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“WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING?" There was a sound of shattering glass, and they both sat up to see Alec glaring at them. He had dropped the empty bottle of wine he had been carrying, and there were bits of sparkly glass all over the cave floor. "WHY CAN'T YOU GO SOMEWHERE ELSE TO DO THESE HORRIBLE THINGS? MY EYES.”

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“Straight people," Alec declared. "Why can't they control themselves?”

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Sombody saves Alec Lightwood from straight boys 🤣🙏🏻

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Me every time I see Matthew Daddario as Alec Lightwood:

God I forgot how ✨pretty✨ he is

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I was thinking about the malec proposal when I was in the shower today (as one does). The first proposal, I mean, not the 'alec lightwood loved one man so much' one. As much as I admit that the latter changed lives, it's the first proposal that really did it for me.

What I was, in particular, thinking about is how Magnus, while agreeing to marry Alec (in the future), put down his terms and boundaries very, very clearly.

The amount of self-dignity he has is just...It's something else. I love this bit so much because, as much as he loves Alec, he also loves himself. And I know it wasn't an easy road to get there. He respects himself (and his people) so much that he wouldn't settle for anything less.

It's everything to me. It's certainly one of the bits where I think I fell in love with Magnus the most.

Anyway, I just wanted to share this bit. We focus so much on the fact that they're the first (openly) queer couple in the shadow world, that we also forget that they're also a mixed-race couple in the shadow world (nephilim-downworlder). That power imbalance is not something easy to navigate, just as it is not easy to navigate a mixed-race relationship in our own world.

I love that Magnus acknowledged this. Because it's real. Love, no matter how much, isn't going to erase the fact that he's a downworlder dating a shadowhunter.

I feel like a lot of people focus too much on the 'love' malec have for each other, that they forget these other things.

Because there is no love without dignity.

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Thinking about it, Magnus is the most important guy in TSC like ever

If this man said "no" to Will everyone was fucked for the eternity

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Alec Lightwood's Runetology (8/24)

Alec's clutching Izzy while she's heavily injured.

Runes selection:

Courage in Combat: on his left shoulder

Clarity: on his left arm

Courage in Combat rune is a very typical choice for Alec, Clarity is less so. Maybe he realizes how fragile all of their lives are, faced with his sister's near death?

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Commenting on a fantastic fanfic but being so overwhelmed by its beauty that all you can say is

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Alec: are you crying right now? Magnus: *sobbing* this book is too fucking sad Alec: Alec: it's an interior design magazine Magnus: *still sobbing* yeah, the designs fucking suck

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Mortal Instruments Series - Cassandra Clare, The Eldest Curses Series - Cassandra Clare, The Shadowhunter Chronicles - Cassandra Clare Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Max Lightwood, Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood Additional Tags: Grief/Mourning, Book 3: City of Glass, Missing Scene, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, How Do I Tag Summary:

It’s the night of Max’s funeral, and Alec has to learn to cope with his loss. But with Isabelle shutting herself away and Jace running away in the middle of the night, he has no idea who to turn to.

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Clary couldn’t move. Could barely breathe. She could hear her own heart beating, hear the scrape of her breathing in her dry throat. From the corner of her eye she could see Valentine standing by the edge of the lake, blood streaming from the blade of Maellartach and dripping into the bowl of the Mortal Cup. He was chanting words she didn’t understand. She didn’t care to try to understand. It would all be over soon, and she was almost glad. She wondered if she had enough energy to drag herself over to where Jace lay, if she could lie down beside him and wait for it to be over. She stared at him, lying motionless on the churned, bloody sand.

His eyes were closed, his face still; if it weren’t for the gash across his chest, she could have told herself he was asleep.

But he wasn’t. He was a Shadowhunter; he had died in battle; he deserved the last benediction.

Ave atque vale.

Her lips shaped the words, though they fell from her mouth in silent puffs of air. Halfway through, she stopped, her breath catching.

What should she say? Hail and farewell, Jace Wayland? That name was not truly his. He had never even really been named, she thought with agony, just given the name of a dead child because it had suited Valentine’s purposes at the time. And there was so much power in a name.

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“I thought about having a family, but I guess I always thought... Well, I guess I never expected anything like this to happen before we got married.”

“What?” said Magnus.

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“I want the Law to change. I do not want to get married until we can get married in gold.”

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“Can I tell you something?” Magnus asked. “Nobody ever wanted to marry them before.”

There had been lovers willing to die with him, but nobody had ever been willing to swear to live with him every day for as long as they both had to live.

Nobody until this Shadowhunter.

“I never asked anyone to marry me before,” said Alec. “So that’s a no, then?”

“It’s yes, one day,” Magnus said. “For you, Alec, it’s always yes.”

Nobody had ever wanted Magnus to marry them????????????? 😭😭😭 If I had a man like Magnus Bane or Alexander Gideon Lightwood in my life, I swear on my last breathe I will find them, marry them and love them in every universes.

I haven’t finished my morning coffee but I’m drunk, I’m drunk on their love 😭

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Also Malec friends to lovers core

not enough malec friends to lovers fics if you ask me...

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SHADOWHUNTERS 2.01 "This Guilty Blood"

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My favourite thing about Malec is that everyone (including Alec at first) thinks that Magnus is so in control and unaffected and experienced and he is always in charge and taking care of everything and knows exactly what he is doing at all times, meanwhile Magnus is just like:

Alec: *kisses him*

Magnus: *Forgets how to breath, where he is, which way is up or down, what year is it, what’s his name, somehow they ended up on the floor and he has no idea how*

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Clary: Wow, you’re so tall. What do you see from up there?

Alec: Everyone’s flaws.

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Alec Lightwood somehow manages to perfectly fit the categories of ‘looks like he could kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll’, ‘looks like a cinnamon roll but could actually kill you’, ‘looks like he could kill you and could actually kill you’, and ‘looks like a cinnamon roll and is actually a cinnamon roll’ all at the same time and I think that’s admirable

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Part 4 of rereading Lord of Shadows

Kierark especially Kierark angst just hits different to me. Like what do you mean it feels like Mark is bleeding inside when he thinks about Kieran ??

Later on Kieran tells Mark that he’s his heart (+ in Lady Midnight he says that Mark is all under the sky that he loves). Mark also has his family so Kieran isn’t his entire heart but it still feels like he’s missing a part of himself when they’re apart. They’re so in love that they’re a part of each other