#off to london

[imthepunchlord]

So for the Off To series, I'm sure how much thought you've put into them, but what are the potential villain ideas for those stories? Would they be evil miraculous users or would you go for that magic vs magic you mentioned you would have liked to see? Off the top of my head I could see vampires in the Off to London story (though that could be all the Dracula stuff I've been watching talking).

A lot of this info I'm going to go ahead and share cause idk when the Off to series will come out. I haven't even started writing them, and I'd rather see Copycat, Manynette, and Dodged a Beetle done/farther along first. I also still need to sit and watch videos for the settings I'll be writing in, which I won't promise a 100% accuracy, but I am going to learn for the settings and do the best I can (which if there are any corrections to make when these fics come out, do please let me know if something needs to be changed or is wrong).

So, Off to London I haven't thought too much about aside from knowing for sure that Quantic Kids, Felix, and the waiter seen in concept art will be major characters alongside Marinette. Villains really has yet to come to mind. Vampries could work as there was a vampire villain in Pixie Girl.

But otherwise, villains have yet to really come to mind.

By default Felix will be antagonistic. There's that.

Also, some older designs that were really different than what we got will probably exist in Off to London as background classmates. One of these characters will even make an early appearance in the next chapter of Copycat.

Though, Off to Milan I had a lot more ideas for villains. I don't have a whole story planned out, but I do have some villains/antagonists.

Lila Rossi will be for sure, though probably more of a starting villain/antagonist since she is set to go to Paris after a while (towards the end of s1). As it's a given she'll be in Paris for the rest of canon, she probably won't be involved in any Miraculous or magic activity. She's just a two faced bully. She may be confirmed magical in some way and that's how she's able to lie and manipulate so easily but that's a thought for later.

Now other villains/antagonists, they exist through Pixie Girl, as she's one of the few concepts that showed off quite a bit of the cast and potential allies or threats and Off to Milan was planned to largely work off the mages we see as the antagonists.

Idk what's going to go on with them. Don't know what the goal will be. Don't even quite have down what they can do, but there are a few details I have down that are for sure:

They are a descendants of a long line of black mages, hailing from a magical clan/coven that has been kinda dying out, maaaaaybe descendants of Morgana le Fey; if so the family would definitely stick to le Fey as the surname, otherwise the surname will be related to night or darkness

The twins names are going to be Scarlet and Jasper, Scarlet is the more hotheaded of the two, very competitive and looks down on others, while Jasper is a little more toned down and sly; Scarlet is the favorite/preferred of the two, and likes combative/destructive magic, Jasper is more artistic, the dark artist, if you will; honestly these two will probably have some inspirations from Zuko and Azula

Pixie is set to have a crush on one of the two and it's enemies to lovers; initial plan is Jasper playing off that it seems Pixie had a crush on a boy and I think the initial plan was kinda another Love Square scenario between Pixie and the Wizard; but not a 100%, that's more of what I predicted, if the show ever came out.

I am pretty open on potential ships for Off to Milan, so Pixie can easily crush on Scarlet instead. Honestly, only for sure I have is Pixie crushing on one of the twins and everything else is pretty open to happen.

And that's pretty much all I got planning wise that is for sure for Off to Milan. I will say, IF the specials for Lady Lion and Lady Butterfly do come out before this fic does, then any villains introduced could wind up included.

Though it would be a little bit of a bummer cause I wanted to try and play around with these characters before they became official but given my writing progress, if it happens, not the end of the world. I'll just make the necessary adjustments and we keep on keeping on.

[chahatkesafar]

Currently reading - Letters of Note: Fathers.

The first letter I read was from Jawahar to Indira in 1930 from a prison in Naini. It made me so emotional I could hardly contain the tears while reading it. It’s a beautiful letter, full of love and hope for his daughter to be a brave young lady.

[learnelle]

The highlight of my week was taking a break from the city to visit Winterbourne House & Garden. I enjoyed a scone, picked up this book, marvelled at some pretty flowers and worked on my stats assignment 🌷🌼💖🌻🌸✨

[khruschevshoe]

You know, it's rather interesting to me that Taylor Swift's parasocial relationship with her fans is honestly more akin to a YouTuber than a writer's. When I scroll through her tag on tumblr/Twitter, it's far more regarding the connection to her personal life/relationship developments than the actual metaphors/fictional story she might be telling. Everything comes back to how her songs reflect back on her relationships with Joe/Matty/Travis/Jake/insert ex-boyfriend here. And what fascinates me about it is that even though she complains about it, she leans into that very perception because it strengthens the parasocial bond.

The marketing for TTPD so clearly being about Joe Alwyn and the songs to Matty Healy. The marketing/video for Red TV so CLEARLY being about Jake Gyllenhaal, with so many of the new lines in All Too Well specifically being digs at him (I'll get older but your lovers stay my age, casting an actor that looks like him for the video, specific lines in I Bet You Think About Me). The fact that songs like Getaway Car and Bejeweled and Gorgeous and London Boy and Lavender Haze being picked apart at time of release and long after for signs of relationships crumbling. The way she uses surprise songs in relation to her relationship development with Joe/Matty/Travis. The damn TTPD "stages of grief" playlists where she deliberately undid/changed the meanings of old songs just to keep her audience speculating on her love life.

It's not sexist to point out that her wielding her love life is a marketing tool and that the strongest connection to her audience isn't the strength of her writing/the composition of her music- it's her deliberate crafting of a connection between her music and her personal life, leaving the audience invested in her music as an extension of Taylor the Person/Girlfriend rather than Taylor the Artist.

[quantumshade]

can anyone explain to me at what point rose tyler was "unbelievably stupid". was it when she was inventing transdimensional travel

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Lamborghini Diablo SE30 Supercharged Prototype, 1994. Named Best in Show at the London Concours, a unique Diablo that was built at Lamborghini Hoecker in Landau, Germany who worked in collaboration with the Lamborghini factory in Italy to bring the project to fruition. The engine produces 634bhp

[choccy-milky]

OMG I LOVED YOUR NEW CHAPTER ❤️

I just can’t wait to see if you end drawing tortured sub seb, our poor boy was heaving at the mouth!!!!! Also I’m gonna need a visual on freaking Henry I need to look at that mf in the face

Also I did sorta get fooled into thinking the favorite boy was Henry for a second but 10/10 loved the chapter.

AWW THANK UUUU💖💖AND OK i was actually gonna include a link to some doodles of henry at the beginning of the chapter but i couldnt decide on how i wanted him to look BUT I THINK I GOT IT, SO HERE

that smile..................that damned smile ((also we know by now i love torturing seb, and i defs have a wip of tortured sub seb/dom clora in the works too, rest assured👀))

[shazzbaa]

HE DIED THIS WAY????? HE DIED BY MARI LWYD AND FELL INTO THE ZEE??????????????????

hilariously Samuel was having the time of his life during the somber first part of the festival, where he had to dangerously free-dive into a deep zee trench occupied by an giant alien sea-urchin to try to appease the tyrant king of the unterzee -- that part went fine. ITS THE CELEBRATION AFTERWARDS THAT GOT HIM. PEER-PRESSURED INTO EATING TOO MANY RUBBERY LUMPS AND BULLIED BY A HORSE SKULL ON A STICK

[galentir]

My poster for MegaCon London 2024! 👻👻👻

[thegreatyin]

THAT'S THE SPIRIT!!!!!!!

[aro-bird]

Okay, for aro awareness week, I need you all to start recognizing that:

NOT EVERYONE IN THE ARO COMMUNITY IS FROM THE UNITED STATES OR EUROPE.

Please, when we're having discussions about aphobia, allonormativity amatonormativity, and other issues for the love of god STOP PRETENDING THAT WE DON'T EXIST AND LISTEN TO US!

We aren't just your token aros that exist in the other side of the world just for you to prove that we are everywhere or whatever point you're trying to make, we are living, breathing human beings and members of the aro community and we deserve respect and to be remembered not as a point in your discourse but as equals.

I am sick and tired of people just assuming that everyone in the community is either from the United States or Europe and only centering those voices in the discussion. We exist too.

[imthepunchlord]

So, for the Off To series, I know you haven't started writing anything for them, but the concept is so interesting (especially with your new version of the miraculous and miracle box)! One of the main things I weirdly like about it is the character selections in both ideas. I really like how the scrapped concept characters get a chance to shine in Off to London (also, I could totally see Sebastian being mentor for the group, since he's older and probably has had his miraculous longer). While the characters from the specials and characters from potential scrapped show by Zagtoons get to shine in Off to Milan (I'm also curious to see if Jessica, Aeon, and Fei will appear).

It is very interesting a concept, especially the thought of removing Marinette from the events of ML cause she's central to the story, and it's essentially allowing her to be apart of something entirely new.

And yeah, the biggest appeal to me is exploring these concept characters, what was cut or what will be, with the latter the initial plan was doing my take before canon came. But we'll see if that happens.

Atm, there are no plans for Off to New York or Off to Shanghai, especially since I'm not interested in watching either Special and what I did see I don't really like or intrigues me, not in set up or even characters.

I will say, NY is more likely, with Zoe confirmed being from NY, giving me a decent size cast to work with. Shanghai is... harder. For the Off to series, I want an actual friend group and character dynamics to work off, the very thing this show skips over as it's romance obsessed and friendship ultimately doesn't matter.

Off to London has all the Quantic Kids + the waiter who's a struggling and tired college student. Nice cast to work off of.

Off to Milan has this friend group.

Also a good size cast. Which doesn't include the antagonists/villains.

New York at least can give me a trio of characters to work off Marinette. That's something, though I'd have to do tweaks, especially to Aeon. Idk about you guys but I didn't like learning she's a robot. I'm also unsure I'd even want Knightowl and Majestia existing as actual heroes, may rather them as comic heroes.

Shanghai though really just has Fei. I know there are like... some boys, but they didn't seem all that important and there is no spark to do something with them.

As for if Aeon, Jess, or Fei will appear, eeeeeh.... I currently don't have plans for them. What I see just doesn't intrigue me enough to include them. And atm, I just don't have any ideas for them.

[soljierpg]

Bridget ate london. Good ending

[jeena-says-hi]

Headcannon that Grantaire actually said “fuck” in front of Gavroche one time and everyone yelled at him for it

[esteemed-excellency]

I honestly lost count of how many times it happened

[bacchusen]

Humanoid Echo Bazaar Is Very Sad And Want Their Sunshine Back :(