Also Clary Coded Now That I Think About It

Okay, I need to talk about this passage from City of Bones

Something that comes up a couple of times in regards to the Circle era is that all the modern kids kind of look down on the previous generation for buying into all of this bullshit, much like the readers probably do. Clary is a modern American teenager, of course she hears about Valentine and immediately sees the obvious parallels to white supremacy, of course she can't believe that her family would go along with that and knows that she would do better. And Luke doesn't argue with her, or try to defend his assertation that Valentine wasn't always evil. Even if Valentine was Luke's friend at first, he still should have known better than to let things go so far. Jocelyn should have known better, the Lightwoods should have known better, they all should have known better. But they didn't, and neither does Clary.

Even though she's able to identify Valentine's rhetoric as hateful when she's learning about it as "things said by this mass murderer," she still repeats the same stuff after picking it up from people she trusts. Clary falls into the classic progressive pitfall of lumping opinions into right and wrong; people into good and evil. Luke isn't trying to convince her that Valentine was actually a good person or that it's okay to do a little violent hate crime as a teenager, he's trying to point out that knowing which people to label as "evil" doesn't actually do anything to make you an ally to the people being oppressed. She can hate Valentine, but can she see werewolves and vampires as people equal to herself?

The answer is yes, obviously she can. But it's only because she has people like Luke there to call her out when she does something out of line. Luke fell for that stuff too as a teenager, but he took the time to unpack all those hateful beliefs, and so has a much better understanding of how to live up to his ideals than the kid who's never done anything wrong in her life.

In addition, I really like that the book wasn't afraid to acknowledge how Valentine is definitely analagous to white supremacists. Most stories with some sort of fantasy discrimination act like this is the only bigotry and their characters have never heard of racism, but that automatically flattens the world. Clary thinks she knows enough about racism to apply those lessons from history onto a new situation, but she clearly isn't actually ready to practice what she preaches.

Also, this is by no means a Clary hate post. I love that she's a flawed character and that the narrative acknowledges this and lets her grow from it. A lot of stories would be afraid to look at the protagonist (who's kinda a reader insert) and go "you are not immune to propaganda," but it's an important thing to make the kids reading these books aware of. Clary isn't evil, but she did do some harmful things and has to reckon with that potential for hate within herself before it goes any farther.

It's not perfect and it's not a complete education on anti-discrimination, but it's better than what you might expect from a YA urban fantasy novel published in 2007. Hell, it's better than you expect from a lot of people active online today.

I just have to ask. Are the divergent books worth reading? Theres so much hype about it so i got the first book and tris is so annoying. She's so typical: "I'm so small and everyone underestimates me" "I love you but I'm not supposed to" "my friends are all jealous of me".. Gurl if you dont stfu i swear. I've read the first one, does it get better? And its written in first person. Do i have to deal with her annoying commentary for the whole series or is there some other perspective? Its not just that steriotype. I liked clary in tmi because she had those steriotypes but they didn't make up her entire character. I liked izzy in -"the exsct opposite of okay" because of the same reasons. But with tris, that's pretty much the only character she has. I keep expecting her to do something even slightly unpredictable and she never does... Just wanted to ask the community if the other books are better than the first one.

Ok but can i write this because it's a really good idea

I want more Dark!Simon Lewis fics. I want a dark, twisted morally grey, possibly insane murder happy Simon. Fics where he sees merit in Camilles ideals, where he's done with the crap the 'shadowhunter' put him through with out any recognition. Fics where he's a demon, or a serial killer. Make him be a solo act badass, or make him have a partner in crime, Saia, Sizzy, Jimon, Simon/ Jonathon, I DON'T CARE. All they others get these AU( Alec, Magnus, Clary ect.), Simon has more greater demon kills then the rest of the group combined, Lilith, Abbadon, the whole Azazel thing.He got an angel to listen to him. Asmodues has his immortal life force!! I want fic where they change up his curse and Asmoudes uses him to raise Lucifer or something. Lilith and Camille both sought him out directly in there attempt at power, I'm tired of him being portrayed as a tag along, he literally carried the team through out the dark war! He watched someone he though of as his brother die, and everyone just kinda brushes over it like it didn't matter!! I want that backlash, this is the guy who THREATENED an actual angel! He doesn't just tag along and get kidnapped. The entire shadow world just kinda treats him like the weak link, when he's not! Remember, he went through the entire mortal instrument without an once of formal training, and still killed THE MOTHER OF DEMONS, beat Jace in CoLS, figured out how to survive Edom, killed abbadon on Day 1. Even Alec says he goes undervalued. I want more BAMF Simon fics. Simon Lewis people, appreciate him.

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Trying to prove a point to hate anon(s?)

jace teaching simon how to flirt is the most homosexual thing in this series and that includes malec

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Simon's mom's an alcoholic. Not a good thing, but I'm overcome with feels about Climon and the Fray family helping him and Rebecca cope. Headcannons, pleaaaase??

Oh my gosh, yes! So many. I see Elaine as what you might consider a functional alcoholic, at least at first. She drank to sleep, to forget. It was cheaper than sleeping pills, and with none of the side effects she didn’t like. It didn’t interfere with her work, usually, and she honestly thought Rebecca and Simon didn’t notice. Besides… it helped her cope. 

Being a single mom with a full time job was hard, watching her husband die in  front of her was harder. Drugs were a big no in their little community, her parents would have killed her, but a bit of drinking at night was acceptable, as long as it wasn’t on a holy day or anything. She moved on from a few glasses of wine to dry martinis in the evening, to settle her brain so she could get Simon and Rebecca down, to drinking mid afternoon to handle her headaches so she could get through work. It made her sloppy, she knew it, but she didn’t drive, she made sure her kids were taken care of, surely it was fine?

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Why would kit ever speak to simon about school? random ass shit 😂

just cus i think itd be funny

also Tessa, Jem, Magnus, and Ty have never been to mundane school, at least not for the last 100years, but Simon and Clary have,,

maybe he just wants to ask questions that nobody else he's in normal contact with has an answer to (?)

also theres not enough Simon in these books, i think him and Kit would talk about anime together

ALSO I cannot wait to possibly see the new academy in the BiB sizzy story

I know Simon helped set up the new academy so does that mean he has more of an administrative role or will he be a teacher? that would be so fun

OH and imagine Izzy as a training instructor