People like to say the raven cycle is dark academia when Gansey is literally wearing this.
Reading Jean’s perspective really is an experience bc he’ll call the love of his life “the golden captain” and then call Neil Josten a malfunctioning cretin, an unfulfilled promise, an abominable cockroach and his misplaced forever partner within two pages
The broken cage …. Jean having gotten out of the nest… and no longer fully believing he deserved what he got… Jean breaking free of the rules about who he can love…. Jeremy breaking free of his family…. Jeremy breaking free of the blame…. Jeremy getting to choose his own future… Jerejean getting to choose their own futures together …..
i'm obsessed with hamlet. serial procrastinator, famous yapper, who monologues any time anything goes even mildly wrong. he gets POISON STABBED, and instead of dropping dead like his mother, his uncle, and his opponent, he MONOLOGUES ABOUT IT. HE PROCRASTINATES DYING TO MONOLOGUE ABOUT IT. there's just something so beautiful about him clinging to life to deliver one last baller speech