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January 28, 2024
“Bane realized he was turning into a demon. He begged his boyfriend,
Alexander Lightwood, to kill him. Alec did, and then turned the sword on himself. Their bodies were found together in the ruins of New York.”
and what if i killed myself
“They always say faeries steal human children because they can’t make art or music of their own. Neither can warlocks or vampires. It requires mortality to make art.
fae are just AI that can’t create new shit lmao
At least we went down protecting them, Emma thought. It was cold comfort.
kms
We’ll take you with us. You belong there, not here.” Emma waited for Livvy to ask about her own fate in their world, but she didn’t. Instead she pulled a little away from Julian and shook her head—not angrily, but with immense sadness.
i want livvy back too but she will never go for it jules. she’s 7 years older and hardened by war and the only blackthorn sibling left bro, that’s not your livvy
human musician dangling from puppet strings made of his own nerves and blood vessels, being forced to play a mandolin even as he screamed in agony.
OH MY GOD???
beneath the ice she could see the shadows of trapped bodies—here the shape of a hand, there a screaming, frozen face. Her chest tightened. We are walking on the bodies of the dead, she thought.
this place is so ridiculously cool but so fucking scary
“I prefer redheads myself.”
his sister *gag*
“Losing you,” he said. “You’re the only person I’ve ever loved like this, and I know you’re the only person I ever will. And I’m not myself without you, Emma. Once you dissolve dye in water, you can’t take it back out. It’s like that. I can’t take you out of me. It means cutting out my heart, and I don’t like myself without my heart. I know that now.”
“I was angry at you. I missed you. But I didn’t stop loving you.” She brushed the back of her hand lightly against his cheek. “As long as you exist and I exist, I will love you.”
“The sage leaf is for Clary. The arrow and flame are for Alec and Magnus.
He can’t watch her die again, not again, nobody could live through that twice.
I CANT EITHER
just as she’d done to Livvy.
stood up and cheered for revenge
I’m grateful, but I can’t have Cameron die for the safety of a world that I’m willing to run away from.”
she’s so fuckin cool
Emma had not been expecting this. “Any task? Like, you would be willing to learn to hula dance?” “Is that a torture of your people?” said Kieran. “Then yes, I would submit to it, for your sake.”
I am the twinless twin.
When your twin leaves the earth you live on, it never turns the same way again: the weight of their soul is gone, and everything is off balance.
this hurts so bad
The stars will go out before I forget you, Mark Blackthorn.
Love me. Show me. “Kieran,” Mark breathed, and kissed him, and Kieran gave a small harsh cry and caught Mark by the sleeves, pulling him close.
hey guys you’re on the night watch btw
She had not wanted some vague approximation of what they had: She had wanted them.
i want two boyfriends and i want them to be boyfriends
“That explains why I can see seven of you,” Magnus said to Alec. “My ultimate fantasy.”
Magnus pointed. “That one of you over there is extremely attractive, Alexander.” “That’s a vase,” said Helen.
But perhaps they had just exchanged one kind of cage for another.
His eyes were bleak, haunted. He didn’t move. “Tell me to go away,” he said. “Tell me to leave you.” “Julian—” “I will always do what you ask me to do, Emma,” he said, his voice harsh. The bones of his face seemed suddenly too sharp and pronounced, as if they were cutting through his skin. “Please. Ask me.”
“Alec and I are unafraid to express our manly love,” said Jace. “Sometimes he carries me around like a swooning damsel.” “Really?” said Kit. “No,” said Jace.
“Christopher—can I call you Christopher?” “No,” said Kit. “Christopher,
“Do you want to just throw knives in a silent, angry bro way together?”
“We have children in the Wild Hunt. As young as eight years, sometimes,” said Gwyn. “Yes, but we’ve also covered how that’s a bad thing, Gwyn.”
having to tell your otherworldly boyfriend the rules
Annabel Blackthorn looked at them out of steady blue-green eyes.
earlier when she popped up i thought we were joking about her being alive still
Mark was standing next to Kieran, their shoulders just brushing. Her boys, Cristina thought. The ones she loved.
“I want to be with you both,” said Cristina. “I want to be able to kiss you both and hold you both. I want to be able to touch you both, sometimes at the same time, sometimes when we are just two. I want you to be able to kiss and hold each other because it makes you happy and I want you to be happy. I want us to be together, all three.” “I think of each of you all the time. I long for you when you are not there.” The words seemed to burst from Kieran like undammed water. He touched Mark’s face with his long-boned fingers, light as the brush of wind on grass. He turned to Cristina next and,
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She also had golden Cortana strapped to her side, which made Dru’s stomach turn. “That’s Emma’s sword,” Tavvy said crossly.
even the baby knows she’s wearing it wrong
Zara’s hand jerked. Cortana’s grip tore free of her fingers and the blade sailed across the space between them. The hilt smacked into Emma’s hand. Reflexively, she grasped it, and raised the sword high. Cortana was hers again.
cortana = mjolnir
“You,” he breathed, still in disbelief. “Who are you?” No one important. But there was no point speaking. Oban had slumped to the ground, his hands falling loose at his sides, his eyes filming over. He was dead.
THATS MY GIRL
it’s a lot harder not killing people than killing them.”
“You’re not Annabel,” he said. You’re a demon.
ok thank god i was super confused about annabel being alive again lol
skin. She was still warm, still breathing in his arms. “I’d rather die like this than be separated from you forever.” “Please don’t leave me, Emma,” Julian said. His voice broke. “Please don’t leave me in this world without you.” She managed to smile at him. “You were the best part of my life,” she said.
Diego coughed. His mouth and throat were thick with blood. “How bad—how bad will the scars be?” Jaime took his hand, and that was when Diego knew it was bad indeed. He begged Jaime silently not to lie to him or to pity him. Jaime’s smile was slow and crooked. “I think I will be the pretty one in the family now,” he said. “But at least you are still very muscular.”
perfect diego got nerfed
Tavvy moved a little bit farther forward. The eyes of the giants followed him like massive lamps, glowing and inhuman. Dru wanted to reach out and snatch him back. “Jules?” he said,
DONT LET THE BABY GO TOWARD THE GIANT NEPHILIM ALONE
Tavvy reached up his arms. “Jules,” he said, his small voice clear and ringing. “Carry me. I’m tired. I want to go home.”
i cried
“Emma,” he was saying, over and over, his voice breaking, shattering on the word. “Emma, Emma, my Emma.” She couldn’t speak. Instead, she traced her fingers clumsily across his back, writing out what she couldn’t say aloud, as they had for so long. A-T L-A-S-T, she wrote. A-T L-A-S-T.
the cake box was opened to reveal that the lettering said: CONGRATULATIONS ON NOT BEING GIANTS ANYMORE!
which only made him laugh softly and turn his attention to even more sensitive places. When the world had gone white behind her eyes several times, he rose up over her
julian the munch
“Ah, there’s the murderous girl I know and love,” said Julian.
“You know what they mean,” called Zara. “He’s a filthy pervert. Jace should stand for Consul instead.” “I am also a filthy pervert,” said Jace, “or at least I aspire to be. You have no idea what I get up to in my spare time. Just last week I asked Clary to buy me a—”
“Alec would look much better on the money,” said Mark. “We don’t put the Consul on the money,” said Julian. “And we don’t print money, anyway.” “We could start doing both,” said Mark.
ALEXANDER GIDEON LIGHTWOOD
THATS MY BOY HE DID IT
“She made a suggestion that I give you my cottage. It exists in a place on the Borderlands that is in neither Faerie nor the mortal world. It would neither weaken you as the mortal world would nor would Mark and Cristina be under threat, as they would be in the Court.” Adaon laid his hand on Kieran’s silk-and-velvet shoulder. “You could be with them there.”
FAERIE SEX COTTAGE
The Downworlder-Shadowhunter Alliance had come together to build a new school for Shadowhunters in an already safe and warded location—Luke Garroway’s farm in upstate New York. According to reports, it was nearly done—and according to Simon, about a thousand times nicer than the old Academy, where he’d once found rats in his sock drawer.
