#generalluxun

[marimbles]

I feel you on today wicking, opened up a wip and felt actual pain at the idea of writing.

Any doodle with Sabrina Raincomprix would spark joy. Quadruple points if Adrien is somehow involved(even platonically)

Who says a dog and a cat can’t be friends? :) he is probably telling her terrible dog puns lol

Thanks for the request—it was a welcome distraction tonight and Sabrina was so fun to draw! It was my first time drawing her🥰 I hope this can spark a little joy for you in this tough time🫶

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Your emotion recap brought something to light-

Adrien had no idea Felix was Argos so... Why did he think Argos was Felix?

(Post in question)

Canonically? Who knows! It's one of the many moments where the characters act with knowledge they don't canonically have.

The first time Adrien sees Argos is when Félix surprises him on the beach while already in Argos form. In spite of this, Adrien somehow immediately knows that Argos is Félix:

Argos: (from behind a portalet with a red light seeping through it) Adrien! (Adrien stops and looks back. The stall door opens where Adrien sees his twin cousin as Argos.) Adrien: Félix?

This make no sense. No one has ever been able to identify a holder once they're transformed and, until this episode, no one but Gabriel and Nathalie knew that Félix had the peacock. The heroes didn't know that the peacock had changed owners! They didn't even have a reason to guess that an exchange has happened because sentimonsters weren't standard in season four. There were lots of flights that only used an akuma. Between that and Monarch having more powers than ever to choose from, the lack of sentimonsters would not raise any red flags or spawn theories about why Félix helped Shadow Moth.

By the end of Emotion, the heroes still don't know why Félix betrayed them! The most logical assumption is that Félix is working for Monarch and yet that issue isn't even addressed until the end of the season well after Fèlix and Kagami get together. Prior to the sentireveal, the heroes just magically know that Félix is fine because addressing the issue of his betrayal would lead to story progression and heavens above, we can't have that! It would also require the viewer to know what happened in season four which is another big no-no. Episodes must stand alone!

For the show to tell any of it's complex plots properly, it would need to have plot lines logically flow from episode to episode and Miraculous can't do that because the writers promised that the episodes would all be self-contained. That promise means that we get people randomly knowing things or not knowing things based on what the episode needs instead of in-universe logic dictating things like it would in a well-told story.

We even get this magic knowledge nonsense in the middle of episodes like in the first part of Kwami's Choice where Adrien's immediate reaction to losing Plagg is to assume that he can date Marinette now. Plagg does tell him that this is an option, but there's no reason for Adrien to believe that line based on the way Marinette turned him down. It only makes sense if he knows that Marinette turned him down because she's Ladybug and is now no longer Ladybug. He knows none of that, but there's not enough time to properly handle Adrien and Marinette being free of their miraculous while also introducing the new holders and having the day's akuma fight. Because of those limits, he gets magic knowledge that things will work out now so that the plot can wrap up in 20 minutes. How anyone is expecting this to improve in future seasons is beyond me. I promise that I don't want the show to be bad, I point this stuff out because I don't want anyone to get their hopes up only to have their heart broken because the show's fundamental design basically makes it impossible for it to be good.

[jacquesthepigeon]

Re:emochat/bug

Want to bet all this buildup is going to be all a ruse, and in the special they won't really be all that evil, just doing what they have to/hopeless and a good talking to will be all they need to be heroes again?

Imagine if all the “evil” things they do is not pick up trash off the streets and loiter

Hesperia is helpless against them

[catmelot]

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[frostedpuffs]

Gonna guess an iconic word that may or may not show up. 'Ridiculous'.

it only shows up once so far!

“Because,” she said, “I know you’d try to talk me into something ridiculous, like naming my baby after you.”

Send me a word, if it’s in my wip document I’ll answer your ask with the sentence that it appears in

[airi-p4]

Lukamouse where Luka knows Mari is Ladybug, but not that she is Multimouse. So he thinks he is 'moving on' and... Oops :)

aksdbaksdbas

I WANT.

GIVE ME 👀

[flightfoot]

Underrated Miraculous Fic writers

So I read a crapton of miraculous fanfics, and I often end up gravitating towards particular fic writers over and over. Most of the time a lot of other people have clearly noticed the same thing, as their stories tend to get tons of kudos - but not always. Some of the fic writers I read most reliably get very little attention, for one reason or another. Usually because they tend to write for a particular niche that I like but isn't overwhelmingly popular throughout the fandom, but other times I have no idea why their stories aren't more popular.

Anyway, I wanted to spotlight a few of those authors here!

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Generalluxun (@generalluxun)

If you're a fan of fics that really explore Chloe's character, look into her mindset and try to redeem her without relying on shortcuts or making other characters look worse in comparison, then you've probably at least dabbled in his fics before. I'm especially partial to his newest fic "In Direct Opposition", as Alya's the main POV character and is looking to reform Chloe while navigating this whole akuma situation, and Control, a Senti!Chloe fic where Marinette accidentally stumbles across Chloe's Amok and has to decide what to do with it.

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linerle (@liiinerle)

Linerle specializes in Marigami fics, with a more general bend towards queer romance. If you like those, then you're in for a real treat! Accidents Are Also Miracles is particularly noteworthy, as it's the single longest completed Marigami-centric fic in the fandom. It's a fantastic story that I highly recommend checking out!

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BecomingButterflies (@bbutterflies)

They specialize in Adrino fics, so if you want to read some Adrino goodness, their author page is a great place to stop by! I've especially enjoyed "I'll give myself a name (something stupid and pretentious)", where Adrien leaves town after finding out Monarch was Gabriel, and only returns years later, to find that Nino has missed him quite a lot...

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TrishaCollins (@consistent-chaos-corporation)

Trisha often writes Felix-focused fics, delving into his trauma with being raised by Colt, and him trying to be a better person. Not that it's just introspective pieces, a lot of their fics are pretty action-based with serious stakes and villains who are only too willing to hurt the heroes and innocent bystanders, and even kill them. I'm especially partial to their Madness series, which is a sprawling AU, touching on Felix's and Adrien's childhood, but soon fast-forwarding to the present-day, with Chat Noir and Ladybug confronting Felix about Monarch's Miraculous theft, and him seeing the errors of his ways and helping them. I particularly appreciate how viscerally Felix comes to understand how his actions hurt others, particularly the Kwamis, who he put in a similar position to what he himself had been in with Colt.

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TheChatatonicOne (@rosie-b)

I love a lot of their fics dearly, they're well-written and scratch just the right itch! They mostly write Lovesquare fics, often with a more angsty bent.

I especially adore their enemies au fics:

Stealing Freedom, where Adrien's long been puppeted about using his ring by his father as Cat Walker, who, thankfully, Ladybug and Co. know is a Senti who has no choice in the matter - with Marinette then discovering that her fiance, Adrien, IS Cat Walker.

home is where the fight is, A short glimpse into a Ladrien enemies au, where Adrien's being controlled by his father into fighting her, but is dating Ladybug as a civilian - and Ladybug's secret identity has just been revealed to the world.

True Blue, Chatatonic's ongoing enemies au which I have recced numerous times, which takes the more unusual (and difficult) approach of having MARINETTE side with Gabriel instead of Adrien, and doing so while keeping her in-character by having Gabriel lean into his manipulation skills, telling her half-truths about how Adrien will be happier once his mother's back, and that ultimately the heroes are the ones being greedy and reticent in all this, and that the akumas all agree to help him, even if they don't remember afterwards. It's among the best Miraculous fics I've read this year so far!

Not that she only writes enemies au of course, she's written many other Lovesquare fics. I particularly enjoyed The Mer-Human Race, in which sailors and merfolk would have friendly competitions on who was faster in the water, with the winner being able to ask for some sort of prize. Marinette had been looking for a merman to race for awhile so that she could be granted a vessel of her own at a younger age than was normally permitted. Luckily, a Merman named Chat Noir showed up suddenly and offered to race her. Pity that her friend Adrien wasn't there to watch it...

[i-like-anything-water]

Chloé: I still can't really believe you went after her when all of this was throwing myself at you.

Adrien:Chloé, you came out at the beginning of the next school year!

Chloé:That is entirely beside the point

Adrien: It's not like you're into anyone besides Ladybug.

Chloe: Of course. Nobody is amazing as her.

Adrien: I mean, there's other people-

Chloe: No, no, Adrikins. Nobody is kind, selfless, has a beautiful smile, a soft and comforting voice, smells like a newly batch of pastries, smart, funny, cute blue pigtails, amazing fashion sense and bravery like Ladybug!

Adrien: ...you just described Marinette.

Chloe: What? No, I-

*cue Marinette 'clumsily' catches someone's books after they tripped, apologized and flashed them a comforting smile and helps them on their feet*

Chloe:....

Adrien, grinning: See? I thought I could ask her out-

Chloe, cracking her knuckles: Back off, Agreste. That girl is mine.

Bunos:

After their conversation and Chloe stalking up to Marinette...

Adrien: Plan BuGFs is in motion!

Zoe: Copy that. Kagami, is Marinette okay?

Kagami after intentionally tripping that student: Yes.

Nino: Should we stop them...

Alya and Sabrina: No.

[buggaboo-i-love-you]

Welcome to a peculiar fandom!(Aren't they all?) I hope you enjoy your stay.

Requests? There are so many options. I'm a multishipper who loves Rarepairs myself(though no hate for a LS fic!)

I'm a writer too.

What's your main vibe in writing for ML at the moment?

hey @generalluxun! yeah, every fandom has its quirks lol. currently i’m just experimenting with ideas, but most of them are really random. i’m pretty basic in that i love ladybug and chat noir together. most of my fics that im planning will probably be somewhere around seasons two or three, because that’s just what calls to me. season five was good, but i don’t really know how to write that right now. maybe later on!

i’m not quite sure if i answered your question the right way, but thanks for the ask! if you have anything else you’d like me to write, i can always use the experience :)

[rozunderpressure]

Always awesome to see someone else's brain works spilled out! Up=aged voices are interesting to play with. I've done a couple up-aged stories. For Chloé(one was at 25 one at 28 I believe) I always keep the word 'sharp' in mind. It suits a lot of what I see as her core traits. Sharp- Clears the path, removes obstacles

Needs to be handled carefully, can injure you, even accidently, very quickly

Is a state of being, not an intent. Something sharp cuts because of how it is, not because it desires to

can be a part of healing as much as hurting. You want something sharp for surgery, right? 🤣 Sharp can mean fragile. The finest edge is also the one that dulls the easiest from use.

There are more ideas around that core, but it's getting late for me here. You'll post when you finish your fic right? I'm very curious to see it! I'm also wondering how the relationships of all the characters have developed. I love having something to look forward to :)

Oh, I love your definition of her, I am terrible with names, but I believe you wrote this really fantastic future fic where Chloé is sick and passed out sleeping in Mari's room, they are happily married and stuff, and I remember that edge in that one and how their relationship is described... I love that fanfic!

But Chloé in this is just a little more-- chill? If Chloé Bourgeois could even EVER be chill? This is as chill as she gets anyway, mostly due to influence of quasi-surfer dude Jack Lee-- (They have a very odd relationship, very "28 year old full adult Chloé Bourgeois and her 46 year old teenage son Jack Lee", and his mom full on applied the transitive property of "well, she is my granddaughter's sister, therefore she is also my granddaughter"), but she still has an edge, obviously...

My favorite aspect so far, is the complete flip on power dynamic, because Mari is most certainly on top and that has been interesting, because while we know Mari uses power responsibility, all Chloé can do is hope she did not became a vengeful bitch-- And Mari is in the Fashion industry now, so in Chloé's eyes--

And yes, I will publish it, if I finish it, and I hope I will! I just really need to get this idea out of my system!

ANYWAY, thanks for the ask!

[ladyofthenoodle]

I'm curious since I am not super tied in. What is the salt/sugar phenomenon in ML?

that was just my shorthand for the way the ml fandom has divided itself into “salt” and “sugar” camps, which i haven’t really seen happen in other fandoms to this extent. anyways idk if this really has anything to do with the decrease in what if reveal fics tho and actually meant to delete that tag before posting oops 😅

[marimbles]

In addition to getting good, you learn a bit about how to stack booms and such to make broken builds. :)

yes! I am definitely learning more about that! Before, my goal was just getting through the levels so I had kind of a different approach for my builds/strategy. but now I’m trying to start the run with the end goal of defeating hades in mind, so I’m considering what kind of boons and combos would be most effective in that final fight, especially with the weapon I chose. if you have any tips im all ears lol!

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Okay someone not Chloé or Marinette! How about someone near and dear to my heart? Zero points for guessing who.

Sabrina Raincomprix!

She's actually a good example of the prime 'secondary space' character to my mind, someone perfect for creativity and head canons.

She's not a focus of the narrative, so what we have for her is only bits and pieces, some of it seemingly contradictory. Yet she is *adjacent* to so many of the main characters. Chloé's friend, connected to Adrien through her. Connected to Marinette via Chloé again. The mayor via her father. Potentially Gabriel through several points of contact. You can put a lot of yarn on thumbtacks for her.

Yet, she isn't *herself* someone who stands out. She *is* the 'normal girl'. The mayor won't bow to her. Neither Gabriel nor Audrey would gush over something she made. Day-to-day mundanity matters. It just gives you so much to work with.

If she is going to a big event and needs to find a good outfit, she can't just make some exquisite new fashion, nor afford to buy an entire boutique. She'll have to hem and haw over her closet with reference to youtube videos and magazines to help her- much more relatable and small scale.

Yet you can drop her into a superhero setting and she can still try her best to help out the larger than life personages around her. It's almost like a self insert without the power fantasy.

ML has plenty of interesting side characters(not nearly explored enough) but few are seated so snugly in the middle of all the moving gears. Expanding on them requires forging new connections wholesale or sidelining the main thrust of the Miraculous universe. (Which is a perfectly calid thing to do, if you enjoy it)

While Sabrina isn't a personal favorite, I see the appeal. I personally think she should have been the bee replacement and not Zoe. If you have to doom Chloe, then Sabrina is the perfect character to use to contrast Chloe since she was Chloe's main stooge. It is such a massive shame that Sabrina didn't get a solid redemption and instead got one of canon's lackluster one-good-deed redemptions. It really undermines her character after all the things they've had her do. My queendom for one solid apology in this mess of a show! Please let someone, anyone apologize when it really matters!!!

The only reason I don't tend to use Sabrina in my own stuff is that I mostly just focus on the square, Alya, and Nino. If I'm doing something broader, I like redeeming Chloe as a side plot and Sabrina complicates Chloe's redemption by giving her someone to reinforce her bad behavior. Outside of that, Sabrina has a ton of potential! She especially has potential if you're doing a more Chloe-centric story and not trying to stick to canon's choice for who are the main characters vs who are the side characters.

[jacquesthepigeon]

I just wanted to say I agree with the 'don't blame Marinette' post you made. Her choices in the S5 finale run completely counter to lessons we've SEEN her learn throughout the series. Why? Because making the bad choices helps stoke drama and extend the plot into more seasons. That's all.

I don't *like* the person Marinette is right now, but I don't hate her. I just want her to stop. I want her to realize what she's doing. I want her to recognize she's consolidating power 'To protect the ones she loves' of course, but that's how so many very dark tales begin. Will the writers let her? Probably eventually.

I mostly just hate that I can't ship adrinette right now. The girl chose to gaslight the boy 8 ways from Sunday 'to avoid hurting him' Girl, he's already hurt, you just want to dodge the conversation and pain you'd go through explaining it to him. Like I get it, but it's still a bad dynamic for a ship. One person having vital knowledge (not to mention actual life knowledge about the senti-thing) over the other... bad dynamic no matter who it is.

Yeah, others know too, but she's the protagonist so they all go silent when she says 'no, we won't tell him.' Protagonist's burden :/

The upside to this is you can still watch S1-3 Marinette where she learns how to do... *exactly not this* and be proud of that girl just fine. What S4/5? The show ended after 3, right?

I think mostly I'm going to just focus on Movie!Marinette. That's a girl you can get behind. Caring, heroic, brave, and willing to take the risks rather than seeking to mitigate them all.

I really just can’t get invested in anything from the later seasons cuz the quality took such a nosedive that it’s not even worth entertaining in my mind

The show doesn’t care to make things make sense so why should I at this point? It’s a futile effort

So while I choose to not to think too deeply about (or even acknowledge) certain newer details, it’s not like I’m going to argue with others about them. My frustration is purely in regard to people refusing to acknowledge who’s actually responsible for all of this.

Yeah, canon Marinette objectively sucks. Doesn’t change the fact that most of the characteristics that make her suck aren’t part of a thought-out character arc but rather the crew trying desperately to cover their own ass for their very poorly planned and executed “plot twist” finale.

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To whoever that read this, I wish you to have a wonderful amazing super cool and magnificente year💛😘⭐

[frostedpuffs]

I loved your adrienette homework art. Just thought I should let you know. I already reblogged it, but it crossed my dash again.

thank you! i had to reblog it again because people were being weird in the notes but i appreciate the compliment lol