#i ship malec

[givemeureyes]

day 1 without ao3: i have gone through all 5 stages of grief multiple times and have invented a 6th. i will not disclose what the 6th stage of grief is.

[lurafita]

Some of you may never know the pain of liking the less liked character in the most popular fandom ship, and I'm very happy for you.

You may never know the kind of resentment you may one day feel towards the other, more liked, character.

The way it may even start to ruin the ship for you entirely, over time, because it's always, ALWAYS, all about the fandom darling. While your personal favorite is just there to make the other one shine.

Some of you may never know this boiling, impotent, rage you start developing when fandom darling gets more and more love from the fandom, while your personal darling gets more and more used in whichever way the fandom darling needs.

And I'm happy for you.

I hope you will always like the fandom darlings best, I really do. Because otherwise, it can get rough.

[skateboardtotheheart]

one of my favorite tropes is magic user x non-magic user where every time they kiss the magic user makes the lights or sparks or something in the room go crazy because they're so in love with non-magic user they lose control of their magic

[liltaireissocute]

fem!malec because everything is better if it's wlw

[cypherpunkism]

fandom, see gay men as actual people and not abstract vessels for your shipping fantasies challenge

[i-have-not-slept]

one of these days we really need to have an actual serious conversation about how cassandra clare consistently prioritises mlm over wlw ships in her books

[apencilandpen]

a truth so loud you can't ignore

[terapsina]

And those rarest of creatures...

My Top 10 Favorite Canon ENDGAME OTPs

(and I realize some of these will be a surprise because I haven't posted that much about them but... well, when everything is perfect and nothing hurts there's less need for venting... also a bunch of them don't align with my Tumblr heavy periods or precede them entirely, so...)

1. Parker and Hardison - Leverage

The absolute sweetest couple maybe ever. The way Hardison just... loves Parker, without ultimatums or impatience. Just there once she's ready to meet his feelings with her own. And Parker, knowing she's developed feelings for... 'pretzels' and admitting it in the only way she can initially. So good.

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2. Aneela and Kendry - Killjoys

You give me two amoral queens, have them be evil and immortal, and have them fall in love? I was a goner from the word go. Giving them a sci-fi kid just added fuel to the fire.

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3. Jo and Zane - Eureka

I shipped the 1.0 version too. But when they accidentally erased the original timeline and had Jo remembering being in love and nearly engaged and having Zane not? Damn. Talk about angsty ship bait.

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4. Kensi and Deeks - NCIS: Los Angeles

Sunshine and gunpowder. Freaking made for each other and doing a proper piney slow burn. My jam.

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5. Magnus and Alec - Shadowhunters

I mean. Do you think I could resist a grand wedding crash with a 'if your son wants me gone he's going to have to say it to me himself' with the widely grinning sister of the miserable groom going 'I invited him'? What am I, made of stone? (War of Hearts is tattooed on the inside of my eardrums).

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6. Nico and Karolina - Runaways

Okay. But like, even beyond the flawless imagery of Gothic Witch Queen and Royal Heir of Sunshine and Rainbows... they were so captivating. So ready to sacrifice anything for each other's happiness. I love them your honor.

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7. Xiao Lanhua and Dongfang Qingcang - Love Between Fairy and Devil

"Everything in this world is fate. Only love is not fate."

Talk about ripping out my heart. In a story built around two people more trapped by fate than anyone, they save each other by doing the one thing fate has no say over.

(I usually prefer my romances to be the B and C plots, but these two? They are the exception that proves the rule. This whole show is their love story and I was spellbound for 36 episodes straight).

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8. Shawn and Jules - Psych

So. Much. Pining. And the inclusion of the cruelest 'I love you' known to man, because who doesn't love a good 'I've been shot, and the guy who shot me just let me call my girlfriend but I'm using the call to give out clues about how to find me, so I'm pretending you're Abigail, but he's listening and he wants me to tell you that I love you and I know... think... suspect... that saying it will hurt you, but I don't have a choice and I'm so sorry'.

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9. Nikita and Michael - Nikita

They both know what it feels like to lose someone you love. Which is why the way them kinda having at least a scene a season where one of them thinks the other just got killed is brutal. But I live for the looks on their faces when they figure out they're wrong.

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10. Korra and Asami - Legend of Korra

What's more fun than falling in love with the ex boyfriend's ex girlfriend? Nothing. They got me to stand up and pay attention right quick once I realized where this was going (and the finale was how I started watching reaction videos... it made me so happy watching everyone else cry, cheer and squee too)

[sky-neverending]

the funny thing about being in the shadowhunters fandom is that i’m such a multishipper but at the same time i’m not.

like for example: this is my list of ships for simon

simon/rapheal

simon/clary

simon/rapheal/izzy

simon/maia

simon/jace

simon/izzy

simon/clary/jace

….i ship simon with literally everyone

BUT

i take one look at alec and decide he can’t be with anyone but magnus (and vice versa)

i just think that’s funny lol

[wikitpowers]

someone probably asked this before, but what's your top 5 tsc books, characters and ships? have a great dayy <3

OOOH NO DON'T ASK ME FOR FAVS OR I WILL ACTUALLY COMBUST THIS IS TOO HARD !!!

but okay,,, let me think oof let's go (i'm stressed)

my top 5 books are probably:

lady midnight

city of glass

city of heavenly fire

clockwork angel

queen of air and darkness

my top 5 characters (why are u doing this to me):

KIT HERONDALE (are we surprised?)

ty blackthorn

jem carstairs

magnus bane

emma carstairs

AND dru blackthorn (my beloved❤️‍🔥) -> i genuinely refuse to not put her on the list (and ik for a fact she will become even cooler in twp and i’ll fall apart)

my fav 5 (kill me) ships are:

KITTY (<3)

malec

blackstairs

herongraystairs

morgenthorn (i need to add them bc i know they will eat up that enemies-to-lovers plotline)

[sharonccrter]

I still stand by clace being so underrated in the show, I still see comments on clace edits on tiktok making it all about malec, like the show only fans were so annoying about it.

[echoes-fandoms]

My Top 100 Ships (#84: Magnus/Alec)

Source: The Mortal Instruments (Cassandra Clare)

Fanfiction Rating: A-?? I haven't read Malec fics since my ff.net days, but there are 32,000 fics on AO3 for them and I'm going to assume that there are some good ones in there, because nothing beats gay people writing Magnus Bane.

When Did I Start Shipping Them? 2009, baby! I read the books with my mum through my teen years, and I was onboard with the ship basically as soon as the two of them met. Magnus Bane was such a revelation for my little preteen brain, started all the gender gears whirring. Why Do I Ship Them? Again, they're some of the original queer rep in YA, I ship them for the sheer iconic nature of their relationship. But also, I love the restrained partner x uncensored partner where both of them are absolutely wild, it just takes you longer to catch on to the quieter one.

Favourite Fanfiction Tropes/Staples? I really liked shapeshifting fics back in the day. I'm not a fan of AUs for this pairing because Magnus's backstory is so fun in canon, so basically any fun magic shenanigans in the canon universe is up my alley.

[manyrandomfandoms]

what’s your ultimate favorite ship. Across all fandoms, what’s the ONE that just hits different from the rest

[la-muerta]

Title: chorus to the verse

Fandoms: Shadowhunters (TV)

Warnings: Rated E.

Relationships: Magnus Bane x Alec Lightwood

Summary: Snapshots from Magnus and Alec's relationship, or three times that one of them had to leave, and one time that neither of them had to.

Part three of my Rockstar!Malec AU, "semi-charmed kind of life"

Written for @sweetspicybingo's Sweetheart Bingo 2024 and Finish Your Fucking Fics February.

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Chapter 4 of 4: something in you I believe in [Read on AO3]

May 8, 1999 — Fire Island, New York: A happy ending for Alec and Magnus in a private ceremony for their friends and loved ones <3

This chapter covers the squares:

Skinny Dip

My Bed Now

and

Finish a recent WIP

This fic is complete at 9,845 words and this chapter also completes my Sweetheart Bingo card!

(bingo cards under cut)

[eliotquillon]

sorry guys got really into the shadowhunters subreddit this week and saw red over a show-centric meme that shit on sizzy and have been simmering in resentment ever since . If only they had walked a mile in my shoes (desperately refreshing cassandra clare’s website in 2014 waiting for shadowhunter academy teasers to be released because you were desperate for simon and isabelle to finally get their happy ending) and also the show had fucking bothered to give isabelle any kind of consistent characterisation at all . If only.

[threewaywithdelusion]

Shadowhunter Chronicles characters/couples as Taylor Swift songs:

Couples:

Herongraystairs: Timeless

I would’ve read your love letters every night / and prayed to God you’d be coming home alright / and you would’ve been fine, we would’ve been timeless /

cause I believe that we were supposed to find this / so even in a different life / you still would’ve been mine / we would’ve been timeless

Cordelia/Matthew: Getaway Car

I struck a match and blew your mind / but I didn't mean it / and you didn't see it

I wanted to leave him / I needed a reason

You were driving the getaway car / we were flying but we'd never get far / don't pretend it's such a mystery / think about the place where you first met me / riding in a getaway car / there were sirens in the beat of your heart

It was the great escape / the prison break

You weren't thinking / and I was just drinking

Thomas/Alastair: Sweeter Than Fiction

Wish I could make it better / someday you won't remember / the pain you thought would last forever and ever

Just a shot, just a shot, in the dark, oh, oh / All you got, all you got are your shattered hopes / they never saw it coming

Proved me right, proved me right, when you proved them wrong

I'll be one of the many saying "look at you now, look at you now, now" / I'll be one of the many saying "you made us proud, you made us proud, proud"

Anna/Ari: A Perfectly Good Heart

Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart? / Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart? / Why would you wanna make the very first scar?

Maybe I should've seen the signs, should've read the writing on the wall / And realized by the distance in your eyes that I would be the one to fall

Kieran/Mark/Cristina: Out of the Woods

The rest of the world was black & white / but we were in screaming color

Are we out of the woods yet? / Are we in the clear yet? / Good

We were built to fall apart and fall back together

Your necklace hanging from my neck

That night we couldn't quite forget / when we decided, we decided / to move the furniture so we could dance

Remember when you couldn't take the heat? / I walked out, said 'I'm setting you free' / But the monsters turned out to be just trees / when the sun came up, you were looking at me

Emma/Julian: Run

Give me the keys / I'll bring the car back around

And my so-called friends, they don't know / I'd drive away before I let you go

I could see this view a hundred times / pale blue sky reflected in your eyes

There's a heart on your sleeve / I'll take it when I leave / and hold it for you

There's been this hole in my heart / this thing was a shot in the dark / say you'll never let 'em tear us apart / and I'll hold onto you while we run / like you'd run from the law

Emma/Julian Part 2: Dress

Our secret moments in a crowded room / they got no idea about me and you

All of this silence and patience / pining and anticipation / my hands are shaking from holding back from you

I don't want you like a best friend

Inescapable / I'm not even gonna try / and if I get burned, at least we were electrified

Even in my worst times / you could see the best of me / flashback to my mistakes / my rebounds, my earthquakes / even in my worst lies, you could see the truth in me

I woke up just in time / now I wake up by your side / my one and only, my lifeline

Kit/Ty: Renegade

I tapped on your window on your darkest night

Are you really gonna talk about timing in times like these? / And let all your damage damage me? / And carry your baggage up my street? / And make me your future history?

Is it insensitive for me to say "get your shit together so I can love you?"

Magnus/Alec: You Are In Love & Lover

You understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars

There's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear / have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?

Can I go where you go? / Can we always ben this close? Forever and ever

Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand? / with every [bow] string scar on my hand / I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover

My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue / All's well that ends well to end up with you / swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover

Characters:

Julian: Eyes Open

The tricky thing / is yesterday we were just children / playing soldiers, just pretending / dreaming dreams with happy endings

And now we've stepped into a cruel world / where everybody stands and keeps score

Everybody's waiting for you to break down / everybody's watching to see the fallout / even when you're sleeping / keep your eyes open

So here you are / two steps ahead and staying on guard / every lesson forms a new scar / they never thought you'd make it this far

Nobody comes to save you now

Matthew: Tied Together With A Smile

Hold on, baby you're losing it / the water's high, you're jumping into it / and letting go / and no one knows / that you cry, but you don't tell anyone / that you might not be the golden one / and you're tied together with a smile but you're coming undone

it's not his price to pay

Clary: The Man

I'd be a fearless leader / I'd be an alpha-type / when everyone believes ya? / What's that like?

I'm so sick of them coming at me again / 'Cause if I was a man / then I'd be the man