#and ganseys too

[trc-character-tournament]

Hii since I like poll tournaments and didn't find a trc one, I decided to make this

Here's the bracket:

Feel free to ask if you have any questions and I hope everyone has a fun time <3

My main is @of-stars-and-moon btw

Oh also inspired by @queer-book-character-tournament @yafantasywifetournament @baldswagsummit2023 @adhdvsautismbracket @foundfamilyarena

[clownhunterbebop]

Forget hot girl summer, it’s raven boy summer this year. Go make extremely codependent new friends. Go awaken an ancient evil. Go, uh… murder your Latin teacher. Have fun!!

[tsukk1]

adansey

[baldnt]

holy hell i found him y’all. he is indeed in rural Virginia.

[miseria-fortes-viros]

do u ever think about how niall lynch was a devilishly handsome son of a bitch who was impossible not to like, naturally commanded the attention of everyone in the room, told stories as easily as breathing, ruled over his own particular corner of the world, didn’t even seem real until you knew him, died facedown on a gravel driveway, and then do you ever think about gansey.

[eucatastrph]

the raven cycle being about the relentless pursuit of appearing on the outside as you do on the inside, of making yourself understandable or dying trying to be understood, the way the only thing that matters to these kids is to not be misunderstood, misinterpreted or thought to be any worse or better than what they are on their own merit but also having the truest versions of themselves be so deeply intertwined,,, i need to sit down

[seaemberthesecond]

This is one of the most underrated parts of Dream Thieves. Just so much to unpack.

Adam's indescribable horniness for Helen's kitten heels? Like, sir? Are you okay?

IMMEDIATELY projecting said horniness onto Declan? He's not even THERE. Why's he catching strays? Foul.

It's even more foul considering it's not remotely true. Dating Helen would be Declan's personal hell. For one, she's smart, loves meddling in people's lives, and has immense resources at her disposal. Helen Gansey and her sexy sexy shoes would be his worst nightmare. Forget dating, even being in the same room as her would make Declan start to dry-heave in panic.

And SECONDLY, you know Declan is at once wildly resentful, disgusted, and bewildered by eldest siblings who aren't massively parentified. Like, what do you MEAN your life's sole purpose isn't to protect your younger brother? Sounds fake, but ok. Couldn't be me though.

[blueseysyogurt]

how i imagine kavinsky texted ronan in the dream thieves:

[squash1]

the most gansey song ever.

[ganseysmagiciansz]

gansey furiously crafting a knee-high recreation of his hyperfixation (henrietta) out of cardboard in the depths of the night is the insomnia representation we deserve

[wekillitwithfire]

messy little bluesy

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

[trashedinpluto-jpg]

a scene from bllb that makes me sad

[ketraia]

been rereading

[wander-wren]

bothers me in trc fandom when people refer to “ronan’s suicide attempt” because it was pretty importantly NOT a suicide attempt. gansey, noah, adam, they all assumed it was, which is why gansey freaks out when ronan goes missing overnight at the beginning of trb, but it is not. it was a dream creature he brought back that had clawed him up.

i’m sure you could argue that that’s just an indirect suicide attempt, ronan’s subconscious, etc (opal tells him the night horrors are him), but i don’t see it that way. ronan is angry and grieving and violent in the wake of niall’s death. the night horrors, to my knowledge, don’t target ronan so much as they target any soft, living thing they can destroy. we don’t see this scene happen. we don’t see the day or the nightmare that comes before. we just have ronan’s word, and ronan says it wasn’t a suicide attempt, so it wasn’t.

and we can talk in circles then about whether ronan is suicidal actually—personally i think he has a sort of reckless disregard for his own life (see: drag racing, dream drugs) and has internalized a lot of the ideas about him being a “bad kid,” but i don’t think he’s actively suicidal. and that’s important to me. it’s important that ronan doesn’t actually want to die. i think he’s struggling to see the point of what everyone wants him to do (school), and struggling to envision a future for himself.

if ANYTHING was going to make ronan suicidal, truly, it should have been the dreamer trilogy. he’s isolated from all of his loved ones, literally starts dying if he’s not careful with the ley lines, and also the world is ending. we can see his same thought patterns repeating (“you’re always the car crash, ronan”) and we see him struggling with reality and identity (every conversation with bryde, who remember is part of ronan’s psyche, and also the looping dream with the mirror). and he’s not suicidal in the dreamer trilogy.

we talk a lot in this fandom about “gansey kind of wanted to live.” i think we should talk about how, despite everything, so did ronan.

[clotpolesonly]

The Raven Boys ch 2 // The Raven Boys ch 8