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girls don't want flowers they just want the cruel prince books to be re written in cardan's pov

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hell hath no fury like a homosexual scorned

Monty's Redemption

I realized why I want Monty to return for season 2 (if we get it). Obviously, love Joshua Colley; fantastic actor that I actually recognized from a Broadway miscast performance from way back in 2016. He played Eliza along with two other little boys and performed The Schuyler Sisters. Tangent: For those who did not already know this, you should absolutely watch it here. He was so good that I remembered him constantly whenever Hamilton was brought up. It happened enough that I went and followed him a few years later. It was a crazy while watching him, cause he felt familiar, but I didn't why, then I saw his name in the credits, and I was like, "Isn't that the name of the kid who played Eliza in that miscast? I'm pretty sure that's his name, let me check." Boom! It was him, and I immediately rewatched the miscast, and it was so crazy because his face has not changed at all! Like, obviously it's matured, but it's the same fucking face. Some people look completely different when they grow up, and some people literally look the same. (I'm one of these people. My face has not changed since I was a fucking toddler. Couple that with my short height and you have a childhood of bullying then an early adulthood of being mistaken for a child. RIP 🥲) Joshua's face is literally the same, it was so crazy lmfao

But other than loving the actor, I really want Monty to come back! I think it would be adorable if he turned back into a human, and joined the squad. He and Edwin would be an adorable QPR, and Edwin could teach him about being a human, since he probably only knows the bare minimum Esther told him so he could be in disguise. I actually wrote an essay about this a little while ago that I might rewrite.

But it is more than just wanting him back for the cuteness and fun of having him around. My urge for him to return feels too strong, too pinpointed, and I couldn't figure out why for a while.

Surprise, surprise! I figured it out!

It has to do with redemption! Charles literally says it when he pushes the backpack to him when he couldn't reach it.

Here's the thing, obviously I'd like him to come back to get a full redemption arc, but I figured out why I'm so set on him getting one. It's specifically Edwin.

There's something Edwin says about Monty that rubs me the wrong way. It's during the conversation he has with Niko on the roof. He says, "He was a good liar, for a crow." It always made my skin prickle, just a little bit.

It's because calling Monty a "liar" feels like an unfair label. Did he lie? Yes, absolutely. But he also didn't.

Everything Monty tells Edwin behind the butcher shop is true. The only lie is the reason he wasn't free to make his own decisions before. It wasn't a coma, but he was still trapped and "in the dark" metaphorically speaking. Even what he says about feeling braver is true.

He's essentially Esther's property; she can do with him what she likes. She quite literally rips him apart and puts him back together, making him a human against his will. Monty says, "I never asked to be human. With all these... feelings."

She forces a massive change in his entire being, mind, and life. Imagine how jarring it would be to suddenly not have wings that you were born with? To have no tail, beak, or claws? To be something completely other than you?

It was simpler for Monty when he was a crow. He was probably scared all the time, and just did as he was told. But once he becomes human, if you pay attention, you can see immediately that Monty does not actually like Esther that much, nor enjoys having to help her. He speaks his mind, and backtalks her, a couple times.

"That little slither bug is the size of a bus. It could afford to miss a few meals." - Ep05 When he says this, he says it with actual disdain in his voice. He's not just being sarcastic about it. Monty's voice and expression when he says it could miss meals looks like he genuinely doesn't like it.

"Well, I mean, you stood bleeding on the shore so Lilith would come out of the ocean and grant you eternal life. She never said you had to stay young and beautiful." - Ep05 Given how much she believes Lilith tricked her, and how much she cares about being young and beautiful, this was an incredibly ballsy thing for Monty to say.

"You didn't tell me that mushroom thing was gonna completely eradicate them. Or how gruesome it would be. Or how to-" - Ep06 Monty is genuinely distraught over this, and saying she didn't tell him implies his actions would have been different if he'd known. How so? We'll never know, but it's possible he would've tried to sabotage or refuse to help her. "Tried" being a key word here because it's clear that she had little-to-no care for Monty at all. He obeys her, but gets revealed by the Cat King, and she rips him up for it. There's really no way he could've survived if he'd tried to refuse/stop her.

Speaking of genuine feelings, Monty did actually like them. Yes, "them" plural. He says, "-gonna completely eradicate them." Monty could've said "him", referring to Edwin since he's the one he's in love with, but he doesn't. He's upset about both of them being destroyed. Earlier when Esther gives him the napkin of fungus, he asks her what she's going to do with Crystal. If Edwin was the only one he cared about, he wouldn't have bothered to ask.

He's not supposed to care at all! If he was still a crow, he couldn't have asked. He'd just go do it. He's her familiar; he pretty much has to. Based on Monty's emotional responses, and the fact that he helps Charles at the end, it seems like he has free will. And you can say, "Why didn't he refuse sooner if he really cared?" and at the end of the day, that doesn't matter. She would have killed him regardless of what point in her plot he betrayed her. He doesn't want to die! That's a very reasonable response to the situation.

The affection Monty has for Edwin is completely real, and develops quickly. After their first meeting, they're swapping books, and Monty seems to have actually read it. Saying it was beautiful is a generic compliment, but how would he know it was funny?

He was genuinely looking forward to seeing Edwin, and disappointed that the plans were canceled.

Esther even says, "Monty, ew. You're not besotted with that little brat, are you?" Funny how he actually never responds to that question here, but immediately shuts the notion down after Edwin rejects him.

And it's when Edwin tells him sincerely that he is his friend that Monty makes the decision to try and get him out of the forest.

I said in my other essay and earlier in this one that betraying Esther is a death sentence. There's no way she wouldn't find out if he helped them escape, but he was going to try anyway.

Monty may have lied about his identity as Esther's crow, but he didn't lie about the rest of who he is. That is why Edwin referring to him as a "liar", plain and simple, feels wrong. Monty deserves the chance to talk to Edwin, to actually explain himself, not under the threat of the Forest Elemental destroying Edwin, and without the Cat King's jeering. Honestly, I think he only ran because of the way Edwin called him a crow as though that on its own was disgusting or insulting rather than the real problem which is him being Esther's crow. I don't think Edwin would've actually cared about Monty originally being a crow, especially given the fact that the Cat King literally switches back and forth between human and cat. He's a human now (in that moment).

The way Edwin calls him a "liar" makes me feel like he didn't believe Monty when he said that he wasn't pretending, that it started off as that, but that it had changed into real feelings for him. It feels wrong for Edwin not to know/acknowledge that, especially if Charles tells him about the help he provided against Esther.

That it is what I want most if Monty is brought back.

(ko-fi)

THIS IS TOO SOON I JUST FINISHED EPISODE EIGHT LIKE TEN MINUTES AGO THERE ARE STILL TEARS IN MY EYES

NIKO SASAKI AND EDWIN PAYNE Dead Boy Detectives (2024-)

Based off of what a friend said to me after season 4

watching “The Day That Wasn’t” is the most infuriating thing ever and i’m suffering

Me when Jude didn’t do anything after Cardan told her to “kiss him until he’s sick of it”:

Day 2: Favorite Grishaverse Ship

"My runner, my runner, my man" - Runner, Alex G Tiktok

Visit @savethegrishaverse to see the full schedule for the week!

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

“i felt that five had to have a love story” okay steve !! fine. i’ll humour you. picture this : lila and five in the subway. they’re travelling to different timelines, loosing hope, trying to find a way home. then they get to a timeline and five sees dolores. but she’s a human, not a mannequin. he falls for her. loves her. wants to stay with her in her timeline. and that’s why lila has to force him to come home. she has kids, a husband, a life. five wants to stay with dolores more than anything. but he goes home, back to his timeline, because he knows he has to save his family. because he loves them more.

i love rewatching the umbrella academy because i notice new things every time. for example, Diego had quite the bad attitude episode one. he was really just trying to pick fights with people all the time. it’s strange, because he’s one of my favorite characters now and i guess he must have changed over the course of the seasons.

another thing i noticed: five and viktor had a really good relationship from the beginning. in episode 2 when it shows young five arguing with reginald about time travel, he kind of looks to viktor for what im assuming is guidance? of course, he doesn’t listen. but still. also, when he jumps forward and sees the post-apocalyptic world, the first name he calls is vanya, and he also tells viktor about the apocalypse before any of the other siblings

I think a better ending and message of The Umbrella Academy should have been that Five doesn't tell the others what he learns in the subway and about breaking the timeline, but instead he simply lives with his family, endlessly saving and trying to save the world. To live despite how dark it is and how hopeless it is.

To live in spite of hardship. To live and spit in the face of how hard and bleak it is.

To say, 'I lived' in spite of it all.

That should have been the message at the end.

i really loved season four of the umbrella academy. my favorite part was when lila didn’t cheat on diego and five didn’t just give up on everything he did to protect his family. or maybe the part where ben didn’t turn into a monster. or maybe the part where they didn’t all die at the end

you can pry starting sentences with 'and' or 'but' out of my cold, dead hands

Jesper: Great news!!! Ive replaced all my emotions with jokes

Wylan: Jes, We’ve talked about this

Jesper: *Huffs* Feelings are friends not foes 🙄

Wesper Kid: Theres a small get together at school on Friday we need to go to

Wylan: How small?

Wesper Kid: Just you, Da, me and the principal…

Jude is called pretty by faeries,

Was hit on by a random dude

Her beauty has been compared to as a winter forest/ night (I’ll need to do a reread for that)

She is hit on by Grimsen

Orianna talks about her loveliness

Tatterfell believes she can charm a faerie lord

She is definitely very beautiful

this will never not be funny to me, judecardan are so unserious 😭

🎨: ritta1310

Klaus: If Im ever murered just know I ran my mouth to the bitter end

Five: …You’re immortal

Klaus: Yeah, thats how I know

"If I die, turn my tweets into a book and sell it" - Jesper Fahey, Six of Crows

Jesper: "Do you think I’m reckless?" Wylan: "You jumped off a roof yesterday." Jesper: "For the aesthetic!" Wylan: "You’re a walking Pinterest fail."

kaz offering inej a position in the dregs so they can be besties so she can spy for him