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This is really kind of interesting actually because I always read Adam learning to let go of those toxic opinions as precisely the reason why he keeps the Parrish name

Cool to see that people have different readings and takes on where his character ends up !

Cannot believe there are people out there who think Adam Parrish would ever take Ronan’s last name as if he didn’t spend 4 books clawing his way into spaces built to be inaccessible to him, trying desperately to have his own name said in the same breath as Dick Gansey III’s. His relationship to class is so much more complicated than wanting to run away from it. Taking the Lynch name would surely feel fraudulent to him and god doesn’t he already suffer enough with feeling like he doesn’t deserve the spaces he occupies

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Surely the only answer is that they keep their own last names: Ronan is far too attached to the Lynch name to rid himself of it (especially since niall’s death (I also remember there being a direct description of his resting face looking like he’d just finished saying it; his identity is too deeply-entrenched with the name ‘Lynch’ for him to be without it)) and Adam is far too hell-bent on being his own man, forged by his own hand.

Adam might be ashamed of where he comes from but I think his desire to become something more despite it outweighs this. Generally, I think it’s more of an issue of Adam’s own prideful independence than anything to do with how actively proud he is of his last name (if that makes sense). Plus, I think he learns fairly quickly that ridding himself of everything he find shameful about his identity isn’t really what he wants anyway.

Besides, I think by the end of Greywaren, both Adam and Ronan have a much wider view of family that doesn’t begin and end with a last name (honestly probably even before— even in book one of TRC, it’s noted that Adam seems to view Gansey as a brother). In my opinion, marriage just dots the i’s and crosses the t’s for them. I don’t think either of them would be all that attached to the idea of having the other change their last name— I mean, in CDTH Ronan literally says he liked that he didn’t feel as though he was dating Adam but that he felt like he was living his life with/alongside him.

Idk. Adam learns a lot about identity and what it means to him over the course of 7 books but ultimately there are things that can’t be unlearned in such a short period of time and I think this is just one of those complicated things that sticks

Cannot believe there are people out there who think Adam Parrish would ever take Ronan’s last name as if he didn’t spend 4 books clawing his way into spaces built to be inaccessible to him, trying desperately to have his own name said in the same breath as Dick Gansey III’s. His relationship to class is so much more complicated than wanting to run away from it. Taking the Lynch name would surely feel fraudulent to him and god doesn’t he already suffer enough with feeling like he doesn’t deserve the spaces he occupies

#also you’re telling me Ronan would abandon the opportunity to be married to a guy named ADAM PARRISH ??? #he’s far too Catholic to not read into that methinks #and yes two posts because they always have me thinking #tdt #trc #adam parrish #ronan lynch #gangsey

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Cannot believe there are people out there who think Adam Parrish would ever take Ronan’s last name as if he didn’t spend 4 books clawing his way into spaces built to be inaccessible to him, trying desperately to have his own name said in the same breath as Dick Gansey III’s. His relationship to class is so much more complicated than wanting to run away from it. Taking the Lynch name would surely feel fraudulent to him and god doesn’t he already suffer enough with feeling like he doesn’t deserve the spaces he occupies

#adam parrish #ronan lynch #trc #gangsey #lit #literature

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Gansey @ Adam when he refused to move into Monmouth:

#the raven cycle #adam parrish #richard gansey #gangsey #literature #lit #poetry #ronan lynch #trc #mary ruefle

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When Richard Siken said ‘there are many names in history but none of them are ours’ and when Ocean Vuong said ‘Everyone can forget us- as long as you remember’

#another one #for the soul #richard siken #ocean vuong #poetry #literature #lit

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When Mary Oliver said ‘When one is alone and lonely, the body gladly lingers in the wind or in the rain, or splashes into the cold river, or pushes through the ice-crusted snow, Anything that touches’ and when Edvard Munch asked ‘Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?’

#mary oliver #literature #poetry #lit #edvard munch

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Still feeling melancholic over Greywaren because it’s just such a far cry from trb when Gansey’s all ‘can’t you feel it starting?’. The whole time you’re conscious of the fact that it’s ending, like a silent alarm in your head for every page you turn. These characters are being deposited exactly where they were always meant to be and, while their stories aren’t necessarily over, they sure are forever going to be inaccessible to us. Every decision they make, every thought they have, forms the final image you’re going to have of them and there’s something kind of terrifying about them being there permanently- these characters who have fought tooth and nail for seven books to survive and to move and grow. They’re in their final state as we know them. Ugh I hate endings!!!

#I just want to live beside them a little longer #is that so much to ask #TRC #tdt #greywaren #greywaren spoilers #? #possibly #ronan lynch #adam parrish #jordan hennessy

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Perhaps the best part about Greywaren is that the literal apocalypse is put on the back burner, just to the background of your focus. It basically just acts as a means through which we see the characters’ development in a physical form. The apocalypse isn’t necessarily something they’re all working up to, desperate to defeat (even though they are of course aware of it), it’s the thing that allows them to cement just how far they’ve come over the course of three books because, as much as they want to stop it, before now, they didn’t accept themselves enough to understand how. For the first time, the characters are posited in places where they can begin to heal. In the end it was all about the Lynch brothers discovering they were friends once more; it was all about Ronan realising he’s not alone and never has been and he’s loved and wanted and cared for; it’s about Declan finally getting to be the one to sit back and watch it play out because there’s nothing more he can plan; it’s about Hennessey finally overcoming her fear of the lace as well as the fear of herself; it’s about Mathew accepting that he’s never going to know everything about his origin but it’s okay because he has his brothers and they’re going to help him through it.

Despite practically all of them being something more, something just outside of human, it’s about them embracing their humanity. It’s about them realising that they’re allowed to exist just to the left of it because they feel. And they feel strongly. And they are loved and they love in return.

#this is just something that struck me in the first half of the book #where really they’re all just living- or trying to #because they don’t see a way out #they’re not sure what else they have to offer and so they’re ignoring it as long as possible #all they want is for it to be over #to never consider the part they played #idk #greywaren #greywaren spoilers #ronan lynch #tdt #declan lynch #jordan hennessy

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I think These Violent Delights is the book I’ve been waiting for my whole life- just pure excellence from start to finish. Can barely articulate how I feel about it, it’s just that fucking consuming. Been chewed up and spit out by a work of fiction and honestly I’d do it again.

I- no words- too many words- words that don’t quite exist yet.

#jealous of me a week ago when I hadn’t read it #she’s getting to read it for the first time #if only #literature #micah nemerever #these violent delights #dark academia #books #julian fromme #paul fleischer

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Finished A Little Life well over a week ago and god I just can’t move on from it.

Hanya Yanagihara knows how to put together a fucking novel: the writing’s gorgeous despite all the book discusses, it features some of the most well fleshed out characterisation I’ve seen in a while, and the themes are dealt with in a way that is just so heartbreaking yet real to read. Definitely not a book I could afford a reread of or would actively recommend to anyone but one that’s permanently etched into my memory for sure. Intermittent crying sessions aside, it’s one that somehow hits even harder when you close the book ? Like the true weight of everything crashes down on you all in one heap as soon as you go to put it away and I just don’t see myself interacting with any novel in the same way again

#like soul crushing yes #but the kind you can’t look away from #Jude st Francis you mean the world to me #a little life #hanya yanagihara #lit #literature #Jude st Francis #willem ragnarsson

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Idk this made me think of Ronan and Adam…

-At the North Pole, Mary Ruefle

#Adam Parrish #TRC #Ronan lynch #gangsey #Maggie stiefvater #the dreamer trilogy #mister impossible #mary ruefle

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When Richard Siken said “a man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands” and when Ocean Vuong said “how does anyone stop regret without cutting off his hands”

#I mean they’re both just beautiful poets #the power they hold over my mind #poetry #Richard siken #ocean Vuong #lit

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CAN WE TALK ABOUT;

“APATHY IS A TRAGEDY AND BOREDOM IS A CRIME”

???????????

And also

“well we’ll look who’s inside again, Went out to look for a reason to hide again”

#!!!!!!!!!

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Holy FUCK that special was good

I mean, Bo Burnham has always turned comedy into an art form but- the things that man just did for comedy with that special.

UNMATCHED.

The shots were just beautiful

The songs were fucking phenomenal

It may have broken me but it was an absolute masterpiece

#the essays I could write on this special honestly #Bo Burnham #comedy #stand up

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Spoilers for mister impossible ahead !

I know we know that Bryde is essentially Ronan’s dream-thing, but where does this leave Nathan in all of this ? Obviously it’s possible (and even likely) that he was just a red-herring or mentions of him were there solely to serve Carmen’s characterisation and thought processes, but the 23 mannequins feels too coincidental. As well as the fact that they were placed at all exits/entrances of the museum, much like Nathan’s scissors. I don’t know how it would be possible but ???

Idk I just feel like there’s a little more to Bryde than we’ve found out. ?

#and the way he interacts with carmen ??? #mister impossible spoilers #mister impossible #trc #tdt #cdth

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The Atlas Six is The Starless Sea meets The Secret History meets Kingsman and honestly, I don’t think I could ask for a better combination ????

Not to mention the fact that each character had such a distinct narrative voice all throughout ??? My inner monologue has now been irreversibly altered and I can’t say I’m mad

#this is most likely a new favourite #I will scream into the void about it #just fuck YES #the atlas six #books #dark academia #? #the secret history #the starless sea

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West Virginia by the Front Bottoms was ghostwritten by Adam Parrish.

#obviously only if the whole scene in the raven king didn’t happen #and Adam moved to college without the whole summer at the barns #adam parrish #gangsey #trc #cdth