This Man INVENTED "I Love My Wife"

" you should be at the club " I should be at cabeswater searching for glendower

5.12

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

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.

Adam Parrish not having happy memories before he met Gansey and Ronan

NICOLA COUGHLAN as CLARE DEVLIN Derry Girls (2018-2022)

secret calls in the phone/sewing/cat room (chapter 4 of bllb u will always be famous to me)

im obsessed with the fact ronan and blue's endearing nickname for eachother is 'you asshole'. I Love Them

I miss my wife (Richard Gansey iii)

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.