The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Humansunshine

Part #1 of the TLTDNSIN series

Posted during the Shadowhunters Big Bang 2018

Chapters:

Chaptered Fic
Genre:

Human AU
Length:

10K – 25K
Rating:

Mature
Secondary Characters:

Dot Rollins,

Maryse Lightwood,

Ragnor Fell, Robert Lightwood,

Simon Lewis
Secondary Pairings: Alec Lightwood / Simon Lewis,

Dot Rollins / Magnus Bane 
Additional Relationships:

Alec Lightwood & Maryse Lightwood
Themes: Alec POV, Angst,

Break Up,

College,

Death,

Family,

First Meeting,

Flirting,

Grief,

Hazel-Eyed Alec,

Historical,

Internalized Homophobia,
Magnus POV,

Physical Abuse, Pining,

Relationship Milestones,

Slow Burn,

Travel

Summary:

The year is 1894, and queer culture is quietly thriving in London and across Europe. Magnus Bane, an important and highly intelligent diplomat from Batavia, is nervous and thrilled to have been selected to negotiate greater freedoms for the people of his home country. Alec Lightwood is the eldest son of the Foreign Secretary, a dedicated student at Oxford University, and is writing his dissertation on international relations between the Dutch East Indies and the surrounding countries.

They’ll have a lot to talk about when they meet in a society gala at the Houses of Parliament. Magnus has spent his life focussing on honing his mind so he can ignore his heart, and when that mind is met with the mind of Alexander Lightwood’s, his heart cannot stay silent any longer. Alec has spent the better part of his youth exploring his identity as an openly queer man in the microcosm of his college, and refuses to accept that Magnus, a successful diplomat, can’t have his cake and eat it too.

Or: A mundane!Malec AU set in 1890s England and Amsterdam.