Was Anybody Going To Tell Me That Alec Lightwood Is Autistic Or Was I Supposed To Come To That Conclusion

You cannot convince me that Alec looks that much like Will. Like, I know it's cannon that they do, but I just know that apart from hair and eyes he's a literal copy of Maryse. I just know. Go look at the official art. Miss ma'am might as well have pulled a Zeus because Izzy and Alec look JUST like her. I will die on the hill that Will and Alec only share eyes and hair.

This badass morally gray woman for whom I would die really did say: My husband's meh, so I'll just kick him out of the genetic cocktail.

And I love that for her because the Truebloods really do have the best characters.

"The days go by but the sheer pain in me never subsides."

Kit and Ty attending a ball in TLKOF, seeing each other in suits for the first time and dancing with each other to „not be suspicious“ is an absolute must in TWP - I don‘t make the rules

Cassie Clare and Rick Riordan being friends is my holy reason of existence.

Just imagine them, sipping on a cup of coffee at a coffee shop, planning together which characters to share and how to make them similar to one another, who to kill and which cliffhangers are the best.

1800s dagger, made in france

Today I found myself reading TMI again after being done with studying (ugh, whoever invented exams can burn in hell) and I feel like I keep running out of ways to explain how incredibly copy pasted and close I feel to Alec. Like, yes sure, I love Izzy with every inch of my soul and don't I wish I was like her and Magnus is just such a me vibe in my best days. But Alec has always been my focal point every single time I read Cassandra Clare, and every time I expect to find myself being like "oh shut up" like I often find myself doing when Jace talks, even Clary sometimes, but I just don't.

I find it so unbelievable how the first time I read City of Bones I was around three years younger than Alec in that book and I just couldn't help but think "He's real". Because miss m'am Izzy was killing demons in high heels at sixteen and Jace probably had more girlfriends than I have hair on my head and there was Alec. Trying to beat sense into them, being discarded by Jace the moment Clary came into view. His only friends being his own sister who was his complete opposite and his parabatai who way too foused on being cool than on his own struggles, him trying to hide himself from the Clave out of pure fear that they would exile him and just abandon him in a world full of demons as a mundane like they did to his uncle.

He was the secondary character. The fifth wheel of the cart, as we say in my family. And I could relate to that, because being on the outside and looking on the inside, being aware that you're not enough is something that i've found myself doing all my life ever since I was a toddler. Not too fun. Not too cool. Not too smart. You're just in the middle of it all. Never enough to stand out. Just a blank paper. And I just felt this ache in my heart when I finished that book years ago and I still feel it every time and this boiling rage knowing that this man stood bravely against it all. The fact that he played such an important role in the war, almost as important as Jace and he was still seen as "Jace's parabatai", when this man genuinely changed the law and rebuild every belief of the Clave to make it more humane.

There's just enough words in the dictionary to how many levels I love Alec and to how many levels I am grateful to Cassie for writing him, because who would I violently and brutally relate to if it wasn't Alexander Gideon Lightwood, the Inquisitor of the Clave and the man who loved a man so much he changed the world for him and Magnus's archer boy.

Just realized I haven't talked about tsc in a whole day. I'm so disappointed in myself. Does that mean...? Spamming my account with posts about it? YES.

Ok. Now hear me the fuck out. Maryse and Celine as close friends. Waywood all the way. Maryse/Eliza?????

Please???

Someone?

Cassandra Clare LOVES the grew-up-too-soon x babied-all-their-life trope

Clary was sheltered up until the events of TCOB meanwhile Jace was getting raised by Valentine

Kit was forced to grow up quickly while Ty was babied by Julian and his family

Sophie was cast out onto the streets while Gideon had a fairly nice upbringing (besides his dad turning into a worm but let's face it he deserved it)

Lucie was raised as the daughter of one of the wealthiest Shadowhunter families while Jesse literally died as a kid

And do I even need to explain Thomas and Alastair...