I Have An Extended Headcanon About Ronan Lynchs Taste In Music. I Simply Refuse The Idea That Its All

i have an extended headcanon about ronan lynch’s taste in music. i simply refuse the idea that it’s all abrasive edm trash when we have lines like: 

“Electronic music bled into his awareness, reminding him that his body was actually in Ronan’s car. In this other place, it was easy to tell that the music was the sound of Ronan’s soul. Hungry and prayerful, it whispered of dark places, old places, fire and sex.” - The Raven King

like fuck me up that sounds unreal. 

so i’m thinking that it’s actually populated with avant-garde techno and carnal house tracks and all that aggressive, dreamy goodness: genres that ronan is actually a connoisseur of/anorak for, genres with deep historical ties with lgbt+ culture which ronan knows and feels even more at home because of, genres which the gangsey find inaccessible/repetitive/caustic/weird because they’re just not their thing. 

but they’re ronan’s and he likes it that way. 

so i’m going to start posting hc tracks i think would be on one of ronan lynch’s dream mixtapes. here’s my playlist so far.

(Tracklist under the cut - including songs that aren’t on YouTube and therefore aren’t featured in the link above - tbh i just want to highlight how spot on some of these track titles are for my purposes) 

Vanity - Arca The Man With the Deadly Dreams - Alessandro Adriani Hard - SOPHIE Violence - Andy Stott Insomnia (DANK remix) - Faithless Angry Fiddle - Randomer, Cadans Please - Blanck Mass Sleepless - Andy Stott Mantasy - Michael Mayer Acid Badger - MPIA3 Get Got - Death Grips Crawling on Bruised Knees - Pharmakon What You Do With What You Have - Blawan Cbat - Hudson Mohawke Thievery - Arca Roses - Michael Mayer Come Down to Us - Burial Last Time - Moderat Sick - Wench Orpheus - Pariah Alive - Arca We Share Our Mother’s Health - The Knife ELLE - SOPHIE I Wanna Lay with U, Till the Sun Comes Out - Black Cracker Personal Slave (feat. Charles McCloud) - Honey Dijon Dream - Torus Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith) - Crystal Castles Mask Of Claws - Purient The Fever (Aye Aye) - Death Grips Rival Dealer - Burial Hymn - Arca Silent Treatment - Blanck Mass Dogma - Objekt Mary - HOEK SsSs - SHXCXCHCXSH Warehouse - Boddika Bipp - SOPHIE Drain This Lord - SHXCXCHCXSH Love Inc. - Booka Shade Beatin’ My Dick to the Beat - Gerry Read Mutant - Arca Like A Child (Carl Craig Remix) - Junior Boys Sleep’s Daughter - Lakker Coney Island Cyclone - Rupert Cross Sinner - Arca The Mind is a Terrible Thing - London Modular Alliance Me And The Devil - Gil Scott-Heron Faith Healing - Rupert Cross Reverie - Arca Nightvision (Andy Stott Remix) - BNJM  Mausoleum - Lakker Reborn After the Road - Several Definitions You’ll Simply Never Understand the True Meaning of Sacrifice - Alessandro Adriani My Ears Hurt - Randomer No Rest (Original Mix) - FD, Fracture Horny (Original Mix) - Marco Bailey, Tom Hades Road Force - Discrete Circuit Black Ink - Airhead Bring - Randomer Desafío - Arca Numb - Andy Stott Burial - Archangel The Sun Can’t Compare (Long Version) - Larry Heard Presents Mr. White House of God - DHS All the Things - Traumprinz Tristesse - Kollektiv Turmstrasse  How Will I Copulate? - Star Slinger/Whitney Houston (Moranis Mashup)  Principles of Lust: Sadeness/Find Love/Sadeness (Reprise) - Enigma Boys Latin - Panda Bear Masturjakor (Kink & Neville Watson Remix) - DJ Sprinkles I Come By Night - Shed Aurora - Orphx Speed and Violence - Silent Servant Dormancy Survivors - Lucy & Silent Servant Baptism - Regis

Blue drew away from Adam; he heard her pull herself between the driver’s and passenger’s seats. She sounded dubious. “Is it... blood?” “From what?” Ronan asked. “Maybe not from anything,” Gansey said. “Is it real?” “The rain’s hitting it.” ... “The road is flooded.” Blue said. “It looks like blood, though. And there’s something floating in it. What is that, Gansey? Is it... petals? Blue petals?” There was a heavy silence in the car. “Do you ever feel like things are coming full circle?” Ronan asked in a low voice. - The Raven King, Chapter 61.

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a brave new world; or, why i don’t want the barns to be ronan’s endgame

let me preface this by saying that i absolutely loved the raven king. i stayed up two nights in a row to finish it and haven’t stopped freaking out since. like any other book/media/you name it, it’s not perfect, but overall, i think it was the book we wanted and the book we needed (or at least, it was for me). it was just so much more and so much better than i expected, especially with regard to the relationship between adam and ronan.

however, there is one thing in particular about the book’s implied endgame - or what a large part of fandom perceives as the endgame anyway – that really rubs me the wrong way. i’ve tried to rationalize it, but honestly i’ve accepted that i’m just not fine with it on a personal level, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon, so here’s my two cents: i am really, really not okay with the implication that ronan is going to live at the barns forever, and adam is going to move in with him right after college.

while trk doesn’t really give us any definite answers regarding the future of these characters (which is the way i like it, honestly; more freedom for us to imagine), it feels like we’re supposed to think the ideal ending for ronan is staying at the barns permanently, and most of fandom has latched on to that implication. i’m not here for that– and this is why.

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