Welcome 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 fictional characters don’t know we exist.

DEEP DIVE: Rites of Passage (from approx. the 27:52 minute mark to 39:52, depending on your player)

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Next Episodes:
8/22/19-- Ravin’ Girls S2 Episode 29, covering chapters 54-59 of The Dream Thieves
9/5/19-- Ravin' Girls S2 Episode 30, covering Chap. 60-Epilogue of The Dream Thieves
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Links to Articles, Websites, and Other Discussions:

The Raven’s Prophecy Tarot, written and illustrated by Maggie Stiefvater: https://www.llewellyn.com/product.php?ean=9780738747439
Staring into the abyss: https://horizonofreason.com/staring-into-the-abyss/
Adam Parrish and the Lisa Frank Tarot: https://astrailhads.tumblr.com/post/172157542569/astrailhads-raven-cycle-au-where-everythings-the
Personal stories of rites of passage: http://www.native-americans-online.com/native-american-vision-quest.html
Definition, Rite of passage: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/rites-of-passage
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rite_of_passage#Types_and_examples
Rites of passage in anthropological study: http://what-when-how.com/social-and-cultural-anthropology/rite-of-passage-anthropology/
New World Encyclopedia article, Rites of Passage: https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Rite_of_passage
Encyclopedia Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/topic/rite-of-passage
The Psychology of Initiation Rites: https://www.samwoolfe.com/2014/06/the-psychology-of-initiation-rites.html
Initiation and rites of passage: https://youthpassageways.org/blog/2016/10/10/initiation-and-rites-of-passage/
Rituals surrounding puberty: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2367147/
Quinceanera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincea%C3%B1era
Bar and Bat Mitzvahs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_and_bat_mitzvah
Japanese Coming of Age Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_Day
Berkley Hero’s Journey Project: https://orias.berkeley.edu/resources-teachers/monomyth-heros-journey-project
Hero’s journey: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero%27s_journey
Joseph Campbell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
Ravens hiding food: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sng1oV_uDzM
Uilleann pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uilleann_pipes
Maggie’s car accident and pipe playing: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_wV-e1qgA3UJ:https://twitter.com/mstiefvater/status/913058100965462016+&cd=16&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Anglo Saxon riddles in the Exeter Book: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_Riddles_of_the_Exeter_Book

**MAGGIEWATCH**
@ireadya on Twitter is hosting a Raven Cycle recap contest from August 2nd to September 1st, in anticipation of CDTH. Entries must be a 1-minute video or 200 words or fewer, tagged with: #RavenRecap, #CallDowntheHawk, and #Contest on Instagram and Twitter only. Winners will be chosen by Maggie and receive an exclusive boxed set of The Raven Cycle. Full entry details at: https://calldownthehawk.tumblr.com/post/186722565600/fan-contest-raven-recap

Announcements:
We are planning a Season 2 Wrap-Up and 2 Year Anniversary Episode! We’ll talk about our feelings on The Dream Thieves, Season 2, and the last two years as a whole. If you have questions, comments, or favorite moments, we’d love to hear from you!

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Acknowledgements:
The Raven Cycle and all affiliated properties (The Raven Boys, The Dream Thieves, Blue Lily, Lily Blue, and The Raven King) are copyright Maggie Stiefvater and Scholastic, Inc. The Ravin’ Girls reference these properties for the purpose of literary analysis.

Intro and Outro music by Damiano Baldoni, used under CC Attribution License: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Damiano_Baldoni/Lost_Dinasty/
The original tracks have been edited for the podcast.