#izzy love simon

[layla-carstairs]

love all the tmi couples POST tmi but in every single case the early relationship was in shambles like why is everyone pretending they cannot see red flags come on now. if they had friends who were actually involved and NOT each other they would be holding interventions and telling y'all to break up at every given opportunity. but no they're surrounded by people who spend their time making objectively worse romantic decisions so they do too. and yes this applies to everyone

#& this is part of the appeal actually <3 #I feel like I'm attending the besties wedding & having a great time #after hating on her bf for the entirety of their relationship. peace and love on the planet earth #clary fairchild #jace herondale #alec lightwood #izzy lightwood #magnus bane #simon lewis #maia roberts #tsc #the shadowhunter chronicles #tmi #the mortal instruments #bella talks

[franken-loser]

Me when i find queer media with good/healthy/happy canonically queer couples:

Wow this is so cute!! (never thinks about them again)

Me when i find either queer or queercoded media with sad/unhealthy/unhappy ending canonical or non canonical queer couples:

GODDDDD GET OUT OF MY HEAD WHY CANT YOU JUST BE HAPPY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I JUST WANT YOU GUYS TO LIVE HAPPILY AND HEALTHILY WITH EACHOTHER FUCKKKKKKK (thinks about them 25/8)

#clervalstein #whizvin #hannigram #blackbonnet #gentlebeard #kinda?? they got their happy ending #not....izzy though ....... #ineffable husbands #looking at you heartstopper #its just not my thing and i dont think about nick and charlie that much #love simon and heartstopper specifically #hannibal??? falsettos?? frankenstein???? our flag means death??????? good omens???????? #i get attached to them like THAT and i never stop thinking about them #falsettos brainrot is getting to me........ #im definitely forgetting some medias but like whatever #hannibal #our flag means death #good omens #frankenstein #falsettos #sigghhhhhh #doomed lovers my beloved.....

[faggyangel]

can't stop thinking about characters who are dogs. like characters who bark and growl. who bite the hands that feed them and that get mean when they're nervous like bad dogs, who can't help gnawing at a good thing until it bleeds. characters who are loyal and possessive and protective but reckless and feral and rabid. characters who wanna sit at the feet of their owners and characters that can't stop losing. characters who are kicked like strays and put in cages. characters who are muzzled and loud and obedient and mean. characters who are just foaming at the mouth for love and attention, characters who are hungry and savage. characters who are just. dogs.

#this about so many people i cant even say all of them #like it can be anyone from jamie tartt in a very obedient he wants love and protection kind of good dog way to izzy hands who is a bad dog #he bites and barks and wants to be pinned and muzzled #to fuckingg idk will graham or jace herondale or simon snow or miss rebecca bunch she is such a dog she is so dog like at heart #or crowley even i feel like is a bit of a dog loyal and kicked and strayed #love this shit so goddamn much its crazy foaming at the mouth like a dog rn #does this shit even make sense i'm just fucking obsessed with that imagery #FUCK someone said roman roy YEAH #bad dog tag #annnnddd fucking jace herondale and alec and izzy lightwood theyre all dogs btw

[lurafita]

Bodyguards Malec

This one is a little out there, but imagine:

Mundane AU, both Magnus and Alec are personal security of royal heirs.

Magnus is the bodyguard of Princess Clarissa (or Prince Simon, if you wanna make it Jimon or Sizzy), and Alec is the bodyguard of Prince Jace (or Izzy, if you want to make it Sizzy or Izzy/Clary - what's their shipname btw?... Oh right! Clizzy.)

Anyway, Magnus and Alec meet a lot during events where their charges have to attend.

"So how many grey hairs has yours caused you lately?"

"Sneaked out in the middle of the night three days ago, to get into some new club in a notoriously dangerous neighborhood. I had to disarm and incapacitate about eleven wannabe gangsters to drag his/her ass back home."

"Then this might be your win, this time. Mine only stole her/his parent's mercedes to practice the three-point-turn before the drivers liscence exam next week. I had to jump in through the open window on the passenger side to take control of the wheel before he/she crashed into the iron gate."

"I locked up the car keys years ago. Then the little shit learned to hotwire a car from a youtube video… "

"Well, at least they seem to be getting along, so far. Let's hope it stays that way and there won't be an incident like two years ago."

"Don't remind me, I still have nightmares…. So, uhm, seeing as our two charges are supposed to be together on this whole press tour thing… How about dinner tomorrow?"

"I would like that. I will arrange the time off with the rest of my team."

"Same. Pick you up at seven?"

"It's a date."

#magnus bane #alec lightwood #malec #shadowhunters tv #jace herondale #clary fairchild #izzy lightwood #simon lewis #malec prompt #bodyguard!Alec #bodyguard!Magnus #come one how often do we have bodyguards in love? #It's always bodyguard and client #this time it would be two bodyguards! #falling in love while wrangling their charges #who might also fall in love

[bookishjules]

i think one thing that makes sizzy so compelling is the nature of isabelle's individual conflit and arc as a character being so rooted in love and romance. her heart is a major theme for her character, the most prominent plot string that we find ourselves subconsciously itching to see tied up. while plenty of (i.e. most) tsc characters have some sort of romantic plot, i feel like it is rarely so tied to the character's main developmental thread. every relationship has conflicts that each individual character will bring to it to make it difficult and compelling in some way, but when that conflict is specifically "hearts are breakable" ??? idk i think there's something about it.

we are rooting for isabelle to learn that it's okay to let yourself be vulnerable, that love makes you stronger in the long run. etc. etc. and the way to resolve that conflict she was built around is to introduce her to someone who will be deserving of her opening her heart up and letting it be broken. someone who puts just enough pressure on that character arc to push it to the end, where it can be tied up, where isabelle can find herself having grown and developed in the way she needed to. she needed love to get there.. which means she needed simon.

#something something simon could have ended up with anyone but for izzy it had to be simon #idk if this makes sense.. hopefully the real ones will get it lol #isabelle lightwood #sizzy #simon lewis #tsc #tmi #i could also be wrong but i was thinking about my sizzy playlist yesterday and how isabelle's plot-moving songs are more about love #like the rest of the playlist #while simon's are about like.. identity ig #idk its really interesting

[darcyolsson]

also i got too distracted by the butterfly tattoo to realise this as i was reading it but i just realised that when maia is first introduced, she explicitly mentions she doesn't like to wear dresses and even goes as far to wear cargo pants to a formal event (the celebration at the end of CoG). simon also considers this one of the main contrasts between her and isabelle, who dresses hyperfeminine even when it's not exactly appropriate.

HOWEVER, then the next time we see maia at a formal event (luke's engagement party), she IS wearing a dress! at first it kind of struck me as odd and i just thought it was a plot hole lol but then i realised that after they found out simon was two-timing them, maia and isabelle hung out a lot and became quite close, meaning it was likely isabelle who got her to be more comfortable in feminine clothing :') very sweet

#also izzy calls her 'totally babelicious' (iconic) which absolutely seems like the thing she would say about an outfit she picked out dfghdk #overall i loved it that isabelle and maia's first response was to unionise against simon #isabelle also literally hates kyle bc he wronged maia even though she doesnt know him at all #why did feminism kind of win #vic reads tmi #tmi #tsc

[valyrfia]

just reread the mortal instruments for the first time in like seven (?) years and like it's fine and all but the concept would've been so much more interesting in the hands of a queer author

#expand tags to read more lmao #the mortal instruments #anti cassandra clare #my take with any body of work tbh #alec is my favourite but also very much gives Tortured Gay Written By Straight #clary should've ended up with simon (à la peeta mellark effect) #i love jace but he loses all personality as the love interest #also i will live breathe and die on the jalec hill they should've got the storyline that emma and julian did #the fact that the forbidden parabatai love story was given to a STRAIGHT couple is absolutely ridiculous #also i fucking hate malec it seemed so romantic when i was like 15 but now i cannot read it without thinking of my first relationship #ie. young and inexperienced me VS. what may not legally be grooming but technically is #à la rhys and feyre i HATE this immortal falling in love with a teenage mortal bs #red flag #magnus is also a gay character written for straight people #like he's fine but he's not giving yknow #i just relate a lot to alec and hate how him and magnus are so romanticised #IT SHOULD'VE BEEN JACE #imagine how good a jace and alec slowburn would've been in the last three books #talking of gay shit get izzy a girlfriend (and have it be me) #i jest but not - all of the lightwood siblings are gay wbk #clary is their token straight #all this to say give this idea to ME not to the ex ron x ginny author #anyway rant over #some teenage books live up to the hype (hunger games) and some don't (these)

[malakai-why]

I love the ongoing theme of Magnus being seemingly unable to comprehend that these weirdos really love him vs. the TMI gang just being like

#ok but also seriously. edom #hits like a ton of bricks every time #tsc #tmi #tmi gang #magnus bane #clary fairchild #jace herondale #simon lovelace #izzy lightwood #alec lightwood #honorary bc magnus knows alec loves him #the mortal instruments #also tlbotw is just one big example of this #funnie tag #memes #rambles #q

[soggycowboy]

this one, *points towards the most pathetic douchebag in the show* take them to the lab with haste.

oh, and dont forget to put holes and a stick with leaves in the jar, you remember what happened last time.

#my lab partner: and what do i label this one? #izzy hands #me: hmm yes label him my babygirl princess number fifty six #my lab partner: and this one? #simon the devious #me: ohh perhaps label him as.... my little scrungly number one. #my cringefail pathetic little guy #absolutely pathetic #you guys are so pathetic and dont know how to do anything right but i love you #umm i have a lot more pathetic guys but im too lazy to tag them

[layla-carstairs]

humbled him lmao

#Gabriel insulting Gideon's 'wooing' the whole book only to be just as bad yeah I know that's right #the real reason Anna doesn't feel like a Lightwood is that's she's too good at it 🙄 she deserved her awkward & pathetic little moment #lightwood rite of passage #even Izzy had her moments yknow? like hello she fell in love with Simon of all people (affectionate) #the more in love a lightwood is the more of a Loser they are (also affectionate) #bella talks #bella reads cp2

[mangoob]

Oh yeah, they’re dating btw. Forgot to mention that

#sorry but I love jimon #idc about cannon lore enemies to friends to lovers #do it cowards #make them gay #its more funky and interesting #I’ll die on the hill that jace/simon and izzy/clary is more interesting than the cannon pairings #jimon #jace x simon #jace herondale #jace wayland #simon lovelace #simon lewis #clary fairchild #clary fray #shadowhunters #mortal instruments #city of bones #my art

[occasionally-good-authoring]

surviving and living, a thin line

@indigothemuse, because i finally remembered i have a taglist (you). is max lightwood technically dead? yes. will i listen to canon? fucking never

summary: Surviving is all Jace needs. All anyone ever said he needs. But life creeps in, who is he to stop it?

Surviving. It’s what Shadowhunters do, what they learn to do as children and are expected to do until they don’t. Survive, survive, survive. 

But nobody ever says anything about living. Or Jace just didn’t hear anything if they did. So he learns his runes, his weapons, the languages, the democracy, the strategy. Survive, survive, survive. That’s all he ever hears. 

Life was an afterthought, something he didn’t really need. What needed was to survive, and one doesn’t need to live to survive. So he didn’t. He survived in broken bones, bleeding knuckles, chipped teeth, healing runes. Survive, survive, survive. That’s all he ever does. 

Nightmares wake him up stifling screams, dry heaving, heart pounding, fingernails digging in. He dealt with it, living off caffeine and desperation at the age of ten. Maryse and Robert never wonder who’s drinking the cups missing from the pot. Getting better is living, and that’s not what Jace has to do, and Jace only has to survive. Survive, survive, survive.

He becomes parabatai with Alec, the rune heavy on the inside of his wrist. It’s about survival. A parabatai is a promise of safety in the field, it’s a vow of your back being watched and an extension of yourself in another. It’s survival. It’s a battle. It’s war. Survive, survive, survive.

Max is there, following Jace. He wants to learn, but not to survive. Because he wants to live. Jace doesn’t understand, yet finds himself teaching Max anyway, giving Max the toy soldier, the only thing left from his father. It’s about survival, he tells himself, when Max is old he will be another watching my back. Survive, survive, survive. That’s what he tells himself.

Izzy teaches him how to dress, how to do makeup, how to dye hair. He tells himself it’s survival, if he needs to hide he can, change his appearance in a moment. But Izzy laughs and maybe he smiles, and maybe it’s for real. No, it’s gaining her trust. It’s survival, another pair of eyes who are trained on his back. Survive, survive, survive.

Clary and Simon come along. Clary’s angry, Simon’s a wonder. They’re both laughing and neither of them are of any use to him. But then Clary can make runes and she brings Simon along. It’s about survival, not the growth in his heart when Clary smiles or Simon laughs. Survive, survive, survive.

His father’s alive, really alive and really not Michael Wayland. Valentine. Valentine Morgenstern, Jace Morgenstern, Clary Morgenstern. One survives, two live. Jace tries to escape, tries to kill Valentine. It’s about survival, he tells himself. With Valentine alive, he’ll never survive. But the bile rising in his throat when the man smiles isn’t about survival. He swallows it down. Survive, survive, survive. That’s all this is about. 

There’s something odd about Simon. In the way he smiles, laughs, talks, moves, dances, sings, yells, screams, cries. In the way he wakes up screaming, crying, checking for a pulse he can’t feel. There’s a fire behind all of it, a fire that’s not just survival. It’s living. Survive, survive, survive. That’s what Jace wants to do, right?

Magnus drags him out of the gym, a quick healing spell on the knuckles he has never wrapped. There’s not mention of Alec, who always tries to get Jace out. He gets Jace a new wardrobe, makeup of his own, a dye job so good it looks real. The pink looks odd, leaving a flutter in Jace’s heart, tears stuck in his throat, a hug on his arms, dancing in his fingers. He doesn’t. That’s not survival, so Jace pushes it down but he knows Magnus saw that smile. Survive, survive, survive. Is that all he’s doing?

Maia and Simon drag him to Simon’s apartment, putting on a movie they call a slasher, telling him he hasn’t seen a movie until he’s watched a two star horror movie. They laugh and talk the whole time. Jace lets a small laugh out, and maybe his fingers dance a bit. Maia and Simon don’t just survive, not like him. Survive, survive, survive. Maybe he wants more.

Alec and Izzy are there at his next nightmare, where he let himself scream when he woke. They hold him, rub where his fingernails dug in, putting on Batman band-aids Clary bought for Max. He cries into Alec’s shoulder, holds Izzy’s hand, doesn’t talk about the things he saw, and they don’t need him to. Max joins, silent as he joins in, tapping out I-T-S O-K-A-Y in the morse code Jace taught him. This isn’t survival, but Jace does it anyway. And maybe he does it over and over again. Survive, survive, live.

He sits down with Simon, teaching him piano with all the gentle touch and words he didn’t get. Simon messes up, Jace puts his fingers on the right keys, the ache of a snap fading in his own. Simon sees the tears gathering on his brass eyelashes, he waits, cries along with Jace when he talks about what happened in that Manor for the first time. Survive, survive, live.

Game night at Magnus’. The first one Jace goes to. They welcome him with cheers and smiles, act like he’s always come. No touches are given, and maybe for the first time in a long time he would accept them without a flinch first. When Raphael wins Monopoly, he gives Jace a smile and there’s that flutter in his heart that means not-just-survival. Survive, live, live.

Alec, Izzy, and Max listen as Jace talks. Voice cracking, tears falling, fingernails kept from digger by Lightwood hands, body aching with bruises long gone. They apologize for things done by a man so hardly a man. They promise safety. They say wipe away tears and hold him once they make sure it’s allowed. Survive, live, live.

Tessa and Jem tell him stories about Will, hearts aching with bittersweet love lost. Jace feels family grow. Aunt Tess, Uncle Jem. Not blood, but water is better anyway. To hell with the thick red running in his veins, Aunt Tess, Uncle Jem, little Mina, cousin Kit, whose more brother than cousin. Only Kit is blood, but no better than any of the rest. Survive, live, live.

Simon and Maia laugh over a Player’s Handbook he doesn’t really understand. Green dice, numbered in gold are rolled. A sheet of paper is filled, and they help him all the way through creating a character. They teach him the rules, show him what to do. He feels warmth grow up from his stomach when they listen to him talk about the weapons in their game, explain how they work, where they’re from. When his fingers dance, Simon and Maia smiles and Jace realizes his finger dance is Simon’s rock, Maia’s hand flap. Survive, live, live. 

Alec, Izzy, and Max laugh with Jace over too much food ordered at Taki’s. Jace smiles, laughs, talks, fingers dancing when they listen to him talk about Shakespeare. He explains the tragedy of Hamlet, and the jokes they speak are never about him. Max sees his fingers dance and tells Jace how he likes to bounce. Alec and Izzy smiles and know, never mock or try to stop. This isn’t survival, and it’s better than just that. Live, live, live.

Maia and Simon ask him to a movie at Simon’s apartment. Food is tossed into mouths, Jace’s fingers dance, Simon rocks on the balls of his feet, Maia’s hands flap. Maia lays her head on Simon’s lap, asks to put her feet in Jace’s. A yes is said, and he means it. Hesitation when kisses are asked next, they don’t. Simon and Maia don’t ask again. The next week another movie, Simon curled against Maia, hand entwined with Jace. Kisses are asked for, and this time Jace knows he wants it. They make sure, he is. Live, live, live. 

Magnus takes him shopping again, Aunt Tess and Uncle Jem come to. Jem tells him about violin, offers Jace lessons when interest is shown. Magnus knows a place, just like he always does. Aunt Tess shows him her favorite books, Jace shows her his. Magnus buys them, shaking off offers to pay him back with laughs and it’s no problem. Live, live, live. 

Shadowhunters are taught to survive, nobody talks about living. But Jace won’t just survive anymore. He’ll live. He’ll heal, even if the nightmares don’t go away, even if unwelcome touch still causes a flinch. Live, live, live. A lesson he had to learn, but a welcome one. 

Live, live, live. What is survival without the life behind it? Live, live, live. That is what Jace will do.

#gotta love ignoring canon and writing a character healing #if you noticed clary missing after her two mentions it’s because i find her insufferable #jimon #jace x maia x simon #maia roberts #simon lewis #jace herondale #jace calls tessa aunt tess and jem uncle jem fight me i’ll win #tessa gray #jem carstairs #will herondale #he’s mentioned like once but shhh #herongraystairs #magnus bane #alec lightwood #izzy lightwood #max lightwood #the lightwood family my beloved #kit herondale #mina carstairs #raphael santiago

[buffyspeak]

the fact that we never got an alec&izzy sparring/training scene is criminal btw!

#we got alec & clary ! clary & izzy! jace & izzy! malec! jace & simon! #but no alec and izzy???? #if anyone has a fic rec i would love to read about it #shadowhunters #lightwood siblings

[idk-i-just-really-like-tsc]

quick 1989 tv is out how do i make this about my fictional people

#say don’t go is alex and izzie #that’s all I got. i wish you would all you had to do was stay and this love have BEEN alex and izzie #how you get the girl is for Simon and Isabelle! #BLANK SPACE IS FOR MALEC #thanks for listening

[the-infernal-instruments]

😭😭😭😭😭😭

#clace #sizzy #jace and clary #simon and izzy #tales from the shadowhunter academy #tftsa #cassandra clare #cc #i love them #pale kings and princes #double date #simon lovelace #clary fairchild #jace herondale #izzy lightwood #lovelace #fairchild #lightwood #herondale

[bookishjules]

made the great decision to start rereading tfsa for the first time since the stories started coming out in 2015.. and i'm quickly realizing exactly why i never reread it

#this hurts too much #i've been living in happy sizzy land in my head for so long #lord montgomery and drunken i love yous and star wars and vampire bites and pendants wrapped around necks and dtr in hell #on repeat and its just.. so hard to experience this pain post edom #like obviously ik its there #i think about it all the time #but seeing izzy hurting and simon saying they cant be together multiple times and isabelle insisting she doesnt care and #its so much #tfsa #tsc #simon lewis #sizzy