preparing myself to be let down by my own deranged expectations because unless cassie's a mind reader and feeling very charitable towards me specifically there's no way twp is going to feature the very specific kit and ash dynamic ive envisioned which is something like "this is my horrible stupid loser-in-law and if you look at him wrong i'll kill you, we're not speaking right now because last night we got into a screaming match over uno and nearly blew up a building via our magic fae powers but i would die for him but DON'T EVER tell him i said that because he genuinely drives me crazy and i hate him and he's going to be the best man at my wedding, and if he fell down i'd laugh"

thinking abt how in that ask where cassie said we look best in the eyes of those who love us but in tda nobody loves kit, and so while we do see characters kind of describe him as nice-looking its pretty surface level and usually in the context of him looking like a herondale or christina thinking he looks like he could very easily get away with scamming someone, and mostly they describe him looking uncomfortable or miserable or something (or kieran saying his eye color is basic LMAO)-

and then in gotsm which is the first time we have the pov of a character who loves this boy jem actually describes him as himself and what his smile looks like and how happy he is at the shadow market and how he loves sweet things and how he tries to hide when he's vulnerable and how special and unique his laugh is

idk im just emotional about this again and can't wait for more in twp

kit going to the institute is really like people rescuing angry kittens from the street, he's mad and freaking tf out and trying to get everyone to leave him alone but the twins are just following him everywhere and most of the adults are just like oh my godddd the baby... 🥺🥺🥺🥺 i love him look he's hissing that's so cuteeee 🥺🥺🥺 quick give him some churu (an heirloom knife and family ring and promise of inherited wealth)

kit finding the most deranged sherlock holmes adaptations and dropping them in ty's lap like a cat presenting you with a large bug it hunted

i really do believe kit and ty are going to be so annoying when they get together, like people are discussing how to prevent the end of the world/civil war/satan and they're just like 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰 at each other in the corner

tessa the 100+ year old warlock being the most normally socialized one in her family because her husband was a monk with magically repressed emotions for over a century and her adopted son was locked in a basement for most of his life (there's hope for mina but right now she's too young to tell)

thinking about the sobh letter where tessa overhears kit talking to a ghost (livvy) and then he's upset that she was listening, and she mentions that she hopes johnny isn't like haunting kit and harrassing him from the beyond, and:

1. that's funny because it assumes johnny decides to become an active parent to the child he emotionally neglected for 15 years only after death instead of immediately catapulting his soul to wherever rosemary is

2. incredible concept and while it would suck for kit it would be so iconic if during tda and twp johnny was hovering over his shoulder going WHAT ARE YOU DOING WHAT DID I TEACH YOU every .5 seconds

i'm SO curious to find out what jem and tessa and the blackthorns & co. (minus dru since she already knows) think happened between kit and ty since we know that at least kit is loudly incapable of being normal about ty (staring miserably at a stranger while jem is literally just trying to do the shopping, telling julian he can like. Hide in a room in his OWN HOUSE so julian doesn't have to see him) and NEITHER of them will discuss it or entertain it as a topic of conversation

like what could possibly explain this dynamic in their minds they must have theories

"the sixth love language is this or that" false the sixth love language is how kit and ty both chose to sleep right there sitting up on the floor when the other was at their most lost and alone

cassie officially confirming that church tolerates mina so now i can post this

tragic that the gap between tda and twp takes place in the 2010s because kit can't even listen to the subway 7000000 times on repeat while in his feelings over ty

i really hope that by twp the trauma has passed enough so jace and clary can make resurrection jokes, like jace is clowning and clary goes keep it up and i'm asking the angel raziel for a return on my wish funny man, or jace is ragebaiting someone like you wish you had 1/1000th of my epic love... my girl said no thanks to WORLD PEACE just for me 😌<3

another iconic thing about kitty is that neither of them really care about or are as involved in/familiar with the context for how things have historically been done or tradition or set ways of thinking so they can think of clever loopholes and workarounds for things and the other person will actually consider them as real possible solutions instead of just brushing it off like "that's not how that works"

kit: i'm really grateful you took me in i can try to be more like will if-

jem, thinking of will in his teens when he was being a jackass to everyone bc of the "curse", reading tatiana's diary aloud at a party and breaking gabriel's arm and daring vampires to say "god" then laughing at them and making sophie contemplate murder and bullying jessamine and giving charlotte gray hair etc etc etc: oh my god please don't