“why Do You Have A Problem With Simon Becoming A Shadowhunter At The End?”

“why do you have a problem with Simon becoming a shadowhunter at the end?”

oh boy. oh man. let’s do this.

The Mortal Instruments book series has a variety of very interesting parallels that sort of portray real life problems in a fantasy world, which is a good way of educating people on subconscious level about how repulsing some of the discrimination nowadays is.

Yes, I am talking about racism, I am talking about sexism, misogyny, homophobia, unhealthy parent/child relationship, rape and abuse, manipulation- all things wrong in our society.

Take the shadowhunters/downworlders concept. A privileged community, considering itself superior to a group of minorities: a blatant, clear example of racism, which is being called out and fought against.

That sounds good and what’s even better, one of the main characters (armed with the privileges of being white, male, heterosexual) becomes a downworlder and suddenly, he is apart of a minority too, and it does nothing to change or lessen the values he represents.

Why, do tell me, was it necessary to not only break every single working rule of the Shadowhunters Chronicles fantasy world and come up with half-assed excuses to not only stop him from being apart of a minority, but also make him apart of the privileged community?

What’s the point of representing the fight for equality 6 whole books if at the end of the day, it is going to be proved that you are not valid if you’re not a certain thing. What’s the point of saying “Downworlders are not less than Shadowhutners” if your’e going to make a downworlder into a shadowhunter so that he is as privileged as they come? What was wrong with Downworlder Simon? Why was he any less than Shadowhunter Simon, if equality is something you root for?

Magnus and Alec were denied their happy ending: their chance to grow old together because if Magnus gave up his immortality, he would die of old age. Following the same logic, Simon should have died without his immortality, because he’s technically a vampire, an undead creature. The author went to poorly explained lengths to keep him alive and make him a Shadowhunter. Why couldn’t Magnus become mortal and stay alive in the exact same sequence is still a mystery. This is not even the case.

The case is- I do understand that these are cassandra’s characters and she’s free to do to their fate whatever she pleases, but my point is that this plot twist is completely unnecessary and doesn’t really make sense. It literally went against everything she tried to make her books into.

Meanwhile, on Twitter:

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rachelcarrot

3 years ago

Hahhaa this would be hilarious 🤣

Yeah I think I agree!

this is a super random question, but do you think that Alec and Jane like Harry Potter (or other witch stories) or do they avoid it altogether, having been called witches as humans and vampires as well?

Petition to accept that Jane owns a t'shirt with that we are the granddaughters of witches you couldn't burn phrase on except she scrubbed out the word granddaughters. No? Just me?

They don't actively go seeking these things out but they don't shy away from them either. It does leave them feeling bitter though. Humans adore and idolise the idea of magic and witches now. It makes them wonder if things would have been different if they were born in another time.

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rachelcarrot

3 years ago

I fucking love dogs

So one of my neighbors has a lawn Roomba or whatever they're called, and this thing trundles around looking like a background robot in the background of the original trilogy, and ABSOLUTELY BAFFLING THE DOGS.

They have concluded, I think, that it's some kind of prey animal because right after this video ended they decided to crouch down and stalk it, which means I'm 90% sure I'm going to have to stop Arwen from eating it at some point.

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rachelcarrot

3 years ago

Why is he cute?

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rachelcarrot

3 years ago

Adorable cat getting a scrub

(via)

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rachelcarrot

9 years ago

Follow her, she's amazing :)

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rachelcarrot

1 year ago

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And yeah I guess that's accurate

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rachelcarrot

3 years ago

AFTER the beach kiss ~ everlark

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rachelcarrot

2 years ago

Happy birthday, Werner!

The chronicle of the monk Herbert of Reichenau for the year 1021 ends “My brother Werner was born on November 1.“

1021 was not an uneventful year. The emperor began a campaign into Italy. Illustrious abbots died. There was an earthquake. But Herbert took the time to note, at the end of the year, that his brother was born.

Of such acts of tenderness is history made.

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rachelcarrot

10 years ago