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Official Tumblr of The Ravin' Girls, a Raven Cycle Podcast. We create loving but critical analysis of Maggie Stiefvater's Raven Cycle books, taking a few chapters at a time and delving into the origins, mythology, and fandom that surrounds TRC. Subscribe at https://ravingirls.com or on your favorite podcast app, and follow us here for episodes, announcements, essays, and much more! EPISODE RELEASE SCHEDULE: We are currently between Seasons Two and Three, but in early November we will be releasing a Special Episode for CALL DOWN THE HAWK, the first book in the Ronan Lynch-centric Dreamer Trilogy. New episodes generally release on (or around) the first and third Thursdays of every month. To keep updated on episode releases, or what chapters we are covering next, follow us @ravingirls on almost all social media platforms!
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Happy Birthday Adam!!!

I don´t know if I´m late or not, because I still don´t know if his bday is the 3rd or the 4th (*face palms*). Either way happy (belated?) birthday to adam parrish, who deserves the world!

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Anonymous asked:

hey just a heads up, for some reason this morning, about half of your episodes showed up duplicated in my podcast app? I don't know if this only effects me, but trg is only the podcast this happened for. It's episodes 17-31, and some of the bonus episodes

Hello Anon, thank you for letting us know! Recently our podcast hosting service was bought by another company and our feed was just ported over yesterday or last night. I was really hoping that there would be no hiccups on the Listener side; so sorry for any inconvenience or disappointment that the glitch may have caused!

If anyone else is having issues with our episodes or any questions, please let us know! I'm a bit scared to look at our website and previous audio posts and such. 😆 Broken links and messed up feeds may abound. Hopefully the transfer is not too much of an impact on you all, we'll do our best to smooth out anything we can. 💙 -N

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The Raven Cycle 

(The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, The Raven King & Opal)

By Maggie Stiefvater

I was reluctant to read a book about a group of boys, but the dream elements in The Raven Cycle echoed some of the themes in my own book so I decided it would be valuable research. I tend to eschew male protagonists because I surfeited on a diet of them growing up when I longed to read about intelligent, daring, creative women.

But The Raven Cycle not only boasts a menagerie of multidimensional nuanced male characters, but also fierce, dynamic, wild females as well. I am so glad that Maggie Stiefvater lured me in with her brilliant premise, lyrical prose and unexpected landscape so that I could appreciate this gorgeous gritty tapestry of teen male kinship (and dare I say the sensuality of cars?) through not just a trilogy, but a quartet of books - plus a bonus short story. Oh, and for all of us that curse the end of a good series, guess what? There is a spin-off called The Dreamer Trilogy which I am enjoying now narrated by the brilliantly pliant Will Patten.

Blue Sergeant chronicles the names of the dead as the pass on the ley line each year. A seemingly ungifted seer in a house of talented female clairvoyants, Blue never seems to “see” anything until she sees the ghost of Gansey. This encounter catapults Blue into an adventure with a group of misfit prep school boys in search of a legend king.

With the kind of grand reveals that make a reader do a double take, Stiefvater builds a wholly unique world full of fantastical nightmares and earnest possibility that exists just a stumble away from our own.

Written with the intelligence of an adult but the poetry and wisdom that we lose as we age, this southern gothic tarot phantasm has the imagination of Erin Morgenstern and the dark possible magic of Melissa Albert’s The Hazel Wood.

So, let’s hear it for the boys, and for an author who has rendered such vivid multidimensional heroes - and heroines - to add to the canon of YA literature.

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Since the TRC TV show was cancelled for now, we made our own little adaption of the books... just through Adam's eyes!😊 It's a four-part Cosplay Music Video series!

Here's a little teaser and the link to part one!😽 Hope you enjoy it!

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ravingirls

This deserves more attention! We talk a little about the TV show cancellation in the next episode, and frankly I'd be more than happy to see these folks do it. <3

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amerart

in this house we only stan ronan lynch but sometimes u just gotta draw a gansey ya know?

also ya’ll should check out @ravingirls​, this podcast has singlehandedly gotten me through the worst of 2020 and made me love TRC way more than is probably normal or healthy

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Happiest of holiday seasons to each and every one of you!

Hi Lovely Listeners! We wanted to send out a short holiday message and podcast update for the coming year. 2020 has been a rough one for so many people, and even if we’ve been silent, you all have been on our minds and in our hearts. Wishing you the best and brightest holidays possible however you might celebrate, and all of our love and hopes for 2021.

Next Episodes: We are hoping to come back with a modified format in early 2021, and ease back into Season 3 as soon as we are able. 

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BOOK TWO IN THE DREAMER TRILOGY IS COMING!

Get ready for Ronan’s story to continue in MISTER IMPOSSIBLE! 

Do the dreamers need the ley lines to save the world … or will their actions end up dooming the world? As Ronan, Hennessy, and Bryde try to make dreamers more powerful, the Moderators are closing in, sure that this power will bring about disaster. In the remarkable second book of The Dreamer Trilogy, Maggie Stiefvater pushes her characters to their limits – and shows what happens to them and others when they start to break.

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