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belle-keys · 3 years

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I guess this is a quite unpopular opinion considering the headcanons\thoughts\general distaste that a lot of TLH readers have for Grace, but I still think that Alec and Izzy go back to her and Kit.

I feel it’s really too soon to make assumptions about both of their sexualities, for one. That’s not to say that they can’t be on the ace spectrum or that them being on it wouldn’t be important representation (because it would be, if done correctly), but I haven’t seen anything that proves it.

Also, I know that a lot of people are freaking out over “the family tree is wrong” deal, but I don’t believe it necessarily means that the endgame ships are wrong (and there are many easily spotted mistakes\omissions, which you can notice even without knowing the end of TLH).

And there’s the Alex deal. I get where people are coming from, but I’m pretty sure Alec and Izzy are Christopher’s descendants. Gabriel and Cecily are hinted to be their ancestors when there’s the talk about Izzy’s necklace, and Anna is clearly not going to have biological children. This means that Alec and Izzy’s line could go back to either Alex or Christopher, but Christopher’s more “central” role to the story makes me think that he must be it. That’s not a solid proof, but I just don’t believe that Alec and Izzy descend from someone we barely know, especially when Cassie is telling us all about the other TMI characters’ direct descendants.

And lastly, there’s the Penhallow thing that I never see anyone discussing. For Aline to be Alec and Izzy’s cousin, the lines have to cross at some point, and my best bets would be Eugenia or Alex. We can guess that Anna and Thomas are not going to have biological children, and Barbara is also out of the equation. And well, while Christopher could technically also be Aline’s descendant I just don’t see it likely (as shown above). So yeah, I feel like either Eugenia or Alex could be where the Lightwood and Penhallow lines cross. Eugenia would be simpler because she could take the Penhallow name in marriage and that would be it, but Alex could also have a daughter who eventually marries into the family. I kind of find both options to make sense.

So I genuinely had no idea that Alec and Izzy being descended from Christopher and Grace was an unpopular opinion. From my point of view, I thought it made the most sense and Gracetopher is actually the endgame ship I think might be most authentic, even according to the (quite wrong) Family Tree. I don't explore a lot of the fandom discourse concerning TLH ships and the characters' potential sexualities so that's why I had no idea that Izzy and Alec being descended from baby Alexander is a thing to be honest.

It's not a bad headcanon, but it's a theory I haven't ruminated on a lot because I, just personally, like the idea of Alec and Izzy being descended from Gracetopher (and Gabriel and Cecily ofc).

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bemtevis · 3 years

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Cassandra Clare's LGBTQ+ Rep

I'm here, I'm queer and I am angry. I'm also: not the LGBTQ+ community's spokesperson, and people are going to have different experiences with different characters. I'm just here to talk about mine.

Bisexuality:

We are often seen as flirty and even promiscuous people. Of course there's nothing wrong with being those things, but it's different when a straight author portrays most of her character like that.

• Matthew Fairchild (TLH), who's seen making out with both men and women by James.

• Magnus Bane (TMI), who flirts with everyone, including his love interest who was a 17 year old at the time.

• Mark Blackthorn (TDA) is safe, I'd say. My only problem with him is that his relationship with Kieran and Cristina is called a “hot faerie threesome”, since people like to see polyamory as promiscuous, but I'm not poly and that's not what we're talking about.

• Even Helen Blackthorn (TMI) and Kieran Kingson (TDA) are mentioned to have that kind of reputation. Hers in TEC, his by Mark in their short story, iirc.

Acespec:

People in the acespec (and in the aspec in general) are usually seen as two things: 1. childish and 2. emotionless.

• Julian Blackthorn (TDA) is demisexual. Many times, he's described as cold and ruthless, and while that might make sense with his character and backstory, there were many other characters that could've been in the acespec if not him.

• Raphael Santiago (TMI) is aroace. It's the same problem with Julian: he does care about his friends and all, but he's still portrayed as emotionless and cold. Also he dies, so there's that. I guess if you can't have a romantic plotline, you're not relevant enough.

• This is less about the author and more about the fandom. Grace Blackthorn and Christopher Lightwood (TLH) are two characters I've seen headcanoned as aro/ace– I don't think with him that would be a problem if many of those people also didn't like to infantilize him. Grace is a more complicated topic, and since I'm not aro I'll not be touching on.

Genderqueer:

Ok, it's important to notice that I'm still questioning, but from the little I know of my identity, I'm not happy with CC's rep either.

• Diana Wrayburn (TDA) is a trans woman. She's sidelined, cast aside, and most of her role is to be the protagonists' mentor. No, that's literally her role. She does have a storyline for herself though, so I can't complain about that. I'm also not a (binary) trans woman, so anyone feel free to correct me.

• Anna Lightwood (TLH) is a lesbian non-binary woman. She's a heartbreaker (read: she treats women like shit and canonically objectifies them), and CC's view of wlw as predators is really showing. We're still supposed to believe she's a queen of feminism, I guess.

WLW:

This is more of a complain on how CC sidelines her wlw couples but gives her straight couples way more page time and fetishizes mlm, but that's not what we're talking about.

• Aline Penhallow and Helen (TMI) show up in like,, three chapters in their main saga before being exiled.

• Ariadne Bridgestock (TLH) who spends the majority of the first book in a coma, so her love interest can cry some white tears I guess. Also she's pretty much villanized for protecting herself, and now has to crawl to win her white love interest's affection.

• Ariadne and Anna (TLH) have little to no pagetime. CC seems eager to mention that they ~are gonna make out in a closet~ which after that snippet was leaked, just seems like a desperate atempt to not seem lesbophobic. Also everything I've mentioned above, in their individual parts.

I can't really think of anything else, so anyone feel free to add anything if you want to.

#luna has opinions #anti cc #anti cassandra clare #long post #negativity tag #just breathe anna

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