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We keep discovering more and more very large Triassic Ichthyosaurs

I think the exterior of the house is asbestos siding which apparently hides bullet holes really well.

Adrinette April Day 4 - Passing Notes

i spent a million dog years (3 days) on this why did i do that aNYWAY IM STILL DRAWING THESE!!! WHOOOOO

Dr. Smiet most relatable scientist (well maybe not the plasma physicist part, but the rest of that sentence at least)

Thank you for asking, friend! I'm hoping by the end of this week.

I'm still working on editing all the photos, since the lighting was pretty harsh and I took a lot across a bunch of different times of day and conditions.

The timeline is slower than the ideal - I really wanted to get them online almost instantaneously when I got home - but two separate work clients asked simultaneously for a few weeks of rush work and I am a little swamped..

Here's a couple previews as a thank-you for your patience, and to tide everyone over!

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,

Marinette is definitely facing the burden of power right from the beginning and part of her story is learning how to handle that. "Fate" doesn't seem to be as prominent in ML as other similar media so its arguable her power is not something completely locked to her in a way that other superheroes/magical girls might be (ones like spiderman or sailor moon where they are destined/cannot be separated from their power). Someone else chose to give the earrings to Marinette originally and initially she rejected them. But then she comes to choose that power and has kept choosing it since.

On the occasions she does pass the earrings to someone else, its only as a temporary measure (Reflekdoll, Hack-San) or when she does try to make it permanent it goes badly (Kwami's Choice) and she has to step back in. Does she have to take the earrings back? Technically, no. But she makes that choice to keep the burden because Ladybug is just part of who she is and she feels responsible for it. And when Marinette feels responsible for something she cannot let it go.

Being Ladybug is of course a challenge and a "burden of power", but part of Marinette's growth is learning how to share that burden. And like with any diificult lesson it's often two step forwards one step back. She's made mistakes and miscommunications, but she does learn from them. And from that she learns she is able to rely on others. She is not Ladybug facing the world alone. She has Chat Noir at her side and the rest of the miracuteam at her back. She is the leader, but the weight of power isn't resting on her shoulders alone. She has support to help her carry the burden.

It's something that she is secure in now so there isn't the same tension in previous seasons. Her "new" burden is now the secret she carries in regards to Gabriel/Monarch and that is something she can't separate herself from, not even on a temporary basis. It's something she can share with others to try and ease the mental toll, but her fears and need for control have moved on from "I have to be Ladybug and handle that on my own" to "I have to carry this knowledge and keep the secret to myself". She has Nathalie of course, but in some way's Nathalie is now filling the role that Master Fu once did - a voice to remind Maribug that a status quo has been set and rules have been made and it must be maintained.

And here we are, cheerfully playing along, sounding reasonably competent — but everyone, when they have the attention to spare, is keeping an eye on the tuba players. They don’t come in for the first eight measures or so, and then when they do come in, what we see is:

[stifled giggling]

[reeeeeeally deep breath]

[COLOSSAL FOGHORN NOISE]

The entire band stops dead, in the cacophonous kind of way that a band stops when it hasn’t actually been cued to stop. The band director doesn’t even say anything, just looks straight back at the tubas and makes a helpless sort of why gesture.

In unison, the tuba players defend themselves: “THERE WERE FOUR F’S.”

which is 8 fortes. We were shocked until,