Yay! Here’s to another year of fangirling waaay too much over books and fictional characters. This is my special thank you to all of my beautiful followers, old and new ones, mutuals or not, each and every one of you has a special place in my heart!
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Note: the percentages are only approximate and might change depending on how many notes this will get. Reblogging ends on my blog anniversary: April 21st (9pm CET)
I reached a new k a few days ago and completely forgot to do something for it (and I’m pretty sure I haven’t done anything for my previous k... I’m such a mediocre blogger SORRY)... so here we are!
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this ends on Wednesday (January 27th, 2pm CET), and I will then choose 1 follower who reblogged this post to be my February BOTM
The Shadowhunters Cast regarding Malec, Coming out, and LGBT Representation:
“[Malec] It’s a combination of two characters names whose relationship will both encapsulate and uncover secrets.”
Dominic Sherwood on Malec
“First of all I would say there have been some concerns among people that Malec won’t happen or it won’t happen according to some lovely way. I assure you that Malec is important to the show.” - Matthew Daddario
“We meet each other and i kind of... y’know i see him and i think ‘what is this? Who are you?’ and Alec is obviously not very open with his feelings and he’s not really what you would say is a sort of a romantic at the moment, but when he first meets; from the time he first meets Magnus there is kind of a change, and that grows over the course of the season.”
-Matthew Daddario on Alec meeting Magnus
“That’s what’s fun is I think that Alec happens to be gay but we get to see that realization and the process, the difficulty of that simple realization. For an outsider, it’s simple realization [that] you’re gay. This is just who you are, this is part of your life. Instead, for years and years and years and still unfortunately throughout the world and in the United States, it’s still a debate somehow. But it’s definitely important to us that kids, people, look at us [and] these characters and it affects them in a positive way and I hope we’ve done that. The worst thing in the world would be if what comes out of this and it’s like, ‘wow, that’s just not real’ or ‘this didn’t have any effect on me.’ I mean, that would be borderline devastating.”
-Matthew Daddario on Positive Representation
“There’s a lot going on that’s very tough [with] family, career profession and love, and those other parts, those are significant. So, it happens that this difficult love aspect comes in at the same time which is obviously very tough timing for such a thing, and that’s world-changing…that’s who you are and that’s a lot. So the story covers this very tumultuous time and I think that that’s the most positive aspect of it.”
-Matthew Daddario on “Alec’s Coming out Story”
“Once Alec meets Magnus, it becomes impossible for him to continue forcing things out of his mind and pushing things to the side. It’s at a very tumultuous time, with Clary coming in, and the return of Valentine, and the realizations about the Clave and other things like that. It just — it becomes too much, because he feels something that he can’t just push away.”
-Matthew Daddario for KSiteTV
“There’s this sense of innocence, but also asking that help, almost to help me find who i really am. I think theres that quality that’s also, a quality that magnus hasn’t seen in a long time throughout his history and especially the past relationships that he’s had have been a little more difficult, so i think he’s opening up a little more in that sense.”
-Harry Shum Jr. on What Gets Magnus Bane’s Attention
“He has this element of broken-hearted and then going into the series and seeing someone who takes his breath away and almost doesn’t know how to function when you think you have so much experience that’s really powerful stuff there. Beyond attraction it’s his quality of leadership and loyalty and also his wanting to help. He wants to help and he sees something in Alec that he wants to help. I think what’s important is that these two human beings are interesting characters that happen to find an attraction to each other.
-Harry Shum Jr. on Malec
“(Matt) We have realized that and have tried to stay true to the characters and tried to to something that would be meaningful for the community in general. Do I have any advice? (Harry) I think for us first and foremost to the characters there’s a sensitivity to it, and you know opposed to caricatures which you know it could easily go that way if you just follow along with this relationship but we wanted to have a base why these two are attracted to each other.. we wanted it to reflect real life. Advice wise just be yourself. (Matt) I would say your feelings are not wrong. (McG) I thought the best thing we could do was show show strong characters being themselves being true to themselves, never looking back and just being excellent. It sets an example, own it... do your thing and just rock it.”
-Harry Shum Jr., Matthew Daddario, and McG about Malec and the LGBT Community at New York Comic Con 2015
“(Matt) For him [Alec] to have any tenderness in his life is something new, it’s not until he meets Magnus that he sort of starts to figure out what it is to love someone. (Harry) It’s a lot more complex, it’s not just a simple attraction.”
-Harry Shum Jr. and Matthew Daddario for “Beyond the Shadows”
“It’s really heartfelt. To me it was more touching than what i read in the book. I think the relationship we’ll really see what Alec’s going through, because he’s really in the process of finding his identity. And I think Magnus, he has compassion for that. He doesn’t force the issue. He brings him along slowly and I think once the fans see that, they’ll really enjoy it.”
-Isaiah Mustafa for Bello Magazine
“I’ve never seen that as a thing. I think that’s one thing we really talks about is love in the show. I think it’s perfectly demonstrated with the Shadowhunters and how it doesn’t matter who they love, or at least our generation of Shadowhunters. The older generation is very much like we see it now where there’s that a little more conservative nature, conservative ideal and then we see it as no, no, no, you care about someone, You care about them, and it doesn’t matter if they’re blue, green, purple, a guy, an alien, it doesn’t matter; a werewolf. It’s love. And that’s one thing I think is really cool about our story.”
-Alberto Rosende on LGBT Relationships in the Show
“Personally, I have a real attachment to the Magnus/Alec relationship as a fan just because I see the way that Matt (Daddario) and Harry (Shum Jr.) have taken such care to portray the relationship on screen, and I think fans are really going to be excited to see the elements that they bring to that relationship,” she said. “I know that I just fell in love with it from the beginning. I give them so much respect for the care that they took to do it right.”
-Kat Mcnamara about her Favorite Relationship in the Show
“[about Malec] It’s very complex” - Harry Shum Jr.
“Malec will become almost a character itself” - Harry Shum Jr.
“Even for the most hardcore shippers there won’t be any dissapointments” - Matthew Daddario
-TCA 2016
“... Because i know the books mean so much to them. We were recently at comic con and fans were coming up to us and they really touched me. They were crying and they were saying; cause my brother you know has feelings for another guy and you know to them it’s like wow, i can identify with these people, they can be themselves and be free in their own skins.”
“My brother does not feel comfortable in his own skin and Isabelle is always there to protect him and help him and basically Alec and Magnus fall in love and he finally gets him out of his shell, to feel free. and there’s nothing wrong with his feelings you know it’s just in society your under pressure, that they think you should be a certain way, just be free and happy with the way you are.”
