#greywaren spoilers

[wexpyke]

still thinking about how declan told ronan “be dangerous” and then declan, a man who has spent his entire life perfecting the bland & boring act, who has always tried to be invisible to stay safe, to protect his family, went into a notoriously dangerous black market and committed mass murder

[saintdri]

Greywaren print I did for the owlcrate box. Happy release day!

[adamprrishcycle]

I support everything adam parrish does. Even the weird shit like sacrificing himself to a magic forest, scamming people for fake psychic readings even though he is in fact psychic and falling in love with an ancient, sentient horror who is stuck inside the body of an irish-american catholic teenager with a shaved head

[yeehawdickthree]

if Blue Sargent is half tree-person and Ronan Lynch is a sentient forest does that make them kin? Tree cousins? Forest family?

[galamerapple]

if gansey is not there for a pynch milestone did it really happen

[tedcruzisthezodiackiller]

The Dream Thieves / Greywaren

[shitboxcar]

It’s generally overlooked because of all the Greywarenness of greywaren but That One adam monologue in greywaren could kill a victorian child (me. It kills me.)

Are you kidding me. My son😭😭😭 20 different gut wrenching quotes after one another oh it burns

[wut-a-duckie]

the raven boys (2012) / greywaren (2022)

[prevalent-masters]

Other people have said it already but I love how to anyone who’s only read TDT Adam is Just Some Guy and he’s completely batshit. He’s lying about everything. He collects depressed gay people. He doesn’t answer a text. He rides for eight hours on a motorcycle he doesn’t know how to control listening to sociology notes. He’s faking tarot readings. He’s scrying in basements. He’s tracking beetle activity in Cambridge. He hates Declan. He’s breaking up with his boyfriend’s soulless body. He’s driving to Connecticut to find his boyfriend’s unconscious pet raven. He hates himself. He is obsessed with money. He’s a mechanic. He has a Virginia accent. No he doesn’t. He’s an asshole. He will literally lose himself in the sea of unconsciousness to vibe with the energy of his otherworldly boyfriend. He is polite to the evil entity that wants to kill him. Every time he’s alone he tries to talk himself out of loving Ronan and it never works. He has a secret job with the American government. Without taking his eyes off the sky he takes the ring and puts it on. Why is Ronan obsessed with this guy.

[queenhelenblackthorn]

Declan and Gansey were really trying to get an otherworldly being to finish high school 😭

[stringcage]

thinking about how adam is the first one out of the main four to be revealed as some sort of supernatural above-human-being and by the end of the whole thing he's actually the most normal one of them just by virtue of not being a tree in any way shape or form

[the-great-kraken]

thinking about god taking seven days to make the earth and the lynch brothers taking seven days to become friends again. thinking about ronan's snake tattoo and the snake from eden. thinking about adam parrish's name. thinking about matthew being the only lynch to share his name with a saint. thinking about "maybe there were two gods in this church."

[alexiaugustin]

wishing specifically them the absolute best christmas as brothers in law this year. hope they’re always two seconds away from killing each other over dinner fr🙏🏻

[ungovernable]

im so normal about all of these

[squash1]

currently obsessing over the dreamer trilogy being an extended metaphor for maggie’s chronic illness/chronic illness in general. maggie’s body was unable to make cortisol — a substance necessary for life. a lack of cortisol causes extreme fatigue — a clear parallel to a dreamer or dream being alseep because of a lack of ley energy. maggie got sick while writing the raven king and as a result she wasn’t able to create what she needed to. in greywaren, when the ley line shuts down, ronan is unable to create what he needs to. like maggie, ronan’s identity is centered around creating — it is the thing that sustains him (if he doesn’t create, the nightwash will kill him). ronan ends up literally stuck in his own brain, in this liminal space between being alive & human or being dead & otherworldly. he is aware that life is continuing — in fact there are many moments where ronan desperately wants to wake up, to come back to reality but cannot because without the ley line he cannot exist as he was. in many ways this is what having a chronic illness is like; it is watching life continue without you, an unwilling observer to all that you cannot have.

while looking back at the tdt dedications i reread the mister impossible dedication that says: “to the magicians who woke me from my thousand-year slumber.” to me this seems like a direct parallel between maggie’s illness and dreamers being asleep and ultimately the ability to wake from that sleep with help from other people. in greywaren, ronan finally wakes up after both choosing to exist not knowing what his life will look like, and after hennessy tattoos one of the strongest sweetmetals onto his arm. sweetmetals in this instance signify medication or treatment of some kind. sweetmetals are not a permanent fix. they do not last forever, they’re expensive and hard to acquire but they functionally match the ley line — the life force you are born with. in maggie’s case, she is woken from her sleep by doctors who are able to supplement what her body cannot produce.

what i find extremely interesting is the connection art/creating/dreaming has especially in the context of illness. it’s incredibly circular. sweetmetals are usually art pieces of some kind — they don’t have to be masterpieces, they just have to mean something to someone — and they are able to sustain dreams (or in ronan’s case a dreamer/dream). which means in a moment where ronan is not able to create, it is another person’s creation that saves him. when used as a metaphor for medicine/treatment you get this message of the interconnectedness of human lives; the way we all rely on one another for survival. maggie survives because there are people who have found treatments that work. ronan survives because someone created ink that functions as a sweetmental, and someone else stole it for him, and someone else decorated him with it for his protection. they give this to him so he can continue to live & create and hopefully help someone else with his creations, just like maggie is able to help all of us by continuing to write and create.

[muslimronanlynch]

something undeniably sexy about ronan who was unhappily stuck in paradise/eden, but is now able to leave that place and live a human life because of a snake scale tattoo