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kasper-tag · 6 months
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✨ Here's the first chapter of my new fic, Meow and Forever!✨
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Title: Meow and Forever
Pairing: Malec
Rating: Mature
No archive warnings apply
Word Count: 3,000+ (still writing and editing)
Summary: When Alec returns home from a week-long work trip, Magnus is nowhere to be found. The doors are locked, there's a horrible, lingering smell in the loft, and a big black cat shows up out of nowhere. Alec tries his best to solve the surreal mystery he's faced with while questioning his sanity. Where did this weird cat come from, and where the hell is his husband?
Written for @animalecfest for the prompt: Lost
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lirotation · 1 month
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Ever since a discussion about the mortality of my human Tav with my fellow Tavs on Tumblr, the idea has become an intrusive thought🤣. I couldn't shake it from my mind, so I decided to confront it. I chose to explore the worst-case scenario.
Astarion X F!Tav, warning, character death.
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Oh my gosh, I couldn't think about anything else! But now I feel better =) The lyrics are from the song "Let Me Down Slowly" by Alec Benjamin, which seems to be popping up everywhere for me recently! It was meant to be.
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The rain poured down in relentless sheets, obscuring the old gothic manor in a heavy gray veil. Inside, the candles flickered softly as Astarion combed his fingers gently through Amaara's hair. Her skin was pale and cold under his touch, she had passed in her sleep, her life of many decades finally at its end.
Astarion dressed her in finery befitting his princess, never taking his eyes from her still face. He lifted her fragile body, holding her close to his silent heart, and carried her through the corridors of their home, the echo of his steps filling the emptiness left behind.
Down into the secret crypt below he took her. The chamber was illuminated by candles that cast dancing shadows on the stone walls. He lay her gently in an ornate double coffin, positioning her with care one last time. His vision blurred as tears threatened to spill out at the thought of an eternity without her laughter to drive away the dark.
So soon...too soon...
A dry, wrecked sob clawed up his throat as he stretched his lean body beside hers inside the casket. He turned to face her, drinking in every beloved feature - the graceful arch of her brow, the gentle slope of her nose. With infinite tenderness, he ran the back of his hand against the line of her jaw, tracing its elegant curve.
He threaded his long, pale fingers into her thinned silver hair, soft strands pooling like mercury in his palm. He cradled the nape of her neck, his thumb caressing the tender skin behind her ear just the way she always loved. Each gesture was etched with reverence and sorrow, communicating wordlessly all the affection and devotion that overflowed from his shattered heart.
In the muted candlelight, she could have been merely sleeping, poised on the cusp of awakening. But her skin was growing colder under his touch with each moment, the last of her warmth fleeing to merge with the eternal night. Soon all that would remain of his beating heart would be a decomposing shell. The anguished realization tore through him anew, and he released a thin, keening cry like a creature skewered through the soul.
At last, Astarion forced his quivering fingers to release her. With agonizing restraint, he gently smoothed back a few errant strands of her pale hair, arranging them flawlessly across the plush satin pillow.
He shifted slowly onto his back beside her. Reaching up with a leaden arm, he grasped the ornately carved lid of the casket. As he gradually pulled the heavy cover down, shadow crept over their forms. Her alabaster features were swallowed up inch by inch in the hungry darkness.
With a muffled thud that reverberated through his entire spirit, the cover closed completely. The chamber became at once a bridal suite and a tomb, its occupants trapped by cruel fate.
Astarion shuddered in the darkness. The familiar confines of a coffin, once a hellish prison, now served as his refuge from the fresh anguish threatening to consume him.
When Cazador had buried him years ago, the crushing isolation and helplessness nearly shattered Astarion’s sanity. But here, cocooned with his lost beloved, the cold casket took on the bittersweet air of a marriage bed on their final night together. He welcomed the isolation, sought solace in it. Here he could muffle the bleeding, gaping wound in his soul with the old, healed over scars of past trauma. By wrapping himself in familiar pain, its sharp sting would numb the fresh, unendurable agony of Amaara’s absence.
In this chamber of death, Astarion found his only chance for even transient peace. Here he could hold the cruelties of time and fate at bay, if only for a few decades of dreamless slumber next to his beloved. Here he could forget, could almost pretend the sweet burden in his arms still drew breath... before mere memory of her touch faded like everything else into the hungry dark.
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lawsofchaos1 · 3 months
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Shadowhunters Promptlet: Blood Magic
Nephilim are taught from the very moment they can speak to never, ever allow a warlock access to their blood. A warlock's power is in their core, where they can use it and manipulate it, but nephilim don't have magical cores - their power is located in their blood.
The use of nephilim blood in a potion or ritual gives the warlock using it absolute and total power over the Shadowhunter in question- not just over their body and what happens to it- harm or injury or even death- but power over their minds and hearts as well. Anything the warlock wants to do to them, they can.
It is the nephilim culture's highest taboo and the punishment for a warlock caught using nephilim blood is the most brutal and ruthless torture the Clave could imagine when they wrote the laws. (And they were very imaginative.)
Magnus and Alec have been dating for almost a year when Magnus, as High Warlock, begins seeing young Downworlders coming down with a mysterious illness. More and more children start getting sick and nothing Magnus or any of the warlock healers do can help. They have no idea what's happening, but it's growing exponentially worse far too quickly. Then, the deaths start.
Magnus pores over his texts, desperate to find a solution and he finally does. The ritual he needs to perform to save the children, however, requires a nephilim to give their blood. The catch? The blood must be given unknowingly. The reason for the ritual cannot be explained beforehand.
Alec, of course, agrees without thinking when Magnus asks him to be in one of his ritual circles, seemingly uncertain why Magnus seems nervous about asking. Alec has served as a placeholder in several rituals for him before- it's certainly not a big deal.
Until Magnus passes Alec a dagger, the edges honed into lethal sharpness, in the middle of the rite and locks gazes with him, looking pale and far too close to terrified for Alec's sanity, and asks him quietly for seven drops of blood.
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whinyandcheese724 · 1 year
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so @erch0maii said in a post that i didn’t want to hijack that the reason that both screen adaptations of tmi didn’t feel quite right is because they were these dark gritty adaptations while the books are, at heart, campy and silly and comical. and i was thinking about this and how it relates to the other series in the tsc canon. when i first read tsc i thought that the reason they felt tmi felt different from tid, tda, and tlh is because they were her first books but it really all comes down to the character’s sense of humor and genre awareness. because all the other tsc series (and i’m betting twp too) take themselves so seriously, but timi doesn’t do that. 
with genre awareness, the characters are put in this dark edgy fantasy war series but they act like their in a satire or a comedy. my favorite parts of qoaad were when jace and clary were in these dangerous situations and were acting so nonchalant about it. and it wasn’t even like a fake confidence or something, they genuinely just are Like That. like at the war council they walked in casually with normal clothes and people didn’t even notice them until lily called them out. like, they could have changed, they could have made a big entrance, but no, why bother. and later in brocelind when manuel rips out the tent and they’re playing tic tac toe. they don’t acknowledge him at all, not even to make a joke about him ruining the tents they borrowed. they just sit there playing tic tac toe. and again on the imperishable fields, jace has a knife to manuel’s back and clary is holding the stanchion but emma describes them as walking as if they’re out for a morning stroll.
and like look at the parallels between the series. the tlh crew met one and a half princes of hell and barely made it out with their sanity. the tmi gang has collectively met 3 princes of hell and in literally every situation they’re on the same level. when emma and julian went to thule it was this dark scary traumatizing thing, this actual hell that wasn’t quite hell. and when james, matthew, lucie, and cordelia went to edom it was this terrible experience that both lucie and matthew spent literally dying. but when the tmi gang went to hell, what ever. yeah it was serious and traumatic and scarring but not in the same way. izzy and simon hooked up. clary and jace had sex. and alec made fun of all four of them for it after. jace got caught by a demon and clary scolded him like he left the fridge open. they literally snuck into sebastian’s elite fortress with a plan from simon’s dnd campaign. and diyu?  even when simon was having a mental breakdown he managed to flirt with izzy it took the tlh gang 3 long-ass books to defeat belial and christopher died in the process. the tmi gang beat sammael in a f*cking side book. if you go to the shadowhunter wiki and go to azazel’s history he’s said as being a part of team good. imagine how casual you have to be to get a prince of hell to join ‘team good’
and then there’s the angels. tessa’s contact with ithuriel almost killed her. emma and julian’s whole nephilim thing also almost killed them. and yeah, clary’s first encounter with raziel was very somber and serious. but in cols simon literally blackmailed raziel into giving him a magical sword. and with faerie, every encounter that the tda gang have with faeries or in faerie is this dangerous quest that could get everybody killed. the tmi gang don’t hesitaste to insult the seelie queen to her face
the thing that sets tmi apart from the rest of tsc is the characters’ refusal to take anything, themselves and everyone around them, seriously for very long
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dathen · 1 year
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I am rotating the ending of The Reigate Squires in my mind and the more I dwell on it, the more Inspector Forrester’s “what why would I arrest these people strangling you?” didn’t come out of nowhere.
It starts here, right at the beginning of the case:
“Between ourselves, I think Mr Holmes had not quite got over his illness yet. He's been behaving very queerly, and he is very much excited."
"I don't think you need alarm yourself," said I. "I have usually found that there was method in his madness."
"Some folks might say there was madness in his method," muttered the Inspector.
Word of Holmes’ illness has gotten around, and possibly even of his depressive episode. People with mental health issues were (and are to an extent) seen as ‘weak-minded’—even having ‘nerves’ is a womanly humiliating thing. They wouldn’t see Holmes’ struggle with depression alongside his brilliance, but as undermining it, and Forrester gives voice to that conflict. Right from the start, knowing that Holmes has been struggling with mental illness causes him to look askance on his reliability here.
Then we have Silly Time with the table and oranges. Once again Forrester questions Holmes’ sanity, and that’s without him seeing Holmes knock over the table:
"Wait here an instant," said young Alec Cunningham. "The fellow is off his head, in my opinion. Come with me, father, and see where he has got to!"
"'Pon my word, I am inclined to agree with Master Alec," said the official. "It may be the effect of this illness, but it seems to me that--"
They’re interrupted by Holmes’ screams for help, and the Inspector SEES both men strangling him, but what he’s perceiving is a mentally unstable man being subdued with the common amount of violence. The Cunninghams were reckless, but it’s possible they figured if Holmes passed out, they could make up an excuse about how erratic he was acting, maybe say he had first attacked them.
The class privilege of the Cunninghams is a huge part of it, of course, but we usually don’t see ‘shrug off witnessing murder attempt on Sherlock Holmes’ level of boneheadedness in other cases. Inspector Forrester is introduced as refreshingly competent at the beginning, but all these little comments along the way show how much he allows that socially ingrained ableism to color his judgment.
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lakesbian · 7 months
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lrb makes me want a ghost alec comedy au wherein he's inexplicably wearing his endbringer victims bitch too much shirt and just floating around following the undersiders constantly commentating on their misadventures. he selectively picks to haunt brian first because it's a funny prank to make him question his sanity during one of the most difficult periods of his life thus far. brian opens a container of strawberry yogurt (pink) (feminine wrapper) and alec (ghost) calls him gay. wgat if you, boy with 100 internalized complexes about gender, got turned into an alive hannibal artpiece (terrible), your girlfriend abandonmented you to go be a cop (bad), and your faggoty teammate & little sister's best friend died badly (really not good) and then you started having repeated visions of him in a ridiculous outfit accusing you of being unmasculine. what then.
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carelessflower · 11 months
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top 10 atrocious shtv plotline
let me preface by saying i do not hate shadowhunters. it camp demon fighting hot people in leather with not enough lighting and candles as regular guest stars. this list is my personal opinion, a little something something rage filled silly little rants of my favorite show and its clown moment. picture this as the inner monologue of the lead in an indie romcom who speaks in metaphors and has a letterbox account. so sit back, grab your set and stele because you will need so much iratze for your sanity.
content warning: this rant will touch upon topics such as mental health, addiction, attempted suicide and incest.
10. magnus lost his magic
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magnus is magnificent in everything, so that is why this plotline disappointed me. it has so much potential and they end up doing the bare minimum. there's no way magnus fricking bane has no one to rely on when he lost his magic besides alec. no fricking way. we should have gotten magnus to work out alec's deal with asmodeus by himself. i'm also of the opinion that magnus should be the one to figure out a way to get his magic back (there are lots of good fics exploring this, i recommend you check it out) it end up in this position cause overall it a good and interesting premise and magnus outsmarting his father and using his portal (something that magnus invented) to defeat him is a good conclusion
9. heidi took over dumort and planned to dominate the shadoworld
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i mean this happened in the book, but it was given way way more screen time than necessary in the show. please dont tell me a newly born vampire is suddenly a master manipulator and leader and makes every vampire bend to her will. you're trying to be serious not comedy shtv. and how about we give all of heidi screen time to flesh out clary and magnus plotline in S3B more?? or idk, give the lightwood trio A PLOTLINE this season besides being the supporting partner
8. jordan redemption arc
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he's an abuser. he's an abuser. HE IS AN ABUSER. we don't need him sobbing and crying and then ‘dying’ in front of maia. i loathe how for a second i thought they gonna make maia go back together with jordan again. the only good thing come out of it is maia getting somewhat closure, and i used that term loosely
7. the owl
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jace spent S3A being mind controlled by lilith, struggling, begging to be killed, being mind control again, then free. he doesn't have a single moment after all that bullshit to process because oh we need the plot to move along and another fresh trauma has arrived at the jace station. and oh remember the soul sword thing??? when there's an attempt to write the payoff of jace unintentionally killing a bunch of people? i dont know about you but the show writers sure do not. the rules and influence of lilith over jace is so confusing it is ridiculously hilarious
6. alec and jace's parabatai bond
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i've already done a recap of all the wonderful moments of jace parabatai career so i will keep this really simple. picture the parabatai bond as group final assessment. alec is pulling all-nighter, groupchat urging to finish tasks on time, one on one meetings with professor for feedback, two hours finalizing and fixing the final product. jace is "why do i have to do so much" and submitting work late two hours that don't pass the plagiarize check
5. team evil (evil clary + S3B jonathan)
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i would like to remind you she turns fully evil in episode 18 and is cured of it in episode 20. they build this evil plotline up through clary burning her hand, snapping at simon once and losing it at aline (who btw i believe is justified in her rage how many people sebastian/jonathan/ginger incest bread have killed) clary turning evil means she now will sexily whisper her line, wear tighter/revealing dress and stare at people with smoldering eyes. because of course, evil female characters are like that. i also need writers for that clace scene in the club when jace's on seelie drug to answer for their crime against my sanity
jonathan S3B is bad. and not even the fun kind. when you compare this character to the one in S2B, he got clear on every possible aspect i almost shed a tear. he, like evil clary, has so much potential. but the way the writing goes makes him just hilariously pathetic. yes i am in fact referring to him yelling 'YOU WILL NEVER LOVE ME' at clary and then flying away in his devil cosplay
4. merlion getting taken to the silent brothers
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alec is shit for blindly following the clave's order, jace betrays his parabatai and along with izzy and clary conducts a stupid plan that can create an all-out war and involves two of the downworlder leaders in all that. also, magnus steal alec stele aka the acting head stele…because bad decision is infectious in this episode. considering how serious they’re trying to make the political aspect of the show to be, the fact that this exists. literally insane. this whole plotline is to highlight how clary is the hero who stands up for justice and morals and all of that when she the one contributing the least. she just stands around lets everyone do stuff for her and they're trying to convince us she's the hero. then she and jace fuck off to another dimension after roping people into their mess because that is what a good hero does.
that screencap. she said that surrounding by downworlders. her kendall jenner pepsi world peace era
3. alec's mental health
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alec try to jump off that balcony and the only person they show having any concern over it is magnus in the next episode. oh no no, not even in that lightwood family talk in the same episode of the balcony thing, with you know, his mom and his parabatai, not a word. and the only one who says anything related to it is clary of all people. im convinced the whole alec killing off jocelyn is for alec to feel guilty and then ease him into a friendship with clary because this is no way to handle this type of story there is no way. and it is not like they say oh well, here's the end of this. because they include shots of alec pinching his hands at that hospital scene. what was the reason? has alec not had enough on his plate already? friendly reminder, iris's spell at that party caused people to project their insecurities and everyone was fighting each other. and who does alec blame? who does he fight? who he thinks is worthless of living and no one will miss? himself. do they drop this storyline faster than clace romance? yes!
2. clace
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ah, instant love that makes no sense because we are supposed to believe it is the way it is. the writers keep telling us there is nothing compared to their love but doesn't show us SHIT when it comes to that. don't believe me? oh, okay, the number of dates that they have before crusty lord of the lifetime valentine morgenshit breaks the fake sibling news is that time when jace stands and watches clary get encanto and tough inappropriately by a vampire and their rendezvous with fake dad. then in S2A they mostly interact when clary is in trouble and needs jace help. clary dates the first person she knows already has feeling for her, jace goes around very around. they don't bond or try to talk or interact besides jace constantly looking sulkily at clary and simon. then 2x14 it all reveals she loves jace she desires jace no one for her but jace. and i totally forgot jace's confession via the soul sword about loving clary, not the way you would love a sister and all that. their first date as an again couple is 3x02…the love confession is ridiculous because he's saying all these things despite us literally never seeing that on screen. they bonk when clary still links with her psychopath brother, that whole scene alone should pay for my therapy. we kept being told they are in love, but we are never shown that. hey, maybe some advice. slapping romantic music over a scene will not make the scene romantic, you actually need to write it too. this relationship goes nowhere because itself and the two characters inside it doesn't change. it's always clary wants something so jace push everyone and everything under the solar system out of the way to give it to her. this wouldn't be a problem if, yk, it is only in the first season and they have character development. but let me remind you S3B they summon lilith back to earth despite magnus losing his magic to help defeat her (didn't make it to this list but a very strong honorary mention) with the worst possible plan. relying on a guy simon knew for less than the time clary and jace spent thinking through their plan. it like you are asking for him to betray you
aldetree izzy raphael and yinfen 
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one of the only major plotlines izzy has. and it's this. because of course this addict seeks a provider then both fall in love and the provider becomes addict again is super duper appropriate to happen to these two. two of the poc characters who are prominent in the show. one of the few female characters. of course very splendid decisions right there. and at the end of the series izzy gets together with someone who can make her relapse again. all because this storyline that could have been cut off and replaced with something more decent. but nope! sexily blood drinking time!
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alexanderlightweight · 11 months
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It's Mermay babe. Merfolk au.
i love you so much but sometimes, sometimes babe it's like you want me to have a pile of wips a mile long (i'm not complaining. to be clear. because they will take every opportunity to make me regret my words)
<3
for clarities sake, they can see underwater and have vision that works as if there is light and thats why they can see red (because magic)
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Alec ducks beneath the current, cursing as the nets he’s pulling snag on some coral. It’s been several years since he’s set out on his own, unwilling — and unable — to mate with any of the mer in his pod.
Isolation is rare for his kind, but Alec finds he likes living alone better than in the pod. It’s certainly less hazardous for his sanity, since he was frequently called on to wrangle the more idiotic mer away from predators and traps. It’s also free of persistent female mer, determined to land him as a mating partner, or even as a mate period.
So, Alec left and even when he’s hauling the nets humans drop away from his new territory and clearing out the traps they create with their ignorance and negligence, he doesn’t regret it.
The territory he’s slowly carved out for himself is small but well defensible and with a ripe hunting ground all around. The only predators Alec needs to worry about are the giant squid and jellyfish that sometimes wander over. The sharks are easy enough to deal with, but tentacles are a tricky business and Alec has more than one scar from fighting them over the ebbing of the tides.
Magnus watches with interest as his darling little mate slowly expands his comfort zone. At first, Magnus was undecided between killing the mer intruding on his domain, or merely driving them out.
And then he’d seen him.
A lovely, gorgeous mer with a long, broad tail that Magnus has seen strike a shark unconscious with one blow. He’s fierce, his scars gleaming when the lantern fish get close to him.
His coloring is of the deepest caves in the coldest parts of the ocean, a black so dark that it blends in with the night and hides how deadly his mer is.
And he is Magnus’.
The minute Magnus saw his tail flash little silver hints of color as his tail flexed and the scales rippled as if with magic. His mer is a rare breed, one who can handle the deep pressure and cold and also survive in the warmer waters dappled with sunlight.
Perhaps he doesn’t realize it yet.
Doesn’t understand how inviting himself into Magnus’ territory and then slowly defending it himself — showing off how skilled he is for Magnus — is also a display, an offer of courtship Magnus will happily take.
However, the nets his boy is currently dragging are just practically begging to be used and Magnus is impatient to see him closer. To finally touch him and hear his voice beyond the soft humming and clicks he makes when he relaxes or hunts.
It’s a small work of magic to twist the current in a sudden swirl and Magnus hears an irritated, pained snarl. His lips twitch, delighted by the show of spirit and he waits until his boy is good and tangled and trapped before he slowly advances.
His mer’s sides are heaving and his gills fluttering as he struggles to free himself from the tangles of ropes and Magnus hums, letting his voice get louder as he gets closer. His mer stills immediately, a stiffness to his form and only the tremors of his fins give away that he’s alert and watchful.
— Alec isn’t sure what is approaching him, but he is sure of one thing, it’s a predator. A deadly one that Alec isn’t sure he can match, even if he wasn’t tangled down with nets and pinned to the floor of the valley. Sand shifts under him and he tries to flatten himself, making himself a smaller threat, a less attractive meal.
Alec feels it first, the heavy curl of a tentacle around his tail and he forces himself to remain still, knowing from experience that if he struggles now, it will only tighten sooner.
Except, it’s not like the squids he’s fought, and he shudders as three more tentacles wrap around him in an almost teasing embrace. They squirm under the ropes and when they can’t — when they ropes are too tight and pressing against his scales — they rip through the fiber like kelp.
It’s humbling and terrifying and Alec is slowly dragged towards the rest of its body, and he tries to grip his knife without moving too much.
But it’s as if they can tell his intent.
His wrists are dragged behind him, tiny suckers hooking onto his skin with little teeth that threaten to bite in if he moves. Alec swallows and is about to try and fight, even knowing that he’ll lose, when he sees the predator hunting him.
Without even knowing why, he stops fighting, an instinct forcing him to relax at the sight of something closer to a mer than a squid.
His tentacles are a dark maroon, the color of blood in the deep waters when the sharks gather to dance, and each sucker is wreathed in a gold that matches his eyes. It reminds Alec of one of the glimpses he’s had of the sun. Then a tentacle wraps around his neck, the suckers attaching to his skin with a greedy fervor and he’s sure his throat is about to be shredded except these ones don’t have teeth. They merely bruise and mark his skin with how tightly they cling to him, and he whimpers, even as he’s deposited in thick, strong arms that wrap around him just as tightly as the tentacles do.
“Oh, little mer,” is whispered to him and he shudders, because whatever took him is intelligent and that’s more dangerous than anything. “As pretty as your dances for me are, I think rescuing you in my territory proves my intent.”
Alec swallows because he suddenly knows exactly what his captor means and what Alec has accidentally done. He shudders as fingers reach out and trace his lips and his eyes slide closed, his gills fluttering.
“Your tail flashes so prettily when you hunt, it makes me wants to hunt you in turn.” Tentacles wrap even more tightly around him and Alec shivers, tail and torso flexing against his bonds. The mate he’s accidentally wooed croons, as if delighted by his accidental struggles and his grip tightens. Alec can’t help his whimper when little serrated teeth dig into his scales, harsh enough to leave little marks and a few drops of his blood to slip free.
“Don’t you taste divine. If I’d known how lovely you’d be this close, I wouldn’t have waited.” His chin is grasped by a tentacle and it gently lifts his head up in a mockery of tenderness. The one around his neck curls tighter, making it hard to swallow and pressing under the tender skin of his gills.
He meets eyes with dark gold and Alec shudders as the claim in those eyes.
“Tell me your name darling, and I’ll tell you mine.”
“Alexander—” he murmurs because he doesn’t think his mate would accept learning that Alec only gave him a nickname.
— “Alexander.” Magnus purrs and his tentacles pull his mate even closer to him. Alexander’s massive tail is caught tightly in his embrace, ensuring his mer can’t fight free of him or struggle until Magnus tucks him away, deeper in the lair of his territory. There isn’t really any worry of his boy actually running, but Magnus is too greedy to risk it, especially not with how sweet his mate is turning out to be.
“I’m Magnus, little pearl.” Magnus tells him, because for all that Alexander is large for his species, his mass is small compared to Magnus’ many and magical tentacles. There’s a reason that most mer who remember his species fear his kind and it isn’t just because mer are easy, delicious prey.
It’s because of how little defenses they have against beings of equal intelligence, who have the limbs of their most dangerous foes.
Magnus licks his lips because his Alexander is going to be a delicacy that Magnus is going to savor in a way he never has before.
“Magnus,” is whispered back and there’s a little shiver as his pearl tastes Magnus’ name on his tongue for the first time.
Magnus has to taste it too and he leans forward, licking into his boy’s mouth and crooning as he feels Alexander’s gills flutter and his scales flex involuntarily. Magnus groans into the kiss, tasting brine and the sweetness of a predator made prey and Magnus lets his teeth scrape across Alexander’s tongue, so he can get a taste of his blood.
“My little mate.” Magnus says voice dark with want as he lets his own tongue catch on sharp teeth and Alexander trills in response to Magnus’ blood being shed. His body going lax as he submits in a way that will sate both of their instincts. Magnus takes the long way, not caring how much time it takes because there is no time wasted when he’s carrying his mate in his arms.
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delicatestones · 10 months
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Wormblr please assist: what are the definitive Alec chapters of Worm a person should review, in your opinion, as source material for writing Alec fan fiction? I'm committed enough to this idea to reread from the beginning to when he bites it + Aisha's comments on him post-death, but sourcing from the community might be helpful for like, my sanity and time.
Also hell if you feel like it leave your pet Alec fic annoyances here because that's a solid 10% of my motivation (the other 90% is mostly being a certified enjoyer of The Worst Little Guys)
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sandylee007 · 5 months
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Sandy's Sunday Snippet
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Magnus didn't react. And Alec started to get really worried. "Magnus, what's wrong?" he finally braved himself to utter.
Magnus swallowed loudly. "There's... For the sake of my sanity I have to ask you something. And... It may wreck everything."
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kasper-tag · 18 days
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✨Here's a sneak peek of Meow and Forever's Epilogue!✨
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Title: Meow and Forever
Pairing: Malec
Rating: Mature
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Summary: When Alec returns home from a week-long work trip, Magnus is nowhere to be found. The doors are locked, there's a horrible, lingering smell in the loft, and a big black cat shows up out of nowhere. Alec tries his best to solve the surreal mystery he's faced with while questioning his sanity. Where did this weird cat come from, and where the hell is his husband?
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Written for @animalecfest for the prompt: Lost
Epilogue coming soon! 🖤 You can read the first three chapters here while you wait:
Meow and Forever - Chapter 1 - Kasper_TAG - Shadowhunters (TV) [Archive of Our Own]
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"Sir, we found a body inside your house." The man spoke just as Alec was about to call Rafael. 
"And?"
The man gave a quizzical glance as if he did not expect Alec to say that.
Why should Alec care about a random dead body in his house?
The man hesitated. "Someone died inside your house. We need you to identify the body."
Alec paused. "Why should I identify the body?"
"Alec—"Jace put a hand on his shoulder.
Alec turned to his brother and frowned. "Why should I identify some random body?"
The man in front of him, officer Miller, the same guy from the phone, inhaled heavily. "Sir, we think it might be the body of one of your family members."
// Magnus Lightwood-Bane dies under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind a grieving husband and three children.
The further the investigation goes, the more Alec finds out about everything that his husband has hidden from him; shaking the very foundation of their family. The more secrets are revealed, the more his children are in danger.
Now, Alec is in a race against time to save whatever is left of his family. Only time will tell if he can really uncover all the secrets while protecting his sanity, or if he will end up creating a few of his own//
Chapter One of It Was All By Design
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khaleesiofalicante · 3 months
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More thoughts🤭
It was like there were two different people.The boy he fell in love with and the man he married. They were two different people: I've been looking for a way to describe the differences between teenage Mavid and adult Mavid and this is just perfect, because if LBAF 4 had been different, less cruel to them they would've been different-saddest part is that Lance's accident has a huge part in it so Mallory isn't a canon event but them changing so much is, right? Please tell me I'm wrong
Lance appearing like a selfish cunt is Alec's fault (he tried) but he really ended up being a selfless softie because his heart is like his daddy's and papa's
I just need to see that scene with Other Max finding Other David after he ran away (it's haunting me😭) but also I'm sure it changed him a lot and maybe it was something Max had to go through here too but didn't?
Even if time travel is real, you can’t change the past…You can only manipulate the past to change the future. : Finally starting to make some sense of time travel, which just makes me even more scared,I don't know how that's possible at this point
Cute flashback:Theia squealing when she saw Lance when she was a kid, adorable-Theia that's your future husband hunny (because he'll survive)
Madeleine and Joseph:a very good choice for the "It" couple of idris. Theia and Kincaid? Absolutely not, what's wrong with that country?
Madeleine saying she's grateful she said goodbye to her parents and knowing she didn't with Joseph hurts
David had held him that night and whispered to him in the darkness. “You love so much that I sometimes forget there are those who don’t even like me.”: I knew that quote would hurt, and I was right
I will be ignoring all the angst with the trial because my brain hasn't processed yet and I would like to preserve the shreds of sanity I have left thank you very much
Could Arthur's dreams play a major role? Them coming true like Magnus' if they both have a thing with dreams? And Arthur "manifesting" is part of that?
Is the reason Arcaid isn't canon the fact that Kincaid'd existence maybe isn't canon? Since it happened because of Other Max?
Let's talk about Arthur's birth and Selena in other timeline👀
Patiently waiting for Max to kick Lance's ass for pretending to hate David
Random thought but in Arthur chapter it says David's getting sick in winter, is that like Magnus got sick because winter triggered his depression? Or is it because of Lance's birthday?
I feel like what Jackson told Lance in IALS "You're very close to becoming the villan of this story" will turn into a line that will be very important in LBAF
Is Cami close with Camilla?
Not Cami thinking shadowhunters are the superior race:damn who raised this girl?
Yes Cami Theia wants to go to her travel year for a boy-no Cami it's not Kincaid, what happened to parabatais communicating?
Theia wants to get laid Cami. And help obviously-but also get laid. I'm liking Theia more and more
Will Cami think Lance is exploiting Theia when she finds out?
At first I didn't like the idea of Cami going to New York but I couldn't tell why? And then she went all I'll find the entrance to the Pandemonium and that's not good. Thank God Max knows what she's up to
Joan drawing good runes goes to the list of things that will potentially turn into a big thing👀
I was today years old when I realised that LBAF 6 ends on Lance's bday. This is not good. Not good. Not good.
I will stop now because this is again getting very very big. And to no one's surprise I have even more notes, but I will share those another time😅
Also this song reminded me of Blackbane and I really love it: Valentine by Maneskin (Maneskin have a very Blackbane vibe I think👀) Love ya, I really really hope you get better soon🌼
First things first. Maneskin is one of Lance's fave band (and mine lmao). AND VALENTINE IS VERY BLACKBANE FOR SURE. In fact, every lbaf playlist has an important Maneskin song for an important scene. I'll keep the one LBAF 6 to myself for now hehehe.
Let's dive innnnn.
I'm legally not allowed to comment on this. But in my mind mavid is one of those couples who doesn't have a perfect life. Every life (like IALS, FMF, LBAF) has a lot of pain for them to get through as a couple and that's one of their things. It's part of their story. As one of them said (or is yet to say), it's not about living a good life, but just living a one, even a bad one, with you.
these lightwood-banes boys will be death of me sigh
Unfortunately not part of the fic but if inspiration strikes who is to say...(maybe you can give it a shot!)
I can safely say that figuring out the time travel nuances for this fic has broken my brain :)
BABY BLACKBANE OMG? THE CUTEST-
Tincaid or Keia sounds CURSED.
Yeah. I wrote that whole thing in just because it hurt so good ngl.
Mavid angst >>>
Council trials are a different kind of trauma bro seriously
Maybe they can speak to each other in their dreams 👀
Kincaid's existence definitely isn't canon, meaning he doesn't exist in every world - or even fic. Here's some angst for you. He doesn't exist in FMF.
Not very different at all actually. At least, not in any important way - I THINK. Except that I'd say Selena, Max and a couple of other family members must have played a big role in convincing Other David to have the second kid because Other Max wasn't there to do it.
Same. REALLY. Same.
It's both. It's also all the memories associated with Lance's birth itself, not just his birthday/prophecy trigger.
:(
Yes! We are yet to see some of these dynamics. Camila is closest to Cami and Atlas :)
The Clave :/ (but in all honestly, as we are yet to explore, Cami is exact the kind of person that will come out if you are raised in the capital city of your government and grew up in a government building constantly surrounded by politicians and your president father. Unlike Rafael, who actually had a much rounded upbringing, Cami grew up in Idris. It has influenced her personality a lot)
Parabatais communicating? Since when? Never heard of that before.
She knows what she wants and I say good for her. Also damn these blackthorns are such hoes.
I mean she's already kind of thinking it (in the latest chapter she wonders if lance only helped theia/kelpies to manipulate the clave etc)
Cami going to New York is the best that ever happened to her - and for many other people hehehe.
Ohhhhhhh?
What do you mean it ends on Lance's birthday?...Am I missing something 👀
Thank you for all the thoughts. They really made my day - which was otherwise not so good. I really really hope I will get better soon too because I have plans for 2024 and they need me to do some work hehe.
Love you 💜
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smalltownfae · 10 months
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Magical Bond Book Recs
I have been noticing that I really like the magical bond trope in my fantasy books so if you like it too here are some recommendations in order of execution and how I like them. The magical bond is when two characters are somehow connected to each other through some sort of magic and it’s usually very emotionally strong and often tragic.
1. Fitz and the Fool / Fitz and Nighteyes (Realm of the Elderlings)
Including both of those even if one is a magical bond with an animal. Fitz has a strong connection with the Fool through the magic called the Skill, in which when the Fool touches him with his fingers stained by magic they can use that link to feel each other’s essence and emotions, heal, etc. Fitz and Nighteyes share another kind of magical link through the Wit, which is the magic that allows the people that possess it to understand and connect with animals. Nighteyes is a wolf. Through Fitz, the Fool and Nighteyes also share a faint magical bond. Besides this, Fitz and the Fool are also connected by their destined roles since one is a prophet and the other a catalyst (meaning one has visions of the future and the other the capability to change that future in big ways).
“I was the Fool and the Fool was me. He was the Catalyst and so was I. We were two halves of a whole, sundered and come together again. For an instant I knew him in his entirety, complete and magical, and then he was pulling apart from me, laughing, a bubble inside me, separate and unknowable, yet joined to me. “You do love me !” I was incredulous. He had never truly believed it before. “Before, it was words. I always feared it war born of pity. But you are truly my friend. This is knowing. This is feeling what you feel for me. So this is the Skill.”
- Assassin’s Quest (Farseer #3) by Robin Hobb
“Come, hunt with me, the invitation whispers in my heart. Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own. Wolves have no kings.”
- Royal Assassin (Farseer #2) by Robin Hobb
2. Rin and Kitay (Poppy War)
Rin and Kitay eventually form a bond like Chaghan and his sister have. Kitay is Rin’s anchor and helps keep part of her sanity while using the magic of a god. The bond can make the magic stronger and Rin both craves it and wants Kitay to not get involved with it. It is a more tragic kind of bond and it’s platonic.
“Because once you have an anchor, they become a part of your soul. Your very existence. They know your thoughts. They feel what you feel. They are the only ones who completely and fully understand you. Most would die rather than give that up.”
- The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2) by R.F. Kuang
3. Kell and Rhy Maresh (Shades of Magic)
I decided to make this post because I was reminded of these two actually. Kell is Rhy’s adoptive brother and just like Rin and Kitay they share a platonic magical bond that can kill both of them in one go. At one point in the series Rhy dies and Kell uses magic to save him, a magic that binds them so that they can feel each other’s pain.
“I bound your life to mine,” said Kell, “As long as I live, so shall you.” Rhy’s eyes widened. “You did what?” he whispered, horrified. “I should get out of this bed and wring your neck.” “I wouldn’t,” advised Kell. “Your pain is mine and mine is yours.”
- A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1) by V.E. Schwab
4. Seregil and Alec (Nightrunner)
This series is known for having an mlm couple as the main characters so it’s a given that they will get into a relationship at some point. They share the talimenios bond (which basically means soulmates) and they can feel each others’ emotions to a certain extent. The reason why it’s last place is that it isn’t that impactful in the story and not as strong as the ones before even though it is the romantic one. It isn’t so much different than being together with someone for years and getting to know them really really well.
“One pair of men held Alec’s attention for dance after dance. It was not simply their skill that moved him but the way they seemed to hold each other with their gaze, trusting, anticipating, working in perfect unison. His throat tightened as he watched them during one particularly sensual dance; he knew without being told that they were talimenios and that they had lived this dance, this mingling of souls, together most of their lives. He felt Seregil’s hand cover his own. Without the least embarrassment, Alec turned his hand, weaving their fingers together and letting the dance speak for him.”
- Traitor’s Moon (Nightrunner #3) by Lynn Flewelling
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roseofnohr · 1 year
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what is the worst east of eden casting you can imagine
oh this is such a good question.
alec baldwin as sam hamilton. i'm including sam hamilton in this production just because the thought of alec baldwin playing him is destroying me.
harry styles as both cal AND aron trask. that's right, through the magic of video editing, we're going to have former one direction frontman harry styles as cal (harry with disheveled hair) AND aron (harry with like. slicked back hair or smth.) surely their scenes will have the intended emotional impact despite being cobbled together from footage of the same guy who objectively cannot act by a team of underpaid interns!
taylor swift as cathy. with at least one taylor swift song featured on the soundtrack that explicitly girlbossifies cathy.
david hornsby with his hair dyed brown as adam trask. i think we as a society could definitely poor little meow meowify david hornsby if we tried hard enough.
lili reinhart as abra. played in the same manner as betty on riverdale.
in 1955 movie adaptation fashion, lee is just straight up not there.
alternately, lee is played by ken jeong or someone equally 1) wildly unsuited for the role and 2) not chinese, causing me to lose the last shred of sanity i have.
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lucidsolar · 1 year
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starter for: alec abernathy
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he’s had a few drinks, but he’s not drunk enough to excuse this. of course, he’s not going to confess to that -- he won’t let anyone know he’s entirely aware of what he’s doing. his next door neighbour was the hottest man he’d ever seen, and he was far too addicted to him for words. bizarre considering he’s never really spoken to him, never touched him, and he’s entirely sure he has a girlfriend too, which only proves to him that he stood no chance in the first place. however, it’s the middle of the night and he’s pretty sure alec’s home alone, and he’s almost definitely asleep -- so before he knows it, before his sanity has caught up with him -- he’s climbing up the wall, and into the other man’s window, so careful -- not wanting to be detected and stopped. he takes in the dark room, tiptoeing through it, until he inadvertantly kicks something that makes a sound. shit. / @lucidlunar​
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