My Miraculous Story (10 Year Anniversary)
I wanted to share how I got into Miraculous, why I made this account, how much I love this show, and what the fandom has done for me.
A little over 2 years ago a random Pinterest video of the Ephemeral reveal got me invested to try and watch the show again so I skipped to season 2 (after season 1 didn't grab me several years ago) and the moment the show sold me was when Chat invertedly purred whenever Ladybug fell against him. My adoration of the show grew as I browsed Miraculous art on Pinterest and then I found BuggaChat's Bakery AU. This was when my love for the show exploded.
Not only did that comic make me love the show and the fandom more, but it also got me into Miraculous creators telling their own stories and led me to fanfiction. I consumed so many fics I eventually wanted to try and make my own. That desire became a short oneshot of Ladybug comforting Chat and assuring him that she valued him as her partner so much as I was making my way through season 4 and ironically right before I watched Cat Walker.
While this was happening I was becoming dissatisfied with my job and lack of friends and community in a city I moved to that didn't have anyone I knew in it. My therapist recommended that I should try to interact with the Miraculous fandom as they would have similar interests and I'm glad I gave it a shot. I had so much fun in a Miraculous Discord server where I got to talk to and meet all kinds of people, which of course grew my adoration and appreciation for the show even more.
Eventually I became really close friends with someone on that server that I'd talk to for hours on end with and again I just kept getting more and more into the show too. I discovered just how much I enjoyed writing, I got to talk to people who liked me with similar interests, and I didn't feel so alone anymore.
Since then my fervor for the show has dimmed to a more reasonable and perhaps healthy level and many of those relationships I made aren't as pronounced anymore in no significant part because of what I'd imagine to be the nature of online friendships, the passage of time, and a variety of all kinds of other factors. I still care for the people I met of course, but like the show the strength of those relationships has dimmed as I've been focusing more on my life outside of the internet.
I made this account as a safe place and refuge for me to be as cringe and authentic as I wanted to be for a show that I enjoyed so much. Here no one from my real life could judge me, here I could get as excited about other people's work and the show that has meant so much to me as much as I wanted, and here I could share my own creations without worrying about what people thought of me.
I'm thankful for Miraculous, my time in the fandom, the people I've interacted with along the way, this blog, the beautiful and incredible fanworks people have shared, how the show helped me rediscover how much I adore writing, and all the great memories I've made along the way.
I don't know what the future of the show or my relationship with the fandom holds, but whatever happens, I'm thankful for the time I've had in the fandom and all that it's done for me.
Thank you Miraculous fandom, thank you Miraculous Ladybug, and thank you to all those incredible creators that inspired me to create something for myself and others.
Happy 10 year anniversary Miraculous Ladybug <3