about me:
alice
she/her
25
queer and european
main blog: @aaaalp
about this blog:
why does this feel so awkward hello
I’ve decided to use this blog to group all kinds of stuff I’m into atm
I'd like to find more people to follow but I also wanted to give a heads up to the like -3 people that followed me on here when I was strictly using this space for st stuff that I might also be posting about other things every now and then!
so here’s a bit of a rundown of fandoms i’m into:
stranger things: this is still the fandom I’m most involved in. I’ve been a casual fan since the show started, but somehow managed to get obsessed™ in the lead up to the last season.. you can imagine how well that went for me. anyway canon is mostly just dead to me, fandom knows best;).
huge on byler and the whole bylerverse; wondertwins truther; will el and mike are all loved and cherished in this house! careful how you speak about my kids 🤺
i made a couple of posts with some headcanons: stxhg (started here), stxtsc , picrews , and wrote one short fic
the shadowhunter chronicles: been a tsc reader for 12 years now which feels absurd is time even real, but I haven’t really been involved in the fandom online before. I also haven’t done a full reread in a few years but since tlkof was announced I’ve jumped back on the hype train and i’m looking forward to reread everything soon- and like actually remember important plot points lol- so I might post more about it once I do that.
my favourite series has always been tid but I have a feeling I might end up enjoying my tda reread even more (also I'm trying to manage my hopes and expectations but I feel like twp might become a new fav... we'll see). favourite characters off the top of my head are simon, magnus, julian, emma and kit but a fresh reread might change everything, who knows. also no one asked but I made these picrews of how the characters look like in my head
marauders: tbh I’m mostly just a passive fic reader so I probably won’t be posting about it much, however I do understand and respect that some people don’t want to see anything remotely related to That woman so I’ll try to tag any post and hopefully you can just block it if that’s the case. (I do want to point out that what i did fall in love with about this fandom is just how much it really doesn’t feel like part of that franchise at all to me. queer and especially trans fans have taken some unseasoned bs from the og text and turned it into a seven course meal that has infinite times more value, and has blossomed into a community that relinquishes all the disgusting bigotry of the og author. no terfs are welcome here).
anyway- this fandom completely ambushed me a few years ago, never thought I’d get into it but for some reason my algorithm had other plans, so I kept dodging it and dodging it until atyd was presented to me while I was busy procrastinating studying for an exam and ofc down the rabbit hole I went.
off the top of my head top 3 fics for me are tcopt, only the brave and crimson rivers (can’t express how many times a week I think of this one especially. good god)
palia: a bit of a rogue one, but I’ve been So into this game lately so it might warrant the occasional post or reblog every once in a while. btw get on it people!! I need to spread my palia agenda. it’s too underrated like- it’s cozy, it has an ongoing plot and a fun cast of npcs, it’s on several platforms, AND it’s free, what more could you ask for cmon
bridgerton/francheala: not much to report yet but just know that once s5 drops I’ll become insufferable
some other misc stuff: dan and phil, arcane, hunger games (big fan of the og trilogy/movies, I still haven’t caught up with the prequels but I definitely plan to), shera/catradora, sense8, severance, the good place, . . .
love triangles these days are so weak like ohh how will the girl choose bw this one asshole nobody likes and this other obvious endgame the entire fandom adores. back in my day the competition was so severe the girl had to marry the mortal one and then marry the other immortal one after the mortal one died. meanwhile the ones in question were reaching unhinged levels of secret-third-thing style devotion all on their own.
hey so I have the inane urge to start a full reread of the whole tsc extended universe in the middle of exam season (.....sigh) and I'd like to do it chronologically this time, so I tried to put all the novels and novellas in order (except for the flashbacks in tftsa bc the actual plot in there is all set after cohf iirc)
however, I have actually never read bib, sobh and a sea of change before and while looking up the timeline I wasn't super sure of when those events take place. is there anyone out here who has read all of it and can maybe confirm whether I put them in the right order? 👉👈
full list below
tbc: what really happened in peru
tbc: the runaway queen
tbc: vampires, scones and edmund herondale
tid: clockwork angel
tid: clockwork prince
tid: clockwork princess
bib: the good storm
gotsm: cast long shadows
gotsm: every exquisite thing
tbc: the midnight heir
tlh: chain of gold
tlh: chain of iron
tlh: chain of thorns
a sea of change
bib: zachary's day out
bib: a surfeit of anna's
bib: the beautiful ajatara
tbc: the rise of the hotel dumort
gotsm: learn about loss
gotsm: a deeper love
tbc: saving raphael santiago
tbc: the fall of the hotel dumort
tbc: the last stand of the new york institute
gotsm: the wicked ones
gotsm: son of the dawn
tmi: city of bones
tbc: the course of true love
tmi: city of ashes
tbc: what to buy the shadowhunter who has everything
the beautiful concept of a season 5 where there was the satanic panic arc wasn't thrown away and the town ostracised will and the byers and associated their coming back into the town with the earthquakes and the apocalyptic stuff,,,,
i am rereading crimson rivers and oh my goddd it always hits just as strongly doesn't it? it's my third reread, I know what's going to happen, I remember everything, and still each chapter is leaving me like this
back at artist will x writer mike (got a little carried away because muse x muse byler my beloved)
will always takes the late night train/subway and sketches everyone and everything to pass the time. has a designated travel sketchbook.
one day the prettiest man he’s ever seen sits across from him and will is trying so hard not to stare. or to blush. he fails miserably. will recons he might won’t see him again, like many people in the pages of his sketchbook, so he draws him too.
next day, the beautiful stranger is back. he’s wearing glasses now and will wants to die. he’s writing something. will wants to know what he writes, wants to know his name.
‘M.W.’ he reads on his black journal when he’s not looking. doodles it on a little heart on a corner. get a grip, byers.
weeks go by and will’s ‘travel’ sketchbook has lost its title because will hasn’t been able to draw anyone else. this is getting ridiculous.
next time he sees him, will’s anxiety makes him wait till the very last minute before the other man’s stop to say something. bad idea. he’s about to introduce himself when the whole wagon shakes violently and the lights go off for a moment.
will goes flying right into the beautiful stranger’s chest. who’s hands are immediately on his waist, making sure he’s alright.
will starts apologizing and picking up his stuff as fast as he can because how fucking embarrassing. great. the man before will tells him there’s nothing to be sorry for and now he’s helping him and now he’s smiling at him and god, his own sketches didn’t do him any justice.
they’re at his stop now. well. it was worth a shot. “i’m mike, by the way.” or maybe not.
mike. ‘M.W.’
will smiles all the way home. that’s till he opens his bag, looking for his sketchbook, to find a black journal.
i do still really want kit to be a terrible shadowhunter like. not great at combat. literally does not gaf about crime. thinks shadowhunter society sucks and should be disbanded. no respect for authority or structure or tradition or law. hates applying marks more than most anything else. does not get along with the vast majority of nephilim and does not try to. would steal and pawn the mortal instruments on the black market if he thought he could get away with it and it wouldn't cause another war.
