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I was wondering : what would have happen if Jasper didn’t kill himself in season 4? Would he be part of spacekru or would he have stayed with wonkru ? Would Monty and Harper have stayed awake if Jasper was with them ? Would Jasper have stayed awake to spend some quiet time with his best friend ? The only thing I’m sure of is that Monty still would have called his son Jordan.

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sending “I hope you get that job” vibes to the people out here tryna get jobs

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i’ve never really seen you care about something.

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Friendship goals.

Chevlotte, Season 3.

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“There wasn’t a blood test to tell me to be High Queen. I chose it. And I have had to fight for every shred of authority. And no offense, but you can’t understand, because it was handed to you.”

— High Queen Margo, the Destroyer (via ohnotoomanyfandoms)

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chris calling piper and leo “mum and dad” (requested by klutzygirl)

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How you live your life is your business. Just remember, our hearts and our bodies are given to us only once. And before you know it, your heart’s worn out. And as for your body, there comes a point when no one looks at it, much less wants to come near it. Right now there’s sorrow, pain. Don’t kill it, and with it the joy you felt.

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Girls who don’t lift up other girls confuse the fuck outta me

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Why you shouldn’t compare Book and Show Malec

Many people love to compare them, but really it’s apples and oranges these days and here is why.

Different Platforms:  You cannot compare Books to Show for the simpliest reason. A show has far more time to dive into side character, explore small mentions in the books etc.  TMI is written as Clary’s story and the real main characters are Clary, Simon and Jace. If the show focused on just them as main, it would be far too limited. No fantasy show has three mains, it’s usually atleast four and upwards with plenty of regulars and recurring characters to fill up the time and plot. TVD’s real mains might be Elena, Stefan and Damon but Caroline, Jeremy, Alaric Bonny, Matt, Tyler are also mains and have their own storylines that are well developed and thought out. In a book this would created 1000+ pages to do for all of them. Every episode needs to have a high and low and some development. This is different in books. You can easily spend two chapters in the same setting, building up world and character knowlegde. The pacing is different and as such it asks different things of its characters and a show is therefore much quicker in need of more mains or regulars than a book series. 

From Side to Mains:  Alec and Magnus in TMI are not main characters, no matter how much people claim they are, as someone currently written a book myself, I have characters like them in my own bookseries, but I would never call them mains more well-rounded characters that are just present for 60% of the time. Magnus and Alec’s pagetime increases per book and maybe by the time we reach City of Heavenily Fire one can consider them mains, but during the first 4 books this was definitely not the case. Therefore the show automatically has more Malec, cause Alec and Magnus have a different role, which is also due to the Platform that provides this opportunity for these characters along with Izzy and Luke. 

Different times: City of Bones was written over 10 years ago, maybe I’m so old I remember what the world was like 10 years ago, but it was very different. Marriage equality was something only very few countries had and the amount of lgbtq on the television wasn’t nearly as much as it is now. I mean, remember Glee even had to announce beforehand that Kurt and Blaine would have sex this episode, when all we got to see was too men in their shirts and underwear with a condom on the floor. GROUNDBREAKING.  Things were simply not the same. Sure you had lgbtq characters in literature but they came in lgbtq book series, like The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Fleweling or Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters. In YA literature you had no lgbtq characters unless the book was meant for that target group (Annie on my mind for example) Cassandra Clare was one of the first if not the first to add lgbtq characters and a couple to her bookseries that was aimed at a heterosexual targetgroup of 12+ girls. And she had to walk a very fine line to get it published and to make sure afterwards that her books wouldn’t end up being banned from school libraries or only for sale at very limited amount and small stores. America wasn’t that keen on exposing youth to lgbtq material. There was even talk about getting these kinds of books a specific label, so that the reader was warned beforehand the book would be gay. Malec had to be a side couple, they couldn’t be as present as Clace. It would have seen these books in the gutter at the times.  The show was created in a time where marriage equality exists, where officially more people in western civilization approve of lgbtqs than are against it. Where Tvshows are more diverse. It had preccessors with great success, like How To Get Away With Murder, Empire, Modern family. All these massively popular shows weren’t harmed by being diverse.  The show was blessed by being bought by a network that strives for equality and frequently works with organisations to address real life problems. Freeform has had a lot of success in the lgbtq department, especially with the family friendly The Fosters and the YA global success Pretty Little Liars.  Shadowhunters has no reason to treat Alec, Magnus or Malec as anything other than equals or main characters. It won’t harm the show. Book fans already know them, since CC laid down the groundwork there and freeform fans know the network well enough to expect every show to have a lgbtq couple at some point.  Time makes all the difference: people change, countries changes, laws change. 

Different people: Last but not least, Magnus and Alec in the show are not the same as Magnus and Alec in the books. Their personalities are different.  For starters Alec is a 23 year old man instead of a 17 yeard old boy. He run the institute when his parents are away, instead of Hodge. Because he is older he is more mature.  Magnus in the books doesn’t give a flying fuck about shadowhunters, he only helps them because of Alec, he makes it known time and time again, he’d not do it otherwise or they would have to pay him. In the show Magnus is more invested, more invested in Clary, he cares more about the rest of them. This is mostly due to Magnus being a main and if his only tie was Alec that would be a rather limited role.  Magnus is not protecting other warlocks, only himself and Alec. And if he really has to, the people Alec cares about in the books, in the show he is responsible for the rest of them.  This list is a very long one if I have to dissect every aspect of both of them, but in the end they are simply different persons with the same name in a similar setting. And therefore their relationship is very different too.   If you consider all of the things above, you simply cannot compare them anymore and neither should you really, considering the differences are too big.  You can only prefer one version over the other and understand why that is.  But there is no reason to shit on either version, they were written for different platforms, in different time, which lead to a difference in role for the characters and thus created different characters and a whole different story. You can love them both, you love one of them, it doesn’t matter. The important thing is that you respect both of them and the circumstance in which they were created. 

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I didn’t do the gif and I’ve been trying to track down the author, but someone colored and slow down the kiss so yeaaaaaah 

(ps. if you know the artist tell me)

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I’m not mad. Just disappointed.

Me at the shadowhunters writers for giving me not even 30 seconds of malec at the end of the episode (via shippingismythang)

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Kudos to the writers who managed to fuck up every single ship!

Lucelyn => Joce is dead

Clace => Clary doesn’t seem to mind that they are not siblings because she is so utterly happy with Simon (barf). Sorry but all Jace longing scenes are just perfect and believable and then there is Clary who even asks him why there should be a problem with them not being brother and sister?! Hello?!!?! 

Sizzy => Izzys venom addiction makes it impossible for Simon to every bite her and even being with him could be tempting

Climon => The bed scene kind of implicated that they had sex and that would completely wreck their friendship. In the books they were together but Clary always hesitated to make that big move because she secretly had feelings for Jace. Sure you could argue that they did not do the deed but c’mon sleeping naked in bed with each other is already weird enough for their friendship. 

Malec => We at least got rid of the unnecessary bi-phobia arc but they never get more than 1 episode to be truly happy (and don’t get me started that certain scenes aren’t even shown or just cut!). Now the body swap and the resulting uprising of downworlders is only forced to create drama in their relationship. And we already have enough angst with the immortality issue. 

Say what you want about the books but the writers are not doing better! 

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sending “I hope you get that job” vibes to the people out here tryna get jobs

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Ok so I really need to make this post because I feel like this should be said. I’m really sick of people comparing book malec and show malec. @allthethings-iadore made a post about this that inspired me to make this, and a lot of the things I am going to say came from their post about comparing book malec and show malec.

People often argue that in the books, malec was sidelined. In the show, there is a lot more malec. However, in the show, Magnus and Alec are main characters while in the book they are not. The show has a lot more time to have more main characters. If the books made Magnus and Alec main characters as well, they would be much, much longer. Also, Cassandra Clare wanted to put more malec in the books, but was unable to because when they were still being written, people were way less accepting of LGBT people. If Cassie had written more malec, her books wouldn’t have been very successful and would possibly have not been published. People argue against this saying that there were several LGBT books published during this time, but those books were targeted at an LGBT audience. The Mortal Instruments is in the YA genre. At the time, YA was targeted at (mostly) straight teenage girls. People also say Alec was biphobic. I do see where they are coming from, but when Alec acted this way, he was very insecure about himself and his sexuality. He grows and matures throughout the books and learns from his mistakes. Also, people say it was bad that Alec tried to make Magnus mortal. Once again, Alec was immature and insecure. He had the immature fear that Magnus would forget Alec when he died. He grows and matures and you see in Lord of Shadows, he is no longer afraid of this and is very confident in his relationship with Magnus. I’m not justifying Alec’s actions; I am explaining why he did what he did. So what I’m trying to say is that book and show malec shouldn’t be compared; people always look at the negative parts of malec in the books without really understanding why things are they way that they are. The book and show are very different and the show interprets malec in a very different way.

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#standwithsense8

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Any 6x08 reaction fics that take place before the wedding, when the boys first got back together? (Totally fine if the wedding is included as well).

Here are all of the 6X08 reaction fics we have:

Crazy by @a-simple-rainbow

What Klaine’s part of “A Wedding” would’ve been like if I could have written the episode.

A Wedding reaction fic by @mrscriss2012​

Between The Lines by @itallstartedwithharry

Morning After by @alianne

The Honeymoon is Over by @garglerspy

Family by @alianne

6X08 reaction fic by @beatlebun

Let’s Go Crazy by @flowerfan2

A Wedding: production draft by @redheadgleek