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Lady Midnight is coming out in one week (and a few hours) so in honor of that I’m putting up the playlist. Usually songs remind me of specific characters in general rather than scenes or themes, so I’ve made notes.

Play Crack The Sky: Brand New

(Julian and Emma)

This story’s old but it goes on and on until we disappear. Calm me and let me taste the salt you breathed while you were underneath. I am the one who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea. I spoke the words but never gave a thought to what they all could mean.

You’ve Haunted Me All Of My Life: Death Cab for Cutie

(Lady Midnight’s own story)

You’ve haunted me all my life You’re always out of reach when I’m in pursuit Long winded then suddenly mute And there’s a flaw in my heart’s design For I keep trying to make you mine And so I wait but I never seem to learn How to capture your diminishing returns I still see you through the eyes of a child Not even thinking we could tame the wild.

“Always Gold” by Radical Face

(Mark and Julian. Ty and Julian, Ty and Mark - brotherhood in general!)

We were tight knit boys Brothers in more than name You would kill for me And knew that I’d do the same And it cut me sharp Hearing you’d gone away.

Malibu: Hole

(A song from my own growing-up period! This one really spoke to me about the power of the ocean, forgetting yourself in the water, and all the people — Cristina, Diana, Emma — who make new starts in Malibu.)

And I knew Love would tear you apart Oh, and I knew The darkest secret of your heart I’m gonna follow you Oh baby, fly away to Malibu Oceans of angels Oceans of stars Down by the sea is where you Drown your scars.

Chocolate by The 1975

I love this one for Emma and Cristina…it was so much fun writing their friendship.

Oh we go where nobody knows With guns hidden under our petticoats No we’re never gonna quit it No we’re never gonna quit it, no Yeah we’re dressed in black from head to toe We’ve got guns hidden under our petticoats No we’re never gonna quit it. no we’re never gonna quit it no

If The Night Is Dark: Seeker Lover Keeper

(Mark)

Well I’m trying to decide 

Should I run, should I hide

Show them tricks and be tamed.

Yeah, it’s true that I’ve changed

But I’m also the sameI’m just playing the game

.If you lay down beside me 

You’ll feel that I’m cold

And I’m empty, it’s true.See the more I reveal 

The more lonely I feel

What was one is now broken, broken in two. 

California, Airborne Toxic Event

(Emma and the way she wants to be remembered.)

And oh, I hope it’s clear: there’s no room for us anymore in the atmosphere, But darling I always liked the desperation in your eyes, The way you’d dance in the glow of the Hollywood Freeway lights. Someday they’re gonna forget about us and we’ll wonder if we were ever good enough. It hit me last night, in this song I heard, I remember the feeling but forget all the words.

Soul Meets Body, Death Cab for Cutie

(Julian, thinking about Emma)

I do believe it’s true That there are roads left in both of our shoes But if the silence takes you Then I hope it takes me too

So brown eyes I’ll hold you near ‘Cause you’re the only song I want to hear A melody softly soaring through my atmosphere

Fire and the Flood Vance Joy

(The lines First the fire, then the flood, from an old riddle are really important in the book, so it was fun to find this song. Plus it could really cover several couples I can’t talk about yet!)

You’re the fire and the flood And I’ll always feel you in my blood Everything is fine When your head’s resting next to mine Next to mine You’re the fire and the flood

The Trapeze Swinger, Iron and Wine

(It was fun to write about people who’d known each other their whole lives rather than just having met and this strikes me as being about memory and love past and present)

And please remember me as in the dream We had as rug burned babies Among the fallen trees and fast asleep Beside the lions and the ladies That called you what you like and even might Give a gift for your behavior A fleeting chance to see a trapeze Swinger high as any savior But please remember me, my misery And how it lost me all I wanted Those dogs that love the rain and chasing trains The colored birds above there running In circles round the well and where it spells On the wall behind St. Peter So bright on cinder gray in spray paint 'Who the hell can see forever?’

Death, by White Lies

(Mark, Kieran and others in the Wild Hunt)

I love the feeling when we lift off Watching the world so small below I love the dreaming when I think of The safety in the clouds out my window I wonder what keeps us so high up Could there be a love beneath these wings If we suddenly fall should I scream out Or keep very quiet and cling to my mouth as I’m crying So frightened of dying Relax, yes, I’m trying But fear’s got a hold on me

Ocean Wide, the Afters

(This always read to me as about love, but not necessarily romantic love — some of the most important love in the book is family love, Ty’s and Julian’s, Livvy and Ty, etc)

I’ll stay right here It’s where I’ll always belong Days like this, I wish the sun wouldn’t set I don’t want to forget What made us feel this way You see through all my fears And that’s what got us here

Flaws by Bastille

(The Blackthorns and their secrets)

“You have always worn your flaws upon your sleeve, and I have always buried them deep beneath the ground. Dig them up; let’s finish what we started.” 

The Ocean, the Bravery

(Diego and Cristina)

I climbed up a mountain and looked off the edge At all of the lives that I never have led There’s one where I stayed with you across the sea I wonder, do you still think of me? I carry your image always in my head Folded and yellowed and torn at the edge And I’ve looked upon it for so many years Slowly I am losing your face

Jasey Rae, All Time Low

(Julian, and the games he’s forced to play)

I’ve never told a lie And that makes me a liar I’ve never made a bet But we gamble with desire I’ve never lit a match With intent to start a fire But recently the flames are getting out of control

Keane, Love is the End

(Emma and the ocean)

Ok. I had a revelation. Keep reading to the end so i can make my point. Sorry its long, but for real please read it i was goig crazier as I continued writing this.

I already told in one post that Magnus said magic has a price and necromacy even more. etc. Livvy was already ashes when she cameback as a ghost, BUT she only cameback as ghost because the catalyst was corrupted. If not, she would have comeback for real, at least in theory cause we didn't see it. And i talked about how twin relationships usually are more connected and complex. That maybe they new how to raise a sibling but not the consecuence of raising a twin. And having THule in mind and and how it reflects in the original story, that it could be possible that when Ty raised Livvy, he also raised Thule-Ty. You can see it in my other post.

NOW, with this information I can speculate that Evil Ty, its Thule Ty.

But why is he evil? Why is Livvy also turning dark? Magnus said Livvy would eventually lose her humanity.

Well, for Livvy had past 3 years. However, Thule is 7 years forward in comparisIon with the original timeline. When Ash got in Thule 2 year had already passed, and when Julian and Emma did, 5 years more. Everyone in Thule was older. Livvy, Ash, Cameron... etc. And, in my case, reading that dream of kit... Ty looked older. there was something in it that gave me the vibes that that Ty had been more time living than our original Ty.

The thing is there is something that I have never seen anyone saying before. So hear me out.

A newborn shadowhunter needs a protection ritual. Jocelyn made one to Clary, clandestine, but she did. Meanwhile Jace... when he was brought back from thw death, the magic from that ritual faded. Thats why Lilith could control him and bla bla bla.

So hear me out. Im always saying hear me out.

Anyways. Livvy was brought back. Yes, I know as a ghost. Not alive. But also not dead. Like not really dead dead. Like fully. And, again, she only a ghost because the catalyst was corrupted.

So what if she is losing with time her humanity because the magic that protected her faded? NOW heehehehe, in this thule mirror dimension, with the already explanation I told earlier, Evil Ty (who time passed more through him than the original ty) is older, more time to lose humanity and become this evil version of himself.

Evil ty also would have been brought back with that ritual faded, like ghost Livvy.

In the original version, Ty was who did the necromancy so thats why he is tied with ghost Livvy. In thule version, evil ty would raise too (because the mirror twin thing I explained before), but Thule Livvy has nothing to do anymore with him.

Also, what we had seen about Thule, in general, was before Ty raised Livvy. So if Ty raising ghost livvy and affecting Thule-evil ty, would also affected thule Livvy we couldn't have seen it. Because Julian and Emma got inside Thule before Ghost Livvy was an actual thing. I still dont think Thule Livvy would be affected, anyways, because she has no conection anymore with Ty, evil or not.

And as I said before, Thule is a mirror dimension from the original, with each crack that turn different. And each crack makes more cracks in that mirror, making it look more far away from what it was at first. Sebastian winning wazs the very first crack from the mirror, and every decision after, became a consequence. And every consecuence marked the mirror with a new crack.

NOW, with all this we know -as in this theory of course, im not telling this is going to happen. I just lost theorising-,

Ghost livvy turning evil.

Ty being affected because of ghostlivvy.

Evil Ty its from Thule, had lost more humanity than ghost Livvy.

maybe, in this scenario, the evil thing its cause because of not having the protection ritual. Magnus say there its a price, but there is always someone with a higher price.

But lets talk more about this evil Ty. I dont think this evil Ty will materialize in the 1st book of TWP. Even if Kit had dreams, I think this will happen In the 2nd book in the second half OR in the 3rd book.

So what had we learnt thanks to Jace? That u are weak to be controlled without that protection ritual. Lilith played him.

And who u guys do love to talk about? Lucifer. Its giving deja vu u know. Thule, a dimension where hell was not under but in front of u. Where all demons could wander around. Do u guys think Lucifer will be in the original dimension? Causw u know, just by lookings, Thule looks more like a place without protection to live his best life.

Does lucifer need a body to be in Thule? Couldn't he be there without a problem? I don't think so. I think he was there and if he wasnt it was because he didn't wanted to, but he could. U get me?

So having this in mind. Sebastian dies, they start turning back the shadowhunters by the mortal cup and doing the protection ritual, and treating the downworlders with the Lynk lake. Demons are being expelled from there. What if Lucifer doesn't want to leave? What if he still wants to be there and turn Thule in what it was before. But he can't. The doors of Thule are closing. (I'm trying to fit here ur speculations about evil ty being Lucifer)

BUT THE CRACKS GUYS. Every consequence leads to another one. When Ty raised Livvy, Im afraid he did another crack there, another consecuence. JUST aaaaaahhhhh. What if Lucifer, wanting to return back and make Thule as what it was before, took Thule Ty as an opportunity for coming back. Like, the new shadowhunters like would be Thule Livvy , as an example, would do the ritual protection, but not ThuleTy, who everyone think is dead.

So Lucifer only has Ty to use as recipient.

Also, there is so much a mirror cracks until it finnally breaks. An remember that the catalyst was corrupted. Corrupted by who or what? And what will be the full consequences of that? Just Livvy returning as a ghost? I don't think so.

If shadowhunters-Thule all lost their runes with the time, there is still one shadowhunter that didn't. Like for real didn't.

Mark Blakthorn wasn't in Thule, he was in the faeries realm. If it goes as Original dimension Canon, Thule Mark still had his runes, the faeries hurt him for it but they can't erase them. He still had that runes.

how do you guys feel about romantasy? 'cause for me it feels like people are naming anything romantasy and usually only for books written by woman. The best example of this is The Hunger Games. People are calling this romantasy. In what world? Its not fantasy and its not about romance. Im not going to develop this, if u have ur braincells working then u would agree at least about that.

Second, Im not against romantasy I actually like it, it might not be my fav genre but I would read a romantasy book without batting an eye. My problem is that the moment that a book has a little of romance or a straight up sex scene in it, they are calling it romantasy when what they shuld be focusing is about what is the main topic of the book. I dont care how many sex scenes the book has if the main topic for what the book narrative move its another thing, like power-politics.

Why do I say this? Before tiktok romantasy was not a thing, at least in the spanish countries since the word is in english, we now use it like that to. But despite that, i have not seen about that word before either, ut maybe thats muy fault idk)

Why do i say this again? People are saying Shadowhunters is romantasy and i took a time to myself to think about it. Is this romantasy? does the romance take the mayor light over the politics, power and other issues that this books present us? I dont think so. THERE IS romance, and some yearning life time romance we had seen in this books, and love moves a lot of the characters to do some things or not, but the politics and the magic-system of the book is what is movig the narrative, the plot, everything that happens in the book is fantasy over romance so I was just figuring what other people thoughts are about this?

Thank u for all ur opinions

Guys, since I had a lot of feedback and u already know my side on this I would like u to read this I wrote sometime which I think summarise the reason why I think the TSC are not romantasy or plainly not focus on romance as in another things.