In Celebration Of Galette De Rois, Which I First Learned About And Was Inspired By Miraculous Ladybug

Love how they draw Adrien/Chat ❤️

the wall between us

redraw of this illustration series i made back in 2019. i'd say i've improved lol.

Ladybug would accidentally reference it and go scarlet when Chat asks her what she thought of the fic. She’ll play it cool but say she “didn’t mind it” and perhaps “might like spending some time with Adrien” and oh my gosh you could make an entire fic with this premise

i can’t remember whose post i saw saying chloe would ship ladrien and try to set them up

but now i’m imagining chloe writing ladrien fanfiction (with queen bee as ladybug’s bff ofc) and it’s amazing so thank you

she refers to adrien exclusively as adrikins and calls the other heroes utterly ridiculous and writes uncomfortably long descriptions of how attractive ladybug is and alya reads it and KNOWS it’s chloe and likes to read excerpts to marinette

adrien is chloe’s beta and she rejects about 50% of his suggestions, most of which are the corrections on his name or suggestions on how to make chat noir look cooler. she does accept his changes to chat noir’s dialogue and marinette and alya are stunned that chloe knows that many cat puns.

“Alright Adrien, it’s your first day as a health inspector and your first job is the finest and most prestigious restaurant in Paris. What could go wrong?”

*Opens the door*

Adrien: “Health inspect-“

*Hundreds of multimice stare up at him, all wearing little chef hats*

Adrien: 👀👀

Multimouse: “Get him!”

(Ratatouille except with Multimouse)

Authors may never know just how much their works affect us and there’s something tragic about that. Thank you to all the writers, please keep your work up, it means more to people than you know.

I get so incredibly emotional about fanfiction. many a time have I wept about the passage of time—dear 2018 fic that had the authors note etchings that you were in grad school: I hope writing this made midterms more bearable, or at least that one night. thank you for writing my favorite character or ship, it’s comforting to know that I have a friend across time that had the same rot, the same afflictions, the same ideas when experiencing this media. 

dear fanfiction from my adolescence, that made me realize I still had worth outside of conventional creative writing classes. that I was still a writer, even in the dark, even alone. thank you for influencing me in so many ways unbeknownst to you. 

I get emotional about the “missing” parts in an unfinished series—what was in your head, ao3 user? your dreams and hopes and ideas? Or, what about chapter ten, which has triple the amount of comments due to your plot twist. what was that like in the timeline of your life? or, what was it like when you happened to only get one comment on chapter 1? 

the rarepair authors that I’ll never connect with because they moved on: thank you for still leaving it up. 

it’s just. cosmic to me to open these fics from 2,5,10 years ago and see where the author was at, to see where fandom was at, to see anything at all so human!!

I can comment, I can kudos and bookmark, but there’s no obligation for them to write back. I’m just thinking about the passage of time and the idea that we can connect in so many ways!

I love how Emelie and Adrien are so similar and the same is true for Gabriel and Marinette.

If Marinette is ever akumatized while Adrien is in danger I could see her going full crazy to get her love back. How could you not go absolutely feral to regain your other half?

someday i will write and post my 10,000 page thesis essay about how in miraculous the yin themed characters (characters who wear primarily dark colors over white undershirts) are thoughtful schemers who live mostly within their own heads (marinette, luka, felix, amelie) while the yang themed characters (white over dark undershirts) don't think so much as they DO and are straightforward and action-driven (adrien, kagami, emilie) but that would require having the attention span to do so

This shot blows me away. Gabriel trying to connect to Adrien for selfish reasons, Nathalie still bound by her assisting device, Adrien looking worried at the head of the table, unaware of everything happening around him all while a picture of Emilie, stark white against the dark cabinet, stares at them.

Emilie's photo is like a constant reminder of a curse they can't escape. She is quite literally hanging over them because Gabriel can't move on which brings down everyone around him.

...

But how can Gabriel stop? She's staring right at him and he won't turn away.

This idea is absolutely inspired, it fits so perfectly, like actually perfectly enough that I can’t see Charles’ portrait without imagining Monarch now. Wow I’m blown away

monarch

has anyone seen king charles’s new portrait 😬

What would you think if Chloe and Audrey heard rumours about the way they were going to be portrayed in Astruc’s new movie, so they went back to Paris in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the movie from being completed? Then an evilized villain (maybe a wishmaker-like villain or maybe even a villain that's unrelated to the butterfly miraculous) caused Chloe and Zoe to switch bodies somehow, and nobody fully understands what's going on, so Zoe (in Chloe's body) is taken by Audrey back to New York, despite Zoe desperately trying to explain things. But Chloe enters a fugue state (heavily due to trauma caused by the neglect of her parents) and genuinely thinks she's Zoe, and is even able to recall many of the things Zoe did due to being in Zoe's body. The class thinks “Zoe's” change in behavior is due to the psychological effects of method acting, since “Zoe” is playing Chloe in Astruc's new movie, but they gradually convince “Zoe” to let them help her relearn how to be “herself” again.

Zoe is not able to gain access to Chloe's memories while in Chloe's body, because unlike Chloe, Zoe knows she's in the wrong body. In New York, Zoe is trying to get back to Paris, but when she gets there, “Zoe” thinks she’s there to try to hurt Marinette. Eventually, after listening to “Chloe”, Marinette starts to suspect that “Chloe” might be telling the truth, so she decides that she must test “Chloe” and “Zoe”. She fakes being in danger to see how they react. “Zoe” reacts slightly faster than “Chloe”, so Marinette comes to the conclusion that “Chloe” is lying and that “Chloe” has an evil and manipulative plan. Marinette thinks that “Chloe” must have picked up a few tricks from Lila, because she thinks no version of Chloe could possibly react faster than Zoe when it comes to protecting her. So Audrey takes “Zoe” back to New York again to “correct” her after “Zoe” fails to convince anyone of the truth.

10 years later, “Zoe” gets seriously injured after fighting a villain when Ladybug isn’t around, which causes “Zoe” to not have long to live. Then Ladybug accidentally stumbles upon the truth about “Zoe” while trying to help “Zoe” using magical powers. Ladybug decides that the moral thing to do is to switch Chloe and Zoe back to their original bodies. Once Zoe gets her body back, she blames Chloe for her impending death and for leaving her with 10 years of loneliness, while Chloe got off scot-free. When Lila gets defeated, Zoe steals the Butterfly Miraculous to get her hands on Ladybug and Catnoir’s miraculouses, hoping to “make things right”. Zoe gets defeated by the heroes (including Chloe, who has gotten her memories back) and Ladybug manages to cure Zoe’s injuries.

I think that is a really interesting fanfic premise. It could start out silly and sweet like freaky Friday but overtime get a bit more grim and angsty. If I were adding my own spice I'd make it so that Chloe "with Zoe's mind" tries and gets help from Adrien who realizes something is wrong but pitches the idea to everyone that she is just "reformed" because that's easier to digest. Then you could play with Zoe "with Chloe's mind" returning to Paris, only to see most everyone accepting the new Chloe which makes new Zoe terribly mad, maybe enough to give up the act.

Personally I'm a sappy sucker who doesn't like writing sad endings so I'd try and find a way for them to both make peace with their crazy situation and once they do they'd trade bodies then (magic is weird).

Thanks for the ask though! This is the first one I've ever gotten so I wanted to respond as best I could. Feel free to ask again!

Absolutely love their design, the look soooooo good

Look at them

Buggachat's Bakery AU

Wow, it finally ended. The series that has meant so much to me and the thing that really got me into the fandom has finally drawn to a close. I can't thank the creator @buggachat enough for such a wonderful story full of thrilling ups and downs, powerful character dynamics, and a whole lot of fun. I'm going to be thinking about this funny little comic, gonna be thinking about it for a long time but if there's anything I can say it'd be to check it out yourself and to thank the creator for making over 200 comics for it free for everyone to enjoy. What a satisfying conclusion to such a special story.

I love this fandom, I love this series and I want to thank you BuggaChat from the bottom of my heart for creating such a masterpiece <3

https://www.tumblr.com/buggachat/712638357476343808/bakery-enemies-au-a-miraculous-ladybug