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TRC gangsey halloween costumes! 🎃🦇

I just love them all so so much

curator!declan art thief!jordan au where declan procures pieces for private collections which are always promptly stolen (by the girls)

rereading blue lily lily blue. gansey, your autistic swag has forever bewitched me

sometimes i’m normal but then sometimes i think about the endless religious symbolism and parallels in the raven cycle and i want to chew on glass. like something something cabeswater and eden. adam’s name, his being made ‘from dust’, his pursuit of knowledge beyond the circumstances of his birth. ronan being referred to as ‘the snake’: the one who always tempts adam into recklessness. ronan and declan and cain and abel (i wash my hands of him) (i am not my brother’s keeper). gansey’s resurrection, his third birth. ‘important things come in threes?’ ‘or sevens’. ronan and joseph kavinsky and joseph the prophet with their strange dreams that overlap into the real world. dreaming as a form of blasphemous creation. the three fox way women and the holy trinity. aurora lynch and the virgin mary and matthew lynch and the infant jesus - immaculate conception, pure souls without sin. absent yet overly mythologized fathers. i am going to throw up

adam being a magician makes him the first card in a tarot deck and not to mention his name is the first man ever born oh he’s really that bitch

declan describing adam as a “creepily clever little fuck” may be the most accurate thing. ever.

Just think about it for five seconds and civil engineer Adam makes so. much. sense. He gets himself put on projects to make sure they don't interfere with ley lines. Plans for new bypasses get moved by half a mile. A bridge gets built where someone initially wanted a tunnel. Make this bitch work for the Army Corps of Engineers. That's how he can get his damn .gov email address without being a fed.

fighting again...

adam parrish being just a little villain-coded is so fun to me. it never stops tickling me that the set-up WAS THERE for him to betray gansey in a worse version of the story — he was the rejected member of the love triangle, he was bitter about gansey's privilege, he's methodically ambitious about getting his in a dog-eat-dog world. in TRB, when he stole the camaro, ran off and killed whelk, that COULD'VE been the beginning of a villain arc.

but he loves his friends too much to let them go, and his friends love him too much to let him go. so he's their fucked-in-the-head sly friend who blackmails people with made-up child murder and scams rich harvard students with fake readings and pathologically lies like he breathes <3 something so wrong with him but he's a good guy <3

throwback to the dream thieves when adam “quietly turned eighteen” (adam parrish, who did everything quiet 😭) and then did this:

like. what else is there to say. the legend jumped out. he literally woke up from his metamorphosis sleep, downed a carton of pomegranate juice (pomegranate!!! the symbolism is exquisite— the death of the boy, the rebirth of the man— of the magician), inhaled some witch brew to heal himself spiritually, and went to go fix the plot of the book and rewrite the future. iconic behaviour.

stopped in my tracks and almost fell to my knees when i remembered that the Only time the font changed in the entirety of trc was when adam sent blue the flowers with the little note….can’t get up…….

“We can pretend. Just once. And then we’ll never say anything about it again”

Yo may12324! Surprise, I drew you some Raven Boys fanart! Just to say thanks for cheering me up the other day when I was sad :*

thought about adam parrish yesterday. thinking about adam parrish today. will probably think about adam parrish tomorrow.

something something about dirt knowing where it came from. i dont remember

the issue with re-reading the same book (series) so many times is that sometimes i forget to actually read the pages and just zone out thinking about everything that happens next. what do you mean i have to look at and process the words? it is playing like a movie in my head

thinking about Matthew as Ronan's Adam, in the biblical sense

he was his god's first man, faithful and innocent and loving

until he experiences self-knowledge, through learning that he is a dream

and then he begins to know doubt and, through doubt, other negative emotions that he doesn't seem to have experienced before

wrath, envy, pride

// adventurers 🌾☀️

thinking about adam parrish as "adam" parrish, the first man- not able to rely on anyone else, needing to do everything for himself. the constant fear hanging over his head of returning to the (henrietta) dust from which he was made, of never outgrowing his upbringing.

blue sargent, whose name immediately evokes strangeness- and ronan lynch, whose name immediately evokes violence.

noah czerny, who is known by his first and last names independently - acknowledged only for his self (gangsey), or only for his family's wealth (whelk). either way, always fragmented and never the whole of who he used to be.

richard campbell gansey iii, who goes by gansey, his family name. gansey, who is constantly trying to live for other people and never himself.

was thinking about the dreaming tree in trb that shows you your worst nightmares and. ronan doesn’t go in—later revealed that this is because he not only knows what it does but also what he’ll see—but his worst nightmare is bringing back wasps. killing gansey. blue sees herself dangerously close to kissing gansey, fulfilling her curse, also killing gansey. richard “he imagined [finding glendower] might feel a lot like dying” gansey sees himself finding glendower. but adam. we’re never expressly told what he sees, only that gansey’s dead and it’s his fault and ronan hates him for it and he hates himself for it too. the difference is subtle but important. the others see the action. adam sees the end result. the others are afraid of killing gansey. adam is too, but that’s not his worst fear. adam’s worst fear is becoming like his father

I just finished Call Down the Hawk and the last thing I expected out of it was to relate to Declan Lynch. It's the amount of times that man mentions taking Tums because he gets nauseous from his anxiety that got me. He's just like me fr. (I'm also an older sibling so it's bad)

Gansey and Adam divorce arc went WILD

a quick blue sketch sheet !!

“Is that all?” She whispered.

“That’s all there is.” Gansey replied.

napping on the way home after spending all day looking for dead welsh kings <3

GOING FREAKISH FREAL INSANE CHEWING ON CONCRETE!!!!!!

Gansey calls Blue by the right name and then says alright enough feminism for today

Ronan: In my eyes, you are so perfect that you don’t seem real and you look like something only imagination could create

Adam: Haha that’s a funny joke thanks for not making me British

jesus christ

i am burdened with knowledge about maggie stiefvater's bestselling young adult fantasy series the raven cycle

sorry your father never taught you the meaning of repugnant he was too busy slamming your head against the wall while you apologized for being alive

call me the raven boys the way I be leying this line🧐