Tag: the raven cycle

madbrake:

I finished reading Maggie Stievater’s Raven Cycle today and it filled my soul with something I needed, something I didn’t know I needed, and something more than that. And so I sketched Ronan and Chainsaw because I love them dearly. I’d like to draw the rest of the gang too, but we’ll see where I wander. I’m also working on different ways to mesh my traditional sketching with some digital manipulation. 

Maggie my love, will you show us more of your first drafts of The Raven Cycle? Seeing how far the story has come is really really dang cool.

maggie-stiefvater:

Dear fvord00101,

I share these ancient teenage drafts with the world only in hopes that other aspiring writers will learn from how terrible a writer I was when I began. As we all are. And in the hopes that anyone reading this post as the first introduction to my writing figures out that I have improved in the last fifteen years.

The guide to the name differences in the old drafts:

Sean = Ronan

Adam = Noah

Secret = Orphan Girl

Scott = Declan

Jackie = a Lynch sister who got deleted

Here’s a bit about when Ronan finds Niall Lynch’s journal:

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Yes, Sean/ Ronan, we know, and no, you’re not the only one:

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Here is Gansey as an old man with Knowledge:

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A draft where Sean discovers he is a dream thief:

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And a draft where Gansey has gotten theoretically younger in body but is still basically an old person. Also, Glendower was actually Llewellyn who was actually the Wild Hunt. Enjoy.

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(these are puny, I imagine, so more readable photos here)

The Raven Cycle was a series that I picked up and put down and retooled many times between 15-19, and even though I wrote other terrible novels at the time, this one, more than any of the others, reflected my current interests and desires and fears and inability to avoid italics.

urs,

Stiefvater

arbores–loqui–latine:

arbores–loqui–latine:

kyary-pamyu-phitchit:

arbores–loqui–latine:

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THE SLANDER I AM SEEING ON BOTH THIS WEBSITE AND AO3 IN REGARDS TO THE HEIGHTS OF THE GANGSEY, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, EVERYONE IN COMPARISON TO RONAN. RONAN IS CANONICALLY THE LARGEST FRIEND. HE SLAMS HIS HEAD OFF LIGHTS, HE FOLDS HIMSELF INTO CARS, THERE IS A LOT OF THAT BOY THERE. YES, VALID, ADAM IS ALSO LARGE AND LONG BUT NOT AS LONG AS RONAN. STOP MAKING HIM OUT TO BE THE TALLEST, HE LOOKS UP AT RONAN OKAY!!!!!!!!! RONAN COULD PICK UP EACH OTHER MEMBER OF THE GROUP AND PERCH THEM ON HIS HIP IF HE WANTED TO. NOAH CZERNY DID NOT DIE FOR YOU TO DISCREDIT EVERY HARD EARNED INCH OF MY MAN OKAY!!!!!!!!!

also…. gansey’s taller than adam, at least by TRC?

(TRC ch. 56) they’re all here at this point and since gansey and ronan are the only ones who ducked… everyone else is shorter.

woah!!!! i was CONVINCED Adam was taller than gansey!!!! thank u for that bud!!

i also wish to add this for everyone’s future reference: