Cordelia's Rose Coloured Glasses Still Being FIRMLY In Place After All This Is Astonishing.

genuinely tweaking bc how are you gonna insist that grrm gets a pass but not cassie?? how??

i've touched on this before and idk how it always come back to grrm vs cassie but one of them uses incest and copious violence against women (especially of the sexual kind) for shock value and the other uses incest as a tool briefly to tell a larger story of abuse.

no let's talk about that last part some more.

james herondale's mind has not been his own since he was a child. he has had his consent and body violated and manipulated for decades.

cassie did such a good job portraying his anger, grief, loss, and pain. i'm glad he didn't hold back, because grace needed to hear straight from her victim the impact she had.

very little has ever been so simultaneously arousing, satisfying, and fucking heartbreaking as the scene of james ripping into grace. i waited and was RICHLY rewarded

i would like to inform the small gaggle of blogs who are following my first read through of the last hours that THIS

is the new calendar.

i have been informed it's a death and i have theories.

am i seriously behind on the chain of iron read? yes.

am i reading? no.

instead i'm thinking about the intricacies of the dynamic between the dhampir and moroi in vampire academy.

"i should probably stop drinking so much" JUST KILL ME IT WOULD HURT LESS

i think one of the biggest damages to fandom spaces that social media (and the sort of instant gratification that it spawned) is that nuance is dying.

every fandom i enter (some to a worse degree than others i will admit) is just teeming with bad takes with no nuance. you can't acknowledge a good part of a character without being attacked for supporting someone who's done abc and suddenly being labeled an xyz apologist.

this leads to these dynamic and interesting characters being viewed only through a binary of right and wrong, which destroys the very things that make them feel real and human.

everyone is racing to be morally right in an age where awareness of social injustice is rising and as a result they're either forcing issues that aren't there to criticize a character or ripping them to shreds just to feel morally superior. in doing so not only are they ruining the stories and characters, but they're making these real world issues come off as frivolous and unimportant, when there are actual bodies of work that properly and intentionally explore them.

i think i felt very similarly about alastair before we see more of him in tlh. now hes my tlh fav. i am very interested in your thoughts. keep us posted

alas i wouldn't keep my hopes up for a change of heart

i'm already riding hard for matthew and i do not like the way alastair is acting in cls at all. like... what was the reason my guy? you get called on your shit and decide to not only insult the baddest bitch charlotte and her brilliant husband henry, but also hurt matthew?? for why??? like fuck yeah i cast at least partial blame on him for what happened. why the fuck would you say that shit to someone? 😤 i'm not fucking with that boy rn

i'll keep my mind open but....

charles acting as if nobody understands him when literally every single person in that room is a raging queer is absolutely insane

Hey y’all! Myself and my friend noticed there was a big hole in the TSC fandom - namely, that there isn’t a Discord server for us all to come together and appreciate/freak out over our favourite Shadowhunters.

So we decided to fix it! Here is your official notice of the creation of The Downworld, a place for us to talk theories, go crazy over our beloved ships, worship those characters that maybe don’t get enough love fandom-wide, and of course, appreciate the absolute genius that is Cassandra Clare.

All we ask is that you be kind and respectful to each other, and agree to our server rules that’ll you see when you join. The server is also 18+ only, so unfortunately we won’t be able to allow minors to join.

If you’d be interested in joining, please feel free to reach out to me or @timesconvert and we’ll get the ball rolling - don’t be scared; unlike Jordan, we don’t bite!

in case anyone was wondering this is all i hear when belial is brought up

name a character in history who haunts the narrative more than will herondale