also in the webinar ms basically confirmed that the creation of hennessy was her being like “what if there was a girl ronan, would readers still put up with someone that horrible if it was a girl” and said the answer was no they would not. and that right there is my thirteenth reason
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the dreamer trilogy makes my artist heart very happy. it talks about art in metaphor — dreaming being a metaphor for creating art and dream objects being a metaphor for artwork — but it also mixes in so much art history AND has literal artists, jordan and hennessy, creating, for the first time, work that is Theirs. making, not in an effort to copy great work, but to create great work themselves, for themselves. one of the Points to me is about who artistic creation — in any form — is for and Why we continue to create. it’s declan collecting art, art that makes him want to goddamn cry, and putting it in his attic, just for him, just because. it’s ronan loving light, creating balls of light that just float around, for no other reason than his love of light. it’s hennessy’s “of fucking course” waking up the mouse. it’s jordan painting declan. it’s adam’s dreamt watch. it’s the mirrors that show your honest self. it’s all of it, all of it.
there’s something to be said about the fairy markets, these exclusive, somewhat dangerous, dream black markets, being a metaphor or representation for the institutions of the art world. because that really is what it’s like in so many ways. the fairy markets are taking something magical, pure, and creative — dreamt objects that are made by dreamers simply for the joy and horror of creating — and turning it into a commodity, something that is inaccessible to most and must be hidden away behind barriers and armed guards.
the dreamer trilogy says so much about the value of art and art objects. their ability to reflect their creator. the necessity of art objects not just for artists but for other makers, for everyday people, for the world and for our culture.
I LOVE ART, I LOVE THESE BOOKS!
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none of u ppl would get it but Hennessy is genuinely one of the best characters of the entire trc/tdt universe. she is tormented her entire life by an eldritch horror that is really just her trauma. the only ppl she is capable of loving are the physical manifestations of the parts of herself she tore out due to said trauma. her dreaming is a chronic illness that has rendered her too exhausted to try. she is an artist that only paints forgeries. she herself is a forgery of a prodigy. everyday she is pretending to be herself. she loves her mother she hates her mother she doesn’t remember her mother she is just like her mother. she could have been anything she wanted. she was made only to die.
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So unserious but this was all I could think of
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Ronan and Hennessy and “I’ve been alone a long time” and “please don’t let me be the only one” and “why do you even care?” “I don’t know I just do” and “don’t let me fall too hard lynch” and “she’s a dreamer, like me” and “no one else gets it, this is what we live with” and “he’ll be drawn to you more than to me” and “I’m not a doll Ronan lynch” and “Hennessy. He had forgotten he could know people. And how he knew her!” and “they didn’t say sorry they didn’t have to” and “if I told you I was going to help you get out of this, would you believe me?” “you’re one of the very few people I would” and “now they were just two ex dreamers made fearless by life” and “don’t be only human just now Ronan lynch”
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