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ronan, the wonderhead, strikes again. it’s always six o’clock! it’s always 6:21!

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my friend is reading the raven king for the very first time which means they’re experiencing the question of schrödinger’s gansey for the very first time. they have proposed never reading trk so he will never die. what a proposal.

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jo march / roy kent

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noah czerny & beth march

more than a tragedy.

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article title clickbait for the gangsey —

blue:

gansey:

henry:

adam:

ronan:

noah:

bonus, gray man:

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on humans & earth & interconnection & the one reflecting the many & everything beautiful

[the dream thieves by maggie stiefvater / unknown / “hymn 35” joe pug / the good place / pale blue dot / stone butch blues by leslie feinberg / unknown / māori whakataukī / “somos el barco” pete seeger / everything everywhere all at once]

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adam&ronan

(they’re in love)

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my new brain worm is thinking about how the irish meaning of ronan is “little seal” which at first glance is unimportant, until you learn that the name comes from the irish mythology about selkies.

in the specific legend that the name “ronan” comes from, a seal is warned not to get too close to land. when the seal is washed ashore by a wave she becomes trapped in human form after a fisherman, and soon to be her husband, hides her seal-skin. she builds a life with the fisherman — having children, known as “ronans”/“little seals” — but longs to return to the sea, longs to be able to freely transform between seal and human. she eventually finds her seal-skin and returns to the sea but keeps a watchful eye on her beloved children and husband.

this name is undeniably perfect for ronan. the selkie myth is his dreaming, his otherworldliness, in another universe. the selkie people are not just seals or just humans, they are both — just like ronan. the journey of the selkie — being trapped, not entirely unhappily on land but longing for something different, something more true to her, and ultimately finding a way back to the sea — is so perfectly ronan. ronan doesn’t return to his sea — or, he does, but only temporarily, only to see what his sweetmetal sea could feel like, what going back to greywaren’s world would be like — but he finds new power, new control and ends his own entrapment in the waking world not by leaving completely but through gained knowledge, vulnerability, and honesty.

“he belonged in both those worlds.

he belonged in neither.”

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better than i could have said it @justsuchsmallhurts

you ever think about how gansey’s first & second destiny was blue — the page of cups — and how his third and final destiny was death.

hell of a three.

hell of a prophesy.

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bread & puppet’s cheap art manifesto is essentially just the summary, the point, the idea of the dreamer trilogy.

art is inside of the world. art is green trees. art wakes up sleepers.

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you ever think about how gansey’s first & second destiny was blue — the page of cups — and how his third and final destiny was death.

hell of a three.

hell of a prophesy.

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yes, i am thinking of adam parrish. i am thinking about adam’s last name being something holy, a place composed of people bonded to the same entity — parish — or something smelling of rot and decay, the total death and loss of something — perish.

and i’m thinking how very adam parrish this dichotomy is. and how it’s not one or the other really, it’s both/and. how only adam could take something rotten and decaying, something hopeless and sacrifice himself to stitch it back together — find a community, something worth praying to in all the ugliness.

adam — a name meaning both from earth’s mud and humanity itself.

he is alive because he bleeds.

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the concept of a web weave is such a ganseyism. i see him in everything.

like yes please let me connect the red thread of fate through every piece of media, every human creation i love and cherish.

it’s so incredibly gansey i can’t stand it.

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the dreamer trilogy contents as michael dumontier & neil farber books:

it was all very good.

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the raven cycle contents as michael dumontier & neil farber books:

that’s all there is.

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this is ronan and declan.

hope that makes sense

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reading extremely loud and incredibly close (absolutely devastating, highly recommend) and i can’t stop thinking about this passage in connection to the dreamer trilogy/maggie stiefvater lore:

i don’t know how i know this (i know it is in some respect true although i may be misremembering details) but i remember maggie talking about how one day she was driving to some mundane place — the sort of place you go everyday, the sort of drive you don’t even think about because it’s become second nature — in one of her unusual, maggie-like cars and coming toward her on the other side of the road is her same exact car, and driving that car is a person that looks, from a distance, an awful lot like her. and in my recollection she was so shaken in this moment — essentially having this intense feeling of seeing herself duplicated, another version of her driving around her life — that she turned around and went home. and that this experience is what inspired the dreamer trilogy.

the idea of a doppelgänger, or a twinned self, is so embedded in the dreamer trilogy so knowing this origin story makes it all the more interesting to me. in mythology a doppelgänger is often a bad omen, a bringer of bad luck, like an evil twin, but that’s not really the case in real life or tdt. in the case of hennessy and jordan, niall and the new fenian, mór and aurora, they are all literal copies of one another — a face, a body copy and pasted. the pairs are mirrors of each other living parallel lives — in many ways more different from one another than similar. at least one of them is constantly wondering, am i the imposter? have you gotten it more right than i have?

declan and ronan are mirrors — constantly forced to recognize their father in one another and themselves. and this — the moment when ronan first sees the new fenian and thinks is that me? — feels more the like universal human experience than the true, exact copies do. that moment is the experience of maggie seeing someone with her car and changing course, turning the mundane to the extraordinary. it’s a wake up call. it’s a nudge from the universe.

it’s the moments of recognizing ourselves in others, others recognizing themselves in us. of walking around the world looking like your mother, your father, your sister, your brother, and every stranger you’ve never met.