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so i’ve been reading up on my irish mythology for a possible post-trk fic i have a chapter written of but am still v much developing and i was thinking conflict etc. and it struck me that while the fandom sees all those sleeping cows at the barns and thinks about ronan lynch’s soft farmer potential, when you think about magic + cows in irish myth, cows are literally the whole cause of the epic mythological war that dominates the ulster cycle - the táin bó cúailnge (which translates to the cattle raid of cooley). like fantastical/magical cows are the helen of troy of irish legends i stg and in my mind niall lynch, being the obnoxiously showy fucker that he was, who we know was knowledgable when it came to irish folklore as he passed it on to his sons, is the sort of guy i can see creating this dream herd of cows and deciding to dream himself his own super magical bulls, pulling donn cúailnge and finnbhennach out of his dreams and back into life aka the two bulls queen meadhbh & king ailill mac máta of connacht throw down over.  like i now think of these cows ronan has grazing, and how the gangsey view them in this idyllic way, and then the complete chaos their existence could actually instigate