#reading the raven cycle

[gayleafpool]

blue is crazy btw yogurt with fruit is the best u mix that shit up and it makes the yogurt sweeter + u get little pieces of fruit in it + it’s yummy

[dcvina-claires]

i love when a character is a ghost but in a tragic way instead of a scary way. i love when a character has been dead from the beginning but is still holding on to stay in the narrative. i love when a character could choose to resent the living but ends up loving them instead. i love when a character drives the story but isn’t quite there enough to be at the center of it. i love when the ghosts are the protectors instead of the ones causing the harm. i love when a character is at the heart of the story because depending on where you began it, no matter how you told it, the story is about the ghost who struggled to keep their humanity

[plutonicbees]

tamquam alter idem. like a second self. magician & dreamer.

[galaxyspeaking]

“Adam finally sat down on one of the pews. Laying his cheek against the smooth back of it, he looked at Ronan. Strangely enough, Ronan belonged here, too, just as he had at the Barns.

This noisy, lush religion had created him just as much as his father's world of dreams; it seemed impossible for all of Ronan to exist in one person. Adam was beginning to realize that he hadn't known Ronan at all. Or rather, he had known part of him and assumed it was all of him. The scent of Cabeswater, all trees after rain, drifted past Adam, and he realized that while he'd been looking at Ronan, Ronan had been looking at him.”

[pociondeodio]

going back to my old hobbies! (rotating adam parrish in my mind like a microwave)

[kidciitrix]

pov: you’re a waitress at nino’s and one of the aglionby boys just called you a prostitute

[a-library-ghost]

forever thinking about them

[broresteia]

the gangsey

[unscientificbalderdash]

never getting over adam comparing ronan to a god and then to a king in the span of two pages, relating him to two figures/concepts that he holds in high contempt and high esteem at the same time all the while looking at him like he wants to peel him layer by layer till he gets to his core god i am Insane

[valtianan]

“they were young and loud and triumphant, and the kings of henrietta.”

blue sargent | adam parrish | ronan lynch | gansey III | noah czerny

[gayleafpool]

gwenllian is funny

[adamsrcnan]

pre-pynch adam being unsurprised that ronan would be at his door in the middle of the night just gets me every damn time. like i need to know how that first time went.

the surprise of ronan standing there sullen and looking a little lost. the awkwardness of the cramped space and these two boys trying to fit in it.

ronan saying or doing something that would make adam sigh or roll his eyes. the falling into comfortable silence. ronan throwing himself onto adam's mattress, kicking off his boots and flipping open a text book as if he intended to read it.

adam side eyeing this action. their eyes locking. adam, eye brow raised. ronan, giving back a dead stare (because in that moment he wants to scream at the intimacy of everything so instead he has to pretend he feels NOTHING)

adam shaking his head and carrying on with his studies. ronan dozing off to adam's pen scratching on his notebook. adam kicking his leg later telling him to move he needs to sleep. ronan ungracefully rolling off the mattress onto the floor beside it. adam's scoff as he says "nice lynch" before laying down. (doesn't escape adam's notice that it's warm now and smells like feathers and leather. smells like ronan).

ronan snatching up a hoodie of adam's and balling it up under his head. adam throwing his arm over his eyes and losing himself in sleep immediately. ronan staring up at the ceiling listening to adam's breathing (he's so quiet he could be dead) and then turning his gaze to adam's face and his hand just shy of the edge of the mattress. (he can see the callouses in the moonlight, the faint stains of oil adam couldn't get out, the little pen ink marks) ronan sighing deeply before turning away and muttering "night parrish"

and then the second, third, and fourth times it happens. ronan dreaming up a better set of pillows for adam bc "your hoodies suck ass parrish" and "you have your own bed lynch" and ronan snarling in response and not saying anything back.

like i'm sorry i can't believe maggie just dropped that casual fact into the story TWICE. once from ronan and once from adam and then just never let us see it happen ever and expected me to not lose my mind over it

[pato-roldnart]

Someone is in love and distracted 🤭

Some pynch sketches i needed to get out of my system 🙊🙊

[last-pages]

what's wrong? do you not like your christmas gift of books about a really rich guy and four people who are desperate to date him or be him, their skater ghost, a forest literally made of dreams, and a pet raven? okay. guess you'll never get to know the second secret then.

[andrewminyardslawyer]

Every day I wake up and am forced to witness the most heinous interpretations of characters and storylines