god damn i knew clace was good (best tsc couple i said what i said) but i forgot how GOOD the bickering and tension was fuck me
herondale men really just say the most swoon worthy shit out of nowhere
everyone is out to get the lightwoods and herondales because they're just that iconic
are we really doing a parrot heist right now
i could bring up the misogyny in calling cassie the incest author when grrm gets nothing but praise for the most incest riddled books i have ever seen but i don't think people who can't even grasp that cassie is using it as a literary tool are ready to hear that
this book is making me dread cordelia's pov i hate it so much ðŸ˜ðŸ˜
what HAPPENED
and if i said smash gang orca
"burn up be at rest" i genuinely want endeavour dead
glad you fucking feel bad but you still violently abused shoto and his mother and seemingly neglected your two other children. you don't get to leave that shit in the past fuckface
i used to separate them distinctly in my mind but this reread is making me kind of unable to do that..
i gotta clarify first that i think sebastian needs to be punished for what he did. i don't think any of what i'm about to say absolves him of anything he's done.
that being said, i think sebastian was so tragically doomed by the narrative that he never had a choice but to make the choices he did. he never had a chance to be anything else because of valentine and jocelyn (although jocelyn to a far lesser extent than valentine). every step of his existence from conception to death is stripped of agency. every choice he makes is done in the shadows of valentine stripping away his humanity and mercilessly abusing him until he's a perfect weapon. and then the bastard has the nerve to be ashamed of what he created.
i just wish sebastian had gotten a fucking chance to be anything other than jocelyn's shame and valentine's weapon.
sebastian morgenstern is actually the best villain ever because he makes me a devastating combination of sad and angry
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