Ill Probably Be Inactive For A Few Days As Im At The Height Of Exam Season Plus Work And Prepping For

I’ll probably be inactive for a few days as I’m at the height of exam season plus work and prepping for holidays. I’ll be back though, hopefully with a ton of aesthetics.

tmi char. aes -> Alexander „Alec“ Gideon Lightwood

If the TLH gang went ice skating

James and Lucie went so many times with Tessa and Will they’re pretty skilled at it. Impressing Jesse and Cordelia, who both have to learn from the ground up.

Matthew of course is elegant af on ice, but still falls all the time because of his antics, starting squabbles with everyone and racing around recklessly.

No one knows why, but Grace absolutely slays, basically looking like an ice princess. She tries to help Kit even though he struggles, constantly falling over his own feet. He pulls her down by accident at one point and apologises profusely, but she just starts laughing and throws a snowball at him.

Alastair is fucking terrified, but Thomas, who used go go ice skating with his sisters, convinces him to at least try. Alastair doesn’t let go of Thomas for almost the entire time they’re on the ice. Thomas valiantly fights off Matthew for him.

Anna is practiced and elegant, and patiently teaches Kamala, occasionally catching her in her arms whenever she falls.

Lucie and Jesse can’t stop being silly and end up rolling around the ice half the time.

Matthew initiates squabbles with James until they’re both soaking wet and panting, but is at his best gentlemanly behaviour with Cordelia.

Cordelia doesn’t have any practice but puts her mind to mastering it anyways, and she manages to almost outrace James by the end of the night. He wins, but turns around and catches her in his arms at the last second.

Valentine (proudly):

These are my children. Jonathan Christopher, Jonathan Christopher, and… Serafina?

Guyyyyys, guys, calm down!

After today’s SoBH meltdown I’ve been thinking, and while I can’t help with the Kit/Kitty panic (I haven’t recovered yet myself) I might be able to offer an explanation for the coffin items.

Look: these items are extremely personal to the characters, essentially representing something they hold on to currently in TLH. What if they’re not cursed or an indicator of something bad happening to the characters, but instead they were given up/given away by them maybe for the purpose of some magic ritual. Or even just symbolically. Can’t make the connection to Jesse’s coffin yet but maybe he’s involved as well.

I bet you there’s a 90% chance we’ll get a scene in ChoTh of our sweethearts putting down these things and making it a symbolic act. Like, c’mon, Matthew and the fucking liquor bottle, Cordelia and her dad’s scabbard, James’ gun (sth might still happen before that with the gun though, judging from Tessa’a reaction). All significant things that represent sth emotional or painful in their lives. It kinda reminds me of the phouka scene in LoS, or the memory scene in CoHF, just that here it isn’t wishes or memories but personal possessions.

I finally have access to an iPad, so here’s my first ever Procreate sketch. Of course it’s Heronchild.

James drew back enough to smooth Matthew‘s hair away from his forehead. „Have you wished me gone?“ he said teasingly.

„No. Only I wish myself gone sometimes,” Matthew said in a whisper, and it was that rarest of things where Matthew was concerned, an entirely true statement with no mockery or teasing or humor to be had.

„Never wish that,“ James said.

Chain of Iron | Chapter 2 | All that turns