It’s Crazy That Simon Is Supposed To Be This “nerd” But He Has Everyone Falling For Him Lmaoo

I just have to ask. Are the divergent books worth reading? Theres so much hype about it so i got the first book and tris is so annoying. She's so typical: "I'm so small and everyone underestimates me" "I love you but I'm not supposed to" "my friends are all jealous of me".. Gurl if you dont stfu i swear. I've read the first one, does it get better? And its written in first person. Do i have to deal with her annoying commentary for the whole series or is there some other perspective? Its not just that steriotype. I liked clary in tmi because she had those steriotypes but they didn't make up her entire character. I liked izzy in -"the exsct opposite of okay" because of the same reasons. But with tris, that's pretty much the only character she has. I keep expecting her to do something even slightly unpredictable and she never does... Just wanted to ask the community if the other books are better than the first one.

we have the whole gang now 🫶🫶

Okay, I need to talk about this passage from City of Bones

Something that comes up a couple of times in regards to the Circle era is that all the modern kids kind of look down on the previous generation for buying into all of this bullshit, much like the readers probably do. Clary is a modern American teenager, of course she hears about Valentine and immediately sees the obvious parallels to white supremacy, of course she can't believe that her family would go along with that and knows that she would do better. And Luke doesn't argue with her, or try to defend his assertation that Valentine wasn't always evil. Even if Valentine was Luke's friend at first, he still should have known better than to let things go so far. Jocelyn should have known better, the Lightwoods should have known better, they all should have known better. But they didn't, and neither does Clary.

Even though she's able to identify Valentine's rhetoric as hateful when she's learning about it as "things said by this mass murderer," she still repeats the same stuff after picking it up from people she trusts. Clary falls into the classic progressive pitfall of lumping opinions into right and wrong; people into good and evil. Luke isn't trying to convince her that Valentine was actually a good person or that it's okay to do a little violent hate crime as a teenager, he's trying to point out that knowing which people to label as "evil" doesn't actually do anything to make you an ally to the people being oppressed. She can hate Valentine, but can she see werewolves and vampires as people equal to herself?

The answer is yes, obviously she can. But it's only because she has people like Luke there to call her out when she does something out of line. Luke fell for that stuff too as a teenager, but he took the time to unpack all those hateful beliefs, and so has a much better understanding of how to live up to his ideals than the kid who's never done anything wrong in her life.

In addition, I really like that the book wasn't afraid to acknowledge how Valentine is definitely analagous to white supremacists. Most stories with some sort of fantasy discrimination act like this is the only bigotry and their characters have never heard of racism, but that automatically flattens the world. Clary thinks she knows enough about racism to apply those lessons from history onto a new situation, but she clearly isn't actually ready to practice what she preaches.

Also, this is by no means a Clary hate post. I love that she's a flawed character and that the narrative acknowledges this and lets her grow from it. A lot of stories would be afraid to look at the protagonist (who's kinda a reader insert) and go "you are not immune to propaganda," but it's an important thing to make the kids reading these books aware of. Clary isn't evil, but she did do some harmful things and has to reckon with that potential for hate within herself before it goes any farther.

It's not perfect and it's not a complete education on anti-discrimination, but it's better than what you might expect from a YA urban fantasy novel published in 2007. Hell, it's better than you expect from a lot of people active online today.

Okay but Jace and Simon’s friendship is literally so iconic?? They go from the enemies to awkward allies to begrudging friends. And then Simon loses his memory and you think that’s that but then he somehow gets it in his head that he and Jace are best bros and now they’re just hanging out and being buddies and hugging all the time?? It’s like their entire friendship is based on a misunderstanding but it’s totally not, we know they love each other but who knows how much longer it would have taken them to admit they love each other if amnesiac Simon didn’t just decide they were bffs all the sudden. Anyway I love their dynamic, unparalleled really

Why is everybody just ignoring dilf Simon???? Is no one seeing absolute dilf Simon Lovelace but me???

WHO IS IGNORING HIM? WHOM? WHOMST? SHOW ME! I WILL FIGHT THEM FOR THIS CRIME.

"The state of the hair of the New York Institute is strong, and with the exception of a single mishap, which we are recovering from, we foresee only positive developments in the domain of our hair in the months and years to come."

Simon and Jace have been through enough, please spare them.

if she kills off someone from the tmi gang then what

One thing that I’d love to see more of is the dynamic between Simon and Catarina. She said he reminds her of her son?? And Simon is severely lacking in a stable mother figure??? I wish we got to see him from her perspective. Their relationship was my absolute favourite thing from tftsa, I want more.

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Tumblr ripoff sites using our blogs and info

I open tumblr after a while just to warn ya’ll about something i JUST found out minutes ago it might be common knowledge by now to everyone but I don’t lose anything staying safe and spreading this info

about 3 tumblr ripoff sites are taking the ENTIRETY of our blogs and posting them in their own sites, in real time. This includes text posts, art/images, videos and reblogs as well as offering statistics that as far as i know, should be private to the blog owner.

I myself stumbled upon tumgir where I found not only my main account, but my art account I hadn’t used in years (To note: The 3 sites are Tumgir , Tumblar and Tumbex)

You can look at my entire blog through this site, and anyone else’s 

I tried doing research but most of what I can find is only other tumblr users who have stumbled upon this. here’s their own posts

https://blockoframen.tumblr.com/post/188736225103/it-was-recently-brought-to-my-attention-that-there  From Nov 1st 2019

https://kodaso.tumblr.com/post/623025521415094272/our-work-is-once-again-being-re-posted-without-our From July 8th 2020

https://babycharmander.tumblr.com/post/616582450520408064/artists-of-tumblr-your-artwork-is-being-stolen From two months ago (Checked on the post themselves dates might be wrong) (also if youre the op of any of those posts and wish to be removed from this post do not be afraid to tell me)

From some of these posts we can gather that they have a lot of our info and also, it’s nearly impossible to contact them as the emails on apparently all 3 websites are fake. Only way to delete stuff from these websites is to literally delete our tumblr accounts. I am unsure on how to proceed with this situation myself and where else to look but I can at least spread this information. if you yourself got other important info to share please do! 

content creators are at risk, people who use this site to vent/cope are at risk, YOU are at risk.

PLEASE reblog and let others know!!!