ChaoticNClumsy

Not only was she able to secretly plan an entire uprising against her own iconoclastic husband with hundreds of downworlders, found time to enlist the help of a powerful warlock to create a contingency spell that she could use for the future (that actually worked!), but she was also able to live through the pain of so much betrayal, of losing everything she's ever loved and known, her parents, her childhood home, her literal CHILD, stole the cup away and fled from idris with absolutely nothing except for some family heirlooms to sell and a plan to start a new life from SCRATCH all while pregnant !! with Clary !! and she managed to hide her family from Valentine for 15 YEARS all while giving her daughter a happy, normal life, yet constantly keeping in touch with the shadow world

Not to mention learning the harsh truth about her son and how he's not only alive, but turned into a MONSTER confirming all the fear and guilt she always beat herself up for, all the sick experiments Valentine did to two innocent children in a COMA

Not only was she able to secretly plan an entire uprising against her own iconoclastic husband with hundreds of downworlders, found time to enlist the help of a powerful warlock to create a contingency spell that she could use for the future (that actually worked!), but she was also able to live through the pain of so much betrayal, of losing everything she's ever loved and known, her parents, her childhood home, her literal CHILD, stole the cup away and fled from idris with absolutely nothing except for some family heirlooms to sell and a plan to start a new life from SCRATCH all while pregnant !! with Clary !! and she managed to hide her family from Valentine for 15 YEARS all while giving her daughter a happy, normal life, yet constantly keeping in touch with the shadow world

Not to mention learning the harsh truth about her son and how he's not only alive, but turned into a MONSTER confirming all the fear and guilt she always beat herself up for, all the sick experiments Valentine did to two innocent children in a COMA

Trinity’s a new R2, drowning in work and seeing a new attending come in who she doesn’t like on the same day as Frank’s return to the ER. She’s stressed and overloaded and her position is being threatened and her tone all season is…she’s sleepy. Trinity is tired. Instead of her fighting for her place in the ER like we saw in season one, metaphorically elbowing people as a way of reasserting herself, she sits at a desk and charts. For 75% of the season. It doesn’t go anywhere, nothing happens with it (she makes a mistake and it’s caught and the lecture about it is so mild she doesn’t even stand up). Trinity spends a season designed to push her buttons doing nothing but talk about the characters around her

Robby’s planned a suicide trip that from the opening of the season is already clearly a bad idea. But because of the format of the show, instead of it being a sudden announcement or a reason to talk to him, everyone spends the season wishing him well….because they’ve known about it for weeks. There’s nothing left to discuss. And the audience knows Robby’s not killing himself - it’s an empty threat - so every Robby scene goes the same way: you’re heading out? Ah man that’s so out of character, well have fun and see you later (Robby face of ‘there won’t be a later’). By the time Robby actually said he’s suicidal I rolled my eyes because it had been textually overplayed for thirteen episodes. Robby started at the end of his character arc for the season and was given massive amounts of screentime like he was going to progress somewhere (nope)

Trinity’s a new R2, drowning in work and seeing a new attending come in who she doesn’t like on the same day as Frank’s return to the ER. She’s stressed and overloaded and her position is being threatened and her tone all season is…she’s sleepy. Trinity is tired. Instead of her fighting for her place in the ER like we saw in season one, metaphorically elbowing people as a way of reasserting herself, she sits at a desk and charts. For 75% of the season. It doesn’t go anywhere, nothing happens with it (she makes a mistake and it’s caught and the lecture about it is so mild she doesn’t even stand up). Trinity spends a season designed to push her buttons doing nothing but talk about the characters around her

Robby’s planned a suicide trip that from the opening of the season is already clearly a bad idea. But because of the format of the show, instead of it being a sudden announcement or a reason to talk to him, everyone spends the season wishing him well….because they’ve known about it for weeks. There’s nothing left to discuss. And the audience knows Robby’s not killing himself - it’s an empty threat - so every Robby scene goes the same way: you’re heading out? Ah man that’s so out of character, well have fun and see you later (Robby face of ‘there won’t be a later’). By the time Robby actually said he’s suicidal I rolled my eyes because it had been textually overplayed for thirteen episodes. Robby started at the end of his character arc for the season and was given massive amounts of screentime like he was going to progress somewhere (nope)

If nothing else, Sebastian sure inherited his father's misogyny.

In all seriousness, I think it's fascinating how he's trying to make Clary think that she and Jocelyn are just as bad as him and Valentine by completely decontextualizing their actions. Sure, Jocelyn manipulated Valentine by pretending to be in love with him because he had been drugging her against her will, doing evil science experiments on living beings in the basements, and plotting to take over the world. She's the villain for arranging consequences to his genocidal actions.

Jocelyn is ruthless, and that's one of my favorite things about her. She was in an abusive relationship for years and systematically isolated from any sort of support network, but she still gathered her resources and did whatever the hell it took to bring Valentine down. She stayed in that house even after knowing what a monster he was, because she knew that she was the only one with the tools to stop him before it was too late. Most importantly, she was willing to let her friends pay the price for their actions. After years of the Circle supporting each other through increasingly atrocious actions, Jocelyn finally decided that some things can't be ignored. Friendship is enough to make many people turn a blind eye, but Jocelyn set those personal connections aside and was able to recognize that the Circle was a dangerous cult whose members (no matter how she felt about them as individuals) were dangerous to the world at large.

And they only care about Mina now is because of Kit. If Cassie never brought Kit to the Carstairs family, that 90% of the TSC fandom wouldn't care about her or Jem at all.

They are the same who keep thinking of Will when they read about modern Tessa's life. Even the author keep doing it. To her, and fans, Jem and Mina only matters when is to make it about Will and all the Herondales (Kit, Jace and so on...)

And as a fan of the Carstairs characters since I read The Infernal Devices is so tiring. This thing doesn't happen the other way around. The Herondales are loved by the fandom bc of their own, not because of their relationship with other shadowhunters families. This thing never applied to Jem, Mina, Cordelia and even Emma. They all had to be somehow linked to a Herondale to being "noticed" by readers who didn't care about them in the first place.

Everything she has done since she found out about being pregnant with Clary has been for Clary. From hiding the Mortal Cup in a place where only herself and Clary could reach it, to running away from Idris and starting up a new life in New York. Mind you, the apartment she chose was one with a portal; it was a place where downworlders felt safe to go so she would still be updated about anything big going on.

I don't want to hear people whine about the methods she used to ensure her daughter was safe.

And Jocelyn… I don’t even need to explain. She’s by far the one who gets the most insane hate, while people bend over backwards to excuse Sebastian and Valentine, two abusive men. And somehow people feel more empathy for them than for a woman who went through horrendous abuse, fell into severe depression because of it, and is still judged for stuff she didn’t even do, like “abandoning” a child she thought was dead. And don’t even get me started on how she’s treated as the biggest villain just bcoz she doesn’t fit into that perfect motherhood fantasy the fandom can’t let go oof💀

I'm still waiting for the mails of @malevolenthag @kelseaanya @plainjane2014 @statureofwords @supernightmarefest please send them before the 19th of august.

Julian was so different before the events of COHF 😭😭😭😭😭