"Am I so hard to love?"

Cassie Clare can do love triangles like no other Profile art by @thorndale

[allthestories]

Jem and Will doomed parabatai this. Emma and Julian doomed parabatai that.

How about Lucian and Valentine doomed parabatai? Let’s address that because I feel like we forget about them when Luke is the definition of angst.

[allthestories]

Who the Wolf Loves in Better in Black changed lives. Mine specifically.

[allthestories]

Someone better versed in the differences between American Victorian society and English Victorian society give me some behaviors or quirks Tessa would’ve had/done that would have the London Institute people going ‘she’s so American’ (with affection of course). It’s too easy to forget that she grew up in a different culture and Cassie Clare and we as a fandom don’t play up enough her Americaness enough

Bonus points for differences that she could’ve passed on to her kids. I like to imagine there are certain things James and Lucie learned from their mother that had people going ‘you are for sure your mother’s child. What you just did was so American. She’s so American.’

[allthestories]

Cassie Clare I am in your walls. Characters?! Plural?!

[allthestories]

Emma Carstairs learning the violin headcannons:

Jem is her teacher and when her and Julian are staying at Blackthorn Manor she meets up with him for lessons and when she’s back in LA she has Kit help him video chat her

She does it both to honor her father and help her process her grief

She’s a very dedicated student and takes her lessons with Jem very seriously and practices diligently

She’s very good but she downplays her talent with the violin even more than she ever downplayed her talent as a Shadowhunter

Playing the violin makes her really feel like a Carstairs in the same way that Cortana does and it also makes her feel vulnerable in a weird way

She doesn’t let Julian listen to her play for a long time always citing that she ‘isn’t good enough yet’ (Julian knows it’s in her blood and can’t imagine her being bad at it but doesn’t push her)

When she finally does play for him the first time he’s enchanted and awestruck and she sounds amazing but also it just makes her come alive and glow almost the same way she does while wielding Cortana

He insists that she should practice while he paints and it sort of becomes a nightly routine for them

He also finds it oddly attractive and portraits of her holding/playing the violin become almost as frequent as ones of her wielding Cortana

Eventually she’s persuaded to occasionally do duets with Jace, her playing violin and him playing piano, on the rare occasion everyone gets together

[allthestories]

My Headcannon is that when Blackstairs are spending time at Blackthorn manor, Emma makes an effort to visit Jem and Tessa and Kit and Mina (Julian does too but he also can sense that it’s important for her to get to know them independently as an individual rather than as a set with him)

She starts to learn violin with Jem as her teacher and she has Tessa tell her all about the Carstairs family and her ancestors over the years. She is the older sister Kit never had and he is the younger brother she never had and their sibling banter is legendary. She takes being a role model to Mina and him very seriously.

While she will always love the Blackthorns and they will always be her family and while no one could fill the hole her parents left she does feel a unique peace and happiness at feeling like she has a little family that’s just as Carstairs as she is.

[allthestories]

Julian Blackthorn in Lady Midnight: *literally vibrating with suppressed yearning and love for Emma 24/7, willing to die and kill for her, imagining that they’re married and his siblings are their kids along with other atrociously down bad behaviors*

Emma Carstairs in Lady Midnight: omg he’s upset with me for putting him and his siblings in danger with my investigation and being a bad parabatai also I’ve somehow deluded myself into thinking he doesn’t consider me a real part of the family

[allthestories]

It’s the Herondale-Carstairs of it all

[allthestories]

We don’t talk enough about Luke and Jocelyn like Lucian Graymark 100% went to the Cassie Clare school of yearning men.

[allthestories]

Was just skimming through Lady Midnight and absolutely no one is doing yearning like Julian Blackthorn

[allthestories]

I was reminded about Stephen Herondale’s story and how he fell in love with Amatis Graymark and married her only to divorce her and remarry some 18 year old and have a kid with her at Valentine’s behest because of Luke

And all I can think about is how Will and James are ROLLING over in their graves because they would sooner kill themselves or become mundanes than sacrifice what they had with Tessa and Cordelia. Like no person no matter how influential or popular is convincing them to cut ties with their wives much less marry someone else.

[allthestories]

“So American” by Olivia Rodrigo but make it Will and Tessa Herondale.

[daisybrekker]

Will and Tessa moments in COI

Tessa was smiling up at Will as she tucked her hands into fur-lined gloves; he bent to brush her hair from her forehead.

Tessa smiled indulgently, as if Will had asked for a second helping of cake. "Oh, go ahead."

Will's blue gaze would travel over his wife - tracing every line of her as if he were memorizing her all over again - and then his children, and a look of happiness that was sharp and gentle at the same time would come over his face.

"Technically, darling, being present during interrogation is his job," said Will.

"Will, dear, I'm going to check with Gabriel and Cecily."

She smiled affectionately at Will and gave Thomas an encouraging look before letting herself out of the Sanctuary.

"You", he said. "Did you know, you grow more beautiful every day?"

"And yet," said Will, "you continue to accrue radiance."

When she tilted her head up and brushed his lips with hers, he cupped her face in his hands. So many years, he thought, and each kiss was new as the break of day.

[catreadsbooks]

TMI/TID/TDA/TEC/TLH Extras

The Mortal Instruments

City of Bones (27 March 2007)

Not For Humans (crossover between Holly Black’s Modern Faerie Tale series and Shadowhunter Chronicles, set before City of Bones)

Awake: TBA

Original prologue from Jace’s POV: TBA

Magnus’s Vow (embargoed but Cassie posted a snippet. You can use Google to find it)

Kissed: Magnus and Alec’s First Kiss

When Midnight Comes: Jace’s point of view of his first kiss with Clary: TBA

City of Ashes (25 March 2008)

Because It Is Bitter: The Seelie Court kiss from Jace’s PoV

Deleted scene: Isabelle defends Jace

Deleted scene: Magnus explains the faerie world

City of Glass (24 March 2009)

Read the original first chapter of City of Glass

Chapter 2: The Demon Towers of Alicante*

Jace kisses Alec*

Chapter 7: Where Angels fear to tread*

Chapter 9: This guilty Blood*

Chapter 13: Where There Is Sorrow*

Manor scene: Jace’s PoV

Jace’s letter to Clary

Chapter 20: Weighed in the Balance*

Jocelyn’s story

* Cut, deleted or changed

City of Fallen Angels (5 April 2011)

A story told in postcards

City of Lost Souls (8 May 2012)

A Question of Power

The Act of Falling

A Dark Transformation

Stephen’s letter to Jace

Deleted Malec scene

Deleted Jace scene

Deleted or cut scenes (including the cut DSCS)

City of Heavenly Fire (27 May 2014)

Inside jacket artwork

Uncut Clary and Jace cave scene

Deleted scene/comic: Magnus sends Emma and the Blackthorns back to Los Angeles

Comic strip scene “The Wedding” (exclusive to the UK edition)

Cut scene: Jonathan’s death

Letter from Faerie to Arthur Blackthorn

The Infernal Devices

Clockwork Angel (31 August 2010)

On the Bridge: Will and Jem

Of Loss: Will’s perspective on his kiss with Tessa

Why Will Hates Ducks

Deleted scenes (Jem & Tessa on Blackfriars Bridge, Nate & Tessa, Will & Tessa)

Tessa’s letter to Nate: TBA? (Exclusive content from Illumicrate’s Clockwork Angel: 10th Anniversary Edition)

Clockwork Prince (6 December 2012)

Will’s letter to his parents

Burning Bright: Jem’s meeting with Tessa from his viewpoint

Will’s love letter to Tessa (can also be read in Clockwork Princess)

An Offering of Moonlight: Jem’s Perspective on “Fierce Midnight”

Deleted scenes: The Whole of It (Will tells Jem about his curse), Tessa and Jem

Clockwork Princess (19 March 2013)

Cut scene: Will and Jem

‘Will’s love letter to Tessa’

Carstairs, Herondale and Lightwood family tree (1831-2007)

After the Bridge (Tessa & Jem with art by Cassandra Jean –> City of Heavenly Fire spoilers)

Will and Tessa comic from Cassandra Jean and Cassie

The Dark Artifices

Set before the books

Stars to Burn (Mark & Kieran, with art)

Lady Midnight (8 March 2016)

A Long Conversation (short story in some first editions of Lady Midnight, now an ebook)

Cut scene: Julian

Unedited beach scene

Deleted scene: Emma and Cameron

Deleted scene: Emma, the Blackthorns and the Ashdowns

Deleted scene: Emma and the Blackthorns

Deleted scene: Emma, Clary and Church

Lord of Shadows (23 May 2017)

Cottage scene (Emma & Julian, with art)

Our Waking Souls (canon online short story about Clary & Jace, with art)

Queen of Air and Darkness (4 December 2018)

Deleted prologue: TBA (you can read a part of it here)

Cut Blackstairs scene (unedited)

Deleted Jemma scene

A Love That Never Tires (short story in some first editions of Queen of Air and Darkness, sequel to A Long Conversation): TBA

The Eldest Curses

The Red Scrolls of Magic (9 April 2019)

Magnus’s letter to Alec (from City of Heavenly Fire, formerly exclusive content for Illumicrate + Good Choice Reading)

How Magnus met Catarina: TBA

Deleted snippet (back then the book titles were different)

The Lost Book of The White (1 September 2020)

Edited scene from beginning of the book

In Dream Begin: TBA

Simon’s graduation party (Waterstones exclusive, deleted scene): TBA

The Last Hours

Set before the books

Chain of Gold Extra Content (flash fiction)

The Devil Tavern

Days Past: Lucie and Cordelia

Days Past: Christopher

Cirenworth Hall

The City of Bones

Lucie and Ghosts

A Lightwood Christmas Carol, Part 1

A Lightwood Christmas Carol, Part 2

The Anniversary Party, Part 1

The Anniversary Party, Part 2

Chain of Gold (3 March 2020)

Deleted scene: Matthew

Wedding Invitation (Good Choice Reading exclusive content)

Fairy Tale of London: TBA. You can see artwork from the short story here.

Lucie’s letter to Cordelia (LitJoyCrate exclusive): TBA

Ragnor’s letter to Magnus (exclusive to Waterstones rune edition): TBA

The Whispering Room from James’s POV with art by Cassandra Jean

Chain of Iron (2 March 2021)

One Must Always Be Careful of Books: TBA

Fever (Waterstones exclusive) TBA

Matthew’s letter to James (LitJoyCrate exclusive): TBA

Deleted scene (Tessa and Lucie talk): TBA

Unidentified snippets

The bonus content is put under the book titles where you can find the extras in, e.g. The Act of Falling is set in City of Fallen Angels but you can find it in City of Lost Souls.

[allthestories]

“When Emma Falls in Love” (Taylor’s Version) (From The Vault) is actually about Emma Carstairs

[allthestories]

POV: Your bestie is finally reading chot a whole month and a half after release and sending you reactions so now you get to relive all the pain 🥲

[allthestories]

The things I would give. The crimes I would commit. For the shadowhunters (specifically TID) to get the Shadow and Bone treatment level of adaptations?