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Has this been done before?

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“You’re staying with me from now on. The bed is for tonight. Tomorrow, you’ll get a cot.”

— Rowan Whitethorn, and they never actually got a cot

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Me trying to wrap my head around the fact that some people read but don’t get emotionally attached to characters

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Pierdes desde el momento en que te paras y te preguntas ¿por qué sigo intentando?

Recuerda que, a veces, sólo falta un día para primavera y cien para el invierno.

Benjamín Griss

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O era..

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Aelin walking into Maeve’s palace like

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Whenever I see people still trying to make Chaolaena work

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Rowan on his way to stop Aelin from doing something stupid

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they’re gonna go far

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Q&a writing and POV

v-guzh said:

Hey Cassie! I absolutely love your books and I can’t wait for Qoaad to come out! I was wondering if we will get to see any of Ty’s POV, he’s one of my favorite characters and it would be really interesting to see his outlook on Livvy’s death and his relationships with Kit and the other Blackthorns! Thanks so much!️

malecxshadowgays said:

Hi Cassie! My question is: Are we ever gonna have Kieran’s POV on anything? Because I feel like he’d have some very interesting opinions on all the stuff that’s going on. Plus, we never really get to see what he thinks of Mark and Cristina and his feelings towards both and I think that would be interesting to see.

freaknmisha said:

hi cassie! i absolutely adore your books, and your writing is a big inspiration for me. i cant thank you enough for all of your characters. the dark artifices is something i think about everyday and i have an endless list of questions i could ask, but could you tell us something of what would be Ty’s POV of Kit? like how he describes him, what he thinks of him, what he compares him to, (since kit does this with ty?) and also, will we ever get a Ty POV in the wicked powers ?

Hey! I thought I’d take a moment and talk a bit about POVs, since I get asked about them very frequently.

There are all sorts of reasons authors choose certain characters to have POVs and others not to. With Kit for instance, I needed Kit as an outside POV on the Blackthorns and the Shadowhunter world, both to give perspective to new readers on this insular family and to give world building information to new readers. (There is a reason Lady Midnight starts with Kit’s POV!) It is invaluable to have a character for whom everything isn’t familiar on hand, to take on the role of the audience in learning what’s going on in situations where everything is standard for the Shadowhunters but mystifying for any newcomer.

Now for instance these questions — “what would be Ty’s POV of Kit? like how he describes him, what he thinks of him, what he compares him to” are exactly why Ty doesn’t have a POV. It may feel frustrating but it’s necessary. Suspense doesn’t exist solely in scenes where people are dangling off ledges. It also exists in wondering what one character thinks of another and what their feelings are; in fact, emotional stakes are the highest kind. We go on a journey with Kit as regards his relationship with Ty: part of that journey is Kit not knowing what Ty thinks about him. If we know and Kit doesn’t, the tension of that whole storyline is destroyed. It’s actually much the same if we find out Ty’s direct outlook on Livvy’s death, for reasons you will discover later.

Not giving a character a POV doesn’t mean the author doesn’t like them or doesn’t want to write from their viewpoint — we’ll see Ty’s in TWP. It often means that character is keeping a lot of secrets (Jem in Clockwork Princess) or that plot points turn on us not knowing what that character is thinking or has planned. As an author, I don’t have greater love for viewpoint characters — I often feel far more frustrated with them. There’s something joyous about characters whose every thought we aren’t privy to; it’s one of the things I like about Kieran — and in fact, preventing the reader from knowing what Kieran thinks precisely about Mark and Cristina is part of the reason Kieran doesn’t have a POV (as well as keeping us from having too much info about Faerie). (As well as the total unmanageability of giving literally everyone a POV, which would push the books to 2,000 pages of mostly people having different viewpoints on the same stuff.)

There are all sorts of ways of learning about characters. POV is one. Other people’s POV on them is another. When we are outside a character’s head, we see all the reactions they don’t know they’re having and can’t necessarily control — their gestures, the look in their eyes, whether they flush or their pupils widen or they frown or tear up. We hear the cracking in their voice they rarely hear themselves. We see them hesitate when they want to pretend something is not happening. It’s normal to think the truth of a character is arrived at through being in their head, but it’s not the only or even best way, because only from outside a character can we observe the things about them they don’t know themselves. One of the challenges of telling a story with multiple POVs is not just knowing when to deploy a character’s POV — it’s also knowing when not to.

Hope that helps! :-)

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Cause of death: Mark Blackthorn naked.

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No es quien se queda, es quien sabe estar.

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Hints that Manon and Dorian could be Mates

“He’d just… acted, as Manon had acted when she’d saved him in his tower” (Dorian about saving Manon, EOS page 395). Aelin asks Rowan about mates in Heir of Fire and the mention it’s impossible to hurt your mate. Manon and Dorian follow that pattern of never letting the other get hurt. Manon acts without thinking when she saves him from the Yellowlegs witch, having made no conscious decision to do so. She’s shocked at her own actions. Likewise, Dorian jumps forward to save Manon multiple times, even instinctively throwing up a shield when Rowan drops his guard around Manon in the marsh– then Rowan smiles and Aelin notices it’s a test. A test for what? Well, Manon infamously mentions that Aelin and Rowan are mates– it’s very possible Rowan realizes (or theorizes) that Manon is Dorian’s. Manon also often parallels her experience with Dorian to Asterin’s experience with her hunter, asking Asterin what love is only to immediately go and seek out Dorian. Also, another parallel between Aelin and Rowan is that when Aelin is possessed by Mala, she is rescued by Rowan stepping into the path of her rampage. Because he is her mate, she cannot hurt him and therefore comes back to herself. When Dorian is possessed by the Valg, he comes to himself when Manon is present. Yes, because of her eyes but also– he becomes more himself. Not the broken prince he is in front of Aelin, but a smirking King. He also is the only one able to lift Manon’s despair, the only one to notice or care. He loves Sorscha, but she was able to go unnoticed by him for years. She was able to lie and keep secrets without him ever suspecting. He notices the whole of Manon, her every lie and weakness, he also notices her unyielding strengths… and he is never afraid of her. Intrinsically, he knows she cannot hurt him. Manon also instinctively notices what Dorian is feeling and needs. When he shows her his darkness (much like when Aelin shows Rowan hers) she never balks from it. He tells her that he’s not to be trusted to make the world better because he wants it to suffer and even though she’s taken aback, she replied “Good.” And Dorian is relieved. Finally someone can see his darkness without desperately wishing to cure him of it. There’s a hundred little nuances, little moments and scenes… but I think these ones are huge indicators of the bond between Manon and Dorian, as well as an argument against anyone saying their relationship is purely sexual. Manon and Dorian are sexually attracted to each other, absolutely, and they jump into sex more quickly than some of the other characters but that doesn’t make their relationship less deep. Neither have reservations about sex, both are experienced. They don’t need to have two and a half books of sexual tension build up in order to get together. Sex to them is the easier part of a relationship and I can almost guarantee we’ll see the harder parts developed for them in the next book.

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thank you all for 200+ followers,,!! ;v;

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“Traditions change. Especially those based on ignorance.”

Happy 28th Birthday, Alec Lightwood!

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by  rbnisonfire

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