#*about declan*

[companionquest]

Top Ten Cullen Rutherford Blunders

[jordeclans]

come get ur dinner guys <3

trc x twitter smau part 25/?

part 24

[ronanlynchusurper]

i don’t think we talk enough about declan being equally as down bad and ‘all or nothing’ with romance as ronan is. like yes ronan said he would start wars and burn cities for adam’s true smile, begged god for adam after he first saw him and fortuitously had all his objects of worship were in one downtown block etc but ronan had known adam atleast 18 months at this stage. whereas declan really risked it all to get tyrian purple overnight for a first date gift after ONE conversation…the man was discussing their marriage as a ‘when’ not an ‘if’ before we even saw them kiss like what’s his excuse lmaoo

[ninjacat-uchihaparrish]

Declan ending up w a sexy tatted babe who wears leather and ronan ending up with an outwardly serious, tortured and elegant intellectual… ik they refuse to acknowledge the similarities…lets not read into it

[try-set-me-on-fire]

You’re laughing? They lived the plot of Lorde’s Supercut and you’re laughing?

[kidspawn]

I think using Adam's first perspective chapter to describe Gansey (and Declan) is actually brilliant. You'd think this would lead to us learning a lot about Gansey and the Lynch brothers (and introducing Noah!) while learning very little about Adam himself - but it's the absence of much of Adam in this chapter that builds who he is. The constant comparisons while he describes the two people he wants to be more like. Adam, people watching and analyzing and picking apart everyone around him - showing how he feels like an outsider and an observer with very little to contribute early on. We learn more about Adam through how he percieves the world and internalizes it than anything he offers up.

[cold--cut]

okay this is also a trc blog now because i just remembered how much i love the gray man. he's an academic. he's a great hitman. he translates anglo-saxon poetry like he's doing a crossword. he wrote a book about brothers. he's running from his own brother. he has excellent teeth. he beat up a high-school-aged student whose dorm room door says "effervescence." he keeps college reading lists that include and appreciative letters about the book the wrote in a folder by his bed. whenever he requires a small burst of fireworks to his heart he removes the folder from the bedside drawer and looks at the contents while enjoying a beer or seven. he's made a mark.

[sonofa-dream]

perfumes i think trc characters would wear or smell like

i happen to be very passionate about perfume; i'm always thinking about what characters smell like when i read and write. so i figured i would make a list of what the characters of the raven cycle smell like in my opinion :-) if you don't agree, that's a you problem ! ! blue sargent:

obviously, blue smells like essential oils. specifically: lavender and patchouli. there's no question about it. her entire room smells like them, she steams them, the scent follows her everywhere, it's also in her hair. lavender essential oil helps you sleep, it's a staple of every witchy household. i also believe she burns sage and incense in her room so often she chokes on the fumes in her sleep. perfume-wise, she would go for something marketed as gender neutral, with amber and smokey notes, with a hint of floral: passage d'enfer, by l'artisan parfumeur

it's one of a kind, it smells like old wood, church incense, and lilies.. :-) dick gansey (mint aside) : gansey has two wolves inside him: old-money, popular, rower in a private school; but also lonely, passionate old man trapped in the body of a teenager. he needs a perfume that embodies those two sides of him. let me introduce you to rocabar, by hermès.

timeless perfume, not ostentatious but respected name in the biz. potentially his dad's or his grandfather's perfume. quirky on a young man; it smells like a dandy fifty-year old. but it's also kind of unforgettable? cypress and cedar, resinous bezoin melting on skin? yeah yeah yeah. he only has this one. keeps it his whole life, people know him by it. adam parrish:

pre harvard, adam smells like soap. just straight up soap, the most basic scent of soap ever. potentially shampoo, but the kind of shampoo that just smells like shampoo (head and shoulders kinda smell?). during Harvard, adam invests in a perfume. at first he's looking for something gansey would wear, but doesn't go for rocabar, too expensive, too gansey. he goes for a day-time perfume, something you'd wear in an office. also, i'm convinced adam has Very Good Taste and is sensitive to Good Things. so he would do some research and find a brand no one knows about, but still offers pretty accessible, good quality perfumes, being broke and all. something like 701 by bon parfumeur

fresh, clean, still has an originality to it that makes people go: oh, what's that perfume you're wearing? and he thrives on it. post harvard, adam takes an interest in niche perfumes. he goes for amber smells. elegant, expensive ones that make ronan go loco in the coco, perfumes that denote taste. ambre russe, by parfums d'empire

it's luxurious yet tame, warm and skin-like, but also old books? so so sexy, classy, expensive, it's one of the most beautiful perfumes i've ever smelled; it belongs to my beloved adam parrish. ronan lynch: listen. you know that boy smelled aggressively masculine in high school. so you already know the one.

sauvage, by dior. the ultimate fuckboy perfume. my fucking nemesis. if you wear this, i hate you and you have ruined lavender for me. you can smell him from a mile away, it's like he showers with it. that ambroxan note will cling to your throat for ever. you know when he's in school because that ungodly, disgusting perfume follows him everywhere he goes. overtime, and hopefully, with the help of our beloved adam, ronan learns more about perfume, still keeps that interest in Aggressive Smells. he goes for oud. if he doesn't dream it, he buys it:

oud maracuja, by maison crivelli. let's even pretend adam bought it for him, just to make me happy. it's a sexy, sexy perfume. aggressive, but in the best way. leathery and fruity, just like ronan :-) noah czerny: rip noah, you would've loved to finish your collection of axe deodorants henry cheng: obviously, henry cheng smells like one million by paco rabanne.

it's loud. so so loud. and the funny thing about one million is that it gets a bad reputation, mainly because of that godawful bottle. also, it was very popular among teenage boys and young men, which, for some people, means that it's bad? but it's not bad, that's the thing. you want to hate it so bad, but it's warm, and sweet, and lingers very nicely on skin. you wanna shame whoever's wearing it, but in the end, you kind of miss the days when people wore it so much... i believe that henry follows perfume trends, meaning that as he gets older, he would buy santal 33 by le labo. a good perfume, just not the most original scent ever.

declan lynch: our favourite manwhore wears, undoubtedly, portrait of a lady, by frederic malle.

ooooh, and he gatekeeps it. takes it to the grave. everyone notices it, but he always lies about the name. it's his little secret. see, spices and roses make a famous combination in the perfume market, but portrait of a lady is the most beautiful one. once you smell this you can't go back. so poetic, one spray will linger for weeks on a jacket; but it's also a little unsual, it makes your head turn in the street, not something you'd expect on a man like declan lynch. he loves surprising people with it. it's iconic, it's the perfume of someone who knows their shit. also, it's ridiculously expensive, but the price is justified by the quality of the raw materials, declan argues. - special mention for my girl, hennessy: for a long time, hennessy wore her mother's perfume (something like guerlain's shalimar, or nina ricci's l'air du temps). overtime, she figures out her own thing. and hennessy smells sweet and sexy. she goes for something fruity, amber-y, but with body and strength, carried by a liquor-like note.

idk what to tell you, it's sex in a bottle. it's a bad bitch perfume, who has her shit together, who has money, who can fuck anyone. it's sweet but not too sweet, it's a little dark but also comforting with the milky note; you don't see it coming, the seduction sneaks up on you.

feel free to reply with your own takes and perfumes ;-)

[dykekarkat]

(whispering voice) hey remember how declan loved ronan first and that's why he lived? how declan loved him before niall? how his parents would've been fine with getting rid of him but declan loved him so they couldn't? (swats at my ear) woah did somebody say something?? no?? ugh what the fuck why have i been overcome with an inexplicable depression...

[adanseying]

the day Hennessy clocks the Decladam parallelism is going to be worst day of Ronan’s life. Seated for it

[clotpolesonly]

what'd'ya think are the odds that Declan was actually the #1 suspect in Niall's murder, full investigation and interrogations and everything, and Ronan just. missed that memo

[illumi-nati-png]

The Greywaren

Quite suddenly Ronan was cross with both voices. He was cross with himself. Both sides telling him what he was, and him believing it. How long had he been asking: Tell me what I am?.

Never once had he simply decided for himself.

It wasn't a choice at all.

He woke up.

-Maggie Stiefvater

[cabeswatercowboy]

This is exactly why Declan hates visiting the Barns!!!

(Been having discussions about how truly upsetting of a dream creature Handcat is. 😂😬👐🐱) (EDIT: Forgot Declan's freckles!!! I'm a FOOL!!!)

[ronanlynchusurper]

i know we all know this and it’s been talked about a lot, but i’m truly never getting over how beautiful it is that ‘tamquam alter idem’ is used as ‘i love you’ for ronan and adam like?? they both started the story with so much self loathing, shame and disbelief that anyone would understand them and accept them for their true selves. for them to both reach a point where they’ve grown together and made progress with themselves enough to have ‘as if a second self’ be their purest kind of declaration of love, actually makes me want to cry. like not only are they are using this phrase to convey their complete understanding, love and trust of one another to the point where they feel like extensions of each other, but also they are saying ‘you being an extension of myself means I love you because I value and love myself as well'. they couldn’t say this with the weight it holds without having learnt to accept themselves as well. THEIR GROWTHHHHH

[starry-bite]

i. declan doyle's cover identity was. matthew thatcher. matthew. matthew.

emily really named her first kid after him. i'm.

[searchingforglendowerwithleah]

When Matthew wants like idk fast food or something from Ronan and Ronan says no, do you think he blackmails him by threatening to tell Declan about the Kavinsky kidnapping fiasco?