emilywaters

[emilywaters]

No one's talking about this couple and that makes me sick.

They are so cute please !!!!

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god please double nagi's and reo's pain and give it to kaiser

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Fanfic is a free hobby.

It's one of the last few things we can have as a society that's free. You can engage, for free. People give you things (art, stories, etc), for free.

Don't buy into the consummerism just because it's everywhere else.

You don't have to consume everything you interact with. You don't have to use things, just because they exist.

You're allowed (still, for now), to have things that are enjoyable for free.

Do you realise how insane the world is? We don't have many places where we can just be, for free anymore, but ao3 is. Did you notice we don't have ads in ao3? We don't have pop ups? Where ELSE do we not have that?

Where else can you just go and not have to wait for a commercial to be over or for ads to be on the sidelines?

I don't think the younger people understand, but the whole of internet used to be like this. YouTubers would do Youtube for free, just because. You couldn't monetise your internet presence before.

Ao3 is like a little preserved corner of the internet where the old internet used to be, and it's being attacked by people who do not understand that free things are allowed to exist without judgment.

Please don't ruin this for us.

Some of us need it.

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me: I write for myself, not validation

also me after posting a fic *refreshes ao3 every five minutes*

(two things can be true)

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I think a feature ao3 needs is a 'user tried to give kudos again' notification

Like only the author can see it so it doesn't count into the actual kudos or any filtering statistic, but every time someone tries to give kudos beyond the first time you get a little notification ding and a message informing you that this particular individual liked your fic so much they pressed the kudos button once again, despite knowing you can only give kudos once

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My obsession is taking over...v slowly

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NOTICE: As more and more fanfic writers are using generative AI for their works (you uncreative dweebs), I hereby swear on everything I hold dear that I have not and will NEVER use generative AI in ANY of my written work. Everything I post will be organically and creatively my own.

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evil french woman and her black cat ???!?!!!??

feeling yuriful.... might drop nagireo or nesskai later......

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Help they're so cute

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I WAS READY FOR THEIR KISS

THEN THEY LITERALLY REVEALED THEIR IDENTITIES🔥🔥

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Took a much needed mental break from producing my short film to draw Cherry Blossom. Who else is brain rot deep because of the OVA? “Milady” had me rolling 🤣

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Literally me with one (1) marc x nathaniel edit from the ruler on tiktok

Watched The Ruler, the first mlb episode I've watched since watching the first season 6ish years ago and never touching it again

THEY MAKE ME ILL

Help

I read one (1) Miraculous Ladybug fanfiction

I am now thoroughly in love with Marc Anciel and Nathaniel Kurtzberg

Someone save me I don’t want to watch the show

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I believe that when Marc isn’t akumatized or as rooster bold he has a fear of heights due to well after what happened after Reverser.

I have no idea where the plot of this starts but I do know that after this video. Caprikid walks over the railings, leans his head out just a bit and looks up to see Pigella holding Marc by the wrist like Volpina with the illusion Adrien. The goat hero of course begins to worry about his partner as he can see it from the boy’s face of fear. “Lower him down slowly but don’t drop him.” Caprikid tells the hero in pink. His idea was for her to lower Marc just a bit till he can grab him and bring him onto the platform safely.

Please do Not repost or use without my permission

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so was anyone else chanting 'KISS KISS KISS' and being disappointed when the end card showed up and there wasn't :(

but then REMEMBERING THE POST CREDIT SCENE :)

OPENING THE POST CREDIT SCENE WITH THEM SITTING ON NATH'S BED :D

WHEN NATH TOUCHED MARC'S FACE AND GAVE HIM THE LOOK OF 'I'M SO IN LOVE AND DEEPLY WHIPPED' :D :D

WHEN THEY DID AN IDENTITY REVEAL :D :D :D

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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not enough people are talking about nathaniel being a protective partner to marc—like !! can anyone hear me !!! he does not PLAY about his writer

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i cannot stop thinking about a massive, end-all-be-all fight where marinette has to gather up her whole team to fight against it. something within her plan requires marc’s (rooster bold’s) power for an extended period of time, holding a sublimation power for hours and pushing through the fail safe of his miraculous. near the end of it, he’s so drained that he has to transform back before the fight is truly over.

ladybug has him and nathaniel (caprikid) in a secluded alleyway, and she’s telling him “you have to, you have to, you’re too drained, you’ll hurt yourself and your kwami permanently if you don’t,” all while he insists he can keep going, he needs to keep going, to help fight.

but when caprikid points out the potential damage to his kwami rather than him, the holder, rooster bold finally caves. ladybug tells caprikid to stay with him, makes him swear not to tell anybody rooster’s identity and assures rooster bold that it will be kept secret. caprikid promises, though he looks a little anxious with the new secret to keep.

the “secret” of it all becomes the least of his worries when ladybug leaves to rejoin the fight and he watches rooster bold detransform into none other than his best friend in the entire world. His best friend, the boy he’s been in love with for two years, bleeding from the nose from the exertion and looking almost embarrassed as he cradles his tired kwami in his palms and avoids eye contact.

nathaniel is practically frozen. he watches marc fish a small bag of dried corn feed from his pocket and start feeding orikko, swiping at his bloody nose with flushed knuckles. marc grimaces, his other hand petting over orikko’s feathers as the kwami eats.

“i promise i’m not usually this much of a let down as hero,” he says, almost self-chastising. “I’m pretty lame outside of all of it, but most times i’m more useful than this.”

he looks ashamed, like using his power until he’s bleeding and exhausted was some humiliating failure to prove himself. nathaniel aches at the thought.

marc is rambling now, it seems. he does that sometimes.

“i’m gonna work on it, i’m sure i could train myself to go longer than this. this is the last time you’ll have to babysit, i swear. i’m so sorry i’m keeping you from everything-“

nathaniel doesn’t let him go on any longer. his gloved hands come up, albeit a little shaky, and he watches himself cup one of marc’s cheeks, blood smear and all, and then the other. marc’s words die in is throat, and he sits there, breathing quietly as the flush of his face burns brighter.

“it’s not babysitting,” caprikid tells him. “you can’t-“ his voice breaks, and he swallows, finding his footing again. “you can’t push yourself so far that you’re hurting yourself, marc.”

he sees the flash of shock in those green eyes, the recognition that this is someone who knows his name. someone who knows him in some capacity. he can deal with that later.

“you’re too important to be doing that, you’re-“ he pauses, his thumb swiping over marc’s cheekbone tenderly as he studies his face. the confusion written in it, the parted lips.

he leans closer, resolute. “you matter more than the rest of this. i can’t… i can’t see you doing this to yourself. please, please, don’t push it too far. you’re doing great. you always do. don’t be in a rush to be what you think is better when the best is already there. don’t hurt yourself trying to prove that you’re capable. we see that in you already.”

marc might be making a wordsmith out of him yet.

he watches those green eyes rim with tears, and he almost starts apologizing, but then marc is hugging him, his arms wrapped around his shoulders and his hands lost in the fur of caprikid’s collar. “okay,” the writer whispers. “okay. thank you.” it’s a croaked, teary thing, and nathaniel hugs him back like he’s something precious, something to hold close to his heart.

in the days after the fight, marc keeps thinking about caprikid, and nathaniel clings to his side like someone is going to take him away. if anyone notices the way nathaniel becomes increasingly, gently protective, they don’t say anything.

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I now understand that the reason they aired these two episodes Like That is because they wanted the gays to have two big wins in a row