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celias · 2 months

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Christopher Lightwood, The Last Hours

“By the name of Lilith,” he drawled. "Hide the breakables. Hide the whole house. Christopher Lightwood is here.”

#my edits #litedit #yalitedit #*mine #userasena #userianny #useropal #userteodora #usertijana #usertweety #ch: christopher lightwood #s: the last hours #s: the shadowhunter chronicles

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jemsbitch · 1 year

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What if Kit cannot look directly at Tessa’s eyes because they are the exact same shade as Ty’s?

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dhampiravidi · 9 months

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me, realizing that both Sebastian Morgenstern & Aleksander Morozova got stabbed by the girl who was their nemesis—the same girl they became sexually obsessed with because they were obsessed with ruling the world alongside the only person who could be their “equal” 😳

oh & their parents were obsessed with making them strong

#admin #s&b spoilers #the grisha trilogy #the grishaverse #tsc #tmi #the shadowhunter chronicles #the mortal instruments #sebastian morgenstern #jonathan morgenstern #aleksander morozova #the darkling #I actually felt bad for them considering their pasts but I also don’t condone their crimes #books

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thepictureofsdr · 2 years

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“controversial opinion alastair carstairs has potentially had the hardest life out of any of the main characters in the shadowhunters universe so far” now you may be thinking to yourself “WHOA tumblr user thepictureofsdr back it up there, that is an incredibly bold, broad, and obnoxious take” HOWEVER i have a case to make.

(disclaimer this isn’t taking into account the villains or immortal characters while i personally understand cringe teenager psychology i cannot personally understand the psychology of people over 300 nor those with murderous urges, im not finished my degree. one more disclaimer in the notes)

there is one singular thing that i think sets alastair apart from any of his other mc shadowhunter colleagues: the fact that he has been alone his whole life.

you can pluck any mc from any cassie series and create a web of support for them, whether it be family or friends, whether the characters believe they have that support system or deserve it or not, that support is STILL THERE. at all points in TMI, clary, jace, alec, izzy, and simon were all there for each other. alec was pretending to believe jace was evil in coa? izzy was staunchly defending jace. clary had a falling out with the others? she had simon. this pattern continues into the books, with gideon and gabriel being forgiven by institute and allowed a place to heal, with jem and will each going through hell but having each other and then having tessa, with the blackthorn siblings having each other to fall back on (including emma), with kit finding a home in LA and then with the carstairs, with the merry thieves considering each other brothers, with cordelia spilling her heart out to lucie, hell even grace had jesse. obviously i haven’t named every character but you get the trend im going for. every character has had SOMEONE, a friend, a significant other, a parabatai, a sibling, the rare parent.

then we have alastair. he had a roughly normal childhood for a few years despite the moving around, having a healthy relationship with his baby sister. but then he turned 10, something changed and he lost everything. on top of having moved around a lot and not having a single stable friend, in a way, he lost his sister and parents. it’s impossible to have a carefree sibling relationship when you’re actively giving up your life and time to protect them. it is by no means cordelias fault that their relationship was lost, but its a sad truth. he loses that reliable open sibling relationship, he loses that relationship with his father, and his mother ceases to be a mother and becomes more a coworker in this panic to keep the family afloat. by taking on this adult role so early on in life he loses the innocence and unconditional reliability of those relationships, and he seemingly never turns to them for comfort ever again, with cordelia only finding out about part of his emotional ordeals in cog, and even then he doesn’t burden her with everything. with this breakdown of the parental units and relationship as well as being isolated, alastair also loses his only example of what a healthy romantic relationship should look like, he has no real idea how a partner should act, which we know will come into play later. let’s also not forget how the one family member that could’ve helped, jem, was actively pushed away by elias who raised his children to not trust silent brothers for his own personal selfish needs.

then he goes to school, desperate for friends and what does he get? a year of verbal and physical bullying, with rumours being spread about his family and bruises slowly covering him. he then has to spend years pretending he’s awful just to survive and by some miracle he gets out and makes 1 (one) singular friend who then publicly friend breaks up with him by threatening to throw him in a river at an engagement party attended by what i assume is the entire enclave (thank you matthew). THEN (yes this tragedy is still going) we get to one of the most unsettling relationships in the series, mostly because the bizarreness of it is just… never addressed? we get alastair and charles who were together in 1902 when they wouldve been about 18 and 23, meaning we got a man who would’ve graduated college by then going after someone who would have just graduated high school… on top of that it was an incredibly toxic relationship with charles making him feel as though he were worthless and a dirty secret and centered the entire relationship around him, his own schedule, his needs, his wants, never making time for anything on alastair’s terms. on top of the love sick teenager syndrome, alastair had never personally witnessed a healthy relationship so on top of that AND being desperate for the closeness and intimacy and support he’d gotten from no one before, he had no way of knowing he was being treated badly, he didn’t know any better until much later, after witnessing charles propose to not one but TWO GIRLS while still keeping alastair sidelined.

so to summarize, alastair has never had a lasting, appropriate, healthy, unconditional, relationship with 1. a parent 2. a sibling 3. a friend 4. a significant other 5. family. he has never been loved for the sake of being loved, hes never had someone care for him because he simply exists, everyone wants something from him and he’s never felt what its like to be truly cared for. for every trauma he has endured, for every night he went out as a child to find his drunken father passed out in a bar to drag him home, for every beating he suffered as a school boy, for every friendship that crumbled to nothing, for every time his only relationship used him and sent him to sleep unsure of his worth, he didn’t have a single person. there was no jem to assure him that no matter his faults he deserved love, no cecily to hand out forgiveness and remind him to not dwell on the past, to just move forward, no julian to turn to when he couldn’t hold up anymore, no izzy to tell him he deserves better or to point out the flaws in how he’s treated, no alec to let him rest and defend him, he has never experienced those healthy dynamics.

not only has he been dealt an awful set of cards, hes never had a single person to help him through life to the point where hes not only alone but the few relationships he does experience actively cause him more problems and pain. mind you this post doesn’t even really address the main traumas he endures this is just the breakdown of his relationships so just mentally add on his MAIN story to all of this… everything elias made him endure, all the bullshit the thieves throw in his face, every time hes given up his life for the sake of someone else… this is just the background to all of that.

in short i think alastair has had one of the hardest lives maybe even the hardest, not because i think hes suffered the worst traumas of all or i think he wins the sadness games, but because he has never had a single person to help him through what he’s experienced, to love him because he exists, never had a single person to care for him through it all and not only is he aware of this tragedy, he thinks he deserves it. he pushes people away, keeps his walls up, thinks he doesn’t deserve love from others, thinks he is too damaged and twisted to burden someone with his existence, and despite his genuinely kind soul, he still thinks he’s cruel and awful and deserving of nothing, but are we surprised? its not like he has anyone to tell him otherwise.

#disclaimer this is lighthearted i dont agree with pain olympics i just want to draw attention to the hell alastair has been forced to endure #obviously opinions can vary this is just my personal take on the series and as someone who heavily values having people around me i think #perpetuatal aloneness would make a life harder than most #i personally feel all traumas are easier to handle knowing youre not alone but if you dont agree? amazing please tell me your opinion #JUST PLEASE DONT BE MEAN TO ME I AM S E N S I T I V E #chain of iron #chain of thorns #the last hours #chain of gold #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc #tlh #the infernal devices #tid #alastair carstairs #thomastair #thomas lightwood #sdr hc #sdr essay

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generalcollectionparadise · 11 months

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Amatis: I sleep with my dagger under my pillow.

Maryse: Oh, and I always hide an axe under the bed.

Jocelyn: Pfft, I'm sorry for both of you.

Maryse: Then what are you sleeping with?

Jocelyn: Valentine.

#shadowhunters #the mortal instruments #cassandra clare #the shadowhunters chronicles #the secret treasons #jocelyn fairchild #the circle of raziel #valentine morgenstern #amatis herondale #maryse lightwood #jokes of raziel 's circle

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thousand-winters · 1 year

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“It is unfair to you that the Clave left you there for so long, without intervention or even investigation.”

THANK YOU, JEM, FINALLY SOMEONE SAYS IT.

You’re telling me you let the most visibly deranged woman ever adopt a child and never thought to check if she was alright??? I don’t care if it would be invasive to Tatiana’s privacy, that’s a child. And see what happened.

They really need to make some kind of CPS there or something.

#shadowhunters society. so charming /s #the last hours #tlh #grace blackthorn #chain of thorns #chain of thorns spoilers #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc

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bluesadansey · 6 months

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Hi! Since I’ve been on TSC brain rot (again) lately I’ve been revamping/reformatting up my Pinterest boards related to it and also making and adding to some playlists so I thought I’d self plug here, the playlists aren’t anything special but they’re fun and I am genuinely proud of my (somewhat pathological in set up) pinterest although not all my tsc boards are as detailed as I want them to be. But here they are!:

Tessa pinterest board w Wessa + Jessa + Herongraystairs sections: https://pin.it/75FjUJ3

Tessa playlist: https://spotify.link/fTZ01JDbQDb

Herongraystairs playlist: https://spotify.link/iDcBbeGbQDb

Jem pinterest board w heronstairs section: https://pin.it/5kGH7fa

Julian pinterest board w blackstairs section: https://pin.it/2M7mVRn

Julian playlist: https://spotify.link/txvgM6TbQDb

Emma pinterest board w emtina/rosastairs section: https://pin.it/1o3qzgw

Emma playlist: https://spotify.link/gujbLLWbQDb

Blackstairs playlist: https://spotify.link/Mpby6hYbQDb

Cristina pinterest board w kierarktina section: https://pin.it/7IjiUWg

Magnus pinterest board (this one is really not as detailed as I want it to be/I’ll be doing more work in the future lol): https://pin.it/5LsJp8F

Cordelia playlist: https://spotify.link/ngM3s1WeQDb

TSC pinterest board with sections for different characters dynams aesthetics etc. I might give certain characters like Isabelle Cordelia Grace or Will their own boards later on also I do plan to add and edit more sections all my Pinterest boards are constantly under construction lol: https://pin.it/6GdB0kt characters who currently have sections here are Clary Isabelle Maia Lily Will Charlotte Sophie Cecily Mark Ty Livvy Dru Annabel Kit Diana Helen Aline Cordelia Grace Alastair Lucie Anna and like I said more tba

in case the links don’t work or something I’m ourladyofthetrees on pinterest and blackiris on spotify

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paraheronstairs · 10 months

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i finished city of lost souls yesterday and when i tell you i FELT my soul get crushed into a million pieces

#the shadowhuter chronicles #shadowhunters #tmi #the infernal devices #the mortal instruments #clary fairchild #jace herondale #will herondale #tessa gray #clockwork princess #clace #city of lost souls #i cried so bad your honor #my poor baby jace #he s been through so much i cannot

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queer-book-character-tournament · 1 year

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Book names + authors under the cut

Cristina Mendoza Rosales/Mark Blackthorn/Kieran Kingson- The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare

Ancel/Berenger- Pet by C. S. Pacat

Teodora di Sangro/Cielo- The Brilliant Death/The Storm of Life by A. R. Capetta

Nina Zenik/Hanne Brum- King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo

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louisapennyfeather2021 · 2 years

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"Sam, why did you decide to learn to shoot a bow?"

I had my reasons...

#katniss everdeen #alec lightwood #susan pevensie #kate bishop #the hunger games #susan collins #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #the chronicles of narnia #c s lewis #hawkeye #marvel #marvel cinimatic universe #mcu #not my gifs #why do they all look exactly the same💀#i think i have a type #also #I've been shooting a bow since i was in middle school and I'm a sophomore in college so don't come at me over this

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infernal-crows · 1 year

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Finished Chain of Thorns. My thoughts on the book are brewing, but this isn't about that, because I have a fucking question.

Pretty big spoilers

So, because the old Belial is dead, the young'uns have lost their powers--I can only assume because any trace of his existence in the world was taken along with him when he was poofed. So...why hasn't Tessa lost her magic? James and Lucie both lost their extraordinary abilities outside of the usual "Herondales can see ghosts" shenanigans; why isn't Tessa now just the child of a fledgling Shadowhunter? Heck, even just losing her shapeshifting rather than her magic as a whole (a distinction I only make because I recall pretty vividly Magnus citing her magic to be a colour similar to her eyes, long after the TID and TLH eras). Do the children of demons have a connection to magic that the grandchildren don't? Is there something about Tessa specifically that keeps her unaffected by Belial Sr.'s death? WHAT IS THE LOGIC HERE.

#the last hours #the shadowhunter chronicles #tlh #tsc #s is wrapped in chains of thorns

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aroace-cat-lady · 2 years

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Why is she winking. Help. Please someone tell me why tf this woman is winking

#cassie is gonna end me #i know im overreacting but dude #come on is c a s s i e #cassandra clare #the shadowhuter chronicles #shadowhunter chronicles #cassieclare #cassandraclare #shadowhunters #cazadores de sombras #cassie clare #kit herondale #christopher herondale

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delicatebluebirdruins · 1 year

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living with these shadows. seperating what I've done. And chasing the illusions of who I once was. Too much time, too many places. Different lives and different faces" "Someday I'll begin to live my life. I pray I'm okay for now. At least I'm breathing, I'm trying

someday by godsmack

#mia winters #resident evil #song lyrics #and kinda #chris redfield #leon s kennedy #... basically every resi character in existence to be honest #and other characters from different things #grace blackthorn #the last hours #shadowhunter chronicles

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fandom · 5 months

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Huge congrats to The Iliad. It's only taken 3,000 years. This list is brought to you by Tor Publishing Group, which you're probably familiar with, given what tops the list this year.

The Locked Tomb series +3 by Tamsyn Muir

The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series -1 by Rick Riordan

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Six of Crows duology +3 by Leigh Bardugo

Dracula -3 by Bram Stoker

The Warrior Cats series -1 by Erin Hunter

A Song of Ice and Fire -1 by George R. R. Martin

The All for the Game series by Nora Sakavic

The Discworld series +7 by Terry Pratchett

A Court of Thorns and Roses series +3 by Sarah J. Maas

The Silmarillion -1 by J. R. R. Tolkien

Pride And Prejudice -3 by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Raven Cycle series +3 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Sun and the Star by Rick Riordan & Mark Oshiro

The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice

Wings Of Fire +9 by Tui T. Sutherland

The Secret History -7 by Donna Tartt

The Trials of Apollo series -4 by Rick Riordan

The Iliad +10 by Homer

The Odyssey +24 by Homer

The Folk in the Air series -8 by Holly Black

The Animorphs series +5 by K. A. Applegate

The Stormlight Archive +8 by Brandon Sanderson

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Moby Dick +24 by Herman Melville

1984 +6 by George Orwell

Fables by Bill Willingham

The Diaries of Franz Kafka by Franz Kafka

The Song of Achilles -10 by Madeline Miller

The Last Hours series by Cassandra Clare

The Simon Snow series -10 by Rainbow Rowell

The Throne of Glass series +13 by Sarah J. Maas

Nimona by ND Stevenson

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard +6 by Rick Riordan

The Bell Jar -15 by Sylvia Plath

The Dreamer trilogy +6 by Maggie Stiefvater

The Shadowhunter Chronicles -15 by Cassandra Clare

The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson

This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

Captive Prince -1 by C. S. Pacat

The Twilight Saga -7 by Stephanie Meyer

The Sandman by Neil Gaiman

The Deltora Quest series by Jennifer Rowe

Romeo and Juliet -8 by William Shakespeare

The Far Side by Gary Larson

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde +2 by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

The Picture of Dorian Gray -31 by Oscar Wilde

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman

The number in italics indicates how many spots a title moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded titles weren’t on the list last year.

#year in review #books #tumblr2023

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bookishjules · 19 days

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Some kinda crazy publishing news for Cassie Clare fans??

"Melanie Nolan at Knopf has acquired Cassandra Clare's The Wicked Powers trilogy, the final installment of Clare's 23-book YA fantasy series, The Shadowhunter Chronicle[s], which follows Kit Herondale, Ty Blackthorn, and Drusilla Blackthorn from The Dark Artifices series as they are drawn into the final conflict between the demons;"

[source: Publisher's Weekly Children's Bookshelf]

Did you catch the crazy part? For the past seventeen (17) years, TSC has been published under McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. And now, the final trilogy, which, as you may remember, we have been waiting years for it to be picked up, is going to be published by Knopf, an imprint of Random House (the same house that published Sword Catcher btw).

What does this mean? A different editorial team. A different marketing team. A different design team. Etc. etc. etc. Its honestly the last of these that scares me the most, but I feel like with such an established series as TSC, they would be dumb not to finish it out with the same font and cover styles etc. that have been characteristic of it for years.

What caused the switch? Great question. We can speculate all we want, but all I know is it just makes me that much more intrigued to find out what The Wicked Powers has in store.

#you may have noticed i blacked out half the paragraph... that's bc i think it might be what she's announcing tomorrow #and i don't want to spoil anything for her <3 #even if it is now public information ig lol #cassandra clare #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #twp #the wicked powers

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meraki-yao · 2 months

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I was watching an interview from a Chinese rom-com in 2020 and one of the questions was "What do you think is the sweetest romantic declaration?"

And then I started thinking about what are the most romantic lines of my top ships: Malec (Shadowhunters, both show and book), Wenzhou (Word of Honour), and Firstprince (RWRB both movie and book)

Honestly, if I had to pick one out of all of the lines of all ships, I'd say it's "Alec Lightwood loved one man so much he changed the world for him." from The Queen of Air and Darkness, the Shadowhunter Chronicles for Malec. Like, turning eros (romantic, passionate love) into fuel for agape (sacrificial love) and actually making the world a better place for his love? I can't imagine anything greater than that.

For Shadowhunters show, it's Malec's entire wedding vow, I think it summarises what a healthy loving relationship is perfectly. Especially "I will catch you when you fall, and when you soar, I will help you reach your greatest heights"

For Wenzhou from Word of Honour, it's the sunbathing scene from episode 12, just calling each other's name thrice. There's something beautifully simple about that.

And for Firstprince, for the movie, it's "I'll break the sound barrier for you." I don't really know how to explain this one, it 's just the one that touched me the most. Especially after Henry's pled after a week of isolation and agony, the way Alex sounds so sure about it even though truthfully they're both lost and scared as fuck, the way it's a callback to the moment Alex realized he was in love with Henry... it's just fucking beautiful.

For the book, it used to be An Incomplete List of Reasons why I love HRH Prince Henry of Wales, but there was one night in late September where long story short someone said I was selfish for being an emotionally sensitive person which really hurt, so I tried calming myself down by reading RWRB. Then I read bad metaphors about maps out loud and sobbed even harder.

I don't fucking know? there's just something so beautiful about the way Alex writes, which is ironic when earlier he said to Henry "I can't match you in prose" because what the fuck, all of the emails are beautiful but to me turns out bad metaphors is a whole other level. Henry is a writer, he's good with words, those are his dearest tools, but in front of this email, Henry is literally speechless. What the fuck, Alex. What the fuck.

i need to hear TZP read bad metaphors, but I also think that will end me.

Yeah. My favourite romantic declarations from my three favourite ships.

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