“It was easy to read him as shy or uncertain, she thought, but he really wasn’t either. Noah was. But Adam was just quiet. He wasn’t lost for words; he was observing.”
okay but consider adam parrish having such a strong bond with cabeswater that it has physical manifestations whenever he experiences any strong emotions
adam blushing fiercely when Helen compliments him on his suit at one of ms gansey’s auctions, only to find a couple of wild violets tugged gently behind his ear
exhausted adam dosing off at his desk only to wake up later finding out that he accidentally grew himself a pillow of soft forest moss on his open latin textbook under his arms
adam getting feisty during a debate in literature class, and noticing thick green vines winding up dangerously around the legs of henry’s chair because godDAMmit cheng alice in wonderland is a metaphor for the abstract unruly world of modern mathematics developing during mid-19th century NOT about an acid trip
ronan and adam bickering at each other and adam getting angrier and angrier with every word without really meaning to bc he really does’t feel like getting into yet another fight and can he and ronan just stop being so difficult he is so tired and he just wants to go out for a drive with him or something then he gets distracted by the sudden silence and ronan staring at adam’s hands and when he opens up his clenched fists there is a small delicate pansy hiding between his fingers
blue laughing uncontrollably at gansey’s outfit when they go out for a picnic (a plaid jacket with a cotten vest is a perfectly reasonable choice for the chill of early spring air, JANE) and the sound of it makes adam burst into laughter which results in dandelion seeds falling all around the five of them washed in sunlight like magical rain
adam’s stomach rumbling loudly because he ran out of money for dinner at the end of the month, only to find a large shiny red apple dangling of a thin branch in his closet
ronan kissing adam for the fist time at st agnes and adam accidentally turns his tiny shitty apartment into an actual improvised botany garden (fucking hell parrish there is an actual alive RABBIT hopping on your mattress way to be an actual disney princess with the forest animal kingdom stalking on your love life dam n SHut UP Lynch you brought a bird from a dream magical forest you are the one to talk)
Ronan wrapped his arms around Adam, pinning Adam’s upper arms against him. He was contained. “Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit,” Ronan said into Adam’s hearing ear, and Adam’s body sagged against Ronan, chest heaving.
adam: you talk about glendower too much
gansey: how many times must i be king shamed in my own factory
let’s talk about what an Actual Loser richard campbell gansey iii is:
he has like 5 friends even though he’s active and well-known at school. he somehow managed to become captain of the rowing team without actually making friends with anyone on the rowing team. what the fuck gansey
he was on the rowing team which means his sleep schedule is ridiculous and he wore tight spandex once a day every day for a year
he literally has a reputation among the teachers and staff at aglionby for never shutting the fuck up about glendower and ley lines and w/e
he has literally flown them but still doesn’t understand how helicopters are different from cars
he makes his sister stop her helicopter in the middle of the fucking woods on private property so he can go check out a raven but can’t be bothered to get out of the car to go into whole foods with her
he literally dresses like a suburban dad at a barbecue. who the fuck else wears polo shirts with cargo pants. come on gansey
his best friends are a really judgmental magic waitress, a pop punk ghost, a genius-slash-supermodel-future president of earth with self-esteem issues, an angry gay irish street racing farmer, and an 80something british professor who loves pigeons like how do you even find these people gansey
he drives an impractical car, lives in an impractical abandoned warehouse, and keeps an impractical journal just for the #aesthetic
i love him so much this tiny dad. small child. protect
-Gansey has hazel eyes
-and round, gold glasses
-Noah has big ears
-Adam’s eyebrows are fair and nearly nonexistent
-Adam looks like a sepia photo
-GANSEY HAS DIMPLES
Nothing but My Aching Soul 