the raven cycle being about the relentless pursuit of appearing on the outside as you do on the inside, of making yourself understandable or dying trying to be understood, the way the only thing that matters to these kids is to not be misunderstood, misinterpreted or thought to be any worse or better than what they are on their own merit but also having the truest versions of themselves be so deeply intertwined,,, i need to sit down
Something about Greenmantle noticing Adam's potential and ambitions and acknowledging them and complimenting him on them, but still underestimating Adam his abilities, the length he is willing to go to protect his friends
i’ve been personally victimized by henry cheng’s toga party
related to the post i just reblogged: my ideal post-canon bad kids ending is they all move in together: i like to imagine it's not mordred or seacastor manor but maybe a giant apartment or their own house, and they all just commute via portal (a la compass points & ayda) home and to various lives. like. riz has a detective agency in bastion city. fig travels between hell, leviathan, and home. adaine works partially in fallinel for oracle things, or maybe in bastion city at a less oracle based job. like. imagining everybody in the roommate group chat wondering if riz fell asleep on his desk again so kristen pops into the portal, tosses him back through into their kitchen, and he lands on all fours hissing like a cat. fig is late for game night because she's jamming in hell so adaine just shouts for her through the flaming hell portal in their living room. gorgug handing everyone a packed lunch before they go. group bad kids kitchen is INSANE. fabian: can't cook despite being bullied into learning. he is so bad at it. adaine can make simple meals and likes cooking. pretty good at assembling sandwiches though. fig and kristen can both cook competently but fig hates doing it. riz can cook but makes the most insane optimized shit you've ever seen. gorgug buys groceries and sorts out the chore rotation calendar. adaine put a silence ward around kristen's room. they have a version of cat shelves on the walls but they're little rivers full of water so boggy can float when he wants to. giant crystal tv. fabian has a pull up bar in his doorway. the hangman switches between hellhound form for couch time and ear scratchies and motorcycle form to just chill in the garage. their living room couch is enormous specifically to fit all of them and fig still perches on the armrests and kristen sits on the floor and leans back on gorgug's legs. all of the furniture in their house is built sturdy and enchanted for strength so gorgug doesn't have to worry about breaking it. their dining room table is specially designed so riz can just sit on top of it rather than dealing with a weird chair situation. they have strip lights on the walls, even.
crows <3
preparing to make the show my whole personality again
wwow youre gorgeous. ive never wanted to fumble someone more in my life, mind if i sit here and look up at you with big puppydog eyes.?
very interested in how the storyline of ronan's sexuality is developed in the dream thieves as a battle between kavinsky and gansey while adam is almost never present in these scenes, which makes it even more interesting that we found out in CDTH that ronan was set on adam the moment he saw him. i think that ronan is attracted on some level to both gansey and kavinsky (you can draw the lines of how much romantic intention you think he hold towards either of the yourself, that's a rabbit hole I would need a whole other post to go down) but more so I think he was attracted to the IDEA of both of them and certain qualities that each possessed, and that the real question wasn't does ronan want gansey or kavinsky because we know he wants adam but rather who's qualities resonate more with who ronan is, or who he is choosing to be at this critical moment in his character development. kavinsky is a dangerous thrill and often comes wrapped in ronan's other favorite self destructive attempts to outrun himself, while gansey is ronan's history and proof of his deep capacities for loyalty and love. he tells kavinsky it was never going to be me and you and that it's not going to be ronan and gansey because that was never the question- maggie was obviously always planning on bluesy and pynch. the answer to who ronan WANTS in adam. the question of who ronan IS- that's what he's trying to decide here. his self hatred is such a heavy weight on him and theme in tdt, and the kavinsky/gansey dichotomy represents the the path he will choose to take to deal with it- keep try to drive faster than his demons or accept that he can still be loved even if he isn't the person he once was. the dream thieves my beloved ronan lynch my beloved
ronan!!! he is straight up cheesing!!!!!
the mythology of Ronan Lynch
kavinsky's death is actually the closing arc in a great tragedy to me bc his actions throughout the story are mostly just him practically begging for someone to be on his side, to care about him, to even just look at him. his father tried to kill him, his mother is completely uninterested. he can dream himself as many people as he wants, but they will only ever think of him because he made them to do so. the dream pack are just physical manifestations of his desire to not be alone in the world, to have someone, anyone, connected to him. he so desperately tries to draw some sort of emotion out of ronan, good bad or ugly, because the intense similarities they share mean that he's the only person who might be willing to look long enough to see him. and when it doesn't work, when he realizes it can't, that this world is not for him and he is not going to be a part of it in a way that involves anyone else, he decides that everyone is going to look at least this once. they will all see the finale if nothing else. genuinely doomed from the start. and how truly devastating that is in comparison to the core group the story focuses on, characters that even at their lowest and darkest and meanest and absolute worst have others there with them. characters that always have someone looking for them. dying is a boring side of a life that has nothing inside of it.
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