#opakitty

[anubis-005]

Omg I’m obsessed with your Nené’s inferno au. Where can I read the complete story (if there’s a fic)?

You're so wonderful and I love you 😭🙏💕 The story is not complete yet, but there have been a few fics made for it! Thanks to @baronesscmd (seriously thank you so much Cat I am forever a mess about it!) the introduction can be found here [be advised rated M] For added reading, please take this lovely one shot by my dear friend @istoleyourboat And this wonderfully dark character study of Lord of the Flies Tsukasa by the marvelous @thatsrightdollface [be advised rated M]

[seas-of-silver]

Marinette wasn’t sure how to react to a sleeping Chat Noir who was sprawled on her balcony; this was going to be hard to explain to her parents why Adrien who wasn’t in their home showed up to their breakfast out of her room.

Marinette wasn’t sure how to react to a sleeping Chat Noir who was sprawled on her balcony; this was going to be hard to explain to her parents - why Adrien, who wasn’t in their home, showed up to their breakfast out of her room.

When she had gone up to her balcony after dinner to get ready to leave for patrol, she almost screamed when she saw Chat's limp form draped across the floor. After realising that he was okay, just asleep, she almost collapsed with relief. It was only once her panic subsided that she spotted a bag next to him, and her concern spiked. Marinette tensed as her eyes scanned the rooftops, the skies, the neighbouring windows and the streets below, only relaxing once she was certain this wasn't a trap, nor that their safety was compromised.

She quietly picked up his bag and dropped it through the skylight. She then gently tried to rouse him, but when he didn't wake, she attempted to lift him and carry him over to her skylight, but despite her natural strength as her civilian self, it was no match to the slumbering deadweight that was her partner. It took transforming into Ladybug and some smart manoeuvres with her yo-yo to successfully lower him into her room.

Once back in her room and with the skylight closed securely behind her, she took a moment to observe Chat. The mask hid much, but not enough. His eyes were puffy and red, as if he had been crying. His hand, even in deep sleep, was tightly clasping... the lucky charm Marinette gave to Adrien. What... what was Chat Noir doing with... unless... no, he couldn't be... right?

Marinette scrambled over to the bag, shaky hands hovered above the zipper. She looked up at Tikki, who had flittered into view, silently asking for permission. Tikki nodded solemnly. Once unzipped, the bag's contents only confirmed her suspicions. Adrien was Chat Noir. Chat Noir was Adrien. They were one and the same.

She would have freaked out more about this revelation, if it wasn't for the fact the boy she loved, the partner she trusted, had - while distraught - seemingly sought refuge with her. He needed her right now.

She had tucked him into her bed, retrieved some cheese from her family's fridge for Plagg once Chat detransformed, and settled herself on her chaise with a spare pillow and blankets. Only a few hours later was she awoken by a panicked yell. She leapt off her chaise, ready to fight whatever danger was awaiting her, when her eyes landed on Chat, who was upright and breathing heavily.

'Adrien? Are you okay?'

His eyes turned to her, wide and panicked, before relaxing. 'So, you figured me out, huh?'

'Heh, yeah,' she admitted nervously, before remembering the state he was in when she discovered him. 'Are... are you okay?'

Chat let out a despairing sigh and detransformed. Plagg considered his charge with concern before glancing at Marinette, then silently making his way to the cheese plate Marinette had prepared for him. Adrien pulled his knees to his chest, looking smaller than she had ever seen him.

'I... no,' he answered quietly. 'My father... my mother...'

Tears started to fall down his cheeks, and she immediately made her way to his side and held him as he cried. The words started spilling out of him - spotting his father with Nooroo, discovering the giant cave-like basements under the mansion, then his mother in a glass casket. In his panic and fear, he packed whatever he could think of, transformed and just ran as fast as feet could take him to wherever he felt the safest. She didn't know how long they stayed that way, with him unloading his grief and turmoil while she held him.

'I just don't know what to tell Ladybug,' Adrien confided. 'Would she even believe me when I say that I had no idea my own father was our nemesis?'

'Well,' Marinette replied, 'considering you just told Ladybug everything, she'd be happy to tell you she believes you with every fibre of her being.'

They stayed cuddled in each other's arms until they eventually fell asleep. It wasn't until they woke up the next morning that she realised that she had a boy - Adrien, her longtime crush - in her room, with no reasonable explanation for his being there. They tried sneaking quietly down to the kitchen, but their plan was spoiled immediately by the sight of her mother staring at them in surprise.

'H-Hey, Maman,' Marinette stuttered as she attempted an innocent easy-going attitude. 'There's a totally believable explanation for this, heh...'

'Marinette,' Maman began, 'if you wanted to have a sleepover with your friends, you didn't have to sneak them into the house, you know.'

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Ask game: Give me the first sentence and I'll write a short piece for it!

[heartfulselkie]

Love Letters too?

So this is an idea that's been sitting in the back of my mind for a long time and I got to thinking about it again recently thanks to discord conversations.

This AU comes from me thinking about this concept art and some discussion about it that was floating around awhile back.

Basic premise is that this is a non-Miraculous AU Adrien and Felix are twins. Felix is more or less the same as he is in canon except he obviously lives in Paris and attends the same school as the Miracuclass.

However in this AU Adrien has never gone to public school because of a disability/often poor health. (I'm still trying to decide what exactly but I've been considering chronic fatigue/balance problems.) Because of this, he's homeschooled and housebound a lot of the time unless he's doing photoshoots etc. because Gabriel is still worst parent to ever parent.

Through some shenanigans (and Felix's reluctant involvement) Adrien and Marinette become anonymous pen pals. Even though they don't know the face behind the letters they receive, they become very attached to each other through those letters.

Here's a little snippet from my drabbles:

With the envelopes safely in hand though, Adrien could now take his time in appreciating them. He smiled as his thumb traced over the embossed shape of a sticker. It was how she sealed them. A cute sticker to hold the envelope closed, which he would then meticulously open again so that the stick would remain intact. He couldn’t help but smile as he looked at the envelopes in hand, reminding himself of which particular decorative seal they had. One had a pink flower, another had a peach coloured macaroon and the last had a little black cat face. He chuckled at the cat in particular, because he suspected that it hadn’t always been black but had in fact been coloured in by her. He would read each letter in turn, but it was that one he went for first. Cher Chaton, The suggestions you made to my latest project were just what I needed. You were right for me to need to step back and look at it with a fresh eye. I finally figured out where I was going wrong and now the dress is finally coming together! And I know you suggested green (yes I got your hints about it being one of your favourite colours) but I think lime green would be a bit too much. But don't worry Minou, I still listened to you. Green makes an excellent accent colour with black after all. Adrien smile grew as he continued to read through the letter. Her writing, while a little bit smudged and wobbly in places, was so precise in its detail and description that he could easily imagine the dress she'd been toiling over for the better part of a month now. It helped that he knew what a mermaid skirt was or a Peter Pan collar was, but even so he could visualise her delicate fingers meticulously sewing the fabric together.

I've spoken about this AU before, but it has has gone through a lot of shifts and changes sicne then. Mainly I've been reconsidering if I want it to be a non-Miraculous AU or not, because keeping the kwamis and miraculous involved does open up for more love square fun.

There was also a number of ideas the I lifted from my original concept for this AU and transferred to one of my other fics, since that fic gave way more space and scope for those ideas to work.

Sadly this fic just hasn't taken a forward spot in my active WiP rotation. I do really want to write it, but I want to make sure I do a fair job depicting Adrien's disability and struggles. Something like that just takes time and research (such as making sure that whatever disability I give him works narratively among other things) and I'd hate to do it poorly.

Ask Game

[gameguy20100]

Rate the hottest Marinette looks. I'll go first. Server!Marinette in Animaestro was 👌

How Adrien didn't propose on the spot I don't know. but consider

Best fusion in the whole damn show. The red, black, and gold complement each other wonderfully.

Her lucky charm was a mirror because she had to see herself like that.

[carpisuns]

Something about the tags you leave in other artists art is so wholesome and sweet and so rewarding. I can't explain it. You put everything to word and it's so nice, like your compliments feel so warm and sweet. You pick up the love put in the hard work, you notice the little details, small silly things that the artists probably thought no one other than them would find. I mostly love how you talk about the characters, like you have such a keen eye on picking up the key details about each character. Your tags on the colouring, rendering, lighting, background all feel so good because you are an amazing artist yourself! And you are skilled enough to teach how to improve! I love your tags!

Aw thank you!! I am but a humble enjoyer of lines and shapes and colors and when they combine into a blorbo oooohohoohohho every day is a beautiful day when I can log into tumblr dot com and see 1,000 beautiful drawings of my favorite characters created by insanely gifted and passionate artists !!!!! great work everyone please don’t stop

[dizzying-faust]

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about

Anytime I here Luka//nette stans compare their ship to Tomstar and say that their ship got ruined in favor of Adrinette.

I could make a whole rant on why these comparisons are baseless, but all I could say is, no, Luka//nette was never going to be a thing and wasn't ruined.

And no, Marinette didn't break up with Luka because of Adrien, it was because of her job as Ladybug. If these shippers actually watched Truth and stop thinking with their shipping goggles, they would understand.

Choose violence ask game

[ayydrienagreste]

9. what is your favorite fanfic for the fandom?

Dude, I’m torn between “A Super Guide to Super Dating” by @mysticraven20 and BEAU by @buggachat

I also absolutely adore @sofilandstuff’s Vigilante AU 🥺

[lady-de-mon-coeur]

20 for the song ask game

20. three songs that remind you of the person who sends this one

Lady Gaga- Bloody Mary

Joan Osborne - Light of this world

Oasis- Stop Crying Your Heart Out

(For the love of God, don't ask me why those three songs in particular. I wish I knew it myself 😋)

Thank you for asking, Mai!

[bbq-potato-chip]

I saw you were doing doodle requests. Can I request a Fox!Adrien? Pretty please?

Here ya go, and thanks for the ask!

(also, the askbox is still open if anyone wants to send in a request btw!!!)

[pinkseas]

your xiaolumi fics killed me!!!! im obsessed

THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sunfoxfic]

What's your process of writing and finishing a fic?

Ooh, interesting question! The answer is really that it depends, unfortunately askdfhads

In general, when I'm writing a fic, the lifeblood of it is character interaction. How do the characters interact, and how does this change their actions, thus making them interact in different ways, thus changing their actions more? On a macro level, I think in terms of character arcs, and then figure out what I need to write to push the arcs in the right direction.

The thing is, I'm not necessarily always thinking in terms of the macro plot. For the fic I'm writing right now (referred to as the custody battle AU), what's really driving me to write is the smallest scenes. I have this image of a scene in my head, and I'm trying to move the characters into a position where that scene makes sense.

So there's essentially these two forces as I'm working through the plot - there's where I want the (macro) character arcs to go, and how I want the (micro) scenes to look. And the plot comes from figuring out how these two things can work together.

So, for example - an aspect of the custody battle AU is that Alya and Zoe are dating. On a macro level, I vaguely know that I want their relationship arc to be about the mutual feelings of abandonment; Zoe feels like Alya is slipping away and she has no idea why Alya is slipping away, while Alya feels like Zoe is ignoring her in favor of her family. Just writing that out, I'm realizing that an interesting scene to write would be Zoe asking Nino for advice to try to figure out why Alya is being like this, and Nino being conflicted because he knows the answer (Alya is Rena Rouge) and he can't tell her.

But on the micro level, I also know that because they're living in NYC at this point, one scene I really want to include is Thanksgiving dinner with Zoe's family in the US. I don't necessarily have a distinct idea of how I want that to look, but I know that as I'm writing Alya and Zoe's arc, I want to keep the pacing and interactions in mind to build up to that, and I don't, for example, want to introduce Alya to Zoe's father before then.

So figuring out what the plot looks like is basically just asking:

What scenes do I want to include throughout the fic?

What direction do I want the characters' arcs to go?

How do I plot those scenes along the arcs?

How do I pace the arcs according to the scenes?

What other scenes do I need to write to move the character arcs where I want them to be?

It's a very abstract process. I don't follow any sort of beat sheet or traditional structure because, to be honest, I cannot be bothered. When you're working with a lot of characters, it also becomes much harder - Alya and Zoe aren't main characters of the custody battle AU, or at least aren't the only main characters; Adrien and Marinette and Felix and Nino and Kagami and even Amelie and Nathalie also all have distinct arcs I'm trying to work together. (The good news is that because I'm following a school year, there's certain events that have to happen at certain times, so it's really just plotting the arcs along that timeline; when you don't have a specific timeline you're working with, it can be a lot harder.)

This process (though much more simplified) does more or less stand for fics shorter than that; I'm writing a fic right now I expect to be no more than 8k that absolutely follows this process. My fic The Most Wanted Man in Paris, which is only 5k, followed this process.

Single-scene fics don't follow this structure, because by definition the character arc and the scene I want to include follow the exact same direction. In terms of how I do that, it's just figuring out a scenario that I want to see play out, which I honestly can't describe how I do that. I just have ideas (many, many ideas).

Generally speaking I fall asleep at night writing scenes in my head. For me, writing a longfic is a process of hyping myself up for scenes I want to write and then using that hype as motivation to finish the damn thing. In the custody battle AU, the fic is only in July, but I'm excited for the Thanksgiving scene in November, so I have a reason to keep myself writing. This is why I only write chronologically, or mostly-chronologically; it means I can't skip over scenes I'm not overly enthused about.

This was long and rambly and probably very specific to my own process, but I do hope you can take something out of it. Thanks for the ask, though!

[heartfulselkie]

I heard you were complaining about having to maintain long hair and you know what, my sibling is exactly like that. They don't like long hair and prefer having cropped short hair. At worse, they'll accept a pixie haircut. Our parents don't like that ofc and they want the two of us to have long hair, they won't even allow them to cut their hair. Superstition 🙄. But I decided to pick up how to trim hair so I could help my sibling get the short hair they deserve. Hopefully you'd find someone who'd cut your hair for you and if not, you may learn how to do it yourself. That is if you don't already know. I have long hair and yeah it's pain in the ass to maintain. I hope you get the haircut you deserve!!!

That's so awesome of you to help your sibling out!

I've got someone who said they can do it for me (hopefully tomorrow, fingers crossed) so they can do The Cut and I'll hopefully be able to maintain it myself after.

It really is such a pain to take care of! And as someone who has very few spoons for self care to begin with, it's just a nightmare sometimes.

[gameguy20100]

The vendetta I have against PV might be stupid and irrational but god do the stans piss me off. The trailer was like few minutes long. It was a premise and yet people can't stop praising it as if it has even a single episode. There's an even more annoying part of the PV lovers and they're constantly talking trash about the show and they bring up the older artworks and story bibles as proof of how the story was actually so much better before.

Yeah, it's obnoxious.

It's one thing to say that an adaptation is better than another.

But when you're comparing a trailer and drafts to a fully made product. I'm sorry, but you're nuts.

This is just people speculating and making up their version of Miraculous and saying " My version is better" with extra steps.

[casadefreewill]

Fic Rec

He loves another by Opakitty (Raiosa) ( @opakitty )

Chat Noir doesn't love Ladybug anymore and loves another girl. Marinette can't deal with that.

This is definitely a fic that when you reach the end it’s just like “WAIT NO COME BACK!

Fr tho it’s a good fic, check it out

[rosie-b]

I have to thank you for the ladrien you bring. Every time I open the activity page, I come across your header and I get reinforced by the ladrien gif

Aww you’re welcome! It’s my pleasure to continue sharing Ladrien goodness with the world 🥰

[dizzying-faust]

number three for the ml fandom, pretty please?

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr

Boi, there are so many I could say, but I think nothing tops rjalker and its attempt at trying to make Adrien a sexual harasser.

Even to the point if anyone rightfully calls out its bad takes (or is just an Adrien fan in general), it calls them an abuse/rape apologist to the point it made dozens of callout posts. And don't get me started on it making a salt prompt blog for Adrien salt, the most infamous being, you know, the one where he is a covid denier.

(Disclamer: I use it/its pronouns because that's what rjalker uses. I hate rjalker, but I'm not going to disrespect someone's pronouns)

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