#it was dark time in ml fandom

[lady-de-mon-coeur]

Just found something interesting in my email app: it turns out that I created this blog January 19th.

[anna-scribbles]

guess who stayed up all night binging one does not love breathing by @wackus-bonkus-maximus​

[hamsteriffic]

Miraculous Fandom Stats 2023

A Visit to Gotham

…and beyond

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:

Fluff (246): -2%

Angst (161): -1%

Badass Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug (130): -1%

Lila Rossi Bashing (127): +1%

Alternate Universe (100): -7%

Hurt/Comfort (94): -2%

🖤 Top 5 Relationships

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.

[endless-season]

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better

tagged by @defeateddetectives /o/

3 ships you like: *looks into void* do I even have 3 proper ships

1) MikoIzuTotsu (Suoh Mikoto x Kusanagi Izumo x Totsuka Tatara) - K

And no one was surprised. I MEAN ITS BEEN OVER TEN YEARS. BUT A GOOD CHUNK OF THOSE TEN YEARS WERE DEDICATED TO HOMURA TRIO (well technically... the real answer is Totsuka Tatara however we will ignore that for the sake of this meme). Get yourself two others who will go through it all with you thick or thin. Get yourself a leash i mean what. Get yourself a Kusanagi-san! Settle down in a bar and raise i mean gather a gang family!

2) Qin Jiu x You Huo - Global Examination

Felt obligated to include them since I'm currently trying to drag ppl to read this lmao. Also bc i have no ships to answer with, help. BUT THE CHEMISTRY! I mean, this is probably the first time I clearly see what people mean by the word ~ chemistry ~. Qin Jiu is such a chaotic menace, You Huo is such a chaotic menace, they are similar but also different and then put them together and everyone suffers, it's beautiful *wipes tear*. But they are also so so so soft together (i was going to say, in private.... but also in front of people's salad so!!!) *clutches heart*. The author, 木苏里 just does a create job exploring the two throughout the story, READ GLOBAL EXAMINATION! THERE'S ALSO AN ONGOING MANHUA THAT COVERS LIKE A THIRD. DO IT. and then send me liveblogs pls and thanks.

3) H-h-help... ships... are hard... I... don't ...

first ship ever: IzuTotsu (Kusanagi Izumo x Totsuka Tatara) - K Shamelessly links to that post where I sobbed over everything #Actual Marriage Goals The trust! The intuitive understanding! The communication! (sorry Mikoto, your grunting fails you) The ~ G o S s i P i n g ~ ! The mutual support and comfort ;_;! The domesticity of it all! The quipping and doting! The we're all in this (this = Mikoto doom but with matching wing tattoos) together! The seemless division of labor haha

last song you heard: i turned on my playlist when i saw this question so that by the time i finish answering the meme and come back to this question, i will have an answer… Anyways, so the answer is…. ~ wHAT A coINcindENce ~ Dark Night Fireworks, Lucien's season 1 theme from MLQC.

favourite childhood book: Uh........ idk.... Deltora Quest? Alex Rider series? If manga counts then maybe Detective Conan? lmao.

currently reading: I’m Not Shouldering This Blame (这锅我不背) Current novel in my danmei binging spree. 40 chaps in, enjoying it so far. Synopsis gives a pretty good idea of what to expect. Hordes of book transmigrators trying to derail or benefit from knowing the plot, military dealing with the supernatural mess and notifying MC and ML who are supposedly the villains, MC... just trying to work in peace cmon, ML... just trying to seduce MC cmon.

currently watching: Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Just finished it over the last few days hence why there's a few posts in my queue. It’s nice and chill. I admit I was eyeing Himmel the moment he appeared in the first episode and didn't know whether to laugh or cry at his instant transformation / flashforward to old bald man. Was pleasantly surprised to see him appearing constantly in flashbacks haunting the narrative ethereal dead wife style lmao.

currently consuming: I waited for dinner to write this! Was lazy tonight so just a bunch of easy to prep in 5 min sides. Rice, Prawn dumplings, Chilli Bamboo (Fu Chi brand), Century Egg + Tofu + Pork floss, Smashed cucumber salad that I managed to ruin :/

currently craving: A reason to live A shiny new satisfying fandom obsession... Motivation and energy and wisdom to adult... A yakult and WangLaoJi... ... ...... *walks to fridge and grabs yakult and wanglaoji*

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A rare meme where I'm gonna actually tag!!! See what ppl are up to and eating these days >:)

@qserasera @chiaki-c @nervous-sheep @alice-chan-chan @jelly-cooperation

@laxmiree @caesurables @pu-san @vanishing-apples @dijeh

@ittybi @ellie-winthrope @bloomingmitsuri @a-justaway-is-just-a-justaway @constastan

As usual feel free to skip if tagged or do even if not tagged :> Edit: why is tagging not working *squints*

[mitsies]

i need help. how do i use ao3? every time i try to look up anything jjk related all i see is are a compilation of fluff, smut, and angst. i want a series or something 😿. preferably megumi or gojo

HI ML!!!!! i can for sure help you out <3 i don't really know any series for megumi but here are some recs for gojo:

gojo:

+ intrinsic warmth: my favourite fic of all time. like genuinely. insane writing, fucking amazing in every sense of the term. 2nd time recommending this! reader's character is so sick BUT updates real slow (which isnt a bad thing!! good things take time!!) so i wouldn't read if you aren't patient // 90k words, 13 chapters, incomplete

+ ripverse: not really a series, more like a compilation of fics! it's got a lot of angst and the one titled 'interlude' contains smut i think so beware, and it's also a lovetriangle/poly-but-geto-goes-crazy-so-not-poly moment // 55k words, 8 pieces

and below the cut, i can give you a quick lil tutorial on how to use and filter on ao3!

first things first, you're going to want to find a pairing you want to read for. you said megumi or gojo, so for example, just look up 'megumi fushiguro/reader ao3' in google or safari and ao3's megumi fics should come up!

the filtering part is how you'd find specific kinds of fics. it depends on what platform you're using!

DESKTOP: - when you're in the relationship tag, the filters should be on the right side of your screen. - it's pretty self-explanatory- you can include certain things you want to read (ships, fandoms, etc) and exclude things you don't wanna read. - in the 'more options' section, you can also sort by completion status or chapter count so you can find series !

MOBILE: - it's the same thing, basically! - once you're in the tag you want, the 'filter' button should be at the top right above the page tabs and rss feed button. - from there, it's the same deal: filter out what you don't want to see, filter in what you're looking for

3. once you've got all your things selected, hit 'sort and filter' and your page will refresh to display all the works that match your search!!

some advice: - on ao3, READ THE TAGS!!!!!! trust me, i've been jumpscared by explicit nsfw or gore all too many times </3 - jjk authors on ao3 are.... horny to say the least. make sure you use filters!!! ESPECIALLY the 'warnings' filter- that allows you to block out a fair amount of dark content - speaking of dark content.. do yourself a favour and don't read anything tagged with 'dead dove: do not eat'. for those who are unaware, that's basically code for dark dark dark content! - i always like to sort by 'kudos' which is basically the highest rated fics! find the option to do this in the 'sort by' part of the filter menu!

i hope this helps, anon!!! good luck on your search!!!

[chocoluckchipz]

20 Questions for Fic Writers

thank you @ladyofthenoodle and @kasienda for the tag!

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

Surprisingly 38! I had no idea I had that many.

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

780,093

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Miraculous Ladybug

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Unexpected Surprise

A Bride for the Prince

The Other You

Forbidden Love That Wasn't

Dance With Me, Chaton

5. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to, but when life gets busy, I am not able to get to them for months. I do read and love all of them, though! My favourite emails are the ones with comments!

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

I do not write angsty endings, period. A happy one is the only way to go! So, the closest to that I have would be a "hopeful" ending, and that would be Rain.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I'll probably say Dance With Me, Chaton or A Bride for the Prince only because they went through a ton of angst to get to their Happily Ever After. Maybe also, The Other You.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not anymore.

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

No, I don't. It's always "Fade to Dark" but we all know what it implies ;D.

10. Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

No. So far, no show apart from ML had ever inspired me to write for it, least of all do a crossover.

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Yeah, a few times. That is the reason I have a WattPad account. The thieves claimed they stole only because the WattPad community deserves to read my stories and I wasn't sharing them there.

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes, quite a few.

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Yup. I co-wrote:

A Bride for the Prince with @thenovelartist

The Other You with @maerynn-blog

The Cat, the Bell, and the Wardrobe (Malfunction) with @kryallaorchid, @maerynn-blog, @eizabeth, and @midnightstarlightwrites

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

Lovesquare.

15. What's a WIP you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Things We Don't Say and The Royal Tale. The second one, most likely, will be written as an original sometime in the future since I already have an outline ready and it's going to be EPIC!

16. What are your writing strengths?

I think - dialogue, but if you don't agree or think of something else, let me know. I'd love to hear what are my strengths and weaknesses as seen by my readers.

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

Getting the sentences on the screen. Especially the first few. XD Oh and descriptions of surroundings.

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I wouldn't do it unless it's a part of the plot and meant to confuse my reader. I prefer for my readers to understand what they are reading.

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Miraculous Ladybug.

20. Favourite fic you've ever written?

That is a cruel question. But if I had to choose only one, it'll be Dance With Me, Chaton, Dreams of You and A Bride for the Prince!

No pressure tags @h-sunnywet-d, @thenovelartist, @jennagrinsoverml, @miabrown007, @thelibraryloser, @wackus-bonkus-maximus, @sariahsue

[princess-of-the-corner]

Regarding that “humans with Pokemon type” post from earlier:

My headcanon is that humans need a certain level of magic (or equivalent power set) to register as having a type.

So in MHA, Quirks would count as magic and a person’s type would usually relate to their Quirk (Ochako being Psychic, Hagakure being Ghost/Normal, etc.). Due to how saturated the world is with Quirks, a few people without Quirks may still get a typing, namely Izuku being Normal/Psychic before receiving OfA.

In ML, everyone is typeless until they’ve used a Miraculous/been Akumatized enough times. In this case at least, someone’s Hero/Akuma form doesn’t necessarily have to have the same type as their civilian form (Chat Noir is Dark or Dark/Ghost, but Adrien is Normal; Ladybug is Fairy while Marinette is Bug (Note: I am still new to this fandom, with most of my knowledge coming from this blog and “The Dragon’s Son”. Forgive me if the types don’t seem fitting))

That's fucking fascinating actually.

[miraculous-rewrite]

Tell me, why did you decide to make the old Miraculous Order antagonists?

Short answer: we thought it would be more interesting

Long Answer: From our experience, the kind of supervillain hawkmoth is, isn't sustainable for as long as he was active in the series, Even as he gained more power the formula for the show is never really broken, and as such he got stale around the time he became Shadowmoth- an interesting villain needs to do more than sit in the dark cackling. For instance- I spent a long time in the ninja turtles fandom and i can say from experience you have to know when to let the Shredder not fight the turtles. if you have one villain who's shtick never changes, then he becomes stale the second things become formulaic

Hawkmoth got away with it for awhile with the different kind of akumas he could make but even those started to get repetitive, and as such, if we wanted to keep the story interesting, we needed to change things before he overstayed his welcome and we had in mind the origonal idea for Paon being as Zag had once promised us ('she will make Hawkmoth look like a baby' and all that) but when we figured out the way Amok's work in canon and how we figured it would be best to adapt to we had the same problem of it continuing with a formula. And when the Order of Miraculous got brought up as a concept we figured that that connection to a larger world of magical items would be much more interesting if it wasn't just 'shows up like two or three episodes and then dips' since it had HUGE implications for the rest of the greater ML world, so-

In the end it would make for a more interesting story. since we had the idea for Gabriel starting to actually question what he was doing getting wrapped up in a war he didn't ask for was the perfect way for him to realize they'd lost the thread of what they were doing this for.

The New Order was to help the heroes grow, the old order was to help the villains grow

[aidanchaser]

🛌 🙌 💖 !!

ohhhh some good ones~~ thank you!

from this ask game

🛌 What's a trope you haven't written, but want to?

Usually if there's a trope i want to explore, I will just do it. But I did mention I haven't played much in the fake dating or one bed space enough, particularly as someone who's fond of reading those tropes!

🙌What's a line or paragraph of yours that you're proud of?

oh no this is the third time ive gotten this question and now i have to find a third piece of writing i'm proud of?? I'm going to leave the ML fandom for a minute and dip back into old HP stuff. I am very, very, very proud of the scene in the forest where Harry uses the stone. the "brave for a moment" line came to me while driving and I used my notes app voice to text to jot it down immediately and held onto it for literal years until i reached the ending of this absurd project

A ghostly, human-like shape appeared before Harry. It glowed bluish-white at its centre, and the light seemed to harden into the details of a figure who was not especially familiar to Harry, but conjured up the feeling of grief all the same. Peter Pettigrew, round-faced, wide, with teeth a bit too large for his small smile, and scraggly, unkempt sideburns on the side of his face that were a bit like whiskers appeared before Harry. He did not look as he had in Regulus’ memories, but Harry could still see the traces of that insecure boy in this ghostly shape. And, as Harry remembered all the bits he knew of Peter Pettigrew — that he enjoyed chess, that he was as strategic as Remus, that he had been afraid of the war, that he had stood between Voldemort and James — the ghostly shape took on colour, much like a photograph being painted. Pink bloomed in his cheeks and red filled in the dark cuffs of his sleeves. He did not look alive, exactly, but he no longer looked lifeless. Peter Pettigrew sucked in a deep breath, and his heavy cheeks quavered as he let it out. “You really do look like your father,” he said. Harry swallowed. He had half-expected Dumbledore, but he supposed if it had been Dumbledore, he would not have had the strength to finish this task. “I know I have to go, but…” Harry bit down on his lip, afraid to give a voice to his fears. He had learned bravery from his parents, and he had also learned that a lot of bravery came from silencing fear. Peter seemed to understand, and Harry remembered that Peter had been a Marauder just as James, Sirius, and Remus. He must have known the same sort of bravery and mischief that Harry had spent his entire life surrounded by. “You only have to be brave for a moment,” Peter said. Harry’s breath caught in his throat. He could do that. He could be brave for a moment.

💖 Which of your fics is your pride and joy?

Oh no. This is like asking me to choose a favorite child; I love them all! But also... i have concerns about each one too.

Like, it's hard to say that Gryffindor Blood is my pride and joy because it's a Harry Potter fic. And I'm not proud of my HP fics because I'm in no way proud of HP. I am, however, very proud of how much I grew as a writer because of the HP Everyone Lives project. I'm proud of the friends I made because of that project. I'm proud of the commitment I achieved because of that project.

If I had to pick a fic I love unequivocally, I think it would be On the Outside Looking In, the Hans redemption fic I wrote back in 2014. I had a blast fleshing out the characters for that short fic. It's not my best writing, but I had a good time doing it.

[undeath1245]

Holding onto hope for Miraculous Ladybug [spoilers]

I want to check for myself, but how many of you guys are still holding onto hope for Miraculous Ladybug? Don't take it personally, since I've been an ML observer since 2014–15, meaning that I have never watched an ML episode so far and only saw it through clips, reviews, and YTP-esque edits. I've also been reading through Tumblr posts on what's been going on with the show. However, I feel like the show hasn't been doing well since season three, more specifically the season finale, "Miracle Queen", and it had been declining more in quality throughout season five.

Don't get me wrong, seasons four and five have some pretty good ideas with the show's plot, like Marinette's responsibility as the new guardian of the miraculous charms, and Marinette revealing her secret to her best friend, Alya. And yet, there are still numerous flaws with the show that I couldn't ignore, like with the storyline involving Ladybug keeping Chat Noir in the dark about Chat Blanc, and yet it never went anywhere in season five. There's also this issue with Adrien's diminished role from deuteragonist to damsel-in-distress when not only that he was revealed to be a sentibeing, but he was also left out from the final battle with Monarch, who's actually his father. And lately, according to a recent commentary on the fifth season finale, Gabriel was meant to be a good guy all along (despite his numerous crimes and him abusing and neglecting Adrien), and the reason why Adrien had to be left out from the battle was because that the writers wanted to see Marinette use both of the ladybug charm and cat charm.

Maybe I'm more bias on the critical side of the ML fandom, and I've been focusing more on the show's flaws over its positives. Maybe it's my critical lens getting the better of me. I'm sure that many fans enjoy the show the way it is, and I can't fault them for it. Everyone enjoys something differently. But, I can't seem to ignore any writing flaws the show has been given lately. I don't know.

Oh, and don't forget to reblog this post for a bigger sample size. To be honest, I have no idea what that does.

[dangermousie]

I really really want to rewatch Farscape AGAIN.

Unless you’ve followed me for a very very long time, probably even before tumblr, you might not know that my favorite show in this whole world and my favorite couple in any fictional medium is Farscape and John Crichton X Aeryn Sun respectively.

In fact my nick Dangermousie is one I created for long defunct Farscape boards and my avatar is one some kind person made for relative fandom newbie on one of those boards.

God, no OTP will ever be as much what I love and want and need in my ships as these two were. Also I remember watching this show as it aired and literally screaming at the top of my lungs as s4 ended on that horrifying cliffhanger and knowledge it was canceled (and then they got a mini go wrap things up thank god.)

Also I will always love that Aeryn started as a perfect weapon in a quasi fascist regime and ended someone who discovered her humanity and free thinking but not in the least less deadly. And I’ve never seen a show from anywhere break down its ML the way Farscape did John before or since. Like literally there is nothing I can think of that they didn’t do to him. I love that he started the show as an optimistic pacifist scientist nice and voice of reason and by the end of s4 he was pretty much clinically insane torture victim recovering drug addict suffering from PTSD who strapped nukes to himself and it made sense!!! (Side note - the ending of PKW is so great not only because it’s so hopeful but because it shows both that trauma and damage do not go away and that you can be happy despite the hell you went through.)

Another MV btw:

PS and the show was totally unhinged and had no barriers and did insane things in general - it could be super dark or ridiculously hilarious and swap back. It was just no rules wild.

[sabetha]

20 Questions for Writers

tagged by @fandomscraziness22 <3

1. How many works do you have on AO3?

80 - well on my way to 100

2. What's your total AO3 word count?

299,441 which is actually SO infuriating

3. What fandoms do you write for?

whatever I happen to be hyperfixated on at the time....right now it's Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous/Chaos Theory, but Lockwood & Co. and The Raven Cycle round out the top 3, followed by Six of Crows and some miscellaneous podcasts

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

do you know i love your tattoo (and you) (l&co)

She's Just a Friend (ML)

just keep your eyes on me (l&co)

Take It From Me (soc)

See Yourself Out (soc)

This list is actually so wild to me wtf

5. Do you respond to comments?

Sometimes it takes me a while, but yes! I try to respond to every comment I get, with varying levels of success

6. What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

this has to be a trick question, right? p much everything I write is angst oops. although to be fair, I do usually try for a happy ending. so the angstiest ending....

based on canon: you were the story i chose for myself (the dreamer trilogy) OR what do you know, this house is falling apart (l&co)

canon divergent: slipping through the cracks of your cold embrace (l&co)

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

why is this so hard?? I don't know if these are the happiest, but I'm partial to The Great Gansey (trc), Dream Me the World (trc), and The Plan (ML)

8. Do you get hate on fics?

I don't think I've ever gotten any really negative comments on my fics which is great because I would cry

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

not typically? my Dark AU for L&Co features some smut (PLEASE READ THE TAGS IF YOU'RE GONNA READ THIS FIC) yesterday we were just children

10. Do you write crossovers?

nope, i'm not inherently opposed to the idea, but a lot of times they just don't feel natural to me

11. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Oof I hope not

12. Have you ever had a fic translated?

I don't think so? I've had at least one person ask, but I don't know if it ever happened

13. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

I was working on a ML fic with a friend once! we unfortunately did not finish that, but it was a fun experience

14. What's your all-time favorite ship?

..... you can't ask me to pick between my children like this

But Ronsey (trc)

15. What's a WIP you want to finish but doubt you will?

Learn to Like The Taste. (soc) - it's started, it's vaguely outlined, it's partially drafted, some of it is posted.... I would love nothing more than to finish this story but its been years and head empty no thoughts

16. What are your writing strengths?

emotional angstttttt, it's basically my lifeblood at this point. I've also been told I'm good at mirroring the writing of the source material? so that, I guess. I'm pretty proud of the phrases I come up with when I put my mind to it

17. What are your writing weaknesses?

dialogue?? action?? don't know her

18. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic?

i've got some latin in my fics for trc, and te admo adhuc (the college tapes) is a title in a different language, so I'm deciding that counts

19. First fandom you wrote for?

Miraculous Ladybug

20. Favorite fic you've written?

this is a really mean question, actually, so now you get to suffer through me making another list

As Good As Later Gets (Wolf 359)

Something New For Every Night (trc)

trapped in yesterday (l&co)

things we have to do that we can't stand (trc)

slipping through the cracks of your cold embrace (l&co)

tagging anyone else who wants to do it, if you're seeing this, yes you!

[ao3bronte]

Hi. I want to say I hope you're doing well and enjoying yourself in your new fandom. I miss seeing you on my feed, because you and your fics got me through a really rough time in my life, but I understand why you've moved on. All the love and hugs in the world to you, because you deserve all the best things ever

Thank you! I am doing so so well in my new fandom! I am very loved and even found love through my new fandom! That’s right! I have a GF now! Leaving ML changed my life and made me immensely happier, and I’m at the top of my game and writing some of the filthiest things I’ve ever written in my life, and it’s been amazing for me. Thank you for your kind words, and I’m so happy that I was able to help you through those rough days.

I won’t be coming back to ML, likely ever. I’m in a better place than I’ve ever been (and I even dragged a few of my ML friends over to the dark side LMAO), and I plan on staying there for the foreseeable future. So for now, I’ll keep on drawing dick and writing filth and living it up on top! Life is good, baby!

[missingmywing]

Me: /sees today's yesterday's prompt

Me: /maniacal cackling

Me: YOU FOOL, YOU’VE ACTIVATED MY TRAP CARD

aka AUs, Time Travel, and identity shenanigans are my biggest interests in any fandom at all so KH drew me in for a reason. This will be fun. Enjoy or suffer through my rambling about my main AU. I apologize for the length, but there’s a reason I had the immediate reaction I did.

Also sorry it’s a day late, yesterday was thesis presentations and then I was dragged out to drinks and karaoke after by my classmates so I didn’t have time to finish this.

@khoc-week Day 4: Alternate Universes

Hahahaha my first KH au I made when I was 15 and then spiraled WILDLY out of control after KHUX finished and DR happened.

So this au started as one of those “what if someone from our world died and reincarnated as a main character” fics that were so popular in the 2010’s, but over time it changed significantly. The main premise is still the same, girl from our world dies to a Heartless that really shouldn’t have been there and her heart makes a conveniently timed connection with Ven, and then reincarnates as Sora. Except it’s not quite as convenient as it seems because Kingdom Hearts itself is meddling.

Because her heart was actually Etheria’s.

This is my biggest KH au that’s lasted almost ten years now, it’s extremely self-indulgent and I keep making adjustments to it as we get new info, but I think I have it plotted out solidly. It’s also the one that’s technically canon to my keykids.

So, KHUX happens as it does, no real changes beyond Etheria and Ephemera finishing up Game Central Station together and coming back to Daybreak Town in time to trigger the finale. Etheria traps the darknesses in the tunnel, they wound her fatally, she dies holding Chirithy, etc.

The change comes with what’s next. Because Nomura BAITED US and I had an entire year to sit on my plans before the Dark Road finale dropped and ruined them all, and I decided “screw it, I can work around this”. And kind of. Threw out canon to a degree.

Yiskah is reincarnated after the Keyblade War as the Missing Link protag, so whatever reveals we get there will be his story. Etheria reincarnates as Xehanort, because I had PLANS NOMURA. So ML happens, Yiskah takes Xehanort to Destiny Islands, all of this will probably follow canon pretty closely. Dark Road also happens as canon, Xehanort having Etheria’s heart doesn’t really change much because these events “need” to happen. Whether it’s Darkness pulling the strings or KH itself… who knows. But DR happens pretty much as canon, and the post-events are where we get our first major split into AU territory.

When Xehanort goes on his lonesome trip around the worlds, trying to gain perspective, it starts as canon with him meeting MoM. But afterwards, when he returns to the Keyblade Graveyard, it’s not the Master of Masters that’s waiting for him but our single unaccounted for Darkness. His trip through the worlds was supposed to make him fall to darkness, make him decide to recreate the war, but because he has Etheria’s heart he… doesn’t. So Darkness takes matters into its own hands and tries to take him over. Naturally he fights back, refuses to let it, so it decides the more optimal route would be to simply remove that problematically light heart and simply claim his body for itself and pretend to be him.

So that happens. He dies, and it’s Darkness in his body who returns to Scala to take the Mark of Mastery with Eraqus, and kick off the next phase of canon.

Etheria/Xehanort’s heart ends reincarnating as a girl on a sort of… reflection of our world, losing their memories upon reincarnating as is supposed to happen, and growing up to be a fan of a certain video game series until dying to a Heartless who was drawn specifically to their heart because Events Are Happening (Ven just got his heart broken and Kingdom Hearts needs someone to go fix it, and who better than an old friend and its valiant champion? Etheria surviving the Keyblade War and her heart touching KH directly in the process was not a good thing for her, just to point that out.) So her heart comes in contact with Ven, shares part of it to fix his, and in the process kind of breaks the usual reincarnation rules so she keeps her memories of this past life, and the thus the memories of the Kingdom Hearts game series.

So at this point: Alana becomes Sora and knows absolutely nothing about being Etheria or Xehanort, but does remember being from “our world”. The Xehanort of this AU is just Darkeness using his identity to push the plot it read in the Book, because that’s What’s Supposed To Happen. For the sake of ~Drama~ I’m going to say she’s caught up to canon for everything except the Final Update of KHUX. To everyone who remembers that cliffhanger they did between the first half of the finale and the second… yeah. Imagine dying and reincarnating into that universe missing HALF THE FINALE OF KHUX and over half of Dark Road. It is endlessly frustrating to them, Ven, and Vani. 

From here canon… happens similarly, but also different.

KH1 has Riku being possessed much earlier because Sora convinces him to come back, and Maleficent and Ansem SoD don't like that. Kairi and Ven are both awake and helping, so there's that. Kairi is part of the final battle as an active keyblade wielder, even if she gets pulled home after.

CoM happens very differently because Vanitas is awake with Ven gone in Roxas, so he's Solana's companion while Namine can see Alana's memories and knows far more than she should because of it. She finds so many loopholes to allow Alana to keep memories of CoM, even if Sora's have to be broken later.

KH2 has Xion and Roxas awake and joining Ven and Vani, and things get loud. Roxas takes every chance to try to fight the Organization, drive forms are between the Heart Hotel rather than Donald and Goofy, and Kairi joins the party halfway through after kicking Axel through a wall. She joins them for the final fight against Xemnas too, and then opens the portal for them home.

Solana is busy having a guilt-induced breakdown about their parents never coming back from the islands falling to darkness to participate in Re:Coded, but they do meet the apprentices and start making peace between them and the Restoration Committee when they show back up. They and Ienzo get along... really really well, to their surprise.

DDD is a mess, because the dream world gives the Heart Hotels bodies and they are actively participating in the Mark of Mastery along with Sora, Riku, and Kairi. Ienzo was paranoid enough to make a secondary link with Solana before it started, so when Yen Sid lost contact with them Ienzo could make link so they could see everything happening. Canon happens and it SUCKS. Solana has much trauma from YMX.

KH3 is wildly different, because People Know Things, and Death Deities Are Weird Around Solana (aka Hades and Persephone are closer to their myth forms, and make a deal with Solana about nine death avoidances for a favor, so they only use the power of waking once at the end rather than to save everyone), and Aqua and Ven are rescued before Arendelle so they've got half the game to catch their breath before the war.

And because Darkness is Xehanort, the scene with Eraqus is very different because Solana flat out steals the keyblade from Xehanort at the end of their battle - the same way Riku does from Sora in KH1 - and stabs him with it. No soft scene here, just murder. Eraqus does show up, reassuring Aqua and Terra, but Kairi and Ven swapped places in this AU as the sacrificial being of Pure Light, so... it's much rougher on the Wayfinder Trio. Solana gets him back, though, ala canon, but that's the tenth revival after the first nine so they will disappear eventually, it just won't be immediate since they only did it once. Gives them time to hang out, get Ienzo to put some cameras in the Graveyard to catch the Foreteller meetup, do a heart dive to figure out their weird dreams and accidentally get their memories of KHUX and DR both back to the shock and horror of everyone, and then disappear.

I want you to know that this is the short version, because the longer version accidentally turned into a plot outline.

[bardic-tales]

2.19.2024

tw: death. illness. chronic pain.

I am slowly getting back into reading and writing. I tend to bite off more than I can chew, and I thought that an overarching plot spanning all my fandoms would be an interesting thing to work on.

I also wanted to work on several original projects. Unfortunately, my health and family circumstances made it so that I have always been in bed with extreme fatigue and my body hurting.

Over the last two years, we lost 3 members in my little family: my husband's cousin who passed away in a car accident at 17, my husband's aunt who contracted COVID during last Thanksgiving and passed away on that holiday, and, finally, my grandfather last month. My grandfather was like a father to me. Then, as I documented on here during last June, I lost my cat, Loki.

I also have been dealing with very low Vit. D levels. I had a blood test last Friday which showed my levels at: 9.3 ng/ml. I am waiting for a call from my doctor at 9 am to discuss treatment options and possibly further tests to figure out why those levels are too low.

I've been too exhausted to really do anything. It makes sense as I often experienced severe joint pain when I sat and wrote or even attempt to game. I downloaded the FF 7: Rebirth demo and just haven't been able to play it. Same thing for Crisis Core. I feel bad since I want to announce the new work I have been working on, but I just don't really have the energy to.

Author’s commentary:

I have been working on creating a map of the Abyssal Realm for my huge fandom project: Fantasy Worlds Collide. I did create a timeline for the Heavenly War and made it so that the war started due to the Creator Deity forbidding his angels from loving mortals. This was after Lucifer fell in love with the 1st human: Lilith.

This sets the stage for Bianca Moore to love both Sesshomaru and Sephiroth. I love the thought of love condemning her and causing her to doubt her path to Heaven.

I am also reworking her powerset to fit her new role in this overarching plot: the destroyer of the Omniverse. Her powers are consistent to space, time, and interdimensional capabilities, as well as reality-bending.

Her profile will flow better. There is a new section devoted to the space between time where all portals to every dimension and the Edge of Creation is.

Snippet: A drabble I wrote on Valentine's Day.

tw: death mention.

As always, this is my trash draft. There will be grammar issues and sometimes incorrect grammar. It is unpolished.

"Pretty pathetic, hm?" Bianca tilted her head into his touch. His fingers slipped through strands of her dark hair. "You are only one of two men I have ever known like this, the only men I have ever loved."

The sun had crested over North Crater. The tent's entrance flapped in the icy breeze, but she didn't feel the cold on her skin. Bianca held some sort of immunity to the frozen temperatures, which was a very dangerous thing, in itself. Her organs still could freeze.

"Do you believe in soulmates?" Turning in the sleeping bag, she pulled the covers up over her shoulder and snuggled closer to him. The dark grey fur blanket lay over them as an extra layer of warmth. "How can I love you so deeply when we were not supposed to meet in the first place? We both lived in different dimensions and different versions of Earth."

"Perhaps, we are bound for more than just..girlfriend and boyfriend." Sephiroth looked down at the woman in his arms. His silver hair mixed with her black hair. Her left wing wrapped around them while her other one lay stretched out behind her. "You were always bound for the Reunion, Bianca."

"I think you are right. You were under distress from learning your true origins, and I was under duress from my father who had just murdered the only other man I had loved."

Different Fandom Taglist

@starryeyes2000, @residentdormouse, @megandaisy9 @themaradwrites @prehistoric-creatures @arrthurpendragon @serenofroses

[dean-winchester-is-a-warrior]

How to Make a Pinned Masterlist

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Disclaimer: I am not a good teacher. 😂 I'm still relatively new to Tumblr myself (less than 2 years) and Tumblr likes to change things around some, so some things below may be wrong/changed by the time you see this post. Making it in Oct/22. 😊

I was chatting with my friend @fandomohana and said that I could help her make a Masterlist. (ML) Then it occurred to me that there might be others who would like to know too, and I know from experience that it can be tricky to figure it all out, how to make the ML and how to create links. So, I thought I'd make a post!

All the info is below the cut! 😊😊

So, I'm going to use the example of creating a pinned fic list, which will include sub MLs. Hopefully it will make sense with the examples below:

You create a ML like you would any other post. Click the little pencil to start.

Computer:

Mobile App: (FYI, my phone is in dark mode, hence the black background, your background may be white.)

Once you've clicked the pencil, the computer will pop up a little row of circles with all the different things you can post. Click on "Text" and this screen will pop up:

On the app, when you click the pencil, it brings you to this screen immediately:

Go ahead and title your post something clever like "Masterlist" and include a cute/appropriate gif or pic. Reminder: If you use a gif/pic from outside Tumblr, make sure you include a link to where you found it. (Or just search for a gif through Tumblr like I did here, and they credit the creator for you.)

Computer:

App:

Now you can start creating your pinned ML.

As I stated above, a pinned ML is going to include links to all of your fics that you've posted. In order to create links in your pinned ML, you'll need a ML for all the separate fandoms you write for.

For example, this would be a ML for someone who writes fics for Supernatural, Stranger Things, and Marvel.

To be able to create links to all those fics in all those fandoms, each fandom will need it's own posted ML, like so:

Now, if you look, I've also broken down the SPN fics into two categories - Dean fics and Sam fics. So, you'll have to create ML for each of them as well.

**If you only have two or three SPN fics all together, you may not want to bother creating separate MLs for Dean and Sam. In which case you'd just link all of them on this one page. But if you have quite a few of each (or if your planning on writing quite a few of each) you'd want to create a ML for Dean fics and Sam fics, and then link them here.**

Now for how to CREATE LINKS!

Let's create links for our imaginary Dean Fics ML:

(Hopefully you've come up with more imaginative titles! 😜)

Now, go to your original post with the fic you want to link, (make sure it's not a reblog of the post, but the original) and click the three dots on the top right.

Computer:

App:

Your computer will pop up this:

And the app will pop up this at the bottom of your screen:

Click on Copy link and then go to your Dean Fics ML and highlight the title of the fic you're linking. When you do, this bar will come up:

Computer:

App:

Click on the little picture of the two joined chainlinks and this black bar will pop up.

Computer:

App:

Paste your copied link into that bar and click "Done" on the computer or "Add link" on the app.

When it's been successfully linked both the computer and the app will have a little line under the title showing it's linked:

Once all the fics have been successfully linked, you can hit "Post now" (or just "Post" on the app) and your "Dean Fics" ML will be created.

Then you can go to that post and follow the same steps to link it onto your Supernatural ML post. And once your SPN ML post is created, you can follow those same steps again to link it in your pinned ML at the top of your blog. Then you'd do the same for Stranger Things and Marvel.

Now, this all may seem really involved and confusing, and it does definitely take time to get it all together. But once you have that pinned ML and the sub MLs created, every time you make a new fic, you just have to "edit" the appropriate ML and add a new link to the list, and everything stays together, so that your beautiful, hard won fics don't disappear into the Tumblr ether. 💓

I hope all of this makes a certain amount of sense. Please don't hesitate to DM me, or send an ask, if you have any questions. I'll do my best to help!

Happy Creating! 😘😘