One Thing That I Cannot Deal With At All, That I Have Been Greedily Hoarding Away For A Fic That Is Taking

one thing that i cannot deal with at all, that i have been greedily hoarding away for a fic that is taking too long to write, and that i just cannot contain within myself a moment longer, has to do with Richard Campbell Gansey III’s name and a very particular reason why it’s hilarious, which i refuse to believe is anything other than intentional. Irish people, overall, do not speak much Irish, despite the fact we’re taught it in school for 14 years straight, because of the old 800 years of british colonial oppression. so the really common words that people cannot avoid learning are thus elevated to a certain echelon within the national consciousness - these words have an aura; these words are rife with comedic potential; these words are simplistic as fuck. the best demonstration of this i can think of is the carlsberg irish ad that literally everyone in the country knows backwards for this exact reason. if you watched that, you may have picked up on one of these words which is of particular interest: geansaí, which is pronounced gansey and means sweater. now just try to tell me that maggie stiefvater isn’t aware of this - she just has to be, there are no two ways about it. she heard the word geansaí, one of the most basic and bizarrely integral words of the contemporary irish language, and thought “hey! that sounds strangely posh! like the name of a rich waspy republican family!” and then proceeded to have a laugh at the expense of her readers, despite the fact that the word is irish and the majority of ireland is missing three quarters of the letters in the wasp acronym. “i will give this fancy boy a fancy sounding name" she thought “i shall call him a fancy-sounding irish word for a sweater” is this where his obnoxious taste in clothes comes in??? and like honestly - the first time i read it i could not deal with how funny this was and since then anyone i have mentioned the books to i inevitably end up mentioning his name to them and 110% of the time everyone is like “this fancy american boy’s name is what?” and then they laugh for 800 years because everyone knows about the word geansaí and not only that - it is a cultural in-joke of a word due to its sheer basicness like honestly why is ronan lynch not ripping him to shreds over this - why was niall lynch not ripping him to shreds over this - this is obviously hilarious and amazing

happy halloween feat. the monsters + one (1) loved boy

schrödinger’s raven: when the tumblr aesthetic edit could be either for six of crows, the raven cycle or the all for the game series

Manibus. For your hands. 

accurate color scheme is actually here, I got carried away with aesthetics around adding oil stains point somewhere xD

this is the REAL reason ronan lynch is fluent in latin

WHY WERENT YOU AT EXY PRACTICE