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FIC: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You: 9/39 (MLB; Lukanette)

Notes: (General housekeepy notes; life is Chaos but fic is done/updates should be regular.)

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Nine: Of Summer Music

It was well into summer — and the third heatwave of said summer — when Rose came bursting through the door to the roof where the others were gathered, waving a flyer in her hand. Juleka and Luka had been spending a lot of time on the roof lately, after something busted in the air unit, the repairman had had an unpleasant encounter with Fang, and refused to come back until that unruly beast was gone.  He’d also spread the word around the city, and it seemed no matter how much money Jay was willing to throw at the companies no one was willing to come work on the unit until Fang was disposed of.

“Just…take her to work, Dad,” Juleka had whined a few days ago, a melting frozen water bottle pressed to her forehead.  “You can escape to the studio for hours every day.  We don’t even have school right now.  Have mercy on us.”

“They ain’t gonna respect the croc, I ain’t respecting them,” Jay had sniffed, and that had seemed to be the end of it.

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Randomly remembering when the idea for Killer Combo hit me and it was supposed to be just another meet cute, and then I'm like 12k words in and then I'm in the disco like "...guys I don't think this is a one shot anymore." 😂

I think that was one of the fics that came from my 100 (500? I can't remember) follower celebration when @livrever left me 80,000 anonymous prompts in my poll. 😂 I did one for the actual follower celebration (Triple Threat) and then the others kept creeping up on me and I ended up doing a bunch of those prompts over the years.

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"You don't know me. I'm not the same person anymore."

"That's okay. I'll get to know you again."

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Dear skelly,

I already know that you're gonna say that it's fine and that the author doesn't mind but 😭😭😭 when I comment on every chapter of a finished fic and then go read other works right after I feel like I'm stalker or something. Especially if the author is answering to each and every

The author pov is : 25 comments in inbox from the same person 😭

THAT AUTHOR SEEING THE NOTIFICATIONS OF ALL THOSE COMMENTS

RELEASE YOURSELF FROM THE IMAGINARY RULES YOU SET FOR YOURSELF THAT UPSET YOU AND LEAVE THOSE COMMENTS!!!

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Weekly Lukanette Roundup

What is the Weekly Roundup? | Previous Weekly Roundups

From @verfound: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You Ch 7 | Ch 8 | Hello, Old Friend | A Maribet

From @djwriterkp: Pirates, Princesses, and Peonies Ch 12

From @simpofhans: One Call Away Ch 1

If I missed something that should be included, reblog, reply, DM, or drop the link in my asks and I’ll make sure it goes on next week’s roundup! If you prefer not to be included in these roundups for any reason please drop me a message, or if you post something that you would like to be sure I include, please drop a link in my asks and I’ll make sure it gets listed (Lukanette endgame only please - see what is the weekly roundupfor more details). If you want to be sure I’ve flagged your work for inclusion you can check the quickroundup tag on my blog to see what I’ve got in the queue for this week.

If you find something you like please like/reblog the original post to let the author know you enjoyed their work!

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So, Lukanette.

What is your favorite aspect of them to write?

What is your favorite aspect of them to read?

Ooh I feel like you could ask me this question every day for a week at least and get a different answer every week.

I think my favorite Lukanette moment is the confession scene, not because of the confession itself or how it happened but because *omg they went there.* no seasons of mystery or wondering, no retconning, no memory erasing! Someone felt a thing and said it out loud! I immediately realized that was so much more intriguing to me than the does he-doesn't me that we've seen a thousand times already. I like to try and recapture that feeling in my writing - that moment where you think you know where the story is going because that's the usual way it happens, and then instead someone does the direct and adult thing, and you can actually move beyond the boring standard narrative.

The more I thought about it, as well, the more I dwelled on the fact that the standard narrative is super dependent on finding out exactly how someone feels about you before you take the risk of admitting to them that you like them, and that just made Luka's confession so much more meaningful. Not only was he direct and up front about his feelings, he did it not only without finding out how Marinette felt about him first, but he did it knowing that she liked Adrien. I just love the guts that took and how simply he went about it. I just really loved that.

There's a lot of other things I love - the fact that Luka really sees Marinette as someone special from the very beginning, as opposed to the way everyone overlooks her or discounts her. Many many other things.

As for reading, I just love seeing other people's perspectives and where they get inspiration, and all the different ways we can write the same character that are still IN character, though they're different. I still want to see all the things I enjoy writing, but I love reading something from someone else and going "omg, he/she totally would do that, I hadn't thought about that before."

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stop playing it cool, just be passionate and intense and insane and whoever sticks around is meant for you

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FIC: All These Signs, They Lead Me to You: 8/39 (MLB; Lukanette)

Notes: Jagged vs. Gabriel is not a conflict I knew I needed in my life, but apparently I am living for it.  (Or: the moment this fic really started to go off the rails/Enter Jagged Stone.)

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Eight: Of Families and Just Friends

Luka getting grounded wasn’t that bad, or that long, in the end. No one in the Stone house (or beyond, if they were privy to the reasons why Luka had punched Adrien) really thought Luka was in the wrong, and the worst of his punishment had been the week of “community service” Penny had agreed to to get the captain to drop the charges. And while Luka would rather be doing anything else than doing grunt work at the police station (Officer Raincomprix got a sick, twisted pleasure from making him wash his cruiser, he swore), he supposed it could be worse.

It was raining that whole week, and he supposed they could have told him to help clean up the parks. Or the public toilets in the parks. Eugh.

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Skelly I have a question that only your expert opinion could answer

How appropriate is it as a commenter to reply to the author replying to your comment? Especially if that reply might lead to more replies

It's mildly becoming a conversation about the fic details and the left out bits but I'm scared to clog the comments and/or come across as annoying

I DON'T KNOW WHAT CLOGGING THE COMMENTS IS LIVE YOUR TRUTH TALK TO THEM RELEASE YOURSELF FROM THE IDEA THAT YOUR ENTHUSIASM IS CRINGE AND ENJOY TALKING ABOUT THE THING WITH THE CREATOR FOR HOWEVER LONG IT LASTS

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So, there is my first chapter of my Lukanette fanfic... This is such an experiment to me because I NEVER WROTE ABOUT ANY MLB STUFF BUT... these two have a chokehold on my heart since 2021 and I NEEDED to write them happy ending...

So, enjoy! :333

One Call Away - Chapter 1 - WiktoriaFrozen - Miraculous Ladybug [Archive of Our Own]

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LBSC Sprint Challenge June 2025

The LBSC Sprint Challenge is now open for writers and artists! The prompts are:

1. Social Media Prompt:

2. one time when i was a little drunk and laying in bed with a guy, i kissed his neck and mumbled “i could beat the shit out of you” in his ear. he said “i know” (Source) 3. Don't feed the sharks or tease the mermaids. 4. Wildcard - pick any previous challenge prompt, or play LBSC Smooch Roulette to generate a prompt!

You have until Wednesday, June 25 to complete your 3 15-minute sprints/45 minute art sprint and post the results. Once you’ve completed the sprints, you have 24 hours to edit (which can include some new writing to smooth transitions and make it feel complete, and whatever work you feel appropriate to get your art to a state you consider ‘finished’).

Please note you may sprint in the language of your choice, and you can either translate the final fic before posting, post it in the original language, or both as you choose. You can join us on the LBSC discord or sprint on your own! Just be sure to tag @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers in your final post so we will see it and reblog it. The rest of the rules can be found here under the cut.

Rules!

We’ll post a beginning and end date to the challenge, and a prompt.

Writers, If you choose to participate in the event, write for that prompt in up to three 15 minute sprints. No writing outside the sprints until you have completed all three! After the 3 sprints are complete, you have 24 hours to edit (which can include some new writing to smooth transitions, etc). You can also choose to break that 45 minutes up differently if you find a different split works better for you.  After those 24 hours, post what you’ve got. Tag your posts with @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers so we can reblog it to the LBSC blog. If you post your work on AO3 or somewhere other than Tumblr, you can leave a link in our ask box or in the appropriate discord channel so we can be sure to promote it. After the designated challenge end date, we’ll compile a listing of the submissions and post it to the LBSC blog.

Feel free to sprint in whatever language is most comfortable to you! You can post it in your own language or translate it before posting, or both!

Artists, you have 45 minutes to sketch and 24 hours to do any cleanup or coloring you’d like to complete. You can split your 45 minutes up however you like, or not at all. There’s no requirements on your finished piece, just aim for whatever goal seems challenging but achievable to you.  Tag your posts with @lovebugs-and-snakecharmers so we can reblog it to the LBSC blog. If you post your work on Instagram or somewhere other than Tumblr, you can leave a link in our ask box or in the appropriate discord channel so we can be sure to promote it. After the designated challenge end date, we’ll compile a listing of the submissions and post it to the LBSC blog.

If you’re wavering as to whether or not you think you can accomplish anything in 45 minutes, we really encourage you to give the challenge a try. You may be surprised what you can do! Feel free to join us in the discord linked above so we can encourage and cheer you on.

Obviously, this has to run a bit on the honor system and we won’t be tracking your times, but please do your best to honor the spirit of the challenge! If your sprint fic becomes an Entire Thing (these things happen sometimes) and you want to continue it, feel free! However, please still post whatever you’ve got after your 3 sprints with the tag. No fair busting out a fully polished fic or art without showing us what it looked like at the challenge stage!

We want to keep this a positive space and event! This does NOT mean that you can’t write or draw anything critical of a character or episode, but it isn’t the space for character bashing or hate either. Please keep the characters in character and save the more speculative work for another time. NSFW sprint works are permitted but must be tagged appropriately (please use “NSFW LBSC sprint challenge” for easy filtering on the blog) and with appropriate warnings.  (More FAQ about the process here)

This is a Lukanette blog and a Lukanette event, so while Lukanette does not need to be the main ship, it needs to at least be included or referenced and considered endgame (in other words, they don’t have to be together by the end of your work, but the intent is that they’re headed in that direction). The decision about what qualifies for reblog rests solely with the LBSC moderators. If a piece hasn’t been reblogged within a couple of days, either the mods felt the piece didn’t meet the criteria or it was simply missed; you are welcome to reach out in the asks to inquire which. There are plenty of other spaces out there for other ships and OT3s, and people are welcome to use the challenge rules and prompts to write for their own ships! They just won’t be reblogged to the LBSC blog, and we ask that you please not use the event tag (a modified form is fine - “InsertAlternateShipName sprint challenge” instead of “LBSC sprint challenge,” for example).

Happy sprinting!

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If I can focus up, currently working on the next chapter

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63453043

Should be up, tomorrow?

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/63453043/chapters/170386726

New chapter is up! https://archiveofourown.org/works/63453043/chapters/170386726

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I regret nothing 😁

FIC: Hello, Old Friend (MLB; Lukanette; House Band)

Rating: Mature

Characters/Pairings: Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng

Summary: While moving out to the Farm, an accident leads to Luka finding an…old friend.  One Marinette had thought she’d tossed years ago and would very much like to chuck again, thank you very much.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: Quick sends me Instas and I say, “…fuck it let’s go.”  😂  (Idk if this is exactly what she had in mind.  It quickly turned into “How Many Ways Can We Torture/Embarrass Luka Couffaine”, and I was still saying fuck it let’s go.  😂)

“Hello, Old Friend”

Marinette was not in a good mood.

She was crabby, and irritable, and hot, and she could not for the life of her understand why they couldn’t hire some damn movers like normal rich people.

…well.  That was maybe a teeny, tiny, itsy bit of a lie.  She knew why.

She was the one who had advocated for the DIY approach to moving when Luka had first suggested hiring movers like normal rich people, but she had insisted they’d be fine.  They were retired superheroes, and they had moved into their old flat by themselves – hell, they had moved into their last house by themselves!  Surely they could handle moving to a farm by themselves?

…but the house had been two kids ago, and less stuff ago, and she hadn’t still be recovering from Pregnancy Mari when they’d done that move.

But still!

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Weekly Lukanette Link Roundup

What is the Weekly Roundup? | Previous Weekly Roundups

From @rierse: A Siren's Sacrifice Ch 5 (Complete! WOOHOO GO RIERSE) | Time Heals All Wounds

From @smileytrinity: Gift of Love

From @verfound: Dance with Me

If I missed something that should be included, reblog, reply, DM, or drop the link in my asks and I’ll make sure it goes on next week’s roundup! If you prefer not to be included in these roundups for any reason please drop me a message, or if you post something that you would like to be sure I include, please drop a link in my asks and I’ll make sure it gets listed (Lukanette endgame only please - see what is the weekly roundupfor more details). If you want to be sure I’ve flagged your work for inclusion you can check the quickroundup tag on my blog to see what I’ve got in the queue for this week.

If you find something you like please like/reblog the original post to let the author know you enjoyed their work!

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FIC: A Maribet (MLB; Ninette, Lukanette)

Rating: Teen and Up

Characters/Pairings: Lê Chiến Kim, Nino Lahiffe, Luka Couffaine, Marinette Dupain-Cheng; Nino Lahiffe/Marinette-Dupain Cheng, Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng (Endgame)

Summary: When Kim catches Nino mooning over his new crush, he bets him five euro he can’t ask her out.  Nino isn’t so sure he wants to take that bet.  Marinette isn’t so sure she likes being bet on.

Author’s Notes/Warnings: A while back, Quick found this prompt on FB that was all good until you got to the last line, after which everyone in the group was like “eeerrrrr maybe not?” and I was like “hold my beer”.  😂  Just some silliness.  🖤

“A Maribet”

“What are you looking at?”

Nino yelped and ducked back behind the stairs.  He glanced back at the courtyard nervously, but no one had seemed to notice his shout.  At least…Marinette, Mylène, and Rose hadn’t seemed to notice, and that was really the only thing that mattered.  He looked up from where he was crouched behind the steps to find Kim looming over him, a wide smirk on his face and his eyes locked on the girls on the other side of the courtyard.

“N-nothing,” he stammered out.  He tugged his hat down and hoped his face wasn’t as red as it felt.  “Shut up, dude.  I wasn’t doing nothing.”

“You were staring at Marinette like a creep,” another voice piped up, and Nino yelped again and jumped away from the steps – into Kim – with a flail when he noticed Alix sitting beneath the steps.

“W-when did you get here?!” he gasped, a hand clutching his chest as he tried to steady his racing heart.  Alix grinned at him and flipped the page of her comic book.

“I’ve been here the whole time,” she said cryptically.  She glanced over at Kim, her smirk growing.  “Yo.”

“Hey,” Kim said, smirking back.  He looked down at Nino.  “Why’re you staring at Marinette?”

“I was not, dude!” Nino whined.  Kim looked evil.  Nino was starting to think he was.  “I was…I was…”

“Staring at Marinette,” Alix supplied.  “Like a creep.”