*idly does math*

[alexseanchai]

I've posted 31 Miraculous Ladybug stories of at least 300 words.

Identity reveal status between Ladybug and Chat Noir:

• Pre-reveal: 3


• Reveal during: 20


• Post-reveal: 6


• Not that simple:
  
  • "city of lights, city of heroes" is definitely post–Chat Noir reveal, and definitely does not reveal Ladybug during; it is not clear to the author whether Ladybug reveals herself to Chat Noir before, after, or at all
  
  
  • swallow my doubt, turn it inside out (beautiful oblivion) has wacky hijinx with memory and verb tense and I am not prepared to categorize it here at all

Love square ships sailing:

• Ladynoir: 15


• Ladrien: 4


• Adrienette: 10


• Marichat: 1


• Not that relevant: 2


• Counted more than once above: 12


• Not that simple:
  
  • Not counting ones like "traduttori, traditori" that hit on all four sides pre-reveal
  
  
  • If the reveal happens before or during the fic and it's tagged with a slash not an ampersand, tally one up for post-reveal dynamic
  
  
  • "ménage à, uh, quatre? this isn't adding up…" is premised on hypothetical threesomes, one Adrien/Marinette/Chat Noir, one Ladybug/Adrien/Marinette
  
  
  • I am not prepared to categorize swallow my doubt, turn it inside out (beautiful oblivion) here either

…a lot of what I read is Marichat, but apparently I don't write it nearly as often? I am not, however, surprised to discover the math says I 💖 identity reveals and Ladynoir…

also: I have posted 368K words to AO3 since 2009. 120K of that is ML since July 2018!

Comments

[sylvaine]

That is ridiculously many words and I'm ridiculously impressed!

[gullwhacker]

That is a lot of words! Many of them were very good to read.

I was going to ask how this is a gift, it comes with a price ranked on the reveal, but then I remembered the bit with Ladybug's phone contact to 'Tiger'.

I'd kind of picked up the love-of-reveals bit, in large part because...well, you have more than a few stories where the two of them are hitting a stress point over the everything, and frankly some secrets need to give way. thirsty in the desert with a bagful of gold kind of embodies that most directly, but it's a bit of an undercurrent. Or maybe I'm overthinking.

Am I overthinking?

[steorra]

"and it's tagged with a slash not an ampersand"

I'm curious, what distinction does slash vs ampersand signify? I'm not acquainted with the relevant conventions.