365 Days of TMI: Day 341 The calm before ...

Tomorrow Cassandra Clare heads to Toronto. It will be Day 20 on the set and will be Cassie's first time seeing live filming for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones! It will be the beginning of a ten-day stay for her in Toronto. We are all eager to see what will be in store for her and see her vision coming to life before her eyes. It will mostly assuredly be a surreal moment for her characters to walk in front of her, talking through scenes that she imagined in her mind a million times as she slaved over her laptop while writing the first book.

Could you just imagine? I know that I'm thrilled to get a chance to go on set and see my favorite characters in action, but it would completely be on another level for them to be of my own creation. I think we are all very proud of being fans of this series and proud of Cassie for putting in so much thought, care and time to making The Mortal Instruments one of the best YA books series around.

If you had a chance to talk to Cassie and ask her about her books, what would you say? How would you feel? Is there any pressing questions you have that you would ask? Let me know, and I'll try my best to get some answers.

Just send me a comment or tweet me! I'll have lots of news from the set this Friday when I am in Toronto. Several other fansites will be there, so hopefully we'll get lots of pics together so you can see us in action!!

Until tomorrow ....

Amber xoxo

365 Days of TMI: Day 342 To Record and Record

Just like making a great movie, I'm learning that vlogging takes a lot of work and practice. It's one thing to do a podcast once a week or so where you can spot off random thoughts on all things Mortal Instruments, but to actually sit in front of a camera is rather alarming!
LOL, all the bloggers going to set have been slaving away the last couple days getting videos, comments, questions, etc. to show Cassie Clare, Harald Zwart and the TMI cast. We all want to make sure that the fans are represented well. Speaking of fans, tomorrow The Mortal Institute will be interviewing the vlogger Christine May (PolandBananas20) for our next episode of Witchlight. We will be releasing episodes 3, parts 1 and 2 and episode 4 all in the next week. It will be great as we get down to the last few days before the big trip to the TMI set in Toronto. I hope everyone is excited as I am to see what the actors are really like! I can't wait to share what it's like to meet Cassie and Harald and what the Shadowhunters are doing on location!!!
Stick with me, Shadowhunters! The next few days will be magical and glittery!!!
Amber xoxo

365 Days of TMI: Day 343 One Week countdown

There is nothing more exciting than the thought of getting to see Shadowhunters come to life right in front of our eyes. So far most of us have only witnessed this via all the wonderful pictures that have been provided by The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones set spotters in Toronto. But for several top blog sites, all that is about to change.

Next Friday, I will be afforded the priceless opportunity to attend a special set event with Cassandra Clare, director Harald Zwart and the cast of TMI. There will be several incredible admins from blog sites including: Mundie Moms, TMI Source, Next Movie, Fangirlishness, His Golden Eyes, Hypable, and Twilight Series Theories.

We need your questions/comments (you can send videos or tweet us at @tmi_institute with the hashtag #TMIMissionToronto) by TOMORROW afternoon. Make sure that you send us questions for Cassandra Clare, Harald Zwart, Jamie Campbell Bower, Lily Collins, Robert Sheehan, Kevin Zegers, Jemima West andGodfrey Gao.

There is no telling what amazing things are in store for us, and we are all really excited to share the fans. Keep checking back with us for all the set news!

365 Days of TMI: Day 345 - Get to know Casa Loma

I thought it would be fun to end #TMISetDay17 with a closer look at Casa Loma! Here's some info and videos I found on this prestigious estate.

Being the former home of Canadian financier Sir Henry Pellatt, Casa Loma (Spanish for Hill House) is Canada's foremost castle is complete with decorated suites, secret passages, an 800-foot tunnel, towers, stables, and beautiful 5-acre estate gardens. It might be surprising to know, though, that before being highlighted in filming for The Mortal Instruments, Casa Loma has been featured in some very cool films and TV shows.

It has served as a location for movies such as X-Men, Strange Brew, Chicago, The Tuxedo, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (possibly one of my favorite comedy ever!), Warehouse 13, Twitches Too and The Pacifier. Comic books and children's novels that have used it include the Scott Pilgrim series and Eric Wilson's murder mystery, The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma. It was also temporarily transformed into Hogwarts for the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Amazing, huh!

In the CBC Television show Being Erica, the episode "Mi Casa, Su Casa Loma" features Casa Loma prominently as the place where main character Erica Strange works. Casa Loma is also mentioned in Canadian poet Dennis Lee's 1970 children's poem "Wiggle to the Laundromat", in the collection Alligator Pie: “Wiggle to the laundromat,/Waggle to the sea;/ Skip to Casa Loma/ And you can't catch me!”. It also served in the movie adaption of R.L. Stine's "Goosebumps (TV series)" A Night In Terror Tower. Casa Loma also features prominently in the biography-documentary of Sir Henry Pellatt, The Pellatt Newsreel: the Man who Built Casa Loma which appeared on the Biography Channel and was nominated for a 2009 Gemini for Best Biography Documentary.



According to this video below, you get to look Casa Loma during filming of Scott Pilgrim. I thought this would be cool for fans to take a look at just to see what the beautiful place looks like with camera crews all around!!


We will have to wait and see just how amazing Casa Loma will look in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones when it hits theaters August 23, 2013.

365 Days of TMI: Days 347/346 TMI Institute heads to THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS set in Toronto

GREAT NEWS!! I opened an email last night and guess what was attached........

You might have wondered why I went into Twitter silence... no I wasn't in the Silent City. :) Like any TMI fan, my jaw dropped to the floor, and my emotions went from screaming fangirl to "By.The.Angel...I have so much stuff to do to get ready". Mostly, I was like is this REALLY for us? Are we really going to get to go to Toronto? The fact is: YES WE ARE! After a super fast mission to get my passport ordered today, I am so pleased to say that I will officially be headed to Toronto for an exclusive on-set event on September 21st, hosted by Cassandra Clare, with the cast and filmmakers of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.

Other fan sites invited to attend include: Mundie Moms, TMI Source, TMI Examiner, Hypable and Fangirlish. I am so thrilled for our site to be included in this amazing opportunity and am looking forward to bringing the set news straight to the fans!

SHADOWHUNTER MISSION: TORONTO 

We need your QUESTIONS,

 INSPIRATIONAL COMMENTS, 

ORIGINAL ARTWORK,

 and FAN VIDEOS!!

You can submit to us a couple different ways: post your questions and comments below OR send us a link to YouTube. If providing video content, please make sure it is no more than two minutes long and post the link to your YouTube video in the comments below. Make sure to add a description of what type of video you made (comment, question, fun stuff, etc). We would like you to start your video with a sign/poster that describes what you love about City of Bones in three words, so get out your glitter pens for amazing creativity that Magnus could be proud of. We plan to do something really creative with it! If you want to talk about why you love Cassie and the cast, GO FOR IT! If you have a cute poem, song or maybe want to act out your favorite lines from the book, let's have it! We want something that will make this fandom proud!

MISSION 2: Top Ten list:

This will be fun! 

Create your own video TOP TEN list like you see on David Letterman. Make them funny... make us laugh! The theme will be "Top Ten Reasons why we love the TMI Cast." We will mash up the best of all our favorites and share them with the cast! :) Make sure to add a description in your comment that includes the word TOP TEN and has the YouTube link to the video.


FOR ALL VIDEOS: Post your YouTube link in comment section or email it to us at themortalinstitute@gmail.com.

More to come!!!

Amber xoxo

365 Days of TMI: Day 348 TMI stars support Lily Collins at TIFF premiere

Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nat Wolff, Lily Collins, Liana Liberato and Greg Kinnear pose at the premiere screening

Tonight was a huge night for our Clary, Lily Collins, as she premiered her movie WRITERS with co-stars Logan Lerman, Patrick Schwarzenegger (18 year old son of Arnold and Maria), Nat Wolff (remember him from Naked Brothers Band), Liana Liberato and Greg Kinnear at the TIFF at the Ryerson Theater in Toronto.

Lily definitely was the fashion star of the night, wearing a multi-colored Balmain minidress, pairing it with Casadei shoes and Tiffany & Co. jewelry. Our Clary was spotted signing lots of autographs during the Red Carpet premiere, including this one that featured one of our very own TMI spotters, Sandra (aka @shadowhunting on Twitter). Sandra is going to give us a full report on her big night soon.

Here's a cute pic Sandra got inside the theater of Lily talking with Nat:

And here's Lily, Logan and Greg and then of Jamie outside on the carpet (again Sandra's pics):

 

Also on the red carpet were her two TMI co-stars, Jamie Campbell Bower and Kevin Zegers. Jamie, sporting his signature shades and a hat, signed autographs and was interviewed by the press. Both the guys looked very handsome in their suits. Here's a few pics I found of Kevin on the carpet (photo credits from Just Jared and Will Wong, respectively):

Along with more pics and a post from Sandra, I'll also post the article and pictures that Cassandra, our winner of the Writers premiere tickets, took at the event. She had an absolute blast, and we can't wait to share more with you!!!!

365 Days of TMI: Day 349 Guided by Witchlight

Saturdays are always fun for the crew at The Mortal Institute. With Shadowhunter Saturday Twitter parties (we got #WhyWeLoveTMI to the number 1 WWTT today) and also the fact that we try to do our Witchlight podcast right after it, the team is always eager for the week to end to share the latest info on all things regarding The Mortal Instruments and the Infernal Devices.

What I like most about doing podcasts is the interactions with my regular podcast crew: Shannon, Katheryn, Satin and Sarah. We all have differing opinions and provide awesome insight on the TMI movie news, book news and talks on The Infernal Devices. What people don't realize is how much goes into a podcast. When we do like an hour's worth of content, it usually means we've been on the call for more like two hours... we make mistakes, laugh a lot and have a lot of dropped calls via Skype. Again, thank God for Whatsapp! It's our salvation. We have a lot of fun stuff coming up on the show: interviews with fun fans we love, contests, call-in shows, and much more. Hopefully one day we'll even have an interview with one of the cast members (crosses fingers)!

What we want to know is if there is anything you want to hear on the show. Give us your comments via the blogger site, Tumblr or on Twitter. You can also email me at themortalinsititute@gmail.com.

365 Days of TMI: Day 351 - Java Jamie

A spotter (Newscom: credit) caught a glimpse of Jamie Campbell Bower away from set today! Clad in a hoodie, jeans and sunglasses, our very own Jace Wayland takes a coffee break in Downtown Toronto.

What do you guys thing of his look? Share your thoughts below

365 Days of TMI: Day 352 - Fan love for TMI cast picture

The 'City of Bones' cast first official pic was released today via Aurum Productions! (l-r) Robert Sheehan, Jamie Campbell Bower, Lily Collins, Kevin Zegers and Jemima West.

We've shared our love all day long for the first official cast picture for THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES and now I've collected a few of my faves to share with you! I thought this would be a fun mid-week fan appreciation post for appreciating this beautiful cast!! Make sure to also check out Sarah's article on why we feel the TMI franchise go this cast right.

8h Jace.Simon.Kyle. ‏@CityofTMI

I ACTUALLY CANNOT STOP LOOKING AT THE PICTURE. IT'S SO PERFFECTTTTT. #TMIcast http://pic.twitter.com/fsE7V7fk

9h Lily Collins Team ‏@LilyCollinsTeam

Perfect cast is perfect! #TMICast http://yfrog.com/h291uypj 

10h Simon Lewis ‏@FlawlessCollins

I just wanna hug them all & never let go of Robert & Kevin lol  #tmicast 

10h federica ‏@ohpandabear

"Give me that stele, I need to draw an iratze over my heart" #TMIcast 

11h Kathryn Davis ‏@KatDavis11

“@TMI_Institute: AURUM PRODUCTIONS posts TMI cast picture http://tmblr.co/ZfHlDySpoQjH ” I'm trying not to SCREAM/CRY during class. BY THE ANGEL 

4h Stacey O'Neale ✮ ‏@StaceyONeale

Love this candid photo of the City of Bones cast. I couldn't be more excited. #TMImovie @cassieclare @JessPostigo http://twitpic.com/argxde

10h Alison Caldwell ‏@alisonsingsalot

Jamie looks so good in that cast picture, BTA!! :') Hello Jace!!! 😊❤ #themortalinstruments #TMImovie #ByTheAngel

10h Wana Mrr ‏@WanaGrrr

#TMImovie .That pic made my day.Lily and Jemima being flawless as usual,Jamie ,Robert,Kevin hot and sexy as usual and me drooling as usual.

  

We will have more tweets from fans in Shadowhunter Tweets o' the Week on Sunday!

 

365 Days of TMI: Day 363 - The best laid plans

 

 The title of this pretty much sums up a lot of things about #TMISetDay11. Thanks again to the remnants of Hurricane Isaac, Toronto received torrential rainfall and kept our own Toronto correspondent Shannon Catori away from set. We care about Shannon's safety and well being, so we wanted her to stay home and stay dry!! Luckily, there are a lot more days left on set, so we have plenty of things in store. Never fear, my Shadowhunters.

We were the first to reveal Garroway's Books and Curios, the location of the filming for the first day of set week 3. When thinking about this, it reminded me a little bit of our discussion yesterday about how Jocelyn wanted Clary and Luke to go to Luke's farmhouse to get away. As we learned, this just simply didn't go as planned. Good intentions don't always make for perfect plans. Here's an additional look from that scene:

"If we were out of the city.."

"Talk to her, Jocelyn." Luke's voice was firm. "I mean it." He reached for the doorknob.

The door flew open. Jocelyn gave a little scream.

"Jesus!" Luke exclaimed.

"Actually, it's just me," said Simon. "Although I've been told the resemblance is startling." He waved at Clary from the doorway. "You ready?"

Jocelyn took her hand away from her mouth. "Simon, were you eavesdropping?'

Simon blinked. "No, I just got here." He looked from Jocelyn's pale face to Luke's grim one. "Is something wrong? Should I go?"

"Don't bother," Luke said. "I think we're done here." He pushed past Simon, thudding down the stairs at a rapid pace. Downstairs, the front slammed shut.

Simon, hovered in the doorway, looking uncertain. "I can come back later," he said. "Really. It wouldn't be a problem."

That might --," Jocelyn began, but Clary was already on her feet.

"Forget it, Simon. We're leaving," she said, grabbing her messenger bag from a hook near the door. She slung it over her shoulder, glaring at her mother. "See you later, Mom."

 Look for more snippets, info and set news only on The Mortal Institute!

365 Days of TMI: Day 354 An Unexpected Move - Part 2

Photo Credit: TheClockworkAngels

When you need answers, you have a one-track mind. You don't expect curve balls. You don't need someone shocking or surprising you with news you don't want. This is true with what Clary finds out when she is attempting to unlock the secret to why she saw the Shadowhunters and the blue-haired demon at the Pandemonium club.

In continuing on with TMI day 354 (counting down to the premiere of City of Bones), we find out why Luke had been moving boxes.

Jocelyn expelled a sigh. "We're going on vacation."

 Luke's expression went blank, like a canvas wiped clean of paint. 

 Clary shook her head. "That's what this is about? You're going on vacation?" She shank back against the cushions. "I don't get it. Why the big production?"

 "I don't think you understand. I meant we're all going on vacation. The three of us -- you, me and Luke. We're going to the farmhouse."

 This was definitely not what Clary had expected to hear from her mom. She had summer plans. She didn't want to waste it there with Luke and her mom. She begs her mom to let her stay home, but it was to no avail. She argues with her mom. In the meantime, Luke becomes fed up with the conversation and goes to leave. Clary overhears her mom whisper "Bane".

 "I've been calling him and calling him for the past three weeks. His voice mail says he's in Tanzania. What am I supposed to do?"

 "Jocelyn." Luke shook his head. "You can't keep going to him forever."

 "But Clary--"

"Isn't Jonathan," Luke hissed. "You've never been the same since it happened, but Clary isn't Jonathan."

Clary is perplexed. Who is "Bane" and why does this whole situation remind her mom of Clary's father? Clary has to be feeling like her mom has kept secrets from her. How can she trust her if she doesn't tell her the truth. Is there another reason why they are leaving for the farmhouse?

When you first read this, did you have any clue what was going on, why her mom was so rattled? Share your thoughts below!

We'll discuss more City of Bones tomorrow!  Also be sure to check for set reports tomorrow only from The Mortal Institute!!!

365 Days of TMI: Day 355 - An unexpected move

Sorry I'm posting so late but this counts for Sunday's post, Day 355. Today we take a first look at Luke Garroway, a long-time family friend of Jocelyn and Clary Fray.

He is described in the chapter "Secrets and Lies" as having a lanky frame, dressing in his usual uniform of "old jeans, a flannel shirt, and a bent pair of gold-rimmed spectacles that sat askew on the bridge of his nose."

Luke enters City of Bones as he moves out boxes from the Fray house that Clary's mom wanted to get rid of. Clary knows Luke well enough to realize she can ask him a vague question about what she saw-- or didn't see-- at the Pandemonium Club. She needed answers, and Luke seemed like the person who could give her some insight without tipping off her mom. It seemed like the smart thing to do in her position. Who needs a stressed out, anxious mom worrying about you, right?

What would you do if you saw something nobody else could see?

The tape gun fell out of Luke's hand, and hit the tiled hearth. He knelt to pick it up, not looking at her. "You mean if I were the only witness to a crime, that sort of thing?"

"No. I mean, if there were other people around, but you were the only one who could see something. As if it were invisible to everyone but you."

 He hesitated, still kneeling, the dented tape gun gripped in his hand.

 "I know it sounds crazy," Clary ventured nervously, "but ..."

He turned around. His eyes, very blue behind the glasses, rested on her with a look of firm affection. "Clary, you're an artist, like your mother. That means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy--just different. There's nothing wrong with being different."

 Jocelyn comes in, and interrupts the moment between Luke and Clary, leaving just as many questions unanswered as when they started talking.

We'll take a look at the rest of the scene tomorrow!

365 Days of TMI - Day 356 A Box Full of Memories

(Photo credit: Steampunk Shadowhunter)

We all have a little box, or maybe even a big box, of memories stored away somewhere in our house, dorm room or apartment. They have old photos, love letters or perhaps the ticket stubs from that concert you snuck out with your best friends to attend. In City of Bones there is a little box sitting beside Jocelyn Fray's bed that holds her precious memories.

Clary describes it in "Secrets and Lies":

Jocelyn had gone back to using her maiden name after he died. She never talked about Clary's father, but she kept the box engraved with his initials, J. C., next to her bed. Along with the medals were one or two photos, a wedding ring, and a single lock of blond hair. Sometimes Jocelyn took the box out and opened it and held the lock of hair very gently in her hands before putting it back and carefully locking the box up again.

 She also talks about her dad briefly:

A thoughtful-looking fair man in military dress, his eyes bore the telltale traces of laugh lines at the corners. He'd been a decorated soldier serving overseas. Jocelyn had some of his medals in a small box by her bed. Not that the medals had done anyone any good when Jonathan Clark had crashed his car into a tree just outside Albany and died before his daughter was even born.

 Her mom worked hard to protect Clary, to keep her safe from unknown harm and to store memories that needed to be kept hidden. Even when it concerned the dad she never knew, was it better for Clary that Jocelyn let the past be the past? If you close away a portion of your life, especially if it is traumatic, do you just take all those memories, place them in a box and shut the lid? Do you forget? Can you forget?

I'm curious to know your thoughts. Share them below!

Also, keep checking back as we have some big surprises coming up soon!

365 Days of TMI - Day 357

Yesterday we finished out the Pandemonium scene with Clary, Simon and the Shadowhunters. Poor Clary....even Simon doesn't understand what she saw in the back room of the club. She saw people others couldn't see. She saw a demon. She saw demon hunters. She got called...a mundie? What in the world was that about? When she gets home, of course her mom fussed at her. The next day, as she draws variations of the golden haired boy, a dark prince in this instance, she gets a call.

"Is this Clarissa Fray?" The voice on the other end of the phone sounded familiar, though not immediately identifiable.

Clary twirles the phone cord nervously around her finger. "Yeees?"

"Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met.

last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to - "

"SIMON!" Clary held the phone away from her ear as he cracked up laughing. "That is so not funny!"

"Sure it is. You just don't see the humor."

"Jerk."

Simon tries to kid with her about the previous night. I think he's worried about her, but handles stress with humor. That's what best friends do, right? They see you through the rough moments. They make you laugh when you want to cry. They're there to be silly with you when you're bored and just be there to listen when you have to vent.

To have a best friend, you have to be a best friend. Simon and Clary are great examples of what best friends should be. Loyal, patient, caring, and always there for each other!

Stay here for another day of TMI tidbits tomorrow!

(Pic credit via Tessa Gray)

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365 Days of TMI: Day 358 Shadows and Bones

Although it's a very rainy day where I am thanks to Tropical Storm Isaac, there's a bright moment for me and for fans thanks to Sony Pictures. They released a new picture on the set.

Here's the picture caption from The Mortal Instruments Facebook page: "Director Harald Zwart (left) and director of photography Geir Andreassen (right) bring the City of Bones to life on set! More production stills of the Mortal Instruments talent and crew to come!"

Don't you just love all the creepy skulls!?? Just seeing bones scattered about reminds me of just how much closer we are, day by day, to seeing the movie brought to life on the big screen. The TMI Facebook page also has a poll of who you'd like most brought to life in the movie. Jace is in the lead currently. Which leads me to today's theme for 365. Clary sees Jace, Alec and Isabelle for the first time at the Pandemonium Club when her curiosity gets the best of her.

At first, when Clary enters what seems to be a utility room, she sees nothing, but all that changes in an instant.

It was as if they sprung into existence between one blink of her eyes and the next. There was the girl in her long white dress, her black hair hanging down her back like damp seaweed. The two boys were with her -- the tall one with black hair like hers, and the smaller, fair one, whose hair gleamed like brass in the dim light coming through the windows high above."

The trio of Shadowhunters were interrogating the blue haired boy that Clary and Simon followed into the club. Of course, Clary has no clue what is going on. Here's one of my fave lines from the chapter from Jace:

"Demons," drawled the blond boy, tracing the word in the air with his finger. "Religiously defined as hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension--"

Clary watches Jace and thinks he's utterly insane and primal, describing him like the lions she'd watched on the Discovery Channel, "they way the big cats would raise their heads and sniff the air for prey". And later, after the blue haired demon is revealed she notices his "wide spaced, light-colored eyes, and that tawny gold hair.

Jace seems mesmerized by her as well, realizing there is no way a normal mundane would be able to witness what just happened.

"Have you had dealings with demons, little girl? Walked with warlocks, talked with the Night Children? Have you-"

"My name is not 'little girl'," Clary interrupted. "And I have no idea what you're talking about."

Clary did, however, have a feeling that her words might not be so true, and that is the beginning of the awakening of a whole new world for Clary. Of course, there was no one to talk to about what she'd seen. Simon couldn't understand it, and if she couldn't talk to him, there was no one else who'd get it.

Come back for snippets, movie news and more tomorrow!!

365 Days of TMI: Day 359 - Meet the Shadowhunters - Isabelle

As we started yesterday, Clary Fray and her friend went to the Pandemonium Club to hang out for the evening. Clary noticed a blue haired boy who sparked her interest. She watched him walk across the club through a sea of sweaty teen bodies to a girl in a white  dress.

<Isabelle is described as "gorgeous, the kind of girl Clary would like to draw--tall and ribbon-slim, with a long spill of black hair. She wore a red pendant around her throat, which "pulsed under the lights of the dance floor like a separate, disembodied heart."

Through the darkness, smoke, and artificial fog, her pale dress shone out like a beacon.

The blue haired demon described her energy as pulsing "from her like blood from an open wound". She was beautiful with a smile of "poisonous water".

In the faint light she looked half transparent, bleached of color, wrapped in white like an angel.

But there was something that both the blue haired boy and Clary was not aware of immediately. Isabelle was lethal.

She moved with lightning swiftness, striking out at him with her open hand, a blow to his chest that would have sent him down gasping if he'd been a human being. He staggered back, and now there was something in her hand, a coiling whip that glinted gold as she brought it down, curling around his ankles, jerking him off his feet. He hit the ground, writhing, the hated metal biting deep into his skin. She laughed, standing over him, and dizzily he thought that he should have known. No human girl would wear a dress like the one Isabelle wore. She'd worn it to cover her skin--all of her skin. Isabelle yanked hard on the whip, securing it. Her smile glittered like poisonous water. "He's all yours, boys."

Tomorrow, we'll go in depth with the first moment Clary interacts with Jace.

365 Days of TMI: Day 360 Come Full Circle

As hard as her mother tried to protect her from the truth, Clarissa Fray walked straight into her fate when she stepped into the Pandemonium Club and had her very first encounter with the Shadowhunter world.

When you are a mom, the most important responsibility you have is keeping your child safe from all harm. When they are little, the dangers involve falling, choking, or maybe burning themselves. As a child gets older, the injuries become emotional: mean girls, bullies on the school bus, the first boy who breaks your heart. Jocelyn had to do much more than that. She successfully managed to hide the whole Shadowhunder world from her daughter. When Clary first walked into the club, she noticed a boy who was normal, but maybe just a little peculiar.

The boy's wide eyes were way too bright a green, Clary noticed: the color of antifreeze, spring grass.

When she follows the path of the blue haired boy, she sees him head to a beautiful girl who lures him into a back room. The couple are followed by two guys, neither of which Simon sees when Clary points them out to him. Clearly, you would feel crazy if you saw something that others couldn't. How many times do you think Clary saw something just out of the corner of her eye that just didn't seem right? Following her instinct that night, walking into that room that said NO ADMITTANCE, was like opening the door to Wonderland. There were strange, beautiful and even frightening things just beyond the twist of the knob. It was something that her mother feared she'd encounter and what she'd given up her former life for so she could protect her child.

Tomorrow we take a look at what's behind that door.

365 Days of TMI: Day 361 - Pandemonium Club

  Today we got our first peek of the Pandemonium Club.  

Here's some snippets from City of Bones with some descriptions of the place where Simon and Clary go to hang out and ultimately meet the Shadowhunters.

"Inside, the club was full of dry-ice smoke. Colored lights played over the dance floor, turning it into a multicolored fairyland of blues and acid greens, hot pinks and golds."

"They were dancing, or what passed for it -- a lot of swaying back and forth with occasional lunges toward the floor as if one of them had dropped a contact lens -- in a space between a group of teenage boys in metallic corsets, and a young Asian couple who were making out passionately, their colored hair extensions tangled together like vines. A boy with a lip piercing and a teddy bear backpack was handing out free tablets of herbal ecstasy, his parachute pants flapping in the breeze from the wind machine. Clary wasn't paying much attention to their immediate surroundings -- her eyes were on the blue-haired boy who'd talked his way into the club. He was prowling through the crowd as if he were looking for something. There was something about the way he moved that reminded her of something . . ."

"Clary knew perfectly well that he came to Pandemonium with her only because she liked it, that he thought it was boring. She wasn't even sure why it was that she liked it -- the clothes, the music made it like a dream, someone else's life, not her boring real life at all."

Word is that fans saw the blue-haired demon on the set today. Although there weren't many pictures circulating on the set, I thought I'd share a few from around the web.

Mehek S‏@whatthemehek7m

This one time at band camp, #RobertSheehan drew a heart in my book. #tmimovie #cityofbones #tmisetday6http://instagr.am/p/O2XFZVlHa0/

 

365 Days of TMI: Day 362 - Simon at Pandemonium

We start the second week of filming on The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones set with news that they will shoot Pandemonium Club scenes in downtown Toronto. This scene is the starting point of the book, and we can only guess that it will be the start of the movie.

Clary Fray drags her best friend, Simon Lewis, down to the all-ages club where we get our first description of this adorkable teen boy.

Simon, as always, stuck out at the club like a sore thumb, in jeans and an old T-shirt that said MADE IN BROOKLYN across the shirt. His freshly scrubbed hair was dark brown instead of green or pink, and his glasses perched crookedly on the end of his nose. He looked less if he were contemplating the powers of darkness and more as if he were on his way to chess club.

Simon is the type of guy every girl wants to have on their side: he's loyal, sweet, funny and always there for you. Even though Clary doesn't realize how much Simon cares for her, she loves her best friend to pieces and would do anything for him.

365 Days of TMI: Day 363 Alec at Taki's

I thought today since we are showing our love for Kevin Zegers we would continue with a little snippet from the chapter "Magnus Bane"  to round out the day. It's a description of Alec as Clary is listening to him tell a story while at Taki's with Jace and Izzy.

She was looking at Alec instead, watching him as he talked to Jace. There was a kinetic, almost feverish energy to him that hadn't been there before. Something about Jace sharpened him, brought him into focus. If she were going to draw them together, she thought, she would make Jace a little blurry, while Alec stood out, all sharp, clear planes and angles.

This is the moment where Clary realizes just how much Alec cares for Jace, more than just their Parabatai connection. She thinks back to the moment at Java Jones when Jace said, "I was laughing at you because declarations of love amuse me, especially when unrequited." We've all had that moment. You crush on that one guy or girl who clearly doesn't feel the same. You try to be exciting, make them interested in you, and yet it is not enough. They may not even know you exist. No matter if it happened to you yesterday or perhaps 20 years ago, the feelings of rejection, loss, and frustration are still the same. But as we see in the series, the right girl (or guy in this instance) comes along and erases all that hurt and pain. We see it with Alec, Simon and Jocelyn. They all loved someone who was not really the right one for them. It takes truly knowing yourself and discovering what you really feel before you can be happy. See you tomorrow for Day 362.