love had changed the situation.

the real dead welsh king was the friends we made along the way. 29. follow back from @existentiallyfraught

[virgogods]

[adamprrishcycle]

You know, I asked nice the first few times. are you coming to fourth? 😌 are you coming? 🙂 are you coming? 🤨 here, have a motherfucking car 😤 are you coming???? You 🫵 made it ugly 😒

[killyourbrain]

you and i were fireworks that went off too soon

[throwupgirl]

happy birthday adam heres a collection of all my favorite tags related to you

[nancescreek]

july 4th means nothing when adam parrish was born in july 3rd. today is an INTERNATIONAL holiday.

[mletart]

🎈🎈🎈🎁🎁🎁🎂🎂🎂 happy birthday Adam Parrish my love of my life !!!!!!!!!!!!! 🎂🎂🎂🎁🎁🎁🎈🎈🎈

[frandrawsalot]

The Raven Cycle

[theywere-kings]

me 🤝post canon lawyer adam who lives in my head getting yelled at by a judge and feeling nothing because you’ve had so much worse

[sockth]

Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay

[lizpaige]

tag urself - i’m the orange juice 🧃

[thebumblecee]

Adam isn’t possessed by Cabeswater at all he just heard about K putting his thumb in Ronan’s mouth and he blacked out with inexplicable rage

[sunsets-on-water]

One thing i love about the Raven Cycle that i feel is not spoken much about is its take on grief. I know this comes up a lot more in the dreamers trilogy but it’s done so intentionally in TRC.

We know both Ronan and Noah were different before but we never really see it. The Death has already happened before we (Blue) arrive at the scene. Niall Lynch is gone and Ronan is forever changed. We can hear about the before, his hair, tennis, his relationship with Declan, even see glimpses of it, the Barnes, Sunday’s a church, but Ronan will never be the person he was before and we as an audience will never meet him.

For Noah it’s even clearer. We never know Czerny outside of brief recounts years after the fact from a man justifying his murder. His family don’t get the chance to speak to us and the Noah we know is in his own words lesser than the Noah Czerny that was lost. Noah Czerny is split, one half the lesser ghost of Noah and another the distorted memory of Czerny.

Both of these introductions of loss are so interesting, especially Noah’s, because they force the audience to equally lose access to parts of the character. We are immersed in the story, in Ronan’s case in the manner of Blue who meets him at the same instance we do. Noah’s loss is more interesting because the main group don’t experience his loss, they forget him and move on. His family grieve him outside of the narrative scope and Whelk doesn’t seem to grieve him at all. Instead the audience attempts to mourn him, putting the pieces together. I think the absence of everything we never got to know about Noah is such a perfect representation of death and how it can make our loved ones seem strangers to us. We didn’t know all of Noah Czerny, but we know there was a boy who died when he didn’t deserve to and isn’t that enough for us to grieve?

[thoodleoo]

there's definitely an assumption that kids who take latin are a certain type of weird and i try to make it clear that latin is a subject anyone can take. that being said the other day i had to quiet my children down by promising that i would teach them about cannibalism but only if they behaved

[throwupgirl]

and after all why shouldn't i. why shouldn't i replace riverdale scripts with raven cycle characters and change a few details to make them fit into the setting.

[ariannaaart]

who has he ever had to love him?

[pvppyjawn]

thinking about adam and gansey at the fundraiser in tdt before it went downhill

[juneaugustine]

“elation overtook ronan. even before he put a name to the face, he was overwhelmed with a single thought: it was going to be okay.

the second voice belonged to adam parrish.”

—

because let’s be so honest, has anyone else ever taken care of ronan the way adam has? not really. not his own father. not declan. not even gansey. certainly not kavinsky. not bryde. not hennessy.

declan tried and failed because he tried too hard to protect ronan from himself. tried to keep as much of a lid on ronan’s magic as possible, always told him to lay low, go to school, be good. but ronan never, ever wanted that. he’s incompatible with that kind of existence.

gansey never tried to stifle ronan the same way, but he was more focused on keeping ronan alive than he was on helping ronan figure out and channel his power. i don’t blame gansey for this at all, he did watch ronan almost die numerous times as a result of his dreaming. yeah, the dreaming was helpful on the quest for glendower, but that was as far as gansey was interested in pushing it.

adam, however. adam. adam parrish pulled his boots on and literally went into ronan’s head with him to fight his monsters. he sacrificed his autonomy, the most sacred thing in the world to him, to work as an agent for ronan’s dreamt forest. i know we don’t need to revisit the driving-and-scrying scene again. forgetting all of that, when everyone cautioned ronan to steer clear of greenmantle, told him revenge wasn’t worth the danger, adam was the only one to step up and say, hey, want me to help you stick it to this asshole? i will gladly devise some heinous crime story for us to stick on him and i will gladly help you plant the evidence.

that’s the difference.

“you’re always the car crash, ronan.”

yet adam still let him drive, because ronan was one of the only people to ever extend that same courtesy to him. blue obviously had a lot of respect for adam’s independence as well, as the only other person in the friend group that didn’t come from money. but then again, blue had a family that loved her. she could lean on people and know they wouldn’t pull the rug out from under her. ronan’s rug was pulled from him when niall died. adam never had a rug. ronan’s so goddamn traumatized by his own loss, trying desperately to fill a void. declan and gansey, the closest things he has to a father and brother at this point, constantly look at him like he might combust at any moment. of course he can understand why adam doesn’t want to lean on anyone. it isn’t going well for ronan himself.

so he never got on adam about being stubborn about money, always respected his independence. i think ronan probably even envied it a little, deep down. because what mattered to adam was never money: it was always independence, and ronan saw that. and whenever it was threatened, that was when he stepped in. he beat the shit out of adam’s father when he tried to beat adam back down into fear and submission. he paid adam’s rent when the only home he’d ever had truly for himself was threatened, and he was careful to hide his hand in it, because he knew how important it was to adam that no one pulled strings for him.

across all friendships and relationships that adam and ronan have had, they are the only ones that have consistently fought for each other’s right to self-determination. that’s the difference.

so as ronan’s cut off from his own body, bleeding nightwash by the gallon, barely able to remember who he is, of course it’s adam’s voice that fills him with joy. whatever he needs, adam will make sure he gets it. he always has. that’s the difference.