#the queen of air and darkness

[meraki-yao]

I was watching an interview from a Chinese rom-com in 2020 and one of the questions was "What do you think is the sweetest romantic declaration?"

And then I started thinking about what are the most romantic lines of my top ships: Malec (Shadowhunters, both show and book), Wenzhou (Word of Honour), and Firstprince (RWRB both movie and book)

Honestly, if I had to pick one out of all of the lines of all ships, I'd say it's "Alec Lightwood loved one man so much he changed the world for him." from The Queen of Air and Darkness, the Shadowhunter Chronicles for Malec. Like, turning eros (romantic, passionate love) into fuel for agape (sacrificial love) and actually making the world a better place for his love? I can't imagine anything greater than that.

For Shadowhunters show, it's Malec's entire wedding vow, I think it summarises what a healthy loving relationship is perfectly. Especially "I will catch you when you fall, and when you soar, I will help you reach your greatest heights"

For Wenzhou from Word of Honour, it's the sunbathing scene from episode 12, just calling each other's name thrice. There's something beautifully simple about that.

And for Firstprince, for the movie, it's "I'll break the sound barrier for you." I don't really know how to explain this one, it 's just the one that touched me the most. Especially after Henry's pled after a week of isolation and agony, the way Alex sounds so sure about it even though truthfully they're both lost and scared as fuck, the way it's a callback to the moment Alex realized he was in love with Henry... it's just fucking beautiful.

For the book, it used to be An Incomplete List of Reasons why I love HRH Prince Henry of Wales, but there was one night in late September where long story short someone said I was selfish for being an emotionally sensitive person which really hurt, so I tried calming myself down by reading RWRB. Then I read bad metaphors about maps out loud and sobbed even harder.

I don't fucking know? there's just something so beautiful about the way Alex writes, which is ironic when earlier he said to Henry "I can't match you in prose" because what the fuck, all of the emails are beautiful but to me turns out bad metaphors is a whole other level. Henry is a writer, he's good with words, those are his dearest tools, but in front of this email, Henry is literally speechless. What the fuck, Alex. What the fuck.

i need to hear TZP read bad metaphors, but I also think that will end me.

Yeah. My favourite romantic declarations from my three favourite ships.

[hopestrope]

In case you haven't cried about Livvy today:

Emma and Livvy talking about how Ty doesn't want to become parabatai with Livvy in Lady Midnight:

Kit and Ty talking about Livvy in Queen of Air and Darkness:

"When Livvy comes back, I'm going to tell her I want to do the parabatai ceremony right away."

[samraeduke]

“The Queen of Air & Darkness - Archfey of the Unseelie Court”

I’m thinking of painting a series of fey creatures, and this is the first of that series. Eldritch, twisted and full of magic✨

[tys-kitty]

Reading TDA for the first time was like

Me *who hasn‘t even as much as held hands with a person romantically*: Just confess your feelings for each other and kiss, you suckers!

[neon-academia]

"𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞": 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐬 

a gift (made with lots of ❤️) for my readers who made it this far

wp | ao3 | masterpost

after the truly horrible night they both had, it couldn’t end any other way. i hope you enjoyed this episode of Jude *thunking* her head on Cardan’s shoulder and feeling like maybe everything will be okay... 

read the full chapter Faith, Trust and Moth Dust:  wp | ao3

[the-mortal-incorrects]

Started reading Queen of Air and Darkness without having read the previous two books. That opening scene had me

[readwithlivvy]

thinking about how the last time we saw clary in a book was qoaad which came out 5 (!!!) years ago

[d20unfuckability]

<there is no official art for The Queen of Air and Darkness>

"cold and distant? takes the form of a stiff cold wind that could make all the hairs on your body stand to attention, as well has any other parts you may have that might react to being tickled and caress by an icy breeze. Sending shivers down your spine is her signature move :D Also she's got that feral form thing going on with all-black shark-like eyes and dripping fangs in an all-black maw - very good at making the people she fucks fear her and tremble in all kinds of ways. Also also she can shape darkness around you - surrounding your head in darkness at will, or surrounding herself in darkness & pouncing on you from directions you're not expecting. Also she's a Queen, which is rather bloody nice if you're one of those bri'ish sorts that have a thing for queens, dontcha know :D but for real her cold attitude and regal status would be excellent fun for someone who wants to be made to feel like a lowly wretch not even worthy of being trodden on by her royal highness ;)"

"my goodness me! the manipulation & charming & layers upon layers of emotional invulnerability. A long-term with rapunzel in her current headspace would be utter destruction for everyone involved, but the sex seems like it'd be WILD. Hair surrounding and enveloping and overpowering and binding and suspending and puppeteering oh me oh my! What an interesting prospect!"

[unlicensedinvestigator]

Andhera becoming the King of the Unseelie Court after his mother’s passing, supposed to never debase himself with a physical form again, just as his mother hadn’t, but whistling through the narrow cave systems to finally coalesce in front of Binx, who they had sworn their oath to?

[agentqv]

So if I had “hypothetically” written a five-part fanfic about Binx and Andhera’s first day in the Mortal Realm after the ACOFAF finale in which they have an encounter with the Queen of Air and Darkness that gets super emotional and dramatic, would anyone here want to read that? It’s like 7000 words and it’s chock full of dialogue, angst, survivor’s guilt, imposter syndrome, familial confrontations, familial violence, Andhera being a beautiful moron, and maybe some romantic confessions and cuddling. 

My title for it is: “We Will Speak Again After” (as a reference to ACOFAF Ep8)

I’m a bit rusty in terms of writing fiction (I haven’t been in college for a long time), but I connected really hard with ACOFAF and Binxhera, so due to sheer withdrawal I’ve focused my energies into writing a story that I thought would be cool and accommodate the character arcs that Aabria, Surena and Omar had set up for their characters (though there is an inevitable degree of OOC to it as hard as I tried to resist). Grandpa Dog is also in there and I think his part of the story is very funny because Binx does not like him but Andhera does-

I’m mostly asking because it’s finished, but I gotta wait a while longer to get an AO3 account setup, so I’d be open to posting parts here (though I don’t know if that’s accepted and liked protocol). And someone here might potentially hate it and my interpretation of the characters so in many ways this is absolutely terrifying to me, I don’t know why I’m doing this to myself. 

So would you like to read it?

(This fic isn’t intended to be the potential Grabalba wedding fic I discussed earlier, but I could see it happening in the same continuity.)

Edit: thank you all for your kind words. I’ve been posting the story on my feed, please take a look and tell me what you think.

Edit: It is now five parts.

Edit: The whole fic is now live on AO3

[apesoformythoughts]

When shall I be dead and rid

Of the wrong my father did?

How long, how long, till spade and hearse

Put to sleep my mother’s curse?

[misscryptidart]

I don't think The Queen of Air and Darkness would be too keen on this draconic tantrum

[hopestrope]

Thank you very very much @mayaheronthorn for this one! (Sorry it took me a while to post, my final exams are killing me.)

[vashs-posts]

Guys why do i feel like the knife Jaime gave Dru is some fae artifact????

[tys-kitty]

Magnus after finding out that Kit and Ty attempted necromancy

[theocannibalistic]

traumatized goth girls will share a tender moment with their warlock patron then ask this out of character after the session