(thank you to @artjdg ​ for yet another wonderful piece!)
Four years ago today, I posted the first chapter of my first fanfic, True Sight: Secrets of the Miraculous. It was in the middle of the mid-season two hiatus, we’d barely met Rena and Carapace was just a theory.
One chapter became another and then another. Months passed and I started writing other fics in the meantime. True Sight chapters were often long, and it was good to unwind with something else. I participated in prompt months, joined zines and servers. Met lots of friends that I still talk to daily.
Months turned to years and by now I’ve written fifty other fanfics for this fandom as well as my own original book. None of it would have been possible without the inspiration that ML had given me, plus the comments and kudos I’d gotten that kept me wanting to write even more.
Earlier this year I finished True Sight at chapter 46, at a total of 370k words. The start shows my inexperience back then but I’m very proud of how it turned out. So proud, that I ordered my largest commission to date to commemorate the end of the story that definitely changed the course of my life.
One of the last scenes from the final chapter. After everything they’d gone through, years both in the story and in real life. The team together one last time before the book closes.
I realize it sounds like I’m building up to something here, but I’m not. Just taking a moment to reflect on how Miraculous Ladybug has changed my life for the better. And I’m told season five is going to be coming out soon.
I hope you like this piece even half as much as I do! I’ll link to the fic in a reblog since tumblr, it’d mean the world if you gave it a look. Just bear with me for a few chapters, Jarl from a few years ago was still figuring it all out 😅
And hey! While you’re on the Ao3 page, why not take a look at some of my other fics? If you want fluff, I’ve got fifty stories of good kids falling in love.
Anyway, enough of my rambling. Thanks for reading!