“forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit”
Tag: the raven cycle
And fluently disdainful of dream-Ronan’s clumsy attempts to communicate.
leavable.
ronan: [kicks a trash can] i hate school so much. fuck this i dont even wanna graduate. i wont go to college this is bullshit, this is Bullshit [punches a locker] fucking shit damn it i Hate school
adam: [walks in]
ronan: anyways i love school
Okay but Ronan being super domestic just… super violently???
-Like calling up 300 Fox Way and saying “MAURA I NEED YOUR APPLE PIE RECIPE I’M GOING TO MAKE THE BEST GOD DAMN PIE YOU’VE EVER HAD”
-Or Skyping Adam and telling him about redecorating the living room or something and Adam’s quietly laughing because his terrifying boyfriend is talking about interior decor and Ronan sees and he’s just like “No, Adam, I don’t think you understand, I’m gonna redecorate the SHIT out of this room”
-Throwbacks to his street racing days by driving tractors really intensely
-“Yo Sargent are you and Gansey coming for Christmas I got this FUCKIN BADASS CHRISTMAS TREE I gotta show you”
-“OPAL STOP DICKING AROUND IM FOLDING LAUNDRY OVER HERE”
-“No Gansey I am most certainly not knitting a sweater you can shut your face…………….it’s a scarf”
-“HEY PARRISH GET YOUR ASS UP HERE THE VIEW’S FUCKIN BEAUTIFUL”
unguibus et rostro
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
man but honestly few things fuck me up as much as when adam says in trb “i think you’ll find i do pretty much everything quiet”, because on one hand, as a massive introvert, i super relate– but on the other hand, when you think about the heartbreaking implications of that sentence, it’s like, fuck. fuck, of course you do
you laugh quietly because your dad is always angry, you cry quietly because the neighbors don’t care about your bruises; you’re quiet about your achievements because the kids from the trailer park don’t really care about your straight As, and you’re quiet in school because you’re ashamed of your accent; you think quietly because it makes it easier to pull apart your emotions and sort them into logical containers, and you love quietly because you don’t quite know how yet, and because in the dusty back roads of henrietta, virginia, a boy who loves girls and boys is not quite safe.
you brave, lonesome boy, of course you do everything quiet; how could it be otherwise?
My lovely Raven boys. I love them so.
“Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan’s worship into one downtown block.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, The Raven King
I just. Can’t believe what a total and utter sap ronan is. anyway here’s this