Clary Fairchild Fan Account

there are teenagers today using smartphones who don’t even remember the real gun emoji. they have never experienced it.

Never forget what they took from us

at university rn and it HAILING 😐 and the weather is going to continue to suck all day

it is now raining slush and my socks are soaked 😐

I should be working on my essays but for whatever reason I can't stop thinking about the genderbent arts of the TMI & TID mains CJ did ages ago... like they're just so funny because you look at the male characters genderbent and it's a fascinating and compelling female characters that you would gladly read 10 books about and then you look at the female characters genderbent and it's Some Guy #3 😭

like 😭 of all the girls I feel like Simon is the most boring and even then the problem would be solved the minute you drew her as a vampire. there is no saving Isabelle.

this is what happens when mark and emma are left unchecked.

this is sending me so bad. oliver and i are curious oh im sure

we do need to revisit the wording of "you can't have your cake and eat it too" because i don't think it clearly enough conveys that it's more that you can't simultaneously retain a cake and also get to consume it (which would render you cakeless). for years i was like But why not....it's my cake....?

this fucking problem is how they caught the unabomber

hey you should uh. elaborate. for my own personal satisfaction

the unabomber was pedantic about idiomatic phrases like "have your cake and eat it too" and rephrased it to "eat your cake and have it too" (which to be very fair makes sense). fast forward to when he starts writing manifestos. he uses the phrase word for word in his pedantic style and his brother (who has been keeping his eyes on the unabomber shit for obvious reasons) notices the phrase and is like "oh fuck that's my fucking brother no one else fucking says that" and calls in an FBI tip

Well you can't deliberately speak in a way nobody else does and also stay anonymous you know. Can't eat your cake and have it too.

*an obsessive 40 minutes later* it seems it is mostly true!

it wasn't the brother who initally noticed the similarities tho, but his brother's wife (x)

and apparently it was a forensic linguist who discovered this specific similarity, rather than the brother.. but it was used as evidence against him in court! (x)

moving to nyc and particularly babysitting in nyc has ruined me for mg and ya books that take place here. and it's not because of wonky geography or illogical living arrangements or anything as normal as that. no, it's because unlike the rest of the us, what year a kid ends up in in school is not determined by what school year (september-june) they were born in but rather what calendar year (january-december). e.g. if you turned 5 in 2002, you started kindergarten in 2002, even if you were going to be 4 years old for the first four months of the school year.

in percy jackson.. this means that percy, with his birthday in august, would not be 12 years old finishing 6th grade, he'd be 11. unless he was held back at some point, which "six schools in six years" doesn't really allow for. (the timeline of pjo does get screwed up enough that percy skips a year of school, though, which does put him on the correct nyc track of being 17 in the fall of his senior year.. only time i will give credit to an inconsistency)

in the mortal instruments.. this means clary and simon would not have been in the same grade growing up, because clary turns 16 in august of the same year simon would turn 17 in october, meaning simon would have been a senior during the majority of the events in tmi, rather than a junior.

unfortunately, these are my two favorite series, and thus i must bear the curse of this knowledge until i die. so of course i'm making all of you bear it with me.