sunday six

Oct. 18th, 2020 05:03 pm
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
from "j'ai rêvé (so I don't have to dream alone)":
Sneaking into Chloé's party is much easier than sneaking out of Adrien's house. All he has to do is show the invitation graphic on his phone, time and theme in white Gothic calligraphy with a silver spiderweb off-center on the black background, but he almost doesn't even need to do that: the doorkeeper sees Adrien's mask and headband and barely glances at his invite before directing him into the hotel.

On second thought, maybe Adrien didn't need an invite at all. That young Jagged Stone with aqua-tipped hair is definitely Luka, and Chloé definitely did not invite him.

Maybe he's here as Marinette's plus-one? Not that the invitations admit the possibility of plus-ones, fortunately for him, because otherwise the only reason Lila wouldn't have asked Adrien is if he'd already made a point of planning to accompany Chloé as the eternal companion of her Dracula's daughter.

sunday six

Oct. 11th, 2020 12:04 pm
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
from nine lives, snake's eyes:
Adrien wraps his arms around [Marinette]; Nino hugs them both for all he's worth. "She would have turned forty-two yesterday," Adrien murmurs, and huffs, as though something's amusing. "Father still does not know where his towel is, and I don't think he wants to."

"—Huh?" Also, ew. If Nino must imagine one of the Agrestes naked, then teasing Adrien about showering during akuma attacks in hopes of showing Ladybug the goods is much more fun.
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
via [personal profile] musesfool: Rules: post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Send me an ask Comment with the title that most intrigues you and interests you and I’ll post a little snippet of it or tell you something about it!

Here's all the Miraculous Ladybug in reverse chronological order of when I worked on them last, omitting a number that are 100% abandoned:

it's. a list. )

…plus the Sleeping Beauty retelling in which we're paying attention to what economic impact the lack of spinning wheels has on the country.

sunday six

Oct. 4th, 2020 12:04 am
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
from nine lives, snake's eyes, and this is probably one of the earliest scenes in the story in reading order as well as chronological order, and Nino's playlist is [tumblr.com profile] noirshitsuji's fault:
It's in the eyes, I can tell, you will always be—

Adrien's ride is pulling up; Nino stops caring about the lyrics. "Dude!" he calls as soon as Adrien's door opens. He pauses the track, drops his headphones around his neck, and grins back at Adrien's wavering smile.

—Wait.

Nino rechecks his texts, just to be sure:

Adrien: my future cat daughter 😸

Adrien: Audio on!

sunday six

Sep. 27th, 2020 10:20 am
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from where the firelight fades chapter 14 (chapter title maybe in flux since chapter count possibly sixteen fml):
"I also want you all to appreciate two people in particular who showed extraordinary courage last night. Those of you who have been akumatized know exactly how frightening it is to blink twice and find yourself somewhere else twenty minutes later, watching Ladybug and Chat Noir do their fistbump, and wondering what awful things you did.

"This girl knows exactly what awful things she did as an akuma, because one of her classmates filmed the whole attack for an indie movie festival. In some ways that's worse than not knowing. Last night she saw the video we recorded to tell all of you to be patient and don't lose hope, and she and her boyfriend volunteered to come stand guard. So that if the purple butterfly came back for Marinette before we were ready, we would be dealing with Horrificator, not a swarm of Firebugs."

sunday six

Sep. 13th, 2020 02:24 pm
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from more like spears than hearts chapter 2 "ciabatta and currant jam":
Scrolling through the account books doesn't change the numbers: the bakery revenue has dropped compared to last month. Again. Marinette ought (Sabine thinks) to be able to survive secondary education without stressing herself to death over things she has as little control over as Hawkmoth's impact on the income of businesses in his strike zone; Marinette ought to save her design earnings for her future except for that part she spends on making herself and her friends happy; it bothers Sabine enough that the new PvP game Marinette is cheerfully pummeling Tom on is something Marinette bought Tom 'because you're the best', read, because she realized there was a reason Tom was putting off buying it for himself, even if Marinette doesn't know what the reason—

Knock-knock-knock-knock.

Sabine thumbs off her tablet screen and goes to open the door. It's Adrien, tie knot loosened and without the jacket to match his slacks, trembling and fidgeting with the ring he always wears. "May I hug you?" he blurts out—then blinks, dropping his gaze to Sabine's eyes from somewhere a little above her head.
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
so I know it is possible to do small-caps text on AO3 as illustrated under the cut; the problem is I want to do all-caps similarly and I don't know how )


omg so much find-replace. on top of the find-replace, whenever AO3 gets the lang attribute live, to fix things to <span lang="fr">Chat Noir</span> et seq so screenreader users don't hear like group chat meets noir film.

sunday six

Sep. 6th, 2020 12:01 am
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I don't actually plan to call this fic "today I want to cat" but I bet that's what I end up calling it:
"Lucky me," Marinette deadpans, "I get to be the crazy cat lady."

"I mean, if you want to spend your life cleaning up after unappreciative little beasts you only see when they want food." Chloé's eyeroll and disdainful shrug are almost audible.

"Do you mean cats, toddlers, or men?" Adrien wonders, to great amusement; Juleka actually shrieks laughing.

"Not cats," Rose says. "Chloé has obviously never met one."
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I am not admitting which story this is from:
"Hey, LB, may I ask an invasive question?"

"Chaton, the only secrets I'm keeping from you anymore are things you don't want to know anyway." Hey, he resents that. Marinette's tone shifts from tired to tiredly amused: "Like what's in that brightly wrapped package in my trunk with your name on it."

"Oh." Which name? —Never mind.
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question for the (esp part-time) wheelchair user contingent!

if you were to design and magically construct yourself a wheelchair, such that anyone looking at it would figure it for an ordinary if high-end wheelchair meant for you yourself to propel, what would it look like, structurally? visual aids welcome.

(it needs to be a magical wheelchair for reasons including but not limited to: it flies; anyone trying to steal it or to touch it without its user's permission will Regret It; it can both propel itself and fold up for lightweight unobtrusive storage.)
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
The Old Guard (2020)/Miraculous Ladybug is not actually a crack crossover (but this prompt does spoil the movie, and carries the same warnings for temporary major character death and for torture that the movie does)


no really this is not a crack crossover )
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progress on "yo-leven at midnight", we can has!
"She told me she likes to look at me," Adrien continues, folding his arms. "And she's usually more interested in looking at what I'm wearing. That's fine! That's my job! I am glad she tells me I'm good at it! But if you think that means she's in love with me, then you must be shallower than I thought. And I already thought I've met deeper puddles by spilling my coffee."
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
(nobody bit on [community profile] betaplease, nobody bit on Yuletide Discord, nobody bit anywhere else I've asked, and I am not going back to the NaNoWriMo forums until they get a permanent block feature—a four-month-tops mute that's easily circumvented does not count—and some measure of caring about accessibility)

Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Characters/Pairings: Adrien Agreste (& Gabriel Agreste)
Rating & Warnings: Teen, I think? and No Archive Warnings Apply, but see notes
Estimated Fic Length: fic, no clue; scene I'm worried about, 1.7K
Notes: the canon this fic is for is distinctly SFF (it's the spiritual grandkid of Sailor Moon and Wonder Woman), but that should not make any of the parts I'm worried about any different from how they'd be in a present-day-France no-speculative-elements story. (sans coronavirus.)

the scene's action is someone having a heart attack and a couple of people with CPR training and an AED working to save him; the PoV character is one of the latter, and nobody dies in this story. (probably.) I know American Heart Association changed a relevant mnemonic from ABC to CAB, and because of reasons I don't care, but if there's any other inaccuracies, I want to know.

ETA: probably good now 🙂 thanks!
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
from where the firelight fades, and I am declining to specify which upcoming chapter:
"Trixx, let's pounce," Alya murmurs in the shelter of two pairs of legs and Carapace's shield, and Rena Rouge stands up for Pegasé to take their place, so no one will see more of him recharging than a flare of blue light. Not that anyone's really looking, Rena's pretty sure: the people whose chairs face either cluster of heroes are pointedly intent on their phones ("twelfth time's the charm?" mutters one, raising his phone to his ear), or their neighbors ("—just like the purple devil, wouldn't it, to frame somebody?" says one; another begins "do you think Ladybug's really—" and stops dead), or the news ticker (een Bee: seeking them out "an utterly awful way to thank) over TVi replaying aerial footage of the fog-shrouded Shellter dome. A few more are watching the emergency department's waiting room exit: a teenage boy Rena half-recognizes comes out and is immediately engulfed by a sobbing woman chanting "al-Ḥamdu lillāh, al-Ḥamdu lillāh," who might be his mother.

Which means no one is willing to notice the tear tracks forming down Rena's cheeks.
(in a stunning display of irony, if I had been more willing to be patient enough to update where the firelight fades once a week, stalling the last few chapters until I have them all at least entirely drafted and looking like a story would not have resulted in a two-month break between chapters)

sunday six

Jul. 12th, 2020 10:15 am
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from story codename Not Agreste Letters, because it's the one where I typed out the premise in an ML Discord prompts-sharing channel and then I looked at it and said something like "so [archiveofourown.org profile] GalahadWilder's Agreste Letters except instead", and also because I have not got a title yet

content note, somebody having a heart attack )

sunday six

Jul. 5th, 2020 04:06 pm
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from nine lives, snake's eyes, chapter who the fuck knows, and it might not look anything like this by the time I get there:
Adrien snorts. "If Ladybug thinks her victory depends on Chat Noir doing something that'll take him out of action, she'll sacrifice him in a heartbeat. She always has, and he's always gone along with it."

"Sometimes when she doesn't think, too," Marinette mutters.

"Yeah, sometimes he jumps the gun—or the shark—and she hates it whether it was her idea or not. That's not my point."
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
from nine lives, snake's eyes, almost certainly chapter 2, but I haven't given any thought to chapter titles yet:
"Father's been telling me for years he didn't think I was responsible enough for a pet." Adrien's scratching behind the ear of a slender gray cat, his back to the camera. "Last week he told me he thought I was ready to take an active role in the family business. Spot the contradiction."

Marinette says, "That sounds like code for he doesn't like cats."

"That is definitely code for he hates cats." Adrien turns his attention to a plump orange-and-white cat curled up on top of a cat tree. "I told him if I'm responsible enough for that, I'm responsible enough for this."
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
…remember how I said where the firelight fades wasn't gonna beat out my current longest work to date?

it is possible I lied.

(it is also probable it's going to be fifteen chapters, not fourteen…)

sunday six

Jun. 14th, 2020 06:51 pm
alexseanchai: Katsuki Yuuri wearing a blue jacket and his glasses and holding a poodle, in front of the asexual pride flag with a rainbow heart inset. (Default)
from "Cheat Sweet":
"Busy Bee?" suggested Adrien helpfully. "Bumble? No, forget that, sorry—not 'Buzzword', not 'Buzzkill'—I know: Honeybun!"

She snatched a twig off the mossy ground to swat at him with. "You're as bad as Chat Noir!"

"That stings."
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from "Cheat Sweet", [bless / curse] [personal profile] norakwami anyway, and it's not six sentences but it's the entire text exchange:
Concatenated: hopefully this part won't matter, but if you can't find T for a bit, don't panic, P needs a conspiracy buddy

Concatenated: there may be something to panic about but I don't know yet, I hope it only rates mild concern

Or The Tiger: I hope you know this conversation is greatly concerning!

Or The Tiger: see you tonight?

Concatenated: I thought you'd never ask

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