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I wish we could bring back kink memes! The ones on livejournal I liked best were completely anonymous though so I’m not so sure that would work on tumblr.

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People run them on Dreamwidth. I suppose you could run one as an anon askblog. There's also that AO3 feature.

But honestly, the oldschool types just run them on DW.

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It's been a fun challenge getting some of them together! Admittedly I did take the easy way out, but even so, I had a lot of fun thinking of who to pick and how they'd interact.

Dance Floors and Dragons

Rated E, Kagami/Rose, Juleka/Ivan, Kagami/Mireille, Kagami/Marinette, and background Kagami/almost everyone.

Kagami had never wished she had a stomach bug and was at home throwing up before, but this time it did seem like a compelling alternative. Anything to avoid being here. It was the most frightening spot she had ever been in: A cool party.

Of course she had always known her high-society events, boring but easy to handle as long you memorised all the etiquette. She had also become familiar with the parties Marinette liked to throw, free-flowing things where instead of structure, she could rely on friends. The official Kitty Section album wrap party was neither of these. The special exclusive band-and-friends afterparty even less so.

Kagami knew that it was a big honour to be invited; it was legendary, according to the other people in her university. There were only ever a couple dozen invitees, mostly celebrities and people from the music business. People were only invited if band members allowed it, and they didn’t do so very often. But that didn’t have to mean she’d enjoy it.

It had taken Marinette and her other friends (but mostly Marinette) literally years to convince Kagami to come as Marinette’s plus one. And for a while, Kagami had been looking forward to it. Kagami could do anything with her best friend by her side.

Picking out the outfit earlier today had been particularly fun. Kagami was wearing combat boots, fishnets, a mini-skirt that was just starting to show a hint of butt cheek, a tiny tied crop-top, and just to be cheeky, a crooked red neck tie. Seeing Kagami like that had turned Marinette into a stuttering mess.

Of course Marinette had been even hotter, at least in Kagami’s view, wearing a custom minidress that seemed to be more cut-out than fabric. Marinette had joked that you didn’t need to underwear at this party if you didn’t want to, but looking at her dress, Kagami wasn’t actually sure it was a joke. They were definitely going to turn everyone’s head on the dance floor. And even if not, dancing so close to Marinette… Kagami felt her heart flutter just from the thought.

It had all seemed perfect, right until they had been ready to head out… and Marinette had to run to the bathroom to throw up. Some annoying stomach bug, apparently. Of course Kagami had wanted to stay and care for Marinette, but Marinette had refused to listen to any of it. She had insisted Kagami go out and have fun, and Kagami had been too bewitched by Marinette’s force of personality (and perhaps also her cleavage) to say no.

So now she was at one of the most legendary parties of the year, the one that all her peers dreamed about getting a glimpse of, and she was standing in the corner, very slowly sipping her glass of champagne, wondering when it would be acceptable to go back home.

“Oh, hey, having fun!?”

Kagami turned around to see Rose, chipper as ever, going against the general trend by wearing a frilly pink dress. Rose took one look at her overall demeanour, and drew the appropriate conclusions.

“Standing in the corner like that, you don’t seem very eager to be here, do you?”

Kagami nodded.

“I am not used to this kind of party. I expected Marinette would be here, but, well… On my own, I don’t think I fit here. This may not be my kind of night.”

“Oh yeah, poor Marinette”, said Rose. “But that stuff about not fitting, that’s nonsense. You look great and everybody here likes you. We just need to make it your kind of night! Hey, I know, let’s dance!”

Rose had enough enthusiasm for the two of them, which was just as well, as Kagami was fresh out.

“I don’t know how to dance to this music. I think it’s better if I just-“

“Kagami Tsurugi!”, growled Rose, suddenly right up in Kagami’s face and amazingly angry. “This is my party, and I will not allow you to be miserable! You will have a good time here at this party, and you do not get a say in the matter! Are we clear!?”

Read the rest on Ao3

The main inspiration for this was this shipping overview by @adeadmansbliss. Lots of pairings there that nobody has written yet, and it was a lot of fun filling in these slots!

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Dance Floors and Dragons

Rated E, Kagami/Rose, Juleka/Ivan, Kagami/Mireille, Kagami/Marinette, and background Kagami/almost everyone.

Kagami had never wished she had a stomach bug and was at home throwing up before, but this time it did seem like a compelling alternative. Anything to avoid being here. It was the most frightening spot she had ever been in: A cool party.

Of course she had always known her high-society events, boring but easy to handle as long you memorised all the etiquette. She had also become familiar with the parties Marinette liked to throw, free-flowing things where instead of structure, she could rely on friends. The official Kitty Section album wrap party was neither of these. The special exclusive band-and-friends afterparty even less so.

Kagami knew that it was a big honour to be invited; it was legendary, according to the other people in her university. There were only ever a couple dozen invitees, mostly celebrities and people from the music business. People were only invited if band members allowed it, and they didn’t do so very often. But that didn’t have to mean she’d enjoy it.

It had taken Marinette and her other friends (but mostly Marinette) literally years to convince Kagami to come as Marinette’s plus one. And for a while, Kagami had been looking forward to it. Kagami could do anything with her best friend by her side.

Picking out the outfit earlier today had been particularly fun. Kagami was wearing combat boots, fishnets, a mini-skirt that was just starting to show a hint of butt cheek, a tiny tied crop-top, and just to be cheeky, a crooked red neck tie. Seeing Kagami like that had turned Marinette into a stuttering mess.

Of course Marinette had been even hotter, at least in Kagami’s view, wearing a custom minidress that seemed to be more cut-out than fabric. Marinette had joked that you didn’t need to underwear at this party if you didn’t want to, but looking at her dress, Kagami wasn’t actually sure it was a joke. They were definitely going to turn everyone’s head on the dance floor. And even if not, dancing so close to Marinette… Kagami felt her heart flutter just from the thought.

It had all seemed perfect, right until they had been ready to head out… and Marinette had to run to the bathroom to throw up. Some annoying stomach bug, apparently. Of course Kagami had wanted to stay and care for Marinette, but Marinette had refused to listen to any of it. She had insisted Kagami go out and have fun, and Kagami had been too bewitched by Marinette’s force of personality (and perhaps also her cleavage) to say no.

So now she was at one of the most legendary parties of the year, the one that all her peers dreamed about getting a glimpse of, and she was standing in the corner, very slowly sipping her glass of champagne, wondering when it would be acceptable to go back home.

“Oh, hey, having fun!?”

Kagami turned around to see Rose, chipper as ever, going against the general trend by wearing a frilly pink dress. Rose took one look at her overall demeanour, and drew the appropriate conclusions.

“Standing in the corner like that, you don’t seem very eager to be here, do you?”

Kagami nodded.

“I am not used to this kind of party. I expected Marinette would be here, but, well… On my own, I don’t think I fit here. This may not be my kind of night.”

“Oh yeah, poor Marinette”, said Rose. “But that stuff about not fitting, that’s nonsense. You look great and everybody here likes you. We just need to make it your kind of night! Hey, I know, let’s dance!”

Rose had enough enthusiasm for the two of them, which was just as well, as Kagami was fresh out.

“I don’t know how to dance to this music. I think it’s better if I just-“

“Kagami Tsurugi!”, growled Rose, suddenly right up in Kagami’s face and amazingly angry. “This is my party, and I will not allow you to be miserable! You will have a good time here at this party, and you do not get a say in the matter! Are we clear!?”

Read the rest on Ao3

The main inspiration for this was this shipping overview by @adeadmansbliss. Lots of pairings there that nobody has written yet, and it was a lot of fun filling in these slots!

#miraculous ladybug #marigami #ml fanfic #fanfic

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Miraculous Fandom and Shipping 11/03/2024

It's that time again, the four monthly update on the fandom's rarepairs! Due to work and Mother's day in the UK being Sunday I didn't get chance to do this on my usual day (The 9th) as this giant check usually takes about 3 hours or so. This is not helped when AO3 is in one of it's "wipe the criteria continually" moods. While there's no obvious change, I wrangled something in the backend so the upper spreadsheet will auto update from the lower one as a time saving measure. My next goal will be having the numbers mirror which is better to fiddle with on a regular check than a big one.

This data is accurate as of 11th March 2024. Every relationship tag is assumed to have been applied correctly. Félix's name change appears to have finally stablised as a bunch of fics that didn't show before now are as has Zoé who has had a similar issue. There was also a small number of fics from 2022/2023 that didn't flag before too which is either people uploading and backdating or the tag system has been hiccuping. Some numbers going down slightly is presumed to be from deletions or the relationship tag being removed.

The February Femslash month added quite a few and tipped others over 20 so thank you to the authors who participated!

The key for the first part of the spreadsheet is as follows:

Y (Green) - At least 20 entries

P (Yellow) - Less than 20 entries

N (Red) - Zero entries

The colours are primarily designed for quick glance usage.

The key for the second part of the spreadsheet is as follows:

Green has 0 entries and is checked monthly

Blue has 1-10 entries

Light yellow has 11-14 entries

Saturated yellow has 15-20 entries and is checked monthly

Light grey has 21-50 entries

Medium grey has 51-100 entries

Black has more than 100 entries

Black entries have the data input at the time of the spreadsheet update and are hidden purely so they are checked manually and auto pilot brain does not do it more often than required.

As of 11th March 2024, these were all the pairings that have more than 1K works under their tags:

Adrien/Marinette - 36584 Alya/Nino - 7455 Luka/Marinette - 4045 Marc/Nathaniel - 2206 Juleka/Rose - 2205 Adrien/Kagami - 1218 Adrien/Luka - 1211

Honourable mention to the next two closest to the 1k mark:

Kagami/Marinette - 983 entries Ivan/Mylène Haprèle - 914

Looks like last time I stayed up past 1am to complete this and it happened again lol. Hoping there's no weird errors, I did check but was and still am very tired. Chill day for me I think, quite literally too given the rain.

If you ever want to add to the tip jar to support this data collection, you can do so at my Ko-Fi here!

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Gah, do I publish this story now, or wait until tonight and do another typo pass? I should do the waiting. It always helps with finding typos. (I should get a beta-reader but I'm too socially awkward for that). Later tonight also helps get it into the time slot when the americans will see it. But I so want to post it right now, I've got the tags and title and summary all ready to go…

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the next time you hesitate to leave a comment on a fic remember that I go back and read all the comments I get on my fic whenever I'm feeling down and it makes me feel so much better

if you leave nice comments on ao3 i love you

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Make-Up and Hair Cuts

Rating E.

When sleep-deprived Marinette accidentally posts, “Need cute girl for make-out + ✂️”, Kagami is on the case, with make-up equipment and books on hair cuts. That’s what Marinette meant, right?

The ratio of stories on this account that were "Marigami is being very silly" had fallen under one third. Time to fix that!

#self reblog

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Make-Up and Hair Cuts

Rating E.

When sleep-deprived Marinette accidentally posts, “Need cute girl for make-out + ✂️”, Kagami is on the case, with make-up equipment and books on hair cuts. That’s what Marinette meant, right?

The ratio of stories on this account that were "Marigami is being very silly" had fallen under one third. Time to fix that!

#miraculous ladybug

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oh BITCH I tvl’d again. I can’t help it I have a sickness @literaphobe

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Lady Noir protects her partner's gorgeous face from supervillain.

Color version.

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There have been a couple of posts going around about how smut writers have the challenge of keeping a sex scene interesting when there's only a few different actions and a few different body parts to talk about

And yes, funny jokes about writing, but when I see posts like these I want to scream

If you feel like the sex scene you're writing is repetitive, no number of synonyms for "thrust" will help you. Synonyms for "cock" or "cunt" will REALLY not help you.

Sex scenes are character studies as much as they are action scenes. What are the characters' frameworks for what they're doing? Emotions, thoughts, specific physical sensations. If there are metaphors, do the metaphors make sense with the characters' experiences/the story's theme's/the setting? Is the sex scene completing a character arc, even a small one? Is there a character arc within the sex scene itself, even a small one?

A really good sex scene is specific and grounded to the physicality, emotions, and thoughts of the characters involved. Even if it's a PWP!

It's been said that the largest sex organ is the brain, and this is not a joke, especially when we're talking about the medium of the written word!

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in honor of tvl ch3 day (an international holiday) HERES SOME CHAPTER 2 ART for my beautiful @literaphobe . the dialogue/scenes belong to them!!!! thank u. NOW GO READ TVL.

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Many eons ago (two months), I was given a sneakpeak of the recently released ml fic two virgin losers by @literaphobe. GO READ IT. It changed me so I made this quick ol’ thing. Didn’t misquote a line and then have to ponder for several minutes. I read

TROLLS QUEUE OVER, rejoice

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Since my teens, when I started openly dating other women, I have fielded (mostly from men) the rude but “innocent” question of how two women have sex. The implication being that sex includes penetration by a penis, that this act is the culmination of all the lesser acts that precede it. Perhaps the biggest inherited narrative about sex that I’ve had to undo in myself is that default defining of all sex as related to hetero sex. Back then, no matter how I explained it, the askers of that question frowned. How sad, their faces seem to say, that you’ve never ever gotten past third base. How sad, I’d now like to reply, that you’ve been trapped on a baseball diamond for all of your sexual life.

Show us what your sex is, what your characters’ sex is. Maybe you, too, have been defining it in relationship to heterosexual models that have nothing to do with your own desire, or that of your characters. This might be hardest for straight people, who have the greatest number of inherited stories to wade through. Discover it in the writing; I often have. The beauty is that we don’t have to agree on this. When I was a dominatrix, I once rubbed balloons all over a man for seventy-five dollars. He would’ve called it sex. I called it work. It was mutually consensual, and I think we were both correct in our assessment.

If your sex is balloons, if it is blowing raspberries on your lover’s belly, if it happens fully clothed or in furry costumes, if it happens in a group or alone—give it the same gravity, the same reverence or irreverence as all of the tiresome dick-chafing scenes we all grew up reading. In the world of your writing, no sex is a punch line unless you make it one. There is no marginal erotic unless you sideline it.

-Melissa Febos, “Mind Fuck: Writing Better Sex”

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when i try to write most of my ideas, i end up only being able to write a few paragraphs at a time, if even that. but when i try to write smut, i can write an entire page at a time! it's really frustrating because, as much as i like my smut ideas, most of my ideas aren't smut and i really want to write those, too. i have no idea why i'm like this. is there any way i can transfer over some of that writing energy?

What's the difference between your smut scenes and your other scenes? And is there a way you can bring some of that over?

In your smut scenes, do you write a lot of physical activity? Bodies in motion etc? If so, then maybe see about adding some action scenes into your non-smut. Or perhaps do something as simple as a "walk and talk" where the characters are moving through a space while they have a conversation. If you find it easier to write movement, then try to incorporate movement into your scenes.

Or maybe your smut scenes have an intense emotional focus. If that's the case, then try to get into your characters' heads for those non-smut scenes too. What are their motivations? Do they have anxieties and fears? Are they overcome with boredom? Are they seething with barely contained rage. Tap into other emotions and see how those might infuse your writing energy.

Perhaps your smut scenes flow easier because you really enjoy the interactions between characters. Try to get more dialogue going to otherwise increase the interplay between your characters.

Maybe it's something else entirely that gets you energized for the smut. And perhaps the other stuff you're trying to write is just too boring for you in comparison.

Have any of the rest of you faced similar issues with your writing before? How did you manage it?

#i've definitely found that I'm writing much more and much longer fics since i started posting smut #and i think these are good explanations for that