Fig: Hah! - Nobody ever expects an Archdevil rockstar to be nice.
Riz: … yeah. - 's just budget work tho. (the stuff I'm working on) - I've heard it's boring.
page 05
Fig: yeah, but you do it…
Riz: It keeps things going, right? - Nothing happens if nobody sits down and - does the thing.
Fig: That's right… - though. Yeah.
page 06
Fig: sometimes it's someone else who - doesn't want the same thing to happen.
Riz: … - mm.
page 07
Riz (off screen): …It took me a long time to get that not everyone likes doing what I do. - 's probably because you guys are so nice– - or. - kind.
Riz (off screen): to anyone too, not just. - the people you /love/.
page 08
Riz: that's not how it is elsewhere. - The world's– not. hostile. - but 's not like it's kind.
Riz: So I'm doing as much as I can now…
page 09
Fig: Hey.
Riz: ?
Fig: Go dig some dirt with me.
page 10
Riz: [blank speech bubble] - oh you meant like - actual dirt. (not incriminating information)
Fig: o yea.
Fig: there's clay in the backyard soil. - sometimes when I'm sun deficient or something I go touch dirt for a bit.
page 11
Fig: here u go
page 12
Riz: uh
Fig: now we make a thing! - 'm pretty good at freehanding a bowl.
Fig: I'll show u
page 13
Fig: just– yep, flatten that out as evenly as u can, then–! - actually ur nails'd be so good at cutting out the strip. [larger than usual space] wait. - wait. wait u can carve patterns with them! we HAVE to try
Riz: uh - What. do I carve?
Fig: anything!!!
page 14
Fig: and– yep just seal the inside uh. seam?
Fig: yep that works - okay time's up! all contestant hands up
• Air (social and mental - communicative, detached, abstract, changeable)
• Yang (levity - outgoing, expressive, logical, left-brained)
• Mutable (adapting to learning - distributing, connecting, flexible, scattered)
• Personal (focused on personal wants and needs)
• "I think"
• Ruler - Mercury; exalted - nothing official, but Ms M thinks it’s the Lady Asteroids
• Color: impudent dandelion yellow, busting up the green monotony of all those Taurus lawns
(* Gleaned almost completely from the book Astrology for Yourself by Bloch and George; the color is my own theory/belief.)
Happy Gemini season! I want to point out first that we’ve had all the visible planets cramped together in just about 70° of Zodiac, for a few months now. You know how it feels when you walk into a room that’s been closed off for a while? Hot, stifling, and stuffy - we can’t get the windows open fast enough. And that’s how Gemini season is going to go down (if we let it), opening the windows wide and freshening life.
(Ms M’s windows - safely on the second floor - tend to remain open from mid-May to the first snowfall.)
But. Sometimes that breeze stirs up the dust, and we have to clean it up. Sometimes those opened windows make it easier to hear all the traffic, the sirens, the g-d- birds at 4 fricking am - or the neighbor’s horrendously bad taste in music. Do we shut the window and risk getting stuffy again, or do we (learn to) tune it out?
We have some opportunities ahead, and some challenges. Too many options? Options vanishing into the fog? I think a lot of Gemini season is going to be about making more mature choices.
Allow a day or so on either side:
Wednesday, May 22 - Thursday, May 23:
Sun/Gemini trine Pluto/Aquarius, 2°00’
Full Moon, 2°55’ Sagittarius
A fresh perspective; a new, powerful way of looking at things. Shedding light on different possibilities.
Friday, May 31 - Sun/Gemini square Juno/Virgo, 10°27’. Our partners aren’t doing what we want them to do, how we want them to do it. Beware of nagging - coming out of your mouth. A bit emotionally insensitive.
Sunday, June 2 - Sun/Gemini sextile North Node/Aries, trine South Node/Libra, 12°44’. Maintaining our independence of thought - very positive, effective self-talk.
Tuesday, June 4 - Sun/Gemini conjunct Venus/Gemini, 14°29’. This is important not only for its pleasant, sociable vibe - it’s the halfway point of the Sun-Venus cycle. Halfway between retrogrades, I should clarify.
Thursday, June 6 - New Moon, 16°16’ Gemini. Growing pains. Things are changing, and it’s up to us to determine where life is going and what (if anything) we ought to do about it.
Sunday, June 9 - Sun/Gemini square Saturn/Pisces, 19°05’. Sun-Saturn in mutable signs can get very judgemental. There can be a lot of slippery mental gymnastics and contortions as we attempt to justify our poor choices. Paralyzing commitment-phobia.
Wednesday, June 12 - Sun/Gemini sextile Chiron/Aries, 22°44’. Healing - if you have apologies to deliver, use this! Very good for teaching and learning, too.
Friday, June 14 - Sun/Gemini conjunct Mercury/Gemini, 24°06’. This is also a halfway point, this time between Mercury retrograde cycles. A chatty, breezy day. Remember to listen, too.
Saturday, June 15 - Sun/Gemini sextile Eris/Aries, 25°23’. Standing up for ourselves, verbally. Encouraging other people, cheering them on.
Thursday, June 20 - Sun/Gemini square Neptune/Pisces, 29°53’. On the very verge of the Cancer Solstice, the fig comes in. Our poor brains can’t determine which way to go. We’ll have to use our feelings, after the Sun enters Cancer.
As promised here are my stats for Miraculous Ladybug fics on Ao3 with crossovers only. To see a snapshot for Miraculous Ladybug without crossovers click here.
📈 The data presented here is a snapshot of the Fandom on 06 Jan 2024
Don't be mad! I'm just a stats hamster.
🖤 Proportion of Crossover fics
At the time of posting, Crossover Fics accounted for 13% of the total fanfics on Ao3 (9177 works) (Fig 1A). They were predominantly featured in Batman All Media Types (5097 works) or DCU (1034 works), accounting for 68% of all crossover fics (Fig 1D). The majority of the works were rated for General (39%) or Teen Audiences (39%) (Fig 1B).
Fig 1. Proportion of Miraculous Ladybug works posted on Ao3 in 2023 [A] featuring crossovers (grey) and without crossovers (black); [B] and the proportion of all works posted on Ao3 as of January 06, 2024 (9177 works). [C] The proportion of cross-overs outside of the MariBat fandom as well as [D] the growth of the top ten fandoms in crossovers in 2023 (red) are also presented.
Excluding works from the MariBat fandom, the second highest number of works to be crossovered with ML was Boko No Hero Academia with 348 works (3%) and is also the fastest growing crossover fandom, almost doubling in works in 2023 (141 new works) (Fig 1C-D).
🖤 Top 10 Fandom Crossovers
Here are the crossovers in a Table format.
Table 1. Top 10 Fandoms in 2023 and percentage change compared to 2022.
Popular Tags used in 2023 (number of works) and percent change compared to 2022:
Fig 2. Top 5 relationships in ML crossover fics in 2023 and percentage change when compared to the year prior.
While works tagged with Adrien/Marinette has increased by 3% in 2023 when compared to the year before (Fig 2) the top 5 relationship pairings have not changed with Daminette taking first place.
Relationship Tags with Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug across all time (from Highest to Lowest):
Damien Wayne (1870 fics)
Adrien Agreste (1237 fics)
Jason Todd (806 fics)
Tim Drake (580 fics)
Dick Grayson (321 fics)
Hope this entertained you! Until 2024, same stats time, same stats channel.
Sodium Content and Methodology below the cut:
🖤 Top 5 Salt Categories
Look, Marinette is in Gotham for a reason. Usually it’s because of some sort of common table condiment/seasoning. Here is a breakdown:
Fig 3. Frequently tagged salt and character bashing tags across all crossover works prior to 2023 (green) and new works posted/updated subsequent to Jan 01, 2023 (dark blue). The change in numbers to the previous year (where present) are indicated.
Methods
Partitioning
To see changes in crossover fics in the ML fandom over time, I have tracked the number of crossovers posted to Ao3 per year.
Data was filtered by the date the fic was last posted, between 01 Jan - 31 Dec for each year.
Note that older fics may get updated, this data is only a reflection of the fandom at one moment in time. This analysis was performed 06 Jan 2024.
Filtering
Note that I have followed the Ao3 definition of a slash representing romantic relationships and & indicates platonic relationships.
Brennan saying it's pretty clear when the recap gets to things the gang did and not stuff he had planned (rats who show hole) -- felt by every DM ever
Emily wearing yellow like the armor of pride
STOPPP BARON I CAN'T THEY'RE TOO SCARY
NAT 20 FIG LETS GOOOO
oooh nightmare realm extradimensional space
the twilight shards have created a TWILIGHT ZONE
oh nooooo what is on the cardsssss brennnannnn
KALINA????
Gorgug saying "surely we won't be split up" and then Riz immediately suggesting they split up (22:00)
The battle set is so cool!!!!
LOU WHAT THE FUCK. I'M SO SCARED THAT WAS SO UPSETTING. (27:45)
of course fabian would fail the wisdom save that would make him RP being Riz' romaence pärtner (ik Riz is aroace but Fabian is smitten with his bestie)
did Zac just crit THREE TIMES
"there is a math to being mad"
I think Brennan just did this possession mechanic to give the gang a chance to play the creepy little skeleton boy
1:06:00 ZAC GOT HIM SO GOOD
The journey from everyone screaming at Murph for rolling for the group to everyone volunteering him for the time roll
"someone has made promises to bring back that which left"
Kalina saying "It's the only name I CAN say" about Ragh -- spy's tongue curse right???? What adventuring group was Ragh in? Or was it related to his mom's group?
IM DYING "The Gilear That Never Was"
BEST NAT ONE MURPH'S EVER ROLLED
What an incredible end, I'm so excited for them all to go to hell next episode <3
EN: Hello everyone! I'm finally publishing my Hogwart Legacy fanfiction! This is the first fanfiction I've written, so sorry for any mistakes or poor writing.
Summy: Professor Fig didn't return to Hogwarts with just one new pupil in fifth year, but two! A boy and a girl. The Drake siblings are returning to one of the greatest schools of magic, but will they be able to cope with the Goblin Rebellion, ancient magic and the many adventures that await them? Friendships and love will be intertwined in the adventures of our two young wizards. Nolan and Helena come from a very ancient family of wizards capable of taming dragons, but for many centuries the House of Dragon has lived apart from magical society for various reasons. But the family oracle decided that the two young Drakes should go to Hogwarts to finally discover the magical world and to face the destiny that awaited them. Discover the magical secrets that the dragon family has been hiding for centuries.
Chapters :
Chapter 1 : The return of the dragons [ Ao3 Fanfic.Net ]
Chapter 2 : The new snake roommate [ Ao3 Fanfic.Net ]
Chapter 3 : The start of lessons [ Ao3 Fanfic.Net ]
Chapter 4 : The famous underground club [ Ao3 Fanfic.net ]
Chapter 5 : On the road to Hogsmeade [ Ao3 Fanfic.net ]
Chapter 6 : Purchases and Wands [ Ao3 Fanfic.net ]
Chapter 7 : The troll attack [Ao3 Fanfic.net ]
Chapter 8 : The library
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FR: Hello tout le monde !
Je publie enfin ma fanfiction de Hogwart Legacy ! C'est ma première fanfiction que j'écris donc navré pour les fautes ou la mauvaise qualité écriture.
Résumé : Le professeur Fig n’est pas rentré à Poudlard avec un seul nouvel élève en cinquième année mais deux?! Un garçon et une fille.
La fratrie Drake font leur rentrée dans l’une des plus grandes école de magie mais pourrons-t-ils faire face à la révolte gobeline,à l’ancienne magie et aux nombreuses péripéties qui les attendent? Des amitiés et des amours seront mêlés à l’aventure de nos deux jeunes sorciers.
Nolan et Helena sont issus d’une très ancienne famille de sorcier capable de dompter les dragons mais depuis de nombreux siècles, la maison des dragon a vécu à l’écart de la société magique pour diverses raisons. Mais l’oracle de la famille a jugé que les deux jeunes Drake devaient se rendre à Poudlard afin de découvrir enfin le monde magique mais aussi de faire face à un destin qui attendait leur venue.
Aussi, découvrez des secrets magiques que la famille des dragons cache depuis des siècles.
Chapitres :
Chapitre 1 : Le retour des dragons
Chapitre 2 : Le nouveau colocataire chez les serpents
Chapitre 3 : Le début des cours
Chapitre 4 : Le fameux club clandestin
Chapitre 5 : En chemin à Pré-au-Lard
Chapitre 6 : Chapitre 06 : Achats et Baguettes
Chapitre 7 : L'attaque du troll
Chapitre 8 : La bibliothèque Part 1
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I was happy to learn that the Monkey Pilgrim (Hou xingzhe, 猴行者), Sun Wukong's antecedent, appears among a large set of late-12th-century ritual scrolls portraying the famed 500 Arhats. [1] He is depicted as a monkey-headed, black robe-wearing figure with the lower half of his body obscured by clouds, making him hard to see unless you zoom in on the image. He holds what appears to be the head of a staff in his left hand (fig. 1). Our hero is located just behind Tripitaka, who is riding a white horse led by a spirit-soldier(?) or perhaps Sha Wujing’s antecedent (fig. 2). The full scroll shows this scene happening above the heads of four arhats (fig. 3), indicating that the Tang Monk is considered to be one of these Buddhist sages.
I actually found the simian immortal by accident while researching an article about Tripitaka’s Buddha title. Dr. Meir Shahar tells me that this depiction of Monkey doesn’t appear to have been mentioned in previous JTTW scholarship (personal communication, June 3, 2023). [2] Therefore, I’m so very happy that I can share this discovery with my readers!
For more ancient depictions of Sun Wukong, please see my past article:
Fig. 1 – A detail of the Monkey Pilgrim (larger version). From Lin Tinggui and Zhou Jichang, Images of the 500 Arhats (Wubai Luohan tu, 五百羅漢圖, 1178-1188 CE). Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk. Image from Nara kuniritsu hakubutsukan, Tōkyō bunkazai kenkyūjo, 2014, p. 86. Courtesy of Dr. Liu Shufen, a research fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica.
Fig. 2 – A detail of Xuanzang on his his horse (larger version).
Fig. 3 – The full scroll (larger version).
Notes:
1) To learn more about these paintings, see Zhou (2021).
2) Dr. Benjamin Brose tells me that the painting appears in a Japanese source, but the Monkey Pilgrim is only listed as an “ape-like figure” (personal communication, June 3, 2023). See Nara kuniritsu hakubutsukan, Tōkyō bunkazai kenkyūjo henshū, 2014, p. 86.
Sources:
Nara kuniritsu hakubutsukan, Tōkyō bunkazai kenkyūjo henshū [Nara University Tōkyō Research Institute for Cultural Properties (Ed.)]. (2014). Daitokuji denrai gohyaku rakan zu [Daitoku Temple’s Tradition of the 500 Arhats Paintings]. Kyōto: Shitau bungaku.
Zhou, Y. (2021). The Daitokuji Five Hundred Arhats Paintings and Their Beholders [Master’s dissertation, University of Alberta]. Education and Research Archive. https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/f0bf436c-f6e5-46a2-920a-91c8b9dd5ba9
コーヒーのある食卓の風景・その363 - 新政(日本酒)の空きボトルのラベルがとてもきれいなので、処分する前に横に添えてみる・その41(最後の七枚目は、新政のヘヴィメタ・イヴェントでゲットしたキーホルダーとコースターとタオル!!)編 - Coffee with Foods Part 363: Aramasa(Japanese Sake), Part 41
1: Coffee with Cornflakes, Chocolate & Yakult Y1000 + Tomato Juice feat. Empty Bottle of Aramasa(No.6 H-type Spark 2023 0230/1500) - Breakfast
2: Coffee with Yokan feat. Empty Bottle of Aramasa(No.6 S-type 2023 23NS-10) - Coffee Break
3: Coffee with Yogurt Topped with Kiwi & Fig Jam, Chocolate Sweets & Yakult Y1000 + Tomato Juice feat. Empty Bottle of Aramasa(Lapis Lazuli 2020 20CLP-17) - Breakfast
4: Iced Coffee with "Kimuraya" Breads, Chocolate Sweets & Milk feat. Empty Bottle of Aramasa(Amaneko 2020 20PAN-09) - Lunch
5: Coffee with Almond, Chocolate Cookie, Japanese Pear & Yakult Y1000 + Tomato Juice feat. Empty Bottle of Aramasa(Amaneko 2022 22PAN-11) - Breakfast
6: Iced Coffee with Tsukune Burger of "Stay Free" & Chocolate feat. Empty Bottle of Aramasa(Amaneko 2023 23PAN-06) - Lunch
Brennan: "It's one of those things where the host and other kids go to a room at a party they are throwing, it has a gravitational pull to it."
Mazey joins in! 😭✋ I LOVE HER SO BAD! 😭✋
Mazey: "Oh, a little private hang? Some cool air in here?"
Kristen: "Yeah, you know, I'd love to pick your brain sometime, if we could do a power lunch at school."
Mazey: "Not allowed to do favoritism, but during office hours, school hours, yeah, let's do it."
Kristen: "I'd love that. I'd love that."
Fabian asks if Mazey wants to do some pirate snuff 💀 and she kindly declines the offer 😋
Mazey: "Wanna break out some Twister?"
Ivy: "Twister? What, are we in middle school?" 😭
Mazey gets very HURT! 😭✋
Mazey is very talented and has cool stuff going on, but she's involved in student government. She's a good egg! 🥺😭
Fig says that she'd love to play Twister with Mazey! 😭✋
Mazey looks very heartened at Fig! 🥺
Fig rolls intimidation towards Ivy for that and Kristen offers the help action! 😎👌 Fig gets a 17 intimidation towards Ivy!
Ivy purses her lips and smiles at Fig
Ivy: "Bit chilly."
Drunk Adaine: "That's the ice muffets." 😂🤣
Brennan laughs! 😂🤣
Brennan: "I love drunk Adaine so much! The ice muffets." 😭✋
Adaine made it really cold in here! 😂🤣💀
Gorgug: "Can you get them out of here?" 😂🤣💀😭✋
Fig doesn't respond to Ivy.
Fig uses all of her bardic energy to get a rowdy game of Twister going!
Fig turns it into drinking twister and emcee's it!
Fig has rivalries. She hosts it like a pro wrestling match. 😂
Ivy looks at Mazey and doesn't say anything, 'cause of the intimidation roll.
Ivy asks for some snuff from Fabian.
Mazey looks at Fabian "Yeah, Twister, there's a cool variant where there's some break dancing moves, if you wanted to come play."
Riz: "That's awesome."
Ivy just smiles at Fabian!
(BRENNAN IS REALLY OUT HERE TRYING TO LEAD FABIAN/LOU TO MAKE ALL THE BAD BUT ALSO PERFECTLY IN-CHARACTER KINDS OF CHOICES! I'M CRYING FR! 😭✋ BRENNAN IS SO EVIL! 😭✋)
Fig: "There's actually a huge line, you don't need to come. It's already really popular."
Fabian: "Yeah, I'm gonna stay up here and do snuff."
Fig: "Yeah"
Fabian: "Sadly, Twister is not my style."
Ivy grins
Ivy: "Bye Bye, Macy"
Everyone makes insight checks into Mazey 😭
Brennan: "I think all of Fabian's friends see Fabian's decision for what it is."
Gorgug and Riz both decide to go play Twister 💀
Mazey has a deep sigh.
Mazey: "Let's go!"
Mazey picks up Fig and puts her up on her giant shoulder! 😭✋♥️
Kristen mouths to Fig: "Use this! Be in with the Prez!"
Fig: "I'm not gonna do that!"
Kristen: "Use this!"
Fig: "Kristen, Fine!" 😭
Kristen: "Follow the money!"
The Twister party is legendary! 😆👏
Mazey doesn't take shots, but transitions to being like "All right, taking my windbreaker off!" 🥺
Mazey is getting involved with other people 🥺
Brennan: "Everyone goes and jumps in the tartar sauce in the pool. You see that it's very fun and rowdy. There's a variant where you can avoid certain things by doing dance moves. At one point, she has to get a foot to an impossible place and leaps up and does this incredible acrobatic flip into a spot to land in the right place."