#even malcolm’s consuming love for annabel

[clockwork-carstairs]

the dark artifices has so many moments that just floor me. when diana opens up to gwyn and he tells her she’s the bravest woman he’s ever met and gently asks, Can I hold you? when kieran feels betrayed and mark kneels in front of him to ask for forgiveness and tells him I love you, I wish you could believe me. when julian says to emma “I’ll love you if I never touch you” and emma thinks, I love you more than starlight. kieran telling mark “you are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.” julian telling dru that “you’re the heart of this family”. ty and kit being each other’s reasons to stay. livvy’s protectiveness over ty; livvy telling julian she wants to be like him. kierarktina dancing together and all being stunned after. there is just such fierce and fragile love in this series in so many different forms, i’m so soft for all of them

#the dark artifices #tda #platonic love familial love romantic love #it’s just devastating!!!! #blackstairs #julian blackthorn #emma carstairs #diana wrayburn #gwyn ap nudd #kieran hunter #mark blackthorn #cristina rosales #kierarktina #kitty #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #livvy blackthorn #drusilla blackthorn #even malcolm’s consuming love for annabel #like there’s so much insane love in this series but it’s never too much it’s always just devastating and powerful #like wow #the livvy ones. cc when i catch you #tsc #kit x ty #julian x emma

[marksofangels]

I just finished Lord of Shadows like five seconds ago and

I want to read Queen of Air and Darkness right now, because I have so many questions. Emma destroyed the Mortal Sword with Cortana? Just how powerful is the parabatai bond when the pair are in love? I guess it’s powerful enough to shatter even the Mortal Sword, an angelic relic that has existed for a thousand years. And what sickness is it that warlocks are experiencing, a sickness that’s curiously affecting even Tessa who is not strictly a warlock because she has Shadowhunter blood? And what about Julian’s dark eyes and Emma’s observation that something has changed? I mean, has the curse started consuming both Emma and Julian? I think it will, considering that Livvy died and I think it will be Julian’s undoing, you know, seeing his sister killed in front of him. And you know, adults are so stupid, Jia Penhallow and Robert Lightwood should have postponed the meeting, but nooooo, they pushed through. Now one of them is dead. But perhaps the most stupid of the characters are Zara and Horace Dearborn, this daughter-father tandem is so stupid they ought to be burned in Hell for their bigoted opinions. And poor Annabel, she just wanted to go back to Blackthorn Manor in Idris but instead she was interrogated and killed two people in the Council Hall. Was it not clear that she had been traumatized by her trials by the Sword, two hundred years ago, why push through with it? I like that cliffhanger, and I swear if Horace Dearborn is appointed Inquisitor, because I can see it, I’ll flip. But you know the Mortal Sword is no more anyway so what’s the use of appointing another Inquisitor if s/he has no instrument by which Shadowhunters can tell the truth. And it should have been Zara tried, you know, so she can tell the truth about not having killed Malcolm. Oh, and I think Kit and Ty have romantic feelings with each other although I’m not entirely sure. And I definitely would not want to be in the position of any of the faerie-Shadowhunter threesome, namely Kieran, Mark and Cristina, because they’re hot and all but it all seems too complicated.

Anyway, need to find a copy of the third book somewhere.

#lord of shadows #shadowhunters #dark artifices #emma carstairs #julian blackthorn #review

[cassandraclare]

Hi Cassie! Hope you're doing well! Personally I can't because the emotion and hype for LoS is consuming me! However, my question is the following: How did the necromantic spell to revive Annabel end up in a children book? Maybe I've missed it while reading LM and I'm sorry if I did, but didn't the Unseelie King give the spell only to Malcolm? How did it spread out and became a part of Lady Midnight's tale? Thank you! Lots of love!

It’s mentioned in Lady Midnight that the rhyme about the Blackthorns was well known in Faerie—well enough known that it was used to tease Mark at faerie revels:

“…You cannot imagine they would show mercy to a half Shadowhunter boy.” His lip curled. “They even had a rhyme they would mock me with.”

“A rhyme?” Cristina held up a hand. “Never mind, you do not need to tell it to me, not if you don’t wish to.”

“I no longer care,” Mark said. “It was an odd bit of doggerel. First the flame and then the flood, in the end it’s Blackthorn blood.”

Cristina sat up straight. “What?”

“They claimed it meant Blackthorn blood was destructive, like flood or fire. That whoever made up the rhyme was saying Blackthorns were bad luck. Not that it matters. It’s just a bit of nonsense.”

The rhyme made its way from Unseelie Court (we have no idea whether the King told Malcolm in private or in court, or which of his courtiers might have knew and talked) into Faerie, and then gradually became a part of faerie folklore. This was probably wise of the King: hiding the truth in legend and stories is one of the best ways to conceal it.

Over the years, bits of that folklore seeped out into the realm of Faerie and into Shadowhunter tales, probably because Annabel was a Shadowhunter and the rhyme involved a Shadowhunter family in a way that most faerie folklore doesn’t. And remember it isn’t as if Malcolm kept his mouth entirely shut: he told Edgar Allan Poe!

That’s all I’m going to say for now, because you’ll learn more about Blackthorn family history, Malcolm’s desire for revenge, and the Unseelie King in Lord of Shadows!