#the draft chronicles

[vriskabot]

really really really wishing tumblr had an intuitive way to search tags like on fuckin ao3 like. i dont want to have to tag for every contingency but the burning NEED ;_;

#original post #the draft chronicles #like the issue im running into right now is like #i have ''hs kid'' for one kid in a pic. ''hs kids'' if theres more than one #how do i make it so that solo pics and group shots are their own tag while also allowing to search the kids in general #this shit kinda infuriating <3

[spacehero-23]

my biggest issue with chain of thorns is that we're told about some big/emotional events but we don't get to see them...

oh! will and tessa cried when they found out their kids were trapped in london! right after finding out their nephew died. but you won't get to read this scene

gabriel and cecily's son died! and they found out when his body was brought to them! but you won't get to read that scene!

will and tessa found out about the gracelet and were upset. but you won't get to read that.

charles confronted bridgestock and came out to the entire enclave in a very brave and dramatic way! but you won't get to read that!

like??? we had to suffer through 300 pages of a bullshit love triangle (i refuse to believe people honestly thought herondaisy won't be canon) but we couldn't get some genuinely important moments???

#idk #i love this book for the relationships #but it feels unfinished #like a draft that needs to be polished #chain of thorns spoilers #chot spoilers #tlh spoilers #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #the last hours #tsc #chain of thorns #tlh #the shadowhunter chronicles #james herondale #christopher lightwood #cecily lightwood #gabriel lightwood #will herondale #tessa gray #charles fairchild

[impossiblesuitcase]

Cinder is jealous. She's jealous of her step-sisters. They have pretty clothes and soft hands and a doting mother. She has none of which. Her sister Peony is her only human friend and even seeing her in a ballgown sparks "envy" in Cinder, because Peony gets a dress and can go to the ball. Cinder can't.

She doesn't believe she could be pretty. She's too clunky, she's not curvy. She pins it down to being cyborg or just naturally inadequate. Cinder doesn't have nice clothes or fancy things. Kai gives her gloves and they are "the most beautiful thing she had ever owned." And then they are ruined, like all the pretty things in her life. She has to survive, endure, and with that she doesn't have time for prettiness.

But Kai's first impression of her is that she's "cute" and "pretty." He calls her pretty in public, and he calls her pretty in his private thoughts. "Your pretty new mechanic in the lobby", "the pretty young mechanic at the market." He finds her gorgeous with her glamour, and his "knees threatened to buckle" in her beauty. Everyone else thought she was gorgeous, but no one was swooning the way he was. The glamour had amplified the attraction he'd already had towards her.

Thorne, upon seeing a cyborg stumble into his jail cell, has the first instinct to flirt with her. Not recoil, because of her metal and skin, but flirt because she's a girl and that's his favourite pastime. And what distinguished her from the many other pretty girls he normally flirted with? To him, "her irritation made her prettier". Her disgruntled personality, who she is, is her prettiness.

Adri tells Cinder that if she can't cry, she can't feel love. She does love, she loves so much, but she doesn't have time to grieve her sister or her anonymity or her freedom when she has a revolution to start. She has to tough it out.

When she's bound up in Kai's arms she feels safe, delicate, "almost like a princess."

Cinder pretends she doesn't have a crush on Kai because having a crush on a celebrity is "preadolescent," the trademark of immature, lovesick teenage girls. How can she be girly when she's a grimy mechanic? She "doesn't know the first thing about makeup", because do you think Adri would have ever let her buy some to try? Would Cinder have even bothered, believing nothing could improve a cyborg?

She dreams of "going to the ball and dancing with the prince." And when Iko teases her, Cinder says, "we all have our weaknesses". It is a weakness to be in love, because someone like Kai couldn't love her. She imagines being at the ball, "jealous of the girls who swooned to catch Prince Kai's attention." Jealous that they can be open with their attraction, jealous that he would pick them over her.

But he loves her. And when he does, she can't process the feeling "of being desired". She wants to carve 'C + K' into a wall, then berates herself for such "whimsy." Because deep down, she's always wanted to be wanted, and that truth is her weakness. But war doesn't last forever, and soon, she has no reason to hide that. There's no reason it would be a weakness.

Cinder is comfortable in baggy cargo pants and messy hair but she also dreams of wearing a beautiful ballgown. She loves her coronation dress. She calls the empress crown 'stunning.'

She never becomes obsessed with frills or glitter, but she slowly leans into soft, pretty things. She has a necklace from Kai and her engagement ring. It's sparkly and yet, Cinder, the so-called 'tough, aloof tomboy' thinks it makes her metal hand look "elegant". Maybe she starts wearing bracelets and earrings because they don't bother her when she isn't working on something mechanical. She doesn't even notice until Thorne jokes that she wears more metal in jewellery than the whole metal of her hand.

Maybe she buys herself a new set of tools with pink and blue iridescent handles simply because finds them pretty. Maybe when her friends tease her about how in love she is, she starts to acknowledge it.

Cinder is not some stereotype of a leading female character who is strong and as such cannot be feminine or soft or emotional. Was she given the chance to be?

Let her be soft. Let her be delicate. Let her pretty.

#tlc #the lunar chronicles #lunar chronicles #linh cinder #selene blackburn #emperor kai #kaider #carswell thorne #ive had this sitting in my drafts for years #dont know why i never finished #i clearly had too much to say

[parcai]

angel's mark, character by @cassandraclare

#kit art #artists on tumblr #jace herondale #jace wayland #jace lightwood #jace morgenstern #tsc #tmi #shadowhunters #the mortal instruments #the shadowhunter chronicles #twp #tda #the dark artifices #the wicked powers #fanart #k #q #draft dump #art #herondales #sobh #secrets of blackthorn hall

[mistymonster]

miss melly!

#melia antiqua #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade 1 #xenoblade #finally been posting some stuff from my drafts

[darcyolsson]

i forgot i had these in my drafts from when i did my tmi reread. enjoy a dumb part 2 to this

#i wanted to make 10 but i couldnt come up with 10 good ones so this just sort of sat in my drafts lmfao #once again these mostly line up with the book timeline #the exact dates are guesswork but the early/late in certain months should check out #tmi #tsc #smau #fake tweets #op #the mortal instruments #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc twitter

[tys-kitty]

The only advantage about having to wait till late 2025 or early 2026 for the TWP release is that I get to create even more angsty KitTy head canons

#muhahaha #i still have a 100 drafts of angsty KitTy theories #prepare yourselves #cassandra clare #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #kit x ty #twp #the wicked powers #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles

[theatrevampire]

sorry armand is literally so funny

#armand #the vampire armand #interview with the vampire #the vampire chronicles #iwtv #text post #tp #he is so me #clearing out drafts

[valenfield-inspo]

Making it through another week like:

#resident evil #resident evil: the umbrella chronicles #umbrella chronicles #chris redfield #jill valentine #valenfield #chris x jill #jill x chris #had this sitting in my drafts #felt like posting it today #happy friday #TGIF

[melongraph56]

day nine - rivalry, archived concepts

for a bunch of mushrooms the rivalry sketch goes hard. also enjoy the blocky men, can't compete with cheery's version it's too goated. very big 2012 vibes!!! sadly had zero spoons to do a lever game one :(

#yogscast #minecraft #blackrock #blackrock chronicles #king barry #rebel leader jeff #gilbert the snowman #teep #rythian #lalna #lividcoffee #blackrockjwd #fanart #my art #melonm draft

[vriskabot]

18,574. this is how many mental illnessis i hav e

#original post #text #the draft chronicles #i should start posting again soon <2

[riordanverse-madness]

Sadie: I desire moisture.

Carter: Please just say "I want water" like a normal person.

#a very rare TKC post #this was in my drafts for so long it's crazy #sadie kane #carter kane #kane siblings #the kane chronicles #tkc #pjo fandom #percy jackson books #pjo #percy jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #rick riordan #heroes of olympus #pjo tv #pjo hoo toa

[parcai]

gideon lightwood be like i know a spot then shows you the scones under his bed

characters by @cassandraclare

#artists on tumblr #kit art #tsc #tid #sophie collins #gideon lightwood #gideon x sophie #sophiedeon #the shadowhunter chronicles #the infernal devices #tlh #the last hours #fanart #shadowhunters #k #q #draft dump

[agentark]

The Detective: do you ever wanna talk about what Unit Alpha said?

A: No.

N: I do-

The Detective: I know, N.

N: I love museums :(

The Detective: I know, N.

#twc #n sewell #a du mortain #the wayhaven chronicles #actually wayhaven book 4 is just going to museums with Nate #i just found this in my drafts and I stand by it

[theyre-doing-the-books]

Cut content: Lestat throwing Louis, forcibly feeding from Louis, slapping him, and forcing Louis to feed from him

Then I took hold of him as if I was going to kill him. I threw him up against the wall and bit into his neck

He was being held there by me, his head bowed. I slapped him hard and when he opened his eyes, I pushed his open mouth against my neck. I forced his fangs into me.

~ Lestat and Louis Quarrel. Draft. From the Tulane University special collections and published on Ao3 by UnwillingDevil.

#Interview with the Vampire #The Vampire Chronicles #Drafts and Misc

[kaitcreates]

Average game night at the London Institute.

#this has been sitting in my drafts for so long #shadowhunters #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc #tid #the infernal devices #shadowhunter fanart #the infernal devices fanart #tsc fanart #tessa gray #will herondale #jem carstairs #cecily herondale #gideon lightwood #gabriel lightwood #sophie collins