I saw one of your posts mentioning the parallels between Julian and Dru. Can you dive a little deeper into that or explain it more? It sounds really interesting 😎
of course! sorry this is a little all over the place 😅 it's kinda just all my thoughts plastered together
anyway the thing that began this train of thought was that Mark calls Julian "his dreamer" in TFTSA, and "the dreamer" is also the moniker that Julian gives Dru in LM. everything kinda spirals from there as more parallels occured to me as I thought about it more.
Julian is mistaken multiple times for Andrew; Dru is said to look the most like Eleanor. They're both extremely good liars. The first person they ever killed (at 12/13) was already dead but not quite. They both felt the pressure of having to grow up too fast. Julian is an artist & both Helen and Mark bring up how Dru loved bright colours when she was younger. also like. "you're the heart of the family, baby girl. I promise you. you're our heart." and Julian entire arc in TDA being remembering he has his own and that it's worth something.
another thing that struck me a lot was how Julian used to look after Tavvy after their mom died. not his physical needs, Helen covered those, but he watched over him and played in the same room as him because someone had to. Emma says that's where it all started with Julian & how he holds everything and everyone together. and when their dad dies and Helen & Mark are gone, Dru takes that over from him. Tavvy's almost always with Dru in TDA, and while that's because she's often paired off with him it comes from an underlying assumption that you can rely on Dru to always have Tavvy. and I can't see how that would happen given that Dru is the second youngest unless she, like Julian, did what someone had to. which ties into how her updated flower card is "with me you are safe"
they both need friends a little more than their siblings too imo. like Dru's arc in TDA around Jaime and how she just really badly wants a friend and Julian and his Emma (to quote Mark again lol) well before romance came into the picture. their mutual desire for someone that none of their siblings have because they have each other. Helen & Mark. Livvy & Ty. Julian and Dru are the odd men out. even when Mark & Julian and Ty & Dru do get closer it hinges out the fact Helen is exiled and Livvy is dead. it's no one fault but an impassable divide exists between them anyway.
a more vaguely I think about how Julian's bedroom walls are dedicated to a giant gloomy mural of Sleeping Beauty and Dru's is a shrine to horror and terror. like what's the difference between dreams and nightmares anyway.
julian: i've spent years protecting my siblings, but now they're growing up and i trust them to make good decisions 😌
ty: *starts dating the thief and con artist wanted by all of faerieland who broke his heart after helping him perform illegal necromancy*
julian: .... hmm
dru: *starts dating sebastian morgenstern's son who was raised by jace herondale's evil clone and has magic land-destroying powers, the ability to compel emotions, and a shady moral compass*
If I think too much about the parallel of TMI starting with Clary and Simon lining up to enter Pandemonium and Dru and Thais sneaking to NY to the same club but to watch Simon's band play, I start tearing up. Like. This is it. This is the beginning of the end. This really is the last series.
I’ve seen a lot of hate for Cassie because of the 2026 TWP pub date, and I would like to tell y’all to CUT THAT OUT. That woman has fed us so many books that have changed our lives and touched us in our darkest moments. She deserves time to rest and enjoy her work just like everybody else. I want a TWP that she loves and feels good about, and that doesn’t happen in a day. Let’s be good eggs, ok?
If Julian can make it 300 years in constant Emma Emma Emma Mode without making a move, we can wait two years for TWP. 🫶🏻
manifesting the Blackthorns have the nastiest, most nauseatingly angsty epic train wreck of a fight in TWP. perhaps in the second book or whenever they all find out about Livvy. like it's awful and you can't look away as they're all at their worst with the people they love the most, who they would do and have done anything for. it's the bloodiest fight any of them have ever been in and there wasn't even any weapons involved, just words they didn't mean and cannot take back. like they all care so much about one another but things have changed and none of them cope with it at all so instead it all just. blows up. like Ty only ever wanted to keep everyone together and go back to how things were, but instead he's the one who inadvertently fractures them; the unavoidabe fate of Blackthorns siblings.
my sister is so funny like i tried to write “two” the other day on text but it autocorrected to “twp” and she was fully like what? the wicked powers? i fear i may have done this to her