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immortal-enemies · 1 year

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Been thinking about the fact that if Ty had died instead of Livvy, then Kit would have stopped her from bringing him back bc the only reason he didn't stop Ty is because he couldn't because it was Ty asking for help and yeah.

#saw like two people say kit would have helped livvy bring ty back had the situations been reversed and like. no. he wouldn't have.#ty wouldn't have brought kit back either if kit had died. cc basically confirmed it by saying ty wouldn't have tried to bring dru back-#-if she had died and in the ranking of 'how important kit is' he's definitely after tys family #but the thought is nice #dgmw i WANT someone to love kit enough to want to break the universe apart to get him back but the sad reality is #as cassandra clare herself said #no one loves kit. and certainly not TAHT much.#i mean. I DO. but im not in tsc.#what was the point of this post?#ohhhhhh #yeah kit wouldn't have helped bring ty back bc the only reason he helped ty bring livvy back was bc he couldn't say no to TY.#he could say no to livvy #hhhhhHHHHHHHHH #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #livvy blackthorn #*

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zvdvdlvr · 1 year

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- 𝐢 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐲

𝐒𝐘𝐍𝐎𝐏𝐒𝐈𝐒 : 𝒂 𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒔𝒍𝒐𝒘, 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈.

𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒 : 𝒊𝒎 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒐𝒏 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 4 𝒔𝒐 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒇𝒇, 𝒑𝒆𝒕 𝒏𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔 {𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆, 𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍, 𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈}, 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆'𝒔 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝑭𝑳𝑼𝑭𝑭

𝐏𝐀𝐈𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆 : 𝒂𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒙 𝒇𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒓

𝐊.𝐉.'𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐚𝐲𝐬... 𝒐𝒉 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝑮𝑶𝑫 𝒊𝒎 𝑰𝑵 𝑳𝑶𝑽𝑬 𝑾𝑰𝑻𝑯 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑴𝑨𝑵𝑵𝑵𝑵. 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒅𝒂𝒚'𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒔𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒂𝒂𝒓𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒋𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 <3

It wasn't often y/n would wake up before Aaron, and that's why she was slightly shocked when her watch read 7:03 and Aaron was still sound asleep with his hands securing y/n directly to his bare chest. His mouth was slightly open. He hummed slightly, burrowing further into his girlfriend.

"Stay w'me, m'love," was barely audible from Aaron's lips as he squirmed around, grasping at the edges of conciousness. "Wanna hold you."

y/n knew Aaron would wake up soon. He had a sixth sense about when y/n woke up, and he also didn't normally sleep in late. His muscular arms loosened slightly, giving y/n the chance (even though she didn't want to) to untangle herself from the sheets and sticky skin.

She shivered when the brisk air brushed her skin. Goosebumps appeared along y/n's forearms, all the way up her arms.

Aaron flopped around on the bed again, a small whimper leaving his mouth. His arms flailed around as he attempted to get comfortable. Even though y/n felt bad for leaving him cold (even though he was basically a heating device), she couldn't help but sigh in happiness at her now unrestricted body movement.

When Aaron stilled once again, y/n made her way to the growing collection of books found... around. y/n selected a book that she'd started. It was by a woman called Cassandra Clare. Maybe it was the way the book was written, the characters, or even the fact that the book had made y/n remember things from the time before The Reestablishment but y/n loved the book.

"Angel?" Aaron's gravelly voice startled y/n as she padded back to the bed. His eyes squinted at the soft light in the room, but his hands reached out to perform a very uncharacteristic grabby-hands movement.

y/n giggled at Aaron's bed-head, sliding into the bed. "Morning, my love," y/n greeted, withholding a small coo at the way Aaron nuzzled into y/n's chest. "You'll suffocate and die if you stay like that for long," y/n laughed, playing with the hair on the back of Aaron's neck.

"I will happily embrace death if you're the one killing me." His sickenly sweet morbid comment made y/n want to laugh and smack him upside the head.

Silence followed while y/n drew small circles on Aaron's muscular back. The Mortal Instruments was set to the side while the pair basked in each other's loving company.

"I'm in love with you, Aaron," y/n murmurs suddenly.

The blond turned his head up to see y/n already gazing at him. "I love you more," he started. "I love you more than a moon loves it's star, I love you more than the stars love the sky, I love you more than the blood in my body loves my heart. I love you more than I love myself, my dear. I will love you until the end of all concept of time and even longer. My heart beats for you and only you," he ranted, brushing a thumb on y/n's cheek. "I love you more than you love watching the stars on the horizon. I'm so in love with you that I would carve my heart from my chest just for you to remember me by."

Aaron searched y/n's eyes during the loud silence that followed.

"You romantic boy," y/n said with emotion, "I feel horrible because I can't string together enough syllables to tell you I love you."

A small grin crossed Aaron's face. "I love you," he said again.

y/n mirrored his smile as he burrowed into her neck. "I love you more, darling." y/n carded her hand through Aaron's soft hair after pressing a small kiss to his temple.

"I love you most."

#jules writes 📓 🖊#jules writes 📓🖊#fluff #x reader #female reader #x female reader #aaron warner x reader #aaron warner #aaron warner blurb #aaron warner imagine #aaron warner x y/n #aaron warner x female reader #aaron warner fluff #lol #x fem!reader #x black fem reader #x black reader #x plus size reader

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daily-clace · 13 days

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Jace's golden eyes, with the precision of a laser, fixed immediately on Clary. If she'd thought he might look apologetic, concerned, or even ashamed after all that had happened, she was wrong. All he looked was angry. "What," he said, with a sharp and deliberate annoyance, "do you think you're doing?"

Clary glanced down at herself. She was still perched on the coffee table, knife in hand. She fought the urge to hide it behind her back. "We had an incident. I took care of it."

"Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?"

"I didn't hurt anyone," Clary said between her teeth.

"She stabbed the couch," said Maia in a dull voice, her eyes falling shut.

Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes

#dailyclace #clace #clace quotes #clary fairchild #jace herondale #clary fray #jace wayland #jace lightwood #jace lightwood herondale #tmi #the mortal instruments #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #cds

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sinligh · 1 year

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As a woman I’m used to living in cycles,

Twenty-eight days if you start today I’ll bleed the rage that my mother mastered with age and only then I’ll seek acceptance, I’ll seek love, but hide behind paranoia and when that can’t fix me, and when this earth can’t hold me

Like an ouroboros, I’ll devour all that i let into my inner circle all that i let define me, only to destruct it simply to reincarnate myself, with or without it.

I’ll trace the lines in my body to try and delude it into thinking we can be touched. I’ll look in the mirror just to see, not to judge. I won’t look too long cause I still fear that the shame i was taught to absorb will manifest on the tips of my fingers.

Potential exposure.

The pathophysiology of the chronic cases of loneliness. Starts with a history of a lonely pregnant woman

When my mother gave birth to me, silent and cyanosed me, i was deemed viable. But not the part of me she wished and prayed to end with still birth, the melancholic presence that wrapped around me inside her womb.

The one with no heartbeat, but is loud enough for a part of her existence to hate part of mine.

She loved me enough to never acknowledge it. Enough to breastfeed me the leftover energy she used to be herself.

and when all the love she felt for me blinded her, our case lacked enough evidence and slipped undiagnosed.

Now when I say love can’t fix me, you have to understand…

Love isn’t the only meal I skipped I’m highly malnourished, and running on paraphrased memories.

I trade cautiously when it comes to hope. I’m not hopeless,

but I’m never hopeful about that fact.

I can’t fall for it, or anyone really; i was raised to be ashamed if only I thought about taking a step that might lead to a mistake.

As a result,

I think the absolute worst of everyone, even when i don’t necessarily believe it.

That being said, paranoia is as intrinsic as breathing to me.

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•Quotes:Sylvia Plath/Sandra Cisneros/Azra tabassum/Sandra Cisneros/Louis Tomlinson/Cassandra Clare/ Louis Tomlinson/ Ritika Jyala/ Gloria E. Anzaldua

• Original context: Sinligh

•Art reference:

1.Tight, by István Sándorfi. 2. Painting by István Sándorfi. 3. Painting by Henry Asencio. 4. "Hugs II" by Yang Cao. 5.painting by Ans Markus. 6.Painting by Liu Yuanshou. 7. The Brood By Sam Wolfe Connelly. 8. "Passionate Dreams" by Henry Asencio.

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drusilla-carstairs · 3 months

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How are you gonna tell CC what her characters look like though? If she commissions Dru a certain way, then that’s the way Dru looks. SHE created the character NOT you guys. YOU guys all assumed she was overweight instead of curvy, she’s never been as big as you guys make her out to be. That’s why CC just ignores it. I know we want representation, but it’s said that Dru has hips and breasts. It’s never said that she has thick arms or a chubby stomach, readers just made that up and now keep complaining that your headcanons didn’t come true

“for real! People choose to read her description as an hourglass figure when that isn’t it at all. It’s just unwillingness to draw/like fat characters :/ I imprinted on Dru as a character the first time I read TDA and I hate this for her. I hope CC does a good job writing her in TWP and maybe clears this all up” Lying on canon we see ..Hourglass can mean thick what are you even talking about? It’s never stated that she’s fat and it’s stated that alot of boys check her out, so ..what’s that mean? Hourglass figure has the boys stopping. Stop projecting what you want and respect the author

^ That’s the rest of this person’s stupid ask.

First off, you look like a clown. You’re completely embarrassing yourself here. Hiding your fatphobia under the guise of accusing me of not “respecting the author” is so transparent and frankly, silly.

I made a post to my blog. I didn’t tell CC what her character should look like. Do you think she has time to be combing the tumblr tags looking at people’s posts??? Drop that straw man argument right now because you look like a clown.

Dru is very much described as plus-sized in the canon. Not just an hourglass shape. Her aunt calls her a “butterball”. Dru mentions feeling anxiety about eating around other characters. It is mentioned that she doesn’t fit in normal Shadowhunter gear. These aren’t things that happens to a girl that just happened to get boobs early, and you’re naive for thinking so.

I’m not going to nitpick the use of “curvy” vs “plus-sized” vs “fat” because frankly you don’t deserve the time it would take to do so, especially when what you’re saying boils down to “I don’t think people with large waistlines would be considered attractive ever”. Your use of overweight vs curvy shows this. Your “evidence” that boys look at her shows this. (Which, by the way, older boys paying attention to 13yo Dru is not a complement, it’s creepy behavior showing that because of her body she’s sexualized before she’s seen as useful for anything else, but go off!)

If you need more info on this, read the post that Cassandra Clare herself made about the topic. She states that Dru is plus-sized in the sense that she shops in plus-sized stores and sections at the very least. She states that her body is different from that of girls around her. Most artists (even those CC commissions, unfortunately) draw her the same size as Emma/Thaís/Livvy/Whoever and it’s simply inaccurate, and we all know why.

#fatphobia #answers #dru blackthorn

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lizbethborden · 2 months

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I never got the hype for Muirs books because they were so oddly plotted and written in super online meme speak which means they’re dated before they come out and honestly come off as really bland YA. Like reading fanfic for a kids cartoon vibes idk like I felt insane watching all my friends laud her as the lesbian writer because the work said otherwise lol but now you’re telling me she’s bi? Wow. Never looked her up but she’s always on my dash and based on how her fans discuss her I always thought she was a lesbian that came out late in life but she has a whole husband? Currently? And people are just eating up the lesbian thing? lol ok. Also lesbian with a male exception is insane people will really say anything to avoid saying BISEXUAL lol

That's how I feel about the books too. They're just truly not very well-written. They're so like memeified fanfiction--that's why I made the comparison to Cassandra Clare. The Mortal Instruments were originally all based on Clare's Harry Potter fanfiction and her writing was incredibly memey (for her time) with tons of lines and plots lifted wholesale from Buffy and similar shows. If every character quips and snarks instead of talking like a normal person, it's just intolerable. It's MCU for wooloowoos and made even worse by the fact that the author is manufacturing clout/authority for herself in a completely-easy-to-disprove way.

I'm not going to say the books have 0 good lines, laughs, or concepts. But their popularity definitely disproves the sense of intellectual superiority tumblrinas et al have re: the media they consume.

#if people would just admit they're basically fun popcorn type fiction #like the equivalent of a feel-good summer movie #i'd be more positive #but everyone acts like it's Literachure. no it ain't #this will definitely be the series of opinions/posts that loses me a ton of followers and gets me canceled

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im-out-of-it · 6 months

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I’m just here to say that we did not fucking need six books of TMI. did Cassandra Clare wake up one day and said to herself: HMMMM you know what the world needs that I can give it? six books of the same toxic, problematic, incest couple who does not care about anyone but themselves. yeah and then I can write more books with their traits to make it even more unbearable! let’s not give representation either! HOW FUN!!!!! haven’t we suffered enough from the first one? we did not need 69387292 more 😭

#anti cassandra clare #anti cc #anti clace #anti jace herondale #anti clary fray

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joannerowling · 6 months

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You are correct about fanfiction though. When you are new to the fandom of the fandom is relatively young, It's somewhat possible to produce something fresh. but at this point it so rare to find something really innovative in HP fandom. All novel ideas became a subtropes overtime. Now it just juggling already existing fandom story templates and rearranging them in different manner. That's precisely why i don't read fanfiction anymore. It might have been appealing to teen me, but it became unbearable the more i read, fanfiction and in general. Every time I would pick up some fanfic i would immediately know what sort of fanfiction im going to read from just first few paragraphs of the first chapter. It really brings up the actual uniqueness of JKR's canon. I went back to reread HP some years ago, and after all the fanfiction it was surprisingly good and fresh and funny and insightful. And after all the resentment and fix-it fics I've read, canon wasn't actually as bad as the fandom makes it to be.

It's really funny how all the formerly loyal readers now claim that they can rewrite HP 100500 times better than it's already is. Lmao babes, good luck, can't wait to read you completely new, 5000th in the fandom Dumbledore bashing fic published. Don't believe it would be anything JKR hasn't already thought of and just had more grase and creativity to choose a more interesting option, tho.

Yeah, you've pretty much summed it up. I don't want to diss on fanfic entirely because as i said in the tags of that one post, i think some works are *essentially* a collection of stories written by various authors, of whom many started as fans, which is not too far from what good fanfiction can be.

But HP isn't like that. Like it or not HP's success rides on the writing talent of one person and that's JK Rowling. Taking Jo out of HP makes it completely different. That's not to say that there's no appeal to HP fanfiction (evidently many people manage to do just fine) but it's interesting just how controversial a lot of these popular HP fanfics and fic writers turned out to be, isn't it? Cassandra Clare, that trans guy who wrote the Dumbledore's Army series, now all those kids with the Extended Marauders Universe… Many eventually became hostile to Jo herself. As if they couldn't exist in her shadow, they had to turn against her and divorce themselves from what made HP beloved in the first place in order to stand the comparaison.

#like if i had the time and proficiency in english i would write my ideal sequel to hp ngl but i know it wouldn't be JKR's so??#what's the point i mean would it even be enjoyable? to me of all people? probably not let's face it #on one hand i admire people who measure themselves to Jo but on the other hand it's always been consistently not as good #and not even close! sorry! she really just does it for me what can i say :/#replies #anon #jkr #hp

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thevagabondexpress · 1 year

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a textbook case of not understanding your own characters, or, jordelia won't last under the parameters canon set out for them. some issues a tsc fan sees in tsc, pt. iv

Lemme paraphrase: I love Jordelia. I do. I love James and Cordelia and their crazy, beautiful, broken love story. That being said, James Herondale and the narrative are not nearly as healthy as we think they are and Cordelia's not going to stay in this situation long. Well, not in canon, under the parameters and presumptions the canon has laid out for them. I cannot picture Cordelia Carstairs wanting to be a mother under the circumstances presented in canon and the fact that Cassandra Clare leaves us with the assumption that she will be is deeply disturbing proof that she doesn't have any in-depth understanding of the characters she created. I give you a summary this time because the full analysis deals with issues of consent both dubious and completely nonexistent, and with pregnancy, and I'm sure some of y'all are not going to be comfortable with that.

part one: cordelia couldn't give informed consent in chain of thorns

"Cordelia had heard things whispered among other girls…but she still had little idea what happened in the marriage bed." —Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron, pg. 110 in my copy.

"I will marry some other man, and he will know I was married to you. He will expect me to know how to kiss, and—do other things." —Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron, pg. 363 in my copy

At no point after this is Cordelia shown to receive any kind of Talk whatsoever from anyone. The consent she gave in the scene in Chain of Thorns was uninformed. And uninformed consent is, surprise, not actually consent. Also, James knew this. He knew she didn't know anything. And he went ahead with it anyway.

part two: motherhood

Look me in the eyes and tell me that Cordelia Carstairs shows any indications in her canonical personality of being someone who wants to be a mother.

Firstly, she has a very busy, slightly wild, and yet also deeply disciplined lifestyle. Visits to the Hell Ruelle, hours of training, a deep emotional connection to the blade she wields, and a lifelong goal of being a hero. A merciful hero. She also takes two different partners in the course of the series (James and Matthew), suggesting in my eyes from the way in which she goes about this that potentially she might be open to polyamory. None of this is really a lifestyle conducive to babies. They take up too much time, too much money, and too much physical space. They're not conducive to polyamorous relationships where your partners aren't living under the same roof, you can't just leave them at one house to go stay with your other partner neither can you just shuffle them around with you when you move. And unlike Lucie, whose primary lifelong passion, writing, is something that can be done at home in the brief snatches of time when one is free, Cordelia doesn't have any hobbies that she could continue to do despite the sheer time that raising a child takes up. She'd have to give up everything but reading and playing chess and those are not enough.

Secondly, she watched in real time as her mother put aside everything, including her own mental health and wellbeing, to raise two children. She watched Sona give up the things she loved, choose to stay with an abusive husband, stop patrolling and fighting, and eventually waste away into a sickly hollow shell of herself. Her closest, most formative experience of motherhood paints it as a traumatic, exhausting, demoralizing, and restricting condition that forces you to give up your chosen lifestyle, your hobbies, and eventually your sense of identity and pride as an individual for the sake of your children.

I cannot, under these circumstances, imagine that Cordelia would find the idea of putting her own life aside for the sake of babies an appealing one. I imagine if you brought up children with her, the answer would be a resounding no. I can practically see the way she'd wrinkle her nose at the idea.

And yet, I don't see any other male Herondales forthcoming. If Cassandra Clare's canon is to be believed Cordelia must be the mother of at least one child so that the family line can continue.

Third. We know, as explained in part two, that Cordelia never received proper education and can't give informed consent. And James and Cordelia played very fast and loose with the concept of safety in the scenes we got in Chain of Thorns.

Is this what happens? Is this how we get a Herondale family line? Does Cordelia become a mother without consenting to it? I can't imagine she'd want to stay in that situation very long. I certainly cannot see her wanting to raise the child. I don't want this to be the case. I don't want to see her leaving James to raise his son alone while she escapes, hurt, to nurse her wounds and rage at him from somewhere safe. But unless we're given another Herondale like we got Alex for the Lightwoods, I don't see any happier ending for James and Cordelia.

part three: in conclusion All this to say, Cassandra Clare doesn't really understand Cordelia Carstairs. She created a character whose situation suggests she'd have no interest in motherhood, and then forced motherhood upon her. This is not the only time she's misunderstood Cordelia either. In Chain of Gold she's shown to be impulsive, but she's also shown to be a woman of action and anger, not a woman of passivity and tears. If Cordelia remained in character throughout Chain of Thorns, when she saw James and Grace in the foyer at the end of the book she would have come marching downstairs to demand to know Just what the hell is going on here? Instead, Clare chooses to have her…run away. Why? Because it gets her quickly to the next plot point, I guess. Despite the fact that this is decidedly not the Cordelia Carstairs that I know. And this isn't the only character she's lacked understanding of, or forced out of character for the sake of the plot. Cordelia and motherhood is simply the most grievous and, quite frankly, disturbing example.

"some issues a tsc fan sees in tsc" is an attempt to break down the unacknowledged things in tsc that i unearthed reading chain of thorns, rereading the rest of the series in preparation for it, and writing two longform fanfics (one of them a genderbent canon reworking) for the last hours. click on the "some issues..." tag to see more of these.

#some issues a tsc fan sees in tsc #tlh #tsc #the last hours #cordelia carstairs #chain of iron #chain of thorns #analyzing the last hours

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multiverse-of-fandom · 1 month

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Wrong Enough To Make It Feel Right

Fandom: Sword Catcher - Cassandra Clare

Pairing: Lin Caster x Conor Aurelian

Rating 16+ (Mild Sexual Content)

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"This is wrong." Lin whispered, even as she found herself pinned against the wall, caged between Conor's arms. "You shouldn't be here."

"Then push me away, Lin Caster." Conor said roughly, and Lin's knees nearly buckled at the way the prince said her name, "push me away, and I will leave you alone."

In answer Lin lunged, slamming her mouth against the prince's.

#lin caster #conor aurelian #sword catcher #fanfic

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rphelperblog · 2 years

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City of Glass Book Quote Rp Meme

the third book in the Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare - my favorite one- feel free to edit or change pronouns for rp purposes.- part one

“There is no pretending, I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I'll love you then.”

“You said you were going for a walk!? What kind of walk takes six hours?"

“Since the first time i saw you, I've belonged to you completely.”

“We may not be all that bright,but at least we are alive.”

“I can’t untie myself from you, not my heart or my blood or my mind or any other part of me. And I don’t want to.”

You can’t be complete jerks to each other forever you know.”

“Knowing is better than not knowing. Every time.”

“In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.”

“You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.”

"I guess blessings are easier to come by than I thought. Maybe I should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day.”

“Some Laws were meant to be broken.”

“So I lied to you last night. I said that I just wanted one night with you. But I want every night with you.”

“You could say anything you wanted to someone you thought you were never going to see again.”

“Because you told me you don't have feelings for me anymore, and you see, that's very akward, because I still have them for you. And I bet you know it.”

“If you hurt her, she’s quite capable of killing you herself. Possibly with a variety of weapons.”

“No one could be that annoying without some kind of supernatural assistance.”

“If I’d just listened—just taken one second to listen—it wouldn’t have happened”

“I’ve been wandering around all night—I couldn’t sleep—and I kept finding myself walking here. To you.”

“There are some kinds of wounds you can get, internal injuries. You don't know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside.”

“I wouldn’t change it. I wouldn’t give up loving you. Not for anything. As long as I remember what it was like to love you, I will always feel like I am alive.”

“It was hidden inside another book. One your father was unlikely to ever open.Simple Recipes for Housewives. No one can say your mother didn't have a sense of humor.”

“I only count the hours that shine.”

“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.”

“I have a fetish for damsels in distress.”

“You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.”

And, I would do it again. I would always ask for you.”

“Crying wouldn't help anything now.”

“Not at all. My services are also available to gentlemen in distress. It’s an equal opportunity fetish.”

"Thankfully no one's home, or they would have assumed I was murdering you."

“Ah, the 'I told you so.Always a classy move.”

“There were some feelings you never forgot.”

“Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree?”

You don't understand what it's like to live always at war, to grow up with battle and sacrifice. I guess it's not your fault. It's just how you were brought up-”

“You couldnt erase everything that caused you pain with recollection.Every memory was valuable; even the bad ones”

“Doing the right thing because you love someone sucks sometimes.”

“I love you. I don’t care. I love you and I will always love you, and pretending it could be any other way is just a waste of time.”

“So you decided to help us by killing the guy we were talking to?"

“You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn’t you? You couldn’t just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?”

You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.”

“Did you ever think that in a past life he was an old woman with ninety cats who was always yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off her lawn? Because I do,”

“Weakness and corruption isn’t in the world, it’s in people. And it always will be. The world just needs good people to balance it out.”

“My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, ‘Are these snakes poisonous?’ and ‘But you look much too young to be a police officer.’”

“It's because you're too scared to tell anyone who you really love. Love makes us liars.”

“If I have to tie you up and sit on you until this insane whim of yours passes, you are not going."

“I've always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell."

"He seems to like you. I saw him going for your hand out there like a squirrel diving for a peanut.”

“The way he looked at you. I got it then. He loved you, and it was killing him. He won't get over you,he can't.”

"No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don't think that will work?”

“I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.”

“It’s my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury.”

"I think he’s handling it with grace. A lot of teenage boys would sulk, or lurk around under your window with a boom box."

“Look, did you ask me to come all the way uptown just so you could stare at me like I was something in a petri dish? Next time I'll send you a photo."

But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I’ll always feel like I’m alive.”

"I don't return library books. I steal illegal music off the internet. I lie to my mom. I am completely ordinary."

You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things.”

“So that’s why you never told me your middle name. I figured it was something embarrassing.”

“The Law is hard, but it is the Law.”

Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?"

"Do we all have to do that, too?”

“Waiting for a special occasion to kill me? Christmas is coming.”

“You could have had anything else in the world, and you asked for me."

“And I'm suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone else, get married...? And meanwhile, I'll die a little bit more every day, watching.

"here with the vampire, I see. When things have settled a bit, we really must discuss you choice in pets.."

“if it’s the lack of forbidden you’re worried about, you could still forbid me to do things.”

“Is this the part where you tell me that if I hurt her, you’ll kill me?”

“You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.”

“I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing”

“Look, you can date whoever you want and I will totally support you. I am all about support. Support is my middle name.”

If I feel the urge to burst into flames, I’ll let you know.”

"If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things."

“Well, in your defense, I do move with a silent, pantherlike grace.”

“is that why you didn’t call me? because I am an idiot.”

“So here’s where they put you. I didn’t think they even used these cells anymore.”

“I always thought that 'Good things happen to those who do the wave' No wonder I've been so confused”

“and you’re asking me if I still want you, as if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. I never dared give much of myself to anyone before”

"Exactly. Despite my staggering good lucks, you actually don't like me that way."

“The poor parent birds work themselves to death trying to find enough food to feed the enormous cuckoo child who has murdered their babies and taken their places."

“You’ll look like Olivia Newton-John in Xanadu.”

“Just like an alley in New York -like every alley in the world, apparently- it smelled like cat pee.”

“what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?”

“Hail and Farewell, my brother.”

“Hurting people he loved was almost as good as hurting himself when he was in this kind of mood.”

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All of him was tense and shaking, and the pupils of his eyes were wide, the iris just a rim of gold. “Is something wrong?”

Hearing Jace sound uncertain — she thought maybe her heart was cracking, shattering into pieces. “No,” she whispered. “Just — kiss me,” she pleaded, and he did, not moving to do anything else, just kissing her: hot languorous slow kisses that sped up as his heartbeat did, as the movement of their bodies quickened against each other. Each kiss was different, each rising higher and higher like a spark as a fire grew: quick soft kisses that told her he loved her, long slow worshipful kisses that said that he trusted her, playful light kisses that said that he still had hope, adoring kisses that said he had faith in her as he did in no one else. Clary abandoned herself to the kisses, the language of them, the wordless speech that passed between them. His hands were shaking, but they were quick and skilled on her body, light touches making her want more and more until she pushed and pulled at him, urging him against her with the mute appeal of fingers and lips and hands.

City of Heavenly Fire, Cassandra Clare

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City of Ashes

Wow.

I liked this book!

You can see my review of Book 1 here. For some time I really just considered my decision to re-read these old YA books as watching bad reality TV (especially with how awful 'Hush Hush' was) but this book was when I felt the gears in my head shift and I realised I was genuinely enjoying the story.

It took me a while to get started because I was reading other books but ever since I finished 'Suddenly a Murder' (and finished writing a chapter of a fanfic that was keeping me occupied), I told myself I'd refocus on getting this one done. Today I was feeling... not great in the morning, and I used this book as a distraction, thinking I'd probably finish it over the next few days (hopefully).

I finished it in like five hours. 💀

People can complain about this book (rightfully so, it's far from perfect) but it was easy to read and very addictive. I don't remember having had this much enjoyment reading it as a teen; it felt like a tedious haze in my memory. And because I don't remember 80% of this book, almost everything felt brand new to me.

Things I liked:

The Inquisitor. I get she's painted to be a villain but I need to say that I didn't really pay her much attention UNTIL 3/4 INTO THE BOOK WHEN THEY SAID HER SON WAS A HERONDALE AND I WAS LIKE, WAIT. BACK UP. So I went to search up "Herondale" and I FUCKING REALISED THEY INTRODUCED HER AS INQUISITOR HERONDALE AT FHE START AND I MISSED IT. I'm actually really glad I missed it because I'd have known her connection to Jace from the beginning, and now I get to be like OH MY FUCKING GOSH when I realise she's probably his grandmother (?). When you see the antagonism she regarded him with for most of the book and then you realise the connection… and SHE herself realised it… I AM SHOOKETH. Granted, readers are supposed to only connect the dots in the next book, but whatever. I get the epiphany NOW.

She's honestly such a nuanced and great character. She felt like a mix of Umbridge (minus the pink and the simpering and all that gross shit) and Elias' mother from Ember in the Ashes. She made a massive mistake but you realise where she was coming from at some point. You're not supposed to justify her actions, just understand where her head/heart was at.

I used to really dislike Luke when I read him as a teen and now I'm confused why I did because I really like him? I think he's such a sweet soul and he's Clary's real dad at heart, not Valentine.

OOH! When the Unseelie Court was unveiled, I was so excited because after reading Cruel Prince I have a fresh perspective of fae that I didn't used to have reading this as a teen. I liked the Queen and overall how the fae was written. It's really similar to how I think they should be written (IMO). And it was nice tying that thread up at the end, even if a little sloppily. I really wish Cassandra would write a book with a fae lead but she seems to be good friends with Holly Black and that could be a bit weird? I don't know.

Also I really like Cassandra Clare's prose. I personally felt it was one of the better ones out there (or maybe I just feel this way after reading 'Hush Hush'). Maybe it's just more the style I like, even if some dialogue can be a bit cringe at times.

The conversation between Maryse and Jace was really moving at the end. And just their relationship in general. I love that she DID love him, and saw him as one of her children from the start. I didn't have the best impression of her when she first appeared, but it's great for my perception to evolve over the course of the story.

Valentine is… interesting. As a teen I thought he was a rather clichéd villain (I mean… he IS), but he fills that established trope quite well.

Magnus Magnus MAGNUS. Need I say more? He shone in almost every one of his cameos.

Even Alec, who I find pretty boring, had his moment in this book. He pretended to side with the Inquisitor and then went to find Jace to help get him out of the prison. Granted, Alec still isn't anywhere as interesting as I wished he could be—especially compared to MAGNUS—but he was more decent than I expected.

Really liked how the Fearless rune came into play!!!!!!!

I liked that scene where Jace and Clary talked outside the shower at his place. Most people probably won't like that scene because of the whole sibling shebang, but I enjoyed it. Jace was pretty upfront about things… though given the ending, I don't expect that to recur in the next book.

Despite how old this book is, and the occasional girl-on-girl hate that I can't stand, Cassie does a pretty okay job at fleshing out female characters other than Clary. Isabelle is decent, and Maia is an interesting addition (I know she and Simon are getting together but whatever). For its time, this book is mostly all right save for a few problematic liners, and I'll give Cassie props for that. (For now. I'll see for the next book.)

Things I didn't like;

Simon, PLEASE GO AWAY. THE WORST PART IS I KNOW YOU WON'T GO AWAY BECAUSE I REMEMBER YOU BEING IN ALL THE BOOKS IN THIS SERIES. T_T He was the worst part of the story for me and cutting down most of his scenes would have made me so happy. When he showed up "dead" because the vampires attacked him, I was like, why do you give me false hope? When Valentine "killed" him again, I was like, FALSE HOPE NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE? SHAME ON YOU. This ugly ass won't stay dead. 😭 He's a tiny parasite that latches on for fucking dear life—my brother in Christ, what were you even doing in the Unseelie Court? He had no role or business there; it's like bringing a wailing baby on a plane. Cassie has to turn him into a vampire to make him halfway relevant but I just DON'T CARE. He was pretty much Ron Weasley in Harry Potter's body and I hated Ron. He tries to be funny but he isn't funny and he's just jealous and rageful most of the time and, like…

Look, I know this is a lot of Simon talk. But I'm still not done. I'm just adding another bullet point because the paragraph was too long. :') Anyway. You know what Simon says? He says this to Clary when she admits she loved Jace:

He smiled at her. It was a sad smile with something else underneath. "You know what the worst feeling I can imagine is?" She blinked at him. "No." "Not trusting the person I love more than anything else in the world."

Babe, that was really #deep but just because she didn't like you back doesn't mean you can't trust her??? She's still your friend. She is NOT entitled to like you back and trust isn't contingent on your romantic affections being reciprocated. You are not entitled to having them reciprocated just because you were her best friend for years. That's classic "nice guy" manipulation tactics. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So you're saying because she didn't like you back, all those years of friendship are flushed down the drain and no more trust is left? I don't know how much more of this incel I can stomach. 🤮 Every time Clary sobbed in grief for him, I was like: sometimes we just gotta let that pimple pop and let him go, babe.

I gotta move on. Anyway: I didn't even get to see Alec and Magnus get together in the first place. T_T I have to see chapters in Nice Guy Simon's head but I don't get much of Alec or Magnus' POV here? It's not fair!!!!!!! I felt like I was missing a lot of things about them and how they got together in the first place.

I'm not a huge fan of Clary and Jace being speshul people with speshul powers but eh. It's not a giant gripe but at least Clary doesn't become a combat expert overnight so I'll take that.

I find Jace and Clary's love for each other a little unconvincing but it could be worse, I guess.

JACE, I know he's technically immature/a child but he really should have watched his mouth more with the Inquisitor. The first time he was sent to prison, I thought he deserved it with how he was mouthing off to her. But then later he showed a lot of self-discipline/sensibility with the Fair Folk so I was a little thrown by the whiplash. Again, it's not a major gripe, but yeah.

I'm going to end the review here. Overall, I'm shocked by how much I liked this book given its poor reviews on GR, but we'll see how the next book fares for me (if I do get to read it… or finish it). I do want to add that the sibling thing doesn't faze me like it does many because I know in retrospect that it isn't true, and just… My brain is too screwed-up, I guess? I need to stop reading so many disturbing thrillers. Or manga.

But let me tell you: it felt REALLY surreal upping the book from the 3 stars I'd given it as a teen to 4. I've almost NEVER done that with an old read before.

- 24 Nov 2023

#book blog #book review #fantasy books #shadowhunters #the shadowhunter chronicles #cassandra clare #city of ashes #the mortal instruments #chain of thorns

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What would shadowhunter Nancy's favourite weapon be? Because they don't shoot guns (well except James lol)

OMG??? I NEVER SAW THIS??? IM SO SORRY THIS IS A LATE RESPONSE PROBABLY

inside of me there are two wolves

go the practical route, the closest thing to a gun would probably be hand crossbows that she straps to her wrists and can pack some mean punches, i feel like she'd rune the bolts herself. im a SUCKER for sharpshooter nancy and i think this'd be really cool

give into gay little impulses and give nancy a whip again (ik whips aren't convenient weapons but cassandra clare acts like they're perfectly viable in her universe so im playing by the same rules!!! muahahahaha!!!!) (and to understand "again" see my clown au lol)

in all honesty im not sure! like i said nancy is a prodigy, she's wicked with seraph blades and is incredibly talented with all sorts of weapons

though perhaps..... i could make it BOTH.... and have nancy start out with the hand crossbows and robin MAKES her a whip...... as a sort of courting gift..... and nancy runes it herself..... r u seeing the vision.....

#stranger things #nancy wheeler #robin buckley #shadowhunters au #shadowhunter!nancy #warlock!robin #i totally forgot abt this au #which means there's probably a hc post coming soon </3 #i cant restrain myself #ronance

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okay first i have read your satosugu fics and the pacific rim fic one you’re so RIGHT I CAN SEE THE SIMILARITIES esp with yizhi and suguro also with how they seem so gentle and kind n smiley but when it comes to the ones they love they’re on it to jump whoever is threatening them!!

(also i’ve realised as anon i’ve said it a lot but not as 📚 anon so i have to mentioned i am literally IN LOVE with your writing you’re so talented and amazing and spectacular seriously!!)

second for the hozier nfwb i can definitely see wooyoung as one of them that would probably protect her but also i feel like in the slight future jongho would because he seems more of an acts of service person and he would consider going cray cray protectay for anyone who thinks about hurting bug

and also lowkey i can just imagine as she mostly works defensively rather than offense wooyoung would protect her from the injured eye side and they’d like work together in battle and understand each other v v well because they’ve already picked up on each others habits while fighting so they know what to cover from the other persons weakness

- 📚 (ALSO also i just finished iron widow by accident i was just gonna read like a few more chapters then i see the acknowledgments…? it finished so quick?? was a good read though!)

yes haha!! I absolutely wrote gods and monsters after reading half of iron widow xD I was just so into the universe that I couldn't help it,, I needed my own satosugu au hehe :3 and I'm weak for the seemingly sweet and gentle characters that are secretly pretty dark and protective of the ones they love <3 suguru is a little more silly than yizhi I think since he and satoru are pretty much menaces but I still think they're pretty similar xD

(also thank you so much omg <33 I'm so glad you like my fics,, it means the world :')) )

and yes yes!! I absolutely think wooyoung fits 'nothing fucks with my baby,' like first for seonghwa in the beginning, and soon for bug ;D (I mean y'all are gonna see in the next chapter if he really fits the lyrics I guess hehehehe >:DD <- that's me laughing maniacally)

but oooooo I hadn't considered jongho before but that totally makes sense,, he's def an acts of service person, and I think he absolutely would go off the rails if someone hurt bug or atz (and we will see more of jongho and his love languages in the future too, we'll hit a jongho centric chapter soon ;) )

NOO STOP I'LL CRY :')) woobug fighting together absolutely happens like that,, woo def covers bug's blindside and makes sure she doesn't get hit there - she fights defensively, and I think at first woo will cover for her in terms of offense, but I also think he wants to teach her how to protect herself :') he knows partially how she feels and wants her to be able to know that she can fight for herself (and for others) when she needs -- they def understand each other in battle very well (and we'll see more of that soon too hehe)

I'm dropping so many spoilers here omg xD

(I have a few chapters left of iron widow!! I'm very excited to finish, but I'm also dreading it because I love it so much :') I've never found an actual healthy polyamorous relationship where everyone is actually in love with each other in books before so I am savoring them while I can :')) -- the closest I ever got to poly couples was the infernal devices trilogy by Cassandra Clare,, I desperately wanted will, Jem and Tessa to all be together </3 )

#moonie speaks #gods and monsters #like the moon #moonie's anons #moonie's 📚 anon #like the moon spoilers

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Book Notes: The Luminaries

There seems to be a trend these days of covers featuring skulls of various kinds paired with flowers. I’m not sure if the flowers are meant to soften the starkness of the skull, but generally the creepy skull itself is enough to warn me off. That is unless said cover also contains a blurb from Leigh Bardugo. And is compared to Cassandra Clare. Then I’ll give it a second look.

The Luminaries by Susan Dennard is a contemporary YA fantasy, set in the town of Hemlock Falls, a town adjacent to a forest containing a slumbering spirit so powerful that as the sun goes down each day, the murderous nightmares of the spirit come to life. The Luminaries are a secret order of hunters bound to slay the nightmares and keep the world safe. But four years ago, when her father’s betrayal of the Luminaries was discovered, Winnie Wednesday and her family were cast out from their clan and forced to live on the outskirts of their former lives. Now 16-year-old Winnie wants nothing more than to restore their standing in the Luminary world by proving herself worthy to be a Wednesday hunter. The forest contains secrets that even the experienced Luminary hunters are baffled by, and Winnie has to call on the friend that deserted her when she became an outcast if she has any hope of surviving her hunter trial and discovering what new horror haunts the woods.

I’m always a fan of interesting world building and secret societies that exist to save the world. Likewise, I find it hard to resist the plucky outsider determined to beat the odds. Or broody mysterious boys with the requisite grey eyes who have more going on than it first appears. Dennard conjures up an atmospheric blend of a town saturated with misty rain and unspoken dangers. She also speaks to the costs of blind loyalty, to a family, to a clan, to a cause. Winnie’s desperation to return to the days when her place in the Luminary world was unquestioned is tempered by the abrupt shift from mocked outcast to prodigal daughter. As her hunter trials proceed, she begins to wonder who and what she can trust, and whether the cause she is so loyal to is, in turn, loyal to her. The Luminaries is heavy on the corpses and nightmarish creatures stalking the forest so those of you looking for a moody read to match the rain and gloomier days will be well satisfied. Perfect for fans of Holly Black and Cassandra Clare!

— Lori

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