an exhaustive look at ronan lynch and religion
greywaren / howl’s moving castle / fantasia / jan švankmajer
i wish i had never learned that the dreamer trilogy was meant to be an adult story set years after trc with a more personal and less apocalyptic plot but maggie couldn't publish it unless it stayed YA. facts that make you go "art is dead question mark?"
mr robot // mister impossible
the dream thieves / call down the hawk
Maggie saying tdt was pitched as an adult series of a much smaller scope set years later w no apocalypse or moderators …… crying cos that sounds soooo good … what could have been …….
[gansey voice] a thousand blasphemies against me! i apologize for becoming cross when a corporeal god manifesting as my human best friend wouldn’t wear a tie correctly to school. of course it didn’t want to wear a tie! the poetry is in the circumstance. it cannot be tied to this earthly realm……… it did however crash my ca-
greywaren / howl’s moving castle / fantasia / jan švankmajer
Adam seeing Ronan for the first time / Ronan seeing Adam for the first time
The Raven Boys / Call Down the Hawk
Literally sooooo funny that Hennessy was like "why do you want that boring ass bitch I hate you" and then immediately latched onto Declan's narrative foil
hennessy and carmen apparently still going strong four years later is the FUNNIEST shit. first, pour one out for my carlianessy dreams. gone but never forgotten. second, they DO fuck post GW and it’s a sexy time, but they are the absolute messiest most toxic couple to come out immediately out of the book i believe this in my soul. they get better but not for months. hennessy stays behind in boston for a week instead of going to the barns and jordan is like “hmm you’re staying back to provide emotional support to carmen of all people? strange choice but at least you’re making more friends” (ronan: 🥺 you aren’t coming back immediately so that we can never ever again be out of sight and sleep off everything together for the next 48 hours?). there is no emotional support being administered. hennessy tries for half an hour to be REAL nice because she’s like i’m literally fixed (???) but then they fight so bitterly it is a wonder the whole place doesn’t collapse immediately. they would have 100% made out after that, but carmen needs to get blood transfusions. yes this is happening in the hospital. hennessy paints the most dynamic, alive, STUNNING portraits of carmen every other week but also she burns them at the slightest hint of an argument. carmen has gotten really into german opera and weaponises it frequently. there is one (1) functional car between them all right now and that’s the BMW which they commandeer from ronan (hennessy to ronan as he gets smaller in the rearview mirror: ecoterrorise THAT asshole. read up on emission statistics!) there is a polycule, maybe even two separate but overlapping polycules, involved but also hennessy and carmen have their own special brand of terrible girlfriends relationship going on. jordan keeps walking on hennessy cutting off the sleeves of carmen’s linen suits and having to walk back out. they fight about the whole liliana thing and the zeds thing and nathan and rhiannon and mommy issues too, but nothing ever comes close to the argument they have about bonsai tree upkeep. (the argument is recreational for hennessy strangely academic for carmen). they get better but it isn’t really thanks to each other until at least year three post-GW
greywaren / opal / cdth / cdth / cdth / greywaren / greywaren / greywaren / greywaren /greywaren
obsessed with maggie trying to do a soft clean ending for a series beloved by both herself and readers alike but this story she’s woven is so strange and fuckеd up that the simplicity of the ending she chose for it feels more eerie and meta than a more dare i say Realistic one would’ve been
(the raven king/greywaren)
can’t stop thinking about how ronan-the-non-human-entity’s list of human people he loves most is (maybe) slowly becoming less and less fully human