Hello, everybody! Welcome to the 2022 oc pride challenge! Before we start, I must say this; randomestfandom’s helped with this challenge as the planning began months ago, but this is the LAST time Maddie will have anything to do with this blog or these challenges. I have now enlisted the help of people I consider much more trustworthy and welcoming for future challenges; @reyskestis and @juliaswickcrs. Now let’s get onto more fun things, the actual challenge… after the rules;
Rules
Do not steal other peoples edits!
Be kind to everyone!
Tag #opc2022 to get your edits reposted on this blog!
Don’t tag any edits not related to the challenge with that.
This is for LGBTQIA+ ocs only… that’s why it’s the pride challenge.
A month ago I spent a lot of money on treatment and expensive doctors, because my health became sooo bad! Good news: the diagnosis is not so bad, but I have to take pills and do procedures.
So, if you’re interested just write me! You will help me a lot! AND LOVE U!
I’m watching this reality show with my brother that’s like a blacksmithing competition and some of these people look exactly like you’d expect blacksmiths to look and others look like the person in movies that blacksmiths would kick out of the tavern.
Is it Forged in Fire? Because if it is I totally agree.
It is.
There are 2 types of people in this world: blacksmiths and also blacksmiths but they don’t look like it
The funny part is that sometimes it’s the guys that look like blacksmiths that are actually the ones that get sent home
Well it takes more than just a pretty face to forge a knife you know
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE SHOWS, but also my family relentlessly mocks the host for being painfully masculine in a seemingly performative sort of way, leading to my dad begging me to make this image:
Alright, so in this fic all of the heroes who naturally have powers from Miraculous Ladybug don’t exist. The movies from Miraculous Ladybug won’t be canon, and the only ones who are allowed powers are the Reader and those who are born with a Quirk. If that made any sense.
“Get back here! I won’t let you take their Miraculous Hawk Moth!” You shouted as you hopped from rooftop to rooftop, chasing after your biggest adversary.
Ladybug’s earrings had been pulled from her head and had been sent flying off of the Eiffel Tower during her fight against Hawk Moth. Fortunately, her identity wasn’t revealed and you were able to catch them before anything bad could happen. It actually gave your own Kwamii enough time to cool down as you quickly put in the earrings and became Ladybug. You didn’t have too much time to dwell on being the new Ladybug as Hawk Moth was already chasing after Chat Noir dead set on claiming his Miraculous as well.
“Chat Noir run! He’s already plucked the earrings from Ladybug he’s after you now too!” You said, throwing your yo-yo, wrapping it around a light post and leaping through the air to land in between Chat Noir and Hawk Moth. Using your body, you shielded your feline friend from the enemy as he gazed at you laughing mockingly. “Oh, and what are you going to do about it? You’re not Ladybug, you don’t have any of her skills, what can you hope to accomplish by wearing her mask? You are nothing but a scared little mouse playing in a game too big for you to even attempt to comprehend.”
You grit your teeth and glared harshly at him, becoming angrier at his condescending tone than you already are. “It’s funny that you believe that. Want to know something? You are never getting your hands on any more Miraculous.”
Hawk Moth chuckled before throwing his head back and letting out loud, booming laughter, unaware that he had fallen into your trap.
“Really? And do you think that you can keep them safe from me?” He asked as he began to step closer towards the both of you making both you and Chat take a few steps backwards. A gentle hand on your wrist brings you out of your staring match with the enemy before you and you are met with the worried green eyes of the boy you loved.
“Milady, what are you doing? We can’t run forever. I can help you, there’s no need to do this alone.” You falter a little at his words, knowing that they are meant for the original Ladybug and not for you. You loved Chat Noir when he first became one of Paris’s beloved heroes, and when you became MultiMouse the love you tried to keep bottled up for him only seemed to overflow. But to hear the nickname meant for her directed at you only seemed to break your heart a little more.
You had to do this alone. No one else should get hurt because of the decisions you make right here and now.
That includes Chat Noir.
You placed one of your hands over his own, mentally counting in your head as you turned to face him. “I’m sorry Chat. I wish that things could have been different.” You whispered to him as you glanced behind him briefly to see a body of water behind him. Confident that he would be fine and survive, you forced your lips against his own, distracting him momentarily as you ripped his Miraculous off of his finger and shoving him into the water, swiftly putting his ring on as you faced Hawk Moth all on your own.
If there was one thing the Ladybug before you and yourself could agree on, it was that identities should always be kept secret. So that those close to you don’t suffer from your actions.
“If I can’t protect them, they will go down with me. You will have to pry them from my corpse! Plagg, Tikki combine!”
“No!” He screamed as a bright green light enveloped you.
Parts of the original Chat Noir costume covered sections on the Ladybug costume. Black cat ears appeared on your head, the edges of your mask became a solid black, your pupils became slits like a cat’s eye, your hair became braided and long to act as a tail, from your mid thigh and down became solid black and the bottom of your feet had green kitty paw prints, and from your elbows to your fingers became solid black and you now had sharp claws.
“You fool! Have you any idea as to what you have done!?” He screamed hysterically as he advanced towards you bringing his cane down to strike you. You reacted swiftly and pulled out the baton from your back to block his strikes.
Pushing back against him, you hit him directly in his chest causing him to go flying backwards into a chimney. “I am aware as to what could happen if these Miraculous are paired together. Fortunately for you, I’m not going to use the wish that is supposed to come with it.” You dodged an oncoming strike from him as you brought the baton up to defend from his flurry of attacks. “In the hands of someone like you, your wish could break our reality and harm millions of innocent people. Fluff now!”
As you shouted to the rabbit kwamii, she lead the others towards you carrying the Miracle Box that had housed them for centuries. Fluff quickly brought you her Miraculous and you had quickly combined Plagg, Tikki and Fluff to create a portal for the kwamiis to escape into.
“What are you doing!? Give me the Miraculous Box and your Miraculous!” He shouted as he lunged at you, pretending to swing at you as he made a grab at the earrings. Seizing this opportunity, you grabbed his Miraculous and pushed him away from you. As he was encumbered by a bright purple light and detransformed to reveal Gabriel Agreste. A purple kwamii popped out from the broach as you walked away from the man on his knees, leaving him wondering as to what had just happened.
“You! You! What are you doing to the Miracle Box!? Where are you taking my Miraculous!? What about my wish!?” He asked bewildered as he scrambled to his feet to try and catch up to you as you had closed the portal behind Nooroo.
You turned your attention to him, only now realizing that there were multiple cameras on the both of you. You ignored them and turned your attention to the broken man before you. “The Miraculous were a gift that was presented to the world. A gift that you and countless of others have abused for your own selfish gains. Until the world can prove that it can change, Miraculous will be taken away and protected so that no one may misuse them again. All Guardians are hereby dismissed.” You declared coldly as you locked eyes with him and the cameras briefly before opening up a portal below you above the water. Before you entered it, you turned your attention to Gabriel Agreste one last time to reveal the last Miraculous of the Miracle Box that had been long forgotten.
The Peacock Miraculous.
It seemed to do the trick as he gasped and frantically searched his person to try and find where you had taken it off of him.
“Only when the world can prove itself will ALL of the Miraculous return.” And with that you leapt off of the rooftop, into the portal and were gone from Paris as the portal sealed shut and disappeared behind you.
Your declaration had left the other Miraculous Wielders and Guardians of their boxes in a panic. The whole world blew up and fell apart at the disappearances of all Miraculous. Guardians fought frantically to try and ward you off, but you were ruthless and relentless as you took them all away. There was nothing that anyone had said nor done that could change your mind as you hid away all of the Miraculous from around the world.
And the world had changed in regard to the loss of the Miraculous that had once inhabited. Streets had flooded with chaos and confusion, crime rates had fluctuated, and then for a while there was nothing. It was as though they had never been presented to the world.
Social media, the news and talk shows had all wondered if Miraculous had all existed in the first place. Some even went as far as to claim that it was something that someone had come up with in the spur of the moment and that many people had put their faith in it. Those who knew that the Miraculous were real were all eagerly awaiting it’s return to the world.
Almost an entire century had passed before something new was presented to the world. Quirks. Suddenly the topic of quirks had dominated over society that the topic of Miraculous had been long forgotten to the world.
In fact, it wasn’t until a young green haired male was trying to survive middle school that Miraculous had presented itself to the world again.
I can go where ever I want to go - so let’s go? Nothing and no one except you, your ideas about how and who you are suppose to be can stop you from breathing and taking your own steps into the unknown…
Last July 8 2018 My cousin and I went to Bataan to attend their BATAAN ABIME CONVENTION 2018 in short BACon 2018 sounds yummy.. Nyahahaha.. It’s our first time to go to Bataan and it became an adventure to us. We went there without knowing the transportation we need to ride and just go with the flow. It’s a good experience for us and we really did have fun with the cosplayers and the people with the same interest. The event includes cosplay competition kids and adults, computer gamings like tekken, race of the Let’s Go, anime items auction, Gundam Anime Zoids figurines, local graphic artist, Weeabo quizzes, selling anime merchandise and others.
It was a fun day. I hope we can visit other conventions like this again.
*sorry for not posting again. I’ll update very soon.
All right y’all, I don’t normally post political stuff here, but it’s time. For those of you who don’t know, I’m a liberal feminist GQ/NB academic, I teach at a college that is dedicated to serving undocumented students, and I’m mad as hell.
On Inauguration Night, we threw one hell of a protest show, which included a dozen of Chicago’s finest acrobats, belly dancers, fire spinners, magicians, musicians, and visual artists. We SOLD OUT the venue, and donated all the proceeds to the ACLU.
If you’ve got ideas, actions, protests– hit me up.
10 days left and I thought I was ready? I have two major things to do before departure and I still haven’t even started. What am I doing? I’ve really been slacking these past few days. But let’s think about all of this for a sec. I have been in school for a good 4 years. The break is needed and the break starts now. Beyond that, I still haven’t really figured out what I will do in Taipei when I get there. For I have some spots that I will def hit up, but I need to sit down and curate a list for your girl needs to get organized. Remember that list I created? Let’s revisit it:
So as you can see, most of it is done. There’s like two with half strikethroughs for it’s in progress . There are more question marks on the two for it most likely won’t happen due to money concerns ahaha. And the spinning class is gonna happen sometime this week, I hope. My good friend of mine has also given me a blog to read about a black girl in Taipei and its quite funny, yet informative. She shares her dating advice along with tips on traveling to Taipei and other needs for black women. I’ve also been reading some other blogs of people living in Taipei like Edna who shares her experience living abroad since her college graduation along with this blog sharing her personal experience studying Chinese in Taipei. So I feel like I am mentally ready?
A bit random but I love phone cases. When I make those big purchases like a Jean Jacket or like an iPhone etc, I always find a way to add a personal touch to them. Whether its a patch, changing the color or simply adding accessories. When it comes to my iPhone, I am all about hooking it up with a case. I don’t care so much about adding those thick Otterbox like cases, but more like some color, some style. I hate items with big logos on it or the cliche water in the case with glitter like no no no. I like simple solid colors, but I also like adding some unique design or drawing. Something that you wouldn’t normally see in the store.
Aliexpress comes hand and hand with my aesthetic. They carry a ton of phone cases and the best part about it, it’s mostly free shipping on most orders and the cases are dirt cheap and many are quite unique with their own designs. I buy the cases varying from $2 to $5. Since they ship from China, they take awhile, but you won’t be disappointed once they arrive.
Pictured is one of my favourite cases which I’ve bought from Ali Express and to this day has gotten so many compliments. Like its simple, sleek and unique in style. Be careful with not all of the cases are made of good material, but if you want something different, yet don’t care too much about the quality of things, this is just for you.
I absolutely love going to concerts/festivals/shows. Invite me to a show and I am there. Whether I know the artist or not, I am always down to hearing something new. There’s something about going and hearing the music live in the flesh creates a different experience for myself. Taking the time to actually hear everything and jamming, vibing for a great music high. I love it. I’m a relatively new concertgoer. My first show ever was @wearephenox right after I graduated from high school in 2013 at the @echo stage. Once I went to that one, there was no turning back and I have been going to shows ever since.
Hands down, my favourite show ever to date was in Aug 2015, just a week before I did my big trip abroad. Never forget. I saw Janelle Monae and her entire crew from Wondaland. That particular summer, they came out with a collective ep called The Eephus (great EP btw). They were doing this “secret” tour across the country in 8 cities all for free. You just had to RSVP in time. Y’all, let me tell you…I never have seen such an energetic crowd and/or performance ever. And I am not just talking about the main singers, but the bandmates, the backup singers, the dances, like everyone was so in tune. You could tell the performers were doing this all for love. And the crowd was wildin’. They received the music so well. You can tell that many of us have never heard of the majority of these artists but when I walked out of there at the end of the night, I was in absolute awe. I followed all the artists soon after and streamed all of their music. And ever since then, no show I have seen since then has topped that. Not even close.
Last few days in Cali, I saw Kung Fu Kenny accompanied DRAM and YG with these lovely ladies. It was absolutely amazing and I lost my voice and it was hella dry by the end of the night but it was a great show. Would 10/10 see them again any day.
The last show I went to was back in October when I saw Goldlink and also found my new obsession, Masego. Did yall know that Masego is a radio host on one of GTA V radio stations?! Crazy but that show was amazing from beg to end. I need to see them again.
Some artists that I want to see, but hard to see due to the location includes 20syl (only plays in France), Epik High (mostly performs in Seoul and big cities in Asia), Deadmau5 (his ass never has shows in the US unless it’s in like California or Miami)
It’s been 5 months since my last one and I am having some withdrawals. Probably won’t be going to any major concerts/festivals due to my upcoming travel plans, but if anyone knows of any small shows that I should check out in the month of May in DC, let me know and let’s go.
If any of you know me very well, you know that I love to go biking. Not like hardcore mountain biking, but just the casual, commute biking (with your occasional trail bike ride here and there) and wandering biker. Been doing it for quite some time now. A lot of times, I don’t make any plans. Just hop on my bike and ride wherever my heart takes me - my escape from home. Gives me the freedom to go off on my own and discover places. Riding also serves as a mode of transportation for me. But its also a faster way to scope out a neighbourhood and just to see the sights of everything without necessarily having to walk. And in turn, I build my endurance and save money from not having to take the Metro.
First started biking on the regular towards the end of my senior year of high school. If you are thinking of biking, I recommend you do it gradually. I lived a good 45 min (by bus/train) from school so like a good hour maybe even an hour and a half by bike (if you ride slow/take your time). To start off, I took the bus halfway to Gallery Place/Chinatown and rode the other way up that big ass hill on Georgia Ave up to Shaw/Howard area (I nearly died) and I just kept doing that. After a few days, I kept challenging myself more and more with riding all the way home (not too bad of a ride) and testing out my strength with some of the steepest hills in the city during those dreadful humid months (June-Aug).
But being in school makes it tough to bike. I leave my bike at home in DC for the weather is pretty bad for a fixie during those long winter months in PA. And during those long durations of being at school, I don’t work those muscles I use while biking, and I lost the strength over time. When I come back, I have to start over again. I almost never come home so my time with my bike is limited.
One thing to note, it’s also important that one must eat before going on a ride. Our bodies burn a lot of energy while riding so it’s important to fuel it with good, lean hearty but healthy food. I can recall too many instances where I was in a rush to leave and I start riding and realize that I forgot to eat. Eating is very important. Even if its just fruit, it comes a long way. One day, I ran out to grab something real quick, forgot to eat and I fell off my biking passing out on a bench in the middle of the park. Thank God tho for whatever reason, I had a squishy banana in my bag. Never felt so recharged in my life till I had my first bite. It was the best feeling..ever. I told myself never again after that occurrence. Also, during those hot months, stay hydrated esp on those long rides. It’s essential :).
Back in November, went on a ride literally across DC going from errand to errand and I easily rode 20 miles that day. My legs felt like straight up noodles at the end of it all and I gave myself 2 days to recover before I got back on that bike.
The highlight of my biking experiences so far was in Shanghai. And the very big difference between DC and Shanghai was my timetable. I was there for almost a year so I needed to invest in a decent bike. For whatever reason, bikes are super cheap in China. The price of one can be as low as $15 (but let me tell you those bikes look like someone shitted all over it, ran over by a car, and left if in the corner to rust) but hey they work so why not? THINK AGAIN. I went ahead and got it but that bike got stolen just 2 weeks after using it. Hah. Can’t say you’ve experienced life in China till your bike gets stolen. 2nd time around, I ordered a cheap fixie from their infamous website Taobao. I went everywhere with this bike. I biked to class (5 min vs. 20 min walking), across the street to eat, around the neighbourhood and even downtown (an hour ride from 五角场站 to 南京西路站)! Shanghai as a city is super flat so biking around was a piece of cake once you overcome the fear of riding/crossing the roads of thousands of drivers driving however without putting on their signals, crossing over 3 lanes w/o an indication, and the disregard for pedestrians crossing the road. I even rode the empty and quiet streets at 3am with a friend around the university. But man, never ride long distances if the pollution is bad. I learned that the hard way when I rode downtown for the first time.
When I am at home, I typically ride at least 5 days a week averaging around 15 miles a day. Doesn’t matter if its freezing cold or hot sweating balls, I am out there, ♀️.
