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TRC Readers before The Raven King: Adam Parrish might turn into a fucking magical forest TRC Readers after Greywaren: Adam Parrish fucked a magical forest

ok but i love the fact that ronan chews on his bracelets espically when he’s stressed or fidgety because it’s very relatable and seems like something i would do if i wore bracelets but also i can’t help but think about how many germs are on them and how i probably couldn’t bring myself to put something that dirty in my mouth

Sketch dump been replaying origins again hiiiiiiiiiii I love them soosososososososo much soreeeeeyyyyy

Naema pre grey warden in circle mode! All unfinished not in person mode atm feeling silly

Them being idiots also unfinished they make me wanna cry or whatever

lol at me having this blog that’s a testament to my love of trc and how involved I used to be in it but not having even read mister impossible yet and my whole dash being greywaren rn while my main notes continue to roll in from an mcr post I made about the irish crowd’s disdain for the queen when I’ve never had an mcr phase

also someone letting me know that using the name “the new Fenian” went nowhere - what a weird dead end to just sprinkle in there

CDTH SPOILERS will tag also but just so you’re warned

The use of the word Fenian in CDTH is so jarring to me. Like I’m sure she’s trying to invoke Fenian in the sense of a member of the Irish mythological Fianna ? But like... it’s unavoidably political as a word ?

I could delve into a better explanation of this but I’m currently in a doctor’s waiting room so have this Wikipedia explanation of the term.

Being associated with Boudicca as an organisation makes it weirder that it’s being used and isn’t political to me. (There are probably a host of reasons why Boudicca as a figure could also complicate this further, but I just mean in the barest sense of it being a shady dangerous group, not that they appear to be even remotely paramilitary in nature, which also adds to the weirdness)

I mean lbr here is a man who must have memories of being from Belfast during the Troubles as evidenced by his shared past with Niall discussed in Chapter 64:

And calls himself the New Fenian apolitically ? As a henchman of this group ?? So odd.

I mean the term even has specific American history too.

I just don’t think any of the reasoning behind this will touch upon any of the connotations/history of this in itself - I mean that’s absolutely not the point of CDTH, nor do I particularly think it should be. So just... why ? Is it just that it sounds like a cool rebel name ? If so that surely would be shrouded in the actual historical rebellion it’s linked to ? Being from Belfast when Niall would have been there, there is no way he’d be ignorant of the word or immune to its connotations, he wouldn’t use it without those being considerations, and I don’t know why he’d particularly want to in this context regardless of political leaning. Therefore: very strange.

Like generally when people are talking about the Fianna even you wouldn’t say “Fionn mac Cumhaill was a Fenian” you’d say he was a leader of the Fianna? Diarmuid Ua Duibhne - solider or member of the Fianna. Calling them Fenian would be weird. It’s still an extremely recognisable term today.

Anyway this is my off the cuff rambling as a confused Irish reader.

ugh I might have to read these books - the reincarnation greywaren thing I’m seeing mentions of has me 👀 about reincarnation and shapeshifting in Irish mythology and my brain is ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️

re: these tags - Ronan is a v common Irish name but the name lore? I have always thought it could be rich for examining Ronan as a dreamer who is the son of a dreamer & a dream.

Here’s a lil copy & paste job from Wikipedia on the name lore in question:

“The name is derived from a very old legend, which tells the story of a mother seal who is warned never to stray too close to the land. When the seal is swept ashore by a huge wave, she becomes trapped in a human form, known as a "Selkie" or "seal maiden". Although she lives as the wife of a fisherman and bears him children, known as "ronans" or "little seals", she never quite loses her "sea-longing". Eventually she finds the "seal-skin" which the fisherman has hidden and slips back into the ocean. However, she can't forget her husband and children and can be seen swimming close to the shore, keeping a watchful and loving eye on the

guys it’s just so I mean swap out selkie with dreaming/aurora and it’s just so

guys why is her name mór no one is called mór it literally means big

many dreamers one greywaren bc there’s only ever been one greywaren over and over again there’s only ever been one the word exists bc of ronan for ronan there’s only one one of a kind yet he chooses over and over again to be apart of the many to be human

‘The Soldier’

HELLO EVERYONE I JUST FINISHED THE RAVEN KING( from the Raven Cycle) AND BOY DO I HAVE QUESTIONS

The thing is that I enjoyed the series but I need to solve these doubts of mine to really decided whether or not I really loved it ( also this is going to be a whole lot of basic stuff for you but I am very stupid don't judge me please )

1. WHAT WAS GLENDOWER FOR???? Are you telling me that the magical ley line decided to save poor little Gansey only to make him obsess over something useless??? I'm not even mad that the king was dead , the problem was that finding him didn't solve ANYTHING, nothing in the tomb or on the way to it gave the guys ANY new idea or solution for the situation they were in. And I'm sorry but that is just straight up cruel because it means that Gansey life revolved around a wild goose chase for SO long, in his place I would have been unbelievably frustrated

2. What was Noah's role? Towards the end of the book , when calla and Maura offered to help him pass (?) , he refused , saying that it wasn't time yet. What did he have to do? Why wait? In the end , he goes back and whispers the thing about Glendower to young Gansey and then he goes away and why was it so important that he did it during Gansey's second death? If time is a circle for a spirit he could have gone back any moment, no? I don't get it

+Also about point one I was wondering , maybe getting Gansey to look for Glendower was the only way to get the gang together but no , I'm pretty sure it wasn't, Gansey could have been sent to look for Glendower's daughter ( I don't remember her name lol) , who was weird as fuck but at least she was alive and actually useful and the gang would have still come together

3. At the end of the book Gansey is alive but he is different, he is now bits and pieces that the ley line put together to form a human and how does that work? it can't just be left like this I NEED that to be explored and explained

4. Okay last thing, what did the three women with blue's face and red hands symbolize? I get that they weren't super relevant to the plot and were most definitely a metaphor for something, but my head is really small and I have no idea what they were for

Screaming. wailing. incandescent with unintelligible emotion about greywaren

light following dark

when ur bf almost breaks up w you while ur a comatose but he’s too in love to let u go so he comes and visits u every day instead and then he goes scrying and tries to find ur dream like state and when he finds u he is terrified of ur true form but when he realizes it it’s you he laughs and cries in relief

Gansey was caught off guard by adamandronan one single time and said never again will I not be in the know, from now on I'll be two steps ahead of your relationship at all times

if gansey is not there for a pynch milestone did it really happen

“Ronan Lynch lived with every sort of secret. His first secret was himself.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME???? The meaning this has now we know

woke up in a cold sweat thinking about how adam is the boy from ronan’s recurring childhood dream and ronan is the boy adam thought he saw in the grocery store who made him want to go to aglionby even though neither of them knew each other yet. they were literally soulmates. spending their lives trying to find their other half. im inconsolable

Adam after giving Ronan the watch back : I can’t come back, I can’t see him again. 

Adam days(?) later: Hi again so disregard what I was saying before. I drove to Connecticut to find Chainsaw because I couldn’t stop thinking about how happy she (I) would be to see you. Anyways I’m here to scry into an unknowable dangerous void looking for you. Later we should teach Chainsaw to bite me on command, it can be like a date.