you won't make yourself a name if you follow the rules

a love poem by Disney Encanto's Mariano Guzman, and


Civil Service in a Time of Akuma (645 words) by NinthFeather
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Original Miraculous Ladybug Character(s), Background & Cameo Characters, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, André Bourgeois, Camilla Hombee
Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Government Agencies, Superheroes, Politics, No Beta we Die like Chat Noir
Summary:

Some members of the Sécurité Civile discuss Paris’s superhero problem.

the luckycharmzine 2 is live!

I have a story in here! "ghost of a chance (or, five times previous Miraculous wielders helped their heirs and one time one tried to)"

Breaking Cards' Conventions (the Bittersweet And Strange remix) (723 words) by Chanter
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Nathalie Sancoeur | Mayura, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Nino Lahiffe | Carapace (mentioned)
Additional Tags: puns, Wordplay, Magic, Remix, one seriously nasty akuma, one beneficial Sentimonster, Alliances, Disney references everywhere, Mayura redemption
Summary:

Miss Scarlet's in the library with M. Green and M. Green, the candlestick isn't quite up for grabs, and the other player in the game is Mlle. Peafowl, thank you.

[remixing my "Miss Scarlet, in the library"]

Outfoxed (23654 words) by enigmaticEditor
Chapters: 7/7
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alya Césaire/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe
Characters: Alya Césaire, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Kagami Tsurugi, Nino Lahiffe, Lila Rossi, Trixx (Miraculous Ladybug), Alix Kubdel
Additional Tags: POV Alya Césaire, Lila Rossi's Lies Are Exposed, because this is the alya vs. lila fic we all deserve, and is also a middle finger to everyone who hates alya because of chameleon and ladybug, she’s the only one who RESISTED lila you absolute clowns, alya césaire carries this show on her back and you will respect her or die by my sword, or pen rather, i can and will use both, oh and don’t think we hating on adrien either. kid’s just as much of a victim here, the only thing he did wrong was be way too selfless like usual, Lila Rossi Bashing, also known as the just and moral thing to do in every miraculous fic, here i’ll go ahead and start us off in the tags, this sausage-haired bitch isn’t even good at lying she’s obviously just cheating, Identity Reveal, except it’s not important because it’s off-screen and alya isn’t a part of it, similarly while adrienette and adrigaminette are things alyanette takes center stage as it deserves, and alya and nino are just chilling in their established and secure poly/open relationship, there may also be way too many maribug jokes whoops, Polyamory, look i can’t write anything without fluffy poly shenanigans it’s just not possible, helps that this show had what amounted to an actual poly date, oh and speaking of things made obvious by subtext, Autistic Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Autistic Kagami Tsurugi, that's just canon but i have to address it it's so important and good
Summary:

Lila Rossi is not a Miraculous wielder. That doesn’t mean she doesn’t have power. Alya was under her spell, along with so many others, until the day Lila unknowingly overstepped herself. Freed at last, the true Fox recognizes magic when she sees it, even if it doesn’t come from a source she understands. She is none too happy about this pretender abusing her natural gifts to make fools of Alya and those she loves.

Alya Césaire might need an enchanted necklace and the aid of a tiny deity to cast illusions, but she swore to use her borrowed abilities for the greater good long ago. There is none better suited to facilitate the liar’s downfall.

And maybe she’ll help her best friend sort out her increasingly complex love life along the way.

We Didn't Start The Fire (2767 words) by silveradept
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Alya Césaire/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Alya Césaire
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Alya Césaire, Original Miraculous Ladybug Character(s)
Additional Tags: Bisexual Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Bisexual Ladybug, Post-Reveal Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Press and Tabloids, Polyamourous Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Miraculous Cure Is Scary, Cataclysm Is Scary, Social Justice, Global Warming, geopolitics, Why Send A Superhero To Do A Billionaires Job?
Summary:

The world has decided that Ladybug has the power to change everything and is demanding she do so. Ladybug calls a press conference to explain what she thinks about this.

Chat Noir adds the stinger.

And then Marinette, Adrien, and Alya have a study session that's nominally about economics.

(these are kinda traumatic spots for angelofthequeers and Reiaji to leave off on, fyi; GalahadWilder however is writing a fluffbomb; also thecrazyladybug drew cute fluffy Adrienette and chataclysmes—who probably didn't know my birthday till after posting this—drew cute fluffy Snekmouse!Adrienette)


Unwise (4667 words) by GalahadWilder
Chapters: 2/?
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Aspik, Multimouse - Character, Bee!Adrien - Character, Bee Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir - Character, Snake Adrien Agreste | Aspik - Character, Rat Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Multimouse
Series: Part 3 of The "Fix Buggachat's Laptop" Fic Drive
Summary:

Ladybug is exhausted, and Chat convinces her to finally start bringing on the temp wielders permanently.

Unfortunately for Chat's poor kitty brain, she chooses to use that opportunity to set up Multimouse with Aspik.

He is SO SCREWED.


whose woods these are (I think I know.) (52013 words) by Reiaji
Chapters: 15/24
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Chloé Bourgeois
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Fairy Tale, Cinderella Elements, Mutual Pining, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, ladrien, Marichat, #LetAdrienBeADisneyPrincess2k19
Summary:

Four years after his future turns to cinders, Adrien is a servant in the house he was meant to inherit. Disowned by his father and abused by his stepmother, his days are filled with drudgery until he meets a masked huntress in the forest behind his father's chateau.

As his friendship with Ladybug turns to first love, he dreams of a future spent at her side.

Then, on the eve of the Princess's masquerade, he meets his guardian—and is granted a wish.

[Ladrien Cinderella AU]


Hold Me By Both Hands (145743 words) by angelofthequeers
Chapters: 46/49
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Luka Couffaine, Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe, Juleka Couffaine/Rose Lavillant, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Kagami Tsurugi
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Kagami Tsurugi, Luka Couffaine, Nino Lahiffe, Alya Césaire, Chloé Bourgeois, Lila Rossi, Classmates (Miraculous Ladybug), Master Fu (Miraculous Ladybug), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Mylène Haprèle, Wayzz (Miraculous Ladybug)
Additional Tags: Romance, Identity Reveal, Polyamory, Miraculous Ladybug Love Square, Marichat, Adrinette, Bisexual Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Bisexual Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Pansexual Luka Couffaine, Asexual Kagami Tsurugi, Asexual Alix Kubdel, Lesbian Chloé Bourgeois, Pansexual Alya Césaire, look - Freeform, no one is straight in here, no one - Freeform, Kwami Swap, temporarily, Season 2 AU, Dorks in Love, Chloé Bourgeois Redemption, Adrien grows a spine, Autistic Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Autistic Kagami Tsurugi, Hot Mess Marinette Dupain-Cheng, group chat shenanigans, Lila is a turd, as usual, Master Fu is actually helpful, Don't copy to another site, Akumatized Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Gabriel Agreste is an Asshole, Gabriel Agreste's A+ Parenting, Demiromantic Kagami Tsurugi
Summary:

“I know he said never to take you back,” Plagg mutters. “But he’d change his tune if he knew.” He looks Adrien straight in the eye and, more serious than Adrien’s ever seen him before, says, “There’s someone you gotta meet. He’s been looking for that book for ages.”

How differently might the events of season 2 have gone if Adrien had also known of Master Fu from the start?


ETA Jan 15: I am repurposing this list for snowflake_challenge prompt 8: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

Queen of Secrets (51842 words) by SairenHaria
Chapters: 17/?
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir & Chloé Bourgeois, Chloé Bourgeois & Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Chloé Bourgeois, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Luka Couffaine, Kagami Tsurugi, Sentimonster Ladybug (Miraculous Ladybug)
Additional Tags: miraculer spoilers, Chloé Bourgeois Redemption, Chloe here to smack some sense into two idiots in love, And troll them, Angst, Queen Bee will rise again, Unrequited Crush, Lila salt, identity reveals, Chloé Bourgeois Being Chloé Bourgeois, just spoiling all of season three at this point, Marinette and Adrien seriously need to work on self reflection, Chloe's only got so many things she can self reflect on, Fluff and Angst, Chloe wants to know why she's now a therapist, Chloe is bi as hell and trying real hard to not think about it, Mild time travel but heavy angst, Vedalia
Series: Part 1 of Queen of Secrets
Summary:

In quick succession, Chloe learns two very important secrets: Chat Noir and Ladybug's identities! Which sets off a chain of events thanks to Chloe's shift in priorities. After all, someone has to keep those two sane.

So begins plans to deal with a certain liar, trap a bird, earn her Bee, and get two idiots together who won't admit their identities. Not made easier by everyone's various personsl issues and everyone's warranted trust issues of Chloe herself.

But Chloe is full of both love, and spite, and if she has to learn to get along with Marinette, the power of friendship, and deal with late night visits and a new roommate, then she'll see it through no matter what.

Everyone else just has to come along for the ride.


Hold Me By Both Hands (48819 words) by angelofthequeers
Chapters: 15/50
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Luka Couffaine, Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Luka Couffaine/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug/Kagami Tsurugi, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe, Juleka Couffaine/Rose Lavillant, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Kagami Tsurugi
Characters: Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Kagami Tsurugi, Luka Couffaine, Nino Lahiffe, Alya Césaire, Chloé Bourgeois, Lila Rossi, Classmates (Miraculous Ladybug), Master Fu (Miraculous Ladybug), Tikki (Miraculous Ladybug), Plagg (Miraculous Ladybug), Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Mylène Haprèle, Wayzz (Miraculous Ladybug)
Additional Tags: Romance, Identity Reveal, Polyamory, Miraculous Ladybug Love Square, Marichat, Adrinette, Bisexual Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Bisexual Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Pansexual Luka Couffaine, Lesbian Kagami Tsurugi, Asexual Kagami Tsurugi, Asexual Alix Kubdel, Lesbian Chloé Bourgeois, Pansexual Alya Césaire, look - Freeform, no one is straight in here, no one - Freeform, Kwami Swap, temporarily, Season 2 AU, Dorks in Love, Chloé Bourgeois Redemption, Adrien grows a spine, Autistic Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Autistic Kagami Tsurugi, Hot Mess Marinette Dupain-Cheng, group chat shenanigans, Lila is a turd, as usual, Master Fu is actually helpful, Don't copy to another site, Akumatized Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Gabriel Agreste is an Asshole, Gabriel Agreste's A+ Parenting
Summary:

“I know he said never to take you back,” Plagg mutters. “But he’d change his tune if he knew.” He looks Adrien straight in the eye and, more serious than Adrien’s ever seen him before, says, “There’s someone you gotta meet. He’s been looking for that book for ages.”

How differently might the events of season 2 have gone if Adrien had also known of Master Fu from the start?

until she falls in love with me (5557 words) by CheshireMadd
Chapters: 8/?
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Nino Lahiffe, Alya Césaire, Chloé Bourgeois
Additional Tags: Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Rated for the Possibility of Swearing, tiktok au, Hot Mess Adrien Agreste, Hot Mess Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Also rated for the occasional sex joke
Summary:

Adrien Agreste documents his attempts to woo the girl he’s madly in love with.

With a meme. Because how else?

The Royal Test (21518 words) by silveradept
Chapters: 9/9
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir/Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth/Nathalie Sancoeur
Characters: Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Alix Kubdel, Nathalie Sancoeur, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth, Le Gorille | Adrien Agreste's Bodyguard
Additional Tags: Songfic, The A+ Parenting of Nathalie Sancoeur, The A++ Parenting of Gabriel Agreste, Abusive Parents, Identity Reveal, Adrien Agreste | Chat Noir Identity Reveal, Marinette Dupain-Cheng | Ladybug Identity Reveal, Gabriel Agreste | Papillon | Hawk Moth Identity Reveal, Living Down To Your Reputation
Summary:

It only takes a spark to set off events that cannot be wound back. The unexpected loss of someone dear sends dominoes down. At the very end, only the strongest survive to begin climbing up again.

I don't understand why it's so much easier to put together rec lists for fanfic_friday (…yes, it's Sunday, shush) than for Thursday recs on my own journal.

anyway.