Rebecca Lewis, My Underrated Favourite. I Wish We Got More Of Her Honestly. (Plus Yossarian)

Okay but Jace and Simon’s friendship is literally so iconic?? They go from the enemies to awkward allies to begrudging friends. And then Simon loses his memory and you think that’s that but then he somehow gets it in his head that he and Jace are best bros and now they’re just hanging out and being buddies and hugging all the time?? It’s like their entire friendship is based on a misunderstanding but it’s totally not, we know they love each other but who knows how much longer it would have taken them to admit they love each other if amnesiac Simon didn’t just decide they were bffs all the sudden. Anyway I love their dynamic, unparalleled really

Reading about Wessa in TLH and reading about Clace, Malec or Sizzy in TDA is such a bittersweet experience because once again you realize that their story is over and closed and that you will never experience a new story where they are the main leads. You just realize how much you miss them. And I just know that I will have the same realization in TWP with Blackstairs.

PLEASE share your headcannons I’m begging you. Genuinely on my knees,

i can't decide if i want to write out extensive headcanons for rebecca lewis, or if i just want to wait until the brainworms take over and force me into writing a 30k character-defining fic about her

Simon and Izzy please

Give me 6 The Shadowhunter Chronicles ships to make a fanart of

We have the first winner: Malec/Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood

Honestly I knew they’ll be the first one to win but Jemma/Blackstairs was pretty close too! In fact Malec only won by 1.

But let’s be honest, which one of us doesn’t love a good Malec fanart sigh

Now we are in for round 2!

Rules if you wanna vote for your fav ship to get on it next:

-comment or reblog with your suggestion

-it doesn’t have to be canon but if you’re being weird about it (incest, pedophilia etc.) you’re getting blocked and ofc it doesn’t count as a vote

-only ships with book characters from any book. I’ve never watched the show and don’t plan on it and I won’t draw anyone from there <3

-have fun and be nice to others!!

the way i don't see enough kit x simon brotp posts.

like they gang up on jace?? they watch starwars together and completely geek out together?? simon takes kit to his band's concerts?? simon teaches kit how to play the guitar?? simon is especially overprotective of kit because he knows what it's like to be new to being a shadowhunter and how hard it can be?? kit can open up to simon about his "uNrEqUiTed LoVe" situation and simon's been there so he can talk to him??

that's all i had to say.

My favourite detail is that the backgrounds in these drawings reflect the characters and how they relate to each other. Clary is the sky and Simon is the moon and stars, but Jace is the sun. Simon is dark, the night’s child, and Jace is light, a child of the angels. Clary dreamed of Jace with bright golden wings, and Simon with dark black wings. Jace is brought back by an angel, Simon is taken away by a demon.

TSC Characters as tweets I’ve liked - 1

Matthew after drinking all day:

Alastair:

Simon:

Izzy:

Julian:

Tessa, quite literally:

Jace and Kit before finding out their true heritage:

This scene has always confused me a little. I know that Jace really did miss Simon because he was the first real friend he ever made, but is that what he was going to say? Does he wish Simon remembered how they overcame their hatred of each other and grew into friends who truly cared for each other? Or does he feel guilty when Simon treats him like a friend and wish simon remembered how much he should hate him? I can never figure out whether Jace is guilty or hopeful in this scene. Does Jace feel that he doesn’t deserve to be treated with the trust and affection Simon shows him at the academy, or does he wish Simon remembered their shared experiences and what it took them to become real friends?

Okay, I need to talk about this passage from City of Bones

Something that comes up a couple of times in regards to the Circle era is that all the modern kids kind of look down on the previous generation for buying into all of this bullshit, much like the readers probably do. Clary is a modern American teenager, of course she hears about Valentine and immediately sees the obvious parallels to white supremacy, of course she can't believe that her family would go along with that and knows that she would do better. And Luke doesn't argue with her, or try to defend his assertation that Valentine wasn't always evil. Even if Valentine was Luke's friend at first, he still should have known better than to let things go so far. Jocelyn should have known better, the Lightwoods should have known better, they all should have known better. But they didn't, and neither does Clary.

Even though she's able to identify Valentine's rhetoric as hateful when she's learning about it as "things said by this mass murderer," she still repeats the same stuff after picking it up from people she trusts. Clary falls into the classic progressive pitfall of lumping opinions into right and wrong; people into good and evil. Luke isn't trying to convince her that Valentine was actually a good person or that it's okay to do a little violent hate crime as a teenager, he's trying to point out that knowing which people to label as "evil" doesn't actually do anything to make you an ally to the people being oppressed. She can hate Valentine, but can she see werewolves and vampires as people equal to herself?

The answer is yes, obviously she can. But it's only because she has people like Luke there to call her out when she does something out of line. Luke fell for that stuff too as a teenager, but he took the time to unpack all those hateful beliefs, and so has a much better understanding of how to live up to his ideals than the kid who's never done anything wrong in her life.

In addition, I really like that the book wasn't afraid to acknowledge how Valentine is definitely analagous to white supremacists. Most stories with some sort of fantasy discrimination act like this is the only bigotry and their characters have never heard of racism, but that automatically flattens the world. Clary thinks she knows enough about racism to apply those lessons from history onto a new situation, but she clearly isn't actually ready to practice what she preaches.

Also, this is by no means a Clary hate post. I love that she's a flawed character and that the narrative acknowledges this and lets her grow from it. A lot of stories would be afraid to look at the protagonist (who's kinda a reader insert) and go "you are not immune to propaganda," but it's an important thing to make the kids reading these books aware of. Clary isn't evil, but she did do some harmful things and has to reckon with that potential for hate within herself before it goes any farther.

It's not perfect and it's not a complete education on anti-discrimination, but it's better than what you might expect from a YA urban fantasy novel published in 2007. Hell, it's better than you expect from a lot of people active online today.

Jocelyn's story

I need a fanfiction about Valentine and Jocelyn fighting over Luke, and Luke awkwardly tries to reconcile them, wondering when he managed to become such an important person that his two best friends fought over him.

I love this unhappy triangle of hopeless teenagers💔