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darcyolsson · 1 year

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Please. I just re-read tmi a couple of months ago (first re-read since I read the series like 10yrs ago) and it was agonising at times truly 😭😭😭 like i had it in my mind that even if it was .... ambiguous... there were still like clear signs they weren't related from the start, and that it was like definitely clear for the reader but alas. end of book fucking THREE. I was in pain. like even the whole I just need to spend the night with you once in cog??? and at the time I just accepted it so easily and actually thought it was soo romantic lmfaoo

at the end of city of bones, right after they find out they're related, there's several small hints dropped that they're not actually related, but i feel like readers are supposed to take their attraction to each other as the main confirmation that theyre not actually related. there's no ambiguity in these books about whether incest is bad or not (it's bad!! it's very very bad!!!)

however this does lead to horrific terrible horrible scenes where you know they think theyre siblings and yet theyre full on making out in front of everybody's eyes and although not intentional it feels like it's framed as forbidden love and you want to THROW UP

#like i think the seelie court scene is meant to parallel the scene in cog (?) where clary unbeknowingly kisses her actual brother #which again gross but. POINT IS she hates every second of it. she can tell inherently that smth is wrong #in general there's this idea that you know in your heart who your actual family is even when your mind doesnt #eg jace rejecting jocelyn as his mother when he as no logical reason to and jace first starting to refer to the lightwoods as his family #in his internal monologue at the exact moment he starts to think that the morgensterns are his bio family #bc he knows in his heart the morgensterns arent his family and the lightwoods are (though not biological)#however. like i mentioned before i feel like none of this is presented clearly enough/doesnt properly suit the tone of the story #so it does absolutely read as a 'forbidden love' story sometimes and i do hate it. i do #vic reads tmi #anonymous #answered asks

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