The Bastard Of The Barrel, Tarot / Art Nouveau Style

the mythology of Ronan Lynch

the impossible return

07/05/24

high-school blues

UPDATE: I FORGOT ABOUT GOGRUG'S TEETH EEEK. this might make it so the post won't show in tags,,,,,,, we'll see

NOTE: i tried to shade it thrice? i think? and ultimately i decided to just keep it like this. if you can't tell, this piece is based on httyd hiccstrid scene hehe

this season is feeding me with fig+gorgug moments!! i love them both ganging up on porter. he did them so dirty

inej using kaz's cane in the middle of a fight and letting kaz use her knives would be pretty neat i think

I like them a normal amount.

We’re haemorrhaging money on the groundskeeper, Jawbone!

Some of my favourite little bits. This is like the first time i fully color them ^.^ it was fun. Took wayy longer than it shouldve LOLL

Adam 🌿

kavinsky's death is actually the closing arc in a great tragedy to me bc his actions throughout the story are mostly just him practically begging for someone to be on his side, to care about him, to even just look at him. his father tried to kill him, his mother is completely uninterested. he can dream himself as many people as he wants, but they will only ever think of him because he made them to do so. the dream pack are just physical manifestations of his desire to not be alone in the world, to have someone, anyone, connected to him. he so desperately tries to draw some sort of emotion out of ronan, good bad or ugly, because the intense similarities they share mean that he's the only person who might be willing to look long enough to see him. and when it doesn't work, when he realizes it can't, that this world is not for him and he is not going to be a part of it in a way that involves anyone else, he decides that everyone is going to look at least this once. they will all see the finale if nothing else. genuinely doomed from the start. and how truly devastating that is in comparison to the core group the story focuses on, characters that even at their lowest and darkest and meanest and absolute worst have others there with them. characters that always have someone looking for them. dying is a boring side of a life that has nothing inside of it.

the raven cycle being about the relentless pursuit of appearing on the outside as you do on the inside, of making yourself understandable or dying trying to be understood, the way the only thing that matters to these kids is to not be misunderstood, misinterpreted or thought to be any worse or better than what they are on their own merit but also having the truest versions of themselves be so deeply intertwined,,, i need to sit down

Something about Greenmantle noticing Adam's potential and ambitions and acknowledging them and complimenting him on them, but still underestimating Adam his abilities, the length he is willing to go to protect his friends