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Thomas : You know, James, you can't solve all your problems by knocking someone out.

James : People keep saying that, and yet my problems keep going away!

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No because the thought that Jem isn't a silent brother anymore which means he's no longer immortal and that one day he'll just-😭

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AUNTIE JESSAMINE

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Do you realize that we finally got them all? ❄️🍂🌼🌱

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Actual footage of the Merry Thieves trying to find James when he yeets into the shadow realm:

Christopher: good sir! Have u seen this man?

Matthew:

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((I love it when James describes Matthew with music undertones:

“Matthew moved into position to fight him, the staff as light and easily balanced in his hand as if he were a conductor gesturing with his baton. He moved with easy grace, like any Shadowhunter would, but somehow as if he was playing, as if at any moment he might be dancing.”

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“He could hear their voices […] Matthew’s low and musical tones”.

Matthew is graceful, he moves as if he could be dancing, he holds weapons as if they are batons, his voice is musical and pleasant to hear, so much people gather to hear him talk, to hear him tell stories. He loves art so much and despairs he can’t produce any, but doesn’t realise he’s like art himself.))

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Average game night at the London Institute.

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Cordelia Carstairs appreciation post #1

1. In Chain of Gold, after James burned down blackthorn manor and got engaged to Cordelia, with Grace going along with the lie that James and Cordelia spent the night together, Cordelia was worried about Grace, and hoped that Tatiana wasn’t treating her poorly and that Grace was okay.

2. In Chain of Iron, she tells Matthew after she runs away from Curzon Street at the end of the book, that she truly does not hate Grace and that she could not fault Grace for simply loving someone, while she, Cordelia, was at one of the lowest points in her life.

3. In Chain of Thorns, when Grace enters the Institute scared, having just escaped from the Silent City, Grace recoils when looking at James but Cordelia tries to calm Grace and talk to her while placing a firm hand on James’s arm.

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The Shadowhunters Chronicles needs a big character poster just like marvel does with all of their heroes and villains— combining them on one or separate ones. Nevertheless, I need every single protagonist, antagonist, and side characters all together on ONE gigantic poster so I can frame it in my bedroom.

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Lucie acting out a proposal scene that is to happen in her next book. Jesse is used as a prop yet again. Perhaps it is the all the talk of love that gets to his head, or he just really wants to irritate Lucie☺️

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Late night reads by the fire. Someone got sleepy.

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what was i made for? is a certified grace blackthorn song

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I’m really digging James and Esme’s friendship. Yeah we first saw that in Nothing but Shadows and then the next time they talk it’s in Chain of Thorns, and that’s exactly what I’m saying.

Like they haven’t spoken in years and james is an established introvert but the way he says “that family tree isn’t going to come out right if you’re going about it like this, Esme”

I can picture him rubbing his temple with his eyes closed when he’s saying that, and he has this very exasperated-friend vibe and that’s so adorable. He’s been portrayed as a well mannered gentleman since the start of tlh who says what he’s supposed to say to people who’re not his family or friends but he says this to Esme, this girl he hasn’t spoken to in years but he speaks to her freely like he still remembers their friendship, and he just assumes that that bond is still there. It’s so endearing, really.

And I think it speaks to James’s character when he’s not wearing the bracelet anymore.

and if you look at it, it’s like an unexpected sort of bridge between pre-bracelet James and post-bracelet James. I felt like that tiny interaction in Chain of Thorns between James and Esme was a restoration of James back to his Nothing but Shadows self, who he’d have grown up to become without Tatiana meddling. And maybe it would remind James of who he was? NBS James was this sweet, lovely, shy, heart-on-his-sleeve boy with a refreshing outlook on purpose and hope.

And I’d really love to see James and Esme interacting in the future.

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Magnus had always had a wanderer’s heart. Over the centuries, he had adventured in so many different places, always looking for something that would fulfill his restless hunger. He never realized how all the pieces could fall together, how home could be somewhere and someone. He belonged with Alec. His wandering heart could rest.

I love this fanart of Malec and they are my fav ship of all books

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Jem, Matthew and Alec when their Herondale parabatais are about to do something completely reckless and self-destroying again