if a character means enough to me i will truly never stop thinking about them. i just retire them into a little back room in my brain and periodically bring them out to stare at them under a little light

The Secret City

This is my first contribution to @50-states-50-pynch-fics

My home state, Tennessee, gets a shout-out at the end of Greywaren, when "Ronan had just returned from a ley line" there, so here's my version of what he might have been doing. For his destination, I picked one of the weirdest places in Tennessee: Oak Ridge, nicknamed the "secret city."

This fic coincides pretty perfectly with Oppenheimer premiering, because the "haunted hotel" in my story is a real place he stayed at during WWII. Why? Well, because the atomic bomb was built in Oak Ridge.

I hope you enjoy the ghostly hijinks in this fic!

(tags below)

Reblogging in honor of the Oscars last weekend!

hey look what i did huh

gimme an au where adam is a classical music major or something at julliard and he worked his ass off to get there, but here’s ronan lynch a fucking prodigy who hates that he’s at julliard and just wants to drop out. typical ronan love at first sight and adam enemies to lovers canon tropes.

watching mstief’s writing the raven cycle webinar and I just want everyone to know that she just explicitly stated that adam was supposed to go full villain in her first draft but changed her mind bc “the worst thing that could happen is they stop being friends”

SHE ALSO JUST SAID GANSEY WAS LOOSELY INSPIRED BY TINTIN?

omg she was talking about writing unpleasant characters and gave this “pet possum paradox” metaphor about how if you see a dead possum on the road you likely won’t care about it as much as if the possum had a collar on it bc that would mean it was someone’s pet and the only difference that makes it sad is that someone loved it. And she essentially said that the only reason ronan worked as a character and didn’t make readers instantly hate him is bc he was essentially gansey’s pet possum. yeah I’m fine

[maggie talking about the dream thieves, specifically referring to gansey and adam]: “this is the one where the boys are bitches”

other highlights:

do you wanna play outside after work? we could commit arson and look at the moon. Lmk

there'll be dancing in the street!!!!

try 2.0

they were perfect, actually

Fanfic reader's prayer: may my favorite author's hyperfixation on this fandom last longer than mine 🙏

might be bisexual but i'm too busy searching for glendower and reliving my death so idrc about that rn

Ronan and Adam

god i love them

It’s reveal time!!

Works will now show up with their writers’ names on them, so go check them out!

(There was one fic posted totally anonymously, so it still has no writer name.)

This is the end of the exchange. Thanks so much for participating and for your amazing creations!

The “Chainsaw is Ronan’s heart” metaphor goes SO hard and I cannot stop thinking about it. Chainsaw being a fragile baby bird that Ronan has to constantly care for during The Raven Boys, a tiny thing that’s up screaming in the middle of the night. By the Dream Thieves she’s grown, but she’s rarely around during that book. Only in times where Ronan feels at peace—showing his dream plane to his friends, sitting on the floor of Monmouth with Gansey explaining his dreams—or when he’s being particularly vulnerable—giving her to Calla and learning about how to save his mother. By Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Chainsaw is once again a permanent presence, as Ronan has accepted himself and is coming into his own—he’s still hurting, but he’s healing slowly. To the end of the series, where she has a special name for Atom, but shes missing from the finale, missing after Ronan discovers his mother’s body. And in the Dreamer Trilogy, where she’s with Ronan but less of an importance. Where Adam brings her to a sleeping Ronan, and wakes her to see him again.

DO YOU KNOW THIS CHARACTER?