#mlbcn

[nixthelapin]

I just realized, that the only interactions Felix has had with Marinette (not LB, just civilian) have been about her loving Adrien. Ok, they technically didn’t meet until Emotion, but in the episode Felix, he watched all the videos from Adrien’s friends, and in Marinette’s she confessed. Then the next time Felix sees this girl again, she’s making another declaration of her love for him. That would literally be Felix’s only impression of Marinette- how much she loves his cousin. No wonder the dude spared her!

[toastedwatermelon]

um ok so i was looking through my old ibis paint x drawings (in which i mostly edited things) and found a bunch of miraculous characters holding amonguses (mostly the blondies and marcaniel because those were my favorite...)

[09blackchatsandladybugs]

MLBCN s5 finale #spoilers

ok so question

in this new world that gabriel created was emilie just always alive and natalie was never sick? or did everyone just wake up the day after monarchs defeat to see natalie has been cured and emilie just reappeared out of nowhere and gabriel died and everyone was just like yeah ok?

[a-flaming-idiot]

I have not watched a single episode of Miraculous Tales Of Ladybug & Chat Noir but I hate it so much cause it robbed me of a night of sleep caused a minor mental breakdown.

[undead-catjust-reading]

Catnapped

An ML x DC thing where Adrien is kidnapped by Poison Ivy

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Adrien didn’t like thinking about Project Oxygen.

It was a time when Adrien’s words were twisted against him, a time when his father had ordered him to his room for protesting. His father had told, reminded him that he was the face of Gabriel, his words and deeds carried expectations that he was supposed to follow.

Plagg had asked later if there was an “unquestioned” tied to that. Adrien didn’t want to know the answer.

It had been two weeks since he’d been let out for anything but school, and Nathalie had to encourage Father to let him continue. She’d claimed that the schedule wouldn’t account for rehiring old tutors and meeting with Damocles. He thanked her profusely.

Adrien was doing a piano solo for Kitty Section, turning the piano into a rain storm as Rose bellowed a tune about April showers bringing May flowers. It was fun in a way that performing by himself never approached.

And then massive vines attacked the Couffaine houseboat.

Emerging from the Seine was a woman with red hair, green skin, and a darker green pantsuit covered in what looked like cactus needles.

“Where is Adrien Agreste! He will die for what he did against the Plant Kingdom!”

Adrien found himself backing away at the sight of a Gotham Rogue in the middle of Paris.

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[regalun-street]

Idk why but these designs are giving me Ideas for some feather related outfits for my au, HMMMMM.

Yanina Couture 'Phoenix' Spring 2024 Haute Couture Collection

[rlbbackup]

So I've come to a decision

I'm not particularly happy with how Briar Rose is going. It feels daunting and even though I have an outline it's so...difficult to just sit down and write it. It took me SIX MONTHS to finish Chapter 2, and I'm already on the same path with Chapter 3.

I don't want this sword of Damocles hanging over my head. I genuinely like the idea of this story and I do want to finish writing it...but at this time it's turning into something I don't want to do.

So I am Temporarily unlisting it. Once I'm sure I have written what I want to be written (which, frankly, maybe the whole kabutal), I will repost it to AO3 for your enjoyment.

I truly appreciate your patience and interest in reading my story.

(As for BFIF, I'm slowly but surely chipping away at the Epilogue. I can't guarantee a timeframe, but I am working on it. And it will remain LISTED)

[miraculouslbcnreactions]

Regarding the “Is Marinette a Stalker?” post, I want to say thank you! Because I did something like Marinette and self-doubted my younger-self’s actions. A bit of context, I’m (37 y/o, female) one of the many adults that loved MLBCN when it started airing. When I came disappointed at the show by S4, I turned to the fandom to look out for fanfics, and was surprised by the salty side.

Don’t get me wrong, I kinda get the why’s and the reasons, and even though I enjoyed a Mari-salt fic titled “The Schedule” (iirc), I… sorta felt ashamed at myself? When I was 19, I fell in love with this guy, and it seemed that he liked me too. Our university had a system only for students where we could do lots of administrative stuff, like choosing our classes. At my time, there used to be a search tool on it to look out for our classmates’ schedules; in my curiosity, I searched for his just to see if we shared free periods. (Btw, today I do feel that it was wrong that my university had that function).

At my defense, after finding my crush’s schedule, I also searched for my friends’, just so I could organize with them to set up a table for our LAN parties. At the end my feelings weren’t reciprocated, my heartbreak ocurred close the next semester’s start, so I searched his schedule one more time, but just to avoid having classes with him.

When I read that Mari having Adrien’s schedule was “stalker behavior” I was like “OMG, was I a stalker? And worse, I was legally an adult!”, but I can’t remember my friends being creeped out by me. I don’t know if it is a subject whose meaning has evolved as time went on, or maybe it can change according to our different cultural/countries’ POV. But we do crazy stuff when we are young-adults, and worse when we are adolescents, add first love/crush feelings, and well… (just look at Hey, Arnold!’s Helga, she had it bad for Arnold and went to do stuff that by today’s standards is a serious case of bullying).

If the issue is the “breach of privacy” and the “3 years”, well, the first one isn’t touched on the show, maybe Mari got the pattern by observation, or Alya helped by asking Nino, or maybe even Chloe said something loudly, or my personal fan-favorite: as Class Rep, Marinette has access to that information to make easy her duties! And as for the second issue, they are 13-14 years old, my bet is that if their school makes fixated schedules for its students, so it wouldn’t be difficult to guess Adrien’s schedule for the next 3-years, and since his father was Marinette’s favorite designer, she might have followed his seasons releases, and might been easy for her to add it to Adrien’s schedule.

I want to clarify that I’m not looking to invalidate people’s feelings about this, or saying that they are wrong. In the end, we all must remember that Marinette is just a fictional adolescent character in a cartoon show, and cartoons will exaggerate actions just for the sake of the plot. We don’t like something about the characters’ actions and/or personalities? We teach and explain to the children why is wrong; and as adults, we tell ourselves to be wary if anything about it is in our daily actions, so we don’t fall into the “hating something that is a reflection of us” projection.

I like to think that I was a good adolescent and young adult that didn’t do anything morally or ethically bad, so it really freaked me out that part of the Marinette salt fandom. So, a thousand thanks! And sorry that your friend, cousin and you had to deal with that stuff.

(Post this ask is in reference to)

Before we get started, I wanted to say that your university having that feature seems incredibly dangerous. Most people are going to use it the harmless way that you did, but boy does that have the potential for misuse. Way better to let students decide if they want to share schedules on their own.

Anyway, while I will absolutely agree that the show occasionally takes Marinette too far, leading me to understand why her behavior bothers people, I think that biggest issue in her writing is actually something you sort of brought up:

I fell in love with this guy, and it seemed that he liked me too.

It sounds like you had some sort of relationship with your crush and that makes a world of difference to how your actions are going to be perceived by others. Checking the schedule of a guy you don't know? Kinda creepy. Checking the schedule of your friends including the friend you have a crush on? Normal.

Let's look at a personal example to show you what I mean. When I was in high school, I learned parts of my crush's schedule. On my way to lunch, I would purposely walk by the area where he hung out so that I could say "hi" to him as I walked past.

This statement probably raises some questions in your mind like how did I learn that he'd be there? The answer is incredibly innocent. I learned that part of his schedule by accident because his hangout spot because was also my hangout spot during my free periods. I just happened to go by one day to see a different friend and ran into him, thereby learning a bit of his schedule. After that, I took path A to lunch instead of path B because they took the same amount of time and I liked seeing him for two seconds every day.

It's also worth noting that we had the same hangout spot because we had a mutual friend group! We were in the same small club and spent a lot of time together. We even hung out together outside of school and club activities. We eventually dates for several years because he asked me out! So when I said, "hi" to him every day, it didn't shock anyone or creep him out because I wasn't some random girl. I was a friend taking a moment to acknowledge his existence before going about the rest of my day.

An additional mitigating detail is the fact that I could have told you details about several platonic friends' schedules because that's just what happens when you know people and pay attention to their lives. We all know random crap about the people we care about. Crushes simply enhance your attention, making you way more aware of everything you do, say, or think about this person. That heightened attention might make you feel creepy at times, but that feeling doesn't automatically make you creepy. It's more complicated than that. The details of the situation matter because there's a ton of nuance around this topic. Nuance that actually makes it hard to give examples because this stuff can be incredibly personal. What person A find cute and charming is a hard no for person B.

That nuances goes beyond crushes on people you're close with. For example, you don't need to stop going to your favorite coffee shop because the new barista is cute! You are not stalking them by maintaining your usual habits! You're not a bad person for experiencing attraction toward a person who is working! It only gets weird if you start crossing social boundaries like if you start asking them on a date every time you see them even though they are very clearly uninterested and you've never actually talked to them beyond simple pleasantries.

This is where we circle back to Miraculous.

While the early seasons of Miraculous gave Adrien and Marinette a few moments of friendship like playing games together in Gamer, those moments quickly stopped. By season three, they barely interacted. This happened for an obvious reasons. Miraculous is an episodic formula show in almost the purest sense of those terms. The writers have made it clear that the episodes are designed so that they can be watched in any order leading to all sorts of weird moments like Felix telling Marinette that Gabriel is Monarch only for her to act like this is new information in the next episode. This was explicitly done so that people who missed the first reveal didn't feel left out:

Talking about previous episodes, [the writers] then say that... the 5 last episodes of season 5 (Collusion - Revolution - Representation - Conformation - Recreation) go together and there is a direct continuation between them. (However, one of their rules as Miraculous writers is that these episodes can also be watched and understood independently.)

This ridiculous rule* means that the on-screen relationships can't develop and grow as that makes the show feel too serialized. This limitation meant that Adrien and Marinette could NOT become functional friends with a developing relationship as that would require a certain viewing order. The same was true for Ladybug and Chat Noir's relationship. They could not become stronger over time. They had to stay stagnant.

Without those friendships, Adrienette was reduced to being all about Marinette being unable to function around Adrien and Ladynoir was reduced to being all about Chat Noir flirting relentlessly while Ladybug constantly shot him down. The only side of the square that was allowed to be a true friendship was Marichat because they could interact without it leading to a romance since they weren't in love, which is a major problem since Adrienette is what became canon in spite of it having the substance of unset jello. How are we supposed to ship a couple that never knowingly interacted???

This inability to have developing relationships is why the writers wrote Marinette more like a fangirl than a friend with a crush. But fangirl behavior only plays well when there's a level of separation between the fan and the object of their affections. The fan can't actually know their crush because that makes the fan feel creepy and weird. This is Marinette's main problem. The thing that understandably turns a lot of viewers off. The way her crush is written simply doesn't fit the story canon is going with.

If Marinette and Adrien had been written as true friends and were allowed to have more of those early show moments where they did non-romantic things together, then Marinette would come across light-years more relatable than she does in canon even if her actions didn't change.

It's not that Marinette never has questionable moments, she absolutely does! It's just that a lot of those moments are only questionable because of the nature of her relationship with Adrien. They would all feel wildly different if Adrien was her close friend or boyfriend.

To see what I mean, think about how much less creepy it would have been if Marinette claimed to have Adrien's schedule after she and Adrien started dating. Your instant assumption becomes that he gave it to her! You also have the addition of Gabriel's controlling nature to mitigate the way Marinette's rickshaw date plan comes across. It goes from awkwardly over-the-top to sweet because she's just trying to find a way to spend a few minutes with her boyfriend whose life is too controlled to allow for proper dates. Same exact episode setup, wildly different read because context matters.

It really is sad how much the writing failed Marinette because it's normal to be a little weird around your crush. Wanting to get to know them better and spend time with them is completely understandable and common behavior! But the writers didn't just decide to keep Marinette and Adrien from being good friends. They also decided to give Marinette an active running gag of trying and failing to confess. This gag requires her crush to be extremely active while the show's formulaic nature meant that the crush could never have true progress. This lead to the show constantly putting Marinette in awkward positions and questionable situations. It's a terrible call if your goal is to actually tell a romance. They would have been way better off to make Marinette shy and afraid to confess as a contrast to Chat Noir's bold flirting. The most I'd do in that setup is to let her have the occasional secrete admirer thing where she leaves Adrien a gift or sends him a note like we saw in The Bubbler. That way a much stronger way to play Marinette's crush.

*Quick note: status quo rules are fine in shows that don't have overarching plots, but Miraculous is a romance with an overarching plot. Both of those elements require you to have some level of serialization to your story. I recently used ABC's Castle as an example of this. Almost every episode it a unique murder mystery, but the characters' relationships progress over time. There are also several plot lines that run through the show, leading to a handful of episodes that do need to be watched in order. Notably, all of the major status quo changes happen in that handful of serialized episodes. This is the type of show that Miraculous needed to be for its main story lines to work.

[donbloue]

Here's a WIP for my MLBCN comic.

<What if Adrien likes Marinette but she still likes Cat Noir?>

[booksrbetterthanpeople]

hi this is the link to the story check it out if you have the time —-> Free Akumas (86240 words) by DireWolf501 Chapters: 220/? Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Marc Anciel/Nathaniel Kurtzberg, Juleka Couffaine/Rose Lavillant, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Félix Graham de Vanily, Alya Césaire & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Kagami Tsurugi, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Plagg/Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Chloé Bourgeois & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug & Tikki, Chloé Bourgeois/Sabrina Raincomprix, Alix Kubdel/Lê Chiến Kim, Alix Kubdel & Nathaniel Kurtzberg, Juleka Couffaine & Luka Couffaine, Juleka Couffaine & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Anarka Couffaine & Juleka Couffaine & Luka Couffaine, Max Kanté/Lê Chiến Kim, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug & Plagg & Tikki Characters: OC akumas, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Chloé Bourgeois, Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Luka Couffaine, Juleka Couffaine, Félix Graham de Vanily, Anarka Couffaine, Kagami Tsurugi, Lila Rossi, Nathalie Sancoeur, Rose Lavillant, Sabrina Raincomprix Additional Tags: Feel free to leave a comment if you write a story with one of these Akumas!, Tagging for visibilty because two tags is not enough, Free Akumas, Akumas, Original Akumas, Minor Original Character(s), Original Character(s), POV Minor Character, Minor Character Death, Not a member of MLBCN, in CH28, Mentions of Transphobia in CH67, Suggestions of Parental Abuse in CH83, Dark imagery in CH89, Mentions of Chronic pain and fallout CH122, School shooting in CH126, Comatose Patient in CH136, Stalker in CH146, Implied addiction caused by Akuma in CH150, Several for CH158: Attempted sexual assault; Dub-con; Call girl; Prostitution; pushy men; Edging, Sex Pollen, Suggestions of Seppuku in CH160, child kidnapping in CH163, Grief and PTSD in CH164, Car Accidents in CH166, Loss of a loved one in CH180, Animal Abuse in CH178, Missing child in 179, Mental Abuse in CH185, Suggestions of Rape in CH186, Racism in CH187, Abuse and Night terrors and Maiming in CH193, Contemplations of Suicide and Medical and emotional distress in CH197, Body Horror in CH204 Series: Part 1 of Free Akuma Summary: This is a collection of Akumas that I have set free to the fanfiction world for anyone to use in their own stories. Want to set yours free too? Use the survey at the end of each chapter! If you've spotted an Akuma, leave a comment on their page describing their adventures and what story they're in! And if you’ve used a Free Akuma, use the Free Akuma tag so we can find them!

I’m actually subscribed to this :)

[chirp-featherfowl]

sorry for all the mlbcn reblogging i dont even watch that show anymore im just really really concerned as to what the FUCK is happening

[nixthelapin]

Idea about the miraculous multiverse special that probably won’t happen (but let me have fun spitballing): Claw Noir isn’t actually evil, he’s just being amok-controlled by Shadybug/Toxinelle. And when they get to our miraculous universe, she’ll try to take our Adrien’s amok, which he’d be completely unaware of bc Marinette never told him what the rings are, so that’ll be how he finds out about the senti thing (which would of course make him super angry, after he has time to be devastated about the truth).

Another cruel/angsty idea: if that butterfly guy is still Gabe in that universe, he doesn’t know Claw Noir is his son, he just vanished one day (and his amok), so he thinks he either ran away, was kidnapped, or was killed. So possible motivation to fight supervillains.

Do I think any of this will happen? No. Is it fun to make ideas because I’m still unhappy about how the Gabriel and the Sentimonster thing was handled? Absolutely.

Maybe I’ll even write a fic with these ideas lol (though would be after it comes out so I actually know what the evil versions’ goal is)

[lovisus]

😈=😇

[clusterclump]

lukanette my beloveds my skrunklies

viperinette is so special to me like hello i just think that instead of all those fics of marichat’s friendship/relationship being exposed we should have some of viperinette as well unlike chat viperion does know mari is lb and he would take her opinions so seriously (puts her judgement over his own actually bc she is the more experienced hero) and i can just imagine viperion and chat thinking they should go w one route but being slightly unsure bc lb isnt there and mari pipes up with a different suggestion and viperion is like yes. senpai i defer to u always

and i know im a lovesquare/cn/adrien disliker but i genuinely do think chat respects mari canonically (i’m not even talking abt s5. literally from evillustrator) ive never doubted that he does genuinely think she is smart and stuff BUT he also has a bit more of the ‘i’m a superhero leave everything to me i need to protect you’ mindset. which isn’t one of the reasons i dislike him because genuinely that is fair enough or at least close enough to fair that i don’t mind it coming from a 14 year old groomed into to being a superhero but you have to admit that viperion/luka is significantly more likely to take mari seriously and even before viperion finds out abt maribug i’m sure he would listen to her opinion. his dad trusts marinette to make decisions too hehe all the guitar boys worship mari

[toastedwatermelon]

i redrew a redesign of pennybug that i made when strikeback came out!! 

[ladycatairene]

Hey guys! Did you know that Fei is no longer Homeless and lives with Wang Cheng (Marinette's Uncle) now?

Thomas Actruc confirmed it. 🧡