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Hi!! I'm Terance!!
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There has been a lot of animosity in the TRC fandom as of late revolving around Blue. I'm not sure you're aware, or maybe you don't mind it, but it does bother me (like an gnat that won't go away gr). Some are saying that Blue is not a strong character & that her feminism is not a "real feminism" because she doesn't shun the institution of men entirely. So my question is, in Blue Lily Lily Blue will we see a more in-depth look at Blue? (maybe a non-aggressive punch in the face to haters) :D
I’m going to use this ask to answer answer a bunch of gender-Blue asks all at once, so I’m sorry. It’s going to be really long.
Let’s clear one thing up from the start: whoever said that Blue’s feminism isn’t real feminism is correct.
She’s saying the words, but she’s as feminist as Gansey is egalitarian. They want to be better than they are, but every single character in the Raven Cycle is a fool or a damn fool. It’s sort of the point.
Second: We are only halfway through their character arcs.
Third: A “strong female character” doesn’t mean a character who is always a perfect role model of feminism and female agency. Strong characters of either gender are imperfect, complicated, changing. Unfortunately, readers often give male characters greater leeway in this department. Adam and Blue are frequently mirrored, but Adam’s terrible behavior is often interpreted as part of his character arc and Blue’s as her being a bad character. Readers often regard Ronan’s jealousy as endearing — aw, look at him being protective! But the reaction to Blue’s jealousy is very different — “I’m sick of seeing girls claw each other’s eyes out!”
The upshot is: both forms of jealousy are because the characters are fools and damn fools. Neither is more acceptable.
Fourth: I wrote before that my characters are not me, but they are the questions I have in my head. I am allowed to use my writing to process my own cultural background, my religion, and my own teen battles with OCD and suicide and gender identity. Other readers might have other entirely useful and interesting lenses they would have chosen for the Raven Cycle, but my own lenses are valid and permitted. To tell me otherwise is hypocritical.
Fourth, part two: I went to college when I was 16, and immediately joined a bagpipe band which became my life (you may laugh gently now). I acquired about fifteen male friends and one female friend. Learning how to relate to other humans and my own gender while living in a man’s world was a formative part of my life, and that’s the story I’m telling with Blue —It won’t be the only story I tell about girls, but it is the one I’m telling with her. My current blood-bonds with my female friends are echoed in the older, more evolved women at 300 Fox Way, who get a closer look in book 3.
Fifth: while on the topic of friends, I have a few asks in my inbox about Blue having no female friends before the Raven Boys came along. That is correct. She had no friends. None. Neither did Adam. Neither did Ronan. Gansey is the only one who had meaningful relationships before the others — coincidence?
“Gansey could’ve had any and all of the friends that he wanted. Instead he had chosen the three of them, three guys who should’ve, for three different reasons, been friendless.”
Fools and damn fools.
Fifth, part two: I also have an ask about Blue’s story only beginning when she met a man, Gansey. However, Adam and Ronan’s stories in the Raven Cycle also only began when they met Gansey. And Gansey, who has been wandering the world having adventures for seven years, doesn’t get his story until he meets Blue. The Raven Cycle doesn’t begin because a girl met a boy. The Raven Cycle is because these teens found each other and shit began to get real because of it.
Sixth: In book three, I do look closer at Blue. But none of the other books will have the narrow-eyed gaze on a single character as The Dream Thieves did.
Seventh: Folks can feel free to disagree with everything I’ve just said, and it won’t hurt my feelings. Discussion and analyzing our own biases is how we change the world. It’s also sort of what the Raven Cycle is about.
Also, fools and damn fools.
This answer pleases me. Also, feminism… I hate when it’s referred to as real or unreal. Feminism is equalism. It is, simply, females being equal to males being equal to cantaloupes. Okay? And as for Blue “slut shaming” Orla- yes, she does. She is a teenaged girl expressing her jealousy in the classic form of American prudishness. I do believe this is probably the point. Because, “damn fools” and whatnot :)
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the cars in the raven cycle and the dreamer trilogy are metaphors for/extensions of the people who drive them (especially in terms of interpersonal relationships and perceptions)- and so is adam’s bicycle. (*warning for brief mentions of abuse in later paragraphs*). adam gets around henrietta on a bicycle because it’s the only form of transportation he can afford, and we know he’s ashamed of this (his narration describes the bike as “somewhat pathetic”). adam's bicycle is present in pivotal scenes: in one of his chapters, he recalls the first time he talked to gansey, and the visceral fear and embarrassment evoked by seeing his bike next to the exuberant camaro (and the awkward fitting of the bike into the camaro’s trunk)- but also their nearly instant friendship once adam accepts a ride to aglionby after helping gansey repair the camaro.
but when adam talks to blue for the first time (described from blue’s pov), they both have their bikes; adam’s is one of several details that endear him to blue, along with his frayed sweater, quiet demeanor, and accent- all of which let blue know that adam doesn’t fit her assumption that all aglionby boys are affluent and arrogant. she notices that adam’s bike is “dolefully squeaking,” which i’m taking to be an oblique reference to a squeaky wheel, or something/someone neglected/in need of care. and when ronan (wakefully) sees adam for the first time (in a flashback in cdth), adam and his bike are going uphill while gansey and ronan ride in the camaro. he refers to adam simply as “the boy with the bicycle." adam, inclusive of the bike, is immediately attractive to ronan, which is a stark contrast to adam’s perception of his bike (and, thus, himself). adam is ashamed of himself, but blue relates to him, and both she and ronan see him as desirable (with the bicycle present!).
in trb chapter 20, adam is trying to get his bike to stand up in the monmouth parking lot, but the kickstand is broken (emblematic of the familial love and support that he lacks/his abusive parents have destabilized him). he then tries to remove the kickstand without breaking it (adam is trying to extricate himself from henrietta without hurting himself or others in the process/ he’s living tensely and precariously. in tdt, he becomes more likely to snap under stress. ronan recognizes adam’s fragility, of being about to break; adam’s spirit breaking is one of gansey’s worst fears). and even if adam could remove the kickstand, a bike without a kickstand (a boy without a family or friends) cannot balance unless it’s in motion (a miracle of moving parts, maybe)- but perpetual motion is impossible, so adam is destined to crash without external support. in this scene, he could lean the bike against monmouth, but he’s not yet ready to accept help or gifts. a bike can only seat an army of one, unlike gansey and ronan’s cars. with the bike, symbolically, there's no risk of codependency or humiliation, but there’s also inevitable isolation and pathological independence. (thank you alli @whoreshoecrab for helping me organize my thoughts re: the kickstand!)
in the same chapter, adam muses that ronan doesn’t need physics/isn’t held back by the mortal, mundane, material restrictions adam has to work around. adam's not serious (and doesn’t know that ronan actually does defy physics when dreaming), but if ronan can waste his time idly and metaphorically use his privilege to launch his bmw through the sky to the moon, adam must drudgingly bike along the ground; he must manage his time diligently and strategically; he must deal with the physical failures of his bike and the kickstand with human amounts of force. this sets up adam’s core frustration with ronan and ronan’s apparent freedom, but this envy gets deconstructed as he spends more time alone with ronan, particularly in bllb.
there's probably a lot to say about the hondayota (and when adam drives alone vs. when he drives blue and noah to the national park and has his awakening, to which his realizations about connectivity and connectedness are crucial), but i'll skip ahead to cdth when adam has a motorcycle instead of a bicycle. the motorcycle reveals some growth (he’s accepted a gift from ronan, he’s healed to the point where he can choose when to leave and return to virginia, ronan says adam has always wanted a motorbike instead of a car, perhaps [metaphorically] because it’s still an independent way to travel but isn’t reliant on sheer physical labor), but also reveals that his life is still unbalanced and marked by the upkeep of a confident façade (he dumps the motorcycle when he slows down/he still falters when he can’t throw himself into a perpetual state of work). he's still adam, always moving and looking at the roads ahead of him, and he's still struggling to reconcile his past with his present without living inauthentically, but he’s no longer balancing his life alone.
adam is very serious and very driven and very introspective but he is also a geekass nerdbaby so let’s talk about that
literally our introduction to his friendship with ronan is that they’re both covered in scabs because they were dragging each other behind a moving car on one of these things
instead of trying to break up ronan & declan’s fight, he finds a bouncy ball with spongebob printed on it and hangs out in an alley playing with it
goes full on Notice Me Senpai the moment a hot teacher walks in. put your hand down, parrish
he is taking a SCIENTIFIC METHOD EXTRACURRICULAR. who does this. who
the transformer toy??? oh my god??
stares blankly at helen gansey when she asks if he wants to go into whole foods
that time he got stressed out and the narrative was saying “adam melted into the seat” and “adam slithered down even farther into the seat” son please
that time he absolutely lost his shit and started giggling and letting out helpless wails of laughter because of malory’s pigeon show
sees gansey looking at the aglionby dean and mouths “yee-haw” SHUT UP
when gansey decided he was going to wingman adam and adam covered his entire face and was So Embarrassed
his general attitude of “ronan lynch is an ASSHOLE who is HANDSOME and BEAUTIFUL and SUCH A DICK” that started literally with his first paragraph of narration
rmr when the kids brought gwenllian back to fox way and adam/ronan hid in the hallway like babyass cowards and then desperately scrambled out of the house at the first opportunity?
when ronan confessed that he’d dreamt cabeswater into being and adam is internally doing this
“adam wanted desperately and masochistically for tad to ask him where he’d summered”
that time he slept for twenty-four hours and then woke up and drank an entire jug of pomegranate juice before leaving
that other time he slept all night and then woke up and ate two hamburger buns and drank all of ronan’s milk straight out of the jug
his helpless laughter when noah is like “u do have nice legs tho” and blue play-slaps both of them
flirting with his crush by using his psychic connection to a forest to make shitty EDM music play out in the open
smiling cheerily when his crush calls him an asshole
“the two-minute disparity aged him prematurely”
i am so here for this
when ronan comes to the garage to flirt with him very badly and adam is like “hmph! some of us have homework!”
in trk when maggie is describing how aurora talks to the kids about what interests them and for adam she asks him scientific and logical questions and he tries to get her to answer them too LIKE
the picture of an honest to god male model in his glove compartment
at fox way when he lays out all the tarot cards and spends ages studying each of them…. he is so scientific about everything he does my son
“other classmates complained about the work. work! work was the island adam swam to in a stormy sea.”
“shuffled his ambitiously laden messenger bag onto his other shoulder” what a nerdy phrase
when ronan called him einstein. he truly is
my favorite thing about the tarot cards at fox way is that he’s leaning on his elbows on the table and keeps shuffling around to keep looking at them? that’s so cute?
ronan also calls his science guy and i love it
i can’t believe i forgot this the first time but: LOOKING AT BLUE THROUGH THE LITTLE STONE WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE; that entire scene is so sweet
it's crazy to me how nobody talks about how radically different the second army looked under the darkling vs how it looks now under zoya and nikolai
nikolai was only king for 3 years which is not a lot when u think abt it, but one of the first things he did was abolish the conscription for grisha. the little palace remains a safe haven for grisha, but no grisha is forced to serve a country that's abused them for centuries, they're not immediately thrown head first into military propaganda when they're barely 10 years old! he gave them this choice even tho the second army's numbers were already dwindling
not to mention lazlayzon?? like cmon! nikolai created the nolniki bcuz he knew grisha and otkazats'ya could accomplish more when working together, which is smth even alina and zoya hadn't truly considered bcuz it seemed so impossible (pun totally intended)
the darkling used fear as a manipulation tactic to make the grisha believe they had no other choices. they HAD to become soldiers. they HAD to serve him. no otkazats'ya would EVER treat them fairly. he told them there was no other way to protect themselves when that wasn't even remotely true - he just needed them reliant on him.
if nikolai accomplished all of that in a few years, i just love to think about what zoya might've done once she was crowned queen.
they r about to share the most homophobic kiss of all time
ok now that the new book is out and ive posted all the illustrations, i wanted them all in one place on one post. them!
Save me fem pynch save me
making a collection
adding to the collection
every quote here relates to pynch. i do not think anyone in the world can handle these two toxic ass bitches. like it will be a human rights violation if anyone else got involved... not that ronan's extremely possessive, jealous or monogamous way of thinking will ever allow for such a thing (he routinely thinks of adam finding a lover after he dies and having to share heaven with him except adam isn't religious, believes ronan to be a god, has murdered a man and they're both in a homosexual relationship, but that's a conversation for another day)
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“Love Like Ghosts" // The Raven Cycle
When your true love is destined to die, is already dead, or will always be leaving. And other moments of ghostliness.
okay wait I find the TRC graphic novel major arcana tarot assignments are so interesting and I am assuming that MStief had a say in this, so let me share some quotes from her book about tarot for the individual card meanings. Tarot has all different meanings with similar themes, but I thought it'd be interesting to look at what stief thinks about these cards herself.
All quotes are from Illuminating the Prophecy by Maggie Stiefvater. I highly recommend the book if you're interest in tarot or just are obsessed with the series.
BLUE - JUSTICE "When you see the Justive card, it reminds you that you may have fudged the rules a little and got away with it, or you may have persuaded others that your dubious choice was a correct one, but the universe believes in an absolute right or wrong, and you will get what you deserve based upon that. This card is also a reminder that your reward or punishment is often unseen. A bad turn performed on someone else will haunt you years later, and likewise, an unnoticed kind event will create its own reward inside you. At the end of it, you will become the product of these actions: you are the Justice. There's an intense comfort to knowing that you have this control, especially if you feel your good intentions are being taken poorly." - pg. 41-42
ADAM - THE MAGICIAN "Regardless of who or what you believe in, the Magician is an extraordinary master of all trades, and he is resilient because no matter what the world throws at him, no matter how much he loses, he will always have the most powerful tool at his command: himself." pg. 21-22
GANSEY - THE CHARIOT "The duality that the Lovers card mutters about becomes a proper problem by the time the Chariot shows up in a reading. There are two sides to you, seemingly opposite, and you keep being thrown from one to the other. In many decks, this card depicts two beasts of different color pulling a chariot; when they agree on a direction, the chariot moves forward swiftly. When they disagree, the chariot grinds to a halt. You've ground to a halt... "The chariot's not moving because you can't figure out how to get yourself in line. You can't figure out which you you want to be. The Chariot isn't really about choice, though. It's about balance. You aren't cutting one of the beasts free so that you can move on without it. The chariot will move with only pone of them, but not as fast as if you found a way to make them both move in the same direction. The Chariot tells you that there is a way to satisfy the warring parts of you. Find your self-control, embrace your dark and light sides, and enjoy the ride." pg. 33-34
RONAN - THE LOVERS "This card can represent actual lov ers, and when it does, the love pictured is epic - the pairing pof two souls so complementary that it seems obvious that some greater power has designed them for each other. But it can also represent a duality inside you, and the complementary pairing it refers to is your inner self and your outer self. Just like in a great love affair, everything is perfect when both sides of you are working in harmony. And just like in a great love affair, the world crumbles when you war with yourself. The card speaks to the power of wholeness and knowing yourself." - pg. 31-32
NOAH - THE HANGED MAN "The Hanged Man is all about sacrifice - not a martyr's sacrifice, but a scholar's sacrifice. He goes not only willingly, but pleasantly toward his hanging, certain that the time spent in agony will be worth it... When this card shows up in your reading, it's a sign that whatever answer you seek is not going to simply be handed to you. You need to level up in some way, and it's going to require a genuine effort on your part. It doesn't mean that it requires hard work or a huge sum of money... It requires you to literally prostrate yourself on the altar of wisdom, holding yourself vulnerable, looking deep inside yourself for answers. You've got to let go and be willing to let knowledge and transformation take you." - pg. 43-44
it was only Adam, lonesome Adam
All I've Ever Known - Hadestown, Anaïs Mitchell/ Sputnik Sweetheart - Haruki Murakami/ Blue Lily, Lily Blue - Maggie Stiefvater/ Homecoming - Green Day/ Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness - Kristen Radtke/ Virginia Woolf/ Anna Haifisch/ Life - J Dilla/ Jenny Slate/ Postcolonial Love Poem - Natalie Diaz/ Hanif Abdurraqib/ To Die For - Carol Lee/ The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing/ Nobody - Mitski
