«Miraculous MORE spoilers!!»

originally created November 19, 2022 ✦ republished February 9, 2025

(Originally posted on Instagram. This retroactive post is adapted from the Instagram post.)

OMG IT'S BEEN AGES SINCE I'VE DRAWN ANYTHINGGGGGGGGG 😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫😫

So it's a good thing I started this this week! "Passion" is now up (episode 7, not 8, whoops!), and the dubbed voice line is a bit different. The dub voicing is actually good, and noticeably it does its own thing and stands out in a way that makes more sense for the audiences it's directed to. But, it feels like 50% of the episode is good, and the other 50% is a bit awkward, more like a miss.

Anyhow, now to spoil the episode coming in 2 weeks!!! And that one is gonna be a WILD one 😳 This line near the end of the episode should serve as a good...appetizer, if you will. I tried a different stamp, and also made some different design choices because it turns out the green doesn't stand out a lot. Coloring Cat Noir's mask was a bit of a challenge in this one, because for some reason it kept looking like his eyes were just narrow rectangles until I figured I should make them rounder and wider. So there's that!

Now to blog about getting therapy! Therapists are astonishingly amazing—I couldn't figure out why some strong thoughts of a certain nature that I thought weren't right kept popping up, and talking about it out loud resulted in lots of tears (although it was only a fraction of what my eyes spilled in the first session!) that I didn't expect. She basically told me that they were only strong because I was suppressing these thoughts—just let the thoughts be thunk, let any accompanying feelings be felt, do grounding techniques like 4-4-6 breathing if you need to, and the thought will leave for good in a more natural way. It explains so much!!! There's still some patterns that I'm not sure about, but instead of meticulously (perhaps a bit too much 😬) noting down every single thought that pops up and trying to think a whole essay of things to "correct" it, I'm gonna try just letting them come and seeing how it goes, remembering what the therapist told me: "my thoughts are not my actions".

Oh hey 2,200-word limit, I forgot you existed! My body feels stiff yet tired, so I'mma get up and change activities. My goal is to get back to myself 🙌