Unending-Happiness

B. I write a little. Find me on AO3 @unending_happiness and Twitter @BanesShadowhuna. Malec and other Shadowhunters (tv show) stuff. My parabatai @ladymatt keeps me in line and makes me smile from thousands of miles away (She's magic).

[malecsecretsanta]

Merry Christmas, jesssssah!

For @jesssssah. Dear Jessa, I really hope you have a wonderful time over the holidays and that you enjoy this fic! Merry Christmas! X

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The Pleasure (And Pain) Of Your Company

 With the raucous cheers of his awed co-workers ringing in his ears, Magnus gracefully brings Dot from Accounts out of the low dip that ended their impromptu Argentine tango and exits the dancefloor in order to procure himself another one of those knockout cocktails from the mixologist being paid a small fortune to pour life into the company’s seasonal shindig.

 The man doesn’t disappoint, conjuring up a rather fabulous neon creation that mercifully tastes as good as it looks. A master mixer himself, it was always nice to bend someone’s ear over new twists on traditional recipes, and as Magnus’s efforts last year to infuse flavour and strength into the dull-as-dishwater complimentary punch had earned him a severe ticking off from Ragnor (whilst privately rating it amongst Magnus’s best work), alternative ways of livening up the evening appear to be somewhat limited.

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[milkeas]

You must have thought a lot. You barely said a word the whole way home.

[iampr0st0]

SHADOWHUNTERS S3E11

[prescntmic]

I’m the same person I’ve always been. Now everything’s just out in the open. (insp.)

[fictionalrambles]

Starts Monday!

DAILY:

- Fandom Author Spotlight

- Shadowhunters Fandom Stories (You can still submit one! See info here)

- Tales From 3B (All recs for the month will be 3B related.)

A special Malec Wedding Day on May 6th featuring wedding fics.

AND.... something secret.

You'll see. 😉

#Shadowhunters

[malecshappiness]

I love you. I love you too, Alexander.

[requested by anon]

[shumbane]

[bloodtroth]

I was today years old when I learned that when you type "otp: true" in AO3 search results it filters out fics with additional ships, leaving only the fics where your otp is the main ship

[djinnhatescold]

Gamechanger

[downtroddendeity]

Here’s a cheatsheet of all the available hidden search functions. “-creators:[whatever]” is another exclusion that can be particularly useful.

[lightwoodrunes]

you’re beautiful the way you are

[newtporn]

Magnus huffed a laughter. “Oh, Alexander.” “What?” Alec asked, honestly puzzled. “You’re just–you’re so–I really want to kiss you,” Magnus said abruptly.  

[alecsmatthew]

[hjarta-deactivated20260124]

i know the new year won’t magically erase everything bad happening in the world but i hope 2021 is kinder to you all and that it brings brighter moments and healing 

[metanoia-adventures]

The episode "Malec" is still... absolutely amazing. The second War of Hearts started playing I was suddenly 16 years old again freaking the fuck out over that incredible scene and just... y'all.

Us veteran shadowhunters fans know how tumblr was when the episode dropped. A mlm ship.. actually canon. I saw the scene when Alec and Magnus kissed about 1000 time and I am not joking.

Just... Christ the power that scene still has. Made me feel 16 again; alive and thrilled at the possibilities of what could happen next. Let us never forget the power of that scene. Literally the best way to start off 2021😍

[adudebropal-deactivated20191011]

[ladymatt]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 4/4 Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Relationships: Magnus Bane/Alec Lightwood Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, POV Alternating, Fluff and Humor, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Protective Alec Lightwood, Hurt Magnus Bane, Insecure Alec Lightwood, Supportive Magnus Bane, Husbands, 3 Times Alec Looked After Magnus + 1 Time Magnus Looked After Alec, Very minor character death is mentioned

Summary:  *3 Times Alec Looked After Magnus + 1 Time Magnus Looked After Alec*  When Magnus suffers a major magic depletion, his loving husband has everything under control - except Magnus!

🎁 *Gifted to @adaline-blooms​ for The Malec Secret Santa 2020* 

[chicks2010]

[kibumsfreakk]

Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK

[nyangibun]

This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thenutofroyalty]

Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂

[beatrice-otter]

In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer.  In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job.  Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.

And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what!  People are living with their parents again.  But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.

[bogleech]

A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time. World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”

[heaven-nor-hell]

I love when these posts randomly become tiny history lessons, it soothes me

[magnusbae]

#Alec: casually sexy bc he doesn’t think anyone is looking

bonus + #Magnus: IS LOOKING AT HIM