#talkinggg

[nuxkey]

I'm this snail seriously. I AM THIS SNAIL

[feargender]

Could you write something where Alec is running errands for Magnus for a potion he is making!!!

yes i can thank you!!!!!! (this has been sitting in my drafts for ages i totally forgot about it, sorry!)

Alec looks down at Magnus’ scrawling handwriting on the slip of paper he wrote detailed instructions on, and then back up at the dilapidated little building in front of him. The only thing that suggests it’s still open is the sign in the grimy window of the front door, but it looks very uninviting indeed. Magnus had tapped this item on the list before he kissed Alec and sent him out the door, saying, “Make sure to be polite.” 

So far this afternoon Alec had traded a dream for a jar of dragon eyes (he knows dragons aren’t real, but when he asked what animal the eyes had really come from, the nixie had only giggled), listened to a vampire talk about Broadway for half an hour, and chased a slimy looking naiad out into the East River for a snip of her murky brown hair. She bit him for his trouble and he had to walk home in drenched jeans. Really, what kind of self respecting water spirit lives in the East River anyway?

He was not defeated, though, and had withstood Magnus’ teasing laughter at the state of him. After a shower and a change, he went back out, determined to see this through. 

Taking a centering breath, he pushes open the door to the small shop and sweat immediately breaks out at his hairline. The weather outside is warm, but inside it’s so sweltering he loses his breath. The shop smells very strongly of incense, and what might be overripe fruit, and is dark. The windows are hung with heavy curtains, the only light coming from silk shaded lamps and what shines through the grime on the door’s window. 

At the counter toward the back, a stooped figure looks up slowly, as if unused to movement. “What do you want?” the old woman croaks, a billow of cigar smoke following the words out of her mouth. 

Alec approaches, trying for a smile. “I’m here to pick up an order?” he offers, and she glares at him. The woman is at least one thousand years old, covered in shawls and wrinkles in equal measure, gnarled fingers tapping at the wood of the counter. Her eyes are magnified by strong glasses and her hair is in a long gray braid down her back. 

“Don’t deal with Shadowhunters,” she grunts, blowing smoke in his face. 

Alec resists the urge to cough, and says, “It’s not for me. It’s for Magnus Bane.” 

The wrinkles of her forehead raise, as if somewhere in there an eyebrow has ticked up, but then her expression shutters once again. “Magnus Bane doesn’t deal with Shadowhunters.” 

“He deals with me. I’m Alec, his boyfriend. And I’m here to pick up his order. I have it written down, if you like,” he says, holding out the piece of paper, but she only scoffs and bats his hand away. 

“I know what the order is,” she observes him for a moment longer, angrily, and then finally says, “It’s in the back. Wait here. Don’t touch anything.” 

She shuffles away, moving like a fossil come to life, her legs calcified by age. Alec stands obediently, looking around at the displays but not touching. He waits. And he waits. And he checks his watch. And he waits some more. He texts Magnus, but gets no reply. And waits a little longer. 

Finally, after an hour, when Alec’s patience is long gone, there’s more shuffling footsteps and she returns with a parcel wrapped in brown paper. 

“Here, Shadowhunter,” she says, handing it over. “Tell Magnus to come and see me, I’m not some old woman he can pass off on his boyfriend like dirty laundry.” 

“Yes, ma’am,” Alec says, turning and leaving the hot little store, breathing in the fumes of New York and setting off for the loft. 

[nuxkey]

TPOT 19 SPOILER:

1. So does that mean winner and loser before they hug they got killed because the earth has been shaken by one?

2. It said 1st grassy meaning he died?? HE LOOKS ALIVE???

3. is two still alive after that brutal kick one did?

[nuxkey]

The new inanimate insanity episode was so good

Btw jack is for sure my favorite now

[nuxkey]

Reminder this horrendous, rotten, abomination is not afraid to hurt his own children.

[nuxkey]

Dealing with this right now.

(Im talking about the people who just shove it in your face the fact that they’re a 1 fan of a character you like)

[nuxkey]

People need to talk about castle crashers it’s such a fun game I swear

Imma draw one of the characters

[nuxkey]

Random thing but idk why I can draw paintbrush a thousand times but when It comes to my oc I draw the oc rarely???