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I AM GOING INSANE AT THIS

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ok, we’ve seen A LOT from you but, hands down, that’s your gayest shit ever, jem. this is it.

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i’m always like damn why do herongraystairs have such a chokehold on me, why is their story so sad? and then i’m like. the human need for connection like that. to love and to be loved so much someone would give their life for yours, and you’d do the same for them. to have someone who’d fight so hard to live for you. to have someone who loved you for 130 years. to have someone who would risk everything and try everything to protect you. to know no world, not even death could ever truly separate you, because your souls were meant to find each other.

herongraystairs were just next level

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the gayest gays to ever gay

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the way will and jem self-destruct in opposite ways.. how will wrecks his body to mirror his (perceived) wrecked soul, and jem wrecks his soul (i.e. his violin) to mirror his wrecked body.. and how one of them self-destructing triggers the other to spiral as well.. because will sees jem as his goodness, and jem sees will as his capability. and when they attack themselves, they are attacking the thing the other considers to be half of his being. and if will takes away their healthy body, then fine, jem will take away their healthy soul. he'll ruin his violin. he'll give into his desires. and they'll spiral in tandem.

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parabatai parallels 🥺

—Simon Lewis, City of Glass

—Will Herondale, Clockwork Princess

—Julian Blackthorn, Lady Midnight

—James Herondale, Chain of Thorns

@ofstarsandmoonlightt ’s post on this parallel reminded me of Julian's lines to Emma and I simply had to put them all together 🥺

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“Are they lovers?”

Worse.

Art credit: Cassandra Jean

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Will's wet dream is just Tessa and Jem all over him all rightttttt 🤨🤨🤨

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Tessa <33 I want to draw some of the shadowhunter guys but I hate drawing men :(

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Cecily !! Wish there was more love for her

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parabatai are literally so insignificant in tmi and I know it's just bc the parabatai lore wasn't ever supposed to become as significant as it is now but it's kind of sending me regardless bc you're telling me that will and jem didn't even have to be doing all that?

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I think it's pretty amazing that in the end, Will Herondale, the boy who loved nothing more than a good story, literally haunts the entire TSC narrative as The Story. He's everyone's favorite story, whether it's Tessa and Jem who love him or Shadowhunter society looking back on their heroes. Will literally loved stories so much he became one.

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You don’t understand…they are EVERYTHING to me

Artist: @charliebowater

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so @erch0maii said in a post that i didn’t want to hijack that the reason that both screen adaptations of tmi didn’t feel quite right is because they were these dark gritty adaptations while the books are, at heart, campy and silly and comical. and i was thinking about this and how it relates to the other series in the tsc canon. when i first read tsc i thought that the reason they felt tmi felt different from tid, tda, and tlh is because they were her first books but it really all comes down to the character’s sense of humor and genre awareness. because all the other tsc series (and i’m betting twp too) take themselves so seriously, but timi doesn’t do that. 

with genre awareness, the characters are put in this dark edgy fantasy war series but they act like their in a satire or a comedy. my favorite parts of qoaad were when jace and clary were in these dangerous situations and were acting so nonchalant about it. and it wasn’t even like a fake confidence or something, they genuinely just are Like That. like at the war council they walked in casually with normal clothes and people didn’t even notice them until lily called them out. like, they could have changed, they could have made a big entrance, but no, why bother. and later in brocelind when manuel rips out the tent and they’re playing tic tac toe. they don’t acknowledge him at all, not even to make a joke about him ruining the tents they borrowed. they just sit there playing tic tac toe. and again on the imperishable fields, jace has a knife to manuel’s back and clary is holding the stanchion but emma describes them as walking as if they’re out for a morning stroll.

and like look at the parallels between the series. the tlh crew met one and a half princes of hell and barely made it out with their sanity. the tmi gang has collectively met 3 princes of hell and in literally every situation they’re on the same level. when emma and julian went to thule it was this dark scary traumatizing thing, this actual hell that wasn’t quite hell. and when james, matthew, lucie, and cordelia went to edom it was this terrible experience that both lucie and matthew spent literally dying. but when the tmi gang went to hell, what ever. yeah it was serious and traumatic and scarring but not in the same way. izzy and simon hooked up. clary and jace had sex. and alec made fun of all four of them for it after. jace got caught by a demon and clary scolded him like he left the fridge open. they literally snuck into sebastian’s elite fortress with a plan from simon’s dnd campaign. and diyu?  even when simon was having a mental breakdown he managed to flirt with izzy it took the tlh gang 3 long-ass books to defeat belial and christopher died in the process. the tmi gang beat sammael in a f*cking side book. if you go to the shadowhunter wiki and go to azazel’s history he’s said as being a part of team good. imagine how casual you have to be to get a prince of hell to join ‘team good’

and then there’s the angels. tessa’s contact with ithuriel almost killed her. emma and julian’s whole nephilim thing also almost killed them. and yeah, clary’s first encounter with raziel was very somber and serious. but in cols simon literally blackmailed raziel into giving him a magical sword. and with faerie, every encounter that the tda gang have with faeries or in faerie is this dangerous quest that could get everybody killed. the tmi gang don’t hesitaste to insult the seelie queen to her face

the thing that sets tmi apart from the rest of tsc is the characters’ refusal to take anything, themselves and everyone around them, seriously for very long

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YOU'RE DONE!! youre DONE.

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herongraystairs never had one bad track

"You think she's pretty?" Will was surprised; Jem rarely opined on this sort of thing.

"Yes, and you do too."

"I hadn't noticed, really."

"Yes, you have, and I've noticed you noticing." BANGER

“Tessa was only halfway down the corridor when they caught up to her- Will and Jem, walking on either side of her. "You didn’t really think we weren't going to come along, did you?" ICONIC

“Perhaps she's a girl who's fallen madly in love with me and persists in following me wherever I go."

"My talent is shape-shifting, Will, not acting," said Tessa, and at that, Jem laughed out loud. Will glared at him. SURREAL

AND DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON "What you said before, she asked. "That Jace Herondale loves Clarissa Fairchild more than anyone you've ever known except someone - you never finished the sentence. Who was it?"

"I was going to say you and me and Will”