#unhinged tmi reread

[edwinspaynes]

Once again, I will NEVER understand how Cassie haters and/or TMI haters think that she in any way glorifies incest.

Having just read THAT CoLS scene with a batshit crazy, violent, angry Sebastian raving about pure family bloodlines and quoting random ass biblical passages in the most feral possible manner, I cannot CONCEPTIALIZE the "lol cc likes incest" argument. Like, the POINT of that entire scene was to condemn Sebastian's freakish incestuous need for Clary. Not to mention how the Clace incest plotline, while strange, was basically an explicit portrait of child abuse in one of its worst forms.

I also want to say that writing-wise, THAT CoLS scene is possible among the best-written parts of TMI. It invokes an absolutely visceral reaction, and people's horrified feelings are exactly as the author intended.

Sometimes authors just need to write something fucked up. They're not condoning it.

This is why the Sebastian/SQ story is going to be SO awesome, btw. Cassie knows how to handle really fucked up shit and write it really compellingly.

[edwinspaynes]

I'm happy to report that I laughed my ass off at this scene just as I did when I was younger

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Jace Herondale funniest man alive I fear

[edwinspaynes]

Do you guys ever think about how Jace probably felt like no one would ever choose him in his life? How he had been rejected over and over by Valentine? How happy and genuinely joyful he was when Clary chose to bring him back as his Raziel wish, because it meant that she was choosing HIM over even world peace or global domination?

Rereading that, it stuck out to me in a way that it didn't when I was younger. Jace has finally found someone who picked HIM, who loves him more than the universe.

[edwinspaynes]

I wish Cassie would write a short story about the band lol like they are SO funny.

Petition for them to appear briefly in the Sizzy BiB story to talk Isabelle up

[edwinspaynes]

I'd give anything for a BTS of Magnus texting Raphael "FYI some weird kids are coming to your lair because your clan kidnapped a rat" and Raphael thinking it's a prank, texting him "stop bothering me," putting his phone away, and Pikachu-memeing when weird kids do in fact show up

[edwinspaynes]

So how much do we think Jem was remembering James Herondale when he said this? Is this a Blorbo reference? I want it to be a Blorbo Reference. It is now. I don't care.

[edwinspaynes]

SOS

IZZY WHO HAS NEVER NEEDED ANYONE IN HER LIFE

IZZY WHO PRIDES HERSELF ON THAT

N E E D S

S I M O N.

[edwinspaynes]

This is such an oddly specific story and it makes me deeply curious about what happened. @layla-carstairs , thoughts?

[edwinspaynes]

I absolutely love the scene where Isabelle tells Simon about Robert cheating on Maryse. It's so vulnerable, and after the anger that she'd had toward him the previous day, it just... speaks volumes. They've only known each other for a few months but she's already been more herself with him than anyone else, and he has unequivocally become her rock. She's never told these things to ANYONE before, and she's so earnestly telling them to Simon even when she's saying that hearts are breakable and she can't trust. The dichotomy of her vulnerable and trusting "I can't trust anyone with my heart" is wonderful. Iconic. They're so well written. Polar opposites but very much the same in the ways that matter.

[edwinspaynes]

"If I accidentally kick you in my sleep do I get kicked in the shins seven times by an invisible force" is hilarious I'm sorry. Clary and Simon really do have one of the best literary friendships around. And I would kill to see their parabatai ceremony.

[edwinspaynes]

Alec and Clary hating each other in early TMI to the point of physical violence is hilarious. I'm sorry but like bro, this is the dork you're going to be sneaking out of concerts to get tacos with in a couple years

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I like Clace. This readthrough has only solidified that I really like Clace. But this scene...

...Oh, this scene has made me SO soft for them and their relationship. They're overwriting the past together? Printing newer, better memories over the pain? Sign me up.

[edwinspaynes]

The Seelie Queen and Clary have an even MORE deeply acrimonious relationship than I remembered them having (and I remembered it being Really Bad.) I'm SAT for the moment that she finds out that she Queen sired a child with her evil shitbag of a brother

[edwinspaynes]

I forgot about this moment and started freaking out when I realized what was happening, but Cassie spared me the pain and the horrors. Thank you Cassie for sparing me the pain and the horrors