adamparrush:

arielmagicesi:

things that actually happened in chapter 39 of the raven king:

-ronan goes outside onto the porch and looks at fireflies

-adam walks out onto the porch. his facial expression suggests to ronan that he’s thinking very hard about something

-three deer walk by

-ronan is unable to take it anymore and says “adam?”

-adam kisses ronan, which is described to include: ronan’s hands on adam’s ribs, adam’s mouth on ronan’s mouth “again and again and again,” stubble on lips, ronan having to stop to catch his breath and restart his heart, and a feeling compared to street racing

-they’re inside again and they “pretend they would dream but they did not”

-they spread out on the couch

-adam “studies ronan’s tattoo”

-adam says “unguibus et rostro”

-ronan “puts adam’s hands to his mouth”

-it’s said that ronan is never sleeping again

-(not said in chapter 39 but based on a later chapter, we can infer that adam eventually goes to declan’s room to sleep)

this can be interpreted a lot of ways. if you’re interpreting this as “they definitely had sex,” that’s not the book’s fault. like yes the subtext suggests that the kiss was pretty intense based on ronan having to catch his breath, but also that could be because ronan is easily overwhelmed. yes ronan obviously takes off his shirt if adam is studying his tattoo, but he’s looking at the tattoo, that isn’t necessarily some big sexual thing. if anyone’s oversexualizing this, it’s the readers.

this chapter very easily can be interpreted as “they have a kiss on the porch for a couple of minutes, they decide to go inside and dream, they’re too tired so they just chill on the couch, adam says he wants to look at the tattoo, ronan takes his shirt off and adam just looks at the tattoo, he says unguibus et rostro and ronan gives him a gentle kiss on his hands” it’s not even a stretch to interpret it that way, which is very sweet and gentle and romantic. and god forbid they also aggressively make out… they’re teenagers… they’re touch starved… they’ve been in love for a while without doing anything about it…

and in regards to bluesey: listen. i hate to break it to you, but the reason why gansey and blue were so “innocent” was because if they even touched lips for one second, gansey would have DIED! he would have been DEAD! holy fuck! listen blue is Thirsty As All Hell; if she hadn’t had a curse i can tell you those late night drive chapters would have been a lot less “innocent”… does nobody remember the iconic line “she wanted to be best friends with Gansey forever and ALSO HAVE CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF HIM” like whew… that’s literally directly sexual right there… like what do you want? should we put true-love’s-kiss curses on all ya characters to keep it even across the board?

this is so weird to me like OK i understand wanting to be critical of gay representation; trust me i’m the MOST annoyingly critical person in this dumb ass trash fandom but like…… why can’t the gay characters do a got dam thing without it being turned into but!!! they are gay and this means that this is a BAD thing!!! they can’t have sex otherwise they’re oversexualized; they can’t be gentle otherwise what are they just some ‘cute gays’; they can’t get married because that’s ‘‘‘heteronormative’‘‘ somehow; they can’t be political because not all gay people are political my gosh; they can’t NOT care about politics because what are you saying that gay people don’t care about their own issues; they can’t be cute or romantic or sad or happy or sexual or not sexual or anything

i’m not trying to say to stop criticizing when it DOES get fetishize-y or trope-y or lowkey homophobic. PLEASE keep criticizing these things. but maybe realize when it’s a valid criticism and when it’s you just feeling like if it’s about gay characters, it’s somehow wrong

yup!!!!!! also how in the world are pynch hypersexualized when adam thinks at length in his pov about how much he wants to kiss blue and how attracted he is to her and in trk he literally goes on for a paragraph about her boobs and lips but he is never allowed to express his attraction to ronan in the same way at all. and the pynch kisses were considerably less descriptive than the noah/blue kiss or the blue/gansey almost kisses or even the adam/blue almost kiss in tdt.