Hey there! Happy New Year and all that jazz!

No new chapter today, sorry folks :(( I just wanted to make a quick announcement: This story is officially on pause.

Next to Adult Life (TM) completely taking me over, I kind of fell out of the Miraculous fandom. I was really dissappointed on how the third season turned out.

Don't get me wrong - I love that they are breaking up the Love Square right now, because both need to get back to the ground, having the other on a too high pedestral - all that fanfic stuff I guess. They need time apart to really appreciate the other. But it was all the other things that are really getting on my nerves.

I'm studying game/animation. And storytelling is one of the main parts of what I do. And Zag is doing so many grave mistakes, so I simply can't enjoy the show any longer at this point.

For example: Thomas Astruc once said (something along the lines of) that Miraculous is supposed to be a show, where every episode could stand alone. Own story, own setting. You can take a single episode out of the whole bunch and everything would still work. The show wouldn't be messed up and the episode will still tell it's own story. And that's how Zag is treating Miraculous. It's the reason why every episode needs an Akuma and why every episode starts happy and ends happy. I like that concept in general and it works fine with series like Phineas and Ferb or whatever.

BUT MIRACULOUS DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.

You can't have such a complicated story and characters and character develepment if the single episodes don't relate to each other. That's why there are episodes that are overly full with story (way too full) right next to equally too boring ones. It's driving me insane, honestly. That explaines the messed up publication dates (because it doesn't matter to them) and the nonexistent connection to other (storyrelevant) episodes.

Add to that the horrible treating of Chat/Adrien (They are equals, but I guess I don't have to explain that one XDXD) and some other minor stuff and I'm out.

Well, not completely, anyway.

I put too much work into this story and universe to let it die out. I think I'm just gonna wait for season four and hopefully continue eventually. And if Miraculous doesn't manage to catch me again, I'll still continue the story, but will eventually get a bit off track of the original story and characters? I don't know. I have the feeling Marinette already IS a bit OC, but well, we'll see what the future brings :) It will just be a while until I'm back, but don't worry, this story is NOT abandonned.

Other than that: I did write stuff though. Does anyone of you know Voltron: Legendary Defender? I'll eventually post stuff over there :) Already have a massive thing on the run (not published yet) and hope to see you there as well :)

Have a nice weekend everyone and see you soon!

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