#i hope this doesnt disappoint anon... i had a vision

[kate-bot]

for vigilante and pepperman perhaps they could be doing target practice with each other.

so i know this request was based on pepperlante stuff.. this isnt. very pepperlante-ey but i had a funny lil idea and i wanted to do it . i made some more sketches of the concept that are more shippy so perhaps ill make them look half decent and post them but... for now i have this :)

[bookofmirth]

everyones entitled to their opinion but the amount of people who have been saying how “confusing” az’s chapter is and how sjm’s a bad writer for writing it that way honestly annoys me? you said you felt vindication when you read it and tbh, same, it confirmed everything i thought since acowar and made perfect sense with what we know of az as a character - that he’s deeply traumatized and incapable of creating and maintaining healthy relationships (as of rn). but beyond that, i dont see how it was unclear in the terms of which ships will be endgame?? before that chapter i was still uncertain and thought it could go either way (tho i was leaning to elucien bc of the already existing bond), and now im pretty certain its not gonna be elr*el in the long term. idk, i just feel like a part of fandom has built their own vision of the characters and future events that isn’t supported by text and now that theyre disappointed it isnt canon, they blame sjm for it? i really dont think it was a confusing chapter at all, i thought her intentions were perfectly clear with the types of tropes she used, i dont think its fair to say it was badly written just bc it didnt support their fanon ideas that was built more on headcanons than actual textual evidence... idk if i sound mean lol but just my 2 cents, obviously it doesnt go for everyone i feel like a certain part of fandom has a certain version of characters in their heads that they consider as canon bc they want to see them that way, but they aren’t really the same as the actual characters we’re presented in their story

Anon, I am going CRAZY over here.

I’ve been trying to figure out why I take on some arguments and others I don’t, and it basically comes down to 1) what is supported in the text, 2) people’s very wild interpretations of the text, and 3) people confusing their interpretation, fanon, what have you, with canon. 

I actually make my students read this article before they respond to a text because it’s super important to understand what, exactly, they (and we) are responding to. It’s nothing to do with literary criticism, but it still has bearings here because people are taking lines of text and imposing these wildly different meanings that have zero support. Like I mentioned in this post, we cannot say why Elain’s face gets tight or she shrinks from Lucien. There is literally no evidence one way or another, so I could that she like....... has a bad problem with farting when he’s around and is embarrassed. And who’s to stop me????

And you’re right, the problem here is that they think they are responding to canon, when actually it’s this wild interpretation of canon that began before acowar even came out, for the sole purpose of furthering hate on Mor. It had nothing to do with actually, genuinely liking it. But it’s grown into this monstrosity we see today and yeah... people are literally making posts where their “evidence” is two people being a room together and noticing that fact = endgame super romantic ship.

And that’s totally different from actually acknowledging the bare minimum of evidence, and saying “fingers crossed I hope it happens because I love it!!” That would be fine. I literally do not care if people do that. I do care when they willfully misinterpret what’s on the page and try to act like 1) they have found facts, and 2) they pretend like that “fact” should have any bearing on what other people ship. 

So, re: Az. 

I literally made this argument four years ago lol and if you read it real quick you can see that that ship came about (in January 2017) not because of all this “evidence” people found in acowar, which didn’t exist yet for us, but before that for other fandom, fanon reasons. 

And since acowar came out, I’ve pretty much avoided talking about Az because I know that somehow, the fact that he’s dark and twisty is.... controversial??? Yeah, I compared him to Tamlin and I still hold to that (I saw a vagueblog about my idea and I still think that comparison is accurate, but anyway). But people just? Don’t want to hear anything like that about Az. Even though that’s literally what we are given.

There is nothing wrong with saying that he’s dark af. In fact, all of the evidence we have from the book is that he is not only dark, but that he is increasingly  losing control. There was the blowup in acowar, and the increased disrespect of Rhys (and Feyre) in acosf, refusal to take orders from someone he is supposedly so loyal to. Even back in acomaf there were multiple signs that Mor was concerned about bruising his ego (literally the first thing that Mor says about Az is that he would want to know something, I’m not going to look it up but the implication was that he would be upset if he didn’t know).

From acosf:

Az had a vicious competitive streak. It wasn’t boastful and arrogant, the way Cassian himself knew he himself was prone to be, or possessive and terrifying like Amren’s. No, it was quiet and cruel and utterly lethal. (pg. 254)

“He’d tortured it out of someone. Of many people.” (pg. 224)

“Some silent conversation passed between him and his mate, and Cassian knew Rhys was asking about the torture - apologizing for making Feyre witness even the ten minutes Azriel had worked. (pg. i lost my place idk)

“Opening movements in a symphony of pain that Azriel could conduct with brutal efficiency. (pg. 375)

So asdkhasldkjasda if only we could STOP saying that Az is actually a dark soft boi and just acknowledge that he’s fucked up and that him being with ANYONE at this point would potentially be harmful to that person, be it Elain or Gwyn or whoever? That chapter did NOTHING but continue a line of character development that had already been in place, and I get the need to romanticize dark boys, but idk, don’t pretend he’s something he’s not.

[jcmorgenstern]

Remember the vision about a 'demonic Morgenstern' holding the Soul Sword in the first half of season 2? Do you have a theory/prediction about that? Assuming the showrunners think ahead (hahaha) I guess this is how Jonathan will die ???

Ok im gonna be honest with you anon….this lowkey bothers the Living Shit outta me. (ok first off massive book spoilers if you haven’t read those and are reading this) but like. I really don’t get the impression they remember that far back? Which is kind of disappointing. Like, there’s no logic. Why can Jonathan hold the Soul Sword to begin with, if not to destroy it, but he waves the thing around with impunity in 2x16?? Electrum burns him but i guess a literal holy object from an angel doesnt??

Anyway I…had kind of hoped they’d do something with the vision from Ithuriel but I’m….sort of wondering if they just Forgot about it because like, Simon has the Mark which means they’re probably setting up for Glorious which means Heavenly Fire which means Clary And Jace Can’t Fuck Or They’ll Catch On Fire which means Heavenly FIre (also they’re bringing in Jem which supports the heavenly fire thing) which means bye bye crispy boy and the whole sword thing was….a….lie?? By….Ithuriel and Valentine??? again, logic??

it’s also possible that they’ll change it up, Todd has said multiple times that they’re changing shit up so…maybe they’ll fake us out into thinking the heavenly fire will kill him and then SIKE it doesn’t and they have to sacrifice the soul sword to off his crispy ass?Clary: hey jonathan can you hold this for a momentJonathan: uh sureclary: quick someone zap him with lightning!!

…..yeah. Though, if they pull the “institute’s power core” thing again maybe they could fry him like a scorpion?? Do people fry scorpions outside texas. Is that just a texas thing. this isn’t releveant.Anyway honestly….I wish I knew and I’m a little salty that they probably don’t keep track of their own plotlines more than a few episodes at a time but….we can hope and maybe they’ll surprise us and do something cool! cos like that has happened before and maybe that was all a clever setup but…well. who knows.

Sorry I couldn’t like, offer any brilliant theories but tbh until we’ve seen more of lilith and into 3a/3b my guess is as good as rolling a dice. But yeah I’ve been wondering about this too so!! if anyone has any cleverer ideas i am All Ears

[jestbee]

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