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cause love's never lost when perspective is earned • she/her

[kaylablues728]

Looks like EPIC's not done with me yet 😶‍🌫️

TW: S*icide, violence and Valentine Morgenstern

Credits for art: @cassandrajean

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[iveneverbeenanaturalt]

I’m bothered by how often Cassandra references the previous sagas. She does this a lot with TID, especially with the Herondales and Will. One reference here and there is fine, but when it happens all the time, it gets annoying, especially because these are people who died years and years before tmi, let alone twp, and they have absolutely no impact on anyone’s lives except Tessa and Jem because they’re immortal.

And honestly, I think it even cheapens Tessa and Jem as characters because sometimes they feel like broken records constantly going "Will, Will, Will," even though the current characters never knew him and he means absolutely nothing to them. It makes it feel forced when they’re supposed to care so much, and sometimes it even makes Tessa and Jem come across as insensitive because they keep projecting everything onto the Herondales. Like when they give Maryse these whole speeches about how Jace is the way he is because he’s a Herondale, when Jace didn’t even know he was a Herondale until tmi and was raised and loved by Maryse and the Lightwoods.

I think references to previous books can be really fun, but when you overdo them this much, they just become exhausting.

[winesharksea]

sorry the "kit prefers kit to christopher bc christopher makes tessa sad" is actually annoying me when kit is the name he has gone by his ENTIRE LIFE?!?!??! and throughout tda he told MULTIPLE characters INCLUDING tessa to stop calling him christopher??????? suddenly hearing an incredibly common western boys' name, which tessa has previously called him multiple times including in letters during sobh, makes her so upset he can't bear to go by. a name he has never gone by before? and kept saying during tda he has never gone by and doesn't like?

[iveneverbeenanaturalt]

And Tessa is showing that much that she’s still this upset over a death from a century ago to the point that Kit feels bad about using the name because it makes her sad?

[winesharksea]

sorry the "kit prefers kit to christopher bc christopher makes tessa sad" is actually annoying me when kit is the name he has gone by his ENTIRE LIFE?!?!??! and throughout tda he told MULTIPLE characters INCLUDING tessa to stop calling him christopher??????? suddenly hearing an incredibly common western boys' name, which tessa has previously called him multiple times including in letters during sobh, makes her so upset he can't bear to go by. a name he has never gone by before? and kept saying during tda he has never gone by and doesn't like?

[balladofbells]

Roses being a metaphor for Valentine and Jace’s relationship

+ Mila Furstova’s City of Glass illustration

Me and @witchlingcirce were compiling all the Easter eggs in Mila Furstova’s editions of TMI (The moon on the CoLS cover symbolising Sebastian from a line in the book, The Star on CoA referencing the Morgensterns, etc) and the rose on the City of Glass cover felt so out of place, seeing as there could of been a number of more obvious objects that were relevant to City of Glass’s plot.

But, after some searching, roses and/or rosebushes also mirror Jace and Valentine’s relationship. When Jace was a child, the Wayland roses were in full bloom, suggesting a moment at its fullest point: closeness, idealisation, the height of Jace’s belief in his father. Full bloom can also carry that strange tension of impermanence, because when something reaches its peak you can already feel the possibility of loss or decay inside it.

And then after Valentine’s betrayal and the overall destruction of Jace and Valentine’s relationship, the later image of the flowers being blossomless and ‘threaded with green weeds’ symbolise the resentment and corruption working through what once seemed entirely untouchable to Jace. The Wayland Roses becomes a really visible record of that emotional shift.

What I like most is that the cover seems to hold both ideas at once: memory and imprisonment. The rose can mean love, childhood beauty, and belonging but it can also become a structure that encloses! That feels very fitting for Jace, because so much of his story is about discovering that the place he built his identity around also trapped him inside someone else’s version of the truth.

[iveneverbeenanaturalt]

oh lucelyn, my beloveds 😭

[iveneverbeenanaturalt]

oh lucelyn, my beloveds 😭

[kaylablues728]

sorry not sorry

Credits for art: @cassandrajean

Ughhh... this also looks half-baked wtfff 😭

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[iveneverbeenanaturalt]

I remembered Thomas and Alastair’s romance being poorly written, but I didn’t remember it being THIS poorly written 😭 i’m rereading choi and I’m genuinely shocked by how bad it is

[iveneverbeenanaturalt]

I wish someone who got the arc would just tell me one thing, just one 😭 my mouth is sealed, i swear i wouldn’t tell a single soul until the release date. i just need to know this one thing so i can mentally prepare myself

[kaylablues728]

someone sedate me 💀💀💀

Totally did not stay up until 4AM for this half-baked edit

GET TF OUT STUPID MOSQUITO

Credits for art: @cassandrajean @hanilezabeth @elisal_art (Insta) Davood Diba (ArtStation) @sophia_volovik (Insta)

The Waywood font change was absolutely needed btw 🥹

Dear mosquito, please stop annoying me for goodness sake!

Idk whether to cry or laugh at this concept lmao 😭😂

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[foxbellea]

alyssa and saera targaryen 💐💐

[saintmarysest]

maryse mood board that had me on the precipice of a headache but i saw so many people making them and i wanted to do one for her because she is everything to me .

[iveneverbeenanaturalt]

Emma D’Arcy is such a phenomenal actor, they deserved a better script and a better Rhaenyra 😭

[carebooks]

“rhaenyra has been trying to shed the prison of femininity.”

ryan condal, why do you hate women so much, like, it’s getting sad- it’s been sad dude, wtf

[iveneverbeenanaturalt]

Ryan Condal, like a lot of other writers, seems to have this idea that for a female character to be considered strong, she has to reject femininity and act in ways that are traditionally associated with men. And that idea in itself is rooted in misogyny, because we already know how often men are taught that anything considered “feminine” is inherently weak or inferior.

And I think that’s especially obvious with Rhaenyra in the show. He seems determined to strip away anything that could be perceived as traditionally feminine from her in order to make her look strong, when ironically, the show version is so much weaker and has so much less power than her book counterpart. Book Rhaenyra never had this rejection of dresses, jewelry, or anything like that, and yet she still had far more presence, authority, and strength than her in the show. Meanwhile, the show spent three whole seasons portraying Rhaenyra as weak and indecisive and not allowing her to do anything

[somefirewhiskeyfortheway]

Society if HOTD had never introduced the prophecy

[carebooks]

“rhaenyra has been trying to shed the prison of femininity.”

ryan condal, why do you hate women so much, like, it’s getting sad- it’s been sad dude, wtf