’tis a jurdan temple

i think my favourite thing about the tda books is the banter in between serious conversations; it feels so natural and teenage-like, definitely something that improved as the books went on. tmi had its moments obviously but these books are like serious yet unserious. it lets you connect with them and their dynamic as a family and it makes you smile and giggle and shows so much of them as characters UGH i <3 friendship and family

before there was Online there was lying on the floor and studying the patterns of the carpet and tracing it with your finger

Thinking about how Jace was a more advanced fighter at age 10 and how that was just a product of valentines abuse. About how Izzy and Alec wished they were as tough as Jace but Jace wishing he could have had Alec and Izzy’s life instead.

kwang's pov must be one hell of a ride bc this 21st century boy gets basically isekai'd into an edo era samurai adventure manga but in fact, they just live like that in takayubi. this is his life now

Mamoru has is whole beliefs and loyalty questionned by himself and Kwang is like "what a wild first day at school"

something about magnus telling simon in cols that he himself is not a hero immediately before announcing to the group that simon has a heroic idea. something about simon's heroic ideas never being about the heroism itself. something about simon's humility juxtaposing magnus's large personality. something about the way magnus intentionally mistakes simon's name thrice in the small exchange they had leading up to this announcement. something about the plausible deniability magnus builds around himself, creating evidence of a level of carelessness he can't truly manage. something about the image of a hero magnus has in his head and how his understanding of himself simply does not fit that. something about his understanding of simon, though. something about two heroes who don't view themselves as such, one because of his altruism and youth and the other because the years between them have threaded his heart with cynicism and self-preservation.

i think its so interesting how clary keeps recalling these frames and quotes from the night she spent beside jace in alicante when they're together in cols. because both then and now jace was being manipulated by a morgenstern in a way that altered his identity into a lie, and both times there's a demonic connection, whether that be just a belief that he himself had demon blood or an intricate tie with someone who actually does.

i love how many people i've talked to who've just blocked sebastian's rape attempt from their mind, and who look at me agape when i bring it up. because that was me before my 2021 reread. and honestly i would not be surprised if it was a good portion of us at some point in time. and it makes sense. bc hello that was horrific and i don't need to he thinking about it. but it is kinda funny that shadowhunter fans will vividly remember jace wanting to do to clary what he should theoretically be protecting her from, and then forget sebastian trying to forcefully do to clary what he should definitely be protecting her from.