reason whatsoever. Again, this is exclusion. I'd even say it's a subtle form of homophobia; not in the classic "we hate gay people" sense but in the "we're not going to treat these queer couples normally" sense.
writing their comic. Julerose have no renders whatsoever.
And on this topic, in the family tree images posted by miraculous a while back (shoutout to Finn for pointing this specific thing out) the romantic interests are included for all of the characters except Juleka for no-
Most notably and as of recently it's the boyfriend day situation. Miraculous pretty happily included marcaniel in the tik tok about the day but when it came to the official renders, they were nowhere to be seen. Marcaniel has exactly one render together and it's just them-
And of course we have the fuckass marketing. It's well and good to include them in cute little couple compliation videos and caption a video of marcaniel with "love is love" during pride month but there are many cases of official content excluding them.
The only explicitly romantic kisses (aka on the mouth, remember cheek kisses are normal in France) we have of Julerose and Marcaniel are the ones from the Sleeping Syren endcard. I know we technically have an on screen romantic julerose kiss in El Toro but the screen cuts away-
With Julerose and Marcaniel, the show regularly uses "friend/BFF/partner." Again, *that does not happen with the mlw couples.* Their exact relationship is not clarified on screen like the other couples are. It is queer exclusion, albeit in a subtle way.
girlfriend/boyfriend as their romantic partner. All we have of julerose in that regard is Marinette asking the girls about their boyfriends/girlfriends (I forget the exact line) in Sleeping Syren and we don't get so much as a casual hint like that about marcaniel at all.
a background couple, a lot of peoples' specific frustrations revolve around how the show treats the two main queer couples (that being marcaniel and julerose) differently to its mlw couples. With the mlw couples we have many instances of them explicitly referring to their-
People are missing the point when people say "we need better queer rep in miraculous." Nobody's saying that we have no queer rep at all, the point is that it's not as good as some people make it out to be. Yes we have an explicit wlw kiss on screen. But that couple is ultimately-
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Be grateful
Stop being ignorant
Stop being selfish
Not everything is about you
You're delusional
You got fcking anger issues
You're game addicted
Immature
Loud, dirty mouthed
A motherfucker
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