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I am back at it again, reading YA novels and desperately needing to share my love for them with the world. This time I read The Raven King, the fourth and final book in The Raven Cycle series. My feelings about the book overall are complicated, but my feelings about the third chapter are simple and pure. It’s one of the most beautiful chapters of anything that I’ve ever read. in this chapter we get to see our son Ronan Lynch at the home he loves, surrounded by beautiful things that he’s made. I identify so heavily with Ronan and his fears that I teared up a little and I’m not ashamed about it. So, a shirt.

I made and used stencils for this one because I didn’t trust myself with the clean edges.

It was too cold for fireflies, but a multitude of them glistened in and out of being above the fields nonetheless.

Those were his. Fanciful, purposeless, but lovely.

Ronan Lynch loved to dream about light.

This afternoon at Crafternoon I got a wild hair and painted up a tank top I can use to broadcast my latest obsession, The Raven Cycle. I free handed the design, so it’s not perfect, but honestly I’m kind of proud with how it came out.

The text comes from a quasi-flirty but mostly embarrassing (as we all were when we were 17) exchange between two of the characters, Adam Parrish and Ronan Lynch. Ronan has the ability to pull objects from his dreams and Adam from his shell, both abilities some of the purest magic a person can accomplish.

“I know when I’m awake and when I’m asleep,” Ronan Lynch said.
Adam Parrish, curled over himself in a pair of battered, greasy coveralls, asked, “Do you?”
“Maybe I dreamt you,” he said.
“Thanks for the straight teeth, then,” Adam replied.

KL!

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It was too cold for fireflies.

Thanks for the straight teeth, then.