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Seraphina (who's just insanely in love with Céline Montclaire/Herondale) 20 yrs, she/her, med student (which is y I disappear randomly) (India) Multi fandom but since this has become mainly a tsc blog. Part of the "Circle of Raziel" fandom, I love discussing and dissecting these baddies. I could talk for hours about Céline Herondale. Some of my other tsc favs are Jem, Charlotte, Henry, Jessamine, Gabriel, Jace, Clary, Sebastian, Izzy, Julian, Emma, Mark, Keiran, Dru, Kit, Malcolm, The Seelie Queen, Janus, Matthew and honestly a lot more chars! Fav tsc series- Tmi but I'm soooo looking forward to Twp! I absolutely DO NOT LIKE Will Herondale or Simon Lewis (just a warning bcoz sometimes I have tough criticisms to make) I'm in hp, pjo, tsc, tog, acotar, Shatter me, tfota, Grishaverse and the lunar chronicles fandoms ... My ao3- https://archiveofourown.org/users/SeraphinaMm/profile (just an amateur FF writer who writes for fun) 𒊹︎︎︎ Things I'm totally obsessed with : Books, music, occasional writing, poetry, mythology etc ⌨︎ My online status : Offline ( ) Online ( ) Hiatus (✔︎) Undead (✔︎) ⌨︎ (☕︎) 𝖨 ma𝗒 have 𝗎𝗇𝗉𝗈𝗉𝗎𝗅𝖺𝗋 𝗈𝗉𝗂𝗇𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌 𝖻𝗎𝗍 𝖨 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝖽𝖾𝖻𝖺𝗍𝖾 𝖺𝗇𝖽 𝗍𝖺𝗅𝗄... d𝗆𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝗈𝗉𝖾𝗇, 𝗁𝗂𝗍 𝗆𝖾 𝖺𝗇𝗒𝗍𝗂𝗆𝖾 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝖺 𝖻𝗈𝗈𝗄 𝖽𝗂𝗌𝖼𝗎𝗌𝗌𝗂𝗈𝗇...(☕︎) Bye Bye and have a nice day/night !!!

[helenofblackthorns]

“blue banners for when the lost return” and it’s the Lost Herondales being raised as the descendants of Catarina Loss (famously a very blue warlock)

[serathereadaholic]

The tags are so awfully accurate. I'll never shut up about how problematic Jem's obsession with the Herondales is, and even tho I absolutely love this guy, his belief of "Carstairs owing the Herondales" makes me want to crash out so bad. As if Maryse correcting him once wasn't enough, Tessa goes on to write about Jace being exceptional bcoz he's a Herondale in a letter to Maryse. Like genuinely the one compliment she can come up for Jace is that he's a Herondale (imagine just belonging to some caucasian highly privileged generationally wealthy and famous family as being a fucking "compliment") Genuinely what is wrong with these people they desperately need to grow up!

[khaleesiofalicante]

Okay idk if I'm too late for the tsc desi fancast party (oops) but hear me out (also idk if someone has said the same before apologies If I end up repeating stuff), Deepika Padukone as Tessa Gray (they're both freaking tall, badass and have a wisdom in their eyes), Alia Bhatt/Preity Zinta as Clary (bcoz they've got this cuteness in them while portraying tough chars), Shraddha Kapoor as Lucie Herondale (I mean, the playful attitude?) and Rekha as Lilith (I trust Vidya Balan to slay this too actually) so what do you think?

OKAY WAIT YOU ATE WITH VIDYA BALAN AS LILITH OMG?

I don't see DP as Tessa tbh 🤔 (Also, is Tessa tall???)

Alia Bhatt is peeeeeerfect for Clary!!! Shraddha/Lucie is also a great casting!

[serathereadaholic]

Yep! Dp and Tessa are almost the exact same height too. Tessa is 175.26cm ie 5'9 and Dp is around 173-175cm ie 5'8-5'9. Also there are a lot of instances pointing to her tallness in tsc, and everyone keeps talking about how Dp mogs a lot of ppl in height anyways. But yeah I'm glad u agree with the rest!

[winesharksea]

does not take much stretching at all to turn what happens to kit after johnny dies into a horror story, like.

like imagine if you had a complicated relationship with your father and he was cold and distant but he was still the only person you had and you had to watch him be violently slaughtered in front of you and then strangers surrounded you AS YOU'RE STILL COVERED IN HIS BLOOD and said hiii so you have magic blood and you have to come with us, but i promise we aren't kidnapping you like your dad said we were going to but you Do have to come with us or you Will die, also by the way your entire name is a lie and your real full name/ancestry has personal significance to us and so everyone will be calling you by that name now no matter how much you protest or try to distance yourself from it, haha also has anyone told you that you're like a carbon copy of these other strangers who are technically related to? you're So one of them it's like you're not even related to your father, especially because the name he chose for himself and gave to you was fake all along and you bear no resemblance to him, so once you've washed off that blood and his life's work has been torn down it'll be like he never even existed lolll! but we aren't the bad guys though your father was lying to you, yes we are a military police force and yeah people just like us who are still associated with us did all that persecution and brutalization and stuff to people you would consider your community but don't worry about it, that wasn't us personally so no biggie just get in the car! :) haha so silly do you just believe everything your dad tells you all the time, that's so juvenile haha! everyone from your old life will in fact hate fear and reject you once this comes out but don't worry about that either we have a whole new name and house ready for you and once you've been branded with our special sigil you cannot leave without undergoing extreme torture which might kill you! but you have nowhere else to go anyway right?

[serathereadaholic]

This is worded exceptionally well bcoz it was literally what happened lol. I like Jessa but respectfully their Herondale glaze and their approach to Kit is weird. Like why are we still viewing him in the image of his adoptive father's ex parabatai who died centuries ago lol (aka Will). Let's be honest jem was only ever interested in this bcoz it was a story of Herondales, and bcoz he has this made up belief that Carstairs owe the Herondales (completely unfair to the future Carstairs btw bcoz they have nothing to do with your ex situationship from the 1800s especially the ones like Emma who aren't even directly descended from Jem). There are hundreds of orphaned and unsupported kids throughout the shadow world (he could have even helped the blackthorns lol it was so evident that they needed support) but yeah of course. The only reason he wanted to rescue the First heir/s was bcoz they were also the "Lost" Herondales. It's so clear on how they treat Jace too- any Herondale descendant is not a person to them atp, it's just a shadow of their buddy Will Herondale. It's despicable how they try to wipe out traces of these Herondale boys' past too. I'm not even going to talk about how neither of them wanted to be a Herondale but despite protesting jessa keep associating them with the family name (I'm not talking about the current situation but about cofa Jace and los Kit.) so much that even Maryse snaps and tells Jem that Jace is a Lightwood too in cols (rightfully so bcoz they were his family first) and notice how jem only comes into play after cog when Jace's identity has been disclosed. Not to mention recently Tessa writes a letter to Maryse in sobh and has this to say "Isabelle is so brave, Alec such a leader, and Jace, well, I can only tell you that I know what an excellent example of a Herondale is, and he is one."

Imagine that the only compliment she can come up with for Jace is that he's a Herondale. As if being one is a compliment itself.

I'm not even going to mention how Jessa are passive and agree each time Kit believes that his father didn't love him, going as far as adding that "but we do". It's crazy how they pretend Johnny Rook is the worst father in tsc ever.

[mrsgraymark]

Jem straight up didn't give a singlest fuck about Jace before he found out that have was a Herondale.

[serathereadaholic]

Reminds me of a meme I made a while ago but was hesitant to post on Tumblr but fuck it we ball—

[serathereadaholic]

How I imagine characters from the Circle getting therapy sessions like-

Therapist: So what do we do when we come across a problem/get into a problem?

Jocelyn: Double it and give it to the next person?

Therapist: No—

Jocelyn: Ah I know, run away to another country and make a brand new identity!

Therapist: Let's get back to what we discussed last week.

Stephen: yea, yea. I told you. I'm not a pushover at all.

Therapist: So what will you do if Valentine asks you to stop our sessions/interactions?

Stephen *standing up*: Bye, bye, it was nice knowing you.

Therapist: let's start our session with a fun game. Complete the lyrics to the famous song- What is love....

Celine: Baby please hurt me?

Therapist: NO!

Celine *trying again*: Love is ...pain?

Therapist: No, why are you like this-

Therapist: We're going to talk about how to manage grief. How would you react if you hear about your parents' deaths?

Valentine: Find out the bastard who was responsible and wipe out his entire race from the earth.

Therapist: How the fuck are you going to fight against a heart attack you IDIOT!

Valentine *thinking hard* : By attacking ultraprocessed foods? Starting a revolution against fast food manufacturing industries?

Therapist: Talking about romantic relationships, what do you do if your man cheats on you?

Maryse: Get back with him, raise his and his dead ex parabatai's kids, and nurse him back to health when he's wounded, all the while absolutely hating the shit outta him?

Therapist: WRONG!

Maryse: I must have forgotten to add "trauma dump your kids in the process".

Therapist: Alright so what do you want in your life?

Robert: A healthy relationship with my loved ones.

Therapist: And what's the right way to do that?

Robert: By treating them like absolute shit when they place their trust in me?

Therapist: You have many unresolved issues-

Robert: But I'm not gay, I promise.

Therapist: Your self worth and self respect is...

Hodge: Non existant like my ability to say no to Valentine?

Therapist: NO. See,that was so easy to say.

Hodge: But where there's Valentine's will, there's a yes!

Therapist: It's where there's a will, there's a way you buffoon!

Therapist: You .. you seem well actualised as far as I can tell. Why are you here?

Luke: Oh I'm just here to pick up Jocelyn and then I've gotta get Clary from the institute, make sure if Simon is alright, talk to Jace about his daddy issues, help Maia with managing the werewolf pack, look over at the remaining headmaster stuff and-

Therapist: Okay stop, abandonment issues aside, how tf did you speak that much in one breath?

Luke: yeah uh- Valentine trained me to have better stamina as his parabatai ig.

*Flashbacks to Luke and Valentine yaoi moments*

[serathereadaholic]

Incorrect quotes featuring the Circle of Raziel part two ig?

Michael: I made this friendship bracelet for you.

Robert: I'm not a jewellery person.

Michael: You don't have to wear—

Robert: No, I'm gonna wear it forever. Back off.

Valentine: I'll love you forever, Jocelyn.

Jocelyn: I know. That's the biggest problem.

Michael(playing a game): okay so, everyone choose your favourite Angel and write down their name!

Robert: Valentine... Jocelyn is not an Angel.

Valentine: You're right, she shines brighter than any Angel out there.

Jocelyn:...what.

Stephen: Live fast, die young, leave behind a pretty corpse and a tragedy, that's what I always say.

Céline (nodding): Whatever he said.

Robert(concerned): You both should say something else.

Stephen:(proposes a plan)So what do you guys think? Good idea right?

Valentine:Whatever floats your Titanic.

Stephen:Wait didn't the Titanic sink?

Valentine:Yes, just like your IQ did when you came up with that stupid idea.

Jocelyn: I was raised as an only child.

Jocelyn: It was honestly kinda unfair towards my brother.

Michael: It's really muggy out today.

Robert: If I go outside and all our mugs are on the front lawn, I'm going to kill you.

Michael: *sips coffee from a bowl*

Imogen: I have one of your sons!

Valentine: Which one? I have two.

Imogen: uh, the blond one!

Valentine: Both of them are blond.

Imogen: The one named Jonathan.

Valentine: Nope, need to be more specific.

Imogen: How about the annoying one, constantly talking and asking about food?

Valentine:...

Valentine: I'm still not getting which one you're talking about.

Valentine: Don't worry. I have a permit.

Imogen: This just says,"I can do whatever I want"?!!

Maryse: Go tell him (Stephen) he's cute. What's the worst that could happen?

Céline: He could hear me?

Michael: And so, Céline giggled in French.

Luke: How do you even giggle in French?

Stephen: Like "honhonhon oui oui baguette" or something?

Stephen: I DO WHAT I WANT.

Robert: I'm calling Imogen.

Stephen(sweating): No wait don't—

[sarahreesbrennan]

On Sebastian: You've Got To Love Your Demon Baby

[cassandraclare]

thelittleemermaid asked you:

“Sebastian is still my favorite character. next to magnus. even after all the horrible things he has done. how do you manage to do that? make us like characters who are vile and bad, but we still end up loving to death?”

I decided to turn this question over to my friend and fellow author Sarah Rees Brennan, whose love for Sebastian is unbounded and who sometimes sneaks onto my computer and inserts scenes in which Sebastian saves kittens from infernos, and bandages the injured paws of little squirrels, so I have to keep an eagle eye on her. Clearly, she is the right person to answer this question. Spoilers for City of Glass, etc. below.

sarahreesbrennan:

So my pal Cassandra Clare just had a reader ask her why one of her villains, Sebastian of the Mortal Instruments series, is so lovable. As whenever I am with her, I ask anxiously ‘What have you done to Sebastian? How is Sebastian?’ or quietly, quietly slide her laptop away from her and type very fast, hoping she will not notice: ‘Then Clary hugged Sebastian, hugged and did not let go until he felt somewhat less evil. There were a few murderous relapses but basically after that he knew he was loved.’ … Cassie turned the question over to me.

This is Sebastian. Look at him. CLEAR need of a hug.

Now Sebastian was raised in isolation by an EVIL and EXTREMELY HARSH father: all indications are that his childhood was not filled with father-son marathons of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.

Also Sebastian is a wee bit demonic. Now if you guys know me or have read any of my books or spent three minutes in my company at any time, you know I like demons. I mean… demons! Of course they are not like people. Of course they have a little bit of a tendency towards evil. Makes them fascinating!

Another obvious candidate for HUGGING TOWN.

Nature and nurture are both against young Sebastian, and he does a number of terrible things. But he does not spend all his time on top of Skullcrusher Mountain, stroking a cat. He is JEALOUS of his horrible father’s affection for his other son, and HOPEFUL that his sister will be somewhat like him… because nobody else is like him.

He is in short, crying out for a connection! Which he has never had. If he had had somebody to love him, everything might have been very different.

As we all know, but Sebastian does not: love makes you real. It makes other people real to you, as well. Sebastian is many things: not entirely human being one of them, but another is a kid who wasn’t brought up in a loving environment. Of course someone who isn’t loved is capable of terrible things. 

There’s a lot of media asking what you do if someone is born, you know, a little evil. (‘Healthy boy! Slight jaundice. Touch of evil.’) Rosemary’s Baby. The Ring. The Omen. A book by Lionel Shriver that just became a most excellent movie… 

Monsters aren’t lovable. I find them lovable because they’re not lovable. It might not turn out well, but you have to try loving the monster. If only because it’s interesting to think about how they would respond.

Ahem! Team Somebody Hug Sebastian, Even Though It May Lead To Bodily Injury.

[queenlilith43]

After re-listening to Hey Stephen, I have determined it reminds me of Celine Montclaire's crush on Stephen Herondale.

Also, Taylor compares Stephen to an angel. So there's that.

[serathereadaholic]

Incorrect quotes featuring the Circle of Raziel-

[serathereadaholic]

City of fallen Angels, chapter 14

“Oh, yes,” said Jocelyn. “I wanted to hate her for taking Stephen away from Amatis, but you just couldn’t help wanting to protect Céline. Jace has a little of that.” She sounded lost in thought. “Or maybe it’s just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.” She lowered her hand. “It doesn’t matter. I have my memories to contend with, but they’re my memories. Jace shouldn’t bear the weight of them. I will tell you one thing, though. If he didn’t love you like he does—and it’s written all over his face whenever he looks at you—I wouldn’t tolerate him for even a moment."

Jocelyn saying that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world and referencing it to Céline oh my god it's way too overwhelming 🥺 (Beautiful things being broken by the world but it was really Valentine in both Céline and Jace's case)

This quote is just so special to me (and another pointer that Jace might look like Céline more than Stephen bcoz they're both so beautiful)

Also bonus points for mamma bear Jocelyn being a protective mom lol she's perfectly right to be intolerable of any less than whatever love Clary deserves!

[khaleesiofalicante]

Brooo

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai au with Stephen, Celine and Amatis 🥲

[serathereadaholic]

Who the Wolf loves, Better in black—

"Maybe there’s a reason the ceremony calls for two witnesses. Four is a stable number. Safe. Three forms a shape with a much sharper point."

Sooo... I'm guessing Doritos/Nachos isn't gonna be Luke's favourite snack anytime soon?

(silly jokes aside tho, that's a badass line Cassie slayed with)

[thefoxandthefound-deactivated20]

Céline Montclaire

Masterlist of Flower Cards

Flower: Wisteria

Translation: Regret

Other Translations:

• I cling to thee (to Stephen? To Luke? To Valentine?)

• Serious devotion (Circle or to her son?)

• The imperishability of life (*crying*)

• Love

• Poetry (please tell me Hace inherited his love of poetry from Celine?)

• Sensitivity and tenderness (this matches well to how others such as Luke and Joycelyn described her)

• I want to protect you

• Welcome

• I will always welcome you

• Youth

• Forever young (sadly this is funeral flower often what this means is someone who died young)

• Will you please be my friend? (This is where I become inconsolable)

• Welcome fair stranger

• I remain steady

• Given to wish a new bride luck in her marriage

• To celebrate a healthy child

• In Japan wisteria symbolises long life and immortality (ah the irony)

• Expanding consciousness and awareness (her seeing who Valentine truly is?)

Points of Interest:

• Wisteria is associated with Mercury and the element of Air. Its most common magical associations include psychic development, wisdom and meditation. Less common associations include love, prosperity, and healing from grief.  The scent of wisteria flowers may aid in meditation, embracing one’s femininity, channeling, and overcoming the fear of intimacy.

@beclynn-herondale this made me so sad for Céline!?

@alastair-esfandiyar-carstairs1 @anarmorofwords @littlx-songbxrd @apple-bottom-jeansx @thechangeling @yozinha-z @gabtapia @dontmindmyshadowhunting @goldendvisy @queenlilith43 @goodoldfashionednerd @tyblackthornkinnie @ohcoolnice @writeforjordelia @icycoolslushie (let me know if you want to be tagged xx)

[nigthwingsleftbuttcheek]

I swear one of this days you fuckers will end up convincing me to read All For The Game and I will hate you for it.

Still standing strong though.

[summerwiney]

fun fact: idgaf about TID

first time i read it, couldn't stand it. i gave it another shot, and i don’t hate it, but still couldn’t care less

[tiredandoptimistic]

tsc character you'd like to examine like a lab rat and dissect all their actions and behaviors?

Robert Lightwood without a doubt. He's got everything wrong with him and he's making that a problem for everyone he knows. I think Robert is so fascinating to me because he really doesn't have much self-awareness, and since he's a relatively minor character we don't get much of his perspective on himself or the world, so most of his story is filtered through the perspectives of his children. We can't know why he's like that because he doesn't know why he's like that, and he's sure not gonna have an honest conversation with Alec and Isabelle about why he's like that. The Evil We Love isn't very long but it still showcases a bunch of issues that can't be examined in depth because that would require Robert doing introspection, and that won't happen because the man has a passion for repression. He's clearly always trying to do better for his family, but he keeps fucking it up and then trying again anyways because at the end of the day he loves his kids and he wants them to have happier lives than he did. He's so damn proud of Alec and Isabelle but he doesn't know how to communicate that and he doesn't know how to make up for the hurt he caused them as kids, but he's trying anyways and it's messy but it's worth it.

Also. Okay. Robert is the most aromantic man I've seen in my life, and if he wasn't born in a warrior cult in the 1960s he could have been so much more normal about that but NO he thinks that there's something fundamentally broken inside of him and he can't handle Michael being queer because Robert needs to hide that brokenness rather than potentially examining and accepting it as a part of who he is and he can't stand Michael proving that there's alternate ways to be happy with yourself. Robert decided to define himself as "world's most normal man" because he knows deep down that he isn't normal, and anything that challenges that image is a threat because the image is all he has.

Robert's repression game is so peak that he literally broke his and Michael's parabatai bond which is why he didn't feel Michael's death in 1991 and Valentine was able to keep up the lie that Michael was alive until 2001. Valentine's whole scheme would have fallen apart if Robert was emotionally open with his best friend. Guy who ripped out half of his soul as a teenager so he wouldn't have to question why that part of himself didn't match the ideal he wanted to be, and so lost his ability to see what was wrong with that ideal until it was too late.

Thanks for the ask! I'm taking more of these if anybody has more to send.

[nigthwingsleftbuttcheek]

[serathereadaholic]

Just found a blog where the author has posted the yummiest and most amazing analysis, ideas, discussions and dissections of the circle members and the Circle of Raziel over the years (I simply love finding old posts) and yk what, my weekend is set for the time being.

[tiredandoptimistic]

Oooooh there's so much here. Stephen's defining trait is his weakness, and I love that Jace is easily able to pick up on that from beyond the grave. Him and Amatis exchanging letters after the divorce is so perfect, since they were still in love but Stephen didn't have the backbone to defy Valentine and Amatis didn't have the confidence to demand better from Stephen. They wanted to be together, but neither of them would actually fight for that togetherness. It's a perfect contrast to Clary and Jace, who would blow past any barrier to be together (damn the consequences).

Also, I think it's super cool how this is yet another example of Jace being able to recognize Valentine's positive traits but struggling to reconcile that nuance with the overall evil.