one of the best decisions yellowjackets has ever made is reverting the women back into girls at their most vulnerable moments. shauna when she kills adam, nat laying her head in lottie's lap, misty seeing young natalie in the mirror, misty in the morgue seeing lottie because this truly hammers home that their lives stopped the moment that plane went down and that no matter how much time has passed by, they're still those teenage girls who were on their way to their football game and lost 19 months of their lives trying to survive.
the most car ride of all time
thinking about noah as a gansey mirror again.
gansey with his journal crammed full of notes about his quest and whelk remembering noah’s handwriting scattered across their notes. their flashy cars. noah coming up with the idea for raven days and gansey being the raven king.
the fact that they both start the series as ghosts, that they have both died and somehow come back but the coming back didn’t fix everything. the fact that they both see something softer in ronan than what is on the surface, the fact that noah can kiss blue because he’s dead and that gansey can’t or he will die. the way gansey says excelsior before they start off and the way noah took the bold first steps into cabeswater.
the way that both of their deaths caused the ley line to stir, the way that both of them lived past those first deaths because of glendower. the way that noah comes back as something other and gansey, though he is perhaps something more real, does as well, and the way they both experience time not quite correctly, not quite linearly.
it’s noah who comments that he was something more when he was alive and gansey not just wanting but needing to find glendower because he feels that there is a hole inside of him. it’s the way that noah thinks that they wouldn’t have liked who he was when he was alive, and the way gansey hates that he can’t stop being a gansey. it’s how very real gansey looks when he’s next to noah.
it’s gansey planning to use glendower to save noah, even though he knows that this is the year he will die. it’s noah using glendower to save gansey, to give him a reason to go on, to meet the people who he will save and who will save him.
it’s gansey being rebuilt out of his friends’ memories if him and noah slipping slowly out of time.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue (Ch. 38) / The Raven King (Ch. 55)
Underrated moments in AFTG upon reread:
- Allison calling Kevin’s tattoo a tramp stamp
- Seth laughing his ass off upon hearing Riko was on the Kathy Ferdinand show
- Nicky suggesting Allison and Kevin hook up and they both react with intense disgust
- Aaron shrugging to Neil coming back absolutely battered from Evermore
- Kevin wanting to ask what Neil and Andrew talked about at Eden’s twilight after Andrew confessed to Neil, then seeing Neil’s face and being like “you know what? Not my business.”
- Dan, Allison and Renee basically fake dating platonically their first year to defy the sexist guys on their team
- Neil finding math interesting
- Kevin giving Neil the most scathing elevator look that Neil feels shame about his wardrobe for the first and only time
- Dan punching a Raven in the dick after they made a sexual comment about her past
- Matt’s mother being so grateful to Andrew for getting Matt clean that she pays Aaron’s bail
- Nicky calling Kevin a brat
- Wymack making Dan the first female captain despite the rampant misogyny in Exy
- Andrew stroking Neil’s back after Neil stood up for Kevin at Kathy’s Interview
- Wymack and Matt being the original Andreil shippers
- Neil giving Kevin his binder before going to Evermore like HELLO???? That was some INSANE trust
The Golden Raven opened up so many fanfic possibilities. SOOOO many. Here are just a few off the top of my head:
