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
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.
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
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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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
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?
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.
Kevin and Jean being bitches in the same room together is so powerful. level 10 cuntquake two million dead
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.
Adam was constantly saying “I’m employed what does this mean” whenever Gansey and Ronan did some crazy shit while he was at work