#trc*

[rachthechaosbi]

is that all? that’s all there is

is that all? that’s all there is

is that all? that’s all there is

is that all? that’s all there is

#IS THAT ALL? #THAT’S ALL THERE IS #gansey #trc #the raven cycle #happy st marks eve y’all!

[lynchzitos]

ken only has a good day if barbie looks at him

#ronan lynch #adam parrish #pynch #the raven cycle #the dreamer trilogy #trc #tdt #theyre in love your honor

[simmyblue4]

Happy St Mark's Eve to all who celebrate.

#gansey #gangsey #blue sargent #bluesey #trc #the raven boys

[ronanlynchbf]

#rereading trc while simultaneously falling back into aftg stuff by virtue of reading tsc and thereby transporting myself back to when i #was sixteen but it's fine it's totally fine like it's whatever 😁👍 #r.txt #anyway. me when – me when i – me when i'm trying to tell my best friend that i'm gay but i'm also trying to tell him i can take stuff from #my dreams and i took my now pet raven from my dreams like from my head i'm a dreamer but also that's kind of the same thing but also it's #really not but also it is bc it's an allegory but also that's not the only thing the dreaming is an allegory for and also i'm scared to tel #him like i'm terrified actually and i don't want to tell him but also i need to tell him but also he already knows but i don't know that he #knows and also i was goinggggg to tellllllll himmmmmm arghhhhhhh #this scene is soooooooooo like. like AOUGH. ARGH OUGH AGH AOUGHHHHHH #<- sounds of a guy taking minus xp damage with every word read of this stupid scene. he literally was going to tell gansey 😕......... #trc #ronsey #like i need 2 lay down. he came out there to tell him......the timbre of his voice being described as strange&initially unrecognizable.... #i read this part like. 2 weeks ago idk. smth of the sort. and i'm STILL thinking abt it....you came out for something.....when you'd made u #ur mind to confess but ur mouth betrayed you in the end......associated with secrets and guilt......MAN.....

[blueseysyogurt]

wake up babe it’s st marks eve (raven boys day)!!

#trc #the raven boys #the raven cycle #adam parrish #ronan lynch #blue lily lily blue #the dream thieves #the raven king #noah czerny #blue sargent #gansey #richard gansey #richard campbell gansey iii #time to reread #i love this series sm #maggie stiefvater #henry chang

[litrallymadlad]

Boop!!

RONAN ATTACKS !!!

#my art #trc #the raven cycle #ronan lynch

[adamprrishcycle]

Oh shit, it’s st mark’s eve rip gansey boy

#gansey #trc #the raven cycle #text

[cabeswarenn]

adam parrish moodboard

#adam parrish #the raven cycle #trc

[bluesadansey]

Declan is described as looking like a combination of Ronan and a polished tailored guy like Gansey or Greenmantle, which in theory makes him like the pinnacle of the type of guys Adam is attracted too. Just don’t tell that to Adam Declan Ronan or Gansey it won’t go over well.

#s speaks #this is important meta analysis not self indulgent at all. it’s not my fault ya’ll don’t read between the lines #adam parrish #decladam #declan lynch #richard gansey #adansey #pynch #ronan lynch #trc #tdt #inspired by that post about how Ianthe is Gideon’s exact type but she’s in denial about it #The Raven cycle #the dreamer trilogy

[defense-music-fund-well]

https://vanessa-165.suduso.com.cn/hu/qovSRf3

#sanders sides #tag yourself #chinese #trc #tsukkiyama #steddie #artic monkeys #horizon zero dawn #look what you made me do #top gun maverick #formula e #skatelife #alice in chains

[mr-everything-from-half]

#Armond Rizzo #newt scamander x reader #bangtan boys #the wilds #post malone #punk girl #needlework #ff14 #celebrities #sylvia plath #elizabeth turner #sanders sides #tailoring #trc

[clotpolesonly]

thinking about Declan and the moth again

it HAUNTS ME that the moth is one of the few times that Declan seems to lose his self-awareness completely. like, yeah, he's the ultimate king of repression, but he's usually very conscious of what he's repressing and the fact that he's repressing it. he knows his issues.

he knows that he forces down his emotions in an unhealthy way so that he can be the adult in the room at far too young an age. he knows he can't form healthy relationships because of a lifetime of danger and insecurity. he knows he dehumanized his mother as a means to cope with their batshit family situation. he knows he's competing with his father's ghost for a place in Ronan's life. he knows he resents Matthew for being the primary factor in his parentification and loss of opportunity in life. he knows he loves his father no matter how much he tries to convince himself to hate him. he knows he feels trapped in the life he's leading, doesn't see a way out, and likely wouldn't take it if he did because it would be at the expense of his brothers.

all of these things, Declan acknowledges openly, either to himself in narration or out loud to others. he may delude himself about how well he's coping with his issues, but he has no illusions about what his issues ARE.

except for the fucking moth.

it's such a perfect, on-the-nose symbol that it almost strains credulity for Declan not to acknowledge it as such, and yet not once does he ever look at the moth and feel the way he did about the black string art exhibit that made him recognize how trapped he felt in his life. "how the moth had beaten against the walls for those first few days, until it had learned it could not escape."

the learned helplessness of it - there's no point fighting to get free, just lie down and accept that this is your life. know what you're allowed to do, and have, and be. know what you're not. a creature of his father's making, confined by his father's hand.

and not even something as eye-catching as a butterfly, no, but a quieter subtler moth with eyes like glittering purple-black marbles that will never get to live a life because Niall made it so.

and the symbolic parallel of the display case and the townhouse. the rigid real world structures that Declan himself requested, because they made him feel more secure than being surrounded by dreams, and that his father provided in a well-meaning but ultimately short-sighted attempt to accommodate him. things that Declan only recognizes much later as the cages that they were.

Declan now regrets demanding his dad make the display case by hand, and when he puts himself through Ronan's bad-feeling security system at the end of the series, the memory it hits him with is inheriting the sterile alexandria townhouse that was exactly what he'd claimed to want.

these are symbols of Declan's complicity, in a manner of speaking, in the whole tragic mess that was his upbringing. at some point, quite early on, Declan's oppression became a joint effort, something that he participated in (because a complete lack of control in the situation would have felt worse). it reminds me of Declan struggling to remember which of them first decided to lie to Matthew about what he was, whether that was his dad's idea or if he'd done that of his own volition, just following pattern.

did dad trap him, or did he build the walls himself? or was it both?

but, for once, none of this is acknowledged by Declan in the text. this artistically-minded chronic overthinker carries the moth around with him - one of the two dreams he will never sell, alongside the gift from Ronan - and he stays so uncritically sentimental about it that he releases it on his wedding day with happy/nostalgic tears in his eyes, and it just boggles my mind.

this is the man who looked at a bunch of string and had the immediate revelation that he was utterly miserable and trapped in a spiderweb of a life precariously balanced on a knife's edge where one wrong move could get him and everyone he loved killed, but he looks at a direct, uncomplicated, one-to-one representation of himself and somehow does not recognize that it is not something to think of fondly. that, yes, it may be a symbol of his father's love for him, but it's not good.

#this goes hand in hand with Niall's characterization 180 in this book #uncritical thought is REQUIRED in order to maintain the rose-tinted view of him as a good father #Declan cannot look at that damn moth with his usual level of discernment and empathy or the whole arc falls apart #Declan Lynch #Niall Lynch #TRC #TDT #tags by me

[professorllayton]

HAPPY SAINT MARK'S EEEEEVVVVEEEEEEEEE

#i. said i would draw smth in time for it and i. did not #teehee #blabs #trc

[flogisto]

that part in bllb where ronan takes adam to the barns to show him the things he's been dreaming to wake the animals up and he chooses a cow to try and wake up bc she reminds him of adam and adam thinks there's nothing special about her

#:') #the raven cycle #trc #adam parrish #ronan lynch #pynch #bllb #blue lily lily blue

[marcelineuntitled]

super on time not late st mark's eve drawing <3 bonus blue:

#the #the crop isn't the exact same on all of them so they don't perfectly line up but it's fine im chill about it #trc #my art #the raven cycle #gansey #richard gansey #gansey fanart #richard gansey fanart #blue sargent #blue sargent fanart #trc fanart #the raven cycle fanart #st marks eve #art #digital art

[dcvina-claires]

i can’t believe not one but two characters said “i know what you are” to ronan in the dream thieves and somehow neither of them were referring to his homosexual tendencies

#the raven cycle #trc #the raven boys #trb #the dream thieves #tdt #blue lily lily blue #bllb #the raven king #trk #ronan lynch #declan lynch #joseph kavinsky