(I know this is my fan blog but shhhh I really wanted to do this)
Tagged by @sheepbitch
S- Servants and Kings, Radical Face
A- Alligator Blood, Nicole Dollanganger
P- Persephone, Daisy the Great
P- Poacher's Pride, Nicole Dollanganger
I- In Flanders Fields, Sabaton
C- Candy, The Blasting Company
- Free Space, Daughter of God, Phemiec
M- Maneater, Blue Eyed Blondes
A- A Brief History of Human Fragility, Nine Aetharia
D- Devil's Backbone, The Civil Wars
- Free Space, One More Last Goodbye, Dead Soldiers
S- Shallow River, The Crane Wives
C- communist love song, Soltero
I- It's All In Your Head, dandelion hands
E- Eat You, Caravan of Thieves
N- Never Love an Anchor, The Crane Wives
T- The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, The Pogues
I- I Wanna Be In The Cavalry: Reprise, Corb Lund
S- Sun Bleached Flies, Ethel Cain
T- Tongues and Teeth, the Crane Wives
Tagging, @gremlinguy145 , @queenmorningrose , @spoopy-cactus
song tag! pick a song for each letter in your url
tagged by @magnumhopus and in a very on brand move while i was procrastinating responding, tagged again by @strongcat
d - don't you dare forget the sun by get scared
a - alone sometimes by the mowglis
g - gravity by againt the current
g - give me a try -by the wombats
e - empty threat by chvrches
r - rainbow veins by owl city
s - smoke damage by hi i'm case
a - am i supposed to apologize ? by maria mena
n - name by the goo goo dolls
d - disloyal order of the water buffalos by fall out boy
a - anything but by hozier
r - radio nowhere by bruce springsteen
r - reflections by we are in the crowd
o - oh well, oh well by mayday parade
w - where the lonely ones roam by digital daggers
s - stay by mayday parade
tagging @bubbles-floating @riahpariah @stardustedknuckles @bixbiboom and anyone else who would like to do it :)
Finally the essay about montrada and morellada. 1) I hate montrada 2) I hate montressor as a person 3) I like montressor as a character 4) Good potential character growth.
Okay now where do I even start. Ada got roasted so hard by annabel she got out of her spectre and is not in the best mental state AT ALL. Morella tries to come and help her but Ada pushes her away(literally).
Now, Morella WANTS to help Ada but because of how Ada is acting right now she can’t so she ends up opting to give Ada some space and leaves her by herself but you can TELL she doesn’t want to leave Ada alone. However, she can’t do anything about it so she reluctantly follows Ms Poppet to get merits.
Now, this is where Montresor comes in and scoops Ada up from the situation and gets into a relationship with her despite him LITERALLY degrading her like countless episodes ago.
Okay so now we have a summary of what has happened let’s talk about it and why I think montrada is actually a really good plot device for Morella and Ada’s characters and all the other characters in clusterfucks. Firstly, its well established that Montresor is an asshole; he’s more than an asshole, though, he’s a DANGEROUS man not unlike the ones you may see in real life. It’s really obvious that him and Ada are going to be abusive and toxic in one way or another.
He comes after her when she’s at her lowest, tells her all these amazing things about her and Ada hungry for validation EATS THEM UP. Why wouldn’t she? When a man comes in and calls her beautiful when she considers herself ugly and was bawling her eyes out, how could she not get herself into the next worse relationship for her. To Ada, this is normal. She can’t see the red flags because well she’s never been able to recognise them, and Montresor will probably feed her the validation she craves before cutting her off from everyone else and making her dependent on him and him ALONE. His spectre is all about control and oppression for fuck’s sake !!!!
What about Morella? Well, to me I don’t think she would’ve left Ada alone if she’d known that Montresor would’ve come for Ada. We can’t blame Morella for leaving, Ada asked her to leave and Morella couldn’t do anything more despite wanting to help so she DID.
We could hate on Ada and say, “God, why is she so fucking stupid?? Morella CLEARLY wants to help why isn’t she letting her??”
Ada clearly shows signs of mental illness, in my opinion I think she may have bpd but that’s just my headcanon. Anyway, Ada has a fucked up view on love, she gets into unhealthy relationships constantly because thats what she’s USED TO. When someone like Morella, who’s always been so nice and supportive towards Ada, comes in offering support Ada pushes her away. After being betrayed TWICE, why wouldn’t Ada think that Morella was lying to her? In fact, I think she actually EXPRESSES GUILT for pushing Morella away.
She KNOWS Morella is a sweet girl, she knows that Morella is a nice person. Despite all of that, she still pushes her away because she can’t bring herself to believe that someone THAT NICE could genuinely care about someone like HER. That’s why she clings onto Montresor, because Montresor is familiar and if you don’t think you deserve better than you settle for worse. When you’ve never been fed love on silver spoons, you start learning to lick them off of knives.
What does this mean for their characters?
Personally, I think Montrada is an AMAZING conflict for Ada and Morella’s relationship, especially for Morella. Morella is FINALLY faced with something that, after repeatedly compromising her morals, she’ll have to sit back and think to herself is really okay. If she’s actually ALRIGHT with this, as it’s obviously damaging for a person she cares about a lot. I think it provides for interesting conflict between Morella and Montressor which, if you think about it, have very contrasting spectres. Montresor’s spectre is the Son of Belial while Morella’s spectre is the Daughter of Raphael. Belial is one of the worst fallen angels of hell being the definition of evil itself and Raphael is God’d highest archangels. Sooooo…. Yeah there’s POTENTIAL when it comes to it.
Montrada also displays how shitty of a person Montresor really is, Ada is practically going to be abused by him and falling back in that cycle AGAIN except this time there’s someone that might actually want to help her out. Ultimately, it will be Ada’s choice on whether she wants to take Morella’s hand and get out of her own shitty toxic cycle.
Basically, I think that Morellada conflict would be SO INTERESTING seeing how both of them push each other and clash especially when Montresor is called into the picture. I think Ada does actually like Morella’s company but 1) thinks she’s lying and 2) may think that Morella is too good for her.
Also, if montrada DOES end up becoming a canon actual romantic ship Im going bonkers and I WILL be shaking rnf by the collar.
After some shit went down in the Nevermore discord, I'm coming forth and saying I absolutely hate Montrada with every fiber of my being. The fact the mods and RnF are framing it as this Jessie and James esque relationship is absolutely revolting, as are the people who suck them off and agree with these statements. They dogpile those who disagree, and try to "fun toxic" this abusive, problematic, sickening power dynamic that they have. It's not cute, they're not partners in crime, he's taking advantage of her whilst clearly vulnerable and it's fucking disgusting if you think they're any of those things. They're not.
I want to keep Montrada off my blog. So, if you genuinely ship these two, please do not interact with me or my posts. You will be blocked.
+ I'm literally neurodivergent and a minor
And I started thinking, 'huh this sounds familiar - where have I read this line before?'...which I figured out the very next moment as this fic's title
And I kid you not, I had this brief moment of sheer dumbassery when I thought that, 'OHMYGOSH Red and Flynn must've read their fic and they liked it so much, they included the title in the webtoon!'
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Mm-hmm so I stood there, mouth agape for a solid 5 seconds. Till my dream was shattered, nay pulverized by a thought so strange that it seemed outlandish to my poor mind - They. have. fookin FAST PASS
And here I quote Prospero, '...I'm quite sane' I'm not
Anyway go read the fic and their other works because I know for a fact, many of you haven't:
You Must Think Me Neurotic by MorningRose1512, SapphicMadScientist