#and recieved very little in grants for this semester

[freesomebodybyluna]

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[josephsaturn]

Rewriting Miraculous Ladybug

...From somebody who hasn't watched a lot of miraculous ladybug.

If i'm being completely honest, I haven't watched a lot of this show, really only the first few episodes and whatever clips end up on the local video essay analysts' video on why miraculous is the anti-christ, or something.

(not to say that I don't agree with certain takes, but I think the hate kinda gets a little bit excessive)

I decided that, for my rewrite, I'd strip... a lot from the main source material, keeping the main plot (magical animal-themed jewelry that turns you into a superhero-also animal themed-and do some wicked sick stuff is bequeathed to two middle...high school... (?) kids with the depth perception of toddlers, and an old man who misses his wife very much...also with the depth perception of a toddler), and cutting the fat off of everything else.

So here's what I got!

Under a Readmore!

The inciting incident:

Taking place over the course of an entire year (from January to January of the next year), Miraculous features Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste.

At the start of the spring semester, Mme. Bustier's class at Collége François-DuPont recieves it's final student: Adrien Agreste. This was supposed to be Adrien's first full year of public schooling, but due to a family emergency, he had to take the entire fall semester off. The Scion of the Über-Famous Gabriel Agreste, owner of the Agreste luxury fashion house, is...well, strange. He's immensely awkward around kids his age and carries himself with an almost cold sort of quietness. A kind of quietnesss that's completely offset by his childhood best friend and mayor's daughter, Chloe Bourgeois. Despite that, he's quite kind, and most of the class is drawn into his mystique...save one.

Marinette Dupain-Cheng.

Marinette, only child of M. Dupain and Mme. Cheng, is something of Chloe's punching bag. Of course, she couldn't possibly tell you WHY this was, but apparently it was hate at first sight.

And, it seems that Bourgeois got to Adrien before Marinette could so much as make a first impression.

But... the rest of the class, when not under the seemingly-omnipresent eye of Bourgeois, Agreste, and their friend Sabrina, is pretty nice to her.

After that first day, some other members of the class decide to invite Marinette out shopping, which she accepts. They check out quite a few stores, but something stops Marinette in her tracks at a dingy little thrift store.

A pair of earrings.

They looked...well, they looked like something her paternal grandma would wear if she was a bit less of a daredevil...

And yet.

Marinette walked out of that thrift store with a new pair of earrings.

In the high-end triangle of Paris, Adrien and Chloe have decided to go shopping as well, mostly so Chloe can "de-stress" (and get Adrien out of the house).

It's here where, much like Marinette, Adrien has found quite the interesting piece of Jewelry.

A small black ring, with the top forming a shallow bowl with the middle showing a raised cat paw.

The ring was quite plain, and, if Chloe's whining was any indicator, too "Plebian" for him.

Whatever.

She can say what she wants, but jokes on her, he bought it anyway.

Both sets of kids returned home, unaware of the surprise that awaited them.

But that's for another post.

The Miraculouses themselves:

Each miraculous works...basically the same as their canon counterparts, save for the Ladybug and Black Cat.

Oh, sure, you still get your wish granted like in canon, but after that's done, the jewelry that contains the Kwami - all Kwami - will shatter irreparably, but will come back...on it's own time.

The last time somebody made a wish, it took 60 years for the Ladybug Miraculous to show up again.

80 for the Black Cat.

Also, the piece of Jewelry will look like the decade it came back in, and base the wearer's costumes off of that decade or aesthetic.

As for the aesthetics...That's for later.

The clusterfuck that is the Agreste-Graham de Vanily-Fathom Family:

More on that later!

And that’s it for now!

[jacems2]

Hey uhhh I hate asking like this but I’m about to get kicked out of school unless I can in full pay for my last semester and make a payment on next semester. I also can’t really stay with my parents, BUT I MIGHT have a place to stay in California with an aunt but I need money to pay for a plane ticket... Story and donation links under the cut

Okay so this story really starts a few years ago. My mother and I have always been extremely poor, we have been without heat and hot water for years, and we have always had a rocky relationship too. My mother can’t work for more than a few months at a time before her depression completely takes over and she self-medicates with alcohol until she inevitably loses her job. I try to talk with her and help her but she always acts as if she knows what’s best and that I’m a lowly peasant questioning her authority. She hasn’t worked in almost 3 years and she refuses to apply for social security or get a part time job, which makes living with her very difficult but I recieve a lot of grant money for school! 

Anyway, fast forward to summer/fall. I was working 9 hour days trying to save for college and pay bills at the same time at my mother house. This was also the summer I graduated high school so I was also having to do a very last minute college search and decided to go with community college because I knew I could complete all of the paper work before the new semester. I was able to complete the FAFSA pretty much on my own, but I was chosen for verification of my mother’s 2016 tax records. I feel like it’s very important to note that this happened in early August. I tell my mom this and she makes it seem like she’s going to take care of it. She didn’t. 

At the beginning of the semester we got in a huge fight where I basically told my mom’s dad that she can’t live alone and I can’t take care of her. He tried to guilt me into staying with her by saying “I don’t know what your mom will do without you... just stay with her for now.” I wasn't having it though, so I ran away form my mom’s house to my dad’s house where I don't even have a room with a door on it or a dresser to put my clothes in (it’s literal hell). And whenever I tell my dad how I feel I always get something along the lines of “You knew that you would have to make sacrifices when you left your mom’s house, so deal with it.” 

Because I was unable to verify at the beginning of the semester, the community college put a hold on my financial aid with a temporary loan of $2121.79. I decided immediately at the beginning of the semester that I hated community college, and so I started the process of transferring to 4 year university that I don't feel like specifying. I’ve done all the necessary paperwork, but they are requiring me to verify my mother’s 2016 tax records as well, but lucky me because my mother never actually did anything all semester. All payments/verification is due on January 1st. There is absolutely no way I can make this date because the IRS is now suspecting identity theft (despite the fact that I have my mother’s consent to request these forms, in fact she constantly tells me that it’s my responsibility to get the forms since I’m the one going to college) and are requiring an address/identity verification, which when we recieve it, it can take 6 weeks to process. My only other option is to make a payment on my tuition out of pocket, and I don’t have an exact number yet but they offer payment plans of breaking my tuition up into 4 payments and my total is about $11,700~ so a fourth would be a little bit less than $3000~

I highly doubt I can raise that much money before January 1st, but I have a backup plan! I have an amazing Aunt that lives in Berkeley who may be willing to house me until  fall semester 2019 (and I wasn’t chosen for verification next year so I can totally go to the 4 year university!). The only downside of this plan is that I still need money for a plane ticket ($110 if I leave Jan 14th). I currently don’t have a job because I was expecting to move into my university 200 miles next month, so I have no source of income. 

I don’t want anyone to feel obligated to give anything but I can’t live with my family in Ohio any longer and I’m getting kicked out of school :(

Paypal 

Venmo: Jace-Moore-3

[ohmy-marina]

2017 has been quite a challenge for me.

Not that all the past years were soft and smooth, but I have to admit that I did expect a little less drama ever since I came back home last July. But yet, a lot of good thing did happen, and for that I am grateful.

Who would have thought that I would manage to get over a guy, get together with another one (and almost get serious with him, even), move to a lovely new apartment with my stubborn mother and get a job (another internship, but who’s counting) in less than six months? I most certainly would not.

Well, another year went by, so fast that I lost track of my own life again, and here I am. Single, after breaking my own heart again. About to leave my job, after feeling I’m in the wrong place again. Waiting for class to restart, after suffering with the academic semester again. Lost, after breaking down into depression again.

But let me try and take everybody else’s advice for a change, and look at the bright side of things. 

I broke up with a guy that did not value me like he should, that took me for granted, that did not appreciate the things I do and love and that manipulated me into thinking I was selfish and didn’t think about him, like I was in some sort of game where everything was a competition. I got myself out of a toxic person that likes to be like that, and that actually believes he’s own bullshit. 

I decided to leave my current job for the sake of my own mental health. I made the logical decision to wait until I completed one year being there, and then I would stay at home - making some money out of doing boxbraids, learning about UX design and doing some volunteer work for UN. Life is full of surprises, and, as they say, god has a plan to all of us, so, I recieved an email calling me to start a brand new internship in a place that seems much better than the one I currently am.

I was approved in every class I took this last semester, and ended up with grades that are good enough for me to think about getting a Master’s Degree when I graduate - which I really do hope happens this year. Apart from that, I discovered last week that next semester I will only have two classes, and that means I will only have to attend school two days per week. 

I am slowly recovering. This time, my family has been very supportive - my mom realized I do have a problem, and my dad also is aware of everything, just like my grandma. I went to a psychiatrist for the first time, and I’m taking my meds everyday. I try to keep in mind how awesome everyone around me is, and that I am definitely not alone. Sometimes, most of the time, it’s hard to keep my thoughts under control, but I’m getting there. I’m starting to be hopeful again, and to believe that I can do anything I put my mind into.

I’m still tired. We’ve lost a very important part of our family this year, and it still echos in my heart. It’s a natural thing to happen. It’s life. That said, I’m trying to look at life with little less expectations, keeping in mind that wonderful things can happen, but we must live only in the moment. Nothing lasts forever, not even pain and sorrow. And that’s kind of ok. 

2017 is coming to an end pretty soon. I hope it helps me find some peace within myself, and I look forward to being able to live new adventures once again. I accept the challenges, if they come, but I will wait for love to find me and knock me out of my feet in every aspect of my life. It turns out I do expect three things from life: love, happiness and freedom. I must start building it myself, then. Better yet, I must improve the harvest I started the day I decided I was going to be happy, a few years ago. I owe that to the little chubby baby nerd with coily hair that I see in the mirror every now and then.