Cassandra Clare's Steamy Scene in Lady Midnight _ the dark artifices _ might delete lol
**A Valentine's Day Gift: The Awkward Kiss Scene from The Dark Artifices**
I'm making this video because, well, I knew it was going to be wildly cringy and just ridiculous to have on the internet, but consider this my Valentine's day gift to you. Many people requested it, and I said I was gonna do it so I gotta do it. You can read the unedited version below, I also have a playlist.
So, what did you actually do? Do you, like, shadowhunters need protection from kissing? Or did you do something a lot more and then Emma's just being really weird and you... like Julian answered her question and it wasn't awkward. He kind of joked with her, it was a jolly good time. And so I'm thinking like why is it so weird? Like why is this so strange? If you actually read the unedited version, it is very clear what is going on and Emma doesn't say anything weird. Emma's totally fine and normal and chill and they don't have this weird conversation.
That's where I lost my mind and that's where I had to put the book down and just laugh and then it kind of made every other intimate scene that followed equally as hilarious because all I could think about was like 'was this your first kiss?' I don't know basically I just found it to be very funny and I think it was an interesting call on the editor's part or whoever chose to do this. Cassandra Clare is, in my mind, really great at writing dialogue. I love her banter, the wittiness of her characters, so for her to make such a strange piece of dialogue...I just would love to know why. Why, why.
Anyway, that was, again, I wasn't going to make this video because I knew it was going to be wildly cringy and just ridiculous to have on the internet so there's that. But consider this my Valentine's day gift to you. So many people requested it and I, you know I said I was gonna do it so I gotta do it. You can read the unedited version below, I also have a playlist.
I've started to make book playlists so I have one from The Cruel Prince, I have one inspired in fact by this series The Dark Artifices, then by the time that this is up hopefully I will also have a Six of Crows inspiring playlist out on Spotify so yeah that will be linked below but yeah I'm sorry that I made this honestly but I hope that this killed some time in your life and um maybe you'll go back and read this and giggle a little bit. Overall, I just want to know what's going on, what happened, why is this happening? And yeah I wish you all nothing but the best.
Looking forward to Chain of Iron coming out on March 3rd. Yeah, I'm going to go calm down and edit this and send this off to the internet where it will live possibly forever which is terrifying to think about so happy valentine's day, this is how much I love you guys and let me know your thoughts down below about the scene on the beach. There's just a lot to unpack I think in The Dark Artifices - Actually, this is getting so long but, I didn't really, I thought that this was my least favorite actually of all of them, it has grown on me so much. The fact that - I know that The Mortal Instruments they went to Fairy, but just the fact that like there's so much going on in this one, at first I didn't like it but now I like it a lot more so The Dark Artifices - grown on me a hell of a lot, enough for me to make a Spotify playlist about it.
So yeah sending nothing but my love to you, to Cassandra Clare, to Julian, to Emma, awkward little Emma. That's all, I need to end this. See you next time, thank you for joining me, bye!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI wasn't going to make this video because I knew it was going to be wildly cringy and um...just ridiculous to have on the internet...so....there's that.Hi everyone. So I talked some big talk a couple videos ago when I said that I was going to make a video about a certain scene. The scene, the beach scene. So yeah I was, you know, talking the big talk. Saying I was gonna do this dramatic reading of it.I chickened out. I suddenly sat down to film this and I was like... Suddenly like so shy. So um dramatic reading isn't going to happen, but we are going to break it down and I'm going to talk about why this scene was so funny to me. I am talking about a particular scene from Lady Midnight which is part of The Dark Artifices series by Cassandra Clare which is within the shadowhunter world. It's only going to contain spoilers for Lady Midnight. That's, that's my little warning. I don't even know what I'm saying at this point. This video is going to be a lot like this. First and foremost, not giving any hate, no negativity in any way to Cassandra Clare. I have a feeling that she probably giggles at the edited version of this scene as well because she did actually (and thank you to everyone who sent it my way) she did actually publish the unedited version on her blog which I will link down below and it is...it, it clears up the problems I had with the edited version. The reason that there is an edited version, the one that is published in the work that you have probably read, is that this book is still a YA fantasy so I feel like the editor probably saw that kind of... I don't know some people were saying it was an R-rated scene, I don't really think so, I don't know, anyway, a more graphic intimate scene wouldn't have been good for the audience that it was being kind of projected towards. So I get it but there's literally...five words that could have been taken out of this scene and I would have had no issues with it but literally, she added in five simple words...blew my mind.The reason I really wanted to talk about it is because this is one of the first scenes...like I've read scenes that have been a little WTF before, but this is one of the first scenes that I actually had to put the book down and like have a belly laugh about it. Books often will make me smile, I will very rarely laugh out loud, and then tears. Those are the one, like uncontrollable outside world thing that people could see if they saw me reacting to a book, it would be crying. So for me to actually have to put a book down and take a breather in order to laugh, I don't know, and when I mentioned it, a lot of you guys were like 'yes oh my god I felt the same way' so maybe we can just commiserate. I feel like me explaining it won't be quite as funny as reading it. Hopefully we could just talk about it, get these feelings out there because it was so it was so funny. Let's jump in.In case you have forgotten let's set the scene a little bit. First off, we have Julian Blackthorn who basically has been taking care of his family since he was 12 years old. His parents died and his two older siblings were banished - it's a long story, it doesn't really matter. Long story short is that he has had to be the father to his four younger siblings since he was 12 which means that he really hasn't, he doesn't really leave the house unless it's for like shadowhunter duties, like killing demons or something. The only outside of his family woman interaction he has had is with his tutor and with his Emma. And then we have Emma who was also orphaned around the same time as Julian and the Blackthornfamily took her in. Julian and Emma - BFFs forever, inseparable, they literally have like a language that they can write on each other and they can understand what they're saying. I tried that with myself and I couldn't do it so props to them. Close, close people. But because she is not technically a Blackthorn, she doesn't have that responsibility of having to raise these four children so she gets out a lot more, she has a little bit more of a life, you know. She's had on-again off-again relationships, she has had access to teenage boys. Again, Julian, living in this little bubble. It's like a single dad in his house not leaving. And when they were 16 I think, like maybe two years ago, they became something called parabatai. I don't know how you pronounce these things. That is basically they share this kind of sacred bond. It is unbreakable. Because of their bond, their powers are a lot stronger. A big rule about being parabatai is that you are not allowed to be romantically in love with your partner. Big no-no. And we learn why later in the book but just for this, you know, let's just say it's a no-no. To the point where you if you are found out you will be stripped of your shadowhunter powers and you will be exiled, banished, never spoken of again and so for a lot of reasons that's bad. Like, just for the average person that kind of sucks but for Julian, if that happens to him, his family needs him so he's like absolutely not, I can't do that. Emma, her whole life is being a shadowhunter, so she would lose her will to live I suppose if that happened, so overall - romantic love, not a big thing. But we know the heart wants what it wants, right? That's where we're at pretty much in this book. Now for this particular scene, it's about 400 pages into the first book. We have gathered that Julian is crushing big time on Emma and he's like Oh shoot. Teenage hormones - bad thing. He's got a problem. Emma doesn't really feel that way about Julian currently or so she thinks. She has recently started feeling jealousy about other girls towards Julian but she's mostly, she's mostly just confused about that, right? That's that's where we are as far as them talking to each other about their relationship - neither of them talk to each other. Emma's not super interested and Julian's like in a panic. So Emma goes off on this little mission by herself because she thinks that Julian is tired and she's like 'I'll let him sleep while I go risk my life when it totally could have been avoided if two people came' so she goes off and somehow ends up being sucked into the ocean and is drowning and because of the parabatai bond, they not only can sense each other's emotions and stuff like that but apparently if one starts drowning, the other one does too. So poor Julian is like sitting at home doing his thing and all of a sudden his lungs fill with water and he starts drowning and he's like 'this is not good, this must be Emma' Right? And so he somehow goes out and figures out exactly where in the Pacific ocean she has been dumped - it was, this part was a little bit unbelievable. I'm not going to question it, I understand it was just making this scene possible. That's that. He goes into the ocean, saves her, drags her out, puts her on the beach does his healing thing, and thenstarts yelling at her.He's literally, according to the text, shaking with rage. Valid, honestly, girl does some dumb stuff in this book. While he's yelling however, he accidentally lets it slip multiple times in multiple different ways - he phrases it in many different ways just in case Emma misses it - that he would have no reason to live if she dies, he belongs to her always, all that you know all that romantic mumbo jumbo. And then after that it's one of those ~ we don't know who initiated, I don't know who started kissing who ~ Kissy time, right? This reads totally like a normal romantic scene in a YA fantasy. There's like this dramatic traumatic event that happens and then because of the adrenaline and the drama, a romantic scene takes place. You know, textbook fantasy storytelling. And so Cassandra Clare is relatively vague about what is going on exactly which I kind of understand when it comes to YA so the vagueness of it wasn't what actually made me lose my mind. I was actually just reading ...what was it....the final book in the Curse So Dark and Lonely series. I finished it and there - this is side tracking but - there are two intimate scenes in that book they're both with two different characters, two different couples but they are like word for word the same which kind of made me weirded out...if you guys know what I'm talking about let me know down below. This isn't a spoiler. Basically what happens is, we understand that a romantic scene is about to happen and once they start to get intimate we like cut it off and you are just left to assume what happens, right? And that's that's pretty typical in like a YA fantasy if it does go I guess a little bit more on the adult end, they tend to just kind of cut it off and let your mind do the work. Cassandra Clare tried to show us what was happening but be so vague that it kind of like might have been missed? I don't know exactly what what was going on but everything reads as if they are just having this like hot and heavy makeout sesh on the beach - which in the unedited version, my god, she is very very detailed when it comes to where Julian is putting his hands including the fact that he most definitely put his bare full hand in the sand, he's wet, he just dragged someone out of the water. You're gonna be covered in sand and now he's touching Emma all over. No. Never. Never. Oh my god that made me so uncomfy reading it, I was, just all I could think about was sand. It was just like, this is the worst thing. Isidetrack but yeah there's that. So she was doing her vague thing, it basically seems like a makeout sesh and then she just adds the word hidden within a descriptive sentence, it's like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah he dissolved blah blah blahSo....I'm assuming it went a little bit past kissing, I would say? For that I was like okay so she's trying to say this happened but not say that this happened because this is YA book right? If we had ended at that, I would not be talking to you right now. I am talking to you because of what Emma says next. So they do their thing, right? Whatever occurs occurs. Emma is laying there. She, in her brain, is like 'I love Julian, I'm gonna tell him. I'm gonna say I love you Julian Blackthorn' and she opens her mouth and instead she saysWas that your first kiss?That's when I lost my mind. Why would she ask that? She knows the answer to this question.He has had no contact with people outside of his family pretty much except for her so he 100% just lost his virginity on a beach...Your first question is to ask him if that was his first KISS?So then I'm thinking, oh my god, I'm such a pervert. Did I just read that and assume that they had sex and they totally didn't and it was just kissing and now I'm like this gross person and so I had to kind of pause there and I was like...Is Emma being really weird or am I being really weird? Like which one is it? It could be both, it's probably both, it was both.But why would she ask that? She is not an awkward character. In the book she is very witty, she's very pointed, she's confident. She's not the kind of girl that would be super awkward like 'hey was that your first kiss?' So I was really confused. They fall asleep. Emma wakes up later. Julian in a panic. Julian's freaking out because number one, somebody saw them. But number two, he's freaking out because they didn't use protection and so now I'm thinking - Wait! So what did you actually do? Do you, like do shadowhunters need protection from kissing? Or did you do something a lot more and then Emma's just being really weird and you - like Julian answered her question and it wasn't awkward. He kind of joked with her, it was a jolly good time. And so I'm thinking like why is it so weird? Like why is this so strange? If you actually read the unedited version, it is very clear what is going on and Emma doesn't say anything weird. Emma's totally fine and normal and chill and they don't have this weird conversation. That's where I lost my mind and that's where I had to put the book down and just laugh and then it kind of made every other intimate scene that followed equally as hilarious because all I could think about was like 'was this your first kiss?' I don't know basically I just found it to be very funny and I think it was an interesting call on the editor's part or whoever chose to do this. Cassandra Clare is, in my mind, really great at writing dialogue. I love her banter, the wittiness of her characters, so for her to make such a strange piece of dialogue...I just would love to know why. Why, why. Anyway, that was, again, I wasn't going to make this video because I knew it was going to be wildly cringy and just ridiculous to have on the internet so there's that. But consider this my Valentine's day gift to you. So many people requested it and I, you know I said I was gonna do it so I gotta do it. You can read the unedited version below, I also have a playlist. I've started to make book playlists so I have one from The Cruel Prince, I have one inspired in fact by this series The Dark Artifices, then by the time that this is up hopefully I will also have a Six of Crows inspiring playlist out on Spotify so yeah that will be linked below but yeah I'm sorry that, I'm sorry that I made this honestly but I hope that this killed some time in your life and um maybe you'll go back and read this and giggle a little bit. Overall, I just want to know what's going on, what happened, why is this happening? And yeah I wish you all nothing but the best. Looking forward to Chain of Iron coming out on March 3rd. Yeah, I'm going to go calm down and edit this and send this off to the internet where it will live possibly forever which is terrifying to think about so happy valentine's day, this is how much I love you guys and let me know your thoughts down below about the scene on the beach. There's just a lot to unpack I think in The Dark Artifices - Actually, this is getting so long but, I didn't really, I thought that this was my least favorite actually of all of them, it has grown on me so much. The fact that - I know that The Mortal Instruments they went to Fairy, but just the fact that like there's so much going on in this one, at first I didn't like it but now I like it a lot more so The Dark Artifices - grown on me a hell of a lot, enough for me to make a Spotify playlist about it. So yeah sending nothing but my love to you, to Cassandra Clare, to Julian, to Emma, awkward little Emma. That's all, I need to end this. See you next time, thank you for joining me, bye!\n"