#fruit rereads trc

[portokali]

hello hello! for the writing ask 2, 3, 4 !! 💕

hi... beloved. ty

2. Did you reread anything? What?

i reread the raven boys and the dream thieves.. aka book 1 and 2 of the raven cycle. not much else that i remember! this was Not the year of rereading things, but trc is always a welcome embrace to return to, my constant companion during the past few years <3

4. Did you discover any new authors that you love this year?

i read my first shirley jackson (the haunting of hill house) and looooved it.. for sure plan to eventually read everything else by her eventually! very subtle, intelligent writing, deeply layered.. very whimsical and sensory, it takes you right into the world! at the same time it's a constant, slow crescendo.. it takes you were it wants you to go and you barely notice it! that's positively scrumptious to me..

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5. What genre did you read the most of?

i think fantasy and fantasy/scifi kinda take the cake this year ngl.. the storygraph says 18 books, counting manga (like which hat atelier and fruits basket etc!)

send me end of the year book asks!

#poignantpapandreou #asks #tyyyy

[gansey--thats-all-there-is]

trc au where blue has friends in high school that also end up on the magical quest. and they're girls and they're awesome.

#come ON like i love these books but WHY CAN'T THERE BE MORE GIRLS #enough of this typical girl protagonist 'Im weird Im a weirdo Im considered odd' bullshit. #blue goes to a large public school‚ she has a friend or two #she can still consider herself closer to her fox way family than her school friends! that's fine! #but CMON #I'm salty #trc #the raven cycle #fruit rereads trc

[professorllayton]

god. god

#*throws up but sadly* #blabs #trc reread #not actually rereading but that's like..my tag anyways i was just thinking abt this scene and how like. #gansey knew and everyone else didn't think he did and he himself didn't wanna tell anyone and i just .. anyways #also the fruit bits r the best part....EW!

[sirendeepity]

Books I've read in 2021

Because why not + comments

36/21 (updated to: /30)

The Cruel Prince ★★★★ (I read this just a year ago? Damn, a reread is definitely needed)

The Lost Sisters ★★★ (Still trying to understand the point of this)

The Wicked King ★★★★ (That time I understood TikTok fed me lies about the romance in this series)

The Queen of Nothing ★★★★ (I didn't understand a thing back then and I still don't do it now)

How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories ★★★★ (Cardan. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk)

A Court of Silver Flames ★★★★★ (Rating based on the main characters and the headcanons, not the plot because I can't rate what doesn't exist)

Six of Crows ★★★★ (Do I really need to elaborate?)

Shadow and Bone ★★★ (I still can't remember how the book actually ended because I watched the tv adaptation before finishing it so now I have no idea which is which. And btw Archie Renaux thank you for existing, my life and Mal's is better because of you <3 )

Realm Breaker ★★★.5 (Why the 15 pages per chapter, V? Just tell me why. Sorasa Sarn made up pretty well for it, bUT STILL-)

Kingdom of the Wicked ★★★★★ (We could've been so good together)

The Atlas Six ★★★★ (Flexing hard having read this before it became TikTok famous, but flexing harder having Olivie Blake commenting on my live-reading thread)

Red, White & Royal Blue ★★★★ (I wanted the gays and this gave me the gays, that's all I have to say)

The Sea of Monsters ★★★ (How it started kind of, I read the first one in summer 2020)

The Titan's Curse ★★★

The Battle of the Labyrinth ★★★★

The Last Olympian ★★★★★ (How it ended, and it hit harder than I expected)

These Violent Delight ★★★★★ (tHE LOVE THE PAIn)

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ★★★★ (No fruit love felt in here, but that ending? Can we talk about it? A full star more just for that)

Gild ★★★.5 (It's the journey trope for me)

Kingdom of the Cursed ★★★★ (The ending saved a lot but Kerri? What happened? I was confused, but you were confused even more than me apparently)

Crescent City: House of Earth and Blood ★★★★★ (Go kiss Bryce Quinlan's ass. Now. Also can I just flex the fact and Bryce and I share the same middle name? I MEAN that's queen material, I won't be embarrassed by it ever again)

To Kill A Kingdom ★★★★ (Started in May; it's definitely the journey trope for me)

The Shadow Between Us ★★ (Slytherin romance mY ASS)

The Raven Boys ★★★★★ (THIS BOOK GODDAMNIT I still dream of it at night)

Dream Thieves ★★★★ (Umh... Kerah?)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue ★★★★.5 (The Beginnings, if you know what I mean)

The Raven King ★★★★★ (Fucked up my brain real bad ngl)

Opal ★★★ (Basically useless but the few Pynch scenes were just *chef's kiss*)

Call Down the Hawk ★★★ (I didn't read TRC in a week only to waste a full month on this damn book)

Our Violent Ends ★★★★★ (it was a one-way ticket to (S)pain, no refund)

Mister Impossible ★★★ (I wish I could hate this book but I don't but I hate that I can't love it either I'm like aocjsox)

The math doesn't add up because I also read three boring books for school and the first two manga volumes of My Hero Academia, hopefully one day I'll catch up with the rest as well or I'll just buy all the volumes and start from where the anime ended

#dee reads #2021 reads #i refuse to tag all of the books #it's too much effort and i'm lazy enjoy

[colorisbyshe]

if you want to complain more about clamp I am listening :) as someone who owns many volumes of the manga in multiple languages...... I am listening. <3

okay i’m just gonna rant in a very, very long post everyone please just avert your eyes mental illness is happening

but like....... as someone who was nostalgically reading these manga to bring back some happy memories i had as a kid, discovering that these series (ccs which i remembere dfondly despite not having actually watched/read as a kid, and trc and xxxholic which i read with some of my best friends at the time) are not just deeply flawed but harbouring so much like... frankly heinous shit in them is like??? deeply hurtful to me???

and like... i could handle cardcaptor sakura being full of evil shit because i had no deep personal connection, i just wanted to better understand ccs references in tsubasa and lik better appreciate syaoran and sakura and like its 90s shoujo OVER COURSE ITS FUCKED UP! just like sailor moon and fruits basket like it’s not good but like... i can process it

trc hurts me because like... the character writing for kurogane and fai is fucking PHENOMENAL, the concept is cool and interesting and unique, it (for the most part) has great themes and the way it explores concepts like grief, trauma, sacrifice, and healing was a balm to my quarantined soul

but you can tell where they realized they literally... did not know how to resolve their plot? and it got so complicated it legit gave me headaches but at least i had kurogane nad fai and then they’re shoved to the side just for it to be revealed that syaoran... is syaoran and sakura’s son... looking to meet up with sakura... to be with her... so they can be his parents

like... wow so great to watch this beautiful relationship be explored with kurogane and fai saving each otehr from the worst part of themselves just to be sidelined for “what if those fourth graders from cardcaptor sakura where husband and wife AND mother and son but like NOT REALLY becaues syaoran is also syaoran’s own dad so is it incest or just really confusing” but no it’s both like legit when falling in love with sakura he comments on how she’s just like his mom like hello bitch? you’re 14 but i’ll still kill you that shit is WEIRD

so that wAS NOT GREAT and then it ends with THE GROUP SEPARATED AT THE END?? SO I COULDN’T EVEN GET A HAPPY ENDING like yeah maybe it’s good sakura and syaoran were separated but kurogane and fai got to stay together beacuse... fuck the incest  but like... where is my catharsis where is my happiness??

and i’m rereading xxxholic which was my favorite of trc/xxxholic as a kid and... first off, it’s boring, secondly, it thinks it’s smarter than it is an dhas contradicting themes every other chapter, but FUCK it’s so interesting but doumeki, himawari, watauniki, and yuuko don’t have half the bonds as the TRC gang and like... i still don’t know why doumeki was going so fucking hard for watanuki

but the concepts were interesting enoguh and watching watanuki grow was nice

but you can ALSO tell AGAIN clamp just got bored and didn’t know how to wrpa it up so suddenly watanuki gives up ALL HIS BONDS AND HURTS ALL HIS FRIENDS just to be reunited with yuuko??? despite the themes of the story being about how self sacrifice causes scars on others?? and that’s BAD like if you love your frieneds you don’t hurt them by undervaluing yourself??? THATS A BASIC THEME OFT HE STORY

and then they rush to pair off doumeki with a girl THEY HELPED RAISE so he can have children to stay with watanuki... himawari is written off despite her last interactions with watanuki being about them caring for each other anad choosing to stay in contact despite her curse... and like yuuko’‘s entire character is never explained she’s just like “i’m a woman who exists as a vehicle of plot in both TRC and xxxholic i will never be given depth beyond that... well also i’ll ruin watanuki’s life”

and hen the last chapters are just watching everyone grow up while watanuki is alone, never aging, helping grant wishes where he watches other immortal beings suffer and lose everyone, and it just ends with him relizing he likely won’t ever see yuuko again but he’ll keep waiting?? even though it’s been 100 yers and everyone he loves is dead??

and that shit is not good for my mental health like i feel like i have been isolated fo ra hundred years beacuse of covid watching watanuki choose it hurt edeply

like half the manga is about syaoran and sakura begging him not to vanish (also that plotline was WEIRDLY dropped) and the series ends with him effectively... vanishing a sa person and just becoming shopkeeper

how fucking depressing??

i could handle a sad ending if it had value. if it said something. if it didn’t have doumeki marrying a girl he knew since she was an abused elementary schooler while he was like 17. ESPECiALLY when IN THE PANELS REVEALING IT it weren’t like “atcually neither of them love each other they love watanuki but it’s fine” like HUH????????? FOR WHY

and ive really had to grasp the reason why there’s so much fucked up shit (incest, pedophilia) in those series is core to CLAMP’s messages accross all their mangas about soulmates nad how about love can triumph over everything

and like using such a PURE message to be like “if an adult is in love with a child and they’re soulmates, it’s to be” is so fucking evil

like they’ll tip toe around kurogane and fai, yukito and touya, doumeki and watanuki, and all the gaybait that i KNOW is in their other series because i’ve grown up seeing shit like tokyo babylon and legal drug and all their other dropped manga

because gay peopl ebeing soulmates is a wink and a nod

but ADULTS WITH CHILDREN THEY ARE IN CHARGE OF??? MOTHER AND SON MAYBE??? oh that’s fine they’re REAL soulmates who will go against TIME AND DIMENSION MAGIC ITSELF to be in love

like...............................

gay people are second class characters compared to pedos and incest... does it get worse than that? like besides emotionally destroyed by the sad endings, i get that shit too?

it hurts on a deeper level like feels like a betrayal and i’m kind of really sad i revisited something i enjoyed so much as a kid (even when i didn’t understand wtf was going on, because i was literally reading it at the same time my friend was and rushing) andd discovered this like... deep rot inside it

i could have continued to remember it fondly but now it’s just like... reaching the last bite of cake and being told it was made with maggots like... well i already ate it all...

there’s no point reading clear card or the unfinished tsubasa/xxxholic sequels because they’ve already ruined themselves like they can’t fix it

kurogane and fai still won’t be allowed to be together. watanuki still outlived everyone who ever loved him for a mother figure that can never come back. cardcaptor wrote off the fourth grader engaged to hre teacher but like... sakura’s dad is still a preadator

like... what do i do with these left over feelings then?

i’ll be over it in a dya but like for tonight i really do feel unwell

okay thank you i got it out in one post i am processing the feelings

i am gonna cry about watanuki being alone tho

[kurogabae]

Don't know if you ever watched it but Fruits Basket is getting a reboot anime so do you think there's hope that Tsubasa might get the same treatment?

I heard Fruits Basket is getting a reboot! I did watch it and I read it way back in the day too (I’d have to reread it to have any sort of proper discussion about it but I have very fond memories).

As for hopes of TRC getting a similar treatment - Fruits Basket’s original anime wasn’t too bad until it deviated from the manga WILDLY because the manga wasn’t finished. Why the animators/company didn’t just wait for the manga to move further along before starting/continuing with the project is something I’ll never understand. If the reboot plans on fixing this then hell yeah I hope TRC gets the same treatment, but if it’s gonna go off the rails and do its own thing again we really don’t need another mess like that.

Part of me thinks that the TRC anime was such a colossal disaster that no one will be willing to bother with it again, but if this trend of reboots and “fix-it”s continues then yeah, I think one day we might actually get a real person anime.

God I hope we get an anime. 

#ask Ryssa #for the love of all that is good #WHERE IS MY REBOOT #Anonymous

[wishingstardust]

Rules: answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you’d like to get to know better Name: Mimi  nicknames: technically Mimi is a nickname but only like three people call me Amelia with any regularity zodiac sign: Sagittarius height: 5′7″ish orientation: straight (but probably demi? idk) nationality: American favorite fruit: raspberries or strawberries favorite season: spring favorite book: oh god don’t make me choose between my children (currently I’m deep into TRC and rereading it far too much; contemporary-wise I also adore everything by Rainbow Rowell, classics-wise Jane Austen’s probably my fave but also I’m quite partial to American lit) favorite flower: they’re all so pretty but right now I just think pansies are the cutest thing and they look so happy! favorite scent: honeysuckle, mint, lavender favorite color: probably light blue but I’m so terrible at favorites favorite animal: all of them lol, but I do have a heavy bias toward mammals (especially bunnies!) coffee | tea | hot cocoa: hot chocolate or herbal tea, I’m a really picky eater and that counts for beverages too average sleep hours: a good amount but always at a bad time cat or dog person: dogs dogs dogs, and though I’ve met a few great kitties ultimately I’m more allergic to them than I am to other fluffs favorite fictional character: oh man idk most female leads have me rooting for them from page one number of blankets you sleep with: normally a sheet and a blanket, maybe more dream trip: I’ve been lucky enough to get to do a fair amount of travel, but next on my list are much of New England (I wanna hit all 50 states and like a quarter of the ones I haven’t been to are there), Iceland, maybe like Oslo and Copenhagen?  blog created: apparently in mid-2012 number of followers: 400-something random fact: the Colombia basin pygmy rabbit is an isolated population of pygmy rabbit in Washington state that p much went extinct in the wild and conservation efforts are still ongoing and they’re like one pound (TEENY! the smallest of buns) and I want to see them one day

tagged by: @bluesargenvt :) tagging: idk the usual but only if you’re up for it @septemberninth92 @queerpunklily @vampirescience okay I’m breaking the rules everyone is tagged if they wanna be tagged

[midnightliar]

the beautiful, luminous, inimitable @violaeade​ tagged me for 50 book questions!

1. What is your favourite book and/or book series of all time?

oh maybe everything leads to you by nina lacour! it just really gets to me

2. What is the longest book you have ever read? How many pages?

uhh idk what’s the longest harry potter book bc probably that? i dont... read books that long usually

3. What is the oldest book you have ever read? (Based on its written date)

ummm i think and then there were none by agatha christie? i dont keep track by time tbh but i dont read that many old books bc i tend to have trouble reading them

4. What is a book series that everyone else loves but you do not?

the raven cycle lol

5. What book or book series would you like to see turned into a film/ TV series?

oh god most of them? 99% of the lesbian ones for sure. percy jackson would make an excellent animated movie series imo. i’m clearly biased but tasu/teota would be great on screen. 

6. What is your favourite stand-alone book?

most of the gay ones i read are standalones and theres so many good ones... i already said everything leads to you but we are okay and you know me well are also extremely good! of fire and stars killed me as well. 

7. What is a book that you feel glad for not reading?

god. straight ones? ones that i heard are racist or homo/lesbo/bi/transphobic, but in general i’m picky abt what i read bc i don’t read that many books.

8. What is a book that you feel guilty for not reading?

i was gonna say i don’t feel guilty about not reading books i don’t like/don’t want to but that’s a lie- babe if ur reading this i am SO sorry i never finished the last chaos walking book

9. What is a book you have read that is set in your country of birth?

most of them lol that’s what i get for living in america. i read we are okay pretty recently which takes place in new york, the state i was born in, so that’s a bit more specific.

10. What is a book that you own more than one copy of?

i have 2 copies of redwall for no reason other than my high school library was selling one for a dollar so i bought it even tho i had it already. i have a couple copies of some of the a wrinkle in time books bc i got some of them as gifts a bunch. 

11. What horror book made you really scared?

omg i don’t read horror but that one skulduggery pleasant short story about bubba moon or whatever freaked me the fuck out tbh

12. What book do you passionately hate?

um i haven’t read enough terrible books to say i hate them that passionately? but i rly kinda hated trc. oh yeah i read the first c*aptive pr*nce book in hs on the recommendation of a friend and it just made me so uncomfortable the entire time i really. did not have a good time with that one and i wish i hadn’t read it

13. What is the biggest book series you have read? How many books are in it?

skulduggery pleasant! theres 9 books plus short stories i still can’t believe i read all those

14. What book gives you happy memories?

aw sabrina answered this with the flywheel by erin gough and i have to say the same bc she sent it to me for my birthday, full of annotations of thoughts and jokes she made herself AND got it signed by the author, and i’ve uhhhh never felt so loved in my life

15. What book made you cry?

oh the book thief for sure. everything leads to you made me cry a bunch while rereading it even tho its not sad? thos were love tears. that happens a lot actually.

16. What book made you laugh?

skulduggery pleasant! there’s so many good lines in that one. my dad used to always hand me a book he’d just read and tell me to read a certain chapter he found hilarious but i never read the whole book but he always found hilarious memoirs too.

17. What is your favourite book that contains an LGBTQ+ character?

lmaoo like all the books i read are gay? the abyss surrounds us/the edge of the abyss have really unique lesbian characters because they’re so angry and vindictive and dumb and interesting and DRAMATIC so that one gets a shout out

18. Have you read a book with a male protagonist? What is it?

what the fuck is that (ok i legit just finished reading when the moon was ours by anna marie mclemore tho bc my gf rec’d it and it was p good)

19. Have you read a book set on another planet? What is it?

does fantasy count? bc then of fire and stars. uhh chaos walking is on a new planet. a wrinkle in time involves other planets too! wow i’m crushing this one

20. Have you ever been glad to not finish a series? Which?

the raven cycle lol i thought it was a finished trilogy when i started the first book so i just never read the last one and i am so relieved

21. Have you ever read a book series because you were pressured?

not really? i don’t really feel pressure, i value recommendations from my girlfriend friends way more than things that are trending or popular. i’ve read a couple that i blindly picked from internet lists that i didn’t care for tho but that was really a while ago

22. What famous author have you not read any books by?

pretty much any author we were supposed to read in high school. any classic or even modern famous author i probably haven’t read. i’ve read like a dozen books ever

23. Who is your favourite author of all time?

tbh nina lacour is really up there. when i was really young it was definitely gail carson levine. i rly loved anne ursu’s books as well.

24. How many bookshelves do you own?

only one! and a bunch of boxes that i never unpacked after we moved like 3 years ago. my mom wants to put a big wall bookshelf in our house somewhere bc this one didn’t come with any like our last house did but who knows if that’ll happen.

25. How many books do you own?

are u trying to make me count?

26. What is your favourite non-fiction book?

ohhh i don’t read much of this genre. i always avoided it as a kid and i’ve been meaning to get into it more but i haven’t yet. i’m really looking forward to reading a sally ride biography tho

27. What is your favourite children’s/middle-grade book?

the chronus chronicles by anne ursu were my JAM in elementary/middle school omg. i also really loved the may bird series which i didn’t read until high school.

28. What is your next book on your TBR?

i’m about to start georgia peaches and other forbidden fruit finally! my gf bought me 10 things i can see from here and i love her so whenever that arrive i’m probably gonna devour that. i want to reread a wrinkle in time soon since the trailer comes out this weekend! plus a million others

29. What book are you currently reading?

i literally just finished when the moon was ours which felt like it took me ten years to read and i haven’t started another yet but it’ll be georgia peaches bc thats the other one i got from the library and i already had to renew them haha

30. What book are you planning on buying next?

um this old west lesbian novel called backwards to oregon! i’ve been craving westerns lately but as always i’m also craving gay content

31. What was the cheapest book you bought?

i used to buy a ton of old paperbacks, usually goofy looking sf or fantasy novels from library sales for dollars or quarters so definitely those.

32. What was the most expensive book you bought?

i can tell u the most expensive book i got for free was a beautiful bound collection of hg wells stories that i just got from some book at bea before it was bookcon lol

ones i actually paid for... do art books count??

33. What is a book you read after seeing the movie/ TV series?

nah i usually have no intention of reading the book if i watched the show/movie first

34. What is the newest book you have bought?

akdjghksjgh a lesbian western novella called from the boots up for a few bucks on kindle

35. What three books are you most looking forward to reading this year?

the rest of the gay books i’ve bought but haven’t read yet! not your sidekick and labyrinth lost, i’m VERY excited to reread a wrinkle in time and i also really want to read stone butch blues

36. What is a book you love that has a terrible trope? (Love triangle, etc)

crush by sr silcox has the cutest lesbian teen summer romance AND one them is secretly a rock star avoiding her fame bc her controlling dad was turning into HIS dream instead of HERS akdjghksdjgh its fantastic i adored it

37. Have you read a book in a different language? What was it?

oh no i’m dumb as hell

38. What is a book you’ve read that is set in a time period before you were born?

for some reason dave at night by gail carson levine popped into my head first? that was my favorite as a kid and i reread it all the time and i think it took place in the 20s or 30s with all that good good jazz shit

39. What book offended you?

hm not sure how to answer this one

40. What is the weirdest book you have read?

idk the may bird series was pretty weird. gone by michael grant? i read the first for a high school book club and i just could not get into it or understand it even a little

41. What is your favourite duology?

ditty the abyss surrounds us & the edge of the abyss !!

42. What is your favourite trilogy?

wow i really haven’t read that many trilogies esp ones i loved. i guess may bird or the chronus chronicles then!

43. What book did you buy because of its cover?

the maze runner! also bc i heard it was good but i hated that book so

44. What is a book that you love, but has a terrible cover?

honestly i can’t think of one rn

45. Do you own a poetry anthology? What is your favourite poem from it?

nope! i also hated poetry as a kid and have only tried to get into it recently. i have a book of sappho’s fragments and i want to get tracy k smith from the library but thats about it

46. Do you own any colouring books based off other books?

nope

47. Do you own any historical fiction?

thats possible

48. What book made you angry?

the maze runner really did?? for some reason and i don’t get mad that much but it just really had me steamin. sabrina also said grasshopper jungle and i’m inclined to say same lmao. i haven’t read it but seeing all the lesbophobia in not otherwise specified recently made me really mad and also upset

49. What book has inspired you?

aw inspired is a serious word to throw around. the miseducation of cameron post, idk if it “inspired” me but it was my first lesbian novel and that really did a lot for me.

50. What book got you into reading?

i think it was a wrinkle in time! or maybe roald dahl books before that, but a wrinkle in time was definitely up there, and maybe the shadow thieves by anne ursu

i’m tagging @reading-takes-you-places and @mywomensworld and anyone who wants to! i don’t talk to many people here but if you follow me and want to, go for it!

#boy this was so many questions and i really don't......read.............. #but ily babe ty for tagging me <3 #long post

[canonbibuckley]

Rules: Answer the 20 questions and tag 20 amazing followers you’d like to get to know better Tagged by @find-yourself-in-passion

Name: Alyssa :)

Nicknames: Lyss, Aly

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn!

Height: 5'1

Orientation: aromantic, bisexual i think. feelings are weird.

Ethnicity: latina 🇵🇷

Favorite Fruit: i had star fruit once and it was amazing

Favorite Season: fall

Favorite Book: okay so this answer is kinda long lol bc i love chuck palahniuk (namely fight club and invisible monsters) but not bc i think they’re incredible books (i actually hate all of his characters) but i adore the way he TELLS the stories, god i must’ve reread invisible monsters 10 times and i’m still manage to find something new.

but anyway, i also love sarah dessen bc her books are soft and gentle and are about learning to love and they’re sorta cheesy but they’re honestly /good. just listen is my favorite.

but thennnnn there’s also books i’m currently obsessed with. which would be aftg. i’m currently reading tsoa and trc

Favorite Flower: tulips. and roses bc they’re Classic

Favorite Scent: the smell after your blow out birthday candles

Favorite Colour: green

Favorite Animal: raccoons 🐼

Coffee, tea, or hot cocoa?: i mix equal parts coffee and hot chocolate lol i’m not a fan of tea tbh

Average Sleep Hours: i tend to sleep from 12am ish -7am ish

Cat or dog person?: dog!

Favorite Fictional Character: tony stark actually means the world to me tbqh

Number of blankets you sleep with: i have 2

Dream Trip: i wanna go everywhere but currently i have my sights set on london

Blog Created: this blog was made in like, summer of 2016? it’s still a baby. but my main was created the summer of 2010. (check out my main @lyssalovescookies!)

Number of Followers: this one has less than 50, my main has a little over 900

I’m not going to tag anyone bc i always feel like i forget people but! if u see it feel free to do it and tag me bc (bc i love learning facts about people, i think it’s cute) 😊

#about me

[gansey--thats-all-there-is]

"In any case, he knew he was going to let the bird return with them to Monmouth Manufacturing, because he saw the possessive way Ronan held it."

Gansey you are so unbelievably unbothered by weird shit, it's hilarious. your roommate is so very obviously a ghost, the culmination of so many horror movie moments, and you just. you just let him live with you. you're like "Ah that's normal, that's just Noah. He's smudgy :)" LIKE THAT IS NOT A NORMAL DESCRIPTION FOR A PERSON.

And then your other roommate you find drunk in a church with a baby raven in his hands, and you give the absolute minimum level of concern or curiosity to this event?? like??? for a second you ask where the bird came from, and when Ronan just responds "my head", you're like "whelp I tried, anyways, guess you've got a bird now :)" and then continue to hyperfixate on the implications of this bird for your magical quest. I just?? Dude???

#'gansey's good at finding things' #no‚ hes good at obliviously stumbling into so many magical happenings that eventually hes accumulated so much magical bs that the world is #obligated to show him his glendower #if blue is a magical amplifier‚ gansey is a magical magnet #he just turns around and happens to have collected the perfect magical court for his quest #hes like ah fantastic! #the fact that his 'power' is like. magically commanding things. is so funny #like its entirely plot convenient that hes too stupid (affectionate) to just call upon glendower earlier. #and its the funniest thing ever #anyways gansey ilysm #trc #the raven cycle #fruit rereads trc

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But that wasn't what happened. What happened was they drove to Harry's and parked the Camaro next to an Audi and a Lexus and Gansey ordered flavors of gelato until the table wouldn't hold any more bowls and Ronan convinced the staff to turn the overhead speakers up and Blue laughed for the first time at something Gansey said and they were loud and triumphant and kings of Henrietta, because they'd found the ley line and because it was starting, it was starting.

#INSTANT SEROTONIN BOOST #MAGGIE WHO TOLD YOU THIS WAS OKAY #the‚‚‚‚ the softness of it‚‚‚ #the fact that after a fun day of quest stuff‚ gansey gets to have fun with his friends #he buys them all gelato‚‚‚‚‚‚ #THEY ALL LAUGH AND GET ALONG #FUCK MAN #fruit rereads trc

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"ARE YOU LISTENING, GLENDOWER? I AM COMING TO FIND YOU!" Gansey's voice, ebullient and ringing, echoed off the tree-covered slopes around the field. Adam and Blue found him standing in the middle of a clear, pale path, his arms stretched out and his head tilted back as he shouted into the air. Adam's mouth made the soundless shape of a laugh.

Gansey grinned at them both.

HOW COULD ANYONE NOT LIKE GANSEY, LOOK AT THIS BOY

#I'M— #HE'S JUST SO #AAAH #i love the way he grins back at adam and blue too. like I am going to get a good grade in friendship #something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve #The way he's so excited whenever he gets a new 'clue' to his quest! #i love gansey so much help #fruit rereads trc

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hey it's kinda criminal that we don't actually get Noah and Blue's first interactions. like all we get is Adam saying they got along well. but I want to know MORE. GIVE ME MORE NOAH AND BLUE FRIENDSHIP

#the best friendship istg #i need more noah in general tbh #please maggie PLEASE #(i say as if rereading the books she will somehow change what shes already written) #who knows. anything's possible. time is a circle right #fruit rereads trc

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I cannot imagine the horror that gansey and blue felt upon discovering noah's body. the ghost thing is really the only possibility they considered, but just thinking like,,,, with time being different on ley lines. there was a very real possibility that the corpse was not something from the past, but that their friend could've died by some magical means in the present. like obviously the corpse was old, but again, they all just experienced weird passage of time in cabeswater, so who's to say their friend couldn't have died and rotted by some horrible unnatural means? anyways

#just. these two chapters are so good man. #so fucking much to think about here #fruit rereads trc

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I wish I could quote all of the raven boys chapter 23 in this post and talk about it. god. just moment after moment, this wondrously magical feeling as they're in cabeswater for the first time. Gansey being excited about everything. blue feeling at home. the odd disbelieving love for it all. the way blue starts to see and love the real gansey. the almost sad longing and yearning in it. just. fUck man.

this is why the raven boys will always be my favorite of the series

#none of the other books quite capture the wonder of this one #it makes my heart feel so at home #god dAmn i cant handle this much longing #fruit rereads trc

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In her small voice, Persephone said, "I have nothing to add." After a moment of consideration, she added, however, "If you are going to punch someone, don't put your thumb inside your fist. It would be a shame to break it."

hmm wonder who this advice could be for

#i like how she just sees this happening in the future and decides to tell blue but not gansey #idk if this is psychic stuff being finicky or a purposeful attempt to save gansey or simply persephone foreseeing this happening to him but #only choosing to vaguely warn of it to blue or even just Persephone being Persephone but. i love her asdhhdjs #fruit rereads trc