#TDA SPOILERS

[garvalhaminho]

mandatory reminder that livvy wanted to be and looked up to julian's "put together" farse and never even got to know it wasn't what she thought it would be. she looked up to the brother she never truly got to know :)) at least she died thinking her dream was attainable

[clockwork-carstairs]

Emma touching the place above Julian’s heart and thinking Here where you’re broken. To think of all the things he went through for so many years, one tragedy after another…Julian deserved a villain arc more than anyone

[spideycarstairs]

with every heartbeat I have left

Throughout the last few days, Emma could tell that Julian was anxious about the whole thing. He wasn't anxious about seeing his family, and he never would be. It was the why.

They were celebrating Ty’s birthday.

Which meant that it was Livvy’s birthday, too.

or

Post Queen of Air and Darkness. It's Ty's birthday and Livvy's first birthday since her death.

[dhampiravidi]

hot take: it should’ve been Izzy/Jace & Clary/Simon! Spoilers thru The Dark Artifices…

am I the only 1 who read City of Bones & City of Ashes & thought that Clary would be better w/Simon, while Izzy should be w/Jace?

hear me out!

I should start by admitting that from the 2nd chapter of COB, I disliked Clary. Throughout the series, there are SO many times where her refusal to listen to her allies makes things harder. She yells at Jace a lot in the beginning, despite the fact that he kinda saved her life. But then, all of a sudden, we’re told that her take-no-shit attitude breaks through his façade of arrogance & she’s the 1st girl he’s ever truly loved—as if that’s not dramatic. & then in COHF they fuck (while in an equivalent to Hell), since y’know, all couples have to fuck at least once before they die. & don’t get me started on how they proposed to each other.

Basically, their whole relationship is just a lot of over-the-top shit. Felt like they were both the “saviors” of the Clave, so they were pushed together (mind you, the 1st series takes place in a matter of MONTHS). It’s supercharged puppy love.

ANYWAY…

I guess my main thing is, Clary & Simon knew each other for a long time. Yeah, she somehow didn’t notice his crush on her. But she didn’t have to date him just because she wanted to ignore her feelings for Jace. (Tbh it seems like she was using Simon in that way, but whatever.) I’m a fan of friends-to-lovers, because I think your endgame should also be 1 of your best friends. & weirdly, Clary finally seems to find Simon attractive once he grows out his hair & other girls (Izzy & Maia) show an interest in him. Also, there were numerous occasions where Simon felt intimidated by Izzy, even when she treated him as a part of their group.

I’m sure that the biggest issue people have w/the idea of Izzy/Jace is the fact that they were raised together. Yeah, well, Alec had loved Jace practically since they 1st met, but we focused on Alec’s struggle as a gay young person in a partly homophobic atmosphere (+ the unrequited nature of it all). That parabatai curse from The Dark Artifices wasn’t mentioned (or *cough* created) until that series.

Back to Izzy/Jace. She’s said to be the only 1 who can keep up w/him & unless the popular theory that she’s Valentine’s other child-slash-experiment proves true…that’s fucking awesome. Whips are extremely hard & dangerous to wield, especially when you’re running in heels. So she keeps up w/him in a fight. She also keeps up w/him verbally—Jace is known to be well-read & sassy, but she always has a witty retort prepared for him. & again, for those who focus on them being raised together…1) there were lots of unrelated Shadowhunters living under 1 roof & 2) Jace thought he was related to Clary, but aside from some guilt, they still got all hot & bothered about each other. Lastly, everyone seems to forget that Simon lowkey cheated on Izzy & Maia by secretly dating them both AT THE SAME TIME. Considering Izzy’s relationship w/her dad in TMI, you’d think that’d cross Simon off of her list. Jace, on the other hand, is ridiculously loyal. The only time he ever does anything to hurt his love interest is when he’d rather hurt their feelings than watch them die.

So yeah…

[cordeliaspaladin]

Thule is honestly so gut wrenching, the entire time in QOAAD I was so sad reading the Thule chapters. It honestly lives rent free in my head how messed up it all is 😭

Especially thinking about the travesty that is Herongraystairs - my theory is that since Jem died a silent brother, he didn’t reunite with Will in the afterlife (in TLH they said smth about silent brother souls going somewhere different to shadowhunter souls)

When you realise Sebastian did turn the world into hell when he created Thule.

Everyone’s worst fears came to life. Julian looses his heart and Emma looses Julian and is unable to protect the blackthorn children. Alec takes magnus’ life away. Maryse was hurt by jace in the end. Isabelle made a blow that never delivered. Tavvy was taken away from his family by a demon. Simon, as Magnus said, is the last person still alive. Sebastian is alone. Livvy watched her entire family get murdered. Helen couldn’t contact her family again. Tessa is alone forever and living in a cave like the one mortmain put her in. Lily dies a prostitute’s death. Raphael sees what remained of another person he was supposed to protect. Luke failing to protect Jocelyn from another Morgenstern. Dru being left behind again. Jace thinking everyone is dead because of him. Clary never making a difference.

[gaywaren]

the last king of faerie spoilers

[embroideredlove]

Gagged at the thought of 13-year-old Dru finding out she’d have three guys after her when she was older

Lady Midnight, Chapter 8: Out of the Cloud by Night

[clockworkbee]

Fuck all romances except whatever that spelled-prince who can’t seem to forget her and that nephilim girl who can’t seem to remember him have going on.

[dealfea]

That scene hit me like a fuckung truck 😭😭😭😭😭

He bent down and tore a strip of material from the shirt he’d worn at the Council meeting. It was stiff and dark with his sister’s dried blood.He tied it around his right wrist. It would stay there until he had vengeance. Until there was justice for Livvy. Until all this bloody mess was cleared up. Until everyone he loved was safe

[garvalhaminho]

guys guess who decided to reread livvy's death to feel something 😀

[clockwork-carstairs]

the image of julian holding ty’s face in his hands with their hair whipping around them in the wind at the top of livvy’s pyre is just so tender and fragile and unbelievably devastating

[light-black-stairs]

I wonder if Cassie took inspiration from Nico! The second (?) TLH book is dedicated to Rick Riordan so maybe they know each other?

Or it could just be that they’re both autistic, dark haired, secretly gay, and have dead sisters 😭

Guys, idk why I just thought of this but like— Ty Blackthorn and Nico Di Angelo… they’re like brothers from different books 🥹 maybe it’s just me?

[alivingtypo]

this might be too niche but buck helping eddie find a house in texas in 911 is giving kit helping ty with necromancy in tda (aka useless bisexuals folding for their best friend/crush even when they want to do the opposite)

[queenhelenblackthorn]

cassie is just killing lightwoods for sport now

[wikitpowers]

kitty in tda be like:

[theamazingwhizzo]

Oh, I like this.

We can see the mortal cup next to Kit (His shadowhunter's heritage maybe?) and part of a sword at his side. On the shelfs, next to Ty's side, there are three books numbered: One with a wolf, the second with a thorn/bat/weasel?, and the third with a butterfly. TWP books?

If we think about them as family crests, the first one could be the Villalobos, the second the Blackthorns and the third Fairchilds.

Then there's two books: Types of socks and Types of ????. And then one that says Reichenbach, where Sherlock has his downfall. Up is a book with maps of Europe (Where Kit and Ty are living right now)

In the table we can see an open envelope with three seeds (Receiving orange peeps is a traditional warning of avenging death originating in America, as explained in The Abominable Bride in Sherlock BBC)

In front of Ty are two books: Spells and wards (For Ty to learn magic like the portals mentioned in SOBH or the spell he uses to protect himself from the black magic bond with Livvy?) and something that ends with -rlocks (Warlocks I suppose).

I'm curious about what a pin maker machine is doing on the table. It looks so random.

The rune on the saraph blade on the table means, and it's not a joke, insight/foresight, and we also saw it on Kit's mobile wallpaper where he is with Mina on his back.

Can we talk about how there are two empty chairs? And they're looking toward Kit and Ty. (I'm readying too much into this? Maybe.)

Some of the titles are readable, but that's for another time, maybe after I finish reading the Serlock Holms books, when I will be able to spot more clues.

I saw this picture of Ty and Kit in Twitter today and while I was looking at it, I noticed the drawing of the clockwork angel and I thought "what if the picture is giving us clues of some sort??"

Maybe the clue was:

clockwork angel = Tessa = kit adoptive mum

And then I thought maybe there are more clues here, so I've been trying to read all the titles in the books but some of them are hard to read, so if someone has a better sight than me, please tell me what it says in the book spines.

Anyway I did managed to read a couple of them and one talks about Fairy circles which I don't really know what it means but it is near Kit which is funny since we all know that Kit is fairy royalty. Also in kit's hand there's a necklace, which it maybe be the Herondale necklace (again, cc was giving us all the clues we need it).

Again near Kit there's a knife that it seems to have some kind of message or rune script on it, thou I don't understand the meaning behind the "rune" in the hand of the knife, I do think is curious how Kit also got a knife from Jace in tda (I'm telling you, this picture is full of clues)

Now talking about Ty, behind him there's a hand with an eye draw on it. Now this was hard to discover but I was sure that in some TSC book there was something about a hand and dark magic so I looked it up and... I guess you know by now that the hand is called the hands of glory and it is indeed used in dark magic, more specifically to resurrect the dead, which means of course necromancy.

Now since there are so many clues of things that happened in tda, I was thinking that maybe there are some clues about what is going to happen in twp too.

For example, what is the mortal cup doing there? I don't remember any specific scene that involves Ty and kit with the mortal cup (or with any cup at all) so maybe it's some kind of clue for the future books?

There is some kind of stick next to Kit hidden behind a sheet of paper, I wonder what it means? It looks like a really specific object to put in there for no reason at all.

And last but not least, I was thinking that the library behind Ty's back and the place itself remind me of something, and after reading today's installment of sobh I connected the dots. The place looks like The Merry thieve's club, the library with all kind of weird, probably illegal, books is Jamie's personal collection. The fireplace was also described in Choi and the weird objects and how Ty seems to be looking to a paper as if all those objects there were something they discover at the moment, makes me wonder if those are not the marry thieves possessions.

Also the place feels so Victorian, even that lamp in the middle of the table is old, for me all the place screams the devil's tavern secret room. Maybe the room itself is a clue from CC to us, maybe the merry thieves club is going to be significant or even used by twp gang.