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Forget me not

It’s been about a year since my last Miraculous Ladybug fanfic list. Given the fandom is three years old and season 2 is right around the corner (hopefully), I believe it’s time to relive and explore some of the best fanfics the fandom has to offer. By no means is this list comprehensive. Many fics aren’t on here. (I’m working on a list for newer fics, so stay tuned!)

Rainy Days by @thelastpilot (Not rated) A storm rolls through Paris and refuses to let up, so when a water fearing cat is rescued by the kind efforts of his designing classmate he starts to pay a little closer attention to someone he should have always known better.

he’s not a siren by @miraculousturtle (Rated T) Merman AU. Their meeting is orchestrated by fate, conducting them one at a time to step on the stage. With the flick of the baton, in time, they will sing the same song, but only if they aren’t swept away by the ocean’s mighty waves.

An Unexpected Surprise by @sweetprincessluck (Rated M) Adrien Agreste. Age 26. A successful international supermodel, currently changing careers to a CEO of a fashion empire. Was born and raised in Paris, had moved to the USA 6 years ago, came back for a visit. Kind, handsome, lonely. Had experienced a lot, had seen even more. Had nothing left that could surprise him anymore.Except, maybe, this - a small, blonde girl, with emerald eyes and freckles scattered across the bridge of her nose – a splitting image of his mother Lillian Agreste, excluding, perhaps, the freckles.Her name was Emma. Emma Dupain-Cheng, to be exact.

Obsession by @kryallaorchid (Rated T) Miraculous has unintended side effects. A chance encounter leaves Chat Noir in Marinette’s magic hands. Scritch and scratch, this kitty has needs. MariChat. 

Smoulder by @midnightstarlightwrites (Rated T) In which Adrien loses a bet and becomes an underwear model, Marinette loses her mind, and the whole fiasco starts a fire which might lead to the pair discovering their identities.

Retrouvailles by @gigiree (Rated G) There’s an art to telling stories. There’s an art to ending them. Just know that saying “the end” is just another way of saying it’s a new beginning. When she says goodbye, her luck is gone. His has just begun.Tattoo and Flowershop AU!

Over the Wall by @imthepunchlord (Rated G) The accident, while unintentional, was costly. For her wrong doings against Chloe, Marinette is sent over the wall to die. But instead of death, she winds up in a strange, unnerving world. Good thing she’ll have a cat to watch her back in this bizarre place.

Chasing the C/h/atwalk by @runningoutofink (Rated T) Paris. The city of lights, love and fashion. Follow the progress of Marinette Dupain Cheng as she enters the extremely competitive world of Reality television for a chance to be the winner of Project Runway: France.

Lucky Us by @geek-fashionista (Rated T) -AU- Marinette Dupain-Cheng’s life isn’t going as planned: twenty-six, recently dumped, and running her parents’ bakery. The highlights of her day are the emails sent by her mysterious pen pal, Chat Noir. That is, until handsome model Adrien Agreste starts swinging by the bakery after hours. But how is he to know the Ladybug he loves is standing right in front of him?

Guardians by @wintermoth (Rated T) In the year 2015, Marinette Dupain-Cheng said yes to Tikki, the kwami of Creation. Two days later, Adrien Agreste said yes to Plagg, the kwami of Destruction.For the first time in over a thousand years, the cat and the bug were starting fresh. (immortal AU)

Découvrir by @xiueryn (Rated M) A decade apart and he still remembered her. Marinette contacts her childhood friend in hopes of rekindling their forgotten relationship despite him being a celebrity, only to assume him to be someone else entirely. AU.

Bare Necessities by @reyxa (Rated M) Art School AU where Adrien is the nude model in Marinette’s human figure class. Major sin warning but it’s more awkward than sexy. Definitely not for little ears… or eyes I guess…

Serendipitous Fate by @skaylanphear (Rated M) Adrien is excited to reveal his true identity, while Marinette is terrified. But Master Fu says they can’t afford to be distant any longer. Chat Noir and Ladybug are meant to work in tandem both in and out of uniform, their strength stemming from the bond created between them. Yet, teenagers are sometimes better at dancing blind than running with wide open eyes, even with the steps laid out before them.Steps in the path of an expanding world. Apart, they’ll flounder. But together, they might just stand a chance.

Tikki’s New Friend by @panda013 (Rated G) The dog was easily the height of his chest, and the young woman walking it could have only come up to his shoulder. But she was just cheerfully walking along beside the dog, chatting and laughing happily with a redheaded young woman. The dog was a big black beast—he didn’t know the breed then, nor did he particularly care, but it whined pitifully when its equally dark-haired owner paused to read a street sign. She just giggled and reached out a hand to ruffle its fur, and the giant’s tail wagged happily.

heartstrings by @zenwisterias (Rated T) one of marinette’s rare unlucky days turns into something treacherous. thanks to a certain cat, the real danger passes, but there are other things to be more afraid of. her heart, for example, might be one of them.

The Ladybugs and the Bees by @bullysquadess (Rated M) This originally started as a fanfic about periods and just devolved into crack.

You Don’t Know Me by @ferisae (Rated T) When Ladybug suffers a near-fatal accident and is presumed dead, it is up to Adrien - who has discovered Ladybug’s secret - to help her through her painstaking recovery and reacquaint her with herself. All this while trying to save Paris on his own without losing himself in the process.

Satisfaction Brought It Back by @siderealsandman (Rated E) Most people rekindled friendships with people from high school over Facebook or Twitter. Most people met for coffee, shared pictures of their bratty children, and sent old friends Christmas letters once a year. Marinette was clearly not most people as she had somehow hooked up with her former high school crush on a bondage dating website and didn’t know it until he was standing in front of her with an identical look of bemused embarrassment plastered all over his pretty face.

A Werecat in London by @i-am-thornqueen (Rated M) After an unfortunate encounter with an akuma while in London on a business trip, Chat Noir is forced to deal with the unexpected consequences. Can Ladybug help him return to his normal self, or will he be stuck for the rest of his life getting in touch with his wild side?

tangled ribbons by @demistories (Rated G) Marinette is a small studio dancer who wins a scholarship to a summer long ballet intensive. Adrien is a famous ballet dancer who would rather be at home than at said intensive. The end of the summer will bring about a showcase that could make Marinette’s career, if she can ignore Chloé and focus on something other than Adrien.

The Space Between Us by @chassecroise (Rated T) What’s a ladybug to do when her kitten becomes a cat?

Accident of the Evening by @thatwriterchickrachel (Rated T) Adrien Agreste, rumoured royalty, just wants a normal life. But one night on the run he meets Marinette, a normal girl, with a normal life. Marinette can’t believe it. Her long-time celebrity crush had crashed into her life and was now hanging out with her and her friends in between his busy schedule.With the Annual Parisian Masquerade Ball approaching, and an announcement sure to change everything looming over them, the two young adults begin a friendship and a double life.

Emergence by @artisticflutter (Rated M) They were only teenagers, but they are no more. Forced to awaken to new powers, both find themselves codependent on the other in order to survive and escape from their captors. They are Ladybug and Chat Noir - they are Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Adrien Agreste. Part One of a possible series.

The Lights that Lead Us Home by @oceanspray5 (Rated G) Based on @piku-chan’s Cinderella AU on Tumblr. Marinette remains at the Palace to train as a noble and Adrien takes on more responsibilities as King. The wedding is planned for the Prince and his Princess and despite any outside meddling forces, goes off without a hitch.

Le Chat Noir by ParadiseAvenger (Rated E) Le Chat Noir was the most popular strip club in Paris. Marinette could explain how she wound up there the first time, but she couldn’t explain how she kept coming back.

The Wingman Visits by @niuniente (Rated M) When Chat Noir finds out Ladybug’s real identity as Marinette, he also discovers her huge crush for Adrien. As a gentleman he is Chat Noir offers to be a wingman between Marinette and Adrien, trying to get them together.

Sealed away by @ashesandhoney (Rated T) Five years ago, Ladybug left Paris and left Chat Noir to learn how to keep it together on his own.Marinette is back in Paris with an internship at the Agreste Fashion house trying to get the spring show up and running and as much as Adrien appreciates having a friend at work, he’s distracted by Ladybug’s return and more Akuma attacks than either of them have faced before.Something big is coming and nothing can stay sealed away forever.

Cut from the Same Cloth by @baneismydragon (Rated T) When Gabriel notices that Adrien is collecting various supplies from his office, he assumes that his son has finally decided to show an interest in the family business. However when he tries to show his support by showing up at a school presentation, things quickly spiral out of control and everyone learns more than they bargained for

Désolé by @pozolegirl (Rated G) ‘The Cat’s out of the Bag’ as Adrien would say, and now Marinette and Adrien must work through their emotions during this new reveal of identities, all while Hawkmoth is hot on their trail and not about to let them slip away from him, taking matters into his own hands.

Sing the Song of Sailing Sirens by @princessofharte (Rated T) Adrien Agreste is the Pirate Lord of the High Seas, chasing a British flagship until Le Chat Noir is blown off course into a green storm.

This is not a complete list of the best fics in the fandom. Many of these authors have written multiple fanfics for this fandom and they are all amazing. Indeed, many of the fics on AO3 with the most hits, the most kudos, and the most comments were other fics not mentioned here but completed by many of these authors. Every work of fanfiction is amazing. If you want to help encourage writers to write more awesome fanfiction, please leave a comment on their works. It can be as short as “This is great!” Seriously. We live off validation.

It’s not narcissism if I add in my own fic here, right?

Was there anything I missed? Leave it in the reblogs and spread the word so that others–including myself–can read it!

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ꕤ = fluff | ✰ = angst | # = spice -> updated: 11.3.23

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✰ the sun still rises - fem!reader series // 1.4k

ꕤ touch me, tenderly - gn!reader -> ꕤ pt. ii // 2k

ꕤ seven things i like about you - gn!reader // 0.7k

# don't crush the wings - fem!reader // 2k

ꕤ dine n’ dash - gn!reader // 1.5k

Part 15 of my bakery “enemies” au!

Hm. Perhaps people don’t want to buy bread or pastries from the incredibly recognizable son of a terrorist.

Happy birthday to me, have some more suffering :) 

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Masterlist

IMAGINES

13 Reasons Why

Alex Standall

The One-Night Perfect Relationship

American Horror Story

Tate Langdon

The Round of Love and Death | Part 2

Descendants

Carlos De Vil

Good Beginning, Bad Middle, Happy Ending

In Love To The Core

The Great Quest

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Rodrick Heffley

Loded Crush

Gravity Falls

Dipper Pines

Virtual Friends

Harry Potter

Draco Malfoy

Pure-Love

Neville Longbottom

Snowflakes

Oliver Wood

Valentine’s Day

Sirius Black

Learning To Let You Go 

It (2017)

Ben Hanscom

Notes and That Wow Feeling

Bill Denbrough

Attention Is Needed

Halloween Night

Through Your Eyes | The Awakening

When You Don’t Know What’s Real

Eddie Kaspbrak

Neighbor To The Rescue

The Best Friend Anyone Could Ask For

The Loser Who Became Lover

Richie Tozier

Halloween Tradition

Stuck Together

Stanley Uris

Falling For You | Quarry Drama

Yearbook Confession | Love and Birds

Life Is Strange

Nathan Prescott

Something Good

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Peter Parker

Guilty Nightmares

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Enoch O’Connor

Entertainment Dolls 

Like I Do

Play Date

Horace Somnusson

A Late Night Visit 

Stranger Things

Jonathan Byers

Just Confess Already

Mike Wheeler

Brother’s Friend | The (Not So) Perfect Night

Movie Theater

Someone Else

Steve Harrington

That Baseball Bat

Supernatural

Sam Winchester

Schoolmates

The 100

Bellamy Blake

Can’t Help Falling In Love

Home

It’s Worth

Masquerade Confession

Moonlight Beast

Not Just An Act

Safer With You

Sleepover | One Blake, Never Both (Choosing Bellamy alternate sequel) | Can’t Pretend  

The Protective (Boy)Friend

Clarke Griffin

I Need You Too

Harper McIntyre

The Blonde and The Flower Girl

Jasper Jordan

Bravery Is Always Rewarded

Chemistry Study

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Cold Night | The Great (Food) War | The Denied Truth | Her Boys, Their Girl (+Monty Green)

Forgiveness Is Hard | The One-Day Deal (+Monty Green)

Get The Girl

Inconvenient Girl

Listening To The Wrong Person (+Monty Green)

Masquerade Kiss

Safe Place

Sweet Messages

The Boy Next Door

The Clumsy Girl

The Perfect Start

The Same Side

The Tale of The Great King Jasper, True-Monty of Agro Station and Non-Monty | The Ambulonty Incident

John Murphy

All About That Bass

Murphy’s Law

Satellite

Maya Vie

Hold My Hand

Monty Green

Cold Night | The Great (Food) War  | The Denied Truth | Her Boys, Their Girl (+Jasper Jordan)

Forgiveness Is Hard | The One-Day Deal (+Jasper Jordan)

Great

Here To Help

I Have To Be

Listening To The Wrong Person (+Jasper Jordan)

Oh, Nonty

Snow Kisses

Stubborn Moon

Octavia Blake

Feelings Aren’t Meant To Be Kept To Yourself 

Raven Reyes

A Little Vacation

The Chronicles of Narnia

Edmund Pevensie

Love Station

The King’s Sister and Mouse’s Lady

Twilight

Quil Ateara V

Stormy Night

PREFERENCES

The 100

How You Meet

WOULD INCLUDE

Descendants

Carlos De Vil

Carlos De Vil having a crush on you would include

Harry Potter

Remus Lupin

Dating Remus Lupin would include

Feeling insecure about your new haircut and having Remus Lupin to comfort you would include 

It (2017)

Richie Tozier

Having a summer fling with Richie Tozier would include

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Being a peculiar in Miss Peregrine’s Home would include

Stranger Things

Dustin Henderson

Being Dustin Henderson’s older sister would include

The 100

Bellamy Blake

Being Bellamy Blake’s soulmate would include

Dating Bellamy Blake would include

Having been Bellamy Blake’s girlfriend on the Ark and seeing him again on Earth would include

Spending Christmas with Bellamy Blake would include (Modern AU)

Jasper Jordan

Being in a relationship with Jasper Jordan and Monty Green would include

Having a crush on Jasper Jordan would include (Modern AU)

Jasper Jordan having a crush on you would include

Jasper Jordan losing his virginity to you would include

Spending Christmas with Jasper Jordan would include (Modern AU)

John Murphy

Dating John Murphy would include

Marcus Kane

Being Marcus Kane’s daughter would include 

Monty Green

Being in a relationship with Jasper Jordan and Monty Green would include

Monty Green having a crush on you would include

Spending Christmas with Monty Green would include (Modern AU)

Wells Jaha

Dating Wells Jaha would include

The Chronicles of Narnia

Edmund Pevensie

Being a maid from another kingdom and visiting Narnia would include 

I don’t think this went around Tumblr, but it’s amazing

battle of the sexes (five) - tom holland

pairing: tom holland x female!reader

summary: college!tom au - What do you get when you pair up two people who want nothing to do with each other for a psych project titled “Battle of the Sexes”? Loads of sexual tension and maybe just a tad bit of hatred.

- part five of ten

part one  part two  part three  part four 

warnings: language as usual lmao, drinking

words: 2000

a/n: srry this took so long!!!! lol gif creds to owner!

“But you don’t drink.”

You sighed, folding the next round of clothes that came out of the dryer, pressing them against your chest tightly. Zendaya sat across from you, arms folded and lips pursed as she studied the nervous energy beginning to radiate off of you.

“Okay, so?” you questioned hastily, nodding your head in Z’s direction. “I can still…party?” you inched your response, narrowing your eyes as you contemplated your own suggestion.

She laughed lightly, smiling amusingly at your eyes filled with confusion and hesitation. She could read you at any time, due to knowing you for about three years.

And that look. The scene, the vibes you’re giving off, she knows.

You were standing in the middle of your dorm room, sweatpants adorning your legs and a loose t-shirt engulfing you in a tense hug while your hands repeatedly folded hers and your clothes at warp speed.

“Y/N, you’ve never been to a party a day in your life,” Zendaya confessed, leaning her back against the wall behind her bed, eyebrows raised humorously.

“Woah, I’ve been to partie-”

“Not, ones like this.”

Your lips shut tightly as she interrupted, sighing heavily as she eyed you with that look of accuracy. You rolled your eyes as you folded the last pair of leggings, setting them on your bed.

Okay, you were nervous, fine. Going to parties like this was not in your type of scheduling, especially ones that Tom had any time of interaction in.

It wasn’t like you didn’t know what drunk, explicit, nasty, and potentially illegal things went on during Herman’s parties; hell, you could feel the tension from the chaos in your feet as the beat from the music thumped heavily around the entire building at two o'clock in the morning.

You really didn’t want to go, but the thought of seeing Tom’s smug demeanor relishing in your vacancy of tonight caused your veins to tingle with irritation and your teeth to grind together.

You couldn’t give him that kind of satisfaction.

Sitting with him at your next project meetup with him pushing the truth upon you was so much more painful than getting your ass dragged to this hell of an event.

You sighed, eye glancing over at the clock next to Z’s bed.

7:46 p.m.

“Fuck we have like, an hour and half to get ready.” You pushed the newly folded clothes to side, walking towards the shared closet and yanked all of your clothes off their hangers, flailing them onto the bed.

Zendaya chuckled watching you throw your clothes around the room, disposing of the tops you didn’t approve of. “Y/N, are you sure you want to go to this?”

You stopped, looking over your shoulder at her briefly before turning back to your ransacked clothes, “No,” you stopped, breathing in a deep sigh as you leaned your arms onto the pile of clothes, “but I can’t let that little fucker win.” Your voice raspy as you peeked back at her once more, eyebrows furrowed in concern.

Zendaya shot you a small smirk, getting up off the bed. “Well,” she started, moving to stand next to you; her arm reached up and pulled you into the side of her shoulder, squeezing you comfortingly, “Then let’s show him how to have a good fucking time.”

-

“Oh, god,” were the two words that left that your chapped lips as soon as you set your eyes on the scene before you.

Your eyes couldn’t focus on one thing at a time, because every event that was occurring before you was incomparable to anything you’d ever seen.

To the right, people were piled on top of the other in pairs, lips trailing over the other in muggy, drunken kisses as the couch cushions pushed out due to the pressure from their bodies. To the left, people stood in the kitchen area, sitting on top of counter tops as a joint was being passed around by every person; the fluorescent lights dangling above, lit the numerous high students’ faces with energy as they laughed exceedingly at one another.

As you scoffed, your eyes peeled to the center of the area, where everyone under the goddamn sun was drinking and dancing (grinding) in what seemed like a huddle. Beers were clasped tightly in peoples’ hands as their bodies gyrated against others to the music, mouths slightly opened in a drunken haze.

“What did we-” you started, eyes finally focusing as you made unfortunate eye contact with a guy from your Econ class, Steven Hart, as he had is tongue shoved down some girl’s throat.

“Get ourselves into,” Z finished as you shuddered at the sight before you.

You stood still, unable to move as you felt your comfort level drop to a solid zero, your hands intertwined together, nails scratching at the top of your hands nervously. This entire scene, the situation, just wasn’t you. It wasn’t like you were shitting on people who did actually enjoy this type of scene, you just couldn’t find a way to relax.

Your fingertips pumped with adrenaline as the music thumping around you developed a sense of heaviness in your chest, eyebrows scrunched together. Zendaya mirrored your actions, craning her neck to look around the crowded area.

“I mean,” she started, looking over at you worriedly, “let’s try to make the most out of it, okay?” she pressed, eye looking into yours needily.

“Yeah, you’re right! Let’s just-”

“Woah, Y/N and Zendaya at a party?” You both heard the deep British accent from behind you, yet it radiated politeness and a sense of sincerity as it cut you off.

You both turned and saw Harrison, a wide smile adorning his features and a red plastic cup being held tightly in his left hand. “What’s up?” he asks, approaching two of you.

Zendaya smiled back, “Hey! I haven’t seen you in-”

“Six hours?” Harrison teases, referring to their work on their project. “It’s been a while, hasn’t it?” his lips are spread widely as his eyes seem to focus in on your roommate, still smiling in his direction.

You looked between the both of them oddly, narrowing your eyes as the flirty silence of an exchange last for several seconds. You reached over and tugged at her jacket, causing her to advert her gaze to you, “Z, let’s go get something to drink, yeah?”

“Oh yeah! Okay, well I’ll see you later,” she looked back Harrison’s smitten gaze on her; he waved slightly before turning back around and heading to a group of guys in the back corner.

You raised your eyebrows in Z’s direction, wiggling them teasingly at her sweet gaze on Harrison as he walked away.

“Shut up!” she whispered, hitting you softly on the arm.

You brushed it off with a chuckle as you two made your way to the kitchen area stacked with keg after keg after keg. The people smoking had migrated to the middle of the room, so the counter-tops (thankfully) were cleared.

Your eyes scanned the area, looking Zendaya in the eye before skeptically reaching over onto the handle of the fridge, yanking in open.

“Just grab me something, easy.” Z clarified shooting you a worried look as you observed the endless amount of alcohol in the fridge. You reached in and grabbed two beers from the top shelf, handing one to her.

You popped it open and brought it to your lips, the cold aluminum touching your lips sent a shiver crawling across your skin as the sour taste hit the back of your throat. Your eyes squeezed shut as slammed the can down, suddenly feeling a rush of adrenaline ignite your veins; the taste of the beer stirring in the back of your mouth.

You don’t know what had come over you in the past ten seconds, but your brain had switched from anxiety-driven actions to hazed-driven actions. Maybe it was the rap music thumping in the back of your eardrums, or the alcoholic breath that was surrounding your nostrils in a sharp scent, but it was somehow bringing you to become more comfortable in the environment, especially watching the way people seemed to be living so care-free and exciting in this state of time.

“Then let’s show him how to have a good fucking time.”

Zendaya laughed whole-heartedly as you picked up the can and chugged the rest of the drink in one breath, the tangy taste causing your tongue to tingle with excitement. “Seems like you’ve really loosened up in the past five minutes,” Z declared, watching you amusingly.

“Y-Yeah! I don’t want to do this with all the worry piled on my back, Z!” You hollered as loudly as you could with the music, “I want to have fucking fun,” you finished, throwing your hand in the air dramatically as cheers from the middle of the room erupted into your ears as someone popped up from an empty keg.

You wanted to be free for just one night.

-

“Look who actually showed up!” your ears rang with that familiar accent from behind you, causing your stomach to churn on the spot. You lazily turned around to see the one person you didn’t want to see the entire night in front of you, a random girl latched on to his arm.

Tom’s hair was disheveled, resembling after sex hair, as his chocolate eyes were surprisingly sparkling with anticipation as he spoke to you. His thin pink lips appeared to be slightly swollen as they glistened with a wet sheer; cheeks flushed as well.

Your hazy eyes grazed his features in irritation, wandering down to his neck, a bright purple and pink hickey placed right on the base of his throat, his adam’s apple prominent.

You couldn’t help but emit a deep groan as you soaked in the scene: Tom’s disheveled appearance was teasing you as your drunken state was beginning to consume you entirely, your hair stringy with sweat as it glided down the sides of your forehead.

So, it wasn’t exactly a picture-fucking-picture scenario.

You continued to bob your head to the thumping music, another beer in one hand as your jacket had fallen off your right shoulder slightly, “What the fuck do you want, Tom?” you pressed, eyes closing quickly to refrain yourself from falling over.

Tom chuckled, pushing the needy girl off his arm and onto another as he grabbed a beer from his friend’s hand, “I just wanted to see how much of an appearance you’d actually make at this party, love.” His eyes scaled your weary figure as you stopped your motions to look at him confusedly.

You immediately allowed a huge hiccup to release from in between your lips, hand reaching up to wipe your mouth, “I’m here, aren’t I?” you pushed, neck jutting out to make your point before you turned back around to dance with Z.

Your brain was longer operating as it normally did, but it still knew how much you didn’t need Tom annoying the fuck out of you once again.

While you were dancing, you felt a tap on your shoulder; turning back around, you saw Tom once more, lips formed into his usual smug-ass expression.

“What now?” you screamed, throwing your arms out exasperatedly, causing some of your beer to fly out of the can. Tom’s expression didn’t flinch, he stepped closer to you and looked into your glazed eyes amusingly.

Eye-level with him, your lips pursed as one eyebrow quirked up expectantly, questioning his sudden motives. His hair caused your heart to do a quick leap at its state, but you only pressured your mind into thinking it was just your drunken hormonal state allowing you to even think of it.

Tom chuckled softly, “Come with me.”

“What?”

“I want to show you something, just come here, love.” Tom’s voice was softening by the second, so your suspicions grew. But, as he yanked on your arm in the opposite direction, you had no idea what you were about to get yourself into.

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French music recs

Stromae - Belgian artist, clever lyrics and catchy music

Check out Papaoutai and Tous Les Mêmes

Mika - pop, has French songs as well as English

Check out Elle Me Dit and J’ai Pas Envie

Mozart l’opéra rock - a musical, but I like the songs enough to list it here

Check out Le bien qui fait mal and Tatoue-moi

Maître Gims - rap and pop, I don’t listen to him that much but he’s good

Check out J’me tire and  Est-ce que tu m'aimes?

Indila - pop, I’ve heard some of her songs a lot on the radio

Check out Dernière Danse and Tourner Dans Le Vide

Notre Dame de Paris - another musical, I love the sound of it

Check out Belle and Le Temps des Cathédrales

I might update this list later as I just listed these as they came to mind and I definitely missed a lot of popular artists. Feel free to add on!!

WHERE DREAMS GO TO DIE | bucky x avenger!reader 

summary: Steve’s silly joke happened to inspire the best, or possibly the worst, idea Wanda had ever come up with — send James Buchanan Barnes and y/n on an all-expenses-paid honeymoon in Hawaii. the problem? they cannot stand to be around each other.

warnings: enemies to lovers, forced proximity, explicit language, heavy alcohol consumption, sarcastic!bucky, smut in later chapters

word count: 34k  

author’s note: the series is based on The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren!

series’ SPOTIFY playlist

1 | stuck in the middle 

2 | unfinished business 

3 | over the water & down below

4 | as we slowly die 

5 | hands on

6 | ego’s one hell of a drug 

7 | spite her, spite me

Helpful things for action writers to remember

Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. 

Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes. It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. 

Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. An arrow wound demands medical attention. 

Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. 

Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Think about how long your character has been fighting. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. 

ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A lot of times people think that adrenaline will kick in and give you some badass fighting skills, but it’s actually the opposite. Adrenaline is what tires you out in a battle and it also affects the fighter’s efficacy - meaning it makes them shaky and inaccurate, and overall they lose about 60% of their fighting skill because their brain is focusing on not dying. Adrenaline keeps you alive, it doesn’t give you the skill to pull off a perfect roundhouse kick to the opponent’s face. 

Swords WILL bend or break if you hit something hard enough. They also dull easily and take a lot of maintenance. In reality, someone who fights with a sword would have to have to repair or replace it constantly.

Fights get messy. There’s blood and sweat everywhere, and that will make it hard to hold your weapon or get a good grip on someone. 

A serious battle also smells horrible. There’s lots of sweat, but also the smell of urine and feces. After someone dies, their bowels and bladder empty. There might also be some questionable things on the ground which can be very psychologically traumatizing. Remember to think about all of the character’s senses when they’re in a fight. Everything WILL affect them in some way. 

If your sword is sharpened down to a fine edge, the rest of the blade can’t go through the cut you make. You’ll just end up putting a tiny, shallow scratch in the surface of whatever you strike, and you could probably break your sword. 

ARCHERS ARE STRONG TOO. Have you ever drawn a bow? It takes a lot of strength, especially when you’re shooting a bow with a higher draw weight. Draw weight basically means “the amount of force you have to use to pull this sucker back enough to fire it.” To give you an idea of how that works, here’s a helpful link to tell you about finding bow sizes and draw weights for your characters.  (CLICK ME)

If an archer has to use a bow they’re not used to, it will probably throw them off a little until they’ve done a few practice shots with it and figured out its draw weight and stability. 

People bleed. If they get punched in the face, they’ll probably get a bloody nose. If they get stabbed or cut somehow, they’ll bleed accordingly. And if they’ve been fighting for a while, they’ve got a LOT of blood rushing around to provide them with oxygen. They’re going to bleed a lot. 

Here’s a link to a chart to show you how much blood a person can lose without dying. (CLICK ME) 

If you want a more in-depth medical chart, try this one. (CLICK ME)

Hopefully this helps someone out there. If you reblog, feel free to add more tips for writers or correct anything I’ve gotten wrong here. 

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