Just some nerdy stuff
I have just been shaken up a little bit and I'm not entirely sure what to do about it, so obviously the best solution is to come over here to whine. See, Athena and I are in a Discord with a bunch of manga localizers and we just talk about stuff and whatever. A few weeks ago, I said something that had been on my mind for a long time that I had wanted to share because it was just such an aha! moment for me, and it finally seemed relevant to the conversation. It was this: "I marvel at how long it took me to realize that, when listing hobbies, 料理 is cooking, and お菓子作り is baking."
Nobody really reacted to it, which happens, so whatever. But now today, someone came along and said it was a eureka moment for them and they've been dying to use it! And that's great! ...But they think someone else was the one who said it, and that someone else did not bother to deny it. We weren't there when the conversation took place, so now here I am, hours later, kiiiind of wanting to come along and say, "Psst, that was actually me. I'm the one that said that," but also not wanting to be a credit hog. It doesn't really matter who said it, after all. I guess I'm just starved for validation. Sigh.
In other news, we just watched Chat Blanc again, and it once again has us marveling at how the Sentimonster theory is even a thing. Nathalie tells Gabriel, "Your son, Adrien... He's Chat Noir." And Gabriel's reaction is, "The Miraculous will soon be mine!" Of course, if Adrien was a Sentimonster, that would make a lot of sense, because that means Gabriel has magical control over Adrien and can just say, "Hey, son, I am your father and you will give me your ring." The end.
But that's not what happened. What actually happened is that Gabriel created a scenario that would make Adrien vulnerable to akumatization, by showing Adrien his mother. He had to specifically weaken Adrien emotionally and akumatize him before he had any hope of getting the ring...which he didn't in this timeline. He managed to get it in Ephemeral, but he had to use the same tactic. He couldn't just say, "Give me the ring," he had to akumatize him first. His certainty that he can get the ring isn't because Adrien is his magical pawn, but because he knows a surefire way to make Adrien vulnerable to his own superpowers. The ones he's actually using, with the butterfly. Not the peacock.
...On the other hand, it occurs to me that the contradiction in Conformation that's been driving me nuts all these months, where Gabriel announces to the whole audience that he has a magical charm that he himself destroyed in the previous season, might be the writers' way of saying, "Yep, we're going to deliberately ignore some details and contradict ourselves." ...I am getting more and more eager to finally see season six.
Today I'm thankful for getting to watch Chat Blanc, having some Lemonade Girl Scout cookies, the realization that お菓子作り can be translated to baking (I think that's probably true even if you're making pancakes, but I guess it depends on how exact people want to be), the extra sleep we accidentally got this morning (we definitely needed it), and getting to go to the temple tomorrow without having to wake up extra early.
Nobody really reacted to it, which happens, so whatever. But now today, someone came along and said it was a eureka moment for them and they've been dying to use it! And that's great! ...But they think someone else was the one who said it, and that someone else did not bother to deny it. We weren't there when the conversation took place, so now here I am, hours later, kiiiind of wanting to come along and say, "Psst, that was actually me. I'm the one that said that," but also not wanting to be a credit hog. It doesn't really matter who said it, after all. I guess I'm just starved for validation. Sigh.
In other news, we just watched Chat Blanc again, and it once again has us marveling at how the Sentimonster theory is even a thing. Nathalie tells Gabriel, "Your son, Adrien... He's Chat Noir." And Gabriel's reaction is, "The Miraculous will soon be mine!" Of course, if Adrien was a Sentimonster, that would make a lot of sense, because that means Gabriel has magical control over Adrien and can just say, "Hey, son, I am your father and you will give me your ring." The end.
But that's not what happened. What actually happened is that Gabriel created a scenario that would make Adrien vulnerable to akumatization, by showing Adrien his mother. He had to specifically weaken Adrien emotionally and akumatize him before he had any hope of getting the ring...which he didn't in this timeline. He managed to get it in Ephemeral, but he had to use the same tactic. He couldn't just say, "Give me the ring," he had to akumatize him first. His certainty that he can get the ring isn't because Adrien is his magical pawn, but because he knows a surefire way to make Adrien vulnerable to his own superpowers. The ones he's actually using, with the butterfly. Not the peacock.
...On the other hand, it occurs to me that the contradiction in Conformation that's been driving me nuts all these months, where Gabriel announces to the whole audience that he has a magical charm that he himself destroyed in the previous season, might be the writers' way of saying, "Yep, we're going to deliberately ignore some details and contradict ourselves." ...I am getting more and more eager to finally see season six.
Today I'm thankful for getting to watch Chat Blanc, having some Lemonade Girl Scout cookies, the realization that お菓子作り can be translated to baking (I think that's probably true even if you're making pancakes, but I guess it depends on how exact people want to be), the extra sleep we accidentally got this morning (we definitely needed it), and getting to go to the temple tomorrow without having to wake up extra early.