I'll Be Your Pawn And Sword

the ultimate chronological (re)reading order

As I promised earlier to @iamnotaware, here is the chronological order we put together with one of my dear friends. It's strictly experimental and only recommended for rereaders if they wish to be a little bit more... adventurous.

Here you go:

The Bane Chronicles: What Happened in Peru? (1791-1962)

The Bane Chronicles: The Runaway Queen (1791)

The Bane Chronicles: Vampire, Scones, and Edmund Herondale (1857)

The Infernal Devices (1878):

Clockwork Angel

Clockwork Prince

Clockwork Princess

Better in Black: The Good Storm (1879)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: Cast Long Shadows (1901)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: Every Exquisite Thing (1901)

The Penultimate Hours (1889-1901)

The Bane Chronicles: The Midnight Heir (1903)

The Last Hours (1903-1904):

Chain of Gold

The Letter Game

Chain of Iron

Chain of Thorns

Better in Black: The Beautiful Ajatara (1905)

Better in Black: Zachary’s Day Out (1905)

A Sea Change (1905)

Better in Black: A Surfeit of Annas (1905)

The Bane Chronicles: The Rise of the Hotel Dumort (1929)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: Learn About Loss (1936)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: A Deeper Love (1940)

The Bane Chronicles: Saving Raphael Santiago (1953)

The Bane Chronicles: The Fall of the Hotel Dumort (1977)

The Bane Chronicles: The Last Stand of the New York Intitute (1989)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: The Wicked Ones (1989)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: Son of the Dawn (2000)

The Mortal Intruments (2007-2008):

City of Bones

The Bane Chronicles: The Course of True Love (and First Dates)

Better in Black: Who The Wolf Loves

City of Ashes

The Bane Chronicles: What to Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything (And Who You’re Not Officially Dating Anyway)

City of Glass

The Eldest Curses: The Red Scrolls of Magic

City of Fallen Angels

City of Lost Souls

The Bane Chronicles: The Voicemail of Magnus Bane

City of Heavenly Fire

Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy (2008-2010)

The Eldest Curses: The Lost Book of the White (2010)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: The Land I Lost (2012)

The Dark Artifices (2012):

Lady Midnight

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: Through Blood, Through Fire

Better in Black: City of Broken Hearts

Lord of Shadows

Queen of Air and Darkness

We Jace You a Clary Christmas (2007-2012)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: The Lost World (2013)

Ghosts of the Shadow Market: Forever Fallen (2013)

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall (2014)

Better in Black: The Time of Two (2015)

Better in Black: Bred in the Bone (2015)

Better in Black: The Judgement of King Kieran

Better in Black: Too Wise to Love

The Wicked Powers (2016)

The Last King of Faerie (Fall)

The Last Prince of Hell

The Eldest Curses: The Black Volume of the Dead

here's mickey, goofy, donald, and chip & dale. yeah they turned mickey & friends into anime boys. they're an idol unit or something. they're technically not anime boy versions of the source characters, they have different names. mickey's guy is "Neo Michel". not michael, michel, like he's french. chip & dale are "Ruska Moncrief" and "Ranka Monk", they have different last names, they're not brothers anymore so that they can be yaoibait instead, anyways this post isn't actually about these guys I'm just setting the stage for the actual humanizations I wanted to show you

They also did monsters inc. And. Well it's obvious from the designs who mike and sully are. but you will also notice. the blonde one on the left. with glasses. monsters inc is kind of famously about just the two guys so they didn't really have a lot of other non-villain characters to take anime boys inspiration from, I guess, so, well,

I took the cargo ops class at school but my teacher explained that it doesn't give a certification and I'd only be okay for ship's crane and the school forklifts. she said I could take an online exam and get my cert. I paid 60 bucks.

I'm googling and I'm seeing a lot of resources saying that the online programs cover the classroom part of the exam but not the in person practical aspect.

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And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

1. How do you lose a Giraffe? She apparently scaled a cliff that served as part of the enclosure (which the other giraffes in the herd had shown no interest in climbing.)

2. Well it should be easier to find her, she's a whole ass giraffe? Yeah, you'd think, but Texas ranches are fuckin huge. The man has apparently hired a helicopter and several drones to aide the search, but no luck yet. She's been seen on some game cameras on the nearby ranches though. But she's sneaky.