#monty finch

[manicpixiedreamedwins]

The Good We Do (Comes Back Around)

Hi everyone ♡

The Love of My Afterlife Server invites you to participate in The Good We Do (Comes Back Around). This is a fundraiser to support survivors of domestic violence. In light of recent events, our goal is to raise funds for the organizations womenslaw.org and wave-network.org. Both are organizations with broad reach that connect DV survivors with shelter and legal resources. We would like to offer you a fan work of your choice if you donate! Here are the guidelines:

Select a user from the list below. Find their post tagged #thegoodwedo

Contact the user you selected via DM. Each artist is offering limited art, writing, or edits for donations of 25/50/75/100 USD. Discuss what tier you would like to donate to, then share your request. All participants reserve the right to deny requests. This event will run until all slots are filled.

Once you have agreed on a tier and an idea, make a donation to womenslaw.org or wave-network.org and send your artist the donation receipt. Your writer, artist, or editor will keep you updated, and you will receive an awesome fan work!

We may not be able to erase the harm done, but the love we share through our community is strong - strong enough to make the world a better place if we work together. Let's do some good!

Here are the participants:

Artists: @deadboyslullaby @ent-is-indecisive @hobbitsdoitbetter @majorlb @ouchmyghostskin

Editors: @saltyoaktree @wordsinhaled

Writers: @dearheartdont @manicpixiedreamedwins

A special shout out to all of the artists, editors, and writers listed above. Their whole hearted engagement and genuine drive to do good in the world is what brought this event to life ♡

[spacegirlsgang]

"Ok! Now do a silly one!!!"

For the final day of character appreciation week I'd like to present my grand vision of our characters on a school field trip with their favorite teacher Ms. Nurse! I saw a bunch of the bts pictures and felt such a school trip vibe I had to make this!!!

[not-the-living-ghost]

honestly, i think dead boy detectives is the best show i could've gone to for a proper introduction to fandom and fandom culture

[aletterinthenameofsanity]

I’m thinking about the symbology of Monty.

Monty: a crow, a murder down to his very essence, living in a cage that is unlocked and yet he can never escape from because he was never taught how to fly. Or, rather, he was born bound, born with clipped wings, born half dead, never truly alive, half-bird, half-boy, never enough of either.

Monty: doomed by the narrative, rising into the frame as he is born and falling out of the frame as he dies, both at the hands of the same master, both times under the iron of a tool made to card wool, to get it ready for spinning, yet he is unravelled, unstitched, by the very person who knitted him together.

Monty, born dead, born out of his own death. Literally a star, in that one star is born out of the death of another star, nebula from supernova, death to birth to death again.

Monty, only ever able to make one decision on his own and was killed for that choice, but who never would have been able to remain alive anyway.

Monty, neither the crow nor the boy but certainly never a Finch, because he is not a son, not a boy, but a tool.

Monty, never given a last name or identity of his own.

Monty, dead boy walking, dead before the story even began, dead before he was born, who fell in love with a boy as dead as he was.

Monty, doomed by the narrative from the moment he took his first breath.

[distracted-and-diffused]

Appreciation for Joshua Colley and for Monty

The very first time I watched Dead Boy Detectives, I was watching on my tablet. As I got to the middle of Episode 06, it was late at night and I was washing dishes.

I stopped to watch the clearing scene, and as Monty left the clearing I thought "Well, I guess that's it for Monty — do I feel kind of sad about that? I don't know — I feel like with all of the subterfuge, we don't know a ton about him as a character…" and just about then the screen dimmed, because it was past my bedtime. Of course, I wanted to watch the rest of the episode.

Then I got to the scene with Esther, where she quite literally rips Monty apart -- and the screen was so dark, I could barely see anything other than the flames and feathers. I could hear the crow, but I couldn't see him flying away.

Which is why I was standing in the middle of my kitchen, past 10PM on a school night, crying out loud, "But Monty's okay, right?!??"

And that was when I decided that I did, in fact, like Monty.

As I rewatched the show, I noticed so many ways that liking was grounded in how clear it is that Monty's interest in Edwin is genuine and not just an act — I am endlessly fascinated by Monty's choices in carrying out his assignment from Esther, and what he does with the leeway he has suddenly been given. It's so interesting watching him navigate that assignment and his suddenly conflicting feelings.

What a challenge that must be as an actor, to take a character who we are introduced to as a bad guy who is out to gain our heroes' trust, and then make the audience quickly understand, "oh, yeah, this character's supposed to pretend that he likes him, but he actually likes him." I never saw Monty as a particularly good liar, in contradiction to what Edwin says in Episode 08, but I did think he was very good at selectively telling the truth — about his feelings for Edwin, and about his freedom.

So I'm very thankful to Joshua Colley for bringing Monty to life, and I hope that he has had a happy birthday today (January 20th)!

[savethedeadboys]

Joshua Colley's birthday is today, January 20, and there's no better time to show him a little appreciation! Let's make some noise and let him know how much we love the way he brought Monty to the screen!

[massivenerd23]

My favorite part of The Case of the Lighthouse Leapers is when the Cat King transforms into Charles. Because that is the exact SECOND he (and Monty) lost any chance they'd had with Edwin. As soon as Edwin’s thoughts around the Cat King had Charles' face on them? He was never going to choose anyone else.

[saltyoaktree]

Hi! I'm participating in The Good We Do fundraiser project for victims of domestic violence in the Dead Boy Detectives fandom as a video editor and I have 3 commission slots open.

The way this works is: message me with a song and an idea of what you want then, after we've agreed on the commission, donate to one of the charities listed by the project and send me the receipt. And I will make a song edit for you!

Here are some of the edits I've created.

And here are the tiers I'm offering:

[artemisadore]

throwing my life to the wolves or the ocean rocks: CatCrow pirate AU

“Well hello there, little bird,” he purrs, running his calloused fingertips along Monty’s prominent collarbone. His touch is almost more cruel for the gentleness of it. At least the other men did not hide behind pretense.

Monty jerks away. He knows better, he really does. But the little spark in him has caught kindling, and his chest is filling with both smoke and rage.

The golden-eyed man laughs. “Oh, birdie, I do like my pets feisty. That just makes it all the more fun to bring you to heel.” He makes a show of looking Monty up and down. “Or, for the especially pretty ones, to kneel.”

Monty can taste ash on his tongue when he seethes, “My name is Monty, and I am no one's pet.”

x

Captain Thomas King is a notorious pirate known for buying boys for company at sea. If anyone were to find out that he did so to save them from a worse fate, he would risk losing everything.

Monty Finch is his latest purchase. Monty, who refuses to believe that Thomas will do him no harm.

When a small but efficient group of liberators sets their sights on freeing Monty, Thomas and Monty's tenuous connection — and Thomas’ entire operation — threatens to crumble around them.

[mellxncollie]

Dead Boy Detectives characters + live, laugh, love variants

+ bonus:

[lorastyrels]

Butcher, Night Nurse, Crow and a King of Cats

[a-jasminator]

Edwin Payne is my favorite Disney princess

[hannaloony]

[painlandpalace]

its so funny to me that edwin was like having a whole arc coming to terms with his gayness meanwhile esther saw him for three seconds turned her crow into a beautiful boy and was like go flirt with that guy itll work

[ciarafarrellart]

thought i’d share this goofy little series i did a few weeks ago of if the characters from Dead Boy Detectives were 2D animated 🤣🤣

(they’re not the best ik, but i was trying something new ahah)

[alexxuun]

Monty rescue mission + Monty getting a new crush…