I Recently Had A Conversation With Some New Acquaintances Who Had Only Read TMI, And We Somehow Got To

I recently had a conversation with some new acquaintances who had only read TMI, and we somehow got to a point where one of them said that shipping parabatai would basically be like incest- I didn’t have the heart to tell them what the Dark Artifices are about 😭

TSC discourse I saw on twitter I never thought I'd see: People saying that shipping Heronstairs is incest.

I think it's also funny that most of the "Heronstairs is incest" people ship Emma and Julian like. Bro pick a lane

No that’s actually insane 💀

thomas, cordelia, james, matthew and alastair had a wonderful time at the beach - they even made some new friends! 🐢

(this piece means a lot and i put a LOT of love into it - i mean just look how happy they all are🥹christopher would be so pleased for them)

characters by @cassandraclare 🤍

The Cabrols: *most definitely hatching some revenge plot on house Roverge*

Jolivet and Mayesh: can’t interfere it‘s a canon event

I'm thinking about how Matthew's perfectionism has always gotten in the way of all his hobbies. He tells James in Nothing but Shadows that he can't draw, can't write prose or poetry, can't compose or do anything like that, and, even without counting the fact that he is literally 13 and shouldn't expect to be good at those things anyway, you just know he probably only tried each of those things once or twice before giving up because he wasn't immediately good at them so for him that meant he had failed and couldn't be good ever and he was only good to watch the arts he loved from afar (spectate).

The only hobby he ever had was baking and only because no one else knew. Since it wasn't something anyone expected of him, he could do it in secret with no pressure, and allow Cook to teach him slowly because he was just "helping" her.

And then he lost it too by accidentally poisioning his mom and being too traumatised to ever do it again

Maybe unpopular opinion but I’m so unbothered by this trope, especially in tsc. Maybe I’m just too dumb to pick up on when it’s being done “badly” or I simply haven’t had any negative experiences that conditioned me into hating it but I was mostly okay with the way it went down in tlh.

I just love it when people complain about the miscommunication trope in a book. Like, girl, have you ever read a Cassandra Clare book? Because I don‘t think so…