Ansho

[liz-and-the-blue-bird]

I’ve been waiting all year to post this.

[diamictite]

Calling all Marichat Stan’s I am requesting fic recs preferably completed ones that are of longer reads bc I am currently at a standstill. Thank you and much love 🙇🏼‍♀️❤️

[marimbles]

the way I loved you by @sha-nwa !!! (68k, T) — It’s SO good, huge huge fav, I’ve read it probably 5 times lol. It’s established dating marichat with a devastating breakup and glorious pining!! It hurts so good (and has a happy ending, dw)

A Lie for a Lie by @botherkupo (49k, T) — this was one of the first marichat fics I read and it was like a gateway drug to me lol. I’ve reread it a time or two and it’s always excellent. Fake dating need I say more

Spark by @zimtlein (49k, T) — fun Tinder shenanigans and some tasty angst too!

final girl by @picayunearts (41k, T) — ok confession I have only read the first couple chapters of this one cause I am terrible about keeping up with things that are updating and I am recovering from a recent (long) bout of illiteracy and I fully intend to read this. However comma pi is one of the best writers I’ve ever had the privilege of reading and this is a guaranteed incredible read.

[chescaeli]

Soos, Wendy, and the Mystery Twins raided every nearby laundromat for clean boxers just so Soos can bid goodbye to “Brat Summer.”

Ford and Stan’s own clean pairs are mixed up in there.

This whole incident was all filmed on a TikTok made by Pacifica, now working at the Mystery Shack, trying to give the place an online presence. The Shack needs to catch up with the times.

That actually sounds like a fun spin-off “episode.” Time for me to draw.

[clacy2812]

The reason they have one bed, convenient!

[marveldaily]

Loki 'Nexus Event' // Loki 'Glorious Purpose'

[rita-dietrich-deactivated202404]

Gurl, @sunflowerdigs, how your tags so 🤌🤌

[linusbenjamin]

For you. For all of us.

[memecucker]

if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?

[mala-taste]

If I were writing about firefighters I'd also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I'd do the same for a minority I'm not a part of.

I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.

We need to bring this back.

[mala-taste]

And apparently just this summer they DID bring it back - it's called Little Details and it's on Dreamwidth!!!!

[alexseanchai]

[therealmarinette]

am I the only one who feels like the mlb fandom has been so dry lately?

there's been an entire new season, a movie and now a special. and THERE'S NO FANFICTION ABOUT IT?!?!

I've been searching for months now, and nothing!

where's the hype? the enthusiasm? this has been the greatest year for miraculous ladybug so far, and the fandom is dead silent. am I just looking in the wrong direction?

if any of you have any fanfic/comic recs, I'd love to hear them! (I'm desperate)

(Thank you all for the responses! I will try to keep up and read them all!)

[flightfoot]

I'll give a list of recs! I'm limiting it to just completed fics here.

The Markov Alliance by CrochetJellybean

Slight spoilers for season 5! Markov was excited to use Max's class time to learn more about the AI system within the Alliance rings. In his exploration, he accidentally discovers a chat room of 14 non-humans connected to the Alliance network, so he decides to join it.

to assess the equation of you by @marinetteplztakeabreak

“I’m not a wanted fugitive,” she said, dryly.

“You could change that.” She wasn’t sure if he was joking. Wasn’t sure if she wanted him to be joking. She stared for a long second, as if she could read more into his intent in the pupils of his eyes. They stayed there for a long second, unblinking. OR: Félix and Kagami try to talk about that after credits scene in Pretension

Emotional Mountain Ranges by @liiinerle

[[CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR SEASON 5 EPISODES: 17 - Adoration, 20 - Revelation (minor)]] After Zoé's attempted romantic confession to Marinette is interrupted by an incensed Chloé and Audrey Bourgeois, she's left distraught and adrift, a crying mess in an alleyway far from home. Ladybug saves her from the incoming akuma, and tries to help her back on her feet - and Zoé wonders what she could possibly have done to earn this much attention from a superhero...

Slowly Fading (from my misery) by @wehadabondingmoment

“You’re looking awfully deep in thought today, minou.” Ladybug’s gloved hand stroked over his hair and Chat Noir closed his eyes with an unstable breath. He got like this sometimes. Lately, it had been getting worse. Or: Gabriel likes using the rings to order his son around. After a while, it starts having effects on Chat Noir as well. (The more often Gabriel commands Adrien to act a certain way, the more it gets ingrained in his mentality. He suffers because of it.)

Solitary Confinement by @wehadabondingmoment

“Second Chance,” he sobbed almost incomprehensibly, and yet, time remained stagnant and Ladybug stayed dead. ‘This isn't supposed to happen! I should be able to reverse it, why isn't anything happening?’ (Ladybug isn't actually dead, it's just a nightmare) Or: I saw Representation and wanted to write about Ladybug breaking him out of his "room"

Gabriel Seeks Financial Planning Advice by @uptoolateart

As Gabriel accepts his imminent demise, he decides to make plans to protect Adrien's inheritance and livelihood. This is the letter his trusted financial adviser writes to him, summarising the key points of that meeting. ------------ So, I really do work in financial planning, and my team and I got to talking about Harry Potter's needs and suddenly I was writing a post-meeting summary letter to Harry, as if he were a client. Then a colleague said, 'You should write one to all the characters on Miraculous.' Well, I don't know about ALL of them, but Gabriel's letter started writing itself in my head without me even trying. The objectives list had me cracking up and suddenly I had my laptop out, writing this crazy thing.

Nino Does The Math by @aidanchaser

Nino does his best to account for all the miraculous in the wake of [season 5 finale events]. He comes to a startling conclusion about his best friend. -Contains spoilers for Season 5 of Miraculous Ladybug, up to the finale Re-creation.

When Secrets Come Undone by SortaArtsy

Ladybug promised not to tell Adrien... but she never promised not to confide in Cat Noir. What happens when Ladybug unintentionally vents to the one person who wasn't meant to know any of it? ****MAJOR SEASON 5 SPOILERS WARNING! **** May not be season 6 compliant when it comes out.

white room and a whiter past by @pauliestorylover

After his father’s funeral, Adrien returns home to find a foosball table in his room. Or; remember the part where Gabriel locked Adrien in a white room with nothing but a foosball table and a tv?

What Really Happened by @uptoolateart

Following Monarch's defeat, Ladybug and Cat Noir meet up to have a much-needed talk. With the Wish made, the pressure is piling up, and Ladybug finally decides to tell Cat Noir the truth of what happened in the Agreste mansion basement. (A one-shot follow-up to the S5 finale)

all of your flaws and all of my flaws (laid out one by one) by @coffeebanana

Ladybug and Marinette have both been acting strangely since Monarch's defeat, and Chat Noir would give anything to know why—to be able to help them. He just...didn't expect his answers to come when Ladybug drags him to his father's statue in the middle of the night along with a bag full of spray paint.

Keep Me Safe Inside by Rofair

Adrien Agreste, formally known as Claw Noir attempts to get to know the girl he admires behind the mask of the reformed Shadybug. He has a plan, but it is derailed by a blonde bully.

The Supreme Movers by PearlO_O

Continuation of Tales of Shadybug and Claw Noir. Adrien and Marinette battle with the emotional aftermath of meeting their alternate selves.

[aidanchaser]

Kind of you to think of my silly sweet little Nino one-shot!

If anyone wants an in progress fic dealing with the season 5 finale events, I am thoroughly enjoying lies of attrition by @ladyofthenoodle and @wackus-bonkus-maximus

And I personally haven't been reading any ShadyClaw fics (yet) but they are popping up from my subscribed authors so they're totally out there! Maybe double-check your tag searches!

[atinystraykid]

“If you have time to be on social media, you also have time for…” “If you have time to watch Netflix, you also have time for…” Yeah, but do I have the energy for it? Do I have the emotional and mental capacity for it? Am I pain-free enough for it? Can I focus on it? Can I do it without leaving my bed? Can I safely do it without risk of (physically or emotionally) injuring myself by pushing past my boundaries?

[l1linya]

MLB Stickers!!

Feel free to print them for personal use! Resells are prohibited!!!

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[buggachat]

Honestly I think my take on the "Chat Noir was not there in the final battle" comes down to the fact that I kind of just don't think a satisfying final battle between Chat Noir and Monarch was actually possible.

I read a lot of fic, for example, and I've read the scenario play out a lot of times in a ton of ways and I've never been fully convinced of it tbh (and not because they weren't great fic!!). It seems just completely traumatic for Adrien in a way that the scenario inherently cannot properly focus on, because it's all happening in the middle of an action scene and Adrien is too busy being Mid-Battle to properly have a cathartic breakdown about it all. I mean, Chat Blanc already showed us what would happen if he did have a breakdown mid-battle (and why wouldn't he?). And though it'd be fun to have a big triumphant moment of him defeating his abusive father, Adrien simply isn't a character who would find that scenario triumphant, or cathartic, or anything other than viscerally traumatic.

Also, I agree that it's unfair that Chat Noir was not present— like it was unfairly tilted in Ladybug's favor— but I don't think it'd be fair if he was present, either. Because Marinette is, in fact, the main character. The main character whose character arc is primarily focused on her finding her footing as a hero and discovering all the responsibilities that come with that power (as opposed to Adrien, whose character arc is moreso about freedom and identity). And let's face it, in a fight between Ladybug and Chat Noir and Monarch, nobody would be focused on Ladybug at all. It's not about her. It's not her fight. She'd just be there as moral support and an extra set of hands, which really doesn't work for her character arc at all and is completely unfair to her!

Basically, it would just be Chat Noir temporarily acting as the main character and having the worst time of his life in the most un-cathartic battle for him possible left completely traumatized with Ladybug in the background awkwardly trying to comfort him after the fact? And then the season ends? And then the next season presumably goes back to Ladybug being the main character? After a time-skip to the new school year? It's just an ending that I feel like is a lot better in theory than actually on paper. And you can probably make an argument for ways that it could be made to work, where it would enhance Ladybug's story in a meaningful way where she still feels like the main character, and would somehow be triumphant for Chat Noir despite it probably being the worst moment of his life, and somehow not make the rest of the series following feel like bonus content as opposed to a continuation of the story...... but, I dunno. I think it's a lot easier said than done.

The fact of the matter is, I've always been waaayyyy more interested in how the aftermath of Gabriel's defeat affects Adrien than the battle itself. Post-Hawkmoth defeat is one of my favorite types of fic for a reason, and it's because the aftermath can be so juicy, especially for Adrien as a character. I think whether or not Adrien is actually there in the battle itself has always been kind of irrelevant to me, because no matter how Gabriel is defeated, his defeat will have immense repercussions on Adrien's life going forward. And the way they did it, Marinette is now a part of it in a more active way, too. Which is good for her character!

( Also, if he was there to triumphantly defeat Gabriel, would that mean he would just.... watch his father die? of cataclysm? a-and.... nathalie would just.... die, too? so he'd have three dead parents after all that? who he watched all die (or, in emilie's case, saw her corpse)? or is this a scenario where MONARCH BEATS CHAT NOIR and still makes the wish? is that cathartic? for Adrien to lose to Gabriel? Frankly, I loved seeing Gimmi and The Wish, it's been teased for so long that I was expecting it, and I loved the fact that Nathalie got to live as her narrative reward for coming to her senses and trying to murder Gabriel with a crossbow. I like that we got to watch a full season of Gabriel painfully dying to a cataclysm— poetically inflicted on him by Adrien, but of Gabriel's own doing. I like that Nathalie has presumably adopted Adrien after having an arc of her trying to be a parent to him once she realized nobody else would, that's so much more interesting than any other alternative. I just don't see how all of these things, some of my favorite things that season 5 gave, can still all exist at once with Chat Noir present in the final battle in any way that's satisfying. )

[loveunhingedblondeboys]

THIS, EXACTLY THIS AAAA

(but I'm still pissed about the "avengers part" with giving ALL the miraculous away. It means NO FUSIONS and it's so interesting part of the kwamis powers 😭 Yeah, that is my objection to the final.)

[marimbles]

who wants to recommend the best marichat fics in the world to me rn. bc I have an incurable disease

[cuteautumn]

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

[tomatoreddsworld-deactivated201]

WHAT THE FUCK IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE WHY DID SOMEONE REBLOG THIS

[derranger-deactivated20220102]

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

[imokube-deactivated20240203]

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

[mr-freezo-42069-inactive]

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

[hallowed-be-thy-ween]

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN

[buggachat]

The change of Shadybug and Claw Noir's costumes at the end makes so much sense, both thematically and lore-wise. The show has told us time and time again that the costumes that the characters wear are a reflection of themselves— how they feel in the moment, how they see themselves, the energy they carry. Of course their costumes would change at such a monumental moment of character growth. Of course Shadybug would want to look more like Ladybug, the version of herself that she wants to be. Of course Claw Noir would want to get rid of his spikes and look more like himself, to seem less intimidating, to let his natural hair color show. Of course they would want to change their names, to shed their association with their previous selves, where they were merely tools being used and disrespected and left to rot by the being they trusted, the being that saw them as nothing more than dispensable cogs in a machine. Of course they'd want to start fresh. This makes so much sense that there really is no alternate ending that would've worked, and if I were a writer on the special, I wouldn't change it.

that being said, FUCK their new designs claw noir and shadybug will always be claw noir and shadybug and he'll always have green hair and spikes and she'll always have space buns i don't care i don't care i don't care. adrien deserves spikes and marinette just looks so good in space buns ok i am on my knees sobbing and punching the floor

[c0s-lettuce]

how's it feel? to be in love?

it feels easy. it's just like breathing.

he understands my idiosyncrasies, finds them charming even.

we expose each other to new things, new ideas.

and we laugh a lot.

we just pass the time so well.

i'd call those things love.

⊱ ⊷ ⋇ - - - - - - ❣ - - - - - - ⋇ ⊶ ⊰

quotes from OUR FLAG MEANS DEATH 1.10 - "Wherever You Go, There You Are"

gifs from LOKI 1.02 - The Variant, 1.05 - Journey Into Mystery, 2.01 - Ouroboros, 2.02 - Breaking Brad

inspo: this reblog by @northrnfool and this post by @brenna

thank you both for sharing your ideas and creations!

[buggachat]

I'm so so obsessed with this absolute freak

[kittchuco]