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[runinfan]

we talk a lot about how good of a fighter kit is going to become by the time twp starts (and that he definitely WILL be) but i think we should also start talking about how powerful dru and ty will be by the start of twp. i just know dru is going to be SO badass and ty, while he was already a good fighter during tda, is literally a student at the scholomance and that alone is going to enhance his skills by a lot.

#dru blackthorn #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #the wicked powers #ash morgenstern #kit x ty #twp #tda #tsc #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #the dark artifices

[runinfan]

this is so random but i think that we as a community need get on the wasian blackthorn agenda. as someone who’s asian, i strongly believe that eleanor blackthorn was an asian woman and NO one can tell me otherwise.

i have no evidence whatsoever to back this up but i’m going to spill my truth anyway.

#this isn’t counting mark and helen though bc they had a different mom and they’re blonde #julian blackthorn #ty blackthorn #livvy blackthorn #dru blackthorn #tavvy blackthorn #tsc #cassandra clare #shadowhunters #kit herondale #kit x ty #ash morgenstern #morgenthorn #twp #the wicked powers #the dark artifices #tda

[runinfan]

i am so tired of people (mostly kit stans) constantly making ty out to be the villain in what went down between him and kit at the end of qoaad.

#kit herondale #ty blackthorn #kit x ty #christopher herondale #tiberius blackthorn #twp #tda #the wicked powers #dru blackthorn #ash morgenstern #tsc #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #kitty #qoaad #qoaad spoilers

[runinfan]

Can we stop acting like Kit is a saint for falling for someone who’s autistic?

No one ever SAYS that, but the undercurrent is disturbingly present in the fandom. No one would SAY “Wow Kit is really great for dealing with Ty” but that shit oozes from some posts.

All the people who imply Kit has “coped” with so much with Ty, all the people who totally invalidate Ty’s displays of love as less important than Kit’s (“ohhh Kit was REJECTED or FRIENDZONED (which isn’t a thing and also isn’t a BAd thing), Kit has his heart BROKEN”), this one is for you:

Yes. Yes he did. And is that kind of lack of understanding part and parcel of being in love with someone who’s autistic? Yeah, sometimes.

Kit is not a martyr for loving someone with autism, just like my friends aren’t saints for loving me, just like the girl I’m dating isn’t angelic for dating me.

Autistic people - disabled people in general - aren’t charity cases. We aren’t loved “in spite” of our disability - or we shouldn’t be. We should be loved by people who don’t love us “in spite” but “with” our disability or (even better) because of it!

The girl I’m seeing said she likes me because she likes that I will say things to her that no one else would ever say and that makes her feel special. I say that she makes me feel like when i laugh moths in my stomach see the light from my mouth and start dancing in my stomach. She likes that she can tell I’ve had a good date because I skip. She likes seeing me stim when I’m happy or when she compliments me. I am not a charity case.

Ty is not “interesting” or “unique” or “quirky” or all those things. He’s not a science project. He isn’t “hard work” to love. He isn’t a story of love against all odds.

He isn’t someone to love against all odds.

He’s someone Kit loves. End of.

And the people who seem to think Ty will be someone totally different after the Scholomance, all the TWP!era headcanons that make him more neurotypical, like he’ll just “grow out” of being autistic is equally aggravating. Truthfully, autism does change a bit over time in the ways it manifests, but between like 15 and 19, through puberty, it’s pretty consistent. Puberty can even cause regression, meaning autism seems more “intense”. Your Scholomance!Ty shouldn’t be neurotypically-coded. Your Scholomance!Ty shouldn’t suddenly magically adjust to a “mainstream” schooling environment.

No one - not Julian, not Livvy, not Kit, NO ONE - is a good person for loving Ty. No one deserves praise for loving him. The perpetuation of this shit is what continues the myth that autistic people can’t or don’t date, can’t be loved or be in relationships with neurotypical people.

So often I hear “why would you date a neurotypical person?” from an NT. I know exactly what they mean. I know they mean “why would a normal person date someone with autism? Why would they pick you over someone who’s less work?”

And to that I say: you’ve clearly never met an autistic person. We’re a goddamn privilege to love. We are not high maintenance or hard work, we’re not charity cases or science experiments. We’re just people craving the same stupid thing as everyone else: someone to care about us.

So, in summary:

Ty isn’t about to grow out of being autistic so note that down TWP!era fic writers

No one deserves praise for loving Ty

Kit doesn’t deserve a medal for loving someone with autism

Like Jesus Christ oh my god really??? Like REALLY???

Please stop glorifying loving someone??? Who happens to have a neurological condition??? Jesus????

Seriously. Stop.

This has been a PSA

#ty blackthorn #kit herondale #kit x ty #twp #the wicked powers #dru blackthorn #ash morgenstern #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #tsc

[runinfan]

my biggest fear for when twp comes out is if we get livvy’s pov and narration of ty as a replacement for ty’s actual pov. i like livvy and i am interested to see which direction her character will take in her ghostly state but she should NOT be getting more chapters told from her pov than any of the main characters.

#twp #the wicked powers #ty blackthorn #livvy blackthorn #dru blackthorn #ash morgenstern #kit herondale #tsc #kit x ty #shadowhunters #cassandra clare

[runinfan]

while i often like to believe that kit is a 1989/lover/red swiftie and ty is a speak now/folklore/evermore swiftie, they both share a love for reputation.

#kit herondale #ty blackthorn #kitty #kit x ty #the wicked powers #twp #cassandra clare #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #tda #dru blackthorn #ash morgenstern #shadowhunters

[runinfan]

i really don’t think we thank ty enough for being the most beautiful character in all of tsc

#can cassandra jean go back to drawing ty like this #bc why am i looking at 15 year old ty with 18 year old kit in the new comic #ty blackthorn #the wicked powers #shadowhunters #tsc #cassandra clare #cassandra jean #kit herondale #kitty #kit x ty #dru blackthorn #ash morgenstern #morgenthorn #jaime rosales #tiberius blackthorn

[runinfan]

Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.

#fang runin #tpw #the poppy war #rin tpw #rinezha #rinkitay #rin and nezha #rin and kitay #poppy war

[runinfan]

if there is even a single instance of ty being infantilized in TWP, i will be closing the book and throwing it across the room.

give me badass ty. give me ty being a genius. give me ty being an incredible fighter. give me morally ambiguous ty (he was literally doing necromancy at the ripe age of 15? cmon now).

i will not be able to tolerate it if cassie decided to write ty as some uwu soft boy in twp. first of all, just because he’s autistic? wtf. secondly, that would deviate so horribly from the character that we were presented with in the entirety of tda.

#ty blackthorn #kit herondale #the wicked powers #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #kit x ty #dru blackthorn #ash morgenstern #twp #tsc