meeeshelley replied to your post: theladyvalette replied to your post: JESUS CHRIST…
I’m convinced all just be sob-screaming when I finish Clockwork Princess no matter how it ends. WHAT FUN TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN MY FUTURE.
Basically.
THERE IS NO HAPPY ENDING. THERE IS NO WAY ANYTHING CAN END HAPPILY. HOW CAN I LOOK FORWARD TO A BOOK THAT IS GOING TO SHATTER ME AND SUCK OUT MY SOUL WORSE THAN THE DMV DID?!
"Jem’s knees gave out, and he sank to the trunk at the foot of his bed, still playing. He played Will breathing the name Cecily, and he played himself watching the glint of his own ring on Tessa’s hand on the train from York, knowing it was all a charade, knowing, too, that he wished that it wasn’t. He played the sorrow in Tessa’s eyes when she had come into the music room after Will had told her she would never have children. Unforgivable, that, what a thing to do, and yet Jem had forgiven him. Love was forgiveness, he had always believed that, and the things that Will did, he did out of some bottomless well of pain. Jem did not know the source of that pain, but he knew it existed and was real, knew it as he knew of the inevitability of his own death, knew it as he knew that he had fallen in love with Tessa Gray and that there was nothing he or anyone else could do about it."
JESUS CHRIST WHY IS THIS ON MY DASH
theparallelpersona inquired: "Ashlieee. I was just sitting here thinking about when Clockwork Princess comes out and how I am actually looking forward to reading it if only to have all you guys here to talk to. And how there are going to be so many feels and I'm going to end up dying on the floor because JEM AND WILL AND TESSA and everyone and I don't even know why I'm messaging you all of this so randomly but I LOVE ALL OF YOU. (Also, I still haven't read CoLS because I'm afraid and everyone seems to be hating on it. D:)"omg you know I will be here still like alfjdlkfaj WE MET BECAUSE OF CLOCKWORK PRINCE :3 -holds- SO MANY FEELS LIKE PART OF ME IS KIND OF SCARED TO READ IT BECAUSE I KNOW IT’S GOING TO RIP ME UP AND IT WON’T END HOW I WANT IT TO END BECAUSE I DON’T KNOW HOW I WANT IT TO END AND THERE’S NO WAY FOR IT TO HAVE A HAPPY ENDING AND THINGS WILL KILL ME AND THERE WILL BE MESSY SOBS AND TUMBLR RANTS AND BARFS OF FEELS ;A; BUT IT’LL BE OKAY COS WE’LL ALL BE IN THE SAME BOAT. RIGHT? RIGHT?
<3 alfjdflkja I don’t mind the random message at ALL! It’s been crazy long since we even talked so IT’S THE PERFECT WAY TO OPEN A CONVERSATION RIGHT? <3
but alfjdklfajd oh gosh CoLS :( I haven’t heard good things. Like everything I’ve heard makes me want to avoid it even more and afljdflakj ugggggghhhh :| THERE’S JUST SOME REALLY QUESTIONABLE THEMES AND THINGS GOING ON IN THAT BOOK :/
Jem! My beautiful Jem and his violin!
In honor of this fabulous piece of art, I’ve put up one of the bits of special content from Clockwork Prince: Burning Bright. Jem’s meeting with Tessa in Clockwork Angel from his point of view.
For that was what love was, wasn’t it — to burn bright in someone else’s eyes?
And another request! Jem ;3; beautiful Jem.
I can never decide who to root for. Jem is so sweet and genuine but Will has spent all his life suffering and he needs love too! AUGH!!
…..but.
Has Jem not suffered AS WELL??????
(but this artwork is beautiful)
(Jem is beautiful)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DIGGING THIS WHO DID THEY USE FOR WILL AND JEM????
Anonymous inquired: "I thought you were into Cassandra Clare's books?"I do, though! And I have point out time and time again, I greatly prefer the Infernal Devices to The Mortal Instruments for a multitude of reasons, largely though being the characters.
Here’s the thing. I can like a series and still finds it’s errors, right?
And you can like a series and start to be turned off by them, too. As this came in last night, I assume this has much to do with my reblogs of Angie’s (shaggydogs) rants about City of Lost Souls. I will admit, I have yet to read it, but after what I’ve read of it, I really don’t WANT to.
Cassandra Clare has a FANTASTIC world. I love the dynamics of it, I love the history of it, and it’s a great set up. But what I feel CC doesn’t follow through well with is her characters. The last trilogy of TMI has felt more like a fanfic based on shipping than it has a story, and the overall plot feels more like it’s there to stablize the shipping. (and I realize that yes, TID is also very heavy on the romance, but it’s balanced so well it doesn’t bother me).
But when an author is using rape scenes for shock factor, I get DISGUSTED. I get it, CC. You like to defy the limits, go beyond the border. Fine, that’s fine.
BUT RAPE IS A VERY SENSITIVE TOPIC. IT’S SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE HAVE /BEEN/ THROUGH AND IT’S NOT A COMFORTABLE THING TO READ ABOUT. And you can try and say the scene was never meant to be comfortable, and fine, but that’s just TAKING IT TOO FAR. How do you think people who HAVE been raped feel reading that? Don’t you imagine there was a sense of fear, unease, illness, horror?
AND FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, CLARY IS COMPLETELY UNAFFECTED BY THE FACT THAT HER /BROTHER/, HER BLOOD-RELATED /BROTHER/ JUST /TRIED TO RAPE HER/. No residual fear, no residual unease.
like
what?
You were attacked
and nearly raped
and you aren’t terrified by that or uneasy over it????
And the matter with Maia and her formerly abusive boyfriend makes me sick sick sick because no good message is going out. Like, one moment she’s all NO NO I NEED SOME TIME I’M CONFUSED and then suddenly she’s kissing him? She has ROMANTICIZED this, and surely you can understand my horror? Surely you can understand why it makes me so uneasy for a girl who HATED Jordan for SO long to just so easily go back to him like it’s nothing
(never mind how Cassie HANDLES romance: Clary and Jace fell in love instantly, Simon got over Clary quickly for having been crazy about her all his life, Maia has spent so long hating Jordan and suddenly she’s okay enough to KISS him, even ID is full of instantaneous speedy love. It’s like I’m watching Little House on the Prairie, in which every crush is defined as all-consuming love)
My issue is that Cassie is NOT handling these matters very well. These are VERY real life, VERY scary problems that people go through every day, and when they get used so casually, I get really, really, REALLY disgusted.
I like her stories. I love her worlds. The mythology of it is fascinating and intriguing. I love what she’s done with TID even full well knowing she’s going to tear out my soul. I love how interactive she is with her fans. I love when she calls people out on their bullshit. I love her support of POC. But I do not love most characters in TMI and I do not love how she is handling these delicate topics in such a flippant manner.
Cassandra Clare posted a link to my post about white-washing Jem and it’s not even a great post and oh my god she read it she actually read it holy crap you guys HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forever shipping TessaxJem
Tis true
alohomorashlie replied to your post: alohomorashlie replied to your post: you could use…
I miss all my TID feels but like. :( I donno. WHEN THE BOOK COMES OUT I KNOW I’LL BE ALL OVER AGAIN, Y’KNOW? It’s just what more is there right now without being overly repetitive? D: and the aching feeels :(YES ME TOO AND EVERYONE WILL UNFOLLOW ME BUT I DUNN CARE. I feel like we’ve cross-analyzed CP to the point that there’s nothing else to say hahaha. When CoLS comes out (since I’ll have to read that too sighh) there’ll be like, a minor crossing-back for me but not too serious. But gosh I miss fangirling over Jemmy-boo ;__;
I totally get that! I mean, I still have my sudden Jem fangirling moments, too, cos you know. HE IS JEM AND L O L HOW CAN I GET OVER HIM right? But I agree. Sometimes I feel like I’ve been over it so much that it’s all repetitious and there’s nothing more I can DISCOVER because we’ve basically gone over all the possibilities and usually it leaves me filled with inevitable heartbreak because THE SERIES CANNOT END HAPPY not in a way that leaves EVERYONE happy and honestly no matter who lives or dies I think I’m going to be left feeling bitter/melancholy.
Like.
I JUST REALLY WANT CP2 NOW and at the same time I want to prolong all the feeeels. But uh, I’m not really ~excited for CoLS, and I know I’ve talked about it before, but I’m just not INTO TMI the way I am ID - especially this second trilogy. I can’t handle how TMI I feels like it’s soooo much shipping where, yes yes I am aware ID rather is, too, but it feels like there’s a more encompassing plot.
Or maybe it’s because I don’t much care for Clary and Jace.
EITHER WAY.
JEM.
JEM FOREVER. *__________*
(And man it’s not like we can ever discard ID, when it’s what brought us together in the first place!!!!)
I am at the point where my list of potential models for Jem is by far surpassed by my I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP USING YOU FOR JEM CARSTAIRS list.
And it’s ridiculous because I am so picky but ugh I just want it to feel canonical to me and I still don’t think I have found anyone I really like for him.
Jaejoong is still probably my top pic just because he has those slight features, that almost aristocratic appearance, the ethereal beauty(as opposed to handsomeness), he doesn’t look common, he doesn’t look necessarily incredibly approachable.. But something about him still doesn’t seem entirely right to me.
And there are times where I go L O L LEE HYUN JAE because when his hair is short I can kind of see it because he’s already mixed and has the slightness and a FANTASTIC smile.
But I think those are my only two.
And I also think I really need to start looking into actual Chinese sometime because I feel really bad that my own castings for Jem Carstairs are KOREAN and I’m not doing it because YEAH ALL ASIANS LOOK ALIKE but simply because that’s all I really KNOW D:
POINT IS MAN THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE I CAN NEVER SEE AS JEM NOW, THOUGH.
Stelesy, I just wanted to say I love the work you do with these. The unique color choice, the way you pick their poses so they feel all cohesive and stuff. The way you try out different actors for your graphics. A solid selection for Will, a unique pick for Jem, a totally different sort of Tessa just for kicks…
You rock. That is all.
oh, gidge. always making me feel so accomplished and talented. thank you. :3
yeah, i’m definitely not attached to any particular actors when it comes to tid graphic making. there are some actors/singers/models i prefer, but sometimes they just don’t have the pictures i need for a certain graphic. i think it helps that i don’t have a “dream cast” because i’ve noticed that once an artist settles on that, he/she tends to be reluctant to use anyone else. which i find very limiting.
IT’S KEVIN WOO!!!!!!!!!!
OH MY GOD IT’S KEVIN WOO!!!!!!!
CAN’T EVEN DECIDE HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS BECAUSE I SEE HIS FACE AND I JUST GO “IT’S KEVIN WOO!!!!! BE MY BESTIE KEVIN! KEVIN WOO IS MY SPIRIT ANIMAL!!!!” I mean. He has the delicate features that Jem should have and he’s PRETTY (even if Kevin Woo is prettier than all the girls) WHICH IS PRETTY FAIR AND RIGHT.
BUT.
I MEAN.
IT’S KEVIN WOO AND MY BRAIN IS STILL TRYING TO SETTLE ON THAT (and maybe it also goes BUT WHERE IS ELI? lol brain stop this stop this right now)
BUT I’M AT LEAST HAPPY HE’S ASIAN because still forever annoyed with all the non-Asians.
AND I’M LIKE. MAN. HE’S SO FITTING.
BUT AT THE SAME TIME I’M LIKE
IT’S K E V I N W O O
and I keep looking at him and going YES THIS IS THE REAL KEVIN FROM U-KISS ^♥^ GOD BLESS and I keep giggling ugh omg self c’mon get it together
(JESUS YOU’RE SO PRETTY KEVIN WHY ARE YOU SO PRETTY HOW ARE YOU SO PRETTY I CANNOT EVEN AT ALL OMG OMG OMG)
(WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO COME TAKE ANGIE AND I SHOPPING KEVIN???)
(OKAY SHUTTING UP NOW THIS IS ALL PRETTY I PROMISE AND I’M NOT HATING ON KEVIN, I NEED YOU GUYS TO KNOW THAT.)
(IT’S JUST. IT’S KEVIN WOO!!!!!!!!)
(Who is Tessa she is pretty *o*)
