#trc complaints

[notnotravenpond]

tried to blame weather and escape better

[cabeswaterdrowned]

did not remember Calla’s “I assumed he was trailer park trash with a record” comment about Artemus the way I remember Helen / The Gansey’s classist comments, but it does make sense / I think it kind of works that those attitudes aren’t only in the story in the mouths of excessively wealthy people, and it gives context to some of Blue’s internalized + lateral classism in narration at times. Not that it had to come predominately from 300 fox way because there’s obviously the town, the school, how she’s treated by Aglionby boys at Ninos multiple factors but I think at one point in fandom there was this idea that Blue should be above having internalized classism or internalized misogyny because of her being raised by these working class women who are ‘feminist role models’ which that’s not how socialized prejudice works first of all like not even a little bit, but even if it did I don’t think the 300 fox way women are written to be paragons of perfect social justice values and honestly that’s a good thing I’d rather the same ‘let chars be flawed and hypocritical’ applied to them that applies to the boys. (And later on the narrative is harsher on Blue than on most of the boys for these ‘flaws’ imo so the trc misogyny bell deserves to be rung there. But in terms of what’s currently being portrayed in the text in terms of characterization I think So Far it all works.)

[baladric]



⭐would love to hear any section of your fics that you're dying to talk about

for you, my friend, i offer the au i've rebooted about 3 different times, in which the lynch brothers are faerie princes, exiled on a quest of mettle, while gansey is off in his own corner, dealing with having true sight and the fact that faeries are Fucking Scary. blue is Not A Witch, but noah (drowned changeling child extraordinaire) sure seems to think she is, and adam has no idea that he's a medium responsible for maintaining the veil between the mortal realm and faerie, nor does he realize that he's been slacking at that until ronan goddamn lynch comes barreling into his life full-throttle, iron-sick and demanding A Key he has not possessed for a single second of his miserable little life!!!! (to be unfair to adam, he really should have guessed shit was hinky when he started dissociating into weird forests, but it's just that he has so much shit to do???? who even has the time to litigate their hallucinations???????????)

declan as a faerie is exquisitely unsettling, bc the unconscious human discomfort that comes with being around faeries chafes So badly against his magicked facade of Extreme Blandness. like you're cracking wise with a 20-something middle manager in a navy blue suit in a starbucks bc you accidentally got each other's drinks, but the entire time your skin is crawling and every time you glance away, you could swear there's something wrong with this man's eyes

(declan's canonical Unmagicalness balanced out here by the contrast of his weird eyes/pointy ears with ronan's being more or less a literal bird monster when he's not glamouring himself to be palatable to humans, and matthew regularly forgetting that the ground is for Standing, not floating two feet above while glowing faintly)

[eddiemelrose]

Yo, hit me with all your Bloodlines ramblings - I too have the BL brain rotation and a strong desire to punch TRC until its the ending we deserved and not... whatever that was

maybe it's taken me four months to answer this. maybe i forgot about the ask. but i will answer now anyway.

As much as I'd love to ramble about my next gen headcanons I've come up with I'll stick to complaints I have about stuff that is actually in canon:

(spoilers for the whole series obviously)

The whole series started because Jill was being targeted and Lissa wanted to change the family law. At the end of the series there was no update on that. In fact, Jill was rescued and just brought back to Court IIRC. I haven't read TRC for a long time and... I don't plan on reading it again for a while so someone else will have to confirm that for me.

And on that note of overarching world plots beyond Sydney... the vaccine?? Massive running plot but it was just left hanging. This series doesn't do "the reader can decide" so why are we left to theorise the outcome of the vaccine???

Now onto Declan... okay so I know a lot of people are angry that he ended up with Adrian and Sydney. I get it. But let's just talk about the long term implications of them raising him:

The trio (+ Eddie + Daniella) are living in human society in Maine. To the Moroi world, Declan is six months younger than he actually is - is this true for the humans too??

I have problems with Neil's abandoning Declan I've complained about before...

Will Adrian and Sydney tell Declan about who he really is? Will he become a guardian? These are very important questions to me that hold a lot of weight in planning my next gen world!!!!!

Think about it. You tell a child that he is adopted. Fine. But if you told Declan that he is adopted? That has problems if he mentions that to other people. Because why would they have adopted a child, they weren't exactly in the best situation for it? Alternatively if Declan knows he's adopted but he's also told he can't tell anyone or something like that he'd definitely be confused about why and again probably end up telling someone.

So the question is then when does he get told about who he really is??? I do have my own theories about when that happens but I'll leave them out of this post since they're related to other characters I'm not talking about right now lol.

Still on Declan: is he going to a Moroi academy? Immediate response would be yes if it wasn't for his situation?? Like whether people know the truth or not, his birth will still be controversial - son of two dhampirs or son of a Moroi and a human. I like to think that growing up with Eddie made Declan super determined to become a guardian himself so he begs his parents to go to a Moroi academy even though they weren't too keen on that.

Also Daniella. Is she just going to live with her son forever? Get the woman a job or a sugar daddy.

And finally.... as I have said a million times before.... WHERE DOES ADRIAN GET BLOOD IN MAINE?

no seriously. you can NOT make this a major plot point in vampire academy with Rose and Lissa and then just FORGET about it with Sydney and Adrian.

That is all.

[you-know-i-get-itt]

I know I said everyone but Ronan yesterday but after getting Ronans perspective, he feels something is going to happen to Gansey and he's trying to make something to protect him I'm going to cry before this book is over I can feel it. Also he accidentally brought out the orphan girl

Also exciting things are happening in Cabeswater a tree is dying and Noah showed Blue what he truly is

It's all very exciting and then we have the newly introduced Laumonier triplets who aren't at all creepy and clearly not one of the villains in the book. Ngl the adding of "new villains" each book only for them to be dealt with in the book is getting a little old at this point but considering this is one of my only complaints so far I'll live with it

This one's getting long but I had thoughts and feelings. Also, am I imagining this or did Maggie Stiefvater up her prose in this book? The writing in the previous books was really good it just seems like this book goes harder, you know what I mean?

- trc anon (I'm glad the staff resolved the issues)

yeahhh the way ronan has a FEELING something’s off but is the only one who isn’t in the know!!!

no i can’t wait for you to finish the book and then get back to your thoughts about laumonier being a villain, i am saving this for future reference :)

she did up her prose!!! the writing in trk is UNPARALLELED

[zvaigzdelasas]

A Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) probing state-Sámi relations in Finland is preparing to restart its work after a timeout due to changes in its constellation. At the same time, the Finnish parliament debates the definition of Sámi – the Indigenous people that inhabits the northern parts of Finland, Norway, Sweden and a part of Russia – according to Finnish law. In November, the preparation for a new law regulating who can be registered as voters in the Sámi parliament elections in Finland turned into a source of conflict and mistrust between the Social Democrats and the Centre Party, both parts of the Finnish coalition government.

The main point of conflict concerns the definition of Sámi. Although there is no universally accepted definition, only those included on the official electoral register for the Sámi Parliament in Finland can vote or stand for election to that body. The new law would give the Sámi Parliament the exclusive power to define who can vote in the Sámi Parliament elections. But the centre-right Centre Party opposes it. [...] Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin (Social Democrats) has promised to get the new law through Parliament, but her plans are obstructed by the intra-government opposition of the Centre Party. The Centre Party has built a political platform as the defenders of individuals who self-identify as Sámi but whom the majority on the Sámi Parliament do not recognise and some of whom they consider a threat to the integrity of the Sámi Parliament’s work in upholding Sámi culture and language. Currently, the country’s Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) can overturn the Sámi Parliament's decisions regarding voter registration. For previous elections, the court has added individuals to the voter register from the group of “non-recognised” Sámi. [...] The matter has also drawn the attention of the United Nations human rights monitoring system. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination which monitors the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination to which Finland has been a party since 1970 has criticized Finland and the SAC for limiting the self-governance of the Sámi by adding persons to the voter register without the consent of the Sámi Parliament. The Human Rights Committee that monitors States’ compliance with the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights that Finland joined in 1975 has also expressed its views on the matter following a communication (a complaint) from Tiina Sanila-Aikio, former President of the Sámi Parliament.[...] With new parliamentary elections coming up in April 2023, both the Social Democrats and the Centre Party want to show their voters that they have political leverage concerning the new law regarding the Sámi Parliament. The unwillingness to compromise has risked the whole existence of the current coalition government, although so far, they are managing to ride out the political storm.

9 Dec 22

[rootbeerfloats]

Im on the raven king finally in my trc reread and it makes me sad how henry was just like... Squeezed into the narrative 😭 like its REALLY obvious maggie stiefvater wrote him in last minute because of complaints abt how white the main cast is

[personshapedsplder]

TRC anon, I'm at the acid rain Tokyo ark, began reading it today, and boy! When I realised it was The acid rain Tokyo arc... Called immediately the vampire thing and I'm loving the sudden exposition about the whole Syaoran thing smxjsndb

I miiight prefer Fai but it's by such a slight margin. Him and Kurogane just work perfectly together, and I'm getting blown over by how mature and actually adult Kurogane is. He endured a lot and didn't get out unscathed, but still managed to find his own balance and to come to terms with his past, which makes him perfect for Fai, who is still running. Their conversation (you know the one) in this arc is just. so much. And Fai's so fun!! He's hilarious, I know he's hiding a lot but the part of him that shows is still him, I think, and he's an extremely clever, extremely lighthearted person. He likes to have fun and to tease the people he cares about (he cares so so much, like Kurogane). His whole "Kurogane is the dad" bit killed me, especially cause I the translation I'm reading he keeps calling him "daddy" fjsmbfs

Sorry about the rant, there's a lot more I could say, I'm liking it so much :D

"you know the one" HAHA YES I KNOW THE ONE LOL

and LOL yes he calls him daddy in the one i read too A;LKSFJ it makes ME blush too just reading it sometimes i know its innocent but also fai KNOWS hes being flirty LOL its hard to avoid the implications of calling someone daddy HAHA

i'm so glad youre liking it!! just wait until the CERES ARC now! fai is the kind of character who has stuck in my mind throughout my life just bc his backstory is SO ABSURDLY SAD. its like, it's sad to the point where it almost wraps back around to being funny its so over the top dramatically sad. you have to tell me when you get there!!

and fai is a good choice to like! he's got a lot of depth! and he and kuro bring out the best/most interesting parts of each other. i'm biased picking kuro as my favorite just bc i find him SO so sexy LOL hes got that big, muscular, brooding thing that drives me up the wall HAHA

my only complaint with tsubasa is GIVE ME MORE BLOOD DRINKING!

[notnotravenpond]

this is the most Adam Parrish song ever, fight me

[cabeswaterdrowned]

16. a tiny detail in canon that you want more people to appreciate

(for any fandom :P)

will go with trc again. I feel like I can more readily think of storylines/threads than individual details … but I think Blue’s relationships with her Aunts are really compelling and lovely and fandom should pay more attention to those they clearly inspire who she is so much, like I said I think Blue is in a lot of ways very much like Calla and they mesh really well but I think Persephone was who she probably wanted to emulate most growing up given how much she admires those who are different without trying (I also think her death hits her harder than most fan works portray or we get to see in canon so am attempting to do my part by writing a proper Blue mourning Persephone arc in my fic tesselation) am excited for the consistent Blue and Calla interactions when we get to rereading more of BLLB.

Maybe the Adam and Gansey midnight calls could count as an under appreciated detail? We only see one of them in TDT but in TRB it’s confirmed that they were a consistent Thing for so long and with frequency. The implications lining that up with the Bluesey phone calls are insane. Because it stood out to me on my winter reread and I was disappointed there weren’t many fics on the topic I even ended up writing a 5 things fic about their phone calls over the series and I had to really pay attention to every mention of them talking on the phone in the first two books for this, which did lead to me really having to think through what these frequent and (especially if we’re taking the TDT one as the standard length) lengthy calls to and from the Parrish trailer would have been like. Adam’s mom answers the phone when Gansey calls their number in TRB so I do think said phone is not in Adam’s room but outside of it, I wrote my pre canon under the assumption Robert Parrish works a night shift to minimize some possible awfulness but even so I can’t imagine his mom was never around and that his parents were completely unaware about them and they were definitely not happy about their sons calls with who Robert deemed a “soft rich fag”🫤 and there’s a line in TRB (in the scene where Robert deafens Adam so understandably does not register the first few reads) about complaints about the phone bill so there are… implications there, it’s kind of another circumstance where Adam is actually putting in a lot of effort / putting up with a lot more to be close with Gansey than is visible to Gansey for a combination of privilege and Adam not wanting him to know…. so like with a lot of things with them there’s a really adorable romantic side to those calls and also a darker sadder side both are essential parts of the appeal to me. But yeah I think I can say I’ve given more thought to that detail in canon than most people would.

[thecorvidrotation]

TRC narrative inconsistency question of the night: 

did Aurora appear even once in BLLB? and if not, WHY NOT

[adumbparrish]

can people rec me some good pynch fics :)

[nightmare-hennessy]

no one ever relates to this but that scene in trk when noah’s sister talks about him? yeah that shit broke me

[poppy-metal]

I don't really understand how people get upset at Gansey for calling blue Jane. Blue is 100% capable of standing up for herself and I'm sure if the nickname truly bothered her she'd tell it to him straight up like, look rich boy, quit it. Y'all acting like its completely out of the realm of possibility that maybe she grew to like the nickname because she likes gansey and it felt special? Like it doesn't take away from her independence and girl power to be fond of a nickname coming from a guy she has feelings for. I understand she was annoyed the first couple times he did it and if you recall she corrected him every time. But as time went on i got the sense that it grew on her just like the raven boys did and shr never gripes about it really ever again except for those first 2 times when she didn't know gansey that well.

That's just my opinion. I've definitely felt the same thing where someone would give me a nickname and I'd be like >:c but i grew to love it and it made me feel special to that person and there's nothing wrong with that.

[ganseyboii]

tagging for gansey is such a trip like do i write the whole richard campbell gansey iii or richard gansey iii or gansey iii for just gansey?? and by the end of it the word gansey doesn’t even look right anymore, just a jumble of letters

[crimeronan]

pleased to announce that ronsey enjoyers will reblog just anything

gansey hold ronan like kitty