i have… so many feelings about the demon possession part in trk and specifically chapter 62 and it’s nothing that hasn’t been said before but i was rereading that part after a long time, so here’s just a word vomit of adam parrish emotions
adam is very serious and very driven and very introspective but he is also a geekass nerdbaby so let’s talk about that
literally our introduction to his friendship with ronan is that they’re both covered in scabs because they were dragging each other behind a moving car on one of these things
instead of trying to break up ronan & declan’s fight, he finds a bouncy ball with spongebob printed on it and hangs out in an alley playing with it
goes full on Notice Me Senpai the moment a hot teacher walks in. put your hand down, parrish
he is taking a SCIENTIFIC METHOD EXTRACURRICULAR. who does this. who
the transformer toy??? oh my god??
stares blankly at helen gansey when she asks if he wants to go into whole foods
that time he got stressed out and the narrative was saying “adam melted into the seat” and “adam slithered down even farther into the seat” son please
that time he absolutely lost his shit and started giggling and letting out helpless wails of laughter because of malory’s pigeon show
sees gansey looking at the aglionby dean and mouths “yee-haw” SHUT UP
when gansey decided he was going to wingman adam and adam covered his entire face and was So Embarrassed
his general attitude of “ronan lynch is an ASSHOLE who is HANDSOME and BEAUTIFUL and SUCH A DICK” that started literally with his first paragraph of narration
rmr when the kids brought gwenllian back to fox way and adam/ronan hid in the hallway like babyass cowards and then desperately scrambled out of the house at the first opportunity?
when ronan confessed that he’d dreamt cabeswater into being and adam is internally doing this
“adam wanted desperately and masochistically for tad to ask him where he’d summered”
that time he slept for twenty-four hours and then woke up and drank an entire jug of pomegranate juice before leaving
that other time he slept all night and then woke up and ate two hamburger buns and drank all of ronan’s milk straight out of the jug
his helpless laughter when noah is like “u do have nice legs tho” and blue play-slaps both of them
flirting with his crush by using his psychic connection to a forest to make shitty EDM music play out in the open
smiling cheerily when his crush calls him an asshole
“the two-minute disparity aged him prematurely”
i am so here for this
when ronan comes to the garage to flirt with him very badly and adam is like “hmph! some of us have homework!”
in trk when maggie is describing how aurora talks to the kids about what interests them and for adam she asks him scientific and logical questions and he tries to get her to answer them too LIKE
the picture of an honest to god male model in his glove compartment
at fox way when he lays out all the tarot cards and spends ages studying each of them…. he is so scientific about everything he does my son
“other classmates complained about the work. work! work was the island adam swam to in a stormy sea.”
“shuffled his ambitiously laden messenger bag onto his other shoulder” what a nerdy phrase
when ronan called him einstein. he truly is
my favorite thing about the tarot cards at fox way is that he’s leaning on his elbows on the table and keeps shuffling around to keep looking at them? that’s so cute?
ronan also calls his science guy and i love it
i can’t believe i forgot this the first time but: LOOKING AT BLUE THROUGH THE LITTLE STONE WITH A HOLE IN THE MIDDLE; that entire scene is so sweet
when everyone was going wild in the pig and blue was shouting along to the engine and noah was playing the drums on ronan’s headrest and adam tried his best to “not appear unwild” so that he wouldn’t ruin everybody’s fun
“he wondered if he was going to go through each year of his life thinking about how stupid he had been the year before”
god did gansey even like go to school when he was globetrotting. did he just check Out after seventh grade and then miss like four years of school and drop into aglionby sophomore/junior year??? and he gets on RONAN’S case for cutting class. unbelievable. the hyppocrates.
From The Raven Boys, chapter 12 (page 111 in the paperback, 95 in the ebook):
“Of all the places Gansey had attended boarding school – and he’d attended many in his four years of underage wandering – Aglionby Academy was his father’s favorite, which meant it was the most likely to land its student body in the Ivy League. Or the Senate. It also meant, however, that it was the most difficult school Gansey had ever been to. Before Henrietta, he’d made his search for Glendower his primary activity, and school had been a distant second. Gansey was clever enough and he was good at studying if nothing else, so it hadn’t been a problem to skip classes or push homework to the bottom of the list. But at Aglionby, there were no failing grades. If you dropped below a B average, you were out on your ass. And Dick Gansey II had let his son know that if he couldn’t hack it in a private school, Gansey was cut out of the will.
He’d said it nicely, though, over a place of fettuccine.”
So Gansey had schools, and he attended as much as required, but they were much more “if you pass your classes we do not care about skipping” and Gansey was good enough to make up for skipping. So yes, he skipped when he could get away with it. The trouble was neither he nor Ronan could get away with it at Aglionby.
So not really a hypocrite. You bet Gansey would skip for Glendower if he could have. But there was always going to be a diploma from somewhere, the trappings of a successful life trajectory and the options that leaves open.
i guess it’s possible that this level of truancy would include school attendance and only involve absences over school breaks but uhhhhhh i doubt it. school breaks are not that long. i guess it’s possible that gansey attempted distance education at some point and there are (now) a number of excellent private schools that offer at least some online or distance courses, but there were not that many options in 2011/12 (which is when loose consensus says the series is set).
also going to a string of private schools is not… like… if you end up having to switch to a different school, that’s not ”attending as much as is required because you’re good enough to make up for skipping,” that’s “skipping and then getting kicked out but with a nicer face on it.” gansey doesn’t go to school, or didn’t go to school, until he got hit with an ultimatum (a polite ultimatum! but it boiled down to ‘you’re not allowed to be damaged in ways that other people can see, or that are going to make other people Talk… this is your last chance, so you’d better make this school work or we’re going to curtail the freedoms we’ve allowed you through our neglect, instead of helping you.’)
anyway the other thing is that they did get away with it aglionby. gansey IS able to make a deal for ronan’s diploma – it’s not aglionby being difficult that makes gansey a good and responsible student or whatever, it’s gansey choosing (because of family pressure, because he’s able to subsume his glendower quest into his relationship with henrietta as a town & repress the urge to Wander, because of the friendships he builds that tether him to the area, and imo most importantly because of his growing awareness of his swiftly-approaching death) to actually make a go of it, and to leave the people he cares about with a minimally-messy cleanup after he’s through
anyway tldr though the original post was a joke about being too mentally ill for school & gansey experiencing the mom friend override when it comes to ronan It’s Not That Deep
bullshit central 
