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sujaya saying zoya’s playlist would have classical music, lana del ray, evanescence, and rihanna was everything i needed to hear and more

and then paddy saying that nikolai would steal her playlist i am-

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TY TO JULIAN AND EMMA

Hi Julian and Emma,

There are lots of things in this letter, so I have made them into an ordered list.

Don’t worry. The device I’ve included is not dangerous and is in no danger of exploding. (Obviously.) (When Professor Hardcastle saw me packing it up, she suggested I tell you up front it is not a bomb. I told her that you know I would never send you anything dangerous without taking all appropriate precautions. She said yes, but it looks like a bomb.)

I started looking through the records. Nothing so far about Blackthorn Hall being haunted. Plenty of weird stuff happened there in the past, so it’s definitely possible there are ghosts that haven’t been reported. But I’ll bet plenty of weird stuff has happened at every big old Shadowhunter manor. Are all of them haunted? Now that I think about: it’s possible.

I’m not done with the records yet, just letting you know what I’ve found so far. I’m still looking. The library is huge, and the Cohort left it very disorganized. So finding particular documents can be a challenge. Genealogies aren’t hard to come by, but given all the intermarrying among Shadowhunter families there’s a lot of tracing up and down ancestors and cross-referencing, and yes, I know what you’re going to say, and I do like cross-referencing. But the volume is still very high. Also, Professor Loss warned me that a lot of the Shadowhunter family trees are inaccurate, and there was a period where Shadowhunter families would create fanciful family trees, like a… marriage wish list. But there’s some accurate truth beneath all this mess and I am resolved to find it.

The only thing I’ve learned that might be helpful so far is that before the place was Blackthorn Hall, it was Lightwood House, and occupied in the mid-19th century by a Benedict Lightwood who got into some kind of legal trouble. I’m not sure what kind. His death is recorded as by “misadventure,” but that could mean anything. Oh, and there are records of demons being found on the grounds at various points but that doesn’t mean anything, sometimes demons wander onto grounds.

You probably find this lack of information frustrating. I find it frustrating. I will be devoting myself to uncovering the history of this house in the fashion of Sherlock Holmes, although I do not have the hat with me.

On the topic of the Scholomance, and how I am doing here. I have been putting together a curriculum, with the help of Prof. Loss, aimed in the direction of investigation and detection. So far it includes: Signs & Sigils, Alchemy (closest I will get here to forensics), Tracking, Law, and Downworld Relations (apparently this one used to be a real doozy back in the pre-Accords days, when it was called “Interrogation.” The older profs still call it that sometimes). You will see the glaring omission here. I need a course on criminology, but the term only dates to the late 1800s and that is not nearly enough time for the Scholomance to have put together a class by now. They move very slowly.

This is maybe more like 6A. A friend suggested that I put together my own syllabus for a course on the history of non-mundane crime. That sounded good to me, so I’ve been doing that on top of my own academic work.

The device. Since the situation sounds urgent and I don’t have much yet, Anush and I rushed to put this together for you. It’s a modified Sensor—instead of picking up demonic energies, it’s sensitive to spectral energies. At least, it’s supposed to be. The design is theoretically very sound, but I admit this is the first prototype. Normally I would want to go through a couple of revisions before I shared it with anyone, but I trust you. So I hope it works and will help you to feel better about the house. I would appreciate it if you tell me anything about it that doesn’t work, or that works differently than you expect, or functionality you’d like it to have, so we can put those changes into the next version. This is Anush and my first real invention, and it’s more like a hack for an existing tool. Anyway, the more feedback you can provide, the better.

Will you send me a fire-message next time you’re going into London? I’d like you to pick up a couple things for me. I should have expected this, but it’s really hard to do any shopping in the Carpathian mountains.

Love,

Ty

PS. If you do find a ghost, treat it kindly. I don’t think all ghosts mind being ghosts, as long as people are nice to them.

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Morning Doodle: "...you could have pretty much any girl you want.” “A Shu princess? A Kerch banker’s daughter?” “Or a Ravkan heiress or a Grisha like Zoya.” “Zoya? I make it a policy never to seduce anyone prettier than I am.” Leigh Bardugo's Ruin and Rising Ch 10

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there is nothing that unites me with someone more than the darkling slander

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 if none stand equal in this dark world was a tv show

for the grishaverse big bang 2021  @grishaversebigbang

thank you etherealki @sitaarein [x] for creating this fic and au i am a little obsessed also thank you to @homicide-depot for betaing !!!

go find the other works by my gang!

@kolarpem [x], @aivicart [x], @maximumbluebirdpatrol, @niadrawingg [x]

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None Stand Equal In This Dark World

A/N: Officially my largest ever fic so please. Just read it and be nice sob because I’m kinda proud of some of it

Written for @grishaversebigbang 2021!!!

Corporalki: @homicide-depot​

Materialki: @generalnabri , @kolarpem​ (x), @aivicart (x), @maximumbluebirdpatrol , @niadrawing

Summary: A murder mystery AU featuring Zoyalai, twists and turns, moral dilemma, and then some more

Read on AO3

Chapter One

Keep reading

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“True enough, I suppose,” Nikolai muses, taking an extremely dangerous right turn. The car wheezes, and Zoya grabs onto the sides of her seat. When this… green monstrosity of a car eventually dies, she refuses to go with it.

Grishaverse Big Bang 2021 gooooo!!!  @grishaversebigbang

Thankyou to our wonderful Etherealki: @sitaarein​ [x] for slaving away at the fic for us!

Corporalki: @homicide-depot

Materialki: @generalnabri , @kolarpem , @aivicart [x], @maximumbluebirdpatrol , @niadrawingg 

***(everybody is on a WILDLY different time zone so I will link the rest when they are up later lol)***

Summary: A murder mystery AU featuring Zoyalai, twists and turns, moral dilemma, and then some more

Thanks for all the entertainment and the terrible grishaverse themed pick-up line brainstorm, my lovely GVBB group. And to everyone else, enjoy my love of Nikolai’s dumb magnificent flamboyant car!

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For scheduling reasons my gang for the @grishaversebigbang 2021 is posting early woooo!! This is my piece for the fic None Stand Equal In This Dark World by our very talented writer @sitaarein with the help of our awesome beta @homicide-depot !!

Please also check out the gorgeous pieces created by all the other materialki in our gang!!

@kolarpem 🎨, @generalnabri 🎨, @niadrawing 🎨, @maximumbluebirdpatrol 🎨, @twilightdepthsofflame 🎨

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none stand equal in this dark world

grishaverse big bang 2021 <333  @grishaversebigbang

thank you so so much to our etherealki @sitaarein [x] for writing this absolute banger of a fic i am in love :)) also thank you to our corporalki and beta @homicide-depot !!!

and go check out the other works by our gang!! for time zone related reasons not all the works are out yet but go look at the ones out so far by the materialki!

@kolarpem [x], @aivicart [x], @maximumbluebirdpatrol, @niadrawingg [x]

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 “Did the Darkling love my aunt who died beside countless innocent civilians in Novokribirsk so that he could show the world his might?” “Did he love the girl he forced to commit those murders? What about the girl he tossed into the old king’s bed for his own purposes, then mutilated when she dared challenge him? Or the woman he blinded for failing to offer him unswerving devotion?” 

- Zoya, Rule of Wolves

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Morning Doodle: "I promise to put your teeth back whiter than they were before. I may even fix those weird incisors of yours.”

“There is nothing wrong with my teeth.”

“Not at all,” said Genya soothingly. “You’re the prettiest walrus I know."

Leigh Bardugo's Ruin and Rising Ch 12

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Jesper is a finger-gun bisexual except with real guns.

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1st november 2022 for cot???? ouch

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I'm gonna leave these pics here after the 6th Episode 💔

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Morning Doodle: "He’d come to recognize the bizarre phenomenon of Zoya’s beauty, the way men loved to create stories around it. They said she was cruel because she’d been harmed in the past. They claimed she was cold because she just hadn’t met the right fellow to warm her. Anything to soften her edges and sweeten her disposition

—and what was the fun in that?" Leigh Bardugo's King of Scars

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tag yourself as the crows!

i have been working on this for the past few weeks.

jk, it took like 20 minutes.

@ninacarstairss @alice-got-the-blues @arangiajoan

tell me if you want to be added to the list!!

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I know it’s horrible but every time I see a Darkling apology a little voice instinctively goes “Cool motive, still murder”