lotushoneys

a space to promote and chat about ml fics 😌 [my ao3]

[starssoblue]

letting go of the sadness allows room in your heart to enjoy all the good memories shared with your grandfather in that house. 

[lotushoneys]

ml fic writers, i love you. truly. but i need you to know boulangeries serve more than just macarons and croissants, and there are more savory french dishes than just quiche. hell, the show itself constantly talks about how adrien adores chouquettes. i'd love to see more of these or anything else in your amazing stories.

[lotushoneys]

i love nerdrien but i'm really struggling researching the science-y stuff a dork who has a passion and fascination for physics would love lmao. it's a throwaway background detail that has no real bearing on the fic i'm mentally writing but i want this to be part of his character so badly so here i am trying to make sense of this subject i struggled to ace in high school (i did it but not through any love for the subject matter) and then never thought about again. 🤧😔🫣🥲

[kyurinoir]

can these two get a room

[lugslogic]

I dont think Adrien was fully ‘acting’ here like Plagg joked

Especially with the ending scene and Chat always being afraid of what his cataclysm can do

[kitty-bugaboo]

I’ve been thinking the same thing!

Chat has been concerning me this season, learning that he is now afraid to tell Ladybug who he is (wreckless driver), fearing his own powers (lady chaos, although he has been fearing them for a while), and now not wanting to burden anyone else with being a superhero.

Early Chat Noir desperately wanted ladybug to know who he was, he was a lot more confident with his powers, and he would have leaped at the chance to have a buddy that can tap in when he’s not there.

Adrien always considered Chat Noir to be his freedom and escape from life. But it seems even now being Chat Noir has become harder for him.

[lotushoneys]

i had this exact thought while watching this. but i totally missed that there have been tiny tiny little signs indicating that he might feel this way, so i'm glad you pointed them out! i feel like the show is softlaunching the crisis adrien's going to have when he discovers he indirectly caused his mother's death and directly marked his father for death. i know the season started out with adrien saying he feels most comfortable and free as chat, but as time has gone on, to me it feels like in the background he has been rethinking some things. especially since one of the reasons he felt that way as chat was because he needed an escape. without his father and his many obligations adrien has had the time to explore real life outside of superheroism. it just makes sense that he'd reconsider, especially being owner of one of the miraculous that is constantly specifically targeted (which is different than having a power not being sought by the supervillain). i think adrien always had this fear of losing people or risking people he cares about, and the longer he's had the miraculous of destruction that fear has somewhat evolved into hurting people himself. (so the crisis he has when he finds out the truth is going to be massive.)

i noted this in my own post, but it's interesting how this episode happened immediately after heartfixer, an episode where chat noir made the decision to detransform and save marinette without any superpowers at all. idk if that'll even end up being relevant but his actions that episode and his comments at the end of this episode makes me think it might end up relating to his thought process somehow.

in any case, since it was the final scene in the episode they're likely to expand upon it later, whether in the few remaining episodes of season 6 or throughout season 7.

[lotushoneys]

wow what a fantastic episode.

i love the role reversal with alya/nino and adrien/marinette. (the season started with adrien and marinette not knowing how to be a couple and second guessing everything and trying to emulate nino and alya and now towards the end of s6, we have nino lying to alya about not hating strawberry and not realizing the difference between debates and discussions and actual fighting because of his parents.) glad it ended with the honesty (a constant theme this season for obvious reasons) but the show tends to write this (mostly) super solid unrealistic teenage relationship between alya/nino so i'm always here for the few times they feel more realistic, even in very minor ways.

i also really like that they didn't sugarcoat the v real problems nino's parents had and it ended in them getting separated and that being the better solution for everyone involved, including their children. i hate when shows gloss over serious relationship issues for the sake of "keeping families together" when it's obvious every single person involved would be better off if they didn't so that was nice.

yay nino character exploration and and a very cool carapace transformation.

marinette finally getting a superhero transformation with one ponytail! she looked so cute, i'm a fan.

it was hilarious watching adrien and marinette pretend they had no clue how to be heroes and were seeing kwamis for the first time. also hilarious as hell because adrien knew marinette was lying because he knew she was multimouse and marinette knew he was lying too, since he was aspik. that part where plagg made fun of him for pretending to be scared of being a hero and called him quite the actor, i died laughing.

i am obsessed with how trionyx's hair is the most parisian fashion model-like hair adrien has ever had.

anyway it was cute seeing adrinette run around rooftops together not knowing they do it all the time, but the thing i'm left thinking about is the final scene. because it's such a character (development? evolution?) for adrichat to go from finding freedom in chat noir (again! something he started the season with in that episode when he was trying to find a passion and discovered being chat was the one thing he truly enjoyed just for him) to saying something like, he doesn't want to impose being a hero on anyone else. it's a huge change from sentiments he would have made just weeks ago, so i am curious where the thought process comes from, how it's related to his father or his personal experience being chat. that thing he said about not wanting to be a hero to nino obviously wasn't serious, but i wonder if there's a kernel of truth to it. is he concerned about other people he cares about being hunted down for their miraculous (a stand-in for the miraculous being targeted is different than a stand-in for any other hero) and being denied a normal life, which he never really had (a sentiment ladybug had always felt more strongly than him because her civilian life did not suck like his did, but i wonder if he's leaning towards feeling the same now that he's finding his footing in life outside being a hero and finally has more of a life as adrien so he doesn't really need to glorify the chat aspect of his life anymore...hmmmm....), or if it's a personal thing, that his feelings about being a hero have become more complex and double sided. (actually, i wonder if it's significant that he says this in the episode directly after heartfixer. or if it matters that in that episode, adrien saved marinette exactly as himself, no hero required. interesting coincidences that maybe mean nothing but idk if the timeline itself is insignificant.) dying to see what the show does with that scene, and if we ever clearly find out what is going on inside his head because i am soooo curious.

[lyosphe]

Haha it's been forever... I just wanted to post this comic since Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is out

[lotushoneys]

#ADRIENETTE | 'cause i always had a vision of us standing like this. (this song is SO marinette manifesting her relationship with adrien that i HAD to make an edit) #miraculous #miraculousladybug #adrinette #oliviarodrigo @Olivia Rodrigo

i've had drop dead on repeat since it was released and it took me all week to actually put together an edit (longer than 30 seconds because the song is adorable and all of it is marinette manifesting her relationship with adrien coded. (this third olivia rodrigo album is about to be the most season 6 marinette album in existence honestly, i'm so excited.) anyway couldn't figure out how to embed the tiktok video so i uploaded it on youtube too even though it's going to get region locked for copyright. SIGH.

i had a lot of fun making this and am definitely going to try to make more adrinette edits because every song i love somehow always comes back to them.

[voltaje8]

Adrinette doodle~ 💕

[lotushoneys]

i love that adrinette au fics have made a comeback. the canon ones are nice, but i enjoy the alternate universes so much more, and it makes me so happy to be able to read a f1/best friend's brother/fwb boss-employee/roommates to lovers/secret relationship/actor-designer/royalty/journalist-photographer/fake engagement/marriage of convenience based story about adrien and marinette somehow falling in love. all these ongoing fics are fantastic and i love how ml authors take common tropes (though actually in this fandom many of these are being explored for the first time? i think? there are like 40k fics so idk for sure but i thinkkkk so) and make them their own, to the point where if 50 other writers appeared and did their own fics focusing on these same tropes i'd eat up every single one because the essence of them will still be completely different.

anyway some aus i'm hoping some adrinette authors write next:

billionaire romance

single parent

any sports romance (figure skating, ballet, some other dance, basketball, hockey, football)

honestly more boss-employee, maybe in an unexpected profession

college au

best friend's ex gf/fiancée/wife

best friend's sister au

princess-bodyguard / politician's child-bodyguard

any kind of angsty second chance romances (the one specifically in my head is like, one of them left the other at the altar for some reason and now they have a chip on their shoulder when they meet again, like some kind of forced proximity/begrudgingly falling in love again thing)

honestly give me more marriage of convenience fics or arranged marriage fics

childhood best friends to lovers or childhood enemies to lovers where one of them secretly was in love the whole time

aged up fwb / one night stands

more fake dating

sad beautiful romances that focus on healing mental health/eating disorders/domestic violence

no kwami (so not marichat/ladynoir/ladrien) secret relationship fics that actually are adrinette (ok ladrien in a in-universe fic might be fun just because no one does it but i also never see adrinette and it would be fun to see it in an actual out of universe au fic)

controversial but maybe a cheating on other people for each other because they're messy fic

interesting spins on the kwami swap au (i know they've been done; i just love them)

bring back the soulmate au

those cheesy classic romcom type stories involving bets and a humbled main character

romances featuring dating apps (my favorite thing ml writers used to do is they'd incorporate the secret identity aspect of the lovesquare into these sorts of fics)

spies/assassins/secret agent aus

those romances that start from a place of revenge or hidden motive but they end up in love for real

modern fairytale retellings

rivals to lovers but not in an academic setting

drunken marriage but they stay married for some reason

some kind of starcrossed lovers

(i could do this all day ahsjsjsshsjs anyway i love romance fics and y'all are so talented!)

[wasflypaw]

People worry about their fics being unoriginal whereas I read a good fic and I'm like "wow!! I hope I can find another fic exactly like this one to read"

[lotushoneys]

aiming to be the person who writes the same fic in different fonts 30x over.

[dairrhea]

🐞🐈‍⬛

[peepawspp]

Theysosilly to me i love them

[lotushoneys]

'you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love' is going to be season 6 marinette dupain-cheng's album, i just know it.

[its-not-jazz-hands]

Oof this episode got me good I had to draw this scene😭😭

Sketch + lineart and the clip that inspired this pose under cut⬇️

[anna-scribbles]

best minute and 20 seconds of my life

[starssoblue]

akumatization, elation vs. heartfixer.