(possibly) Oscar's ghost walking with Kit when he can't sleep is the cutest (AND SADDEST) thing ever you cant convince me otherwise. like look at this guy with his blond hair and insomnia, he must have reminded oscar of Matthew :(
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(possibly) Oscar's ghost walking with Kit when he can't sleep is the cutest (AND SADDEST) thing ever you cant convince me otherwise. like look at this guy with his blond hair and insomnia, he must have reminded oscar of Matthew :(
THIS IS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE I SWEAR!!! She answered my question aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh😭
BY. THE. ANGEEL!!!!
Thank you so much @cassandraclare
Now I understand better❤️❤️
Love you❤️
NEWS: BOOK 1 OF "THE WICKED POWERS" HAS BEEN POSTPONED (with proof, or so it seems).
[We posted this on X/Twitter, but the news has made it to Tumblr, so let's just repost it here as well😄]
Recently, Cassandra Clare shared that she had just finished writing "The Last King of Faerie" and that she had turned in the manuscript some days before.
Though it was initially announced that it was going to be published in spring 2026, the first book in the series now will be published in fall 2026. The presale page of Better in Black on Walmart confirms it in the description, stating the following:
Okay, so we've seen you all commenting "Well, this is not official cause it doesn't come from Cassandra Clare, this could be a typo, Walmart is not a reliable source".
Oh, well... We did in fact ask Cassie about it and she ACTUALLY replied on an Instagram comment, confirming that TWP1 will be published in fall 2026 (North American time)
(Although she's mistaken here, she DID announce it for spring, it was never fall. But that's just the way Cassie's memory has been crashing lately, considering the issues with some facts stated in Better in Back that contradict the previous canon.)
So, yeah, this was inevitable. We knew this was coming. And you may say "But she said she had turned it in already!"
Yes, she turned in the book, but please do remember that there's still lots to do afterwards. Even if the manuscript is finished, editing it takes some months. The editing stage implies a deeper revision for corrections, rewriting and potentially reworking from scratch parts of the text, all that takes no less than 4 months. Don't forget the continuity reading too!!! Plus the time designing the inside of the book and the cover. Also, printing usually takes place several months before the release date, it's not something they do 1 week before the publishing date, they need a timeframe that allows transporting the hundreds of thousands of books they print with major writers.
We also haven't had any news on the cover (let alone an established release date). Be reminded that Cassie reveals the book covers 1 year prior to the publication of the books. And as this is the start of a new series and the first stage of the grand finale, this book needs more time to properly advertise it, they will likely send ARCs some months before like they did with BIB. Let's not forget Cassie is publishing on a new publishing house, so they need time to make the people know they will be publishing TWP.
Considering all this, there was definitely not enough time, we're only 6 months away from the start of spring in North America😅
So, this is absolutely not a surprise. This was needed. There was no other option. This is all for the best, we all want this book to be worth it. We've been waiting for it for over a decade. The Wicked Powers better be the best books ever written.
At this point my brain doesn't even believe TWP is gonna happen. Like. Oh yeah, there's this book I've been waiting for since I was fourteen, but it's not technically a book, it's an urban legend
I just know that if TWP was set in 2024, Kit would be screaming The smallest man who ever lived by Taylor Swift
(yeah he would be such a drama queen)
Am I the last person on earth to realize I have loved you and you haven't known it might mean that Ty not just did know what Kit meant with I love you, Ty, I love you but that he also regrets not saying it back? That maybe if he had, Kit wouldn't have left. That maybe, on top of the guilt he feels for the ritual, he's also carrying the guilt of not saying it back? Because maybe, just maybe, if he hadn't been so shocked by [everything that was going on at that moment] he could've stopped Kit from leaving. Maybe if he could've said it at the time, Kit would've stayed. That he thinks he lost Kit because of it. That part of his self imposed penance is related to that.
ohk so let's all imagine this.
Thomas loves languages. So i assume he loves travelling too, because then, he gets to explore new languages. Alastair speaks Persian, and tbh Persian was spoken in many South Asian countries as that time (zorashtrians, etc)
Imagine Alastair and Thomas going around south asia and living it up. Thomas knows hindustani (modern day hindi) and urdu. He knows Nepali and Bengali. They travel across modern day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan etc while having the time of their lives. They portal in and out of institutes, and bring in souvenirs for their beautiful cirenworth house.
Alastair barters with the rich Persian merchants and gets rich. We all know that Alastair is going to be an amazing politician, so by virtue he's an amazing speaker. Everyone loves him. And they love Thomas too, because even tho he's a white man, he's keen to learn their culture.
They both drink tea in the Mysore, and Hyderabadi palaces with the kings/nawabs. The nawabs gift them beautiful weaponry and paintings.
They take long walks in the palace lawns while men and women admire them through the eyes of ancient Bengali poetry.
They go hunting through the huge jungles. They train with the army and teach the new soldiers how to use weapons.
They wear kurtas with beautiful gold embroidery on it.
At night they sit on the rooftop of the Mysore palace. They look at the city below them with its candle-lit pathways, and the sky above them. They count their blessings along with the stars.
Now this is such a comfort headcannon for me.
I know that CC said the family tree wasn’t 100% accurate, but feel like she said that because she regretted publishing it as it would ruin the spinoff series as we knew who’d marry who. But breaking with it entirely so that Christopher and Grace don’t become Alec, Isabelle and Max’s ancestors was a bit ridiculous and frankly disappointing???