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so since maggie said that no one remembers noah and this is backed up by no mention of him after his sacrifice, do you ever think about all the blank spots in the gangsey’s memory?
blue’s pretty sure she’s kissed someone other than gansey. she remembers the feeling of kissing someone and them not dropping dead. but she has no idea who it would’ve been. maybe it was adam, but that doesn’t seem right at all. she never wanted to kiss him.
gansey doesn’t know why there’s an empty bedroom at monmouth. it served as a guest room before and could do so again, but what’s the long-standing point of an empty bedroom? he wonders why he never tried to convince adam to stay there (with rent, of course). or maybe they could’ve separated the bathroom and the kitchen. or gansey could’ve pretended that he slept in his own room, though no one would’ve believed that. anything other than letting an empty bedroom collect dust.
truthfully, noah was so engrained in the hunt for glendower that i don’t see how any of them could ever fully remember it without remembering him. maybe one day they’ll all return to henrietta and find a living reminder of noah czerny. they’ll never understand why the name causes them so much grief. the feelings will never leave, but they’ll never remember him again
so like. we all know that the reason gansey was so intense about ronan graduating and adam moving out of his dad's house was because he knew he was going to die that year and wanted to make sure his friends were set without him right
random headcannons i have for the raven cycle:
gansey was long-distance dating a girl in washington when he moved to henrietta and after a couple months he just forgets that they were dating, it’s not until ronan answers his phone that they break up
blue has a pin that says “fuck the bees” that really confuses her environmentalist group in university
adam becomes fox way’s handyman and cannot come over without replacing at least one lightbulb
blue calls adam and gansey “nick and gatsby”
the fox way cats hate gansey. like he cannot leave fox way without a million scratches
adam and ronan are exactly the same height. like unnervingly so - so they truly look like horror movie twins and are on equal ground
even when ronan moves to the barn he still comes by and checks in on gansey at monmouth randomly
part 2
what i like about the raven cycle is that the romance feels casual. most ya books (and many books in general) always have this profuse, gigantic focus and romance, which often weakens the plot and other elements of the story like character development or worldbuilding. but in trc, it fits right into the story as maggie stiefvater doesn't force it into the story, but lets it interact with the different aspects of the book and only distributes it healthy bits.
like, the characters have a life outside of their romance arc—they have their own motives, make their choices, pursue leisure activities and bond with other characters in a platonic way.
i personally really love that about the book because it shows how you can have romance subplots (plural!) without making the readers feel that there is nothing else in the book. we have the search for glendower, the pov characters' inner conflicts, the vanishing of maura, the appearance of the villains, family problems and mundane problems like school exercises and slightly eerie, old people that stay over at your house because they want to help you find a living corpse.
it's just that the book doesn't focus on one particular aspect (especially not the romance one, which is what the blurb unfortunately indicates) and i live for it.
random headcannons for trc: part 2
gansey will drop the craziest dad lore randomly from his time travelling, like adam will say something about cults and he’ll be like “oh yes, i was involved in one in mexico! :)” and will not explain further
blue starts swearing a ton after becoming friends with ronan
adam and blue start making bets about things, especially at gansey washington galas (no ronan and gansey are not allowed to join)
ronan was the cutest kid. like so adorable that declan regularly wonders how he turned into such an asshole
gansey starts spending a lot more time at fox way and becomes maura’s favourite now because of how much he loves blue (and know that she knows he won’t like die)
mr gray teaches blue self-defence and gives her a light course on how to be a hitman (in case ecology doesn’t work out!)
blue and matthew get along very well, which secretly warms ronan’s heart. his two little siblings
part 1
im obsessed with the fact ronan and blue's endearing nickname for eachother is 'you asshole'. I Love Them
Maura continued, “You’re avoiding a hard choice. Acting by not acting. You’re ambitious, but you feel like someone’s asking something of you you’re not willing to give. Asking you to compromise your principles. Someone close to you, I think. Your father?”
“Brother, I think,” Persephone said.
“I don’t have a brother, ma’am,” Adam replied. But Blue saw his eyes dart to Gansey.
nothing just that gansey was the only one to smile before holding the mouse. so.
I WISH YOU COULD BE KISSED, JANE. BECAUSE I WOULD BEG JUST ONE OFF YOU, UNDER ALL THIS. AND THEN WE'D NEVER SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT AGAIN
i know homophobic bully turns out to actually be gay themselves is a pretty standard trope but i don't think anyone has ever done it with quite the same commitment as joseph kavinsky. he literally sent gansey a dick pic from ronan's phone. like why did you do that king
me *drunkenly sobbing, inconsolable*: and he gave up monmouth manufacturing… *drinks drink* his home… his haven, his place, his heart, himself… *wipes eyes fruitlessly* all for ronan
(head in hands) mint is a hornet repellent. mint is a hornet repellent.
The saddest death in trc to me isn’t any of the actual characters it’s when those guys broke into Ganseys room and destroyed his model Henrietta
you havent experienced jealousy until you read the raven cycle and want to be apart of gansey’s band of merry men. or whatever.
do u ever think about how niall lynch was a devilishly handsome son of a bitch who was impossible not to like, naturally commanded the attention of everyone in the room, told stories as easily as breathing, ruled over his own particular corner of the world, didn’t even seem real until you knew him, died facedown on a gravel driveway, and then do you ever think about gansey.
wtf was declan doing bringing ashley to monmouth at the start of trb… he told her oh yeah let me show you the place my psycho brother lives (don’t worry he won’t be there) i gotta take you to the freak museum! this is his weird ass fuck buddy and their poor sidekick hahaha date night! you’re a lobster
this scene gave me so much mental illness I can’t even explain what this did to me
How did Maggie write “Because I am overfull on secrets and underfed on friends.” and just expected us to move on??? Henry Cheng you will always be famous.
ronan lynch is better than me because if my dad had recently died and my brother was a dick and my crush started dating someone else and my best friend was going to die in a year and i was conjuring shit out of my dreams i would have been even a bigger asshole than he is