#also i will live breathe and die on the jalec hill they should've got the storyline that emma and julian did

[valyrfia]

just reread the mortal instruments for the first time in like seven (?) years and like it's fine and all but the concept would've been so much more interesting in the hands of a queer author

#expand tags to read more lmao #the mortal instruments #anti cassandra clare #my take with any body of work tbh #alec is my favourite but also very much gives Tortured Gay Written By Straight #clary should've ended up with simon (à la peeta mellark effect) #i love jace but he loses all personality as the love interest #also i will live breathe and die on the jalec hill they should've got the storyline that emma and julian did #the fact that the forbidden parabatai love story was given to a STRAIGHT couple is absolutely ridiculous #also i fucking hate malec it seemed so romantic when i was like 15 but now i cannot read it without thinking of my first relationship #ie. young and inexperienced me VS. what may not legally be grooming but technically is #à la rhys and feyre i HATE this immortal falling in love with a teenage mortal bs #red flag #magnus is also a gay character written for straight people #like he's fine but he's not giving yknow #i just relate a lot to alec and hate how him and magnus are so romanticised #IT SHOULD'VE BEEN JACE #imagine how good a jace and alec slowburn would've been in the last three books #talking of gay shit get izzy a girlfriend (and have it be me) #i jest but not - all of the lightwood siblings are gay wbk #clary is their token straight #all this to say give this idea to ME not to the ex ron x ginny author #anyway rant over #some teenage books live up to the hype (hunger games) and some don't (these)