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Merry Christmas, folks! From me and the Herondale family, which sure has very personal place for Christmas in their hearts 🙃💙

@cassandraclare

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KIT HERONDALE- for @kitherondaleandminacarstairs

“Ty was near Kit, as he almost always was, like a magnet clicking into place.”

Want to join my 1.5k celebration?

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favourite dark artifices characters kit, livvy and ty “i’m going to get her back.” said ty -extract from queen of air and darkness

#dark artifices #tda #qoaad #livvy blackthorn #ty blackthorn #kit herondale #kitty #lady midnight #lord of shadows #blackthorns #herondales #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #mine

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kit&ty

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I love you, and I will love you until I die, and if there is life after that, I’ll love you then.                     Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments (2007-2014) 

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tiberius blackthorn; the seeker

happy birthday @herondaleschildren​!!

Kit touched Ty’s shoulder. He was sitting slightly behind him. Ty’s back curved as he hunched forward, but he didn’t avoid the touch.“How many windows does the front of the Institute have?” Kit said. “Thirty-six,” said Ty. “Thirty-seven if you count the attic, but it’s papered over. Why?” “Because that’s what I like about you,” Kit said in a low voice, and Ty’s shaking stilled slightly. “The way you notice everything. Nothing gets forgotten. Nothing”—and no one—“gets overlooked.”

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the inhabitants of the los angeles institute

“you belong where you are loved..”

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the dark artifices - ash morgenstern

❝ Dru raised her chin and stared back at him. “Who are you?” she demanded. “And why are you so rude?” To her surprise, he smiled, and there was something familiar about it. “I’m called Ash,” he said. “Did my mother send you?” He sounded hopeful. “Is she worried about me?❞

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how on eARth is it 15 days uNTIL QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS??!? like wheRE did that come from?? a minute ago i was putting 304 days to go on my countdown app?? now its literally nearly 2 weeks awayyy?! whattttttt

#i’m having a mental breakdown #please help #queen of air and darkness #15 days to go #whatttt??? #howwww #i’m going to die #just book my funeral now #send help #sos #qoaad #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #julian blackthorn #emma carstairs #i can’t wait

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Julian, in his loose light training clothes, was lying on his back near the west window, talking to Mark, who had his head stuck in a book and was doing his best to ignore his younger half-brother.

“Don’t you think ‘Mark’ is kind of a weird name for a Shadowhunter?” Julian was saying as Emma approached. “I mean, if you really think about it. It’s confusing. ‘Put a Mark on me, Mark.’”

This… this is one of the most emblematic passages to understand the development of Julian’s character. 

The boy you see in the passage has nothing in common with the character you meet in TDA. Try and compare the naive, young and carefree boy who makes stupid statements to his brother just to annoy him to the man who has to run an entire institute and hide his uncle’s real state of mind because otherwise he would lose his family, the man who is prepared to do everything (included vicious things) to keep his family safe and the very same man who has to suppress his own pure feelings because of the danger they carry. 

In my opinion, that passage was intentionally put there because that clueless boy represents everything Julian could have been and would have been if he wasn’t forced to kill his own father to protect his brothers and sisters. That boy represents how much Julian has had to sacrifice in order to keep his family close and the best part is that he doesn’t care, he would throw everything in the fire if it meant keeping his family safe. All those things he had to endure alone because he wouldn’t dare burden other people, not even Emma because her pain was his pain too. 

All that pain and hardship he’s been through all this time carved him into the person he is today. 

And people are right, he’s not entirely good, entirely moral and he’s certainly not perfect simply because he doesn’t have to be. he doesn’t have to be perfect to be one of the best characters Cassandra Clare has ever created. 

He’s complex.

And that’s why I love him. 

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mark blackthorn wasn’t brooding or troubled exactly. but mark blackthorn had a divided heart. he also had a soft, husky voice, startling eyes, and a habit of saying things that turned the world backward.

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Queen of Air and Darkness snippet

It was her, the strange human girl he’d once seen in the Unseelie weapons room. Dark hair, eyes the color of the sky. A murder of crows circled behind her. Not a photograph, but a drawing, done with a wistful hand, a sense of love and longing emanating from the page. A name was scribbled in a corner: Drusilla Blackthorn.

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Characters of The Shadowhunter Chronicles  → Clary Fray Fairchild

Heroes aren’t always the ones who win. They’re the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don’t give up. That’s what makes them heroes.

                                                                         ↳   @shadowhunternet promo

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tsc meme: six friendships [3/6]

↳ kit, ty, and livvy

“who is everyone again?” said kit. “and where are they from?”

“dane and samantha larkspear,” said livvy, indicating two dark-haired centurions. “atlanta.”

“twins,” said ty.

“how dare they,” said livvy, with a grin. kit had been worried she wouldn’t be thrilled with ty’s plan to absorb kit into his detecting plans, but she’d just given a wry smile when they’d come over to her in the training room and said, “welcome to the club.”

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The Mortal Instruments Characters: ↳ Jace Herondale: “My Romanian is pretty much limited to useful phrases like, ‘Are these snakes poisonous?’ and ‘But you look much too young to be a police officer.”

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Whose POV will the epilogue of QOAAD be in if it’s not too much of a spoiler?

The Seelie Queen. And now I take a break from Q&A: thank you! It was fun!

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tsc meme: (3/8) shadowhunters  → emma carstairs

“ Nobody calls me ‘blondie’ and keeps their kneecaps. ”