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One thing I appreciate about SJM's writing is that the protagonist isn't always the one to kill the villain. They wouldn't have defeated the antagonist without the protagonist, but they didn't deliver the final blow:
•Dorian killed the King of Adarlan and shattered the glass castle.
•Fenrys killed Maeve.
•Yrene killed Erawan.
•Nesta and Elain killed the Hybern king.
•Lysandra killed Arobynn
SJM makes the side characters just as important as the protagonist and I love that.
Heir of Fire in a nutshell
Rowan: Shift
Aelin: I can't
Rowan: Shift.
Aelin: Can you hear old man? I can't
Rowan: Shift
Aelin: Holy Gods you're insufferable
Rowan: Shift
Aelin: ShIfT
Rowan *glowers* *snarls*
Aelin: what are you gonna do? Bite me 🙄
Rowan bites her, Aelin: what the hell?
Rowan: happy? Now shift.
you ever think about how Aelin fucking Galathynius basically stole almost all of Maeve’s bloodsworn warriors and managed to get three (3) of them swear the blood oath to her? Like the fucking BALLS on this bitch, she had the NERVE to steal a fucking Valg queen’s most powerful warriors, three (3) of the most powerful Fae males in existence, and they serve her unquestioningly because she’s that much better than Maeve. (don’t come at me with semantics, I know Fenrys was given the blood oath to save his life but you know damn well he would’ve taken it willingly) Not to mention she ceremoniously gave Gavriel the blood oath after he died, and Aedion took it too.
Now she has four (4) powerful Fae males at her side serving her like. The fucking power she has.
Your fave could never omg—
Rowan Whitethorn ladies and gentlemen:
I'm sorry but I CANNOT get over rowan being a 300 year old fae warrior who's mastered the art of stealth and composure not being able to control his knee hitting the table just bc the girl he likes told him she went camando
Nothing has ever been truer
Fenrys: Moonbeam Lorcan: Lochan
Fenrys: if you took a shot for every time you’ve made a bad decision, how drunk would you be?
Dorian: tipsy
Chaol: drunk
Aelin: alcohol poisoning
Rowan: why is Lorcan crying?
Fenrys: he took the “which throne of glass character are you?” quiz
Rowan: …Who did he get?
Fenrys: Aelin
* at 4 am *
Aelin: Once you start clapping you never stop. There's just a longer interval between the claps
Rowan: Please, fireheart, go to sleep
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Signs that you’re in love with your roommate:
On page 6: you describe his magic as lighting “a match inside your heart”
On page 7: you say “he looked fine to me – not a hair out of place”
On pages 14-18: you mention him multiple times while talking about things you miss (before even mentioning your girlfriend)
On page 14/15: you describe how much better he looks than you and everyone else
On page 23: you think about him and his ability to do magic when your life is in danger
On page 27: he’s the first thing you think about when you get to your room
On page 28: you lay on your bed and try to catch the scent of him
On page 28/29: you’re talking to your best friend, but everything you say/think is about him
On page 39: you admit to watching him while he sleeps
On page 40: your best friend mentions how much you watch him while he sleeps
On page 43: you talk about his pajamas and he’s the last thing you think about before falling asleep
On page 50: you struggle to think of reasons you can’t leave, and he is the first coherent thought to come to mind
On page 77: you’d want an explanation if he was holding hands with another guy but not when he held hands with your girlfriend
On page 77: the first thing you do at the welcome-back picnic is look for him
On page 81: he’s the first thing you think about when you wake up
On page 86: you argue that you know him best
On page 88: it feels wrong that he’s gone
On page 91: you count the weeks he’s been gone
On pages 96-97: you drill a teacher about where he is
On page 98: you don’t stop looking for him and methodically search the woods for him
On page 99: you agree that he has pretty eyes (but not that he’s dead)
On page 102: you admit to following him around for a year
On page 124: you’re failing the two classes that he should be in with you
On page 138: you talked about him so much that you’re friend had to set a limit on how much you were allowed to talk about him
On page 139: you know it’s his handkerchief before you see his initials
On page 145: you’re “just lying in bed, thinking about” him
On page 145: you say he’d be “bloody perfect” if he weren’t a vampire
On page 146: you’d do anything to bring him back,
On page 150: you know his face as well as your own
On page 150: you stand so quickly when you see him that you knock over furniture
[I’m tired, so I’ll finish this tomorrow. Feel free to add anything that I may have missed.]
(via https://open.spotify.com/playlist/159FK776aTadVuBCgJU9W0?si=nyt1tFbKQMaw4cSoykWwhA)
Playlist for Chain of Gold! Took a little while because I wanted to put it where you could listen if you felt like it. What songs remind me of what is below, though often I just listen to whatever gives me a certain mood or feeling at the time — sadness, energy, anger, etc.
Earth Not Above — HAELOS
Could be about quite a few characters that need forgiveness! Alastair, Matthew, even Grace.
A sun from the waste land calling Bringing us back home Shadows will guide us Show us what’s true
Palace — Matthew and the Atlas
See the demon in the night The shape of it covers the light Feathers touch upon the skin When no one else would let you in.
Broken — lovelytheband
Definitely makes me think of Matthew, even Thomas…the Blackthorns…
Life is not a love song that we like We’re all broken pieces floating by Life is not a love song, we can try To fix our broken pieces one at a time
Burn the House Down — AJR
Clearly about the chapter “Burn”
Walking with a Ghost — Tegan and Sarah
Lucie and Jesse.
My Body is a Cage — Arcade Fire
Reminds me of James, trapped in a situation where he doesn’t feel what he thinks he feels.
My body is a cage that keeps me From dancing with the one I love But my mind holds the key
Lord Huron — She Lit A Fire
Makes me think of Cordelia. James and her iconic dance!
I’ve been through the desert and I’ve been across the sea I’ve been walking through the mountains and wandered through the trees for herI have been trying to find her want to give what I got She lit a fire, but now she’s in my every thought
Hole: Awful.
Matthew.
Swing low, cherry cherry Yeah, it’s awful He’s drunk, he tastes like candy He’s so beautiful.
Untouchable Face: Ani diFranco
A fantastic song about the brutality of unrequited love; (and Ani’s song 32 Flavors makes me think of Anna.) Definitely Cordelia.
Tell you the truth I prefer the worst of you Too bad you had to have a better half She’s not really my type But I think you two are forever And I hate to say it, but you’re perfect together
So fuck you
And your untouchable face Fuck you For existing in the first place.
Total Disaster: Rhett Miller
Clearly about Alastair, and possibly Matthew…
If you choose to stay by my side You got to get that I got flaws Feel free to leave anytime Lord knows I will give you cause
Heads Gonna Roll, Jenny Lewis
The Merry Thieves!
Even though we’re just friends I think of us as bookends And I’m gonna love you ‘til I die
Daniel, Bat for Lashes
Anna and Ariadne.
But in a goodbye bed With my arms around your neck Into our love the tears crept Just catch in the eye of the storm.
High Enough, K Flay
Matthew…
Don’t try to give me cold water I don’t wanna sober up All I see are tomorrows Oh, the stars were made for us.
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I’m still not really sure whether it was a good or bad time to release a book about quarantine.
I am contagious, I am breaking down I am nothing, I am no one’s fault I am contagious, I am plagued with lies Flesh of our fathers, I am no one’s fault.
Hi Cassie, ever since I started reading your Shadowhunters books I've loved the world you created and I'm amazed at how you manage to build it out more and more with every book you write. Do you have any tips or tricks regarding worldbuilding? How did you go about creating this amazing world?
I could write a whole book about world-building — in fact, there are lots of books about it! Every book, even contemporary fiction, requires world-building: you are always creating a sense of place, time, and character in a story, which is essentially what world-building is.
Obviously fantasy has specific elements of world-building that other genres don’t have, so that’s what I’ll talk about — briefly — here. These are a few steps you need to consider when you’re building a fantasy world, be it an open world or a closed one.
1) What’s your normal?
You’re always going to establish what the norm is in your world before you do anything else. You don’t have to get into the nitty-gritty, but set your basic ground rules. Is there magic? If so, what’s the cost of magic? (Power is never free — it always costs in effort, knowledge, body parts, etc.) Does everyone know about magic (in which case yours is an open fantasy world)? Is it a secret (closed fantasy world)? What’s your time period? Tech level?* What are the major antagonists of your world? What are the biggest dangers? And finally, what’s the main thing your character wants? That may seem like character work, but it’s intrinsic to world-building. If your character wants above all other things to be King, for instance, then you know you have a monarchy.
*Remember Clarke’s First Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. In other words, you can usually have magic or super-advanced technology, but not both, because they do the exact same thing in a story. Location spells are pointless if you have GPS tracking devices implanted in everyone. If you are going to have both, you have to figure out how what they do is different. Otherwise you are giving Spiderman the power of flight, thus rendering his web-slinging useless. So give it thought!
2) Make your rules.
Otherwise known as internal consistency. Our world is governed by natural laws that determine what people can and cannot do. A world you make up must be the same. What if only some people can do magic? Then you have to figure out who they are, why they can do magic, what rules govern the practice of that magic, how the rest of the population feels about them, and what that magic is based on. While you don’t need to — and shouldn’t — explain every detail of these rules on-page, your characters have to abide by them. We need to believe these are real people who are governed by an internally consistent set of strictures that shape and define their behavior. If your main characters live in a walled city that closes at night, show us that by having them worry about getting back before the gates shut.
3) Break your rules.
Half the reason you established your normal is so you can fuck with it. Stories are about conflict. They’re about the moment things go wrong, not about things going right. They’re about things suddenly not conforming to expectations. If you have a land ruled by a benevolent King everyone adores, assassinate him. (Even better if your main character does it.) If you have a world where women can’t do magic, you need a badass sorceress to rise. If parabatai can’t fall in love, make sure two of them do. If Shadowhunters are the descendants of angels, what happens when one is a descendent of demons? Once you build your world, your first question should be, What is this story going to do to change it?
4) Everything hews to a theme.
Think about the thematic implications of your world. If you’re building a low-tech, high-nature faerie world, think about the way not having tech, and having nature magic fill a lot of those uses, will influence the way the characters talk, the expressions they use, what they wear (nothing with zippers, nothing mass-produced) the way they live their day-to-day lives (alas, no flush toilets). For instance, the thematic character of the Shadowhunters books is defined by the overarching mythology of angels and demons. Seraph blades, which have to be activated by speaking an angel’s name, hew to that theme. Everything the Shadowhunter characters do is defined by their belief that they have angel blood (or fear they have demon blood.) Whenever I build new mythology into the Shadowhunter world, I have to think “Does this fit with who the Shadowhunters think they are, their priorities, beliefs and history? Is this something that could or would happen in this complex, small, militaristic society?”
It can help to think of it as an aesthetic, as if you were putting together a house. Does this piece go, or does it clash with everything?
5) Small details.
Little pieces that feel unique and true help build out a world. Rather than spending your time detailing the entire history of the Royal Family for a thousand years, create a room in the palace where the faces of royal enemies are dried, stretched and mounted in glass. Now we know the Royal Family is creepy, which is more interesting than knowing everyone’s grandparents’ names. Stuff that isn’t momentous is fine if it’s interesting. Random stuff I know about Castellane, the city in Sword Catcher: interior light comes from carcel-lamps, dentures are made from the teeth of dead soldiers, the Queen loves kalamansi fruit, and if you fall in the bay, a crocodile will eat you. Think of the big world-building details — names of countries, the type of religion, the way magic works — as the walls, beams, and floors of your house. The small details are your paint, wallpaper and furniture. One is a structure; the other is the sense and character of that structure.
There’s a lot more to say about world-building, and I’m always happy to answer writing questions. It offers me an amazing opportunity to procrastinate. :) Good luck!
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hey cassie! this is really random but recently i reread city of heavenly fire and at the end of the book, when magnus gives alec the notebook with the story of his life in, it says theres an inscription in the front starting with "dear alec ... " and i just really want to know what the rest of that inscription says and was wondering if you ever wrote it? thank you, i love you and your books so much, they mean the world to me💛
I did write it as an extra for Ilumicrate’s Red Scrolls of Magic box; they kindly gave me permission to post it here.
Dear Alec, I once told you that you were not trivial. It broke my heart that you would think so. I should have known then that one day I must tell you this. It was never your fault that I didn’t talk to you about my past. Centuries are not easy to speak of, and they were not easy to live. There have been people I loved who thought that because I laugh so that I don’t weep or break, that I was trivial. There have been people I loved who learned more of me, and thought I was evil incarnate who must be destroyed. I didn’t know how to make those I loved think of me as more than nothing, or less than a devil. I have seen the hearts of warlocks go hard and fragile as glass over time, seen them shatter and destroy the world around them. I have seen hatred and evil in Shadowhunters and Downworlders and mundanes. I never dreamed that I would meet a son of the Angel who could love me. Once I met you, so many feelings seemed made new: love, and hope, and fear you would see me for what I truly was, and turn your face away. That you, steadfast and clean-hearted and clear-eyed, would be right to turn away. I never doubted your heart. Only my place in it. I hoped for a long time to meet someone like you. I didn’t know I had almost stopped hoping, until you came. Whether you choose me tonight or not, whether you want me for always or never again, thank you for being all that you are. Alexander Gideon Lightwood, archer boy who never misses, my hope past hope. You will know me better after you read these stories. I don’t know what you will think of me then. I only hope you know this one truth about me, with all the good and all the bad. I spent days dying in chains, thinking you would never know this, so let me tell you now. I will love you as long as I live. However long or short my life may be, it seems to me that I could never find time enough to love you as you deserve. Loving you made me believe in eternity. Aku cinta kamu.
Doesn't it bother you that Will and Jace are basically the same character? I mean I can understand liking an archetype, but isn't it boring preferring the same character and shipping choice?
You know what’s boring? Lazy character analysis that thinks one troubled hero automatically equates to another troubled hero. With that sort of analysis then every character who has ever had problems is just ‘the same’ as the previous ones. Or is it other things that make them them 'the same?’ If we’re doing that, then Angel = Simon right (cause they are both vampires who like music - admittedly Simon’s is bad punk rock and Angel’s was Barry Manilow - but you see - 'the same’), Batman = Wolverine, Harry Potter = Frodo, Hermione Granger = Thelma from Scooby Doo, and I guess to throw back to my favourites Angel Clare is the same as Darcy? Cause you know, they are both good men who kinda made some mistakes and try and make good in the end so, clearly…the same, right? No…I don’t want to talk about different circumstances, or actions, or reasoning’s, or level of mistakes - because that doesn’t matter. They are close enough that if you squint there are some similarities, so that’s good enough for me!
Ugh…it’s just lazy. 'Will and Jace are related and were written by the same author and there are some similarities there, so clearly that’s it’ when in reality, if anyone looked a little deeper than just surface snark and good looks they would see two very, very different characters despite the fun similarities they have going on.
Will had a happy childhood until he left for the Institute after his sister was killed and he was cursed. Jace had a miserable childhood where he was routinely abused until he left for the Institute after believing that his father had been murdered. Will, believing he was under a terrible curse, routinely pushed people away and only allowed Jem to be close to him. Jace, being fostered with the Lightwood family, became part of the family - so much that they consider him another son, another brother and he considers them his family as well.
Are we seeing some differences already?
Personality wise - Jace doesn’t lie (he makes a point of mentioning that, even though he does lie a couple of times, of course. Honesty is his big thing) whereas Will had to lie out of necessity. He never truthfully represented himself since he was 12 years old to anyone, not even Jem.
Jace admits that sometimes when he feels bad about himself he will wilfully hurt the people he loves and doesn’t apologise (the conversation with Alec about Magnus), Will hurts people out of necessity to keep them alive and torments himself afterwards because of it. (That is not a criticism of Jace because everyone does it - I’m just trying to point out some differences.)
Are we comparing angst? Because if we’re doing that - Will thinks that anyone who cares for him will die and that since no one around him is actually dying, clearly he’s doing a good job and no one really cares. Jace’s angst comes from being told he was in love with his sister by the sociopath that is his father. As tragic as that situation was for Jace (and us readers) I’m not sure they measure up. If you were an outsider looking in, I’d think you’d say Jace got off easy for three books tbh! Now if you want to go COFA onwards…that’s more suitable angst for someone who is apparently the same character as Will because dreaming about and then actually stabbing your girlfriend while being haunted by your dead foster brother, before being possessed by a demon and reanimating your girlfriends demon brother matches up far more favourably. He may even have the edge now - beat that, Will Herondale!
Admittedly they both share the same sense of humour - but as we find out in Clockwork Prince, that is a Herondale trait that Will forced himself to possess…oh, and we also know that when they fall in love, it tends to be a one-time thing. Again, Herondale trait - if we’re going to hang them for it, then we should probably get rid of the whole line (if it wasn’t that most of them are dead already - seriously cursed family!)
So…if we’ve looked at their backgrounds and their personalities, what then? Ok - their love lives, right? Because Jace = Will and Clary = Tessa in this lazy thinking. I have a question - does Jace really love Clary? I’m serious - does he love her for who she is, or is it just a 'she’s new - I kinda dig the red hair, the cool Rune vibe she’s got going…’ It’s a ridiculous question right? What if I was to swap Clary with a more sensible, bookish girl - you think he’d be interested? Because you see, when you say that Will and Jace are the same, you’re basically saying that Tessa and Clary are the same. Now maybe you want to look through the tags from a few nights ago to see the abuse that was getting thrown at Clary for not being like Tessa to see how ridiculous that statement is.
Will likes bookish girls who can live with him intelligence wise and understands the things he finds funny and who makes him laugh and dream and want to fix himself. Jace likes someone who exasperates him, and calls him on his BS and who is forgiving enough to not smack him around the head when he’s earned it and who he can be himself with - whoever that is. See, Jace is going through a bit of an identity crisis because he’s had a lot of people putting ideas about who he should be in his head, Will on the other hand, only has his own thoughts in his head about how he can’t let anyone get close enough to be who he really is.
I could go on about this, because to be honest - it really pisses me off. 'Oh, they are so good looking and snarky so they are the same and I immediately judge everyone who thinks that jerks are all that matters.’ It’s lazy, and wrong and I get that not everyone likes complex characters who have a lot of layers and stuff going on (most of which I didn’t even mention!) but at least try and look beyond a few similar characteristics and lines and see what’s really there.
Ugh - this has become an essay, and I’m sorry - but I have seen so much crap making these same lazy comparisons that it really annoys me. I wish I could make a more reasoned post on it (and I might do that with quotes and the like, once I have time) but it seems to me that some people WANT to believe they are the same character and say it often enough hoping it makes it true. Here’s a hint - Jace isn’t Draco from the Draco trilogy, Will isn’t Jace - you do everyone (including yourself, because how can you enjoy the two series if you think you are just reading a rehash) a disservice by not realising it.
yknow i saw an article that was like “robert pattinson standing strong against the batman hate! :)” and im like. you fools. you absolute clowns. don’t you know who you’re dealing with? you realize this is the man who waded through all of the twilight hate? with stride? basically brushed it off of his shoulder immediately? even as a non twilight fan in the early 2000s i knew this man would never succumb to the words of the simple minded. batman criticism means nothing to him. he cannot be defeated now. youve cast the perfect impermeable wall. he’s too powerful and we’re at his mercy
