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In all seriousness if this website collapses you can find me in 20 years in the youtube comment sections of Bruse springteen videos.

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marauders & the raven boys! my favorite codependent friendgroups!

we truly need to be talking more about the raven boys/ marauders parallels… like i’ve seen a few people mention it in passing but there is so much more there than surface level similarities u don’t get it like i do!!!! so this is me taking matters into my own hands and talking about it :) let’s look at the main four boys of each and discuss! 

(if u haven’t read the raven cycle yet do NOT read this yes i am talking to u specifically u know who u are… go read trc then come back okay ty)

james & gansey

born into comfort, into wealth, into high society. both come from intact families and neither has ever gone without love. 

incredibly naturally charismatic. they collect interesting people to themselves and then refuse to let go. they are loyal and trusting to a fault.

glasses :)

hopeless romantics but also really bad at romance… james was so annoying that lily basically hated him for years. gansey accidentally called blue a prostitute the first time they talked. and yet despite fumbling so hard, they both landed girls so far out of their league? unfair.

a bit pretentious. maybe even more than a bit. neither of them is genuinely uppity or snooty, but they know how to put their airs to use when they must.

smart without hardly even trying. school comes easy to them, but both love a challenge. james canonically spends a lot of time practicing intense, extracurricular magic. gansey tries to solve a thousand year old myth. jocks with special interests!!

also just. jocks. 

dumb as shit at times. accidentally hurt the people close to them kind of a lot, without even trying to. 

neither really knows who they are when they are alone.

the first time we meet each of them, we already know they die young <3

sirius & ronan

also born into wealth, but neither fits into it the way gansey and james do.

messy families. and not just for the drama; sirius has the whole incest thing, and ronan has the whole his-mom-was-actually-literally-dreamt-up-by-his-dad thing, which is like… messy.

they hate their brother(s), but would literally die for them.

they’d actually die for any of their friends.

both look tough and scary (and can be so when necessary), but are also just like emo nerds. they know latin for some reason.

reckless, chaotic. the type to act first and think later. will charge headlong into danger for the fun of it.

the dog thing! sirius is a literal dog at times. ronan was called gansey’s dog by kavinsky, and he neither denies nor resents the implications of that. even gansey admits kavinsky had a point there.

jealous with their friendships. they don’t want to have to share the people they love.

had massive crushes/ were like fully in love with their respective boyfriends for so long before they ever made a move. both thought they were subtle about it. literally everybody knew.

remus & adam

physically they are like… the exact same to me. too tall, too lanky, covered with freckles and scars. neither has any idea how attractive they really are.

rough childhoods, like, physically. remus dealt with transformations every month, and adam had to deal with his father’s anger every day.

the outsider. they come from a different world than the other boys, and are absolutely conscious of that fact. they care a lot more about these differences than the rest of their friends do. 

stubborn. they don’t want to accept help, they might not even know how to. vulnerability is dangerous, and admitting weakness is like admitting failure.

probably the smartest, but because they have to actually work for it. they cannot afford to fall behind. where their friends coast or simply don’t care, they work their asses off. they could thrive academically, but their circumstances make it a lot harder for them to do so.

always tired. too many bills to pay all the time.

both are pretty much literal forces of nature. remus is controlled by the moon. adam offers himself over to the control of the forest.

they each think they are unloveable. literally all their friends have had a crush on them at some point. 

peter & noah

NO IM NOT DOING THIS ONE NOT TO MY DEAREST DARLING DEAD NOAH. well… i’m kinda doing it. i don’t want to talk too much about them personality wise, bc where i am partial to a fanon peter-never-betrays-them-and-is-the-funniest-and-most-diva-of-them-all interpretation, canonically i hate him and he sucks.

there definitely can be some character similarities between them… both are furthest from the group, in a way. peter was called once more of a follower than a friend of the rest of them. noah, noah was more when he was alive. the whole ghost thing makes it hard for him to fit in at times :(

HOWEVER what i DO really want to talk about is how noah and peter are direct narrative foils !!!!!! this is my favorite thing! look at it this way:

james died because of peter’s selfishness. gansey lived because of noah’s sacrifice. 

really, the whole plot of both series is directly influenced by peter and noah. if not for peter, james wouldn’t have died. harry would never have to be known as the boy who lived. if not for noah, gansey would have died the first time. he would have stayed dead the second time.

noah, to me, is what peter could have been. we don’t know what made peter betray his closest friends; but i think it must have been out of desire for glory or honor. i mean, he was a gryffindor, but he sure as hell wasn’t brave. perhaps he got sick of living in the shadow of his friends. he can’t have betrayed them simply because he was forced to do so; he was the one who actively brought voldemort back. why would he do so, if not to try and prove that he was greater than james, than sirius, than remus? he had something he wanted to prove.

however, noah? noah accepts his non-life in the shadows. we know it hurts him, being less than when he was alive, and while he might be jealous of gansey, ronan, and adam at times, he never resents them. he makes the ultimate sacrifice when he chooses to give himself up for gansey. he quietly slipped from time, and received the opposite of honor and glory. his every memory was forgotten. but, for love of his friends, he did it anyways. he didn’t need anything, besides the knowledge that the rest of them could live. he is the best of them all.

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wow okay! i said a lot but also not nearly enough. i could talk for so long about all these boys… also! fanon peter get behind me idc! i know i went on this whole rant about canon peter but let it be known that i can and i will reject canon whenever i like! so to me, noah is alive and well and peter is just like him. i miss them both. i miss them all!

(last little note! though there are so many similarities between each of the boys, blue is not comparable to any of the girls… she’s all her own person, she’s all blue. i think she’d like that)

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the ultimate ronan lynch playlist:

this is going to be long, because I’m here with the evidence!!

-From Eden, Hozier

‘babe, there’s something lonesome about you’

‘innocence died screaming, honey ask me i should know / i slithered here from eden just to sit outside your door’

-Georgia, Phoebe Bridgers

‘he never lies, or picks up his phone’

-My Father’s House, Bruce Springsteen

‘My father's house shines hard and bright It stands like a beacon calling me in the night Calling and calling, so cold and alone Shining 'cross this dark highway where our sins lie unatoned’

-Fall Asleep, Big Joanie

‘If I ever fall asleep now, would you Wake me from the dream that's left me Shaking now for weeks?’

-Storms, Wolf Alice

‘I'm full well aware That I'm a slave to my demons And my demons are dead Excuses to stay, and my demon's my friend’

-Go Home, Julien Baker her entire discography is so incredibly ronan coded

‘I went walking again, go out and forget To tell any of my friends where I'm going I'm just drunk, the side of the road, in a ditch When you find me, I want to go home, I'm sick’

-Last Call, Elliot Smith

‘But I’ll go to the service and I’ll go to pray And I’ll sing the praises of my maker’s name Like I was as good as she made me And I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me’

-Visions of a Life, Wolf Alice

‘I dream of death, its violent breath I'm caught with my maker in step Fear of crashing and not coming back’

-Fireman, Jawbreaker

‘If you could hear the dreams I've had, my dear They would give you nightmares for a week But you're not here and I can never sleep’

-Accident Prone, Jawbreaker (Julien Baker has an insane cover of this on YouTube)

‘A near miss or a close call?  I keep a room at the hospital I scratch my accidents into the wall I couldn't wait to breathe your breath I cut in line, I bled to death.  I got to you, there was nothing left’

-You’re Gonna Go Far, Noah Kahan

‘So, pack up your car, put a hand on your heart Say whatever you feel, be wherever you are We ain't angry at you, love You're the greatest thing we've lost’

-Minor Threat, Minor Threat

‘We're not the first, I hope we're not the last 'Cause I know we're all heading for that adult crash The time is so little, the time belongs to us Why is everybody in such a fucking rush?’ real

-Even, Julien Baker

‘Isn't that what you want For me to be miserable like you? Well, brother, you're about to get your wish Putting my fist through the plaster in the bathroom of a Motel 6 I must have pictured it all a thousand times I swear to God I think I'm gonna die’

My Ronan Lynch playlist actually has 83 songs on it, picking a few was torturous but this took too long already…

there will almost certainly be a part 2 or an Adam version, apologies in advance

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ronan lynch is The Character of all time. his dream is to be a farmer. he's attending a top high school. he's gay. he once saw his dad fight the devil and never mentioned it ever again. he has two brothers. one of them has no internal organs. he's catholic. he knows Celtic jigs off by heart. hes a single father. he once crashed his best friends car and created a new one. he's Irish. he street-races. he didn't notice his friend was dead. he lives in a warehouse. he's hopelessly in love with his friend. he has a pet bird.

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teenage Ruby as I imagine her in my fic! Might have to add colour at some point…

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hiii guess who hasnt written in a week :)

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It was late afternoon, but the sun was still warm and Clancy was sporting a pair of heart-shaped sunglasses; they were his sister Lulu's. No one could accuse Clancy Crew of vanity - he always wore exactly what he felt like wearing. Didn't matter how ridiculous he looked - it was one of the things that Ruby liked most about him.

messy light/shade noodling and a favourite quote !!!!!!!!! this scene has always been so distinctive in my mind.. oh to sit on the roof of my californian super-home in 1973 with bestie ..

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probably my favourite pin of all time

I didn’t make this, credit to sophiagia20 on Pinterest!

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Ronan helping Adam get up (and then getting all worked up bc THEIR HANDS JUST TOUCHED) is such a bollywood hero core move.

yk what I'm saying!!

so much bollywood romance vibes

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Shout out to aroace women in stem, we really do be suffering

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I need to finish writing this chapter so bad and I keep putting if off so I’m posting here to hold myself accountable… if I haven’t updated by the end of tomorrow, pls yell at me!!

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The passage of time is never faster than the week between posting a chapter of a fic and the day when I’m supposed to post the next one.

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thinking about ronan makes me feel sick (complimentary)

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What do you want, Ronan?

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Touch

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love how ronan, in his disbelieving musings about whether or not he’s really back at the barns for the first time, just casually drops that adam’s floor is a place he sleeps, sometimes. jesus christ man you’re pining worse than a christmas tree.

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Does anyone have any jily fic recs with a brown/desi James (that aren’t tcoptp)? I’ve been spoiled for any other marauder fics ever since I read the nothing left (but some blood where the body fell) series (which also introduced me to my favourite song, as you might be able to tell by the username). Preferably not canon compliant because that is a level of crying that I have not gone through since atyd.

also if you haven’t read nothing left but some blood where the body fell, GO READ IT!!