#naill x mor

[cabeswaterdrowned]

assigned each TTPD track to trc/td3 chars/pairings because I was bored.  

Main Tracks

•Fortnight — post TDT & BLLB era Bluesey. not every lyric fits perfectly but the tone/overall subject (requited but forbidden love, especially the implication it’s both literally forbidden (other people involved/kiss curse) and self imposed forbidden (they’re from two different worlds and need to bridge that gap) is so them, pining and yearning, Literally “we can pretend this once then never speak of it again” and then mourning that as they try and keep their distance, also the “your wife waters flowers I want to kill her” bit in my head is Blue being jealous of Henry when she meets him. It makes sense. To me. Primarily a Blue pov song and then the Post Malone bits can be Gansey. 

•The Tortured Poets Department — The Gray Man x Maura, The Gray Man’s post TDT break up anthem. When you give up your hit man life for a woman and she runs off to a cave to find her ex boyfriend, a tree! Will really mess up an Anglo Saxon Poetry lover.

•My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys — DC Party Adansey from both their povs, Adam fearing Gansey only can value him as a possession and can’t love him in a way that Adam would want and Gansey fearing Adam secretly hates him + his heart breaking when Adam smashes the figurines. But the bridge is very Adam pov “I felt more when we played pretend than with all the Kens” Adam’s relationship with projection and both hating Gansey’s facade and being infatuated with and attracted to it, also there are so many ways they pretend seperately and together. 

•Down Bad — Pynch, first verse and chorus definitely Ronan pov in trc, the second verse and chorus as Adam pov in mi then after that could be both of them although still would lean more Ronan pov for the vibes. 

•So Long, London — Noah song. A lot of it could be his pov talking to Whelk, but then the friends he’s referring to could be the Gangsey and the Gangsey pov could be the final chorus saying goodbye to him. 

•But Daddy I Love Him — Niall x Mor. Niall’s pov as he tries to get his mother/his family to accept that he loves Mor. 

•Fresh Out The Slammer — Jordeclan. Self explanatory. 

•Florida!!! — at first I was going to give this one to Blue because of some of the themes about feeling conflicted about your hometown, then I wanted to make it a Hennessy song because some lyrics really fit her, but then eventually I decided this is actually a song about The Fairy Market. Different parts could be from Hennessy Jordan and Declan’s pov and maybe a little bit from Mor’s and/or Henry’s. 

•Guilty as Sin? — this song has both Bluesey and Pynch vibes but to me it’s a Bluesey song overall. Blue pov, yearning for someone you can never touch it’s perfect… 

•Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? — Ronan song fits him in the first two trc books real well imo. In the second verse he’s addressing the Gray Man but he could be addressing a number of people from Declan to Kavinsky to Niall to Gansey throughout the song. 

•I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) — Maura Sargent and her terrible taste in men! First verse and chorus about Artemus and Calla and Persephone shaking their heads in the background, then the second time with The Gray Man Calla again shaking her head. 

•loml — Jordeclan, but specifically a Jordan pov song after Declan chooses death by fairy market over her could either say this is her thought process in a middle bit that we didn’t get to see or an au where Declan did die and/or she did leave him for a bit after this.

•I Can Do It With A Broken Heart — Adam song. I think you could read it as in the first verse / go of the chorus the “him” being referred to is Gansey post DC but then in the second verse/chorus it’s Ronan in mister impossible era. His whole thing with masking/not paying attention to his feelings through both series and literally “faking it to make it” at Harvard… I can pass this test… the tonally upbeat music and devastating lyrics. Soo him. 

•The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived — Rovinsky break up song. I think the first verse and chorus is K pov but the rest of the song is Ronan’s pov. 

•The Alchemy — another song with both Pynch and Bluesey vibes but this one I’m giving to Pynch overall. The whole high school relationship currently long distance but I’ll always come back to you thing. 

•Clara Bow — for a minute I thought I really would have to give up on making this one about trc, but then I thought about the whole theme of women mirroring each other Blue and Gwenllian and the tapestry of girls with Blue’s face, their literal mirror powers, the 300 fox way women and how you see something of all of them in Blue / she’s a product of them, Hennessy and her clones, Mor and Aurora. So yeah general vibes of that theme. 

Bonus Tracks 

•The Black Dog — Pynch divorce bop. Adam pov. 

• imgonnagetyouback — Bluedam, now you may be thinking that I’m just assigning this one because I already think get him back! by Olivia Rodrigo is a Bluedam song (see previous web weaving) and this song is just a worse version of that song, and you’d be right that’s why I’m saying it. 

•The Albatross — Bluesey. Gansey associating the color blue with death, learning Blue is his death, being fascinated by her and falling for her more and more the more he accepts his own death… 

• Chloe or Sam or Sofia or Marcus — this is all about romantic drama/a love square between Blue Henry Gansey and Adam, different parts of it are from Gansey or Adam’s pov primarily about each other but they refer to Henry or Blue at different points. The Adansey divorce to Sarchengsey to Chengsey divorce pipeline song essentially. 

• How Did It End? — Adansey!! literally “he was a hothouse flower to my outdoorsmen, our melodies were such we could not cure them” I won’t just go through every lyric but every lyric just screams Adanseycore, as many of her songs about divorce do. 

•So High School — Pynch. “You know how to ball I know Aristotle” referring to Ronan playing tennis is an especially fun aspect. 

• I Hate it Here — Adam, first verse and chorus could be DC party Adam and then as it goes on it’s Adam at Harvard thinking all the things he won’t say to the crying club, and then it’s Adam about Henrietta. 

•thanK you alMee — Declan song centered on his conflicted grief/hatred of Niall. 

 •I Look in People’s Windows — Adam observing the wealthy/people he envies. 

•The Prophecy — Blue song. Elements of Bluesey obviously but mostly about Blue who won’t let fate define her and is brave when she’s afraid, begging for a different fate for Maura when she’s missing for Gansey and Noah, for herself when she wants things from the future that seem impossible for so many reasons. “And I look unstable gathered with a coven around a sorceress table” so the bath tub scene with her and her mom and Aunts! 

•Cassandra — Gwenllian Glendower anthem! 

•Peter — Adam pov Adansey song 😭 I already made a web weaving explaining this and if I tried to again with words I’d throw up and die, but this is the most trc coded song on the album other than the prophecy. 

•The Bolter — Hennessy song. First verse refers to her childhood trauma, The chorus fits Jordanessy and their mi scene with the cars so well and the whole repeatedly dying thing is obviously very Mister Impossible plot coded and also the cyclical nature of her lace dreams are reflected here. 

•Robin — Adansey. “way to go tiger”. 

•The Manuscript — Blue x Henry pining era song post Sarchengsey divorce. 

[wcva]

Arwyr ac archarwyr

Mae hi’n Wythnos Gwirfoddolwyr ac mae Fiona Liddell, Rheolwr Datblygu Gwirfoddoli yn WCVA, yn ystyried beth sy’n gwneud gwirfoddolwr yn archarwr. 

Dwi unwaith eto wedi cael y fraint o fod yn rhan o’r gwaith o feirniadu enwebiadau ar gyfer Gwirfoddolwr y Flwyddyn Cymru. Mae pawb a enwebir yn arwyr; ond sut ar y ddaear ydych chi’n dethol yr archarwyr o blith yr arwyr? 

Y peth cyntaf i’w ddweud yw dydych chi ddim! Ni allwn farnu teilyngdod y naill enwebai yn erbyn y llall. Pwynt pwysig iawn yw bod pob un wedi’i enwebu gan rywun. Ni chaiff gwirfoddolwyr eu henwebu eu hunain. Mae rhywun yn credu bod yr unigolyn neu’r grŵp hwn yn haeddu cydnabyddiaeth genedlaethol ac mae’r ffaith eu bod wedi trafferthu ysgrifennu a chyflwyno enwebiad yn tystio i ddau beth yn bennaf: yn gyntaf, cyfraniad gwerthfawr y gwirfoddolwr a’i effaith ar eraill, ac yn ail y ffaith eu bod yn ysbrydoliaeth i eraill. Weithiau daw un o’r rhain i’r amlwg yn fwy na’r llall ond at ei gilydd mae’r ddau i’w gweld yn glir. 

Nid dim ond yr hyn rydych yn ei wneud sy’n bwysig ond hefyd y ffordd rydych yn ei wneud. 

‘Mae’n gwneud i mi ymfalchïo yng Nghymru…’ 

Yr ail beth i’w ddweud yw bod pethau’n anorfod yn dibynnu ar y ffordd yr ysgrifennwyd yr enwebiad. Mae llawer yn rhy fyr ac yn eich gadael yn meddwl ‘dyma unigolyn sy’n amlwg wedi creu argraff fawr ar rywun ond does gen i ddim digon o wybodaeth i weld pam’. 

Siot erial o’r seremoni Gwobr Gwirfoddolwr y Flwyddyn llynedd

Dyw rhai enwebwyr ddim yn dweud digon ynglŷn â beth sy’n arbennig am y person maent wedi’i enwebu. Weithiau, y neges sy’n cael ei chyfleu, ar ôl darllen llawer am y prosiect ac ychydig iawn am y gwirfoddolwr, yw ‘dyma brosiect ardderchog, a sefydlais, a X yw’r union fath o wirfoddolwr rydym ei angen’. Efallai wir fod y prosiect yn ardderchog ond nid ydych wedi rhoi rheswm i mi gydnabod y gwirfoddolwr penodol hwn fel archarwr, yn hytrach nag unrhyw wirfoddolwr arall ar eich prosiect. Efallai y byddai wedi bod yn well i’r enwebydd hwn ofyn i rywun enwebu’r grŵp cyfan am gydnabyddiaeth? 

Er hyn, mae treulio gyda’r nos yn darllen drwy bentwr o enwebiadau yn sicr o’ch ysbrydoli. Pan fo’r straeon ar y newyddion yn llwm a digalon mae’n adfer eich ffydd yn y pethau positif yn y natur ddynol. Mae’n gwneud i mi ymfalchïo yng Nghymru, ei chymunedau a’i sector gwirfoddol. 

Mae yna bobl sy’n creu argraff arna’i gan eu bod wedi rhoi blynyddoedd o’u bywydau ac oriau bob wythnos i achos sy’n agos at eu calon. Maent yn llawn ffyddlondeb ac ymrwymiad ac yn meddu ar agwedd benderfynol ddiwyro sy’n ysbrydoliaeth ynddi’i hun. 

Mae eraill yn creu argraff arna’i oherwydd yr hyn y maent wedi’i oresgyn, heriau personol aruthrol weithiau; onid yw’n rhyfeddol sut y gall rhai pobl droi trasiedïau bywyd yn rym er lles eraill? Ac mae rhai wedi dal ati i wirfoddoli gan ddymchwel rhwystrau a llwyddo yn nannedd anfanteision. 

Tim gwirfoddoli WRAP a’i gwobr am Grwp Gorau yn seremoni Ngwobrau Gwirfoddolwr y Flwyddyn llynedd

Mae rhai enwebeion yn dangos gweledigaeth ac arweinyddiaeth arbennig ac wedi llwyddo i greu newid mawr yn lleol, neu’n ehangach. Mae rhai wedi codi symiau syfrdanol o arian neu wedi helpu i sefydlu prosiectau newydd. Caiff llawer eu cydnabod am eu gallu i gael y gorau o eraill ac i ysbrydoli eraill i roi o’u hamser a’u hegni er budd ehangach. 

Mae’n well gan eraill osgoi unrhyw sylw a gweithio mewn ffyrdd mwy anhysbys; gall eu natur wylaidd a’u diffyg cyhoeddusrwydd fod yr union beth sy’n ysgogi rhywun i’w henwebu am y gydnabyddiaeth maent yn ei haeddu.

Y rhinweddau personol sy’n gwahaniaethu archarwyr rhag yr arwyr; sy’n amlygu rhywun fel gwirfoddolwr arbennig. Mae archarwyr yn ymwneud â phopeth o adfywio’r gymuned a gwaith amgylcheddol i godi arian a lobïo dros newid neu helpu, hyfforddi ac annog eraill. Maent yn defnyddio eu doniau ac yn annog eraill i wneud hynny hefyd. Mae arnom gymaint iddyn nhw ac mae Gwobrau Gwirfoddolwr y Flwyddyn Cymru yn un ffordd o fynegi cydnabyddiaeth am y cyfoeth maent yn ei gynnig i’n cymunedau. 

Gallwch ddarllen hanes rhai o’n henillwyr blaenorol yma. 

Dwi wedi llwyddo i gyrraedd mor bell â hyn heb ollwng y gath o’r cwd! Ar adeg ysgrifennu nid yw’r beirniaid wedi gwneud eu dewis terfynol eto. Fe fydd enillwyr pob un o’r chwe chategori yn cael eu gwahodd i’r seremoni wobrwyo, a gynhelir yng Nghaerdydd ar 13 Mehefin. 

Felly amynedd piau hi tan hynny! Yn y cyfamser cofiwch mai dim ond rhai o’r miliwn o wirfoddolwyr yng Nghymru yw’r enillwyr a bod pob un ohonynt ledled y wlad yn arwyr yn eu ffordd eu hunain. Eu heffaith ar ein bywydau yng Nghymru yw’r hyn rydym yn ei ddathlu yn ystod Wythnos Gwirfoddolwyr.

 Fiona Liddell yw Rheolwr Datblygu Gwirfoddoli WCVA.