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upon this tmi reread of tmi I've very much indulged with Nico Parker as my Clary FC

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Ragnor appearing to help Magnus at the end of QOAAD.

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Roses being a metaphor for Valentine and Jace’s relationship

+ Mila Furstova’s City of Glass illustration

Me and @witchlingcirce were compiling all the Easter eggs in Mila Furstova’s editions of TMI (The moon on the CoLS cover symbolising Sebastian from a line in the book, The Star on CoA referencing the Morgensterns, etc) and the rose on the City of Glass cover felt so out of place, seeing as there could of been a number of more obvious objects that were relevant to City of Glass’s plot.

But, after some searching, roses and/or rosebushes also mirror Jace and Valentine’s relationship. When Jace was a child, the Wayland roses were in full bloom, suggesting a moment at its fullest point: closeness, idealisation, the height of Jace’s belief in his father. Full bloom can also carry that strange tension of impermanence, because when something reaches its peak you can already feel the possibility of loss or decay inside it.

And then after Valentine’s betrayal and the overall destruction of Jace and Valentine’s relationship, the later image of the flowers being blossomless and ‘threaded with green weeds’ symbolise the resentment and corruption working through what once seemed entirely untouchable to Jace. The Wayland Roses becomes a really visible record of that emotional shift.

What I like most is that the cover seems to hold both ideas at once: memory and imprisonment. The rose can mean love, childhood beauty, and belonging but it can also become a structure that encloses! That feels very fitting for Jace, because so much of his story is about discovering that the place he built his identity around also trapped him inside someone else’s version of the truth.