#thomastair week

[stairwaydowntohell]

guys is this thomastair?? it definitely looks like it-

[drunkonimagination]

Do you think Thomastair will have kids? ❤️

hiii 💖 uhhh, very good question.

well....i think they will eventually have kids, but at the same time i can totally see them being the cool and funny uncles to their friends' children and deciding not to adopt, especially since they already have zachary, who, despite not actually living with them, definitely spends quite a lot time with his brother and thomas <3 i bet they go to cirenworth every other day and zachary absolutely adores his dadash and tom and wants to stay with them all the time when they go visit (imagine him being super exciting everytime they are supposed to come, like he wakes up super early and starts jumping on his mum's bed screaming at the top of his lungs 'dadash and tom are coming today !!!! i can't wait !!!!!! maman wake up !!!!!!!!' and sona loves his baby too much to complain also how could she ever blame him when thomas is a literal angel on this earth who treats her beautiful son like the most precious thing in the world, is the man even real-)

anyway

it's basically canon that they both dote on kids and we can totally see it in the christmas party scene(s) aka the scenes that altered my brain chemistry forever so no way that among their friends' children they won't become everyone's favorite uncles....they're both kind, funny, caring, affectionate....kids just adore them and want to play with them all the time. so why not adopting kids themselves once zachary is a bit older and they're, idk, around their 30s? i absolutely love this scenario as well *sobs* and i think they would make such good parents 😭

but yesss, i cherish both the perspectives....adopting kids at some point and taking care of their own children too or just looking after zachary and being constantly adored by their friends' kids 🥺

[ailuz-eiptv]

when they're a biracial mlm couple made by a tall mom friend with a nice family and a grumpy cat with family issues

[agnes-draws]

bless this photo of a gay couple that just randomly appeared on my pinterest

[rainingpouringetc]

ok my thoughts and headcanons on the carstairs/lightwood in-laws now that thomastair are official and out to their families

eugenia and alastair bond over being exasperated by their younger siblings. they have a standing tea date every other week to gossip and complain (thomas tries to join once and gets himself banned from his own sitting room).

cordelia and eugenia also become close friends. eugenia misses her sister and would never dream of replacing her, but it's nice having cordelia around. they go shopping together. cordelia eventually helps eugenia gain the confidence to open her heart again and cheers her on when eugenia enters her first courtship since augustus.

cordelia and thomas are constantly giving each other recommendations for poetry. thomas primarily recommends the irish poets his mother shared while he was growing up and cordelia commits herself to helping expand thomas' knowledge of persian works.

gideon and sophie absolutely adore sona, and the feeling is very much mutual. sometimes the lightwoods go visit cirenworth just to see her and help with zachary. of course zachary has alastair and thomas in his life as strong, kind male figures, but sona is glad that gideon is there as well. and, of course, sophie and sona get along like a house on fire. they gossip almost as much as eugenia and alastair.

when it comes to zachary, all of the lightwoods absolutely love and adore him. family dinners typically devolve into a game of pass-the-baby so everyone gets a turn to hold him while they all talk. eugenia and gideon are the best at making him giggle, and alastair and sona are the only ones who are able to get him to sleep at those dinners.

speaking of family dinners, those are definitely a monthly occurrence. they rotate locations between the lightwoods' house, thomas and alastair's house, and even occasionally cirenworth or james and cordelia's house.

thomas and alastair eventually decide to get married. it's a private ceremony, of course, with only their close friends and family. eugenia officiates. sona and cordelia walk alastair down the aisle and sophie and gideon do the same for thomas. zachary is their ringbearer, being just grown enough to toddle down the aisle and hand them the rings. ari and cordelia stand with alastair as his groomswomen, and james and matthew stand with thomas (they save a spot for christopher, since everyone knows he would have been thomas' best man).

when eugenia gets a new suitor, the man expects to have discussions with her father about treating her right and respecting her, and even the talk with her younger brother about not hurting her is expected as well. the surprise comes when alastair and cordelia appear to talk to him, together, and give one of the most blood chilling shovel talks in the history of shovel talks.

gideon and alastair actually take a minute to warm up to each other. they never directly address the origin of their tension together, but gideon decides nothing said by a hurt teenager is worth soiling his relationship with his son-in-law. after he rather aggressively and indirectly proves to alastair that he is trustworthy as a father figure, they get closer and alastair even opens up about growing up with elias, which only makes gideon decide to be even more of a father figure to him.

that's all i have for rn pls pls add on your own !!

[edwinspaynes]

what do you think thomastair’s nighttime routine looks like 😵‍💫

OKAY OKAY OKAY YES

So. I think that after dinner on an average night, they'll do one of two things. The first possibility is patrol. They're definitely each other's patrol partners, and they likely are on rotation at least a couple of times a week. They probably patrol alongside James, Matthew, Cordelia, and Lucie. This would last until like 3 AM or so and then they'd go home, wash up, and fall asleep pretty fast. Thomas would wake up and make breakfast/lunch the next day (since they'd sleep late post-patrol.)

I think that they're not on patrol more often than not, though. Barring emergencies, I think they'd be on rotations like 3 times a week. So the other four nights, they would relax after dinner. They would make a fire and play card games or read together. I think they also study languages together and practice with each other. After that, they go to bed.

One of my strongest headcanons is that they just kind of lay down in the dark and talk until they fall asleep. They'll snuggle (they sleep cozied up together, Thomas makes a GREAT pillow in Alastair's book). And then sometimes they'll talk about the day or their plans for tomorrow, sometimes it'll be like philosophical questions, sometimes it'll be, like, 'what if you woke up tomorrow and I was a gerbil?' '...you're not a gerbil, shut up."

And yeah :)

Also they brush their teeth because a) dental hygiene is important, and b) Alastair NEVER lets Thomas live that one down.

[purplebass]

Oh, and a word for Thomastair: Um,,, pearl!

This is part of another longer fic idea I've had in mind for weeks where Thomas and Alastair go to Italy. After we met yesterday, I just knew that I had to use this for the prompt you asked :)

Thomas had never been on an actual beach before, so the day after he and Alastair arrived in Italy, the first thing they did was packing their bags with towels and food and go swimming in the bright blue Mediterranean sea.

They were walking on the shore when something picked Thomas’ interest and he couldn’t help but taking it in his hands to inspect it. “Look what I found,” he said to a curious Alastair, “it looks like an oyster.”

Alastair didn’t know much about seashells, but he believed that Thomas could be right. “It is really interesting,” he commented.

“There is no pearl inside,” Thomas said with disappointment after opening it, not really sure what he was expecting inside the shell.

“You are a pearl, hamsaram,” Alastair said, and that was enough to make Thomas forget about the oyster altogether.

[make-me-ur-aphrodite]

guess who finally finished chain of thorns over a week later 🤩 my completely unorganized thoughts for the general public anyways chain of thorns spoilers ahead bros

- ghostwriter is the relationship i love them more than i love my life it's just like the cute little moments between them like when lucie was nervous before her parabatai ceremony with cordelia and he was holding her and comforting her i melted

- i honestly think james and matthews relationship was dealt with really well we know nobody is ever gonna top jem and will but i think they were written really well and them in edom together was so emotional to me

- tell me why i was so heartbroken when christopher died but i only cried when grace sent that fire message and wrote that it was created by kit 🥺lol i'll tell you why it's because we got zero real reaction about it

i wanted anna's pov as her baby brother died in her arms

i wanted cecily and gabriel seeing their sons body taken into idris and realizing what happened

where was sophie and gideon who also lost a child comforting them?!?!?

honestly i think that since christopher did die there was a lot of potential there

-i hated the love triangle and felt awful for matthew the entire time cause like didn't we all know jordelia was endgame i meannnn

literally love jordelia tho and i we'll never not think of james saying "sod that" and shooting the door open like sir 🫣also them traveling is something that is so personal to me i am in love with the idea of james and cordelia going all around the world and then taking their kids with them 😍

-after this book i feel like grace is a lost kitten and i want literally nothing more than to adopt her also did anyone else catch at the end when they said that grace doesn't talk much idk but i would like to give her a home

-the thomastair content 🤩🤩🤩 i love them so much i love that they're moving in together i love alastair with his baby brother i love eugenia saying she's gonna renounce her family if they don't accept thomas when he came out. every scene with them was a masterpiece

also alastair's personality like my boy is sassy and sarcastic and i would die for him

-i think the anna and ari's storylines progressed really well and they've come so far since we've first met them 🥺

-anyways my #1 ship matthew x sobriety came true and i could not be more thrilled

the moral of my rant here was that i really loved it and i think it's just cause im so in love with each of the characters but i loved almost every second of this book and didn't want it to end my only complaint would be how christopher's death and other potentially emotional topics (will and tessa crying when they found out the kids were stuck in london) were kind of just glossed over but overall i was in love with them all and i don't think i can accurately describe my feelings so that was my jumbled mess of thoughts

also can we talk about the fairchild twins please

[alastair-appreciation-month]

We are one month away from Alastair Appreciation Month! My name is Pandora and I am taking over for Nad! So hopefully I live up to everyone’s expectations! Next week there’ll be a post about Alastember and it will be a guideline the yearly celebration of Alastair Carstairs!

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[marialightwood-chase]

Thomastair Soulmate AU

Alastair sat in his room, when he felt it, a sharp pain, then a gentle tingle. He stared in wonder at his left arm, watching the beginning of a tattoo form. A rose shape had appeared by the time he was called to dinner, and he rushed to cover it up. It was a sign of soulmates after all, and he wanted to keep this a secret. Just as he had kept the brown streak of hair that had come in a secret. He walked downstairs to join his mother and Cordelia.  

“….Black is so common Layla. I do hope we know him.. he is a Shadowhunter though. We know that because of the parabatai rune.” His mother was saying.  

“Yes, yes. Black is common. Cordelia’s soulmate is a Shadowhunter. We don’t know if her soulmate is romantic or platonic, boy or girl yet. She could have both a romantic and platonic. We’ll have to wait and see.” Alastair said as he sat down 

Cordelia turned to her older brother “You don’t have to be rude about it, ya know. And because you were too busy pouting in your room, you missed the news. We are moving to London! I will finally be able to be parabatai with Lucie!”  

London. Which meant being in proximity to Charles. How would he be able to keep his secret living a mere carriage ride away? He finished his dinner quickly, rushing back up to his room to watch the rose complete. It had been difficult to feel the tingling, to hide it from his mother during dinner. He marveled at the eight points that had formed, and now some letters were forming. N was at the top, on the rightmost side was E, the bottom had the letter S, and the left had W. While it was nearly complete, Alastair began to panic. He recognized the design, had been shown it when he was in Paris. Alastair knew right now who his soulmate was. Thomas Lightwood. He now had to hide the mark from Charles, so he wouldn’t wonder where the mark came from and why he didn’t also get one.  

In theory, when the brown came in among his dyed blonde, he knew that Charles wasn’t his soulmate back when he didn’t get a streak of fiery red. He never processed it. Calm down Alastair, he thought, Thomas might be your platonic soulmate. But when he thought about that week in Paris, he knew. Thomas was his romantic soulmate, not platonic. Thomas was his one love in life.  

@alastair-appreciation-month

[ilovefandoms]

Alastember - day 22

my thomastair playlist (2023 update)

yes, I took this week as an excuse to update the 3 playlists I posted last year

updating this post

yes, again, most of these are taylor swift songs, im sorry

Paris - Taylor Swift

I've said it a million times, this one is so obvious for thomastair

No, I didn't see the news cause we were somewhere else

first of all, we know they’re going to travel all around the world, that’s practically canon. second of all, this line comes after the verse where a third person is telling Taylor the gossip of one of her exes, so I imagine someone trying to tell Alastair something that happened to Charles, and Alastair being like “I didn’t know, I don’t care, I didn’t ask”

Levitate above all the messes made

they both hurt each other, but they can apologize and forgive each other and move past that

Haven’t You Ever Been In Love Before? - Lewis Capaldi

This entire song just almost perfectly describes thomastair during chot, when Alastair kept pulling away from Thomas, also, I feel like the chorus is probably a conversation that happened post-chot, pre-epilogue

And she said this "Haven't you ever been in love before? You heard 'em say, it takes the pain away And it's a feelin' that you can't ignore" But it's more like a knife to mе than a high to me And my heart can't fall apart anymore If you knеw what I knew, you'd be terrified Haven't you ever been in love before?

Labyrinth - Taylor Swift

Alastair being scared to fall in love again after ch*rles

Oh no, I'm fallin' in love again Oh, I'm fallin' in love I thought the plane was goin' down How'd you turn it right around?

Daylight - Taylor Swift

this song and the next one I can’t believe I didn’t add them to the playlist the first time???? specially since the first fic I posted on ao3 was a thomastair fic titled after this song??

My love was as cruel as the cities I lived in Everyone looked worse in the light There are so many lines that I've crossed unforgiven I'll tell you the truth but never goodbye I don't wanna look at anything else now that I saw you I don't wanna think of anything else now that I thought of you

I wounded the good and I trusted the wicked Clearin' the air, I breathed in the smoke

I once believed love would be black and white But it's golden golden

I once believed love would be burnin' red But it's golden Like daylight

I wanna be defined by the things that I love Not the things I hate

Dress - Taylor Swift

I can’t believe I didn’t realize how perfectly this bridge fit thomastair until I saw a tiktok about it??? (the person deleted the tiktok, otherwise I’d put a link to it here)

Flashback when you met me, your buzzcut and my hair bleached Even in my worst times, you could see the best in me Flashback to my mistakes, my rebounds, my earthquakes Even in my worst lies, you saw the truth in me And I woke up just in time, now I wake up by your side My one and only, my lifeline I woke up just in time, now I wake up by your side

Electric Touch - Taylor Swift

Got a history of stories ending sadly Still hoping that the fire won't burn me Just one time, just one time All I know is this could either break my heart or bring it back to life Got a feelin' your electric touch could fill this ghost town up with life And I want you now, wanna need you forever In the heat of your electric touch I've been left in the rain lost and pining I'm tryin' hard not to look like I'm trying 'Cause every time I tried hard for love, it fell apart

@alastair-appreciation-month

[helenofblackthorns]

I have honestly never managed to read through chot, which is kind of annoying because I know there are scenes i havent read yet that il probably love. But the problems are really annoying too, like why is everything set up at the end of choi solved immediatly and easily.

honestly I've very glad I managed to read chot in 12 straight hours on release day otherwise I would probably be stuck in the same place you are 😅 because you're right, the ending of choi is resolved really easily with maybe the exception of the whole James/Cordelia/Matthew situation

like both Anna/Ari and Alastair/Thomas work out their issues really early on and are fine the rest of the book despite the fact in was a massive deal at the end of choi that none of them were speaking. like why even have all the couples break up 😭 especially thomastair tbh because they already went through all that in choi they simply didn't need to do it again

I will say of all the dropped plots, the fact Jesse being the murderer and Elias' death barely come up in chot is probably the worse offender. I think Jesse has one scene at the beginning where he mentions all his runes are from dead people and Cordelia mentions her dad occasionally and thats IT. like one of the main things Cordelia & Matthew discuss before leaving for Paris is they have to be back in time for the funeral in about a week yet never once does the funeral come up in chot 😭😭 NOT ONCE. also if my besties new boyfriend was walking around with my dead fathers voyance rune on his hand personally I would have something to say about that idk

less of a dropped plot but the way the James and Grace situation was handled in chot also really bothered me. like at the very least I feel like James should have been the one to tell Cordelia about everything instead of Grace. imo Grace told her because the plot needed to move forward and that could have been avoided if James didn't have the bracelet for as long as he did. he should have lost it earlier in choi so he had time to both come to terms with it & deal with it on his own terms without The Plot interfering as far as I'm concerned

and you're right, there's also good parts of it they just get really overshadowed. I can't remember everything rn (its been over a year since I read it lol) but there were some funny/impactful/cool etc moments that I did really like. unfortunately I feel like most of them were in the first half because once the plot picks up its harder to ignore how awful it is (which... probably isn't going to motivate you to finish anytime soon anon 😅)

[vwritesaus]

      ‘Hello? Earth to Costume Guy?’       Alastair pulls himself back to the present, and finds Kit staring at him with a raised eyebrow and his arms crossed over his chest. It dawns on him then that the poor boy has probably been trying to get his attention for a little while.       ‘Sorry,’ Alastair mumbles, feeling sheepish. ‘I, uh… sorry, I was…’       Saying nothing, Kit merely uncrosses his arms and makes a gesture with his hands that clearly states want to tell me what that was about?       ‘I hear them,’ Alastair says, ‘but I can’t see them. Or gain any idea of where they are and how to get back to them.’       ‘Who? What are they saying?’       ‘My sister. My friends. To—’ Alastair cuts himself off abruptly and clears his throat. ‘They’re discussing our next steps and also how to go about waking me up.’       Kit’s eyes narrow, scrutinising, and his voice mirrors it as he asks, ‘You think you’re dreaming, aren’t you?’       Alastair shrugs helplessly. ‘Wouldn’t you? If you were me?’

hello!! happy December everyone - and what better way to start the month than with some ANGST (looking at you writers of tumblr who've been posting so far - i see you) and a snippet from the thomastair fic that ran away from me? it's very close to being finished - just got a couple more bits to join up!! but here's a little preview before i post the full fic later on this week ✨

an enormous thank you to @astriefer for betaing, all the lovely words of support and encouragement, helping me choose several snippets to share, and just being an awesome human ♡

do let me know what you think :D also let me know if you'd like to be tagged for future updates of this fic!

[xchloecarstairsx]

A Thomastair quote for my book quote of the week for the next podcast episode we’re filming? AS I SHOULD HONESTLY?

Also follow our podcast it’s called the burrow podcast thanks xoxo

[edwinspaynes]

Happy International Cat Day! I couldn't resist writing a short Thomastair drabble about it :) I've really missed writing them, and this was so refreshing.

Read it on Ao3!

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1905

“I cannot believe,” Alastair started in a dour tone, “that we agreed to look after this little hellion simply because your parents wished to go to Dublin for several long weeks. It is a wonder that they could not have brought the creature with them, considering how many ridiculously large bags your mother packed.”

Thomas smiled, stroking Cleocatra as she kneaded at his trousers. “You say this as though it were not your idea, amor,” he told his hamsar-am fondly. “I do believe that your exact words were ‘Thomas and I would be pleased to be of service,’ or something of that nature. You volunteered us both, if I am not mistaken.”

Alastair glared and shook his head. “Of that nature does not inspire me to believe that you are making a direct quotation.” He sighed. “I suppose that I must carry the burden of my words as quite the heavy regret, then.”

Thomas laughed brightly. “Simply because she does not wish to sit on you? Perhaps she believes that you squirm about too much.”

“You know as well as I do that I do not squirm,” Alastair reminded him.

“Right. Well, perhaps she does not wish to go on your lap because you elegantly resituate regularly.”

Alastair sighed. “I suppose. Well, I suppose I have nothing to lose by making another attempt. Cleo,” he said, leveling his gaze at Cleocatra. Thomas was amused by the sound that she made as she opened one eye to assess Alastair. It was a sort of half-curious purr, and combined with the rapid head-shake that she offered, it was in Thomas’s opinion adorable.

Judging by the upward quirk at the corners of Alastair’s mouth, he seemed to believe so as well.

Alastair held out a hand to Cleocatra, whose whiskers twitched. She sniffed him tentatively before putting her ears down and readjusting herself in Thomas’s lap.

“Well, then,” Alastair said. “I suppose that I am an eternal persona non grata from here on out, then. Unfortunate, that, as I am the one who came bearing the treats today.”

“I suppose,” Thomas agreed with a laugh.

“She seems to like me well enough when I wave that stupid teaser about in her face.”

“Well, she certainly likes the teaser.”

“More’s the pity for her. She seems staunchly unaware of its terrible orange hue. It is unholy.”

“Did you know,” Thomas said, still stroking Cleocatra’s gray head, “that cats are only able to detect shades yellow and blue? At least, that is what my mother says. But it seems that they mostly view the world in black and white regardless.”

“I suppose that colourblindness is the only decent explanation for enjoying orange feathers,” Alastair said. He reached out to scratch the cat’s chin, and Cleocatra purred as she leaned into Alastair’s touch.

“See?” Thomas’s voice was proud. “It is not as dismal as you believed. She likes you well enough, as she always has.”

Alastair sighed. “I suppose I shall go get the teaser abomination, then. Get back into her good graces.”

-

Alastair loved animals. He always had. And, as Thomas watched the love of his life wave a teaser in front of his old family cat, he felt a small spark of warmth settle in his heart.

Alastair coaxed Cleocatra close to him with the orange feather – Thomas did have to admit to himself that the shade was unfortunate, even if he did not wish to encourage Alastair’s affected grumpiness. But Alastair looked content as the cat jumped from Thomas’s lap and swatted at the feather, making the bell attached to the end of the stick ring softly.

“Silly moosh,” he grumbled as Cleocatra spun in circles. “Quite easily amused, aren’t you?”

“Once, she stared at a spot on the wall for five hours. Eugenia thought there might have been a ghost.”

“Did you tell her that she was being ridiculous?”

“No,” Thomas laughed. “I convinced her that there was, in fact, a ghost. And that the ghost was another cat. I was a rather devious ten-year-old.”

“I have never been prouder of you,” Alastair said approvingly.

Cleocatra, who was apparently unhappy that Alastair had stopped moving her teaser, jumped onto his lap and began to stretch out on his shoulder.

“You cannot really say anything,” Thomas grinned. “As you wanted so badly for her to sit on you.”

“Do shut up,” Alastair said good-naturedly, and Thomas could not help but laugh.

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