#ronancore

[eliothedickless]

Im sorry for subjecting you all to the horrors of what might be considered fancasting in the year of our lord 2024 but if I don’t share with the class I feel like I might actually go insane <3 this is self care for me

So I dreamed about Daniel Day Lewis last night (don’t ask) which prompted a google search (eh I wonder what he’s up to now kind of thing) and tell me why he’s just basically 60 year old Ronan Lynch? Nah because its actually him that’s crazy.

[kitttttchaos]

Ronan being a dad is actually my everything

[anoiseofgloriousdisdain]

“Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret.”

[millionsknives]

a gray bmw with a rosary hanging from the rearview pulls up next to you blasting this wyd

[evenstarfalls]

Mstief was so crazy for including this at the beginning of the dream thieves. I am not okay.

[excelsiant]

some silly ronancore tweets:

[glendover]

It’s so ronancore that the dreamer trilogy starts so wholesome with him wanting to move to live closer to Adam and then escalates to him “ending” the world

[wander-wren]

always gold is such a ronan song and someone else said this a long long time ago but they said it wrong and it’s lived in my brain ever since. the right way.

because always gold is about a brother who is good and solid and dependable talking to his fuckup of a brother and telling him that even if no one else thinks he’s worth anything, he still is to the speaker.

which, i can see why one would then interpret ronan as the subject of the song, the “you” if you will. but i dont think he is. come with me. take my hand.

this song is not about declan and ronan. this song is about ronan and adam, circa call down the hawk.

We were tight-knit boys, brothers in more than name

You would kill for me, and knew that I’d do the same

do i have to explain this one. it’s them. except ofc for the brothers bit but note the past tense

And it cut me sharp, hearing you’d gone away

harvard. do i need to say more?

But everything goes away, yeah, everything goes away

But I’m going to be here till I’m nothing but bones in the ground

the fact that ronan is tied to the barns both literally and metaphorically, and adam wants out of henrietta more than anything???

the “everything goes away” bit you can chalk up to ronan’s immense number of losses and also his general depression/suicidal tendencies

And I was there when you grew restless

You left in the dead of the night

And I was there when three months later

You were standing in the door, all beaten and tired

And I stepped aside

POINTS WILDLY. HARVARD. THE VISIT TO HARVARD. THE MURDER CRABS. YOU KNOW?? technically ronan left but close enough. and then adam came BACK to the barns to visit and ronan almost shot him. do you see the vision

We were opposites at birth, I was steady as a hammer

No one worried ‘cause they knew just where I’d be

“this isn’t a ronan line” says the poor naive children. i’d argue that it is! maybe not in the way it was originally meant, but generally people know where ronan is and what he’s doing because he’s reliable even in his self destruction. you know? he gets into trouble but always in the same way, in the same places. and to be honest most people except declan and gansey dont seem to worry about him so much as write him off because he’s never going to change. also i think the hammer comparison is very ronancore.

They said you were the crooked kind, that you would never have no worth

But you were always gold to me

the way adam is ostracized for being poor and the way he is described as looking strange….boy literally gets POSSESSED. he even thinks this about himself when he buries his real identity and lies to his harvard friends. but the first moment ronan lays eyes on him he prays to god and asks please. this is the most pynch line ever

And back when we were kids, we swore we knew the future

And our woods would take us halfway ‘round the world

the fact that adam is a literal psychic and they had a literal magical forest is so fitting. but also metaphorically they did have plans for their future together, and those plans did get wrecked in the dreamer trilogy. theres two lines after this about that but i cant really relate them to pynch directly theyre just about the broken dream

But I am fine with where I am now

This home is home and all that I need

But for you, this place is shame

But you can blame me when there’s no one left to blame

Oh, I don’t mind

these lines are why i cant see this as a declan & ronan song, i’m sorry. ronan loves the barns too much for it to be a shameful place. but we KNOW that adam sees his past/henrietta as shameful. we KNOW ronan would take the brunt of adam’s anger if that’s what he needed. declan is a nicer brother than ronan wants to believe but that’s not really his sentiment

And all my life, I’ve never known where you’ve been

There were holes in you, the kind that I could not mend

adam and all his secrets….adam and all his problems that his pride won’t let ronan fix. that ronan isn’t enough to fix because it’s not his job and boy needs therapy!

And I heard you say, right when you left that day

“Does everything go away?”

Yeah, everything goes away

not entirely sure how i want to interpret this, because i like the idea of it being a more positive spin on the first time its said, but also in book context adam leaving in cdth is not really a positive, nor is everything that happens after. it almost feels worse if you think about how adam is the one who loses ronan for a time right after this. adam can’t trust good things, and ronan can’t lie and say he’s not going to go and, uh, become an ecoterrorist

But I’m gonna be here till forever

So just call when you’re around

the end of this song in general makes me cry bc of the way it cuts off RIGHT at the last second, as opposed to the like, 1:30 second intro. especially when the last time they did the chorus (i didnt include it bc repetitive) it went “i’m gonna be here till i’m nothing but bones in the ground (so quiet down)”

something something….no longer talking about dying. that’s very ronan’s character arc-shaped. but the way the familiar music and the extra bit of “so quiet down” isn’t there, it feels cut off, unfinished.

like you’re waiting.

it’s unbearably sad but also soso tender, i know you can’t be here, i know you can’t stay and i can’t fix it, but if you need me, just call.

and let’s not even mention ronan’s aversion to phones that doesn’t quite seem to extend to adam parrish.

so. there you have it. always gold is a ronan song but also, more importantly, a pynch song. [bows]

[eliothedickless]

Rip Ronan Lynch you would have loved Riverdance by Beyoncé

[astudyinfreewill]

i was tagged by @grandfather-clock to post three albums i’ve been listening to!!

i mean. i wish this was going to be a cool music rec post that was going to showcase my Taste™️, but the instructions were albums i’ve been listening to, and unfortunately august has been a long and stressful month and my neurospicy self copes by listening to the same comfort tracks over and over and over so here goes nothing loool

the barbie movie soundtrack - i NEED you to understand that when i say this, 70% of the time i mean ‘speed drive’ by charli xcx (which as i’ve said before is a ronancore song) but also just like. yeah. the rest of it. issa bop what can i say. serotonin boost

midnights by taylor swift - listen i couldn’t tell you which one (regular version 3am version til dawn version lavender marriage version 5:43am version witching hour version daylight savings time version) because miss swift is CLEARLY dealing with her breakup through capitalism by releasing 46 of the same album, and they all kind of blur together at this point. i wish we could combine them all and have an Ultimate Midnights Edition (2 Mid 2 Night - Midnights Drift, if you will). however i HAVE been listening to ‘hits different’ a lot and envisioning adam parrish in his breakup era so i THINK it’s this one.

far from home - this is not an album per se as much as it is my ever-growing playlist for my main dnd character!!!! yes i’m cheating no i don’t care plus i HAVE been listening to it a lot lately bc we’ve been on a very long hiatus and I MISS HER!!! they’re my specialest little blorbo. i feel like i’ve seldom cared more about a character i made up - in my head there is a whole cinematic masterpiece full of action sequences and special effects both about her backstory and their adventure with my friends’ characters. btw this playlist has everything from the national to britney spears to nine inch nails to billie eilish. oh and a WHOLE LOT of 2wei, two steps from hell and movie/game soundtracks for that epic oomph. (the character art is by terry wei and our gm picked it out originally, but her look has changed quite a bit since then!!)

tagging @papiliomachaon @sonboyadam and @faeparrish ily guys!! 🫶🫶🫶

[declansboobs]

today i smoked before my mom picked me up to visit my sister at school and the whole time it was an out of body experience as i was very grumpily dragged to my alma mater and then a diner and spent over an hour in the car with my mother who cannot allow a moment’s silence. ronancore day

[odd-lee]

Ronancore

If nobody got me I know drawing a little deer in ominous situations got me

[evenstarfalls]

was playing jackbox with some friends and uuuh. Ronancore?

[kevindayenjoyer]

ronan lynch in pictures

[millionsknives]

remember when i said i was gonna make a ronan playlist that was gonna give you whiplash

[anoiseofgloriousdisdain]

with teeth (ronan lynch)

the latin translates as wandering in the night (as a dreamer does) and the spotify image is taken from "fucking screaming", my RONAN PLAYLIST