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this the edm i always imagine blasting from the bmw on late night drives btw
vampire!Ronan turning Adam and hating himself so much for striping him off his soul and condeming him to hell and Adam's just like,
"I never have to sleep again? This is so practical, for me specifically."
college student Adam works in a suit store
Ronan suddenly needs a new suit every other Sunday
(Declan is surprisingly proud?)
opening capped bottles with rings is so Ronan Lynch coded for some reason idk
he's MY Joseph Kavinsky if you even care
IM SO FUCKING JEALOUS
LIKE JOE LONG I HAVE TO WAIT FOR POLISH TRANSLATION MISTER IMPOSSIBLE?? THE THIRD BOOK IS WAITING BIDNDPSJJDOJDHOD
don't think how loud gansey cried when ronan tried to kill himself.
don't think about how gansey was scared when niall lynch died.
don't think about how terrified gansey was when matthew was kidnapped . don't think about gansey who prayed even he was an atheist because he knew that ronan wouldn't survive another death.
don't think how bad gansey felt when he discovered noah died for him.
don't think how devastated he was because he didn't know how to help adam.
please, don't think how he suffered when he discovered that noah died for nothing.
just don't think about it.
no thoughts, just ronan lynch as latin teacher in anglionby
sometimes ronan thinks he doesn't deserve love.
he knows it's not true but... he jus knows he isn't that good, wise or nice. his words are like knives, he's brutal and he's always angry. but he also is honest, he takes care of everyone and everything and he just loves his family, friends and even people who doesn't deserve it.
on the other hand adam is scared of love.
he grew up in house without love, of course he's scared because of it. he didn't use to know how love looks like. but he loves. he loves gansey. he loves blue. he loves ronan. he loves henry. he loves noah. he even loves his dad. it's riddiculus, robert hurt him and even it's toxic and silly, adam loves him. he loves idea of robert parrish who is a good father.
ronan and adam have something in common — both of them think they don't deserve to be loved. and that's why they're in love with each other. no because of their look or their personality. they fell in love because they understand how feel to think you don't deserve love. it didn't make them stronger, it made them wiser.
(((did i just write a whole ass headcanon bc of my insecurity? yes. did i not regret it? yes.)))
(also please be nice if i have any mistakes, english isn't my native language, i literally had a directionary beside me)
what if the raven cycle and the arcana crossover??
i'm pretty sure that someone already was thinking about it but here we go (also sorry if my english is bad, this isn't my native language!)
after the whole drama with lucio, asra and their husbands (come on, he deserves two handsome guys and i couldn't choose with who i like him better so i choose julian AND muriel<3) have their shop.
things are cool now bc julian is safe and muriel seems to be happier than he was before. asra's parents are alright, nadia is the countness and portia is nadia's wife.
so yes, things are good now. they're happy and safe.
but asra wants something more
and his new apprentice seems so scared and they always wanted to be a father...
so yeah, asra, julian and muriel basically adopt adam parrish.
adam parrish was quite uniqe magician. his powers were strong but he looked terrified because of them.
adam parrish looked like he didn't want those powers.
it was riddiculus to asra - why this teen boy doesn't want his gift?!
here's why - his biological dad was a dick, that's it.
sudenly adam has three dads and that's cool even if they scares him
he's loved and that's okay. they don't scream at him, they don't hurt him.
everything is great. (but he wants the power politics holds, magic doesn't seem that great like politics do)
on the other hand, ronan lynch's life sucks.
his dad just died and the whole city wants him to be a new council.
but he doesn't want to. he is a magician, someone powerful and politics isn't his thing
he always wanted to be someone like asra. someone who use thier power for helping people
but no, something screw up and now he is the suspect of his dad's tragic death
nadia tries to help her ex-husband cousin but it's kinda hard so she called her old team (without the mc bc... idk) plus asra's kid (a.k.a adam)
so when adam sees ronan the first time he thinks that he saw the prettiest boy but then ronan starts talking
he doesn't think that ronan is THAT pretty anymore bc he's an asshole (not in the charismatic julian way, he's just annoying)
holyfuckronansdadisdeadbecauseoflucio
nadia is done with lucio's shit
just yk the drama vol 2 but with magician who wants to be a politic and politic who wants to be a magician
that's it.
The raven's cycling.
I... I have no explanation for this. I have a train to catch in a few hours, and that's where my mind goes apparently.
The gangsey is funny af honestly, I could to hundreds of those.
i love it when a piece of media is like: is there anything more painful than knowing your sibling? is there anything more tragic than knowing they are the only person who will ever share the same experience as you? they were the only constant in your life. they were there since birth and now, no matter how they betray you, you will still love them. you will always feel the need to protect them even if you can no longer bring yourself to talk to them. will anyone else be able to understand? will anybody be able to love you and hate you and fear you the same way a sibling loves you and hates you and fears you? no, probably not
a deep dive on adam/blue
okay i just need to do talk about blue and adam’s brief “relationship” because (1) i never used to like it and it always felt needless in the story/got in the way of the found family, but upon rereading it works well in the narrative and (2) there is way too much underlying misogyny when discussing blue that i just need to talk about
the gist is that blue and adam are such similar people who were both using their relationship as deflection, and were not good to eachother because they’re 16/17! not because they are evil or irredeemable
but the reason i realized upon rereading why the adam/blue relationship is so important in the first two books is because it shows us exactly why both pynch and bluesey work so well:
adam wanted blue to be the simple thing in his life that isn’t tarnished by his abuse, which is a completely valid reaction from the trauma he is facing. he’s secretive about his home life (not that he owes that to her) because he wants her to see a different version of himself. that’s why he is more upset about the kissing than the lack of emotional romantic connection.
adam calling blue in front of ronan, pointing out to gansey that he “got blue” without him shows it’s also just a teenage boy competition thing. he doesn’t really understand what entails in a healthy relationship and just wants blue, to have anything of his own. this makes sense for a traumatized 17 year old, but isn’t fair for blue to have to be the simple “easy” thing in his complicated life when she has her own issues and life, and adam is in a really bad mental state and expecting things from her she doesn’t want to give
while adam wants to seperate from his abuse, blue wants to seperate from her curse. she does want adam, and she firmly tells the universe that she wants to choose him, not gansey as an effort to escape their fate.
but of course, she is inevitably drawn to gansey and blue tells gansey about the curse and not adam, because she doesn’t want to break their allusion that they could just be normal teenagers, and gansey quite literally needs to know or he will die.
it is unfair to adam that she immediately went to gansey after and used him as deflection from her curse when she knew something could happen with his best friend, and to hide it from him after.
this conflict is showcased really well in their fights in the dream thieves. adam is solely focused on why blue won’t kiss him, blue is focused on why he wont tell her anything, and just keeps bringing it back to gansey (again, emotional connection vs the kiss, the curse and adam’s abuse lingering)
adam is extremely unfair to blue during this because he acts as if blues romantic attention is something he deserves, even pushing it after she tells him about her curse because he is so desperate for connection and blue doesn’t just want to be his girlfriend:
blue is extremely unfair because after the fight, she immediately went to gansey, his best friend right after they broke up, and didn’t consider adam’s feelings or how effected he was by his trauma and how rocky his friendship with gansey was - especially talking about adam with gansey
so, yes they both messed up and used eachother!
but at their core, it shows how well adam and ronan work: someone adam can kiss and love who has seen and fought his abuse head on and still loves him for it and understands him. he never got a chance to try and hide from ronan, he knew adam was from the beginning
and why blue and gansey are soulmates: someone who has an emotional connection with blue and sees her as a person and a friend first, who wants to kiss her, badly, but doesn’t expect anything. (there’s a good parallel in tdt of gansey discussing blue here vs the adam fight)
but onto the underlying misogyny: somehow the blame is always put onto blue for “cheating” and acting as if she was a master manipulator?? there seems to be a weird undertone by placing the blame on the only female character, while the boys are allowed time to grow and make mistakes and just be mean! especially since blue didn’t know half the things going on with adam, and wasn’t trying to hurt him, but it is always off-putting to me when people are always so defensive of everyone except blue…
i think they’re both equally at fault! it’s messy and mean, but the fact that they both heal and both recognize and regret the hurt they’ve done to each other shows there’s no need to completely absolve one party. like they both admit they were shitty, we should be able to do the same and love them all the more because it’s real! they’re young! they get it right eventually! i love them both so much
“Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block” i feel so insane right now
article title clickbait for the gangsey —
blue:
gansey:
henry:
adam:
ronan:
noah:
bonus, gray man:
most female main characters in ya fantasy usually don't have their parents around/are orphans/ran away from home (e.g. the mortal instruments, lockwood & co, a deadly education, ...), which is why there are often no adult figures around to manage the (magical) chaos the teenage characters have to untangle standalone.
but the raven cycle is different — the adults work together with the teen characters, actually listen to them, and try to help them with their quest. blue doesn't have only her friends around to help her out, she also has a giant home with different, female rolemodels. calla, persephone, maura, and all the other aunts and friends — they give blue something most ya characters don't have.
and as the series continues, she also meets the grey man, who becomes a familiar figure for her, too.
instead of having not enough help and support from adults, which is a thing most ya protagonists struggle with, blue has so many people constantly trying to protect, guide, and help her, and i think that's awesome.
she has a family, and they're actually a part of the story.
“This one’s for you. Just the way you like it: fast and anonymous.”
ronan lynch aesthetic
blue/gansey moodboard
❝
I'd tell you to go to hell but i don't want to see you again.
is that normal that after finally having read the raven cycle i can’t pick up any other book? like it’s over for me. i KNOW that nothing will ever hit as good and might as well not even try 🚬
❝
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.
❝
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.
Just a reminder that the whole graphic novel will be THIS BEAUTIFUL ‼️‼️
How can I make this about Adam Parrish? I ask for the 47th time today while everyone begs me to stop