Is it possible to ask for 2x11 Alec icons for twitter? Out of that training scene with Jace or when he's smiling while calling Izzy? Pretty please? aha. I really like how you do yours and I saw we could ask if we needed some somewhere, it would be lovely :)x
yess no problem!! but i’m sorry i’ve never made twitter icons before and so im more used to making them at 100x100, but i did my best if they didn’t turn out how you like please let me know and i can try something different :)
9 icons (x3 = 27) under the cut of alec from 2x11
each icon is in 3 sizes: 100x100, 200x200, 400x400 (the two large versions are all under the cut)
okay so i’ve finally made time to compile all my thoughts on the malec promo and hooooooooo boy........golly........ it is...that is some good shit right here like it’s literally peak alec lightwood perfection condensed into 30 seconds of footage and i’m slowly but surely dying
i would do anything for you, but i won’t risk your life: can we take a sec....just a sec to appreciate alec’s facial expression here, an expression of complete disbelief and anger.............at someone not risking his life lmao kill me
there’s no way alec lightwood would be disbelieving at the idea that magnus wouldn’t follow his every command
no what alec can’t understand here is why is my life so valuable to him not because he’s so self-loathing (although that obviously figures into it) but rather that he just doesn’t know how to communicate with?? and to be loved?? by people other than his siblings??
i mean shadowhunters aren’t well known for having a sense of self-preservation and magnus has had enough of stupid reckless nephilim but alec doesn’t understand where his concern is coming from and misattributes it as lack of compassion rather than a deep concern for his well-being
and just......wow (this is going to be very long)
i have nothing to say about this part except the way that magnus has to look up just ever so so so slightly is my entire aesthetic
subtle height differences
i mean malec is great and everything but this scene here shows the return of my two true otps: alec lightwood x his black tank top (arms arms arms arms) and alec lightwood x punching bag
i have yelled about this many times before but i will continue to yell about it because look at his face look at that poorly contained anguish and yell with me about it
listen alec has repressed his needs and desires to such an extent that he now faces a complete and saddening inability to both verbalize them and deal with them in any sort of significant or healthy way
enter the punching bag which we have seen before every time alec is frustrated, angry, worried, anguished, etc. etc.
and like, i love it? because alec doesn’t thrill in or enjoy fighting or violence like jace does and even izzy to an extent enjoys it--alec has flair but he’s much more pragmatic than the other two
so you can just see HOW MUCH being a shadowhunter has tempered him into this sort of blunt instrument of the clave’s will: because of being a shadowhunter, he has forced his own emotions into such an inaccessible place that the only language he can deal with them in is the language of fight and violence, because shadowhunting is the only thing he knows--it doesn’t bring him any peace or joy but it’s the only channel that is available to him, but it’s ultimately hollow and futile but it makes his muscles ache and that’s all he can do
1x09, after he proposes to lydia and turns magnus away and drifts farther apart from jace: “alec you’re hurting yourself” says izzy and alec keeps hitting the bag with his injured arm with the reply that he doesn’t even know has formed somewhere in his brain: that’s the point
don’t push me away hahahahahHAHA i wrote a 600 word essay on these 4 words of dialogue not very long ago so i don’t have much to yell about here (read)
i just love that one kiss is not an insta-cure for alec’s many many varied issues when it comes to relating with people and himself and being loved that have been created by a decade of forced self-imposed isolation and restraint
and that magnus is pleading with him -- rather than a statement of intent, it’s a plea -- to be open to try and make this work and try and learn to be loved
and that that is coming from magnus bane who has as many guards and walls as alec in many ways is heartrending because it’s like, i’ve opened myself up to you, now please do the same (remembering how many times alec withdrew from magnus and flat-out told him to “back off” last season)
good lord mr. harry shum jr
that’s all i got here
and, of course, the goddamn piece de resistance of this goddamn masterpiece of a trailer: what do you want from me? at the moment, nothing
can you even fucking believe that this happened? im in shock and awe
that alec is actually being written with the way he has been forced to be his whole life kept in mind is making me want to sing
listen listen listen alec lightwood, my dear darling emotionally stunted boy, does not really know how to love or be loved yet and this is just making it so tragically apparent
because the whole context of the trailer is “i need to get jace back” “not if you die” and what alec gets from this is what do you want from me
“what do i have to do to make you not care about my life?”
he sees someone caring about him in this way that he’s never experienced before and becomes abrasive and closed off and just doesn’t understand -- what do you want from me -- how to relate to it in any meaningful way
like can you imagine the pressure that alec is under right now? he literally just came out to an ostensibly extremely homophobic society, he’s at odds with his family (esp his mother), literally half of his soul is gone and off suffering somewhere and he can’t do anything about it, he’s entered a relationship for the first time in his life with a person he doesn’t quite understand yet and of course knowing alec he blames himself for everything
and it culminates here in an explosive burst as he just cracks under the pressure: what does everyone want from me, i don’t know, i can’t do it
and of course, the immediate and reflexive return of ice-king magnus slamming up his walls, regretting that he’d ever let his guard down and allowed himself to care and therefore to be hurt
just let me lie here and cry quietly for the rest of the day
“Enchanting white skin and hair black as obsidian. Lips red like fire If your sin was being jealous of them. Wear burning boots- And dance 'til you die!.”
