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make me choose: @alinepenhallowâ asked: alec lightwood or horace dearborn
âAnd when one day people look back on me and what my life meant, I donât want them to say, âAlec Lightwood fought in the Dark Warâ or even âAlec Lightwood was Consul once.â I want them to think, âAlec Lightwood loved one man so much he changed the world for him.âââ
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Queen of Air and Darkness Review
3 out of 5 Stars
NonSpoiler ReviewÂ
I am a dedicated TSC blog, and I believe Cassandra Clare can be a great author. Iâve been amazed at how she manages to juggle characters and storylines blending surprises as she weaves different eras and generations together like she did with her TMI finale COHF. I had high expectations that Qoaad would WOW me and I would be amazed at the brilliance of the TDA finale.
That did not happen in this book. For me, there wasnât so much a WOW, as a HUH?
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This will probably be me all next week. Iâm clocking out of tumblr till Iâm done with QoaaD and wonât be posting or reblogging anything for a few weeks. Everyone be careful of spoilers out there!

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No one is ever the villain of their own story. - Emma Carstairs, Lady Midnight, @cassandraclare
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Emma discovered the sea caves when she was eleven years old. Sheâd been at the beach with her parents when she found them â great fingers of gray rock reaching into the ocean, and boring through them, like tunnels in the stone, were the caves. They were open to the ocean on both ends, and they smelled delightful, like sea water and wet rock and dark, secret things. She was thirteen years old when she and Julian declared the sea caves their official meeting place. If anything ever happened at or to the Institute â and they both had nightmares about it, ever since the attack during the Dark War â they would meet at the caves. She was fourteen years old when she first showed the sea caves to Cameron Ashdown. The Ashdowns had come to Los Angeles after the Dark War, easily situating themselves among the small Conclave of Shadowhunters who lived in the city. Although all Conclaves were small now, since the deaths in the war. The Clave was doing everything it could to track down every wayward mundane who might have a drop of Nephilim blood, even if their family had left the Shadowhunters generations ago. Still, it would be decades before they were the strength they once had been. Cameron, his parents, and his younger sister, Paige, moved into a house in Santa Monica and, as soon as they could, arranged to visit the Institute to decide if Paige and Cameron were going to have lessons with the Blackthorns or hire their own tutor. Diana was there to greet them and show them the training rooms, the library, and the classroom. Emma was in the training room, practicing fencing with Livvy. She was taller and stronger than Livvy, but Livvy was lightning-fast on her feet, which gave her the advantage with a saber. Ty and Julian were watching: Ty was cheering for Livvy, and Jules for Emma, as if it were a real match. The door opened, and Cameron and his sister came in with Diana. Emma stopped in her tracks, which allowed Livvy to score with the side of her blade across Emmaâs shoulder. âEmma!â she complained. âYouâre not paying attention.â But Emma was already pushing her mask back, letting her hair spill down. Cameron Ashdown might have grown up in Idris, but he looked like the perfect California boy, with fiery red hair, tanned skin, broad shoulders, and hazel eyes. His nose looked as if it had been broken before, but it lent his face a charming asymmetry. His sister Paige was a small copy of him, with short red hair and a pointed chin. She regarded Emma with dislike, perhaps because Emma was staring at her brother. Emma had been thinking lately, rather scientifically, about the fact that she was fourteen years old and hadnât kissed anyone yet. Nor, she thought, growing up in the Blackthorn house, was it likely. They rarely saw other children their age; the Conclave simply wasnât that big, and now that the Academy in Idris had re-opened, most younger Shadowhunters were being trained there. She thought of Julian, the way that when he smiled at her, he seemed to put his whole self into the smile. The way it lit up the room and made her heart catch. Cameron Ashdown was looking at her curiously as Diana made the introductions; Livvy was tugging off her helmet. Lowering her blade, Emma smiled at Cameron, putting all of herself into it. When he smiled back, he looked dazzled. Later, after the Ashdowns had gone, Ty said, âI didnât like them.â Julian ruffled his hair. Instead of saying what Emma had expected â something about how Ty had to give them a chance â he said, âI didnât like them either.â âWhy not?â she asked, curious. He shrugged. âI just didnât.â âWell, too bad,â said Diana. âYou kids need to spend time with some people who arenât Blackthorns.â She eyed Emma. âOr Carstairs.â The Ashdowns came back, the next weekend, and the next weekend after that. It was the summer, and the group spent their time at the beach, getting sunburned, swimming in the water â all except Emma â and building sandcastles with the younger children. Ty built meticulous sandcastles, carefully sculpted, while Livvyâs were shapeless and towering, collapsing under their own weight as they climbed toward the sky. They buried Tavvy in sand, and Drusilla sat cross-legged and lost in a book â Paige was nearly the same age as her, but the girls ignored each other. Later, Emma thought that should have been a warning to her. Later she blamed herself for everything. She was fourteen when she brought Cameron to see the caves. He had been teasing her about never going into the water; she laughed, but didnât tell him why. Instead she drew him away from the group and brought him into her favorite of the caves: not the biggest, but the longest and most winding. It was possible to find a bend in the tunnel where the ocean couldnât be seen from either side. She drew Cameron in after her and faced him, her heart pounding. She studied the hazel color of his eyes in the shadows, their mixture of blue and brown and green. She held out her hands, not knowing how to be anything but direct. âDo you want to kiss me?â she said. He swallowed hard and nodded. He was shaking as he pulled her toward him and kissed her gently, her head tipping back, her hands finding purchase on his shoulders. She stroked his arms, lightly, timidly; his mouth was warm and soft, and he tasted like strawberry ice cream. Kissing was everything sheâd hoped it would be. It was like a good kind of drowning, filling her ears and eyes with forgetfulness, blocking out the crashing sound of the waves against the shore. Cameronâs touch became more urgent, sliding up from her waist, and she leaned harder against him, and that was when she heard someone scream.Â
It sounded like a scream of anger rather than pain or fear, but Emma had heard screams at a distance before and she tore away from Cameron without a thought and burst into a run. He followed her. When they reached the beach where theyâd left the others, they both stared: Ty was sitting on the sand, and Julian was holding Paige by the collar of her t-shirt, his face white with rage. Later, Emma found out what had happened. Livvy and Dru had gone to collect seashells; Julian was sketching up by the dunes, and Ty had been making a sandcastle with Paige half-heartedly helping him. Heâd picked up a piece of sea glass and become fascinated with it. Ty became fascinated with things sometimes: the way an ink blot spread across a page, or the way dye feathered into water. He would sit and look at them, lost in contemplation. If he was especially distracted, it would take a gentle hand on his shoulder, or his name spoken softly, to rouse him. But Paige had done neither of those things. When sheâd asked him what he was doing and he hadnât reacted, sheâd thrown a handful of sand into his face. Ty had come back to himself choking and blinded and gasping. Heâd started rocking, his hands fluttering, his butterflies frantic. âFreak,â Paige had snapped. âStop doing that, you freak.â And then Julian had been there, hauling Paige bodily to her feet. As Emma ran up, Cameron beside her, they heard him hiss. âIf you ever,â he said, âever, call my brother names again, Iâll kill you. I donât care if youâre a girl. Iâll kill you.â âStop it! Stop!â Cameron darted ahead of Emma and yanked his sister away from Julian; she promptly started crying. Julian looked at him in a daze. In the distance, Emma could see Livvy and Dru running toward them across the sand. âGet her away,â he said. âBoth of you get away, and donât come back.â Cameron turned to Emma, his face open, puzzled. âWe could talk about this,â he said. âWe â we should talk about this.â Emma looked from him, to Julian, who was crouching down by Ty now, saying his name, softly, his voice full of love and panic. And she turned to Cameron, who was holding his red-faced sister and looking at her with a look that said that he expected her to take his side. That their kiss in the caves had been a signal that her allegiance had changed. That she would be loyal to him now, and not Julian. âGo away,â she said. âLike Julian said. And donât ever bring her back.â A few weeks later, she and Julian left for Idris, for their parabatai ceremony. When they came back, Paige had been sent to the Academy. A month after that, Emma began dating Cameron for the first time.
Cameron: this is my boyfriend, Julian, and thatâs Julianâs girlfriend, Emma, and this is Emmaâs girlfriend ,Cristina, and this is Cristinaâs boyfriend, Mark, and this is Markâs and Cristinaâs boyfriend, Kieran, and this is Kieranâs boyfriend, Diego, and this is Diegoâs bethroded that no one likes and everybody wants to punch, Zara.

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The Unseelie King: I have an army
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QoAaD and theories based on the chapter titles
Today, Cassandra Clare released the chapter titles of QoAaD and as a faithful literature student, I decided to analyse the poem they are based on.âThe City in the Seaâ by Edgar Allan Poe (1845) is the poem they are inspired from so I will be analysing the poem and theorising any possible events. The chapter titles arenât chronological to the linear structure of the poem so this will go according to the poem and not the sequence of the titles. Â Iâll be mostly blurting out random thoughts so this is just some general points of interest and maybe theyâre far-fetched but letâs just get into it.Â
The poem was initially published under the titles of  'The Doomed Cityâ, and 'The City of Sinâ and tells the story of a city ruled by the personification of Death, perhaps alluding to many deaths in the upcoming novel. The city resides near âmelancholy watersâ (title of chapter 2) and the water element has been a theme throughout 'The Dark Artificesâ and is a key aspect of all three book covers. The poem ends with the city sinking, which many argue is symbolic of the descent to Hell - most likely caused by mortal sin. One interpretation of this is the downfall of the Shadowhunter race by the sin of some - an idea the Cohort have already undertaken as they strive to restore the Nephilim to the old 'golden ageâ. The submersion of the city could allude to the downfall of the Cohort that is brought about by their own ideology, or the downfall of individual Shadowhunters due to unspeakable deeds they have committed (perhaps Julianâs punishment for his willingness to transgress morals and laws for the benefit of his loved ones, seen when he was open to the idea of severing all parabatai bonds so he could be with Emma whilst also keeping his family).Â
The city is located âfar down within the dim Westâ, which is the direction of the setting sun and could symbolise the descent from light to darkness as night-time prevails in the poem. Downfall is a key theme and as âeverything changesâ in  QoAaD, itâs quite obvious that dark and sinister forces will arise. âHoly heaven come downâ and âHell, risingâ, convey a feeling of good forces being defeated or supressed by the villainous opposition. The most powerful villain yet is said make an appearance so the allusions are probably spot on as the Shadowhunters will struggle against a powerful enemy.Â
A chilling rhyming couplet goes: âWhere the good and the bad and the worst and the best / Have gone to their eternal restâ, suggesting that people from both the 'goodâ (Livviaâs Watch etc) and from the 'badâ (Cohort, Unseelie King) side will die. Cassandra Clare hasnât revealed a precise death count which supports the idea that many will be lost. Deathâs city is described as elaborate and impressive with âkingly hallsâ and âmarvellousâ shrines, but the magnificence is juxtaposed because the architecture is âlong forgottenâ and âshadowyâ. There is an overwhelming absence of life and it reminds me of Edomâs history from CoHF, a reality where Shadowhunters perished because they lacked certain equipment such as seraph blades, but ultimately because they were too prideful to accept the help of Downworlders in order to fight demons. This is a chilling parallel to the current situation in Idris, where a blight caused by the Unseelie King is not only present in large parts of Faerie, but it has also spread into parts of Brocelind Forest. Shadowhunters would be unable to use their tools in the case of an invasion, and if the Cohortâs ideology spreads and Downworlders are alienated, the Nephilim could perish exactly as they did in Edom. The presence of ruins is also in the cover of QoAaD where the ruins of a city are seen in the background.
âBabylonâ is the title of chapter 3, and I believe will focus on the Cohort. The term 'Babylonâ is used by Rastafarians (a religious movement in Jamaica) to refer to oppressive colonial institutions as Jamaica was a British colony. There is an inextricable link between the Cohortâs fascist ideology and the ideology shared by colonial powers who saw non-white races as inherently inferior, and the Cohort represents the rise of extremism in contemporary US politics. Â Perhaps Downwolders will rally up in opposition to the Cohort (maybe ally themselves with Livviaâs Watch) the same way the Rastafarians do with Britainâs oppressive establishments that are still present in Jamaica to this day. The title of chapter 15 is âTurrets and Shadowsâ which likely alludes to Julianâs dark nature as he is further isolated from others by his secrets. There are plenty of theories on Julianâs downfall and he is an anti-hero so this isnât surprising. Similarly to the tower covered by thorns on his bedroom wall, Julian is metaphorically trapped by his own darkness (his lies and deceitful nature). Cassie has revealed that Julian will be more isolated in QoAaD than Emma will be because he has no one to talk to, to share his burden with, and this isolation reflects the entrapment of a tower. Julian is a Blackthorn and his fairy tale is Sleeping Beauty where he is Beauty that lies in the tower so this imagery is very familiar with his character.Â
Another terrifying chapter title is that of 31: âA redder glow.â In Poeâs poem, this is about the waterâs colour right before Deathâs city begins sinking, but in the context of TSC, this is frighteningly close to the glow of the demon towerâs in Alicante during a demon invasion. A war is certainly coming and will likely take place in Alicante like it did in TMI.Â
Lastly, âHell Risingâ of chapter 18 reminds me of Sebastianâs quote, âIf I cannot move  Heaven, I will raise Hellâ, something that Satan said in Paradise Lost by John Milton. Sebastianâs known legacy right now is Ash who is generally accepted by the fandom to be his son which makes me question if Ash will follow his fatherâs footsteps. Â
I might add more later but Iâm too tired at the moment, let me know what you guys think of this! I finally put my literature skills into use for this fandom since I donât draw or write fanfiction and doing this was really fun (and time-consuming). Iâm posting this on the 10th of November 2018 and please tag me if you want to use any of these points so I can read your theories!
This is an amazing post! I did a similar analysis for the LoS poem, Dreamland, here. Dreamland is about a lone foreigner travelling through a ghostly land ruled by death and Iâd love to know what you think of the two poems having any crossover between the books. Thule is very important in Dreamland (ruled by an Eidolon demon and it is my impression is that it is a place the dead go and Iâm wondering if you think Thule is the mysterious place Julian and Emma will go to, and if that is where this âsubmerged cityâ could exist?Â
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hi, itâs me anniek, i used to be @octavianblackthorn, but that blog got suspended because of me being a ridiculous url hoarder. iâve used the sideblog @faheyjesper for a while, hoping iâd get my other account back, but itâs been 2 months so iâve given up hope. i decided to start fresh with a new blog, with mixed feelings, but here i am! i would greatly appreciate signal boosts so people can find me again. if youâre new to my blog, hi, i mostly post ya literature and mythology here!
I canât believe its 2018 and people still think Will and Jem are straight. literally every single interaction they have itâs likeâŚ.there is no heterosexual explanation for that
nothing out of the ordinary here! just something any heterosexual bro would do for his other heterosexual bro :)
Can I also add for the crack:
Jem engraving Willâs initials into his staff so theyâre always together
Jem bringing up his love for Will literally every chance he gets. Like someone just breathes and Jem is like âARE YOU TALKING ABOUT MY LIFE, MY OTHER HALF, THE REASON I LIVE, WILLIAM HERONDALEâ
The next level melodrama with which they both speak about each other both internally and externally
The fact itâs never been stated that they werenât into each other, whether they realised it or not
Didnât CC say in an answer that if they had more time together, Tessa, Will and Jem may have been in a polyamorous relationship?
Yes she did indeed!
Oh yes, and do you remember that post where CC said that, since parabatai who are in love can make magic, it is possible that their parabatai magic was the reason Jem managed to live with his addiction for as long as he did, and not just for 2 years, as heâd been told.
Thereâs no way Magnus didnât call a very confused Ragnor around Christmas of 1966 and sing the entirety of âYouâre a Mean One, Mr. Grinchâ at him, laughing especially hard at the âseasick crocodileâ line.
Ragnor probably hung up and called Catarina to see if Magnus had sustained a head injury.

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