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“Show me how to kiss,” she said. “Properly.”
James and Cordelia from a certain tied-up angst-ridden kissing-lesson make-out scene in Chain of Iron… Hope you enjoy it! :) I had a blast working on all the tiny details. Note the William Morris wallpaper– I like to imagine James has the same interior decorating tastes as his mother.
Characters belong to @cassandraclare ! This piece is also on my instagram @ /ladylyeart <3
Aw, I am sad this instagram has disappeared.
Just a simple PSA
Cannon = thing that goes boom
Canon = an event that occurs within a published story
they both destroy ships tho
Did you just
ONCE TOLD ME-
THE WORLD WAS GONNA ROLL ME!
I AINT THE SHARPEST TOOL IN THE SHED
SHE WAS LOOKIN KINDA DUMB
WITH HER FINGER AND HER THUMB
In the shape of an “L” on her forehead
Well the years start coming and they don’t stop coming
Fed to the rules and I hit the ground running
Didn’t make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
So much to do so much to see
So what’s wrong with takin the backstreets
You never know if you don’t go
You’ll never shine if you don’t glow
You’re an all star
Get your game on, go play
HEY NOW
YOU’RE A ROCKSTAR
GET THE SHOW ON, GET PAID
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS GOLD
Only shooting stars break the mold
It’s a COOL PLACE,
And they say it gets COLDER!
YOU’RE BUNDLED UP NOW, WAIT TIL YOU GET OLDER
But the media man begs to differ, Judging by the hole in the satellite picture!
The iCe we sKaTE is getting pretty thin!
The water’s getting warm so you might as well swim
My world’s on FIRE, how about yours?
Why did I sing this all the way through???
love me maybe?
Anyone else feels like they overshare everything with others and at the very same time haven’t opened up at all to anyone
Coming into a fandom late
Coming into a fandom early and watching it become an angry clusterfuck
Being in a dormant fandom that suddenly comes alive again after a new book/movie
Don’t forget about those who come in the midst of a fandom war.
Accuracy at its best
Being in a fandom and not even knowing there’s a war going on…
all of this shit…lol
When You’re Not In The Fandom But You’re Nosy AF
When you get into a fandom only to discover it’s dead
This gets better every time I see it.
@fuboos-mess
Being in a dead fandom…
Or being in such a tiny fandom that it feels like youre the only one
The accuracy hurts.
Being in a fandom that had a shit ending.
When you’ve been fangirling long enough, you’ve experienced all of the above.
Being in a fandom meant for kids.
This just gets better..
@mi-kleos
When you realize that joining the fandom has ruined you
Fandom hell in general
Yes.
This^^^ just… ALL OF THIS.
Being in so many fandoms that you don’t even know what’s going on
THIS IS THE SKULDUGGERY FUCKING PLEASANT FANDOM IN ONE POST!!
Trying to recruit people to your fandom
Annnnnnndddd it’s back
Being in a fandom which has so many antis
I’ve probably reblogged this before, but that was before these great additions.
Being in a fandom that actually works together
Why is this so true? All of it.
being in a fanbase but all your mutuals suddenly turn into Kpop blogs
I always enjoy it when a good post comes around again and has been improved by the reblogs like the years for a fine wine.
Being in a fandom when shit goes down and everyone has different opinions
When you are in a fandom and don’t care for others people opinion…..even if they are right…(believe me, I have met several of those)
Being in a fandom you never meant to join
I love this. and it’s gotten better
After abandoning a fandom you’re still a little bit emotionally invested in….
All of these are me. Lol
Being in a fandom on Tumblr
And it reached its epic conclusion
Best. Thing. Ever.
y’all ever see a sibling interaction in media and just know….it was written by an only child
It’s weird when sibilings apologize in the movies. Because sibilings only apologize when they did something really really bad, like murder someone or something, otherwise the sibilings just casually start to talk to each other as if nothing had happened.
Siblings in a movie making up: I’m so sorry I hurt you…you’re not only my sister, you’re my best friend.
Siblings in real life making up: Lmao idk if you’re still mad bitch but look at this meme really quick.
THIS. ONLY. JUST. HIT ME.
I understood this joke only about 2 years ago and sat on the floor laughing for about 20 minutes straight
This is never not funny
rebloggin’ cause that is the actual look on my face when that happens
trying out passwords
@cassandraclare This is part of the staff and group that were representing your Argentinian fans in a convention in Buenos Aires. It’s our third year in a row and more and more people keep joining us. Thank you again for creating this amazing world that brought us all together as a family. We love you so so so much!! Sending you a big hug from the south part of the continent ❤️
Hey Cassie! So I just saw your post about Tessa and Magnus becoming mortal would not be a huge romantic gesture, but I’m really curious how what they have right now is a happy ending. The romances are heartbreaking (and beautiful! Malec and Jessa and Wessa are my three favorite ships, actually)but I really can’t see them or Alec and Jem having happy lives whatsoever. In the case of Malec, Alec will grow old and probably miserable as he becomes more and more distant from Magnus, die, and then Magnus will probably petrify. In Jessa’s case, poor Tessa will have to go through the same exact loss that she went through with Will, and wouldn’t she be happy if all three of them could be together again? You always say that you think that they got a happy ending, but I’m just genuinely curious how any of this is happy. I’m really sorry if this came off as critical- it wasn’t intended to be! I love you and cannot wait for Lady Midnight, but this is something I have been wondering for a while and the earlier post inspired me to ask. <3 — tessa-grayngel
This question makes me wonder: What is a happy ending? Does a character need an ending in order to have a happy ending? Will is a character who I believe had a truly happy ending. He died of old age, surrounded by friends and family, the love of his life and his parabatai. He had a full and happy life that was better than he dreamed it would be. And yet, I’ve gotten many emails from people who feel that Will did not have a happy ending, simply because he died — as everyone dies, someday. In the cases of Tessa and Magnus, I get a steady stream of variations on this question — will they become mortal? Will they become mortal for their beloveds? Would it be “fair” for Jem to be immortal when Will didn’t get to be immortal?
Certainly, T&M’s immortality makes the situation different. Readers seem to want them to have what some people didn’t like Will having: a definitive end to their story. I don’t know why, exactly, but I have theories.
Letter-writer, I appreciate your concern, but I respectfully disagree with your read of what would happen to Magnus and Alec and Tessa and Jem. I don’t think Alec is destined to age miserably. That doesn’t give him much credit, considering that in CoHF he and Magnus resolve that they will make every day count, and it certainly doesn’t give Magnus much credit! And I don’t think Magnus would petrify, at least not anytime soon, because he’d have a whole new pile of happy memories and experiences under his belt. (Not to mention a child for the first time! Well, probably a grown up child by then. But that still counts as undiscovered territory!)
I also don’t think Tessa would go through “the same exact loss she went through with Will.” Tessa is a different person. She’s had over a century to change and gain perspective. Both losses would be extremely difficult, but not identical, and she would experience them differently. (And then there’s the fact that we don’t know the circumstances that will surround Jem’s death. Tessa could be killed before him, for all we know.) She will, like every human on the face of the planet, be with the one she loves until they die or she dies. That’s every person in the world. So to say that’s not a happy ending is to say that happy endings are not possible in the world we live in, because death exists. It is very romantic to think about Tessa, Jem and Will, and Magnus and Alec, being reunited in the afterlife. But that requires that there is some sort of afterlife, which Nephilim and Downworlders alike have no knowledge or guarantee of. Killing oneself hoping to be actually reunited with someone who has died would be a huge gamble. Like mundane humans, some Shadowhunters do believe in heaven and/or an afterlife. But no one knows what happens after death. Tessa and Magnus get to carry their joys and sorrows farther than most characters. Will lives on in Tessa’s heart and her memories (and in Jem’s and Magnus’s as well). Loving Will made her who she is, and one reason she aims to live her life well is to honor the memory of him and their love. (I imagine that by the time Jem dies, she’ll have a similar feeling about him and their life together, but since it’s all speculation at this point I’m not going to get into detail.) If she were to kill herself, she would be taking those memories and stories of the people she loves from the world forever. Similarly, if Magnus were to kill himself, it would not honor Alec’s memory. It would take it from the world. If Alec’s memory is to live on, it will be in large part through how Magnus lives his life going into the future. (I say in large part because many people love Alec, not just Magnus!) Romantic love can be amazing and life-changing and vital, but it isn’t the only source of happiness. Losing it doesn’t mean that you have nothing else to live for. It better not, because relationships end all the time. Being able to carry on and find joy and meaning in other aspects of life is an important survival skill to have. Warlocks have to develop that skill even more than mortals do. In order for Magnus and Tessa to want to end their lives, they’d have to believe whatever lay ahead for them was not worth sticking around for. They’d have to believe that entering the complete unknown, possibly nothingness, would be better than continuing to learn and grow and change.
The thing about being an immortal character is that perhaps you cannot have a happy ending in the traditional sense, because you cannot have an ending. So people want the characters dead, in order to draw that line: to say, this is the end and that was happy. They got the love they wanted and that means they crossed a finish line. They’re done.
Except they aren’t done. Even after loss, you keep living. That’s part of what I think is important about characters like Tessa and Magnus: that they love and lose and keep living. Because that happens in real life. It’s something a lot of people have to deal with, all the time. It’s part of real life and real feelings in a way a story about two immortal people never can be.
All of us love — romantically or otherwise — and will lose people we love. If you then lose that love, does the loss unmake all the joy and happiness that came before it? It can if you let it. But that isn’t what anyone who loved you would want for you. And I hope that isn’t what you would want for yourself.
“But there’s something else I’ve never had, at least until now.”
“What’s that?”
“A brother.”
I heard a rumor that Sherrilyn Kenyon is no longer suing you for plagiarism or copyright infringement or whatever. Is that true? Is the court case over? I keep thinking that if it was, it would have been covered more in news outlets. -[redacted]
Okay. Let’s walk through this.
Are you being sued for plagiarism?
I am not, no.
I heard Sherrilyn Kenyon accused you of copyright infringement/plagiarism?
She did initially, yes, but then she dropped those claims.
When did she drop them?
Almost two years ago. May 31, 2016.
Why did she drop the claims?
You’d have to ask her. I would guess it was because almost all of her specific claims referred to material in books she hadn’t published yet at the time my books were published. Claims about things happening to characters in books she published in 2010 that I supposedly ripped off in City of Bones in 2007. That kind of thing.
In most cases copyright infringement is kind of muddy and the merit of the claims has to go before a judge to be decided, but there are a couple of exceptions to that. One of them is the question of “access” – did the alleged infringer have access to the material they allegedly infringed: i.e. could they have read it/seen it/heard it? In this case, since I only move forward in time like everyone else, I didn’t have access to books published in 2009 or 2010 when I was writing City of Bones in 2005. That’s straightforward business with no complicated judgment call needed. So before anything had happened with this lawsuit in an actual court, Kenyon’s team withdrew the entire copyright claim in full, leaving only a complicated trademark complaint regarding the title of the TV show and the design of my covers.
That’s weird.
I go into detail below. Read on! Keep in mind 2007 is a significant date here because all three of the first TMI books had been turned in to my publisher by then.
So, wait, if Kenyon dropped the copyright claim isn’t that the big deal thing? The plagiarism thing?
Yes, I’d like to think so. Trademark claims are about branding and packaging, which by and large isn’t even up to me as regards my books. (Publishers do that.) There’s nothing in this lawsuit anymore that even slightly refers to the contents of my books, and I care about my reputation for integrity as a writer far more than I care about my publisher’s branding strategy.
That said, it is of course horrible to be sued — it is a horrendous process that upends your entire life; it is destructive to your work, your family, your finances, your friends, and your sanity.
Have you read Kenyon’s books or met her?
I have never read any of her books. I have never met her or communicated directly with her in any way.
So what’s the problem?
The problem is no one knows that the copyright infringement claims were dropped, and when I see it mentioned, it’s always stated as a fact that I’m being sued for plagiarism or copyright infringement. And I am not. This hasn’t been anything but a trademark lawsuit for a year and a half now. And this doesn’t just turn up in Internet gossip — it turned up in a poorly researched article in Forbes, for instance. This is an accusation I have to live with despite the claim having been withdrawn.
Why didn’t I hear about this?
Because of the way the copyright claim was withdrawn. Let me walk you through this.
When Kenyon filed her initial complaint/suit, it included an “Exhibit” that broke down a long list of elements, characters, and ideas in her books that she claimed had been copied in my books, and what material from my books was supposedly “the same” as her material.
(First of all, let me point out that while this document was riddled with inaccuracies and errors, it never, at any point, claimed that any direct text from Kenyon’s books was copied into my own. Kenyon has never claimed that — to do so would require providing examples of the plagiarism, and there are none. Whereas claiming copyright infringement is much muddier. The claim merely requires that you feel you have been copied. For instance, a woman once sued Stephen King claiming he had broken into her house and stolen her diaries so he could base a character on her. Her evidence was that she felt that that was true, and nothing prevented her from filing that suit. Anyway, though many people are confused between the two, the Kenyon complaint did not levy an accusation of “plagiarism” — she claimed “copyright infringement” because plagiarism refers to the copying of exact passages of words and nothing else. A claim of plagiarism requires proof to file a suit; a claim of copyright infringement requires proof to win a suit but not to file it. They are not the same.)
The initial complaint was a shock to me, since I’d never read any of her books (and still haven’t), and have no familiarity with their characters or world or anything about them. Upon reading the complaint, however, I noted that a number of claims about what happened in my own books were inaccurate. For instance, the exhibit claimed that Valentine was a demon, that Amatis was a shape-shifter who was in trouble for breaking “shape-shifter code”, that the Shadowhunters were a highly technological society (while true in the TV show, in the books, the Shadowhunters are specifically anti-technology), that Isabelle’s eyes were hazel. And so on. Because of this, my legal team started early in going through, in detail, the claims in Kenyon’s document.
What we found was stunning — that (a) the claims in Kenyon’s filed exhibit were often totally inaccurate as to the contents of my book/s. Her claims are on the left, rebuttals are on the right.
Claims regarding Clary:
(b) quite a lot of the plaintiff’s claims suggested that she had invented common and ancient storytelling tropes, e.g. “A sword having a name,” and stated that those tropes’ presence in my books could only have come from her books and not, say, the entire literary and folkloric tradition of tropes that all authors draw on:
and, most importantly, C) a huge number of her claims were impossible due to the chronology of publication — that is, when she was comparing material in our books, her material had been published *after* my material. Copying does not work that way, since time does not work that way.
So my legal team wrote all of that up — a point-by-point, line-by-line refutation of Kenyon’s claims, and filed it as our own exhibit. You can read it right here. If you’d rather hit up twitter, you can see some of it here.
In response, Kenyon filed what is called an Amended Complaint.
The court allows her side to take on board anything from our response and, if necessary, file a new version of the lawsuit making changes based on anything they’ve learned.
And in the Amended Complaint, the whole copyright claim just…disappeared.
Like, gone. Not there at all.
What was left?
Trademark issues. They are more specifically about what the covers of my books are allowed to look like, branding strategies, and the title of the television show. I cannot go into the details of this, or why it would come up suddenly thirteen years after my first Shadowhunters book was published, because that is part of an ongoing case, and one cannot comment on ongoing cases. The copyright thing however is not ongoing. Again, it was dropped in May, 2016.
If Kenyon won her case would the TV show be cancelled?
Yes.
Interesting.
Well, we’ve all learned something today. Primarily, we have learned that I am not being sued for copyright infringement or plagiarism or anything like it, and also that people are really interested in negative gossip and controversy, but not particularly interested in exoneration. I cannot tell you how much it sucks to be accused of something awful that you did not do, in public (however used to it you may be); I cannot express how humiliating and horrible it is, or how depressing it is to realize that basically nobody cares if it isn’t true. Many, many news outlets reported on Kenyon suing me; only one that reported on the original claim reported that she had dropped the copyright claims.
I have done my best here to provide 100% factual information for anyone who was confused or believed false reports about this situation. I am under no illusions that this will prevent people from saying I am being sued for plagiarism, because it gives them pleasure to be cruel. I can only hope that for those people who are actually interested in what is true, this will serve as a useful link.
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Faerie magic was quiet, Kit thought. There was no noise, no tumult, no flashing warlock lights. In between one breath and another, Mark, Kieran and Cristina simply disappeared.
The tower was tall and covered in briars but the brave warrior princess climbed it anyway for love of the beautiful Faerie maiden… ! Aline and Helen find themselves in Rapunzel in one of mine and Cassandra Jean’s fairytale/Shadowhunter mashups! #shadowhunters #tsc
