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pisoprano's Loveybug AU Week Fics

In case you missed something, here are the links to my Loveybug AU fics, all in one place for your convenience. (see also the series page on Ao3)

#loveybug au week #loveybug au #my writing #ml fanfic #miraculous ladybug #master post

i keep trying to comment this on chapter 40 of runaway catwalker, but ao3 keeps flagging it as spam, so i thought i'd send it here instead. no pressure to respond publicly or even at all; i just wanted you to see it :] here's the comment:

i just read this all in one night and i LOVE it! i'm definitely looking forward to seeing where the story goes from here. i absolutely love the dialogue; there were so many clever moments, like in chapter 17: "I have every reason to think that he's still alive, but if he was dead, I wouldn't know." BECAUSE HE WOULD BE DEAD!!!! and even before that, "The identity of the person who wielded the black cat miraculous before me… is known to me." PERFECTLY worded so that it is TECHNICALLY a lie and the FACT that it is a lie makes it SEEM like he doesn't know chat noir's identity! i'm overusing caps lock lol but that's just how excited i am! i also love just how many misunderstandings you've managed to fit in this story. NO ONE is on the same page here and i'm obsessed with it. adrien thinking marinette is mayura? marinette thinking catwalker killed his mom? nino thinking catwalker hurt adrien? nathalie thinking adrien went off to find out more about his mother? i swear i can't get enough i love it so so much. the other big thing i love here is getting to see the art improve over the course of the comic. it's not like it was bad at the start or anything—certainly better than anything i could do—but you can really tell you found your footing as an artist along the way. there are some really beautiful compositions, like chapter 37? hello?? a masterpiece!! and the expressiveness of characters' faces and body language is so great; i especially love how you draw kagami, catwalker, and rena rouge/furtive. to add a comment about the chapter i'm actually commenting this on, i laughed out loud at the irony of ladybug telling catwalker he "shouldn't have to suppress who you are to make Chat and I happy. Just be yourself, yeah?" oh my goddd the "chat noir and catwalker are the same person" reveal is gonna be INSANE i can't wait haha

Hello and thank you very much for this comment! (And sorry for holding onto this ask for over a month, June was a bit of a mess for me and I'm only starting to recover from it)

Dialogue, misunderstandings, and technical truths/lies are some of my all-time favorite things to write, so concocting scenarios where I get to use them has been one of the things that keeps this comic as something I continually enjoy creating.

I definitely agree that these last four years (has it really been that long?) of working on this comic has been VERY helpful in how it's pushed me to become a better artist and learn how to draw more purposefully. Part 37 in particular was created with the intent of pushing myself to get better at working from real-life references and laying out an montage that tells a story without words. I hope that I'll be able to continue improving my art until the very end of the comic.

And as for the future Chat Noir=Catwalker reveal, I will just say that I've got a plan and I hope you enjoy it once we get there <3

Thanks for reading!

#runaway catwalker #reader response

Look, I just think it would be very funny if Gabriel only changed his name to Agreste in service of one of those “Greetings, m’lord, I’m the obscure ‘Duke of Suchandsuchy’!” heist schemes, only he never made a proper exit strategy and got in far too deep to ever set the record straight.

#gabriel agreste #ml headcanons #miraculous ladybug #getting old posts out of my drafts folder

Spy x Family fic idea:

Yor, while fulfilling her job as Thorn Princess, has to go underground without warning or outside contact for a long period of time and so--for the sake of Operation Strix--Nightfall gets her dream of stepping in as Loid Forger's wife. And, of course, Fiona's "Yor" disguise is immaculate, but Anya can tell in instant that this NOT HER MAMA and treats her with utter contempt, to Twilight's bafflement as he tries (and fails) to gaslight his daughter into thinking that Everything is Fine, when everything is a COMPLETE MESS (particularly once Garden and Yuri get wind of Yor being replaced and decide to take hostile action).

#spy x family #fic ideas

lesbian-from-next-door-too

If Project Hail Mary taught us anything it's that forced romance subplots have ruined movies. Too many stories about guys sacrificing themselves to save girls and not enough movies about guys sacrificing themselves to save their cool rock alien friend.

Hot take:

No one has suffered more from quantum masking than Andre the Ice Cream Man.

#his soul is in touch with the very fabric of the universe #but the quantum masking stops him from making any connections between civilian and super #so now he believes that the one thing that has never lied to him before and which gives his life meaning is lying to him #but no sweetie it’s just magic that makes everyone blind you’re fine #quantum masking is just making you not believe in polyamory #andre the ice cream man #miraculous ladybug

Adrien Agreste has AudHD, send post.

#deeply impulsive and yet irritable when routines go awry #tendency to overshare emotions but also masks them without even thinking #rejection sensitive dysphoria on top of not always being able to read social cues #probably both over- and under-stimulated #the constant war within the psyche a form of destruction in of itself #adrien agreste #miraculous ladybug

cookiedough77

something that interests me so much about cat walker is that, in part of being nothing like chat noir as much as possible (and using his Adrien Agreste™ mask instead) he acts basically nothing like a cat! (besides encouraging the sentimonster to follow him in rolling in the grass and eating it)

theres no puns, theres no cat like manorisms like chat noir has, the silliness is completely stripped from him, and on top of it, since his hair is pulled back, his human ears are showing. while yes chat noir has his human ears they are hidden beneath his hair, so his "real ears" are mainly associated with his cat ears instead

you may think its plaggs affect on him pretending to be a cat, but alas, that is ALL chat noir and his silliness, lady noire and kitty noire do have cat traits, yes, but NOT as much as chat noir, he really sells the bit a lot harder

pisoprano

In a lot of ways, Catwalker is a hybrid of Adrien and Ladybug--he's poised and obedient like his civilian self and he is hard on boundaries and doesn't indulge in silly behavior outside of strategic acts to control the akuma. (Even his hair is basically the midpoint between Adrien and Ladybug)

But so much of why Chat Noir works as a hero is because he's constantly silly--it makes him unpredictable and it's never obvious when he's trying to goad an akuma into falling into a trap because he's known for being snarky and annoying. Even if you know that he's been fighting by Ladybug's side since Day 1, you'll still let your guard down around him because there's something inside you that cannot take anyone who would say "Nya!" seriously. If Catwalker had gone up against a villain who didn't literally have the mind of a cat, I don't think he would have been able to disarm them nearly as effectively as he could as Chat Noir, because the incongruity between the boy who looks like a prince and the boy rolling in the grass would be too suspicious to go along with.

This is, of course, NOT to say that Adrien's decision to lean into his catlike behavior as Chat was merely strategy on his part--he wants to be a magical girl with cat ears because it's fun on a level that he literally does not have anywhere else in his life. He just also has learned to dial into this aspect of himself in a way that benefits Ladybug and her plans to defeat the villain of the week.

But when he as Catwalker intentionally tones down everything except for the moments where he needs to be a clown, it throws off the Bug-and-Cat dynamic enough that Ladybug finds it easier to go into 'Chat got hit by the akuma and now I need to save the day alone' mode rather than figure out how to direct a boy whose professionalism makes him seem like he'd be better off with her job (at least, if he'd bothered to take charge, which he clearly has no interest in doing). The whole Kuro Neko incident just made it abundantly clear that, whatever everyone else might assume about him, Chat Noir did contribute greatly to the heroes' success, and he did so because he was a silly kitty cat, not in spite of it.

#catwalker #ml analysis #miraculous ladybug

feldfrog

Whales have a heart the size of a small car. Imagine if they learned the true meaning of Christmas

#this made me laugh more than it should have

dct239394cvvd098dffgggp

to this day i cannot BELIEVE aang called up and blew off like nine avatars just because they didnt offer any vegan options to ending the war

pikameme-dayo

roku: my best friend assaulted me as a senior citizen :(

kyoshi: sometimes some murder is OK

kuruk: just punch people that disagree with you

aang: okay i’m starting to think that none of you took this avatar thing seriously

teeveew

You're not wrong

aboutiroh

Aang when he is told he’s the Avatar at age 12: *has a melt down because he understands the seriousness of this function and the consequences his new responsibilities will have on his personal life*

other Avatars at age 16: I’m the avatar? Cool! Hey look it comes with a glowing eyes feature!

aviculor

aang: fuck this noise, i’ll get advice from the last air nomad avatar

yangchen: i gave up that hippie bullshit first chance i got, i love murder

hedge-rambles

I will never not laugh at the bit where Aang is like "finally, an Air Nomad, you get me, right?" and Yangchen just says "sorry bud, I also vote murder".

A close second on that note is of course the trial of Kyoshi in which she manifests in the courtroom just to say "Actually, I did murder him and I'd do it again. But consider: the bitch had it coming".

kittyissac

#tbh I think there's something to be said for the fact that Aang was 12 when he ran away from home#and how there's more than a bit of evidence that the adult airbenders had a less strict pacifistic approach#Aang was purposefully sheltered by Gyatsu to protect his childhood and so he has the ethics of a child#and when he awoke there were no other air nomads around to sit him down and have The Violence Talk#about how yes we're pacifists and murder is bad but there are exceptions#like Gyatsu was a kindly man of the highest order but uh#he didn't just lay down and die on a pile of skulls he just found#man went out taking like 20 fire nation soldiers with him#Aang: ''I could never kill! Gyatsu taught me to abhor all forms of violence“”#Gyatsu: deals out death to attacking soldiers like he's got a side hustle as a claymore mine

zarohk

And the fact that he figures out a more technically complex and socially stable way to remove Ozai without making him a martyr just shows that he has a lot more skill at the problem at hand than most the previous ones.

To me, that whole scene was very much the previous avatars saying “when all you have is a hammer” and Aang going “okay, but what can I do with this Swiss Army knife?” and they don’t give very useful advice about it.

tamer-of-jabberwocks

Personally I also don't think the prior Avatars were all that helpful, but they weren't all saying murder was okay. Aang's there asking for help with Avatar skills because he'd had so minimal training, maybe there's something in the toolbox he doesn't know how to use yet, but they're all trying to make him comfortable with using the hammer he already has and knows how to use. What they were saying was what they thought he needed to hear, based on what they regretted most from how they'd acted as Avatars, and what they thought was most needed here.

Roku regretted not killing Sozin specifically because it gave him the opportunity to come back and kill him, then the Air Nomads. His lack of decisive action led to a lot of tragedy, and so his advice was to make sure whatever he did, make sure it was permanent, or Ozai would come back.

Kyoshi regretted not moving sooner on the threat of Shin the Conqueror and waiting until he was at the very edge of Kyoshi Peninsula before actually doing anything. She allowed a lot of destruction on the continent because she didn't move fast enough. Her advice is to move swiftly instead of allowing Ozai more time to act.

Kuruk basically did nothing as Avatar by his own admission and basically just said that Aang had to do something, and not to back off of his responsibilities because it was hard.

Yangchen is complicated because, well, she isn't talking about one of her own regrets. She's the one trying to give the 'Violence is sometimes necessary' talk to Aang, because she's the best person to tell him his duties as Avatar have to outweigh his duties as an Airbender. Arguably she is the one telling him to murder Ozai, but personally I read that as more 'you need to do what's right for the world, and I am giving you permission to break our cultural rules to do that. Because I am the only person you can ask for absolution.'

They were all trying to offer him spiritual guidance and support, but Aang wasn't looking for emotional support here, he was looking for solutions. Because he had already decided he wouldn't kill Ozai. No advice or absolution was really going to change that he already knew he wouldn't do it.

autistichalsin

#this is a perfect addition#they were trying to be advisors#but aang didn't need guidance at that moment#he needed answers#ironically they all gave guidance that aang had needed and could really have used earlier in his journey#but that he already had learned via his travels#important lessons to be had but not what aang needed in that moment#being swift and decisive to act#and not hesitating or taking half measures#or blowing off duties#these are important lessons to learn for an avatar#and yangchen clearly tried to help aang come to terms#with the dichotomy between being a monk and being the avatar#her words on why he can't separate himself from the world like other monks because of his duty to the world#is actually very important for his future growth i think#but they didn't give him the answers he needed#he knew he needed to stop ozai#but he also knew he couldn't look him in the eye and kill him#aang is actually being really mature in that moment#because he knows he can't face an enemy and kill them#and he's trying to find a path to victory despite that#and he keeps looking for that path#despite all options seeming to say there is none#and his persistence is rewarded when he asks the lion-turtle#who teaches him energybending

This, and also I think it provides the lesson of "the adults/elders in your life/community don't have all the answers for every situation. Sometimes you have to find your own answer, and sometimes the answer can be found with someone else, and it is absolutely okay to keep asking to find the solution to your problem. You're not disrespecting anyone or being arrogant; you know your problem better than anyone, and it is your life and your conscience, and only you can decide what's best for it. If the only advice people have for you is to act in a way that contradicts your own values, it probably is wrong for you, and if these are indeed your deeply-held beliefs, you need to hold on to them and instead try to find a way to confront your problem in a way that does not go against those values. Most of our regrets come from letting ourselves act in ways that contradict our inner system of morality. You have every right to act to avoid moral injury, even if what avoids moral injury for you would be a cause of it in others."

#atla #excellent additions

partywithponies

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

urlocalpyshcopan

as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name

brainsforbabyjesus

for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!

infamousbrad

I think I know how this works.

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.

kagedtiger

Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm

ifoundmybeatingheartagain

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

this has rewired some neural pathways for me

razielim

It's interesting to see this post a second time bc the first time my response was only, "Checks out. Ugh." But the second time, looking back at my responses to things throughout life, I obviously experience the same goddamn thing. All the time! We all do, to some degree.

I'm not talking about gay and black people or interracial couples in media and society, etc etc, but like... idk, mundane stuff like fandom antis, right? It's a small population, but it's so incredibly grating on fandom enjoyment, that it feels like some fandoms are completely overrun. "Everyone in that fandom is a hater."

Or, oh, far less mundane example — homophobic comments!

I see ONE person in a reddit thread be homophobic (or a few if it's a large comment section, whatever the equivalent of 5% would be), and I'm thinking "Oh, they HATE us hate us over there." Bc I'm also, emotionally, still upset over the homophobic comment I read last week when my browser loads this next one. (ADHD probably doesn't help lol. Last week can easily feel like yesterday or even five minutes ago.)

The fact that I didn't even remember/notice being upset in all the intervening time between then and now is irrelevant. The fact that I read 20+ threads between then and now without a single peep of homophobia is also irrelevant.

The brain doesn't really care about small details like "facts."

It felt afraid/threatened then, and it feels afraid/threatened now, and it's starting to develop a certain ~sense, a subconscious wariness, about the experience of going on reddit.

(Which... that wariness likely makes it hyper-vigilant and more likely to notice homophobic comments it might have otherwise skimmed over, reinforcing the experience.)

Thus, over 15 years, I have become convinced that Reddit is informational (esp in the age of Google becoming useless), BUT is also irredeemably homophobic, racist, sexist, etc. etc. despite the fact that I mostly curate my experience and stay off egregiously unpalatable subreddits.

Some things feel threatening for good reason. Racism, homophobia, misogyny are scary bc they can portend real harm. (Even fandoms with too many fans willing to harrass and death-threat others can result in real harm.) It's good to know how to deal with that fear, but the fear isn't unwarranted.

Other things, like seeing a black person at a shopping mall, you know, doing their shopping... or seeing a somewhat broad-shouldered woman in the ladies' room going about her business, you know, going into a stall or washing her hands... these things are threatening bc someone has conditioned others to consider these things threatening.

Who did it? Why? What did they stand to gain from your fear?

Generally — money, power, and control on a scale that the casual pleb racist/transphobe doesn't get so much as a whiff of.

Unfortunately, these aren't questions people are asking themselves so... we continue to try to integrate through education (history, science, critical race theory) and through exposure in non-threatening contexts (sesame street, will & grace).

Idk what's so threatening about topless women in public, nipples are generally quite dull and soft and can't hurt you, but whatever it is, perhaps we can import more European films to finally free that nipple, idk.

#emotionally they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view

eileensdress

Oh my god I was just looking to see how much a copy of Hamlet would be through Barnes and Noble and PEOPLE ARE ROLEPLAYING WARRIOR CATS IN THE REVIEWS??????

toadcroaky

@vriska

shamesonlydaughter

ok i was VERY involved in the. b&n reviews warrior cats roleplay scene when i was like 10-12. the first two books of the series were general hubs where ppl would post ads for their clans and other groups. there was a huge percy jackson community i remember participating in too. it worked through search results, eg. riverclan might be under the search result “rivers”. book 1 was rules and a “map”, book 2 might be the main area, book 3 the medicine cats tent, etc. there was also usually a book where ppl would post lengthy descriptions of their character(s). it was a rlly bizarre little corner of the internet jdksj also it was impossible to find any real reviews of any of the warrior cats books bc of it

darkcomedies-deactivated2022042

this is unironically kind of cool

dia-tribe

I rbed this silently but I think I've gotta answer some questions now. I was a big part of this whole thing and the reason we didn't use forums was because 90% of us didn't have normal internet access. Barnes and Noble had an e-reader that could connect to the internet and reach their digital store, which was great for those of us with controlling parents who only let us read books.

#i love this so much #even within the strictest rules kids will find ways to play

imstillalexcomic

As a bit of levity, upon seeing the work in progress drawing of Agent Alex, Fran - @crazygnomenclature had this to say,

“🎵 Secret Aaaaagent Ma'am🎵”

Thank you, sometimes we need a bit of fun when discussing things that are extraordinarily not fun.

I'm Still Alex - Webtoon | Tapas | Linktree | Patreon

Sure, I’m technically allowed to work for the federal government… unless I was one of the trans people purged from the military… which was later ruled unconstitutional, so I suppose I could get that job… for now… but the damage to our transgender military personnel was already done; that ruling was far too late.

Beware the person who downplays what’s happening, and let’s go further, challenge them. Yes, trans people are legally allowed to work government jobs, but when doing so requires them to be stripped of their life saving healthcare, are they really?

The messaging is clear: if you want to be part of the future that republicans are building, you must either strip yourself of your identity, or die.

Broken record as I am on this topic, it bears repeating:

Neutrality assists the oppressor. If you’re part of a discussion where someone spouts this garbage and you don’t push back, you’ve given tacit approval to what they said. If you remain friends with that person, you’re making the statement that bigotry is not a dealbreaker for you.

What kind of person do you want to be? If transphobia, homophobia, racism, bigotry, etc. aren’t dealbreakers for you, are you that person?

History will remember.

#transphobia #gender affirming care #government bans #trans genocide

sweetmeatdale

Happy pride month from the most gender shenanigans couple in Miraculous

These pieces commissioned from @hamsteriffic

#love square disguise-sonas #miraculous ladybug

mari-monsta

Adrien agreste doing uuuuhhh. . *throws a dart onto a dart board* being the pretty lady assistant of a bad magician

pisoprano

#have a stupid doodle #the zigzag magic trick is the iconic trick for celebrities who pretend to do magic #so of course ladybug is going to do that one #miraculous ladybug

As someone who is very bad at recommending books and such to people (especially IRL), I think I might have figured out part of the reason why: I get affected by external opinions too easily. This isn’t exactly a “I am incapable of forming my own opinions”, but more a “I feel like I don’t fit in and/or am a bad person if I don’t agree with the opinions others present.” So, when I try to pitch something to someone who has no familiarity with a thing, I subconsciously react to the vibes I get off the other person that they aren’t invested and I become embarrassed by my opinions and start backpedaling with the insistence that no one else needs to care about this, meaning that I don’t convince anyone to do anything--which only reinforces my belief that my thoughts aren’t worth inflicting on anyone and that I'm just better off keeping my mouth shut.

#late night post

morphmaker

the silmarillion bride

#princess bride #lotr #silmarillion

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