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Stormblessed. Happy first anniversary to me for falling head over heels in love with these books!

Detail shots: an assortment of shirts and no shirts. 😅

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Anyone who thinks a writer is beholden to things they said about their story in the very early stages of writing has a) never written anything before, and b) never spoken to a writer in real life.

#okay okay I'm done #yes I've had too much time on my hands lately #ty blackthorn #kit herondale #cassandra clare #The Shadowhunter Chronicles #Cassie's only mistake was talking too much about the series in the early stages #she's always had that habit #but this series is different because everyone is already so fond of the characters #so they're being crazier about it #I'm being crazy too don't get me wrong #but that's my problem not Cassie's

Cassandra Clare never "promised" anything.

An author is allowed to go in a different direction with a book she hadn't even started writing yet when she first started talking about it.

Cassandra Clare is a non-autistic author writing from the POV of an autistic character. She has said before that she doesn't even want to release snippets from Ty's POV without having them reviewed by sensitivity readers (which many of you seem to have forgotten in your constant demands for Ty snippets). I think it makes sense for her to decide not to make him a main POV in the book (if that's even the reason. It may very well not be).

He'll still be a main character.

Keep in mind that this is only the first book. Remember in TID when Jem didn't have a POV up until a certain point because he had secrets that the reader wasn't supposed to know yet?

Stop treating authors like your own personal vending machines. It's her book to write, you're just reading it.

#the wicked powers #ty blackthorn #cassandra clare #kit herondale #the shadowhunter chronicles

Kaladin thinks his greatest achievement as a therapist will be restoring sanity to the Heralds, but I honestly don't think he'll ever top accidentally giving Nightblood a sense of autonomy.

#second-hand influence over a malicious sentient sword is crazy #I finally finished the book btw #kaladin stormblessed #nightblood #wind and truth #the stormlight archive

The thigh holster is so sexy and I'm picturing Ty taking it off.

#the wicked powers #ty blackthorn #kit herondale

mealymeals

sins of the father

#yikes!#cosmere #the stormlight archive

btw we're totally gonna get a scene where Ty comforts Kit after a nightmare.

bonus points if the nightmare was about Ty

#mine #ty blackthorn #kit herondale #twp #the wicked powers

Kit saw a bunch of acorns spread out on the ground and his very first thought was huh... it's not acorn season.

#silly goose #twp #kit herondale #mine

I still can't believe Hoid fucks.

#cosmere #the stormlight archive #brandon sanderson #this is how I choose to announce that I finally started WaT.#mine

izzybirdie

My boyfriend @aborigonalguppyrabits and I were discussing cosmere reading order and decided that it was best expressed as a flow chart. The project got a little out of hand. Obviously there’s no right way to read the books, but we thought we’d offer our solution.

Picking up Winterkeep right after Bitterblue and consequently going from Saf and Bitterblue’s heartfelt goodbye to “Skye and Saf have been together for two years” in 48 hours gave me QUITE the whiplash

#bitterblue #winterkeep #graceling #kristen cashore #mine

earthquakening

They literally turned tensoon into a marketable plushie

onlycosmere

#I have this little guy on my bookshelf #and I literally forgot what the dog side looked like because he's always in Kandra mode

I have not known peace since I started picturing these two as Kit and Ty.

#Kit Herondale #Ty Blackthorn #the wicked powers #the last king of faerie #kit x ty #kitty

onlycosmere

Vin, by DaFox (commissioned by rye_domaine)

illustratinghan-deactivated2025

‘Kit found himself holding Ty harder, until Ty relaxed under the tight grip of his hands; held him more tightly than he'd ever held anyone, held him as if they'd been lost in the sea of the sky, and only holding on to each other could keep them afloat above the wreckage of London.’

characters by @cassandraclare 💛

#this art style is so cute #the shadowhunter chronicles #kitty

I used to think it was weird that Percy brought up the River Styx incident in MoA because I thought I remembered him being chill about it at the end of TLO... but upon rereading, Percy never actually tells Nico that he forgives him. He doesn't even think it to himself.

and Percy's complete lack of empathy about the whole thing is crazy. Nico, aged 12, can't remember his own mother's name and the most empathetic thought Percy can muster is "If I hadn't been so mad at the little creep, I might have felt sorry for him." Which like... is fair play in the moment I guess, but he never gives it a second thought! He just leaves it at that!

#percy jackson #nico di angelo #this is more a criticism of how it was written than about Percy as a character #My memory of the og series is so much worse than I thought it was #The part toward the end of BotL when Tyson runs to get Percy because Nico is injured #I could have sworn that happened at the end of TLO #and I thought that was when Percy tells Nico that he'd regained his trust by convincing Hades to help in the war #But that conversation never happened!!! Where did that memory come from!!!!

smoakmonster

nell and edward → not dead yet 1.13, not just yet

#glad I immediately found a gifset of this after finishing season 1 #I'm not sure if I ship them romantically #but 'It's how I know you're home' changed my life whatever they are #not dead yet

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