#jesse dittley

[squash1]

if blue had a nickel for every time the first comment a stranger made upon meeting her was about how short she was she’d have *at least* two nickels. which isn’t a lot but it’s HILARIOUS that it happened twice (in one book).

[bi4bisamjess]

part one

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[dinnerthyme]

JESSE DITTLEY.... NO.......

[coffinofteeth]

Okay but, justice for Jesse Dittley 

[fromchaos]

while i do think bllb is just. the best paced book with the most interesting plot events and magic for me personally. (and the most blue sargent). i must admit it is probably my favorite in large part just bc it is The Side Character book.

[gaewaren]

i'd borrow kyle maclachlan from david lynch for trctv and have him play every male adult part. robert parrish niall lynch the gray man greenmantle mr gansey artemus and the corpse of owain glyndŵr. he's got the range

[aidenwaites]

thinking about that post i saw last night about depictions of southerners and speaking of I AM a little bit in love with the way The Raven Cycle is in love with the regions and the people it's pulling from

[murphyismz]

the prt of bllb when gansey and calla show up when blue is at jesse dittley’s and gansey is just so relieved and so scared and calls ronan to tell him to stop looking and blue is like oh. i scared them.

i am ILL

[adambasilica]

ask and ye shall receive (sorry)

from left to right, we have artemus, noah, and whelk (with his husband, not deserved btw)

here we have aurora, the gray man, and my personal favorite: piper and colin greenmantle

conservative trc fancast ‼️

starting off with our main four: adam, gansey, blue, and ronan lynch <3

here we have: gansey (understudy), tad carruthers, and everybody’s favorite…. joseph kavinsky.

[seavoice]

blue was having SUCH a horrible time in bllb i keep forgetting she lost jesse dittley + persephone back to back, and all of this while maura was missing and she knew gansey was going to die 💀💀💀 im glad she got to have her mini outbursts and breakdowns throughout the last two books

[ashleshares]

It's over...?

What a series!! I read The Raven Boys when I was 13 from a local library and never got my hands on books 2,3 and 4. Throughout book 1, I kept having deja vu because I thought I'd read half of book 1, but I realize now that it was because it ends so abruptly.

Book 2 was definitely my favorite of the series, because I love the entire dream concept and Ronan's street racing and the entire dangerous vibe.

Book 3 was my least favorite with all the caves and Greenmantle and the woman in the cave who woke up.

Book 4 was good and I'm surprised how much Henry became a part of it even if he was introduced so late in the series.

I really didn't quite care for Neeve or the Grey Man or Orla. I did like Persephone and Jesse Dittley more than I thought I would.

Time to look at memes and fanart to fill the raven shaped hole in my heart ig...

[squash1]

alright i have some thoughts that need to get out of my head so bear with me.

i’ve been thinking a lot about mirrors, and more importantly false mirrors, in the raven cycle/dreamer trilogy because of a a few specific moments in blue lily. which i find extremely interesting especially because of the mirror themes that are even evident in the title (blue lily, lily blue).

i’ve been obsessing over these two instances in bllb where gansey and adam, on separate occasions have these false mirror sentences in their internal monologue. first, gansey has this moment in the dittley cave where he’s reckoning with the idea of his hunt ending:

and then adam has a moment where he is reckoning with the possibility of gansey’s death and what fully knowing about it would mean:

and in both of these situations the second sentence is what aligns with what we believe to be true about these characters. gansey has been on this hunt for so long, desperate to find his king. by all accounts, he should be ready to find glendower. but his first thought is that he’s not ready for it to be over. adam has a need to know everything in every situation. he always wants to be in the loop. he should want to know everything about the possibility/inevitability of gansey’s death and yet his first thought is that he does not want to know. and this idea of a false mirror — which these sentences structurally are — is fascinating to me. it speaks to the constant contradictions of existing — of wanting to live out all possibly outcomes of a situation. and if you add to this analysis the idea of adam and gansey, in many ways, being false mirrors of each other, it just is like. wow. gansey and adam both want to be like the other. both are trying to mirror the other, but that isn’t how life works — you cannot become the perfect mirror of someone else, so they are a false mirror of one another, contradicting themselves and one another.

the second moment is with a literal mirror. when noah is first possessed by the third sleeper, jesse dittley holds up a mirror to noah to break the possession. noah being able to see his true form scares/startles him back into himself. as if seeing his real face reminded him of who he really was. in many ways jesse showed a false mirror — a reflection of who noah had become while possessed by the sleeper in an attempt to create a true mirror image of the real noah. this moment contrasted with the scene in mister impossible with the dreamt mirrors that show your true self is so interesting. in some ways those mirrors — the one ronan looks into and sees all his complexities & goodness, and hennessy looks into and sees jordan — are a false mirror, they are an idealized version of the looker. but in both moments, across books and characters, are intended to have a positive effect on the looker. for noah, a false mirror allows him to become his true self again, and with ronan and hennessy it allows them to see positive things about themselves they would have otherwise overlook.

so yeah mirrors ! i’m in awe of maggie’s genius !

[lizpaige]

okay but that moment when blue is “missing” aka hanging out with jesse dittley in bllb and calla finds her with gansey looking all shakey and nervous and calla says that they started to “assume you were just dead in a ditch somewhere” like in trb when ronan thought gansey was dead in a ditch when he missed world hist.