May 29
everyone’s in love with their parabatai this, it’s not just julian and emma that—what if the boundary between romantic and platonic is not clearly demarcated. what if everyone took a second to research queerplatonic relationships. what if we didn’t have to want to marry/have sex with someone for them to be the most important person in our life. what if love is fluid and there is a gap between how we talk about it and how it actually works
#maybe qprs should do a parabatai ceremony instead of getting married#i totally support people who ship various parabatai!#i think it’s interesting to explore the fine line between friendship and romance as seen in parabatai#do i ship heronstairs? yes. do i think will and jem felt romantically for each other? not particularly.#but they were the most important people in each other’s lives#and that didn’t change after tessa. she just became important to them too#i actually think cassie beautifully illustrates this (so many parabatai have crushes on each other at some point)#but that doesn’t mean every parabatai ends up like emma and julian#love is fluid#btw as i wrote the last sentence of that please know i was haunted by the spirit of jacques derrida#the differance#no i did not spell that wrong look it up with derrida’s name. don’t bother to read his bit about it it’s barely coherent on purpose#parabatai#shadowhunters#the shadowhunter chronicles#cassandra clare#jace herondale#alec lightwood#julian blackthorn#emma carstairs#will herondale#jem carstairs#james herondale#matthew herondale#simon lewis#clary fairchild#robert lightwood#michael wayland#valentine morgenstern#luke garroway
