Tag: the raven cycle

punctures:

hcnrycheng:

i think my fav exchange in trk was when the gray man says “ive been thinking abt adam parrish and his band of merry men..” and maura was like ‘im p sure the male protagonist of this series is gansey…..’ and the gray man is just like ‘lmao…… we can all have our opinions’

#LISTEN THIS MOMENT GAVE ME LIFE #it was so brilliant to basically get a character casually lean on the fourth wall #and state that even though gansey is nominally the protagonist #SO MUCH of the books’ plot revolves around adam #nearly every big decision/gamechanger was a result of adam’s actions #awakening the line; bringing cabeswater back; figuring out how to awaken the skeletons; figuring out how to save gansey #and i also love that it’s the gray man stating it #because he’s kind of emotionally removed from the situation #like these kids all love gansey #gansey is their north star; their leader; their king #and so they all instantly assume he’s the protagonist of this tale #maura does too #and the gray man being mostly an outsider and a character who’s been shown to be very cool/pragmatic #just points out that technically when you come down to it #adam parrish is the male lead of this adventure #it was always about him saving himself #ever since he decided fate was bullshit and drew another card and bet on it: magician #or perhaps even before that #because adam’s had to bet on himself his whole life #and saved himself and his friends along the way (via amiracleofmovingparts)

somosinevitables:

He knew he had started his entire time at Aglionby certain that all he wanted to do was get as far away from this state and everything in it as possible.

He couldn’t tell if he was letting himself idolize this place or Ronan, and he wasn’t sure there was a difference.

The only reality was this: He was home. How badly he wanted to stay.

faerielament:

colburns:

synapsesnerves:

colburns:

adam is very serious and very driven and very introspective but he is also a geekass nerdbaby so let’s talk about that

  • literally our introduction to his friendship with ronan is that they’re both covered in scabs because they were dragging each other behind a moving car on one of these things
  • instead of trying to break up ronan & declan’s fight, he finds a bouncy ball with spongebob printed on it and hangs out in an alley playing with it
  • goes full on Notice Me Senpai the moment a hot teacher walks in. put your hand down, parrish
  • he is taking a SCIENTIFIC METHOD EXTRACURRICULAR. who does this. who
  • the transformer toy??? oh my god??
  • stares blankly at helen gansey when she asks if he wants to go into whole foods
  • that time he got stressed out and the narrative was saying “adam melted into the seat” and “adam slithered down even farther into the seat” son please
  • that time he absolutely lost his shit and started giggling and letting out helpless wails of laughter because of malory’s pigeon show
  • sees gansey looking at the aglionby dean and mouths “yee-haw” SHUT UP
  • when gansey decided he was going to wingman adam and adam covered his entire face and was So Embarrassed
  • his general attitude of “ronan lynch is an ASSHOLE who is HANDSOME and BEAUTIFUL and SUCH A DICK” that started literally with his first paragraph of narration
  • rmr when the kids brought gwenllian back to fox way and adam/ronan hid in the hallway like babyass cowards and then desperately scrambled out of the house at the first opportunity?
  • when ronan confessed that he’d dreamt cabeswater into being and adam is internally doing this 
  • “adam wanted desperately and masochistically for tad to ask him where he’d summered”
  • that time he slept for twenty-four hours and then woke up and drank an entire jug of pomegranate juice before leaving
  • that other time he slept all night and then woke up and ate two hamburger buns and drank all of ronan’s milk straight out of the jug
  • his helpless laughter when noah is like “u do have nice legs tho” and blue play-slaps both of them
  • flirting with his crush by using his psychic connection to a forest to make shitty EDM music play out in the open
  • smiling cheerily when his crush calls him an asshole
  • “the two-minute disparity aged him prematurely”

i am so here for this

  • when ronan comes to the garage to flirt with him very badly and adam is like “hmph! some of us have homework!”
  • in trk when maggie is describing how aurora talks to the kids about what interests them and for adam she asks him scientific and logical questions and he tries to get her to answer them too LIKE
  • the picture of an honest to god male model in his glove compartment
  • at fox way when he lays out all the tarot cards and spends ages studying each of them…. he is so scientific about everything he does my son
  • “other classmates complained about the work. work! work was the island adam swam to in a stormy sea.”
  • “shuffled his ambitiously laden messenger bag onto his other shoulder” what a nerdy phrase
  • when ronan called him einstein. he truly is
  • my favorite thing about the tarot cards at fox way is that he’s leaning on his elbows on the table and keeps shuffling around to keep looking at them? that’s so cute?
  • ronan also calls his science guy and i love it
  • i can’t believe i forgot this the first time but: LOOKING AT BLUE THROUGH THE LITTLE STONE WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE; that entire scene is so sweet
  • when everyone was going wild in the pig and blue was shouting along to the engine and noah was playing the drums on ronan’s headrest and adam tried his best to “not appear unwild” so that he wouldn’t ruin everybody’s fun
  • “he wondered if he was going to go through each year of his life thinking about how stupid he had been the year before”

diggrycedric:

instagram edit: the gangsey (the raven cycle)

the king. the mirror. the greywaren. the magician. the ghost.

“but what she didn’t realize about blue and her boys was that they were all in love with one another. she was no less obsessed with them than they were with her, or one another, analyzing every conversation and gesture, drawing out every joke into a longer and longer running gag, spending each moment either with one another or thinking about when next they would be with one another. blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. it was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other.” 

iwillbeyourhands:

adhdronanlynch:

iwillbeyourhands:

i lie awake at night wondering what adam meant when he said to gansey “you’ve dated way more than me”. in what context did this happen. how did these dating situations go. has dick gansey been in successful romantic situations with girls. please explain this maggie answer the real questions

i actually have headcanons about this and it involves gansey being his charming earnest self and generally dropping “what do you know about welsh kings” a lot, which somehow comes out like it’s some kind of flirty one-liner, and girls think hes one of those charming eccentrics and end up tagging along for lunch and they end up going out mostly inadvertently on gansey’s part but then evENTUALLY THEY REALIZE THAT HIS OBSESSION WITH WELSH KINGS IS NOT A JOKE OR A QUIRKY SIDE INTEREST, HE ALMOST CERTAINLY CARES MORE ABOUT OWEN GLENDOWER THAN HE DOES ABOUT THEM AND ALSO HIS ROOMMATE IS REALLY SCARY MAYBE THEY DON’T WANT TO DATE THIS GUY AS BADLY AS THEY THOUGHT 

so they tell him they can’t have a boyfriend because they have to concentrate on their studies

and he says he understands and wishes them well and says hes enjoyed their time together immensely and will miss their company

this has happened at least two or three times at aglionby and does not include the times when he goes on ridiculous trips for questing reasons and ends up wooing some local girl or expert or cashier or something with his earnestness like some sort of fucking movie protagonist who can’t do anything without acquiring a romantically interested sidekick (whom he then parts with because his true love is Henrietta)

i love this THANK YOU

princssazula:

i think my fav exchange in trk was when the gray man says “ive been thinking abt adam parrish and his band of merry men..” and maura was like ‘im p sure the male protagonist of this series is gansey…..’ and the gray man is just like ‘lmao…… we can all have our opinions’