#miabrown007

— scheming is the most fun a guy can have without getting eaten by a dragon, a Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir fanfiction by @miabrown007.

thanks for the ask, mia!! I forgot I had this in my WIPs until today--it's what I'd planned to write and post on anon when I was trying to play the game of "how many fics can i post on anon before someone guesses who I am?" But then I anoned too close to the sun (read: nothing gets past @ladyofthenoodle...except the first anon fic i posted because it didn't have the love square tag 😂)

But this fic is like...PRPR and Ladybug shows up at Adrien's after having a nightmare. I hadn't totally figured out the details, but I was thinking it could also be a post-S5 fic where Adrinette breaks up...then years later are obviously still in love with each other but think the other is over them. (so it's sort of post- AND pre-relationship???)

(snippet is a bit long, so i'll put it under the cut)

“It’s a date, then!” she said, flashing two finger guns with the biggest smile she could muster.

hi mia!!!

☁️ ⇢ what made you choose your username?

when i was 12 i was obsessed with ramen noodles and ate them almost every day. yes i’ve had a variation of this screen name since i was 12. if it ain’t broke don’t fix it

🍄 ⇢ share a head canon for one of your favourite ships or pairings

man. i know i have headcanons. but whenever i am asked for one my mind is wiped completely blank as if i’ve never had any thoughts about the blorbos at all.

UM. i think they adrien and marinette love grocery shopping together. adrien just loves grocery shopping in general because of the freedom it entails. marinette only loves grocery shopping when she’s doing it with him 💕

🌸 ⇢ do you have any pets? if you do, post some pictures of them

mia you know very well i do but thank you for asking

please accept a very cool star-shaped rock as the token of my undying love 💜

yes i am a Big Fan of his — it is probably more accurate to describe me as a fanatic. I just tried to go through his list of works to see which i've read and which i own, and while i wasn't able to get a solid count, I've read most of them and own a fair amount.

the thing to understand about recommending any of Sanderson's books is that the vast majority of his works are set in the same overarching universe, called the Cosmere. While different series are (usually) set on different planets, the magic systems all follow an overarching set of rules, and as the Cosmere continues, we're going to see more and more crossover. that being said, you can read almost all of his currently published books without knowing the wider implications. so with that said, I recommend starting with either The Emperor's Soul or Tress of the Emerald Sea.

I've been suggesting The Emperor's Soul to people for years as a gateway to Sanderson's work, for a couple of reasons. First, it's a novella (I think somewhere around a hundred pages?) rather than some of his gargantuan other works (multiple of his books are over a thousand pages). Second, I think it has a really cool magic system, which I feel is one of Sanderson's strengths. Third, it won the Hugo Award for Best Novella, so I have some critics backing me up. And last but most definitely not least, I really like it. Which is always something you should look for in book recommendations!

Tress of the Emerald Sea was one of the "Secret Novels" Sanderson wrote while quarantining during the pandemic and published through the biggest Kickstarter of all time. Although I still haven't gotten my physical copy, I read my ebook copy on New Year's Day, the day it came out, and I really loved it. The inspiration for it was "What if, in The Princess Bride, Buttercup goes after Westley to rescue him?" It was a very fun read that, like The Emperor's Soul, teases connections to other Cosmere books without relying on you having already read them. This book also has a cool magic system, but even cooler is the worldbuilding, which I think is Sanderson's greatest strength.

I'll also point you to Sanderson's page on where to start.

As for my favorites, the two above are probably my two favorite single stories of his, but I also love The Stormlight Archive (epic fantasy) and Elantris (because the magic system is like programming) and Mistborn because the magic system is cool in a different way and Warbreaker because of the humor and

I like pretty much all of his work. Sanderson's works are also varied enough that even if you don't like any of the above works, you may still like some of his other works.

If you have any other questions, please do ask me — clearly, I love talking about them (and books in general).

Also, just because I love how Sanderson announced his Secret Novels, here's the video:

Hi!! A trick or a treat? Let's see 🤭

(shakes my halloween bowl of goodies)

A sneak peak of a oneshot I've been working on!

Adrien remembered reading something a while ago about someone who had tried to determine if a soul had weight. The attempted experiment had of course been inconclusive, but one of the few numbers that had made it through to be repeated again and again echoed in Adrien’s mind now. 21 grams. Just 21 grams. The silver ring in his hand didn’t even weigh half of that. In fact, he swore his Miraculous had felt so much heavier the first time he’d picked up that innocent looking ring. But now as he stared at the two pieces of jewellery in his hand, he couldn’t even feel them. He was a phantom in his own body and he couldn’t feel the rings in his palm any more than the breeze blowing through him. Had his parents - had his mother - considered the weight and existence of a soul when he was made? Would a manufactured soul weigh less than a real one?

Happy (almost) Halloween! 🎃

bee: give me a fake title, and i'll give the summary