Help I Cannot Get This Casting Of Niall Lynch Out Of My Head - I Know The General Trend Is To Find Some

help I cannot get this casting of Niall Lynch out of my head - I know the general trend is to find some model looking guy with artisanal stubble and a smirky face but my brain has landed in a slightly different direction. I present film director & critic Mark Cousins:

Working-class Catholic Belfast background, raised during The Troubles, voice still has that lilt 

Dark curly hair/stubble/tattoos/general rad dad chic

Also a sensible age to fit

He’s got an all encompassing lust for life and when he talks about his work and how he’s travelled all over the world - he basically sounds like he’s dreamed it all into reality for himself somehow idk man he’s lived his life as a grand and radical adventure and gives off a trc-Lynchian aura

Like just think of him talking about cinema as him talking about dreams - in the line of that Jean Leirens quote “[Cinema creates] a vacuum, which dreams readily fill” - just look at him go 1 + 2 + 3

Sorry but I don’t know how to unsee this and I needed to share. 

Tbh he seems like the absolute opposite of Niall’s problematic streak and 1100% does not seem like he would ever dream himself a romantic partner reliant on his personhood to exist - so apologies @ Mark Cousins but I have aligned you with the hot mess that is Niall Lynch in my mind and now it will never truly leave me, even though I think he’s a massive asshole & find Cousins to be a very Good person. 

(ps here’s a short article he wrote for the guardian about Belfast/representations of Northern Ireland/The Troubles in cinema if you’re in any way interested)

I know you've said before that Niall was probably from Belfast but I'm pretty sure I recall it being stated somewhere in the books something about him being from Roscommon? I mean to be fair I could have dreamt it but I'll try and find where I saw it

I don’t know about whether there may be mention of Roscommon at some point but in the prologue to The Dream Thieves it tells us “Niall Lynch was a braggart poet, a loser musician, a charming bit of hard luck bred in Belfast but born in Cumbria, and Ronan loved him like he loved nothing else.” I generally tend to ignore the Cumbria bit though. People generally do? Idk England doesn’t particularly compel me in relation to the Lynch as “Irish” characters soz - though I’m guessing these links may be developed in regards to the Scottish history/Celtic revival linked with Cumbria? But actually has anyone ever considered a Niall of NI descent raised in Cumbria as opposed to Norn Iron? Like that’s a whole thing u feel can we just - he’s written in a way that cloaks the potential of this entwined identity I feel - I need more of the relevance to make me give this any weight what’s the deal what is up why - also please keep in mind all of tumblr that I am the most perpetually exhausted I have ever been and as someone who never started their work in advance in college and has had issues with sleep generally for over 10 years that’s saying something so be forgiving for any glaring errors of logic I’m trying my goddamn best rn I stg I will be a real human so soon so beautifully soon I can sleep

guys,,, i don’t know how to feel??? andrew sounds like a drunk surfer…

Hey, remember when I said I was back but am still currently a ghost? I’ve actually ended up on a road trip documenting all the road border crossings between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ idk mayn, sometimes that’s just the way of it. (Btw the border is so dumb like oh my god so dumb how does anyone expect to make it a hard border post-Brexit?) Anyway, there are about 275 spots where roads cross from Ireland to NI vs. the 137 land border crossings into the whole entire EU, like people have been living on this island for thousands of years building winding gothic rural roads before that comparatively extremely recent split, so it’s all v finicky and is taking some time to get through. But I should legit be back to the land of consistent wifi & abundant trc shitposting v v soon. Watch this space.

Pairing: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish Rating: Mature Word Count of Chapter: 7,585 Word Count Total: 33,258 Tags: Friends to Lovers, Friends With Benefits, Sex, Mutual Pining, very loosely inspired by Friends and Monica/Chandler, they’re in their twenties in this, Fake/Pretend Relationship, eventually in the later chapters, it’s complicated you shall see, Alternate Universe- No Supernatural Summary: The one where Ronan and Adam have been friends for years and then everything changes one night. It’s all totally meaningless and casual, of course. No feelings involved at all.

start from the beginning

Is it okay to reblog that hp post?

Absolutely, spread the petition! Would be delighted for people to consider Seamus Finnigan more in relation to this tbh