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1jemmagirl22 · 2 years

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Oh my gods!

The Chain of Thorns synopsis!!

It’s here!

And! It’s!

Well, it’s amazing, and it’s terrifying, very, very terrifying. Honestly I think the only way to sum it (And my likely reaction as more and more snippets and information arrives in the next few months) is this:

We are all so bloody fucking doomed.

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darcyolsson · 8 months

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hey there! i want you to know that i’ve never watched an episode of riverdale ever, the only thing i ever knew about it before tonight was that someone throws babies over a fire or something?? (saw it in one of those ‘whcih of these didn’t happen’ things)

i followed you for tsc stuff, but your posts about today’s finale made my head spin. i thought riverdale was a mainstream typical heterosexual show w/ bad scriptwriting tbh, based on the look of it? i’m ace so i’d seen ppl complain about jughead’s ace erasure, but i did not know literally anything else about this show? so your blog tonight deeply confused me, but in a fun way, so i decided to go to the tag and try and figure it out.

and, oh my word. never seen an ep of this thing but i’m sitting here with tears rolling down my face, i can’t stop laughing, i cannot believe they ended it like this, this is absolutely hilarious and iconic and what the hell levels of finale….. i feel for y’all and i’m happy for y’all and i kinda wish i’d watched this show before it ended.

also…… i must ask how it feels to be a part of two fandoms in whcih two ‘finales’ have both been extremely unbelievably chaotic and ended w/ a polycule to avoid ship wars in which the polycule breaks up at some point in said finale (if i’m understanding riverdale’s finale right?)……. as someone who loved qoaad but had no clue what was happening i cannot help but wonder what y’all must be thinking of this episode, it seems even crazier than thule and sebastian and janus and annabel from the edgar allen poe poem and your boyfriend literally selling his soul to his job but telling you two to be happy and😭😭

welcome to riverdale insanity. i hope your adventure has made you want to watch this show. i can try to explain it to you but i physically can't put this show into words (i can actually, they're "camp" and "metanarrative")

basically: riverdale is an intentionally batshit insane show which started out as a somewhat normal teen drama. most people, however, stopped watching after the crazy got turned up a notch and because of that most people still think it's a teen drama and the writing's just bad. but it's not bad writing! it's very very good writing! because every insane storyline is purpose!!!!! and that's why people love it. because they love their insane and gay show. somehow this is very hard for the average person to wrap their heads around.

i love riverdale to death. it is truly, genuinely, the only show of it's kind. it's outlandish and crazy and hilarious and beautiful. there's literally no other show willing to be as insane as riverdale was and it's definitely one of my favourite shows ever made because of that. this quote from a recent interview with some of the actors says it best:

as for the comparison quoaad: i will say that i enjoyed this finale... about the same amount as queen? i didn't like some parts of it but more for general storytelling reasons (i don't want to know the exact fates of every single character at any cost and that's literally all this finale was lol).

the main difference here is that the dark artifices is a serious (wel.. serious-adjacent) ya fantasy series but riverdale is a show that's centered around outlandish, comedic and dramatic storylines. a crazy finale didn't really fit TDA, while obviously, a crazy-ish finale did fit riverdale for the aforementioned reasons (i say "crazy-ish" because i would say this episode is like. maybe #70 on the most insane riverdale episodes list? believe it or not this was very normal by riverdale standards).

and yes the polyamory ending is always ICONIC. they really kierarktina'd us and i'm delighted. more of this please!

also, can i just say, the fact that you thought riverdale was a straight show is unbelievably funny and i KNOW most people think of it that way but you have to know that genuinely, without lying, 80-90% of the characters are canonically bisexual. and virtually all the other ones are gay. all of the main characters are gay/bi (except jughead, though that one's still a little debatable?). most of the main characters' parents are gay/bi. homophobic villains all end up being gay in the end. random background will make one on-screen appearance just to say they're gay and then leave. every single one of cheryls ancestors was a lesbian. i don't have the time to count but think riverdale has somewhere around 30-50 confirmed queer characters. and yes i do wish that they had given is a crumb of ace or trans rep but this is not my story this is one insane gay person's 20 year revenge plan and who am i to judge.

go watch riverdale now <3

#anonymous #answered asks

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vixs48 · 1 year

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thoughts on the dark artifacts trilogy ending

(basically this is my rant on why Julian is the parent of his siblings and always will be)

I don't see it. I just don't see how Julian would leave his siblings, his children behind just so he would live a happily ever after with Emma. They're part of his happy ending. Family is everything to him.

He would never leave them behind. Ty needs his support now more than ever after everything that happened with Livvy and Kit. Dru I understand cause she needs space to figure out who she is but he needs to be there for her those crucial moments. And he could never walk away from Tavvy. Julian is the closest thing that Tavvy have as a parent, he is his child for all senses and purposes.

Nothing against Helen and Mark, but is totally different for them. Helen is just a stranger for them for the most part, and I get her as leader to this institute that makes sense. And as much Mark got know them again, he's not ready to be the person who takes care of his siblings is too much for him after the hunt and everything.

I'm not against Julian having a happy ending with Emma is not that, it's the part that Julian would be happier without his sibilinas there, they are everything they have known for the last five years, and I don't think he's ready to say goodbye to that part of his life and go back to five years ago when he was just their brother.

There are multiple times in the books when they show how Julian is literally their dad but I think we really see it in QOAAD after Livvy death, when first response of Ty, Dru and Tavvy after Livvy died is to such Julian for comfort (I also think this apply for Emma and how she would still worry for the children and she's still a support for them as she has been for the last five years.). We also see how even do Mark has been back for a while he's still not sure how to act around his siblings and he's not sure what they need. We see so much of this in the scene where Mark and Helen have to see Tavvy and tell that Livvy has died, they don't know how to act and Tavvy doesn't completely see them as family, cause he does know them yet.

And I simply don't see Julian giving up control. He needs it too much. it means he has control over his family safety and that's everything to him.

He is the guy that says I would let the world burn if that means many family lives.

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murderedbyhomework · 2 years

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Tsc characters as stuff I have texted my friends because why not

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Alastair: my dad just yelled at me for being female and because my biology prevents him from getting to go swim with me well I'm sorry dad I never meant to be created so if anything it's your fault for creating me. (yes I know he's male but it's the vibe okay)

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Magnus: so you know how glitter and rainbows are the gayest stuff to ever be able to be applied to art right. Guess which idiot just decided use both to write decorate a Christmas card meant for the Catholic teacher lol

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Anna/Kamala/Aline: guess who just lost their last drop of faith in the male sector of homo sapiens

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Magnus again: What do you mean I'm not okay have you seen me I'm obviously perfectly fine you guys are just projecting shoo go get therapy I'll be the therapist because I'm the only stable one here (obviously he's not fine lmao and I am but that does kinda sound like him sorry)

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Thomas: not me tripping over my feet on flat ground because I just thought of my crush ~~~~~~~~~~

Emma/Julian during the first two books of tda: I'm totally over my crush on my best fren what do you mean I'm a simp for them

Several days later: guys remember how I said I was over them? I lied. It was a big fat lie. I'm still a simp

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Cordelia: so apparently if you date your childhood best friend your relationship has a smaller chance to flop because you know each other so well. I'd totally test that out but sadly THEY'RE IN A RELATIONSHIP WHY IS MY LIFE SO SAD

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Also Cordelia: swords can solve everything can you imagine how much quicker Voldemort would've died had they just used, like a knife and went this peep is a bit full of himself let's poke a hole in him and release some air ?

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Mathew: so apparently alcoholic ice cream cannot get a person drunk what a pity

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Julian: wow who knew being mom fren was so stressful why did I sign up for this again

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Thomas, about the merry thieves: yeah I love all my friends in our friend group but honestly none of them have any self preservation whatsoever and it's honestly tragic because that means I'm the one who has to care about them and remind them to sleep and eat

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Robert Lightwood at Simon: to quote random peep, GARLIC, A MIRROR, HOLY WATER, A CRUCIFIX, F*CK OFF, GET THE F*CK OUTTA MY ROOM

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Kit Lightwood: I will never get why people do the deed for fun like why are you wasting your time doing things that sound painful and very unhygienic when you could be reading (you can pry ace! Kit from my cold dead hands okay)

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Ty: I ship johnlock romantically and therefore if I ever flirt with someone by asking them to be the Watson to my Holmes you know I'm serious about them

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Ty after qoaad: is it bad that I had no idea my fren confessed to having a crush on me once on their status until two days later and now I have to wallow in unrequited feelings bc I'm sure they've moved on I mean they have a GF and all-

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rinadragomir · 2 years

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Okay, so, here I am, remaining anonymous so that it’s harder for you to kill me 💀

- Jessamine is such an underrated character.

- Gabriel is way better than Gideon, and his internal struggle is way more realistic. Also, Gabrily is the best TID ship.

- Herongraystairs are special, while not my favorite, as a human relationship, but both Jessa and Wessa are so overrated. So is Kitty.

- Tessa is annoying. Worst protagonist by a whole lot.

- I dislike James almost as much as Charles. Also, I hate how Cassie blames everything on being irascible when it comes to James and Will. I feel like she validates behaviours that really shouldn’t be validated.

- Having Thomas and Eugenia is Gideon’s redemption era.

- Neither Grace nor Christopher are necessarily aroace, and people should treat the topic more carefully. I’m not saying that they can’t be (and it would be great if Cassie handled it correctly), but I see a lot of people mixing up trauma with being aroace. And that is really harmful.

- Cordelia is okay, but I do feel like Cassie hasn’t fully fledged her character and it occasionally seems to me like I’m dealing with different people depending on the scenes.

- Ghostwriter isn’t worth the hype, but it’s still way better than Jordelia.

- Jordan was in the wrong with Maia, but he wasn’t a bad person.

- Kierarktina doesn’t work. If Mark and Cristina had as much chemistry as Mark and Kieran or as Cristina and Kieran, it’d be great. Sadly they don’t.

- Thule!Livvy and Cameron are so underrated. I’m still heartbroken over one of them being dead in each world and them never being able to be together.

- Diego is a very complex and interesting character, precisely because he’s not perfect.

- QoAaD was disappointing, and its best parts were the Rosales brothers’ interactions.

- I love Malec, but what Cassie is doing with TEC (especially with TLBotW) isn’t it.

- Shinyun was so interesting in TRSoM and deserved a better characterisation than whatever Cassie was thinking at the time.

Ready to be killed in 3, 2, 1… 💀

@thestarkster1465 your soulmate is here. You can run to Antarctica together ✨🤗

1 - SHE IS 💅 MY UNDERRATED QUEEN. I really hope she'll manage to find peace in the wicked powers

2 - I wouldn't say he's better, I'll just say that plot makes him more complex, cause he was the one who stayed with his abusive father when Gideon left to Spain. He just has to be more interesting and complicated at this point. GABRILY BEING THE HORNIEST COUPLE + BEST PARENTS CHECK✅

3 - ...not Kitty and Jessa......YOU—

4 - That's an individual thing, i guess. Tessa annoyed me too a bit in TID but i understand that she was just a young girl raised how she was supposed to be raised that time. I love her in every other book🌼

5 - .... there's some truth about Will...BUT MY LITERALLY CURSED BOY JAMES?!?!?! LIVING UNDER SOME DEMONIC LOVE SPELL SINCE HE'S 12 or sth?!?!?! He literally cries when he hears the sound of rain!!!!!

6 - Maybe maybe 🤔

7 - That's actually a very complex and complicated topic. I think I should dedicate a separate post to this, but you're so right about that trauma part. @hotdog-frenchfries EDUCATE MEEEEE😭 Personally, I think that as long as we don't have official information about their sexuality, we can think whatever we want. They might both be aroace or not, both options are valid for now. And no one can condemn any of these options cause we don't have any information about it🤷🏼‍♀️I hope we'll find out in chot

8 - THAT'S SO TRUE OH MY GOD! Not to mention how in the first book Cordelia proudly told us where she came from and talked about her culture, and in the second book we pretend that none of this happened WTF CASSIE?!?!

9 - WHY Y'ALL DON'T LIKE MY GHOSTWRITER I'M GONNA CRY ALL DAY🥺 @axoloteca hug me

10 -That's true, i actually answered one ask about him yesterday, pls find it👉👈

11 - I wrote everything I think about Kierarktina here meow

12 - I KNOW😭😢 they fit each other so well, i guess Livvys destiny, to suffer in every world

13 - I've read TDA so fast I don't even remember him well. But everything i remember is pretty good🤔✨

14 - It was disappointing for me too but for different reasons. I tried to finish TDA as fast as I could, so i don't remember much about them either ;-; I said it hundred times and I'll do it again: too many characters + not enough pages

15 - oh but why 🥺🤔

16 - ONLY FACTS, THERE'S NO LIE, JUST TRUTH IN YOUR WORDS! #shinyun_deserves_better_2022

BABE I'M ALREADY RUNNING AFTER YOU😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

#asks✨#ugh so many taaaggggsss #jessamine lovelace #tid #tda #tlh #tmi #twp #cassadra clare #gabriel lightwood #gabrily #diego rosales #grace blackthorn #christopher lightwood

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tardytothepardy · 2 years

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Thinking about that one post saying that SOBH will end with the mural Julian is making, and what if the second-to-last addition will be like, stuff from Ty. Like, all the unsent notes or letters he wrote to people over the course of the series(? could SOBH be considered a series?) and stuff.

I personally like that idea, partially because Clare seems to be doing her fuggin best to not let us know what is going on in Ty's head (sometimes I wonder if she even knows) and like, what better way to twist the knife into our hearts than to just dump all those letters and notes and stuff on our lap and walk away without another word?

I personally don't think that Ty ever actually sent a note or postcard to Kit about the necklace back in The Lost World, because I'm not sure he'd see the point of it if he thought Kit wouldn't reply. I don't see why he'd miraculously change his mind since then, but I don't think it would be that odd if he still wrote things addressed to Kit, he just never sent them. (And given the way that Ty was talking towards the end of QoAaD, I feel very bad about it, every time I think about him I get worried) Also, given that one post from Clare saying that Kit and Ty won't have interacted at all since TDA when TWP starts, I'm even more inclined to think that's the case.

I also just find it so, so sad that every time so far that one of the Blackthorns have talked to Kit in SOBH, he's instantly seems to think that they're confronting him about what happened in QoAaD, about bringing Livvy back, that Ty told them and made Kit out to be the villain, the outsider who convinced Ty to do something he wouldn't've otherwise, and it's all Kit's fault. I just wish I could remind Kit of the fact that Ty is a Shadowhunter-- these guys don't talk about fuggin a n y t h i n g until it's too late. Like, I know why he thinks that, but gosh, I still wish I could remind him of that.

#i know i made a post earlier saying that it is Worrying About Ty Blackthorn Hours #but it is also Worrying About Kit Herondale Hours #i heavily worry about both of these boys #i feel like a mother hen fretting over them which is really funny bc in the scale of things I'm like.... 5 years younger than then I think #sobh #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #kit herondale #ty blackthorn

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gayforcarstairsgirls · 2 years

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MY SWEET CRUNCHY BESTIE HI

How are you?? ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

I just finished qoaad, emotional damage :’)

HI BESTIE!!

I'm good thank you, I've just been reading the final hush hush book and I just don't want it to end :') how are you? ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

OMG YOU FINISHED IT!!! The emotional damage is real, I am still not over KitTy, TWO WHOLE BOOKS WAITING FOR THEM TO BE TOGETHER AND THEN HIT WITH THE ANGST. But at least we have the malec wedding to ease our souls 😌

#qoaad #hush hush

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khaleesiofalicante · 2 years

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I don't know if it's unpopular or popular opinion, I will just call subjective opinion. Even though I can see that tlh and tda both suffering of many many characters the difference is that I'm more drawn to the tlh ones than tda's. Why? I don't know haha.

Although I also have to say that something tlh does have over tda is that there are less pov and in a most structured way. I'm still stuck in the funeral chapter at the start of qoaad because of the pov keeps changing.

POVs changing too much was definitely a flaw in TDA - at one point there was too much happening (I still liked it tho lol)

And it terms of suffering and angst, yes I do agree TLH is better oops.

#tsc opinions

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youngreckless · 3 years

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Hi Aashi 🤍 how are you?, have a beautiful day and don't forget to drink water 🤍

Today I was having an emotional Kitty moment (as always) , and I had a song that suited Kit (I'm lowkey afraid of write one from Ty's perspective because I don't want to do it wrong) so this was the result

The song is

Worried that I'll be one phone call too late Fear's turning years of love into hate (I don't think kit hates Ty but I do think he tries to do it)

Empty attempts when we meet in my sleep (For sure Kit dreams with Ty and vice versa)

Embarrassed for caring 10 fathoms too deep (He always care for Ty a Lot, and is shown in LOS and QOAAD)

Why do I still feel like I should be sorry? (For leaving, for the "I wish I've never met you)

Droplets of thought keep on causing tsunamis (he always think of Ty and sometimes is too much for him)

Now I'm a reminder of your locked-up past (the lost and the failed resurrection of Livvy)

Overthinking for over-loving you too fast (I love you, Ty , I love you)

Stars above us, lying closely, promising me I will never be lonely (I like to think that Kit see the stars and think about Ty)

Talking bout loving me every tomorrow (Ty didn't say that but he offered kit a place to stay and belong)

Man of your word but there's nothing to follow. ("to never being parted" ,at the end both were lost)

Sometimes I wish I could just call you (Kit wants to hear Ty's voice but he can bring himself to call him)

Sometimes I wish I could stop falling ( Kit is still in love with Ty {I mean could we blame him?})

Sometimes I wish you could just hold me (Like in the roof of the London institute but now Ty holding Kit)

But right now I wish I never loved you (Because Ty "doesn't" feel the same so it would be easier for Kit if he didn't love him)

Someday you will be one phone call too late (Kit think that someday he would move on and Ty will be to late)

You should know how it feels when fates suddenly change ( Both know how it feels, kit went from mundane with vision to Shadowhunter and Ty lost his twin)

Blaming yourself for the things that you didn't (Kit knows that Ty blames himself for not saving livvy and for rejecting Livvy's parabatai offer, plus doing wrong the resurrection)

Yet consciously burying me in the distance. (In the moment of Livvy's Resurrection, Ty pushes kit aside, besides Kit surely thinks that Ty already forget about him)

In a blink of an eye pain ceased your existence (Indeed the pain of losing Livvy put a pause in Ty's Life)

Maybe I lost you but you lost yourself first ( Ty was lost since Livvy's death, kit thought it in QOAAD, " there was a cold tension inside him, a fear he couldn't shake- that he had lost not just livvy but Ty as well")

Now I'm stuck between trying and letting you go (Kit doesn't know if he should forget Ty or if he should heal before talking to him again)

Each encounter's getting harder (perhaps when they see each other again)

I'd give up years to relive seconds of summer ( I bet he would give up anything to save Ty from the pain of losing his sister)

Eyes are useless when the mind is blind (even if Ty showed his caring through small acts, Kit never saw it)

Until you're ready, to share pieces and parts of your heart that were taken away from you (Kit used to think that perhaps one day Ty would share his heart with him)

Until then I choose to separate myself from you (pretty obvious Kit moving with Tessa and Jem)

Still hearing your name has me gasping for air. (I bet is difficult for kit to hear Ty's name)

You taught me friendships cause heartbreaks too (both were heartbroken at the end of Qoaad)

Hope you're fulfilled by the things you chose to do (Kit hopes that Ty is happy now being a Centurion and with Livvy as ghost)

GABY. this whole analysis was a personal crime against me!!! 😭

crying aside, this was just EXCELLENT. 😭😭😭 how do you do itttt 😭 you relate the lyrics to their feelings so perfectly, ahhh

#also all the quotes from the books you used ohmygod 😭#ALSO YOU SENT THIS WHILE I WAS MAKING A KITTY EDIT AHSHHSS 🥺#and i'm alright! hope you're doing well too bestie <3333 #have an amazing day! ✨💕#tsc songs #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #kitty #the wicked powers #asks #gaby <33

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ladyhindsight · 3 years

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Hi! My love for the shadowhunter chronicles didn't really survive after my rereads as an adult, but I'm still attached to some characters so I can't really stay away. Lady Midnight put me off the series for a while but I'm back now and I found your tumblr. I find Clare's writing pretentious and kind of clumsy, but I've never considered why I felt that way exactly, so reading your analysis of her writing and seeing examples of what she's doing wrong has been very interesting! ½

2/2 I’ve read many critiques of the series, but something I don’t see talked about very often is the complete failure that is Jace and Alec as the introduction to parabatai. Jace only seemed to care when Alec was in mortal danger, and their friendship has been the opposite of show don’t tell for five books. CoHF was an improvement, but by then I felt very underwhelmed by their heart-to-heart and like it was too little too late to fix it. It's nice to know I’m not the only who noticed all this.

Helloo! 😊

Mine didn't survive through TMI, and TID in the mix was another beast entirely. I don't think there genuinely is anything in my life that I have such love-hate relationship with. I would've discarded these books if there wasn't any characters that I did like amidst everything else that I don't. It's sad, I know.

But these books also offer such a great opportunity to delve into writing and see what works, why and why not. Which is totally love-love relationship and why I like going through the series with clearer mind. And thank you for finding my yammering interesting! Why I felt like you did with the clumsiness and all needed an explanation so I decided to find it.

I think the Jace and Alec thing has become an old topic by now, and there's so much other things people focus on since the series have continued in spite of all, but there was big discussion about it some years back. Even Alec's verbal revenge fics I came by... 👀 I always latch onto anything Jace does to Alec in any shape or form, negative or positive, because of that very reason that their relationship wasn't what Clare wants you to think.

And because the Abaddon scene where Jace cares for Alec is like the only thing that Clare wrote where Jace acted like Alec actually mattered (during TMI), she constantly brings it back as a measure how Jace cares for Alec. Like, it's always the Abaddon scene. Because there is nothing else.

CoA didn't even use the word 'parabatai' but now there isn't a book without it. In QoAaD, Jace and Alec's relationship and Jace's Brotherly Love for Alec was so over-pronounced and ridiculous because the very foundation that whole thing was built upon is in shambles. Which is also why it becomes very unconvincing and not plausible the least that suddenly that is what they've always been.

I really dislike this kind of dishonest narrative.

#Jace Herondale #Alec Lightwood #Reply

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kit-herondale-blackthorn · 3 years

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Regarding all the apparently pointless details that we assumed would be explained in TLH, I think maybe TSC is losing traction? I still can't articulate why, but COI did not feel like a Shadowhunters novel. It felt more like a stretch of road connecting two places, not a place itself. Like something she HAD to push out and get it over with. The drama was so superfluous and gratuitous, the world building is starting to chip off, there are too many characters who we are TOLD are important but they don't get enough page time to prove their merit and importance. TLH feels like a loose thread, sort of aimless and ambling?? There are some lovely characters (Kit, Alastair, Lucie whenever she's allowed to be her own character and not just someone orbiting Jesse) but compared to TDA, I'm missing the red thread connecting everything. I don't think I'm explaining it very well but my excitement for TWP stems from that trilogy's purpose (it's the grand finale! The final battle! The epic conclusion!) but TLH just... offers some neat background info. That's...it? I don't understand why this trilogy had to exist. I don't mind its existence--I tried to enjoy it--but. What's the overarching narrative purpose here 😔

Sorry it took me so long to reply to this - I wasn’t sure what to say.

I personally don’t mind the fact that TLH doesn’t feel like it has a bigger story to tell. As far as I’m concerned, it could be all just about relationship drama because that’s my favourite part of this trilogy - the characters and their relationships, and the plot is kind of secondary for me. All I want to know is the story of the family tree, and the rest is secondary.

To me it seems like the problem is that Cassie is on a strict publishing schedule, and has to finish writing the books quickly to stick to it. We know that Chain of Gold was in the works for a long time, which may be why it didn’t feel so rushed - but as much as I loved it, Chain of Iron did feel a bit rushed to me, with the plot all over the place. This was also quite apparent in QOAAD, not to mention TLBOTW which I thought was a joke, really.

With the multiple POVs, it feels to me like maybe Cassie has too many stories she wants to fit in each trilogy, which is why it ends up feeling like there is too many character arcs which are not explored in enough detail. Tbh, I really wouldn’t mind getting a bit more from side characters such as Thomas, Christopher, or Alastair, even if it meant the book was even longer than it already is or the series had to be split into 4 books instead of 3.

So yeah, I don’t know. I feel like nowadays Cassie might feel pressured to just write something, even if sometimes she’s not feeling inspired to write (come on, no one is inspired all the time). And because of that, the final result might not be as good as what she had planned or hoped in the past, because of the strict publishing deadlines she has.

#cassandra clare #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #tlh #the last hours #chain of iron

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anarmorofwords · 2 years

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Tbh, I think TWP is CC's baby or something. Nothing wrong with it since she can grow attached to whatever she wants (and as an amateur writer, I can understand wanting to 'get over' a milestone to get to the parts you personally anticipate), but it is kinda frustrating. Perhaps even a little bit more so for me since I absolutely adore tlh's early XX century vibe, and practically I am unable to digest twp content lol (but I'm not saying you're any less frustrated; your post made that clear).

I guess these huge promotions stem from the general demand? Even before sobh was released, the fandom randomly decided to get the TWP tag trending. The tlh side of the fandom, however, doesn't really do that. Not that I've seen it happen, at least.

hiii

look, I can understand the whole "getting over" some parts, but if that part is a whole ass over 2k three book series, that she still sells.... (it's not like it's some free stuff; it's an actual published series that people have every right to become invested in, and therefore, be dissapointed by the lack of attention and care that goes into it)...

then maybe she should have thought it through better

high five bestie on the tlh > twp; the Edwardian era was literally the only thing that made me wanna try Shadowhunters again after qoaad (not to mention, I like Kit, and Ty, and I could probably grow to like Dru and whatever other characters are there, but it's not even close to the level I'm invested in the tlh bitches much to my own suffering )

and yeah, i understand it is a result of demand, but again, I feel like it wouldn't be that frustrating (or, it would be frustrating but I wouldn't be so mad at cc) if 1) tlh wasn't such a hot mess 2) the characters at least had proper cards.... not whitewashed

#making my way through my inbox like a napoleon soldier in 1812 russia #the last hours #tlh #anti cc #ask answered

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bluephoenixdruidicprincess · 3 years

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Finished Lord of Shadows so here I am now in this read-through, the dreaded QoAaD. In my initial read through, I only got to chapter 22 before I put it down because it just wasn't exciting me the way a Shadowhunter book normally does. I always meant to return back to it but three years later, here we still are. Over the past month I've been doing a proper read through (or listen-to as the case is since I have all these books on Audible and not nearly enough time in the day to read the physical copies or Kindle copies), I've now read all the previous books in TSC to get me in the mood to finish this one so I can move onto TLH and TEC. So here I go, may the Angel help me get through this one, at the very least, I'm hoping to get further than Chapter 22 this go-around.

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sandalwoodhusbands · 5 years

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full offense but i'm still not over how things ended for ty and kit in qoaad

#will i ever get over it? probably by the time twp comes around #am I going to cry over it meanwhile? yes #qoaad spoilers #qoaad #tsc #tda #ty x kit #kit herondale #ty blackthorn

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imabitchforwillherondale · 4 years

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Hey so I noticed you're a older shadowhunters fan as well and I wanted to ask your advice on a dilemma I'm having! I read TID and TMI back when I was in middle school and ADORED them, they really hold a special place in heart. I was thinking of rereading/catching up on the series as I do still love the series' ideas but I'm in college now and I'm worried I'll dislike them now. So any advice for diving back in? Should I set my expectations low? Thanks for any help and I hope you're staying safe!

I read tmi and tid in school as well back in 2013 actually then dropped it all until i picked them back up when QOAAD came out and i had started college for my second year

I was so scared i would hate everyone but i fell deeper in love with them all. So i would DEFIANTLY pick up the series, do not set low expectations as Cassie exceeds all my expectations, the angst, the drama, the love, the tears, the twists and the plot holes she sets up for later books

Begin with tid, as i went by tid, tmi and tda. You will find yourself falling in love with everyone all over again and let me know how it goes, best of luck !! and stay safe too!!

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thomastair · 6 years

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I have a theory! So, having Ash not bond with Clary before she dies would be totally lame. However, there is no space in qoaad for it, its not their story. So I'm thinking, what if Ash and Clary do bond during this time before her death, but we don't know it yet? And then on TWP we will see it happening through flashbacks. Its a way of making a cool backstory for Ash (specially if they bonded enough for him to be sad over her death) and its a way of having her in TWP!

ooooo that’s interesting! We know that Julian and Emma have to go find Jace and Clary in faerie and I’m going to assume that they were looking for Ash? So maybe during that time when Clary and Jace are trapped in faerie that’s when Ash and Clary bond? I’m still a fan of Ash showing up looking like Sebastian and Clary faltering because he looks just like the brother she could have had and maybe he catches her off guard in the middle of a battle and that’s when she dies and Ash feels guilt about that all the way into the wicked powers ahhhhhh

#he blames himself for her death? tasty angst #ask hetty

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