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He literally ruined his own childhood to see her sister happy with his father, I love him so much.

Unpopular opinion but I disagreed with Thomas when he said the person Alastair was last year wouldn't have spent so much time reading books of paladins to try and help Cordelia.

I know it was with good intentions and I love Thomas more than the world, but Alastair would've done anything for his sister. I agree with everything else he'd said in the carriage, but that's the only thing that stroke me as odd. Alastair loves his sister deeply, he'd go to another realm gleefully himself if it meant Cordelia was safe from danger. He is willing to do so much for her, even before he'd changed it was like that. So to me, it ruined the moment. Just a bit.

yes yes yes i 1000% agree!! that really bummed me out, we actually have multiple scenes in the last hours where the merry thieves (falsely) assume that alastair is a bad brother. of course he would do everything in his power to protect his little sister from the literal mother of demons like???

in the defense of the MT tho, they only really know alastair as a rude & un-empathetic at first, so of course they would firstly assume that he’s like that with everyone.

i think it’s a little disappointing that thomas doesn’t know him better than that at this point in the book, and that he is absolutely underestimated and underappreciated as the role he had in cordelia’s life. (i know it’s true that he kept her rather at an arms length growing up, but primarily to protect her)

please keep the ((unpopular) chain of thorns opinions coming my way

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"I love you"

Boring, feels empty, nothing special

"Why are you so stupid? I brush my teeth don’t tell anyone"

Sounds like you have a taste, original and sweet

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the "almost running away to a different country to avoid the person i love" squad

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I think we as a fandom need to talk about this more.

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Chain of Thorns, page 178:

Alastair: "Your devotion to your family is admirable. I'm sure it is unrelated to your having just run off to Paris with your husband's parabatai.

Cordelia: "I had my reasons Alastair."

Alastair: "I'm sure you did. I wish you'd tell me what they were. Are you in love with Matthew?"

Cordelia: "I don't know."

Alastair: "Are you in love with James, then?"

Cordelia: "Well, we are married."

Alastair: "That's not really an answer. I don't really like James, but on the other hand, I also don't like Matthew very much. So you see, I am torn."

Cordelia: "Well, this must be very difficult for you. I cannot imagine how you will find it within yourself to go on."

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new lucie and jesse art for the faecrate dustjackets!

they look so good!!!!

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lucie watching jesse cutting wood, eating, doing normal alive-people stuff and nearly saying she loves him:

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JESSE RUPERT BLACKTHORN

❝I,” said Jesse steadily, “am letting go of the complicated history of my family. Of being a Blackthorn. There is, of course,” he added, “nothing inherently evil about any family. Every family has members who are good, and those who are less so. But the terrible things my mother did, she did after taking that name. She hung the Blackthorn sword on the wall above my coffin because it was so important to her that even in near death I be reminded always that I was her idea of a Blackthorn. So I’m burying what my mother thought it meant to be a Blackthorn; I am putting it behind me, and I will start again as a new sort of Blackthorn. The kind I choose to be.❞

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Alastair was reciting persian poetry between the kisses...

Ey pesar nik ze hadd mibebari kār-e jamāl / Bā čonin hosn ze to sabr konam? ///

O boy, you carry the business of beauty beyond all limits / With such beauty you expect me to bide my time?

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- Chain of Thorns

- Queen of Air and Darkness

Lightwood boys like confessing their love to their beloved in their mother tongues. Such romantics.

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10/10 better than most romcoms I've seen and read

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alastair being quite a bit sillier than anyone gave him credit for >>>>>

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so did anyone else have a breakdown or

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"Alastair's skin was a few shades lighter than usual, which made his eyelashes look even darker. They framed his black eyes like the petals of a flower.

Petals of a flower? SHUT UP, THOMAS."

LMAO. Why is Thomas the only character aware of his internal narration? I have no idea, but he's the funniest motherfucker here just for that. I can't take him seriously, help, he's hilarious.

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I SAID IT ONCE AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN: THOMAS LIGHTWOOD IS THE ONLY BITCH I RESPECT IN THIS BOOK

Blackmailing your crush into being your date at a party? POWER MOVE.

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THIS IS THE BEST FORM OF MISCOMMUNICATION

I AM DYING OF LAUGHTER

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Cordelia Carstairs from The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare @cassandraclare