just. I WANT to gush about it but the fact that Marinette’s regular voice actor and her singing voice actor sound SO different just took me out of it every time and left me feeling very disengaged;; At least Adrien’s singing voice kind of sounds like his speaking voice (and Gabriel’s is 👌 bc my king Keith Silverstein can actually sing and he can sing REALLY fucking well) but Marinette’s. The voices are COMPLETELY different and it threw me off every single time. Like obviously her singing voice is really good and I understand why they picked that person to do her songs but bro you could have at least TRIED to get someone that sounds similar to Cristina Vee. It drove me nuts every time she sang bc I was like “That is CLEARLY a different person entirely!!”