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I started putting together some TSC playlists. Everything is still in progress , but I’ll just keep updating the post and the playlists as I go along. What I have so far:

The Last Hours

General TLH playlist

Hell Ruelle (just random songs in the spirit of Londons most scandalous club; queer anthems, broken hearts, drugs & alcohol and the occasional undead)

Matthew

Alastair

James

Cordelia

Anna

Grace

Claude Kellington (yes, I am deranged)

James x Cordelia

Matthew x Cordelia

Matthew x James (as a heads-up: I am a Heronchild fan and it shows)

Math x Jamie x Cordelia

Lucie x Jesse

Ari x Anna

Alastair & Matthew (because of the insane overlap in angsty songs I made them an extra playlist🥰😫😭)

The Infernal Devices

General TID playlist

Herongraystairs

Will

The Dark Artifices

General TDA playlist

Emma x Julian

Kieran x Mark

Annabel

Emma

Malcolm x Annabel (Why I made a playlist for them? I had good songs lying around.)

The Circle

Michael x Robert

The Mortal Instruments

General TMI playlist

Sebastian

Sebastian x Jace

Sebastian x Clary

Team Evil

Bonus Content

Janus

Before you Go by Lewis Capaldi is the soundtrack of the train station scene in COI. James’ POV, to both Matthew and Cordelia.

Here are the best bits:

‘Cause now that they’re gone

All I hear are the words that I needed to say

(…)

So, before you go

Was there something I could’ve said

To make your heart feel better?

If only I’d known you had a storm to weather.

So, before you go

Was there something I could’ve said

To make it all stop hurting?

It kills me how your mind can make you feel so worthless

So, before you go

(…)

Our every moment I start to replay

But all I can think about is seeing that look on your face

(…)

So, before you go

Would we be better off by now

If I’d let my walls come down?

Maybe I guess we’ll never know

(…)

I want to write a modern TLH university AU with Heronchild as the main ship and major focus on Gracetopher. All the professors are our favourite warlocks. Bridgestock, Claude and Charles are the local assholes. The gang all have their own aesthetics and subjects that they study. Like, Anna does fashion, Thomas has been into Romance languages ever since he spent a year in Spain during high school, Kamala and Alastair are both musically talented and basically the gay best friends of the faculty, Cordelia is a free spirit who takes no one’s shit, does fencing in her free time and runs the chess club. Matthew is the messed up rich kid studying art history, even though his parents are accomplished in politics and science and he’s got major issues about being the black sheep of the family. The Herondales are a really sweet middle class family, Tessa is a respected professor and Will is the principal of a local high school and all the kids love his PE classes. Their children both love books, though James is more into the classics while Lucie is a cottage core queen who wants to become a writer. She recently started dating Jesse, who began working after he got his GSCE to support himself and Grace, because they moved out together to escape Tatiana’s abuse. He supports her education and always says that Grace is the smarter out of the two of them, and will be a great scientist one day. She meets Kit through the Herondales, and James meets Matthew through Thomas and Kit, and we get a ton of Heronchild and Gracetopher content.

It’s just that this would take so much time, I’d have to start once finals are over but then I would have all summer and could see were the story takes me. Someone please tell me to do this🙏🥺

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.

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

Yes yes yes, my thoughts exactly. Also, James literally describes him as looking like a piece of art:

“Matthew always looked quite different when he was asleep. The constant motion that was such a distraction when he was awake vanished, and he became one of those paintings he loved: a Frederic Leighton, perhaps. Leighton was famous for painting children in their innocence, and when Matthew slept, he looked as if sorrow had never touched him.”

((I love it when James describes Matthew with music undertones:

“Matthew moved into position to fight him, the staff as light and easily balanced in his hand as if he were a conductor gesturing with his baton. He moved with easy grace, like any Shadowhunter would, but somehow as if he was playing, as if at any moment he might be dancing.”

And

“He could hear their voices […] Matthew’s low and musical tones”.

Matthew is graceful, he moves as if he could be dancing, he holds weapons as if they are batons, his voice is musical and pleasant to hear, so much people gather to hear him talk, to hear him tell stories. He loves art so much and despairs he can’t produce any, but doesn’t realise he’s like art himself.))

what's with the angst obsession these days? y'all have a problem. (y'all is me)

so lol soulmate sunday was supposed to be fluffy but tomorrow is gonna be angsty so get ready

(no one dies though so that's an improvement.)

Matthew: Do you ever get water hungry?

James: Water hungry??

James: …

James: Do you mean thirsty?

Matthew: *blinks* Oh.

Am I the only one who would be perfectly happy if we could get Heronfairstairs?

Matthew really just always be holding onto James‘ wrist for dear life huh?

No one can tell me that when Matthew as well as James & Cordelia are on their big voyages respectively, they won’t meet up someplace in the world at least once. Like maybe not in Paris and not immediately but you really think they could bear to be separated for that long?

This whole drama could‘ve been ended right there if James had just joined in

Matthew & Cordelia: *about to hook up*

James: *sitting in a chair, waiting for them*

I want a pair of female parabatai who reach the same levels of intensity as Jem/Will and James/Matthew so fucking bad

The Wicked Powers are Cassie’s last chance

Currently at chapter 5 of Song of Achilles and it's giving big Nothing but Shadows vibes.

IT’S POLL TIME AGAIN

I recently had a conversation with some new acquaintances who had only read TMI, and we somehow got to a point where one of them said that shipping parabatai would basically be like incest- I didn’t have the heart to tell them what the Dark Artifices are about 😭

TSC discourse I saw on twitter I never thought I'd see: People saying that shipping Heronstairs is incest.

fucking obsessed btw with the way the tlh characters pronounce each other’s names in the audiobooks. every time Cordelia or Thomas think/talk about Alastair & every time Matthew says James/Jamie my heart just fractures.

I love these so much I feel the need to expand:

Cordelia: proof that not being able to drive doesn’t stop you from excelling at everything else I might like this so much because I also can’t drive

James: kinda funny because of the irony but ouch on a deeper level because maybe he feels like he needs it to keep himself from slipping into the shadow realm and to feel more rooted to reality and light — maybe though it’s just a misunderstanding and what’s really going on is he always falls asleep while reading with the little lamp still on (cordelia/matthew turns it off for him, puts the book aside (page marked) and properly covers him in a blanket every time this happens) — or both

Matthew: just canon

Lucie: ‘course she doesn’t she’s a writer

Thomas: listen, the man’s got so much to stress about I can’t blame him for trying to cope somehow (I feel like he’d feel kinda insecure about it and try to keep himself from doing it when others are around)

Christopher: he would only start a blog as something niche / special interest related and gain infamy on accident

Alastair: it’s his little totem to make him feel safer when he checks under the bed every night because of that one time Cordelia scared him half to death let’s not talk about how he probably feels like he has to be all mature and grown up and shouldn’t keep stuffed animals anymore but also he can’t part with it so he’s keeping it out of sight i’m gonna cry bye

Anna: I feel like she has such an amazing, soulful singing voice, like I’d probably swoon if I heard her sing, it’s just another thing for the ladies to be attracted to her about

Ari: I like the idea of her having this competitive streak and fucking everyone over because of it (this now escalated into the mental image of the entire gang loosing their mind in a group gaming session)

Grace: she embraces the cat mom thing post-ChoT 100% (and also in any modern AU case, I talked about my modern headcanon for her before and I very much believe that getting a cat (or several) would be part of her journey to finding peace and happiness — these cats are part of her safe space)

i did the character headcanon generator with the tlh characters

James: WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!

Matthew: A bad person, most of the time.

James: Bro...do you want to talk?

Matthew Fairchild and James Herondale

Parabatai: “a pair of Nephilim warriors who fight together as lifelong partners, bound together by oath, regardless of their gender. Their bond is not reflected only in their closeness and willingness to lay down their lives for one another, but also in oath...”