#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 🙂‍↕️

[balladofbells]

I find it so wholesome that Will’s first mention of Charlotte is pointing out her skill for drawing runes when her descendant (Clary) is famous for being good with runes

[alecisnoturbitch]

This scene still hits me the same ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

[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?

[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

[bi-james-barnes]

do not get me wrong. i LOVE that people are utilizing their libraries and people are getting back into reading. it’s AMAZING.

but tell me why it’s a 7 week wait for something that came out 17 years ago.

yes this is about city of ashes.

[attack-on-tbr]

What you think TMI means tells you a lot about a person.

Too much information or the Mortal Instruments

[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.

[marrr444]

Friendly reminder that this happened.

[bookishjules]

i stand by so many decisions made in regard to simon's character, but if there's one hill i will die on it's that if simon was gonna have a parabatai after two years at the shadowhunter academy, it should have and would have been george. they trained together, grew together, bared their weaknesses, grounded each other when everything back home felt shakey, loved each other in a way that (imo) almost walked the line between loves. i mean simon literally took george's last name. if that's not parabatai material idk what is.

[alecisnoturbitch]

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

[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.