the dreamer trilogy (2019-2022)

do u ever think about how niall lynch was a devilishly handsome son of a bitch who was impossible not to like, naturally commanded the attention of everyone in the room, told stories as easily as breathing, ruled over his own particular corner of the world, didn’t even seem real until you knew him, died facedown on a gravel driveway, and then do you ever think about gansey.

he'd told himself his father was hateful, his mother invisible, the barns dreadful, the dreaming frightful. it had been the only way to bear losing it all.

The Dream Thieves / Greywaren

“i’m so normal about the lynch brothers” i say as i SCREAM AND CRY ABOUT THIS FUCKING LINE

WHY DON’T WE TALK ABOUT THIS MORE !!!!????

the brothers lynch, made from dreams

there's something about Kavinsky's name being Joseph ok

Joseph being the name of Jesus's earthly father, the man who raised him, the one who stepped in to fill the space god left behind

Niall, powerful but distant, absent, and unforthcoming

Kavinsky as the one to step in and teach Ronan about himself and what he (they) can do

not Niall, but Kavinsky

not god, but Joseph

mmmm just something about it idk

shakespeare's 'henry IV' - part I, act III, scene 1

maggie stiefvater's 'the dream thieves'

When Niall’s Tragic Backstory was revealed in greywaren

aurora and niall lynch at the barns

business idea for ronan lynch

the dreamer trilogy smau part 9/?

part 8

how do you give your son that you meticulously handcrafted every characteristic of a tree nut allergy

go declan lynch

i love the inheritances passed down in the lynch family. love of blondes. love of creation. love of dreams. love of hard-edged assholes who know pain too well. love of crime. love of trouble. love of the self. love of each other. love of cars. love of animals. love of trauma. love love love.

no because ronan and declan and matthew showed up to church every sunday. no matter what, they were all there. just to sit together. even when the night before they had literally thrown punches. even when the last thing they wanted was to act civil in a holy environment. even when declan had to drive 2 hours just so he could sit in the same church his father did with his two brothers. because that's what it means to have a sibling.

the lynch brother’s relationship to one another is complicated and made increasingly complicated as they all mature. but at the end of the day declan is the only other person who tells stories just like niall. who knows to say “are you going to be quiet” to get ronan to listen. having a sibling is being known by default. it’s growing up together. it’s adopting your father’s “jesus mary joseph” but adding “fuck” at the end just to make it yours. it’s wanting to both punch your brothers in the face but also wanting to blow up the whole world if either of them is in any danger. it’s sharing a name and a face and a father. and it’s also not being able to share a home or a life for a while. it’s growing up together and growing apart and then growing back into one another.

because sometimes having a sibling just means being able to say:

“i miss him too.”