Ho Yay / The Raven Cycle

• Gansey and Ronan are close enough that Kavinsky is convinced Ronan must either be in love with Gansey or want to get into his pants. (In actuality Ronan sees him as a brother, but the Ho Yay is still heavily present.)
  • Ronan definitely finds Gansey physically attractive despite not having romantic feelings for him. In The Dream Thieves, Ronan repeatedly gets angry at himself for noticing how good Gansey looks when he looks like a normal person (i.e. wearing jeans and a t-shirt or messy-haired and covered in engine grease) rather than his usual polished, unattainable self.
• Ronan and Adam, meanwhile, bicker Like an Old Married Couple and Ronan's brother, Declan, either through perception or paranoia, has picked up on it. He gets visibly bothered when he sees them in close physical contact. (In The Dream Thieves Ronan puts his legs across Adam's lap, pretending to sleep when he sees his brother coming towards them. Declan seems to focus more on their contact than on the fact that Ronan is obviously ignoring him, though he may be used to that.)
• Also in The Dream Thieves Ronan comes to terms with his own sexuality and we learn that he is in fact gay. He has his fair share of moments with Kavinsky, but ultimately has a crush on Adam.
• In the third book, Adam is aware of and flattered by Ronan's feelings for him.
  • Adam also tends to talk a lot about how handsome Ronan is and how he feels unworthy of Ronan having feelings for him. He also compares Blue (his ex-girlfriend) and Ronan repeatedly and talks about them in a similar way in his POV chapters. The author lampshaded Adam's obsession with Ronan's looks in the third book on Twitter:
  Fan: Describe Blue Lily, Lily Blue in 6 words.
  Maggie Stiefvater: 1. Adam 2. thinks 3. Ronan 4. has 5. nice 6. eyelashes.
• Even before it's confirmed in The Raven King, Adam is pretty blatantly bisexual, particularly in Blue Lily, Lily Blue. He's practically blown away by how handsome Colin Greenmantle is and compares him to the male model whose photo he keeps in the glove compartment of his car. Oh yeah, and he keeps a photo of a freaking male model (from an ad for a "sleek gray German car", which happens to also describe Ronan's BMW) in his car. For "inspiration". Sure, Adam. Sure.
  • Maggie Stiefvater's official recap of the book confirms that Adam was attracted to Greenmantle, referring to him eyeing Greenmantle's "looks and virility".
• Adam and Gansey have a relationship that constantly teeters on the finest edge of subtext, and even Noah has charged moments with all three of the other boys. As Blue reflects in the third installment, the entire group really is in love with each other in different ways.
• Adam, Gansey, and Ronan all love each other so much that their POV narration about each other is always completely (and hilariously) overly admiring and romanticized. It can take several read-throughs for most readers to realize that a lot of their awed internal reflections about how amazing the other two are are actually referring to completely normal if not outright gross behavior, such as Gansey sighing wistfully over how wonderful and uninhibited Adam is for peeing in the woods. It's blatant enough that "Gansey is in love with Adam" has become a meme among fans on Tumblr.
• Henry Cheng generates massive amounts of Ho Yay with Gansey in The Raven King, to the point that it comes across like Gansey is dating Henry in addition to Blue.