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Hey guys for my mental health can we all ignore Noah being the hanged man card and focus on Ronan being the Lovers
The raven cycle drawings
Adam Parrish - The Magician
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I recently got back into digital art and had an idea but not really the talent to execute but this was my try at adam parrish as the magician tarot card
i can’t believe some of y’all read this line and decided to be normal about it
i love going about my day and acting like I don’t think about it every waking moment
hi trc nation lets all go insane
ok so with the new trc art with the tarot cards on the box, i need to share my rant about all of their meanings:
okay so blue is 11, which is two things. in the major arcana, that is “judgement” which is literally the card about being SENSIBLE!! LIKE HELLOO OKAY also in minor arcana, 11s are the page cards, like the page of cups. then is adam and he’s is 1 which is magician obvi. THEN is ganey which is 7 which is the chariot and that’s about like established yourself and the importance of conviction in ur life. then is ronan who is 6 WHICH IS THE FREAKING LOVERS LIKE AHHHHH and it makes so much sense because like yeah obvious he loves so much but ALSO on the card for the lovers is ADAM and eve sooooooooo 🤭 and finally the most heart breaking of all is noah who is the hanged man, which in about the importance of SACRIFICE!!! BUT EVEN MOREEE IS THAT THAT CARD IS OFTEN COMPARED TO THE CHARIOT SAYING THAT THE SACRIFICE OF THE HANGED MAN IS JUST AS POWERFUL AS THE CHARIOT’S WILL
okay thanks for coming to my ted talk
pov you are parrish's least liked coworker and you just said something dead stupid
" you should be at the club " I should be at cabeswater searching for glendower
I love the raven cycle because you have Richard “how dare you imply that I sleep with my friends” Gansey, Blue “I will not have sex with anyone except maybe Gansey in some faraway hypothetical future” Sargent, and Henry “I’m Henrysexual” Cheng making up a fantastic ace spec trio and then there’s Adam “I need to take your clothes off” Parrish quietly lusting after every attractive person he sees. This is the queer rep that I live for.
And that’s not even mentioning Ronan “I don’t care for lamps” Lynch.
just cutesy adam parrish things, he’s our babygirl
the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole
“You are such a big trc fan you much have so much merch”
this is all I got:
"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."
-The Raven King, page 283
"The choice was death or hurting Adam, which wasn't much of a choice at all"
-Ronan Lynch, TRK, page 391
just finished rereading trk, heartbreaking quotes coming soon…
can't think about this for longer than 5 seconds without wanting to flip furniture and rip my hair out
gansey was just a guy with a lot of stuff and a hole inside him that chewed away more of his heart every year. they were always walking away from him. but he never seemed able to walk away from them.
forgot to post him in his glasses!
currently in the middle of a re-read of trc and in no part is it fathomable that adam parrish and ronan lynch: broken, tortured, tormented, lonely, and lonesome boys who are cruel and absolute bastards, would ever get married? but they do, and not to just anyone but to each other. it's canon that they get married (!!!)
that adam will casually say "my husband's youngest brother was over this week" or ronan will say to a kitchen full of people, "my husband prefers his teas black," and that's just the norm. they get married! they're husbands!! (also side note... adam having in-laws? such a wild thought it makes me giggle)
happy new year
Your boyfriend starts mumbling in Latin in his sleep and it scares the hell out of you but upon translation he’s introducing himself, inquiring on the price of grain, attempting to sell dormice, brainstorming silly Saturnalia gift ideas. In his sleep he somehow becomes a 1st century BC plebeian, of modest means but with a pleasant outlook on mundane life.
yk what we don’t talk about enough???? ronan PRE-buzz, like his hair is described as “long and dark and curled, neatly to his chin” HELLO WDYM HE HAD A BOB????
thinking about adam parrish again <3
(bonus: so is ronan)
“I was here. I exist. I’m alive because I bleed”
-Adam Parrish, BLLB, page 315
TRC Cars
Thought I would give my interpretation of what cars I think the characters in trc drive because I wanted to draw them, and because I think the cars are a very important part of the books and I think they say a lot about their owners.
These are specific models that I chose based on the descriptions in the books. None are explicitly canon (bar Gansey's obviously) and some of these are completely random guesses bc there is so little information about the car. This post is also just a compilation of car descriptions in trc.
Disclaimer I do not know anything about cars so don't come for me.
GANSEY:
[... ] Gansey’s hell-tinged ’73 Camaro slicked with black stripes.
1973 Chevrolet Camaro - Orange with black stripes.
Iconic. Will go down in history.
RONAN:
Ronan Lynch’s shark-nosed BMW pulled in behind the Camaro, its normally glossy charcoal paint dusted green with pollen.
His smile was thin and sharp. If his BMW was shark-like, it had learned how from him.
Niall Lynch was handsome and charismatic and rich and mysterious, and one day, he was dragged from his charcoal-gray BMW and beaten to death with a tire iron.
2008 BMW M3 E90 - Sparkling Graphite Metallic.
Originally had another model, but then found out it was released in 2020 which is wayy too late so switched to this older one. Was a bit confused about the colour because Gansey refers to it as charcoal-grey and Ronan calls it black, so I looked up the specific colours this model was released in and chose from those. As I believe the trc takes place in the early 2010s, this is a newer car.
DECLAN:
Then Ronan grabbed Declan’s suit coat and used it to throw him onto the mirrorlike hood of Declan’s Volvo.
“Not the fucking car!” snarled Declan, his lip bloody.
2006 Volvo S60 - Silver
Just seems like exactly the type of plain boring unspecial car Declan would have. Chose silver because it's referred to as mirrorlike and that also makes so much sense for Declan. Not really sure when Declan got this car but I think 2006 is safe enough.
NOAH:
Czerny had pulled up in his red Mustang. He hadn’t gotten out of the car.
In the clearing, entirely out of place, was an abandoned car. A red Mustang. Newer model.
Bling,” Ronan remarked, kicking one of the tires. The Mustang had massive, expensive wheels, and now that Gansey looked more closely at the car, he saw that it was covered with aftermarket details: big rims, new spoiler, dark window tint, gaping exhaust.
2004 Ford Mustang GT - Red
This one was quite straightforward. I know it was called a newer model and 2004 isn't really that new if the books are set between 2010 and 2013 but it's Gansey's POV and he's obviously been exposed to a lot of older cars so from his perspective 2004 is new. Obviously it would look different with all the alterations.
ADAM:
"Adam, you want a piece-of-shit car? Save me the tow."
His new car was of uncertain make and model year. It was a two-door something and smelled of automotive body fluids. The hood, passenger-side door, and right rear fender were clearly from three entirely different cars. It was a stick shift.
“Look, just flash your lights if something goes wrong,” Gansey said, standing before the open door of his black Suburban. He ordinarily kept it here, but no one really trusted Adam’s new vehicle to make the drive across the state.
2001 Honda Accord EX Coupe - silver
I really don't know what I'm doing with this one. My only justification is that it's a Coupe, a Honda, really old, and was sold in the US.
KAVINSKY:
Kavinsky’s infamous Mitsubishi Evo was a thing of boyish beauty, moon-white with a voracious black mouth of a grille and an immense splattered graphic of a knife on either side of the body.
The Mitsubishi wailed and shuddered a bit. It was a glorious and hideous piece of work.
2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X - white
This was the easiest. I think this is probably the exact car Maggie was describing when she wrote the book. She says that it's an Evo which is already really specific, and "voracious black mouth" perfectly describes the Evo 10.
THE GRAY MAN:
The Gray Man hated his current rental car. He got the distinct impression it hadn’t been handled enough by humans when it was young, and now would never be pleasant to be around. Since he’d picked it up, it had already tried to bite him several times and had spent a considerable amount of time resisting his efforts to achieve the speed limit.
Also, it was champagne. Ridiculous color for a car.
1991 Nissan Figaro - Topaz Mist
This one was really hard and I'm completely guessing but this does look like the kind of car The Gray Man would hate. Definitely will be making another post about this because it's actually hilarious how much he hates it.
BLUE/300 FOX WAY:
Give her forty minutes and she could parallel park the Fox Way Ford in any place you liked.
There was only one car at 300 Fox Way, and so it was in high demand.
2004 Ford Fiesta - Blue
This one was also super hard. Literally all we know about this car is that it's a Ford. Inferred that it's a cheaper car and therefore probably older so this is what I came up with. I chose blue because I just think it fits Fox Way's whole vibe.
I spent way too long on this.
and I see the wine and the fire in you / I see the mountains blue
found a certain someone’s car at the book store
random headcannons i have for the raven cycle:
gansey was long-distance dating a girl in washington when he moved to henrietta and after a couple months he just forgets that they were dating, it’s not until ronan answers his phone that they break up
blue has a pin that says “fuck the bees” that really confuses her environmentalist group in university
adam becomes fox way’s handyman and cannot come over without replacing at least one lightbulb
blue calls adam and gansey “nick and gatsby”
the fox way cats hate gansey. like he cannot leave fox way without a million scratches
adam and ronan are exactly the same height. like unnervingly so - so they truly look like horror movie twins and are on equal ground
even when ronan moves to the barn he still comes by and checks in on gansey at monmouth randomly
ronan really thought he was being subtle about his thing for adam but the second they spent more one on one time together adam clocked his shit immediately. nice try lynch.