#heir chronicles

[callum-hunt-is-bisexual]

people who love mediocre book series where the reading experience is just being driven mad by the untapped potential that this story and set of characters hold would love the heir chronicles

[tossawary]

One of my favorite "identity / secret" reveal situations I've ever read in a book series was when the "orphan" protagonist had been kidnapped and the kidnappers were trying to ransom him to this guy he'd only heard of in passing before. And it was a relatively serious scene, but in humorous summary, it went a little like this:

Kidnappers: "We have your son."

Some Guy: "I don't have a son."

Kidnappers: "..."

Protagonist: "..."

Some Guy: "Wait, let me call my ex."

[witchlingcirce]

James herondale in ‘the midnight heir’ you will always be famous TO ME.

He was too funny in this short story.

[meerabanerjee]

Auraline the First Heir

[marrr444]

Jace Herondale when heartbroken: takes it out on werewolves.

William Herondale when heartbroken: takes it out on werewolves.

James Herondale when heartbroken: takes it out on chandelier.

[typingwithmyhandstied]

One of my favorite things in fiction is royals whose closest relationship is someone who serves them (bodyguard, servant, adviser, etc). It can never just be simple. It has so many questions. Are they doing this because they care or because they are forced to serve me? Can it be a real friendship if someone is always forced to listen to the other? Are they protecting me because they care or because they are forced to? Are they hating me as they protect me above themselves? Will there always be a sense of propriety that will always have to remain? And most of all, it is a testament to the loneliness of the royal (and sometimes the other too). The only person they have to talk to is being paid to be there. Think about that.

a/n: I have drafted this so many times in my head that I feel like I'm forgetting something.

[chaebolheir]

savant, one of my favourite nossies of a game long finished. She's the harpy and a hackertalent. gotta love a two-faced bitch, literally. always talking shit with her other harpy friend, asmodel (ventrue). wlw mlm solidarity savant is available to download and use as an oc/npc on my patreon!!

commissions are open!

[sheisntyouspam]

i’m gonna read a bunch of sad stand-alones cause why not

please reblog with or comment recs xx

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+ anyone with recs

[goddess-of-birds]

PDF MASTERPOST

Ok you guys here are some book pdfs that I found on Pinterest (no they are not viruses or jumpscares or anything bad, I SWEAR THEY ARE BOOKS)

Lunar Chronicles

Song of Achilles

Cruel Prince

HOO

Greek Gods + Greek Heroes

PJO Guidebooks

CHB Confidential & CJ Classified

Demigod Files + Diaries

Icebreaker

Inheritance Games

The Stolen Heir

Most of these are the full series of each I think

and here's a whole Pinterest board full of them: Book PDFs

[spacehero-23]

Something that's been bothering me for a while is the way Cassandra Clare did a complete 180 on James as a character.

The James we were promised way back when the Midnight Heir and Nothing But Shadows came out is nothing like the James we see in the main series. And it makes me viscerally angry. James in the last hours is well…it pains me to say this because I do love him, but... until chot he’s not that interesting.

Most of his struggles that were set up in the short stories magically resolved themselves before the series began. He’s no longer insecure about how different he looks compared to other shadowhunters, suddenly he’s just as quick and witty as will and matthew are, and everyone loves him and wants to marry him! When the James we were promised was a social outcast, who was reminded everyday that not only is he not like his father, he is worse. 

James in the Midnight Heir is shown to be jealous of his parent’s perfect love. When he himself is suffering because he’s madly in love with Grace and she just broke things off with him. We also see this hint of resentment towards Will for being so “perfect”.

Which shows up again in Nothing But Shadows. James constantly compares himslef, and is being compared to Will. Will is so handsome, and James is so odd looking. Will is able to make everyone laugh and everyone likes him, James is awkward and often does not know how to express himself.

And we can see in the way James talks about this that he’s annoyed at his father for making him feel like he is inadequate. And then he gets to the academy and all the kids start to make fun of him for the way he looks. They keep telling him how odd he looks, that he looks like a goat. And then his powers manifest and once again he is reminded just how different he is from everyone else.

The Last Hours was originally pitched as a love triangle with a Herondale in the middle. So when i first found this out i thought this story was finally going to challenge the godawful “Herondales love but once” rule. And this would also fit into this idea that James is somehow “wrong”. He’s not extroverted and witty like his father. He has demon blood and demonic powers, which creates a wedge between him and other shadowhunters.

And on top of that, he loves two people! One of them being an amazing shadowhunter warrior from a respectable family with close connections to the Herondales (Cordelia). And the other not so proper, maybe kind of evil, weird daughter of a mad woman who hates the Herondales (Grace). So the story wouldn’t just be about James choosing between two women he loves, but also about him being torn between the expectations of his family and society, and his “dark side”. 

But then Cassie made the gracelet and erased all of James’s problems. And we ended up with yet another boring love triangle that no one asked for…

[prbni]

Chemistry between actors was amazing, but the storyline tho... in KDrama

Kang Sora as Oh Hara and Jung Seungjo as Goo Eun Beom in Strangers Again: the story ruined everything

Lee Jaewook as Baek Kyung and Kim Hye Yoon as Eun Dan Oh in Extraordinary You:only if Baek Kyung wasn't written as a red flag by the manhwa writer

Jeon Doyeon as Gil Bok Soon and Koo Kyo hwan as Han Hee Seong in Kill Bok Soon: the storyline was good for a crime thriller but unfortunate for them

Moon Sangmin as Lee Jihan and Jeon Jong Seo as Na Ah Jung in Wedding Impossible :they get happy ending but the storyline was messy imo

Lee Jaewook as Han Tae Oh and Choi Hee Jin as Kang Hee Joo in The Impossible Heir : yall know why. Everything in this drama was messed up except the chemistry between these two actors

Ki Do Hoon as Yangcha and Kim Ji Won as Tanya in Arthdal Chronicles: basically Kim Ji Won has chemistry with everyone she acts alongside

Lee Jae In as Lee Yoon Seo and Cha Woo Min as Ko Kyung Jun in Night Has Come: honestly I didn't even consider them before I saw all those edits on YT

Go Youn Jung as Jung Jisoo and Seo In Guk as Kim Seong Hyeop in Death's Game: even the smallest moments between them was enough to establish how beautiful chemistry they had

Lee Dohyun as Go Chang Myung and IU as Jang Man Wol in Hotel Del Luna: one of the best pairings in a KDrama to exist

[callum-hunt-is-bisexual]

people who love hozier would love the heir chronicles

[poisxninthewater]

anyway this is kit’s song idc

[helenofblackthorns]

obsessed with how heavily James is associated with Hell and Grace with Heaven in the Midnight Heir. it makes both their characters so... untouchable. there's something too grand about them, too beautiful and too unknowable to be real. and it forces them to be separated from everyone else, for what can equal Heaven and Hell itself?? even they themselves are total opposites. CC should have let their fucked up romance have more of a moment it would have been so so good. just get rid of that damn bracelet we don't need it.

[meerabanerjee]

Part 1: Auraline and the Seelie Queen

[marrr444]

Obviously, James Herondale never found a weapon of choice —except from the gun— because his weapon of choice would have been a spoon, had it been more effective in battling against demons.

...now imagine James throwing pointy spoons at demons