’tis a jurdan temple

❝𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘴❞ | a lover of words, and a collector of quotes, lyrics, and parallels in media | [read more] | @clockworkbee_ on IG (plz ask before reposting on IG)

[clockworkbee]

—Delilah Bard, from A Gathering of Shadows

[clockworkbee]

You know my people cannot survive in the poison lands. You will have to take my revenge for me.

—City of Heavenly Fire (2014), Cassandra Clare

[clockworkbee]

In all her life she had never thought so much as she had in the past six months about blood and what it meant.

—City of Heavenly Fire (2014), Cassandra Clare

[clockworkbee]

City of Heavenly Fire, spoilers!

If only the clave had valued what their own kids had to say, they could have put together a few pieces and actually connected the dots: the letter addressed to my beautiful one that Clary read, the way Sebastian and his Endarkened disappeared through a pit that opened out of nowhere, and now this mention of Edom and one of the only ways to it being through the seelie court? They could very well conclude that the faeries had indeed deceived them and allied with Sebastian, but no. How could anyone young ever know any better?

“Lilith protects Sebastian,” said Clary. “If he was going to go to a demon realm, he’d go to hers.” “ ‘None shall pass through it forever and ever’ doesn’t sound very encouraging,” said Jace. “Besides, there’s no way to get to the demon realms. Traveling from place to place in this world is one thing—” “Well, there is a way, I think,” said Alec. “A pathway that the Nephilim can’t close, because it lies outside the jurisdiction of our Laws. It’s old, older than Shadowhunters—old, wild magic.” He sighed. “It’s in the Seelie Court, and it is guarded by the Fair Folk. No human being has set foot on that pathway in more than a hundred years.”

I mean, for all their books and libraries, they didn’t even realize that a part fey could lie. It’s always so frustrating to see our teenage main characters think of everything the grown-up clave members fail to consider. Instead of making up for anything the young miss, they miss everything. Then again, I think it’s giving the clave too much credit when I say they could connect any dots at all.

[kierancfthehunt]

i think my favourite thing about the tda books is the banter in between serious conversations; it feels so natural and teenage-like, definitely something that improved as the books went on. tmi had its moments obviously but these books are like serious yet unserious. it lets you connect with them and their dynamic as a family and it makes you smile and giggle and shows so much of them as characters UGH i <3 friendship and family

[clockworkbee]

the mortal instruments & the dark artifices, spoilers!

the parallel between the nephilim (in tmi) being forced to choose to live in Idris forever and then (in tda) forced to leave it forever

—Chapter 11: The Best is Lost, City of Heavenly Fire

—Chapter 33: Reverence, Queen of Air and Darkness

Somehow, history keeps on repeating itself, and these people never learn.

[krasnoarmeyets-deactivated191907]

before there was Online there was lying on the floor and studying the patterns of the carpet and tracing it with your finger

[clockworkbee]

Only seven chapters into The Will of the Many, and I love the first line of the book even more than when I first read it.

[stormy-melancholy]

Thinking about how Jace was a more advanced fighter at age 10 and how that was just a product of valentines abuse. About how Izzy and Alec wished they were as tough as Jace but Jace wishing he could have had Alec and Izzy’s life instead.

[acreaturecalledgreed]

the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

[falliblefabrial]

What is the most important step a man can take?

The next.

[inklesspen]

[babblingfishes]

I think part of the pushback about this is the idea that, to “redeem” bad people, their victims must first forgive them for unforgivable acts.

This is false. No one is obligated to forgive you. You can learn from your mistakes and become the best, kindest person on earth, and the people you’ve hurt still won’t forgive you, and you’ll have to accept that. And that doesn’t mean you aren’t allowed to grow. Because we aren’t just “pure” or “sinful”, we’re complex.

[clockworkbee]

I can’t remember the last time I felt so small.

—The Will of the Many (2023), James Islington

[sowlmates]

kwang's pov must be one hell of a ride bc this 21st century boy gets basically isekai'd into an edo era samurai adventure manga but in fact, they just live like that in takayubi. this is his life now

[titikookiewitchy]

Mamoru has is whole beliefs and loyalty questionned by himself and Kwang is like "what a wild first day at school"

[clockworkbee]

“A man’s face is different when he’s hearing and when he’s listening. Something about the eyes.”

—The Will of the Many (2023), James Islington

[clockworkbee]

Raphael really would go to any lengths not to have to ask Magnus Bane for any favors 💀

[clockworkbee]

Chain your anger in the dark, my mother used to tell me, and it will only thrive.

—The Will of the Many (2023), James Islington

[clockworkbee]

Confidence, real or perceived, has a peculiar power over people.

—The Will of the Many (2023), James Islington

[bookishjules]

something about magnus telling simon in cols that he himself is not a hero immediately before announcing to the group that simon has a heroic idea. something about simon's heroic ideas never being about the heroism itself. something about simon's humility juxtaposing magnus's large personality. something about the way magnus intentionally mistakes simon's name thrice in the small exchange they had leading up to this announcement. something about the plausible deniability magnus builds around himself, creating evidence of a level of carelessness he can't truly manage. something about the image of a hero magnus has in his head and how his understanding of himself simply does not fit that. something about his understanding of simon, though. something about two heroes who don't view themselves as such, one because of his altruism and youth and the other because the years between them have threaded his heart with cynicism and self-preservation.