#Ronan has one

[ryebreadeater]

manic (gansey) pixie (blue) dream (ronan) girl (adam)

#one might argue that gansey is the girl and adam is the manic #but id say that gansey is manic cause that boy has some serious issues (glendower) #and adam is the girl because he's my little meow meow #trc #the raven cycle #gansey #blue sargent #adam parrish #ronan lynch #richard gansey #the raven boys

[squash1]

“to be loved is to be changed” but it’s adam parrish being loved unconditionally for the first time by gansey and then by ronan lynch and then by blue sargent and learning that love is supposed to be easy. like breathing. and finally accepting the love he has always deserved.

#this thought has been banging around in my brain and making me crazy #if i see one more tiktok of a pet or stuffed animal with this quote #i will simply pass away #i can’t take it #adam parrish #ronan lynch #blue sargent #richard campbell gansey iii #trc #the raven cycle #pynch #adam and ronan #the raven boys #blue lily lily blue #the gangsey #gangsey #mine

[twolovelyberries]

magic is about intention. so are conversations.

#yeah babey i’m drawing trc again! greywaren was so…. i am so conflicted about it #adam parrish is one of the characters of all time #greywaren #the dreamer trilogy #ronan lynch #adam parrish #pynch #tdt fanart #the raven cycle #all this HAS made me start rereading the original series though. missed them like a lung etc etc #my art #my art 2023 #illustration

[funkyboxofinterests]

I think my DNA was altered by this book. 11/10 would recommend.

#the raven cycle #trc #blue sargent #richard gansey III #adam parrish #ronan lynch #noah czerny #READING A BOOK SERIES FROM THE MID 2000s AND BEING CONSUMED BY IT #I THINK IF I HAD READ THIS AS A TEEN I WOULDNT BE MENTALLY ILL #I WOULD HAVE OTHER UNIQUE AND MUCH MORE INTERESTING MENTAL ILLNESSES BUT NOT THE ONES I CURRENTLY HAVE #god I love them so much #what other book series has the ball to say 'this found family group of friends is actually in love with each other' with its whole chest??? #HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MOVE ON FROM THAT??? #my art

[vebokki]

days in henrietta

#random fanart for old book series everyones forgotten abt 😎 check ✅ #ronan on front bc he remains one of my ultimate fav characters ever to this day 🔛🔝 #the origin of my love for bastard annoying characters who are actually secret romantics? maybe #the raven cycle #the raven boys #richard gansey iii #ronan lynch #adam parrish #blue sargent #noah czerny #gangsey #my grampsey... #trc #trc fanart #this has been on my drafts forever we dont talk abt the general snafu of the light and the car anatomy etc....look away!

[thrawns-backrest]

Man I would have loved to see what an imperial command zoom meeting would look like

You have Palpatine starting the call and when it connects it's just Ronan in a badly attached silver wig, an 'artistically done' cardboard cutout of Thrawn, Tarkin dozing in the corner with an eye mask on and Yularen who's doing paperwork and who very obviously has everyone on mute because he doesn't react to anything they say and only occasionally turns towards the camera to smile and nod

There's also Vader but his suit looks very floompy in some places and no one addresses the fact that that's his empty spare suit because they're all waiting to see if it will synchronize with the Thrawn cutout when it eventually falls over

(Bonus: the Thrawn cutout makes a very soft 'bonk' when it falls. and every time it does you get a harried looking Eli pop into the frame to prop it back up)

#extra bonus: the bonk is the only time Tarkin wakes up #no one knows why but the working theory is that he has everyone but Thrawn muted #sometimes when 'Krennic' is talking you'll hear the real Krennic yelling in the background #and Ronan Krennic will get up excuse himself and disappear out of frame until it stops #Yularen's nods are also very badly timed #sometimes there'll be complete silence and he'll just turn smile nod and go back to his paperwork #grand moff tarkin #orson krennic #brierly ronan #grand admiral thrawn #thrawn #wilhuff tarkin #wullf yularen #darth vader #director krennic

[unknowablecore]

greywaren / opal / cdth / cdth / cdth / greywaren / greywaren / greywaren / greywaren /greywaren

#i hope this web weave brings some comfort for my friends struck by ch49 #its all about adam lying to himself as a form of self-preservation? always has been. #adam lying to himself because he thinks it'll be easier to kill his old self if he's back to base-line-needs #and in the end what made adam unhappy and tired and strung out? everything but ronan #he was creating those unhappy tired and strung out balancing acts at Harvard #ronan being the only thing keeping adam true to himself #if i see one bad take about their relationship development in greywaren #i will commit acts #magic is about intention SO ARE CONVERSATIONS #greywaren spoilers #greywaren #pynch #adam parrish #ronan lynch #the dreamer trilogy spoilers #the dreamer trilogy #mine

[clotpolesonly]

Blue Lily, Lily Blue ch 31 // Mister Impossible ch 19

#ronanedit #trcedit #Ronan Lynch #TRC #quote posts #if it didn't happen all the time BEFORE it certainly does AFTER #which is a deeply deeply disturbing thing to just get dropped casually in the narration and then never mention again #where did he put all of these corpses? what did he do with them? #is there a back field that serves as a graveyard? #what tf does this do to him emotionally? when he dreams about his loved ones (which we know he does frequently)? #you're telling me just.....kills them??? and then sometimes wakes up with their fucking doppelganger corpses??? #when the line between dream and reality is so so thin for him experientially #he may know it's not real technically sort of but it FEELS REAL that's the whole dreamer shtick #that it HAS to feel real in order to BE brought back #these are real corpses #seriously i cannot get over this i don't understand how this can just be tossed in there and never mentioned again or followed up on #it's genuinely horrific and disturbing

[unganseylike]

#human mór and new fenian as her muppet boy toy #altho i think it wld hilarious if in trc declan is so awkwardly only human #then in tdt he has big reveal that aurora wasnt his mother #and we meet mór and shes so clearly also the only human. like how did no one realize #i still love only human hennessy with muppet clones #carmen being her uptight self in world of muppets #human bryde being like u are made of dreams and this world is not for u to silly muppet ronan #polls

[one-squash-one-end]

you know how on small childrens' birthdays parents just invite their own friends because the baby hasn't formed any friendly connections yet on its own?

i feel like this is what happened at the jordeclan wedding

#I know someone has said that already #but it's absolutely bonkers to me how all of Ronan's friends and like their parents and friends of Ronan's friends came #but apart from family no one declan knew #ronan just saw the invitation and thought 'man that's sad let me change that i know some people' #jordeclan #declan lynch #jordan hennessy #the dreamer trilogy #greywaren #greywaren spoilers #the raven cycle #ronan lynch

[polichinelle]

yeah fuck it i'm making this its own post. basically very long winded (but still not as extensively detailed as i'd like) thoughts on adam & ronan (sort of) & whelk & noah

i remember reading the raven boys back in 2014 (ten years of rot in my brain!) and being sooo disappointed that there was basically zero fandom interest in whelk & noah beyond "omg whelk is evil and awful and terrible, poor baby noah!" when that is not the narrative surrounding them, not really. i feel it's a disservice to both of their characters to do that, especially noah's:

there is nuance there. there are implications. like... it's ALL about the implications!!! we basically see nothing of whelk and noah beyond what's left after the carnage. and it's a theme in trc for characters to have irreparably changed before we ever meet them (gansey, ronan, whelk, noah). we don't know what they were actually like when noah was alive, when they were best friends. when they were tight as ticks.

what we do know is this: whelk was noah's gansey. whelk was cheating on his own girlfriend with noah's, which is a shitty thing to do for sure, but something we also have zero context for. we also don't know how true it is, because whelk has such a self-inflicted warped view of his past. he keeps rewriting his own memories to think lesser of noah, because his absence hurts that much! we know they were best friends, the same way adam & ronan are best friends with gansey. we know they did everything together

okay, changing gears a little.

i'll paste the part where adam is possessed, sorry for the amount of screenshots:

and this line from a bit further along the chapter:

then, from noah's possession scene:

compare this to whelk's recollection of killing noah, and the effects it had on him:

"red lines streaked in the corners of his vision" "in whelk's head, unearthly voices hissed and whispered, words blurred and stretched together" "dictated by something larger and more powerful than himself" "somehow invited into his body through czerny's death" yes i am going there, yes i am making that point. i think, to some extent, barrington was possessed when he murdered his best friend. neither noah nor adam get their own pov while possessed, so...

i mean, time is a circle. noah needed to die so that gansey would live. noah had already died, gansey had already lived. it needed to happen, and so it would.

where the difference lies, i think, is in barrington's reaction to being possessed, versus adam/noah. for all that i'm arguing possession, i don't think barry's a stand up guy, he's a kid who's never had good role models (need i pull out the quotes about his shit parents) and who was raised by money and objects and reputation, which is why i think the possession worked. the idea to kill noah might've seemed like his own in the moment, an escalation of the situation he was already in, but unlike adam/noah there was no one to hold him back (not to mention barrington isn't as familiar with magic things(?) as they are). in that moment, whelk did truly lost it. he did the unforgivable. but there is no universe in which he doesn't.

for every time we see noah reenacting his death, we also need to imagine barrington whelk, seventeen and shivering. realizing as he's committing the act that he can't go back. perhaps realizing too that he couldn't stop his hands from gripping onto that skateboard, no matter how much he wanted to after that first hit. ("But instead, he remembered the sound Czerny made the first time he hit him.")

there's also adam in this. both him as a parallel to barrington, and as a strange sort of part of noah in a way. adam and noah interact the least out of the main group, arguably, but they too are a two-headed creature; they started out as one singular character and you can sort of tell. something something hands and eyes, something something sacrifice. ronan sort of parallels noah, in that he is not the same lively person we hear about, and he never will be that person again. both are cabeswater personified (although in different ways).

some more things:

"he once had been tight as ticks with his roommate czerny" "only whelk and czerny, treasure hunters and troublemakers" "it was possible that czerny's death wasn't for nothing after all" "[...] his days a ribbon floating aimlessly in water" (in relation to: "he had been a swimmer himself, once") "czerny, you're in a better place than me, i think" "whelk, standing in the wreckage of his life, didn't laugh this time" "the dry, half-eaten burger on the passenger seat / the first fast-food burger he'd had in seven years" "these days, when whelk was trying to comfort himself, he told himself that czerny was a sheep, but sometimes he slipped and remembered him as loyal instead" "[...] took him back to that moment, the skateboard in his hands, the sad question gasped in czerny's dying sounds "we were friends like —"

also, whelk dying in the same place noah did. these lines:

both noah and barrington look the same in the end. broken, rumpled, forgotten. noah's family will never know his bones were reburied outside of their family plot. whelk's mother, however distant she is, will never be notified that her son has died. i think in a way barrington died at the exact same time noah did; something something invited into his body through czerny's death.

basically what i'm getting at is, noah and barry could've been ronan and adam i think, had the circumstances been different. they never will be, but i think about it sometimes.

and there's so many more things i'm not even gonna TRY going into, like noah and whelk both being parallels to gansey (the three of them kings in their own right), or the disparity between whelk talking about czerny vs adele talking about noah, or whatever the fuck is going on with whelk's backstory in general (what's the deal with his mother? how the hell did he get the aglionby job? a random headcanon of mine is that his and noah's search for the ley line lead them to fox way, seven years before the events of the book, and that's partly why whelk refuses to give out his name to maura, because barrington is hard to forget, and easy to trace back)

there is so much to talk about here and i'm so peeved no one is doing it properly... why are we still talking about declan bringing his weekly girlfriend over to monmouth for no reason when we could be talking about whatever the fuck kinda soul-fate-destiny bullshit noah and whelk have!

#i know trc has its villain of the book thing but i am sooo disappointed whelk is never really talked about beyond #the first novel. like he's one of the only tangible links we have to noah's life... he was RIGHT THERE #he's so interesting to me. i rotate him and noah over and over in my head like they're in a microwave #trc #the raven cycle #the raven boys #noah czerny #adam parrish #barrington whelk #ronan lynch

[squash1]

good things come in threes :’)

[call down the hawk / mister impossible / greywaren]

#jordeclan has my whole heart #I MEAN #by the time we’re married??? #i’ll buy you one??? #him wanting to buy her painting SO they could get married sooner??? #they never had a bad track #declan lynch #jordan hennessy #jordeclan #mister impossible #greywaren #call down the hawk #trc #tdt #the dreamer trilogy #ronan lynch #adam parrish #the raven cycle #blue sargent #richard campbell gansey iii #pynch #adam and ronan #the raven boys #blue lily lily blue #gangsey #the gangsey #matthew lynch #the lynch brothers #mine

[netmors]

STAR WARS: Eleventh Fleet AU

In addition to the previous post… …little about the eternally bombing imperial-chissian marshmallow with a great love for cape.

If in the case of Vanto and Faro I wanted to convey their “similarity” to each other, then Ronan immediately introduced himself as a typical blond with blue eyes. A sharp contrast, so to speak :3

In the design of his images, I wanted to make a transition and separation from the “look” of his boss, whom he almost idolized and copied - from the cape to the hairstyle and manners, into a completely independent personality. Forged by ice… Literally.

However, even Ba'kif did not knock out his endless, like the galaxy itself, love for capes. And then all chiss from the Universal Analysis Group began to sport cloaks when Ronan took the helm.

In general, Brierly is quite an interesting character. Timothy Zan in Treason created an extremely colorful assistant to Krennic.

But more unexpected was Thrawn's decision to send the colonel along with Ar'alani and Eli to the Ascendency. Of course, perhaps the Grand Admiral hoped to create a kind of “triumvirate”: Vanto - make part of the Chiss Domination and gain an ally in his homeland who would serve the entire state and fleet, just like he once did; Faro - promote to the top positions in the Empire and acquire a reliable ally in the person of his protégé, loyal to him; Plus, both Eli and Karyn were his close people, whom he trusted with a lot. …but Ronan… is like a ticking time bomb. It will “explode”, but where is unclear…

Maybe Thrawn wanted to get a “bridge” between the two states (it’s definitely unlikely - Palpi definitely didn’t even consider the option of “allies”), or he saw in the former employee of the Department of Advanced Weapons Research something hidden even from Ronan himself.

Eli and Karyn saw this very “hidden” thing many years later, but Ronan will never admit “this” even to himself… Unless he casts a proud glance at the Chiss version of the TIE/D “Defender”. Or during the creation of an “almost analogue” of bacta. Or when making “hot chocolate”, which temporarily relieves eternal stress. Or, or, or…

…Or proudly accepting a new name - Stybla'ro'nan.

#star wars #eleventh fleet au #brierly ronan #brierly'ro'nan #thrawn #thrawn trilogy #thrawn books #thrawn ascendancy #thrawn treason #lol it’s because of ronan that i now want to watch rogue one and see his “boss” #seriously his devotion to krennik in the “treason” is something that is both funny and terrible at the same time #how ronan and vanto didn’t kill each other and destroy thrawn’s homeland is anyone’s guess #although the entire third book in the thrawn trilogy is literally ... #...“we made an awesome plot and characters but he still has a rendezvous with the bridger sooooooooo... bye" #star wars rebels #au #ahsoka series #my art #art #concept art #netmors #digital #illustration

[genderfcker]

do you ever think about how NONE of the gangsey really had friends before they met each other besides henry? the only people we know gansey interacted with before meeting adam and ronan are people like mallory, who i wouldn't really count as super close friends. we know blue was the odd girl at school. that the only people adam seems to really interact with are gansey, ronan, and noah at the start of the raven boys. we know ronan was close with his brothers, but never mentions any close friends growing up. even noah is only really described as having one close friend (whelk) in high school, and we all know how that one ended up.

i think a lot about how messy the friendships are in that group, but it wasn't until today that i realized that part of the reason might be because none of them have really had friends before. it makes sense that henry, the ONE person who actually seems to have friends besides the gangsey, is also the one who is the most upfront with getting friends, and the one who seems to be really good at picking up his new friends' strengths. he's already been there before, so he knows how to interact within groups like that. everyone else is still figuring out that dynamic all throughout the series.

#it also explains why adam has so much trouble opening up to his new friends at harvard in the dreamer trilogy #his one standard is the gangsey #and more specifically gansey #he tries mimicking gansey's method of gathering people down on their luck because that's the ONLY thing he knows #but gansey is also not the best at opening up to people #so adam never once really thinks about how to do that #especially when everything that happened in henrietta within the gangsey was generally group knowledge since its a small town #its hard to hide things there #you can even make an argument for ronan struggling so much in the trilogy because he's never had long distance friendships before #he's still trying to figure it out #but failing miserably at it #the gangsey #trc #the raven cycle #gansey iii #richard campbell gansey iii #adam parrish #ronan lynch #blue sargent #noah czerny #henry cheng

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

#posts gansey would make #ronan lynch #if he has one million fans im one of them... #trc #the raven king #the raven boys #the raven cycle #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the dreamer trilogy #call down the hawk #mister impossible #greywaren #td3 #♡

[kazbiter]

kavinsky's death is actually the closing arc in a great tragedy to me bc his actions throughout the story are mostly just him practically begging for someone to be on his side, to care about him, to even just look at him. his father tried to kill him, his mother is completely uninterested. he can dream himself as many people as he wants, but they will only ever think of him because he made them to do so. the dream pack are just physical manifestations of his desire to not be alone in the world, to have someone, anyone, connected to him. he so desperately tries to draw some sort of emotion out of ronan, good bad or ugly, because the intense similarities they share mean that he's the only person who might be willing to look long enough to see him. and when it doesn't work, when he realizes it can't, that this world is not for him and he is not going to be a part of it in a way that involves anyone else, he decides that everyone is going to look at least this once. they will all see the finale if nothing else. genuinely doomed from the start. and how truly devastating that is in comparison to the core group the story focuses on, characters that even at their lowest and darkest and meanest and absolute worst have others there with them. characters that always have someone looking for them. dying is a boring side of a life that has nothing inside of it.

#4th of July got me this year girls (gender neutral) #also I'm contractually obligated to mention that he was so so funny #a few of his strengths: #1. hilarious #2. leader of ronsey nation #3. thrower of parties that involve fun for the whole family (minus the dream battle and suicide that one time) #but actually tho why do I feel like they mentioned like. families going to those parties. #anyways I'm getting SOOOOOO off track #did someone say trc famous adjective lonesome #and when u think abt the fact one of his worst acts was taking Matthew.... someone he KNEW ronan cared about above all #ohhhhh OWWWWW #like yeah obviously that was terrible and evil of him I'm not saying he's innocent or even nessecarily good #I'm just saying that he's fucking tragic #like so desperate for someone to look that he doesn't even care what he has to do to make it happen #this took me like 1.5 hrs to write btw I had so many things I wanted to say but it's almost midnight and I want to post it on His Day #the raven cycle #joseph kavinsky #the dream theives #kavinsky #trc kavinsky