#PARABALIER

[im-out-of-it]

part 7 of season 3, episode 1 “on infernal ground” continued

91. the cringefest continues

92. Jace was told from a young age that he could do anything and how he was the best when all it did was let it go to his head. he’s not the best- alec and Izzy are. Jace wouldn’t have killed jonathon without Izzy and jace wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for alec. I really wanted this bond to go away and jace deal with this shit without being burdening alec

93. could’ve said “hey I haven’t been sleeping” but he’s just going to make it everyone’s problem soon

94. this is also the same music they used when Alec and jace trained before

95. I don’t know but when they flirt, it’s like there trying too much. it just comes off very uncomfy

96. why is Luke telling Alec what to do? it’s Alec’s institute

97. BUT ITS A CHANCE TO SEE CATARINA

98. but also it makes sense for Alec to go because it is Magnus’s friend

99. Lilith apparently isn’t playing around when it comes to jonathon. all that work and he can’t even stand her lmao

100. I just like the aesthetic

101. I meant to do these ones: Alec smiling and then wondering what’s wrong with Magnus

102. Izzy: I need candy and if y’all start fighting, I’ll need more of it

103. THIS IS THE SHIT THAT ENRAGES ME!!!!! he is literally lying, gaslighting Alec so much. there’s no point in lying because Alec can sense something is off. which is why they should’ve made jace be alive without being tied to Alec

Izzy: can we not please???????

104. the trio is back but I prefer Magnus instead of jace

stopping at 105 for the maybe last possible one for today ✨

[ask-the-parabalis-gang]

Hiii!!! I'm the mod of @the-demonic-people and I just want to say that your blog is so cool! I just wanna know, what's the plot of the blog and the story? I haven't properly checked the entire thing yet. Anyways, hope u have a nice day ^^

THANK YOU SO MUCH OH MY GOODNESS

I should probably write down the plot, all I’ve done was give cryptic hints at it because I’m stuck in the purgatory of wanting to infodump everything but not wanting to spoil anything.

TWs: Implied forced relationship, manipulation, death (lots of it), cults and religious imagery, mentions of parental and domestic abuse, phobias, mental and physical disorders

So buckle up, ladies, gentlemen, neithers, boths, and in-betweens, for I present:

The Plot (TM)

It’s Patchy Skelter’s 18th birthday!!! This is wonderful and amazing cuz she has an incredibly dangerous disorder that makes her unable to feel pain. She wasn’t supposed to live this long, but she did!! Yippee for her!!

Clay is her bestiewestie. They get bullied by Poly, who is a dick. However, it’s not about that right now. Patchy has a birthday. Their life is wonderful. They go to a cool little venue in a restaurant/bar and play music with their band. Patchy is there. All is well in the world.

Patchy’s two father figures are there too — Orgon and Cal. They used to be gay. But they currently are gay?? Wowzers they’re working things out probably!! Patchy ships them because we love old man yaoi (is it still considered old man yaoi if they’re in their 40s). People also ship Patchy and Pith, the singer in Clay’s band, because we also love lesbians here.

Clay third wheels both Orgon and Cal as well as Patchy and Pith. They are sad about this.

Woah why is Orgon looking at Clay and Pith in a sussy way. It’s like he knows something strange but that couldn’t be. Eh it’s probably nothing. He hasn’t exactly been the same since a traumatizing car accident that happened two years ago on December 22, 2004.

Woah this is being described in detail!! Is it a major plot point???? (yes)

The next day, Clay sees Poly beat up. Insert concern because Poly’s mum is a notorious douchebag. Poly beats Clay up for caring about him, as one does.

Clay, still worried about Poly because they’re a good person, follows him home. Poly does a bit of a shouty shouty and it’s somewhat angsty. Suddenly Clay gets stabbed. By a needle. With a sedative. Held by Orgon.

Poly, appropriately, is like ‘what in the fuck I hated them but I didn’t want this to happen???’ So they try to call Pith (who they formerly had a shitty relationship with). She doesn’t answer. They go to Patchy who accuses them of attacking Clay and Pith. For once Poly had done nothing, and he leaves sadly.

Meanwhile Clay wakes up in a basement. So does Pith!!!! This is frightening. Pith undergoes panic attack so Clay tries to comfort her. Wait why the fuck is their hand glowing. Could this be MAGIC???? It’s like they’re SIPHONING IT FROM PITH??? WHAT???? Orgon looks pleased with himself. What is he plotting oh my stars.

Meanwhile, Patchy’s stressed over this. She calls up her father figures because Pith’s not answering and she’s really worried. Cal acts relatively normal. Orgon does not. Patchy begins to suspect something but it couldn’t be!! It’s not like her father figures were bad, right????

SUDDENLY PITH PICKS UP. Thank god. She sounds really traumatized so Patchy invites her over. They bond over Patchy’s love of crafts and talk about Poly. It’s revealed that Poly has NPD and has severe issues which is why he acts the way he does. He also worsened Pith’s schizophrenia during their relationship and ended up making her not take her medication anymore.

Pith wants to stay over but hOLY SHIT THERE’S ONLY ONE BED. The two sleep in it. It’s wholesome as fuck. Until Pith gets a nightmare. During the comfort, she opens up to Patchy about the main route of her problems — The Event (TM).

The Event (TM) reveals that Pith used to be a ghost hunter who was fascinated by the paranormal. She was walking through the woods when she heard a strange crash. Then she continued forward and stumbled upon a CULT??? In the sleepy town of Parabalis???? More likely than you think :D

Guess when this Event (TM) took place!!! (Hint: it’s December 22, 2004, aka the same date Orgon had his car accident.) Patchy freaks out at the same-date thing. Shit’s going down.

Clay’s still trapped in Orgon’s basement, not doing so good. They’re contemplating the existence of magic and wonder what the fuck they have. And Pith has had to deal with it this whole time??? No wonder she’s traumatized

Suddenly they hear a conversation from upstairs!! Wait Orgon’s actually SPEAKING??? He sounds like he’s being forced to. Weird. Wait, is that other voice Cal, Patchy’s other father figure :0 They sound gay but not in a good way. A suspicious meeting that Orgon has to go to is mentioned and cults are also mentioned and Clay’s like WTF. This is news to them. Holy shit this is a lot to take in.

More not-so-good-or-consensual gayness happens and then Orgon returns and is visibly Not Well. Clay tries to talk to him about Cal and then Orgon threatens him and now Clay’s frightened!!! But so is Orgon. Huh.

Orgon leaves the weapon he threatened Clay with in a place where they can somehow get it because he’s traumatized and can’t think straight. Clay escapes and when Orgon returns they beat the ever loving shit out of Orgon cuz Orgon’s lowkey a weakling. They pin him down and suddenly there’s a light in his cold dead eyes. Wait that’s snow. What the fUCK-

So it’s revealed that the magic Clay took from Pith was the ability to see into others’ memories. Time to reveal Orgon’s trauma now with this ability!!!!

Clay sees Orgon’s terrible car wreck and watches him straight-up die in a horrific way. Trauma!! Suddenly, Orgon is no longer dead!!! He wakes up incredibly frightened in the middle of a cult, run by Cal. :0

Apparently Cal has magic too — the ability to tamper with life and death and reverse either of those things. Therefore he straight-up believes he’s Jesus Christ. Lots of religious symbolism happens. This delusional man tells Orgon that he owes him his life now, and the life of Patchy because without Orgon, Patchy would be dead.

Clay pulls back to reality and is like ‘holy shit so you’re not bad, you just wanna protect yourself and Patchy from Cal. damn you could have TOLD ME INSTEAD OF BEING CREEPY ABOUT IT’. Orgon’s shit at telling people valuable information, but now we know that Clay has the ability to yoink the powers of Cal to end his reign of terror once and for all.

Anyways Clay, Patchy, and Pith all reunite and talk about what happened. Patchy is skeptical about the existence of magic so Clay uses his spooky memory powers. She sees a really wholesome memory of herself and Orgon being daughter and father and she cries. Then they team up to save Orgon with the Power of Friendship!!!

They go to where the cult is. Cal arrives late and starts talking about ‘a Judas among us’ or something. Hehe among us. Anyways he reveals how he knows about Orgon’s little experiments with the magical children. This betrayal will lead to DEATH!!! Orgon, who had been forced to go, finally expresses fear for once. Ugh I love my sopping wet cat of a man so much SORRY ANYWAYS

The gang burst in like ‘NOOOOOO’. The other cult members flee and it’s symbolic cuz everyone abandoned Jesus too. Lots of religious imagery when Cal’s around. Anyways Cal whips out a fucking gun and threatens the gang. There’s a large kerfuffle but Cal gets the upper hand and is about to kill people when suddenly he’s like ‘wait where tf are my killing powers’. Clay has them!!! They kill Cal. Everything’s good.

WAIT NO IT’S NOT PATCHY GOT SHOT LMAO. Orgon displays even MORE emotion cuz she’s the only thing he’s living for. Patchy ends up fucking dying but now Clay has the powers of Cal, so they can bring her back. Everyone has trauma now. But they’re all alive so it’s not that bad.

Then the plot dissolves into details that make it possible for me to make several sequels. Those I don’t wanna reveal for 1. spoilers and 2. I don’t have sequel details laid out. But yeah everyone gets a happy ending!!!

Or do they :D

[naritarance]

GO ON PRAISE ME LIKE A GOD

cal parabalis i HATE him i HATE HIM SO MUCH also psppssp go check it out @ask-the-parabalis-gang its really cool :D

[ask-the-parabalis-gang]

I AM BEGGING. THESE LITTLE BEANS MEAN EVERYTHING TO ME AND IT'LL INSPIRE ME TO KEEP WORKING ON PARABALIS. My goal is to finish and publish the story before I graduate college so PLEASE

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[beastmaster-dr-corr]

Oh don’t worry, I don’t have really any bad triggers as far as that (there’s going to be lab/medical related stuff in Parabalis, my story, so this actually might give me inspiration)!! And also take your time with responding, I’m a bit busy too with college and stuff but I’ll do what I can! Lemme know if there’s a specific OC of mine you wanna RP with!!

I also decide to take the chance and give Dr. Corr a smol forehead smooch cuz he seems like a bean (a murderous bean, but a bean nonetheless). Hopefully I don’t die :3

(AH okay i see!!! ii am dealing with a few other rps and uh yeah i dont do well with a lot BUT I HOPEFULLY WILL!!! get through!! also i think.. pith wwould be the most affected negatively by dr.corr from what i can tell.. also also dr.corr is not a bean he's an absolute prick/being silly/nm)

He narrows his eyes at you, baffled and irritated at the fact he cannot stop this from happening.

"You are.. fascinating. I do not appreciate this.. gesture of yours, and you are on thin ice."

[im-out-of-it]

part 16 of season 3, episode 1 “on infernal ground” continued

205. Magnus moments I love

206. but at least we are communicating. could be longer but I’m just grateful to get the Malec moments

207. Alec has one of those rare smiles that just makes you happy instantly

208. it’s cute when he wants to see Magnus’s face so he leans down

209. Magnus telling the truth 🗣️ Magnus: I lied babe but only for good reasons

210. HES SO PERFECT

211. Magnus throwing things to the side

212. Alec: IM STAYING

213. this was a part of one I did but I forgot to do the other part of it so this is Magnus saying shadowhunter, I’m not going anywhere

214. can we just talk about Raphael?????

215. I am in no way excusing his behavior and while I do see why he did it what he did, I still feel for him. he obviously shouldn’t have tortured Heidi but I don’t think he deserved to be sentenced to life when others have done worse than him. it’s like they wanted a reason to shame Raphael or something. my man just wanted to be with Rosa one last time. he lost all his family and Simon for some insane reason wishes to protect jace and won’t say how he became a daylighter. it’s almost like Simon hates the powers he has while any other downworlder would be grateful for them

216. what Raphael did is WRONG but he shouldn’t have had to suffer for life for it. he tried to become a better person and that’s more than what the average shadowhunter does. it’s almost as if they wanted to paint most of the downworlders as evil or whatever

217. maybe it’s just me that feels this way

218. but wrap up!!!!!! this is an outstanding episode and what I love- the Malec conversations. how Alec recognizes right away that magnus isn’t okay and instead of waiting for Magnus to communicate with him, he gives Magnus the little push. it shows Alec recognizes and knows Magnus and what he needs. I also love that Magnus is trying not to let his feelings affect Alec’s decision because he doesn’t want to feel in the way. Magnus is a top tier actor but I’m happy he recognizes that he can be vulnerable with Alec

I love the Maia and Simon scenes but it’s sad we only get like maybe two minutes with them. there are about 45 ish minutes in each episode and that’s all we get for them?????? Maia and Simon have a genuine connection and it’s a shame they kind of get cut off in this episode. but I love their chemistry. Maia not taking any of the bullshit Simon attempts to throw at her makes me love her more. she doesn’t do drama and I think that’s a big difference between the Simon + clary romance vs Maia + Simon romance. Maia doesn’t wait around, she takes charge. I love that about her

I love seeing Raphael bond with Magnus. it’s one of my favorite things about this episode. seeing Raphael be worried about Magnus after Magnus loses his high warlock status. Magnus tries to put on a show and trick himself into thinking he’s glad he’s not high warlock but we know it makes him sad. Harry is so good at being subtle with his emotions and trying to be someone else, while I love the small ways that Matt will portray his worry. leaning down, trying to watch Magnus’s face, how he watches Magnus talk. it’s all so beautiful to watch

219. what I don’t like- there really didn’t need to be so much of clace. you’re telling me while Malec does get their healthy communicating down, clace has a dream/nightmare, and a sensual scene in the ENTIRE EPISODE? like so much of that could have been filled with Maia moments or Magnus and Catarina bonding. one of the mistakes the show made in season two was cutting off Magnus’s friends and giving him support

we really didn’t need so much of that clace nonsense. and Izzy is hardly in this episode!!!!!!! she’s there to be the weapons master but that’s all she’s really doing, besides dealing with Jace lying to her brother. I feel that sometimes the writers didn’t know what to do with her

PARABALIER- how can jace stand there and basically say we can’t trust Alec? he goes on and on about how clary can’t say a thing but he should know better. you know that you will be vulnerable after death. once again, Alec shouldn’t be tied to jace and jace can figure this out on his own. it would have been wonderful to watch Jace see Alec be happy without him and how much better Alec’s life is. because who is going to clean up jaces mess? ALEC

and the manipulation, the gaslighting he does to Alec. Alec knows when you lie and when something is off. he’s not dumb. I at least will hand it to clary because she seems to not want this to be a secret. but it’s also funny how she acts like she thought about world hunger when that wasn’t on her mind at all. she didn’t care about anything but jace. so it’s a one step forward, one step back with clary

220. the episode on my rating would be a 8.5. it could be so much more if it wasn’t so heavily focused on clace. WE GET IT JACE IS VULNERABLE BUT WE HAVE MORE IMPORTANT MATTERS TO SETTLE

so that was it for 3x01!!!!!!! 220 was the number!!!! thank you for joining show Malec is back and jace shut up already and quit making things worse for Alec discussion list!!!! I’ll be starting 3x02 today, I think I have 5 parts in draft, and two of season two wrap up. I will warn ya that 3x02 will be long since Malec is featured more. but I sense some of y’all love all the Malec content so I’m not worried 🥲 so I’ll see y’all soon

[naritarance]

@ask-the-parabalis-gang me actively with patchy and camellia

[moonlightmirrorball]

When will and Jem meet: parabahi

When will said he was out drinking: parabalie

when will or jem said something romantic to Tessa: parabasigh

when Jem tells the others to stop looking for a cure: parabacry

when the infernal devices ended: parababye

but no matter what will and Jem will always be parabatai

its too bad will parabadies

aight it’s time for me to parashutthefuckup

[eversall]

alec: jace you....I felt it.... our rune.... you....

alec: you parabadied jace

jace:

jace: check ur bod bro bc that's a parabaLIE

[lichtwald-blog]

goldenherons said: jace has no chest hairs bc he loves no one

alec vc: that’s a parabalie

[mattdaddaryos]

Please make your head word parabaLie so that it rhymes with parabatai. (at least I think they rhyme. If parabaLiar rhymes with it pls just ignore lol)

lmao but thanks for the suggestion

[truthisborninargument]

Last week I saw this beautiful edit with Shadowhunters characters sorted into Hogwarts houses and when I saw Jace as Slytherin I was like: nah, he has too much reckless Gryffindor in him... But then in episode 9 he was such a devious little shit. After Meliorn slipped the beans about Clary having the cup, Jace made a neat little plan on the go, while fooling Alec into thinking that he is fine with giving the cup to the Clave and then the plan to steal Alec’s stele with the help of Magnus. So yeah, how very Slytherin of Jace.

[im-out-of-it]

part 50 of season 3, episode 10 continued “erchomai”

180. Magnus has to be in such overdrive having to watch the love of his life almost die many times. he must be in fear anytime Alec goes out to save the world

181. I love that (whoever decided) magnus grabs Alec’s hand

182. Alec remembers Magnus’s grand and dramatic entrances and so does Maryse

183. someone freeze time the second Magnus has to leave Alec for an hour

184. Maryse was right 💀

185. Maryse just knows 👀

186. Magnus doesn’t need to be invited but carry on, next

187. Magnus with Jace 2.0 as the owl before his reveal and when jace 2.0 is finally gone

188. next problem clace creates, they can take care of it themselves. don’t create problems you can’t finish. I don’t want to hear “but jace is Alec’s paraba-” PARABALIER PARABABETRAYER PARABADICK!!!!!!!!! I’m tired of the Alec is jaces parabatai so he has to save him constantly. no, if jace wants to lie and not seek help for his health and why he’s a narcissist, that’s on him- not Alec. it’s time for jace to grow the hell up and stop pushing everything on Alec

189. because I’m so damn tired of Malec having to take care of everything and risk their whole lives for people who don’t give a fuck about them

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[goldenpotato081]

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[ask-the-parabalis-gang]

GUYS HEAR ME OUT I THOUGHT OF SOMETHING RANDOM AND STRANGE

Parabalis but it’s The Amazing Digital Circus

Poly and Jax are literally the same entity. There’s a potential voiceclaim in it too.

Cal would be Caine for lore reasons. Also potential voiceclaim (I adore Alex Rochon with my mind body and soul).

Clay and Zooble are very similar in personality, as well as both of them being nonbinary. They both are also the youngest of their respective sources.

Orgon and Kinger are similar in age, although they couldn’t be any more different in personality. He’d definitely be in the Circus for the longest amount of time, however (also for lore reasons).

Pith is very similar to Gangle as well, being easily upset and one of the calmer of the cast. Her love of writing is mirrored by Gangle’s love of drawing.

Patchy is similar to Ragatha in terms of optimism and general caring demeanor. She’d love trying to cheer the others up (I also describe her using a motherly tone with Clay at one point about their unhealthy habits in canon Parabalis, which is also Ragatha-core).

The urge to make a whole ass au out of this is so strong fellows you have no idea :D

[ask-the-parabalis-gang]

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays from the Parabalis Gang!!!!

Patchy ADORES Christmas. She loves buying presents for her friends, and making heartfelt gifts for all of her friends. She LOVES receiving gifts, no matter what they are - even if it’s something she doesn’t like, she accepts it with love.

Orgon is a lot more sullen than normal throughout the month of December, and he’s not a big fan of being invited to the Skelter family’s get-togethers. However, he always makes a point every Christmas to give Patchy a large supply of fabrics for her projects.

Clay doesn’t typically celebrate Christmas, though they do always love getting gifts for their friends. They make sure to make their gifts as personalized as possible, it makes them more meaningful.

Pith’s ideal Christmas is spent curled up by a warm fire, sipping a warm cup of tea with her ginger cat on her lap, writing in her journal. She doesn’t often go out to do anything crazy, a quiet Christmas is the best for her.

Poly tries to convince the kids in the arcade that Santa isn’t real begrudgingly tones down his asshole demeanor for the season of Christmas. They don’t get any presents, nor do they give; their mother doesn’t celebrate the holiday at all, which sort of ruins it for him.

Cal tries to be as helpful as possible throughout Christmas, volunteering at churches and shoveling snow off his neighbors’ sidewalks. He loves attending the Skelter family’s annual Christmas dinners. The whole month of December is a very special time for him, but especially Christmas, for both traditional and religious reasons.