#the raven cycle aesthetic

[paranoiacally-anxious]

LOOK I KNOW NO ONE REMEMBERS NOAH BUT FOR FUCK SAKE WE DO! SO DON'T EXCLUDE HIM FROM THE GROUP!

[pictureofdoriaaaaaangay]

~ "Is this thing safe?" "Safe as life."

[paladinpeterparker]

“Wanting to live, but accepting death to save others: that was courage. That was to be Gansey's greatness.”

[cabeswaterdrowned]

Adam Parrish mood board: onion headlines edition

[ronanslibrary]

❝

When Adam kissed him, it was every mile per hour Ronan had ever gone over the speed limit. It was every window-down, goose-bumps-on-skin, teeth-chattering-cold night drive. It was Adam’s ribs under Ronan’s hands and Adam’s mouth on his mouth, again and again and again. It was stubble on his lips and Ronan having to stop, to get his breath, to restart his heart.

[ronandreams]

character aesthetics: blue sargent and richard gansey

impossibly, blue realized that this other blue was crying because she loved gansey. and that the reason gansey touched her like that, his fingers so careful with her, was because he knew that her kiss could kill him. okay, i'm ready. gansey's voice caught, just a little. blue, kiss me.

[f0x-meets-w0lf]

contrary to what's expected of them by nearly everyone in henrietta, skov and swan clean up their act just enough to fumble their way into their mid-20's. they begin to build a decent life for themselves — in part it's out of necessity, in another part for their own good, and lastly to honor their beloved late friends. they've been made acutely aware of life's delicate nature, and with no dream-thief-king left to remedy their mortality as he once did for his favorite forgery, they treat their existences accordingly.

they still enjoy getting rowdy from time to time, of course; skov is still too much of a stoner for his own good, while swan's in grad school and has always been the one to take his education most seriously, so he's more sparing about it (which isn't to say he's at all immune to a lazy-limbed heavy-lidded blue-haired boy sprawled out on their bed, his mouth holding secondhand smoke and the promise of hazy, handsy makeouts).

for the most part, though, their days are more relaxed, and they luxuriate in the simple things: the small intimacies of their joined morning routines, cooking a meal together, going to the gym or the park or the library. they treasure their time spent chatting and cuddling and kissing on their couch; jiang comes by, sometimes, to spend time with them and bask in their collective warmth, abundant with joy and comfort and love that they extend beyond the veil in the hopes it might reach k and proko. it feels good.

[squash1]

listen i am a colin greenmantle Hater to the end but him walking around in a tailored suit jacket and boxers while drinking directly out of a wine bottle that he claims has “notes of black powder and abandonment” and wishing that there was someone their to see just how “aesthetically pathetic and desperate” he looked, is VERY relatable behavior. not to mention him narrating his own downfall in the third person and claiming that despite his nervous breakdown in his late thirties, onlookers will be shocked by his “ability to bounce back from emotional injury.”

[charasthetics]

Ronan Lynch

[kitttttchaos]

It is impossible to pick a favorite Raven cycle character. I cry when I think about all of them. Especially in this chapter 🥺

[professor-scribbls]

My twee queen (yes I’ve read trc and I was hit with a bus load of nostalgia for early 2000s fashion)

[paranoiacally-anxious]

Noah has to be a fucking important characters cuz I can't believe I'm relating to a fudging ghost.

[ronandreams]

but there was a carefully cultivated sense of danger to this lynch brother. this was not a rattlesnake hidden in the grass, but a deadly coral snake striped with warning colors. everything about him was a warning.

[charasthetics]

Adam Parrish

[ronanslibrary]

❝

Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.

[macaulaytwins]

loving a book isn’t enough I need to merge with it on an atomic level