She/her

Probably somewhere under the bi umbrella

I read a lot, and sometimes I badly write too

Books I Love: The Raven Cycle (pretty much anything by Maggie Stiefvater), Six of Crows, In Other Lands, The Scholomance series, and a bunch more too!

Music I Love: Florence + The Machine, Hozier, Fiona Apple, Vampire Weekend, and so much more!

Other things: Project Hail Mary, Hadestown

I paint (mostly watercolors) and draw a lot but I’m probably never going to share my art here.

Asks/ dms ok and appreciated! Just don’t be weird please!

I’m always open to book/show/music recs!

Dni if you view anyone as lesser than yourself for simply existing!

Why hello there! All of the above.

Some of my very long favorites actually are

Road to hell, livin it up on top, when the chips are down, wait for me, why we build the wall, our lady of the underground, and doubt comes in!

I kept on trying to keep it shorter, but I just couldn’t 😭

I heard good from it otherwise so I wondered if you could tell me about it, both good and bad

I’m going to try to not make this spoilery, but there might be a few small things that slip through!

The raven cycle is a story about people, but unlike many YA stories about people, it doesn’t necessarily focus exclusively on the romance throughout it. Romance is an overarching theme, but the plot and characters are significantly more complex than “everyone wants to date the girl!” I was kinda scared when I first went into it for the same reasons!

I do not think trc falls into these tropes, luckily. Blue (the one girl) does have an all male friend group, but it doesn’t end up being the “all these guys are just in love with her” idea, because EVERYONE in the group is slightly in love with each other (paraphrased from an actual quote in the book). I don’t feel like there ends up being a “who will she choose!?” thing because her decisions are somewhat final, any real options are sorted out early, and the entire story isn’t focused around her and her romantic life. There isn’t a weird thing where all her friends low key want to date her because She Is Girl, and she has healthy relationships with her female family members that actually matter in the story.

On the first read of it, you may be worried that it’ll get weird with her, but the question of it goes away a little bit into the story. If anyone in the story has everyone wanting to date them, it isn’t the only girl!

Others have felt a little iffy about Blue not having any really female friends, but I personally feel like the female support network she has makes up for that.

obviously (from my username) I’m not the best person to go to for the cons of trc, but I don’t think you have to worry about the Only One Girl In A Male Friend Group Thing.

I really hope that actually ended up somewhat coherent, I’m working off of very little sleep here lol.

“Favourite character in the Raven Cycle and why. Same question for the crows.”

This is like being asked to pick a favorite child, and none of these children have personally wronged me!

Crows first. I love them all. They’re all perfect in their own ways, but I think the crow that I’d be the most likely to read about in a story as the main character would probably be my girl Nina Zenik. Not only is she very relatable to me, but she’s an icon. And not only is she an icon, but she’s also properly morally grey, and has traits besides being strong. She doesn’t always make “the right choice” and sometimes she CAN’T fight her way through something, and that makes me love her even more! I suppose what I’m trying to get at is that she doesn’t feel two dimensional, or simply like a plot device. I’ve yet to read the king of scars duology, but I will at some point!

Now for the raven cycle:

aghhhhhh nooooo 😭😭😭

I cannot physically pick a favorite, but the characters I relate to the most are Gansey and Blue, especially Gansey. Am I an upper class white boy? No, but I Get Him so hard. My friends actually call me Gansey, because they gathered it to! Picking a favorite would be hell, but I Get him the most, I think.

FOR AN UNDEAD WEDDING DAY

AND YOUVE SPENT THE SUMMER DRINKING

WHILE I SPENT IT BEING ERASED

LETS PRETEND NOTHING HAPPENED I AGREE

Also, favourite character in the Raven Cycle and why. Same question for the crows.

Alrighty!

I personally adored the dreamer trilogy. Stiefvater’s writing continues to shine throughout it, and it adds a lot more depth to some of the world building that there just wasn’t enough room for in the raven cycle. The whole concept of dreamers was under explored in trc, and the dreamer trilogy really fleshes it out. I also love a lot of the new characters introduced, and the development of some of the existing ones! Despite how much I enjoy it, I feel like there are some trc fans who would be disappointed by it. It’s not really a proper continuation of the raven cycle per se. It doesn’t really feature the gangsey dynamics, and while the raven cycle had an air of magic and wonder, the dreamer trilogy is more about the reality of magic, and how humans work (dw, some of the whimsy does persist!). It’s really interesting to analyze. I loved it, but other trc fans might not, simply because it is a different story.

I hope this kinda makes sense, I am ✨constantly sleep deprived✨

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