she was always his anchor

A blog dedicated to the relationship and characters that are Jem Carstairs & Tessa Gray from The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare we track: #dailyjessa not spoiler free. gotsm spoilers tagged with: #gotsm spoilers Note: We will not tolerate whitewashing of Jem Carstairs.

[tessacarstairs]

our hearts, they need a mirror, tessa. we see our better selves in the eyes of those who love us. and there is a beauty that brevity alone provides.

jessa week 2020: one favorite jessa scene in tid

[carstairstessa-archived-deactiv]

@fair-but-wilde-child jessa week, day two: favorite jessa scene from gotsm

“I am sorry, my darling, he told her. That was not fair of me, or well done. When I am with you, I want to forget what I am, but I cannot change it. A silent Brother can have no wife, no love. “

[tessacarstairs]

…above the low slate roof, sunset had dyed the clouds a color darker than gold. this evening the whole sky was bronze, as though to summon wicked powers.

jessa week 2020: one favorite jessa scene in gotsm

[jamescarstairs]

Thule AU

Jem Carstairs ends up in Thule and it’s his task to search for The Mortal Instruments in the Silent City. When he arrives he finds he’s not alone. The Jem Carstairs of Thule is there, protecting The Mortal Instruments and is in fact alive.

[tidsource]

the infernal devices quotes  →  (2/?)

you understand my music.

[jamescarstairs]

At some of the worst and darkest times in my life, you have always known what to say to comfort me.

[tessacarstairs]

Jem smiled the sort of smile that made it look as if a light had turned on inside him. He had been alone so long, Emma knew, imagining that he would never have a f a m i l y. To have a wife now and a baby on the way—the very ordinary sort of miracles that made up an ordinary life—must be extraordinary for him. 

The Carstairs-Herondale family, 2012 ♡

[tessacarstairs]

surprise edits: the carstairs meet the internet for @ariadnebridgestock

❝Sometimes a family is a hundred and fifty year old ex-silent brother, a shadowhunter-warlock hybrid, their baby, the angsty 15 year old they adopted, and the ghost of the the aforementioned warlock and silent brother’s dead husband.❞

(insp.)

[williamsherondales]

There were those who believed that because Jem was so kind, so capable of gentleness and generosity, because Jem loved so selflessly, that Jem was weak. There were those who suspected he was not capable of violence or vengeance, who assumed they could hurt Jem and the ones he loved with impunity, because he did not have it in him to strike back. Those who believed this were wrong. Those who acted on it would be sorry.

jem carstairs for lari, @carstairsjames

[tarttdona]

“She was not sure who reached for who first, only that a moment later she was in his arms and he was whispering “Yes of course, yes,” against her hair. He sought het mouth tentatively-she could feel his gentle tension, the weight of so many years between their last kiss and this. She reached up, curling her hand around the back of his neck, drawing him down, whispering “Bie zhao ji.” Don’t worry, don’t worry.”

[housedemarr]

❥ ADDICTEDFORBOOKSQUAD EVENT | THE LOVERS’ SONG ❥ ⋙ day 1 - when we were young / first ship you ever shipped ☷☷☷☷☷ TESSA GRAY & JEM CARSTAIRS ☷☷☷☷☷

“You speak of sacrifice, but it is not my sacrifice I offer. It is yours I ask of you,“ he went on. "I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how many more beats it shall sustain. But I love you enough to hope that you will not care that I am being selfish in trying to make the rest of my life - whatever length - happy, by spending it with you. I want to be married to you, Tessa. I want it more than I have ever wanted anything else in my life.” He looked up at her through the veil of silvery hair that fell over his eyes. “That is,” he said shyly, “if you love me, too.”

[tessacarstairs]

tsc meme: [1/7] seven downworlders → tessa gray

❝It is not easy to be different, and even less so to be u n i q u e. But I begin to think I was never meant for an easy road.❞

[jamescarstairs]

books read in 2018 → Through Blood, Through Fire (Ghosts of the Shadow Market #8) by Cassandra Clare & Robin Wasserman 

“There were those who believed that because Jem was so kind, so capable of gentleness and generosity, because Jem loved so selflessly, that Jem was weak. There were those who suspected he was not capable of violence or vengeance, who assumed they could hurt Jem and the ones he loved with impunity, because he did not have it in him to strike back. Those who believed this were wrong. Those who acted on it would be sorry.”

[catlaila]

.    .    .   there is more to   l  i  v  i  n  g   than not   d  y  i  n  g 

to @carstairsjames, happy birthday my love ♥

[carstairsjames]

@idrisnet patrol: favorite characters jem carstairs

“we are all the pieces of what we remember. we hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. as long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”

[ariadnebridgestock]

make me choose : will / jem [ for tina , @rjetveld ]

jem is a steady flame, unwavering and honest.

[tessacarstairs]

tsc meme: [2/8] eight shadowhunters → jem carstairs

❝There were those who believed that because Jem was so kind, so capable of gentleness and generosity, because Jem loved so selflessly, that Jem was weak. There were those who suspected he was not capable of violence or vengeance, who assumed they could hurt Jem and the ones he loved with impunity, because he did not have it in him to strike back. Those who believed this were wrong. Those who acted on it would be sorry.❞