The SHADOWHUNTER CHRONICLES

“Hearts are breakable and I think even when you heal, you are never what you were before“ -Isabelle Lightwood (im the biggest alastair carstairs stan)

[letika]

Thomas the best brother in law. Change my mind

Happy Better in Black receipt 🖤ㅤ

[rhiannons-bird]

How about I choke him to death? How about I bring him back from the dead so I can choke him to death?

[rhiannons-bird]

Matthew Fairchild and Alastair Carstairs being the cuntiest motherfuckers in some Dark Academia universe

[queenofhurtingandcrying]

i just think it’s so ugh that matthew and alastair are literally mirrors, opposites and the same person in different colours all at the same time

[queenofhurtingandcrying]

okay but what if i tell you that alastair and cordelia do look a lot alike and matthew, when overcoming his hatred for alastair, will be confronted with this fact and realise that “damn they are both quite something huh“ and that ladies and gentleman is how alastair would be matthew’s bi awakening and matthew would hate that which is why i think it’s funny

[fatiguedcoffee]

Thomas: I thought you were feeling optimistic.

Alastair: it passed.

this was a very funny exchange of words to me for no reason.

[seolihexagon]

losing my marbles over thomas calming alastair down by saying, and i quote, "Steady, Alastair." as if he's a fucking horse or something 😭

[agnes-draws]

chain of thorns scenes that rant free in my head 2/3

[clockwork-carstairs]

you know what one really underrated but heartbreaking scene in tda is? that scene in lady midnight after mark comes back, when he lets the kids eat whatever they want for breakfast and makes a mess of the kitchen. everyone’s having fun but then julian comes and sees it and kind of just malfunctions and breaks down.

because julian can never be the fun one. he can never be the one who lets them eat syrup for breakfast, he’s too busy making sure they have actual food to eat for each meal of the day. julian can’t make a mess everywhere and leave it to clean later, he’s too busy running the institute and making sure the kids keep up with their studies and have clothes to wear and are as put together as they can be.

julian never gets to be the fun older brother, because he’s the parent. julian doesn’t get to take things lightly because he’s too busy holding everyone up. julian is serious because he stopped being a child when he lost his last parent aged twelve. julian is serious because the only person in the world he can open up to and share some of his burden with is the one person he can’t have without losing everything. cristina sums it up when she says to mark: he is envious because he loves them but cannot be their brother. he must be their father. in his mind, they dread him and adore you.

julian could never be the fun older brother. because he was too busy being the only parent the blackthorn siblings had left.

[moonysmoothies]

having the last name carstairs is like saying "hi my last name is steering wheel" or "hi i'm doorknob" - @eurydicessmuse

[edwin-paynes-bowtie]

This Picrew is incredible so I had to make my OTPs. Here's Thomastair ✨️💫 Yeah I edited it to fix Thomas's hair

Payneland version here

[denkilightning]

coming off the 'when the character raised to be a weapon meets the character raised to be a shield' - i think my favourite kind of character arc is when the character raised to be a shield becomes a weapon AND/OR when a character raised to be a shield becomes a weapon but in the end theyre allowed to become a person

[bankofwildflowers]

No but I truly would like to know how Alastair Carstairs lived with himself. Imagine you're this lonely teenager with a sister to protect and a father to be protected from, and you're gay, and imagine your greatest fear is being the cause that your family is ruined. So you get to your school and you're so intensely terrified of being the subject of mockery that you decide to do it to other people before they can dig up things about you, like how it's curious that you flinch at glass breaking or your parents never show up at Academy events. And you...you're GOOD at it. You're skilled at finding out people's secret weaknesses and fears and terrorizing them about it. You see Will Herondale drop off his kid on the first day, and you know he also acted cruel to everyone for his curse, but he never managed to convince the London Institute not to love him because he was just that good of a person to not even manage forced cruelty well. And on the other hand there's you, better at cruelty than Will Herondale, yet no one would ever love you in the capacity he's been loved. So what does that say about you, that you can't even be a good enough person to make cruelty look the obvious falsehood that it is? Are you actually secretly a bad person?

And so you continue on, making everyone despise you, making them dream up a caricature of you so they'll stay ten feet away and never try to get in between the cracks, because the alternative is your family tarnished and cast out forever, your little sister friendless and alone when you know she's capable of being a hero. And you choose her over and over at the cost of so many other children just the same as her. You're all alone and you've built this shell of terribleness around yourself, choosing to be that horrible and being better at it than the poster child for deliberate cruelty, but maybe it's all worth it as long as a little red haired girl grows up happy and faithful and heroic. I'm sick

[icarus-homebound]

Alastair Carstairs fanart

(Speed draw under the cut)

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[kotwkawie]

he asked for no pickles.

[letika]

Autumn promenade after the rain

[agnes-draws]

more alastair and zachary because it’s been a while and i miss them 😩🧡