Femslash February 2023 (MLB)
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Love. That annoying word that can mean a thousand things. Marinette loves her parents, and she loves her friends. She loves baking, and designing, and crafts, and music; she loves Jagged Stone and Clara Nightingale and Kitty Section. She loves the feeling of a light rain drizzling across the rooftops, and she loves the heavier rains when they pummel her umbrella or the roof she’s safe under.
She loves video games and she loves sports. She loves being a superhero, and feeling in control. She loves to travel and see new places. She loves seeing things her friends make. In a general, sort of nebulous way, she loves Paris, and the people in it – that’s just part of being a superhero.
And she loves Alya. As a friend, as a superhero partner, as the author of the Ladyblog (now restyled to favour Lady Noire), as someone who always took an interest in her and still hasn’t stopped doing so. But also, in a girlfriend kind of way. In a wife kind of way. In a grovel-at-her-feet, praise-her-every-day kind of way.
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Alya and Marinette spend a night on the roof together, and realise they're not as good at reading each other as they might have thought.
Submitted for #mlbfemslashfebruary on Tumblr.
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- Part 1 of Femslash February 2023 (MLB)
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One of the downsides to having a girlfriend like Marinette is that she’s friends with a lot of people, and friendly with basically everyone. She cares about everybody she meets and she stops to pick up things people drop nearby and she’ll run across the street just to help someone lift their baby stroller up a single step.
And I don’t really blame her for it. I love her for it, actually. But sometimes, I feel like she doesn’t love because she wants to, but because she has to or she’ll explode. Maybe she’s my girlfriend because she knows I’m into girls, and she saw I wasn’t with anyone, so she took it upon herself to fill that role. I know that’s not true. Of course it’s not true. But on occasion, I almost believe she could do something so stupid and lovely for someone. Assigned girlfriend by the goodness of her heart, because she holds so much love in her that it has to spill over into something.
She kisses me again, and I thank my lucky stars it’s spilling over into me.
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Zoé goes on a date with Marinette while pondering the ups and downs of their relationship.
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- Part 2 of Femslash February 2023 (MLB)
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“You’re very warm,” said Marinette as they waited for the light to change.
“I’ll choose to take that as a compliment too,” said Kagami, “but I’m sure you can do better.”
“I like it,” Marinette went on, speaking quickly to correct herself. “I mean… I like how your hands feel against my arm.” Once again, she started blushing profoundly. “I like… I like the… I like your… I don’t dislike, I, um, it’s nice.”
Kagami smiled. “Thank you. I’m glad you like it, because I’d love to keep holding on to you.”
“Um?” A tea kettle was whistling in Marinette’s ear.
“It’s good that you like it when I touch you, because you’re going to have to get used to it.” She kissed Marinette on the cheek, and then they walked the rest of the way to the café in silence. Or, at least, Marinette couldn’t hear anything, or even process anything that came in through her other senses; all she was aware of was the arms that held her in place – so she wouldn’t blow off into space and shatter into dust against the moon.
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Marinette and Kagami share their first (official) date, while Marinette considers the reasons why she loves Kagami.
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- Part 3 of Femslash February 2023 (MLB)
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A coming-of-age story that follows Sabrina from the first day Marinette's in her class, through years of bullying, abusive authority figures and broken friendships. Slowly, Sabrina realises that she might be in love.
Contains heavy instances of, and discussion of, parental abuse and bullying.
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- Part 4 of Femslash February 2023 (MLB)
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They were in tune, Lila noted with no uncertain joy. It was just that Alya didn’t like the specific wording. And wording can be changed a lot without changing the inherent meaning. ‘Group project’ can also be ‘gossip session with a goal at the end’. ‘Absolute fucking bitch’ can be turned into ‘gritty dipshit’, or if you don’t want to swear, um, probably something. And ‘I love you’, well, that could become…
“Honestly, I think you could be the queen of this whole school. Knock Chloé off her throne. She’s like Prince John in Robin Hood, and you could be – well, Robin Hood. Except he becomes king at the end.”
“You know what we do to royalty in France, right?”
“Whatever it is you do, I hope we’ll do it to Chloé,” said Lila, knowing well what Alya meant, and also knowing the joke was a little over the edge.
But Alya seemed to take it well, giggling a little bit with her hand over her mouth again. Let me see your teeth, thought Lila. Let me see your whole face. I like looking at it.
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Lila and Alya bond over their common distaste for (certain specific) people while working on a school project.
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- Part 5 of Femslash February 2023 (MLB)
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“Isn’t it fun to learn the guitar?” Rose asks.
“Yeah… It’s fun.”
“That’s good! Juleka told me you were catching on quickly. I bet you’ll be a great guitarist in no time!”
Zoé smiles awkwardly. “I don’t know… but I have a great teacher, at least.”
In fact, Zoé isn’t sure. She struggles to disentangle Juleka’s instructions from the sensation of Juleka’s fingers against her hand. And she struggles to separate Juleka’s words from the warm but quiet voice she says them in. She doesn’t know what she’s actually learning, because all of it is tangled in the realisation of how much she enjoys Juleka’s company. But if a teacher is defined by the feeling they give you, Juleka is the greatest teacher in the universe.
She’s less jealous of Rose than she thought she’d be. Because Rose is kind and lovely and cheerful, and she makes Juleka happy. Just like Luka, Rose can call out the Juleka that lies underneath the surface. But it’s the one that’s comfortable with touching, with feeling and being felt, with loving openly.
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Zoé starts taking guitar lessons from Juleka, and quickly gets more than she bargained for - when she falls in love with both Juleka and Rose.
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- Part 6 of Femslash February 2023 (MLB)