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I just want Kevin and Jean to hug. Plz. Just once. Let two cool guys hug. Plz.
Ronan Lynch, believing himself to be the worst evil in the world, constantly meeting and seeing worser evils (Kavinsky, the Demon, the actual devil) and having to come to terms with the fact that maybe he’s not so bad
Sometimes I’m okay and then I remember that at the end of trk Noah is literally just gone. Like no one remembers him. It’s like he never existed in the first place and no one can even be sad about that because they DON’T EVEN REMEMBER GOD IM GONNA BE SICK NO ONE KNOWS THAT HE LOVES GLITTER AND SPIKY HAIR AND HATES BEING ALONE AN
Yes of course if I had tons of money and lived in the middle of Virginia I’d buy an abandoned factory and fill it with a model of the town I live in and mint plants and all of the little trinkets and supernatural objects I’ve collected over the years and all my closest friends. What else?
Everyone always talks abt the Pynch wedding but I lowkey feel like they wouldn’t have one. In fact, I feel like they would just sign the papers and not tell anyone until one day Gansey, Blue, and Henry come to visit the barns and one of them notices the ring and is like “wait wtf you’re engaged?” and Ronan just gives them a weird look and replies “we’re married” and then all hell breaks loose.
this is a post born primarily out of personal interest/necessity but i hope it will be useful to other people too. outtakes and cut scenes from trc have been floating around fandom spaces for a while, but they are infuriatingly hard to track down: some of them have been reblogged without tags and are therefore lost in the depths of tumblr, some i did not get to reblog before maggie deleted her tumblr, and some were posted to twitter and subsequently deleted.
so, since i was tired of having to dig through months and months of my trc tag (and often coming up empty handed), i decided to compile all the deleted scenes i could into this post. it is possible that i have forgotten some, and if that is the case, please let me know.
i owe a big debt of gratitude to kelly @harvardparrish for compiling a downloadable archive of maggie’s tumblr; most of the outtakes below i retrieved by browsing maggie’s “how i write” tag in the archive and taking screenshots of the relevant posts. others were screenshots that were posted to twitter by maggie, which i managed to save before the tweets were deleted.
enjoy!! (under a cut for length and future edits)
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Kevin and Jean being bitches in the same room together is so powerful. level 10 cuntquake two million dead
Do y’all think Jean and Kevin used to play smash or pass but it was court or not court
Jean being real asf
Burning oceans, hand kinks, whatever whatever LOOK AT HOW RONAN DREAMS OF ADAM HE LITERALLY WORSHIPS HIM
doodle bc this is extremely Jean coded
Golden trio
It was the 90's! Yeah babe!
I read a head canon saying Harry hated tight clothes after his childhood with the Dursley, always wearing Dudley's too big for him stuff. So here he is in his baggy!
Hermione's in high colored outfit
And Ron with the inevitable combo backpack/army jacket.
I love Henry Cheng because where tf did he come from??? Like there was absolutely zero mention of him in the first two books and suddenly he appears out of thin air with enough charisma to feed a small family and a robotic bee. Oh and also his mom is a crime boss?? So there’s that
Obviously it’s a general rule in fiction that a character cannot be who you first believe they are, but trc just takes it to a whole other level. By the end of The Raven King, every single character is so drastically different from how they were in The Raven Boys, partially because of their own development, but also because of how the perspectives are divvied out between books so neatly that you get basically an entire character study in each one alongside the overall plot. Everytime I reread it I’m so off-put by the first book because of how differently they used to act and think, even if it the timeline is only a few months. Maggie Stiefvater please never die
Everytime I reread tfc I try to find a reason as to why Columbia needed to happen and I genuinely cannot find one. Like why did they do that??? I could never be Neil cause my sensitive ass would have quit immediately.
My favorite character in aftg is Neil’s hair. Because wdym after years of being on the run and constantly having to change his identity AND play a dangerous physical sport he still kept his gorgeous locks? He could have saved himself half the trouble of dyeing and holding it back by just getting a buzz cut, but the poor guy just didn’t have the heart to cut it.
I love aftg because it’s literally impossible to water down the characters. Literally everything that they do is based on the unique intricacies of their circumstances. Like there’s no surface level behavior for them because they’re all so individual and have different responses to the situations they’re placed in.
This is also abt how annoyed I get when people try to dumb characters like Neil Josten to “short and feral and depressed” or Andrew to “angry and spontaneous bad boy” when they’re SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT RAHHH
My favorite plot twist in trc was Ronan being an absolute fucking loser. Like wdym the stoic spontaneous bad boy listens to EDM and wants to be a farmer??? And people are SCARED of him??? Please.
I hate when all the banter and quips immediately end after two characters start a relationship. Like let them love and hate each other! It’s not enemies to lovers if they just magically stop arguing after one kiss.
I’m actually crying whose decision was it to have Lloyd’s edgy montage scene be him jumping from the rooftops with Hard Knock Life from Annie playing in the background
Adam was constantly saying “I’m employed what does this mean” whenever Gansey and Ronan did some crazy shit while he was at work
Funniest part of The Raven King was for sure when it was revealed that Cheng2 was not in fact Henry’s brother but actually just some random kid who was also named Henry
How DC felt turning Tim Drake from a justice-driven genius with a deep respect for Batman and an overwhelming desire to succeed despite his parents negligence to a psychotic teenager from the suburbs who takes his parents love for granted in favor of his obsession with Batman that eventually leads to him ruining their lives and still getting his way.
Every time someone says that Tim Drake discovered the identities of both Batman and Nightwing and became the third Robin because he was BORED an angel dies
A requested piece! ROBIN SNUGGLE PILE
Aka Tim’s sleep jail time. Jason checking in with his brothers but also just stole supplies from the cave.
When Henry, Blue, and Gansey are traveling and have to stay in hotels they only reserve one bed just saying just saying
i figured yall would appreciate this photo
original instagram post from vinnikolaus
oh nothing just Helen supporting Gansey’s weird interests and Helen technically being the first person that Gansey tells about him liking Blue and Helen and Gansey hugging despite the Ganseys not being huggers and how even though Gansey was able to find his own family outside of home Helen will always be his big sister shut up don’t talk to me