#and then post the raven king/blue lily

[spacepanda7]

probably has been done several times but aftg!trc au:

Kevin as Gansey: privileged background on the surface, the Royal (Queen, in Kevin's case, obviously he CANNOT be the Raven King) ("so... what do you know about EXY?")

Andrew as Ronan: the most infamous and most unapproachable, loyal to Kevin/Gansey through and through. (though, in terms of the Lynch brothers, Andrew is more similar to Declan than Ronan imo)

Neil as Adam: horrible father, paranoid, vicious and merciless, particularly when being protective

Nicky as Noah

Jean as Blue

Jeremy as Henry

Aaron as Declan (misguidedly protective, antagonistic sibling; though honestly, Aaron fits better with Ronan and Andrew with Declan)

Riko as Kavinsky

Wymack/Abby/Bee as Maura/Calla/Persephone

Uncle Stuart as the Gray Man (with Kengo as the Gray Man's brother?)

might add on to this as I think of more...

[ravenssunshine]

so since maggie said that no one remembers noah and this is backed up by no mention of him after his sacrifice, do you ever think about all the blank spots in the gangsey’s memory?

blue’s pretty sure she’s kissed someone other than gansey. she remembers the feeling of kissing someone and them not dropping dead. but she has no idea who it would’ve been. maybe it was adam, but that doesn’t seem right at all. she never wanted to kiss him.

gansey doesn’t know why there’s an empty bedroom at monmouth. it served as a guest room before and could do so again, but what’s the long-standing point of an empty bedroom? he wonders why he never tried to convince adam to stay there (with rent, of course). or maybe they could’ve separated the bathroom and the kitchen. or gansey could’ve pretended that he slept in his own room, though no one would’ve believed that. anything other than letting an empty bedroom collect dust.

truthfully, noah was so engrained in the hunt for glendower that i don’t see how any of them could ever fully remember it without remembering him. maybe one day they’ll all return to henrietta and find a living reminder of noah czerny. they’ll never understand why the name causes them so much grief. the feelings will never leave, but they’ll never remember him again

[dykeganseythethird]

an exhaustive look at ronan lynch and religion

[lesbianjudasiscariot]

[squash1]

“i’m so normal about the lynch brothers” i say as i SCREAM AND CRY ABOUT THIS FUCKING LINE

WHY DON’T WE TALK ABOUT THIS MORE !!!!????

[derangedthoughtssideblog]

love interest in other books: fights a million men, makes her his queen, writes poetry for her, buys her a million dresses, "touch her and you die", over the top love confessions

me: yeah ok whatever

ronan lynch: gives adam parrish a hand to help him get up from the ground

me: wh a t THE fuck these two are INSANE they're trying to KILL me

[shayberri789]

I think.... I think ronan might have been wrong about the dreaming tree. It doesn't show you whatever would fuck you up the most, because I don't think blue or gansey's visions were half so terrible as Adam's (or whatever Ronan first saw), nor as terrible as it could be

I think it showed visions of how each of them could kill gansey

Adam, as he was in trb, less bound to the leyline and the others, more desperate, less grown up, absolutely could have made a mistake in his ambitious quest for freedom that lead to gansey's death. And in a twisted way the dream came true with Ronan, and ronan's double, in the church

Gansey saw himself finding glendower, the quest he'd dedicated his life to, the man he credits for his life. Without this quest, what is gansey, really? And gansey of trb wasn't ready for his quest to suddenly be over. I don't know if he would have survived it, he'd probably spiral at best. And in the end it is his quest that kills him, by finding the demon, by dying shortly after he discovers glendower is also dead, by dying the first time so close to the entrance to glendower's tomb. Gansey, glendower and death have been interwoven since the beginning

Blue knew her kiss would kill gansey, but unlike the other's, HER vision comes true, word for word and action for action. I checked. It's exactly the same.

And ronan.... tragedy has destroyed his life and he rebuilt it with gansey as his support pillar. Losing gansey, as many have pointed out, would destroy him. Being the REASON gansey dies? I think that IS one of the worst things that could happen to him. And that would indeed be the kind of thing that would fuck him up the most. I think that's what the vision tree showed him

TLDR: the vision tree shows possible futures where everyone in the gangsey is the reason for Gansey's death, because his death is such a heavy event that it cant be escaped. And even though only blue's one comes true, the other's experience twisted versions of their visions coming true anyway to reflect their growth and change and now I'm not okay

[quotes-and-recs]

I think the reason plot of The Raven Cycle is so hard to remember & describe is because you have the overarching series plot (finding Glendower, Gansey's death), each book's individual plot (waking the ley line in The Raven Boys, Ronan learning to dream in The Dream Thieves, exploring the cave & the consequences of that in Blue Lily, Lily Blue), and then you have the character's individual & pair side quests and characters arcs. There's just so much going on that it's difficult to keep track of if you're not interacting with it directly

[adamnsey]

rare adansey moodboard please understand my vision

[owlsinleatherjackets]

do you ever see fanart or posts about pynch and briefly forget that they’re actually literally a couple in canon, and then remember and just... go insane all over again

[stringcage]

raven girls ? 🫣

[cryiling]

hi guys this is my first time drawing for the raven cycle pls be nice to me 😣

pynch has had me in an insane chokehold oh my god, as soon as i finished trk i started drawing them asap. altho i don't think i drew them quite how i picture them aksbwkfn

[skeleton-chef]

Do you think Chainsaw remembers Noah?

Does she remember the fifth pair of hands that stroked her downy baby feathers? Does she remember the wispy boy who would watch over Ronan’s shoulder when he fed her every two hours? Ravens are smart, and a raven pulled from a dream is probably even smarter. So when Noah slipped from time did he too slip away from the memories of a raven?

[northstrz]

on his terms or not at all / i will be your hands / i will be your eyes

[squash1]

when the found family book is found family-ing so hard that it has to mention found family point blank

[derangedthoughtssideblog]

people have no idea how much it meant to me when I read "he was the sort of boy who didn't necessarily believe everything, but wanted to" as someone who has been called naive multiple times despite knowing better

i know when someone is lying to me, but i want to believe they're telling the truth

i know the magical and supernatural isn't true, but i want to believe

no character has ever made me feel more understood than Gansey

"They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them" hit so hard when I had two best friends who seemed always ready to give up on the friendship and I was the one always trying to hold it together

"Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle any situation, able to talk to anyone, and then, the other, more fragile Gansey, strung out and unsure, embarrassingly earnest, driven by naive longing" feels so real when on the outside everyone thinks you're charming and popular and extrovert while inside you only feel insecure and awkward

"I'm trying to understand how, if I belong here, it hurts so much" as someone who has always been in love with the town they were raised in despite how many times that same town hurt me

I'm just really so glad for Gansey