#sep 21 2017

[sevenclowds]

Thinking about how this throwback from 2017 was the last paper ticket I ever got and how sad that is 😭

My haul from last night :)

[matan4il]

On this Yom Ha'Zikaron Le'Chalalei Ma'rachot Yisrael (Memorial Day for Israel's Fallen Soldiers and Terror Victims), I figured it's important to remember that Israeli victims did not exist solely on Oct 7. We have lost loved ones before and since. Here's a list with just one random victim to represent each year. Please scroll down the list to see how far back it goes.

(part 1/5, all parts in the reblogs)

2024: On Jan 7, we lost 19 years old Shai Garmai

2023: On Oct 7, we lost 28 years old Osama abu Madiam

2022: On Nov 23, we lost 18 years old Tiran Faro

2021: On May 12, we lost 5 years old Ido Avigal

2020: On Aug 26, we lost 39 years old Shai Ochayon

2019: On May 5, we lost 49 years old Zaid al-Chamamda

2018: On Dec 12, we lost Amiad Israel Yish Ran, who was murdered in his mother's womb

2017: On Nov 22, we lost 21 years old Hodaya Nechama Assoulin

2016: On Oct 25, we lost 14 years old Rami Namer abu Amar

2015: On Feb 17, we lost 4 years old Adelle Biton

2014: On Oct 22, we lost 2.5 months old Chaya Zissel Brown

2013: On Dec 24, we lost 22 years old Salech al-Din abu al-Atayef

2012: On Jul 18, we lost 28 years old Yitzchak Idan Kolangi

2011: On Apr 17, we lost 16 years old Daniel Aryeh Viplich

2010: On Feb 26, we lost 52 years old Netta Blatt Sorek

2009: On Apr 2, we lost 13 years old Shlomo Nativ

2008: On Mar 6, we lost 26 years old Doron Trunach Mahareta

2007: On Jun 17, we lost 85 years old Meir Cohen

2006: On Aug 10, we lost 4 years old Fatchi Assdi

2005: On Jul 12, we lost 16 years old Nofar Horvitz

2004: On Sep 29, we lost 2 years old Dorit Massarat Binsan

2003: On Sep 9, we lost 20 years old Naava Appelbom

2002: On Nov 10, we lost 4 years old Noam Levi Ochayon

2001: On Dec 12, we lost 42 years old Ester Avraham

2000: On Nov 21, we lost 19 years old Itamar Yefet

1999: On Jun 24, we lost 34 years old Tony Eliyahu Zanna

1998: On Dec 2, we lost 41 years old Osama Moussa abu Aisha

1997: On Mar 13, we lost 13 years old Natali Alkalai

1996: On Feb 25, we lost 57 years old Yitzchak Elbaz

1995: On Jul 24, we lost 60 years old Zehava Oren

As Tumblr limits a post to 30 images... part 1/5 - the next parts will be posted in the reblogs momentarily. Please check out the full list.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

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What influenced your artstyle? Are there any artist that you took heavy influence from? Has it always been the same artists, or, if your artstyle looked different way back when, different artist throughout the years?

ohhh yeah no my art style has changed a lot through the years! its funny because it used to be a lineless style for awhile! then it fluctuated to lineart, now its back to mostly the lineless!

I think my art really came into its own in 2019 when I played Smile for Me and discovered @/yugsly art style and fell in love. their my biggest inspiration, I admire all their work and take a heavy inspiration from them for sure

Here lets do an exploration of my Deviantart Galleries all the way back to 2011-2019 just for a quick evolution timeline lol

this is just some fun highlights, feel free to explore my ancient accounts (and apology for whatever 11-19 year old sammi be saying on there lol) [x] [x]

Random cat1 (Aug 28, 2011), my very first upload to Deviantart/online artist space

Early Uploads of my Fursona (Mar 15, 2012) (Jul 15, 2012)

the short while when my fursona was a ponysona (Jun 26, 2012) (Jul 14, 2014)

Art from 2013 (Jan 14, 2013) (Jul 29, 2013) (Dec 31, 2013)

Art from 2014 (Feb 3, 2014) (May 17, 2014) (Sep 10, 2014)

Art from 2015 (Jun 3, 2015) (Jun 17, 2015)

Art from 2016 (Jan 14, 2016) (Apr 23, 2016) (Jul 25, 2016) (Dec 31, 2016)

Art from 2017 (Jan 21, 2017) (Feb 15, 2017) (Jun 28, 2017) (Aug 28, 2017) (Dec 7, 2017)

Art if 2018 (Feb 10, 2018) (Mar 22, 2018) (Oct 24, 2018)

Art of 2019 (Jul 25, 2019) (Jul 25, 2019) (Aug 4, 2019) (Oct 2, 2019) (Oct 8, 2019)

[wrongcaitlyn]

hi tawny!!! loved the magnus chase chapter 🫶🏻 alex and magnus r so cute. I love magnus’s backstory/how you adapted it!!

ok so today is my bday and I was hoping you might be able to share a snippet from the upcoming tgol chapter🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 no pressure tho!!!!

HI OMGSDFKJDSF FIRST OF ALL HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I HOPE THAT ITS STILL YOUR BIRTHDAY IM SO SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG FOR ME TO GET TO THISJSDF!!!

i HAVE written a bit of the next chapter but unfortunately, it is solely tweets, and the tweets are all without users at the moment bc i always add the users at the end. SO. im gonna post a good majority of those tweets here as your excerpt and update it when i eventually add the users and let you know!!! and as a special treat if you'd like to choose one of these to be under your user, LET ME KNOW AND I'LL ADD IT :)))

hope you have had an absolutely wonderful day!!!

guys i dont think u realize how crazy this is for apollo to be working with another artist. like we all accepted nico was an exception bc like he’s will’s bsf and stuff but apollo apparently REACHED OUT to sadie. and they’ve been working together on an album. under apollo’s own label.

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genuinely hope that sadie becomes crazy popular like nico and that delphi records gets bigger than ****’s

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honestly i def think it’d happen. karma at its finest

so as an angel what’s the sadie lore anything we should know?? bc she’s abt to become my third fav artist

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who are the first two?? sadie’s AMAZING

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nico and alex fierro duh

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so your music taste is nico di angelo and his openers

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yes exactly

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Sadie currently has an EP out (Worst of You) that you should definitely check out, it was produced by her and her brother as an indie artist! As for background, she’s from London and her parents are pretty big in the archaeology world. She started putting out covers on YT when she was 13, and eventually started [1/2]

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writing her own songs. She uploaded a lot of unreleased songs to YT (they’ve since been deleted but they’re also on SoundCloud), and put out her debut EP at 18 and recently got signed to Apollo’s Delphi Records (technically second official artist signed, if we’re including Nico) [2/2]

still processing graveyard bc what does he MEAN by directly referencing how apollo “took his money and dignity and got the hell out” and thinks “i understand it now” and “i think you got it right.” nico please don’t disappear on us.

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i blame munich

i ship

[ two images attached: The first is a selfie of Nico di Angelo, Apollo, and Sadie Kane taken by Sadie. The second is the same photo, zoomed in on Sadie and Nico. ]

THE MYSTERY OF NICO’S SKULL RING: A THREAD

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Sep 27, 2015: the skull ring is first seen, albeit blurry, in jason grace’s vlog around his school, in which nico is sitting in their school cafeteria. it’s on his right ring finger, as it always has been (that we know of, logically he may have worn it on his middle or index finger when younger) 

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May 21, 2016: it’s once again seen in nico’s first appearance on apollo’s insta, before we even knew his name. during this time, nico had been working on ‘haunted’ with apollo, and was already known as his insta user “the ghost king,” which ties into the skull/ghost/death theme

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June 18, 2016: the skull ring is on the back cover of ‘haunted’s vinyl and its tracklist. it’s pretty much the centerpiece of the image, with his hand mostly covering his face.

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There are several more appearances of the skull ring, he practically never takes it off. It’s seen in his pictures at the AMA’s, VMA’s, Grammys, and pretty much every other public appearance of his from 2016 - 2018. 

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During the haunted acoustic shows (July 2017), he’s seen wearing the rings in all of the shows. 

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Even the design of the doomsday world tour poster is based on the skull design in his ring, as well as several other merch pieces.

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August 26, 2018: nico is wearing the ring in the official pictures from the first night of the doomsday world tour (and from various fans’ pictures)

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But on the second night of the doomsday world tour, nico is seen without a skull ring. 

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Since then, he hasn’t been seen wearing the ring ONCE. Several other rings take the place on the right ring finger, but the skull ring’s pretty identifiable - and the ones he’s worn since are noticeably different. so, that leaves the question: what happened to it? why did nico stop wearing it? 

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more pictures of the other rings he’s worn since

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ummm maybe. hear me out. just a possibility. his ring size grew? being a living growing teenager at the time

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okay but it is interesting how it happened right after the first night of tour. and its not like a normal piece of jewelry, right? the skull ring is one of the first things we even knew about him, its basically like a logo. dating all the way back to apollo’s first post signifying haunted? it must have meant something to him if he wore it for at least three years (1/2)

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even at award shows and red carpets and all that fancy stuff. putting the exact same skull design on tour merch, etc… it’s just strange that it disappeared all of a sudden, despite nico still going on with the death/skull aesthetic in graveyard. if he just lost it or it broke/stopped fitting, wouldn’t he try and get another?

this fandom belongs in an insane asylum 

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

THE DARKNESS OF A BRIGHT ORANGE MICKEY MOUSE -- WHEN THE DRUGS HIT YOU TOO HARD IN '68.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 960x1488 -- Spotlight on cover page to British underground newspaper, "International Times," a.k.a., "it" issue #27. March 8-21, 1968. Cover artist unknown.

"In some ways "IT" created its constituency and at its height was selling 44,000 copies every fortnight – I’m told that number translated into about 200,000 readers. It covered every aspect of the counterculture, from the Hells Angels, skinheads, pacifists, vegetarians, communal living, sexual revolution, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.’

-- THE GUARDIAN, "Covering the counterculture: the 60s underground press – in pictures," by Kathyrn Bromwich, published September 23, 2017

Source: www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2017/sep/23/covering-the-counterculture-the-60s-underground-press-in-pictures.

[jesse-eisenberg-interview]

A list of Jesse Eisenberg's writing

I made a list of Jesse Eisenberg's writing.

2009

NOV 30 Manageable Tongue Twisters.

2010

FEB 24 Marxist-Socialists Jokes

2011

JUL 21 A Post Gender Normative Man Tries to Pick Up a Woman at a Bar

DEC 07 ACTOR & PLAYWRIGHT JESSE EISENBERG ON THE THRILL OF THE STAGE

2012

JAN 25 Courage Is Just an Act

FEB 15 Jeremy Lin Has Helped Me Through Some Pretty Tough Times

MAR 12 Jesse Eisenberg on His Lifelong Aversion to Youth Culture

MAY 24 Sushi Nozawa

JUN 06 Masgouf

JUL 09 The Whiskey Blue Bar at the W Hotel

AUG 01 TCBY

AUG 20 Robert Frost Elementary School Cafeteria

OCT 02 Organix vs. the San Gennaro Street Festival

NOV 21 Thanksgiving With Vegans

DEC 11 Body Rituals Among the Lauxesortem

2013

FEB 22 Matthew’s House

MAR 17 Marv Albert Is My Therapist

APR 15 The League, Passed Down

APR 17 I Didn’t Win Any Pulitzer Prizes This Year

APR 25 A Marriage Counselor Tries to Heckle at a Knicks Game

JUN 03 Fuddruckers and an Unreliable New Friend

JUN 24 Separation-Anxiety Sleepaway Camp

AUG 06 A Crawfish Boil and Dad’s New Family

SEP 09 A Bully Does His Research

OCT 02 A Post Gender Normative Woman Tries to Pick Up a Man at a Bar

OCT 07 Final Conversations at Pompeii

NOV 01 The Museum of Natural History and Making Compromises

NOV 12 Alexander Graham Bell’s First Five Phone Calls

DEC 12 The Ashram and Mom

2014

JAN 20 If I Was Fluent in . . .

JUN 10 Carmelo Anthony and I Debrief Our Friends After a Pickup Game at the Y.M.C.A.

2015

MAY 25 Men and Dancing

SEP 01 My Nephew Has Some Questions

SEP 09 My Spam Plays Hard to Get

NOV 22 THE GUY WHO HATED NOW YOU SEE ME, A SHORT STORY

NOV 23 An Honest Film Review

2016

JAN 27 What Do You Do When Your Mother Won’t Shut Up at The Ballet?

FEB 04 Act Like You Know

FEB 12 Why I Broke Up with the Little Mermaid

MAY 19 My Cousin Recently Became A Realtor

NOV 04 SELF-DEPRECATING HEROES

DEC 11 LOW TALK IN HIGH PLACES

2017

JAN 23 YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW

JAN 25 My Very Good Friend

FEB 01 发现肉——致中国读者

MAR 04 HAVE YOU DINED WITH US BEFORE?

NOV 14 Mongolia

2018

JAN 15 Sad Stuff on the Street

MAR 20 Thanks, Giving

MAY 14 My N.B.A. Knowledge Comes In Handy

MAY 18 One Small Blow Against Encroaching Totalitarianism: The Natural Order of the World Depends On It

MAY 31 Jesse Eisenberg on the Relentless Work Ethic of Philip Roth

DEC 05 The Cast Members and Their Crew

2019

JAN 03 MY SISTER PUSHES THE LOBSTER

NOV 21 My Two-Year-Old Requests Just One More Song Before Bed

NOV 23 Jesse Eisenberg: Recommends four contemporary plays

2021

MAR 02 Writer Courtney Zoffness and Jesse Eisenberg on the Radical Compassion of Art

2022

NOV 07 Content Warning

2023

FEB 20 A G.P.S. Route for My Anxiety

[vocalsynthbdays]

happy birthday gumi(vocaloid 2) [jun 26] !!!!!!!!

gumi is a japanese synth developed by internet co. ltd., who was originally released in 2009. "megpoid" is the name of the voicebanks themselves/ the software, and "gumi" is the name of the character mascot, the green-haired girl herself. both names come from gumis voice provider, Megumi Nakajima, with "gumi" being a childhood nickname, and "megpoid" being a combination of "megumi", "ppoi"(idk what this means), and "vocaloid". her v2 to v4 and her megpoid talk were illustrated by Yuuki Masami, and her v6 and ai voice by Nou. gumi is the most popular non-cryptonloid vocaloid. gumi has 18 vocaloid vbs (the most out of any vocaloid) but i struggled a little to find a list of them, though here is my best attempt at listing them: megpoid (vocaloid 2)- 26 jun 2009 v3 megpoid adult- 21 oct 2011 v3 megpoid sweet- 21 oct 2011 v3 megpoid whisper- 21 oct 2011 v3 megpoid power- 21 oct 2011 v3 megpoid native- 16 mar 2012 megpoid english (vocaloid 3)- 28 feb 2013 megpoid v4 native- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 native fat- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 adult- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 mellow adult- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 sweet- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 natural sweet- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 whisper- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 soft whisper- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 power- 5 nov 2015 megpoid v4 power fat- 5 nov 2015 AI megpoid (vocaloid 6)- 13 oct 2022 thats the 18 vbs. here are other releases for these vbs: v3 megpoid native (vocaloid neo (the apple os version of vocaloid))- 26 feb 2014 v3 megpoid sweet (vocaloid neo)- 26 feb 2014 v3 megpoid whisper (vocaloid neo)- 26 feb 2014 v3 megpoid power (vocaloid neo)- 26 feb 2014 megpoid english (vocaloid neo)- 26 feb 2014 megpoid (mobile vocaloid editor)- idk when this was released megpoid english (mobile vocaloid editor)- also dk release megpoid (vocaloid keyboard)- sometime in 2017 ?? she also received a FineSpeech Ver3 vb on 16 jan 2014 called megpoid talk, and a A.I.VOICE bank on 16 sep 2022 called GUMI. she is also available for voidol

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Our Flag Means Death Gentlebeard 🏴‍☠️🌈

"So Much a Man Can Tell You" E, ~3,500 words, 26 May 2024 (Gentlebeard Innkeepers Arc #4)

SEQUEL: Two months after their inn's opening, Stede Bonnet is the one whose nightmares have become more disruptive, despite his best efforts, which leads to him and Edward Teach discovering that there are many things they still need to communicate about.

"To the Back of a Hand and a Sideways Glance" M, ~2,100 words, 17 Nov 2023 (Gentlebeard Innkeepers Arc #3)

SEQUEL: As the opening of their new inn approaches, Edward Teach starts having nightmares about Izzy Hands that invoke complicated feelings. Stede Bonnet is there to help him work through those feelings.

"Put the Light Back In Your Eyes" E, ~5,000 words, 6 Nov 2023 (Gentlebeard Innkeepers Arc #2)

SEQUEL: After Izzy Hand's death, Stede Bonnet does his best to comfort his beloved Edward Teach, who confesses that he doesn't think he can continue sailing. They thus begin their new life together as innkeepers, where they must navigate having sex again in the wake of Ed telling Stede that the first time was a mistake.

"Like an Ocean, Jealous of the Fish It Feeds" M, ~2,100 words, 21 Oct 2023 (Gentlebeard Innkeepers Arc #1)

When Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet have sex for the first time following Ned Low's death, it's hasty and desperate and not anything like Ed planned for.

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"Like Thunder Under Earth" M, ~5,900 words, 28 Feb 2023

When the British Navy retrieves Lucius Spriggs from the ocean and taunts Blackbeard with a public execution, Edward Teach rallies his fleet to defend his reputation—not knowing that Stede Bonnet and his marooned crew have planned their own haphazard rescue mission.

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"With Piranha Teeth (Dream of the Taste of Your Love)" M, ~10,800 words, 19 Dec 2022 (Gentlebeard Soft Touches Arc #3)

SEQUEL: The reunited crew of The Revenge acts as a chaotic support system while Edward Teach and Stede Bonnet develop a steady romantic relationship and make necessary amends with everyone. Unfortunately for "everyone," public makeouts are also a thing that keeps occurring.

"Stargazing" M, ~1,400 words, 16 Oct 2022 (Gentlebeard Soft Touches Arc #2)

BONUS SCENE: Ed has a maddeningly intimate moment with Stede. The crew of The Revenge do not approve.

"In Your Grateful Arms (Try Not to Fall Apart)" M, ~12,300 words, 2 Oct 2022 (Gentlebeard Soft Touches Arc #1)

The last person who truly loved Edward Teach was his mother, and he's been drowning his feelings underneath an ocean of Blackbeard-fueled adrenaline ever since she died. When he meets Stede Bonnet, all of that is upended. With each gentle touch Stede offers, Ed finds his heart breaking open in the most unexpectedly hopeful way.

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MCU ScarletVision 💢🦾

"Questioning Identity" G, ~1,800 words, 20 Sep 2018 (ScarletVision Friends to Lovers Arc #3)

BONUS SCENE: One rainy afternoon, as he sits with Wanda in her bedroom, Vision wonders who he really is.

"Celebrating Christmas" G, ~3,700 words, 25 Dec 2017 (ScarletVision Friends to Lovers Arc #2)

BONUS SCENE: At the Avengers Compound in New York, with Wanda by his side, Vision experiences his very first Christmas.

"Your Castle of Memories" T, ~112,000 words, 28 July 2017 (ScarletVision Friends to Lovers Arc #1)

After the events of Age of Ultron, Wanda Maximoff faces the pain of her loss, and Vision tries to comprehend the intricacies of existence. They find comfort and a great deal of fascination in each other, as the new expanded Avengers team learns to work together. But they are about to face the greatest challenge to their friendship: the arrival of Civil War.

[variouscolors]

Crossover list (last update: Sep/21/2024)

※ This list is just a guide to what I have some knowledge about or is part of my other interests. If you are able to explain me something I do not have much knowledge about, maybe we can write those muses together!! I like to be able to insert my digi-muses (canon and OC) into those worlds sometimes, making it a specific AU thing.

※ If I can't imagine them living in that universe, or can't figure out how to make their canon/OC meet your muse, I'll have to refuse to write with that universe/muse of yours (but we can still try other muses of yours, so don't worry!)

※ This list may be updated with a few new series/franchises I'd like to do a crossover/AU with, or has knowledge about them.

Digimon series/franchise in general (I will RP with any kind of canon or OC btw)

Pokemon (Special manga; Journeys; Horizons; Sword/Shield mostly) ※ I'm game with a few pokemon anime + game as long you are up to explain me about them & their source material, and OCs?

Super Sentai (Dekaranger; Magiranger; Go-Onger; Shinkenger; Gokaiger; Toqger; Kyuranger; Lupinranger vs Patranger; Ryusoulger; Kiramager; DonBros; KingOhger)

Kamen Rider (Ryuki; Kiva; W/Double; Fourze; Gaim; Drive; Ex-Aid; Build; Zi-O; Geats; SKR)

Powerpuff Girls Z

Grand Chase

Elsword

Sonic (games; IDW; Sonic Boom TV Series, Sonic X; Sonic Prime)

Rayman (Captain Lasehawk v. is a big NO + block)

Pretty Cure (Futari wa; Fresh; Smile; HUGtto; Star ✰ Twinkle; Higaru Sky!)

Kill la Kill

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann

Nagi no Asukara

Gravity Falls

ClassicaLoid

FMA:B

My Hero Academia/Boku no Hero Academia

Little Witch Academia

Persona 5

Ducktales (2017)

The Owl House

Promare

Your Name.

BNA

Magic Kaito 1412 (anime)

Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne (anime)

Saint Tail

Spy x Family

Wedding Peach (anime)

[some franchises/series that i prefer to not put here, so if you get my follow this means i’m OK with you]

FANDOMLESS OCs: PLEASE, have a PAGE about your world/muse so I can read them and see if my muses could work in your world. If no information is present in your blog, it will make hard to interact with your muse, sorry!

⚠ List for the Biggest NOPE + block if you insist using muses from these things:

Vivziepop content

Captain Lasehawk, as mentioned before (i hate how it portrayed Rayman in it) & Rabbids (not very fan of them)

AoT muses or AUs

JKR content (it saddens me to add this here, HP was part of my childhood and now i want to not be associated with it anymore)

BBC shows (liked one of those shows in the past, but i'm not very comfortable with them alas)

Roleplaying with real-life actors/idols/people in gen as if they were fictional characters (live action characters such as Kamen Rider/Sentai/etc are OK, but i'm uncomfortable with real-live faceclaims)

LARP or self-inserts (those make me nervous and uncomfortable)

Any Angel/Demon AU versions of any human digimon character due to past experiences

[magxit]

The Swift Agenda 02 | Aug. 16 to Sep. 20, 2023

Taylor Swift — all the way from the physical and digital sales era — has now surpassed the unstoppable force, streaming juggernaut Bad Bunny as the #2 most-streamed artist in Spotify history.

Despite giving the industry a massive head start in algorithm dominance by removing her music at her peak (2014–2017) and thus losing out on Spotify’s crucial audience-building years, Taylor Swift is now only behind the king of streams, Drake, in the all-time rank and is vying for the Spotify crown as she continually DOUBLES his numbers (with a whopping 40M+ lead) on a daily basis.

It would take her approximately 4 months to ultimately close the 5-billion gap standing between her and the highly coveted title — with the impending release of 1989 (Taylor’s Version) more than ready to offset whatever damage that a new Drake album may cause in the near future.

Taylor Swift has surpassed Metallica and is now the #19 best-selling artist of all time (via @chartmastersorg ), shifting 168,860,000 equivalent album units since the start of her legendary seventeen-year career, solidifying her status as the de facto leader of today’s music industry and widening the ASTRONOMICAL gap between her and the remaining 21st-century artists in the all-time Top 100 (with the nearest one having 121M):

— Taylor in the 160M–169M range — 0 artists in the 150M–159M range — 0 artists in the 140M–149M range — 0 artists in the 130M–139M range — 5 artists in the 100M–129M range — 5 artists in the 80M–99M range — 5 artists in the 60M–79M range

Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” movie takes the world by storm as it shatters the 24-hour pre-sales record in AMC’s eleven-decade history, edging out several Marvel blockbusters.

With its STAGGERING demand, it will swiftly claim the title for the biggest concert film of all time (and beyond) upon its October 13 release.

Taylor Swift’s “reputation” has surpassed 6 billion streams on Spotify, making her the ONLY artist in history with 4 different albums achieving this feat (Lover, 1989, Midnights, and reputation).

With “folklore” merely 60M+ streams away, Taylor Swift will very soon have FIVE different albums surpassing the 6B milestone — one that is supposedly reserved for A-list artists’ absolute, definitive, career-defining PEAK eras. And, once again, just to let it sink in: she is about to have FIVE.

Taylor Swift has spent SEVERAL more weeks at #1 on Billboard Artist 100, extending her all-time record to 79 weeks.

— Nearest male: 37 — Nearest female: 20 — Nearest group: 21

Taylor Swift’s “Lover” is now the #6 most-streamed female album in Spotify history, surpassing Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next”, becoming the FIRST among the SEVERAL Taylor Swift albums projected to do so.

With 1989 (Taylor’s Version)’s preorders alone ALREADY surpassing folklore’s actual first-week debut (846K), the pop bible’s re-recording is poised to OBLITERATE its predecessor’s original numbers in 2014 (1.287M) and even challenge the streaming-era giant “Midnights” (1.578M) for the biggest Billboard 200 debut for any streamable album ever.

Currently, GoldDerby predictions put Taylor Swift at the helm of the upcoming GRAMMYs:

— #1 frontrunner for AOTY — #1 frontrunner for SOTY — #2 frontrunner for ROTY

Taylor Swift has tied the record for the most VMAs wins in a single night, bagging 9 out of 11 awards and SWEEPING all major categories.

She now holds the all-time winning records for the BIGGEST categories in the VMAs, AMAs, and GRAMMYs.

— most wins for VMAs “Video of the Year” (4x) — most wins for AMAs “Artist of the Year” (7x) — most wins for GRAMMYs “Album of the Year” (3x; tied with Stevie Wonder and Frank Sinatra)

Going way beyond everyone’s wildest dreams, 33 MILLION PUZZLES for the 1989 (Taylor’s Version) Vault were SOLVED in less than a day on Google, signaling an earthshaking demand for what is shaping up to be THE most powerful album release of the decade.

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1). 325 notes - Nov 1 2018 (Chocolate Kiss which is my DR Soriel fic AO3 This one got so popular because 1. a well-known soriel artist did a comic of it and then 2. an awesome voice actor dubbed said comic.)

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[sugaurora]

Writing Timeline

— 2023

Dec 22: Dream Come True (Teaser 1) (Teaser 2)

— 2022

Extended Hiatus

— 2021

Nov 28: The Wedding Arrangement

Sep 03: Back to Life

Aug 15: Moonflower

Jul 21: Éffleurer 17

May 20: Éffleurer 16

May 01: Fey and Wilde

Apr 17: Éffleurer 15

Mar 06: Éffleurer 14

Feb 21: Éffleurer 13

— 2020

Oct 18: Back Where You Belong

Oct 16: Éffleurer 12

Sep 25: Éffleurer 11

Sep 16: Éffleurer 10

Sep 04: Éffleurer 09

Aug 19: Éffleurer 08

May 17: Rockabye

May 15: Light Up My Life

May 09: Éffleurer 07

Apr 22: Éffleurer 06

Mar 07: To Look Within 01

— 2019

Extended Hiatus

— 2018

Jul 07: Dalliance

Jun 20: To Be Without 04

Jun 17: To Be Without 03

Jun 14: To Be Without 02

Jun 12: To Be Without 01

Jun 08: Sun. Moon. Star. 01

Jun 03: Kaleidoscope

Mar 23: Éffleurer 04 + 05

Feb 25: Mine

Feb 24: Somewhere Beyond the Sky

Feb 23: Pretty Little Things

Feb 19: Good Neighbor

Feb 18: Splendor

Feb 16: Something Like Fire

Feb 15: Hello, Nurse

Jan 31: Dictionnaire Infernal 01

Jan 09: Musings 06

— 2017

Dec 31: Honeysuckle

Dec 23: Something to Believe In

Nov 28: Musings 05

Nov 26: Scintilla

Nov 08: Musings 04

Nov 07: Priorities

Nov 05: Just Like Before

Oct 27: Musings 03

Oct 22: Musings 02

Oct 08: Éffleurer 02 + 03

Oct 08: Musings 01

Sep 29: Éffleurer 01

Aug 22: The Six Deceptions

Aug 19: Woebegone

Aug 13: Conflicts of Interest 02

Jul 30: An Honest Day’s Work

Jul 22: Medium

Jul 21: Silver and Gold

Jul 20: Bloodlines

Jul 20: Little Gifts

Jul 19: Tipping Crowns

Jul 17: Pendulum

Jul 16: Casus Fortuitus

Jul 05: The Best Intentions

Jun 17: Conflicts of Interest 01

[kdrama-movies-more]

Timeline

1940, Feb 14th: Jung Ui-hwan is born (inquiry report)

1965, Apr 28th : Ha Seong-min born

1966, May 18th : Jung Mi-ok was born (case file)

1966, Nov 4th : Cha Ju-man born (inquiry report; "google" info)

1977, Oct 13 : Park Jong-bae was born

~1977 : Jeon Gwang-sik was born

1978, Apr 18 : Hong Mi-yeon(Park Jong-bae's wife) was born

1988, Sept 6th : Bong Ye Bun was born

1990, Nov 28th : Kim Seon-woo's birthday (presumably, inquiry report)

1993 : Hyeon-ok's 21-25 fencing diary's year

2002, Jan : Assemblyman Yoon's Mujin redevelopment fraud file(Mi-ok's news) 2002 till 2005

2002, Mar 25 : Cha Ju-man's last address change/moved in to Mujin(inquiry report)

2005, Nov 13 (11:15?) : dod/tod(estd.) Jung Mi-ok (aged 40) [place: Mujin Port]

2005, Nov 14 (13:04) : Car and body of Jung Mi-ok recovered (ep 1 first scene)

2007, Jan 17th : Bong Ye-bun gets into Veterinary school

2007 : Jungsan Daily(newspaper Bong's mom wrote for) ceases publication

2012, Feb 1st : Bong Ye-bun gets veterinary license

2014 : The 7 years later in the vet office we see in episode 1 before it cuts to another 8 years(=15 years)

2015, Jul 12 : Justin(Park Kang-jun) is born

2015, Sep 15 : Cho Ae-ran gets into debt with Kim Seon-hwa of the Mujin Coffee Shop

~2016 : Jang-yeol meets Seung-gil (17th b'day)

~2017 : Seung-gil's 18th birthday

~2018 : Seung-gil's 19th birthday

2019, Sept 23rd : Cha Ju-man's lecture at Hankuk University

2019 : Kim Seon-woo drops out of Hankuk University after Cha Ju-man's lecture

~2020 : Bae Deok-hee joins the police department

2021, Sept 6: Ok-hui's memory of Ye-bun drunkenly dancing in front of a police car

2022, Sept 6 : Bong Ye-bun turns 35

2022, Sept 20: Kim Seon-woo's last address change date(as in the report)

2022, Sept 25 : dod Kim Si-a (aged 24) [place: Mujin Beach]

2022, Oct 6th : dod Park Seung-gil (aged 23) [place: Mujin General Hospital]

2022, Oct 20th : dod Lee Ji-suk (aged 27) [place: Road near fishing spot]

2022, Oct 20th : Cha Ju-man is elected

2022, Oct 21st : Cho Ae-ran's debt is paid off

2022, Nov 1 : dod Cha Ju-man(57) is murdered, Jung Ui-hwan framed

2022, ~Nov : Jung Ui-hwan(83) dies of his injury

2022, Nov 6th : Cha Ju-man's corruption is published about; day1/2 of Ui-hwan's funeral

2022, Nov 20 : dod Jeon Gwang-sik(45)

2022, Nov 28 : Kim Seon-woo officially turns 33

~2022, Nov 30 : dod Kim Seon-woo(33)

(ages might be in Korean system)

The Mujin Raincoat killer victims

Cho Ae-ran

Jung Ui-hwan

Jung Mi-ok

Bong Ye-bun

Kim Seon-woo

Cha Ju-man; has a spouse and a son; official birthplace is given in Incheon

[mlwritersguild]

murder face, by @alexseanchai

A fic inspired by the heliotrope flower

AO3; temporary character death, hawkmoth defeat, marinette needs a hug, angst with a happy ending

Summary:

shout from the hundred-square-femtometre rooftop — Yesterday at 8:21 PM please, I don't even need to be asleep to have nightmares source: I can hear my sister screaming like her cat just died my sister is two continents away save a vespa, ride the métro — Yesterday at 8:23 PM You hear it too? Everyone who was here on 1 Sep 2014 says it's Ladybug

Lady Noire storms inside Tour TVi, a dark blue blanket with two thin red stripes over her shoulder, a phone clutched so tightly in her hand she must be leaving claw marks on its case. Those few people in the lobby at this hour scatter away from her path at the first glimpse of her face: cold and pale as death.

"Warn Nadja Chamack I'm taking over as tonight's guest," Lady Noire snaps.

Somebody calls Arlette. Side by Side is live, but no one wants to find out if, with the Black Cat Miraculous, Ladybug's looks can kill.

---

shout from the hundred-square-femtometre rooftop — Yesterday at 7:43 PM I can stay up past 03:00 if I want, it's Labour Day, we're closed no dying on this hill — Yesterday at 7:45 PM Irrelevant. Zoé is correct: schedule your system maintenance or your system maintenance will schedule you. shout from the hundred-square-femtometre rooftop — Yesterday at 8:21 PM please, I don't even need to be asleep to have nightmares source: I can hear meimei screaming like her cat just died meimei is two continents away save a vespa, ride the métro — Yesterday at 8:23 PM You hear it too? Everyone who was here on 1 Sep 2014 says it's Ladybug

Ladybug speaks softly, carries her partner's stick @CometHeliotrope Bonjour Monarque. C'est après minuit. Sais-tu où est le Prince Charmant ? Oh regarde, c'est ton alliance. Translated from French by Googol Hello Monarch. It's after midnight. Do you know where Prince Charming is? Oh look, it's your wedding ring. [image: Lady Noire sitting on one of Paris's slate rooftops, toying with a platinum wedding ring and glaring into the camera.] 9:13 PM · 29 Apr 2017

Alya Césaire, photojournaliste citoyenne de la Ville miracles @ladyblog_paris This is legit. Source: personal communication with Ladybug. 9:17 PM · 29 Apr 2017

Lady Noire storms inside Tour TVi, a dark blue blanket with two thin red stripes over her shoulder, a phone clutched so tightly in her hand she must be leaving claw marks on its case. Those few people in the lobby at this hour scatter away from her path at the first glimpse of her face: cold and pale as death.

"Warn Nadja Chamack I'm taking over as tonight's guest," Lady Noire snaps.

Somebody calls Arlette. Side by Side is live, but no one wants to find out if, with the Black Cat Miraculous, Ladybug's looks can kill.

---

Zoé runs up the spiral staircase and skids to a stop outside the Césaire apartment. Nino opens the door at the first sound of the doorbell. "Comrade Moutarde de Dijon!" he exclaims. "Good to see you—have you heard from Comrades Mayo, Bechamel, or Sweet and Sour?"

"Comrade Bechamel is going to strangle me enough already without inviting Comrade Sweet and Sour," Alya calls from the living room, where she, Max, Kim, Rose, Juleka, Ivan, and Mylène are gathered around the television, currently playing the latest advertisement for Alliance rings. At second glance, Zoé does recognize the person hovering awkwardly near the dining table: XY Roth.

"I may mean that literally," Alya adds. "She might wring my neck with her bare hands."

"…What's wrong? Should we be heading for the TV station?"

Alya's group text didn't say. All Zoé knows is it's a problem for the Resistance.

---

"Don't be bemused, it's just the news! Hi, I'm Nadja Chamack, and this is Side by Side. Today, I'm joined by our own Ladybug!"

"Lady Noire," she corrects Nadja, who is far too familiar with interviewing akumas to flinch. Well. To flinch much.

"…This is the third time you two have swapped Miraculouses, I believe?"

Lady Noire nods, a stiff, sharp motion. "The question you should be asking is, where is my partner?"

Nadja gulps. "Yes. Where is your partner?"

"The same place as Prince Charming."

It's a Tsurugi brand phone, from the sound it makes when turning on. Lady Noire blows on the screen, angled so only she can see the display, and zips her knuckle tip through an unlock pattern. "No missed calls," she tells the Side by Side camera. "A couple of text messages from friends, but not one from family. Most of them may be asleep at this time of day. Monarque might be too busy trying to magic his hand back on to pay attention when I'm talking about his son."

Silence rings through the room, through the city, as piercing as her earlier sobs.

"I will be more generous to Monarque than he has been to my partner and me," Lady Noire says, her voice shaking with rage. "You have until midnight to contact me to arrange the handover of every Miraculous you have. Every note and every artifact that you have even the slightest inkling might be of interest to me or my team. Every name you know of someone else who has chosen to help Monarque, or who has known his secret identity and kept silent. If I have any reason to believe that you are withholding something, if I have any reason to believe that you are trying to escape, you will not like what happens to Monarque's son."

Nadja shudders. Breathes. Asks, "What happens after midnight?"

"At midnight," says Lady Noire, "I name Monarque on air."

---

"I have no proof that will satisfy a court of law," Lady Noire tells Mme Chamack, Paris, the world. "But the man he is in the rest of his life does have a… professional reputation to protect. Perhaps I am framing the man I will name. Why would I do that? Paris wonders. What skeletons might they find in his closets, if they try to figure out what this man has done?"

Her arms are wrapped around the bundle of fabric she brought. Possibly only the fact that her claws can't pierce her armor is keeping her forearm from bleeding.

A ringtone. Mylène reaches for her phone, only to stop when Lady Noire thumbs the phone she's holding, silencing the sound.

"Come on, dude, pick up," mutters Nino into his Alliance ring.

The ringtone again. This time Lady Noire answers. Someone turns up the TV volume, but it doesn't pick up the phone call audio.

"You must be Mayura!" Lady Noire says, cheerfulness ringing painfully false. "It's good to know you're alive. Chat Noir was afraid something had happened to you after we stopped seeing you around—you know him, such a bleeding heart."

She taps something. "—do with him?" snarls the caller on speakerphone.

Nino growls, "Mayura."

"What do you think I did with him?" Lady Noire shouts. "I told Monarque I'd make him regret this. He took my partner away from me!"

"Where is my son?" Mayura demands.

Lady Noire blinks twice, opens her mouth, and closes it again. Then shakes herself and drags in a breath. "You know him," she says, voice softer now but no less terrifying. "If I told him he needed to jump off a bridge to help stop Monarque, do you truly believe he'd hesitate?"

"She's bluffing!" shouts Monarque. "My son, come home at once, do—"

A strangled sound. "She may be bluffing," Mayura says. "I'm not. Nooroo, wings rise!"

"I thought so," Lady Noire says. To the TV crew, she adds, "Cut to commercial."

Adrien's latest perfume ad plays.

Mylène is the first to speak. "You don't…really think Ladybug would hurt someone, just because he's Monarque's kid. …Do we?"

"I think," says Alya, typing furiously with one hand shielding her Alliance projection from view, "Monarque thought that if something happened to Chat Noir, Ladybug would lose control. Marinette, pick up your fucking phone."

---

The original guest on tonight's Side by Side is back on the sofa, almost managing to act as though whatever movie she's starring in is still the headliner of the episode. Or so Nathaniel says. Kagami is mostly not paying attention to anything but which way to the bakery and how fast to jog so she doesn't leave him, Marc, and Sabrina behind. A beep signals a new notification on her Alliance: an email from Nathalie Sancoeur, which can wait until Kagami has spoken to Marinette. She thinks highly enough of Chat Noir that tonight must be frightening.

"She's out with Adrien," Cheng-san tells them. "Is it something I can help with?"

"Maybe?" Marc glances at Nathaniel's Alliance projection and winces. "If she's with Adrien, she's probably okay but she won't be coming with us. So the next part of our plan is to head to Tour TVi with paint guns, in case Lady Noire needs backup—"

A car turns the corner. Adrien's car, specifically. Or not Adrien's, of course. Kagami starts toward it; Adrien's bodyguard gets out, alone. Kagami catches a glimpse of the interior: no people, only suitcases and messenger bags and reused grocery boxes.

Cheng-san hurries outside. "You're not with them?" she asks.

Adrien's bodyguard hands Cheng-san a locked tablet and holds out an unlocked phone. " 'Sign here to verify receipt of these documents'," his Alliance's digital Kagami doll reads aloud. " 'Review these documents at your leisure. If neither of you sign these documents, nothing will change. I believe it is in Adrien's best interests if you both sign; if either of you do, they will go into effect at the time of receipt.' "

Cheng-san narrows her eyes. "Is it in Marinette's best interest? Does your idea of Adrien's best interest agree with Adrien's idea of Adrien's best interest?"

Adrien's bodyguard signs the phone with a swipe of his own fingertip, locks it, and gives it to Cheng-san.

"This had better not be a trick!" shouts Cheng-san at the departing car.

---

"Sorry to interrupt," Ladybug says, reentering the camera's field of view entirely unapologetically. (It is Ladybug, now with the blue blanket draped over her shoulders like a cape; while out of sight, it seems, she switched back. There's going to be an akuma at the studio any moment now, and Nadja is very glad she called Lila and spoke to Manon while Ladybug and Mayura were negotiating terms.) Ladybug holds up Monarque's son's phone. "Mayura will be arriving momentarily, with a few people whose names and faces you'd love to be the first to publish. We're waiting on a signal from a third party before we reveal those—Monarque's son is not the only one in danger, and we're making sure the others are safe—"

Half the studio lights go out. The starlet Nadja is in theory interviewing bolts for cover. Nadja scurries over to one of the cameras, ready to flip to breaking-news-reporter-on-the-scene mode.

The other camera operator swivels that camera toward the opening door. Only two of the eight people who enter have any identifying characteristics at all: her Butterfly armor resembles a purple evening gown, and he must be the man under the Monarque mask, akumatized and vaguely familiar. The other six are different sizes of blur, with a superficial resemblance to Oblivio; two flicker between blue and green, and four between purple and red.

"The matters you don't wish televised are being delivered to someone I know you trust," Butterfly-Mayura says, brisk and businesslike. "These two are minors. I cannot imagine Chat Noir will want their lives destroyed; I am certain my son does not. These four have known about our Miraculouses for twenty years or more; though Monarque has been threatening their children in order to keep them silent, I cannot imagine either of you or my son will think that is enough to forgive them their silence." She pauses, considering a drawstring bag in her hand. "My son's mother will not."

Ladybug exhales. "I was wondering if this was for her," she says, very soft, but registering clearly on the audio pickup nonetheless. "If she's half as much like—your son—as his father says… No, she wouldn't think her life is worth the price."

The akumatized Monarque glares sullenly.

Monarque's son's phone rings.

"Lucky Charm!" Ladybug exclaims, hurling her yo-yo into the air and catching a magazine in a red-and-black plastic sleeve. "Mode, Septem—very funny," she tells the air, unamused. The phone rings again. "Heeeey there, friend!" Ladybug answers, bright and awkward, not unlike Manon lying through her teeth. "He can't come to the phone right now, we're a little busy—"

"I bet you are—"

Alya Césaire's voice stops.

"Please do not tell me this is that signal," Alya says faintly.

Ladybug rolls up the magical copy of Mode, takes five strides, and breaks Monarque's nose.

"Oh my god Gabriel Agreste is Monarque."

Alya sounds horrified. Manon adores Adrien; Nadja doubles her hope that Ladybug is bluffing. Or that Alya is wrong.

"Ladybug, where's Adrien?"

"Heh heh heh, funny story—" Ladybug hangs up.

"Madame Chamack," calls Butterfly-Mayura, getting Nadja's attention just in time for Nadja to catch the drawstring bag. "One for each of these seven; break it to remove the mask. Perhaps wait until Ladybug and Chat Noir have left?"

Nadja swallows and nods.

The purple butterfly slides out of the akumatized Monarque's visor and flickers to white. Violet-black magic bubbles over him, leaving a seventh blob, blood-red.

"Miraculous Ladybug!"

She whisks the blanket-cape off her shoulders to hide the person her magic brings her. He takes it as an attack—of course he does, the last thing Chat Noir remembers must be fighting for his life—

"Stop thrashing or I'll tell your girlfriend you want to PvP her in Ultimate Mecha Strike!" Ladybug hisses. "Twenty-five thousand nine hundred and thirteen to eleven is clearly not thrashed enough!"

The boy under the blanket goes statue-still.

"What did you just say?" asks Chat Noir.

"I said put your mask back on, kitty."

"That's what I thought I heard," Chat Noir mutters. (From the look of the audio meters, the audience didn't catch that.) One pale hand emerges from the blanket; Ladybug slaps something into his palm; with a flash of green light, Chat Noir reappears in living color.

Ladybug grabs him by the jingle bell and drags him down into a gasping, sobbing kiss.

"—My lady, I have a girlfriend," Chat Noir reminds her the moment he breaks free. "I will be telling her someone kissed me—" He stops, taking in the rest of the room. "What are you calling yourself now, Mayura, la Papillon Reine?"

"I believe I'm calling myself a poor excuse for a second mother," Mayura answers. "Ladybug. Our agreement."

"I believe I said it's his decision whether he even ever wants to think of you again," Ladybug retorts. To Chat Noir she says, "Or of me. I did kind of just convince all of Paris I did the same thing to Monarque's son that Monarque did to you. I've got six Miraculouses and two Alliances in my pocket, Carapace just got delivered a bunch of interesting things including at least seven more Miraculouses, I don't think either of those green blobs is Argos so it's probably only seven, the Ladyblogger has all sorts of fascinating documents to dig through, and Nathalie Sancoeur will be handing over the Butterfly Miraculous any moment now."

That all came out in one breath.

"…What," says Chat Noir.

Ladybug tilts forward and faceplants into Chat Noir's chest, mumbling something. He softens, holding her close.

Then stiffens up again. "Nathalie Sancoeur?" He snatches the yo-yo from Ladybug's waist, captures Mayura—she makes no effort to resist—and plucks the Butterfly brooch from her bodice.

Nadja wouldn't necessarily recognize Nathalie Sancoeur if she passed her on the street. Neither, most likely, would anyone in the room, and if Nadja could get her breaking-news-reporter hat on instead of watching in stunned silence like the rest of the world—

Chat Noir takes a deep breath, clutching Ladybug like a lifeline. "Ah," he says, retracting the yo-yo. "Gabriel Agreste isn't planning on sending Adrien to London because he thinks that will keep him safe from the terrible influence of friends Gabriel didn't pick out for him and a girlfriend Gabriel can't intimidate. Though I'm sure he wanted Adrien to keep thinking that. It's because Adrien only has two living adult relatives, one lives in London, and the other committed suicide back in September and he expects it to finish killing him soon."

One of the red-violet blobs shakes. Chat Noir glares at his own Miraculous. Nadja has a sudden horrible suspicion that Chat Noir spent the months of Monarque's silence believing he'd killed a man.

"I would have handed that over myself," Nathalie Sancoeur says. "And this, to Adrien, so I know he's alive."

'This' appears to be the wedding ring on her own hand.

"Ladybug keeps her promises," Chat Noir tells her.

Sancoeur slumps and nods. "Tell Adrien I'm sorry I lied. This is what killed Emilie. And for what little it's worth, Emilie wanted none of this. Tell him the unlock PIN on her phone is the year she first heard her favorite song. When he watches her videos, he should have Marinette with him." She removes the ring. "When you give Adrien this—" She hands it to Chat Noir. "—tell him he is never to let anyone but himself touch either half of his amok."

Ladybug whirls on her. "Excuse me?" she and Chat Noir demand in unison.

"—You didn't know." She folds to the floor. "You didn't—how did you get Adrien's cooperation?"

"You know he threw himself off a skyscraper for me and you're still asking that?"

If Nadja can see Ladybug's about to fall to pieces…

"So did any part of your brilliant bluff involve Marinette thinking her boy-toy died?" Chat Noir asks, steering Ladybug out of the studio. Nadja doesn't catch her answer; Chat Noir sighs. "Well, we had a good run, my lady. I promise I'll take good care of the miracle box after she ends you."

The studio door slams shut behind them.

Nadja stares at the drawstring bag in her hand. It contains seven marbles, each colored to match one of the blobs and labeled with initials. CB and LR on the blue-green, GA on the deep red, and TT, AG, AB, and RR on the red-violet.

Then she remembers she's on the clock and on camera and has to figure out something to say about this.

"Don't be bemused, it's just the news!—"

---

"Marinette helped," Ladybug murmurs. Chat Noir's warmth is the only thing that feels real right now. "It turns out she's really easily bribed, in the right circumstances. All I owe her is your life."

"She is plotting your doom as we speak."

"She is trying to figure out how to get the love of her life to stop talking and start kissing. It will probably help if we catch Argos, since apparently it's possible for a senti not to know it, and if your cousin really wanted to help you—!"

Chat Noir stops on the nearest rooftop to set her on her feet and stare at her. Tonight feels like it should be a full moon, but there's a slim crescent nearing the western horizon, with a breeze flicking at her bangs and a few bold stars visible above the city lights.

"But maybe I am just going to sleep by myself and probably have nightmares about half your father's arm falling off when I grabbed him. I don't know. That's up to you, probably. Did you know his Alliance assistant looks just like your mother?"

"Marinette is with her boyfriend right now," Chat Noir says slowly.

"And my partner is with me. Keep up."

Chat Noir shakes his head and sweeps her back up in a princess carry, leaping to the next roof and the next. "Years I was trying to catch your attention. Years, Ladybug, and all I ever had to do was look behind me."

"I love you too."

Chat Noir misses a stick-hold and narrowly avoids smashing them both into a wall.

---

Zoé's mother is being arrested. For accessory before and after the fact to Monarque's hundred-mile list of magical terrorist acts.

She leaps up when Alya's apartment doorbell rings anyway. Zoé and XY are the only people here not enthusiastically digging through the small mountain Adrien's bodyguard delivered. Even Rose and Juleka are alternating between sitting with Zoé and trying to smash open the glass bubbles with their kwamis inside.

It's Adrien, with a sleeping Marinette draped over his back. "Hey," he says, sheepish. "Can we kick Alya out of her bedroom for a few hours? Marinette needs a catnap and I don't think she's planning to let me go, uh, possibly ever."

Behind Zoé, all sound halts.

In the exact same tone of stunned and dazed by the now obvious as when she realized who Monarque is, and with exactly as much explanation, Alya says, "Oh my god it genuinely is a funny story."