#instrument families

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was further in my banjo practice that I currently am. My aunt grabbed my instrument and said, “Watch this!” before absolutely *shredding* the strings playing Cotton Eye Joe.

[mushrooms-and-blooms]

I'm still clawing for the strings Oh, I'd do any fucking thing

so after Im Ready Now I listened to the rest of dodie's discography several times in a row. and I found another song

[kasirose]

Being the Consul and father of two (lovable) menaces is a tiring job and your husband is being no help XD

Drew this inspired by a convo my bestie and I had about dads and their tendency to fall asleep on couches 😂

Also I believe the kids would DEF mess with Alec when he's asleep. Somebody save his hair

[doccywhomst]

wow… you didnt think id let pride end w/o posting the best ever rendition of ‘i will survive’ from 1994 australian cult classic ‘the adventures of priscilla queen of the desert’ did you

[carelessflower]

do you think the reason alec was so frustrated and acted irrationally when magnus dodged or refused to tell him anything about his past or more about him is because it reminded alec of how his parents would treat him. close, there’s a special bond there for sure, but he was always in the dark, depending on any scraps they feel pity enough for him. needed to not ask question, to go out of the line, to simply act like everything was fine. and because magnus was nothing like maryse and robert, didn’t reprimand alec for his irritation, his anger, alec wanted to push and push, to see how far the limit stretch, until everything was out of his control

[amrubrum]

Clary and Alec in CoB when Alec refused to admit Clary was a shadowhunter:

y'all i pray this makes sense🙏🏻

[tiredandoptimistic]

What I really enjoy about Luke and Maryse's interactions in City of Ashes is that they clearly grew up separate from each other. Both of them are in their late thirties, but they hold this image in their heads of who the other was when they were teenagers, when they were enthralled by Valentine's hateful rhetoric.

From how he describes them to Clary, it's clear that Luke looks down on the Lightwoods. He says that they were Valentine's closest lieutenants and the most dedicated to his doctrine, and yet he ignores the fact that he was Valentine's second-in-command for most of the Circle's existence. He knows that he had doubts at the time and then grew into a kind and accepting adult, but Robert and Maryse appeared dedicated to Valentine from the outside and have been separate from Luke ever since, so to him they must still be as cruel as they ever were. He sees himself as superior because he got out first, but forgets that he stuck around until Valentine literally told him to kill himself, while Robert and Maryse surrendered to the Clave voluntarily.

Then there's Maryse, who's still bitter over Luke's betrayal. Not because he turned against Valentine, but because he and Jocelyn set a trap that ended with every member of the Circle (other than the Lightwoods, Hodge, and Michael) being killed by the combined forces of the Clave and the Downworlders. Of course Maryse is being pretty hypocritical here, since she was fully in on the plan to murder a bunch of unarmed diplomats, but she does have a point that Luke and Jocelyn did nothing to protect their former friends. Their plan saved lives in the long run, but it resulted in far more bloodshed that night than Valentine's simple massacre.

After Valentine's supposed death, Jocelyn, Luke, Robert, and Maryse all went into a sort of retirement in New York City. For Luke and Jocelyn it was their mundane employment and for Maryse and Robert is was their place as Institute heads, but both couples spent fifteen years raising their kids and learning to be better people. By the time we see them in TMI, all four former circle members had come to terms with how atrocious Valentine had been and dedicated themselves to doing better with their adult lives, but since it happened in relative isolation, they all still remember each other as they were at age twenty. To Maryse, Luke is still the man who left his friends to die, and to Luke, Maryse is still the woman who stuck by a murderer until the end.

I just think it's very interesting that there are so few survivors of the Circle left in 2007, and barely any of them communicate with each other at all. Amatis was left alone in Idris, Hodge felt so abandoned by the Clave that he went back to Valentine, Robert and Maryse trapped themselves in a loveless marriage rather than give up the illusion of stability they'd built for their kids, Luke and Jocelyn denied their past until it came to find them, and Michael was killed with his family in a scheme that would never have worked if a single person came to check up on him in the ten years Valentine inhabited his life. They could have found a community through this common experience, but instead they saw each other as monsters for the things they all did.

[ghostbustermelanieking]

luke and amatis two of the most interesting characters in the shadowhunter universe... WHY do we not get the greymark family in any of the other timelines? why not more with their family?

[moonyscoffeestains]

The age old question - How are the Herondales BLONDE????

(Specifically talking about Jace's branch of the family)

We know that Marcus Herondale, and every Herondale after him, has blonde hair and blue eyes (save Jace's gold eyes) and from the brief research I did, I believe this is a correct family tree (?). So I am so, so curious how the Herondales went from Cordelia and James, who each have very dark hair and black/gold eyes, to blonde hair and blue eyes lol. The eyes make sense because the Herondales have had blue eyes for many generations before James, but where on earth did the blonde hair come from??? Yes, the Herondales had blonde hair before Will and Cecily (Edmund and Tobias canonically had blonde hair, can probably assume William did as well) but that was like, 4-5 generations ago. It doesn't make sense for the gene to have magically reappeared. So I think it makes most sense here that the blonde hair came from a wife that married into the family. What do you guys think??

[culiehua]

Happy mother's day to the mother of all mothers (ft. baby jem🤱💕)

characters by @cassandraclare

follow me on instagram @ leizanart :)

[helenofblackthorns]

something I would love to see in better in black is wtf is going on at the NY institute. specifically whose living there because I know it's crazy and I want to see it so bad before CC inevitably has everyone move into their own wildly expensive apartments that they can somehow effort despite not having real jobs 😔💔

like we know Jace and Clary are running it, plus Izzy and Simon are living there (at least for now). Beatriz is the tutor so she might be living there?? Mark and Cristina are both part time in NY and if Diego is the Inquisitor he's also probably relocated for that. and Maryse may also still be living there like 😭 we haven't had a full Institute since tid I need it soo bad

[kasirose]

This scene was way too perfect for this meme I just had to XD

Original scene by @cassandraclare under the cut!

here's the original meme too even though I'm pretty sure everyone knows it XD

[claveandcovenant]

Shadowhunter Family Trees

Herondale Family, Lightwood Family, Fairchild Family, Blackthorn Family

[carelessflower]

Max: dad-dad!!! does bapak read dinosaurs to me lots cause he was there with them

Alec: yes, he created the asteroid that wiped them out

Magnus: okay I'm old but not that old

Rafael: bet he was the one to eat the apple and framed Eva bc he's a coward😔😔😔

[queerprayers]

all I can say is they invented the organ for a reason.