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[soc_puppet]

Important discovery: When someone gifts you an incredible fic (or other fannish present), watching the hits and kudos and comments and bookmarks go up is almost as satisfying as it is for something you made yourself.

Which is to say, if you are Miraculous Ladybug inclined, do go check out Know Your Name by AlexSeanchai/alexseanchai, prompted by the Mary Lambert song of the same name (which is the LadyNoir song of my heart, and is also super awesome in its own right); I do not imagine you will be disappointed.

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[redsixwing]

Yay! That's awesome. :D

(I don't know your fandom despite wanting to get into it, and I definitely don't know the Fox Miraculous despite that sounding directly up my alley, and thus I spent several moments trying to figure out why your fandom icon appeared to be an Art Deco shrimp.)

[soc_puppet]

It is so great, I absolutely adore my present ♥

(XD It kiiiiinda shows up at the end of Season One? And then significantly more midway through Season Two. If you need enabling at all ;) ) (And you're entirely correct, it looks ridiculously like an Art Deco shrimp; I feel slightly bad for, er, Mx Spoiler now. And also the design team.) (...I wonder if this is something I should play around with at all... >:3c )

[alexseanchai]

Eeeeeeeeeeee

(Look at the kudos:hits ratio, it's absurd, I need to bottle whatever I did for next time)

[soc_puppet]

:DDDDD

(I had similar numbers going for a while with Him/Me/You/Her; it went down when I added chapters, which I knew was a risk. And I mean, I could pelt you with the rest of my (currently very short) LadyNoir song list? But I'm pretty sure I've given you enough ideas already for now :P )

[alexseanchai]

I've given you enough ideas

nevar!

[alexseanchai]

APPARENTLY IT IS MASSIVE ANGST DAY

wanna drop by my journal and opinionate? I think I'm half all done.

(I do know what I'm doing with the timing of Ladybug's transformation falling, btw, and also Nathalie, I'm pretty sure, but my narrator is unreliable as fuck)

[soc_puppet]

*side-eyes Massive Angst and Major Character Death warnings* ...Is it one of my favorites? Do they get better? 'Cuz Permanent MCD is definitely one of my big Do Not Wants. I might kinda be able to live with it for a baddie, but uh. Even then...

[alexseanchai]

Gabriel

You don't need to worry about it :) I need to worry about it, but you are hardly obligated to beta this!

[alexseanchai]

..."Know Your Name" is tied for my most kudosed fanwork ever.

It's been up since the tenth.

It doesn't even have a thousand hits yet!

[alexseanchai]

…I realize I am playing with fire here but I would kind of like the rest of that playlist

[soc_puppet]

Song list with my commentary on them! Please note that I am probably not the best at picking songs for FST, and also this is kinda on the short side and I definitely doubt several of them, etc.

* Life Less Ordinary, by Carbon Leaf (I feel like this one is a little too generic, every-fandom :( Basically about how the singer's life changed for the incredible when they met the other person, partly because they fell in love, but also a bit literally in this case)

* Extraordinary Way, by Conjure One Ft. Poe (He'd love if she returned his love, but he doesn't need her to; it's enough that she accepts him as himself)

* The Promise, by When In Rome (Cat Noir simply cannot figure out a way to express himself around Ladybug; also possibly Marinette to Adrien? Chorus goes: "I'm sorry but I'm just thinking up the right words to say, I know they don't sound the way I planned them to be, But if you wait around a while, then you'll fall for me, I promise you, I promise you!")

* Don't Say You Love Me, by [I can't remember, but it was on the Pokémon 1st Movie US soundtrack] (Ladybug to Cat Noir; not a perfect fit, since it assumes the singer is interested in going there, but the first half of the chorus goes: "Don't say you love me, you don't even know me, If you really want me then give me some time")

* As Loving Goes, by Dashboard Confessionals (Cat Noir to Ladybug, in direct response to the above; lyrics, and this one is (if you'll forgive me) pretty much spot on (though I'll also admit that, listening to it, I swore "I thought I was asylum bound" was "I swore 'I' was a silent vowel", which makes at least as much sense and is probably less ablist))

* Know Your Name, by Mary Lambert (Cat Noir to Ladybug, when things start warming up between them but no reveals quite yet; would work very well for f/f AU or TransGirl!Adrien)

* You Raise Me Up; Traditional, though I've got the Celtic Woman version (Just... their entire relationship is about helping each other be the best person they can be and being there for each other, and how being there for one another makes being a superhero possible for them)


It needs something between the last two to "complete the arc", but I haven't exactly been working on it actively. Or passively, really.