#wackus-bonkus-maximus

[coffeebanana]

loveybug au loveybug au loveybug au loveybug au for the wip ask game!

thanks for the ask, @hueynomure and @wackus-bonkus-maximus!!

I don't really have MUCH of this aside from the idea tbh, but it was like...me trying to put myself in the headspace of what might drive Marinette to become Loveybug. And I came up with something a little different from the original Loveybug origin story, in that Marinette doesn't set out to transform into Loveybug. It happens by accident after Elation, when she's trying to push aside that part of her that loves Chat Noir...and she finds can't quite do it.

So there's an Akuma, and she transforms...only to look in the mirror and realize THAT'S NOT WHAT HER SUIT IS MEANT TO LOOK LIKE. TIKKI WTF? (Aka her true inner desire is that she does NOT want to give up on her love, and that feeling is so strong that it's manifesting in her transformation.)

Other highlights include Chat Noir thinking she's the Akuma when she shows up, and then her realizing...Chat Noir doesn't want Ladybug anymore. And he can't date Marinette....so maybe Loveybug is her last chance. Hopefully Chat Noir won't disappear and--oh. what's Catwalker doing here?

ALSO my headcanon that loveybug's name stems from an "I'm Ma-madly clumsy" type situation. Like she's trying to explain to Chat Noir that "I'm Ladybug and I'm in love with you!" and it comes out "I'm Loveybug!"

#ask response #miraculous ladybug #loveybug au #hueynomure #wackus-bonkus-maximus

[ladyofthenoodle]

what is ladrien rpf 👀

ladrien rpf is based on this prompt i wrote, which turned into a whole conversation on the aps discord server where we decided marinette and adrien should collaborate on a ladrien rpf comic together. i have not actually written anything for it, but it was on my list of possibilities for the ladrien zine, so i collected the conversation in a document (which is how it got included on my "touched in the last year list")

some highlights include:

adrien was the only person writing ladrien before gorizilla. afterwards a bunch on people went home and looked up "ladrien" and found his fic, which means he actually set the tropes and characterizations for ladrien fandom

HOWEVER a lot of people disagree with his characterization of adrien and think he's written him too weepy and smitten

this exception to this is marinette, who has been reading his fic since before gorizilla and still thinks he has the most accurate ladybug and adrien out there

she does have some criticism of his ladybug characterization actually

there are definitely ladrien vs ladynoir ship wars but adrien ships and writes both

anyways the end up writing a weekly comic where ladrien just go cuddle and go to farmers markets and raise their hamster

except adrien tries to keep it fresh by adding action/adventure, much to marinette's chagrin, because she does not know how to draw a grocery story in space

she also is way too embarassed to draw any of the kisses he writes

this is all via their online handles btw they have no idea who they're collabing with

thanks for the ask, wackus, @frostedpuffs, and @jattendschaton!

#wackus-bonkus-maximus #frostedpuffs #jattendschaton #ask game #fic ideas

[heartfulselkie]

tell us about sad machine please 🤩

So this was a fic idea that...went a little off the rails. (You should know, its in the littlebug files somewhere)

I've started writing it already and I do intend to share the fic at some point, so I'll not go into too much details for now. But I can certianly give a quick overview!

It's essentially a semi-futuristic cyberpunk au. In this au, Gabriel runs a massive company that specialises in augmentation, cybernetics and other technology (so think Alliance from the show but a lot more products). His brand is at the forefront of technology and is constantly updating and releasing new products for consumers - but this also leads to a lot of waste and things becoming obsolete. This is something that Adrien absolutely hates.

Adrien is very skilled in programming and mechanical engineering, but has yet to really be involved in his father's company beyond being a public face/model. And he's doing a lot to avoid becoming ensnared in the company because he'd rather use his skill elsewhere.

Which is exactly what he does! With the help of his friend Nino, Adrien uses the pseudonym 'Chat Noir' and works to help repair the items and parts for people who depend on these things but don't have the means to keep upgrading to the constant rollout of new models (so things like prosthetics and body augments and things that people literally need for their quality of life).

Of course Adrien does this all without Gabriel's knowledge - which means Adrien has to source parts for his repairs outside of the company. Luckily with the constant progression and changeover in technology and machinery there's a lot of scrap. So Adrien often spends his time salvaging for parts.

It's during one of these salvaging expeditions that he comes across a very curious little thing. A piece of machinery that appears to host some kind of AI. He doesn't know if it had been some kind of robot, android or just some assistant programme, but he's very quickly intrigued why such a complex and sophisticated AI would be thrown away (even if she is a little bit glitchy and buggy).

So he takes her in and calls her Ladybug.

Who/what is she? Where did she come from? What's hidden behind her corrupted memory?

Obviously there's a lot of questions but... you'll just have to wait until I post the fic!

[WIP Ask Game]

#wackus-bonkus-maximus #ask selkie #ask game #wip game

[maridotnet]

à la mémoire de

#odnlb #ladybug #chat noir #ml angst #mari.net art #wackus-bonkus-maximus

[mostmagical]

DUOLINGO REVEAL PLEASE 🦉

WAHOO YAY THANKS FOR ASKING

so duolingo reveal came about during a brainstorming session where I was just trying to come up with the most ridiculous reveal scenarios possible. and around that time, my friend and I discovered that her brother was on duolingo because I needed his contact info for whatever and duo sent a notification to my phone that said something along the lines of "your friend so and so is on duolingo!"

my plan was that Ladybug admits to Chat Noir that she would like to work on her English more so they can help akumatized tourists better, and he suggests they both download an app. she reluctantly agrees and allows him to follow her. since this is the only social media she allows him to follow her on, he goes ham, cheering her on and sending her in-app gifts daily. he spends a TON of time on there and is just dominating leaderboards so everyone eventually finds out that Ladynoir is on there, but they don't follow anyone besides each other.

as it turns out though, Marinette did not realize the app syncs her contact information, until someone she knows gets an alert to their phone, "Your friend Ladybug is on the app!"

ask me about my wips! <3

#it's been so long since I wrote a goofy reveal. I should get back to this #ask game #wip #wackus-bonkus-maximus

[lesbitorte]

REDDITOR GHOSTS 😱👻

THE REDDIT GHOST

Okay so this one is basically Adrien is dead and the plot is not entirely stablished and I'm lowkey making it as I go, but Marinette is trying to solve his case.

I have very little written in this wip, but i have two pages of bullet points on how this happens, so here's one of the titles that are on hold xD

AITA for getting my black widow neighbor arrested so I could date her latest late husband after resurrecting him?

(ask game)

#ask game #wackus-bonkus-maximus

[mozzygan]

i love the before // after format and if that's what you're doing in your wip ask game i am dying to see it 👀👀👀

ok this one is...i've kept it very close haha. imma share some of it because i'm brave!!!!!!! but i'm sure you'll figure out why i've been closed-lipped about this story lol. just gonna share the intro tho—honestly, i know very little about this story right now. haven't super explored it/gotten to know the characters. but anyways IT'S BRAVE FACE TIME 😤 (self harm tw)

I used to write on my skin a lot—notes, dates, assignments, all that. Whenever you’re fresh out of notebooks (which is a perpetual state of being for me), just whip out a pen and you got yourself an easy-to-remember and unlosable agenda on your palm. After my friends got annoyed at me for washing my reminders off whenever I went to the bathroom, I started using the notes app on my phone to take notes, write down dates, remember assignments. But there were marks on my skin that I’d drawn on years and years and years ago. They’d had long since washed off. Still, after days of scrubbing myself raw in the shower, I could never quite remove them. They were gone from my skin, sure, but not from my soul. Two simple words, separated by a barrier of dashed lines all along my stomach, thighs, and the flab of my arms: “BEFORE” and “AFTER.”

#wackus-bonkus-maximus #ask #aske game #wip ask game #i think it's pretty evident why i don't talk about this one #but i still feel like it's important—at least for me #oof am i gonna regret posting this???? #yes probably haha #and not just because this is a very very rough first draft 💀 #BUT!!! I'M BRAVE AND HONEST AND VULNERABLE #WHICH IS AWESOME BC IT'S IMPORTANT!! #ok i'm done #mine #my original stories #b//a #my writing #tw self harm

[sandradoodles]

i wanna ask you about all your wips but OMG I'M IN YOUR WIPS??

can we see some odnlb and some feligami?? please i am starved for feligami. thought i was the only one!

FELIGAMI............. IS ALSO ODNLB FANART........... HAHA. I think I told you that you put me onto certain ships that I never would have considered on my own and that is one of them!

I do wanna finish at least one of these pieces so badly but I am SUCH a slow artist so this is what we've got. Here is part of odnlb because this scene hit me like a TRUCK:

And feligami! I love the way you write Kagami, I can LITERALLY hear her voice in my head. Her demand at the end of chapter sixteen, the reveal (not pictured), and how I imagine his reaction as soon as she walked out of the room lolll:

#ask #wackus-bonkus-maximus #odnlb fanart (I mean... sort of) #(one day) #wip game

[mila-beedoodling]

me gusta tu nuevo icon 🦚

chetos i sent the wrong emoji before. i mEANT 🐈‍⬛

Gracias xD

I liked drawing it 😌

#wackus-bonkus-maximus #asks

[redundant-lava]

ODNLB comparison to French Romanticism (and some art nouveau)

As one of the many people who is following every update from @wackus-bonkus-maximus on One Does Not Love Breathing, this is my contribution to the extreme over-analysis of this miraculous ladybug fan fiction 😅

I love reading the discourse about relating song lyrics to ODNLB so this post is kinda in the same vein of "this is cool art that makes me feel the same things ONDLB makes me feel." Full disclosure I am not an art expert so all of my opinions about this art might be Academically Incorrect but eeeeeh idc im gonna share my thoughts anyway.

bottom line if u like odnlb u might like this art I picked out so lmk what u think (also this might have spoilers up to ch28 of odnlb and cw for mentions of self harm)

La Justice et la Vengeance Poursuivent le Crime- Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1808)

(eng: Justice and Vengeance in pursuit of Crime) This painting was originally commissioned to hang in a courtroom and features four figures: Themis (Justice); Nemesis (Divine Revenge) Crime, and the Victim. What really gets me about this piece is the cold look of rage on Nemesis's face and her intimidating posture which almost makes the still painting look like it's in motion. Even Themis looks a little afraid of her!

I relate this to how Chat Noir and Ladybug as public figures have diverged since Chat Noir "died." In the public psyche, Chat Noir has been allowed to continue to represent the pursuit of Justice, even as a martyr. To an extent, even after his pubic death, he accepts his own misfortune by telling himself he "deserves" it and that this fate is justice. Meanwhile Ladybug has continued to have to fight in an ever-escalating conflict, unable to keep her hands completely clean. She is motivated by the revenge she seeks for the death of her partner. She has become Devine Revenge and is prioritizing making all the people who hurt Chat Noir pay.

Crime in this analogy could be either Gabriel or Lila or even Felix (see keys to the kingdom) but whoever it is needs to watch out. This is what the artist Prud'hon had to say about the subjects of the painting:

« [Le Crime] ne voit pas que Némésis, cette agente terrible de la Justice, comme un vautour fondant sur sa proie, le poursuit, va l’atteindre et le livrer à son inflexible compagne… » (from napoleon.org)

"[Crime] does not see that Nemesis, this terrible agent of Justice, like a vulture swooping down on her prey, is pursuing him, will reach him and deliver him to her inflexible companion..."

Ladybug is the vulture and anyone who crosses her is the prey. We've seen already that she's willing to kill Chloe (and it's implied possibly even Catwalker himself before she discovers his identity) and Luka's time loops is the only thing preventing her from becoming a permanent murderer. Until her partner is back at her side, there won't be any justice achieved, but also that justice will be inflexible and absolute.

Le Rêve du bonheur - Constance Mayer (1819)

(eng: The Happy Dream) This painting by Constance Mayer was actually based on a sketch by her teacher Prud'hon. It depicts a small row boat on a river with a simple background. On the right is a man with his sleeping companion and infant resting in his lap. On the left is a woman with two angelots meant to represent the personification of love.

Prud'hon's sketch is thought to be based on his own "happy dream" of building a life with his family. But that dream was unattainable for him as he couldn't be with the woman he loved.

I think this relates really strongly to Marinette and Adrien's relationship. They both want to be together so badly but they are both imprisoned by their own situation. The Man dreams of being with his lover and children just like Marinette dreams of being with Adrien... of rescuing him and protecting him. But Adrien, just like Prud'hon's lover Constance has very little control over the situation, and while he is the primary object of the dream and shares the dream himself, he can't do anything to make it his reality.

The sad part of the story is that Constance eventually took her own life. I KNOW wackus promised us a happy ending for odnlb but where we stand now (ch 28) Adrien seems to be headed down the same path of self-destruction.

La Malédiction paternelle: le fils ingrat - Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1777)

(eng: The Father's Curse: The Ungrateful Son) oooh these two are from Gabriel's POV! These pair of paintings are based off the parable of the prodigal son from the Bible. In this first one, the father is furious and cursing his son for abandoning his family to join the army. Some of the women are begging the son to stay, meanwhile one woman holds the father back from striking his son.

I relate this to odnlb's storyline but also to an extent the canon storyline. We've seen in canon that when Gabriel finds out his son is Chat Noir and has been fighting against him, he is furious at his son's betrayal. We haven't gotten this scene in odnlb yet so I'm not sure if Gabriel will have the same judgement of his son, but he certainly won't be pleased at the news.

Like the prodigal son Adrien is seeking indolence from his father, but from the father's point of view, his son is ungrateful and does not realize all the benefits the father has given him.

La Malédiction paternelle: le fils puni - Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1778)

(eng: The Father's Curse: The punished son) In this second painting in the same series, the son has returned from his time in the army to find his father dead from grief. The father was never able to forgive the son before he passed and now the son has to live with the unresolved dispute. This is his "punishment."

For me this scene really resonates with the Gabriel and Adrien's relationship as father and son. Despite being Chat Noir, despite his disavowment of his father's goals, Adrien still loves his father (and may be the only person left who does). Especially after the big reveal in chapter 28, I think Adrien would mourn his father's fate if he ever found out, especially since Adrien is one of the few people who can truly relate.

Chat mort - Géricault (c. 1820)

(eng: Dead Cat) haha, get it, because Chat Noir is "dead"? Ok no that's not really why I picked this one. Despite Adrien not really being dead, Chat Noir's "death" was very real to everyone else, most notably Ladybug. If any other member of her team had been lost, while it would have been devistating to her, none would have had the same effect on her that Chat Noir's death did.

The artist Géricault painted the famous and physically massive painting The Raft of the Medusa. By comparison this piece is much smaller and less significant. But to him, this piece was very significant. This painting depicts Géricault's own pet cat after it's passing.

I think this passagedutemps blog post really sums it up (this is a translation from French):

"It is a incomplete story of which we only know the end. The painter lived on Rue des Martyrs and his studio was located at No. 23. It was probably from there that his cat fell, who died of it. The painter had to pick up the animal and gently put it on the table. He still had a beautiful coat, beige and gray. Nothing of a carrion, but he was no longer there, his eye already closed, his mouth open, his legs stiffened. There was only one life lost."

Géricault painted his cat with the same love and detail as his greatest works. The loving care put into the art juxtaposed with the finality of the subject matter is heart wrenching and offers only a sliver of the pain Ladybug must have felt at the loss of her cat.

L'Age Mûr - Camille Claudel (1897)

ok and last one is a sculpture not a painting!

On the left is a older man being lead away by the strong embrace of an old woman. on the right is a young woman on the ground pleading for the man to stay with her. One interpretation is that the old woman represents death and the man, at his old age, accepts his fate, leaving youth behind. Another interpretation is that it may represent the sculptors despair at losing her teacher, mentor, and lover to an older woman.

I think both interpretations work for Marinette and Adrien's relationship in odnlb. Lila is Death or Fate, leading Adrien away from Marinette and not allowing him to return to his youthful days of being her partner. Marinette is helpless to save Adrien from his own fate because of the nature of him being a sentimonster, he will always be able to be controlled.

The desperation of the young woman, the resigned acceptance of the man, and the confident satisfaction of the old woman all come together to tell this tragedy of a story in a single pose and I cannot stop thinking about it I really really like this piece.

whew ok that's all for tonight. did I intent to write 1.5k words on this topic? no but I just had too many opinions to shut up about it so congrats now you all are cursed with this extra long post on ur dash 🥰

#Rip to my high school teachers who would have killed for me to put this much effort into a literary analysis when I was a teenager #am I maybe subtly hoping this inspires ppl to make more odnlb fan art? #maybe it's not subtle but I have consumed every piece of fan art for this fic and I love it but also I need moooooooore #wackus just so u know this is (partially) your fault #you got me thinking about symbolism in Paris and it just snowballed from there #one does not love breathing #odnlb #odnlb discussion #art discussion #odnlb art #wackus bonkus maximus #adrien agreste #marinette dupain cheng #gabriel agreste #lila rossi #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanfic #miraculous fanworks

[feather-of-argos]

The latest chapter of odnlb really be like:

Felix: She's a 10 but she used to date my twin brother

Kagami: He's a 10 but he can be controlled by an inanimate object

#odnlb #one does not love breathing #feligami #odnlb by @wackus-bonkus-maximus #felix graham de vanily #felix fathom #kagami tsurugi

[coffeebanana]

🐕‍🦺for the summary

A drunken game of Twister somehow lands Marinette in Adrien's bed. And there's cuddling. The sort that feels like maybe it's leading to something a little less than platonic. So when an Akuma interrupts the fun, Marinette is NOT about to let Hawk Moth win. Not tonight. This would have been a lot easier if she'd remembered to transform.

"Come on, Adrien." She yanked his hand harder as they raced down the stairs. This would have been so much easier if she could just carry him, but superpowers or not, she didn't exactly trust her coordination right now. "We just need to get to the--fuck!"

Skidding to a stop on the landing between the second floor and the lobby, Marinette stared in horror at the purple smoke that was already creeping through the cracks around the door below. They'd been too slow. It was time for plan B.

Letting go of Adrien's hand (regretfully), she reached for the yo-yo hooked to her--wait. why was it in a pocket? Why did her suit have pockets?

Well, probably for the same reason her transformation had given her a fuzzy onesie and slippers in the place of her usual transformation. Tikki must have been affected by her drunkenness.

None of that mattered so long as she could still do her job and get Adrien to safety. Smoke was quickly filling the landing below, but it hadn't yet reached the hole in the middle of the staircase, which extended to the parking lot floors below. All they had to do was drop down there and they'd be able to find a new exit.

Marinette tossed her yo-yo towards the bannister, frowning as she watched it in midflight. Even her weapon didn't look the way it usually did. It was red, sure. But it lacked its usual spots. And as for ease of handling...it crashed to the floor half a metre away from its destination.

Ugh. Apparently she was going to have to do this the hard way. She bent down to pick up the yo-yo, and was about manually wrap it around the bannister when Adrien grabbed her wrist.

"Marinette, I'm not sure--" Adrien broke off when she whirrled around to face him.

"Adrien, I know you're scared."

"Oh. I'm not actually--"

"But you have nothing to worry about. You're safe with me." She stepped closer, raising a hand to cup his cheek. She had to keep herself from licking her lips at the tiny gasp he let out. There would be time to explore whatever that meant later. "You're always safe with me."

His gaze softened, and he gave a small chuckle. "And normally, I wouldn't doubt that. But..."

Marinette dropped her hand, frowning. Why was there a but? She was freaking Ladybug! And even if she weren't, she'd still find his lack of faith insulting.

He certainly hadn't looked at her that way earlier, when she'd had to crawl underneath him to place her right hand on green.

...

thanks for the ask!! 💜

#ask response #wackus-bonkus-maximus #miraculous ladybug #adrinette #ladrien #sort of #marinette THINKS it's ladrien at least 😂 #this is pure crack because like. i genuinely refuse to believe someone can ACTUALLY be this drunk but #it's FUNNY OKAY #i also have other ideas about how this plays out--and backstory for why she's wearing the onesie #but i'll keep those to myself for now on the odd chance i ever end up writing the rest of this LOL

[ladyofthenoodle]

trick or treat 🪣

YOU ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO ALL MY WIPS 😭 what do you want from me

#ask game #wackus-bonkus-maximus

[heartfulselkie]

trick or treat 🎃

Brooms. You get brooms.

🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹🧹

...

Fiiiiiine.

(shakes my halloween bowl of goodies)

A oneshot snippet!

Adrien knew her too well. Ladybug's silence meant she was thinking hard. It meant she was planning. Planning for what exactly, Adrien didn't stick around to find out. With the meagre minutes he had left on his transformation, he had run. He couldn't take the fear. He couldn't take what her decision would be - what he knew it should be. He was a sentimonster. Sentimonsters were monsters that shouldn't exist. But even though Adrien knew he should have handed both rings over to her there and then, he'd still fled. Because running away was how he'd always handled his problems. Because he'd always been a selfish coward.

Happy (almost) Halloween! 🎃

#wackus-bonkus-maximus #ask selkie #ask game

[maridotnet]

can you draw glasses adrien? 👓

it's dadrien and this is how he looks at his wife 😌

#wackus-bonkus-maximus #mari.net art #adrien agreste #dadrien #request

[wackus-bonkus-maximus]

odnlb update

got some lukzoe and feligami for you guys this week!

reach chapter 22 here

#odnlb #one does not love breathing #wackus bonkus maximus #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanfic #ao3 writer