#But then I reasoned I didn't want to prompt an existential crisis in anyone who just opened it to ask something ahahah

[kyouka-supremacy]

sskk thought of the day please :>?

(also love your ask button, took me a second lol)

Okay in my mind, I've always headcanoned that sskk would keep their relationship secret like, forever– it's just that their love is something they want to keep completely untouched by opposite sides and bloody feuds. Akutagawa is particularly strict on this: in his case, there's also the added fear of retalations against the people he cares about since he's the most famous and hated pm member.

However that opens for the very funny scenario of: Atsushi and Akutagawa have just started dating, and Akutagawa is all smitten and lovesick and wants to be around Atsushi as often as possible and hug him and kiss him, but every time they're in pubblic together and someone they know comes around he absolutely PANICS: one second he's giggling and kissing Atsushi's cheek, and the second after he cuts Atsushi's leg and starts furiously hitting and insulting him in order to demonstrate that he hates him and how much they can't stand each other. They got to the point where Akutagawa was basically cutting or piercing a different bodypart of Atsushi every day, which got everyone in Yokohama wondering what happened to make the Port Mafia Hellhound so extraordinarily bloodthirsty, where the reality is that he's just in love. Each time Akutagawa follows up with a wave of texts to Atsushi in the lines of:

I'm so fucking sorry for what I did I swear I didn't mean to. I mean I didn't mean to cut off your whole leg. Sincerely, your legs come off super easily. That's beyond the point though I'm so sorry. Do you hate me again now

To which Atsushi is just “😅 It's okay they grow back”– half patient, half exasperated, half simply knowing that's just how his boyfriend is (anxious and insecure and impulsive) and that he loves him for how he is, including his leg-cutting side.

[marinettesaltprompts]

The Maribat deconstruction got me thinking: am I the only one who thinks Adribat is a more....plausible (??is that the word) concept than Maribat? Like, not even in a romantic sense but a familial platonic sense.

Think about it, he's :

got the tragic backstory & suffered from neglect

canonically been abused waaaaay beyond school bullies

taken for granted by adults (primarily his dad & Master Fu) and by his peers (LB)

dealing with the existential crisis of not being human if we go the sentimonster route.

Look, I get that trauma & suffering should NEVER be a competition but when you think abt it, Adrien's suffered just as much, if not more so than Mari ever did even with Chloe & Lila in the picture. You could argue that some of what she suffers in salt fics (isolation, no support system, emotional suppression, harassment) are ALSO things Adrien goes through bcz while he's a superhero like her, UNlike her, his home life sucks.

So if there's either hero the Bat Fam would empathize with more, it's him. Yes, they can hold him accountable for screw ups but if we go the Good Parent!Bruce route, he can give Adrien the physical & nuanced emotional training he needs to spot red flags & deal with them beyond passivity. The training is harsh but at least he doesn't play favourites, giving Adrien no excuse to slack off & proper motivation to mature. Plus, in the Bat Fam, everyone has clear roles & secrets aside, nobody strings anyone along, offering him a reliable structure to fall back on.

He doesn't come into the Bat Fam expecting to be in charge. Instead, the nitty-grittiness would push him to be more independent & decisive instead of impulsive.

If LB tries to call him out, he could point out how for all she claims to be the 'responsible professional hero', she REacted instead of acted & if real IDs are thrown in the mix, he can call out how she just went with the 'woe is me' route, resenting that everyone didn't jump on her call for a witch hunt when she could've communicated to them privately.

Sorry, this turned out longer & less explicitly mari salt-centric than I thought but I tried to stay objective. I hope you don't mind.

Technically everyone would have their own opinion about whether a Miraculous/Batman crossover could actually work. In my opinion however, I believe that the best bet for a good crossover would be through Adrien more than Marinette, in part because of the reasoning you gave, but also because Adrien would fit the idea of a Batfamily member more thematically than Ladybug ever could. If anything, he's like Catwoman but without the whole stealing bit.

Keep in mind that the whole Maribat AU was created with the goal of creating a salt fic (albiet with a crossover), and the OG creator even took a character that was no way romantical and turned him OOC to make their convoluted idea work, ironically in a method reminding me of the "My Immortal" Harry Potter fanfic. Regardless how it later developed, the original idea was pure salt, albiet one that took off because of everyone's hate boner for any character that wasn't Marinette, with people later trying to justify it for one reason or another. It's an idea that should have never worked in the first place outside of this context. In contrast though, Adribat would actually work because of a genuine commonality connection.

Also I don't mind talking about Adrien on this blog. In my mind, Marinette salt and Adrien sugar are the one and the same on this blog, because the salt of one character is usally sugar of the other due to how these prompts go.

Hell, my entire blog was made in opposition to the more well know Adrien Salt Blog made by another individual, which has both plenty of Adrien salt and LOTS of Marinette sugar, though I would call the latter justification for Marinette's own bad behavior as it never discusses her own issues, it just let's her go off scott free by pinning the blame all on Adrien.

In any case, I like your idea! If you or anyone else want's to share any Adribat prompts that you got, feel free to send them here!

[queenfisher1]

King and Queen Fisher talk about Kissing

King Fisher: Hey, what's your opinion on kissing? What's it like? Queen Fisher: Kissing? I've never kissed anyone. The only person who has kissed me is my mom. That was only on the cheek. If someone other than my parents tries to kiss me, they're going to receive a big slap on the face... unless I really like them. Even then, the possibility of me ever getting a boyfriend is very low. Up to now, every guy I met who tried to ask me out were idiots. I'm not going to fall in love with someone who shows off their muscles and talents just to win me over. I'm not impressed with any of them. King Fisher: But sis, don't you realize how lucky you are to even have lips? There's a reason I asked you. Do you see this?! I can't kiss anybody with a beak. Queen Fisher: You can receive kisses on the cheeks King Fisher: But then I can't return the favor! Do you see my problem? Queen Fisher: Do you even have a girlfriend? King Fisher: Does it matter? I want to be able to be romantic! What is romance without kisses?! Queen Fisher: Why does this matter to you? King Fisher: My entire life, when I was raised, I was deprived of bedtime kisses from my parents! Unlike your mom, my mom was aarakocran, hence, she also had a beak for lips. I'm having an existential crisis here!! Queen Fisher: hmm... why not think of it this way. Romantic relationships don't need to include kissing. As long as you guys love each other, you'll be happy regardless of your inability to kiss them. A romantic relationship is so much more than just kissing. It's the bond through the time you have together with them. King Fisher: mmm... I don't think someone would love someone like me. Queen Fisher: The only reason why someone wouldn't love you is how annoyingly arrogant you are. King Fisher: Hey! I'm not that annoying and you know it. Queen Fisher: Yeah, sure. Boasting how good you are at protecting someone and teaching people how to fly is totally not annoying. King Fisher: But I thought that's what brothers do for their sisters. Queen Fisher: Be annoying? King Fisher: hm! Queen Fisher: heh... How many times have I told you not to call me your sister? King Fisher: ... Does it matter? ... I don't care if we have different moms. We both have the same dad, and we both love him... and you're part of our family. There's no way in the seven seas I would call you something other than my sister Queen Fisher: *sighs* You're being romantic again. King Fisher: and?

To be honest, I didn't actually know what to write for the 11th prompt of @writeblrfantasy's 12 days of writer's self-love. I'm probably going to do a separate one for this same prompt but with Aspen and Simon. The prompt is Kiss.

[mlwritingprompts]

Submitted prompt: Locked in Space-Time Vaccuum.

Hi I'm the person who wrote the "cosmic deletion" prompt and I wanted to make another prompt to the "broken time" au of @emberwritesinsight. That Au is one of the most interesting things I saw here those days in this fandom (better than Adrien stans drama and the abomination that is the 4th season, but they were bad from the beginning anyways).

AU where Lila was not much of a liar before going to Paris.

Lila Angst.

TW: some existential crisis, possibly unreality

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For an undetermined amount of times, Lila cursed the fact she had ever entered the cursed city of Paris almost an uncountable amount of times.

The reason for that isn't because Ladybug did something to annoy her again.

It isn't also because Hawkmoth targeted her or made her angry in some way.

It isn't even because Marinette had somehow grew closer to Adrien or that that girl tried to expose her lies.

No.

 The reason why she was cursing her moving to Paris is exactly due to this situation she was in.

Pitch black darkness surrounded her everywhere.

Her was body suspended in what seemed to be an endless void where nothing exists.

There was no light, no sound. Nothing at all.

She was simply walking inside her house, planning to eat some food by using the money she had, only for that to happen.

A black rift in space opened around her, surrounding her than closing, dragging her to this... place!

Lila Rossi would have cried at the sheer, endless loneliness this place exuded.

If she was even able to cry, that is.

Her body, locked into the same form and movements she was in before being sucked into this abyss of nothingness.

Here, she was paralysed, unable to move, completely at the mercy of this void surrounding her.

Her body couldn't move.

Heck, her eyelids couldn't move either.

And she was pretty sure her heart hadn't beaten even once since she was imprisoned here.

The only thing that seemed like a silver lining is that somehow, her body never tires here, so she won't be dropping from exhaustion any time soon.

And to hammer the point home, she was sure her being unable to die here is not even a blessing in comparaison to the utter horror she was experiencing.

In this world where nothing existed but her mind, her own senses seemingly ceased to exist as well.

She could see nothing.

She could hear nothing.

She could taste nothing.

She could smell nothing.

She could sense nothing, not even the very clothes she knew she was wearing right now.

All her senses simply ceased to work in this void, and the only thing that seemed to even work is her ability to think.

She no longer knows how long she was here, supended, forcibly immobile, unable to physically feel anything.

And the kicker?

This isn't even the first time this had happened to her.

The first time it happened was, if she can even recall it correctly, was a few weeks before she joined François Dupont school, just a few days after she moved along her mother to Paris.

She was simply enjoying the sights, and accidentally left the house after her mother exited...

And then darkness swallowed her.

That was the first time she ad ever felt so utterly hopeless, as she mentally begged for her mother, her papa, anyone, to save her from this crushing emptiness.

It took her barely what seemed to be hours for her to lose hope, and then it took her only few more time to start talking to herself to ignore the utter isolation surrounding her.

She didn't know for how long this kept happening, but when it ended, she found herself on the ground, in her house, and it was apparently the day where she would have entered the school.

Normally, she would have broken down and begged her mother to never leave her ever again, but the horror kept going.

Her memories and feelings of what happened to her during that whole month were somehow... erased.

As if they never existed.

The only thing she felt was a huge subconscious desire to NEVER ever be ALONE.

No matter what. No matter how.

Going to the school, she didn't know why she had the urge to talk to others and make them like her, even by lying.

When she saw Adrien, the model, her senses kept blaring.

He is special, he is important. If I connect with him, I will not be alone.

That was her thinking process.

She didn't understand at that time why she felt this compelled to have connections with HIM personally, but she just could't ignore that drowning sensation of wanting to be acknowledged, which made Ladybug's harsh yell all the more horrifying to her, even if she STILL couldn't understand why.

Ladybug was trying to stop her from being acknowledged, she was therefore an enemy, and Lila, controlled by her subconscious fear, ended up hating the heroine with all her being.

Sometimes around that, she once again ended up into the same void, and the memories of her harrowing experience returned, which nearly threw her into a mental breakdown.

That was her life at this point.

Being trapped into this hellish void, deprived from all her senses and mobility, with no one but herself existing here. From this angle, she could see her actions, could ask questions--why Adrien in particular? Why did she hate Ladybug so much?

Then returning to the original world, while forgetting all her memories inside this Abyss, having more trauma that subconsciously affect her.

Then trapped once more, as she remembered ALL the other times she was "temporarily deleted" from her world.

And as she is there, unable to do anything but look blankly at the darkness in front of her, she can only pray and beg for people to help her.

Mama, Papa, please, help me.

I dont care who saves me, Ladybug, Hawkmoth, even the Devil himself, I don't care! Just please save me!

I... I just don't want to be alone any more...

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That... was more depressing than I thought.

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....you are tempting me