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all I think about is ronan lynch canon dog motif

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and if I said Lynch brothers angst and Black brothers angst are two sides of the same angsty sibling coin, what then?

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I can’t get over Kaz asking Inej if his tie was straight before meeting her parents. As if that would make a difference.

Sure, if I had just learned that my teenage daughter works for and sort of dates one of the most dangerous criminals in town I would look at him and think "Nice tie. And so straight. I guess it's okay then."

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i would HATE to work in the white house during bartlet's administration. what if i turn a corner and have to bear witness to whatever the hell is going on between josh and donna ?

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I think abt the lynch brothers and the black brothers for too long and I get nauseous. I'm not kidding.

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so many adam parrish thoughts can't even articulate them just know i'm thinking them

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Underage Ronan Lynch Stole Declan’s ID To Get His Massive Back Tattoo And I Can (Circumstantially) Prove It.

one question i’ve been dying to know the answer to is how in the hell ronan, while still underage, got an actual artist to give him a massive, extremely intricate full back tattoo.

we know the following:

he didn’t dream the tattoo on to himself, because a) he couldn’t control his dreaming at the time when he got it, b) it’s mentioned in TDT that part of ronan’s motivation for getting it was to see if the pain was actually as bad as people said, and c) it’s mentioned in greywaren that the sensation of hennessy tattooing his arm is familiar, like when he got his back done.

so obviously it was done with a real needle, by a (presumably human) artist. but ronan was underage when he got the tattoo. occam’s razor says the simplest solution is most often the correct one, and in this case, it’s that ronan used a fake/stolen ID.

he couldn’t have forged one himself because as we mentioned, he couldn’t control his dreaming at this point. he could’ve bought one from someone else. but again, the simplest solution is most often the correct one. why would ronan have bothered tracking down someone to make him a fake and then paid them money for it if his older brother’s real ID was sitting right there?

therefore, the simplest explanation is: ronan stole declan’s ID to get the tattoo.

it’s stated that ronan was also motivated to get the tattoo by the knowledge that declan wouldn’t like it. it stands to reason that he’d go an extra step to spite him by stealing his ID to do it. it would’ve worked too, because declan and ronan are described as looking so similar.

hold on june, you say, how do we know declan was 18 when ronan got the tattoo?

i’m so glad you asked! based on the following analysis of the TRC timeline, declan had to have been 18 when ronan got the tattoo.

it’s stated in TDT that niall died a few weeks after ronan and gansey started at aglionby. in TDT (summer 2012, right after they finished junior year), it’s noted that gansey had been in henrietta nearly two years, implying start of his senior year marks two years which means he started there as a sophomore in fall of 2010. that means niall died a few weeks later, like october 2010 at the latest. which means that ronan was a sophomore who likely hadn’t yet turned 16, considering his birthday is november 1st. declan was referred to as underage in niall’s will; this makes sense as it would’ve been the fall of his junior year, so he would’ve been at most 17 when niall died.

it’s stated in TDT (again, summer 2012) that ronan got the tattoo “a few months” before, so december 2011 at the absolute earliest, i’d think, probably more like february-march 2012. this would’ve about 1.25 years after niall’s death. therefore, if declan was 17 when niall died, he would’ve been 18 when ronan got the tattoo.

even if declan was 16 when niall died in october 2010, this naturally means he was 17 in october of 2011. in order for him to be 18 by graduation in may of 2012, he would’ve had to turn 18 at the very latest in the spring of 2012, in other words, exactly when ronan got his tattoo.

*takes a bow*

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can we get donna tartt on hot ones

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these fucking books. I see ronan noah gansey blue and adam everywhere now. i cant stop "oh thats so adam coded" shoot me out back like a sick horse

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I'm not even gonna lie to you, Kaz Brekker is the one that made me finally understand how the stock market works

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fake idgafer I see your brother living just because you loved him

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the noble and most cunty house of slutty waists

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I find so fucking funny that John Lennon was legally blind and he literally for years picked blindness over looking bad in glasses. no wonder he was bisexual everyone just looked the same

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I love how no matter what's happening in any of our lives we're all always missing the trc characters, most especially declan lynch.

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"I liked Declan in The Dreamer Trilogy because he finally got his redemption arc"

Redemption from WHAT

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i don't play about ronsey btw. they're deeply important to me as platonic soulmates in ways beyond comprehension. i will always be sad about not having even more of them in trc.

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Hey. Time travel in raven cycle. Declan goes back and he gets to use the tire iron