i think my fav exchange in trk was when the gray man says “ive been thinking abt adam parrish and his band of merry men..” and maura was like ‘im p sure the male protagonist of this series is gansey…..’ and the gray man is just like ‘lmao…… we can all have our opinions’
Adam away at college studying at his apartment with friends or something when his punk rock boyfriend shows up in biker boots (I imagine Ronan getting a motorcycle while Adam’s away with the bmw) and a leather jacket with a tattoo peaking out around his neck. and he plops down with the group like “‘sup nerds” and they get chatting and someone asks him where he goes to school and he’s like, “no, I’m a farmer” and they all think it’s a joke and he lets them think it’s a joke until the night wears on and at some point he’s showing everyone photos of the new baby goats he adopted and there’s a close up of the scary-looking ugly one that Opal picked out (she gave it a mohawk and named it Kerah) and it turns out he brought Adam a jar of preserves because he grew too many strawberries and later he shows off the bitchin’ scar he got on his elbow while building a new chicken coop. and everyone’s just like where the hell did you find this guy
loriache said: Look, I fully recognise the futility of our agonised pleas on your plot-deciding capacities, but I have a desperate request: if you do kill gansey. which, who knows, you may not! write a silly au extract where he lives?? for us????? make it as OBVIOUSLY mocking our pain as you want. Just. Please. Give us something to use to pretend.
The only AU I can imagine is a Raven Cycle-Harry Potter AU where the raven gang have all somehow managed to grow up to adulthood and become professors or agitators at Hogwarts. Obviously Adam would be teaching Defense against the Dark Arts because it takes one to know one (smirks Ronan as gamekeeper) and he and Ronan would be the source of much hallway gossip because please and I know you’re all thinking that Gansey would be headmaster but you are mistaken as Blue would be the professor of Divination who has only ever had one vision and it is of a muggle named Gansey who has no magical powers but somehow nonetheless managed to defeat Voldemort in single combat while sitting in an Asda parking lot in his Triumph and driving goggles, without getting his khakis dirty.
Clearly Dumbledore would not be dead in this scenario, merely sleeping, waiting for the gang to come find him so that they could all rise up against the Death Eaters, who in this AU are bored computer programmers from Leeds who are just looking for a bit of damn excitement on the weekends because is this really what anyone thought their twenties would look like?
tl;dr I’m a serious author what’s an au pretend this never happened
i love gansey because he does things in inconvenient or inefficient ways literally just for the #aesthetic. he fills an old leather journal with paper clippings instead of copying down the information in an organized system because it’s cooler. he drives a tiny, shitty, half-broken old car instead of his reliable suv because it’s cooler. he lives in a fucking brick manufacturing warehouse instead of a dorm or apartment because it’s cooler. gansey is actually the most absurd hipster on the planet and i respect him for it.
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@merovingiens (it won’t let me @ you so i’m reblogging it from you instead) i’m literally so angry about the organization of monmouth manufacturing. it’s thousands of square feet and 90% of it is gansey’s bedroom. their floor is covered in a miniature city and dirty clothes and books and sports illustrated swimsuit editions (which like?? gansey those clearly aren’t ronan’s or noah’s what r u doin). they didn’t even own a fucking couch until gansey bought one in an anxiety-induced spending spree. they owned ONE arm chair and that was it, that was all the common space furniture. fuck gansey for making such poor apartment layout choices and fuck ronan and noah for going along with it.
@jane-kerkovich JOHN HUGHES MOVIE VILLAIN. yes. this is gansey’s fashion sense. we’ve defined it at last. i bet he wears sweaters with the sleeves slung over his shoulders. what a tool. i love him. also your url is magnificent.
@heron-childs that’s why they’re perfect for each other. because they choose style over functionality 99% of the time and probably piss off ronan and adam (who are more functionality over style, esp. adam) with it. i love my trashy hipster parents.
@helensgansey that’s his excuse but like. come on. do you actually believe he’ll sell monmouth manufacturing. do you actually believe gansey is emotionally capable of selling that building, given how important it is in his life and how much it represents to him (and how blue wants to move in there which is something i think about every single day of my life). and most importantly, do you actually believe that anyone but gansey would want to buy that piece of garbage.
@bloodravenking richard campbell gansey iii confirmed for the Actual Worst. he also owns a vintage clock (that ronan thinks is ugly as hell) instead of using his phone or watch like any other 17-year-old in the 21st century. i hate him (no i don’t).
Gansey to Ronan: I know you know a lot of songs all the way through, and can do them the same speed and length every time. Because you had to memorize all of those tunes for the Irish music competitions.
I’m living for female athletes telling sexism to fuck off.
Simone Biles goes, “I’m not the next Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps. I’m the first Simone Biles.”
Katie Ledecky is asked if she thinks she’s the future of Olympic swimming and she says, “I’m kind of the present too.” Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte who?
[noah czerny voice] DICKY G! you just missed the CRAZIEST of crazies! ley lines. lightning. whelk. GLENDOWER? dying. ghost. coming here. crashing in your apartment cause [sings] technically i’m deeeeeaaaadddd!!!!