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Brother Zachariah in the new TMI graphic novel I'm 😭

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"It had to be unsent or there be no Wicked Powers" what does that even mean Cassie??

THIS WOMAN IS GONNA FUCKINF END ME

be nice to us, kitty stans! we’re emotional! 💔

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And they apparently only use a small portion of it 😭

i just saw pictures of the real life cirenworth hall for the first time and holy shit, you're telling me THIS is where jem, tessa, kit and mina live?!

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This is probably a really dumb question. You know the Shadowhunter nursery rhyme?

“Black for hunting through the night, for death and mourning the color’s white…” that one.

For the majority of those colors there is a canon meaning to it. For example: black is the color of gear, gray is for the Gray Book, bone is for the Silent Brothers, Red is for magic, etc. And we’ll most likely find out what “bronze to summon wicked powers” means in The Wicked Powers.

The ones I’ve never seen a canon reference to is “blue banners when the lost return”, “flame for the birth of a nephilim”, “and to wash away our sins”, “saffron lights the victory march”, “green will mend our broken hearts”. There is definitely a big possibility that these colors were mentioned in canon and I just didn’t catch it difjdjd.

I’m thinking of writing a Christmas countdown fic based on the nursery rhyme, so I’m just trying to get my shit together.

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Happy Birthday to the Shadowhunter and Silent Brother extraordinaire Jem Carstairs!

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So I know I haven’t been very active here lately, but if anyone needs to vent, my dms are always open.

Hey y'all. If you're from the US and of legal age, don't forget to vote today!! 💙💙

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Kit to Ty

Election day: misery, stress, hair-pulling, at least for Americans (and a lot of other people around the world affected by our politics!) So I thought I'd post a distraction; I hope it helps and doesn't annoy!

A while ago I posted the beginning of a letter from Kit to Ty, created for a Kickstarter backer. Here's the full text:

A letter from Kit to Ty, never sent.

Ty, Ty, Ty.

Your name looks strange written out like that. Like an abbreviation. But Tiberius would be so formal. I never think of you that way. Or, I suppose I should say, I never thought of you that way. Tenses matter in these situations, I guess.

It’s late, past midnight, and I’m sitting on the windowsill in my bedroom at Cirenworth. Jem and Tessa gave me one of the best rooms. Of course they did. It has a view out over the gardens. Sometimes I see the ghost of a dog there, a golden retriever I’m pretty sure, running in and out of the flowerbeds. He seems like a pretty happy ghost. I think about how much you like animals and how much they love you, because of course they do. But it’s too late; this dog passed away a long time ago. You probably couldn’t even see him. It’s too late for a lot of things, now.  

I’m still mad at you, and I don’t feel good about that. Maybe if I could forget, I could forgive. But I can’t forget that night you brought Livvy back. I’ll suddenly remember even when I’m thinking about something else. I’ll be in the middle of helping Tessa in the garden and suddenly I’ll turn around and I’m back in Idris. 

I remember I told you I loved you. I remember I told you I would help you, but not if you raised Livvy from the dead. Not if you did necromancy. But you wanted that more than you wanted me.

And I understand that. I’m not angry about that. Here’s what I’m angry about: when you brought Livvy back, you changed yourself. You made yourself a different person than the one I loved. I don’t know the person you are now. You took yourself away from me. I can’t forgive that. And you made me someone who has to keep a secret I never wanted to keep. I was raised by someone who had so many awful secrets, and when I started my life as a Shadowhunter I wanted to do it openly, and honestly. But now I’m just someone else with secrets I can never tell. Just like my dad.

It makes me angry, so angry. I want to yell at you. I wish you were here so I could yell at you.

Kit

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Hey y'all. If you're from the US and of legal age, don't forget to vote today!! 💙💙

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I saw a post on here a while back (or it could've been twitter idk), and I don't remember who posted it or exactly what it said. But it said something along the lines of the fact that it's weird that Kit is compared to Jace a lot in terms of his appearance since they come from 2 different branches of Herondale.

Which is so true because I highly doubt that Kit looks anything like Jace 😭.

ALSO super unrelated but something else I was thinking about...

How it's weird giving Alec and Izzy the middle names "Gideon" and "Sophia" when they are so far removed from Gideon and Sophie's line. But I guess giving them "Gabriel" and "Cecily" as middle names would've been too on the nose.

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Warlock Squad: Catarina Loss, Magnus Bane, Ragnor Fell

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I always feel so bad for Michael Wayland because of the fact that he was unwillingly thrown into the narrative by Valentine for seemingly no reason. I think Valentine probably had it our for him since he was one of two people who ever truly questioned him.

will herondale will always haunt the narrative but can we talk about michael wayland haunting the narrative

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For real like 😭. I know you know how babies are made, Robert.

this whole scene is so funny to me and has stayed rent free in my head since I read it the first time round

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Is there a lot of overlap between TSC readers and THG readers?? Because I don't know about y'all, but I'm excited for this new Hunger Games book.

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While we are in a bit of a drought for content: I’d like to inform anyone who doesn’t know that the TSC wiki has a compilation of bonus scenes, short stories, discarded scenes, written scenes for each series!!

Here is the link to said page

This is actually SO fun to look through!! The tmi ones have the most as it’s the oldest series, but seeing some of the deleted scenes is so crazy!! (There’s a deleted sizzy scene that I rlly like there too!!)

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Cecily !! Wish there was more love for her

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Yes to all of this, but I also wish Magnus could've just said "I never had a relationship with Will" full stop. Camille obviously thinks that they had a relationship because he kissed Will once to make her jealous, but I feel like Magnus could've just shut all this down quickly by letting Alec know that early on.

Magnus had so much patience, because insecure Alec was annoying as hell. Alec is my favourite character in TMI because he matured and aged like fine wine, but oh my God he was annoying in this book. I mean, who cares about a man that has been literal dirt in the ground for the last 70 years? Fuck the dead man, and his non existent ashes, and just enjoy your time. Alexander my boy, get your shit together, because it’s tiresome 😭😭

And fuck Camille for adding insecurities to his already very insecure head.

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Hey so apparently it's becoming a problem that fanfic readers are putting fanfic on Goodreads. So I just wanted to put it out there that I DO NOT consent to any of my fics being put on Goodreads!! Have people lost their minds??