#am still halfway through trb but it'S STILL SO GOOD I LOVE IT

[adamprrishcycle]

Okay, you want to talk Ronsey, you better buckle up! (This is going to be long, sorry!)

As the formerly known TRK Anon, I can confidently say that trc is still somewhat fresh in my mind, so I have lots of examples to support my argument. Now, given that I have only read the series once, my character analysis might not be as deep or intense as yours.

If you don't know already, I am a huge Gansey lover/supporter/follower/fan/worshiper/bitch. (Will Patton’s rendition of Gansey drives me absolutely feral!!!!) I have loved him since the very first time we know about his existence (Which is page 15 of TRB). If Gansey is part of the equation, I ship it! Bluesey, Ronsey, Declansey, Adansey, HELL…even Chengsey (I could care less about Henry, so the fact that I acknowledge this ship is a big gesture on my part) I just want to make it clear that I am not an Adansey hater, it's just not my kind of jam (*shrugs*)

I know that what Gansey means to me, Adam is to you. But Adam was tough for me. Like REAL TOUGH to discern. It was not until halfway through TRK (practically when Pynch becomes canon) that I was finally able to appreciate him, to see him eye to eye and say: You ARE knowable. I will give it to Adam, he has the best, most memorable, character growth/development in the entire series (Ronan being a close second). But his stubbornness during TRB/TDT was so unbearable to me. He was such a DICK to Gansey. And yes, there were instances when Gansey deserved it (like the hospital scene) but most of their interactions (at the beginning of the series) are somewhat tense. They are constantly walking on eggshells, afraid to trigger/offend/provoke the other. There are MULTIPLE references to them fighting pre-canon, mostly about money, occasionally about who owns who. The whole DC trip was so stressful for all parties involved. In fact, Adam was so unapproachable that Gansey and Blue kept their relationship a secret because of how difficult he had been back then. (Honestly, I think he would have unalive them both) Plus, he is a hypocrite (I guess we all are) because when the rent thing happens, he goes to Gansey first and throws a fit about it!! But when he finds out that Ronan actually paid his rent, he is “cool” about it. He doesn’t argue with him. He doesn’t feel offended. He just accepts it (it being both the money and the fact). The one thing that really upsets me is Adam wanting the favor for himself. I understand why he wants it, but he knows it is Gansey’s life purpose to find Glendower. It feels like a betrayal, you know? I just cannot stand people being mean to Gansey, it triggers me!!!!

And yes, I get it, there are some good moments between them. Like the call with Mallory when Gansey is trying to make Adam laugh. Or Adam fixing/diagnosing the pig. Or the two of them being ushers on Raven Day. But these moments are so…normal (mundane?) that they don’t feel special.

To me, Adansey is a somewhat “toxic” ship. It is a one-sided relationship, because Gansey gives and gives and Adam refuses to take. Adam practically (and literally) loathes? abhors? despises? everything that Gansey stands for (money, friendship, status, family, you get the gist). How can you possibly love someone that is the poster child of everything you hate?! I think Adansey would be the perfect ship for enemies to friends to lovers.

But Ronsey, oh my dear Ronsey!!!! To me, Ronsey is all about Gansey and Ronan meeting before Niall’s death. The way Gansey describes Ronan before his father’s death is so intoxicating. Gansey mourning the joyful boy that Ronan used to be. Gansey getting emotional over Ronan’s laugh. Gansey being completely and utterly amazed by Ronan’s dream creations (“You incredible creature”). Ronan being unconditionally devoted to Gansey. Ronan being devastated that Gansey has other friends; that Gansey is going to DC with Adam and not him. Ronan and Gansey. Gansey and Ronan. Maybe I am not making any sense right now because my brain convulses just thinking about these two.

They have been through it all. God, there are so many moments pre-canon that I wish we could get to experience. Can you imagine Gansey panicking at the hospital with Ronan’s blood in his hands? Can you imagine Ronan teaching Gansey how to punch?! I can’t remember if canon ever confirms how Gansey acquired his journal, but can you imagine if Ronan bought it for him!?!?!

@singersargentboi said it best: ��The thing I love about Ronsey is that even in the books theres this sort of unhinged devotion between them that toes the line at being romantic/sexual.” Let’s unpack this together. Exhibit A) Kavinsky’s substance party. O.M.G. Gansey being such a deranged version of himself that even Ronan cannot stop smiling about it. (“What is it my dog needs?” JUST KILL ME ALREADY) Exhibit B) Ronan dreaming the keys to the Camaro in such a steamy delicate way that I am pretty sure he woke up with a tent in his pants. Exhibit C) Gansey bribing a full-grown adult for Ronan. Exhibit D) Gansey constantly scolding/disciplining/bossing Ronan and somehow stopping the Lynch brothers from killing each other. Exhibit E) Ronan going back home against his dad’s wishes, but still turns to Gansey for comfort (“Can I go and see mom?”) And if all of this does not convince you, I’ll leave you with this: “Gansey was far more of a brother to Ronan than Declan had ever been.”

However, I come to you with a peace offering, a secret third option: RODANSEY. Throughout the series it is constantly noted that 3 is the perfect number for magic ;)

THANK YOU FOR SPILLING YOUR THOUGHTS INTO MY ASK BOX 😍 this is delish and wow a HOT TAKE (to me, a simple woman who will live and die on the hill of adam parrish 🫶) although I understand your grievances from a protect-gansey-at-all-costs point of view! I think you’re right about them having the potential to be a toxic ship because of how much they fight. What’s funny to me is how it seems like they don’t understand each other… yet there’s at least 3 times in TRB alone where they communicate just by looking at each other which is amazing considering from what we know they have only been friends a few years but they’re that close and on that exact same level together. But then… they’re not. I think Adam has just had to rely on himself for so long that he can’t reprogram his brain to think differently, and gansey has had loving parents and a good sibling relationship and intense friendships therefore he can’t even begin to understand adam. They’re on diff planets right? They can’t relate to each other in any way shape or form. But then…. love comes along and makes it work??!??! This is why I’m an adansey girl.

BUT everything you said about ronsey…. That ferocious love I will never ever be over it ever 🥹 unhinged devotion is exactly right. And we all know the when I’m gone dream me the world quote but FOR ME it’s “he couldn’t say it, though. There were a thousand reasons why he couldn’t say it” like???? We were just supposed to move on from that? I can’t I wont.

(side note cuz I gotta defend my boy declan and say he is the best brother ever and I will not expand at this time bc spoilers but the dreamer trilogy will)

Rodansey…… now you’re talking my language. Truce? 🤝 thank u for this ask it’s made my day xx

[exyjunkies]

80 for pynch?

god. i haven’t written anything trc in months i must be a bad person

anyway i’ll keep this as short as possible

fic meme 1-100: pynch + 80. “How can you think I’m anything but hopelessly in love with you?”

send me a pairing (preferably from aftg/trc) and a number and i’ll write you a drabble (1-50) (51-100)

Ever since the day they met, Ronan has always looked at Adam like he was… like he was everything. It was a passionate, all-consuming, never-ending feeling that overcame him every time he looked at Adam, from his soft, brown hair, to the light sweep of freckles across his face, to his now filled-out-but-still-lean build.

The perpetual grip on Ronan’s heart whenever he saw Adam. It was probably almost enough to make him lose his breath.

Now, though. Now, he was losing his mind. And for a completely different reason.

“Jesus, Parrish, I know you know you’re not fucking stupid,” Ronan gritted, the words leaving his mouth only contributing even more to the hypothetical fire of the fight. Leaning back against their armchair, he put two fingers to the upper bridge of his nose and closed his eyes.

Even so, he could sense Adam still in the room, pacing back and forth, coming up with yet another argument to throw back at him. 

At least he hasn’t left Ronan in the room. 

“Well, how am I supposed to not react when I’m miles away on the regular, only to find out about What’s-His-Name coming by the Barns every so often?” Adam shot back, enunciating his words with his right hand and keeping his left on his hip. “And from Opal, my god. I had to hold back my actual reaction for the kid.”

“It’s Kian. And for the umpteenth time, he only comes by when I need to talk farm stuff with someone. He gives me advice. Don’t you get it?”

“Wow, so you socialize now? Is that part of your routine?”

“Who the hell else knows shit about running a farm? You tell me, Adam. Go on ahead and refer me.”

“Oh, that is just so typical of you, Ronan.”

At the rate they were going, this was never going to end. It was a fuse that was set off by something out of Ronan’s control. He crossed his arms and sighed.

“If you don’t mind, I’d like to know what the real problem is. I swear, if it’s how you don’t trust me–”

“It’s not you I don’t trust,” Adam cut in, voice clear as steel. “It’s him. Christ. I thought it was obvious.”

“Thought what was obvious?”

“Um, the way he looks at you?”

Ronan stared back at Adam, dumbfounded. Adam’s eyes were wild, as if he was seriously put off by how Ronan was right now. Ronan felt like if this were anybody but Adam, he would be strangling him right now.

“Ronan. Come on. His eyes practically sparkle when you so much as acknowledge something he says. He’d follow you around like a puppy if you fucking asked.”

“I mean, okay, not like I would give a shit, dickhead. So what if he has the hots for this?” Gesturing to himself, Ronan gave Adam a wolfish grin, one that died down as soon as Adam raised an eyebrow in a Really? gesture.

“Oh, for fuck’s sak– get it together, Parrish! I will never, ever entertain any of his stupid advances. If they even exist. I don’t even notice how he looks at me!”

Adam stopped in front of him and nodded. “Yes, they exist. And. Fuck. Have you seen him? How he looks? He’s–”

“NOTHING LIKE YOU!” 

As Ronan yelled, he stood up so suddenly that his knee hit the coffee table. “Ow, fucker.”

When Ronan saw Adam was at a loss for words, he went around the coffee table and planted himself in front of Adam.

“For the life of me, I would never get tired of fucking reminding you, but,” Ronan said slowly, choosing his words carefully. He put both his hands on Adam’s shoulders and looked him in the eyes.

“You know you’re my one, right?”

Adam huffed. “Yeah. But–”

“Then how,” Ronan continued, more quietly this time, closing his eyes and placing his forehead against Adam’s, “in the absolute fuck can you think I’m anything but hopelessly in love with you?”

After a beat, Ronan opened his eyes, and saw that Adam was looking down at the floor.

“I– Ronan–”

Not waiting for Adam to finish, Ronan closed the distance between them and kissed him, wrapping his arms around him.

It was a kiss deep enough for Ronan to let Adam understand. Or so he hoped.

When they pulled apart, Adam looked up at Ronan, then at the floor again, and murmured, “I’m sorry I’m like this.”

Ronan shook his head and tilted Adam’s chin up. “You know what?”

“What?”

“I wouldn’t trade you for the damn world.”