#its everything else

[baeshijima]

haha wdym infold are cancelling valkos release and his future development and not adding more love interests in the future instead of just fixing the actual issues 🧍‍♀️

[karinadele]

im not drawing valveplug again goodbye

[hellospunkiebrewster]

Can we talk about Mona? I was blown away by what she did. I know a lot of people think she was a traitor or PB did her dirty but I thought it was in character for her. She was protecting her friends the only way she knew how. Not to mention if she hadn’t agreed they would have killed her. Idk maybe I’m the only one who thinks this was a selfless act ?

We can 100% talk about Mona. There’s a lot to unpack with the recent developments and just Mona in general. I adore Mona, I love her backstory and her personality, the aloofness when in fact she’s fallen hard for MC. There’s been a lot of difficulties with how she’s been presented, like an almost side romance this entire time, mostly only available in diamond scenes. This is the true travesty of the book as it is written. Sure, I could go on and on about what tweaks I would personally make so we could have a not gender-locked MC and Logan, but this isn’t the question.

MC spends very little important time with Mona in terms of the actual meat of the plot. Mona isn’t introduced until after the sideshow and time spent with her is usually time you could spend with the other LIs or side plots that don’t really turn into anything, like getting rid of the classic car for the Brotherhood. Nobody in the book has remotely anywhere near as many diamond scenes as Logan does. It’s really not funny. Colt and Mona’s scenes combined are fewer than Logan’s. I counted. Logan has fifteen scenes, Colt has seven, and Mona has six. That is where Mona is done dirty, not in the recent plot development that fits her narrative and actually brings her central to the plot.

First of all, let’s discuss what actually happened with Mona after parting ways after Ardizzone (which is quite an interesting west coast organized crime reference btw PB). Mona is tracked down by the Brotherhood since it seems like she didn’t actually leave town, potentially none of the crew has left town because we know the three LIs didn’t. She’s threatened by them and she “joins” them because she tells them she’ll help them lure out and get their hands on MC and the rest of the crew. On the night of the prom, she “helps” the Brotherhood with their attack, only she foils it entirely by helping MC and their LI (if it isn’t her) escape.

There’s some important things she says here. That they caught her. That she’s doing this to stay alive. And that the longer Logan/Colt/the crew/MC manage to stay alive, the longer she’ll be alive. This is peak self-preservation and it’s absolutely in line with Mona’s character. Do I need to remind you that Mona isn’t even her real fucking name? She’s been running with this crew for a while and won’t even tell them her real name. Yes she was betrayed in the past, she did time for it, and she’s grateful to Kaneko for the freedom he afforded her. She values that freedom and she straight up gives it away for the MC. Mona falls hard and it makes her do kind of stupid shit when she does (as seen with her backstory).

She’s working this whole thing as a double agent, deliberately keeping the Brotherhood one step behind the MPC, because the longer the rest of Mercy Park is running free the longer she is safe. It’s almost poetic for her to be manipulating a betrayal in her favor like this after what happened to her. It brings her central to the plot and honestly it fits no other LI but her.

Colt is who he is, Kaneko’s son and a fucking maladjusted basket case, and if the Brotherhood doesn’t kill him on sight he wouldn’t last through his first meeting with them because he’s filled with so much vitriol that he would try to kill them the first moment he got. Logan is whipped for MC, he might be a good candidate for this twist, but he’s already played such a pivotal role in the story and he’s a terrible liar. Imagine Logan trying to lie to the Brotherhood about having helped MC out the back at prom all dismissive and avoiding eye contact, the boy would be dead. It has to be Mona and it works so well to be Mona.

This does not feel like a ploy to get rid of her whatsoever so they don’t need to write her. The finale is likely this week (based on the summary) or next if we get an epilogue-esque chapter, she’s going nowhere. Shit is about to go down with the Brotherhood and she’s right fucking there. In fact, she’s way more important than ever before in this story because she’s potentially our in.

[zoobling]

Not that anyone give a shit but if u want my onion on the Lost Light preview

I’m not exaggerating when I say everything I didn’t want to happen, happened and it made me so upset I can’t even motivate myself to get out of bed and I might skip work so like. Thanks I guess.

[cakejerry]

There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women. There's no hope for women.

[cambrianera]

i want a bw remake bc 💚 un/ova my beloved 💚 but also if its gonna be anything like b/dsp id rather not have it

[moltolavoro]

genuinely never thought i’d reach the point of hating my job 8 weeks in but here we are