I'm gonna cheat because I don't listen to TS but you know how much I love our pair from Maroon. can you tell us which of her newest songs you most associate with them right now. any tidbits you feel like sharing
^ it's me pleading for special treatment because I love you
abi babe i will always give you infinite special treatment always. however i apologize for how long this is because, uh, this is the couple who i specifically think dominates my brain while listening to TTPD.
i've already covered "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart", so that one 100%.
besides that, though...
Down Bad. the entire premise of the song being compared to being abducted by aliens and when you're returned to earth being like "actually i liked it better up there take me back" as a metaphor for love feels very much like when you had a good relationship, something you expected to last forever, and it just gets taken from you. however, to spice things up - i think it works better applied to how eddie feels. the whole 'fuck it if i can't have him' is exactly how he feels as he's completely destroying himself in the aftermath. and just for fun, so you don't necessarily have to listen to the songs if you don't feel like it my love, i'm adding the specific lines from each song that i feel apply the most.
"how dare you think it's romantic, to leave me safe and stranded? 'cause fuck it, i was in love. so fuck you, if i can't have us."
^ it applies to both reader/sugar and eddie. first half feels very her, because he left her behind to not risk exposing her to a life that had begun to decay him. but second half feels very him cause... fuck it, ya know?
So Long, London. this one is about just being sad and mad about the end of a relationship, and that's where both eddie and sugar still are mentally. to build something so sacred up only to watch it be burned down by the other person. sugar is far angrier than eddie, though, since she's not really taken the time to work through how she feels with the end of it all.
"i didn't opt in to be your odd man out. i founded the club she's heard great things about. i left all i knew, you left me at the house by the heath. i stopped cpr - after all, it's no use."
also.... honorable mentions to the entire goddamn bridge, but specifically "you swore that you loved me, but where were the clues?" and "i'm just mad as hell 'cause i loved this place for so long"
I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can). it's a bit of a spoiler, and a bit of a reach, but i think it's a good perspective from the others looking in. the media, but also specifically corroded coffin. this really only applies to post break-up them story-wise, too. he's wrecked himself, destroyed all that he was, and sugar is the only one seeming capable of bringing him back to what he once was.
"i can fix him - no, really, i can. and only i can."
loml. i guess what i'm saying is basically every single song where taylor got very vulnerable and terribly sad about the end of an important/long relationship. this one speaks for itself quite a bit because of the theme of the guy saying "you're the love of my life" repeatedly, only to leave. which is exactly what eddie did, in the grand scheme of things. and taking it a step further? the small implications of a breakup and attempt at rekindling? yeah, yeah that's them alright, your honor.
"who's gonna stop us from waltzing back into rekindled flames, if we know the steps anyway?"
^ literally what they are doing as we speak ^
The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived. this one i would mostly apply to all of sugar/reader's anger pre-reunion. that anger of a man who simply ghosts you. she didn't let herself feel the 'breakup' much, but she did go through some of the stages of grief - and she got stuck at anger.
"you kicked out stage lights, but you're still performing. and in plain sight, you hid. but you are what you did."
^ all his self-destruction when she sees it at surface level :) just seeing him as doing nothing more than throwing a tantrum :)
this is getting a bit out of hand now, but when it comes to the double album bit, there's even more. i don't want to bore you to death so i'm just going to list those songs but. yeah. this album felt very maroon coded to me. the losing and the anger and the sadness and the clinging to what once was. should've expected it, in all fairness.
from THE ANTHOLOGY, i'd say that 'the black dog', 'chloe or sam or sophia or marcus', 'how did it end?', 'i look in people's windows', 'the prophecy', 'peter', and 'the manuscript' are the ones that fit best for maroon. some are a stretch, some it's solely based off of one line that i couldn't get over, and some i just simply think it's the vibes. a true matter of the illness that is "they're my blurbos so i'll apply whatever song i want to them".
i'm sure we'll see a few of these as chapter titles going forward, including the anthology ones, so that'll probably be when i dig in a little deeper about specific lyrics. or when i post ominous music posts.
anyways if you made it to the end (especially you abi) i love you so fucking much and thank you for enjoying my absolutely insane ted talk i just basically did on how TTPD is very very sugar x eddie coded <3
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It's that time of year again! Time for my list of potential nano plots that I may or may not choose and might decide against at the last minute, but I like listing anyways.
Option 1: Maud Grey's Halfway Home for Failed Magicians (Rewrite)
Basic plot: A wizard in a fantasy world attempts to create a portal to another world, however he apparently fails and wakes up in a remote, isolated Home where magicians supposedly recover from the damage done by their failed workings. There he realizes he has actually developed a psychic link with a high school student in another world. Meanwhile, all is not well in the Home, and the mysteries keep piling up. Ales and Violet must work together to open a real portal before their mistakes and the mistakes of those who came before catch up with them
Pros: this would be a rewrite of my 2020 nano, so I have somewhat of a plot to work off of. Also have a lot of great worldbuilding ideas for this fantasy world that were not in the original so those will be fun
Cons: I tried rereading my 2020 nano a couple days ago and y'all....it is rough. ROUGH. i tried this stupid 3rd person omnicient point of view that SUCKS, and also gave my teen MC my personal anxiety struggles from when I was 16 and...dropped them a couple thousand words in when I realized that I could not possibly motivate her to do anything in that state. There's a reason I was a basement dwelling weeb teenager. I can fix all that in a rewrite but the cringe is just. lowkey killing me OTL.
Option 2: The One Set in the 50s
Basic plot: a young theoretical physicist and his new wife sign on to work at a privately-funded experimental facility in the middle of nowhere. While he works in the lab, she will be working too--for the entire community is a social experiment of uncertain purpose.
Pros: Brand new! Both in terms of not having been done before as a nano and being a new genre and character archetypes for me. I think this could be very creatively beneficial and fun!
Cons: Since it's new, it'll probably be Difficult to either plot or figure out the characters/setting etc, and I struggle with Difficult writing things nowadays (see: last year's nano that I gave up on like 10k words into).
Option 3: Bright Eyes (Rewrite 1.5)
Basic plot: this was my nano from 2018. A bunch of young adults in a college town in the mountains are blackmailed by the local faeries into solving a bunch of murders. There's monsterfucking. Alien conspiracies. Queer drama. Sheltered, closeted, and isolated teens figuring out adult life. Someone's weird cousin who's just there. You know the guy.
Pros: a rewrite, so easier because again: most of a plot is already formed. Lots of characters and situations I enjoy.
Cons: tried to rewrite this one already (and then somehow lost that draft??), and I suspect it doesn't need a full rewrite so much as a boatload of editing, which doesn't make it great nano material
Option 4: Medieval!AU Fanfic of My Own Damn OCs (copout)
Basic plot: okay so, these characters are all ripped from another story that will Never see the light of day (it's one of those Daydream Tales that simply cannot be written on paper), I just chucked them in a castle to see what would happen. Prince Terrance is arranged to marry the daughter of the most powerful wizard in the kingdom, but when she arrives it becomes clear that the wizard has bigger plans than being a royal-adjacent parent-in-law. Shenanigans ensue.
Pros: this would be just for the lulz without any pressure or expectation that anyone would ever have to see it. could literally sit down every day and smash random words into a doc like this is a medieval soap opera, no pressure.
Cons: once again I worry that I might run out of plot. As with any story with a romance, I think the ~main couple~ would get together pretty fast bc I'm just not interested in writing slow-burn pining and whining (read? yes. write? kill me.) and then....what? 40k more words to fill with wizardly evil plots. Hm.
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