#marinette deserves a better fandom
I find the tendancy of miraculous fandom of comparing Marinette and Adrien’s trama and declaring that Adrien has it worse very concerning.
I don’t want to go into detail but in short I suffer from anxiety. A lot of it. Something it gets so intense it physically hurts and I can’t breathe.
I study psychology. All of my professors are psychologists. (Or so they claim because I study industrial psychology and there is no licencing for Industrial psychology in India so…) Most of my friends are either psychologists (or so they say) or psychology students. And every single time I’ve opened up about my anxiety issues, people around me have tried to figure out a valid reason for it.
Recently, I was talking to my professors about it, and he kept asking me about my family and if there was something going on. He concluded that, that must be the problem.
It wasn’t.
I don’t really have a valid reason to be anxious. And I understand that I need help but getting that help becomes so much harder when you are surrounded by a bunch of so called mental health professionals who want to find a temporary thing that was making me anxious at the moment.
So many people in the fandom want Marinette to have a valid reason and just stress from her daily life and her superhero responsibilities are not good enough. People don’t take Marinette’s problems siriously because she doesn’t have a good enough reason.
This kind of attitude hits so close to home it hurts and I hate it. Watching the show feels great because I can see myself in Marinette. Then I come to Tumblr only to see salt post complaining about how Marinette’s trama isn’t valid and how she actually deserves bad things happening to her. And it’s really truly sickening.
Me when I see someone made a half hour-long video on why they hate Maribug:
I hope everyone who wanted Marinette to renounce guardianship in the end of s4 and give the box to some other character so they could have more plot relevancy is happy now cuz this is even worse:
a) the miraculous fell into the wrong hands
b) Marinette remembers that miraculous fell into the wrong hands instead of forgetting everything
c) all those characters you wanted to replace her now no longer have their miraculous
d) we have to watch at least one episode with the worst-looking villain design ever
Be careful what you wish for.
