#jem carstairs

[zeevbenoit]

I would still win trust

when you enter a loving Jem Carstairs competition but these two are already in the room fighting

🎨: Cassandra Jean

[culiehua]

authoritative Head of Shanghai Institute Ke Jian Ming would have been so attractive. Solid 11 on the snackariah sexiness scale

[alistairlowee]

Thinking about how Jem got to meet James and Lucie. How he was their beloved uncle but Will never got to meet Mina or be part of her life, how he never got to witness Jem and Tessa raising their son and daughter. Thinking about how James and Lucie never met their sister and how they would have been actually the best elder siblings, how they would have supported both Kit and Mina and how they would have adored them. Thinking about Tessa's families and literally sobbing

[inconsistentreading]

Charlotte walked with her back straight, her cheeks red, and her eyes gazing straight ahead as if she couldn't hear the gossip. Will seemed about to lunge off toward the whisperers to administer rough justice, but Jem had a firm grip on the back of his parabatai's coat. Being Jem, Tessa reflected, must be a great deal like being the owner of a thoroughbred dog that liked to bite your guests. You had to have a hand on his collar constantly.

Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare

[tragic-ships-tournament]

Tragic Ships Tournament Round 2

Propaganda under the cut!

Herongraystairs:

"Hey is it polyamory if you and your buddy are both in love with the same girl (and each other)? Is it polyam to die of old age and only have your wife and the guy you were platonic married to as a teenager in your final moments? Is it polyamory if you constantly bring up your wife's dead husband and make it clear you're also deeply in love with him?"

Tony and Maria:

"Both the movies have such beauty to them. obv. different strengths between them. I imagine broadway is electric with it all too. I love that they aren't the rich kids but poor and just trying to make something of themselves. Tony has a real shot of getting out at the start, and Maria wants to go with him. The songs are wonderful. I go back and forth on if the ending is better in WSS, where Maria lives, or R&J where they both die. Perhaps WSS makes the love feel more real because Maria can defend it when everything is over?"

[zeevbenoit]

‼️i need more shadowhunter mutuals‼️

I’ve been feeling very devoid of fandoms lately. might just be a low point of serotonin production rn 🤪

[exulxnsis]

The Infernal Devices will always have a place in my heart

[zeevbenoit]

I LOVE YOU. I would also like to add tessa and will sleeping together .5 seconds after they though he died. THE DISRESPECT IS INSANE. you are now my idol.

also THANK YOU for mentioning will saying “jem will understand.” this fandom acts like will was so selfless when that’s literally the first thing that came out of his mouth. oh brother.

I’m sorry my will stan mutuals I cannot hide anymore. I am a will hater.

hi! why do you hate will herondale?

Yeah, you're not going to like the answer so buckle up

Never been a huge fan of "I hate everyone but you" and "I am an asshole to everyone because I have Tragic Backstory™" type of male characters. I also don't like how he was just a copy of Jace. CC found one character archetype and decided to give it to every man in her series because she doesn't want to use her brain and give them a personality besides "sarcastic mean boy with a sad backstory"

He was shitty to everyone in TID. He called Tessa a wh*re, said she was useless as she can't get pregnant, etc.

He was stupid as all hell and he could have actually tried to get help EARLIER but instead he decided to 1) suffer 2) make others subject to his shitty personality because he believed in a curse and didn't bother truly getting help.

When Tessa said that she was engaged to Jem, W*ll's first thought was "Jem will understand, I can make him call off this engagement for ME" (truly fucking selfish, God)

That entire scene with Tatiana. I hate Tatiana even more than I hate him but it was awful and I truly believe he enjoyed it. He actually seems to enjoy antagonizing everyone around him and not just because he wants them to hate him for the curse or whatever. A trait most male Herondales have, which is why I can't stand any of them except Jace (and Jace I only love because he was the original and because he saved Jem)

The fandom and CC canNOT treat Jem as an individual character. They are incapable of talking about Jem without mentioning W*ll, they are incapable of thinking of Jem without relating him to that Herondale boy in some way. CC does not respect him as an individual character either: look at the way she writes Tessa with W*ll vs how she writes Tessa with Jem. Look at how W*ll and his parents get a whole story about them in TBC, but Mina's birth was told through Livvy's POV IN JEM'S OWN BOOK

CC's boner for W*ll and other Herondale men has made every Carstairs suffer, she invented that stupid "Carstairs owe the H*rondales" (for God knows what, it's the opposite) and now Jem has to babysit all of their sorry asses. Not only W*ll but his stupid legacy K*t who put Mina's life in danger and made everything about himself.

I hate W*ll and his legacy

[bankofwildflowers]

Will Herondale, having to be cruel against his very nature every single day to everyone, terrified of Jem leaving, crying himself to sleep since learning of Jem and Tessa's engagement (every time Tessa sees him it is mentioned he is red-eyed), walking around London endlessly to outrun his own thoughts, unable to let anyone know. James Carstairs, dying and terrified it will break Will, growing weaker and hating himself for it, killing himself for fear of letting Tessa know her love isn't sustaining his life, unable to let anyone know. Tessa Gray, beaten and slapped, exhausted to tears in a prison, terrified for her brother and if he's dead, loving two people equally and having to hide it from both, unable to let anyone know. Gideon Lightwood, walking away from his family, hoping to be a better man that his little brother can look up to, wanting to save him from their childhood, in love with a woman that does not seem to want him, unable to let anyone know. Gabriel Lightwood, alone in a house with his father going mad, heartbroken at his brother leaving him, trapped by the Consul's blackmail, unable to let anyone know. Cecily Herondale, losing both her siblings in a matter of days, growing up alone and having to learn to repair the cracks left behind by her brother leaving, being angry at him for not thinking their family was worth it, unable to let anyone know. Sophie Collins, only a servant, her only wish to be a Shadowhunter being one which can never come true because she has a debt to repay, in love with a man with whom it can never work out, unable to let anyone know. Charlotte Branwell, her only desire to influence and help and protect being mocked and crushed by men, in love with a man that looks at her as a friend, unable to let anyone know. Henry Branwell, knowing things work different than what he's been taught, knowing he is right but cannot possibly explain and will always be laughed at as insane, in love with a woman that married him for convenience, unable to let anyone know.

The Infernal Devices understood loneliness like no other book I've read, the bone deep sense of being utterly alone even when surrounded by people.

[prongsevermore]

[helenofblackthorns]

you ever think about how ending of tid is so bitter-sweet because Jem is forced to take a step away from the two people he loves most and watch their lives on the sidelines. and how 130 years later he gets saved by someone who would have never existed if they all had not loved each other so so much, and could never have saved Jem if people hadn't loved him just as much. no adaptation will ever be able to capture this btw.

[bookishbroadwayandblind]

Has anyone else thought about Jem's reports to the Silent Brothers at the end of his days like "Visit 1,132 to London Institute: William Herondale smashed his finger in the door and needed me specifically to kiss it better." And they're like "Brother Zachariah please"

[culiehua]

જ⁀➴ love is stored in the insult of endearment trope ୧⍤⃝💐

[mayaheronthorn]

BREAKING NEWS: The Shadowhunters Chronicles (2007 - 2029) just received a 55 minute standing ovation from me in my living room after rereading it for the 200th time

[garvalhaminho]

i'm bored here's every shadowhunter completed series summarised:

tid: girl falls for two british men. understandingly, she is in the trenches

tlh: girl marries boy weirdly emotionally attached to side piece's jewelry.

tmi: girl's abusive estranged father is in town. and her brother wants to fuck her. no wait both her brothers. no wait—

tda: reenactment of dress by taylor swift but it is a 17yo father of four and a girl w a sword

[hronstairs]

it’s always about them.

🎨: larisa rusina