#shadow market

[mayaheronthorn]

Julian: Can someone explain to me, how in the million bloody Angels did you manage to destroy the whole Shadow Market, not only in LA, but also in London, San Francisco AND Paris???!!!

Ty: Umm, I will not speak without my lawyer.

Kit: It was totally my fault, I swear. Just don't be mad at Ty, he's absolutely innocent!

Ty: But it was my idea-

Kit: *covering Ty's mouth* SHUSH! JULIAN, HE HAD A CONCUSSION, DON'T LISTEN TO HIM!!!

[tetsunabouquet]

Unpopular TSC Opinion- Rosemary had a goddamn point

Alright, let’s talk about something that slightly irks me about the way Tessa viewed Rosemary. First of all, that line where Tessa is being like, ‘Maybe if they didn’t love each other so much’ regarding Rosemary’s brutal murder and Jack Crook’s death is so fucking hypocritical. This is the same woman who’s almost like a godmother to Clary and is on good terms with her and Jace. The same pair, who literally caused a freaking war because Clary couldn’t let him go. She can play nice auntie to them, but disapproves of Rosemary unable to let her husband and child go?! Tessa, you severely disappoint me with your favoritism. Second of all, she did had a point in considering the Shadowhunters as evil. Let’s look at the facts for the ‘wonderful’ Herondale line. -Tobias and his wife, enough said. -Will had a happy ending but he was traumatized after losing his sister and had a ‘scandalous’ choice of wife. -Lucie and James are literally the grandchildren of a Prince of Hell and suffered greatly due to it. -Marcus died of grief after losing his son horribly. -His wife was hellbent on revenge until she was killed on a boat. -Their son, Stephen, was killed by vampires after being set-up by his evil cult leader. -Jace is a literal human experiment raised by said cult leader who went through a lot of trauma because of it.

And let’s take a look at the Nephilim world of the past few decades, when Rosemary was alive.

-An evil cult called the Circle that dreamt of genocide was tolerated for years. -A bloodbath named the Uprising. -The Mortal War. -The Dark War. -The Cold Peace. -The rise of the Cohort.  Do you honestly blame this woman for thinking the Nephilim were her enemies?! If you just look at the facts, and the overall fact of being trained to kill and fight before they can even legally drink, any mother would say, “Not my baby.” 

The Shadow Market, on the other hand, aside from the whole Malcolm Fade thing, has never been known to be at the center of such cruelty and extremely dangerous situations. It seems surprisingly a safer place then idris. I can totally understand Rosemary and Jack preferring that over the Clave, including as an enviroment for their son. Tessa is way too biased and playing favorites when Rosemary enters the debate.  Oh, and do I need to remind people Kit was found by the Riders of Mannan because of the Shadowhunters?

[culiehua]

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

[drenched-in-sunlight]

*SoTE spoilers undercut

This is a continued discussion in light of Marika's newly discovered tragedy. It changes so many things about how we look at the story thus far but more importantly - the DLC story trailer, especially this scene:

think about how Messmer knows, very acutely, that at one point his mother could have been cut up and put in a jar. and that his other kins were not so lucky....... it gives that scene such a tragic edge.

he wasn't doing this just for the violence. this is his answer to Marika's love and all she has done for him. yeah it's not right, it's not justified, but as something done to avenge for the kind of pain she went through? it won't be logical nor right but it's something he will do again without hesitation.

the infirmary in Shadow's Keep shows that he's trying to care for and save whatever left of her people. their people.

the line he said in his armor set description hits different when you consider all that. he wants to be the heir to all her sorrow and all of her pain. wishing that he could alleviate even just a bit of the burden of her grief and survivor guilt.

i wonder if, when Marika hid him in the Land of Shadow, fearing people will judge him for the malevolent snake he carried, she raised him in her home village? this will explain why the Tree Sentinels guarding the village drop two Blessing of Marika - the blessing that specifically stated Marika made it for Messmer's sake and him alone. it will also explain how he knew of his Mother's tragic past and took it upon himself to carry out her wish of vengeance for her people.

(also if you wanted to get to Marika's village, you have to perform the O Mother gesture before her statue in his Shadow Keep, implying he's guarding the way to her home village as well.)

One other thing I like is that in the story trailer, the heroic music sounds like it's for Miquella. and it is, in a way. it is his boss music, but the lyrics has "Ave Marika Aeterna" (Hail, Marika The Eternal).

Given that the boss arena is where Marika - the sole survivor of a whole village, walked through to salvage the remains of her people, making them the symbol of her divine ascension, I wonder if that OST is actually for her - the God, the woman whose story is finally realized in this DLC, and those female voices singing in honour of her are the spirits of her fallen kins: cheering on their last hope for justice. Through this girl, those people who had been wronged and died there will live on eternally.

All this of course seems like such a charitable take on all this, after all Marika ended up being just like the oppressors who used to put her people in jars, but I think I just want to appreciate how the environmental storytelling of this DLC is simply amazing. and once you consider that this is, in the end, Marika's story, everything will make a lot more sense.

[anonzentimes]

OHHGG MY GOD NEW SONIC AND SHADOW RENDER AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY USING "THE YEAR OF SHADOW" AS MARKETING IM SO CRAZY IM SO INSANE OHHH MY GOD

https://sonicthehedgehog.com/yearofshadow/

[outerspacess]

I think about this more often than I’d like to admit.

“Whoever you have loved, and however you loved them,” said Jem, “anyone you loved would be lucky.”

[swordofmoonl1ght]

"O lightless creature… embrace thine oblivion, as shall I."

[marrr444]

Oh no no no no,It's just a bunch of books for you, for me it's my entire personality

[tys-kitty]

„No,“ Jem told him fiercely. „Don’t be grateful. Where there is love, Kit,“ he murmured into the wild gold of his hair, „there is no need for gratitude. And I love you.“

Realizing this was the first time in Kit‘s life that someone outright told him that he‘s loved

[iheartmalec]

“Tessa had suffered pains that Jem could not, bringing Mina into the world. His wife would never lose sleep with the baby while Jem was in the house. That was Jem’s privilege.”

[mayaheronthorn]

I just know Anush is gonna be so done with KitTy's constant pinning

[faithless-hoaxx]

GotSM was a comedy and I can prove it

[ofstarsandmoonlightt]

Kit: you really don’t know how much something is worth to you

Kit: until you sell it

Jem:

Jem: Kit where’s Church?

[witchlingcirce]

I need to know where she got Jebediah from 😭

[tallertysupremacy]

I love everything about this interaction (Alec literally flirted with Raphael and I will never get over it akrjsbwkdj) but the absolute best part it how long it took for the joke to come full circle😂

First pic from Ghost of the Shadow Market, 2019

Second is The Bane Chronicles, 2014

[7cfc00]

happy pride... couldn't draw everyone so this is all! my little bugs... <3