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I write for other fandoms, but this blog is for TRC/dreamer trilogy, and my main is @aurumdalseni. I’m just here for a good time, write some stuff, scream about some stuff, occasionally draw stuff. If I miss a tag somewhere, please let me know.
Why I’m here: Look, I love TRC and the dreamer trilogy, Gansey and Declan Lynch, Gangsey friend/ship dynamics, and generally screaming about all of the above.
Why I’m sometimes not here: An incredible wife, a full time job, writing an original novel, executive dysfunction and a dash of anxiety. I’m sorry in advance for occasional disappearances. x_x
Though I dip my toes into making art, I’m primarily a writer and, in case you’re new here, an absolute mutlishipper and rarepair enthusiast. I embody “be the fic you want to see in the world” or something like that. Which means that if a pairing or plot catches me in a deathgrip, you’re bound to see something written here eventually. (Ask me about my “““oneshots”““)
Current projects: Dreamer!Declan, NaNoWriMo original fiction, and whatever you lovely people want to send to my inbox. Messages brighten my day always.
General navigation: Blog header has most of the pertinent information, like where to find my writing. (I’m sorry in advance, I don’t always keep up with the writing index, but you can find my writing in my writing tag.) I do post some things on AO3, but just about everything starts here and lives here. There’s a drop-down with my most used tags. If you’re looking for things on the more n/s/f/w side, I do most of that on another blog, and whatever of that ends up over here will be properly tagged.
Note: I love this blog, and I really don’t want it to be flagged because I’m doing the responsible thing and calling out the after dark stuff. Please know that I will use notsfw as the tag, both here and on the other blog. If you don’t want to see that content, please absolutely block that tag. There is a very similar pinned post on that blog as well.
If there’s something you want to ask, something I need to add a tag to, or you just want to drop in to say hello and talk about TRC/TDT, feel free to send something to my inbox.
hey so was anybody gonna tell me that the raven boys is one of the best contemporary fantasy novels of the twenty-first century and an insane study on the cycles of abuse and the mindset of rich teenage boys and class divides or was i just gonna have to figure this out on my own
Spring cleaning at the Barns is kind of a combination of geocaching, those really big candles that reveal shiny treasures when they melt, and real life survival horror video game. What’s that thing that’s been in the corner collecting dust since Matthew was crawling? Oh, no big deal, just an umbrella you can’t open because there are teeth on the inside that start gnashing when the umbrella gets wet. Hey, Declan swept under the couch and found a mood ring Ronan dreamt for him when he was six because he wanted to know exactly when it was okay to approach him for a hug. As the shadows get longer in the house, the cider Aurora used to warm up for them on chilly autumn nights makes its way into mugs with splashes of whiskey from a bottle that never goes empty. The Lynch brothers collapse mentally and physically exhausted in the sitting room they’d build blanket forts in as children, surrounded by treasures and horrors, and sleep a dreamless sleep.
(greywaren spoilers tw) RIP to people who didnt like the book but Ronan being actually an eternal extra dimentional being who could only look at the human world through little windows and yearned and crave to be there bc it found humans beautiful and interesting and spending the first chapters on his pov remembering that he was human he had brothers and friends and that he loved being human and being in the human world even if it hurt sometimes and the feelings were too much bc it was better than the endless void he was otherwise IS JUST FUCKING TASTYYYYY WHY DO WE NOT TALK MORE ABOUT THIS TF ITS SO FUCKING GOOD
"Niall Lynch was handsome and charismatic and rich and mysterious, and one day, he was dragged from his charcoal-gray BMW and beaten to death with a tire iron. It was a Wednesday. On Thursday, his son Ronan found his body in the driveway."
Ugh I rarely use dark color schemes so this one gave me a hard time! I'll keep practicing because I'd like to draw more horror/spooky art
people looovee reducing adam and gansey’s relationship to just the repugnant argument while completely failing to mention come on adam please we’ll make it work. you’d come with. you could come stay at monmouth for the night. he’s a genius. what do you think i’ll see if he dies? he didn’t know whether he wanted to save gansey or be gansey. some days gansey wished he could be him because adam was so very real and true in a way gansey couldn’t ever seem to be. adam felt like he had helped a bird hatch from an egg. who has he had to love him? ever? only gansey ever seemed to catch him at it. searching for the only pair of eyes in the room that mattered — where was gansey? i do miss the romans gansey said just to see adam smirk which he did. thank god we’re not fighting thank god we’re not fighting thank god we’re not fighting. treason adam said because he knew it would please gansey and he saw that it did. if adam was stupidly about his pride gansey was stupid about adam. hey, tiger. i should call gansey. adam’s body shook in silent convulsions of laughter. adam looked more like himself than he had in ages and gansey silently vowed to do whatever it took to keep him that way. i’m glad we’re not fighting it was stupid for it to go on so long. gansey wasn’t like anyone else and suddenly adam wasn’t sure if he wanted him to be. you were smart to figure it out. you marvelous creature. his fallible king. gansey, his best friend, his stupid and kind and marvelous best friend.
the raven cycle is hilarious because blue and gansey are living in a coming of age romcom and adam and ronan are living in a supernatural horror film and then when they all hang out it immediately turns into an 80s treasure hunting brotherhood flick. and then they go their separate ways and adam and ronan immediately start battling the horrors again while blue and gansey eat yogurt
thinking about early books blue being bummed that she’s perpetually outside of the easy friendship that the guys have after hearing them refer to each other with last names, and then trk ronan consistently calling her "sargent"…bronan I really am fond of you
Maggie couldnt have had Declan help save Matthew from Kavinsky in the dream thieves because he would have just straight up shot Kavinsky, no dramatic dream fight necessary.
I started reading The Raven Cycle about a week ago and goshhhh, I'm in awe 😭 I got into it because of all the beautiful fanarts I've been seeing for a while now... I needed to contribute one as well. One of many more to come, most likely. I love them!!! They're so fun to draw!!
I'm only finishing the second book so please don't spoil it for me 🫢
