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are-you-romanticizing-murder · 2 months

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HOW DO I EXTRACT THE LITTLE CREATURES FROM BOOKS AND PUT THEM IN MY POCKETS

#this is about noah czerny #no spoils plz #hark the child!#noah czerny #the raven cycle #bookblr #light academia

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dcvina-claires · 1 year

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i love when a character is a ghost but in a tragic way instead of a scary way. i love when a character has been dead from the beginning but is still holding on to stay in the narrative. i love when a character could choose to resent the living but ends up loving them instead. i love when a character drives the story but isn’t quite there enough to be at the center of it. i love when the ghosts are the protectors instead of the ones causing the harm. i love when a character is at the heart of the story because depending on where you began it, no matter how you told it, the story is about the ghost who struggled to keep their humanity

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nothatsmi · 5 months

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I don't know what I miss more, having free time to draw or these fellas

The raven cycle!!!!

Oh I love these guys. Everything about these books, I want to draw them soooo much more (I probably will)!!

Guys I'm back-

It has been a nightmare lately this is the only thing I managed to draw in weeks? Finals and uni stuff that's taking all of my time and energy, slowly turning me into a cafeinated slug (worst part is caffeine doesn't even have an effect on me? I only drink coffee for the TASTE can you imagine). Anyway the rush won't be over until end of January but hopefully I'll be able to ignore the stress and draw anyway :)

#maggie stiefvater #the raven cycle #trc #the raven boys #gansey #ronan lynch #noah czerny #blue sargent #adam parrish #and they were all in love with each other #i lack words to express the amount off feelings i get when thinking about them #i wish i could go on silly quests to look for welsh kings in magic dream forests #i wish i could draw them more #i wish i could draw more #...#anyway feel free to print this shit as a bookmark if you want

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yeehawdickthree · 3 months

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I can’t do it

#I get that his chapters are important but good lord he’s annoying #my eyes roll so hard every time we thinks something mean about noah #I don’t like you man I hope you get squashed in a sentient forest #trc #the raven cycle #barrington whelk #the raven boys #trb #blue sargent #noah czerny #ronan lynch #adam parrish #gansey

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noblenico · 8 months

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It's fall and that means it's time to reread The Raven Cycle

#the raven cycle #the raven cycle fanart #trc #trc fanart #the raven boys #richard gansey #noah czerny #ronan lynch #adam parrish #blue sargent #i've been thinking about these bookmark designs for so long

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czer-ny · 1 month

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“'Goodbye,' Noah said. 'Don't throw it away.'

He quietly slid from time.”

#screaming crying throwing up everytime i think about this scene #i hope he knows i cry about him every now and then #trc #the raven cycle #the raven boys #the dream thieves #blue lily lily blue #the raven king #noah czerny #richard gansey #czer-ny #my art

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blueseysyogurt · 2 months

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“what are you thinking about?”

just the fact that noah’s big sacrifice wasn’t necessarily ceasing to exist/being corporal, but instead being forgotten by everyone who cared about him. ☹️

#AHHHH #trc #the raven boys #the raven cycle #adam parrish #richard gansey #gansey #ronan lynch #blue lily lily blue #the dream thieves #the raven king #noah czerny #rip noah czerny #i didn’t forget about you #noah slipped quietly from time #STOP. IT. NOW!!!

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bisexualchaosdemon · 5 months

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The very first thing Noah says in trc:

Gangsey after finding his body:

#i can't be the only one who knew he was dead right?#it is the first thing he said!#i didn't realise that none of them knew he was a ghost until this point #it's a book about clairvoyants and magic welsh kings #i assumed that i was meant to believe the boy with the cold hands when he said he was dead #i was just like “oh one of them is a ghost that's cool” and continued reading #their entire friendship is built around the supernatural and he told them that he was dead HOW DID NONE OF THEM FIGURE IT OUT?!#gansey was litrally brought back to life by the ley line just like ???#noah czerny #gangsey #trc #the raven cycle #gansey #blue sargent #ronan lynch #adam parrish #the raven boys

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last-pages · 5 months

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richard gansey the third and his teal polo shirts and his boat shoes and his stupid old car and his old virginia money and his mint leaf obsession. gansey and his hornets. his insomnia and wire frame glasses. his rain splattered sweater. his search for glendower. his love!! endless, boundless love!! his ravens. his knights, his dreamers, his mirrors.

#the raven cycle #raven cycle #the raven king #richard gansey iii #im totally normal about him #fav character dare i say ever #ronan lynch #adam parrish #blue sargent #noah czerny

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squash1 · 8 months

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gansey was so right for this. they are a four headed beast and literally everyone knows that

#a packaged deal at its finest #but like fr i’m about to be so annoying on there so sorry about that #the raven king reread #trc #ronan lynch #adam parrish #the raven cycle #blue sargent #richard campbell gansey iii #pynch #the raven boys #adam and ronan #blue lily lily blue #the gangsey #gangsey #noah czerny #henry cheng #mine

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asaethiel · 1 year

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guess what i have been rereading

#trc #the raven cycle #the raven boys #blue sargent #gansey #ronan lynch #adam parrish #noah czerny #fanart #digital #may23 #actual art #maaan!! these books r so good :') just finished dream thieves and am about to start BLLB #i wanna read the new trilogy too. excited

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deargravity · 2 months

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so thankful for all the readers who can express their thoughts and theories coherently so that i can nod vigorously, say “exactly” and reblog. because unfortunately, as articulate as i wish to be, if i think about adam parrish for too long i’ll aaaaaeddddcfnffjfkd[[[[[[[[[[____]_]]]

#i love this series so much and learning abt it through other ppl who care abt it is everything to me #forever thankful for all of u who keep posting about it #trc #the raven cycle #adam parrish #richard gansey #blue sargent #ronan lynch #noah czerny #the raven boys

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torydarixs · 6 months

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another day missing ronan lynch and adam parrish and blue sargent and richard gansey and henry cheng and noah czerny

#im normal about them (lie)#trc #the raven cycle #ronan lynch #adam parrish #blue sargent #richard gansey #noah czerny #henry cheng

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justanotherbarrelrat · 2 months

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Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.

The Raven Boys, pg. 50

#rereading the raven cycle FINALLY #and this jusy sort of hit me like a bus?#thinking about each reason adam ronan and noah have to be friendless #:(#the raven boys #trb #gansey #adam parrish #ronan lynch #noah czerny

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plutoslvr · 4 months

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the thing about gansey is thats he's connected to everyone in the most awful ways but also he's obsessed with his friends and cares for them so deeply that it becomes a vulnerability in a sense. he's interwoven in everyone's lives so... permanently and he doesn't even know. he's constantly warring with himself and is sinking in this feeling of loneliness, that his friends are destined for things greater than he can offer and who is he to hold them back? does he even truly know his friends when they are constantly walking away from him but he can't bear to do the same? even when he carefully plans out the words in his head, he still says the wrong thing without meaning to. and he has no idea that the people he's collected willingly will follow him to the ends of the earth because he's simply gansey.

#i could write essays about his connections with everyone in the gangsey he makes me SICK #noah specifically like noah breathed life into gansey because he died when he shouldnt have and if noah couldnt get a second chance he #wanted to give it to gansey #ronan and adam are their own can of worms #richard gansey #the raven cycle #adam parrish #ronan lynch #blue sargent #noah czerny

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one-squash-one-end · 2 months

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I wrote a giant Raven Cycle analysis

Hi! Over the last year or so I've been working on a sort of essay about various themes in the raven cycle series, and I finally finished it a few weeks ago.

It is titled: "Why I love The Raven Cycle - An excessive analysis of the themes of friendship, queerness and growing up".

And since tumblr loves its meta (and bc I love peer validation) I've decided to start uploading it bit by bit here, making this the masterpost (if I can figure out the logistics of the linking lmao, bear with me)

(beware of spoilers up to greywaren starting at like 3b!)

Introduction

What even is the Raven Cycle?

Trust me, the characters are queer as fuck and I can prove it a) Blue Sargent b) Gansey c) Adam Parrish d) Ronan Lynch e) Noah f) Henry Cheng g) Honorary mentions

The Gangsey is a polycule

Analyzing the reoccurring themes a) Friendship b) Being a teen/growing up c) (Found) Family d) Magic (as a metaphor) e) Further themes I appreciate

Drawing a conclusion

Click here to start with the introductory parts!

1. Introduction

So here’s the thing: I love fiction almost as much as I love my friends. There’s something deeply comforting about the escapism, even if the book actually makes me want to scream and throw it on the floor (only one book has been thrown so far, I promise!). Fiction is a healthy thing to occupy my thoughts with: headcanons! Quotes being on loop in my brain! Just fandoms!

And for me, if I am hooked on a book (series), it does not even need a good plot where a lot of things happen. In fact, I would say that my enjoyment of a book is made up of 30% plot and about 70% characters and vibes. If the characters are bland, if they do not make me feel much emotion, it likely won’t be more than 4 stars (additional info: I am way too nice rating books!). I really, really need to love the characters, to be able to relate to some aspects of them, or it just won’t become an obsession.

Since I have already started explaining that a bit, let’s look at this question: What is important to make a book special to me? 1. I need to cry reading it. 2. I have to think about it often, even weeks to months after having read it. 3. Obviously, I need to love the characters. 4. I need to be in the fandom! This can be hard with some books, but the internet is a whimsical space allowing you to find at least a small number of people who are obsessed with a work of fiction to a similar extent as you are.

Now, why am I elaborating on this so much? It’s because The Raven Cycle did all that for me. It is my favorite comfort book series at the moment, for all those aspects mentioned, but of course I cannot just leave it at that. No, I wrote a whole-ass analysis on headcanons and some of its themes. You’re welcome.

2. What even is The Raven Cycle?

The Raven Cycle is all I adore and live for (next to my friends). So, naturally, it’s a book series, specifically a four book young adult contemporary fantasy series by American author Maggie Stiefvater. The books in question are: The Raven Boys (2012), The Dream Thieves (2013), Blue Lily, Lily Blue (2014) and The Raven King (2016), and yes I will admit that the publishing dates are a bit of a red flag. There is also the very relevant follow-up series called The Dreamer Trilogy (Call Down The Hawk, Mister Impossible, Greywaren), but it’s a lot less easy to get into that here as I do not know these entire books by heart, so I’ll stick to the original tetralogy here.

To stick to red flags, the books are set in the fictional Henrietta, a rural town in non-fictional Virginia, US, in the 2010s. However, that doesn’t really say *that* much about the plot, so let me summarize that really quick, because I can do better than the official synopsis! (Or let’s pretend I can.)

Blue Sargent comes from a family of psychics, yet she does not have any powers of her own. Even worse, she is a bit of an amplifier for the others, meaning she is always somehow but never directly involved in the business. As if that isn’t enough for an identity crisis, every psychic she has ever met has told her that her kiss would kill her true love. Yikes.

But because she is that amplifier, she comes to a church watch on St. Mark’s Eve, where psychics see the spirits of those to die within the following year. It’s important business, but to her it’s really just staring into the dark. Until she does actually see a spirit: That of Gansey. Of course this is not a coincidence. No, to add to this teen’s mount of problems, there are only two reasons why a non-seer would see someone’s spirit: They are their true love, or they killed them. Or, in Blue’s case, maybe both.

The aforementioned Gansey is Henrietta’s Golden Boy, the son of politicians (read: he’s fucking loaded). He does not run with the Republicans though, he runs with dead Welsh kings, meaning he has been searching for the probably dead, presumably sleeping Welsh king Glendower (*1350; †1416; yikes) for the past like seven years. Why the fuck would he do that? Well, legend says that he will grant a wish to whoever wakes him, and our favorite PTSD-ridden guy really wants that favor.

Aiding him are fellow Aglionby students Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch and Noah Czerny, plus Henry Cheng, though only a lot later in the series, but I really did not want to leave out that menace (affectionately) here. The paths of Blue and the boys cross because of Gansey’s search for Glendower, plus the fact that Blue works at a popular pizza place, but that’s a lot less whimsical. And, well, there’s the implication that Gansey might also be her true love, but perhaps she just kills him because of his bad fashion sense, it would be justified. Anyway, in true Famous Five fashion (Ronan is the dog; I won’t elaborate, the girls that get it, get it) they are of course not the only ones searching for the king, so it’s not completely a wholesome friend bonding activity all the way through.

Be prepared for: friendship and growing up, lots of treasure hunting, family mysteries, magical forests, illegal and slightly distasteful activities (our favorite of course), but most of all, heavily queer-coded (or even canonically queer) characters. Be Gay, Do Crime.

#y'all better like this it took a while #trc #the raven cycle #gansey #blue sargent #ronan lynch #adam parrish #noah czerny #henry cheng #the raven king #the raven boys #blue lily lily blue #the dream thieves #let's hope i don't forget about this after the first part #please talk to me about your thoughts

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