#MLS 2018

[thetwilightroadtonightfall]

I need n e e d to ramble about Eph’s family again because it’s the only thing keeping me from ripping a door off of its hinges atm—but wait! I’m doing something different today. I’m gonna go backwards in the family tree (which you can view here if you wish! But it’s not necessary for the purposes of this post)

So a lil while ago on twitter, @/kwoojii asked for Ephemera backstory headcanons (well specifically they also asked about his commitment issues 😄) so I figured why not share what I said and expand on it here?

I need to give additional context, because this goes into general edgy headcanon territory. Below are screenshots from one of my fic documents [Overmorrow Character and Lore Files - File 3 (pgs 2-3)] explaining what I imagine the situation in Daybreak Town is:

Now to get into the main part: My backstory headcanon for Ephemera is that he was raised by two moms. They owned a library, and even had a small textile business on the side. As you can probably guess, Eph grew up surrounded by books, and got his scarf from them. They loved him dearly, and tried their best to give him a good life.

But they fell on hard times. In the midsts of their struggles, they were eventually approached by the MoM. They talked a lot and came around to trust the clever, charismatic, even sympathetic guy. And he made them a promise that their son would be well cared for under his watch 👁️ So, convinced by the MoM’s words…these mothers choose to give up their only child in hopes that he’ll have a better quality of life elsewhere.

Eph has very vague memories of them. He remembers being loved, but he also remembers being abandoned and left alone for a long time (however long it takes for the MoM to get things set up in Daybreak Town; I assume the kids are kept in some liminal space in the meantime).….hence the commitment issues. He learns to figure things out on his own, and that carries over into his early days as a keyblade wielder. He likes being with people, but he relies on himself first and foremost. He tends to keep a bit of emotional distance between himself and others without meaning to because he subconsciously thinks that one day, they might leave him too. It’s easier to be the one who leaves than it is to be the one who gets left behind.

But this makes his bond with the other union leaders and Player all the more meaningful, because they all choose to stand together again and again, despite the odds, and their own personal doubts and fears.

It’s a bit of a downer, I know…but I assume it’d be like that not just for Eph and his parents, but for most of the other Daybreak kids and their parents too.

…Can I perhaps offer you some of my old doodles from last year as consolation? 😄

Phoebe Ophiuchus (left) and Paraphernalia “Nalia” Lumen (right), the lesbians that started it all 🤍

[disorganizedkitten]

Being Rena Rouge is the best thing Alya can do to help her superhero friends, but the problem arises when she’s needed and Ladybug can’t get away long enough to bring her the Miraculous of illusions. And darn it Marinette actually knows how to hide things! Alya needs to be out there, but she also needs to have superpowers to do so.

[pisoprano]

Trick or treat!!

Why hello! Here, let me get you some candy! I’ve been saving this in my cupboard for… five or six years? That’s still good, right?

Oh, I remember like it was yesterday! Season 2 of the Ladybug show was starting to be released and our little fan community had come up with the idea of Chat Noir becoming akumatized—“Chat Blanc” we called him! Such a delightful idea! I wonder if the creators of the show ever learned about him…

[beebundt]

no..... no..... am i going to rewatch the entirety of ml to catch up on what i missed just bc of this one goddamn marichat gifset..... pls.... i cant go back.....

[jattendschaton]

Genuinely, where are ML people congregating these days. None of the Discord servers I'm in are super active anymore and I barely see people in them posting about new episodes/specials and definitely not as they're airing. Where is the new episode camaraderie

There used to be so many active Discord servers and groups on Tumblr/Instagram who talked about where to find links for whatever was coming out and livestreamed episodes themselves and went crazy while watching them all together and I can't tell if this is something that has gone by the wayside fandom-wide or if I am a loser who just isn't invited to be part of these things

[purrfectlycontent]

alnst fandom is insane because how did i get 216 kudos on a fic i wrote just last month??

[prayforleonardo]

⚽️ 89' GOAL || Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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MLS ON FOX || March 31, 2018

[no-144444]

hi! i love your blog and i know this is kind of weird but just hear me out. do you remmeber the 'anything but f1' thing they did this year? what if oscar's topic was his girlfriends career and she was like a huge superstar on broadway and on the screen? and he like knew EVERYTHING and answered every question perfectly?

i hope you like this idea, if not, that's totally fine.

thank you ml xxx

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knowing me, knowing you- o.piastri

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a/n: thank you for requesting! sorry it took so long :)

summary: i suggest you look at the ask...

pairing: oscar piastri x reader

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Oscar was too warm and tired for this. He stood in front of a camera, smelling like hairspray and some sort of spray the makeup artist had put on his face, while he was asked all of the ‘Grill the Grid’ questions. 

“That’s it for ‘Grill the Grid’,” she explained. “But this year we have a new segment.”

“Oh yeah?” he questioned, his interest piqued. 

“Yeah, it’s called ‘Anything but F1’,” she smiled. “Your topic is Y/n Y/l/n’s career,” she chuckled. 

Oscar smiled. “This is going to be easy.”

“Will she kill you if you don’t get full marks?” she laughed. 

Oscar pondered. “Probably not?” 

“Alright then. Ready? Pressure is on.”

He nodded. 

“What was Y/l/n’s first role on Broadway?” 

“Matilda,” he nodded. Y/n Y/l/n, his girlfriend, you, also an EGOT winning actor, the youngest there’s ever been. 

“Correct! How old was Y/l/n when she made her Broadway debut?”

“Well, she was 8 in Matilda on the West End and did 2 years of that, so 10?” he answered. 

“Correct! How old was she when she played Sally Bowles, making her the youngest to have ever played her on a Broadway stage?” 

“She was 17.”

“Correct! How old was she when she got her first Tony?” 

“11 years old.”

“Correct!” she smiled. “What Disney princess did she play?” 

“Huh?” he questioned, not knowing that you’d voiced a disney princess. “She’s voiced a Disney princess?” 

She nodded. 

“In a Disney film?”

She nodded again. “Think about it.”

“Does she sing in it?”

“The princess does sing,” she explained. “But Y/l/n did also write a song for it.”

Oscar was stumped. “Can I come back to it?” 

“Sure,” she shrugged, moving on to the next one. “What was her first feature film?”

“Lés Mis,” he answered. “She played Cosette.”

“Correct! What happened at the 2013 oscars?”

Oscar chuckled. “I think Jennifer Lawrence fell over and took Y/n with her?”

“Correct! What is her most streamed song?”

“Does this include recordings she was a part of or just her solo career or the band too?”

“One of those is fine, but if you can give me an answer for all though, we’ll give you an extra point.”

“So,” he started explaining. “Y/n’s most streamed solo single is probably American Teenager, her most streamed band single is probably BABY SAID, and her most streamed cast recording was probably Wicked, or Hadestown.”

“Correct, and it is Wicked.”

As he explained his answers, his trainer and others in the room started to laugh. He knew everything about you. He was so down-bad it was almost embarrassing, but they understood it anyway. You’d been together since you were 14, you were 23 now. You get to know a lot about a person in 9 years, especially from teenage years to being a young adult. 

“What record did she break by winning an Oscar in 2018?” 

Oscar smirked and winked at the camera. “She’s the youngest person ever to gain an EGOT.”

“What school did she teach at in her early years?”

Oscar raised an eyebrow. “How old was she?”

“Ages 8-12, she taught here on and off, and not many people know about it since she didn’t go into that field of the arts.”

He groaned, trying desperately to think. “The Royal Ballet in London!” He exclaimed, finally remembering. 

“Correct! Next question, how many Tony awards does she have?”

“Oh shit they’re on the mantel at home…” he muttered to himself, trying to count them in his head. “5?”

“Correct. Who has more trophies?”

Oscar chuckled. “I have more trophies, but she has more awards.”

“Alright, how many Emmys does she have?”

“1, which she won this year for her role in the Bear.” 

“Correct, how many Broadway or West End shows has she been a part of? You get a bonus point for naming them all.”

“Oh alright, so Matilda, Annie, Into the Woods, Hamilton, Heathers, Spring Awakening, Mamma Mia!, Moulin Rouge!, Cabaret, Six, Parade, Hadestown, Chicago, Wicked, and right now she’s doing Lés Miserables for the first time on a stage,” he explained. “So that was… 15?”

“Just one more?” she hinted. 

Oscar’s face fell. “What? What else has she done?” he asked out loud. “I said Wicked?”

She nodded. 

“Did I say Mamma Mia!?” 

She nodded. 

“Did I say Phantom of the Opera?”

“No, you didn't! Congratulations, bonus point awarded. What has she said is her dream role?”

He took a deep breath. “It’s going to be really bad if I get this wrong, isn’t it? Alright, so, she has always wanted to play Ms. Honey in Matilda,” he watched as the interviewer shook her head. “Shit, alright. Any hints?”

“She said it would be the only way to get her back into a specific show,” she hinted. 

“Oh! Emcee!” he cheered. “God, how could I forget that?”

“Well done! Alright, one final question, what song did she sing at the 2023 grammy awards, where she debuted her first single after ‘LISTEN’, her band, went on hiatus?”

He smirked. He was there for that performance. He was sitting in the crowd as you sang. He got to take you home and congratulate you. He got to be the proud boyfriend all night. He loved it. It was one of his most fond memories. “She sang ‘That’s So True’. I was there.”

“The infamous kiss picture,” she winked at him. He nodded, a smug smile on his face. “So, going back to the other question, what Disney princess did Y/l/n play?” 

“Oh shit yeah, it was animated, yeah?”  

“Not necessarily,” she hinted. 

“Ariel!” he exclaimed. “Ariel, of course!”

She chuckled. “Congratulations, you know the most about Y/n Y/l/n’s career out of anyone I’ve ever met.”

“One would hope,” he chuckled.

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[coffeebanana]

Okay like. How did nobody every tell me the there is a BARRIER around the Eiffel Tower you can’t just walk up to it/under…. LIKE. According to my googling there’s been. A fence since 2016 and a bullet proof glass perimeter since 2018 (I believe? Too lazy to google again). So TO BE FAIR it wasn’t there i guess when ml first started?? And miraculously ladybug doesn’t depict the most accurate Paris to begin with. I get that.

But like. WHERE ARE THE CRACK FICS? The “we agreed to meet at the Eiffel Tower after defeating hawkmoth but shit now our kwamis have gone dormant so we need to get in the old fashioned way. CRAP the ticket time I need was sold out on the website. Fuck they won’t me in because i forgot about the blow torch in my emergency grab bag and I couldn’t make it past security. Oh no they’re not even selling summit tickets today WHAT DO I DO? Or, hmmmm we were supposed to meet…at the base. But shit we never clarified what side. Oh no how do I find my partner there are SO MANY TOURISTS”

[theoutcastrogue]

According to EN World (I mean I wouldn't know and couldn't possibly be bothered) the author of this tweet is "former gaming executive turned culture warrior Mark Hern".

The Making of Original Dungeons & Dragons is a WotC book that just came out for the game's 50th anniversary, and the passages are from "the foreword written by Jon Peterson, one of the foremost historians about Dungeons & Dragons and who also collaborated with Wizards of the Coast on the book".

Elon Musk, famous idiot, immediately piped in supporting the tweet

and obviously fuck Musk and fuck the "culture warriors", here's how I see it (without having read the book, but I'm confident my guesses are educated enough).

This book is promotional material. The good part is that it brings to light primary documents, which are invaluable for research. The bad part is that it's promotional material, like everything that comes out of WotC. No one should trust a fucking brand (silence, brand) to tell its own story. I've read some of Jon Peterson's previous work, and I thought he's an excellent researcher but only moderately able to pick up the prejudices baked in the hobby. Gets some of it, misses a lot. I'm guessing his criticism came about by WotC's own request, and would not be printed if their PR team (and legal team, probably) didn't approve it. And I'm gonna note that said criticism, while in the right direction (to be clear, the basic stance of "this was shitty, but erasing it from history and pretending it didn't exist doesn't help; what helps is acknowledging the shittiness" is absolutely correct), is very light and very careful. The history of D&D needs STRONGER criticism, which will never happen in a WotC publication.

And what I'd like to see is a comprehensive critical history of D&D, which I don't think exists yet. We have EITHER involved and well-researched but largely uncritical histories, even when they delve deep into the cultural environment that made D&D's birth possible, OR works that explore a single topic or focus on a handful of problematic™ elements. AFAIK. If I'm missing something, by all means, let me know! Here's my bibliography so far (not including papers, which can be VERY critical):

David M. Ewalt, Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and the People Who Play It (Scribner, 2013)

Jon Peterson, Playing at the World: A history of simulating wars, people and fantastic adventures, from chess to role-playing games (Unreason Press, 2012)

Michael J. Tresca, The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games (McFarland, 2011)

Jennifer Grouling Cover, The Creation of Narrative in Tabletop Role-playing Games (McFarland, 2010)

Sarah Lynne Bowman, The Functions of Role-Playing Games: How Participants Create Community, Solve Problems and Explore Identity (McFarland, 2010)

Joseph P. Laycock, Dangerous Games: What the Moral Panic over Role-Playing Games Says about Play, Religion, and Imagined Worlds (University of California Press, 2015)

Ashley ML Brown, Sexuality in Role-Playing Games (Routledge, 2015)

and the promos

30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons (WotC, 2006)

Michael Witwer et al, Art & Arcana: A Visual History (Ten Speed Press, 2018)

Michael Witwer, Empire of Imagination: Gary Gygax and the Birth of Dungeons & Dragons (Bloomsbury, 2015) [not a promo per se, but fully a eulogy]

[disorganizedkitten]

You'll Survive Chapter 5

Miraculous Ladybug | 2018 | 520 | Ao3 | Masterlist | Prev | Next

 Alya opened her eyes to stare again at her bedroom ceiling. She should be asleep already. She had been exhausted when they broke, but the moment she touched her bed she was suddenly wide awake.

 Alya wanted to blame it on Trixx and nocturnality, but even the fox Kwami was asleep by now. There were no noises coming from any of the other rooms, not even the muted ones of Chloe writing another debate or press conference outline, or Marinette and Tikki moving around to grab supplies for a midnight design mock up, and definitely no talking from the living room.

 She was alone in consciousness for the time being.

 After a couple more minutes of fruitlessly trying to sleep, Alya quietly rolled out of bed and moved to her door. Maybe a snack would help.

 She snuck down the hall, past Marinette’s closed door and towards the living room. Adrien may be the only one able to claim being as quiet as a cat, but foxes were could be quiet too. It's useless to scream in wait, but silence will draw prey in.

 Maybe having a Miraculous had gotten her to do more in depth research on animals and symbolism. Oh well. It was good information!

 There were no noises other than her own soft footsteps as she went, and it was both calming and alarming. In her head Alya knew it was normal, but some nights just felt laced with an energy that was out of place. Maybe it was because the five of them rarely sat in silence. It was a better use of time to converse.

 Nino and Adrien were both asleep in their separate bedding cocoons (Nino didn't like it being called his shell, and Adrien just tossed out a pun before enjoying having one, not really caring about the name) on the living room floor, but Alya still made it to the kitchen without anyone the wiser.

 When she thought about it, it would be nice to talk to someone since she was awake anyways, but after living for her entire life with siblings, and then moving in with Marinette, and Chloe joining them later, even deceptive solitude like this was a bit of a thrill.

 Alya opened the fridge and dug out an apple, then made her way back to her bedroom.

 Not that it wasn't nice, but it was a little surreal for the usually loud and chaotic apartment to be so peaceful, especially at this hour.

 That thought had just finished making itself known in Alya’s head when her phone lit up and started vibrating, a loud ringing following close behind. Four similar sounds responded from the other rooms in the apartment, alertunh everyone to the situation.

 Akuma sighting at eleven at night. Ugh.

 A crash reverberated through the walls, followed by a shriek of “Tikki I’m up!” A scuffle, probably from the living room, came soon after. Alya turned to Trixx’s bed, finding purple eyes looking at her expectantly.

 “Let's make sure the others are ready first.”

 “Strong, brave, and considerate,” Trixx complemented, as though this was a new trait.

[lemonjamdraws]

Tell me, what do you like so much about Lila, and do you like any of the canon ships in Miraculous?

this is rooted in "you had to be there in 2016-2018" mindset in which the fandom was popping, we were young and innocent and full of zeal. and we sat thru the airing season 1 only for volpina to be the last aired episode (since it aired out of order) and then we had to sit for 2 years in hiatus.

how do i summarize this succinctly... with lila's appearance she had the potential to be the perfect marinette foil and anti-chloe. for example:

marinette: h8es lying but still has to lie for her identity. lila: wields lies but doesn't necessarily hurt anyone (in fanon, we were like she just did it to make friends).

chloe h8s marinette but loves LB. lila hates LB but could love marinette (with the assumption that we all thought mari would feel guilty post-volpina and try to make it up by being nice in civilian form)

those are both fun dynamics and the potential was mainly introduced via that one sorarts comic (and also this other one) and it was also the fuel for my biggest ML longfic (apparently The lilanette fic, at least at one point idk if it still is)

anyway that became like a whole thing where i started lilanette week and have run it a total of 7 times over like 7-8 years? so i was really in it. made a lot of friends, collabed on projects, i even did a lilanette secret santa?? it was the crux of my participation in ML fandom (and the reason why im friends with one of my best internet homies) and infinitely more compelling than "those two were made for each other" pathetic white bread.

EVEN when lila wasn't an UWU-lies-for-friends-because-insecure and she was a snake, it was interesting to have scenarios where marinette might need to reluctantly rely on lila for whatever reason. and in the end, any potential for her to become interesting was smashed just as astruc smashed any potential for anything in his show so it is sad. and i keep coming back every once in awhile out of nostalgia, and also spite.

canon ships? there's a universe where the love square is good and interesting, same with alya/nino but we don't live in that universe so they are bad and i don't like them as presented in canon.

[beebundt]

did thomas fucking astruc really put his own self insert into the show to whine about how no one cares about him? he made the whole staff there really sit down and force them to make his whine-fest into reality 😭 i have never had such strong secondhand embarrassment watching an ml ep until now LOL

[dreamingsnowflake2013]

I saw Baron Chen for the first time back in 2008 in Fated to Love You when I remember spending the better half of the drama wondering how the hell could the female lead have picked the male lead over his character, such a dreamy eye candy was he back then, plus his SML was the complete opposite of the unlikable ML. (Also his unforgettable role in 2018's Heroes.) Fast-forward 16 (!!!) years later, and he's giving the run for his money to Liu Xueyi, both in visuals and acting chops, as the antagonist in a historical cdrama. It's a pity he never really got his big break as the main lead.

I mean, look at him! With the long hair, he is utterly gorgeous, unfortunately, he's going to wear them loose only rarely in the show.

I get he is a genocidal, murderous, power-hungry psycho, but if there is one thing pure about him, it's his love for Luo Mei. He literally worships the ground she walks upon, willing to make her a commander-in-chief of the country's army, a general crown princess (that's 21st century equality level) whereas JH barely notices her.

He's going to meet a terrible end, but why not spend a few weeks being thoroughly loved by someone who has been so completely, hopelessly besotted by her for most of his life and not even 10 years of separation could dull it?

I wouldn't mind transmigration into the general for a few weeks, that's for sure.

[icrypop]

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