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Has anyone started reading TSC by The Dark Artifices Series?

If so, out of curiosity, how was the experience? Because I imagine the first two book must have seemed okay to follow, but Queen of Air and Darkness was so full of references to other sagas that it seems strange to imagine someone reading it before knowing about TMI and TID.

straberry-witch2016-2020

I did. I received Lady Midnight as a gift in 2017 just months before the release of Lord of Shadows. I loved the book but there were a lot of blanks I had to fill. So I missed a lot of world building and ended up relying a lot of deductive reasoning and previous knowledge of different mythologies to understand it. After I finished I waited two months and got Lord of Shadows as soon as I could. It wasn’t until after that I discovered the original six books and I bought and read those in a heartbeat. Then I reread lord of shadows and lady midnight. It was only then that got a more complete understanding of the books. I do remember knowing already about the battle of burren, exactly how Sebastian died, and the infernal cup when reading tmi. Of course, from there I moved on to the infernal devices and I read the bane chronicles and Tales of the Shadowhunter Academy before queen of air and darkness came out but it was worth the wait. By that point it had already become my favorite series. I think tda holds more weight with me because of the way I did it but it was harder to understand.

clarkgriffon

Differences between the houses ft. Spacefools (insp.)

hopeamikaelsons

insp.

hydro-homies

Meet the Midwesterners

fangedprince-reblogs

West coast people do this too. See, here’s the thing. The majority of NorCal? Asians. And that means a lot of Asian dads. And Asian dads love to drive. A couple times a year, my dad takes us all to Las Vegas, and he DRIVES us there. In a day. When I was seven, he drove us up to Oregon. Not even Portland or anything, just some random goddamn town in Oregon that was near a tiny ass casino because he had a timeshare there.

leeveemealone

Wait but my Asian dad doesn’t like to drive

Literally he hates driving he bikes to work

fangedprince-reblogs

You mean you’ve never had your ass dragged onto a car for six hours during your childhood?

some-random-forever

BROS WE DROVE 14 FUCKING HOURS TO TEXAS AND 18 HOURS TO CANADA NONE OF Y’ALL HAVE A RIGHT TO COMPLAIN

straberry-witch2016-2020

To move to LA from Chicago my parents drove our fucking asses and it took FIVE DAYS. Y’all west coasters are fucking babies, and to think I have to live with yalls. Besides we road trip regularly all over the country. I once was on the road for two weeks. I’m with this Melissa person you west coasters could use a hard core lesson is road trips. (And weather) it’s a pain on the ass but if you make the most of it it’s a lot more fun than flying.

sandersstudies

I was about to make a post like "the only thing girls are allowed to be shamelessly interested in is boys" and then I remembered how many girls get made fun of for being "boy-crazy" and now I've decided girls are actually now allowed to be shamelessly interested in anything.

sandersstudies

Literally name one thing a teenage girl is allowed to be very interested in that won't be widely made fun of.

diligent-thunder

The colour blue.

sandersstudies

Now I'm gonna be honest, I haven't SEEN any girls get made fun of for liking blue. However, I have seen girls get made fun of for liking 1) yellow 2) pink 3) black. So it's not like colors are off the table here.

karkatastrophee

Letters? Like just. Writing words. Maybe.

straberry-witch2016-2020

Any subject in school including lunch and PE. Having dreams. Going to college. Not going to college. Any color except pink. Scratch that even pink. Fitting social norms. Not fitting social norms. Talking. Not talking. Having skill. Not having skill. Being a vergin. Not being a vergin. Name anything and girls aren’t socially allowed to enjoy it.

Just some Rosegarden tea

Lemme get straight to it my rwby fam. STOP CALLING ROSEGARDEN PEDO!!!!! They are at most 2 years apart. But honestly it’s probs more like 1 1/2. Just cause Lindsay said Ruby is 17 doesn’t make it true she’s a VA not a producer show runner or writer. They show the passage of time through seasonal imagery in the show. You can count how long it’s been since season 1 when ruby was fifteen. It’s been about a year or a little over. Ruby is 16 Oscar is 14. Even if she was 17 three years isn’t a big deal. By that logic pls don’t ship Ruby with anyone because she’s two to three years YONGER than the rest of her peers. Besides ruby and Oscar are just cute and the show pushes that HARD. In cannon their relationship is full of understanding, similar hardships, emotional support and soft smiles. The fandom has cute hugs and cheak pecks. There’s nothing weird or creepy about that. The other stuff can wait till Thor much older. And let’s be quite frank, if the age gap was reversed and/or the hight gap, so that Oscar was older and taller, most of u wouldn’t have a problem. Proven by the amount of people who follow Lancaster. If anything this is a sexism issue. Y’all can’t just let a woman have the same romantic rights as a man. Not to mention, on a personal note, my mother is 1 1/2 to 2 years older than my father which is the exact Rosegarden age gap and my parents have been happily married for thirty years and successfully raised three children. Are you gonna tell me my moms pedo??? Just cause she’s 50 and my pops is 48???? They had been dating since high school. It’s the same thing. It’s more common than people think. There’s nothing wrong about the Rosegarden ship. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.