I literally can’t imagine watching Miraculous and disliking Adrien. Imagine having a beef with him. He’s just a funny jokester. A silly little guy. You’re gonna have a beef with a silly little guy? For shame.
Jesus Christ, when was the last time a swede did anything useful?
What the fuck those streets were before cars, fucking playgrounds and parks with waterslides?
Or did people commute on them, on the level of whatever technology they were on, the vere purpose they were built for since the first city?
I’m trying my best not to automatically dislike artists, I really do, but sometimes I just wish I could send them milking cows or shoveling gravel.
@santaclausdeadindian “What the fuck were those streets before cars, fucking playgrounds?”
Yes, actually.
[description: a black-and-white photo from the 1900s of a group of girls in pinafores standing in the middle of the street; according to the website I found it on, this is a ‘street dance’. The girls are talking to each other in small groups. end description.]
Children used to play in the street all the time. And for most of recorded history, that was relatively safe. Running into someone on foot is not going to kill a child, and horses - let alone carriages- were relatively rare.
Streets used to be public spaces. People would hang out and talk in the middle of the road, or set up shop with a little cart at the side of the road. “Right of way” used to mean “your right to take up space on the street, because you are a free citizen and free citizens get to use the road.”
[description: a black-and-white historical photo of two children in the middle of a mostly empty street. One child is sitting in a wagon, and the other child is standing, ready to pull it. End description.]
It wasn’t until the 19th century that it became common enough for your average joe to own horses that it was unsafe for kids to play in the street (and they still did anyway!). And it wasn’t until the early 20th century that people got cleared off of the street in favour of cars- before then, people and horses and carriages had to share the road, and carriages had to go at the same pace as whatever was around them.
We laugh at the insanely low speed limits of the 1910s and 1920s - really, cars can only go at 3 mph?- but they were there for a reason, and that reason was “to keep the roads safe for horses and pedestrians”. If cars could go at top speeds on city roads, they’d only be safe for cars, and people couldn’t use their public spaces anymore. But thanks to lobbying by the auto industry and a whoooole lot of PR spin, that’s exactly what happened.
I’m going to leave you with two pictures. The first is Mulberry Street in NYC, according to wikipedia, in 1900. The second is Mulberry Street today.
[Description: two photos of city streets. The first photo is sepia-toned, from the 1900s. It shows a city street full of people and carriages. The foreground of the photo is taken up by a group of vegetable sellers, and a group of men and young children standing beside them looking at the camera. The second photo is a modern photo of the same street. It is a heavily decorated tourist district, but most of the street is taken up by cars. The sidewalks are crowded with pedestrians, but they’re shoved off to the side. End description.]
Little Italy is a touristdistrict. It is meantto be walkable so that tourists can browse and look at all the little restaurants and window-shop. And yet 75% of this picture is taken up by a fucking car canal, and people- the people this street was built for - are shoved off to the side, so as not to get in the way.
People got forced off the road in favour of cars. People got forced out of public space in favour of cars.
And if that doesn’t piss you off…
Here’s a video I watched last year that goes into the history of laws against jaywalking: “Should Jaywalking be legal?”
(Uploaded to YouTube 12 November, 2020. Auto-generated captions. The last 80 seconds is dedicated to a sponsorship ad).
Here’s an excerpt from the caption transcript (lightly edited for readability):
“jaywalking” was a term in law invented by automobile interests 100 years ago to clear the streets of pedestrians and cement the dominance of the automobile on our roadways. Today jaywalking is sometimes used as a pretense for racial profiling and unjust policing. Each of these is reason enough to get rid of jaywalking entirely
Also: this is an environmental issue. Remember, getting rid of automobile supremacy in cities would make those cities more walkable. Making cities more walkable would also make them more sustainable
One of the problems with ADHD is that sometimes you get to the end of a long post, remember that there are described images in the middle, and completely forget that the very first post that the rest are responding to is an undescribed image. (That, or the description is in alt text and invisible to you now.)
Anyway:
[Image: In this colored pencil drawing, the streets of a city have been replaced with yawning chasms; narrow planks of wood replace pedestrian crosswalks. Text reads, “This illustration shows how much public space we’ve surrendered to cars (made by Swedish artist Karl Jilg.” End ID.]
Marinettes getting better at reading mandarin, but doesn’t always know what she’s saying ;) Adrien is going to implode. Mari likes to hang around him while he studies. He likes teaching her a bit of mandarin everyday so she can surprise her mom.
Alya runs a couple instagram, for her and the gANG. So lots of selfies and such. I also headcannon her to have ladybug uggs, and they’re super big on mari when they outfit swap. These two are so affectionate btw? Always touching, just so happy around each other.
Nino and mari will get up to all kinds of weird shit when nobodies around, including a “How many macarons can you fit in your mouth at once” contest. Others include, “How many hoodies can one wear at a time”, “how much stuff can marinette steal without nino noticing” and “how many different places in the house can they fall asleep together” (these two can cuddle and almost immediately go lights out. Its a talent, but it’s also ONLY marinette and nino together who can achieve this ultimate power, no one else has bested it) .
So I have some mari moments for the ot4, to pair with the adrien moments i made a couple days ago!
No author is entitled to comments, to interaction, to reblogs or likes or reviews or anything, but in a community where you’re essentially a bunch of indie writers, that’s the lifeblood that keeps people *posting*. Writing doesn’t necessarily stop, but when someone feels like no one gives a shit whether you’re sharing or not, you quit sharing.
In the simplest possible terms: creators aren’t entitled to your support, but you’re also not at all entitled to their creations.
