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[soc_puppet]

Me: Urgh, life sucks right now, I need nice, fluffy, uplifting fics.

Miraculous Ladybug fandom: How about a surge of super angsty fics focusing on that one detail from the most recent episode?

Me: ...Maybe I'll just re-read Daughter of the Sun instead.

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[alexseanchai]

…well yeah 🙁

[soc_puppet]

I mean, I get it? But that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.

[alexseanchai]

oh agreed

also not really in a fluff-writing mood myself rn or I'd ask if you have anything in particular in mind

[soc_puppet]

This is more than fair. (Though if you felt like taking a stab at that prompt I just put up on art-deco-shrimpt, that would be fine. Alya figuring out what's up with Lila and using that information to be a good friend to Marinette is always welcome in my book. Not is also fine, of course! I do still have Daughter of the Sun.)

[alexseanchai]

hey unrelatedly

re Alya's interview report on Lila and Chloé's on Ladybug

trying to figure out Mme. Bustier's purpose for having such a project in the curriculum, like, what specific skills is she trying to teach here

…no reason

[soc_puppet]

Probably something about primary sources, and how our impressions of other people can be colored by our own interactions with them compared with how other people interact with them? Also possibly some interviewing skills, and the surprising value that different members of a community can bring. Some sort of civics thing? IDK, it just seemed like the kind of project a teacher might assign to kids of that age group, while also being a good way to get Alya to use her journalism skills and outing Lila at the same time 😛 /not helpful

(I don't want to suggest that Ms. Bustier is deliberately trying to teach her students how to recognize toxic individuals, but the skills she's teaching will definitely be useful for that, as well, and I wouldn't put it past her as a motive. It's definitely not the one she'd put on paper, though, and (prior to the episode Ladybug) probably isn't something she's expecting anyone in her class to put to that specific use for this particular project.)

...Since you're not looking for a title suggestion, I won't mention that I've been thinking of "Trust But Verify" as a good title for some Alya journalism redemption stuff. I definitely feel like it's part of the theme(?) of what Ms. Bustier wants to teach, though.

[alexseanchai]

oooooh hmm

that is a great title btw (I mean I'm also poking at Leonard Cohen lyrics bc hall_no but like)