#blackthorns

[imherongraystairstrash]

Could never be a blackthorn, team waffle all the way

[secretly-a-catamount]

I can normally switch fandom perspectives when I listen to a song to whatever I’m currently obsessed with, but I’m sorry The Family Jewels will ALWAYS be about the Blackthorns

[secretly-a-catamount]

[bananacakepie]

I think Eleanor and Andrew would have to have a weird age gap of some sort in their relationship, either having been the same age pre-faerie, (so they could have been childhood sweethearts, but Eleanor would have been very young when Andrew returned) or having been the same age post-faerie (Eleanor would have been seven years older, definitely unreachable when you look at how young shadowhunters marry, and Andrew’s chance with her definitely came from his jump in age.)

In A Same-Age-Pre-Faerie Scenario:

They are both same age from 1-14, then (in 1986) Andrew is suddenly 22, while she’s 15. When Eleanor turned 18 he would have been 25 (in 1990), and when Julian (their first child) was born (in 1995) Andrew was 30 while Eleanor was 23.

In A Same-Age-Post-Faerie Scenario:

We need to work backwards.

Andrew and Eleanor would have been 30 when Julian was born (in 1995). In 1986 Andrew is suddenly 22 instead of 15, while Eleanor was 22 the whole time. This puts her birthday in 1964, while Andrew’s remains in 1972. So when she turned 18 (in 1982) he was 9 or 10. (There’s definitely some math wrong because we have neither their ages or birthdates, but it’s close to correct.)

[secretly-a-catamount]

@themimsyborogove @lescahiersdesable @magidragon12 a drabble of some musings about Annabel, I guess ao3 link

  There in the mirror, bound by a wooden frame and a glass pane, stands the angels’ daughter. do not put me there i cannot abide by what i see

  The family i never had one splits her down the middle, at the chest, cracking her ribs apart marrow made a wife of eve blood on the husband's thighs will make a wife of me or so says the father and pulling her guts out in loose, greedy fistfuls. do they think that if they speak prophecies into them the future they write for me shall come true

  The angels’ daughter. i am not myself i do not know if i know how to be

  “Annabel?” yes no

  “Come.” go flee run

  She went. i stayed

[cityofluna]

I’m really excited to explore Dru’s character more in TWP because although I love all of Cassie’s main characters, Dru is the first Shadowhunter that I really resonated with. She’s strong, intelligent, and skilled just like the rest of them but she’s also very much a black sheep. She isn’t thin and muscular like the rest of them. She is a little boy crazy. She tends to exist on the sidelines and observe everything. She has interests that other people can’t make sense of. She doesn’t fit the normal mold of what we have seen out of the main characters. Honestly, the Blackthorns are definitely my favorite family for defying the norms of society.

[livingtheparadoxlife]

After extensive research (three classes of legal methods), I've come to the conclusion that the Blackthorns belong to the Sociological School of Law.

I will not be elaborating.

[bananacakepie]

I have so much to say about this. First off:

BAD-FUCKING-ASS LAST WORDS

Arthur Blackthorn was a man who lived a very tourtured life, with a lot of pain. It’s easy to feel bad for him, and see this as a single moment of clarity where he saves the day, but I see it as a reflection of the cause of Arthur’s pain: Nerissa and Andrew’s relationship.

Andrew loved Nerissa, he had kids with her, and stayed with her for seven years. But when he found that Arthur was being tourtured, he turned against Nerissa, and everything she represented. He left her for dead - and he actually thought she was dead - without a second thought. Blood is thicker than water, and Blackthorns will place their family above their lovers. Arthur knows this, he had lived it before.

“I would rather be mad my way than yours”

Arthur was trapped by a Downworlder with supernatural powers. He was stuck, lacking freedom and bodily autonomy, and it drove him mad. Annabel’s torture by Malcolm may have been unintentional, but it was essentially the same as Arthur’s, leaving her stuck with her own - increasingly insane - thoughts. Arthur and Annabel are mad in the same way, they are victims, forced to watch and unable to act.

Annabel is not, “willing to do anything for love” crazy like Malcome is, (like Nerissa was) she is crazy like Arthur is, and Arthur knows that. He knows her mental state better than anyone else, and can guess what she will do. (She will follow his footsteps, ancestor mimicking descendant, kill the person responsible, the foolish lover.)

“I wonder if she will still love you, the way you are now.”

Arthur knows that Annabel will kill Malcolm, even if she still loves him. Because she will hate him even more, for treating her like nothing more than a puppet.

Malcolm thinks that he has the upper hand, which allows Arthur to get in several insults, seeing the oversights, and actually putting Malcolm off guard.

Arthur Blackthorn had a hard life, but in the end he was able to see the truth in it, and know what would happen next. He had the last word and he died triumphant.

Hail and farewell, Arthur Blackthorn

Ave Atque Vale