You keep me human, Tom

previously @styxdrawings | Styx | She/Her | aroaceflux | Multi-fandom | Writes Thomastair fics once in a blue moon | Icon by @loweana.art | Header by the amazing @queen-born-out-of-fire | I will take forever to answer but appreciate your attempt at communicating with me for eternity

[astriefer]

MASTER LIST

Writing Prompts

All-In-One prompts masterlist

FANFICS

♧◇《 Carstairs siblings 》◇♧

You know I can't cook myself without burning down the house (link to a03)

Favorite

We will get through this

♧◇《 Thomastair 》◇♧

Just Let Me Breath With You

Fever

Birthday drabble

Let Me Kiss Your Bleedings Goodbye / look Around And See How Much You Are Loved

Thomastair in the music room (Was made before Coi realse) (link to a03)

Don't fall asleep during the movie

Trust Me with Thy Heart (link to a03)

And One Taught Me Pain

♧◇《 Alastair Carstairs 》◇♧

To Real Friends, Till the Reel End (part 1 || part 2 || part 3)

Disappointed

Bits of Truth

Count Me On For Free Drinks

For The Love We Lost

♧◇《 Gracetopher 》◇♧

Stardust

♧◇《 Gabrily 》◇♧

Dinner night with the Herondales

EDITS

Alastair Carstairs

Christopher Lightwood

HEADCANONS

Alastair & Kamala avoid social interaction (together)

Sona having a character development

Sona playing Piano (still hopeful for CoT)

Carstairs sibling & Piano

Thomas bonding time with his mother-in-law

Alastair meeting his sibling for the first time

The Carstairs with Baby Carstairs (ft. Zia)

Me crying to mutuals about the option Sona dies in CoT

Mr. Hedgehog (Youtuber au)

Thomastair confessing through music

Alastair is the new Ellen Claremont

MEMES

When Alastair is mad a Cordelia

Thomastair & Alastair memes

Alastair is a mood

Sona vs Cigarettes

Ruin me

Appricate Thomas Lightwood

Post-Paris Thomastair

Facts

Facts (2)

Alastair let someone hug you

Alastair needs therapy and fics are where he gets it

TLH gang needs therapy too

Alastair @ Thomas after the fight with Leviathan

I really love Alastair and get happy when he talks

THOMASTAIR ROYAL AU

Thomastair royal au

2 am thoughts

Kamala the spy princess

Kamala the spy princess (2)

Royal!Alastair drawing by @sunsetreggie

Sona Carstairs

Me just rambling about the plot

Riding toward sunset

The first to make Alastair laugh

OTHERS

Domestic Thomastair

When Alastair dyed his hair back to black

It's gay time

How I see Alastair hedgehog edition

Alastair wants a headgehog

Dancing

A smiling Alastair

Blackdale Christmas spirit because I find it funny

How would baby Carstairs look like

The textpost that started it all

A darklina edit for my friend

Helpful writing tips

Helpful writing sites

[emcreatez]

Forbidden Fruit 🍎

FINALLY got the time to draw these two 🥰 I hope you like it!

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[astriefer]

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[mousegirlheart]

controversial opinion but ive suffered enough and should get everything i want for forever from now on and also im pretty cute

[gl1tchrix]

-Odysseus

[onlysomewhatsane]

Ok ok ok SO!

I think everyone has realized that Leola was autistic. It was heavily implied both through the flashback images and Aaravos' narration-

She lined up her toys, flapped her hands (it was also shown in the trial scene), seemed to be sensitive towards loud sounds (like the other startouch elves when they talked), and walked on her tiptoes. All of those are classic signs of autism.

But there's one thing I haven't seen anyone else bring up, and that's that her giving her human friends magic and breaking the "cosmic order" or whatever could also be because of her neurotype!

Autistic people tend to have very strict senses of morality and fairness, and will disregard rules if they don't fit their idea of right or wrong. Personal example here, I used to constantly do things I was told not to because I thought the rules in question were bogus.

It's not hard to guess that Leola would find the rules about humans not having magic to be unfair- after all, her and all the other elves, and even the animals around them are full of it! So in the mind of an autistic child, this would be incredibly unfair. And she had the power to "fix" the situation! So why wouldn't she?

Why wouldn't she try to help her friends? Because it would break the cosmic order? That's vague as hell and she was a KID!

And the startouch elves atomized her, for breaking a rule she probably only half understood and thought was stupid. Because she was autistic.

Had this thought and wanted to share, makes the whole thing even more tragic.

[sprmint-bkgsoda]

Just like I said. Illegal adoption.

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/immigrant-mom-loses-effort-regain-son-us-parents/story?id=16803067

[stephanemiroux]

Here are the thieves btw:

[waluwadjet2-deactivated20180727]

im actually physically ill

[dontwantthenextcommanderiwantyou]

Keep this post alive so that when CARLOS is old enough he’ll know these KIDNAPPERS stole him from his MOTHER!

[dopeluminarydreamer-blog]

Guatemalan mom: “Please help me my son was taken from me”

Those two assholes: “Lol finders keepers bitch lmao”

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Carlos was taken from his mom, Encarnacion Bail Romero after she was arrested during a work raid. Her words, “Nobody could help me because I don’t speak English,” are still resonating deeply within me. This child was kidnapped from a loving mother, and she went to hell and backwards trying to get him back, and a judge literally told her she had no rights to her own child.

https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1010399759088193536

Completely unfit parents can get their children back like it’s nothing and this poor woman who loves her child and just wants him with her again cannot? How is this not human trafficking/kidnapping? 

Also:

The judge said the biological mother had no rights to even see her child, according to the mother’s lawyer.

Asked if the Mosers would allow Bail Romero to see the child, the Mosers’ attorney, Joseph Hensley, said the couple was “not willing to comment on that at this time.” source

[rock-fish-deactivated20201231]

reminder that many children are funneled specifically to Christian families and communities for the same reasons they always have: destroy culture, stack votes, add bodies to communities that otherwise wouldn’t hold majorities. it is literal, actual trafficking.

[trashmouse]

This is a part of genocide.  Removing the children from their parents, who generally desperately love and want to raise them, and placing them with white American families is a way to erase their culture from existence without the ugliness of directly killing children.  But it’s still ugly, and it cares nothing for the actual welfare of the child.

[ameliapondthehistoryqueen]

Another way in which the US is already like the Handmaid’s Tale

[babygirlgirlgirl-deactivated202]

Im scheduling this post for 2023 , so Carlos will be old enough to know about his past when he finds this post…

[soemy-yuka]

💓~

[tilthat]

TIL that a recent study out of the University of Kansas found that it takes about 50 hours of socializing to go from acquaintance to casual friend, an additional 40 hours to become a “real” friend, and a total of 200 hours to become a close friend.

via reddit.com

[azureleon]

Socializing speedrun (Any %)

[kiwianaroha]

This is why it was so much easier to make friends when you were in school; you were trapped with those people all day Monday to Friday. It’s OK that it’s harder to make really good friends now that you’re an adult

[ignescent]

Yes, this! It’s also why regular get together are so useful. If you want to make friends as an adult? Join a book club, go to a craft meet up, find an excuse to hang out w/ approximately the same people once a week for a couple of hours. As you get to know them, invite them out other places. Yes, it’s a pain to have to do the work to socialize, but if you want the friends, you have to trap yourself with the other people.

[spytap]

Reblogging for all my mutuals who have asked “Why is it so hard to make friends as an adult?”

[turnabout]

“if you want the friends, you have to trap yourself with the other people” sounds so sinister. 

[drogonea]

It’s also why so many people lose their entire social network when they retire or start working from home. Making friends outside of work is vital to your own survival when your main access to socialization is controlled by your employer.

[thorndale]

"Thomas showed him, Alastair ran his fingers over the spot, unselfconsciously, his fingertips tracing a path from the sensitive skin of Thomas’s inner wrist to the crook of his elbow."

'Thomastair in Paris' minicomic

@cassandraclare

[emcreatez]

Girl Power 🫶🏻✨

Kicking off my first post of 2024 with some of our leading ladies that’ll be featured in The Wicked Powers ☺️

Hope you like it!

Characters owned by @cassandraclare

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[mo-mode]

Grover: Sir 🥺🥺 we’re so sorry but we have no idea what happened to our train cabin—

Percy and Annabeth: WHAT KIND OF STUPID ARE YOU, MR. TRAIN COP?! OOOH YOU THINK SOME TWELVE YEAR OLDS DID THIS?? SO WHAT YOU’RE GONNA ARREST US??? HUH???? POST UP

[melanielocke]

I finished my round of edits in time for the new year! This also means I am currently looking for beta readers.

It is for my adult queer fantasy book of 111K. It is currently on 3d draft and primarily looking for feedback on the bigger picture, plot, pacing, characters etc, what is and isn’t working before I move on to finer details.

The book has two queer and autistic main characters, and there are an m/m and f/f secondary plot, though that is not the main focus of the story. CW for emotionally abusive parent, depictions of PTSD

Blurb:

Cass Trueblood needs a Chosen One.

Generations of Trueblood seers have found their Chosen One, guided them on their path and saved the world. But when it’s Cass’ turn, he comes up empty handed. For years he has seen the world fall and he is desperate to stop it and fulfill a destiny he never asked for. But he can’t do it without a hero.

When he’s attacked by people who would kidnap him for his ability to see the future, Cass is rescued by Esti Merdonia. She is a skilled firefighter, experienced with a sword and best of all, she wants nothing more than to be Chosen One. With her, Cass sees an answer to his problems. He tells her she is the Chosen One. No one ever needs to know it started as a lie.

Together, they set off on a journey to the continent long ravaged by the Fear, a magic epidemic that leads not only to heightened fear, but turns people to violence against one another and has brought an increase of dangerous monsters. Here, people have been waiting for the Chosen One for over twenty years, but all Cass has is a lie that’s growing out of control and if they do not stop the Fear within a  year, there won’t be a world left to save.

@alastaircarstairsdefenselawyer @life-through-the-eyes-of @astriefer @justanormaldemon @ipromiseiwillwrite @a-dream-dirty-and-bruised @amchara @all-for-the-fanfiction @imsoftforthomastair @ddepressedbookworm @queenlilith43 @wagner-fell @cant-think-of-anything @laylax13s @tessherongraystairs @boredfangirl16 @artist-in-soul @nickcaffrey @bemtevis

[emcreatez]

Happy New Year 🎆🎊

Last pic of 2023, our favorite boys stealing a moment alone 😌

Thank you all for your continued support this past year♥️

Here’s hoping 2024 is kind to you ✨

Happy New Year! 🎆

Characters owned by @cassandraclare

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[emcreatez]

Christmas Card 🎄✨

This is quite possibly the cutest drawing I have ever done. I just *squeals* I love them.

I hope you like it!

Merry Christmas 🎄♥️

Characters owned by @cassandraclare

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[littlestfallenangel]

If you see this I am praising you for behaving well.

[littlestfallenangel]

And now I'm praising you for behaving well, in color.

[chadsuke]

[ID: A manga panel of a scene from "Sousou no Frieren", and then an anime screenshot of the same scene. In the manga panel, Frieren is wrapped up in a blanket and resting against a tree. Fern is on her knees next to her, and says, "We must praise her when she behaves well."

In the screenshot, they are posed in the same manner, but the subtitles say, "We must reward her when she behaves well." End ID.]

[agnes-draws]

quick redraw i wanted to do for a while… [x]

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

I miss the London Institute in 1903.

I miss Matthew and Alastair and Thomas and Cordelia and James and Grace and Christopher and Ari and Anna and Lucie and Eugenia. I miss DILF Will and his Tessa-shaped pearl without price, too.

I miss light academia and picnics in parks and sledding parties and balls and the Hell Ruelle and Paris seances and Kensington Gardens and the Louvre and 102 Cornwall Gardens and 48 Curzon Street.

I miss Cordelia's bravery and Thomas's resilient kindness and fortitude. I miss Alastair's deep untethered love and Matthew's wit and wonder and ability to see the beauty in everything.

I miss Cordelia's globe necklace and Matthew's signet ring and Alastair's daggers and I miss their perfect waistcoats and deep-hued dresses. And I miss their jokes and their laughter and their little family dynamics that really stab at your heart when they want to.

I miss Thomas and Alastair talking all night long and kissing in carriages and insisting that they each deserve love and care. I miss James and Cordelia playing chess and talking about going to Constantinople. I miss Matthew's bright smile and mercurial moods, and his passion and learning that he should not seek to destroy himself because he is wonderful.

I miss lovely character arcs and beautifully-developed relationships. I miss Nothing but Shadows and Cast Long Shadows and Every Exquisite thing and the Midnight Heir. I miss the Penultimate Hours and the Letter Game. I miss Chain of Gold and Chain of Iron and Chain of Thorns.

I miss long nights of theorizing.

But more than anything, I miss The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare. Because that series is beauty, it is art, it is color.