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    Adrien has mastered the art of the smile. Even while his mind is on poor behavior, when he's caught beneath a barrage of unkind thoughts to himself, he's still able to keep his smile. Attend his friends' parties, maintain small talk, get through the day — and hopefully his friends won't realize how messed up he really is.

    Everyone is out-pacing him. While he's barely getting out of bed in the morning, his friends are making waves, changing lives, getting engaged.

    He can't even get his girlfriend to text him back.

    So, sure. Maybe he's not in the best head space right now — but 'suicidal'? Ladybug's certainly just reading too deeply into things. But if her concern for Chat Noir's mental state is enough to get her reaching out, well, he won't turn down the opportunity to chat with a friend. Besides, Ladybug seems to be having a rough go of it, too. Maybe they can help each other out.

    (a Ladynoir hurt/comfort texting fic, with established Adrienette)

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    20 Dec 2025

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    oh my goodness, nobody talk to me, i am OVERWHELMED with emotions 🥹😭🫠 I LOVE THEM, AUGH, this was engineered for ME specifically

  2. Public Bookmark 59

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    "“I’ll snitch.”

    She’d blinked. Processed once, processed twice. It still didn’t compute. “What?”

    “You heard me,” Johnny said, eyes flicking up to hers, before snapping away once more. Something in his voice that Sue… didn’t think she’d ever heard from him before. “I’ll snitch. I’ll tell your supervisor. I’ll rat you and Richards out to StateU.”

    That. That had registered. “Johnny, don’t you dare,” she’d snapped, voice raising.

    He’d flinched. He hadn’t backed down.

    “You’re not allowed to ruin this for me, Johnny, I swear to God,” she’d said, her voice shaking.

    “Then take. Me. With you,” he’d said. His voice was shaking, too. She hadn’t really noticed, at the time."

    A take on the Fantastic Four's origin story, and kind of a character study, mainly between Susan and Johnny Storm.

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    11 Aug 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 73

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    Dick knew the Order on him was signed within the first 24 hours he had been taken in by the State. It was routine practice. Good for the state budget. Caring for kids until they are 16 is a lot cheaper than caring for them until they are 18, and it also decreases crime rates.

    He remembered thinking about that Order while he sat in a Juvie cell, knowing that there was a piece of paper that said he could be Unwound at sixteen as ordered by the Free State of New Jersey. When he was eight, it had seemed like an eternity of time.

    Now, though, he is fifteen years and three hundred and sixty-three days old.

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    30 Jul 2025

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    “It’s just that, when whatever happened, happened, it’s like my senses have been dialed to eleven. There’s – there’s way too much input, so they just kind of help me focus.”

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    Johnny Storm, impossibly, helps Peter focus.

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    26 Jul 2025