clary and simon ↳ tsc moodboard edit

the dark artifices - ash morgenstern

“Don’t you think ‘Mark’ is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?” Julian was saying as Emma approached. “I mean, if you really think about it. It’s confusing. ‘Put a Mark on me, Mark.’”

This… this is one of the most emblematic passages to understand the development of Julian’s character. 

The boy you see in the passage has nothing in common with the character you meet in TDA. Try and compare the naive, young and carefree boy who makes stupid statements to his brother just to annoy him to the man who has to run an entire institute and hide his uncle’s real state of mind because otherwise he would lose his family, the man who is prepared to do everything (included vicious things) to keep his family safe and the very same man who has to suppress his own pure feelings because of the danger they carry. 

In my opinion, that passage was intentionally put there because that clueless boy represents everything Julian could have been and would have been if he wasn’t forced to kill his own father to protect his brothers and sisters. That boy represents how much Julian has had to sacrifice in order to keep his family close and the best part is that he doesn’t care, he would throw everything in the fire if it meant keeping his family safe. All those things he had to endure alone because he wouldn’t dare burden other people, not even Emma because her pain was his pain too. 

All that pain and hardship he’s been through all this time carved him into the person he is today. 

And people are right, he’s not entirely good, entirely moral and he’s certainly not perfect simply because he doesn’t have to be. he doesn’t have to be perfect to be one of the best characters Cassandra Clare has ever created. 

He’s complex.

So Queen of Air and Darkness comes out in ONE MONTH, and to celebrate, I’ll be posting a random snippet every day until December 4th!

We’re going to start with the very first page of the first chapter, Death Looks Down. It starts up only a few seconds after the end of Lord of Shadows.

Emma didn’t care what they did to her; she had to get to Julian. He was still on the ground with Livvy in his arms, resisting all efforts by the guards to lift her dead body away from him.

kieran’s really going to fucking feel the whipping and diego’s going feel the pain he caused cristina all those months gOd

Liva Blackthorn as The Star Tarot Card

    “You’re … you’re an eye,” Cal breathes, taking a few shuffling steps through the ashen street. “You can see the future.”     The man scoffs, waving a hand. “An eye sees only what they look for. Their sight is narrower than a blade of grass.” Again, he fixes us with his sad, scarlet stare.     “But I see everything.“

50 DAYS OF TOG → 7/8 Books: Tower of Dawn

make me choose: @mionies asked → clary fray or jace herondale?

tsc meme: [1/8] eight shadowhunters ➢ lucie herondale

apprehension stole across thomas’s face. “lucie, you must not challenge grace to a duel.”

“we shall see where the night takes us,” lucie declared.