softrichfuck reblogged your post and added:
I’m not really on the ‘Adam doesn’t know himself at all’ interpretation bandwagon, so I think this is where the root of our differences lie. I agree his relationship with Blue is a lot of going through the motions.
And even aside from that, Adam doesn’t work it out in head at all, which he does for everything else. For a character that everything thinks is so self absorbed, I would think since we sat in his POV a lot in BLLB, we would have gotten something more substantial out of it in terms of Adam working through what stuff means for him. Esp since Ronan liking Adam does have repercussions if Robert is as homophobic as everyone thinks he is. Robert is still out and about, you’d think Adam would comment more on his own behavior with Ronan if Robert were to happen to see him. Or at least struggle with the idea of what he was doing with Ronan was wrong or not.
There were opportunities in BLLB to talk about sexuality in a more open way, but weren’t taken, for instance Adam notices Ronan likes him, so I’m sure what was going on with Kavinsky was also obvious.
No matter what happens in book 4 it doesn’t change what’s already happened in the first 3. And I agree no one has to say aloud what they are, but no one talks about anything explicitly queer at all. Even in their heads lol. Even Ronan stays subtext for nearly the entirety on TDT.
I'm sure Adam recognized what was going on with Kavinsky as well. He's a smart kid. And you're right. There are a lot of opportunities for representation in BLLB that weren't taken. For better or worse there were other things she felt needed to take precedence over that. It's not a thing that thrills me, but they're her books, you know? The consequence of that that I do like is that there's no gay panic in Adam. He just takes it all as steadily as he's taking everything else in their crazy lives. It's probably not a fair trade off, but it's one that definitely pinged in my heart a bit.