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daisymylove · 1 year
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 Right, I may get some heat for this, but here we go. MAJOR SPOILERS OF CHOT AHEAD, READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION
As someone who had been waiting for this book for TWO YEARS, my main take away is that Chain of thorns ended being an utter disappointment. As a former fan of Game of thrones, and other fans will get my meaning, I say this book gives me season 8 vibes: a ludicrous and incomplete conclusion to something that could’ve been epic, marinated on wasted potential.The thing is, we KNOW everything will turn out alright with the world at the end and the villains will fail, after all, this is a prequel on a ya series.We know that many of those characters are the ancestors of the TMI and TDA gangs, BUT that does not mean it couldn’t have been a very enjoyable story that leaves you at the edge of your seat, for we would get to see HOW things came to be
What bothers me the most is how Daisy’s protagonism was stolen, and that’s a first for a cc lead.
Its hinted several times in TDA that Cordelia was a hero whose name shadowhunter history would never forget.She was the sword that stood between evil and the world, saving it from doom on a byegone era... but she kinda didn’t? I shit you not, Cordelia’s greatest features on this book were to kill Tatiana (seriously?) and bang james on a tub.And that’s all.And if anyone had to kill tatiana at all, that person should be grace, it would be a great end to her arc of abuse, but that’s beside the point here
All the build up of “we must get cordelia in there so she can vanquish belial and end this’’ was for literally NOTHING.
After so many people either doubting her, or saying she was their only hope, after spending most of the book not fighting and staying on the sidelines because of the paladin busyness (and making some unhinged decisions along the way), she doesn’t fight Belial AT ALL. WHAT? If she had stabbed james, would it be cohf 2.0? well yes, but it still would’ve been better than james going “time for suicide mission lololol” and driving cortana to his chest.And the healing blade? where did that come from? That was such a cheap way for him to not die
The trip to Edom was for literally nothing.Sure, it brought her and lucie closer after the strain on their friendship,but that doesn’t require a trip to Edom, they could’ve just talked and sorted out their shit
Kit’s death was ridiculous and UNmourned. Tatiana, who has no training whatsoever, killed him throwing a poisoned dagger on his shoulder. Nevermind that In book one this boy survived an also poisoned gash that ripped his torso open. Who remembers that anyway? Its not absurd at all.
Point being that if youre going to kill him, do it with dignity and give weight to it.We don’t see his funeral, we don’t see the adults finding it out, nor his parents and henry mourning, we barely see the tlh gang mourning.Jem was throughly mourned, AND HE DIDN’T EVEN DIE.Kit’s death was the literary equivalent of the Loki meme “yes very sad, anyway”  
On the topics of things we didn’t see, I’m livid that there was so much page time wasted on that senseless love triangle THAT EVERYBODY KNEW WOULD AMOUNT TO PRECIOUS NOTHING, and many important things were either told, or left open.I just wish this love triangle had never happened and Cordelia and matt had remained platonic friends. Give matthew another love interest or none at all, he and james already had enough problems to work through as it was 
 They could’ve left for france together as just friends you know. They could’ve even kissed on the basis of “why the fuck not? we are both pining and everything already went to shit anyway”, but then realized it was a mistake and let’s leave it at that.Also it came to a point where the romantic stalling of the minor couples was just too much, it felt like page filler instead of the true conflict resolution they needed to set things right and be together.I was reading all that and wondering “all right, but where’s the actual plot?” 
the explanation for the family tree was ridiculous.I would prefer some “when the city of bones fell, we lost an awful lot of data, and thats why all the documentation of the period is messed up”
The whole conflict of the clave finding out about Jesse’s identity was resolved too easily at the end
Matthew coming clean to his parents and charlotte being pregnant again was such a big and anticipated moment, and yet all we get is Cordelia telling us what james told her
Charles comes out in front of everyone and we dont see that 
Will and tessa cry thinking their kids are gonna die and we dont see that
Thomas’ come out was a bit better, but it was still telling rather than showing
dont get me started on the plot holes.Im pretty sure cc said we would see james get more powers, but all we got was the as old as time cliche of protagonists losing their powers, and that didnt make a slight of sense.They automatically lose their powers after belial “dies”, while tessa remains very much a warlock and a shapeshifter? Make it make sense. Those powers come first and foremost from Tessa, Belial dying doesnt alter the demonic blood on their veins
The cherry on the top of a long list of absurdities, to me, are the watchers. Anyone can correct me if Im wrong, but how in the world there were so many dead silent brothers and iron sisters? it doesnt add up, there should be some of them, but not enough to flood dozens of shadowhunters on their own.The nephilim only have a thousand years of existence, (magnus said more than once that he has met warlocks who had been born before the first shadowhunter was created) and those folks not only live absurdly long lives, but tend to die of natural causes.Jem lived for over a century as a silent brother and aged only two years.It doesnt add up
also am I missing something, or how matthew, thomas and alastair escaped the massive statues was completely brushed over? 
The two truths and a lie was total bullshit.It was also said that there would be political marriage, the gang would go to idris and camille and wolsey would make come backs,but none of that happened.
thats it, thats my rant that probably no one will read bc of how fucking long it is
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nocturnalmoonmind · 2 years
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Ty: putting knife to Kit's throat
Kit: should be scared af, but thinks "how beautiful"
Readers: that's something called a ship
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drusilla-carstairs · 2 months
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Round 1B
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authorgirl1111 · 1 year
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a-sthe-tic-s · 5 years
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If my heart were a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
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The sensor worked!! I'm so proud of Ty and Anush! Hopefully as proud as they'll be of themselves when they hear it works 🥺💞
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spooky-drusilla · 3 years
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[ID: Livvy and Ty Blackthorn are sitting on a bed, both with one of their hands up, almost touching each other. Livvy has her long, waist-lenghth brown hair down, and is wearing a white dress. She is slightly transparent, allowing us to see shadows of a few pictures on the wall behind, forming a conspiracy collage of photos. Ty is wearing white headphones, a green sweater, black pants and white socks. Behind his head, there is a bookshelf of the wall. /End ID]
Aaaand the last one!!! My favorite characters, and my favorite drawing out of the three🥰
Tag list (tell me if you wanna be added or taken out of it!): @dreamofmysoul-tsc @minaxcarstairs @youngreckless @lunar-martini @melpcmene @dark-artifices-only @ithurielkeepsgettingkidnapped @arangiajoan @stxr-thxif and @irene-blacxthorn… I know you’re just in my animations tag list, but I felt like you would like to see this😊
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In defense of Grace Blackthorn
(major spoilers for Chain of Gold and TW for abuse)
Yes, I am defending the devil (I don’t think she’s the devil but, you know, popular opinion). Ever since Chain of Gold came out, Grace Blackthorn has been the target of all hatred in the fandom and I want to change that. So here’s why, I don’t think Grace is an absolute disgrace to this world(sorry, couldn’t help it):
1. Grace Blackthorn lost both her parents when she was, let’s see, 9?? And then, she was adopted by Tatiana Blackthorn. Not really the loveliest parent figure. 
2. After that, she was raised in a manor that was literally decaying around them because Mommy Tati cannot tolerate anybody’s presence. 
3. Her brother figure, Jesse, dies quickly after. And as if that wasn’t bad enough Mommy Tati resurrects him in some real ungodly way. And somewhere along the way, she also summons a Prince of Hell. Fun stuff to watch as a pre-teen. 
4. Tati also doesn’t let Grace go out, or let her train like every other Shadowhunter her age. So, from ages 9-18? Grace has only seen Tati, Jesse’s ghost and James. And her skillset comprises of looking pretty. 
So, now that we have established that Grace has had one of the roughest lives in Chain of Gold, and has an abusive mother, let’s get to what her motives might be. 
SHE WANTS TO GET AWAY FROM TATIANA BLACKTHORN!!
It couldn’t be more obvious. She has a bracelet that can make James do pretty much everything she wants and what does she ask? To get married and run away with him. She knows that Tati is never going to leave them alone if they stay in the Shadowhunter world so she wants to live with the mundanes. And yes, you can argue that she could ask for help. Sure, Will and the London Enclave would like to help but she knows both the Clave and Tatiana. The Clave let Tatiana adopt Grace despite knowing that she isn’t entirely sane and has done nothing to help her while she lived with Tati (they basically said live with a supervillain :)). And she knows Tatiana’s plans better than anybody else and I think Grace believes that the Clave is in serious danger from her (I mean, a Prince of Hell is involved, so of course, she’s going to assume that). And I believe that she’s scared. Who wouldn’t be scared of Tatiana if they lived with her through their formative years and had seen all her shady business? Tati wasn’t the doting mother either. She groomed Grace into being the cold beautiful shell she is and yet, Grace managed to retain some amount of agency through it all. I’m pretty sure that Tati didn’t plan on getting James away from the Shadowhunter world at all. If anything, Tatiana would like for him to burn with the rest of them. 
If you really think about it, Grace thought she was doing James a favor by getting him away from the London Enclave. James is the only other living person that Grace knows aside from Tatiana. And she tried to rescue him from Tati’s revenge. She didn’t even love him but cared enough to try. Sure, she did other things that one might argue were wrong (like getting Matthew to kiss her) but I don’t think it’s as bad as the fandom makes it out to be. She’s an abuse victim trying to get away from her abuser. Honestly, anything that gets her away doesn’t seem that bad to me. 
From what I’ve seen (and mind you, I’ve not really seen all posts), the fandom hates her for keeping James under the gracelet. But really guys? You expect a teenager who has nothing in her name to defy the wishes of her abuser? How do you think she’d manage that? To be fair, she has actually done her best to do as little harm as possible with the gracelet. Sure, James isn’t realizing his feelings for Cordelia because of the gracelet but is that so bad? They have all their life to figure their feelings out. (And personally, I think that Grace would’ve eventually let James go after she’d managed to build a life of her own. I don’t think she would keep him bound to her even if he had decided to run away with her). Grace is in a situation that’s ten times worse than either of theirs so don’t hate on my girl for cockblocking your OTP. 
Grace clearly is a better person than the fandom gives her credit for. She cares deeply about the people in her life, few as they maybe (we all know that she loves Jesse, and she cares for James in her own way). Her actions have mostly been motivated by her desire to get away from Tatiana (which is even more impressive because Tatiana has essentially handicapped Grace in all ways and yet she found a way to get things done). So, please, be nicer to her.
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CHAIN OF GOLD SPOILERS!
Cordelia: I can't talk right now. I'm doing sad fake-married girl shit.
Cordelia: *Looks at James to see if he's looking at her* *keeps dropping hints that she's actually in love with him*
James: *looks at Grace wistfully*
Cordelia: *cries*
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jazzonce · 7 years
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Don’t be close to me, I can’t bear it. Don’t look at me like that. Don’t be everything I want and can’t have. Don’t make me forget you’re Mark’s and anyway you could never be mine.
Julian Blackthorn to Emma Carstairs, Lord of Shadows
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Forgot to mention.....I’m a doing a Livvy + Dru + Kitty Au :)
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16sloves · 4 years
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hi, i am back! i finished read chains of gold and i don’t have any words or tears in me. but i have tres things to say
FIRTS: in this house we love and protect and fight for cordelia carstairs. she is our queen
SECOND: if thomas doesn’t have at least a kiss with alastair i will be sad
THIRD: chains of gold it’s the best first book that cassandra wrote.
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bravemercutio · 4 years
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what are ur grace blackthorn ships bc i have a couple too and i’m !!!! very excited!!!!
Grace/Anna (Annace) because a) WHAT a power couple, statguesque, gorgeous, enemies to lovers potential, the two best looking people in town, ICONIC! THE DRAMA! Romaine and Natalie would be proud! They start out not liking each other as we know but then I imagine tension boils over and theyre thrown by fate into being on the same side in something and then--oh god I like her. ALSO they’re both so guarded, they can help take down each other’s walls!!!
Grace/Christopher as well because like. Hear me out. He’s not interested in beauty and glamour, barely remembers names. He’d be into her NOT for her persona but for her mind and, I’d bet, the charming sides that only come out when she feels comfortable. She likes him because he’s real, genuine, endearingly cute. It’s SOFT. Grace can put one of her flower crowns on him, he creates odd little inventions to amuse her!!
.... Grace/A Lightwood is what my heart wants.
What’re yours bb @januaryhoney
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The Autistic!Mark Manifesto (as mentioned in last night’s late night post)
Okay, okay, okay, so. He’s autistic. 
First off it’s an inheritable trait so both him and the twins (yes Livvy, a nt doesn’t get that passionate about swords (okay neither does a heterosexual but i digress)) can have it.
secondly off he’s feral. Just talk to any autistic person, most of them were feral kids. Odds are your local autistic was too.
thirdly i want him to be and that’s enough.
fourthly, “faerie weirdness” is a fun way of saying “avoids certain textures and struggles to understand people’s behaviour and gauge their reactions”.
another point is he isn’t babied like all the other autistic coded (+ canonically autistic) characters so i can find him relatable, he had his own agency and he isn’t another emotionless genius cisgender* and sexless-but-definitely-het white male type.
hell fucking yeah i need to write an autistic!mark fic.
*Mark is definitely trans CC mentions that he’s remarkably stubble-less and how he never needs to shave a lot in LOS
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tsc-living · 5 years
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The TSC characters as things I have done today:
Dru Blackthorn- snoozed my alarm six times when I had wanted to go to uni early. 
Isabelle Lightwood- kissed my mirror after getting ready because damn someone has to show me love and I look cute as hell.
Kit Herondale- dropped my keys and wallet on my way out of the door when I was trying to be quiet (in turn waking up my cousin and sister and making them angry).
Cristina Rosales- burnt my tongue on coffee and not giving a shit because I needed the caffeine immediately.
Mark Blackthorn- parked illegally on the side of the road to message someone I care about because they were sad. 
Clary Fairchild- got lost on the way to my lecture hall (twice) and refusing to ask for directions because “I can do this on my own.”
Alec Lightwood- lost my train of thought because a cute person sat down at the library desk I was at and they smiled at me.
Emma Carstairs- parked so terribly on campus that I had to climb to the passenger side to get out of the car.
Simon Lovelace- sat talking to my friend about fan theories instead of doing the readings I had gone to campus early to finish
Tessa Gray- finished the readings and then did two extra readings before class (bonus points because I colour coordinated)
Ty Blackthorn- compulsively fidgeted all morning and have not stopped listening to music since I woke up because life is too intense and needs to leave me alone.
Magnus Bane (and any other queer character)- chose to sit on the floor at the low desk because gay people cannot sit on a chair normally and that is a fact.
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I'm so confused about what a ouija board was doing inside the wall of an ancient shadowhunter house... this should be interesting
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