#gansey my love

[theirmagictheirquest]

gansey would love brat summer (he’d love an excuse to wear lime green)

[bookishjules]

got to hug gansey in my nap dream earlier. yeah i'll be living off that high for the rest of the week

[sunclown]

“This is the year you’ll fall in love”

[squash1]

“describe the raven cycle in one sentence”

ok:

[angryravenwithnomoney]

“He wanted the rest of his life.” The Raven King

[itsnotmika]

[blueseysyogurt]

im sure this has been done before but idc

art creds: group drawing -sas milledge from raven boys graphic novel ronan pfp - auro cyanide on deviantart and tumblr kavinsky pfp - maggie stiefvater

[cryinglookingatsoulages]

it’s the way gansey gaslights us like whatever the fuck is wrong is him is not there. what do you mean repression? this word is not in my vocabulary. but you know what is? The Dead Welsh King ™. how do you like my miniature of a town i died in? my life is so under my control it’s ridiculous. what? do i have my epipen on me? no, no i don’t. let’s just walk through this meadow and see what happens, cause you never know, you know?

[aglionbyacademia]

“And third, most importantly, Gansey was outrageously and eternally driven to distraction by the image of her behind the wheel of his car”

someone come get him, our boy is being a pathetic simp again

[longcoldwar]

the scene in the dream thieves where ronan is about to fight kavinsky and adam is strengthening cabeswater with persephone and adam tells him he knows about the rent and ronan almost tells adam he loves him.

[killingsboys]

a lot of people have said it a lot better than me but what i find most interesting about adam parrish is his capacity for being a villain, especially in trb. his path runs parallel to whelk's, and he could have found himself becoming whelk in the end. when he left monmouth in the middle of the night with the gun, there was every opportunity for him to do the wrong thing. he could have chosen to sacrifice someone else. he could have betrayed his friends. but he chooses not to. he spends his entire time in the series choosing not to become a villain. in cabeswater he tells whelk, "i'm here to stop this from happening again." throughout the series, he has the capacity not only for selfishness, but also for great cruelty. and yes, at times he is selfish, and he is cruel. but his character arc is defined by choosing to do the right thing, even when it is hard, even when it costs him greatly. and that is what makes him so fascinating. gansey and blue and ronan have these very strict moral compasses, and the privilege to be able to follow them. adam has neither, but he has his autonomy. he has the choice of goodness. and he has love. that is why he chooses to be good: because he loves his friends. and this is infinitely more compelling to me than someone who is good simply because it's their nature.

[adamprrishcycle]

saw this and realised it applies to basically every character in the raven cycle

[kazbiter]

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

[greetingsfromhenrietta]

i love how every one of gansey's friends hates him in different ways and to differing degrees (semi affectionate) and then henry is just like "i actually think he's pretty alright" and gansey adopts him immediately through tears

[squash1]

the most gansey song ever.

[a-library-ghost]

a king, a god, a ghost, an agent of a sentient forest, and a non psychic psychic feminist walk into a bar…they are all in love with one another…also the bar is a cursed cave containing unimaginable, world-altering phenomena…I don’t fucking know just get on board