#tscs wank

[safyresky]

saw scenes from the series AGAIN, am re-infuriated AGAIN, fandom wank under the CUT

grrr i am BITING at the BARS of my CAGE I HATE how PREFORMATIVE everything WAS I DISLIKE that it is in LIMBO I live in FEAR every DAY that a season 3 will be announced and they will IMMEDIATELY EVISCERATE THE CHARACTERS THEY HAVE YET TO TOUCH (i am talking about the millers, specifically lucy, and jack) I HOPE WE NEVER EVER EVER SEE THEM IN THE SERIES I HOPE THE SERIES NEVER COMES BACK GRR GRRR GRRR

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

Maybe I just have my period and am in a grumpy mood but I am finding the TSC fandom deeply discouraging lately.

I'm very happy to have gotten the exact story I wanted with TLH, and having the full thing to reread regularly brings me immense joy.

But still, I miss the old days where there was something to look forward to and theorize about, and when the rest of the fandom was still TLH-positive too.

I miss getting engagement on my fanfiction beyond 10 hits and 2 kudos if I'm lucky. I miss feeling like I'm part of something.

I'm sick of constantly feeling like I'm defending something I love that 98% of people vocally dislike. I'm sick of feeling ostracized from every non-TLH-centric space in the TSC fandom, and I'm sick of having to watch my TLH fandom friends isolate as a result of the same struggles I'm experiencing.

Honestly, I could deal with a few people not liking it - obviously, I respect people's opinions and could just block them. But the mass scope of hate is ridiculous to the point that hating TLH is a given norm in most TSC fandom spaces and shitting on it is perfectly acceptable and even an expected part of being there.

[miazeklos]

Magnus: opens s2 with the line ‘You know damn well I want Jace back as much as you do’ to the guy who holds the other half of Jace’s soul, helps him when in need, is visibly distressed at the thought of him dying, also visibly distressed when he actually dies, goes to a hell dimension and sacrifices his magic to break the demonic possession over him

Jace: trusts Magnus with the Mortal Cup issue when they barely even know each other, later on trusts him above Izzy’s word during the spell in 2x08 when he tell him that he’s safe, devastated at the realisation that he could have been in the Institute during the activation of the Sword, looks vaguely offended and confused when “Magnus” says that it’s nice pretending that they’re friends

A popular interpretation of their relationship in fandom, somehow: Magnus would obviously like Jace to die on the spot and rightfully so because it’s not like Jace has ever cared anyway.

[jamescarstairs]

GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET IS JEM’S STORY

GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET IS JEM’S STORY

GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET IS JEM’S STORY

GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET IS JEM’S STORY

GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET IS JEM’S STORY

IF YOU ARE READING GOTSM FOR WILL AND/OR FOR WESSA. STOP READING. 

STOP MAKING JEM’S STORY ABOUT EVERY OTHER CHARACTER OTHER THAN HIM. OF COURSE THERE’S NOT GOING TO BE MUCH WESSA IN A STORY THAT DOESN’T INVOLVE THEM. 

[magnus-the-maqnificent]

never have I ever been more offended by any take on TEC like this one lol

Trsom

TLBOTW

also this

Anyways I accidentally stumbled on this person’s blogs and usually I don’t care people can hate malec idc To each their own but-

I see people saying that tec was purely for fan service and like even if it was I don’t see the problem? I mean not everything has to be deep. books can be meaningless (not that tec didn’t have a meaning I love tec).

also not to dish on this person I get hating CC or any book series or whatever but they have spent the past 5 years on this blog hating on every single tsc character like bro are you okay? if you don’t like something move on

Okay, um, LMAO. First of all, rsom.

Yeah it was originally advertised as NA, but it was changed to YA later on. Cassie literally announced it herself??? OP would’ve known if they literally paid any attention to Cassie other than hating on her every moment they got lol 😭

Also,

OP - the final fight was shit

Me, whose favourite part of rsom was the final fight -

Also imagine thinking this entrance wasn’t badass as fuck-

(And also soft as fuck 🥺)

OP Magnus did NOT go all ‘eh 🙄’ when Jace was mentioned just for you to say there’s JaCe WaNk in this book like wth 😭😭😭 (like, okay, maybe Jace is a lil overrated in-universe, but there’s enough self-awareness of that and in-universe acknowledgement too, especially from Simon and Magnus’s POVs).

ALSO. MOST IMPORTANTLY.

Yes, Alec seems different between trsom and cofa, but like??? In trsom Alec specifically states that he wishes never to meet any of Magnus’s exes, and in cofa, he literally meets one of Magnus’s worst exes, in a terrible situation no less. Trsom is literally a vacation, a getaway. There’s a reason the tone of trsom feels so different from any other tsc book (I mean. Hot air balloon dinners and peaceful late night walks while holding hands? Soft dancing and long drives in a Maserati and two and a half whole pages of the softest lazy cuddling you’ll ever see and don’t even get me started on the ending omg). Like, despite the stakes, there’s still something casual and soft and sweet about trsom. Trsom is the literal definition of *slow motion double vision in rose blush* (Taylor Swift, always right). Trsom is Magnus and Alec having rose tinted glasses on, but during cofa the glasses come off and they have to confront the harsh realities of their relationship.

Besides, there was plenty of foreshadowing in rsom for their issues to come. Alec not wanting to meet Magnus’s exes. Alec comparing his life experiences to Magnus’s like they were books. Alec being insecure about Tessa. Magnus thinking about how he couldn’t tell Alec the whole truth about himself lest he lose Alec or even worse, put him in danger (thanks, Ass-hoe-dues 😑). And… did op even read the same book cause like… despite everything, they were still struggling to communicate about some issues in this book. Alec literally goes “ANYWAYS-“ in the middle of a conversation about Magnus’s immortality and his own mortality. Magnus deflects questions about his past so many times. Magnus makes some progress, of course (the fireside scene), but that gets stomped on by end no thanks to Shinyun and Asshoedues. Yay. 😭

*ehem* anyways, onto lbotw

Ok. Listen. First of all - I’m struggling not to cry-laugh rn but - YES ALEC WAS HORNY AS SHIT EVEN THOUGH MAGNUS WAS CHANGING BECAUSE OF THE SVEFNTHORN SO WHAT??? THATS WHY WE FUCKING LOVE HIM??? (Also, OP, these two are very sexually frustrated after spending a good couple of weeks continuously looking after Max give them a break lmao)

Also, I thought the explanation for why Alec could reverse the svefnthorn’s effects was… pretty much self-explanatory?? He’s got the alliance rune, which lets him use warlock magic, hence he survived the stabbing. And he’s a shadowhunter, he’s angel blooded, which along with him being able to use warlock magic (and specifically Magnus’s magic) somehow let him draw the thorn out of Magnus. Idk how to articulate it but you know what I mean???

Also, OP, this isn’t the MCU where you have to watch like 2134 movies and shows to get what’s happening 😭😭😭 like, yeah, the knowledge may seem unnecessary to us but if someone for any reason decided to read only tec then it helps them know what’s happening? 🤷‍♀️ Like, yes all the series are interconnected but each series still manages to stand on its own and that’s kinda neat tbh.

Idk why I’m ranting about every aspect of OP’s posts but anyway yeah lol

ALSO they mentioned having a copy of lbotw???? They LITERALLY bought lbotw with their own money????? I’m seriously laughing right now like BRO. WHY WOULD YOU SPEND MONEY ON SOMETHING YOU DONT LIKE???? You tag all your posts with ‘anti cc’ but you’re giving her your cash anyway like- ma’am there’s only one loser in this situation and it’s not Cassandra Clare 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Honestly I find the last post even funnier now. You would’ve paid money just to see that sex scene, op. Don’t even try lying to me 🤣🤣🤣 Anyway, idk what happened but like… the charity thing didn’t happen???? And I think that’s more important, the fact that she didn’t write Malec’s first time as a lone one shot for charity. (Also, if OP had dug a little deep, they’d have found the first ever snippet of rsom, which was supposedly Malec’s first time but never made it into the book. It’s possible Cassie did start writing that one shot, but then decided to write a whole book, and then cut that scene out because it didn’t fit and wrote the one we have in our books today).

Like, yeah Cassie is problematic sometimes buuuut unlike a lot of other authors, she actively listens and learns and corrects her mistakes. And that’s good enough for me. 🤷‍♀️

And yes!!! Who cares if it’s fanservice or whatever. It’s still queer content. It gives me a shit ton of serotonin. And who doesn’t like serotonin??? I don’t even know what to say to those people cause like… they’re still actively hating on and boycotting a queer book series. Like, idc how they spin it, it’s still gonna look BAD 🤷‍♀️

I didn’t mean for this to get so long sksksksks 😭😭😭

Anyway, thanks for adding someone to my blocklist anon 😘

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

SCOTT/POSEY STAN (tr*lling-since-chernobyl) RN: "I would watch with big interest Dylan O'Brien shooting his balls off. Sorry, I’m not sorry." - WISHING FOR A REAL PERSON TO LITERALLY SHOOT HIMSELF OUT OF PURE ENVY JUST 'CAUSE HE'S TALENTED AND SUCCESSFUL AF AND WAY MORE POPULAR THAN UR OBSESSIVE SELF-ENTITLED PROBLEMATIC FAV WILL EVER BE RLLY?! THAT'S BEYOND DISGUSTING

I mean, clearly someone with their priorities in place and no single underlying issues there, right? In a few years when he’s still successful and nobody even remembers Teen Wolf, I’m sure TSC will have moved onto some other celebrity to hate in order to feel better about their own life. For some reason. 

[gingersnapwolves]

someone legit said "I know you can do better" on one of your fics???

well, technically they said the following:

so, yeah, basically.

A couple notes:

The complaint about the ending is not baseless. The ending is kind of rushed and looking back on it, I could have written a better version of it. This was one of the earlier fics I wrote (see timestamp, Jan 2014), and so I will fully cop to the fact that people who complained about the ending (and yes, there was more than one) were not wrong

that being said, complaining about it was still a shit thing to do

IDEK why she thought Derek was a pussy in this fic and tbh I don’t care. I have received many complaints over the years that I don’t write Derek as the macho aggressive manly wolf man that he is. What can I say? I like him in soft sweaters with thumb holes, taking care of plants and being a gigantic softy. Is it OOC? Yeah, probably. I maintain that in different circumstances, he could become that way. His protectiveness could easily become gentleness. I love my soft mountain man. Don’t read my stuff if you don’t like it.

regarding it being nothing like DWS and her thinking it would be like DWS but from a different POV, the author’s note at the very beginning literally states: “Beyond the fact that it’s based off the same prompt, this fic is not related to DWS in any way. In fact, I’ve worked very hard to make it as unlike DWS as possible”

so, you know

suck it, jerk

lastly, it’s possibly important to realize that almost five years later, I still remember this comment. I was able to immediately go to the fic and find it to post here. This shit sticks to authors more than a hundred nice comments. This is the stuff that makes fic authors stop writing. I’m old and grouchy and have attained a pretty thick skin over years of wank, but this particular comment came at about the same time as a very nasty review of TSOIP (“utter shite”, I still remember that one very well too) and although it did not drive me out of the Teen Wolf fandom, it actually did nudge me away from Sterek

Up to that point I had written TSOIP (Sterek-ish at the beginning, later full Sterek), DWS (Sterek), One Door Closes (Sterek), I’m Still up and Driving (Sterek), Tangled Webs (gen with a hint of Sterek flavor), and To Those Who Wait (Sterek)

The next two fics I wrote? Sympathy for the Devil and Something I Can Never Have, two of my first Steter fics. Plus Get Off (me), which had been mainly smut, became a more serious, in-depth fic.

(This was in part because I started to shy away from writing Derek, due to complaints mentioned above.)

I mean, I did get back into writing Sterek, probably in large part because I got the idea for the second installment of TSC, which was very popular, and then I got into Petopher, which often paired well with Sterek (like a fine wine), so yeah. It didn’t drive me out of the Sterek fandom. But it could have, very easily. Ten years previous it almost certainly would have, because believe me, before I was on anxiety medication, that sort of comment would have left me in a spiral for weeks. 

tl;dr a negative comment will fester inside a writer’s brain with a weight that a hundred compliments cannot compare to

tl;dr part two don’t be a jerk

[ti-bae-rius]

My friend - who has never read TSC- reviews TDA characters

So, my friend Matt is back by popular demand in order to review some more characters. This time, we’re doing TDA. God help us. He’s one of my best friends but he’s a free spirit and so I can’t control his savage comments. Don’t blame me for what he says lol.

Julian (aka Julius/who?/creepy sex bandit): is supposedly the team leader. 12 going on 50. Probably schedules his wanks. In a “totally non stalker way” only paints Emma. Has a special room where no one is allowed in that’s just wall to wall Emma.

Emma (aka BFF BF/Mascot of the Friendzone): the main character in the chronicles of Ty-day Friday. She really wants to fuck her best friend and it’s making the world explode. Probs got crabs from having sex on the beach.

Diana (aka too badass to need a nickname): great facial tattoos #respect (he likes Diana)

Gwynn: Who the fuck is Gwen?

Cristina (aka Aguilera/Crystal (with a K)): a drop of colour in a sea of white also on a gap year because reasons

Kieran - I’m not aware of this one. I think he’s full fey full gay. Banging half fey half gay.

Mark (aka Marcus/Half fey half gay): In the wild hunt which sounds like a gay club.

Arthur (aka fist shaker): Blackthorns’ uncle who is the literal embodiment of ‘get off my lawn’

Helen: (aka half fey all gay) got banished to an island because she’s fucking the senator’s daughter

Tavvy (aka Blood Bag/Tabby): little bitch everyone has to take care of. Gets kidnapped more than Magnus’s pets - sorry children. Only job in life is to keep Dru busy and push the plot when needed. 

Dru (aka goth Meg Griffin/actual cinnamon roll): Can kick ass and have curves. Less of an impact than the cat. (He means Church) Possibly fricking an 18 year old whilst 13. Take that Romeo and Juliet.

Ty: (aka Ty-Day Friday*) in the best buddy cop relationship with his twin sister, Gravestone. Autistic gay. He has lots of siblings. His twin died. That’s a thing.

Livvy (aka gravestone): all I know is she died and she was liked. Liv - what an ironic name. 

Kit (Kitamine/K(it)leptomaniac): his name sounds like he’s part of a Swiss Army knife. I don’t know his role. Half human half shadow hunter. Despite this, he somehow bags Ty-day Friday.

(*if you don’t know, Tidy Friday is a private school British phrase we use for when someone grabs your tie and yanks on it so it tightens into a tight knot and you can’t undo it. We generally do it on a Friday at the end of the day in last period. It’s really annoying. It’s also mine and Matt’s favourite thing)

[jamescarstairs]

🐸 I LOVED Learn About Loss, but apparently a lot of people didn't and the sole reason I gathered for that so far is that it was too Jem centered; it didn't have any tlh characters or secondary ones from other tsc series that got to shine or a new lgbt+ character that people could fawn about. Instead we got boring characters and the usual Will mentions who are becoming old. Funny thing, I thought gotsm was about Jem's journey, but he's treated like he's just there or an inconvenience.

AGREED !!!!!!! the only problem I had with LAL was that it felt shorter than the rest of the stories??? Like there was finally one that centred Jem a lot yet it was short?

and yeah you’re right I remember CC’s post where she was telling fans who are reading for Will and/or W*ssa to not read it because they get their time in TLH & GOTSM is about Jem. GHOSTS OF THE SHADOW MARKET IS ABOUT JEM CARSTAIRS OF COURSE JEM IS GOING TO BE CENTRED 

i will say one thing is that, and this is me being a salty jem stan™ so feel free to ignore this section, but I’m so Done™ and Tired™ with the fandom making GOTSM about the other characters (especially Will) when it’s a story ABOUT and FOR Jem. About is journey as a Silent Brother, how he’s navigating life through it, and the losses he experiences a long the way. If you want to read GOTSM for the other characters read their respective stories. 

Jem deserves his own series focused on him. Jem stans are only lucky that we’re getting a novella series. We probably won’t ever get a(nother) trilogy or series like Tessa, Will & Tessa/their children, Emma, Clary, have/will get etc. So to make GOTSM about the other characters it just angers me. 

send me controversial or unpopular opinions and I’ll tell you if I agree or disagree 🐸 ☕️

[miazeklos]

I know, and understand, that Shadowhunters is a show full of plot holes but please... Please put a little thought into it at least before writing review. Just read the one from TMI source because they come straight to my inbox for some reason and the reviewer is all, 'how is it at all okay for Jia to try and force a prisoner into helping her and then executing her anyway? Isn't that bad? Why would she?' Like my dudes... That is the Point. The Clave is corrupt and follows their own incredibly biased set of rules and morals. That's literally the entire point of this show jfc.

[jamescarstairs]

Which characters do you dislike in the shadowhunter chronicles and why?

okay so *cracks knuckles* under the cut because it got kinda long and if people don’t wanna see my negativity they don’t have too

jonathan/sebastian: this one do i even need to explain? like he’s just trash trash  t r a s h. There are some things that aren’t isn’t his fault i.e. the demon blood. But his actions, especially towards women, are still unforgivable. Plus his sister complex was creepy af. He kissed Clary knowing full well that she was his sister like ?????? ew. Plus he tries to r*pe her like ??????? 

kieran: i don’t like the way he treats people especially mark and cristina at times. He talks like he owns mark sometimes and i just don’t like his vibe. Also the whole whipping scene, I can’t forgive him for that.

zara: well another character that i don’t really need to explain, because she just treats downworlders and everyone not like her like dirt. 

alastair: i haven’t met him yet, but from what i’ve seen from sneak peeks and the way he talks about jem and what i’ve heard about his character and how he just is towards people and how he’s p much a bully I can tell he’s gonna be the first carstairs i dislike. Which is a shame because I usually love them and this boy is dirtying his family name.

nate: for betraying and deceiving tessa, for killing his mother because he found out the truth. For pretending to be in love with jessamine and using her.

mortmain: well this one’s kinda obvious too because like just his whole entire character. For everything he did and tried to do to tessa. 

bonus, since people might be wondering, a character i’m indifferent about:

will: i just don’t get his hype. Like i’m 100% biased over Jem I won’t deny that but before I dived into TSC fandom, and really came to figure out who my fave was in TID, i never really loved him but didn’t dislike him either. What I don’t like about his character was the way that he treated the whole him being cursed thing, and how badly he treated Tessa during that one scene (i can’t remember where it was but the one where he basically says to Tessa that she could have him only if she’s his mistress because shadowhunters and warlocks can’t get married that whole scene). I get it he thought he was cursed but what he said to her was horrible, and did he even apologise for it? I can’t remember.

i think that’s everyone, i can’t really remember much from the earlier books (TMI/TID) since it’s been so long since i read them (i really need to reread them). So there could be people i missed but characters who are either fan faves or are from TDA are more fresh in my mind so I can remember more specific reasons to why i dislike them. There are probably other character that i just dislike because of no specific reason, they just didn’t make me feel something for them to make me like them.

I blacklist a lot of characters that I don’t like so I never go out of my way, especially in this fandom, to bash these characters (if i ever do, which is really rare i’ll tag it accordingly so people who like/love these characters don’t have to see my negativity) so if you love them that’s fine, I won’t judge you for it. I just personally don’t like these characters. I hope this answered your question anon :).

[miazeklos]

Another trailer and people are still somehow complaining that there’s too much focus on Clary and her relationships. Listen. This entire series is Clary’s story and Jace and Simon are the main characters in it and - spoiler alert - that’s never going to change. It’s meant to revolve around her.

[miazeklos]

Daily reminder that while there are seven main characters on Shadowhunters, Jace and Clary are, in fact, the characters the story is revolving around and them getting the first teaser is logical and not stealing any other character's supposed screentime.

[miazeklos]

On the question, “Why does it matter if Clary and Simon slept together”. Gotta love Instagram.

[miazeklos]

I feel like a decent portion of this fandom needs an occasional reminder that Jace is arguably the character who has the most impact on this story apart from Clary and is therefore expected to have some scenes in every episode, regardless of how some people feel about him.

[safyresky]

TSCS butchered so many things. Honestly, I'm just going to continue to believe that Charlie took over as Santa (because they did my boy so dirty), that Scott was not the first human Santa (wth? seriously), and that this was all just some fever-dream induced vision thanks to the Sandman. Thankfully they cannot take away the weenie whistle away from my sweater-loving fool that is Neil.

And THANKFULLY they stayed very far away from Neil and Laura and Lucy so at least we still have them 😭😭😭 and their sweaters and feeling inventory sessions and general silliness we know and love!!