#cdtheu

[robobee]

#totally canon quotes of Dennis from sunny #def havent put the bryde monologue over this #this is how im.coping with cdth reread #td3 #mstief #iasip #cdtheu #bryde

[ganseyenthusiast]

ok speculation time for why sarchengsey was broken up in greywaren . taking opinions and alternates

1. they weren't. gansey just wore a really ugly outfit at the airport and it pissed Henry off enough that he refused to talk to them for the entire weekend

2. henry had another misogyny moment 💔 and Blue got so mad she refused to speak to him for a week

3. henry spent the first two months of the road trip stewing in girl rage and decided a kill bill esque revenge arc was the only good option. gansey obviously was like What The Actual Fuck, Consider Therapy but he was too gansey about it and it pissed Henry off enough to cut the road trip short because he booked a very angry flight and never called back

4. gansey breaks it up because henry wants a revenge arc godfather style but this time ganseys like. on a moral standpoint i cannot let this stand. I will NOT let you commit MURDERS. that is KILLING PEOPLE!!! MURDER KILLS PEOPLE!! that makes you a monster even if the guy u try to kill kidnapped you ONE time. and henrys like aight bet . bye

5. exactly what Ronan did in cdth. IMMEDIATE childhood trauma induced breakdown. henry breaks up with them like two weeks into the road trip because he realised he really fucking hates motels and driving and being around people. at the same time gansey realises he's always been a heterosexual at heart. blue just wanted to see the giant ball of yarn guys cmon

6. the Sociology degree was the breaking point 💔

#greywaren #sarchengsey #cdtheu

[taneyam]

I can't believe there was a whole eco-terrorism arc and they didn't even invite blue...

#girl help a book series i greatly enjoy had an unsatisfying conclusion #cdtheu

[professorllayton]

my relationship w cdtheu is that of the relationship btwn a horrible parent and their disappointment child that will never reach the unattainable standards their older golden child sibling set. "why can't u be more like trc" I ask, heaving a disappointed sigh fraught with pity. trc would've never had pynch make up in a never never land of space time fuckery. to trc that was just a silly little joke, not a reality

#its like embarrassing frankly thinking abt cdtheu #blabs

[grcywvren]

thinking mi thoughts again so. it’s just very interesting to me that the conversation between adam and ronan where they discussed what would happen if you pulled a copy from a dream and needed to kill it. ronan of course hates killing things and would not want to kill the copy. just very interesting that this conversation was included and then bryde was later revealed to be a dream. makes me think that he’s going to need to be killed but ronan won’t be able to do it, or maybe he WILL and that’s like the final moment of buildup to his arc or something idk i’m not a writer

#mi spoilers #mister impossible spoilers #mi #cdtheu

[robobee]

insane that declans entire character revolves around the exhaustion of being parentised his entire life and at AGED 21 all he wants is like 1 singular weekend off. Which he could easily do if RONAN took any amount of responsibility at all. And this went on for 4+2 books. And then you know how Greywaren ended??? it ended with Ronan fucking off zero responsibility and declan still raising Matthew and worrying that now BOTH HIS WIFE and his brother could drop any moment bc of their stupid as fuck dreamers

#IM GOING TO KILL MYSELFFFFFF #i would be okay if it was characterised as a negative ending but ITS SUPPOSED TO BE POSITIVE?! #this is like a declan kinnie worst ending. What do you Mean I'll Never Be Free #trc #cdtheu #declanposting

[robobee]

gansey was truly one of the craziest YA protagonists out there. nicotine addiction he won't acknowledge. undiagnosed ADHD rawdogging BD2 quit his meds cold turkey no therapist no self reflection unlimited credit card. deranged hyperfixation ZERO parental guidance. surrounded by toxic as fuck gay people. then he fucks off with his throuple & vanishes for a full five years before showing up (with a SOCIOLOGY DEGREE???) to the wedding of the guy he insulted like ten separate times in canon. god

#ahead of his time #he broke up his throuple in like 2??? months??? #trc #td3 #cdtheu #ganseyposting

[robobee]

the dream thieves / greywaren / call down the hawk / the raven king

i hope the family therapist they go to is REALLY expensive and REALLY qualified

#ronan seek help challenge #no wait. EVERYONE seek help challenge #mstief #trc #cdtheu

[robobee]

i dont have a social security number of my own pozzi i'll buy you one you can wear it in place of a ring

#literally nauseous in the car rn #cdtheu

[robobee]

henry cheng as a literal narrative tool who both changes the narrative and controls it. it’s like. dreamer trilogy would not be possible if henry wasn’t there (i.e, gansey would be there). trk would not have ended the way it did if henry wasnt there. declan would’ve been different with ronan if he didn’t have a glaring linked threat to the fairy market at the SCHOOL they Both Went To And His Brother Lived In. literally maybe... niall lynch would even be a different person if henry hadnt been there (and he hadnt unwittingly caused a child to go through that trauma).  the fact that henry has so much implied+confirmed history with this world, the fact that he’s clearly genre-aware (detriment? cost?), the fact that he knows his role and plays it... and YET never gets the position of Proper Character in the world he is so explicitly a product of. his punishment for knowing the script is to be written out of it.

#it is 6 AM but i havent been insane about henry cheng in a bit so i will be now. #"life's a show'' literally innit #henry cheng #trc #cdtheu

[robobee]

adam parrish, declan lynch and henry cheng passing each other at the "traumatised character insists on reinventing their personality to be publicly palatable due to a displaced desire to forget their trauma but finds their success to be absolutely miserable and tragically lacking of any real support or connection" convention

#the dreamer trilogy #that one kitkat anon from like 2 years ago... i think of you every day.. in my dreams we kiss in the moonlight #hecladam #adam parrish #declan lynch #trc #cdtheu

[robobee]

ronan doesn't have objective permanence so when gansey was away during td3 he was fully like. oh gansey is gone forever and DEAD now. which is why he was like that

#hottest take #they dont teach you that stuff in eldritch forest preschool #cdtheu #trc

[ganseyenthusiast]

anyways since the theme of post-TRK seems to be that every single character ignores any development they had and gets worse, I'm listing everything out here + with a rating of how likely I, the authority of everything ever, think it was. greywaren spoilers obviously

1. Declan: Decides Dad was good all along, disregards real actual emotional abuse and parentification as "misremembering" how great Niall was. 6/10. CDTHEU Declan is a very different character to TRK Declan, I still think he's been too self aware throughout to suddenly walk it back THIS severely. I predict a severe breakdown for him age 30 since I've never witnessed someone do Denial as their last stage of grief.. it’s gonna be explosive

2. Ronan: Disregards his family for the majority of his arc, is worse to them than in TRC. does not call gansey for months. finds a new FP instead of a therapist. emotionally worse off. does find himself via terrorism I guess? 9/10. pretty on brand for Ronan to go scorched earth and suffer zero consequences. I do wish he was made aware of his birth circumstances and displayed the same love/grief for aurora/niall that he's shown in every book except greywaren. are you telling me he can look at the New Fenian and be OKAY?????

3. Adam: ‘Reinvents’ himself, suffers, lies, suffers again. Does not call gansey. Suffers in the VoidSpace, apparently with no lasting consequences. becomes a narc. 7/10. I was hoping for a more self aware adam post TRK but him choosing to pull a Henry Cheng is also pretty on brand. wish he'd actually broken up with Ronan for at least a week. him becoming a narc is unfortunately pretty accurate to character but government jobs are not famously well paying so it really does feel random? the only thing he’s done that’s close to sleuthing is inventing pedo murder charges for his teacher/keeping with the bryde stuff. plus he's still not utilizing his magic skill so this just feels like a continuation of the Harvard arc for the rest of his life which is REALLY baffling when u compare how many times TRK insists he's a magician and will remain a magician/psychic despite everything. seems he's growing MORE disconnected with himself. i’m all for negative development but it’s really being framed as a happy ending which is baffling ngl

4. Gansey: has a sociology degree + is only associated with blue (and nobody else) in the 4-5 years since TRK. Completely reversed his stance on henrietta being home, on "I'd take all of you anywhere with me", on his dedication to history/archeology. does not seem too concerned about Ronan going insane, still odd despite the time he's had to get used to it. 5/10. horrible representation of gansey but I DO like that he's focusing on himself instead of raising pynch. as i say this i remember the ring thing and grit my teeth. complete ignorance of Henry AFTER his whole "friends forever and ewer" TRK thing gives me a good playground to make things worse so I like it but it's definitely weird. how did being a teenager specifically suck for you king because I think Being Dead trauma is unrelated to age

5. Matthew: nearly found independence + love in the abrasive way that lynches give it, then was disregarded emotionally and still not given an apology for the Everything from declan. 8/10. extremely on brand for the lynches to not hold each other accountable. Matthew seems to have improved somewhat + Declan is less overbearing about him, so I like it, I'll take it

6. Henry: went into Seondeok's black market low level mob business, got divorced?, does not speak to bluesey. 10/10. it’s so bad. absolutely off brand for the entire theme of him rejecting the Orders his mother who Literally Forced him to come to henrietta gave him (did not begin this game looking for a friend etc). refutes the entire "find your own something more" theme, refutes the "three of us" theme, refutes the "im going to make something great" motives. and I love it. TRULY my worst ending for Henry is becoming yet another fairy market nepotism casualty. he will Literally never escape and it’s FANTASTIC it is so much fun. Ha Ha You Have Become Your Mother

7. Fenian/Mor: live at the fucking barns now. 1/10. you are telling me a series whose entire THING is based on growing up/overcoming grief/moving on ends with THE FUCKING LYNCH FAMILY BACK AT THE BARNS?????????? WHAT THE HELL???? WHY IS EVERYONE OKAY WITH ANY OF THIS??????????????????????????????????????????????????

#mostly i want to reference this and see if my eventual reread changes my opinions #greywaren #dreamer trilogy #cdtheu #mstief

[robobee]

unhinged ships that just feel right to me: henry/henessey. cmon. mommy issues galore AND you know henessey would sleep with him so fast the second she realises it'll irritate BOTH the Lynches so bad. children suffering under mommys career damaged goods etc etc

#cdtheu #trc #write a fic of them for me and i will draw you one [1] fanart of your choice. pspsps

[robobee]

not enough appreciation for the fact that ronan's beloved non biological birth parents were straight up about to murder him as a baby. fully premeditated. and now 1.5/2 of those parents live in his HOUSE

#greywaren #mor just needs a murder attempt on matthew to get the whole set npw #cdtheu

[robobee]

niall would dream uranium that only affects declan & make him hold it just to see what happens

#sending the gc messages here because lou wont reply to me #declan lynch #trc #cdtheu