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Masterlist

Key:

newer fics in bold

fics I consider to be my best works in italics

TLH-

Carstairs siblings- “Nothing is wrong with you.”

Arianna- “You’ve always got me.”

Arianna- “Please don’t cry.”

Arianna- “If you don’t hold me right now I think I might fall apart.”

Matthew and Cordelia- “You’re the only one I want to wake up next to.”

Matthew and Cordelia- “You meant too much to me.”

Matthew and Cordelia- “Kiss me.”

Matthew and Cordelia- “Shouldn’t you be with him?”

Jordelia- “Who cares about what they think?”

Jordelia- “I won’t let you.”

Jordelia- “Who hurt you?”

Jordelia- “It’s late. Shouldn’t you be asleep?”

Jordelia- “Stay here tonight.”

Jordelia- “Shouldn’t you be with her?”

Jordelia- “It’s cold, you should take my jacket.”

Jordelia- “You have no idea how much I want you right now.”

Jordelia- “I’ll keep you warm.”

Jordelia- “After everything we’ve been through, you still don’t think that I love you?”

Jordelia- “Forget it.”

Jordelia- “You always felt like home.”

Jordelia- “Aren’t we supposed to be working?”

Jordelia- Cordelia is injured

Jordelia- “Maybe put a shirt on?!”

Jordelia- “Please don’t cry.”

Jordelia- “Is there a reason you’re blushing like that?”

Jordelia- Kiss on the neck

Jordelia- “Oh! You’re jealous!”

Jordelia- “Quit touching me, your feet are cold!”

Jordelia- “Why are you awake right now?”

Jordelia- Kisses to distract the other person from whatever they are doing

Thomastair- “I fell in love with you, not them.”

Thomastair- “Dance with me.”

Thomastair- “You make me feel safe.”

Thomastair- “You have no idea how much I want you right now.”

Thomastair- “Can’t you stay a little longer?”

Thomastair- “Can’t you stay a little longer?” sequel/ “How could you ask me that?”

Thomastair- “Please don’t cry.”

Thomastair- “Why are you awake?”

Thomastair- “I think I’m in love with you.”

Thomastair- “No one’s seen you in days.”

Thomastair- “Have you seen my shirt?” “No,” "You’re wearing it, aren’t you?“

Jesse x Lucie- “They’re so cute when they’re asleep.”

Jesse x Lucie- “Please just kiss me already.”

Jesse x Lucie- “If I die, I’m haunting you first.”

Jesse x Lucie- “Is there a reason you’re blushing like that?”

Jesse x Lucie- “Have you seen my shirt?” “No.” “You’re wearing it, aren’t you?”

Jesse x Lucie- “You look amazing tonight.”

Jesse x Lucie- “Is this okay?”

Jesse x Lucie- “Kiss me.”

Jesse x Lucie- “Can’t you stay a little longer?”

Jesse x Lucie- “Oh, you’re jealous!”

Jesse x Lucie: “Dance with me.”

Jesse x Lucie- “I can’t sleep. Can you stay here tonight?”

The Merry Thieves- “What do you want me to say?”

James and Lucie meeting Mina as ghosts

The entire TLH gang meeting Mina as ghosts

James and Matthew- “No. Regrets.”

Will defending the Merry Thieves

Will and The Merry Thieves in the aftermath of the Ballroom Incident

Anna finding out what happened to Christopher

TID-

Will adjusting to being head of the Institute

Wessa- (TLH era) “Who cares about what they think?”

Wessa- “You haven’t lost me.”

Wessa- “My wife is more badass than me!”

Wessa- “Don’t you ever do that again!”

Wessa- Will’s parents meeting James

Wessa- “They’re so cute when they’re asleep!”

Jessa- “You make every day worth living.”

Jessa- “Please don’t cry.”

Gabrily- “Dance with me.”

Gabrily- “Who cares what they think?”

Gabrily- “I can’t sleep, can I stay here tonight?”

Gabrily- Telling Will that Cecily’s pregnant

Gabrily- “Why are you awake?”

Gabrily- Cecily telling Gabriel she’s pregnant with Anna

Gabrily- Will walking in on them kissing

Sophideon- “Don’t cry.”

Charlotte x Henry- “Do you even still love me?”

TMI-

Clary and Jace telling Luke and Jocelyn about Ash

TDA-

Julian- “I won’t let anyone hurt you, you’re safe with me.”

Blackstairs- “You’re so adorable.”

Jemma/ Blackstairs- “That was kind of hot.”

Marktina- “I won’t let anyone hurt you, you’re safe with me.”

Kiertina- “You have no idea how much I want you right now.”

Kierarktina- “Do you even still love me?”

Kierarktina- “Is there a reason you’re blushing like that?”

Kierarktina- “You’ve been drinking tonight, haven’t you?”

TWP-

Mina and Tessa- “Don’t be scared, I’m right here.”

KitTy- "Am I your lock screen?” “You weren’t supposed to see that.”

KitTy- “I wasn’t lying when I said I loved you.”

KitTy- “I am home.” + “I’m right where I belong.”

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chinmayatale · 4 years

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“Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy –all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.”

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chinmayatale · 4 years

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James and Cordelia: A Dance

Accompanying song: Friends (Hoseok’s Theme)

They thought a dance had started it all, the love and pain, suffering and joy, but their true dance of love and life still awaits them

James couldn’t stand being here, in this ballroom where so many terrible things had happened

But he would endure it for his sister and her fiance, Jesse

After all they both came to his engagement party too

His engagement — who knew something meant to bring two people together would leave two souls shattered and stranded

It had been months since the bracelet had come off

James was aware of how horrible it had been of him to not only ask for Cordelia’s hand in a fake marriage but also tell her he didn’t love her

After the bracelet came off James confessed to Cordelia, but it hadn’t been enough

She had felt so much pain

Pain when she thought the person she loved most didn’t love her back and pain when she learned what he had lived through, and all she thought she could have done, pain for her vain attempt of moving on from him

She needed time to heal

James was healing too, or rather learning to be James for the first time in his life

The James he could have been all this time

Who knew if that James would still love her in the end

Cordelia hated this ballroom

As happy as she was for Lucie this room held too many bad memories and the one person that lived in all of them

James and Cordelia were no longer the same, no longer engaged, no longer speaking, they were no longer friends

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chinmayatale · 5 years

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Well their love story the trio is one of the best and unique

Queen of Air and Darkness

bluiiieee said: This might have been answered before but I didn’t see so, why did Annabel get the cover/title if she was only in half the book? I was thinking it was because the events of QOAAD wouldn’t have come to pass if it hadn’t been for her? Almost everything was direct correlation with her being raised and what happened in the council meeting?

Well, mostly because that isn’t how covers and titles work. They’re not always meant to be literal. On occasion they can be, but it’s a bit like being like “Why is there a frayed red ribbon on the cover of Eclipse when Bella is never tied up with red ribbons?” or “Why is there a candle being blown out on the cover of Looking for Alaska when nobody blows out a candle and the book is not about candles?”

As for titles: In Clockwork Prince, the clockwork prince is Mortmain, who never appears in the book. The Lord of Shadows is the Unseelie King, who appears less than Annabel. There is no city made of ashes in City of Ashes. The Art of Racing in the Rain is about a dog and contains no racing or rain. The Jungle is about a city. There are no dogs in Reservoir Dogs (or any reservoirs.) You get the picture. :D Sometimes a title refers to something specific in a book or film — sometimes it doesn’t.

The point of covers (and to a lesser extent, titles) is to evoke a mood, thought, or image, not to specifically label or depict the events of the book. This is especially true where covers are concerned. Covers can have absolutely nothing to do with the events of a book because the point of them is to create a mood or a feeling or even just to spark curiosity, not to depict scenes.

In terms of Annabel being on the cover of Queen of Air and Darkness, there’s multiple reasons: it was easy to pick Emma and Julian, as the protagonists, to be on the earlier covers, but among secondary characters it’s hard to pick one — Mark isn’t more important than Cristina who isn’t more important than Ty or Kit who aren’t more important than Diana. Also, given the sinister nature of the title, matching that title to a character implies something dark going on with that character, which is true in the case of Annabel but not, say, Cristina. Picking the villain for the last cover of a series is pretty classic — Sebastian is on City of Glass, and partly again because it wasn’t possible to pick between Isabelle, Simon and Alec. But also because whether villains are on page or not, their off-page decisions drive a lot of the action and shape the story.

SPOILERS FOR QUEEN OF AIR AND DARKNESS BELOW

The image of Annabel for Queen was carefully chosen: it’s Annabel on the battlefield as she appears to Julian at the end of the book. Whether you feel Annabel is a significant character or not, it’s a significant image. When Julian sees her — and remember, it isn’t even her, it’s a demon, so technically one could ask why Sarlath the Warlord* is on the cover — she’s in the red dress she wore in Thule, and has no runes: the dress is red, symbolizing blood spilled (Livvy’s blood, Annabel’s blood, blood in battle.) That specific image is what distracts Julian on the battlefield long enough for Zara to stab Emma in the back and set off the parabatai curse, causing Julian and Emma to become True Nephilim. The parabatai curse and how it plays out is the main plot of the book, the center around which everything else turns, and this image is what activates its final chapter.

You’re definitely correct that things wouldn’t have come to pass as they did if it wasn’t for Annabel, and she also represents the dark mirror to Emma and Julian: what they could have become (defined by revenge, love turned to violence) if things hadn’t turned out the way they did. Also, Annabel simply makes for a striking visual image where Horace Dearborn does not. (I will say it’s also almost impossible to get any publisher to put a male character on the cover or spine of a book with a word like “Princess” or “Queen” on it — which is why Tessa was on the cover of book 3 of Infernal Devices instead of book 1, despite being the protagonist. They knew neither of the boys could be on a book with “Princess” on the cover. And that is partly why Cristina is on the spine of Queen of Air and Darkness, fighting alongside Emma and Jules. Also cause she’s awesome.)

As for the title, while Queen of Air and Darkness refers to Annabel, again, it is there partly to evoke a mood. The Queen of Air and Darkness is usually considered to be Mab, the queen of faeries, and partly the title is meant to evoke the importance of faerie in the books. When book titles are inspired by or taken from poetry, you can expect that they are not literal, but metaphorical in nature, or that they may touch on a mood or idea referenced in even a single page (or not at all). Why is Catcher in the Rye named after a poem that is recalled by the main character only briefly? Reams have been written about the question, as referential titles are often the most open to interpretation. Which is part of the fun. :)

* Not his real name.

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