this is why we like AO3 (CN rape & underage, by reference only)

FYI for fannish types who might be interested in Waterfall: per their Community Guidelines, they are cool with NSFW fanworks, but under conditions. Most of the conditions appear to be reasonable attempts to comply with UK law, and not ethically unreasonable (though some of those are going to prove really difficult to enforce in any reasonable manner: like, how is one to distinguish between non-con written for processing personal trauma and non-con written for sexual gratification? sometimes they're the same thing). But if the characters you're creating NSFW fanworks about aren't yet eighteen in canon, NSFW of them is not allowed even if the characters are over eighteen in your fanwork. There is a distinction drawn between characters who age over the course of canon and characters who don't, which seems to allow Harry Potter erotica once the characters are over eighteen (and would if the books ended without the epilogue) though explicitly ruling out scenarios such as de-aging one of a thirty-year-old couple to twenty, but this forbids Miraculous Ladybug erotica altogether. (Or anyway it does for the ML characters who aren't adults yet in canon. I didn't feel like asking for clarification.)

anyway I deleted my account.

last ten fics, first line each

I'm stealing this off whatarubberchicken, who did not tag me, and I am tagging nobody. Play if you like.

Post the first line of your last 10 published fics, then tag 10 people. See if there are any patterns yourself, or have other people say what they notice.

[ETA: adding the part the version naye found adds]

pounce: Adrien isn't in the locker room: Marinette opens her locker, deposits her backpack, closes her lock—

the four corners of an oblate spheroid: "Oh, no," snaps Chat Noir through the baton currently serving as gas mask, resisting the urge to shake his partner back to sense.

the most refined ladybugs do it: "Nope, no, not happening," Marinette says, glaring at Tikki; "I don't care how much better a Ladybug I'll be if I keep taking on ladybug traits, I am not going to deal with egg clusters!["]

Miss Scarlet, in the Library: "Lucky Charm! ...A candlestick?"

[Yes, that's the summary, quoted in full, without the summary being in any part a quote from the story proper. Shush.]

city of lights, city of heroes: Rena Rouge, offscreen: —has a submission form with an anon option, you know that, right?

four games they played (and one they didn't): "I'd clean your clock on Rainbow Road, though."

swallow my doubt, turn it inside out (beautiful oblivion): Adrien wakes up in a hospital bed at, according to his phone, three-thirty-four Thursday morning.

the way you look tonight: Adrien was twitchy, and who could blame him?

Swords Dance: Chatonne Noire is out of Ladybug's sight for the moment, and more to the point, out of the akuma's field of view: six minutes since Cataclysm, one and a half since Chatonne bolted, probably one or two more till Plagg's been fed and Chatonne is back in the game.

you and me could write a (bad) romance: "—can't ask her, I'll die of humiliation!"

Two dialogue-only fics, one of which is technically epistolary, I suppose? Four more begin with dialogue. Only two and a half are written in past tense; counting out the two dialogue-only, the other five and a half are written in present. ("swallow my doubt" I'm doing a structural thing to convey chronology with verb tense.)

esp recommended for silveradept unless stalkery behavior's no-fly zone? only OCs offend

Stand-In Journalist (3313 words) by Miraculous_Max
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Alya Césaire & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire
Additional Tags: Dissociation, Anxiety, Chat Noir Is a Little Shit, Social Media, Twitter, Chat Noir Being Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng Is a Mess, Marinette Dupain-Cheng Is So Done, Fluff, Anxious Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Chat Noir is a Good Boy, Hurt/Comfort
Summary:

Alya decides to cash in on Marinette’s many IOUs of the past when she ends up unable to make it to an interview she had scheduled with Chat Noir.

Nothing could have prepared her for the results.

(no subject)

love languages (11882 words) by GuardianKarenTerrier
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), several background OCs
Additional Tags: Fluff and Angst, Friendship, Hurt/Comfort, Tourism, akuma dodging, platonic marichat mostly but ladynoir too, Music, yes music is important enough to tag, accidental flash mobs
Summary:

There's a very familiar figure standing in front of the wall.

Marinette hasn't seen Chat Noir so still all day. Even his tail is hanging limp, without the faintest twitch, and there's a slump to his shoulders that puts a stiffness into her own.

The other people around are giving him a wide berth. Marinette very nearly turns to leave, too, but-

Unlike the others here, she knows Chat Noir. She knows that set to his spine, the way he's standing with his chin tucked under, the restless way he's rolling his baton between his hands.

She sees the unhappiness in the way he's holding himself and she's moving towards him before she ever sees the butterfly.

PRIIIDE

Bi the Pricking of my Thumbs (1806 words) by Freedom_Shamrock
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: ladybug & chat noir
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Tikki, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marc Anciel, OC Teacher
Additional Tags: Pride, GLBTQ+ Support, Aged-Up Character(s), Paris Pride, bi marinette, Bi Adrien, biphobic Gabriel, Discussion on Self Harm (without any actual self harm)
Summary:

Ladybug is super supportive of Chat Noir's plan to come out in his civilian life this year, using the schedule that worked for her last year. But there's one tiny problem. His father's a bigot and a jerk.