Updates From The Realm: City Of Ashes Sporking Updates

[zelda_queen]

Hullo ladies and gents, time for an update on the sporkings for City of Ashes!

For everyone signed up for the group sporking, I am setting September 15 as the deadline for our first round of check-ins. Basically, if you have finished your sporking by then, turn it in. If you haven't finished but are still going through with it, give me a message and

Comments

[apep727]

Just finished reading everything up through my chapter. I'll get started on my first draft of the sporking soon-ish (Camp Nanowrimo is kinda taking up a good bit of my time). I *should* be able to get it polished by then.

On a side note - I feel so sorry for whoever's doing chapter 2. I raged *so* much while reading that.

[zelda_queen]

Ah yes. If memory serves, wasn't Chapter 2 the one where the werewolves go to Jace and are all "Hey, someone just brutally murdered one of our kids, and you're our world's equivalent of a police officer. Go out there and do your job and figure out who the murderer is," and Jace's response is basically "Why should I bother? The kid's not getting any deader." I wanted to murder the bastards when I read that as well. It backs up the idea that Jace is just a Shadowhunter because it makes him look good, and not because he *cares* about protecting innocent people.

[apep727]

Yes. Yes it was. And Chapter 4 had him mouthing off to the Inquisitor. And I wanted her to slap him so much.

Personally, I think the only reason Jace is a Shadowhunter is because he gets to kill stuff and get praised for it. And that's the only reason he doesn't join up with Papa Val when he comes back.

[zelda_queen]

"And Chapter 4 had him mouthing off to the Inquisitor. And I wanted her to slap him so much."

Ohhhh yeah. Astonishingly, someone put "he was arrested for mouthing off to the Inquisitor" as a reason he counted as a Woobie, on TV Tropes. My response was "...he should be pitied because he got the proper response to MOUTHING OFF TO THE EQUIVALENT OF THE POLICE?"

And I fully agree with that theory. In fact, I think pretty much all the Shadowhunters live by it. For all their talk about how they protect "mundies" and Downworlders and such, they only ever acknowledge them to ridicule them. I know people point out that the treatment of Muggles in the HP world isn't the greatest, but even there, the heroic witches and wizards don't *constantly* scorn them or ignore them. >_<

[aikaterini]

...Oh. *Oh,* I see.

You know, now I'm really looking forward to the upcoming sporking of that scene and I hope that the sporker includes quotes. Because if he/she does, I am so going to save that quote for the group sporking of the third book because that scene will prove how much a raging hypocrite Jace is and how egregious Clare's double standards are.