Cassandra Clare drives me insane. Like. Her books had me insane for years. Then I read Queen of Air and Darkness and. Honest to god that ending.
So. I don't remember most of the books story (let alone how it made up 3 books over 400 pages at the minimum) except that if you were legally recognised as best friends you couldn't fall in love. No one knows the cost of this. The cost turns out to be turning into giant flaming naked people.iirc. That's the ending. No destruction, no one is saved. It's just a thing. That happened.
AND LIKE. WHAT THE FUCK. It's so anticlimactic. I don't get it. I don't get where it came from. I don't get why this was so foreboding. BESIDES THD YKNOW.
Also. What's the trigger for this to happen. Because Alec loved Jace (his legally recognised best friend) but that ended fine. Was it because it wasn't required? Because Alec fell in love with Magnus at the end? IDK. but also in the upside down world, they acknowledge their in love and have sex. Which a) really bad priorities. They're in a world where the villain of the Mortal Instruments committed mass genocide and they're having sex. b) WAS IT JUST SEX STOPPING TBEM?
I'm certain there must be an explanation in the books. But I was so confused even when I was reading it. So either this was made up on the spot or I'm going insane.
Oh my God, I just found out, like today, that the entire Mortal Instruments series takes place over five months!! Five!! Months!! That's it. That is so much in such a short time.
At some point, I am going to have to sit down with those books and comb through them to lay out the time line.
Cause I feel like this is going to be a Pretty Little Liars situation where they acted like Caleb was in Ravenwood for at least a year, but because of the PLL time line, he only visited for like a weekend.
Oh, Jace and Clary are so in love....girl, you have known each other for like a day, sit down.
Also, Clary is a stupid name that I will never take seriously. My brain always autocorrects it to Celery.
I--
Hate the Maximum Ride series I hate it. It had so much potential but James Patterson wouldn’t know consistency if it hit him in the face. Like the part where the gang went to Antartica? It felt like I had missed a book with how much had happened. And Izzy’s mom going from dead to actually being married and thinking he was dead? Whack. Within a couple of chapters too like. I could be remembering wrong but what kind of inconsistency was that?
I've never read this series, but because my brain is utterly broken, I have watched multiple hours long videos about it. And even then, with all that knowledge, having it all condensed down to it's most straightforward and coherent, I could in no way give you a cohesive plot summary. Like, I think they stop the apocalypse, stop the climate crisis, and then it doesn't matter because the apocalypse happens anyway? Maybe? I don't know.
I don't think even James Patterson knows.
I'm starting to think he's not even a real person. Just every now and then, a book appears in the world with that name on it. It never goes to an editor, no publishing house actually handles it, it's never even been to a printer. It just appears in bookstores and we as a society just don't question it
If you get a thousand likes in a row from me, I promise I am not obsessively going through your page liking every post I see.
It just means that I only follow like six people and you're the only one posting right now.
Also, if you don't like me liking all your posts, stop making such good fucking posts. Not my fault you're good at this.
-core as a suffix serves the exact same function as -esque and yet they throw tomatoes at me when i say something is kafkacore
“Alienating allies” is not a thing; actual allyship is not about you. Sit down, shut up, and LISTEN.
I wonder what's next from streamers like the one I talked about in this post
A live reading of The Turner Diaries to raise money for the Holocaust Museum?
Or Elliot Rodger's manifesto with the promise to give some money to a DV shelter?
Oooh, what about a shot-for-shot remake of Birth of a Nation and donate to a Black charity?
After all, according to them, any amount of bigotry is canceled out by money.
I'm gonna throw one of my hot takes out here real quick.
Speed reading is just skimming. You're missing out on so much of the book when you do it. It's really not worth it just so you can say that you read 90 books in one month. We need to stop encouraging it. The quality of a read is so much more important than how quickly you finished it. Might be mean, but I won't take your book opinions very seriously if you're just skimming.
Work has been absolute hell the last few days. I am utterly exhausted
I was talking to my mom and I told her that I think I might have autism and she told me that I do, and she's known about it since I was 5
And she just decided to never tell anyone, including me, about it
It apparently took three decades for her to decide that I might find this information helpful
So many things about me and my life make sense now
I really wish I had known this sooner
Messy bi who dresses like a four-year-old despite being in my 30s
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