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Making a prediction for TSC;

I think we're going to learn more about Renee's past. You know how like during the King's Men when Renee and Jean had that strange relationship thing going on and Jean like froze when he first saw her? I think it's because he actually recognized her from her time involved with gangs.

I'm not sure exactly what their past together is gonna be but Renee did kill an unnamed man so their situation is ripe with potentiel angst. Since we know that the next novel is Jeremy x Jean, it would be a tad strange for the implied Jean x Renee relationship to never be addressed.

Unless of course, we read into it wrong and they actually have a messy, bloody history...

don't ever talk to me or my morgenstern siblings cope au ever again

stop drawing cordelia carstairs as white challenge

if you ship jessamine with any shadowhunter you fundamentally misunderstand jessamine and are no longer allowed to speak on her

i have another tsc confession: i didn't really care about christopher's death either

everyone dumping secrets on tiktok has inspired me so here's my tsc confession:

i didn't give a shit when jordan died

my beautiful princess with a disorder

jace herondale better square up cause i want his girl bad and i bite

and if i said i'm still pulling for the izzy is valentine's daughter theory

genuinely tweaking bc how are you gonna insist that grrm gets a pass but not cassie?? how??

i've touched on this before and idk how it always come back to grrm vs cassie but one of them uses incest and copious violence against women (especially of the sexual kind) for shock value and the other uses incest as a tool briefly to tell a larger story of abuse.

i WILL finish tda this time and i WILL enjoy it

i finished my cohf reread

name a character in history who haunts the narrative more than will herondale

can confirm

that shit hurted

I would never recommend reading tsc in chronological order nor would I read it in that order myself because reading The Last Hours and The Mortal Instruments so close together would cause massive amounts of psychic damage. reading them six months apart was bad enough. right after each other? I would never wish that on anyone ever

cohf supremacy this book is easily the best in tmi and one of cassie's best overall

i used to separate them distinctly in my mind but this reread is making me kind of unable to do that..

i gotta clarify first that i think sebastian needs to be punished for what he did. i don't think any of what i'm about to say absolves him of anything he's done.

that being said, i think sebastian was so tragically doomed by the narrative that he never had a choice but to make the choices he did. he never had a chance to be anything else because of valentine and jocelyn (although jocelyn to a far lesser extent than valentine). every step of his existence from conception to death is stripped of agency. every choice he makes is done in the shadows of valentine stripping away his humanity and mercilessly abusing him until he's a perfect weapon. and then the bastard has the nerve to be ashamed of what he created.

i just wish sebastian had gotten a fucking chance to be anything other than jocelyn's shame and valentine's weapon.

sebastian morgenstern is actually the best villain ever because he makes me a devastating combination of sad and angry

sebastian morgenstern is actually the best villain ever because he makes me a devastating combination of sad and angry

i'm so insane about clary and simon in cols their bond is FLOURISHING

"you still love me dont you?"

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cassie's masterful ability to depict violations of consent in so many different ways across all genders without being egregious or harmful isn't discussed enough

canon universe clace fic recs go

god that alley scene in cofa is so....

jace dreaming of clary essentially showing up in a schoolgirl outfit will never not be funny

let's be honest all belial needed was a good pegging to chill his ass out

"you took all that away and it didn't belong to you" jocelyn fairchild it is ON SIGNT

cassie wrote tmi when she did because she knew gen z climon would destroy the clave and give valentine a heart attack

tmi has objectively some of the best depictions of abuse in tsc. i would even argue better than tlh.

sebastian you make me feel so many feelings

city of ashes my love, you slapped so good. as usual.

friendly reminder that clary genuinely thought jace was going to off himself in chapter sixteen.