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// Adam Parrish, the Raven Cycle
Iām obsessed with the way Maggie writes dialogue
The Raven King is pretty much guaranteed to destroy me. And everyone else in the fandom.Ā
Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boys because they were trouble. And two, stay away from Aglionby boys, because they were bastards.
āi really wanted to draw them exploaring cabeswater
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 ājudgementā 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 heās is 1 which is magician obvi. THEN is ganey which is 7 which is the chariot and thatās 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 š¤ 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 CHARIOTāS WILL
okay thanks for coming to my ted talk
āI Bet You Think About Meā (Taylor Swift)
Richard āYou grew up in a silver-spoon, gated community / Glamorous, shiny, bright Beverly Hillsā Gansey |||
And
Blue āI was raised on a farm, no, it wasnāt a mansion / Just livinā room dancinā and kitchen table billsā Sargent
save me raven cycle graphic novel. save me. raven cycle graphic novel save me. save me raven cycle graphic novel.
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.
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 ā 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)
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Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasnāt all-encompassing, that wasnāt blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that sheād had this kind, she didnāt want the other.
thought too hard about ghosts as a metaphor for trauma. thought about noah czerny until i threw up. the result
Feeling stupid like both of them
Ever since the trc graphic novel news came out the only thing I can think about are the gangsey's heights, so here is MY hc on that
I think its described in the books that blue is VERY short and around 5 feet or something but i wanna give her the benefit of doubt so i hc my girl as 5'1 ft (154 cm). Ronan is lanky right? Is he or is he not? Or was it adam that was lanky? Nvm he's still fking tall to me so he's near 6'2 ft (188 cm I think?). Noah also seems to be a bit short. But average. Like mid size. He seems like he's 5'9 ft (179 cm) (I'm gonna ignore the fact that him and gansey are almost the same height in the novel). MOVING on to Adam. He's tall alright. But not as tall as ronan so I think 5'11 or 6 ft (182 cm) Henry's the same height (or atleast near it) NOW. PEOPLE. My beloved. Dick. Gansey. The lll. Is 5'7ft (short king). graphic novels did us short gansey truthers justice. He's pocket sized. And we love him. Yes we do.
Gansey : You wanna kill people?
Ronan : Nah, I just wanna make ghosts from scratch.
Noah, in the background : *terrified*
very self-indulgent sketch of gangsey hugs <333 im definitely not jealous hahahaha definitely not š
gangsey shenanigansšš·š± what are they looking at?
ok so basically we know that Ronan plays tennis, right? I need someone to hear me out on this because I donāt really have something very substantial, but imagine an au where Ronan is a professional tennis player. Ronan is really angry, which means that he would 100% be the type to throw his racket around when he starts losing. It also means that he would angrily serve balls into the net and hit them over like heās aiming to hit the ball kids in the background, or at least scare them. Adam could be someone of a similar ranking so they have to commonly play together. Or maybe they were on the same school team? It could be a āwant to win vs. need to winā type of situation. Adam would be one of those tennis prodigies, and maybe he was forced into tennis by his parents as an attempt to be them out of poverty? But the older he gets the harder it is to fund and he gets moved down and he and Ronan donāt really play against each other anymore, but whilst they did they managed to strike up a rivalry.
Gansey would be Ronanās coach, and heās constantly trying to convince Ronan to not lose his shit. Blue would be Adamās, (or she would be someone else idk work in progress) and she and Gansey meet each other at one of their matches where they hit it off.
Then, they somehow get paired up for a doubles tournament, and they have to start training together. This happens because Ronanās usual doubles partner (Noah) gets injured and is unable to play for the season because of it. However, this forces Ronan and Adam to get closer, and Blue and Gansey spend more time together. Adam and Ronan manage to work themselves out before they arrive to the finals, but only when Ronan and Adam win the finals do Gansey and Blue have their moments of Realization ā¢ļø. Noah cheers them on from the sidelines.
(and ofc thereās the wiping of sweat with shirts, and Adam following the droplets of sweat down Ronanās back and thereās Noah making fun of everybody because heās figured them all out)
sometimes a family IS a non-psychic girl who communicates w the dead, a boy w visions, a boy whose dreams materialize, a guy who has been dead for years and Richard Campbell Gansey III
idk and idc if anyone has said this before but Gansey is literally Sophie from howls moving castle. He just says stuff and it happens. Thatās her magic shit too. And both have circular time crap aswell. Find me in the future and you will live for glendower. Fuck yeah I love books. Peace and love.
I just read the Raven cycle. How did it take me this long to find it. It has EVERYTHING. Romance mystery intrigue murder FUCKING MAGIC. This shit is my cocaine. I read the whole thing in five days. Iām buying the dreamer trilogy. I CANT STOP THINKING ABOUT THEM. I am not normal and I havenāt been for a long time.
AHHH i actually love the gangsey they are everything to me but here are my drawings of the characters from Maggie Stiefvaterās āThe Raven Cycleā yippee
(blue sargent, richard gansey iii, adam parrish, ronan lynch, and noah czerny)
i have to reread the series but i recommend it to anyone who hasnāt read!
adam parrish is lowkey me and idk how to feel about that
Sometimes when Iām listening to curated playlists I imagine complex edits of a character or events of a story to match the music, transitions and all⦠usually books that have no digital media (films).
Iām not sure if itās intentional, but I love that each raven boy corresponds to a horseman of the apocalypse:
Ronan: war (fights anything with a social security number, is also battling his own emotions/fears)
Noah: pestilence (his body/spirit decaying over time)
Adam: famine (often described as hungry, represents a more figurative interpretation of starvation/desire)
Gansey: death (for obvious reasons)
I guess Noah and Gansey could be switched, as Noah is quite literally dead and Gansey could be interpreted as Conquest in place of Pestilence.
anyways, I just thought this was kind of interesting
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.