#canon what canon

[rellicgin]

My happily ever after!

[jonmattdaily]

he loves life!

[naethjen]

Oya Mand’alor

[dumyhead]

just a little lady and her eldritch horror dad

[lawsofchaos1]

Malec Prompt-let: Nameless Nephilim

What if nephilim aren’t given names when they’re born? Shadowhunters are an incredibly communal society- all glory is to your family and your people, not to you, and so the idea of names is considered too individualistic. Instead, children are given a Line Name and a Blessing Name, a title. 

For example, Alexander means ‘Protector of Men,’ a suitable title for the first-born son of an Old line, while Isabelle is ‘Pledged to God,’ typical for a daughter, and Jonathan is ‘Gift of God’.

(It’s also telling that Maryse and Robert’s Blessing Name for Alec is one of the few options that isn’t a thanksgiving or a description of devotion to the Angel - it’s a task. It’s a statement that he was born for and lives for a single purpose - that he is only made worthy in the eyes of his Line through accomplishing his title, not through simply being.)

Young nephilim often play with shortening their names as a way to differentiate themselves and make something approaching a name, but you cannot truly name yourself.

(It’s even considered slightly rebellious that Alec, Izzy, and Jace are fully grown and still go by their short-names, Jace particularly so given that it’s so different from his Blessing Name.)

Izzy and Jace have quietly been given personal names over the years- ones used only by the closest of loved ones. Alec uses their True Names occasionally, but only in the most personal and private of times. (Neither Robert nor Maryse know their children’s True Names.)

Alec, however, has never been given a true name. He never lets on how much it hurts that both his siblings think nothing of commenting on how much Alec’s Blessing Name fits him, how much he lives to uphold his mandate. 

Alec, however, just wants a name that’s his, something that tells him he’s worthy of existing for himself and not just in relation to what he does for others. 

When Alec meets Magnus, it’s the first time he’s ever heard his Blessing Name in full and not loathed the sound of it. When ‘Alexander’ rolls off Magnus’ tongue, it feels like a Blessing and not a a command that has shaped his entire life, for better or for worse.

Magnus has no idea of this custom of the nephilim, however, until one night after a visit from Maryse, when the stress and the pain and everything just get to be too much and Alec breaks, unexpectedly snapping to not call him that when Magnus pulls him against his chest to murmur ‘Alexander ‘ into his hair.

Magnus freezes, hesitant, and Alec can’t bare to let Magnus think he’s done something wrong, but he also can’t bare to see Magnus’ face when he tells him that he doesn’t even have a name, so he keeps his head buried in the cool silk of Magnus’ shirt as he haltingly explains the concept of Blessing Names to his boyfriend.

Later that night, tears dried and emotionally spent, Alec and Magnus are curled up together in Magnus’ sheets when Magnus whispers a name, a true blessing into Alec’s hair.

Beloved.

[foundtherightwords]

[death-by-sc0tland]

with miguel being so obsessed with canon i think if i showed him doctor who he would die immediately

[sleepy-hyperfixations]

not me completely ignoring ice's death (and goose and Carole's bcs ignorance is bliss) no angst in my goddamn house

[gamergirlbonestaskforce141riot]

In this blog I bend canon to my will.

MW3 hasn't happened.

Stupid fuckets (fuckers+muppets)

[this-acuteneurosis]

a interesting doyalist/Watsonian messes with different interpretations of Characters by different writers, and your use of Grevious has been interesting. From Micro V.S. 2008 I usually like using that old Napoleon quote, You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. Grievous when new danger can ambush murder multiple Jedi all at once, old hand, arrogant enough to do straight duels against Ventres and loses. Using him for Ambush is really Smart narrative.

Grievous of this story is definitely more heavily influenced by the 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars micro series than by his later appearances. The scene where he's picking off Jedi in the dark is, I think, a really effective scene as far as making him seem terrifying. I really felt like he gave off an impression of being inevitable, and that made it really satisfying when people were able to thwart him.

I liked that vibe for this story, partly because it seemed like a more dangerous foe to throw at Leia, but also because Leia doesn't know who he is. He isn't someone who really got brought up a lot when she was taught about the Clone Wars (in this fic). So I felt like this worked for the story, both plot structure and tonally.

I also felt like it was easier to show him off as a proto-Vader this way. And I really wanted that to come across. Part of this arc in particular has been Leia realizing how much Anakin specifically was a target during the Clone Wars. As she realizes how much groundwork Palpatine has been laying for that specific conquest, it really makes her angry. It complicates the narrative in her head and forces her to confront the pain she's still carrying and how she's taking it out on Anakin.

Anyway, yeah, Grievous. We're going for sneaky hunter vibes more than General Grievous.

[alastairstom]

Friendly reminder that Christopher Lightwood is alive and thriving in his little cottage in the English countryside :) he and Grace have taken up gardening because botany is interesting, and the whole place is covered in wildflowers and ivy. Grace loves to make flower crowns for both of them to wear when it's warm outside, but they spend most of their days in the lab together making things go boom. They make a great team, innovating and experimenting. Both of them love the trial and error process. They don't have the word for it yet because it's the early 1900s, but history will remember them as the queerplatonic partners that shook the foundation of the Shadow World with their ideas and outside-the-box thinking. ❤️

[neapeaikea]

If Eli is a stand-in for Stiles, does that mean the plan was for Derek to die in front of Stiles?

[kaybkay8]

So, I just started watching bleach again, and the emotions I get watching ichigo and rukia are so much more intense than watching other characters that are a ship. It's not even comparable. These two are just on a whole other level and I still am in utter shock that the author tried to ruin it by not making it canon. This is the kind of ship that moves mountains. It's beautiful and other ships pale in comparison and still rings true no matter what canon may be

[zhoras-bitch]

Me cradling my Markus x MC 'Ex-friends who never quite recognized their feelings for each other to enemies who still have those feelings, but can never reconcile them now because they are a hunter and a werewolf, so all they can do is bicker bitterly, when truly they are just angry at themselves for still feeling like that' AU in my palms like an ugly wet rat:

[currentlylivingonaprayer]

"OH, I love this couple. They love each other so much!"

Proceeds to show you picture of a couple that broke up in canon.

[lawsofchaos1]

Malec Promptlet: Pole Dancing Alec

Though most Shadowhunters patrol only in teams until sixteen, Alec is still months from his thirteenth birthday when Maryse sends him out alone for the first time. It's a small area with no reports of demonic activity, but the order still raises eyebrows among even the seasoned hunters who recognize the political mess Maryse is clearly planning to dump in her son's lap as soon as he comes to his minor majority. Alec knows what Maryse is doing too, but he still takes the patrol as serious as though there had been reports of demonic activity. Which is why he's stalking across the rooftop of a mundane strip club when he sees a group of men harassing three women in the alley. Alec hesitates because not interfering in mundane affairs has been drilled into his head by Maryse almost since he could speak, but the moment one of the men moves to actually hit one of the women, Alec jumps down in fury. It's barely a minute's work to take down the aggressors. The three dancers don't let Alec run off and, over a cup of thank-you-coffee, Alec somehow ends up making the first friends he's ever had outside of his younger siblings. Over the next few years, Alec ends up being introduced to a whole host of other dancers both through his new friends and because Alec sometimes sees them being harassed on the streets and he obviously Does Not Allow That in his territory. 

(They obviously adopt the random scary-child who runs off anyone even hinting at being impolite to them.)

Alec gets to know them and finds out how insanely in shape they all are and asks them to teach him some of their routines (and he ends up trading them lessons in self-defense and stabbing rude assholes in turn). His siblings never find out that Alec becomes amazingly proficient in pole dancing and when Jace complains about his own routines not producing the same results as Alec's, Alec just smirks.

Alec has never really ... shown off, per se, his skills in front of anyone before because he really appreciates the artistry and the strength it requires, but also views it as kind of ... private - just something he shares with his mundane dancer friends.

Then he meets Magnus.

Yeah, let's just say that when Alec asks Magnus to conjure a pole in the living room of the loft one night, Magnus is thrilled, but he’s honestly expecting just a (very) fun evening of messing around and being silly with each other.

Right up until Alec casually lifts himself up with one hand on the pole until he's nearly perpendicular with the floor and Magnus sits himself down, abruptly, as Alec starts to dance for him.