Whatever You Do, Don't Imagine Post-infirmary-scene Thomastair Sound Asleep, Snuggled Up In The Narrow

RUBY RED!!!

Oh look it’s America and Magda

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers

calling it right now! the short story collection will be called chain of flowers

maybe this is just copium but...maybe MAYBE cassie left so many unanswered questions because she wants to release what will essentially be book 4.

If Chain of Thorns doesn’t end with:

Lucie and Jesse engagement

Cordelia and James honeymoon to Constantinople

Thomas kissing Alastair in front of everyone at a party

Ariadne and Anna finally dancing together

Grace and Christopher working on science-y stuff together

and Matthew drinking water

imma riot

Also consider that Alastair has a very dry/sarcastic/cynic sense of humour and that he tends to be a little bit dramatic. I would not expect Thomas to say that he's dying when he is "only" heavily injured because that just doesn't match his personality, but Alastair?

When, however, did Cassie share the snippet? Could it be something that belonged to another book/trilogy and was cut out?

okay so, do y’all remember that one thing that cassie shared with us, that death scene of one of the members of a shadowhunter chronicles gay couple? i don’t remember it word for word, but it goes something like this:

“funny, all that trouble to convince me that you didn’t love me, and here i am, dying in your arms”

the person that is dying then proceeds to kiss each and every one of the others fingers, their last

here’s my theory: it’s thomastair. thomas lightwood dying specifically

now i’m sorry about this, but it makes sense.

hear me out:

1. thomastair still isn’t completely canon, and alastair is spending an awful lot of time trying to convince thomas he doesn’t love him, because he thinks that’s best for both of them

i know that’s flimsy evidence but keep reading

2. if you check the shadowhunters family tree, we see that the rest of the carstairs family are descendants of alastair. i’ve seen a theory similar to this that says alastair dies, but if he does, that’s the end of the other side of the carstairs line aside from jem, and we all know alastair has to have descendants, because emma exists. it could be baby carstairs, but we don’t know that for sure

3. if you also check the family tree, it shows that thomas doesn’t end up with anyone officially. which means either he stayed single or he’s dead. and considering alastair ended up with someone else, it is more likely that thomas is dead than with someone else.

4. finally, thomas’s name is sort of foreshadowing in itself. he’s named after thomas, the mundane that worked for the london institute during tessa will and jem’s story. our past thomas died, and i think this foreshadowing might hint to our thomas dying

so, yeah just had to get that off my chest because it was causing me major anxiety.

feel free to prove me wrong! actually please prove me wrong i don’t want thomas to die :(

but please reference this post if i’m right

nick nelsons little curled up lopsided smile. you agree. reblog

THE FORESHADOWING!!!

Pierre Curie died young, she outlived him by several decades.

My heart 💔

Christopher and Grace did end up collaborating like the Curies and revolutionizing communication for shadowhunters

Blood loss? No I know exactly where it is

Annika

BTW, I am looking at your suggestions for Henri’s sister’s name. After deadline (Friday), I’m going to look at all your ideas, maybe pick a few personal faves, and then we could vote or something. Okay. back to work!

Cast Long Shadows:

"You do not know what he [Alastair] said to me the day we were expelled."

Tom shrugged. "Some nonsense, I expect. He always speaks the most shocking nonsense when he is overset. You shouldn't listen to him."

A couple of lines later: "Oh well," said Tom. "I like his nonsense." He looked wistful. "I think Alastair masks his pain with cleverly turned phrases."

Can we talk about how Thomas knew Alastair extremely well, even back then? And how Matthew could have saved himself (and Thomastair) a lot of drama if he had just listened to Thomas? Now I just want a novella with each conversation in which Thomas got to know Alastair so well.

I also hope that Tom will remember his own advice in CoT... Not that I want him to stop listening to Alastair

Okay but what if schoolboy Thomas didn’t fall for Alastair despite him being a dick and Thomas being like but I see greater depths in him

What if sickly babied his whole life Thomas took one look at Alastair and went FINALLY someone who isn’t going to treat me like I’m going to keel over and die if they don’t treat me with extreme kid gloves every second of the day

Like sure when he got all super focused on him and noticed that Alastair seemed like he was really sad and lonely and had greater depths that added to it

But even his sisters and friends were his stand in parents and babying him and trying to coddle him and protect him from anyone mean and anything that might hurt him and his friends that were all younger than him all acted like they were older and responsible for him (even though Thomas was held back and started school late with them) and all of his parents’ friends were the same and can you imagine how sick of being coddled he must have been?

Hot take, Thomas’s interest in Alastair originated with in a twisted way Alastair being the first person to treat him like a real person and not a little boy made of glass

And Alastair not wanting to let him go off on his own and get murdered but letting him go out on patrol on his own and keeping an eye on him in case he needed to join the fight at his side instead of pulling him out of it just like Thomas was any other shadowhunter out on patrol without a partner instead of seeing him as still that sick little boy and stopping him from trying at all like everyone else did because of it was just an added layer to the initial reason Thomas fell for him, even before Alastair had done anything to deserve his attention and affection