I'll Go Ahead And Say It. THERE IS NO BETTER DUO THAN THE ONE OF A SECRETLY POSSIBLY DANGEROUS MAN BUT

Petition to rename sour strips/ rainbow belts to gay bacon.

I feel like 90% of criticism of Chappell Roan is just misogyny and lesbophobia. Like please just say you don’t like pop music instead of making a 20 page rant about how she shouldn’t be allowed to express herself and her lesbianism/queerness because she makes music you personally don’t like.

I don’t even like pop music but I can still appreciate how her music is a form of lesbian/queer art.

Making a post about how you think a lesbian women’s art is boring and uncreative isn’t a hot revolutionary take. It’s the same misogynistic/lesbophobic bullshit people have been saying about lesbian art for the past couple hundred years.

October in Sweden.

Cassandra Clare LOVES the grew-up-too-soon x babied-all-their-life trope

Clary was sheltered up until the events of TCOB meanwhile Jace was getting raised by Valentine

Kit was forced to grow up quickly while Ty was babied by Julian and his family

Sophie was cast out onto the streets while Gideon had a fairly nice upbringing (besides his dad turning into a worm but let's face it he deserved it)

Lucie was raised as the daughter of one of the wealthiest Shadowhunter families while Jesse literally died as a kid

And do I even need to explain Thomas and Alastair...

Manifesting, Athena taking pity on me and making my brain work like it did last night at 23:00 throughout the exam.

I’m really curious if Kit knew that he was bi before meeting Ty or was that boy his gay awakening 😭

Remembering 10 year old me had an attachment to her principal because she was nice and warm and treated her like a daughter when her mom wasn't and I feel nostalgic. Then I remember I started crying in her office when she told me that she was proud of me and I feel like crawling in a hole.

Absolutely nothing beats Valentine's parenting strategy of "this is my good son who I keep in the house and my evil son who I keep in the shed. They're both named Jonathan"

Here's my head canons that literally nobody asked for, but I don't care because I spent all of last summer thinking nobody was invested in the circle and I have pent-up fangirl energy 😌:

Robert is a fictional adult who needs some love: Is he one of the oldest? Yeah. But since he got abused by his dad and he felt like a disappointment for not being able to bear the runes (allergy) he's an insecure little bun, k? K. Also Maryse absolutely understands that, and although she's like super cold and icy and murderous she has a big heart (she's a silver girl, k?) and is always there for him at his lowest. Also, screw Shadowhunters and their smooth skin. Him and Alec? SCARS. That's it. Scars, actually, scars on all Shadowhunters, and also on Maryse, one that runs from the bottom of her ear, down her neck to her collarbone. How? (she's a Shadowhunter, ppl)

Maryse's mom was TRASH, and she has a fear of commitment: Why do I say that? IDK. I like characters with family issues (y'know Robert's got it w his dad, she as it w her mom). AND. She felt alone, which is how Valentine got to her. She was really close to her brother, and him getting stripped of his runes and exiled left her alone with parents that didn't care for her and too many close friends because of her cold (sarcastic queen) attitude. At the end of the day, she felt abandoned and, leaving her with a fear of getting close to anybody because they might leave her as well.

Miss ma'am passed her absolute need to perfect to Alec: If you've read TMI it's hard for people to not know that Alec is definitely the fake it til you make it, wake in the same shoes until you bleed and work on it until it glistens. So while I do firmly believe that he got some of Robert's personality, he did get his loyalty and bravery? From Maryse, all together with the constant urge of being perfect, which she got from her parents' constantly pushing her to be perfect and her need to prove the man in the academy that she deserved her place there.

Maryse and Robert might have been in love, they might not have known what that was: They both come from pretty toxic families where love was ehm...not a thing? So when they met, it was obvious that all these intense feelings of "I would kill for you" would get confused (maybe) for love. I do still that they fiercely loved each other like one loves its first partner. Deeply ad burning, that in their hearts, they were each other's other half. But I do also think that them insisting on staying when that love melted into pure raw platonic love (care? Do remember Maryse cried at his funeral and Michael's ghost touched her shoulder). Which brings me to my next point.

Michael and Maryse: Friends. That's it. The typical gay and bi power friendship.

Celine/ Maryse/ Michael: Trio of friends. Izzy/Jace/Alec but a cultist version of it.

Waywood?: Real. Maryse's relationship w Robert had faded into a pure friendship which lead to him realizing that he was in love w Michael (whether he acted on it or not, that idk)

Eliza and Maryse?: A thing. Hell yeah, she did act on it, which leads me to the belief that Maryse did know that Robert was in love with Michael and that he knew that she was in love with Eliza. Think of it, a lavender marriage out of fear of being stripped of their runes by the clave.

when Meliorn refuses to tell Alec where the Fair Folk are keeping the hostages, including Magnus, and it does not matter anyway because Meliorn is capable of lying, and Alec does not waver for a second; he simply says: "die, then, liar," and shoots an arrow through his chest. when Jace won't let anyone come along to Edom but Alec convinces him because "go without me, and you disrespect that this is my battle too."

and I think about Alec's image throughout the series as that of a protector, someone who supports at the sidelines but won't venture into the centre. he reserves that spot for Jace or Izzy, anyone else but himself. and he deserves credit for that in and of itself; it's an important place to be, one that is often overlooked: never quite in the spotlight, but always making sure to be looking directly at it.

but where Magnus is concernedー he absolutely steps the fuck up. Alec is unique in that he doesn't tolerate any bullshit, he doesn't prolong any conversations or fights; he won't listen to long self-serving monologues, won't deal with unnecessary theatrics, won't explain himself to stall time: he deals with things fast, cleanly, effectively. his arc is one of my favourites.