read a review of the raven boys that said something like "am i supposed to feel bad for a rich guy because he can't kiss a girl?" and it baffles me how much someone can completely miss the point
no you're not supposed to feel bad for Gansey because he can't kiss Blue, he doesn't even want her like that in this book yet
you're supposed to feel bad for him because yes, he is rich, but he knows he privileged and he's scared he doesn't deserve it and he needs to make his life worth something
because he needs to prove magic is real, even though people consider him naive and silly
because he loves his friends so much but "he's nobody to Adam, nobody to Ronan"
because he could live everywhere and he chose an abandoned factory, he could have had any car and he chose the Pig, he could have had any friends and he chose the misfits, because he loves the old and barely functional
because he lived when he should have died and he has to make something of this life otherwise he may as well just have died
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fuck dating apps i want to meet someone the old fashioned way (you’re walking your bike up the last hill into town wearing your school uniform. i’m hanging out the passenger side window of my best friend’s car. your hands are beautiful. we know nothing about each other. you disappear in the rear view mirror. i close my eyes and send up a simple, inexplicable, desperate prayer to god. i say please. i have never said please in my life)
i think we're all too desensitized to "Adam lived in an apartment located above the office of St. Agnes Catholic Church, a fortuitous combination that focused most of the objects of Ronan's worship into one downtown block." because i'm thinking about it again and maggie was actually insane to write that
adam’s first pov in the raven boys, standing at the door to monmouth: declan is so interesting. the way he conducts himself. holds himself w grace. he walks through life w comfort and ease. i think i want to live my life like him.
adam’s interactions w declan in mister impossible: i hope the door kills u on the way out
Have you ever wished there was an interactive map that not only graphs the ley lines described in TRC, but also has layers full of possible spiritual points, arranged in loose categories and sloppily curated by sheer force of mental illness?? Okay baby here you go:
Started as an attempt to draw the ley lines referenced in The Raven Boys (and the rest of the Raven Cycle series) by Maggie Stiefvater. Turn
FAQ under the cut 😘
Was this necessary?
Genuinely it was not. My investigations uncovered that Maggie Stiefvater does not really care about geography, nor does she remain consistent about the ley lines, so I can't even really say that it's book-accurate.
Example 1 - There are multiple understandings of ley lines. Some are circles, patterns, connect the dots, etc. but TRC goes with the definition of "perfectly straight" lines "that crisscross the globe" (The Raven Boys Chapter 2, Chapter 15). One of the big three lines connects Boston to St. Louis (The Raven Boys Chapter 22). And the main line also passes through Boston (see example #2)! But half of all the Pynch drama in Call Down the Hawk specifically blames Boston/Harvard for not being on the ley line. Hello?? It's on TWO of them!
Example 2 - Maggie makes it clear that the connection between D.C. and New York, which also connects to the UK and Pilot Mountain, is the main line that Glendower's squad traveled on (The Raven Boys Chapter 7, Chapter 22). The weird part is how after defining this line, all of Adam's ley line adventures place it directly along the Shenandoah National Park/Blue Ridge Mountains (Blue Lily, Lily Blue Chapter 2 + many other quotes I don't feel like looking up). There's no way to connect the DC-Pilot Mt line to Shenandoah, but I can totally see how Maggie Stiefvater would think it connects when looking at a flat map.
So yeah. It doesn't really matter, but thanks to my research we can CONFIRM that it doesn't really matter. You're welcome.
So why did you make this?
For fun...it wasn't exactly worth it. But by sharing it with y'all, hopefully no one else will make the same mistake.
What about line #3?
The third line never has specific connection points in the books so I basically made it up :) but I narrowed it down to 2 candidates, with my chosen line based on Ronan's mention of the "Pando thing" in Greywaren's epilogue.
How did you decide on/find points?
Honestly it was a lot of vibes. You can read in the description of the map how I started from certain resources, like all the stuff in the books, and other people's Google maps. My big discovery was realizing that UNESCO World Heritage Sites covered a lot of territory between history and nature, but before that I was literally googling things like "strange places Kentucky" and pouring through articles. If a place seemed weird and magical, I added it.
Yes this took forever. Easily 3x as long as the 300 Fox Way floorplan, if not longer.
Is this map complete?
I had other ideas for things I should add to it but I got tired, so nah.
You've put down everything from urban legends to alien sightings, but why don't I see many hauntings on the map?
Blatant author bias; I firmly don't believe in famously haunted houses! The vast majority of "haunted" places operate as tourist attractions, so if I took them at their word I'd have to also log Disney World for being the most magical place on earth, wouldn't I? Also Re: I got tired.
Can I copy this map / add to it / use it for reference?
Please please please please
I found a typo
I bet you did! I'm not even proof reading this post bestie.
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no offense to blue sargent but if i was friends with a group of boys who went to a private school i would ask them to sneak me inside for a full day, at least once. doesn’t matter if it’s an all-boys school, that’s the fun part.
i firmly believe that matthew has a cartoon-heart shaped heart instead of an anatomically correct one. there’s no way ronan knew human anatomy as a child so this is what i’m picturing
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Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival.
Thinking about famous musician Ronan who has no social media accounts and is only rarely spotted in the public eye but Declan is an inheritance lawyer and like, tweets about congressional hearings and stuff and all his tweets gets questions about what Ronan’s favorite color is and “so true king. Spare Ronan photo pls” Also people make Declan fancams from his official headshots and clips of the one time he was a guest on cnn
Jordan writes for jezebel or something and she publishes an article called “I’m obsessed with the inexplicable fancams of this famous musician’s normie brother” and that’s how it all begins
Paparazzi mistake jordeclan for Ronan and Hennessy and leak a picture of them kissing and because hennessy‘s doing the cover art for his latest album or something suddenly all the gossip rags are like “did this avant-garde artist TURN former gay icon Ronan lynch???” and when people on twitter @ hennessy to ask if it’s her she’s like “that’s definitely me and yes I did turn him ❤️ We’re very happy” just to cause problems on purpose
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