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Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Intermezzode Take2: Peach Pie & NoogiesWelcome to Intermezzode Take2, aka are we better at this whole remote thing yet?! The stinger section says NO!
Join us as we cover a few listener questions related to everyone’s favorite Magician, Adam Parrish! We talk headcanons about how Blue found out about Pynch, how Adam’s deafness may or may not be used as a plot device, how readers can interpret characters and find personal representation regardless of textual evidence, and how sometimes those interpretations can be difficult for others due to extenuating circumstances and lived experiences (or lack thereof).
CAUTION: This Intermezzode has some discussion of abus...2021-05-1344 minRavin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin’ Girls Intermezzode Take1: Baja Blast LogoWelcome to Intermezzode Take1, aka how do we do this whole remote recording thing and what the heck happened to a whole year?!?!
Join us as we stumble through what it takes to record in two different places, answer questions about when we might come back with Season 3, talk about how we got through 2020, and recommend a few things that we enjoyed and/or helped us cope. We also dunk on South Dakota a little too much (Sorry, SD!), are baffled by the thought of a whole town in one building (Hi, Whittier!), update Shannon on the status of the...2021-04-0849 minRavin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls: Holiday Wishes 2020Happiest 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 all the best and brightest holidays possible, however you might celebrate, and all of our love and hopes for the best possible 2021.
Subscribe at: https://link.chtbl.com/d8E86BFy or wherever you get your podcasts, and please comment, rate, or...2020-12-2409 minRavin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 31: Not a MacGuffinWelcome to Season 3 Episode 31, where we cover the Prologue through Chapter 1 of Blue Lily, Lily Blue!
Shannon starts off this season totally subdued and not at all excited to be covering BLLB… YAH RIGHT! We kick off the first two chapters of Blue Lily, Lily Blue reintroducing the characters, their quest, and a bottomless pit. Who really is the MacGuffin in this book? How many pages of a novel could possibly take place only in a cave? How many Deep Dive pages did Shannon have to delete about animals, and how many did Nievita delete about ghosts?
Actually, I don’t th...2020-04-181h 37Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin’ Girls Season3 Teaser: Cave of RavensCaves! Missing moms! Mirrors! We’re back, and we’re diving deep into the third book of the Raven Cycle, Blue Lily, Lily Blue. Do you have your caving helmet and a stout rope? It’s going to be dangerous where we’re headed… you’re going to need them!
Welcome to our teaser for Season 3 of the Ravin’ Girls, reintroducing your co-hosts Shannon and Nievita. What is this podcast all about, and why are we doing it? More importantly, when do we expect to return with the first episode of BLLB?!? Stick around to the stinger to see if we’ve gotten a...2020-03-0606 minRavin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls SpEp: Call Down the Hawk Full NovelWelcome to our episode covering Maggie Stiefvater’s first novel in the new Dreamer Trilogy, CALL DOWN THE HAWK!!! Can you tell we’re excited?!
All of the Lynch boys are in trouble (what else is new?), mysterious art forgeries and forgers tantalize in the Fairy Market, dreamers and dreamed objects are hunted, strange voices come out of the dark, and the fires of the apocalypse burn on the horizon. Join us as we discuss what worked best for us and what didn’t, funniest moments and favorite new characters, agonize over our biggest questions, review our past predictions, and reveal...2019-11-151h 33Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls SpEp: Season 2 Wrap-upWelcome to the final episode of Season 2, where we discuss our feelings on finishing The Dream Thieves and talk about what we’re looking forward to in Blue Lily, Lily Blue!
Can anyone believe that it’s been two books, two seasons, and two years? We can’t! Join us for this Season 2 wrap up and Two Year Anniversary episode, where we talk about what we remember most fondly about Season 2, what the struggles of the past year have been, and what we’re most looking forward to for Season 3!
We also talk other books, movies, TV shows, fancasts, non-ancient poetry...2019-10-241h 18Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 30: BRB, Getting DragonsWelcome to Season 2 Episode 30, where we cover Chapters 60 through the Epilogue of The Dream Thieves!
Two dreamers. Two monsters. Two brothers. Two battles. One. Epic. PARTY!!! This is it! The final episode of Season Two! Buckle in and strap your helmet on, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. The final showdown between Kavinsky and Ronan. The final showdown between The Gray Man and his brother. A little bro is rescued, and a mom disappears. There are tears. And excitement. And dragons!
We lament our small town experiences, Shannon tries to avoid getting on any sort of Watch List, we...2019-09-281h 42Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 29: Death WafflesWelcome to Season 2 Episode 29, where we cover Chapters 54-59 of The Dream Thieves!
Ronan and the Gray Man finally meet face-to-face and it goes about as well as one might expect--possibly better, even. Persephone and Adam frantically fix the ley line as the 4th of July looms large in the sky. Why must they hurry? Seems like someone’s favorite baby brother may have been teen-napped… some guys really do just blow right past flowers and chocolate to cars and threats, don’t they?
We discuss how long it’s been since we’ve seen “The Birds”, what items we would most mis...2019-08-231h 24Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 28: Never Come AloneWelcome to Season 2 Episode 28, where we cover Chapters 50-53 of The Dream Thieves!
It’s Adam’s turn for learning about his life-altering mystical experience, while Blue and Gansey go out for a totally-not-romantic-let’s-never-talk-about-this drive through the Henrietta hills. Ronan has a chat with his (dead? dream?) dad, and the Gray Man gets some bad family news of his own. We compare our favorite pies and favorite paintings, Shannon covets the Lisa Frank tarot deck, and Nievita drops some seriously dark theories behind Prokopenko’s resurrection. Greenmantle says possibly the creepiest thing ever, and Shannon breaks the harsh news that fic...2019-08-091h 23Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 27: Circular ChickenWelcome to Season 2 Episode 27, where we cover Chapters 44-49 of The Dream Thieves!
So much angst, practically every character hits bottom. That means the only thing left is up, right? Nievita tells basically everyone except Kavinsky to eff off, and Shannon calls Greenmantle a b*tthole which is basically the same thing. We talk symbolism in Feng Shui and Japanese buffets, and disagree on the extent that K is responsible for Cabeswater’s disappearance. There are some tears--but possibly not from who you would expect. Calla gives our first solid hints about how time works in The Chicken Cycle, and we...2019-07-261h 21Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls SpEp: Call Down the Hawk SamplerWelcome to the Call Down The Hawk Special Episode!!! Where we cover the excerpt released by Scholastic, Prologue-Chapter 8.
So many new characters! So many new things to be worried about! SO MUCH EXCITEMENT!
Find out what Shannon would have called the black market, what 90’s British cartoon Nievita thinks might be related to dreamers, the possible meaning behind the new dream-forest’s name, and what we found most shocking and satisfying about the excerpt. We answer (or ramble) some listener questions, and grade our past predictions for the Dreamer Trilogy as Confirmed, Denied, or Unknown. Are we possibly psychic? It’s up t...2019-07-041h 16Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 26: Tiny Irish FlagWelcome to Season 2 Episode 26, where we cover Chapters 40-43 of The Dream Thieves!
Gansey gets disturbing texts from Ronan’s phone, Adam has gone missing, and Ronan and Kavinsky are out having a Dagobah moment. We tackle (no pun intended) the Great Dick Pic Controversy, and question how many times Shannon read through the books before she thought Ronan was “okay”. We find out what autocorrect has decided Glendower’s poet should be named, and talk about a disturbing number of bodies stuffed in trees. Shannon wonders if we should continue our Fast and the Furious franchise by watching Tokyo Drift an...2019-06-131h 15Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 25: The Sweet SpotWelcome to Season 2 Episode 25, where we cover Chapters 34-39 of The Dream Thieves!
Ronan puts the dreamed Camaro keys to the test by seeking some street racing Zen with Joseph Kavinsky, but gets a collision of epic proportions instead. Meanwhile a different, but no less destructive, type of collision is happening at the Gansey mansion between Adam and RCG3. Looks like lots of things are going to end up broken tonight! We also talk about the fastest cars we’ve ever driven, how street racing relates to Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, and the perfect TV show visuals. Shannon call...2019-05-191h 22Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 24: Dangerously Hipster TendenciesWelcome to Season 2 Episode 24, where we cover Chapters 31-33 of The Dream Thieves!
The Dad-friend leaves town for a party and everyone goes crazy! Ronan uses his dream-keys to start the Pig and illegally takes Matthew back to their childhood home, Blue and Noah poke into all the crevices of Monmouth and get frisky on Gansey’s bed, and meanwhile the only bright spot for Adam and Gansey is an old guy talking about pigeons. Shannon talks about the car she wishes she could take out of her dreams, Nievita gets caught up in the physiology of ghosts, and we bo...2019-04-181h 34Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 23: All of the "A's"Welcome to Season 2 Episode 23, where we cover Chapters 27-30 of The Dream Thieves!
Everyone’s on fire at Kavinsky’s substance party, including the Mitsubishi! Ronan and Gansey visit another king’s kingdom, Maura and the Gray Man go on a date where Maura steals yet another piece of his property, and Ronan has a very, very symbolic dream. We also agree that the 80’s were a weird time, Shannon discusses the legality of fireworks, Nievita points out the most unbelievable part of the whole book, and we discuss which one of us would be more likely to follow the other pe...2019-03-241h 12Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 22: The Kinks Are Always A ProblemWelcome to Season 2 Episode 22, where we cover Chapters 23-26 of The Dream Thieves!
The Gray Man breaks into Monmouth while flirting with Maura, the Gangsey and Orla make a sweaty and frustrating boat trip to discover some enigmatic clues, and Blue meets her mom’s new suitor while rehearsing The Little Mermaid with Noah. We talk about the Gray Man’s life motto, who has the cutest pet names (spoiler: it’s Mr. Gray’s rental car), and if we would rather live at 300 Fox Way or The Barns. Shannon has an adorable accent, Nievita acts out a piece of fan art...2019-03-071h 24Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 21: The Devil's JunkWelcome to Season 2 Episode 21, where we cover Chapters 19-22 of The Dream Thieves!
The Gangsey make an illegal trip to Ronan’s childhood home to get rid of yet another body. Ronan apparently dislikes light fixtures and psychics but loves his baby brother. Shannon connects the origins of some Sleeping Beauty stories to our good pal Geoffrey of Monmouth and reveals that she has a list of people she would bury a body for. Nievita admits to her childhood career aspirations and favorite Disney villainess, and we debate whether the term “Cat Room” refers to real cats or cat-shaped figurines.
MINI D...2019-02-211h 16Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 20: Silent Hill FlashbacksWelcome to Season 2 Episode 20, where we cover Chapters 15-18 of The Dream Thieves!
The Gangsey head back to visit their mystical talking tree friends for the first time since Adam made his bargain, but what’s this? A whole forest is gone! The Pig once again breaks down in a plot-convenient way, and Ronan has terrible dreams… some of which escape his head. We talk about what a drama queen Ronan can be, how Gansey can apparently use a smooth pick-up line on everyone except Blue, the parallels between Ronan’s mask dream and incidents in The Raven King, and how ev...2019-02-081h 18Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls: A Very Special Announcement!Welcome to a very exciting announcement that we've all been waiting for! The first book of Maggie Stiefavter's new Dreamer Trilogy, Call Down The Hawk, will be released on November 5th, 2019. WHOOHOO!2019-02-0700 minRavin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 19: 50 Shades of Mr. GrayWelcome to Season 2 Episode 19, where we cover Chapters 12-14 of The Dream Thieves!
This time around we discuss the possibility of dream creature cryptids, death cooties, what car Nievita used to race, and Shannon’s fancast for Mr. Gray. Find out which one of us likes plain yogurt and who thinks the fruit is the best part. We tease Blue a lot for being inadvertently gushy over one Richard Campbell Gansey III. And we answer a listener question about our feelings regarding unusual ‘ships for the Raven Cycle.
DEEP DIVE: The Triple Goddess (from approx. the 37:58 minute mark to 48:20, depending on p...2019-01-241h 16Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 18: Turkey Cordon DieuWelcome to Season 2 Episode 18, where we cover Chapters 8-11 of The Dream Thieves!
We discover that Nievita has a strange attraction to a particular body part, that Shannon was blindsided by the Pynch first kiss, and we ask our listeners how they pronounce the name “Niall”. Find out how the tradition of running moonshine relates to Ronan’s favorite hobby. Find out how Blue got her name, and what folklore tradition Nievita thinks is tied to 300 Fox Way. And your Ravin’ Girls hosts finally reveal their Hogwarts Houses on the podcast… not like anyone is surprised, we’re sure!
DEEP DIVE: The Cu...2019-01-061h 27Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 17: Cream Puff SoulEpisode Summary:
Welcome to Season 2 Episode 17, where we cover the Chaps. 4-7 of The Dream Thieves! Join us as we talk about the Thunderdome that is academia, and have an Anglo Saxon party. Nievita, always our timeline sleuth, has figured out the date Niall Lynch was killed. Shannon takes fashion tips from Orla. Also, we discuss whether hitmen and prep-school students are more susceptible to propaganda than the rest of us.
DEEP DIVE: A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain (from approx. the 14:03 minute mark to 22:57, depending on player)
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Is it finally here? Is this actually real?! Is it happening, or are we just DREAMING? Welcome to Season 2 Episode 16, where we cover the Prologue-Chap.3 of The Dream Thieves!
We are indeed BACK with our first episode covering the second book of The Raven Cycle, The Dream Thieves! Join us as we introduce our favorite hit man, talk about the fairytale-esque stories of the Lynch family, Nievita reveals that she has discovered the birthdate of Niall Lynch, Shannon reveals that she shares one of Ronan’s favorite things, and we both reveal that we are huge nerds by ma...2018-12-071h 18Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls SpEp: The Scorpio RacesWe usually promise no Grey Man violence, but today is the first day of November, and so today someone will die. That’s right, this special episode has carnivorous horses, red ribbons, and... baking? It’s The Ravin’ Girls cover the Scorpio Races! Hear our headcanon for Sean. Find out why Shannon is fired. Learn about Katamari Kelpies. Also, Shannon revels in being a Scorpio, we talk (a lot) about Water Horse myths, and The Ravin’ Girls make (and eat) their first November Cakes.
Subscribe at: https://ravingirls.podiant.co or wherever you get your podcasts, and please comment, rate, or revie...2018-11-011h 24Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Mailbag Ep.1: CrapalancheEpisode Summary:
We’re back! Kinda. Join us while we go through some Listener Submitted Questions (could it be one of yours?) in our first, and hopefully only, Mailbag Episode! Stick around for a ton of bloopers and outtakes; a thank you to the fans than have been so wonderful while we’ve been away.
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11/1618-- Ravin’ Girls SpecialEp: The Scorpio Races -- please stay tuned to social media & subscribed to our feed for announcements of upc...2018-10-181h 01Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls S2 Teaser: 4th of JulyFireworks! Car crashes! Nightmare fire dragons! It’s Kavinsky’s 4th of July party, and you’re all invited! Are you coming? Are you!?!
Just a little teaser reintroducing your co-hosts Shannon and Nievita, what the Ravin’ Girls podcast is all about, and when we expect to return with the first episode of Season2: The Dream Thieves. And did we get a very reluctant confession from Shannon? Listen to the stinger to find out!
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Here we are, at the end of the first book of the Raven Cycle and the end of our first season of The Ravin’ Girls! Join us as the earth shakes, bad guys quake, animals stampede and visions take heed. Adam makes his sacrifice and gains a leafy new best friend and Ronan admits that Chainsaw is a cliffhanger ending--leading us directly into Season 2: The Dream Thieves. Oh, and Shannon drops a piece of knowledge that has Nievita questioning everything she thought she knew about their friendship. Revelations an...2018-06-211h 18Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 14: Guacamole LoveEpisode Summary:
Welcome to Episode 14, where we cover Chapters 39-43 of The Raven Boys!
We are just one episode away from the end of Season 1 and wrapping up the first book of the Raven Cycle. It’s been a lot of laughs and tears so far, and just like these chapters we are winding up to go out with a stampede! Or, well, something like that. Shannon drops some Transformers trivia and calls Nievita out on her taste in men; Nievita makes a Rick Riordan joke and questions whether Punxsutawney Phil is actually immortal as claimed; and we discuss terrible lu...2018-06-071h 20Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 13: TriskaidekaphobiaEpisode Summary:
Welcome to Episode 13, where we cover Chapters 36-38 of The Raven Boys!
While 13 is generally one of Nievita’s favorite numbers, this episode feels very unlucky indeed. We take a dark ride through the confrontation between Adam and Robert Parrish and the immediate aftermath--and while we do cry, it’s possibly not as much as we thought we would. We tackle some pretty heavy topics such as the responsibility of Adam’s mom, Ronan’s expression of his pain and frustration, the protection that white privilege affords some of the characters, and how Gansey’s own parental emotional neglect ma...2018-05-171h 04Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 12: The Great Butternut CaperWelcome to Episode 12, where we cover Chapters 33-35 of The Raven Boys!
In this episode, we ponder the deepest of all philosophical questions: whether or not Gansey might be seeing alternate timelines, what the bathing habits of wizards truly are, what “butternut” is actually a euphemism for, and the hotly-contested eternal debate between, “The Pig is magic,” vs. “The Pig is just a piece of crap”. And, Lovely Listeners, this time around be happy that podcasting is not a fully sensory experience! They don’t call it “Devil’s Dung” for nothing...
DEEP DIVE: Psychometry
MINI-DEEP DIVE: Asafetida
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Welcome to Episode 11, where we cover Chapters 30-32 of The Raven Boys!
Both Shannon and Nievita bring the salt this episode! We get into some mild dragging of Dick Gansey the Second, Neeve continues to be a terrible human, we reject the canon of Noah’s shoes, Shannon holds the line as Blue Sargent Defense Squad, and Nievita is just the worst at pronouncing names and doing accents. You’d think by now she’d learn!
Note: Shannon only almost caused the car to crash because Nievita put her ice cold hands on Shannon’s face while pretending she was...2018-04-191h 11Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 10: I Noah GuyEpisode Summary:
Welcome to Episode 10, where we cover Chapters 27-29 of The Raven Boys!
Nievita and Shannon wander deep into the world of Ghost Stories as one of the biggest twists of the series is revealed! No, wait, it was revealed in Episode 2... our bad. We debate whether Calla is a fan of German Expressionism, where Gansey might keep his mint leaves, who is the bigger fashion disaster between Gansey and Blue, whether or not Bluesey is a “Puzzle Couple”, and somehow Nievita makes way too many D&D jokes. Yeah, I guess that’s actually something that can happen. Who kn...2018-04-051h 12Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls SpEp: Opal Short StoryWelcome to our Opal Special Episode, covering the short story released with the paperback edition of The Raven King!
There’s a lot packed into 38 short pages, and both Shannon and Nievita have a lot of feels (ALL THE FEELS!) and a lot to say. Nievita loves little old (Cloud) ladies brazenly reading trashy romance novels (to be fair, Shannon does, too). Shannon thinks Opal needs to be introduced to Mr. Rogers (to be fair, Nievita was unfamiliar with the episode in question). They both agree that Opal is awesome and adorable and also creepy. There’s also plenty of disc...2018-03-151h 19Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Episode 9: Arbores Loqui Crappy LatineEpisode Summary:
Welcome to Episode 9, where we cover Chapters 25-26 of The Raven Boys!
A lot of language discussion in this one, which is terrible because neither of us speak Latin! (Please forgive Nievita’s terrible pronunciation.) The gang heads back to the mysterious wood, where they discover that Future-Ronan has left them a message on a rock: The Trees Speak (Really Crappy) Latin. Time travel! Mysterious entities! Puking ghosts! Real talk! And stick around to experience to the Ultimate MVC Rumble, the Brodown Hoedown Showdown!!
MINI-DEEP DIVE: Why the Latin is so terrible
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Welcome to Episode 8, where we cover Chapters 23-24 of The Raven Boys!
Finally, Cabeswater! We start to feel like Maggie might be smacking us upside the head with all of the foreshadowing in this chapter, because basically the whole plot of the Raven Cycle is laid out here. Gansey shoots finger guns, Ronan claims his territory, Adam is the resident Smart Guy, and Blue finds herself inside of a tree for the first time. Physics are 100% solid in this series, Shannon walks us through the ins and outs the “science” of using EMFs in ghost hunting, and Nievita drop...2018-02-151h 09Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Ep. 7: Poor Sweet N00bEpisode Summary:
Welcome to Episode 7, where we cover Chapter 19-22 of The Raven Boys!
Finally, it’s the episode where we get the band together! Adam finally contacts Blue (three whole days later!) by way of an apology carnation, there is an exhibition of Ronan’s dubious grasp on physics, and the Gangsey goes exploring in a highly convenient plot-icopter. Nievita does her best (absolute worst) Schwarzenegger impression, it is revealed that Nievita and Shannon went to middle school with the exact same person, and Shannon poses the question: does the Raven Cycle pass the Bechdel Test?
DEEP DIVE: Geoglyphs
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Welcome to Episode 6, where we cover Chapter 16-18 of The Raven Boys!
I think someone slipped us the giggle juice this time around! We lose our collective minds about the subject of Paul Bunyan’s beard, debate whether baby birds are cute or ugly, give some solid advice on what to do if something tells you it can “smell you” (hint: RUN!), and Shannon makes what might be the nerdiest joke this podcast has ever seen. And that’s saying a lot.
DEEP DIVE: Scrying
MINI-DEEP DIVE on the difference between psychics and witches
Subscribe at: https://ravingirls.podiant...2018-01-181h 11Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls SpEp: Henrietta HolidaysWelcome to our Holiday Special Episode, where we talk about the Raven Cycle prequel holiday short stories!
We cover the two Raven Cycle holiday short stories, both set before the beginning of The Raven Boys, that focus on 300 Fox Way and Monmouth Manufacturing--and basically every tradition we could possibly glean as being referenced.
After approx. timestamp 31:51 --depending on your player-- we talk about our own personal holiday traditions, both growing up and how we celebrate now. Find out what scent reminds Shannon of Christmas! (Hint: it’s not pine trees or peppermint.) Find out what Nievita’s favorite Christmas Special is...2017-12-2150 minRavin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Ep. 5: Foxy LadiesEpisode Summary:
Welcome to Episode 5, where we cover Chapter 15 of The Raven Boys!
We Talk Tarot (a LOT of tarot) with the chapter that brings the Gangsey and 300 Fox Way together for the first time. Nievita thinks 300 Fox Way is named after a particular spooky trio, Shannon drops some Harry Potter references-- and will we ever discover the answer to the BIGGEST MYSTERY in the Raven Cycle? All this and (oh my gosh so much) more!
DEEP DIVE: Tarot history and card meanings
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Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Ep.4: No Object Permanence**Episode Summary:**
Welcome to Episode 4, where we cover Chapters 12-14 of The Raven Boys!
So, who’s a socially awkward shitbird? Well, all of the characters, really, but Whelk in particular. In this episode we discuss Ronan and Gansey as old marrieds, Whelk being a genuinely distasteful human, how no one in the town of Henrietta seems to possess object permanence, and how sometimes your first instincts to help a situation are the wrong ones.
**DEEP DIVE:** Dowsing and pendulums
**WARNING:** These chapters deal with the direct result of domestic abuse. Please practice self-care while listening. We love you!
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Does anyone ever sleep in this town? In this episode, we cover three chapters that happen deep in the middle of the Henrietta night. We discover what Shannon finds spooky but Nievita loves, what the original draft versions of Gansey and Blue were like, how the Fae and corpse roads are intertwined, whether spelunking is really more dangerous than motorcycle racing, and Nievita’s headcanon for Gansey’s journal (it involves unicorns.)
Deep Dive: the history of Ley Lines and the folklore of Fairy Paths
Also mentioned: a possible SPECIAL VIDEO episode if we reach 100 subscribers. Tell your frie...2017-11-021h 18Ravin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls SpEp: All The Crooked SaintsShannon and Nievita sit down and review Maggie Stiefvater’s new release, All The Crooked Saints! Join us for an informal discussion of saints, family, darkness, symbolism, metaphors, music, love, and how sometimes prose just begs to be read out loud.
NOTE: Spoiler section begins AFTER the sign-off at timestamp 46:20 (approx. depending on your player) so stick around for the second portion if you’ve already read ATCS, OR if you don’t care about being spoiled. Bonus: you will learn which “character” Nievita identified with most strongly!
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Welcome to Episode 2! We cover chapters 4-8 of The Raven Boys, with a Deep Dive on Geoffrey of Monmouth. Nievita reveals her favorite Easter egg of TRC and exhibits her ignorance of the imports/exports of Virginia, much to Shannon’s amusement. We question whether ghosts have pockets, and how this could possibly be the first meeting of the Gangsey. There may or may not be some tears when talking about the Lynch brothers.
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Oh geez, we’re finally here! Welcome to Episode 1, where Shannon and Nievita cover the Prologue through Chapter 3 of _The Raven Boys_.
We introduce Blue and her boys, discuss fairytale inversions, the folklore behind St. Mark’s Eve, why you shouldn’t eat mistletoe, the potential supernatural nature of the Pig, and what may possibly be the longest slow-burn reveal of the whole series.
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Past Episode Gu...2017-09-2452 minRavin' Girls: A Raven Cycle PodcastRavin' Girls Teaser: IT'S STARTINGA little description of this project, and what it's about.
We’re Shannon and Nievita, and we’re the Ravin’ Girls! This is our Raven Cycle podcast, where we discuss and analyze Maggie Stiefvater’s Raven Cycle books. We discuss the Raven Cycle as a cycle, taking a look at the connections and foreshadowing running throughout the series. We analyze and discuss the themes of the books. We talk character arcs as we follow the development of these wonderfully complex characters. We also often take a ‘deep dive’ into a specific topic relevant to the chapters we’re covering in that episode...2017-09-1202 min