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Cowboys are frequently secretly fond of each other

Inspired by eights by @thesehandsfic, so so incredibly good

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eights -> by thesehands Adam Parrish/Ronan Lynch | E | 30k

Something hard glittered in Adam’s eyes. “Most of us have to work for a living.” “Yeah, and any regular guy without either a death wish or a hard-on for fame and glory would get a job running the checkout line at the Piggly Wiggly,” Ronan retorted. “Give me a fucking break, man.”

or: in the summer of 1985, ronan attends eight rodeos. at one of them, he meets a bull rider named adam.

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ronannnnn. virgin w a born to ride tramp stamp i know adam felt that 🥵

the fact he's a virgin is so funny too it's like that man knows what he wants and he knows he's eventually gonna get it there is NO DOUBT in his mind

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I’ve reread go running so many times at this point but even more than that I’ve scrolled straight to the end notes of the last chapter to reread “it’s truly inevitable someone is going to love you” because first and foremost you really just,,, distill something so important about Adam Parrish’s arc in that one sentence (and continue to write the truest Adam Parrish I’ve seen in fic)— but beyond the Adam Parrish of it all, without #traumadumping in your mentions I’ll just say that that sentence caught me at a time where I really needed it. Like damn I came here to read porn but AO3 user thesehands has changed me and I got good porn out of it!!! Bravo!!!

this is so crazy to me the thought that people are rereading my fic is bananas 😭 this is so nice to hear & i really appreciate you taking the time to share with me. an essential adam component is that he eventually, inevitably learn that he is not unknowable or unlovable... which is something that translates pretty nicely to real life and everything that comes along with it. this is so thoughtful thank you again 🫶 and all that said i am glad you also enjoyed the porn lol

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omg you have a fic blog, i finished your un-magnificent series a few days ago and absolutely loved it, it's a new favorite, your characterizations of andrew and neil were so spot on and the progression of their relationship was just ah! so good. i think the little traces you gave of what happened to neil at edgar allen worked really well and and made it more unsettling/horrifying than if you'd gave more explicit detail. neil's refusal to think about kevin at all in his own pov, even when watching the olympics, and the reveal that andrew knew who he was (from the beginning i think) both made me feel crazy!!!! its so so good

if you take fic recs, you should read does the dog die in the end? by still mad about petra, i think both of you have a similar characterization of andrew, and your fic reminded me a lot of that one (which is another one of my favorites)

omg this is so sweet thank you so much!! a great hobby of mine is stripping canon for parts in order to write my perverted little hallmark movies. tysm for the rec & for being so kind 🫶

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eights -> by thesehands Adam Parrish/Ronan Lynch | E | 30k

Something hard glittered in Adam’s eyes. “Most of us have to work for a living.” “Yeah, and any regular guy without either a death wish or a hard-on for fame and glory would get a job running the checkout line at the Piggly Wiggly,” Ronan retorted. “Give me a fucking break, man.”

or: in the summer of 1985, ronan attends eight rodeos. at one of them, he meets a bull rider named adam.

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eights -> by thesehands Adam Parrish/Ronan Lynch | E | 30k

Something hard glittered in Adam’s eyes. “Most of us have to work for a living.” “Yeah, and any regular guy without either a death wish or a hard-on for fame and glory would get a job running the checkout line at the Piggly Wiggly,” Ronan retorted. “Give me a fucking break, man.”

or: in the summer of 1985, ronan attends eight rodeos. at one of them, he meets a bull rider named adam.

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Maggie once live-Tweeted a re-read of the Raven Cycle and a kind soul saved it all.

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nsfw, collared, mullet-ed and sweaty 30-ish yo Ronan I made for lucinda @thesehandsfic, inspired by buckle

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Feel so strongly about pynch d/s dynamic that I get a shame boner when I enjoy a sub Adam fic…

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hi! I have no earthly idea if you’re a fan of the band Sleep Token, but their new album just came out two days ago and while they’re really good, their new ones called ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Provider’ both feel so so Pynch to me (and specifically the way you write them <3)

I was listening to it all while I read your newest fic and the connections were THERE and it was great

All this to say, I love your fics so much, I think you’d enjoy those songs, and thank you for sharing your writing because it is FANTASTIC

okay funny you should mention them cus i have a story about this band. i've been in the hospital a couple of times this year for health reasons we won't get into on this blog, and one time i was in the ER three times in one week, so i had an IV in my left arm the first night and my right arm the second. on the third night my nurse was this huge lumberjack dude with a beard and he was like "this is going to hurt" and it did hurt so bad because i was bruised from the other two IVs i'd already had and i was crying and he was trying to distract me so he got out his phone and put a sleep token song on and just set it on the bed and was like "okay picture this. it's 2019. the world as we know it is about to end. i'm at a sleep token concert." and regaled me with this inane story about the last thing he did before covid shutdown, which was attend a sleep token concert. probably the most effective way anyone's ever gotten me to calm down. so long story short yes i am familiar.

anyway thank you for being so kind, hope you enjoyed my anecdote and hope you're excited for the project that's in active development right now!

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horse girl ronan lynch. do you see my vision

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go running -> by thesehands ronan lynch/adam parrish | E | complete

“Sure, but since you’re back so soon,” Ronan said carefully, like he was approaching a startled animal, “You have time to fuck me again before you leave.” “Before you leave,” Adam corrected, pointedly, annoyed that he was still wearing his sweaty running clothes. He should be done with his shower by now, but the imposition of Ronan’s half-naked presence in his apartment had once again thrown off his entire routine. “You were supposed to be gone already.”

or: most of the time, ronan takes his crucifix off when they have sex. sometimes, he doesn't. sometimes, adam thinks he might be ready for a relationship. most of the time, he doesn’t.

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thread -> by thesehands Adam Parrish/Ronan Lynch | E | 10k | Complete

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Heyy I really love your work, I was wondering what are your thoughts on Adam and gansey's friendship in canon?

i think it’s good they met & they both helped each other become better people/they wouldn’t have been able to complete the quest without each other, but they were constantly in an exhausting state of near or active conflict. gansey wasn’t able to look at adam without pity, and adam wasn’t able to look at gansey without envy. it was forever doomed to fail. it’s heavily implied they don’t talk anymore in td3, which i think is appropriate. people hated that she busted up the gangsey in that series but i think it made sense—people grow up. adam wanted to keep as little of henrietta as possible—ronan was already a big exception. i do think it’s interesting that adam essentially tries to make himself into gansey with his outfits and his made up backstory and his putting on airs—it would be cute if it wasn’t kind of disturbing. he’s such a mess. okay that’s all :)

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hii was wondering whether u would share your thoughts on ronsey, specifically whether ronan was ever attracted to gansey and if not, why. i know you’ve mentioned before that gansey filled the dominant role in the space b/w niall’s death and adam’s introduction, so im curious to hear more of your opinions on their dynamic & why it’s so different to adamronan

also buckle was brilliant!! u are immensely talented and i second that anon who said they’d read any original fiction u put out :^)

hi super fun question tysm for asking

first things first i believe ronsey is a purely nonsexual dynamic. i do not think gansey thought of ronan in that way & i do not think ronan was interested in taking his relationship with gansey to that level. that said, and what you are referring to me saying in the past, is that i do think gansey did his best to fill the dominant role in ronan’s life following the death of niall (mostly because ronan needed him to). declan attempts to do this, but he is not successful, because ronan was not raised to respect, trust, or even like declan (and vice versa). so when niall dies, ronan is suddenly homeless & an orphan & subject to declan’s punitive, misguided rule. he doesn’t want to listen to declan, but that leaves him effectively stranded, without a guiding influence. gansey is a leader, but i do not think he is necessarily domineering in a way that completely suits ronan’s needs. ronan was possessive of him because in a way he was the only thing ronan really had left from before niall’s death that wasn’t ruined or altered somehow. his home, his siblings, his mother, all were tarnished or permanently changed by that loss. gansey, however, remembers ronan from before, and believes in ronan, and understands that ronan sometimes needs to be reined in. i think it was somewhat unhealthily codependent. i also think gansey was not suited to really take charge. he’s bossy, sure, and he throws his weight around because he knows ronan will listen to him because ronan really just wants to be told what to do, but he is not really dominant enough for ronan. they were, in my opinion, evenly yoked. i believe their relationship as it exists in td3 is appropriate—one of my most controversial yet staunchly held opinions is that a ronan after “growing out of” gansey is a healthier ronan. i don’t think ronan was ever particularly interested in him sexually, i think he was woefully lost and mourning a part of him that gansey remembers. it’s observed by some other characters that gansey is “working on” ronan or that he’s the only thing that’s good about ronan because he tries to modify ronan’s behavior. i do think ronan believed gansey was one of the few good things left and he wanted to hang onto that. but to quote the man himself: That’s Not What Gansey Is To Me. for example the convenience store scene is just ronan being a homosexual. gansey’s a handsome boy and we know that and ronan’s not blind. i will also acknowledge that he also thinks the innuendo about him being subservient to gansey is funny at times, and he and gansey engage in it too (this is why i didn’t want to have a baby with you) but i think that’s more of a case of Boys Will Be Boys than latent sexual attraction. people make a lot of innuendo about ronan in the canon text and he responds to a lot of it in a direct way that seems to encourage it, or at the least play along with it—i think he does this to make people uncomfortable. the person who makes the most assumptions about ronan and gansey is kavinsky, and kavinsky was spitefully jealous of gansey because he misinterpreted their dynamic & wanted ronan for himself. one theory i see put forward a lot is that gansey rejected ronan or that it was one sided which is why ronan “moved on” to adam—i believe this is incorrect, but everyone can think what they want. ronan thinks gansey’s cute cus everyone thinks gansey’s cute cus gansey IS cute—ronan desperately needs someone who will match his intensity and fulfill his needs and he knew that could never be gansey. they’re still important to each other, gansey is quite literally essential to ronan for about a year of his life, but that doesn’t always translate to sex.

tl;dr i don’t think their dynamic is sexual, i don’t think it had the potential to be, i don’t think either of them wanted it to be. they both had other things going on. that’s not what gansey is to him.

hope this helps, sorry if it’s disappointing, and tysm for being so kind about my fic! 🥹🫶

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Love the new fic! Got the alert while out of town visiting friends and couldn't help but surreptitiously read a little bit on my phone while I should've been giving my friends my undivided attention. You said in an answer to another question that you think aged-up Pynch removed from canon would be a little different, and that this is what you are usually examining in your work. I would love to hear you expand on this if you're up for it!

yayyyyyy i'm glad you enjoyed!

& yes i'm happy to do that. broad and sweeping disclaimer: this is all my opinion, and my own character building methods, etc. i'm not saying this is the only correct interpretation or approach. this is just the way i do it/see it. i use the royal "you" and "we". to each their own process, to each their own truth.

i've briefly discussed this wrt ronan as a character, but i'll attempt to be brief. the thing about adam and ronan is that they are products of their environment and the scenarios they find themselves in and the men they were raised by. they are both very much defined by magic & their respective relationships with it/the way it impacts their lives & their bodies & their relationships. so if you're taking away the magic, and the quest, and all of that, they become different people in a way.

there's some extrapolation required if you move away from a canon setting -- i think the challenge is making sure they're recognizable as themselves while still setting aside some larger facets of their characters. i refer to these as the "essential components". friends & beta readers can attest that i do very often reference the "essential ronan components".

with adam, i think that if he didn't meet ronan until later in life, it's understood that he was never friends with gansey. before gansey strong-armed his way into adam's life, adam was content to keep his head down and never make friends--because he had friends, it changed him as a person. he learned that he was capable of having and making friends; he learned that it was possible for people to like him and want him around. if you don't learn these things, and if you're already prone to isolation, i think it makes sense you would be a lonely adult. i'll never write an adam that didn't grow up poor, i'll never write an adam that didn't suffer the abuse of his father, i'll never write an adam that's well adjusted and capable of simply accepting other people or relationships or his own feelings at face value. those things are essential to his character--he becomes the man that he is because of those things. one thing i have found is that no matter where i try to put him, adam will always eventually, inevitably become a better version of himself through the healing power of friendship. i think he has to learn that he is capable of love, relationships, and everything that comes along with that. i think if you pay attention to some of his tendencies in canon it's not hard to picture an older, different, lonelier adam who's constantly climbing the walls of his mind because he's trapped in a prison of his own making.

with ronan, i believe if you're taking away his magic, it is essential there is some other wound. an essential ronan component is his great sense of alienation, further compounded by whatever trauma he has suffered. i think declan is also an essential ronan component--it's rare for declan to be entirely absent from my fic because i think his very existence impacts ronan quite significantly. additionally, i think ronan's mental health issues are core tenets of his character--his depression, his anger, his propensity for violence, his suicidal tendencies, his mommy/daddy issues, his massive fear of abandonment and inadequacy. i believe the fact ronan was abandoned by his biological mother is huge. if maggie had continued to explore him beyond this reveal at the end of td3, it would've been a big deal. another thing is that ronan is really genuinely a good, kind person--he is shown many times behaving in a compassionate, empathetic manner. this aren't qualities/courtesies he shares with everyone--he is selfish and arrogant and impolite, but he is usually well-intentioned, and capable of great thoughtfulness and tenderness. i don't believe there is any significant amount of real malice/hatred in him--most of his emotional responses are learned defense mechanisms. his more genial traits are things i think appear in him more frequently/easily when his magic is removed, but that is not always the case. i think it's important his father is dead, i think it's important his mother didn't want him, i think it's important he has no education and no real ambition, i think it's important there is something huge and horrible and all-consuming gnawing away at his insides at all times. it's dealer's choice as to what you want that to be, but if you're taking away the dreaming, you have to decide where you want that wound to originate. ronan would not be who he is if he was not fundamentally damaged in some way--in my opinion you can't ctrl+alt+delete his trauma, because then he just simply isn't ronan; he would've had no reason to become the character we know.

all that said, everybody can do whatever they want forever. i'm not a doctor. i'm not your boss. this is just the way i approach them.

i've mentioned before & i'll say again that it's never my intention to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any diseases by writing character study, but it IS really fun to remove them from their world and put them somewhere else and accept the challenge of grounding them in their canon selves without having the impact of canon events.