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happy birthday to cancer icon adam parrish. moodboard. you agree.

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something about jean having to live under the ground in the nest for so long but the people he loves are from the sky

renee is a rainbow. kevin is a star. jeremy is the sun.

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this is from july and i am never going to finish it

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Dear Maggie. You rock. I love your sense of humour. Now on to the question: what is the financial state the Sargent family? I don't anyone who doesn't own a phone (an old nokia is way better than no phone.). I'm not from USA so I have no idea what's the poverty level there. Thank you for the answer. Keep making me laugh while I should be listening to my professor but I'm secretly reading The Raven cycle books. Byeee.

Oh oh oh! I am so glad you’ve asked this, because I’ve been waiting for three years for someone to give me an excuse to talk about economics in the Raven Cycle.

Here’s an insidious belief in the U.S.: that poverty is a culture. That people who live in poverty have some sort of commonality beyond not making enough money to pay their bills. That poverty is dirty and uneducated and lazy. That you can use poverty to generalize millions of people.

Here’s another insidious belief in the U.S. that wealth is a culture. That the wealthy also form some kind of group that can be standardized into an entitled, out-of-touch populace vacationing in Cape Cod. That money somehow renders you an untouchable asshole with great hair and rarified problems.

In the Raven Cycle, we have Gansey, entitled and cosseted wealthpet, who has bought this idea, hook-line-and-sinker. To him, Adam Parrish’s family is what the poor look like. They have shitty family lives, they live in trailer parks, they waste their money on things that won’t get them out of poverty. It literally breaks Gansey’s brain when he meets Blue, because her family is just as poor as Adam’s, but doesn’t look anything like what he thinks poverty is supposed to look like. In the Dream Thieves, Gansey says, clumsy and oafish, “I used to think, before I met you, that it was about the money. Like, I thought Adam’s family was too poor for love.”

Oh, Gansey, my wealthpet, this is what we call a teachable moment for you!

Likewise, Gansey is what Adam thinks rich people look like. Oblivious about money and real-life issues, condescending, judgmental, the product of a Washington, D.C. white family living in a house made glorious by buttresses of old money. Also, great hair. When Adam goes to a Congressional party in The Dream Thieves, he sees dozens of examples to back up this idea of what he thinks the wealthy look like. But then there is Ronan Lynch: he’s rich too, but missing the markers Adam thinks identify the rich. In The Raven Boys, Adam thinks, This was so like Ronan. His room inside Monmouth was filled with expensive toys, but, like a spoiled child, he ended up playing outside with sticks. Adam hasn’t figured out yet — that’s for later in the series — that playing outside with sticks is much more Ronan’s speed than any expensive toy. It doesn’t matter if he’s rich or poor, he’d be building ramps to the moon either way.

I realize this doesn’t answer the phone question. I’m getting there. I’ve been disastrously poor: I distinctly remember the day my car got repossessed in college, and I remember discovering I wouldn’t have enough money for my last semester despite being on the Dean’s List, and I remember having three jobs, and I remember my parents offering to cook my husband and I dinner and us having to turn it down because we couldn’t afford the $7 in gas it would take to visit them in their part of Virginia. I had a cell phone, but it was shut off for nonpayment and the land line was cheaper to keep going. Also they’d take a check when they came to the door for payment.

But I don’t know if people knew I was poor, because I didn’t look like what people thought was poor — I’d made it to college, after all! I was a doctor’s daughter, after all! People assume poverty comes with universal markers. That poor people all make similar choices or got there in similar ways. I probably could’ve moved my funds around to get my cellphone turned back on more regularly, but it was more important to me to use that money for buying art supplies. Blue’s family is poor, but I’m sure that she could make choices and afford a $20 gas station phone if she really wanted one. But she chooses to spend that $20 on strange boots or a shirt to deconstruct or her hopeful college fund. If Blue missed having a cellphone, you’d know it — she’s a whiner, it would have been in the text.

So the answer is that she’s poor enough that she has to make decisions about whether or not she has a cellphone. But just how poor “poor enough” is to warrant that decision is incredibly subjective, because Blue is not her money.

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wymack: ok, we need you to go pick up our new striker. feel like you can be nice for once?

andrew: yeah i can take a stab at it

wymack: great! let's- andrew no

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step and repeat

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Kevin whines during sex and Aaron bites pillows.

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It comes out that Andrew and Neil live togheter, the Exy world goes crazy over it and a lot of people start questioning the nature of their relationship. Here is a list of things Andrew has answered to reporters when asked about it

"Picked that junkie up from the street and brought him home"

"He just started following me one day and won't leave" *turns around and tries to shoo Neil away, Neil doesnt move an inch "see?"

*annoyed glare

*eyebrow raise

*straight up ignoring the reporter

"He is my personal Leuprechaun, I kidnapped him from the end of the rainbow"

"He is my nothing"

"You can see him too???" *fakes an exaggerated surprised face

Suffice to say Andrew's PR team is planning to colectively resign at this point

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aaron minyard funniest character alive

literally fucking blood everywhere and a teammate being threatened and hes like ‘ha bitch bet you wish you didnt try to fix my relationship with my brother now!!’

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No bc it’s all just doodles

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big fan of collage age characters living that black mould realism

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Dr Aaron ‘Asshole’ Minyard doing his rounds at the hospital.

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Aaron's fingers fumble with the tie, his hands shaking so bad he curls them into a fist. Today he goes to trial for Drake's murder.

He takes a breath, trying a second time to tie his tie, cursing when he fumbles again.

This is bullshit.

"Need help?"

Aaron looks up, meeting Andrew's gaze in the mirror. He's leaning casually against the bathroom door, cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

Aaron sighs. "Yeah."

Andrew nods, pushing away from the wall. He carefully balances his cigarette on the back of the toilet and moves towards Aaron. He gently takes the tie between his hands and begins effortlessly tying it.

"How did you learn to tie a tie?" Aaron asks, watching as his brother knots his tie with deft fingers.

"When you spend a lifetime in and out of courthouses you learn quick," Andrew responds taking a step back and smoothing down Aaron's tie. He smirks. "There you go, young man, you look really respectable now."

"How are you not freaking out?" Aaron asks watching his brother walk towards the bathroom door.

Andrew picks up his cigarette, flicking the ashes into the open toilet, and says, "Who says I'm not?"

He walks away before Aaron could respond.

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Aaron's fingers fumble with the tie, his hands shaking so bad he curls them into a fist. Today he goes to trial for Drake's murder.

He takes a breath, trying a second time to tie his tie, cursing when he fumbles again.

This is bullshit.

"Need help?"

Aaron looks up, meeting Andrew's gaze in the mirror. He's leaning casually against the bathroom door, cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

Aaron sighs. "Yeah."

Andrew nods, pushing away from the wall. He carefully balances his cigarette on the back of the toilet and moves towards Aaron. He gently takes the tie between his hands and begins effortlessly tying it.

"How did you learn to tie a tie?" Aaron asks, watching as his brother knots his tie with deft fingers.

"When you spend a lifetime in and out of courthouses you learn quick," Andrew responds taking a step back and smoothing down Aaron's tie. He smirks. "There you go, young man, you look really respectable now."

"How are you not freaking out?" Aaron asks watching his brother walk towards the bathroom door.

Andrew picks up his cigarette, flicking the ashes into the open toilet, and says, "Who says I'm not?"

He walks away before Aaron could respond.

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Odysseus: I am different, I am no longer the man you married, it's been 20 long years but if you could just fall in love with me again?

Penelope: if you can do something for me

Odysseus: anything

Penelope: move my wedding bed.

Odysseus: I can't, it's made out of a living tree, to move it I would have to destroy it. How can yo-

Penelope: oh, I thought we were asking each other stupid questions?

Odysseus:

Penelope: 'FaLl iN lOvE wItH mE aGaiN' to do that I would have had to stop loving you.

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no fictional character will ever match gansey in terms of yearning. I wish you could be kissed jane because i would beg just one off you was crazy

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ronan chopping wood at the barns and adam fucking STARING