The You Pick the Tag Event continues today with fics that feature Married Couple! To view the event’s full posting schedule, please click here.
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Then I’d Be Another Memory by hourglassmermaid*
Posted during the SH Summer 2018 Hiatus Bang
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
Secondary Characters:
Maia Roberts
Secondary Pairings:
Luke Garroway / Maryse Lightwood,
Alec Lightwood & Clary Fray,
Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland,
Magnus Bane & Jace Wayland
Themes:
Battle Couple,
Drained Magic, Established Relationship, Family, Hazel-Eyed Alec, Head of the Institute Alec, Hurt & Comfort,
Immortality Issue, Injured Alec, Injury, Magic Use, Magnus POV, Outside POV, Shadow World Politics
Summary:
The alliance rune means everything to Magnus. When Alec works the night patrol and Magnus is left alone in their bed, a sudden pulse of elation soothes his wracked soul. Sharing his magic with Alec, who has such a childlike whimsy for sorcery, feels more intimate than any time they spend between silk sheets. Knowing Alexander is safe and always with him — it’s more than Magnus could have ever dreamed of. A bond, something tangible keeping them tethered so they can always find their way back to each other.
When a mission goes awry, and Alec almost perishes at the hands of a unique demon, the others start to notice something’s off about him. He heals too fast, his skin’s devoid of any wrinkles, and he still has the body of a twenty year old. He seemingly hasn’t aged a bit, and neither has Clary. While the gang investigates how to banish the demon back to Edom, they learn more about the alliance rune than they ever thought possible.
From the Couch by mansikka
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating:
General Audience
Secondary Characters: Jace Wayland
Secondary Pairings: None
Additional Relationships: Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland,
Themes: Domesticity,
Established Relationship, Family,
Summary:
Jace has an injury that Magnus is helping him recover from, meaning he has to stay at the loft. He observes the way Alec and Magnus behave with one another when they are alone.
The only thing I couldn’t go without for over 24 hours is you. I told you before, I can’t live without you. So don’t even think about dying on me.
Alec Lightwood in I Can Feel Your Heart Hanging in the Air by magnusbicon
To view the fic’s full rec, please click here.
I Can Feel Your Heart Hanging in the Air by magnusbicon*
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating: Teen & Up
Secondary Characters:
Clary Fray, Izzy Lightwood, Jace Wayland
Secondary Pairings: None
Additional Relationships:
Summary:
Prompt: could you write a fic where magnus gets really hurt in battle feat. worried and sad alec?
Faith by thisissirius
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre:
Length: 1K to 5K
Rating: Teen & Up
Secondary Characters: Clary Fray, Jace Wayland,
Secondary Pairings: None
Additional Relationships:
Themes: Alec POV, Angst, Established Relationship,
Summary:
Snow, Alec thinks. They’re surrounded by snow.
Clary keeps one hand on his face, something he thinks he can feel if he focuses on it hard enough.
Magnus is coming.
Dance Through the Storm by Carmenlire*
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
Secondary Characters:
Maryse Lightwood, Max Lightwood
Secondary Pairings: None
Additional Relationships:
Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood,
Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland,
Established Relationship, Family,
Summary:
There’s no hiding the blood crusting on Alec’s ribs, the mauled opening in his chest. While not bleeding, Magnus knows the extent of the injury is serious. Fatally, so.
The demon’s claw has nicked Alec’s heart. More than nicked– it had cut into Alec’s heart, severing an artery. Magnus had tried desperately in the alley, but he couldn’t knit Alec’s heart together. There’s a painful irony in there somewhere about broken hearts but if Magnus allows himself to travel down that path he may never make it back.
Magnus waits for Alec to wake up.
A Pillar Steadfast in the Storm by mansikka
Part #1 of the Shade Falls On Us series
Chapters: One-Shot
Genre: Canon AU
Length:
1K to 5K
Rating: Teen & Up
Secondary Characters:
Jace Wayland
Secondary Pairings: None
Additional Relationships:
Alec Lightwood & Izzy Lightwood,
Alec Lightwood & Jace Wayland
Themes: Alec POV,
Summary:
When the Institute gets a call about a rift opening up on the streets of New York, Alec goes out with his team to investigate. They’re expecting a simple mission, but as Alec gets separated from the rest of the group, he realises that it is anything but.
When Alec wakes in the aftermath of the mission, it might as well be to an entirely different life to the one he’s always known. There’s a difficult path ahead of him full of difficult choices. How is he going to find his way back to himself?
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The You Pick the Tag Event will continue this month with installations posted on each Friday of the month. They will feature the following thematic tags, as voted on by all of you: Married Couple, Pretend Relationship, Shadow World Politics, and Wedding.
In honor of Halloween, October 31st will feature spooky, Halloween-themed fics recs.
If you’re an author who signed up to receive a personalized thank you card for Author Appreciation Day, those will be sent out in mid-to-late October. Keep an eye out for them!
Blog Update
I know that I’ve been MIA for the past week and I apologize for that. I’m still very much heavily involved in the #SaveShadowhunters campaign and have a few time-sensitive projects that I’m working on and, as I have a few things going on behind-the-scenes professionally, I need to finish those as soon as possible.
It looks like I’ll be starting another part-time job in the near future and that is going to limit the amount of time I’m able to post. I’m not going anywhere, I’m not giving up on the blog (or #SaveShadowhunters), but the amount of time I’ll be spending online will have to decrease in order to focus on my professional success. I’ll talk more about that here once I get the all-clear, but I’m really excited about this new chapter.
That being said, things are going to still be touch and go for while longer, at least until I get everything sorted out, get settled in, and find a revised balance between my personal and professional lives. I can only ask for your understanding as I work all of this out.
In the immediate future:
- The September Analytics will be posted as soon as I can finish them, hopefully by the end of this coming weekend at the very latest.
- Last Friday’s installation of the You Pick the Tag Event will be posted today in order to keep the event on schedule. The next installation will still be this Friday.
Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.
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