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Best Completed Miraculous Fics Of 2025
Under 4K words: Jan 1
4K - 7K words: Jan 4
7K - 10K words: Jan 8
10K - 15K words: Jan 10
15K - 20K words: Jan 15
20K - 40K words - Jan 18
40K+ words: Jan 22
Top Ten Completed ML Fics Of 2025: Jan 25
Top Ten Completed ML Fics As Of 2025: Already out.
And here's the collection for the 2025 fics!
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A good Chloé akuma wouldn't have dread powers. What does she care about a dozen middle schoolers fearing her now? She's got the world stage. If we're going to akumatize her she needs a power suited to that. You can even wrap 'fear' into it. She needs to have the power to change how people perceive things, on a global scale.
She doesn't need an illusion of Cat Noir cataclysming anyone. She just announces to the world that LB/CN are dangerous vigilantes and that becomes what people think. She declares LB untrustworthy and even other miraculars doubt them. She decries Cat Noir as a buffoon and his thoughts scatter. She declares herself unassailable and Ladybug's lucky charm gives her no inspiration.
None of these changes *are real* they're all simply collective perceptions easily transmitted via social media. It's all a front. All flash no substance, but still a deluge en masse.
In the end it's another layered meaning, because the akumatized item is actually a script Chloé is reading from, a script someone else wrote and told her to repeat if she wanted anyone to pay attention to her. The scriptwriter was the real villain, and she was just another tool.
Oooh. That's a good akuma idea! Though I would've thought of it more for Lila. Being able to change reality by simply speaking it into existence seems her style
She literally had that power. It's a pity that the ability to make people believe any lie was shown just as mind control.
The episode would have been much more interesting if we had seen Alya's reaction to the fact that Lady Bug is also Monarch.
Yeah, I was thinking about that. Not quite the same as reality alteration, but it has a similar effect.
Make a mans whole retirement here why don't you
I have, like .... seventeen uses for this. Where do I get one?
Didn't even know this post was moving till it hit my dash again, I put it in the replies too but it is called a "chompsaw" and it's by Chompshop
They've got all kinds of patterns and such on their site for different creative projects, it does appear to be limited to cutting cardboard so if you want to do wood you will need something beefier.
Soulmate AU where the soulmate thing is in fact totally fake and a conspiracy.
Turns out that there's this ancient society of wizards who perfected the means of telepathically linking up two individuals. While early uses included stuff like espionage and such, early on there was an incident where a wizard accidentally synced the wrong targets up. It just so happened that instead of syncing the crown prince to the intended informant, the mistaken target was a young lady who was a shrewd political match, and both their parents had been looking to arrange the matter (but were struggling with the reluctance of the relevant parties).
With sudden telepathic bonding on the table, the couple took it as a sign from the gods that they were meant to be, and got together of their own accord.
The wizards realized the potential for matchmaking as a means of manipulating the political landscape, and abandoned their prior attempts at subterfuge (a limit of the telepathic bond is that it's two-way, so the target also gains your secrets, which meant a lot of them had to be assassinated after the fact.)
So the wizards converted their lair into an ostensible temple of the Goddess of Love, where people could come to pray to find their soulmates. Wizards were also sent out to arrange matches that would advance the interests of their cult, as well as some random ones just to help cover their tracks. As the influence of the Goddess of Love grew, new branches of the temples sprang up. The cultists were soon divided into two categories: wizards who still knew the truth and pretended to be priests, and actual priests who weren't in on it and genuinely believed they were helping soulmates find one another.
The culture around it goes something like this:
Not everyone has a soulmate, and not all soulmates are destined to be together in every lifetime. But if they are, the Goddess will bless you with the ability to hear one another's inner voice, if it is your fate and/or if you pray hard enough. Some soulmates know each other from their first meeting, but others take time to recognize the bond and open their hearts to the possibility of connection. If you're wondering why it took like eighteen separate meetings with someone before the bond manifested, do some introspection and consider why you might have closed your heart off or whatever. Like it's definitely a you problem, and it's rude to blame the Temple of Love, which is only trying to help people and has no other agendas whatsoever.
Also consider donating more money to the temple next time. Higher donations mean more priests can petition the Goddess on your behalf, and she's a busy lady, sometimes it takes a lot of petitions to get her attention. 👌
How would this factor into a plot?
My thinking is that a pair get setup as soulmates, and they are just absolutely both adamantly convinced that they are not. Like not in an enemies-to-lovers sense or anything, they just get the psychic bond thing and it's like, no. I don't know what's up but the Goddess of Love has definitely made a mistake. So they set out to gain an audience with her, but along the way they uncover the truth about the cult and its manipulation of generations of political marriages and business alliances.
It could be a metaphor for amatonormativity. Like some of the priests argue that even if it's a con, it's one that's been running for so long it's already steeped into the culture. How could the main characters bring themselves to expose it? To tell people who think they've found their soulmates that it's not really the case? Think of all those bonds they'd be threatening!
But then like, wait a minute. That's bullshit. This whole format for relationships has so many problems, and it's all working in service of manipulating and controlling people anyway! Why should they let the cult go on hooking up individuals that suit it? Shouldn't people know that it's possible to CHOOSE to make a telepathic bond with someone they actually want to? Shouldn't they be able to decide to manage their own relationships as they see fit, without some misleading pressure of fate or gods? And what about the ones left feeling excluded and unlovable because they don't "have" a soulmate? It's not like people are going to stop loving one another or finding themselves if they aren't being led around to do it this specific way!
So they upend the whole thing, and upset a lot of people, and then have to deal with the fact that they're still telepathically bonded until one of them dies.
Ugh.
Stupid cult.
i like when eridians describe grace in other-worldly, incorporeal, eldritch ways. that he's beautiful and terrifying at the same time. a horror you can't look away from because you don't want to miss a thing.
you can never get a clear listen to him. his primary sense node is covered in "hair" and the part that isn't is hidden by two crystals that refract sound waves in a pleasing but disorienting way. he covers his body in billowy cloth at all times. not snug and sensible and unobstructive like eridian coverings, but loose and layered, draped and flowing.
the most clear part of him are his internal organs. because yes, the alien's carapace isn't sound-proof. his single heart beats insistingly in his core, his lungs exchanging gas constantly, his long digestive tract always bubbling and contracting. his thorax is packed impossibly tight and it's all moving and singing.
and it shouldn't be possible, with how fragile he is, for that internal pressure to maintain. how does the thin membrane of his external organ (another horror that sends eridians reeling) keep it all contained? his "skin" is so easily pierced, cut, bruised, burnt, how does he not split open under his own mass?
when savior rocky first arrived home and described the environmental needs of his alien, the scientists thought he'd made a mistake in his frantic panic to get everything out. it isn't possible this being lives at such low atmospheric pressure, at half the gravity, and in a gas that's nearly double the weight of ammonia. in a gas so dangerous, so caustic. and if it does then how is it obligately terrestrial like rocky claims? shouldn't it fly or float instead? (and then to see it in the water, learning that it can float or sink at will.)
and this alien has come bearing gifts that will not only save your species but launch it into impossible heights of technological and intellectual advancement. he has discovered the solution to astrophage and bred it to thrive on threeworld and translated his instructions into eridian. he has given your people the complete sum of his people's knowledge, advanced in ways the eridians can't believe and behind in ways that seem ludicrous. and he has given his life for your people to have these things.
he knows how your solar system was formed. he knows how the universe started.
his name means beautiful and generous and relieving.
the eridians experiencing cosmic bliss.
be not afraid.
A good Chloé akuma wouldn't have dread powers. What does she care about a dozen middle schoolers fearing her now? She's got the world stage. If we're going to akumatize her she needs a power suited to that. You can even wrap 'fear' into it. She needs to have the power to change how people perceive things, on a global scale.
She doesn't need an illusion of Cat Noir cataclysming anyone. She just announces to the world that LB/CN are dangerous vigilantes and that becomes what people think. She declares LB untrustworthy and even other miraculars doubt them. She decries Cat Noir as a buffoon and his thoughts scatter. She declares herself unassailable and Ladybug's lucky charm gives her no inspiration.
None of these changes *are real* they're all simply collective perceptions easily transmitted via social media. It's all a front. All flash no substance, but still a deluge en masse.
In the end it's another layered meaning, because the akumatized item is actually a script Chloé is reading from, a script someone else wrote and told her to repeat if she wanted anyone to pay attention to her. The scriptwriter was the real villain, and she was just another tool.
Oooh. That's a good akuma idea! Though I would've thought of it more for Lila. Being able to change reality by simply speaking it into existence seems her style
If it was Lila she would be hidden, writing in a book to rewrite history for individual people perhaps, cleverly setting up events to domino her way in the present.
Chloe is out front influencing the present as a media personality in a much less permanent way but reaching a wider audience.
Do those sound like good distinctions?
Season 6 Lila, sure. Earlier seasons Lila is a bit more in-your-face, though.
A good Chloé akuma wouldn't have dread powers. What does she care about a dozen middle schoolers fearing her now? She's got the world stage. If we're going to akumatize her she needs a power suited to that. You can even wrap 'fear' into it. She needs to have the power to change how people perceive things, on a global scale.
She doesn't need an illusion of Cat Noir cataclysming anyone. She just announces to the world that LB/CN are dangerous vigilantes and that becomes what people think. She declares LB untrustworthy and even other miraculars doubt them. She decries Cat Noir as a buffoon and his thoughts scatter. She declares herself unassailable and Ladybug's lucky charm gives her no inspiration.
None of these changes *are real* they're all simply collective perceptions easily transmitted via social media. It's all a front. All flash no substance, but still a deluge en masse.
In the end it's another layered meaning, because the akumatized item is actually a script Chloé is reading from, a script someone else wrote and told her to repeat if she wanted anyone to pay attention to her. The scriptwriter was the real villain, and she was just another tool.
Oooh. That's a good akuma idea! Though I would've thought of it more for Lila. Being able to change reality by simply speaking it into existence seems her style
Did a little something for Xion's Day (I put it on Twitter too so I apologize for the multiple, overarching tags :D)
There is… a lot going on here.
For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.
Happy pride month to her and her exclusively
she made a comic about the experience on twitter
happy pride
An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993)
One of my favorite things about this scene was that by this point, these three animal actors were so fond of each other that the trainers really didn’t have to do much work to make them go to each other like this. They were really that happy to see each other!
That made this so much better!
Oooh, I watched this movie a lot as a kid. Well, sort of. We had "The Incredible Journey", which is the same movie, except that the animals don't have dialogue.
