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@gibslythe is so nice to share her artwork with us all so I can have a picture to go with this mix. Here’s the poem on AO3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/15484962

↳  Adam lived in an apartment above the St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan’s worship into one downtown block. 

↳  He couldn’t tell if he was letting himself idolize this place or Ronan, and he wasn’t sure there was a difference.

Day 8: Free space!   //   Read days 1-7 here

“Noah?” Ronan asked once he’d managed to open his eyes. He spit dirt out of his mouth and stood on shaky legs. Then they were bounding at each other, knocking together so hard it took the breath out of Ronan’s chest. Ronan hugged Noah until Noah’s feet weren’t on the ground and they were clinging to each other desperately.

“What the fuck is going on?” Ronan asked. He kept one arm around Noah’s back and brought the other up to wipe at wetness on his face that he was refusing to admit was there. “No offense, man, but you’re not my deepest desire,” he laughed wetly.

Noah waved a hand around. “Cabeswater’s energy pulled me in. I’ve been here this whole time.”

Ronan shook his head. “I’ve felt Cabeswater. I’ve used it. I never knew you were here. You couldn’t have been here.”

The trees swayed towards them with a hearty breeze and leaves tumbled over their heads.

“You’ve used it, but you haven’t been back. There’s been so much energy here that the trees started to die. It was killing everything.”

Pynch Week 2018, Day 7: Midnights

The apartment above St. Agnes was not the world’s coziest dwelling: it was small and cramped, the floors unfinished, nails protruding from the ceiling; it was hot in the summer and drafty in the winter. Currently, Adam was diligently plowing through his reading for class, wrapped up in multiple layers and his knitted blanket (compliments of Blue). He refused to think about how his feet were always cold and his nose was running and his fingers were bright red from the chill. It was better than the trailer.

It was just after midnight – the bells of St. Agnes had finally stopped tolling – when someone knocked on Adam’s door. Adam stood slowly, popping his neck and stretching out his stiff limbs. Most likely it was Ronan, here to crash for the night. Ronan sleeping over wasn’t anything new but the reason why he chose to be in Adam’s cold apartment instead of his warm bed at the Barns was.

Adam unlocked and opened the door and found Ronan waiting outside, his form silhouetted against a sky of brilliant stars sparkling clear and sharp in the icy winter air. Ronan’s breath puffed out in white clouds. He clutched his sleeping bag in one hand, an overnight bag in the other.

“Hey,” Adam said, opening the door wider to allow Ronan in. Ronan nodded and stepped inside, brushing by Adam. The bitter wind followed him in and Adam quickly shut the door.

The small, lonely apartment immediately felt fuller, warmer with Ronan’s presence. Ronan didn’t bother to take off his bulky coat or his scarf and hat but he did remove his muddy boots. Adam took his bags and set them next to his humble mattress-on-the-floor bed.

A single lamp lit the apartment, casting most of the bare room in soft shadows. By its light Ronan looked more careworn than ever. This winter had not been kind to him. His bones were closer to his skin, his eyes deeply shadowed, his skin chapped. A thousand nightmares plagued him and there was little Adam could do to help.

“Hey,” Adam said again, quieter. Ronan lifted his head and met Adam’s eyes. “Come here.”

Adam held his arms open, coaxing Ronan to come closer until he was nestled in Adam’s embrace. Adam stuck his arms in Ronan’s coat, hugging him tightly, his hands fisting in Ronan’s soft sweater. Ronan bent his head and his cold lips brushed Adam’s neck sending shivers racing down his spine.

They held each other until they were both warmer, coats shed and abandoned on the floor. Adam still had reading to finish but he pulled Ronan down onto the mattress and wrapped the green blanket around both of them.

Ronan laid down facing the door and Adam curled up behind him, head tucked between Ronan’s shoulders. He drank in the scent of the Barns, of Ronan. Ronan’s face was pressed into Adam’s pillow and Adam could feel the way Ronan’s lungs expanded as he inhaled deeply. It made Adam’s heart ache and beat harder, made his eyes prick with tears.

They had both gained so much in the last six months – and lost nearly as much. They were irrevocably changed, floundering after the death of Aurora and the demon and Cabeswater. In the midst of their shared loss they clung tighter, the romance that had only just begun to flower was sharpened, honed. The tang of mortality had brought a fresh sense of urgency to their slowly awakened feelings, or so it seemed to Adam. He couldn’t think of what he and Ronan had as anything normal, it felt completely new, a startling love that no other human had experienced.

And always his thoughts were laced with Cabeswater, his mind writing their love story with thorns and flowers, new leaves and twining vines, sweet fruit and grasping roots. He wondered if his temporary union with Ronan’s dreamt forest had permanently altered his mind, then he pushed the worry aside. He didn’t mind it; he didn’t regret it.

Ronan sighed quietly and took Adam’s hand in his, cradling it against his chest. His breathing deepened and his body relaxed against Adam’s. The quiet settled in around them, profound and poignant.

“Weren’t you in Mad Max: Fury Road?” A skinny-looking kid in a pair of very short denim shorts slurred, pressing all along Ronan’s front and gazing up at him like he was a beautiful mirage. Adam could relate, but he could also tell when Ronan was about five seconds from a total meltdown, so he shook the kid off of his boyfriend and shoved them the rest of the way to the bar.

Slides this in under the door - I made it before the deadline ;D

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish Characters: Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish Additional Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, Established Relationship, Light Dom/sub, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Oral Sex, Masturbation, Anal Sex Summary:

Pynchweek day 7: home.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish Characters: Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish, Declan Lynch, a lot of OC of adam and ronan’s kids because i want to Additional Tags: Pynch Week, pynchweek2018, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Non-Magical, Body Swap, basically it’s a freaky friday au Summary:

Day 5 of Pynch Week: Body Swap

Ronan and Declan wake up in each other’s bodies, and they don’t know how to deal with it. Adam is done with their shit.

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish Characters: Noah Czerny, Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish Additional Tags: this is like mOSTLY canon compliant ?, the ‘Noah recounts some of Pynch’s greatest hits’ fic exactly one (1) person asked for Summary:

Pynch Week 2018: Day 8 - Free Choice

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish,  Characters: Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish Additional Tags: Pynchweek 2018, Pining Summary:

Day Seven: Traditions (maybe you have to squint a little) // Read 1-6 here Rated E for one use of a colloquial term for male genitalia (but it’s before the cut so what can I do but mention it) TW: Mentions of suicidal ideation

Somehow, Ronan was still asleep when Adam awoke. As he’d been falling asleep, Adam thought he’d never wake up within the decade and Ronan was always such an early riser. Adam had suspicions that he actually hardly slept beforehand, but he didn’t want to push Ronan to tell him. Besides, color was coming back to Ronan’s face and the half moons under his eyes were less apparent with each passing day.

In the grand light of the palace, Ronan’s naked form was stark. Adam ran his fingers over the protrusions of a hip bone and then the delicate bones of his wrist, visible because of the way his fingers were clenched around a blanket. He wasn’t so much under the blanket as that he had the blanket held to his chest and between his legs while he laid on his side. Adam could see Ronan’s cock stirring beneath the blanket the longer Adam touched him. Ronan had such a strange fascination with Adam’s hands. At first Adam had thought he was simply touch starved but, though he couldn’t discount that entirely, he was more certain now that it was just about his hands in general. Adam brushed his finger over one of Ronan’s thick eyebrows, still unable to help the smile at the coarse nature of human hair, no matter how little there was of it in a place. Then he dragged his thumb over Ronan’s nose until the man smiled and leaned forward to press a kiss to Adam’s palm without opening his eyes.

Chapters: 1/13 Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish Characters: Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish, Chainsaw (Raven Cycle), Orphan Girl | Opal, Niall Lynch, Aurora Lynch, Declan Lynch, Matthew Lynch, Ashley (Raven Cycle), Richard Gansey III, Blue Sargent, Helen Gansey, Orla (Raven Cycle), Declan and Ashley’s multiple progeny, Calla Lily Johnson, Opal’s GF Marty Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - No Powers, The Barns, farm life, family life, Declan/Ashley, Gansey/Blue - Freeform, Helen/Orla, Niall and Aurora are alive, Everyone is older in this one, pynch week 2018 Summary:

Widower Ronan Lynch is trying his best to raise two teenage daughters on his own. He’s written off ever finding love again until a brief encounter with a stranger makes him change his tune. At least, temporarily.

(Dan in Real Life AU)

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Ronan Lynch/Adam Parrish, Minor or Background Relationship(s) Characters: Ronan Lynch, Adam Parrish, Noah Czerny Additional Tags: Pynchweek 2018, Fandom Crossover, Alternate Universe - The Great British Bake Off Fusion Summary: