#like look at blue and gansey

[christ-with-a-why]

Book 4 of my special edition owlcrate Raven Cycle:

The Raven King

[baldnt]

holy hell i found him y’all. he is indeed in rural Virginia.

[shayberri789]

Something about how in chapter 4 of trc Adam is insecure about the fray on his second hand sweater, and how it's a symbol of his background and insecurities, and how most people don't notice it, and if they did, they didnt think better of him for it

And how Blue saw it immediately and it was something she liked about him, a girl too good at seeing the vulnerabilities of other people, but Adam didnt want someone to see his insecurities, didn't want someone to acknowledge that life

But Gansey did. Gansey needed someone to see him at his worst and love him for it, and blue did that

And how Adam needed someone to see him at his most unruly, and encouraged that

And Ronan makes Adam loud

[unganseylike]

ghost q&a, anne carson // noah and gansey in the raven king

[apocketfullofhobbits]

'trc adaptation is bad bc they mixed timelines and cut out lots of stuff' 'trc adaptation is bad bc they sanitised adam's bitchiness' 'trc adaptation is bad bc they made the ganseys democrats' NO TRC ADAPTATION IS BAD BC IT'S SET IN 2024 and not in 2001 like god intended!!

[deklo]

first page 🧎🏻‍♂️ of many 🧎🏻‍♂️🧎🏻‍♂️🧎🏻‍♂️

[cabeswaterdrowned]

Gansey and Ronan having opposite music tastes and then Adam’s the perfect neutral because he has no music tastes he just likes that they like what they like

[romantichopelessly]

There’s something so personal about the number of times The Raven Boys aligns Gansey’s relationship with Adam to his relationship with Blue

[corpseroadking]

kinda crazy that the members of gangsey all thought they were going to be the one to kill gansey

[ladyanthony]

Blue after stealing Gansey’s glasses

[christ-with-a-why]

Book 4 of the owlcrate special edition Raven Cycle:

The Raven King

[michameinmicha]

Me: can we have The Raven Boys?

Mom: we have raven boys at home

The Raven Boys at home:

[wander-wren]

with the graphic novels i’m being prompted again to consider trc tv show teaser trailer concept that has lived in my brain for?? over a year at this point??

just imagine. a sleepy virginian small town from above, a girl pedaling down the sidewalk on a bike. blue’s voice narrating as we slowly get closer.

“being the only normal one in a psychic family is bad enough.” cut to blue’s face as she rides. “what’s worse is being the one with a curse.”

a series of quick flashbacks of various women looking nervous, sad, and/or apologetic to blue at varying ages. maura’s voice. “if you kiss your true live, he will die.”

blue, on her bike, skids to a halt near aglionby academy. she watches the boys in their fancy uniforms and their arrogant smiles, their raven emblems. still narrating, she says, “so i have two rules. one, don’t talk to boys, because they’re trouble. and don’t talk to raven boys, because they’re bastards.”

she pushes off again. pan out to a darkening, cloudy sky. “you can’t outrun fate. but i didn’t expect it to find me so soon.”

the graveyard, st mark’s eve, with the dead marching past. then blue’s perspective, of only one lone boy, and neeve hisses, “take his name. he’ll die within the year.”

blue follows as the camera zeroes in on the boy’s face, his aglionby sweater, his rain-soaked shoulders. he stumbles to his knee, fingers splayed in the dirt. blue asks, “what’s your name?”

“gansey.”

the screen goes black.

“is that all?”

“that’s all there is.”

music slams in alongside a montage of scenes, gansey, ronan, adam, noah. these have some dialogue and are long enough to establish their personalities and relationships with each other. mostly generic/immediately pre-canon things like the dolly/car dragging incident, but also a few early book one scenes. included near the beginning is gansey asking, “what do you know about welsh kings?” and explaining, “legend says he’s only sleeping, and whoever wakes him gets a favor.”

blue’s voice comes back near the middle of that: “i have my rules. we were never supposed to meet.”

half-second flashes of her meeting gansey in nino’s, adam outside in the parking lot, whenever she met ronan and noah officially.

“i guess i was never any good at following the rules.”

another montage like before, now showing all of them in various scenes from book one, getting faster, more jumbled, and soundless except for the music as we go. it culminates in flashes of the cabeswater scene, completely incomprehensible but full of fear. in the end, adam lands on his knees in the forest, hands splayed in the dirt. gansey’s voice screams, “adam!”

screen goes black again. blue says, “this is a year people die.”

[the raven cycle, coming 20XX]

[decladams]

ao3 was back up so i posted a new chapter!! go read it please i love this chapter so so much

https://archiveofourown.org/works/44042676/chapters/122323504

[deathsweetblossoms]

One more thing:

When Ronan says “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” in Latin to Barrington Whelk, my soul left my body and floated through every level of the bardo before coming back and screaming into the void of my room at 3am. The way he makes dick jokes and sex jokes only with MEN in the first two books, before ~things are revealed~, I cannot. I’m ascending.

[cabeswaterdrowned]

“When Blue opened the front door, she discovered an Aglionby student standing in the glow of the porch light. Moths fluttered around his head. He wore salmon-colored pants and white Top-Siders and boasted flawless skin and tousled hair.”

The way I accidentally read the latter sentence first and thought Gansey had shown up again but no it’s Greenmantle this aids my Greenmantle looks like a combination of Gansey and Ronan theory (so of course Adam is hot for him).