I just know Ash will give the most beautiful extreme princess treatment to Dru.
The boy was loved and raised by Nene, an amazing healer and very sweet soul, I believe he will use that love as an example with Dru.
And then he has also spent an incredible amount of time with Janus and he might be very twisted but the part of him that’s melting for Clary hasn’t changed.
Given the loyalty spell Ash has, my interpretation is -even though he might have learned that love is possession (from Sebastian - Janus) - that he will most probably do everything he can to make sure Dru chooses him. That she is not there because of the spell but because she truly wants to.
Also isn’t Dru forgetting their encounters ? I think I remember something like that from QoAAd and the snippets.
Every time something traumatising is going to happen in TWP (cause I am sure CC is not going to hold back in the finale of the series) , I am going to imagine Ash as Link (N64 edition)
In a perfect world Livvy’s romantic triangle would have been:
Max Lightwood: Dark haired , introverted sweethearted nerd. Who let’s behonest would def be best friends with Ty.
Cameron?: They seemed like a decent couple in Thule so I am not ruling it out for the main world as well.
I love the chaotic energy this head canon offers, even though knowing Emma and Cameron were a thing, him being with Livvy afterwards would have been a bit weird? Idk
I want to use this post to just say that i love the idea of Max and Livvy as couple. We were robbed.
Teen Max would have been a great addition with the Blackthorn kids in general.
Dru and Ty in TWP experiencing love and all the struggles that come with it while Livvy only ever had a “ghost” kiss, aka a kiss that had no emotional weight, no experience in flirting , no person falling for her and no person to fall for….
Her little siblings will officially outgrow her by the end of TLKoF and I am not ready for this to happen.
She reminds me of Susie Salmon from The Lovely Bones.
Susie was 14 years old and she was assaulted and murdered before she ever got the chance to go on a date with her crush. We see her family deal with her loss through her eyes as she is watching over them from “heaven”.
I can’t help of thinking about this quote when I think of Livvy “At fourteen my sister sailed away from me into a place I'd never been. In the walls of my sex there was horror and blood, in the walls of hers there were windows.”
We should have a third adaptation of TMI only for Aerion Targaryen to play Sebastian.
He is what my 13 year old self needed back when he made his official appearance.
Also I can’t believe I will be 28 when I will read the first TWP book. It feels so surreal, I spent so much time as a teenager in Tumblr back when COP2 and COHF came out.
And now I see the fandom rising again and i can’t help thinking about my teen self back in 2014-2016 blogging endlessly. It was a different space and a different me.
Also I live in EU and apparently I can’t get the BN edition with Dru and Ash and that sucks. Cause teen curvy and self hating me would have loved seeing Dru being loved liked that. Adult me loves it but I am also more confident in me these days so even though it gives me me great joy to see Dru in the cover and art, i don’t need it the way I did 13 years ago.
The same here apparently there is a rerouting from a warehouse shipping that can be done to have B&N edition it costs a lot of shipping but that is what I will do if I can't find anything else
Hi everyone! So, I’ve been really thinking about what Cassie said about Ash and Janus’s relationship so I thought I would share some of my thoughts.
It seems to me like Cassie was hinting that Ash and Janus relationship might parallel Valentine and Jace’s relationship in the first trilogy of the Mortal Instruments. And this got me thinking of all the ways we’ve already seen them be paralleled.
I think it will be extremely heartbreaking to read though, because Jace, Janus, ISN’T Valentine. Look, I know we all hate Janus. I know we want him to fuck off and leave the tmi gang alone. But I also feel deeply sorry for him. And despite everything he’s done, and how terrible and deranges Janus is, there is still good on him, and we see that in his attitude and behaviour toward Ash. There is one moment in Forever Fallen when Janus is thinking about how Valentine trained him, and he actually thinks that Valentine “was right” to train him that way. This version of Jace never got the chance to heal from Valentine and see the trauma and pain that he caused him. Instead, he believes that Valentine was right to hurt him. BUT it shows how deep down he might know that this isn’t true when he says that it wouldn’t be right to train Ash that way. Because Janus loves Ash. He goes on on how smart and strong and brave and determined Ash is. Janus might believe that it was right for Valentine to hurt him, but he would never hurt Ash. You see? As broken as Janus is, he is trying to break the chain of generational trauma. Now, we don’t know if this will still be the same by the time we to twp. I mean, at the end of Forever Fallen Janus does warn Ash that “if I teach you to be a Shadowhunter, it will hurt” so I’m not sure where that leaves us, but I think independently of that, what was extremely well determined in Forever Fallen is that although Janus does parallel Valentine in some aspects, there are definite differences between them that separate them, the most important being that Janus cares about Ash, and Valentine never really cared about Jace. He loved Jace, in his own way, but he was willing to kill him (and he did), to sacrifice Jace for his own selfishness. Jace was never a priority for Valentine, but Ash is definitely a priority for Janus. We could say Ash is the single most important person for Janus right now (besides Clary, who he seems to love and hate at the same time).
But I’ve gone a little off the rails. I wanted to talk about what aspects of Valentine and Jace will Ash and Janus parallel. I think it will be the push-pull Cassie spoke about. At the end of CoB and throughout City of Ashes, we saw Jace struggling with the fact that the father he loved was actually a murderous monster, and that despite everything Valentine had done, a part of Jace still wanted his father back. He wanted to yield to Valentine. But his sense of what’s wrong and what’s right and the love he learned from the Lightwoods and Clary didn’t let him.
Now, with Ash and Janus I think we’ll have something very similar. My theory is that at the end of tlkof Ash will betray Janus and warn the nephilim or something. So he and Janus will be split ways, but then Janus will keep reaching out to Ash through the 2nd book. In The Last Prince of Hell we’ll have Ash continue to struggle with his love and loyalty to Janus and his own moral compass. I think the Blackthorns and Dru will be for Ash what the Lightwoods and Clary were for Jace. He will probably have to leave Faerie, since betraying Janus means also betraying the Queen, so he might be living at Blackthorn Hall or the LA Institute in tlpoh.
(I wrote this a while back before we got the synopsis of tlkof so my predictions for tbvlotd plotwisr might not be very accurate lol but whatever)
Once someone asked Cassie here on tumblr if Ash will be in the bvotd, and she said “Maybe”. We all know how Cassie said that something had to happen in twp that would lead directly into tbotd which is why tlkof has to come before it. Well I think that something is that Janus’s presence will be revealed at the end of tlkof. So now the tmi gang need to find Janus and find Clary and rescue her from him. And who better to help them find Janus than Ash, who has known Janus for years and knows him better than anyone (besides Jace himself ig). So Ash has to join the tmi gang and help them find Janus (who Ash sees as his responsibility) and Clary. I think this would be a really interesting dynamic (Ash meets the tmi gang minus Clary). I think the interactions between Jace and Ash would be really interesting too because they are so similar, and I know it would break Jace’s heart to see that Janus has unconsciously done to Ash the same Valentine did to him. It’d also be cool if the tmi gang got to know Ash before Clary does. Idk why I just think it’d be cool to see that. Like they would see that Ash is nothing like Sebastian, that he’s human, that he’s good and a great deal more like Clary than Sebastian, and then they’d tell Clary and she’d be able to get to know him without fearing he’ll turn into a monster any minute.
This is a mess I know, but anyway, enjoy, and I look forward to seeing your thoughts and ideas!!
We should have a third adaptation of TMI only for Aerion Targaryen to play Sebastian.
He is what my 13 year old self needed back when he made his official appearance.
Also I can’t believe I will be 28 when I will read the first TWP book. It feels so surreal, I spent so much time as a teenager in Tumblr back when COP2 and COHF came out.
And now I see the fandom rising again and i can’t help thinking about my teen self back in 2014-2016 blogging endlessly. It was a different space and a different me.
Also I live in EU and apparently I can’t get the BN edition with Dru and Ash and that sucks. Cause teen curvy and self hating me would have loved seeing Dru being loved liked that. Adult me loves it but I am also more confident in me these days so even though it gives me me great joy to see Dru in the cover and art, i don’t need it the way I did 13 years ago.
i just saw someone say that ty's pov might be hard to write AND READ ABOUT??? because he's autistic. what the fuck do you think autism is? like genuinely? you have no problem understanding a pov from a supernatural creture, but an autistic teenager is a problem?
I think you mean me, so I am going to explain a bit better.
First and foremost I would obviously be interested in Ty’s PoV. I have met autistic people , I have read some basic stuff about it and the key i kept from this is that it is a spectrum so for every person it is different. I would love to read how that translates into a book.
Back to my original answer. I failed to show that I was referring to the overall market and reading trends. Not my personal preferences.
Hard to read (by others / CC market readers)-> I meant hard to appeal to CC’s general audience from a publishers perspective.
As CC said in her answer she was advised to minimise it.
A book where Ty would share half the PoV would be a book that would need to make her publisher feel safe that it is a good representation and it will be accepted by general audiences and autistic people alike. Too much effort for Romantasy ( I hate booktok).
Magical creatures vs Ty
Magical creatures have dominated trends and thus are safe for publishers to sell.
Books with autistic PoVs haven’t (yet). I truly hope that they will because of the upcoming self publishing authors who have the freedom to explore themes and ideas that are not easily traditionally published.
Unfortunately publishers are strict and they have demands on what stays or gets left out in a book.
Considering Lucie and Kit are practically twins in another world (both getting involved in ‘necromancy’ and falling for a Blackthorn), I have to assume that Mina will turn out like James
So I have been trying to write my first book. I have written down all the main plot points, some initial chapters and some small scene snippets.
I am not a native speaker , and i decided to practise by writing small stories when I feel inspired.
Today I wrote my first small story.
It’s dark , it mentions blood a lot but it’s not gruesome (at least that’s not my point).
I wish to share it with you, feel free to tell me your thoughts.
Here it is:
Red ruin
It was her first memory. She could still feel it around her, its embrace. Rich, warm and familiar. It felt like an extension of her own skin, its iron smell a necessity as vital as oxygen. Nothing else existed for her. All else were shadows, lurking at the corners of her memory, afraid of the brilliance of the blood that encircled her. They were born together.
Her first cry was not because of the fear that she had come into existence. It was because they had taken away the warmth that had surrounded her, even before she had become herself. Whatever sought to warm her next was no better than a drop of water to a withered flower.
Her second memory was seeing him running down her face, reaching her mouth with a welcoming, tingling sensation. She forgot all about her pain. It was just her and the sweetness of him.
She stuck her tongue out and slowly licked the blood off her lips, savouring its strong taste. No kiss would ever be sweeter.
Tears started forming in her eyes. Salty, dirty, poor. She brushed them off before they could taint her precious blood. She despised them. She felt it immediately, a pain sharper than the broken bones of her nose. The pain of her first kiss ending so abruptly, leaving needing more.
Their third meeting came later. She was a girl, and soon she started transforming as most girls do to a woman. She was told that she would hate this transformation, all girls did. Their bodies changed, they looked awkward, and that’s how they began to hate themselves. She didn’t hate her though, she couldn’t.
She felt it, the moment it started, a knot in her stomach, clenching and unclenching.
She paid no attention to it, at first, until she saw the blood. It was like the blood she saw on her face that day, but also quite unlike it. It was dirty, it smelled wrong. It tried to leave her, it was weak.
This is a curse, she thought. She wasn’t cut, she wasn’t hurt, there was no violence , just her body tainting her blood and discarding as if it were garbage. It felt like she was cursing the only source of warmth she ever felt, like she was cursing him, her companion. She discarded him as if he were nothing. There could be no love there. Only loath.
She felt ashamed.
Adulthood found her craving to see blood more often. Theirs were fleeting moments of unison destined to end too soon. She loved him and despised the little time they shared.
She had heard stories of his other lovers. They would bathe in him, summon him through violence. People called them sick, devious and depraved.
She never understood why. She always wondered why people couldn't love blood as she did.
Blood wasn’t violence. They were all made of him, he kept them alive , he was so generous. His was a love unlike any other. His embraces and kisses, a warm iron blanket, trying to blend with her, to become part of her. But he always withered and decayed and she had to part with him, wash him away.
They didn’t deserve him and they feared her.
She knew what fear was, she had seen it countless times in the eyes of people, especially when they were about to die. She never paid much attention to it, she was always focused on her lover. Her red lover that always looked at its finest when accompanied by violence.
She could feel violence keep calling her. A primal call, a force beyond her. A promise to reward her, to keep her close to her lover forever, if she surrendered herself.
It was no more than a whisper. An annoying fly at her ear. She could ignore it. She only sought violence out, to find her lover.
It was the only one who could help her feel.
When she would stand in the midst of chaos, of disaster, of screaming , in the center of violence and for a few seconds, a few blissful moments her lover would appear and kiss her, hold her, become her home.
But those moments were short, stolen from a world that didn’t seem to be made for her. She knew she could force her lover, she knew where she could find him. He was nowhere and everywhere, but always at violence’s side.
But such was the nature of their love, she would always wait for him to appear. She would never force him.
He was a difficult lover, for as much as he loved her , he would always first follow violence.
She kept refusing violence’s call.
The smoky skies, the burning roofs, the crowds of terrified people running away, terrified, he left traces of him in all of them. So she followed the crows, hoping to steal some more moments. It had been too long since their last encounter.
She reached him. She could smell him. His iron. She let her senses guide her. And he was finally here. But he was not alone. Violence was with him and it had come for her.
She heard loud thumps on the ground, behind her. A sword cut through her as if she was nothing more than empty air.
Violence needed to destroy her completely. She turned out to be a jealous mistress. Jealous that she would not surrender herself to her callings. Jealous that she would seek only blood. She wanted to cry, not because of the pain she couldn’t feel, but because she finally understood who her lover was.
A teaser. What she thought was all her lover could offer, had only been his cruel teasing.A temptation to invoke his true lover, violence. He was not strong enough alone, he needed her.. Only now, only with violence’s strike, he could show his true face.
She had been so enticed by him that she had never seen it before. She could not have only one of the two. Violence provided and blood took.
She had been foolish to believe that there could be one without another. She had been selfish to want him all to herself. She would choose to be selfish all over again.
It was part of her, it was part of their love. For he needed her, he always sought her out.
With a warmth unlike no other, he graced every inch of her body. She felt everything as her body started shaking and spasming. She could feel him inside of her, taking over every part of her. There was no air, only him. She smiled for the first time.It was a moment, her last moment, it was their shared eternity.
