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[ryasas]

Honestly, I think if Darrow created an OnlyFans, his war efforts would be funded, his volunteers would double, and the Senate wouldn't say a word.

[ryasas]

Cassius' mistake was thinking Lysander was the Cassius of his Darrow when he is actually his Roque.

[ryasas]

I need to learn how to interact here and set my twt on fire

[ryasas]

Reading LOTR for the first time!

[ryasas]

It's just so good to be romantic.

[dorkfruit]

ianthe helps harrow post-lobotomy

[niffffty]

[sprainedankle15]

thinking about this

[ryasas]

I'm in love with her an unhealthy amount

[kotwkawie]

Something that’s been bothering me for a while is the way Cassandra Clare did a complete 180 on James as a character.

The James we were promised way back when the Midnight Heir and Nothing But Shadows came out is nothing like the James we see in the main series. And it makes me viscerally angry. James in the last hours is well…it pains me to say this because I do love him, but… until chot he’s not that interesting.

Most of his struggles that were set up in the short stories magically resolved themselves before the series began. He’s no longer insecure about how different he looks compared to other shadowhunters, suddenly he’s just as quick and witty as will and matthew are, and everyone loves him and wants to marry him! When the James we were promised was a social outcast, who was reminded everyday that not only is he not like his father, he is worse. 

James in the Midnight Heir is shown to be jealous of his parent’s perfect love. When he himself is suffering because he’s madly in love with Grace and she just broke things off with him. We also see this hint of resentment towards Will for being so “perfect”.

Which shows up again in Nothing But Shadows. James constantly compares himslef, and is being compared to Will. Will is so handsome, and James is so odd looking. Will is able to make everyone laugh and everyone likes him, James is awkward and often does not know how to express himself.

And we can see in the way James talks about this that he’s annoyed at his father for making him feel like he is inadequate. And then he gets to the academy and all the kids start to make fun of him for the way he looks. They keep telling him how odd he looks, that he looks like a goat. And then his powers manifest and once again he is reminded just how different he is from everyone else.

The Last Hours was originally pitched as a love triangle with a Herondale in the middle. So when i first found this out i thought this story was finally going to challenge the godawful “Herondales love but once” rule. And this would also fit into this idea that James is somehow “wrong”. He’s not extroverted and witty like his father. He has demon blood and demonic powers, which creates a wedge between him and other shadowhunters.

And on top of that, he loves two people! One of them being an amazing shadowhunter warrior from a respectable family with close connections to the Herondales (Cordelia). And the other not so proper, maybe kind of evil, weird daughter of a mad woman who hates the Herondales (Grace). So the story wouldn’t just be about James choosing between two women he loves, but also about him being torn between the expectations of his family and society, and his “dark side”. 

But then Cassie made the gracelet and erased all of James’s problems. And we ended up with yet another boring love triangle that no one asked for…

[ryasas]

Thank you, I have been looking for a post like this for years, I don't think anyone has ever summarized my opinion so well. I was rereading Tid and decided to reread TLH to see if three years later I would maybe like it (I wanted to know if my Great Expectations were the source of my disappointment lol).

I think what frustrates me the most is how the story seams to have ended long before it began. There is a lack of plot in the main story, the protagonists stayed together but they don't seem to have grown at all. You can say what you want about Cassandra Clare's writing, but she had never written characters that were simply the same people in the epilogue of book 3 as they were in the prologue of book one.

[kotwkawie]

Something that’s been bothering me for a while is the way Cassandra Clare did a complete 180 on James as a character.

The James we were promised way back when the Midnight Heir and Nothing But Shadows came out is nothing like the James we see in the main series. And it makes me viscerally angry. James in the last hours is well…it pains me to say this because I do love him, but… until chot he’s not that interesting.

Most of his struggles that were set up in the short stories magically resolved themselves before the series began. He’s no longer insecure about how different he looks compared to other shadowhunters, suddenly he’s just as quick and witty as will and matthew are, and everyone loves him and wants to marry him! When the James we were promised was a social outcast, who was reminded everyday that not only is he not like his father, he is worse. 

James in the Midnight Heir is shown to be jealous of his parent’s perfect love. When he himself is suffering because he’s madly in love with Grace and she just broke things off with him. We also see this hint of resentment towards Will for being so “perfect”.

Which shows up again in Nothing But Shadows. James constantly compares himslef, and is being compared to Will. Will is so handsome, and James is so odd looking. Will is able to make everyone laugh and everyone likes him, James is awkward and often does not know how to express himself.

And we can see in the way James talks about this that he’s annoyed at his father for making him feel like he is inadequate. And then he gets to the academy and all the kids start to make fun of him for the way he looks. They keep telling him how odd he looks, that he looks like a goat. And then his powers manifest and once again he is reminded just how different he is from everyone else.

The Last Hours was originally pitched as a love triangle with a Herondale in the middle. So when i first found this out i thought this story was finally going to challenge the godawful “Herondales love but once” rule. And this would also fit into this idea that James is somehow “wrong”. He’s not extroverted and witty like his father. He has demon blood and demonic powers, which creates a wedge between him and other shadowhunters.

And on top of that, he loves two people! One of them being an amazing shadowhunter warrior from a respectable family with close connections to the Herondales (Cordelia). And the other not so proper, maybe kind of evil, weird daughter of a mad woman who hates the Herondales (Grace). So the story wouldn’t just be about James choosing between two women he loves, but also about him being torn between the expectations of his family and society, and his “dark side”. 

But then Cassie made the gracelet and erased all of James’s problems. And we ended up with yet another boring love triangle that no one asked for…

[geniemillies]

can someone pls tell me how spring court moved out just like that. the entire court just up and left? i know tarquin offered to take refugees but didn't summer take the hardest hit next to spring since hybern attacked the court before the war. how are they in a position to take refugees???

i don't think autumn will take them. i don't think people would even volunteer to live there with their reputation.

in my mind i don't think spring citizens can handle winter court either. winter court is just for winterborne fae imo unless you're in the habit of freezing to death.

solar courts maybe but they're way up north. and according to sjm only powerful fae can winnow so unless ppl would dare cross the middle to reach the solar courts maybe they can be accepted at day and dawn.

night court likes to say oh once we take the mask off we're going to open velaris as a safe haven for everyone even humans 🫶 bitch? velaris can't even stand to be around their fellow night court citizens. move there and they might consider you evil bc you're from spring. and while they're at it tell everyone to refuse service for outsiders—

SO WHERE ARE THE SPRING CITIZENS NOW 😨 I NEED TO KNOW WHERE THEY ALL SCATTERED TO