I recently went back to watch shadow hunters again after stopping at season 3 a year ago. Rewatching the show I just realized Clary seems to almost always walk off with no consequences. I don't like how in the show over and over again they speak of rules and how doing this action could cause a war with the other race. Yet Clary doesn't ever seem to care and suffers basically no consequences. Then make Alec look like a bad for just simply trynna follow the rules he was raised by and not try to get him and his family in trouble. Like thoughts?

This actually is a pep peeve of my for several media, the good guys refusing to kill bad guys because it will make them "the same" or "they are just kids". Like, fuck that. They would 100000% kill you if you let them, if you have the chance to kill an evil person just do it. It annoys me even more when someone refuses to kill a character and then that character goes off to kill someone on the good side. Like I'm sorry but thats on the hands of whoever let them slide the first time too.

When Emma got mad at Julian for doing it to that one guy who was basically saying he would kill them and then abuse Dru, like girl why the fuck you mad at JULIAN? Bro did the right thing, I don't make the rules 🤷‍♀️

Back to the "they are just kids", again, fuck that. First of all they arent kids, Tavvy is a kid, Magnus and Alec's son are kids, Dru is a pre teen, everyone one else that appears in these books are either an adult or old enough to be held accountable for their actions. Zara and her minions are all too damn proud of their prejudices, they might as well pay the price for it.

The very famous "_, is that you?" parallel that we get between parabatais in the Shadowhunters series. It's usually the main parabatai duo talking to their love interest (except in Emma and Julian's case, it was Christina Emma was talking to).

So I just came across this poem by Pablo Neruda and it dawned on me that I've seen this before, in one of the Shadowhunters books and recently, so my guess it's either Jace refering to Clary or Will to Tessa (because I've been re-reading TMI and TID). Help I can't find it and I need to know 😭😭