The Raven Cycle - Blog Posts
AHHH i actually love the gangsey they are everything to me but here are my drawings of the characters from Maggie Stiefvater’s “The Raven Cycle” yippee
(blue sargent, richard gansey iii, adam parrish, ronan lynch, and noah czerny)
i have to reread the series but i recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read!
adam parrish is lowkey me and idk how to feel about that
I don’t believe in God but I do believe in Ronan Lynch, if that makes sense…
You know how Arthur « the once and future king » ?? Is supposed to rise again when the need of the kingdom is at its greatest ??? Well, I’m thinking now would be a good time to go wake a sleeping king.
I’ve never seen a Gansey fancast/face claim that hit for me but I get his vibe from younger Yon Gonzales (Spanish actor ironically) and Billy Crudup ( specifically in these roles ) ….
Also Randall Batinkoff in the 1992 film ‘School ties’ quite Gansey like?
Similar to Ronan he’s really hard to pin down, I’ve yet to find any consistent face for Ronan (the best representation is fanart ofc)
Do any older trc fans remember when Lydia graham was THE Blue fancast ???? Never got over her, & still follow her on ig (she’s cool)…
Ah yes my fav book characters: CocaCola T-shirt, Beatles T-shirt, Madonna T-shirt, Salmon pink Polo Shirt, Black tank top (and the Smudgy one)
Bonus point for ORANGE
Sometimes when I’m listening to curated playlists I imagine complex edits of a character or events of a story to match the music, transitions and all… usually books that have no digital media (films).
My girl Blue Lily Lily Blue
Road trip in the pig?
I really like this one
Gansey makes me cry (all TRC characters make me cry)
This Easter Weekend, Don't Forget To Think About That Time Declan Got The Shit Kicked Out Of Him And Still Showed Up To Mass On Sunday 🙏🕊️✝️
i need more art of these two together
raven cycle this raven cycle that BLUE KISSED NOAH AS A SYMBOLIC PARALLELISM OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HER KISS AND DEATH. HER FIRST KISS WAS DEATH. DONT TALK TO ME DONT LOOK AT ME DONT GO NEAR ME I CANT I REALLY CANT OH MY GOD
Adam Parrish canonically gets dry and cracked skin on his hands, probably enough for it to bleed. He would have heard a hundred times about how it looks like he's been in a fight, a joke that never gets funnier every time he hears it. Adam "Do you think it makes me look tougher?" Parrish. Adam, who goes to punch the wall and just presses his hand against it. Who is terrified of becoming his father.
And, despite all that, still has cracked and bleeding knuckles, without needing to hit a thing. As though, no matter how hard he tried to avoid it, the capacity to hurt was written into his skin- inherited.
I’m not sure if it’s intentional, but I love that each raven boy corresponds to a horseman of the apocalypse:
Ronan: war (fights anything with a social security number, is also battling his own emotions/fears)
Noah: pestilence (his body/spirit decaying over time)
Adam: famine (often described as hungry, represents a more figurative interpretation of starvation/desire)
Gansey: death (for obvious reasons)
I guess Noah and Gansey could be switched, as Noah is quite literally dead and Gansey could be interpreted as Conquest in place of Pestilence.
anyways, I just thought this was kind of interesting
the raven cycle is hilarious because blue and gansey are living in a coming of age romcom and adam and ronan are living in a supernatural horror film and then when they all hang out it immediately turns into an 80s treasure hunting brotherhood flick. and then they go their separate ways and adam and ronan immediately start battling the horrors again while blue and gansey eat yogurt
TRC gangsey halloween costumes! 🎃🦇
I just love them all so so much
sometimes i’m normal but then sometimes i think about the endless religious symbolism and parallels in the raven cycle and i want to chew on glass. like something something cabeswater and eden. adam’s name, his being made ‘from dust’, his pursuit of knowledge beyond the circumstances of his birth. ronan being referred to as ‘the snake’: the one who always tempts adam into recklessness. ronan and declan and cain and abel (i wash my hands of him) (i am not my brother’s keeper). gansey’s resurrection, his third birth. ‘important things come in threes?’ ‘or sevens’. ronan and joseph kavinsky and joseph the prophet with their strange dreams that overlap into the real world. dreaming as a form of blasphemous creation. the three fox way women and the holy trinity. aurora lynch and the virgin mary and matthew lynch and the infant jesus - immaculate conception, pure souls without sin. absent yet overly mythologized fathers. i am going to throw up
Just think about it for five seconds and civil engineer Adam makes so. much. sense. He gets himself put on projects to make sure they don't interfere with ley lines. Plans for new bypasses get moved by half a mile. A bridge gets built where someone initially wanted a tunnel. Make this bitch work for the Army Corps of Engineers. That's how he can get his damn .gov email address without being a fed.
stopped in my tracks and almost fell to my knees when i remembered that the Only time the font changed in the entirety of trc was when adam sent blue the flowers with the little note….can’t get up…….
“We can pretend. Just once. And then we’ll never say anything about it again”
Yo may12324! Surprise, I drew you some Raven Boys fanart! Just to say thanks for cheering me up the other day when I was sad :*