people with mixed music taste have the right personality for anything.
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Just to add to thisâthe whole notion of Whelk being a terrible âbest friendââIâd like to point out a line from chapter 10 of The Raven Boys.
âIt was in the papers the next day, the catastrophic crash of the Whelk family fortune. Both of Whelkâs girlfriends left him. Well, the second one was technically Czernyâs, so perhaps that didnât count.â
So Whelk
â˘never really knew his âbest friendâ
â˘KILLED his âbest friendâ, and
â˘fooled around with his âbest friendâsâ girlfriend
Noah Czerny deserved better, REMEMBERED my assđđ
I find it interesting the way Whelk describes Noah when he was alive:
âCzerny didnât really have a sense of humor. He just sometimes said things that happened to be funny.â
âCzerny still hadnât cared, not really. He was the most mild, ambitionless creature Whelk had ever seen,â
Versus the way Noahâs sister describes him when he was alive:
âMy mom always said he was a firecracker, which just meant he was always getting speeding tickets and jumping on tables at family reunions and stuff. He always had so many ideas. He was so hyper.â
He called me one evening, I guess it wouldâve been when he was fourteen, and he told me heâd had this dream about ravens fighting and battling. He said they were all different colours and sizes and shapes, and he was inside them, and they were, like, swirling around him.â She motioned around herself in a whirlwind; she had Noahâs hands, Noahâs elbows. âAnd he told me, âI think it would be a cool art project.â
And finally the glimpse into alive Noah when he is feeding off Blue and Gwenllianâs energy:
âInternal you?â he guessed, as if she hadnât said anything. âWhatever. I just mean, like, a general you. So you come up with five, like, super great chicken recipes. Like, rotisserie. Those are the ones that cook for ever, right?â He ticked off his fingers. âLike, uh, Mexican. Honey-curry. Barbecue. Uh. Teriyaki? And. Garlic-Something. The other thing you need is, like, beverages. Crazy addictive beverages. People have to think, Iâm craving that honey-curry chicken and that, uh, lemon tea, hell, yeah, to the max, yeah, Chickie-chickie-chicken!â
He was more animated than sheâd ever seen him. This cheerfully prattling version of Noah was surely closer to the living version of him, the skateboarding Aglionby student with the bright red Mustang. She was struck by the realization that she probably wouldnât have ever become friends with this Noah. He wasnât terrible. Just young in a way that she had never been. It was an uncomfortable, sideways thought.
ââ and I would call it â are you ready â CHICKEN OUT. Get it? What do you want tonight? Oh, Mom, please get CHICKEN OUT.â Noah smacked Blueâs little ponytail so that it hit the top of her head. âYou could wear a little paper hat! You could be the face of CHICKEN OUT.â
And it just makes me even more angrier at Whelk, who was supposedly Noahâs best friend, because he didnât really know the true Noah if thatâs what he thought of him.
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From the FIRST CHAPTER of the FIRST BOOK of The Raven Cycle;
âApril days in Henrietta were quite often fair, tender things, coaxing sleeping trees to budâŚâ
Did she really justâ
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This is valid but why the hell is it in the light academia tag đđ
âGitchee⌠gitchee goo?â âIt means âI love youâ.â
â˘mystery of love starts playing but when the vocals kick in itâs Heinz Doofenshmirtzâ˘
entire phineas and ferb's discography slaps.
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