#the mortal instruments reread

[tiredandoptimistic]

Bad news for the haters of the world: Clary Fray is based as fuck. Literally everything she does is justified, and frankly I would have been worse.

[isarsart]

Jace wishes you a very fine summer 🙂‍↕️

[doctormichaelaquinn]

I love Clary so much in city of bones tbh. This girl has NO filter and no chill it's so funny. hey is your brother I just met gay? you're in love with your best friend and a coward actually. so what childhood trauma lead you to this specific living situation?

[alecisnoturbitch]

I need a fanfic about what were they doing in that time while jace, clary, simon and izzy went to the seelie court 🫦

[lalalilylulu]

Actually in cohf Magnus was so ready to let them all die (including himself) in Edom lol

But Alec having none of it lmao

[wikitpowers]

i'm obsessed with this clace art!

art: @clionadraws

[winnie-the-monster]

“Is that why you didn’t call me? Because I’m an idiot?”

“No.” Magnus strode toward him. “I didn’t call you because I’m tired of you only wanting me around when you need something. I’m tired of watching you be in love with someone else—someone, incidentally, who will never love you back. Not the way I do.”

“You love me?”

“You stupid Nephilim,” Magnus said patiently. “Why else am I here? Why else would I have spent the past few weeks patching up all your moronic friends every time they got hurt? And getting you out of every ridiculous situation you found yourself in? Not to mention helping you win a battle against Valentine. And all completely free of charge!”

-City Of Glass

[poetlcs]

books I’ve read in 2024 - no. 27

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

[marrr444]

Friendly reminder that this happened.

[tiredandoptimistic]

There's something about how Jace was always short for Jonathan (Jonathan Christopher -> JC -> Jace), but no one used his full name until they knew he was Valentine's son. Jonathan Wayland can have a nickname and be welcomed into a family, but Jonathan Morgenstern must be kept apart. They're stripping away his individual identity. He's not Jace, he's Jonathan Morgenstern the son of Valentine. Even Luke is using the more formal name, how Jocelyn must have referred to her son when they were young.

I wonder if Jace always hated being called Jonathan, or if he only stopped considering it to be his name once people started using it as a tool to remind him that he's no longer one of theirs. A large part of Jace's struggle in City of Ashes is about his relationship with Valentine, how he recognizes the evil he's done and yet still loves him as a child loves their father. He can't tell Maryse that he hates Valentine unconditionally, but he can say that he hates the name Valentine gave him, the one he always used for him.

[inthecornerstone]

i feel like we’re sleeping on the shadowhunters book series just because it’s YA and y’all should work on that. it has:

- canonical gay pining!

- actual chosen and bonded magical soulmates who are sworn to fight by each others side but not allowed to fall in love (the lore for this is crazy)

- a kickass fashionable girl and her golden whip?! wonder woman who i only know izzy

- so much religious lore and imagery and symbolism. spn and good omens fans i just KNOW you’ll eat this up

- a MC who’s slightly more tolerable than other YA MCs. not by a lot though.

- canonically bisexual twink who also happens to be the most powerful warlock in brooklyn

- a jewish vampire

- tired werewolf dad (with a tragic backstory)

and so much more!

[doctormichaelaquinn]

lol @ luke getting simon a "how to come out to your parents" pamphlet thinking it might help him tell his mom he's a vampire. he's a little confused but he's got the spirit.

[alecisnoturbitch]

Thanks for saying it, Luke 🙇‍♀️

[wikitpowers]

what if sebastian morgenstern comes back from the dead in twp but he’s not evil or dangerous but instead he has green eyes and he protects clary and ash like his life depends on it

and imagine him seeing ash for the first time and being the father he never got to be because he was never given the chance

everybody say fuck u valentine

[winnie-the-monster]

“Alec?” Magnus was staring at him. He had dispatched the remaining Iblis demons, and the was empty but for the two of them. “Did you just—did you just save my life?”

Alec knew he ought to say something like, Of course, because I’m a Shadowhunter and that’s what me do, or That’s my job. Jace would have said something like that. Jace always knew the right thing to say. But the words that actually came out of Alec’s mouth were quite different—and sounded petulant, even to his own ears. “You never called me back,” he said. “I called you so many times and you never called me back.”

Magnus looked at Alec as if he’d lost his mind. “Your city is under attack,” he said. “The wards have been broken, and the streets are full of demons. And you want to know why I haven’t called you?”

Alec set his jaw in a stubborn line. “I want to know why you haven’t called me back.”

Magnus threw his hands up in the air in a gesture of utter exasperation. Alec noted with interest that when he did it, a few sparks escaped from his fingertips, like fireflies escaping for a jar. “You’re an idiot.”

-City Of Glass