#Emma and Jem

[bluesadansey]

“Emma reminded him of himself sometimes…they both had found salvation in a parabatai. Jem could only hope that Emma had found in Julian what he had found in Will.” I’m going to kill myself

#s rereads gotsm #codependent slays with a Carstairs and their parabatai <3 #s speaks #gotsm #tid #tda #tsc #jem carstairs #emma carstairs #heronstairs #blackstairs #Emma and Jem #I do love their dynamic also #will herondale #julian blackthorn #S speaks #this is not talked about nearly enough.

[tys-kitty]

Me after reading the 20th book about some angel descendants fighting demons and dealing with their very emotional love lives

#cassandra clare #will herondale #tessa gray #jem carstairs #cordelia carstairs #james herondale #thomas lightwood #alastair carstairs #clary fairchild #jace herondale #alec lightwood #magnus bane #isabelle lightwood #simon lovelace #emma carstairs #julian blackthorn #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #twp #the wicked powers #tlh #the last hours #tid #the infernal devices #tmi #the mortal instruments #tsc #the shadowhuter chronicles #tda #the dark artifices

[rinadragomir]

I colorized TSC spines

Don't look at TDA's one though, it's this bad because I COULDN'T FIND A FULL PIC OKAY??😭😞 There were separate spines which I tried to put together....and apparently it didn't go well, the quality is shit and my day is ruined

#tsc #cassandra clare #the last hours #the mortal instruments #the dark artifices #the infernal devices #rina dragomir edits #will herondale #jem carstairs #tessa gray #clary fairchild #jace herondale #simon lewis #alec lightwood #emma carstairs #cristina rosales #julian blackthorn #cordelia carstairs #lucie herondale

[livvyjulian]

HELPPP THEYRE SO GOODNFLEND JEMMMM

cr: charliebowater

#tsc #emma carstairs #herondale #books #jem carstairs #julian blackthorn #kit herondale #the shadowhunter chronicles #blackthorn #jemma blackstairs #william herondale #jace herondale #clary fairchild #simon lovelace #alec lightwood #isabelle lightwood #tessa gray #the infernal devices

[margareturtle]

Thinking about the funny age misconceptions that would occur in TSC due to immortality & faerie

Like Tessa and Lucie def had a period where they were mistaken for twins when out in public together

Emma and Julian are out to lunch with Tessa and Jem and someone calls “Carstairs” for an order and both Emma and Jem stand up out of habit but then the staff thinks that they are the one’s who are married (bc they look nothing alike)

Poor Clary would be triggered bc she and Ash don’t look that far apart in age to begin with combined with the fact that Ash is way taller than her someone would mistake Clary for being Ash’s younger sister 😭

Tessa eternally looks like a college kid and Kit will be 18 so some mundane could def mistake Tessa for being Kit’s girlfriend if they saw Kit hugging her 😭

#the wicked powers #kit herondale #the shadowhunter chronicles #the dark artifices #ash morgenstern #tessa gray #jem carstairs #lucie herondale #clary fairchild #julian blackthorn #emma carstairs #twp #tsc #tda #tlh

[outerspacess]

I think about this more often than I’d like to admit.

“Whoever you have loved, and however you loved them,” said Jem, “anyone you loved would be lucky.”

#the shadowhunter chronicles #cassandra clare #ghosts of the shadow market #forever fallen #jem carstairs #will herondale #kit herondale #heronstairs #ty blackthorn #the infernal devices #the dark artifices #the mortal instruments #the last hours #emma carstairs #julian blackthorn #james herondale #tessa gray #cordelia carstairs #herondales #carstairs #jace herondale #clary fairchild #magnus bane #shadowhunters #books #book quotes #alec lightwood #kitty #herongraystairs #blackthorns

[culiehua]

tmi verse x onion headlines

part 1 — part 2 — part 3 — part 4 —

part 5 (jem!edition) — part 6

#jem carstairs #the infernal devices #tessa gray #will herondale #the shadowhunter chronicles #james herondale #charlotte branwell #henry branwell #brother zachariah #emma carstairs #mina carstairs #lucie herondale #ke jian ming #the dark artifices #the mortal instruments #the last hours #the wicked powers #jace herondale #jem x tessa #kit herondale

[cortanasdaisies]

julian really thought he's going to get a moment of peace in twp because the parabatai mess is over... no good sir, your brother did necromancy to bring his dead twin back and your other sister is gonna be dating the son of the man you hate the most rip

#the infernal devices #the dark artifices #the shadowhunter chronicles #cassandra clare #shadowhunters #jem carstairs #tessa gray #jace herondale #clary fray #julian blackthorn #emma carstairs #the last hours #herondale #lightwood #ty blackthorn #kit herondale #drusilla blackthorn #kitty #blackstairs

[secretsofblackthornhall]

Emma To Bruce

Dear Bruce,

We did it! The curse is broken! Rupert is free! Long live Rupert!

In retrospect, it’s insane how much of this we tried to do by ourselves. We should have known that when we finally succeeded we would do it with a whole team present—in this case Jem, Tessa, Kit, and Magnus. (Mina assisted by raising morale and drawing all over everything with her toy stele.)

Everyone’s still here, too, and we can relax a little in a newly uncursed house. (It really is quite homey, now that it’s been cleaned up and, you know, had its demonic aura dispelled.) Everyone except Magnus, who left this afternoon in a great rush to get back to New York.

New paragraph to talk about this, actually, because I have a lot of questions that don’t have answers and I can only ask you, Bruce. So Magnus was in a hurry to get back because of a meeting Alec is holding with Luke and some other Downworlders about plans for negotiating with the Cohort. Okay, but I feel like the Cohort doesn’t have much leverage, right? The situation is way worse for them than for us. We should be able to wait them out—shouldn’t we?

I mean they have a symbolic advantage, I guess. We’re all Shadowhunters and we all miss Idris and Alicante and Lake Lyn and probably a lot of us left stuff there we can’t get back and oh right, also a lot of people lived there who have had to evacuate all over the world and want to get back. I get that. But, like…what are the Cohort even eating in there? Idris doesn’t really grow food. Are they all homesteading in there? Raising crops? Churning butter? It’s kind of hard to imagine Zara doing any of that. But you never know. I mean, there aren’t even any demons to fight in there. Which is a good reminder that Shadowhunters are definitely not meant to hole up in Idris where there’s no demons for them to fight. I feel like Raziel was pretty clear on that point.

They must be losing their minds in there. I hope they found some board games or something.

Maybe Zara has declared herself Queen for Life and she doesn’t have to farm because she just marches around threatening to kill anybody who doesn’t grow her a potato right this instant.

Or maybe we haven’t heard anything because they all ate each other in there. Or maybe they mutinied against Zara and someone else gets to threaten to kill people now.

Okay, end of pondering the Cohort. I’m in a good mood, or was before I started this entry, anyway. We’ve been hanging out with Jem and Tessa and Kit and it’s really great. We ordered in Chinese (delivery couriers are always a bit terrified to come up the driveway, but we tip them like crazy so they’ve started to know us while we’ve been here). We lit candles—for ambience instead of for dark magic, what an idea!—and ate dumplings until we were too full to move, a thing I haven’t done since Magnus and Alec’s wedding. Apparently if I am offered dumplings, I will eat them until I become a dumpling myself. To that I say: I would never reject becoming that which I love most.

Anyway. Even Kit was less broody than usual tonight! He was hanging out with Round Tom and they seemed to be getting on okay. Oh, and I almost forgot! How could I forget! The workers found a coffin buried in the garden. But there was not a horrifying dead body inside, but rather a bunch of old stuff! Using a coffin as a time capsule seemed like a weird choice to me, but Tessa and Jem made some faces and some noises that suggested there was a long-ish story there we’ll have to ask about later.

Anyway, in the coffin was A SCABBARD FOR CORTANA. I mean, right? Can you believe it? Tessa said it used to belong to Cordelia Carstairs, who was Cortana’s wielder generations ago. The scabbard needs a lot of cleaning (a lot of cleaning) but then it can be reunited with Cortana. (After all, I think it’s probably more Cortana’s possession than anyone else’s; perhaps they’ll be happy to be reunited.)

There was also a sword for Julian—what used to be a Blackthorn family sword, but this one is only a hilt, its blade is totally missing, I have no idea why. He’s talking about getting it reforged. Big shock, Round Tom knows a guy. Triangular Jerry. No, I’m kidding on the name, but Round Tom actually does know a blacksmith and he and Julian have started talking about getting that done. (Actually, what Round Tom wants to do is have a forge installed at Chiswick, which is a cool idea, but do we want another building project on top of all the others? I mean, maybe, having a forge here at the house would be pretty cool.)

Oh, you might be wondering about Rupert’s ring, since it’s not like he could take it with him, and he hasn’t come back for it in a ghost way. Magnus checked it out and said no magic any more, just an ordinary ring Tatiana must have enchanted to bind Rupert. But none of us is going to wear it, of course. So we put it on the mantelpiece in the drawing room. Where it will remain.

The Gray-Carstairs-Herondaleses are heading back to Cirenworth tomorrow. It’s been really great having them here, but you know, it will be nice to have them go and have it be just Julian and I here in the house, not feeling creepy all the time. That seems like good times for us.

#

Bruce, good times are canceled. Everything’s gone wrong. I guess I was a little too smug about how everything was going; the universe had to come and screw it up for me.

Mina is gone.

And by gone I mean kidnapped.

And by kidnapped I mean, the kidnapper left a creepy old-timey porcelain doll (with wide, dead eyes, ugh) in her place, and a note.

I had just finished writing the above stuff when I heard a horrible scream from upstairs and loud footsteps, and came out to find everyone gathered in Mina’s room staring in horror.

I immediately thought oh no, another curse, or the same curse, the curse isn’t over, and maybe you did too, but that’s not what this is. This is something else entirely. Something involving faeries. Something involving Faerie.

Tessa picked up the note, read it, and handed it to Jem with a bad look on her face. Julian was already opening the window to see if anyone could be spotted outside, and I read over Jem’s shoulder:

#secrets of blackthorn hall #sobh #mina carstairs #emma carstairs #Tessa gray #faerie #jem carstairs #Rupert #zara dearborn #The Cohort #cortana

[layla-carstairs]

thinking about how Jace is Cordelia's descendant always throws my head into a loop like. what do you mean he's related to Mina through both Tessa and Jem 😭 his great great great grandma and first cousin four times removed married each other and had a kid and also adopted his 7th cousin...

#Jace is literally related to everyone isn't he (except Clary obviously) #him telling kit that he's never had blood family before in qoaad #my guy you're related to like. everyone. everyone is your cousin #you are more closely related to Alec & Izzy by blood then you are to Kit lmao #also emma. and probably all the blackthorns. and hodge I imagine #who knows who your related to through your mom lol #bella talks #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #the last hours #chain of thorns #jace herondale #cordelia carstairs #tessa gray #jem carstairs #mina carstairs #kit herondale #the mortal instruments #tlh #tmi #chot #freeing this my drafts 🫶🫶 welcome to the world little post

[decaffinated-dreams]

yes its been five years but i am not over emma hallucinating that she severed all parabatai bonds while coming back from thule, just to turn and see jem bleeding as he asks "emma, emma how could you?" i mean WHAT a perfect scene to show how powerful the parabatai bond is. throughout tda the bond becomes an antagonist as julian and emma struggle against it, and its hard to remember that its actually a beautiful way to connect two souls. one of my favorite parts of the shadowhunters books is how cassie shows how powerful and overwhelming platonic love can be, and will and jem are the embodiment of that. the bond isnt just a symbol of their love but the physical manifestation of its endurance, and thats why the seelie queens proposal to break all bonds is so tragic. to take away that kind of connection is sacrilege, even at the cost of romantic love. one is not greater than the other, and thats one of the subtle but beautifully written themes threading through tda.

#i miss jem and will #they were such a great love story and it didnt need to be a romantic one #shadowhunters #cassandra clare #queen of air and darkness #lady midnight #lord of shadows #parabatai #dark artifices #infernal devices #will herondale #jem carstairs #emma carstairs #julian blackthorn

[tys-kitty]

Magnus when yet another generation of Shadowhunters storms into his apartment to ask for his help

#cassandra clare #clary fairchild #magnus bane #jace herondale #alec lightwood #will herondale #tessa gray #jem carstairs #james herondale #cordelia carstairs #julian blackthorn #emma carstairs #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #dru blackthorn #twp #the wicked powers #tlh #chain of thorns #the last hours #tmi #the mortal instruments #tid #the infernal devices

[aleswiftgron]

UNPOPULAR OPINION

I actually like TDA much more than TID, I relate to the characters a lot more, i think the plot is more interesting and I re-read it every couple months, but i've only read TID twice and i'm fine with it.

(also i like Will Herondale, i think he's funny and i'm sad he died but he's not my fav Herondale)

+ the Blackthorns are my fav family, i LOVE Emma, and i love Jem, Kit is introduced, Ash is also introduced, i really like all the relationships developing (blackstairs, Kierarktina, KiTty) and the other characters making an appearance, i love it, KIT AND JACE PLEASE, MALEC AND THEIR KIDS.

you get my point, that's it, thankssss

#tlh #the last hours #the wicked powers #kit herondale #the dark artifices #ty blackthorn #kit x ty #ty x kit #twp #tda #tid #the infernal devices #will herondale #emma x julian #julian blackthorn #emma carstairs #jem carstairs #tessa gray #jace herondale #alec lightwood #magnus bane #malec #ash morgenstern

[rinadragomir]

TSC characters auditioning for Simon's band

I did another thing

P. S - Christopher is auditioning twice because he wanted to and asked me to add him

#tsc #cassandra clare #tmi #tid #tda #tlh #jace herondale #simon lovelace #emma carstairs #gideon lightwood #matthew fairchild #christopher lightwood #ty blackthorn #kit herondale #dru blackthorn #thomas lightwood #alastair carstairs #jem carstairs #helen blackthorn

[lesbocrocker]

Lily Chen is the only person with a correct opinion ever.

#lily chen #jace herondale #jem carstairs #alastair carstairs #cordelia carstairs #emma carstairs #ghosts of the shadow market #gotsm #the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc #the infernal devices #tid #the last hours #tlh #the mortal instruments #tmi #the dark artifices #tda

[herondaleminds]

2024:

Kit Herondale and Ty Blackthorn turn 27

Tessa and Jem celebrates their 15th anniversary

Jace, Clary and Izzy turn 33

Alec turns 35

Mina Carstairs turns 11

Max Lightwood-Bane turns 15

Rafael Lightwood-Bane turns 17

Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn turn 29

#the shadowhunter chronicles #tsc #cassandra clare #the infernal devices #the mortal instruments #the dark artifacts #the wicked powers #tessa gray #jem carstairs #jessa #mina carstairs #kit herondale #ty blackthorn #kitty #emma carstairs #julian blackthorn #jemma blackstairs #magnus bane #alec lightwood bane #max lightwood bane #rafael lightwood bane #happy new year #happy new year 2024 #2024