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I think the funniest thing about evervale is that they are fundamentally just two guys who want to die SO badly but stay alive purely out of the desire to make sure the other dies before them

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happy birthday, clary fairchild! and me!

it's actually crazy to think i share a birthday with this icon! so in honor of our og girl pls share your favorite clary moments/quotes!

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Saving this one for weeks just to post today. Happy birthday, Clary! 🧡

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HOT TAKE:

Chain of Thorns (and tlh in general) is nowhere near as bad as some of the fandom makes it out to be, and I actually quite enjoyed the bib stories that I have been able to read so far.

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alastair carstairs, hold my hand and let's listen to wishbone together

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Thomas calling out to Alastair using "My love" is everything I didn't know I needed

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love triangles these days are so weak like ohh how will the girl choose bw this one asshole nobody likes and this other obvious endgame the entire fandom adores. back in my day the competition was so severe the girl had to marry the mortal one and then marry the other immortal one after the mortal one died. meanwhile the ones in question were reaching unhinged levels of secret-third-thing style devotion all on their own.

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Sobh was the best crazy project cc ever made (not counting the graphic novels or side books). No one had to pay to read it, and every Monday we were here waiting for the next letter. All the theories and memes, and we all losing our minds...

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall, you'll always be famous to me <3

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If Cassandra Clare was really about that sauce she’d write Tessa reacting to Sophie’s death

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I understand people being worried about the reception to TLKOF because of how people have responded to Better in Black. As someone who has had a genuinely horrendous experience in the TSC fandom because ChoT is my favourite book, I would be remiss not to get it.

But, as someone who has disliked a couple of TSC books in the past (LoS and QoAaD, for curious parties), I also think BiB feels like a whole different, new animal. With the other books I disliked, I didn't feel betrayed like this. They were advertised as exactly what they were, and while I didn't like them for various personal reasons, I got what I paid for.

Better in Black is different because it's not that I or others disliked the direction of the stories. It has nothing to do with contradictions to our headcanons. (In fact none of the stories I cared about actually contradicted with my headcanons at all).

It's the fact that the stories were advertised woefully incorrectly to the point that we didn't get what we bought.

"Ten tales of Shadowhunter romance" and "cute fanservice stories about your favorite ships" does not mean This.

It doesn't mean one of the ships (Herondaisy) in the book being full-on sidelined in favor of another character and having no meaningful dialogue besides a Fandom Callout.

It doesn't mean retconning everything about the ship in the epilogue of a past published book in one of the stories (Arianna's.)

It doesn't mean one of the ships (Blackstairs) having an OOC cheating plotline in supplemental materials that didn't need to be published.

It doesn't mean getting a full story (Kierarktina's) about faerie court politics involving the king that barely features the king's consorts besides as a plot device.

This collection was not what we funded or bought. It was something totally different. And that's where all this anger is coming from, and that's what makes the anger valid.

Combine that with the fact that the fandom actively funded the creation of BiB and received full-on lectures in a couple of the stories, and this is a unique kind of hot mess that will 100% never happen in TLKOF.

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And on that note I hope people settle there expectations for the last king of faerie. People having high expectations is inevitable because of how long the book has taken to come out, but I hope people can read it objectively instead of being overly negative because it doesn’t match up to the version they have in there head.

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this fandom is great if you ignore all the nasty bitches in your ear constantly complaining about everything and anything

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I have an art idea for you if you're down but it's absolutely no pressure. I just think you'd be into it 💀

Matthew like he's on the cover and it's Showboy

Again 0 pressure and even if you dont want to do it i thought you'd appreciate the idea LOL

I've been sooo busy these days, but i definitely should draw this in the future! Maybe before October 3rd. It's an amazing idea ❤️‍🔥

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Even the Herondaisy haters telling us we deserved better and trying to console us is insane 💀 But to be fair I get it. I am a notorious Blackstairs hater and I would fucking go to war for their fans right now because what the fuck is that OOC mess. TLH and TDA solidarity, babes.

The funny thing is that I do feel like the quality of BiB has brought this fractured fandom together a lot. Which is hilarious. This is essentially when the mom tries to punish a set of fighting siblings for something they didn't do and they all start getting along again

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“You could give me the past,” he said a little sadly. “But Alec is my future.”

—City of Fallen Angels—

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"how long do i have left with my dog 'till i start forgetting shit?" but it's tessa realizing all her friends have gray hair and her kids look older than her. it's "she had forgotten the precise blue of his eyes and the depths of his laugh". it's magnus keeping a box of memories of his past lovers and alec asking if he's gonna end up there one day. it's magnus telling max that one day it'll be just the two of them..