adam-ronan
Bay. they/them.i know when i'm awake and when i'm asleep.I track #useradamronan and follow back from softjace
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So! I decided to change my main blog into my book blog (it will be basically the same as what’s on this blog, especially once all of the shadowhunters is out of the queue)
softjace → andminyard
so, I did it… I’ll probably still post some shadowhunters (at least until the queue runs out) but this blog will mostly be books/aesthetic! I’m going to change my icon, too
People really are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows. And maybe it’s a good thing, the way we never stop surprising each other.
BOOKS READ IN 2016: simon vs the homosapiens agenda
Oh fuck could you please make a full text post about Andrew and Aaron's ways of protecting and caring for each other because those tags were fucking beautiful and I might be crying but I'm always ready for more
With TRC, there’s a lot of discussion about how Gansey and his friends speak different love languages, which makes it difficult for them to realize just how much they care for each other? And I think that’s honestly what happens with Andrew and Aaron, because they are both so broken in their own ways, and they both have such twisted concepts of what it means to love and to protect someone. They’re such different views, and both so off-center from the traditional concept of “love”, that it really just doesn’t translate to either of them.
(And I think this probably makes things incredibly difficult for Nicky as their guardian, because while Nicky’s parents are terrible people, he seems to have grown up at least well-adjusted and with some concept of love, even if that wasn’t an unconditional love.)
I think the main problem in the Minyards’ relationship is that they don’t understand each other’s motivations. Aaron does not believe that Andrew is protecting him, because Aaron doesn’t have it in his head that protection is not immediate. For Aaron, protecting his brother means swinging an Exy stick at Drake and putting an immediate end to what was causing Andrew pain. For Aaron, protecting Katelyn is switching rooms with Neil to keep Katelyn out of Andrew’s reach. There is an action, and there is a reaction, and there is not space between the two.
That’s not how Andrew works. That’s not how Andrew’s life has conditioned him to work.
For Andrew, protecting Aaron means finding out that he has a real family and writing a letter that says fuck you I don’t want to know you even though he really, really does, because that means that Aaron is going to be put in Drake’s sights. It means leaving behind Cass Spear and what he thought was his one real chance at having a family and a home, to keep Aaron safe. It means breaking into some place and waiting around for the police to pick him up so that he was thrown in juvie before anyone could arrange a surprise visit between Aaron and his brother’s nightmares.
Protecting Aaron, for Andrew, is plotting for months on how to get rid of Tilda. It’s not immediately stepping between the two of them. It’s not calling the police or getting Luther Hemmick involved, because those are both things that Andrew knows he can’t do–because he grows up with the one cop he knows being close friends with his abuser, and because he told Luther what was happening to him and Luther dismissed him, so why would he trust Luther with Aaron, who he thinks is so much more important? Protecting Aaron from Tilda means making goddamn sure that Tilda will never lay a hand on him again, that Tilda’s drugs will not remain in Aaron’s system, that her influence will not ruin Aaron’s life.
Protecting Aaron, for Andrew, is taking Matt to Columbia when Andrew sees that he’s faltering in his sobriety, and making sure that Matt ends up clean for real so that Aaron, a recovering addict, is not around some kind of influence that will break him and send him back to that hole he was in when Andrew found him.
None of this is as clear cut as a blow to the head. Andrew functions in the details and the planning when it comes to Aaron. He does the clear cut stuff enough with Nicky and Kevin–beating the shit out of those guys who hurt Nicky and giving immediate retaliation to anyone who lays a hand on Kevin–that I think Aaron believes that’s what Andrew’s protection means. And if that’s what he thinks, then it’s not a surprise that he doesn’t believe that Andrew has done anything that he’s done to protect him. It’s not a surprise that Aaron doesn’t understand Andrew’s reaction to him in Columbia, or that he’s shocked by the viciousness of Andrew’s retaliation against Allison when she punches Aaron.
I think Aaron’s well within his rights to never forgive Andrew for what happened with Tilda, and I wouldn’t hold it against him if he didn’t–but I do think that he does start to understand, later on, especially after the trial, that Andrew hasn’t done these things to be cruel to Aaron or to hurt him; he’s done them because Andrew has been protecting him more dearly than he protects himself their whole lives–years before they’d even met.
Welcome to HeyTigerNet!
Our accepted members are:
@czarrish (kate, she/her)
@aulesbian (lisla, she/her)
@hufflevpuff (cata, she/her)
@adam-ronan (bay, he/they)
@dreamofwasps (cheyenne, she/her or they/them)
@lesbianparrish (zara, she/her or they/them)
@comfy-spot (alex, she/her)
@thefalloutkid (pau or paula)
If you’re not up here, it’s because we didn’t get your typeform application! We accepted all of the lovely kids who applied and we are so excited to have everyone here!
I’ll have our first group challenge up shortly!
the foxes + sorting, the cousins
Aaron Minyard • Ravenclaw Nicky Hemmick • Gryffindor Andrew Minyard • Hufflepuff
the foxes + sorting, the ladies
Renee Walker • Hufflepuff Allison Reynolds • Ravenclaw Dan Wilds • Gryffindor
the foxes + sorting, the boys
Matt Boyd • Gryffindor Kevin Day • Ravenclaw Neil Josten • Slytherin
the foxes aesthetics ☆ Dan Wilds, #1 ☆ offensive dealer
“Dan’s good people, but she’ll work you to the bone.”
the foxes aesthetics ☆ Kevin Day, #2 ☆ striker
“I’m going to be the deadliest piece on the board”
the foxes aesthetics ☆ Andrew Minyard, #3 ☆ goalkeeper
“I am not your answer, and you sure as fuck aren’t mine.”
the foxes aesthetics ☆ Matt Boyd, #4 ☆ backliner
“Unless he wants to stay with you, you’d better bring Neil back to us when you’re done with all your questions.”
the foxes aesthetics ☆ Aaron Minyard, #5 ☆ backliner
“I’m going to pretend I don’t know you.”
the foxes aesthetics ☆ Seth Gordon, #6 ☆ striker
“I would say ‘fuck you freak’ but then you wouldn’t know which one of you I was talking to.”
the foxes aesthetics ☆ Allison Reynolds, #7 ☆ defensive dealer
“If we got what we deserved, we wouldn’t be foxes.”
♠ #RonanLynch & #AdamParrish 🍃 #sorrynotsorry for my current obsession.
the foxes aesthetics ☆ Nicky Hemmick, #8 ☆ backliner
“Family means something different to us because it has to. It’s not about blood. It’s not even about who we like.”
His noble and oblivious and optimistic friend was slowly opening his eyes and seeing the world for what it was, and it was filthy, and violent, and profane, and unfair. Adam had always thought that was what he wanted — for Gansey to know. But now he wasn’t sure.
— Blue Lily, Lily Blue, Maggie Stiefvater
all for the game + hogwarts houses: andrew minyard | hufflepuff
andrew had nearly killed four men for assaulting nicky and would have broken allison’s neck for hitting aaron, but when it came to crimes against his own person andrew couldn’t care less.
“Adam closed his eyes for a minute. Gansey could see his irises moving underneath the thin skin of his eyelids, a dreamer awake.”
If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.
HeyTigerNet is a new network for fans of Adam Parrish and Richard Gansey III from The Raven Cycle. Members can expect discussion with like-minded Adansey shippers, a place to post fanmade content about the boys, a group chat for discussion, and bi-weekly content challenges.
The first round of member sign-ups begins today (February 3rd) and will end on February 11th.
How to Join
fill out this application
reblog this post (likes are bookmarks)
follow kate and lisla
be friendly and active
love adam/gansey together and individually
Members will be posted on February 12th!
Ari and Dante being cute and flirty please? I live for your drawings
i don’t know why my brain interpreted cute and flirty as cuddly. im so sorry fdhjf. (why do i give them such ugly sweaters all the time. they wouldn’t eveN NEED SWEATERS IN TEXAS)
favourite characters: jean moreau
“One: the number of drafts in which Jean does not commit suicide.” (by @korakos x)
“Anyone who is Kami’s is mine,” Jared said, trying to explain, trying to convince him. “I felt … a shadow of what she felt, sometimes, but that shadow was the best thing in my life. Everyone she cares about, I care about. It’s not for you, or even for her. It’s because you all gave me a gift, without even knowing you did. She taught me love could be a clean thing, by loving you.”
ten books/series: [4/10] The Lynburn Legacy by Sarah Rees Brennan
