I Adore Malec As A Ship But Their Hardcore Stans Take Over All The Other Tags (don't Even Try To Argue

this fandom's absolute refusal to extend any kind of grace to clary boils my blood.

guess what? she's a teenager who a) got attacked by a gross monster, b) has been introduced to a world full of said monsters and told she has to fight them, and c) her mom disappeared.

but no extending some grace and understanding for her situation is just too much of a stretch i guess.

i used to separate them distinctly in my mind but this reread is making me kind of unable to do that..

i gotta clarify first that i think sebastian needs to be punished for what he did. i don't think any of what i'm about to say absolves him of anything he's done.

that being said, i think sebastian was so tragically doomed by the narrative that he never had a choice but to make the choices he did. he never had a chance to be anything else because of valentine and jocelyn (although jocelyn to a far lesser extent than valentine). every step of his existence from conception to death is stripped of agency. every choice he makes is done in the shadows of valentine stripping away his humanity and mercilessly abusing him until he's a perfect weapon. and then the bastard has the nerve to be ashamed of what he created.

i just wish sebastian had gotten a fucking chance to be anything other than jocelyn's shame and valentine's weapon.

sebastian morgenstern is actually the best villain ever because he makes me a devastating combination of sad and angry

sad that he had a rough go of it but i still want to punch him in the balls.

sorry but he admitted to actively choosing to be the absolute worse type of monstrous bully at the academy and i'm not fucking with that

before i read tlh for the first time i read cast long shadows and every exquisite thing and i have one thing to say:

FUCK ALASTAIR

if that man has no haters i'm a corpse idc idc idc. he will never redeem himself to me.

one thing that really stuck with me after the last hours is how little cordelia and lucie feel like actual parabatai

i could see them as best friends for sure, but they lacked that spark cassie's parabatai bonds usually have

it's astonishing to watch wyll get sidelined when he and shadowheart (and arguably lae'zel) are both integral to the story. his dad is a main plot point for fuck's sake.

i love larian but this is deeply disappointing.

playing stardew valley approximately fifty years late and i'm officially level 1 proficient with hoes

"the light of cortana"

NO JAMES

THE LIGHT OF CORDELIA

hey so that whole first fight in season six was a goddamn nightmare

i can't stop thinking about tessa while reading tlh.

the fact that she's going to outlive her husband and her children is haunting the narrative so hard

"it tried to break me. but i broke it." brianna matthews i am in love with you