roetheninth

follow back from royoftheemeraldsea in my shadowhunter chronicles era she/her pfp by bong water wizard on etsy

[tiredandoptimistic]

I enjoy that Emma's conspiracy board surrounding her parents is resolved in the same way as all conspiracies: it wasn't that complicated. Emma dedicated five years of her life to a quest for vengeance, and this entire mission was dependent on the hope that she would one day be able to hold somebody accountable. A killer running free is a killer she can still punish, and her parents being targeted as the center of some grand conspiracy would justify her emotional response to their deaths. Conspiratorial thinking naturally arises around events with huge social impacts (like the JFK assassination) because we want to believe that there's a direct correlation between intent and impact. Something that causes years of upheaval must be the result of years of plotting. While the Carstairs deaths didn't reshape the course of national history, it did completely shatter Emma's personal world. This means that Malcolm was the perfect killer: he didn't give a shit about any of them. He murdered the Carstairs casually, as a side effect of his actual multi-century revenge scheme. Emma finally gets her hands on a real tangible cause to her parents' deaths, she gets the satisfaction of killing their killer; but it's not actually satisfying because she also gets the confirmation that they never needed to die. Emma was never facing off against some epic antagonist who set out to ruin her life, and her parents were never the victims of a carefully cultivated plot. She technically won, but it took away all the catharsis of a good revenge narrative. Instead, she just has to put the photos back into their boxes.

[tsc-reader]

REMINDER TO PLEASE NOT SUPPORT AI ART!! there are people on this app sharing ai art as their own and then deleting comments of people who call them out on it, BE VIGILANT!!

[kotwkawie]

daisy.

[maluceh]

Aline and Helen!

[perpetualprocrastinationisme]

Something I’m excited for in TWP: Uncle Kieran.

Like, Kit is canonically his great-something nephew and I honestly do think he’ll try to take him under his wing. Kieran doesn’t want power and we know Kit definitely doesn’t. I think this will bond them. Kieran has Adaon, but outside of that he doesn’t seem to be close with the rest of his family. So, I think it would be interesting to see how he interacts with this new relative. Obviously the dynamics will be impacted by the threat of the First Heir to the Unseelie throne and the optics of that in Kieran’s court. But I still think Kieran would try to support Kit as much as possible.

I’m also just excited for Kit to embrace his faerie heritage and, hopefully, see Kieran help him explore it.

[roetheninth]

i’m actually so fascinated on where kieran’s arc is going to go in the wicked powers especially with the revelation he’s a pov character

[cassandraclare]

How is Kieran doing in LKF knowing his partners loved ones keep disappearing into faerie and he has no idea where they are?

Not well! You'll hear from his POV though.

[solitairians]

the thing abt the shadowhunter chronicles is that a lot of details from the earlier books are either forgotten about or accidentally retconned later in the series which is fine, nobody can plan out 20+ books in detail, and no one expects this of cassandra clare either. except for cassandra clare. so like every year someone will be like "hey so on page 45 of clockwork princess an elf called Norflagus Dingus shows up and says Will owes him money, but then in chain of gold will says he's never gambled with elves? what's up with that?" and cassie will cryptically answer an ask about it like "Haha You Will See ;)" and then run off in a panic to write her new short story collection called Tales of The Stories that Were Told in the Shadows and in it she will include a story about Norflagus Dingus and his memory erasing money swindling scheme which is set during the 2 pages that will and tessa were not on screen together during chapter 19 of clockwork angel (it's a love story). and everyone is like cassie thank you but you did not have to do that. and cassie is just like also Norflagus is kieran's great-great uncle.

[glonnni]

pov: you're Livvy, and your brother's holding a dangerous predator, saying"please can we keep it?"

[camisala01-art]

Grace Blackthorn 🌷

Character belongs to @cassandraclare

[roetheninth]

the wicked powers has to include some spiral labyrinth lore after god knows how many books we still know next to nothing about this organisation… tessa worked for them? they do research? i need more

[tsc-reader]

you ever think about how crazy it is to have a crush on someone at 15 and for it to become so obsessive that you can go no contact for four years and somehow be even more in love with each other when you reunite at 19? asking for a friend

[roetheninth]

i’m so mad i can’t order tlkof yet because i don’t know where im living when it comes out :(

[roetheninth]

is anyone gonna make the kierarktina challangers au or do i have to do it myself

[kieranthewildhunt]

I may be a lazy artist but sometimes I need to let the world know that Kieraktina lives rent free in my head 24/7. Always thinking how much they deserve happiness

[roetheninth]

dru and kit friendship is so important to me

[roetheninth]

i think the city of bones movie’s cardinal sin is that simon wasn’t turned into a rat