#ronans booked!

[jacqcrisis]

Every single time Astarion starts talking about taking Cazador's place in the ritual of ascension, Ronan is doing everything not to grab him by the shoulders, look him in the eye, and tell him that he's here to kill one vampire aspiring to a kind of twisted godhood.

Don't make it two.

[rotnread]

reading smut in public without showing an ounce of emotion like the lady that I am

[annimir]

They are my life now. All the characters are the love of my life, and I’m yearning for a place that doesn’t exist. If you even care.

[peachesobviously]

the raven boys

[valtianan]

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

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

[briggycat]

I genuinely think trc/tdt is the craziest thing I’ve ever read cause what do you mean her dad’s a tree?? what do you mean he got banned from harvard for summoning a crab on a hoverboard??

[out-of-the-forest-i-come]

there's something to be said about how adam is always described as the soft one and ronan the harsh one when it comes to looks, that adam is a sepia picture whereas ronan is jagged stone, but in truth ronan is a huge softie and adam has such ragged edges. but also that ronan has enough edges himself not to cut himself on adam's and that adam has enough softness to be able to receive ronan's without destroying it

[squash1]

happy valentine’s day <3

a gentle reminder that ronan dreamt adam a watch that told the time wherever ronan was because it was the closest he could get to a love letter. and that instead of saying “i love you” (too easy, too basic) adam says “tamquam” and ronan says “alter idem” which not only literally means “as if a second self” but also implies that adam was the one to start saying it in the first place.

a gentle reminder that the line “i suppose…she makes me quiet. like henrietta” exists and was spoken by gansey about blue in answer to the question “how do you know you love her?” and that blue would do anything for gansey because he’s the first person she calls when she needs to escape because he. makes. her. quiet. too.

and, finally, a gentle reminder that declan wrote “you were the ending i chose for myself” because he wanted to be happy with jordan, to have a life with her. and a reminder that jordan’s first sweetmetal, the very thing that keeps her awake and alive, is a portrait of declan lynch.

that’s all.

we all deserve to be loved like this.

[atom-parrish7]

Adam Parrish

[ The Raven Cycle ]

[iliarareadssss]

Therapy is expensive, Daydreaming about fictional characters is not.

[gralixe]

Ronan & Adam, while Adam is mourning

[sunclown]

Learning to draw the raven cycle gang

[effemar]

MY BLOOD WAS FULL OF GAGS AND OTHER PEOPLE'S DISEASES. MY MONSTROUS LITTLE MEMORY HAD SWALLOWED ME WHOLE. IT WAS THE YEAR I OFFICIALLY BECAME THE BRIDE OF JESUS.

[speciouspessimism]

ronan is a total shitbag but also it’s crazy to me how everyone treats him considering (they at least think) he just had a suicide attempt. they want this kid to pull himself together and go to school and take responsibility for his life. everyone is like “omg he’s being self destructive again! dammit!” You guys have recent evidence that he Wants To Die

[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

[adamparrishsaccent]

Pardon my first post but we, as a community, do NOT talk about this scene enough.

THIS.

THIS. THIS.

I cannot possibly express how much I loved this one little scene. I think it really set the stage for a relationship between Adam and Ronan, as well as the difference between the way Gansey and Adam handle Ronan.

Firstly, no shade to my man Gansey, love him and his weird little king crush, but I think this scene highlighted perfectly what kind of puts him at odds with Ronan and Adam. In my opinion, Gansey seems to have a “fix it” sort of mindset. Not that he’d ever consider his friends broken or in need of repair, but he doesn’t like it when bad things happen to them or they engage in self destructive behavior. He wants to fix it because he cares about them, understandably so.

When Gansey sees Ronan punching the wall, he’s quick to intervene and set him “straight”. He wants to fix the situation, make sure Ronan doesn’t hurt himself or do something destructive. He gets a little snarky with Adam for his lack of action, but Adam just simply answers that he isn’t the one who can kill Ronan’s demons. This is a very key difference between Adam and Gansey’s character right here that I think is often overlooked.

We all know Gansey is like the mom friend, he tries to keep the peace and keep everyone in line, and subsequently feels a lot of guilt when something happens to them. They are his responsibility because he loves them so deeply. This certainly has its benefits with someone like Ronan, who needs who’s levelheaded and composed when he isn’t. Both Gansey and Adam generally fill that role for him, but it’s the way that they do it that just GETS me.

Adam doesn’t stop Ronan from punching that wall not because he doesn’t care, but because he understands it in a way that Gansey doesn’t. Adam lets Ronan take out his frustrations because it’s not his job to stop him. Ronan has demons, he has gone through horrible things and the things that surface because of that aren’t always pretty, but Adam doesn’t try and fix those things. He lets Ronan punch the wall because he understands needing to do it. Everyone has their own demons, and only Ronan can overcome his own. It’s not anyone else’s place to try and do it for him, which I think Gansey unknowingly attempts to do for all of his friends.

This isn’t to say Gansey’s way of handling it was wrong or that Ronan should be allowed to just go and do whatever destructive thing, nor is it to say that one method of handling the situation was better than the other. Ronan very clearly needs BOTH Adam and Gansey when he experiences those lows. Adam allows him to express what he feels, and Gansey keeps him from going too far with it. I just love this little scene that pinpoints that key difference between Adam and Gansey.

I could also use his and Adam’s constant fights and bickering regarding Gansey’s insistence on always fixing things, but I will probably do that in another post...