#the shadowhunter chronincles

[letika]

Merry Christmas 1930

Yep, I was inspired by the christmas art for 2021. I liked it so much that I've wanted to draw something based on it for a veery loong time, so here we go

[jaxlightstairs]

Some people say "I love you." Magnus Bane says "Loving you made me believe in eternity"

Art from the graphic novel by Cassandra Jean

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

15 yro me was onto something when she chose jem carstairs over will herondale

[tscsunlover]

I miss ty, kit, and dru so much rn

[laylaxcarstairs]

Will: Okay, so I just had a really great idea.

Jem: No.

[queenhelenblackthorn]

The Last King of Faerie:

He was tall and slim, with hair the color of silver and snow. He wore ivory and black, like a chessboard come to life. His clothes were clearly Faerie workmanship: they had that quality of being both natural and richly luxurious. A black velvet cloak, embroidered with silver thread, soft boots, a silk tunic with mother-of-pearl buttons, open at the throat.

There was something unusual about him, something not quite entirely faerie. She knew what faerie blood mixed with human blood looked like, knew how they blended, the mortal line softening the icy sharpness of fae beauty.

"Shadowhunters find the oddest things to brag about." His voice was cold music.

Nothing changed in his gaze; it was as cool and considering as it had been before. "More than that," he said. "I mean -"

He closed her fingers over it. His touch was surprisingly warm, for all he seemed carved out of ice. Ash, Dru thought, Ash, I know you, I know who you are

thinking some thoughts about these new additions

City of Heavenly Fire:

Lord of Shadows:

Queen of Air and Darkness:

Forever Fallen:

I think about this every goddamn day

[letika]

Autumn promenade after the rain

[jaxlightstairs]

ALEC LIGHTWOOD BEING SO FUCKING HOT DEFENDING THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE 🤌✨️

It's one of my favorite scenes from LoS surely

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

guys isn’t this giving camille belcourt?!

[tscsunlover]

“I like writing ty” IM GONNA CRY

[laylaxcarstairs]

James: What’s this?

Thomas: It’s my to-do list.

James: Oh? That’s Great. I’m so glad you’re starting to be more organiz-

James: This just says Alastair.

[queenhelenblackthorn]

It wasn't a competition but they won anyway

[tyblackthornfrog]

this might be the clearest headcanon i can imagine of them actually

kit: i hope they play HOT TO GO!

ty: kit we're fighting demons right now

the demons: 👹🙌🙆‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷🙆‍♀️💁‍♂️🙆👹

[cardiganloser]

so we know tom's whole 'dear alastair' speech is to do with fire message testing in a scene set in kit's lab with kit present thanks to the four chapters getting released early. we also know that alastair shows up at kit's place unexpectedly with kit and thomas both present thanks to that snippet where kit asked if alastair is seeing charles, i'm thinking alastair gets that fire message and runs to the lab to talk to thomas and they finally sort their shit out

[kotwkawie]

May be unpopular ..but anytime someone is sad about Grace and Kit not happening on the timeline ..I can’t help but feel vindicated? Especially since the fandom downplayed what happened to him and thought it was okay to ship James’ ex gf and abuser with his first cousin, so because of having to see that all these years I’m glad she ended up the way she did at the end of Chain of Thorns, Im sad for Kit but not sad that they didn’t end up romantic. It feels like Cassie respected his trauma, even if I didn’t like Kit standing up for her and meeting her in secret in the first place. That was something that would’ve felt more comfortable to read if it were Jesse defending her there, not Kit. With Kit his focus on Grace almost felt disloyal, I was surprised with James’ temperament and fragile emotions that he didn’t snap at Kit over his doting over Grace..It was an ooc moment for James not to react but CC just didn’t want Kit to be called out only by Anna and Tom for some reason

oh I don’t think it’s an unpopular opinion, maybe it depends on who you follow but I saw a lot of people here and on twitter (myself included) criticize the Kit scene and how clear it was that he did not care about James's trauma. 

I’m re-reading the book right now, and every scene with Kit and James/The Merry Thieves is kind of spoiled for me, because I know that he chose this girl he knew for a month? over one of his closest friends. 

I think James didn’t say anything because he was just so exhausted from telling the story and he didn't want to fight with Kit right away. And I feel like Kit’s death robbed us of an actual confrontation (but I think she did that, because she knew most people would hate Kit for siding and fighting on the behalf of the abuser). 

I also saw people say that since Thomas forgave Alastair and wanted everyone else to forgive him, he should understand Kit. Which is???? nope. Those are apples and oranges, my guy. One was a stupid kid who didn’t know how much damage he was doing and the other knew exactly what she was doing and kept doing it (while having mood swings about how she felt about it, but that was more on Cassie and how she decided to write Grace). 

I’m really glad Cassie spent so much time highlighting how much damage Grace and the bracelet had done, because yeah, like you said, a lot of people in this fandom didn’t see what happened to James as something horrific or were a little too quick to forget because Kit and grace had a cute scene together.

anyway, everytime I “hate on”/criticize Grace I get a ton of dm/asks saying that I don’t understand her character, but I do. I really do. It's just like Cassie said, Grace is the embodiment of explanation not an excuse. And since she knew damn well what she was doing and kept doing it to other people, I cannot bring myself to like her or even feel bad for her. 

So this is a PSA to everyone who wants to say I blame the victim or something. everytime you say that I’m gonna respond with this image:

[opal-stars]

there’s a serious lack of Dru Blackthorn fanart so here ya go 🖤🦇🔪🩸🫀☠️

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