#kierarktina

[clockwork-carstairs]

the dark artifices has so many moments that just floor me. when diana opens up to gwyn and he tells her she’s the bravest woman he’s ever met and gently asks, Can I hold you? when kieran feels betrayed and mark kneels in front of him to ask for forgiveness and tells him I love you, I wish you could believe me. when julian says to emma “I’ll love you if I never touch you” and emma thinks, I love you more than starlight. kieran telling mark “you are all that exists on the earth and under the sky that I do love.” julian telling dru that “you’re the heart of this family”. ty and kit being each other’s reasons to stay. livvy’s protectiveness over ty; livvy telling julian she wants to be like him. kierarktina dancing together and all being stunned after. there is just such fierce and fragile love in this series in so many different forms, i’m so soft for all of them

[tys-kitty]

I don‘t know what it is about the Blackthorns but Andrew falling in love with Nerissa, Mark pulling the king of Faerie, Dru falling for Ash and Ty being in love with the First Heir is just weirdly iconic

[chibi-tsukiko]

Nature’s Beauty 🍃🌸🦋

Mark, Kieran & Cristina

I saw this on Pinterest and thought of Mark immediately. It’s giving fairy cottagecore Prince 😍

(As folks on insta pointed out, Matthew would have also rocked this look)

Somehow I always end up drawing Kierarktina to start the new year ✨

I hope you like it!

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[rinadragomir]

ARE WE READY? BECAUSE I'M NOT😭you don't get it when I say I CRAVE each of them

Wessa?! JORDELIA?! THOMASTAIR?!

SEBASTIAN AND THE SEELIE QUEEN THO it's so random but like... SLAYYYYY I GUESS

[aleswiftgron]

They're not even a couple yet, but as soon as something happens in The Wicked Powers everyone's going to be likeee: gurllll, we saw it coming a mile away

[margareturtle]

The reason why CC love triangles actually work is bc they are actual triangles.

The two male love interests don’t hate each other

No they are in love with each other.

Will and Jem are in love (soulmates)

James and Matthew are in love (matthew was more in love with james then he ever was with cordelia i mean come on)

Kieran Mark are in love (obvi)

Jace and Simon are besties (in love)

[alastairstom]

Upon thought, I definitely think that Kieran is just going to be a dramatic bitch in TWP book 1 and say something like "I, the Last King of Faerie, hereby abdicate to go reside at the Polyamorous Faerie cottage with Mark Blackthorn, Cristina Rosales, and our cats. There are to be... nine cats." (Mark and Cristina gesturing for a lower number from the peanut gallery) "...eight cats" (more gesturing) "...seven?" (Mark and Cristina convening and holding up three fingers) "Ah. Three cats, then. One for each of us."

The Faerie court is screaming, in shambles. "We need a king," they say, but Kieran is not having it. He leaves with Mark and Cristina, but not before pulling six kittens out of his bag and handing them off to interested Unseelies because his partners will only let him have three :/

[layla-carstairs]

on a scale from one to ten how much do you think we should be reading into the three rings in the kierarktina corner?

[wikitpowers]

IMPLYING A KIERARKTINA ENGAGEMENT?!?!\!\

[julescarstairs]

KIERARKTINA AND BLACKSTAIRS CONFIRMED FOR THE BETTER IN BLACK NOVELLAS WHAT A WIN!!!!

[clockwork-carstairs]

Mark and Kieran are so similarly dumb when it comes to the other wanting them.

Mark gets on his knees in front of Kieran asking for forgiveness, says “I love you as I love you” and “I wish you could see my heart, then you’d understand” and Kieran’s like oh ok I get it, we’re done after this, you don’t want me anymore

And then Kieran is like to Mark, if something happened to you, Mark, I would die too, you are infinitely precious to me and Mark’s like 😦🧐? “As a friend?”

They’re so SILLY. I love them so much but they’re so silly.

[tys-kitty]

No matter how many romance or fantasy novels I read, nothing will ever compare to the dramatic and absolutely beautiful love confessions in TSC

[aleclightofmylifewoodbane]

GUYSSSSS

IM DOING FLIPS. WILL IS BACK. WE ARE SO BACK GUYS.

AND KIERARKTINA. I MISS THEM ALL THE TIME IM STARVED FOR POLYCULE CONTENT.

AND THOMASTAIR!!! AND CLACE!!! im going CRAZY

and LUKE AND JOCELYN IN THE PAST ??? im REALLY hoping its during the circle time because i always find stories about the early days of the circle SO interesting. oh but i bet it will be ANGSTYY. im SO intrigued about them

cover reveal tomorrow!!!!

[rinadragomir]

My thoughts on the couples included in Better in Black for those who care

I expect you to write down yours so work work

📍Wessa

You know, as a dedicated Jessa stan I wanna say that it's okay~ Because these two were together for 50 years or sth, there's still some things to add. We might watch them in their 30s, 50s, 60s. I guess at this point both camps have around the same amount of content. Plus I'll have Jessa in twp so I'm in peace 🌱

📍Clace

All my first thoughts are over here. I'm a Clace defender, I'm their oldest stan, I'm a veteran👩‍🦳 So I feel like I have a right to say that...it was kinda unnecessary. We've witnessed every step in their relationship so far, beginning of it in TMI, gentle transition to adulthood in TDA and Tales of Shadowhunter Academy, adulthood in SOBH and proposal. So if the story isn't about their wedding then WHAT THE HELL IS IT ABOUT REALLY? And we know that they won't get married until twp.

📍Anna & Ari (Arianna!)

Hey🥺that is nice, we've seen so little of them in chain of thorns and I've loved them since their debut in 2018 in that short story. I'm very biased when it comes to TLH, cause I'm their mother. So YAY🌱they have a long way to go, Anna still needs to change a tiny little bit for them to be healthy, so I'd love to witness it

📍Jordelia

We all have known about it, because Cassie kinda promised us their story a while ago. Wedding runes scene, honeymoon, kids, mortgage etc. Go kids, slay, serve, eat and so on, I'm excited for u!

📍Sebastian & Seelie Queen

🤨🧐🤔👁👁

Yeah... That famous Sebastian &Fanbase. Like... I'm conflicted, because it's useless and doesn't make any sense even tho it might slay. Listen up, I'll show you.

Lots of people defend it by saying that it might be important for Ash's background in TWP. But... No it's not. Because this is exclusive book made for few people who were lucky and financially stable enough to get it. It won't be posted online. So most people won't read it unless someone leaks it. So there's no point for that story to be important for the plot, therefore it has nothing to do with it.

And it's definitely not "one of the most beloved" couples. BUT LIKE... WHAT IF IT SLAYS? Toxic, unhinged romance, what if I'll love it? 🤡

📍Jemma

So you see the problem? Because it's the same as Clace. What else might she add, because there's nothing. SoBH ended like yesterday. We know exactly where they live rn, their daily routine, their plans. So there's nothing to add between SOBH and twp. What will it be about? Hard to say, but I hope Cassie will come up with sth interesting for them.

📍Thomastair (why did Cassie say Alistair instead of Alastair, I'm lost help me)

Yay🥺slay, serve, eat and leave no crumbs, go, kill it idk you're doing great boys, there's so much to add and explore because they've just started dating. I'm so excited ^-^

📍Kierartkina

That is fine. No matter what I think about their relationship, because in my point of view Cristina and Kieran fell in love because Cassie said so apparently, I still don't mind them being there. Because there's also lots of things to discuss and explore. I hope the story will be soft and warm☀they've just started their advantage so it definitely makes sense

📍Sizzy

Even though we've had lots of them in TMI and Shadowhunters Academy I still think they deserve to be here. They are famous (I guess? 👁👁) and I'd like to know more about their plans for future. Simon was still a teenager in the stories collection and now I'd love to see him as a grown man being in relationship with the woman he loves.

📍Luke & Jocelyn

👁👁🤨🧐🤔👀

Well... That was... Unexpected. I guess... I've just never met their fandom but I hope it's huge af, because I don't know why else would they be here. Sophideon, Gabrily and Charlotte with Henry were supposed to be here, let's be honest. But since they're here, I do think Cassie is able to make a decent story. I expect it to be bittersweet, angsty and somehow heartwarming. I think there's nothing to say except let's wait and find out.

OVERALL I think it's pretty fine. Maximum 7/10 from me. I was ready to face the worst, but it turned out to be... Fine. So it's fine☺🌱

[aleswiftgron]

For the people who keep making weird tiktoks about how Cassie like incest bc she's used the trope

(first of all, have you really read all the books right?? Because it never seems like she's using it in a romanticizing it way, but in a way of showing a power abuse and violence)

I just want to say that she's CAREFUL AS FUCK when picking the couple right

Because thanks to TLH we kind of have an idea about the family tree.

The Blackthorns and Jace's Herondale line, are related, Tessa being their great great grandma i think??, Also the Lightwoods are there too

She really said: i'm not going to stay here and be acused of SHIT,

Alec, is paired with a 400 y/o indonesian warlock, safe✅

Julian and Emma's line are not intertwined, safe✅

The Fairchilds never mixed with the main families, so Jace and Clary, safe✅

Mark, he is half faerie, so he mixes with a faerie prince, and a mexican girl, he really said, not in LA, safe✅

Simon's a jewish mundane, Isabelle a Lightwood, safe✅

Diana and Gywn (the hunter), safe✅

Aline Penhallow, and Helen Blackthorn, Aline is not really one of the mains, safe✅

As for new possible couples:

Kit and Ty, Blackthorn and Herondale, yes, buuuuuut, its the LOST Herondale line😌, safe✅

Dru and Ash, well he is a prince of faerie and son os Sebastian Morgenstern/Fairchild, safe✅

She really brought back Jem from the (practically/mentally gone inmortal state) dead, Jem and Tessa, safe✅

I mean practically everyone is mostly related, the Blackthorns and Jace have the same great great grandma, and Jace and Emma are kinda related because of Cordelia, and the Lightwoods were cousins with the Herondales in TLH sooo she really thought about it

[stargirlbryce]

Moodboard: The Dark Artifices

"As long as you exist and I exist, I will love you."