#i like trc too

[clotpolesonly]

never forget that Blue's introduction to Ronan Lynch was him running into a hanging light fixture and everybody laughing at him

[baldnt]

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

[fantasybooktournament]

favorite tags:

#in other lands#sarah rees brennan#fantasy book tournament#iol#in other lands sarah rees brennan#elliot schafer deserves to be loved#SRB!!!!!!!#in other lands fans lets go!!!! (@ionlydrinkhotwater)

#oh no#oh no oh no#iol becauee i can guarantee it wont win (@rabbitsinwonderland)

#this is the meanest match-up imaginable for me (@eveyalecia)

#oh no! i love both#trc may be a first love but in other lands owns my whole heart (@realbacchus)

[eternalchemy]

today i am thinking about ronan lynch always referring to adam as Adam in his thoughts and his monologue but using Parrish when talking to him or about him out loud. something about the illusion of distance, the pretence of detachment he clings onto in public.

[apppleioi]

i can appreciate declan lynch because when you’re the oldest sibling it’s true everyone DOES hate you and you never win.

[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.

[robobee]

I just thought of how absolutely hilariously terrible Adam would be to be married to and now I've changed my mind. I hope they never get divorced and I hope Adam behaves like a hateful miserable suburban housewife (he is a man with a job that regularly keeps him in the city) and Ronan continues to act like an equally jaded early 20s mother of 3

[cursedwerewolf]

so the thing about whelk and cars is that whelk constantly talks about his cars but we never actually learn what they look like. we don't know anything about the car he had before his fall from grace other than that he misses it and we know nothing about his current car other than that he thinks it's shitty. and we can extrapolate a lot of things about his character from that, but we're still denied access to any more concrete information about them. to me, this implies that whelk isn't really much of a person anymore. almost every character in trc who owns a car is introduced to us in tandem with their car and we usually learn more about them through their car. for example, we learn some things about gansey through the random stuff lying around in his backseat. and even if that's not the case, we can at least tell a bit about them through the brand of car they drive, like declan driving a volvo. but not whelk. whelk's first appearance is literally him driving past gansey, ronan and adam by the side of the road, but his car is just described as that, a car. it's almost like a part of him is obscured to us. i'd even go as far as to say whelk having a vague, unspecified car means that there is nothing beyond what we see in him - at least nothing the narrative deems worthy looking at. whelk is just a shell of a man, and the fact that we never get to see his car emphasises that perfectly

[plutonicbees]

finding ppl attractive specifically bc they look vaguely like my fav characters cause I'm normal and whatever

[f4keplastictr33s]

nobody talks about the fact that blue was in fact bullied for being a psychic’s daughter and i think that’s probably why she has this defense mecanism where she appears more tough than she actually is .. ? idk i just love blue sargent so much man and im sick when people dismiss her character or reduce her to the boys bc she’s so much MORE than that

[romantichopelessly]

one thing I’ll never get about Pynch fan works is how they constantly interpret Ronan as insecure/wary around Adam. not that it isn’t a fun thing to play with, but one thing that makes me crazy about Pynch in particular is that Ronan is unabashed about how he feels about Adam once he accepts it.

Like he’s showing up at Adam’s apartment to sleep on the floor by his bed. He’s staring at Adam whenever he can, and sometimes doesn’t even stop when Adam looks back. He gives Adam obvious gifts. He pays for Adam’s rent, knowing that Adam will probably figure it out eventually. He holds Adam’s hand for a few beats too long when Adam lets him.

[deklo]

first page 🧎🏻‍♂️ of many 🧎🏻‍♂️🧎🏻‍♂️🧎🏻‍♂️

[adamprrishcycle]

Oh it’s nothing just

[forgetriestowrite]

and then they barely interacted for the rest of the series *throws book across the room*

[tragedylure]

Now that Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles is trending I just wanna take some time to talk about how CLAMP introduced me to queer love stories in the most simple and sincere way of people finding people.

That determination in longing, of yearning across distance time and space and how it translated into people. That it was about the stories really, it was always about what it inspired and the lengths or sacrifices made and how people choose over and over again; those flavors of doomed by the narrative until not(?).

As the youths, I never once thought hey these two are the same gender and that’s a boundary to stop at. Because CLAMP wrote so clearly, so faithfully, so ruinously that all my young kid brain could think was, “you love them, of course you do, of course you do, I would too”.

[cabeswaterdrowned]

Gansey and Ronan having opposite music tastes and then Adam’s the perfect neutral because he has no music tastes he just likes that they like what they like