#re: clary.

[vivillainous]

it makes me giggle whenever i see people (particularly on twitter but this goes for all platforms) say things like “remember when resident evil was a game about zombies” or “remember when the games were about biohazards and not shipping”

i feel like a lot of people in the community tend to imply that people who indulge in ship content/fic content in the RE space are all people who haven’t played the games, or simply don’t care abt the stories of resident evil. i find that so funny because it couldn’t be further from the truth!

take myself as an example, while yes, i mainly talk about RE8 and write f/f fics centered around the RE women, my favorite resident evil game is actually RE4 or 0. I own every RE game, and have played them all at least once. not that anyone has to justify their place in a fandom, but i do find those generalizations a little funny.

what happened to fandom during covid that made everything so strict? what happened to being able to gush endlessly about a nonsensical ship and everyone be like “actually ur so right”? what happened to FUN? maybe i just like pretty women and like to see them kiss, have you thought of that?

you can’t even write lesbian biohazard erotica anymore because of WOKE

the constant need to discourse is so lame imo idk

[recareels]

i had nightmare after nightmare after nightmare last night and not once was there a handsome director man there to console me and fuck me into a state of bliss :((

[clarythericebot]

Francesca: Wow, this is intense. Do all runners have to do this?

Dr. Myers: Just the ones that want to live.

[cabeswaterdrowned]

so 😕 about how Tessa has all these moments in internal monologue about how deep down she’s always known Aunt Harriet making excuses for Nate wasn’t right and that he didn’t deserve all they both did to coddle him and that she always compartmentalized to see him as a good older brother, and how that’s all come to the surface now she knows he was willing to sell her out (though not the full scope of that) but then when Mortmain comes she still instinctively doesn’t tell Nate and goes instead ‘to protect him’ ugh. Like it feels so real as a depiction of a woman internalizing societal norms even though part of her is aware…

[bpdanakins]

i know it's a million years too late... but the opportunity they had with anakin and finn... them interacting... anakin mentioning the dream he had about freeing all the slaves... finn being the one to do it...

[cassandraclare]

Hi Cassie!! Sorry to bother you but I feel like Ty would be more likely to have panic attacks than Dru. I have evaluated the situation and Ty seems to have more trauma and anxiety than her. Adding onto that I’m hoping Kit and Ash don’t have too similar powers. I feel like Kit should be more powerful as Ash only as Ash didn’t get much powers especially since the king didn’t have the black volume the whole time he had Ash. I also think Kit she be more powerful than Magnus for reasons.

I've gotten a lot of emails about how Ty should be the one who has panic attacks, not Dru. Usually the idea is that he should have panic attacks because he has 'more trauma and anxiety' than Dru, specifically because of Livvy's death and Ty being "more close" to her.

The thing is, that isn't how characters work because it isn't how people work. “Amount of trauma” is not an objective measurable thing, and not everyone responds the same ways even to the same things happening to them.

Of course Ty and Dru have both experienced trauma. But it is not as if there is a certain "level of trauma", like "level 6" beyond which everyone has panic attacks, and Ty is a trauma 7 while Dru is only a trauma 5. None of that is how people work or panic disorders work or really how anything works. The question is a lot about, I think, an anxiety that somehow because Dru has panic attacks this means the narrative will consider Ty to have no trauma at all and be dandy about everything, and I can only say that that's not the case.

One thing I rarely see acknowledged in these letters is that Ty is not grieving Livvy currently. Everyone else in his family is, but he lives with her, she talks to him all the time, she's entirely present in his life. Yes, she is a ghost, but people can get by on a lot less than Ty has with Livvy. I think it's worth noting that what Ty is currently experiencing re: Livvy is not grief but denial.

At the end of the day, there are all sorts of ways of responding to trauma and grief. The acknowledgement that someone has been through trauma is not something they have to earn, nor are panic attacks a thing given to one character at the expense of another who has somehow deserved them more. What is important about how characters respond to loss and trauma is that it be consistent with the character and their growth, and that's something that can't be evaluated before a book is read. :)

As for Kit having the most powers of anyone, well, we will see. It's not really how power works in the Shadowhunter world. We don't spend a lot of time thinking about whether Clary or Magnus is more powerful because what they can do is so different, and what Kit and Ash can do is also very different. Also in evaluating who gets what power level I would say it's important to consider whether they will be friends or deadly enemies – which is something we don't yet know!

[alexanderlightweight]

Happy Wednesday, hope you're doing well! Really love your writings, they bring me such joy.

Thinking about Elysium's Tears specifically because of the other ask, I keep wondering how others would react, like does Alec know Jace, is Clary in the picture, how does the Clave feel about his disappearance, do they know he's with Magnus or just that he's disappeared? Does anyone know about Alec and Magnus except for Magnus' closest friends?

thank you! knowing my writing is a happy place for people honestly makes me so pleased!!! I hope this also brings you joy!

also some meta notes:

this is at least 1-3 years before Clary becomes a problem. Valentine still escaped from pretending to be Michael Wayland but that happened years early because of alec's visions so an over-protective Imogen is raising Jace. Alec did try to have someone save Jonathon but Valentine (as in canon) activates the sacrifice sending him to Lilith before running off.

the clave is used to Alec dropping off their radar, he's been doing it for years in preparation for when he finally makes a run for it. he and Magnus get about 3 weeks before the clave starts realizing something might be wrong. Alec never tells the truth about where he is, he just normally is moving quickly enough that no one figures it out. they're always like fifteen steps behind him. which gives him about 12-13 steps of freedom before they realize they've been tricked. also he's pretty distant from his family in this life because he's been raised away from them.

hope that helps!

lumine

Elysium's Tears

Magnus is in the middle of a very finicky bit of potion work when one of his strongest wards recoils, pulsing with magic as it fights off against a sudden attack.

Perhaps if it were a less important ward then Magnus would finish carefully measuring the exact weight of peacock eyelashes he needs.  Instead the ingredients are left to be collected and preserved by stasis magic, the potion abandoned for more important work.

Alexander is still sleeping, curled up in a large armchair like a pearl within an oyster.  The attack hasn’t woken him, meaning that while Magnus’ is aware of the assault, the actual magic being used can’t get through.

It’s with relief that Magnus perches on the arm of the chair and lets his fingers and magic pet over Alexander’s hair and face. Whoever is tracking his beautiful boy has and will continue to fail.

It’s hardly the first attempt made since Alexander came to him, but it is the strongest launched yet and Magnus knows that neither the Clave or the Silent Brother’s will give up.  This kind of power is almost the limit for nephilim work, which means that soon the Clave will need to look for outside help.  Something that Magnus has already insured will be immediately reported to him.

The Clave’s attempt at subterfuge will be their undoing.  While they quietly look for their lost treasure, rumors of Valentine’s survival and continued existence will spread. While the nephilim hunt for Alexander, the shadowworld will notice and watch under the assumption the Clave is looking for Valentine.  

It will both protect Alexander and put a spotlight on both the Clave’s sins and any rogue shadowhunters that are missed in the purge Magnus and the Elder’s are currently planning.  

Valentine will not survive long enough for the Clave to reunite with him, Magnus’ plans and Alexander’s visions will leave nothing to chance.

Another spike of pain distracts him and he lets his eyes slip closed as he rebuilds the walls between his senses and his magic. As useful as it is in keeping him informed, the kind of close connection Magnus keeps between the wards on Alexander and himself are rarely used because of the backlash.  Yet it’s worth it, to be the first barrier between discovery and Alexander, to know every time someone dares reach out and search for what belongs entirely to Magnus.

However the increased frequency of the attacks are wearing on his temper.  

At this rate, if Magnus doesn’t resort to using one of the dimensional pockets he owns, they'll end up retreating to the Spiral Labyrinth just to save himself a headache.  Something Magnus finds himself loath to do, despite the added security of such a sanctum. Any additional protection will come at the cost of privacy and Alexander will be too intriguing a specimen for the knowledge craving warlocks that live in the labyrinth to resist. 

Even as he plots Magnus tightens the wards around them, layering them thicker and stronger until the air around him shimmers with power.  

Alexander snores softly, unaware and free as he sleeps, unbound by the shackles of his power that haunt him so often when awake.  He takes up more space like this, sleep loosening his limbs and softening the exhaustion he always seems to carry.  Magnus leans closer, pressing soft kisses to Alexander’s brow and inhaling the scent of his own shampoo, Alexander’s unique scent blending with it.

While it’s too risky to announce Alexander’s place in his life — at Magnus’ side and belonging to him — Magnus can still create subtle waves that will make it increasingly harder for the Clave to move.  The information Alexander shares with him will be the starting point, he reminds himself.  

No one will be able to take Alexander from him.

No one.

-

magnus is playing it very safe with alec, not even raphael knows about Alec and while Magnus is wavering on letting Tessa or Jem know, he's still undecided

the Clave has been trying and failing to find Alec for several weeks now. it took a little bit but eventually the overlapping trails he laid were unwoven and they realized he wasn't where they thought he was.

alec is basically only allowed to visit highly warded properties and heavily hidden pocket dimensions because of the risk of the clave tracking him. which is basically any of magnus' places, ragnor's and cat's. so Magnus is suffering a little because he wants to take Alec out and pamper him but he can't take him anywhere mundane because he'd have to leave Alec to go secure and ward it ahead of time (not worth it) and he can't take him to a downworld location because they can't risk rumors of Magnus and a nephlim spreading with the clave on such high alert. sometimes they'll plan to go somewhere and Alec will get a vision that the protection needs to be updated.

[tylovingkit]

is it me or after the Kickstarter letter Jace to Clary, the fandom has re-discovered The mortal instruments???

[mattiebluebird]

I first read City of Bones when I was like, 9, and I remember thinking that Jace was really mean to Clary and that their romance came out of nowhere. It's fun to re-read and realize just how down bad he was

[echojulietfoxtrot]

I dip in and out of Taskmaster, but I am 100% here for Tumblr re/discovering Julian fucking Clary.

Even the "one of the Golden Girls grudgingly getting involved in this whole mess by accident" vibe he brings to Taskmaster is itself hilarious to me, because back in the 1990s I was literally not allowed to watch anything he was on, in case he did something like this, again, live, for an audience 13 million people -

(Lamont was a UK government minister who was present)

(Clary was effectively blacklisted from live tv for it, and several papers campaigned to ban him from television altogether)

(Incidentally I think that might be Armando Ianucci down in the bottom left corner at 40 seconds in)

[recareels]

your hair look so soft i wanna run my hands through it so bad 🥹 waaahhhh

ohhhh my gosh ran!!! (*ﾉ��ﾉ) i actually love having my hair played with and pet SO much so this sounds like a dreammm hehe <3 thank you so much tho!!!

[faejilly]

Because I can't for the love of me choose *what* wip title to ask some more information on I'm going to give you the chance to choose one you want to talk about!💜

darling

lovely

the whole reason I do the memes is that I don't know what to focus on next 😅😅😅

ok uh

since I've been staring at my ao3 inbox and trying to actually reply to the backlog this week... I have been staring at your comment on the parabatai fic thing so

Jace!

untranslated stars is a fic where I wanted to address some of my headcanon re: how runes and magical bonds work, and the singular nature of Angelic devotion (you get one shot to define your own magic, which is where that 'only love once' line came from, even tho nephilim are human enough to fall in love just like anyone else) and what Magnus might have meant by that 'virgin shadowhunter energy' line which he claimed was a joke later but clearly meant something to Jace because he never actually said it when he talked to Alec and like what does it all mean

And the idea was that some time post-canon Magnus needs a boost for something or other magic wise and Alec's not there (or perhaps Alec's the one who needs help? I have re-written this five different ways and not yet figured it out) so he asks Jace who is completely horrified like I'm married, I can't do that with anyone except Clary, wtf are you talking about

and then Jace slowly becomes even more horrified as he realizes Magnus doesn't know that Shadowhunters can only share magic once, that this defining characteristic of how they understand themselves and their relationship with magic and angelic devotion, and who or what you choose to devote yourself to literally shapes your magic and is the only thing you can devote yourself to for the rest of your life is something Alec never told him

but then it just keeps turning into a Down World For Dummies chapter where I talk about how I think magic works and there's no actual story

But my talking about how magic works is still like, Jace or Magnus or Alec POV, which doesn't fit in the silly in-universe book either

so it's just sitting in my WIP folder

forever and ever

/I have also considered trying to cram the magic lore idea into either the wing!fic or the eldritch AU, but again. it's more a worldbuilding thing than a story thing, I still haven't figured out what to DO with it

[inkykeiji]

Do you plan or expanding the tag! universe anytime soon?

I love how realistic it portrays addicts and the people around them (at least in my experience)

Sending lots of love clari ❤️❤️

oh gosh thank you so much for this!!! that fic is so so so special (& personal) to me, and it’s really special to hear that it resonated with others as well!! <3 ah unfortunately at the moment i have no plans to expand my tag you’re it universe aside from like, one tiny oneshot about dabi teaching reader how to fight that i have yet to finish (ha ha ha) but!!!!! i’d love to write a christmas series set in that universe tbh! or even explore the dynamics etc after the three of them live together. so, maybe one day! but anytime soon??? probably not (◞‸◟；)

[dayque]

Luke Garroway, less than 3 months before Clary: Re-Kidnap Jocelyn from Valentine, make his ship explode with his soldiers and demons in and interrupt his ritual of summoning Raziel (causing Valentine to be killed).

Just a girl✨️💋

[garvalhaminho]

again procrastinating going to sleep so here are tmi characters as different musical notes (as a pianist):

isabelle - Fa (she gives me Fa vibes idk what to say)

clary - Do (the most basic answer; everyone knows her)

simon - Re (next to Do; close to Fa but always apart)

alec - Mi (also purely based on vibes, but also next to Fa :))) and while the F chord is commonly used, E, on the other hand, is ignored)

magnus - So ("Sol" in portuguese, meaning sun)

jace - La (cocky vibes)

sebastian - Ti flat (annoying but constantly appearing; a La sharp in another perspective)

[cassandraclare]

hiii cassie 💛 i hope you’ve been enjoying your time away writing, your locations are always beautiful per usual and you deserve it so much, question regarding a certain tween blondie that loves potato chips (yes, tis’ kit)

i’ve found myself struggling resonate fully with kits character due to the fact that in tda it seemed he was set up as “the new jace” yet..during my current tmi re read, i’m just NOW realizing how completely (emphasis on completely) different they are from eachother. and i also find myself struggling because he’s made to seem like he has an “uncanny resemblance” to jace yet so many of us readers know they aren’t from the same line of herondales at all. i’d figure jace gets his incredibly good looks from stephen, james, cordelia, will etc. HIS ancestors. while kit has completely different ancestors, along with johnny rooks genes.

i fear that if he’s referred to anymore as a “mini jace” that i won’t ever be able to fully resonate w him due to that lack of logic taking me out of the book 🥹 sorry to point this all out i tried to ignore it but im just like “will i have to read about him being jaces twin despite the lack of genetic sense it makes all of..twp?”

Hmm. I mean, I don't think there's anything indicating he's Jace's twin — otherwise people would be constantly mixing them up and Clary, upon seeing him, would be staggered rather than curious. :)

I think you have to decide, a bit, what really bothers you re: longstanding tropes and science in fantasy — after all, the way the Herondale mark is passed down makes no sense genetically. Neither does their ability to see ghosts. None of it has anything to do with genetics, because it is about magic, and so is Jace and Kit's resemblance. The idea that people who have ancestors in common long ago have a sort of ineffable resemblance goes way back to the origins of fantasy. It's about pointing out a preternatural connection, not about common genes. It exists as a mythic trope that isn't connected to science in the same way the mythic trope exists that you can inherit not just, say, eye color, but also personality quirks like loyalty or evilness. (See: TV Tropes page "In the Blood.")

For what it's worth, I don't think of Jace and Kit as characters who are particularly similar, personality-wise or in any other way, really. They both had traumatic childhoods, and were later adopted into new families, and that makes for some points in common, but I have never thought of Kit as a new Jace (we still have the OG Jace, so he doesn't need replacing!) or a mini Jace or anything like that, so anything that seems otherwise is unintentional or open to interpretation.