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idk if anyone else has had this thought, but here goes:

kit’s last name for most of his life is Rook

a Rook is, yes, a type of bird but it’s also a chess piece

the chess piece is a castle

as of the end of TDA & the beginning of TWP, kit is staying with jem, tessa & mina who are members of the Carstairs family

what is the symbol of the Carstairs family, class?

that’s right, it’s a castle

and, in chess, the Rook can protect the King with a move called ‘castling’

foreshadowing kit saving ash or kieran (or both) in some way in TWP

this could also foreshadow his own Kingship over all of Fae by the end of the series

soelgis

"bring back sarcastic and funny tessa from tid in the wicked powers!!!" i yell as they drag me away

faiyaart

Robins are much more similar to each other than they seem

* Dick had more conflicts than people remember.

helenofblackthorns

The Morgensterns being Swiss… lowkey is that a Frankenstein reference ??

helenofblackthorns

I feel like CC makes a few different nods to classic gothic books throughout like Arthur being the mad uncle in the attic has to be a reference to Jane Eyre

witchlingcirce

To add onto the Frankenstein one. Victor(Valentine) creating a monster (Sebastian) for his own ambition + his idea of making the world better + the creature coming out ‘wrong’ (Valentine saying that Sebastian had too much demon blood in him) + leading the creature to a world of loneliness (Sebastian being shunned by shadowhunter society) + The monster asking for a companion but being denied (Clary) + leading the monster to commit mass destruction (Sebastian starting the dark war)

balladofbells

I’ll also add onto this by Malcolm and Annabel being inspired by Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and Valentine being a modern Prometheus-like figure (a term originating from Frankenstein, which was subtitled The Modern Prometheus). A visionary whose ambition is constantly overreaching ‘natural’ boundaries, bringing about devastating consequences (a tragic, self-inflicted downfall) because humans cannot play god!! The Morgensterns representing divine arrogance is such a powerful topic I feel nobody ever talks about, even tho it’s such a basic foundation of their existence as characters.

I love how this circles back to one of Cassie’s favourite counter-assertions she uses throughout tsc which is ‘Quis ut Deus?’ meaning ‘Who is like god?’

Chain of Gold

City of Lost Souls

lilyevanslovesyou

The concept of Ash being everything that Sebastian and Jace couldn’t be for Valentine.

pain-is-too-tired

Kon is so adorable in the trailer but then I remember the teaser shot they gave before the trailer came out and im reminded that at some point this boy will probably be going through some form of Horrors(tm).

Love how they chose to show us him suffering before showing us him being adorable and happy hdgdg

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He is SUCH. SUCH a baby in this trailer. Oh i love him. Oh my god. I need to watch maws like yesterday i cant miss this debut

spicy-apple-pie

Clark's Shovel Talk vs Bruce's

Commission Info / Kofi (members get comics a week early)

djbodyhorror

your mom jokes don't work when you know someone too well. I would never be in bed with such a wicked woman. That's not even what I had your mom saying last night. I wouldn't speak to her.