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@emmacblackthorn
I have been drawing for a long time ago this fanart.
I'm drawing a little bit in another way right now.
I drew this when I just started reading "Lady Midnight". I started reading this is book only because of Julian. He seemed to me the most interesting. But then I fell in love with everyone characters. Emma such a goddess!
every inch of you is perfect from the emma to the julian
I LAUGHED
hi I’m back
….and by the time im finally answering this ur already gone ag 😔 i miss u babe
no i was summoned again HIIIIII
SYNONYMS FOR WORDS COMMONLY USED IN STUDENTS' WRITINGS
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Things Overheard in Dorms
“That’s the fourth time this week you’ve brought up cannibalizing me. Should I be worried?”
“So needless to say, she peed on me.”
“Wow, this Heineken has such a smooth finish!”
“Do you think I can fit an entire orange in my mouth?”
“If I hear someone sing Hamilton in the shower again I’m joining them in their shower so I can drown them.”
“Someone just gave me a free cake. Should I be worried?”
“How did they manage to get that in BOTH shower stalls!?”
“How much caffeine is poisonous? Asking for myself, I’m actually worried.”
faintly, as though yelled from in a room down the hall “Can you come hand me my Swiss rolls? My head spins if I sit up.”
“Well you see, Marxism is actually” *anguished yelling from multiple people*
“Why is Ross sitting in a box in the hallway with a sweatervest draped over his head?” “Stress.”
“What’s the difference between an undergraduate research assistant and a random nosy 19 year old? Less than you’d think!”
“Let Bob Ross caress your happy little struggles away.”
“He talks like he thinks the world is waiting with bated breath to hear what he thinks about Fight Club.”
*screaming in harmony with a vacuum*
Ross is a big mood
Life Update: Ross has gotten married and is having a kid in August, the nosy 19 year old is starting her doctorate in the fall, and I’m marrying the person who retrieved my Swiss rolls (I had the flu).
Lily & all her love for the Carstairs, imagine if her and Mina become an item. & with how long Cassie could continue writing TSC... Chenstairs endgame
**when Mina’s of age ofc, so don’t @ me
Jem: she couldn’t have me so she went for my daughter
Lily & all her love for the Carstairs, imagine if her and Mina become an item. & with how long Cassie could continue writing TSC... Chenstairs endgame
**when Mina’s of age ofc, so don’t @ me
social media au: instagram [1/?]
emma carstairs / julian blackthorn / drusilla blackthorn
character portraits: the carstairs siblings, kit & mina
❝now mina was bundled inelegantly in kit’s arms, the long white woolen blanket catarina loss had knitted for her trailing. kit tripped over it as he walked the floor and stumbled. jem tensed to lunge across the room and catch them. but kit caught himself against the wall, though he let out a curse as he did so and promptly looked horrified and belatedly tried to cover one of mina’s ears.
“please don’t tell jem and tessa i said that word in front of you!” kit exclaimed.❞
If you are still doing the meme thing, Magnus and Robert Lightwood with the 'I've connected the dots' 'you didn't connect sh*t' 'I've connected them' meme
No, Robert… No.
Characters by @cassandraclare
How come you aren't active anymore? :(
HI
Hi! Do you know what happened to daddyblackthorn Tumblr? I went to check a few days ago and it seems she's changed urls but I can't find the new one :(
she has a new url!!
also oh lord i forgot i had tumblr whoa hey guys it’s me back from the dead
I want #emmacblackthorn to stomp on me.
@emmacblackthorn what do you say babe?
i came back to tumblr bc of this
One shot of kit,ty and dru giving romantic advice to their nephews o maybe a christmas whit all the Blackthorns?
Songs to go with it :)
That’s Christmas To Me: Pentatonix
It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year: Pentatonix
All I Want For Christmas Is You: Mariah Carey
Silent Night: Pentatonix
Rockin Around The Christmas Tree: Brenda Lee
Blackthorn Christmas
Shadowhunters don’t really celebrate mundane holidays, with the exception of the New York Institute where Clary and Simon make sure the New York Shadowhunters celebrate every single one. But Christmas was one holiday that Julian and Emma could never let just slip past them.
All the Blackthorns had gone through such a traumatic experience during the past year. Julian wanted to make sure that they had the best Christmas. And since it doesn't snow in the City of Angels, Julian rented a cabin for the family in Colorado.
It was dark outside, but the stars were shining high above. And Christmas lights were strung from almost every neighboring Cabin, lighting the night up in a way that was breathtaking.
Julian suddenly felt himself getting dragged by the wrist off the porch and into the snow. Emma was giggling as they stopped right in the middle of the yard. Her hair was braided back and tucked into the hood of her bright blue coat, but a few golden strands were falling out around her face. Julian wrapped his finger around one of the strands and planted a kiss on Emma’s lips. He could feel Emma’s smile as she pulled away, then gave him a quick kiss on the cheek.
“We’re making snow angels now.” She dropped down into the snow and spread out her arms and legs, moving them in and out. Julian laughed but followed her lead.
Emma had stopped and was staring at the sky in wonder. “You gotta’ carry me,” she said.
Julian laughed. “What?”
“You gotta’ carry me. If you think I’m about to ruin Gerald, you are mistaken.”
“Gerald?”
“My Snow Angel that I just worked so hard on. Now help me up.” Emma held out her arms like a little kid. Julian rolled his eyes but picked her up bridal style then dropped her in the snow a few feet away from Gerald.
That’s when the rest of the Blackthorns came running out of the house, all dressed in coats, hats, scarves, gloves, boots, snow pants, and probably doubled socks. Courtesy of Helen, Julian could only assume.
Tavvy was at the front of the group, Mark sprinting right behind him. Mark grabbed Tavvy by the waist and Tavvy let out a squeal of delight as Mark flung him over his shoulder then tossed him into the snowbank.
“Again, again!” Tavvy shouted, lifting his arms up to Mark, who picked him up and threw him right back in, laughing.
Dru and Ty were already chucking snowballs at each other. Helen and Aline sat on the porch and watched the rather chaotic scene before them, both sipping mugs of hot chocolate.
“Watch out Ty!” Emma shouted, packing snow together to make a ball, then throwing it at Ty, who was trying to stay hidden behind a giant pine tree covered with snow. Emma missed Ty, but her snowball hit one of the tree branches. Snow came down in heap, falling right on top of him.
“By the Angel,” Emma said, about to fall over laughing. Dru ran over to help uncover her brother from the heap of snow. Ty’s eyes were shining with a kind of happiness Julian hadn’t seen since Livvy passed.
“Let’s make a snowman family!” Emma exclaimed, giddy. She quickly started rolling up a huge ball of snow. Then she stopped. “Helen, Aline, you have to help.” She abandoned her half rolled up snowball to run over to Helen and grab her wrist, hauling her off the porch. Hot chocolate sloshed out of the edge of Helen’s mug. Aline grabbed it from her and set both of their mugs on the porch.
About thirty minutes later, they had a whole snowman family. The Blackthorns. And the addition of Cristina, Kieran, and Diana.
“It’s Livvy,” Tavvy said, writing Livia’s name in the snow in front of his snowman that was twice the size of him. Julian watched as Ty’s smile faltered for a minute, but he looked up over his shoulder and his smile seemed to grow bigger. Julian reached out and ruffled Ty’s hair. He leaned into the gesture. It felt as if someone was squeezing Julian’s heart.
“I forgot!” Emma suddenly took off inside. “We haven’t made cookies!”
“Jules, we have to make cookies for Santa!” Tavvy shouted, taking after Emma.
Everyone filed inside, stripping off their layers. Emma was blaring Christmas music from her speaker and was using a spatula as a microphone.
As Julian and Mark got out the cooking pans and cookie sheets, Emma was singing the opening to “All I Want For Christmas Is You” giving the Blackthorns a full performance. She then bumped into Julian’s shoulder. She winked at him, trying to get him to join in on the song. Julian sighed but he knew he was smiling, he could never say no to Emma.
“I don’t want a lot for Christmas, there is just one thing I need,” He sang into the spatula. Emma giggled then took it back, continuing to belt out the rest of the song while dancing around the kitchen in her pajama pants, pointing at Julian whenever the word “you” was sung.
“I want to make a cookie that looks like Santa Clause,” Tavvy said, digging around in the bag of cookie cutters Helen had brought.
“That would be cannibalism, Tavvy,” Dru said, pressing down a reindeer cookie cutter into the dough.
“What’s cannibalism?” Tavvy looked to Ty.
“It’s where-” Mark cut Ty off.
“It’s a made-up word,” Mark said quickly.
“I don’t get why he can’t know what it is.”
“He’ll have nightmares,” Helen explained to Ty.
“Oh.”
Emma helped with cookie cutters and taking the cookies out of the oven, and that’s about it. She then ate about five cookies while Mark lectured her about how she shouldn’t get to eat any because she didn’t help. To which Emma laughed and ate another one.
“I think Santa would actually enjoy a glass of Vodka more than a glass of milk,” Aline said, grabbing the milk out of the fridge.
“We are not giving Santa a glass of Vodka,” said Helen, taking the bottle off the counter and back into whatever cabinet Aline had managed to find it in. Emma got out a mug with a little Santa Clause doing a somersault painted onto it.
Helen had demanded that they all watch a Christmas movie before bed. So they were now all scattered among different couches and chairs covered with blankets and watching Elf while eating cookies. Emma had her head resting on Julian’s shoulder as he played with her hair. Tavvy was squished in between Helen and Aline and Mark, Ty, and Dru all sat in a row on the biggest couch.
“You know, this guy kind of reminds me of Mark,” Dru said, as Will Ferrell or Buddy wandered the streets of New York in a pair of tights.
“I am not a giant man baby,” Mark defended himself, sending the group into hysterics.
“He’s not a man baby, he’s an elf,” said Emma. “And it does remind me of Mark. Maybe a little more of Kieran, though.”
“I definitely see it,” Julian agreed.
Everyone had retired to their rooms after the movie, exhausted from the night in the snow.
Emma crawled right into bed, shutting the lamp on the bedside table off. Julian crawled in next to her. She rolled over and planted a kiss on his lips.
“I love you,” She whispered. “More than starlight.” she then turned over on her side and was silent. Julain felt the familiar squeeze of his heart. He wrapped an arm around Emma then closed his own eyes, letting the darkness take him away.
Emma was still asleep around nine o'clock in the morning. Tavvy should be rushing in here any minute to wake them up. Aline and Helen had taken on the role of Santa Clause this year, so Julian hadn’t had to worry about filling the stockings last night.
The snow was falling delicately from the blue sky, landing soundlessly and disappearing into the heaps of snow that had already fallen. The snowmen they had made lined the yard. Livvy’s name was still there, just barely, written in Tavvy’s handwriting.
He burst through the door. “It’s Christmas! We have to open presents. Memma’!” Tavvy shouted, jumping on the bed and pouncing on Emma. “Memma, wake up!” She groaned then rubbed her eyes. “Memma, Santa came, let’s go!” He tugged on her wrist, trying to drag her out of bed.
“I’m coming, I’m coming,” She said, flinging the covers off of her and stepping out of bed. She stretched out her arms and legs once before following Tavvy down the stairs into the living room, where everyone was already waiting. A Christmas Story was playing on the TV and Dru and Ty were looking through their stockings.
Julian and Emma took a seat on the floor as Tavvy took over handing out gifts.
“This one is foe Memma,” He said, handing her a wrapped box from Helen. “And this one’s for Julian.”
Emma ended up getting handed a fishbowl, with a goldfish in it. From Mark. “It’s Magnus Junior,” Mark explained making Emma fall over with laughter.
Once everyone had all their gifts, they started unwrapping. Giving out laughs and thank you’s and “awe, I’m going to cry, you’re so sweet.” And lots of hugs.
Julian looked around the room. This was all he had ever wanted. For them to be a family. A family with Mark and Helen and Aline and Emma. Though it still felt like there was an empty space, a hole in the family that could never be filled or forgotten. Livvy would have loved this. She would have been dancing around the kitchen with Emma the other night, helping Ty find the exact way to make the cookies the best, making fun of Mark and Kieran with Dru, sitting on the porch with Helen and Aline drinking hot chocolate. She would have covered the whole yard in snow angels and then covered them up to make more.
And as much as it hurt, not having her here with them, Julian knew the last thing Livvy would want is from them to mope around, waiting for her to come back. Something that could never happen. She would want them to laugh, and watch stupid movies, and celebrate Christmas. Even if Julian would still count a kid missing when he made sure everyone was in the room. Even if he would almost buy something at the store because he knew Livvy would love it.
Emma was smiling so bright it was almost blinding. Helen finally looked at peace, her constant eyebags almost all the way gone. Aline had abandoned her resting face for a small smile that reached her eyes for once. Mark was making faces at the fish in the bowl. Tavvy was running his remote control car into a wall repeatedly. And Ty was flipping through every single one of his limited edition Sherlock Holmes books, his eyes bright with wonder. Dru was explaining to Helen and Aline how they would have to watch all the old horror movies she had gotten with her, and Helen and Aline were agreeing, making her whole face light up. Christmas music was playing lightly in the background.
Julian couldn’t remember the last time he had felt this genuinely happy.
once more, with feeling
rorochan92 said: the last two GoTSM short stories were SO GOOD! I loved them! I’ve seen a bit of “negativity” online: it looks like some people think it’s unfair that Jem and Tessa had a child, and they’re upset because it looks like Will and Tessa only have one scene together in TLH. Sigh, I feel so sad. I wish people could just see how amazing Will, Tessa and Jem (all of them!) are.
I think a lot of people do — negativity is often a small group of people who are loudly complaining, but most of my asks have been lovely warm-hearted questions about Mina’s wellbeing and whether Will is looking down on her from the afterlife. Which is really sweet!
I think there’s a couple misunderstandings at work here: one is the idea that Will and Tessa only have “one scene together” in TLH. They have one scene alone together from their points of view in the first book. (And I had to fight and fight to get it, because my editor thought it was inappropriate to have any scenes from the point of view of “the parents” in the book at all.)
As I’ve said a gazillion times, I’ve kept the POVs in Chain of Gold limited to the three mains, because there are so many characters and I was working hard to keep the focus on the central storyline. I am somewhat surprised that the reaction to hearing that Will and Tessa have a love scene together from Tessa’s POV in the first book was not being pleased to hear it, but feeling upset that the whole book isn’t about poor James and Lucie being trapped in a room while their parents make out. I feel this would turn everyone in the world off Wessa, me included.
There are also two more books, and we don’t know what will happen in those; there’s also the extra short story about Will and Tessa’s wedding that will be special content, i.e. an entire short story just about them. I have seen the complaint that Wessa has to “share” the TID series with Jessa, as if that somehow compromises their intimacy or romance. I don’t believe it does — and I believe this kind of point-scoring is damaging to readers and tends to undermine and destroy the pleasure of actually experiencing stories. They can’t be broken down mathematically —Will and Tessa don’t have “1.5″ books about them because Jem was also in TID. They have three books about them that Jem was also in, in which they had a powerful romance. We got to see their POV’s, we got to see the first time they slept together, Will proposing to Tessa, etc and so on. We never even got Jem’s POV and his and Tessa’s first time is in a Tumblr post that most of my fans have never read or seen.
Which is part of the reason I wanted to create Ghosts of the Shadow Market — to get a glimpse into the head of a character whose POV we hadn’t explored before. And while it’s true there’s a good amount of content about Jem and Tessa in Ghosts, that’s because Jem is the main character, not because anyone — including me — hates Will. It’s because part of the story of Jem and Tessa is that they both lost Will, and loved him and missed him, and from the fourth story in Ghosts on, he’s no longer alive. When I write present-day content, Will is dead in it. That’s a reality of writing these books, and is why trying to create a false idea of “parity” — measuring the page time each couple gets in an attempt to sort of pointlessly score for an OTP — is pointless. The content of stories is often dictated by the time period they take place in or the POV they’re told from. The idea that it’s entirely shaped by whether the author likes a character or a pairing more than another is just not true.
I also think the idea that “equality” or parity equals content that can be measured is wrong — a book is not a seesaw or a set of weights. The Shadowhunters series is also constantly in flux. While people may feel now that they’ve gotten a lot of Jessa content because of Ghosts, they will feel completely differently after three books of Will and Tessa being married and readers spending a huge amount of time with their children and in their family.
If I could make one request of the universe, it would be that readers who prefer one ship in these books over another would try not to approach the experience of reading as the acquisition of a set of points that are being collected in favor of one couple or another. Jem and Tessa’s baby — who we’ve known about for a long time — is not a point scored against Will. There is no one who would be happier about little Mina than Will would be;there is no one who would rush out to read Ghosts of the Shadow Market faster than Will would, and there is no one who would be sadder about the negativity carried out in his name than Will would be.
And I can’t imagine it’s that much fun for you guys either.
OMG THIS PART
Red Carpet Affair: Chapter 3
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