#hennessy

[stressedoatmeal]

I fear ya’ll do not understand Ronan and Adam like I do. Granted I read the entirety of td3 within 16 hours and it feels mostly like a fever dream (I genuinely had to reread a good portion of Greywarren to believe sweetmeatles were actually a thing) so take everything with a grain of salt. but the decisions those two made? Understandable. Not right but not wrong. They’re kids. They’re kids who are both mentally unwell. They have never understood what proper communication is. It was NEVER taught to either of them. Ronan abandoning Adam for Bryde? That’s fucked but sounds like what a kid fresh out of high school would do. The ecoterrorism? Honestly dudes a literal god who doesn’t know he’s a god. He’s gonna do some bad stuff. Adam abandoning Ronan when Ronan goes to sleep? Shit man that’s messed up.. but also Adam tried and tried again to help Ronan and states in almost every book of trc that he is not going to babysit the dude. Ronan has to understand the consequences. Also god forbid a traumatized 19/20 year old try and figure shit out and do the wrong thing. Ronan is 19 in call down the hawk. Adam is also 19. The shit I did at 19 was fucked. I don’t understand why people are putting these characters, who we love for how realistic and three dimensional they are, on this moral pedestal. They’re gonna do bad things. Teenagers do bad things. I don’t know how long it’s been since you guys were teenagers/young adults but it seems like it’s been a while.

Not trying to make people mad with this and I’m totally fine with criticism to what I say, Speak your truth. I’ve just seen so many ppl ripping the trilogy apart due to these things in particular and I’m like ? Sounds like normal teenage decisions (or as normal as it can be considering the nature of the story)

[philameangrey]

[laniepalooza]

they are on an fbi watchlist :3

[hairymoths]

We saw you across the bar, and we really hate your vibe, now fuck off

[fatty-food]

Henny cinnamon rolls (via Instagram)

[moonsrov]

are people in the raven cycle fandom still alive i want to talk about those losers with people

[littlemsteee]

We can give you a time 😈🎥

[dykenav]

also in the webinar ms basically confirmed that the creation of hennessy was her being like “what if there was a girl ronan, would readers still put up with someone that horrible if it was a girl” and said the answer was no they would not. and that right there is my thirteenth reason

[julamari]

the dreamers are tired of your shit, bryde

[ppaniniart]

[tyrianlynch]

Ronan and Hennessy and “I’ve been alone a long time” and “please don’t let me be the only one” and “why do you even care?” “I don’t know I just do” and “don’t let me fall too hard lynch” and “she’s a dreamer, like me” and “no one else gets it, this is what we live with” and “he’ll be drawn to you more than to me” and “I’m not a doll Ronan lynch” and “Hennessy. He had forgotten he could know people. And how he knew her!” and “they didn’t say sorry they didn’t have to” and “if I told you I was going to help you get out of this, would you believe me?” “you’re one of the very few people I would” and “now they were just two ex dreamers made fearless by life” and “don’t be only human just now Ronan lynch”

[squash1]

the dreamer trilogy makes my artist heart very happy. it talks about art in metaphor — dreaming being a metaphor for creating art and dream objects being a metaphor for artwork — but it also mixes in so much art history AND has literal artists, jordan and hennessy, creating, for the first time, work that is Theirs. making, not in an effort to copy great work, but to create great work themselves, for themselves. one of the Points to me is about who artistic creation — in any form — is for and Why we continue to create. it’s declan collecting art, art that makes him want to goddamn cry, and putting it in his attic, just for him, just because. it’s ronan loving light, creating balls of light that just float around, for no other reason than his love of light. it’s hennessy’s “of fucking course” waking up the mouse. it’s jordan painting declan. it’s adam’s dreamt watch. it’s the mirrors that show your honest self. it’s all of it, all of it.

there’s something to be said about the fairy markets, these exclusive, somewhat dangerous, dream black markets, being a metaphor or representation for the institutions of the art world. because that really is what it’s like in so many ways. the fairy markets are taking something magical, pure, and creative — dreamt objects that are made by dreamers simply for the joy and horror of creating — and turning it into a commodity, something that is inaccessible to most and must be hidden away behind barriers and armed guards.

the dreamer trilogy says so much about the value of art and art objects. their ability to reflect their creator. the necessity of art objects not just for artists but for other makers, for everyday people, for the world and for our culture.

I LOVE ART, I LOVE THESE BOOKS!

[reneewalkersknives]

none of u ppl would get it but Hennessy is genuinely one of the best characters of the entire trc/tdt universe. she is tormented her entire life by an eldritch horror that is really just her trauma. the only ppl she is capable of loving are the physical manifestations of the parts of herself she tore out due to said trauma. her dreaming is a chronic illness that has rendered her too exhausted to try. she is an artist that only paints forgeries. she herself is a forgery of a prodigy. everyday she is pretending to be herself. she loves her mother she hates her mother she doesn’t remember her mother she is just like her mother. she could have been anything she wanted. she was made only to die.

[stringcage]

I still don't forgive you guys for not playing with this line like a chew toy with me

[drawfulneutral]

workplace bullying <3

[stressedoatmeal]

I literally don’t know where else to put this. Trc is my favorite series of all time and I just read the dreamer trilogy after like 4 years of knowing of its existence. My thoughts are consumed. I reread trc in a week and the dreamer trilogy within 18 hours. I am currently reading the raven boys again. Send help.