#Alastair Swift

[spacehero-23]

TSC as The Tortured Poets Departament 🪶📜🤍

Ngl, some of them were really hard and some clicked right away. But i’m pretty proud of it. Let me know what you think! 

Fortnite - Matthew Fairchild - I love you, it’s ruining my life

The Tortured Poets Departament - James and Cordelia  

My boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys - Charles and Alastair

Down Bad - Kit and Ty

So Long, London - Robert and Maryse

But Daddy I Love Him - Annabel - "Stay away from her" The saboteurs protested too much

Fresh Out the Slammer - James Herondale - Fresh out the slammer, I know who my first call will be to

Florida!!! - Matthew Fairchild - Love left me like this and I don't want to exist. So take me to Florida

Guilty as Sin? - Julian and Emma - What if he's written "mine" on my upper thigh only in my mind?

Who’s Afraid Of Little Old Me? - Annabel Blackthorn - Then say they didn't do it to hurt me. But what if they did?

I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) - Valentine and Jocelyn

loml - Amatis Greymark 

I Can Do It With A Broken Heart - Izzy Lightwood - The lights refract sequin stars off her silhouette every night" I can show you

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - James Herondale - And I don't even want you back, I just want to know If rusting my sparkling summer was the goal

The Alchemy - Thomas and Alastair - 'Cause the sign on your heart Said it's still reserved for me. Honestly, who are we to fight the alchemy?

Clara Bow - Kit Herondale - “What kind of Herondale will you be? William or Tobias? Stephen or Jace? Beautiful, bitter, or both?”

The burden of being a Herondale. All those names you have to live up to.  Live up to the legend of Jace Herondale, the boy with the angel blood. Live up to James Herondale, the son your mother lost. See all the ways you’re similar, and all the ways you're not. Live up to the expectation of being the Lost Heir and live the burden that comes with that. And remember that one day another Herondale will come and they might feel the same way about you.

This was really fun! And i am planning on making part with The Anthology 🤍

[clockworkbee]

Alastair “i love you, it’s ruining my life,” + “you don’t get to tell me about sad,” and “am i allowed to cry?” Carstairs is the tortured poet, see?

[rhiannons-bird]

My little collection of darling boys keeps growing so I’ve decided to sort them into categories for better overview

Dazzling, charming, usually nice but also can and will kill you especially if you offend his values or his special favourite humans

1. Matthew Fairchild

2. Ramy Mirza

3. Nikolai Lantsov

Seemingly withdrawn & bookish, roiling chaos & murderous energy on the inside, tragic choice in love interest

1. James Farrow

2. James Herondale

3. Robin Swift

4. Bonus, cause I feel like it: Will Graham

Self-loathing, daddy issues, regrets, has an embarrassingly huge crush, I don‘t care if you don‘t like him I‘ll die for him anyways

1. Alastair Carstairs

2. Kieran Kingson

3. Tristan Caine

Little bastard that shouldn‘t be on this list but somehow made it anyways

1. Richard Papen

2. Callum Nova

3. Dorian Gray

Soft baby boy, if you touch him I will personally cut you into a million little pieces slowly over the course of several days

1. Gideon Drake

[llinstarr]

My fav couples as TS albums

Thomas lightwood & Alastair carstairs:

Lover

• I think he knows • paper rings • lover • daylight

•cruel summer • false god • Cornelia street

“I know Heaven is a thing, I go there when you touch me, honey”

“I once believed love would be Burning red But it's golden Like daylight״

[edwinspaynes]

evermore songs as tlh characters/ships

I saw someone do this for Folklore and Evermore's my favourite album, so...

sorry nbnc isn't included i just had no idea what to do with it lol

willow -> thomas @ alastair

Wait for the signal and I'll meet you after dark Show me the places where the others gave you scars Now this is an open-shut case Guess I should've known from the look on your face Every bait and switch was a work of art

champagne problems -> james @ cordelia + matthew

[He'll] patch up your tapestry that I shred And hold your hand while dancing Never leave you standing Crestfallen on the landing With champagne problems

gold rush -> matthew

What must it be like To grow up that beautiful? With your hair falling into place like dominoes My mind turns your life into folklore I can't dare to dream about you anymore At dinner parties Won't call you out on your contrarian shit And the coastal town We never found will never See a love as pure as it

tis the damn season -> anna @ ari

Sleep in half the day just for old times' sake I won't ask you to wait if you don't ask me to stay So I'll go back to L.A. and the so-called friends Who'll write books about me, if I ever make it And wonder about the only soul who can tell which smiles I'm fakin' And the heart I know I'm breakin' is my own

tolerate it -> alastair @ charles

honestly this one is too fitting it was so hard to choose a quote but--

I greet you with a battle hero's welcome I take your indiscretions all in good fun I sit and listen, I polish plates until they gleam and glisten You're so much older and wiser and I...

happiness -> matthew @ cordelia

After giving you the best I had Tell me what to give after that All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness You haven't met the new me yet And I think [he'll] give you that

dorothea -> ari @ anna

It's never too late To come back to my side The stars in your eyes Shined brighter in Tupelo And if you're ever tired of being known For who you know You know, you'll always know me

coney island -> james @ cordelia

Did I close my fist around something delicate? Did I shatter you? And I'm sitting on a bench in Coney Island Wondering, "Where did my baby go?" The fast times, the bright lights, the merry-go Sorry for not making you my centerfold

ivy -> alastair @ thomas while in paris

Oh, goddamn My pain fits in the palm of your freezing hand Taking mine, but it's been promised to another Oh, I can't Stop you putting roots in my dreamland My house of stone, your ivy grows And now I'm covered in you

cowboy like me -> ari @ anna

And the skeletons in both our closets Plotted hard to mess this up And the old men that I've swindled Really did believe I was the one And the ladies lunching have their stories about When you passed through town But that was all before I locked it down

long story short -> matthew

I always felt I must look better in the rear view Missing me At the golden gates they once held the keys to When I dropped my sword I threw it in the bushes and knocked on your door And we live in peace But if someone comes at us This time, I'm ready

marjorie -> grace @ christopher (😭)

I should've asked you questions I should've asked you how to be Asked you to write it down for me Should've kept every grocery store receipt 'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me Watched as you signed your name Marjorie All your closets of backlogged dreams And how you left them all to me

closure -> alastair @ charles after the end of chog

Yes, I got your letter Yes, I'm doing better It cut deep to know ya Right to the bone Yes, I got your letter Yes, I'm doing better I know that it's over I don't need your closure

evermore -> cordelia @ james

And I was catching my breath Floors of a cabin creaking under my step And I couldn't be sure I had a feeling so peculiar This pain wouldn't be for Evermore

right where you left me -> grace

I stayed there Dust collected on my pinned-up hair They expected me to find somewhere Some perspective, but I sat and stared

it's time to go -> matthew at the end of chot

Sometimes giving up is the strong thing Sometimes to run is the brave thing Sometimes walking out is the one thing That will find you the right thing That will find you the right thing And you know in your soul And you know in your soul When it's time to go

[bisexualbuckleyy]

shadowhunters ships as taylor swift songs

the saga of unhinged shadowhunters chronicles posts continues! once again this post is absurdly long so i'm putting it under a cut. let me know your thoughts/other songs that remind you of particular ships cause i'm always down to talk about that!

clace: state of grace 

we fall in love 'til it hurts or bleeds, or fades in time

and i never saw you coming, and i’ll never be the same 

so you were never a saint, and I've loved in shades of wrong, we learn to live with the pain, mosaic broken hearts

malec: lover 

and there's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear, have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?

can I go where you go? can we always be this close forever and ever?

my heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue, all's well that ends well to end up with you

sizzy: wildest dreams 

say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress, staring at the sunset, babe, red lips and rosy cheeks, say you'll see me again, even if it's just in your wildest dreams

someday when you leave me, i bet these memories follow you around

say you'll see me again, even if it's just pretend

wessa: peace 

but I'm a fire, and I'll keep your brittle heart warm, if your cascade ocean wave blues come, all these people think love's for show, but I would die for you in secret

and you know that I'd swing with you for the fences, sit with you in the trenches, give you my wild, give you a child, give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other

i'd give you my sunshine, give you my best, but the rain is always gonna come if you're standing with me

jessa: invisible string 

and isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?

something wrapped all of my past mistakes in barbed wire, chains around my demons, wool to brave the seasons, one single thread of gold tied me to you

hell was the journey but it brought me heaven

blackstairs: cruel summer 

devils roll the dice, angels roll their eyes, what doesn't kill me makes me want you more

said, "I'm fine," but it wasn't true, i don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you

and I screamed “for whatever it's worth, I love you, ain't that the worst thing you ever heard?”

kit x ty: death by a thousand cuts 

saying goodbye is death by a thousand cuts, flashbacks waking me up

i look through the windows of this love, even though we boarded them up, chandelier's still flickering here, cause i can't pretend it's ok when it's not

i take the long way home, i ask the traffic lights if it'll be all right, they say, "i don't know"

and what once was ours is no one's now, i see you everywhere, the only thing we share is this small town

my heart, my hips, my body, my love, trying to find a part of me that you didn't touch

quiet my fears with the touch of your hand, paper cut stings from our paper thin plans

gave you too much but it wasn't enough, but i'll be all right, it's just a thousand cuts

kierarktina: dancing with our hands tied 

my love had been frozen, deep blue, but you painted me golden

and darling, you had turned my bed into a sacred oasis, people started talking, putting us through our paces, i knew there was no one in the world who could take it

i loved you in spite of deep fears that the world would divide us, so, baby, can we dance, oh, through an avalanche?

i'd kiss you as the lights went out, swaying as the room burned down, i'd hold you as the water rushes in, if i could dance with you again

jordelia: cardigan 

when you are young, they assume you know nothing

and when i felt like i was an old cardigan under someone's bed, you put me on and said i was your favorite

a friend to all is a friend to none, chase two girls, lose the one

you drew stars around my scars, but now I'm bleeding 

cause I knew you, stepping on the last train, marked me like a bloodstain

but i knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss, i knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs, the smell of smoke would hang around this long, cause i knew everything when i was young

thomastair: treacherous 

and i'll do anything you say, if you say it with your hands

and i'd be smart to walk away, but you're quicksand

your name has echoed through my mind, and i just think you should, think you should know, that nothing safe is worth the drive, and i would follow you, follow you home

ghostwriter: enchanted 

your eyes whispered, "have we met?" 'cross the room your silhouette, starts to make its way to me

i'm wonderstruck, blushing all the way home, i'll spend forever wondering if you knew, i was enchanted to meet you

this is me praying that this was the very first page, not where the story line ends

arianna: august 

whispers of "are you sure?" "never have I ever before"

but i can see us lost in the memory, august slipped away into a moment in time, cause it was never mine, and i can see us twisted in bedsheets, august sipped away like a bottle of wine, cause you were never mine

back when we were still changing for the better, wanting was enough, for me, it was enough to live for the hope of it all

so much for summer love and saying "us" cause you weren't mine to lose

charles/alastair: the story of us 

i used to know my place was the spot next to you, now i’m searching the room for an empty seat, cause lately i don't even know what page you're on

so many things that i wish you knew, so many walls up i can't break through

now i’m standing alone in a crowded room and we're not speaking, and i’m dying to know is it killing you like it's killing me, yeah?

james/grace: my tears ricochet 

even on my worst day, did i deserve, babe, all the hell you gave me? cause i loved you, i swear i loved you, ’til my dying day

and i can go anywhere I want, anywhere i want, just not home

you had to kill me, but it killed you just the same, cursing my name, wishing i stayed, you turned into your worst fears

fairstairs: run 

give me the keys, i’ll bring the car back around, we shouldn't be in this town, and my so-called friends, they don't know, i’d drive away before i let you go, so give me a reason and don't say no

and run, like you'd run from the law, darling, let's run, run from it all, we can go where our eyes can take us, go where no one else is

[pansexual-lilychen]

in honour of taylor swifts tenth album midnights being released tonight, here’s a prediction of which song i think is going to relate to which main character character from the last hours

1) 'Lavender Haze' - Cordelia

2) 'Maroon' - Matthew

3) 'Anti-Hero' - Alastair

4) 'Snow On The Beach ft. Lana Del Rey' - Lucie / Grace

5) 'You're On Your Own, Kid' - Alastair / Cordelia / Grace

6) 'Midnight Rain' - James

7) 'Question...?' - Christopher

8) 'Vigilante Shit' - Thomas / Alastair

9) 'Bejeweled' - Grace / Cordelia

10) 'Labyrinth' - James

11) 'Karma' - Alastair / Cordelia

12) 'Sweet Nothing' - james (after it has been revealed that it was co written by ma man william bowery aka joe alwyn)

13) 'Mastermind' - Lucie

(i’ll be revisiting this list tomorrow morning to see how accurate i think this list was)

[readwithlivvy]

rip to lucie herondale you would have loved folklore

[chalks1404]

Would’ve, could’ve, should’ve being alastairs song to Charles is ending me

Alternatively Paris being thomastairs is also ending me

[ashpkat]

and even though you have to / please try to never grow up

[tys-kitty]

Okay, but listen…

„Uh oh, I‘m falling in love“

Alastair realizing he‘s falling in love with Thomas after their days in Paris

„Oh no, I‘m falling in love again“

Him being afraid of love after his last relationship with Charles. And him knowing that Thomas‘ friends are never going to accept him

„Oh, I‘m falling in love

I thought the plane was going down

How‘d you turn it right around“

Thomas fighting for their relationship and seeing Alastair for who he truly is

[spacehero-23]

anti-hero is alastair carstairs' song.

[clockworkbee]

Random and you can TOTALLY say no, but would you consider Alastair for TTPD x TSC? ❤️

I would never say no, esp. if I've read the books and love a character (though I might be late sometimes) <3

You're in luck, btw! I had one of these ready because I posted on Instagram, and apparently forgot to share here, but I didn't know which of these you wanted to see, so I made the other one as well! I hope you like this! 🤍

[julianblackthornspancakes]

If y’all need me, I’ll be in the corner listening to Paris and crying about Thomas and Alastair

[mapetitetetefolle]

Taylor swift songs Thomas would dedicate to Alastair:

- I know places

- love story

- begin again

- end game

Taylor swift songs Alastair would dedicate to Thomas:

- dancing with our hands tied

- illicit affairs

- king of my heart

Note: I haven't finished chain of thorns yet so they are only the ones they would dedicate to where they left off their relationship in book 2

[edwinspaynes]

Hey Alastair (Thomas's Version) (From the Academy)

Has anyone ever considered Hey Stephen by Taylor Swift as the ultimate Academy-era Thomastair song? Because I 100% have, and it's brilliant.

First, I think we all can acknowledge that there are tons of different types of crushes out there. Hey Stephen is the exact type of sparkly, innocent, your-name-is-doodled-in-my-notebook crush that Thomas has on Alastair. It's all-consuming, but in a sweet and innocent way, hence, well, the snapping/humming mmmm m m m m m,,, mmmmm m mmmm....

But then there are the lyrics. The lyrics. This goes so far beyond vibes

I know looks can be deceiving But I know I saw a light in you

LIKE THERE'S THAT, OKAY? T H A T. That's exactly what Thomas thinks of Alastair at school! That, yeah, he's mEaN, but he sees a light in him and feels defensive of him as a result! He knows that Alastair has that light in him and is certain of it despite understanding that things are not always what they appear! God!!!

Of all the [boys] tossing rocks at your window I'll be the one waiting there even when it's cold

UMMM YEAH because he wants to be there for him through even the bad moments! This is canon as of ChoT! When he's with Sona giving her the fruit basket, he explicitly thinks he wants to be the person who is happy when Alastair's happy and grieves/sorrows when he grieves/sorrows! So, yes, even when it's cold!!!

'Cause I can't help it if you look like an angel

Kid's half angel. Also a Persian prince from a fairy tale with eyelashes like petals of a flower and the arms of a Greek statue. Lmao.

All those other [boys], well, they're beautiful But would they write a song for you?

Thomas is like, jealous guy especially with Charles, and he just knows that he's the only one who would literally write songs in his head for Alastair. Okay? Like, he knows he stands out. And the little laugh after this lyric? UGH kill me with cuteness.

So come on and come out And pull me near And shine, shine, shine

He thinks this all the time, like he thinks that he wants Alastair to be himself and shine, and he wants to help him shine. Even back then, he's following Alastair around and asking things like if he's sad. He wants to help, and he sees again a light in Alastair.

And, of course, I'd be remiss not to mention,

Come feel this magic I've been feeling since I met you

...Enough said there. <3