#clare liveblogs

[gible-love-nibles-archive]

I love you so much P.aper M.ario (beat the T.housand Y.ear Door again)

[the-golden-dragoness]

Shadowhunter culture is making a Christmas tree out of WEAPONS when you can’t find the one in storage 💀

[lilolilyr]

Ok I know I am definitely reaching here but cousin Alison from the St Clare’s books = homosexual behavior

Args I should’ve live-blogged this from the start! I was binge re-reading these children‘s books all week and I’m for the first time realizing how incredibly crush-like Alison’s behavior towards the woman and girls she’s obsessed with is - like yes she tends to like them for superficial reasons and the other girls rightly make fun of her for being a feather-head and always falling for people who turn out to be shallow and not so nice… but that she keeps falling for pretty girls in the first place? Over and over again, every book? No Heterosexual Explanation dot jpeg

It starts in the second book she’s in, Summer Term at St. Clare’s, with “her precious Sadie.” who’s quickly the only one whose opinion she values and the only thing she’ll talk about, as the other characters notice, “She's like a gramophone record always set to say" Sadie says. . . . Sadie says . . . Sadie says . .”, and it keeps going throughout all the books adsfg

Case in point:

- ‘Miss Quentin certainly was extremely good looking. She had black piercing eyes, and a beautiful voice. Alison thought she was wonderful.’ ‘The class disliked Miss Quentin's “dears” and “lambs” and other names-except Alison. She loved them’ and the ‘sugared words of praise she felt sure would drop from Miss Quentin's lips.’ ‘Alison loved to wear anything that even remotely resembled her beloved Miss Quentin's belongings.’ ‘She waited round corners for her, hoping for a smile. She hung on every word the teacher said.’ (About a teacher in book 4)

- ‘Fern blushed and Alison, looking at the pretty, dainty girl with approval, stepped forward. “Fern!” she said with her charming smile. “What a pretty name!”’ ‘“Well, Alison, I can’t understand what you see in Rachel, to be honest,��� said Fern in her high, pretty voice. ‘But as it’s so important to you, I really will make an effort to be nice to her.’ She smiled her sweetest smile, which a delighted Alison returned with one of her own. … Alison was content, and made up her mind to speak to Rachel later. Perhaps they could be a threesome after all.’ (Fellow students in book 5 - and yes I’m laughing at the use of the word threesome xD)

-‘Margaret was a remarkably good-looking girl’… ‘Alison said nothing, staring raptly at Margaret’s retreating figure’ … “Alison, don’t say you’re going to lose your silly heart to Margaret” (an older student in book 6)

- ‘Alison leaned over the banisters-and, just as the others had guessed, she immediately lost her heart to the new girl. “She looks like a princess from a fairy-tale,” said Alison’ (fellow student in book 7)

-‘She had graceful, dramatic gestures, which filled Alison’s romantic soul with delight’ … “Alison, you’re not going to lose your heart to her, are you?” … “Why isn’t Miss Willcox the right person?” said Alison trying to speak coldly, though she felt very hot and cross “She’s clever, she’s written the most marvelous poetry, she’s got a lovely deep voice, and she’s most picturesque-looking.” … ‘thought that their beloved Miss Willcox looked lovely with her dark soulful eyes flashing’ (about a female teacher in book 8)

Femme 4 Femme Alison O’Sullivan confirmed

[queennyra]

certified ophelia moment from alicent

[mistninja]

Ive been reading a lot good things lately so I have to balance it with bad stuff. In other words I'm rereading shadowhunters

[thewingedwolf]

rani at 16 🤝🏼 rani at 27

getting unfortunately attached to a character nicknamed jace, who has a weird relationship with several of his last names and fathers, enters a deeply romantic Special Friendship with another man, has a girlfriend way cooler than him but that’s why he likes her, and is his mom’s number one biggest stan and defender

[aparticularbandit]

THAT ISN'T AN ENDING TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS.

I mean technically I guess it is an ending to one thing BUT YOU DID NOT WRAP THINGS UP TBT WHAT WAS THAT

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EDIT: It was a good season ending, but it's not a great show ending, and I think that's my issue. Not that things need to be fully tidied up and all strings tied at the end of a show, but that there are big things left undone and in a way that feels like to be addressed in the future, and I think, given how they structured this season, it would be right to have those in a separate season and as a separate arc.

My problem is that there is no assurance of a second season to address the actual big things left undone or that second structure that would be important in terms of finishing etc.

The story feels incomplete.

Even if it was structured as two half seasons that dropped so many months apart, etc.

And in a world where a lot of shows don't get renewed after the first season, I don't know that we will get another season to complete the whole story beyond this particular arc.

I liked this arc! I think they're right to separate the next one into a separate concise season!

I don't like that I don't expect a second season.

[sprolden]

finally finished cohf (which for some reason took me as long as the entire rest of the series to read) meaning this is finally the end of my tmi reread...... thank you for pressing the like button on my billions of liveblog posts. it's been an honour experiencing the triumphs and falls, the epic highs and lows of cassandra clare's writing with you. jimon 4 ever

[rulesforthedance]

Ok N is out of town for a week and I've gotten out of practice at being alone and, in an unfortunate coincidence, all the friends I'd normally hang out with to stave off the loneliness and sadness (because my lizard is dead also) are also out of town (in different towns), so I'm gonna superficially liveblog Baz Luhrmann's (sp.? I'm not checking it) Romeo + Juliet (which I last watched when I was ~14) into this one draft and then post it when I pause for the night (because I can't watch movies in one sitting). Aaaaaaand GO

WOW okay WHAT a choice to do the prologue twice first in newscaster voice and then in docudrama voice. Incredible from jump tbh

JOHN LEGUIZAMO. The boots. The vest. The twirls. I'm at the combination gunslinger and bullfighter.

Gun labeled "longsword"

There she is. The smarmy baby butch fuckboi herself. Leo DiCaprio (age 11) (why does he sound like Wesley Crusher)

Did they use the same house for the Capulets' house in this and the house in Clueless? (could google, won't)

Miriam Margolyes?! doing a cringe fake accent unfortunately

Mercutio's bedazzled chest harness playing with the semantic ambiguity of The Strap (gun) vs The Strap (dildo)

I... have more of this play memorized than I realized. Good that I am watching this alone, probably, and not driving anyone crazy by finishing all the lines

Leo's is the least interesting performance in this movie but Romeo is the least interesting character, so. But honestly the chemistry between the kids is believable. Baby Juliet's lesbian awakening. Instantly fascinated with someone she just saw through a fish tank who wears boy clothes but doesn't grow facial hair. Truly who among us has not been there. Especially when we were like 15 or whatever rough of average of Play Juliet (younger than modern audiences are ok with) and Clare Danes (an adult, I think) she's supposed to be

Okay other tumbloggers have already said everything I could say (and better) about Harold Perrineau in the duel scene. But. The ability to make Shakespearean English into a sex joke that lands for people who don't read Shakespeare (at least... I bet it does) with just intonation?? The way he loses his SHIT over "consort'st"??? The LOOK between him and Romeo right before he gets his injury???? I get why his kid was him for Halloween lol. I mean I'd feel weird about it if it was my dad, but it IS king shit

MERCUTIO IS DEAD, CUE EXCELLENT EERIE OBVIOUSLY-GREENSCREEN STORM, GOOD NIGHT I will resume tomorrow maybe

[ma-lark-ey]

Lark Liveblogs Lit episode 4(?): The Mortal Instruments

Here’s what I know going into it;

Magnus & Alec are endgame, Alec walks away from his marriage???? Very dramatically to kiss Magnus. I, originally, thought these two were reversed but my mate corrected me.

It’s (roughly???) inspired by her old Draco Trilogy (which I did track down and download, will read eventually) and shares the name with a Ron/Ginny fic (which I read. Mortal Instrument was a very fitting title)

And that’s literally all I know before hand;

Unlike the Harry Potter post, I’ll add my thoughts whilst reading and not just completely after finishing. I will still do the entire series post-mortum on each book, though.

City of Bones; (3/11/23)

Alec is EASILY my favorite. I figured it’d be Simon or Magnus because my blorbo history favors Simons and Magnuses, but Alec has CAPTURED my heart and when he almost died to Abbadon I literally cried even though I KNEW he survived.

Clary, on the contrary, is only slightly less boring than Isabelle. I think Isabelle is badass because she’s got a whip but both of these women is like. Go girl! Give us NOTHING! Especially weird because Clary is primarily our perspective character??

Jace & Simon’s weird little dynamic is interesting. I’m not. Its whatever. I don’t hate it, I’m not intrigued. I DO think Alec/Jace is a far superior romance to Jace/Clary. But also maybe my opinion will change. The little kiss in the garden WAS very cute. Jace thinks he’s so cool and he’s literally not. He’s literally so cringe. His snarky sass is so fun as well, obsessed with whatevers going on there.

The cup being IN the Tarot cards was SO cool. I’m obsessed with THAT.

How old is Magnus. Can I be condoning Malec. Is it like, a Calypso situation. Emotionally he act around 19-20, we’re going with that. He feels like a shitty frat boy. How did this man name Magnus Chase he’s so cool and Magnus Chase is the most pathetic meow meow I’ve ever seen.

UMMM??? HODGE??? WHAT THE A C T U A L FUCK. HELLO. NO. NO. I REFUSE. THIS IS SO FUCKED UP WHAT. SO THAT WAS A FUCKING LIE???? Hodge.

Pov you’re my actually mildly hyperventilating at the end of chapter 22.

JACE IS VALENTINES SON??? THEY’RE SIBLINGS??? Really living up to stealing that name from Ron/Ginny fic huh 😭😭 oh god. Cassie… cassie clare… bbg….

So. The Johnathon reveal fr had me set the book down and walk away because I was in HYSTERICS. congrats, Simon! New chance with your girl because the other part of your love triangle was her BROTHER. so—

Newly finished City of Bones. There’s so much going on here. I’ve thoroughly exhausted my thoughts already. Uhm.

All I have left to say is I adore Luke. He’s perfect. And Magnus Bane RUSHING to Alec like that??? OKAY. HOMOSEXUAL MUCH??? Yes sir go get your man. I see you.

2.) City of Ashes (02/05/23-8/17/23)

Simon and Clary are a MESS i love them. Theyre IDIOTS.

Luke is still my beloved

The complex ass dynamic of Jace and Valentine,,, EAT. love it.

Im gonna be so fr i have updated this in six months and dont remember 90% of book teo anymore actually but Vampire Simon was a slay

Wait that didnt happen in this book.

OH. OH. THE SEELIE COURT? INSANE. INSANO FUCKING CRAZY THAT WAS WILD.

this book took me forever to read because second installments are always weak af (Son of Neptune is an exception) and i struggle so bad

Dont remember if it was this book or book three but him almost dying and Jace giving him blood was the GAYEST thing I’ve ever seen and they should make out. Like that was so horny and for what.

YES THAT WAS TEO IM CORRECT because two was the boar fight and three was the city where sebastian whatever the fuck killed max

Moving on.

3.) City of Glass (8/19/23-8/23/23)

THEYRE NOT. SIBLINGS. WIN FOR EVERYONE INVOLED.

Magnus & Alec appeared like twice but im obsessed with Magnus every time he appears im flirting with him hey bb howzit going.

Maya is my FAVORITE ever i love a wolf girl. Also love a fear demon.

The Max death was UNNECESSARY and UNCALLED FOR he was a BABY BOY. what did he ever do to deserve this. He died HOLDING JACE’S SOLDIER. devastating. Awful.

The mark of Kane for Simon was real as shit im obsessed with that.

The Angel reviving Jace was literally so funny silly goofy. He went “god. What the fuck. At least give this kid a chance at being normal” and thats so funny.

I want to study Jace like a bug. Hes so babygirl.

(I’ll reblog with updates as I read the last half of the series 🙏 it’s taking longer bc ~ school ~)

However!

My best mate & I watched the first season of the show & the City of Bones movie and;

Okay we only watched the first like. 45 minutes of City of Bones because we wanted to watch something genuinely bad and it was doing too well. Obsessed with the cast on that, though. We didnt even get to Magnus or Alec because every casting on the movie was good until Isabelle and it was so bad I made my mate turn it off because I Could Not.

I’m on episode ten of season one of Shadowhunters and its not good but it is fun so I’m thriving. Like this show is bad but also its a fun time so we’re thriving.

[gayspock]

im not proper liveblogging

just my thoughts innit cuz im going craz recvently

cuz i remember bits of this but againits been so long and like ughh i never watched it properly when i was little. only caught episodes here and there. and i remember it went downhill (?)at some point. or maybe it didnt? i thought it went the misfits route where everyone had been recast and it petered off but mabye not

also why is there a us veraion

when did that happen

why do they always make us versions of things its so confusing like i mean i know why but please. i heard there was a us version of lom too. quit it.

where was i . god. mitchell is so prettyy. LOL i forgot how pretty he was. sorry i went to peek at his imdb and he was in the hobbit but idgaf but also mortal instruments? fuck me man. i remember being so obsessed with cassandra clare as a teenager before i realised how dogshit her writing was and i literally remember NOT A SINGLE THING from those books. christ.

and i forgot how reaaaal annie was. bro. actually i like them all. i forgot i liked them all. my little poppets. annies the realest.

on the mitchell topic also: i remember how he wears these fucking.

hes like constantly ariana grandeing . his fucking fingerless gloves.

anyway am i done yet. i dont know. i vaguely remember these faces. i remember this other werewolf guy that just appeared in ep 2 cuz of the iconic bucket hat cunty earring trackie combo on the most boring looking guy alive. i laugh i wont lie

[gible-love-nibles-archive]

Just beat W.itch H.unter and I was so brave about it (I was shaking like the whole time, I was so stressed lol)

[the-golden-dragoness]

Hell yeah we’re def finding out Tessa’s father in the last hours!

[morpheoussilvercreature]

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[captainkirkk]

One weird incest plot is too much, but for it to happen AGAIN and WORSE this time?? Shadowhunters, HELLO???

[livvyofthelake]

UM morgana evilly telling gwen that if she doesn’t fight the immortal army she will survive and can stay with her…. morgana for real would let all of her family and every knight and servant in the castle die so she could evilly rule camelot but she will still offer gwen a place with her. um what if i was asking you to blow all your friendships to sit in hell with me. what if i would burn down the entire world until i could dig you out of the ashes.