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cortanas-wielder · 2 years

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Sometimes you just have to listen to 'Paris' by the Chainsmokers and mentally prepare for what's coming in Chain of Thorns.

#tsc #cassandra clare #the shadowhunter chronicles #chain of thorns theories #the chainsmokers #chain of thorns #tlh #the last hours theories #the last hours #the last hours tlh #cordelia carstairs #mathew fairchild #james herondale #jesse blackthorn #thomas lightwood #thomastair #alastair carstairs #lucie herondale #christopher lightwood

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incorrectlasthours · 1 year

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Chain of Thorns Location Theories

(From a Londoner!)

Hello lovely followers! It’s been forever since I’ve made a theories post, but with Chain of Thorns just around the corner I figured I would use my London Knowledge™️ to predict/explain some locations that Cassie has mentioned and/or are featured in the character cards!

Just a disclaimer: I have lived in the UK for about a year and a half, but I am not British and definitely do not know every corner of this beautiful, absolutely sprawling city. HOWEVER, most of TID/TLH takes place in the London city centre/Zone 1, and I am very, very familiar with these areas. With that caveat, let’s proceed with our first location…

The Gate to Nowhere

There are actually three “gates to nowhere” in London, but the one Cassie has referenced is the one photographed above! Formally known as the York Watergate, this structure was built around 1626 (!!) as a part of York House. It was where the Duke of Buckingham would keep his boat (think of it as the equivalent to your boss’s annoying reserved parking space today).

I know it looks like it is nowhere near the Thames today (it is located in the Embankment Gardens - the Thames is over 100 meters away) but before the Embankment was built in the 1860s, the Thames really did used to swell up that far inland! (Yes, I’m excited!! Yes, I love history!!)

It was meant to be knocked down when the Embankment was built and the District line was created, but long story short they ended up changing their plans and building around it, so they just left it where it was. And guess what?

The Victorians HATED IT.

They thought it was ugly. They thought it was in the way (it was locked in 1890, and no one could pass through save the key holders to the city). They thought it’s columns looked like “the legs of a half-shaved poodle” (Clerkenwell News, 1871). Perhaps most importantly, the Victorians thought it was a “dark portal” which leads from “nothing to nowhere”

Yes, you heard that right. A PORTAL.

My theory is that the gate will serve as a portal in the books. Perhaps it will be the entrance to the theorized shadowy-London? Maybe James will have to pass through the gates to enter Belial’s realm? Maybe Belial will use the gate as a portal through which to unleash a demon invasion upon London?

Let me know your thoughts and theories about the Gate to Nowhere! And let me know if you like these location theory posts - I have three more planned (Paddington Station, from Thomas and Alastair’s card; Chiswick House, from Grace’s cover, and St Paul’s Cathedral, from James’ cover). If there are any other locations you want to cover, feel free to let me know!

#the last hours #tlh #the last hours theories #chain of thorns theories #chain of thorns #chot #london #james herondale

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kitherondaletyblackthorn · 5 months

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😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

#kit and ty #ty and kit #james herondale #cordelia carstairs #art #chain of gold #queen of air and darkness #queen of air and darkness theories #the last hours #tlh #the last shadowhunter #the wicked powers

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heartsgettingwiser62 · 1 year

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So I absolutely DIE every time I think about the whole "Mike was recreating the best thing he'd ever done when he asked Will to be best friends again" in the s4 bedroom scene, but LOOK:

They're in the same position that they had been in the swingset scene all those years ago, with Mike being way taller since he's standing/sitting on the bed and Will being way shorter since he was sitting on the swing/kneeling on the floor.

So. If we had a swingset scene, this would be a DIRECT PARALLEL to it.

But I'm fine tho (me when I lie)

#just casually manifesting a miwi swingset flashback for s5 bc it would solve all of my problems actually #anyways i've kinda gotten 10 mins of sleep in the last 37 hours or smth like that so um yeah this is probably dumb #but on my defense i'm pretty sure my brain is melting inside my skull as we speak #(i say as i write silly byler theories instead of going to sleep lmao)#byler #will byers #mike wheeler #stranger things #mike wheeler i know what you are #miwi #byler proof #byler parallels #byler s5 #byler season 5 #byler theory #byler is canon #byler endgame #byler scenarios #byler brainrot

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uncanny-tranny · 7 months

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Something I always wonder with the whole: "The lazy populous doesn't want to work!" is if it's only being said to keep minimum wage at the very, very lowest end of 'survivability.'

The "lazy worker" isn't truly a problem. The employers are.

#politics #this is my old man conspiracy theory #it's insane when you actually start job searching and you apply fucking Everywhere and it's crickets #job announcement: no experience required! we'll train you! you're actually PERFECTLY qualified #you apply and then NOTHING. and then you listen to the news or other people #and they complain about how 'lazy' the modern worker is and how employers are DESPERATE for people to work for them...#...and you'll end up knowing better if you haven't soaked up the individualist corporate shill propaganda i think...#...that propaganda (at least in the US) is the idea that the individual worker is always at fault...#...that if they never get a job - even 'entry-level' - that it is THEIR fault...#...if you don't want to work minimum wage get a maximun-effort job!!!!!...#...if you want to Get Hired then make yourself Hireable!!!!!!!!!...#...you must be Indispensable (but potentially for $7.25/hour)!!! it is Up To You!!!...#...make records! never ask for anything! never complain! never dare bite the corporate hand which feeds you!!!!!!!!#that's the type of shit i grew up with at least. and i cannot buy that it isn't propaganda in a world hostile to any layman #i wonder if the romanticized version of the 60s-70s working class in the US is completely true as well...#...i just wonder if we are idealizing a past which never truly occurred for the worker...#...simply because these tactics Aren't New and Aren't Considered Morally Reprehensible because of the Bottom Line #this last part is tangentially-related but i always question whenever people have rose-colored views of The Past

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fleyrie · 2 days

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Where would the wicked powers end?

We all know every shadowhunter series has an epilogue near a body of water

TMI: lake lyn

TDA: the beach

TID: Thames under Blackfriars

TLH: The serpentine

TWP: ???

there’s lake Dimmet Tarn near Scholomance, so maybe there? But what river/lake do we also know about?

The afterlife river where Will waits for Tessa and Jem

Watch the epilogue for the wicked powers be Jem or Tessa reuniting with Will.

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chaotic-kitty · 14 days

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Where is CX-2 Tech? Is he safe? Is he alright?

#the bad batch #i do hope we haven't missed the mark with our theories regarding cx2/tech #i just want ma boy back #i dont actually want him to be gone #really banking on the last ep being an hour and having a tech reveal #but anyways yay echo my boy is back!#the bad batch spoilers #the bad batch theories #tbb theories #tbb #tech the bad batch #tbb tech #the bad batch tech

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kit-herondale-blackthorn · 1 year

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Hear me out: James was supposed to die in ChoT

Not sure if someone has already said this, but I think James was supposed to die in the original ending of Chain of Thorns.

We all know that this book was supposed to have a much more devastating ending than it did and that CC reworked it because it was too sad.

And that whole thing with the paladin’s sword being able to heal the wounds it inflicted came completely out of nowhere. It was revealed in a really odd manner, and by Lilith herself - why would she even tell Cordelia that? I think it was added as an afterthought (as did so many parts of this book) and that James was initially supposed to sacrifice himself to kill Belial, but this time die in the process.

Continuation of the Herondale line would not be an issue - Cordelia would have already been pregnant by the time he died. (Why else would she let them finally confess their feelings and fix the miscommunications halfway through the book instead of the second to last chapter?). And they were married, so Cordelia was officially a Herondale, and so the child would get the Herondale name as well.

This would have also made the love triangle somewhat less pointless, because I believe we’d then also see Matthew stepping up to take care of Cordelia as a pregnant widow after James’ death, and later marrying her.

Finally, CC has never killed off a main character before so it would definitely have been a shocker. And it would explain why Tessa always recalls the TLH time period with great pain.

#i kinda wish this happened in the final version tbh #would have been way more interesting #chain of thorns #chain of thorns spoilers #chot #chot spoilers #james herondale #cordelia carstairs #matthew fairchild #the last hours #tlh #cassandra clare #chain of thorns theories

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im-overstimulated-and-im-sad · 7 months

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If you looked in TK’s camera roll, you’d be sure to see-

12 pictures of stranger’s dogs

11 “keep going” mantras from Cooper

10 pictures of Buttercup

9 of Carlos cooking

8 of Carlos doing yoga

7 sensational selfies

6 game night victories

5 unhinged memes

4 saved recipes

3 Mateo close ups

2 FaceTime screenshots

And an article about leaving the bag in your teaaaa 🎶

#911 lone star #tk strand #inspired by the post of TK’s sad camera roll from the carlos is kidnapped episode #like could they have put in any effort at all #as to this do not ask what it is i do not know lol #in theory it would be to the tune of the 12 days of christmas but tk is jewish and is that weird #but i came up with this in my head last night when i hadn’t eaten for five hours because i was told to take my lunch break #an hour and a half into my shift because of how short staffed we are #so this helped me not cry in front of customers lol #sorry for complaining i need to shut up lol

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dreadnotau · 3 months

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Happy three years everybody! As always, there’s a lot to say on the occasion, so pop in at the end of the post for the tl;dr if you don’t have time for my detailed diatribes, haha

Boy, time flies, huh? Feels like the second anniversary was just yesterday, but maybe that’s just the several long hiatuses getting to me. I’ve been scarce on uploading anything anywhere for a while now, even though I promised I’d actually pick up the slack this time around. What gives? Well…

For one, college hell, and for two, a lot of unfounded anxiety about putting my art out there. Allow me some theatrics for a moment and I’ll actually get back to the comic at hand… I’ve never had an exceptionally supportive environment for making art. It wasn’t suppressive, not in the slightest, but it also wasn’t… encouraging. It was always treated as a hobby or a distraction rather than something I was allowed to be fully proud of, especially because a lot of my art focused on more cartoon-y and fantasy ideas, rather than still life studies and painting (which people generally outside of the art sphere tend to value more, arbitrarily). Couple that with a childhood full of being bullied over minute shit you hadn’t even considered could be an issue before, and you get a teenager hellbent on never sharing his interests or ideas with anyone, mostly due to the fear of rejection.

I’ve grown, thankfully, but that paranoia and fear doesn’t go away overnight. As I’m sure you all know, Meowchela was the one who originally encouraged me to post this comic, and the only reason she succeeded was because she was the first person in a long time who listened and engaged with my interests and my art in a meaningful way. It’s kind of obvious her friendship had a profound impact on me, and I’d cite her as one of the reasons I was even hopeful enough to apply to an art college in the first place! This comic, and that bond with another person, proved that maybe these things I’m so passionate about weren’t duds, and weren’t something I had to keep to myself.

So, fast forward a few years. About three years, in fact.

During one of my classes, right before this hellish two weeks of exams started, one of the class assistants talked me into showing my comic pages to one of my professors. He’s generally a pretty open guy when it comes to new mediums, but I’m always… apprehensive about showing my less “traditional art”-y things to professors, but, he ended up being genuinely proud of it. Specifically, I showed him pages 85-87 (because they’re my favourites) and, he didn’t read the text, just the visuals were enough for him to say “good job, keep it up” (which is HIGH praise from that guy). When I mentioned I’ve been meaning to simplify the visuals because I didn’t have time to work on the comic very often because of college and classes, he dismissed it on principle. I was honestly caught off guard. Heavily paraphrasing, he suggested that worsening the visuals for an arbitrary deadline was counterproductive to making something that’s Good™.

That’s kinda stuck with me. For a good few years now I was more focused on optimisation rather than visual improvement for the comic, and though it HAS contributed to better visuals in some ways (cutting corners sometimes makes for a less pointy and jagged end result), it’s kind of weird I’m treating an art project that way, isn’t it? I set a lot of… arbitrary deadlines and standards for myself, in the form of expectations and what I “should” or “shouldn’t” be doing at certain stages in my life. I’ve thought of Dread Not as a passion project second and a stepping stone first, if I’m being honest. As if it was too… fandom-y and derivative to be treated with more gravity than that, like it’s an immature project because I was still a child when I came up with it. As if it was something I’m making to Build Up to Something Else, something Bigger and Cooler and More Important, and… the more I think about the future of Dread Not, and even my future career options, the more I realised that’s, ironically, a really immature way to think about it.

If there’s one thing going to this art college has taught me, is that there’s no “right” way to make art, and there’s no “right” way to success as an artist. There’s no clear-cut paths, just more commonly treaded roads, but even those are heavily overgrown. Why should I try to box myself into thinking I have to make things from complete scratch to be taken seriously? What’s so bad about Dread Not as a story and as a comic that’s caused me to vaguely keep it under wraps when conversing with people in my day-to-day life? Why wouldn’t I put all these skills I’ve acquired to improve and expand this project that’s Right There, WAITING for me to finally get off my ass and get pages out there again?

I wish I could say I’ve used all this time away in a particularly clever way, but I really haven’t - at least, it feels like I haven’t. My art has undoubtedly improved over time (though admittedly the art for this post was Very rushed, fuckin exams), and while I’ve been working on projects in the background, chipping away at them in a VERY disorganised way, I haven’t been posting that progress anywhere, and I haven’t made any good progress on my biggest project, Dread Not, because of the other ones. And, honestly? Admitting that kinda stings. This comic means a lot to me, and I wish I actually gave it the time and attention it deserves instead of letting it sit out hiatus after hiatus because I keep failing at structuring my time.

So, my new plan is a little more abstract: find a way to work Dread Not into my school schedule, and slowly build a habit of working on it more often. No clue how long that’ll take, but I think it’ll be worth it to consider it as an option, and hopefully finally end these long, drawn out hiatuses with short bursts of uploads in-between. HOPEFULLY. Building habits was never my strong suit, so please bear with me while I figure this out in what will probably be the most hectic upload schedule in this comics history, which is: no schedule at all.

From now on (until the end of Act 1), I’ll upload pages when they’re ready, and depending on how the weeks go and how complex the page is, they could be weeks or days apart from one another. Hell, some might even take a month to finish if school stuff gets REALLY hectic (god knows Hellish Exam Week number 1 and number 2 won’t be giving me much time to work on the comic), but I’m determined to do this. I want to be able to put my all into this project again!!

(And hopefully finish Act 1 by the end of this semester…)

TL;DR: College is giving me life lessons I didn’t expect, and because of them I’ve decided to give myself a non-existent upload schedule for Dread Not: Pages will be posted when they’re ready, and the spacing between pages could wildly vary depending on circumstances and the actual complexity of the page itself.

As always, thank you for being here, thank you for reading, and thank you for being patient!

If all goes well, there will be new content very, very soon.

#dread not #dreadnot #dread not au #dreadnotau #not comic #kris #schedule update #again #apparently i was calling this last hiatus a pseudo hiatus?#oh silly past me. this was a full blown hiatus jesus fucking christ #but yeah no i love being at this college dont get me wrong #its just that i have like 3 exams to prepare for the next two days ALONE #so like!!!! wish me luck!!!!! for christs sake #yknow i was planning on actually Dedicating Time to the art for this post #but uhh. haha. a little thing called the consequences to my actions caught up to me #fuckin psychology exam today that i had to cram for last night #i think it went ok? who the fuck knows at this point #but for tomorrow and the day after that i have digital shit to finish some theory to cram AND an ENTIRE PAINTING #that i didnt even START YET #and its an autoportrait. as if i wasnt suffering enough i have to stare at my ugly mug for hours #AGAIN. BECAUSE I HAD A DIFF AUTOPORTRAIT TO FINISH FOR LAST WEEK #im in spain without the s yall pray for me

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kittytheartist · 1 year

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Tsukasa could still be in Hanako's boundary

I was think this over and I believe the Tsukasa we see around is actually a physical replica made by the red house, I'm not sure if this has been a theory before but it's driving me up the walls

so firstly I'd like to talk about a theory I have for a human Yorishiro. like Sumire she has to endure the same day over and over again, and I believe this to be because that is the day she meant the most to Hakubo.

so I'd believe that Tsukasa was also stuck in a loop of some kind or, stuck in a replication of their childhood house. my only proof of this is (1) we have not seen Hanako's boundary and instead he always says the bathroom his is sort of boundary, but every boundary has its own innermost reach. we have not seen Hanako's, and instead the entrance to hell of mirrors is through his own mirror, but I think it could be a replication of the red house. my only sort of proof is this

he's seen to be in this broken down piece of the red house, it's not just in this scene but we've gotten multiple arts of him here, he is partially the red house demon, but what if this is Hanako's boundary? Tsukasa is powerful on his own and I would not put it past him to tear down a section of the boundary for just himself, and especially sense this looks like the playroom and the playroom is where Tsukasa disappeared.

and with all the supernatural bugs around it could be completely plausible that it's because Hanako never visits his boundary. now why I think Tsukasa is a physical replica is because of his lack of solid body in the early chapters

he has the black smoke all around him, similar to how the red house only appears as a black emptiness, even as only a demon in Tsukasa's chest, speaking of my guess as to why he can still grant wishes I think it's because he's still partially the red house demon? it's been theorized that the demon builds its own strength and power over time, which is why he would have mistaked the last time he saw Hanako or Hanako went to his boundary twenty to ten years or so

and Sakura is also said to have helped him, and the paper crane is highlighted and we all know his kokujoudai take form in a crane, especially the one that teleports, similar to Hanako's hakujoudai one teleports people items ect, which could be how he contacted Sakura, the crane is also used to help keep track of people(well that's one of the uses we've seen most) so he could also be keeping tabs on her

and one of the other reasons I believe he's a replica and not the real yorishiro is because he's said it's harder to move around because, presumably, his body not being entirely together and he seemed very happy to have gotten out. not to mention Hanako being surprised to see Tsukasa, and if my theory is correct on the day he meant the most being the day the boundary revolves around this could also explain what he said here

and we all know Tsukasa has a huge master plan slowly piecing together through all the arcs we have played out in his drawings

and I think Tsukasa may be doing all of this, to get his original physical self, who is plotting inside the boundary out of there. I think this because of his actions recently, now it's a very good guess that it's for Sakura's wish, but I believe why he's trying to get Hanako and Nene to destroy all the Yorishiros so he can escape. Sakura has even said she's very confident that Nene will end up destroying the Yorishiros regardless, and this could be because of her pure faith in Tsukasa's master plan

and in regards of her wish, Tsukasa states that after they're destroyed she will be able to go outside, which is in fact her wish.

but this could be because once he's out of there he's more powerful, the red house is a very powerful demon, no Minamoto or any exorcist has been able to get rid of it. one of the things that really got me stuck was when Tsukasa was telling her how many Yorishiros have already been destroyed and he said Mitsuba/no.3 could, do whatever? well, let's hope we get some answers soon

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cortanas-wielder · 2 years

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THE CHAIN OF THORNS SYNOPSIS

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gremlins-hotel · 8 months

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Everyday I grow closer to strangling a driver in this fucking city hit and run bastards this is my thirteenth reason

#callsign gremlin checking in #after having someone with no knowledge argue anthropological/archaeological theory with me #adamantly #for two hours last night #bro I’m gonna commit #I’ll probably delete this later but bro goddamn

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kitherondaletyblackthorn · 5 months

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This is going to be Kit as soon as he gets the chance to be with ty omg😭😭😭😭😭😭

#kit and ty #the wicked powers #ty and kit #the last shadowhunter #kit herondale #twp #tlh #art #kitty #queen of air and darkness #ty blackthorn #the last prince of hell #the last king of faerie #queen of air and darkness theories #the last hours

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spacehero-23 · 1 year

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look what I found on cassie's twitter

well rip sona... 💔

#sona carstairs #alastair carstairs #thomas lightwood #thomstair #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #the last hours #tsc #chain of thorns #tlh #the shadowhunter chronicles #chain of thorns theories

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lesbocrocker · 1 year

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Okay, so looking back at the rest of the shadowhunter chronicles, someone has to kill their parent every three books (that aren’t story collections), e.g. Clary killing Valentine, Gabriel killing Benedict, Julian killing Andrew and Kieran killing the Unseelie King. Which means, that someone has to kill their parent in Chain of Thorns. And, obviously, the only way this makes sense in any is Grace/Jesse killing Tatiana.

Anyway maybe I’m going insane but I think it makes sense.

#thought of this while swimming #chain of thorns #chot #chain of thorns theories #chot theories #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc #the last hours #tlh

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