jagz misses kit ❥

jagoda. polish. 24. she/her ꨄ︎ intense kit herondale enthusiast pfp art by the lovely @meerabanerjee :)

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he is the moment 😩

artists: @cassandrajean, @parcai and @aliceduke

[cassandraclare]

Will we see Ty interacting with a lot of animals in TLKOF? Like, will he be randomly finding animals on their road trip like he did in TDA with the weasel and other animals? If he does, how does Kit react?

He does! Sometimes he has like, a mouse in his pocket for some reason. Kit thinks it is cute, annoyingly so.

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Someone who already finished TLKoF wrote “Kit… ahhhh 😭😭😭” and WHAT DO YOU MEAN “KIT… AHHHH 😭😭😭”???????

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This little animation took me 3 months to complete. And yes, I am fully aware that this trend was popular on TikTok a couple of months ago. I'm late, I know

But the thing is, I started working on it back in the spring, and then life got really busy. I had to put my work on hold for 3 months due to my university studies and personal commitments. I've only recently returned to my work and have finally completed it.

The trend may have passed, but I still love this art. It's simple, sad, and means a lot to me. So I'm posting it anyway, with no regrets.

Ave atque vale Livia Blackthorn

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KIT’S FEELINGS FOR TY NEVER FADE SOMEBODY FUCKING SEDATE ME

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hey so im crying myself to sleep 💔💔💔

[cassandraclare]

Hii Cassie! I enjoy your writing so much!! I wanted to ask if Ash is going to be somewhat of a morally gray character?? Since at the end of the snippet he tells Dru that she might hate him for taking her to faerie. It's okk if you can't answer because you want us to discover it on our own.

Yes, I would say he is a morally gray character, especially since we see him from Dru's perspective, and she has no idea if he's a good person or not for quite a while. Also she eventually finds something out that reverses her thoughts about him anyway (and, probably, ours.)

[cassandraclare]

How would you describe Ash’s relationship with Shadowhunters and his ability to bear runes?

He can bear runes. His feelings about Shadowhunters are complex and they do get explored in the books!

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can you tell us which horror movie dru and ash watch together? 🙏🏼🥹

I cannot, but my grandfather was a horror movie producer back in the 50's and 60's and I usually use his films when talking about horror Dru is watching. They are not good films, he would have been the first one to tell you, but they're pretty fun. '

[cassandraclare]

What is Ty's favorite thing about Kit? What specific traits or actions make Kit endearing in Ty's eyes?

I think finding out what those things are are actually the backbone of any story about falling in love. So (annoying as that no doubt is) I think it's much more fun to experience Ty's thoughts of Kit on the page rather than be told them out of context — and vice versa as well.)

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early days clace was so angsty 💔

[cassandraclare]

Hello!

In the new flower book it was revealed that Ash sometimes plays the piano, so I was wondering how he learned to play? Did he teach himself or does he have secret tutors Janus doesn't know about??

Janus would have been basically the same person as Jace before the Battle of the Burren in City of Los Souls, so as Jace played the piano, Janus would too. I'd like to think he taught Ash — theirs has always been a weird relationship!

[cassandraclare]

Hi Cassie!

My question is: Will Kit ever find out what his mother was like? I mean something beyond just descriptions—perhaps a photograph?

I’m also curious about Kit’s opinion of his mother. It feels like, considering all the sacrifices Rosemary made for him, Kit doesn't really know much about her; he doesn't even own anything that belonged to her—nothing to keep her present in his daily life (except for the heron necklace, but Ty has that, not Kit). It's like Rosemary’s presence in Kit’s life has been somewhat sidelined, which I find a bit sad. Will we see him thinking or talking about her in TLKoF?

Thanks for your answer! ♡

Hi! ❤️

As of right now what Kit's relationship to Rosemary's memory will look like in TWP seems a bit spoilery! — but it's an interesting question (though indeed when you are in a fantasy adventure and always running you don't get to introspect as much as you might like.)

Rosemary’s story intersects with Jem’s, and with Tessa’s — they only go looking for Kit when Rosemary dies, and they don’t immediately tell him about her because it would be devastating to find out your mother had been alive without you knowing and then died extremely recently. At that point Kit is not ready to hear it. It becomes clear in TWP though that they've discussed Rosemary with Kit and he is aware of her story.

It's worth keeping in mind that these are Kit's own thoughts regarding his mother, before he really finds out much about Rosemary. "Maybe there was something wrong with him, Kit thought as he followed Alec into the hallway. Maybe he didn’t have the right kind of feelings. He’d never wondered that much about his mother, who she was: Wouldn’t someone who knew how to feel properly wonder that?"

So in some sense the issue is what Kit thinks of his own emotional capabilities. It is clear to us he doesn't have the "right kind of feelings" because that would be too painful. And that becomes more complex for him when he learns the story of his mother. The fact that she sacrificed herself for him would make him more likely to want to hold his feelings at a distance, not more likely to want a photograph or a keepsake. She is also tied up in his mind with him being the Heir which he hates and regards as something that has almost ruined his life.

We do know now that he has blurry memories of her singing to him. But that isn't the same as knowing her. What Kit would be mourning, if he let himself really mourn Rosemary, isn't the loss of someone he remembers. It's the loss of the chance to ever know her at all. For someone in that position, being surrounded by reminders of a life that barely intersected with their own might be comforting, or it might simply emphasize what was lost before it could ever exist.

“It's like Rosemary’s presence in Kit’s life has been somewhat sidelined, which I find a bit sad.”

You’re not wrong; it is sad, and that's okay, because the situation is sad in a way that cannot be undone. Tessa cannot have Will back. Will could not have Jem back. Julian can't have Livvy back. Jocelyn never got her son back. The Merry Thieves don't get Christopher back. And Kit does not get to have a life with Rosemary in it. That is one of the recurring themes throughout the Shadowhunter books when sad things happen and cannot be reversed. The question the books keep asking isn't, "How can this be fixed and made not sad?" It's, "How do we go on after loss and how do we understand that it can be part of our history without becoming our entire present? How can we understand that moving on is not a wrong done to the people we lost but is rather what they would want for us? How do we understand that acceptance is not erasure, and how do we, as Shadowhunters, keep doing what needs to be done instead of being ourselves undone by sadness?”

These are all things that Kit needs to think about and has deliberately not thought about. Rosemary’s presence is minimized in Kit’s life because he never really knew her and he doesn't want to think about her or really about Johnny either. Whether he can keep all that up without cracking is the part that seems spoilery.

I would address one thing about the heron pendant, though, because I think it's interesting that people might look at him giving it to Ty as him sidelining Rosemary. I think about it the opposite way (and this does come up in TWP) — Kit’s mother’s legacy was one of sacrificial and protective love. Kit has given this necklace to Ty as a gesture of protective love. Ty having that pendant is the thing — the first thing in TWP — that Kit thinks of as connecting him to his bio-mom. When he sees Ty with the necklace, he thinks that his mother protected him and in turn he has honored that legacy by giving something that symbolizes her to the person he most wants to protect. He thinks she would be pleased. It's pretty much the only thing he's let himself think about as regards her. So I think of it as connecting him to Rosemary rather than putting her aside.

I don't think Rosemary's place in Kit's story is measured by how many of her belongings he keeps or if he has a photo of her (he's certainly seen one.) He isn't looking for that. It will be measured in what Kit finds out about himself, his own feelings, and his relationship to his past. None of this is to say Kit won't ever know more about his biological mother. It's only to say I don't think that if he did, it would make the situation less sad; it may well make it more sad. It's just that it's okay if it's sad and Kit's ability to engage with it as a real loss, and to work through those feelings, is part of his journey.

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Best tsc scene so far??👀👀

oh boy that's a difficult one isn't it, how do you expect me to pick just one, i will not be doing that! but some of my fav tsc scenes from the series are:

- kitty first meeting (knife against throat are you bloody kidding me?)

- the first time kit uses his powers in qoaad

- kitty hugging in los - the tenderness and trust in that moment literally made me lose my mind icl i love them so bad

- every domestic jessa/kit/mina moment in sobh - it makes me so emotional that kit finally has a home full of love :'(

- sebastian getting green eyes at the end of cohf - breaks my bloody heart every single time, i always mourn what brother jonathan could have been <3

- blackthorn family moments (dru defending tavvy, mark coming back home, pancake days etc.)

- tmi gang edom visions (INSANITY)

- tessa and jem first kiss - when i tell you my life was changed forever and ever

- los cottage scene... 👁️👁️

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since we are getting tlkof in autumn then honestly the LEAST cassie could do is give us kitty dressing up as sherlock and watson for halloween... 👁️👁️