You Know He Would.

Sticky lines from fics I've read:

“Adrien still thought that home meant a big, lonely bedroom with barred windows. Chat Noir knew better.”

—"tell me something i don't know" by @carpisuns

"It’s not your fault, Milady. I don’t blame you."

—"Sebben, crudele, mi fai languir (Although, cruel love, you make me languish)" by @komorebirei

“"We’ll be together tomorrow, won’t we?' he asks, moving his face closer to hers on the pillow. She does the same, their foreheads touching.

She says: 'Yes, always.'

Cut to black."

—"tomorrow" by @peachcitt

"Above him, the sky is black. It’s a void of another name, stretching beyond the horizon and swallowing the world in darkness. But it’s not empty, not in the slightest. A dazzling array of stars glitters above him, packed denser than he thought stars could be."

—"make beautiful things" by @aquaquadrant

"Her grief is not gone. Her grief will never be gone. But for now, the Castle of Lions needs a leader, and she is the only one they have. Her grief drives her. It will not be put to rest, and neither will she.

There is a war to win."

—"change of heart" by rythyme (pugglemuggle)

"Some things don’t make any more sense under a microscope.  You can spend all night turning them over in your head, and the harder you look, the more they seem to shift, made inscrutable.  It’s the difference between observing things and actually living them, maybe.  The risk of getting too close."

—"quantum mechanics, smirks, and other complications of the universe" by @amillionsmiles

"This vexing, brilliant, beautiful boy was laughing so hard she couldn’t tell if his cheeks were wet with water or his own tears. Like everything else, he put his whole heart into it."

—"Tu Eres Mi Corazon" by 13Vivacious13

“'Real.'"

—"Real" by @carpisuns

Sticky Lines Ask

You know when you come across A Line in a book or a fic that just makes you stop in your tracks and let it sink in because it’s so beautiful? Or one that makes you lose your mind and wheeze-laugh for five entire minutes? Or just one that’s said in such an interesting way that you’ll never forget it? I call those “sticky lines.” The ones that stick in your brain for a long, long time after you’ve finished reading, sometimes forever.

Writers, reblog this if you want people to tell you what your sticky lines are! Or feel free to make your own list of favorite sticky lines :)

You. Yes, you. The person reading this right now.

You need to go watch this Miraculous animatic by @izzyjdraws right now.

Your life will get better. The beautiful, clean art will heal you. The clever storytelling will improve your grades, the smooth animation will make you more graceful, the adorable art style will turn you into a supermodel.

All of her animatics are masterpieces. Please go watch them, her work is so amazing and she needs love!

Pidge: Are you seeing somebody?

Lance: *screaming internally*

Lance: Why? Are you interested?

Pidge: No, I just think it would help if you saw a therapist or something

where's the ladrien umbrella scene

WHERE'S THE LADRIEN UMBRELLA SCENE

WHERE'S THE—

Happy New Year everyone! 2020 is FINALLY over (at least for me)! Man, what an awful year. Listen, I'm not asking for 2021 to be perfect or anything, but could we please just have it be not quite as apocalyptic as 2020?

I've been drafting a Plance animatic for . . . months . . . and my drawing style has gone through at least three iterations, plus the sketchy first draft:

I think I've finally found the one I'll stick with, though:

Now I just have to redraw all the frames in this style

Yayyyyy

Simon's even more sympathetic if you over analyze because he clearly has a mental illness making him afraid of abandonment, resistant to change, emotionally unstable and having immense difficulty relating to others. Like he gets worried about Hazel in the cabin when the Cat gets near her, its clearly foreshadowing the next episode.

Agreed! And actually, I pulled put the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) to research your suggestion that Simon has some mental disorder, and . . . you're right! He almost definitely has a mental disorder.

The criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder are: (not quoted, but paraphrased directly from the DSM-5)

Instability in personal relationships and self-image, impulsivity, indicated by five or more of the following:

Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. - check, this is kinda Simon's shtick.

A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships, fluctuating between extremes of idealization and devaluation. - there's not much potential for a "pattern" here, but his relationship with Grace definitely fits this.

Markedly and persistently unstable/fluctuating self-image or sense of self. - Simon does not qualify—if anything, his inability to paradigm shift indicates the exact opposite.

Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging. - violence, aggression, murder, all may or may not qualify. Simon ticks this box.

Recurrent suicidal or self-mutilating behavior or threats. - Simon does not qualify for this.

Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood. - In other words, subject responds intensely to swings in interpersonal relationships. Which sounds a heck of a lot like episodes eight through ten. Check.

Chronic feelings of emptiness. - We can't know whether or not this is true, because we can't really get inside a cartoon character's head. So . . . maybe?

Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger. - This is definitely present in him. He has a temper, he shouts, he gets angry, and it gets more extreme as the show progresses.

Transient, stress-related paranoia or severe dissociative symptoms. - Simon displays this too—lines like "everyone always lies to me" come to mind as evidence. (No dissociative tendencies, but the paranoia is present, so he meets this criterion.)

Now, the subject of a diagnosis needs to meet at least five of these criteria to qualify for BPD. Simon definitely meets five of these criteria (specifically, criteria one, four, six, eight, and nine), possibly even a few more (two, perhaps seven). In other words, Simon Laurent has Borderline Personality Disorder.

I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this discovery that Simon is provably mentally ill. Does it mean calling him "evil" is deeply problematic? Does it mean he could've been saved? Does it mean he can't be blamed? Or is it just as toxic to argue that people with mental disorders are not responsible for their own actions as it is to argue that people with personality disorders are inherently irredeemable? (Not that anyone's argued either of those points—I'm mostly thinking in frantic hypotheticals at the moment.)

And of course these questions raise other questions (well, one other question) that has been on my mind since I first heard Simon called "irredeemable." What do people mean by "he's irredeemable"? Do they mean he couldn't improve and grow after the events of episode ten? Do they mean that his actions were unforgivable? Do they mean he was predestined to be a murderer from episode one, unlike the redeemable Grace? "Irredeemable" has become Simon's buzzword, but no one's ever really defined it. And until I get a concrete definition, I can't slap that label on him and throw him in the garbage with the rest of the characters I hate. (To be clear, I'm not saying anyone's wrong that he's irredeemable, I'm just asking what people mean when they say he's irredeemable.)

However, one thing is clear: as Anon pointed out, Simon is easy to relate to, easy to sympathize with, and easy to pity because of this. We may not all have personality disorders, but we all have flaws that make our brains work differently from how we'd like them to, whether those flaws are anger, laziness, or selfishness, or a mental illness, or something else. Yes, few of us are driven to be murderers because of this, but it still means that we can feel bad for Simon, even as we condemn his actions.

Every time I post something about Simon and it's not ten thousand words long, I'm showing enormous self-restraint and deserve a few claps. Also, sorry, Anon, for using your ask as an excuse to rant about Simon. You made a good point and I wanted to explore it!