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Just saw a post asking how tall people are and now I want to make it a poll. Apologies to people in the fringe height categories, you do not get specifics.

I had to consult a chart for this

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Something I definitely think will happen in TLKOF is Jessamine finally deciding to pass over from the mortal world

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bring back tumblr ask culture let me. bother you with questions and statements

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(Tentatively) 269 days till The Wicked Powers (Until Further Notice)

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I'm constantly delighted by Raphael's commitment to acting like he isn't even on first name terms with the guy who introduced him to the Downworld.

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the last hours cast

my god, this series has way too many "main characters" i had four mental breakdowns while making this, and i swear to god, i saw a gray hair that wasn't there yesterday

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knowing that amatis was alone and isolated for so many years kinda breaks my heart 😭like did she not even talk to her neighbours? Was she really that cut off? didn’t she ever get curious and wanna hear some circle gossip? Or did she just straight up not give a fuck and fully commit to the loner life?

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PLS TALK ABOUT CLARY AND VALENTINE’S PARALLELS AND PERPENDICULARS I BEG YOU

Sorry for answering so late, but I didn't want to half-ass this because I genuinely love their dynamic. They are perfect foils. That being said, this is really long and I still could keep going 😓Also, I only did the parallels because it just got way too long to do both, so I'll do another post on perpendiculars and tag you! Also! This is NOT Clary Slander. I adore Clary, but she has flaws and I love them. I also recognize that she grows a lot, so a lot of their parallels are going to be towards the beginning of TMI, before she undergoes more growth. Lets begin!

A need for control. At the root, Valentine is very much ruled by his need for control and his fear of powerlessness. That is why he is so obsessed with the 'stronger race' and eradicating downworlders (who are stronger and faster, that he's explicitly questioned why they, nephilim, would be made to be weaker), it is based in his need to impose order in a world that he sees as dangerous and chaotic. Clary's instinct to control appears when her friends are in danger, like him, she cannot feel helpless and that is why she will do anything, create new runes, run into a vampire nest, jump through a portal by herself, defy authority, act completely recklessly- because that recklessness is her sense of control when it is out of her reach. She refuses to wait, refuses to listen to reason, because she will do what she believes she has to, she takes control and will not let anyone derail her from her path, even if it means putting herself or others in danger. Neither abide by what they perceive as injustice, and radically defy it as a way of controlling something they cannot change.

Isolation. Valentine, while surrounded always by followers, is eternally and profoundly alone. He trusts no one, not even his wife or parabatai and it emotionally isolates him from everyone. A quote that embodies him so much for me is when he talks to Jace and says "You're right, it is [your fault for hurting everyone around you]...The harm is not deliberate of course. But you are like me. We poison and destroy everything we love. There is a reason for that...We are meant for a higher purpose, you and I. The distractions of the world are just that, distractions. If we allow ourselves to be turned aside from our course by them, we are duly punished." The fact that he believes he cannot, by divine fate, love or trust anyone but himself, essentially correlating it to punishment and death. He lives only in self imposed isolation. Clary has always had loneliness in her connections. Simon and Jace both at some point remark that they "wish they could follow [her] inside of [her] head." That she is absent, even with her closest people. She has never fit inside the mundane world and even in the shadowhunter one she is an anomaly and Valentine's daughter. Also the whole thing about loving her brother and accepting of it in that she didn't expect for love to be easy for her. That she would be punished for it and this was just that, a punishment for love because she has always operated independently. She often acts with the underlying idea that she is a burden, such as running off on her own, or taking on danger by herself. They both create distance between the people around them because of their beliefs that they must shoulder their burdens alone.

Their identities are shaped by what they hate, not what they want to be. Valentine is shaped by his direct opposition and hatred to what he views as corruption, weakness from the clave, and of downworlders. His sense of self is firmly rooted in being against downworlders and the clave. He thinks this makes him right, rather than figuring out what right is and abiding by that, he abides only be not being. That is why he is such a hypocrite. Clary defines herself very much the same, that she is against Valentine and therefore a good guy, without looking to see what she even thinks is good, believing that being against bad automatically puts her there. Their identities are shaped by rebellion, by dissent to what they fervently hate, and as so they are very reactive and view the world in black and white terms. (Luke having to call out Clary when she had just been putting down downworlders and Luke for being in the circle, thinking her understanding of Valentine's bigotry automatically makes her superior and morally right, despite just spewing the same bigotry.)

Righteous and convicted. Clary sees things in very black and white terms, proclaiming people as 'evil' or 'good' the same way Valentine does. Clary sees him/the circle as absolutely evil, with no allowable reason or humanization. She shuts down Jocelyn, she questions and reprimands Luke, demeaning everything else they have done for the sake of moral highground and that unwavering conviction against evil. She deals in absolutes. Obviously, Valentine is exemplary in absolutes, wanting the eradication of all downworlders as well as anyone and everyone who defies him. He is convicted in his cause. To the point that he stood in front of an angel. They are righteous in the very definition of it, and have a limited black and white mindset that makes them focused and single-minded. Both of them believe they know what is best, whats most moral, that they are exemplary of these things, whilst being hypocritical of their own convictions. They are blinded by their vision to fix everything outside of them, seeing problems and projecting onto others while never looking within. That is, that Clary had people to turn it back on her, whilst Valentine was encouraged and enabled.

Next, rebellion. This is not surprising, and their most blatant similarity. Valentine rebelled during the academy, he skipped class, he had an inclination anywhere he went to defy authority, and obviously, the Clave. Clary is the same way, defying every and anything she deems unjust. She turned on Jocelyn after she found out she had lied, she spat on Valentine's shoes and bites back at every turn despite him typically having an upper hand, she defies adults regularly and consistently, such as the time she defied everyone by creating a portal by herself against better reason and Luke had to follow her and drag her out of Lake lyn. They do not yield. It took the wrath of an angel to take down Valentine, and I can't imagine what could take Clary. They are both predisposed to dissent, to standing up against who they perceive as the unjust and do not back down.

Charisma. Valentine was extremely charismatic and persuasive, I mean, he had the entire circle wrapped around his fingers. Clary, while not as directly and intentionally, is extremely magnetic and people are inclined to follow and to listen. My biggest example being during the alliance scene between shadowhunters and downwolrders. She commanded an entire room, brought together two very opposing sides alone. It's a beautiful mirror, that Valentine had been in the accords hall commanding all of the shadowhunters, and later on so was Clary. They are forces of nature. They both have presence and when they are in a room they are listened to. The TMI gang would go anywhere with Clary, even edom, because they have full faith and loyalty to her.

Perpendiculars coming soon! Thanks for getting all the way to the end of this if you did, let me know what you think, if you agree, or if you have things to add on!

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so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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Sorry, but I think it’s halarious that Gwyn’s timing for his arrival is always right in the middle of Julian and Emma’s romance.

Emma and Julian just want five freaking minutes of peace to figure out their relationship, but Gwyn just had to burst in, dragging the plot behind him.

(Also I like the detail of Julian moving to protect Emma but he can’t. That’s who Julian is, he’s a protecter, he’ll physically put himself between danger and people he loves. And Emma, who is currently trying to distance herself from him, doesn’t let Julian move her, doesn’t let their dynamics work as they usually would.)

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In Lady Midnight, Julian had a flashback to when he kills his father and says somethings along the lines of “the same gods who would latter curse him for killing his father must have smiled upon him in that moment for his blade to fly true.” (I found the page.)

Do the Blackthorns believe in the greek gods? Are they Hellenist? Is that why their grandparents and parents were obsessed with them, and why those myths are well known even by the current (seemingly non-religious) Blackthorns? Is “obsesed with greek myths” just Julian’s way of calling his grandparents religious?

If one of the Blackthorns turned into a vampire would someone have to invoke the greek gods to harm them?

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With the way everyone seems to randomly start showing up in Faerie I imagine it sort of like this.

Original video by Unorthodox Individual on YouTube.

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quick ty blackthorn sketch bc i'm sick

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Lin: I’ve been living a lie!

Kel: Just one? I’ve been living twenty.

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Jerrod: Great job crawling the wall, but next time let's disguise ourselves against the kind of wall that knows how to keep its mouth shut.

Kel: Yeah, we wouldn't want a bird to hear us chatting up here and turn us in.

Jerrod: Hey! We're in enemy territory now. Those are enemy birds.

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Kel: we’ll wear disguises and if it looks like we’re going to get into trouble, we’ll leave

Merren: yeah, because we always leave before we get into trouble.

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Lin: Let’s unpack that -

Connor: Actually let’s not. Let’s put more tape on it, in fact.