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BECAUSE I’VE BEEN SEEING WANK ABOUT MALEC AND I JUST NEED TO RANT ABOUT WHAT I THINK OKAY 

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i think people are angry with the fact that she left their ending open more than they hate the ending. As you said “to be honest, the perfect ending – as a shipper – would be for them to get past this and work through it without magic, and then maybe one day magnus finds a totally safe consequence-free way to be mortal and they can live out their days together and all that”, but we might never get to see that ending you was talking about. She left us wondering what would happen, and we might never know, so i think that’s what makes people angry. I’m pretty ok with the ending but I want more, I need more. I will be very happy if Cassie write an actual ending for them after this, but for now, i will still deny that this ending ever happened

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i don’t really think that it’s an open ending though. they’re together and they will be until alec dies. just because magnus stays immortal doesn’t mean it’s not an “actual ending”. they’re together and they decided that they will just have to take what they have and live out their days together. they’ve worked past it and that’s already a happy ending. sizzy got an open ending, bat and maia got an open ending, but malec ended up together. just because eventually alec will die doesn’t invalidate the closure that was given to them. 

I think people kinda hope that Cassie will do something different with Malec than what she did with Wessa. Yes, they’re together, but how can you be sure that they’re happy the entire time? Because immortality can lead to a lot of different problems 
For example, this is something from TBC ‘Magnus had never been old, had never known how the world reacted to you when you were old, and had not been allowed to be really young for long either’. Imagine when Alec is 50 and Magnus still looks 19, they will still love each other i know, but it will be different. As Camille said ‘You will not grow old together. You will grow apart instead’
Other couples have problems too, but eventually those problems can be solved, or they break up. But Malec’s problem can’t be solved, it will always be there, they only have 2 choice, live with it or break up, and in my opinion, none of it can count as ‘happy’. Cassie didn’t solve their problem, she made them ‘live with it because there is no other opinion’
(Wessa is different though, because according to Cassie Tessa can make herself looks old for Will)

mad-half-hour: Thank you, this exactly.

I’ve honestly been sort of baffled by people claiming the ending between Alec and Magnus is open-ended, because it’s actually about as closed as an ending can be in a novel, imo. They decide that they’re going to be together despite the fact that Magnus is going to lose Alec one day, and will live on past that. That’s a solid decision. When the book ends, they are absolutely, 100% together (unlike, as you pointed out, Simon and Izzy). That isn’t leaving the immortality issue “open” like I’ve seen people claim, or ignoring it. They haven’t “ignored” it at all. In fact, for the first time, they actually frankly and openly discussed it, and came to an agreement about it. They determined that, in spite of the fact that there is no way around it, they still love each other enough to stay together. That’s resolution. They’ve “dealt” with it as much as unavoidable immortality *can* be dealt with. They can’t make it disappear, because Magnus would die instantly, and they can’t make Alec immortal without both changing who he is and violating his person feelings on mortality. So they discuss the only options left available to them: stay together in spite of that and talk through their issues like adults in love, or break up because they can’t get past their issues. They picked the first option.

I can understand being disappointed with the ending. I can understand calling the ending unhappy, because, yeah, it is sort of bittersweet. Ymmv and all that jazz. Some people want ‘till death do us part and then we meet up again in the afterlife romance, and that’s their opinion to have. But it wasn’t by any means “open-ended”.

(Personally, I really, really liked their ending. I definitely wouldn’t have objected to Magnus becoming mortal —that was my ~ideal~ ending— but this was more than acceptable. They’ll spend Alec’s life together and then Magnus will live on, and through Alec he’s learned how to keep living without “calcifying”. Loving Alec has literally saved Magnus from disconnecting with the world. Even if he moves on, Magnus will never be able to forget that, because that’s exactly what Alec taught Magnus he couldn’t do. Jfc these men, ugh, let me love them)

I will say it again, people are not disappointed because of the ending itself. Yes Malec discussed the problem and come to an agreement about it, but the problem itself is not solved. I feel like Cassie can’t think of a way to end this happily without make it sappy, so she chose the easy way out. It’s like they are back to square one, without moving forward at all. Well, maybe with less arguing

In CoFA, Magnus said “There isn’t going to be a next time”. This sentence makes people hope you know. They hope that Cassie will do something about Magnus’ immortality, that Alec is really Magnus’ last love. But then Cassie do nothing, Magnus might live on, and how can we sure that he wont love someone else? Because immortality is a long time to spent alone. I don’t want Magnus to endure his immortality alone. I also dont wan’t him to love someone else. Even if he doesn’t love someone else like he loves Alec (and it’s kind of unfair to that next person). This ending makes Magnus’ words seems like an empty promise & lose its meaning. 

Yes, Sizzy has an open ending too. But eventually they will be together even if Simon dont remember (you know, like in ‘The vow’?). But you can see their open ending lead to happiness. But with Malec, there are too many things that can happen (i will quote someone else here, she said Malec’s happiness & future is “unstable and uncertain” ) which makes people feel like it isn’t finished yet