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shadowhunterspolycule · 3 years

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Idk if this has been prompted/you've talked about it before but u know how maia says she misses chocolate? I'm thinking of all of her partners trying to come up with a substitute and it's a fucking mess and somehow it works out at the end but 💕 cooking shenanigans💕

i have talked about this before briefly here (link) and here (link) but i dont think i went into enough detail so L E T S G O

so like. here's a fact. raphael and maia are the only ones who can actually cook. i dont know if seelies eat but they probably don't have to since they are part demon and part angel, and neither of those have to eat. so, meliorn probably can make themself useful because they understand a lot of the natural properties of plants and besides they have magic, but other than that, they don't really know how to cook

izzy is a certified disaster which rapha already knows firsthand, clary has never touched a pan in her entire life and that's just a fact, and simon can probably like, fry an egg, but usually he only really helps his mom/bubbe cook during holidays like rosh hashanah or purim. he's way out of his depth

so because this is a surprise for maia they are down to half their amount of functional cooks and up to infinite times their amount of disasters because usually if anyone joins them when they're cooking it's simon and he mostly just chops stuff and helps. meliorn sometimes watches like an anthropologist trying to understand their funky lil food. but usually it's just rapha and maia, really

and really it was rapha's idea and he recruited meliorn because their knowledge of plants and their natural properties could be useful and somehow the whole squad is involved now. "i can't lie," meliorn says with the worst innocent expression known to man, and it's all rapha can do to throw his hands up and accept that this is his life now

anyway, they are all super excited about it (even rapha in their own way) so it's cute. rapha mostly asks for them to work as taste testers but of course they all have a billion uneducated ideas that they throw into the mix anyway. some of them are health hazards. the others are insane. eventually they get so desperate they try the insane ones anyway

also rapha just looks cute with his dumb lil apron and his several study books - a cooking book, a book about the chemical composition of chocolate, a study of werewolves' digestive system, a study on the effects of chocolate in werewolves, and an encyclopedia of non-conventional edible plants

(meliorn is offended by that last one. he doesn't need an encyclopedia when he has meliorn, an expert. simon is offended by all of them. just use the internet)

so he knows what the bad chemical that makes maia puke is, the trick is to try to get rid of it while not ruining the taste of chocolate. that's when izzy actually proves herself to be useful because wait a minute, she knows biochemistry. why did no one tell her that from the start?

so with rapha's cooking expertise, meliorn's plants expertise, izzy's biochem expertise, simon's creativity, and clary's cheering abilities, they are actually able to create a pretty dope recipe. it even melts on the tongue and everything and they can actually use it to make other stuff like cakes or other pastries or whatever

maia eats nothing else for a week. raphael spends his whole days baking chocolate stuff for her. he has no complaints, she is so happy and her smile is beautiful. and eventually they release the recipe and werewolf-friendly bakeries start popping up around the downworld and the others can now buy her chocolate, too. all is right with the world

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normal-thoughts-official · 3 years

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Do you think the polycule has any holiday traditions?

POLYCULE ASK! POLYCULE ASK! POLYCULE ASK! YESSSSSSSSSS

that's actually a pretty interesting question because the polycule is very culturally diverse. like of course we have simon who's jewish, but the rest is kind of in a weird place. i'm pretty sure shadowhunters don't have holidays at all, and since clary was raised by a shadowhunter and a former shadowhunter, i'm pretty sure she would have been raised without any either? like maybe she'd celebrate the gregorian new year because you know, they have to pretend to be mundane after all, but i think that and birthdays were probably pretty much it for her. oh and halloween i guess which is also not religious-affiliated, are there any other holidays in the states? i guess there's the 4th of july and thanksgiving but both celebrate imperialism/colonialism and i don't want to write about that so i'm gonna pretend there aren't. plus i doubt shadowhunters celebrated those either

so ok we have izzy and clary with no holidays, we don't know whether or not maia is culturally christian and i don't wanna just say "yes" by default... and then there's meliorn whose holidays and traditions will be typical to seelie culture, which are gonna be... unique to them obviously. we don't know how they are celebrated, how long they last, what is the milestone, how or even IF they count time - like maybe they go by when a specific flower blooms and that only happens every 10 gregorian years or some shit. so that's a question mark i guess

and there's also the fact that the seelie realm is very politically closed which. i like to think changes once they get rid of the old queen! but it's still a slow process to just allow other people there. then again izzy was a shadowhunter and she used to hop by so it's probably not a huge deal for meliorn to bring their partners and metamours to seelie celebrations? or at least to the ones that aren't Super Sacred or anything. so like parties and dances and stuff like that? yeah. which i guess brings me back to the other "meta" i wrote about seelie dances (link) and what it would be like for the rest of the polycule to participate in those and shit

then... well obviously there's the gregorian new year which we have obviously just gone through (well, we had when i started answering this ask. it's march now so rip. update it's april now. i'm so sorry anon) so like! i think it was always kind of hell for both raphael and maia, autistic icons, because of all the explosion sounds that just made them feel really upset and feel really stupid for it. with raphael i think it was more bearable when he had rosa because she would spend the day with him and hug him and let him squeeze the stress out you know dauhdasuihda also she was always the one he felt the most comfortable stimming in front of. and then after he lost her it only got worse because on top of the fireworks there was the clear absence of rosa that he just FELT everywhere. you know?

and with maia there's the added trouble of her being AMAB and what with being raised to "black men" standarts of masculinity (to be clear, as in: due to racism black men are expected to be even more macho than white men, ESPECIALLY by nonblack ppl; not as in wow black ppl are so backwards or whatever. white ppl invented gender norms anyway so lmao), she was definitely shamed a lot for being so distressed by the fireworks when she was little methinks. we love that combination of transphobia, racism and ableism! so it was just hard and filled with bad memories. and then once she ran away from home it got marginally better without the constant telling her to "man up" and shit like that, but it still came with the added memories you know

and also with them (plus simon) being vampires/werewolves the hearing gets even more sensitive so that's... fun. meliorn realizes it stresses them out and makes up a special kind of spell that muffles their hearing of background noise, so they can feel more comfortable and for the first time there is not that added stress that comes with the new years and it feels so nice?? they even try watching the fireworks but it's kinda like eh, not that great, especially because even looking at them brings out memories you know doahdsaoh so instead meliorn shows them some magic and it's so much prettier with all the glowing lights and stuff, you know?

maybe after that the polycule starts spending the new years in the seelie realm instead, that'd be cute, just like. enjoying that pretty place with all the lights and shit. i think they would all prepare some kind of light show some way or another like using magic and witchlights and whatnot. that'd be cute

as for other holidays! i think their holiday traditions would start with simon's first yom kippur after he was able to eat solid foods again (shut up a potion WILL be created and i don't accept any other option). before that, with simon being unable to eat, he was also obviously unable to fast. he wouldn't feed during yom kippur but it's not like vampires need to drink blood every day so it's not really the same thing. and it felt particularly lonely that, besides being away from his family and community, he also couldn't fast

i mean obviously simon isn't the only jewish vampire in the world, or jewish downworlder for that matter, so i'm sure he makes jewish friends he would at least get together and pray with for yom kippur, and that's what matters the most, really, but being unable to fast when he wants to and also not being able to participate in the break-fast meal just. sucks djdnudhsus

and then he's able to eat and he can do all that again! but it's also kind of emotionally charged for all of the vampires to fast for the first time when for so long they associated not eating with feeling unhuman, you feel? so like it kind of hits all of them hard

so the polycule decides to make him a little surprise and cooks the break-fast meal for them. clary probably knows what simon and his family used to eat after yom kippur so they try to recreate that for him? and maia and raphael are lowkey nervous about it because they had never made stuff like noodle kugel before and while they could at least try it (yay potion!) they have no idea if it's tasting like it should, ya know what i mean? and it's kind of sweet that they are so worried about making this the best possible experience for simon and the closest to home it can get. and simon is super emotional about getting to eat that stuff for the first time, as well as the other vampires, so you know. it's very emotional all around. but in a good way? and i think after that it kind of becomes a tradition that they make him the break-fast meal after yom kippur too

and then the next years they lowkey fuss over him for the last meal before the fast too, which i'm not sure is something simon would do with other people so they would go ham, dude, particularly raphael because he is a worrier first and foremost. so catch his ass all lovingly planning a meal he can make with zero (0) salt whatsoever so simon doesn't get too thirsty during the fast for MONTHS, planning so he gets the most amount of sustenance, lots of fiber, etc., and simon is like "you know i don't even have to eat, right?" but rapha is just all "you know food still matters" and simon doesn't say anything because it does. it matters a lot

and raphael is all sweetly nervous because like... it is a simple meal, that is the point, but he still wants simon to enjoy it and simon can't stop smiling through the whole thing. raphael and the others also eat it with him too in solidarity before simon goes to the synagogue with his community and it's like a sweet send off you know?

also this is not exactly a celebration or a tradition for that matter but since YK is the day of forgiveness i like to think that eventually simon asks for raphael's forgiveness on YK for the whole rosa thing, and although that isn't religious for raphael, raphael asking for his forgiveness for how everything went down, too. and it's just a sweet moment where they leave this whole story behind and look for a better future - i imagine this happening before they get together, so again, it doesn't really count as an answer to your question, but i just thought i'd include it because i find it sweet

then after that there is sukkot and i just really loove the idea of them helping him build the sukkah (for those who don't know, the sukkah is a hut covered with vegetation under the open sky, where jewish ppl live in for the duration of the sukkot). i know that they could just buy a certified one but where is the fun in that when we could have shenanigans? also i think that that would have been part of simon's personal/family traditions because i bet him and becca loved to build the sukkah for their family. so like on that spirit it is a little sad that they can't help each other with that anymore since simon can't be seen by the rest of his family, but of course as soon as he mentions it and how fun it used to be the whole polycule is Immediately On Board. let's help simon build his sukkah!

first of all other than simon none of them have ever built a sukkah before and simon usually followed becca's lead tbh, also he's just not great to Lead And Control people in general, and the polycule is already messy as all fuck. so it's a disaster, especially with raphael and simon's superspeed and strength thrown into the mix, and meliorn's almost impossible to hold back mischievous nature. izzy is lowkey responsible for keeping them in check and okay now that i think about it clary might have helped simon's family build it before, especially when she was a kid because kids just love that shit, but i don't know if she would remember the steps tbh (read: she wouldn't remember the steps) so yeah all in all the sukkah falls down more often than not and they might have to replace a few materials when simon and raphael accidentally snap their bamboo poles in half. rip

meliorn is probably all like "you are all weak and pathetic, i am a seelie, i can literally control living things. simon needs a vegetable covering? watch me get all the nearby trees to form a beautiful roof" and simon is like "actually the sechach cannot be alive" and meliorn slowly dies because they have no power over dead nature. also simon forbids magic usage in general because this needs to be an authentic building experience for him, so meliorn is left as the most useless one since they only have experience building these things using magic and the help of the trees or whatever

also i bet they would love to go EXTREMELY hard on the lights and decorations. i know that hassidic and to my understanding general orthodox jewish communities don't decorate the sukkah but i don't hc simon as part of those communities so i think he would want to decorate the sukkah. like even if it isn't fully covered in decorations, he would want what few he has to be well done, you know what i mean? like he would want to make the holiday posters himself (i dont know if it would be appropriate for clary to help make these but if it would, she totally would and i like the idea of simon giving her a very specific prompt to make the posters and clary doing it for him, you know? and maybe them all helping paint it with colorful themes), making decorations, and okay, at the very least fairy lightning? please? come on. it's another whole ass dramatic experience to get electricity in there so that's fun for sure, but i think meliorn and maia in particular would be all over the idea of making a pretty lightning system, and simon is definitely not gonna complain because he loves pretty things and the idea sounds rad. raphael smiles fondly through it all and basically saves the day by being the only one with organizational skills who is actually able to help them make a working plan for the sukkah

(catch these idiots making a blueprint. TRY and tell me they wouldn't)

(every year they make a new blueprint and the sukkah has different designs and proportions - always following the requirements like having four at least 32 inches tall walls, of course - and they start completely anew. the sechach must always be new but not the general structure, but they redo the structure anyway because again, it's fun)

and then of course they have meals together in the sukkah for the duration of sukkot and just idk i really dig the idea of the lot of them holding trays of food wearing oven mitts as they get inside and turn on the lights and it feels really nice and sweet you know? and then of course promptly turns kind of messy because it's their way but that's what they want. also, at least once a year they manage to sneak becca in for a meal with simon in the sukkah and they are just both so happy and aaaaa :')

and that's how "kidnapping" becca so she can see simon and his sukkah becomes another tradition lmao. they do it in the most dramatic full of flair way they possibly can while still not being found out and then promptly tell simon all about it in the most dramatic and exaggerated retelling during the meal, which always makes both simon and becca laugh (reality: becca just told her parents she would be off for a few hours to do some school thing or something and then they picked her up and she got a superspeed piggyback ride so she and simon wouldn't miss a minute. their story: "it all began with a carefully planted lie,")

there's also pesach which many (reform) jewish friends of mine have told me they like to do with goyim because the whole point of that holiday is to welcome strangers and share jewish history, so i think simon would like to do that as well. so yeah i think simon would enjoy having them with him during the Pesach Seder - again i think simon would want to be with his other jewish friends but it would be fun because they all could bring their pet goyim that they know would be respectful and nice to have around, run the Seder, and celebrate with them. also for their first one i think simon would have gotten excited about explaining the order/15 steps to them, so like cue lots of fond looks as simon tells them everything about it, how this is the first time he'll be able to have the feast, the four cups of wine, and how he's excited even to have the bitter herbs again. and then over the years they all become pretty much used to the 15 steps, they come naturally, they know what to expect, they already know the story of the Exodus after retelling it every year, and it's nice both when it's new and he gets to share and when it starts to be something in their element because it became their tradition and they want to be there with simon for the holidays, you know what i mean?

then there's purim!!!!!!!! god they would sure have so much fun on purim it gets me really excited to think about. purim might be the one that they get to participate the most in from what i've seen, and i have lots of thoughts about it, like:

first of all, making hamantaschen!! they each make a batch with a different stuffing and it's lowkey a competition and lowkey a surprise and as always with cooking together it is very fun and homey. and also kind of silly as they usually are, but purim is a holiday that is kind of supposed to be silly and for ppl to let go so it matches that mood, you know what i mean? like they're all covered in flour and "stop trying to LOOK at what i'm making!" and blind testing and stuff

then, food gifts! so from what i've seen it is preferable that the food gifts jewish ppl send each other on purim are sent by a third party, which is usually a kid, but they don't know many kids and i really like the idea of the polycule serving as simon's messengers for the day lmao. going everywhere round the shadow world and beyond ("hey mel since you can portal i have this friend in argentina-") and then bringing him the other gifts people send simon in return :)

dressing up in costumes! there is absolutely no way simon doesn't dress up for purim and the whole polycule is absolutely dragged into it, including an absolutely reluctant raphael. it quickly becomes a tradition tho that they change costumes every year and try to make them funnier and more outrageous (as you do) as time goes by. trust the polycule to turn pretty much everything into a competition. and simon always laughs with so much glee and joy when he gets to see what everyone dresses up as so really, how could they say no?

(maia "wins", like, every year. she is totally huge on costumes and her and simon are very attuned in that sense, so, you know. catch her dressing up as memes and just generally making the most creative costumes. she may or may not think them months and months ahead of time)

maybe they hold purim meals with particularly themed costumes every once in a while when they want to spice it up, but i think generally it's more of a freestyle thing

simon also loves reading the purim torah tbh, it's just fun. and then of course there's the megillah and booing when haman's name is mentioned. they are all banned from using graggers because half of them have superstrength and the other half doesn't technically have superstrength but is still super strong and they destroyed the poor thing on accident after the first ten seconds when they tried

food yay! and the very long meal. they usually get pretty drunk, tbh, at least the ones that can. and just generally i think it's one of their favorite celebrations to do together and more often than not ends in them all curled up together in the couch so u know, that's sweet uwu

and then of course rosh hashanah, which is the holiest joyous day in jewish tradition, so of course it's a huge deal for them all. and i just think they would all be super excited about making the evening (especially the meal ofc) the most incredible for simon it could possibly be. again i think simon would want to spend it with his downworlder jewish friends and community, and they probably have their own synagogue they go to together and everything, so obviously they are all involved in making preparations for rosh hashanah, but i like to think the polcyule and simon's friends' pet goyim would help with what they can as well (provided it's not something that should be done by a jewish person like baking the challah; but if not with cooking, they would at least want to help with stuff like decorations and the like. honestly i imagine all of simon's partners sitting together very seriously with a paper in front of them writing down all the stuff they can do to help with rosh hashanah preparations and everything. especially once they learn that like being happy/joyous is a mitzvah so they're just like "we want to make u as happy as possible then :)" and it's sweet and simon may or may not tear up a little)

and then we have other holidays that aren't associated with religion like halloween, which was kind of implied to be the official downworld holiday, so i'm pretty sure they go big on that too. not dressing up because again, one day where they can all afford to be themselves, but definitely meeting up at the hunter's moon, getting spectacularly drunk, roasting the mundane's costumes, and then once they get back to whichever of them's homes, watching some shitty movies and throwing stuff at the screen together

i'm on the fence about día de muertos. i know it's not exactly a sad holiday but i feel like it is for raphael because it kind of represents everything he's lost - his culture and his family, and he can't even go to the parade during the day, you know, although i'm not sure that would have been his thing, but i do think he would have loved to watch the arrival of the monarchs when he was a kid but he'd have to be in méxico for that. and particularly after he lost rosa i just feel like it would have been so emotionally charged for him, you know? he would definitely make her an altar every year and it would be just... big and well thought-out and something really emotional and important for him, welcoming his little sister back the best he can. and i feel like that's something he'd want to do alone because my boy loves to punish himself

but there are little things i think they would have wanted to do with him, and that they might push a little to be able to, like being with him while he eats by the altar and hearing him tell stories about rosita. and i think they would help him "undo" (?) the altar once día de muertos is over, which is always extra emotional for him and aaa. and then the next day they kind of just get to be with him and cuddle a little bit as he recovers emotionally, you know?

also it has just occured to me that raphael is christian shit fuck fart bitch cock. so okay i guess that puts xmas and easter somewhat on the map? again mostly for food. us latinos celebrate xmas on the eve, not on xmas day, and raphael is totally the insufferable xmas meal obsessed bitch who's on the kitchen all day and refuses to let anyone help (he can't pull that particular stunt for the meals they have for simon's holidays obviously but he can on xmas soo). but it's worth it because it is always a great one. and he also gives a lot of thought into getting everyone presents so that is sweet and it earns him lots of kisses on the cheek and stuff. and that's pretty much it for latino xmas, we don't really do stuff i'm still not convinced gringos haven't made up like the socks and the eggnog and xmas music (????) so it's more lowkey. and i think raphael would keep the more religious aspects of it to the stuff he does at church (again, there are downworlder religious communities idk what to tell u) and for the nursery home. which is not to say that like... oh wow xmas is totally not a xtian holiday! or whatever, just that the version the polycule does is more lowkey on the religious aspects and the things they do together on that day are more about being together with raphael on a day that matters to him, you know, especially since again, he is the only xtian and that's gonna be a sensitive thing for simon especially

and i think for easter it is mostly something they do to shower maia in sweets lmao. again she misses chocolate and i'm sure they spend a lot of their time trying to figure out how to get around that, either be by like trying to make special chocolate that doesn't make her sick or sweets that really really resemble chocolate or that are so good she doesn't even mind that she can't eat chocolate anymore. so that's their tradition for easter (and raphael goes to church ofc)

oh yeah and i forgot valentine's day! i have this funny little idea just for the shits where they have this little thing where they setup one-on-one dates for all the parts that are actually together and each of them lasts, like, 10 minutes (poor maia who dates everyone is just running around town) and it's more about the fun of running around from one day to the other like this is a bad romcom where some bastard is trying to juggle having two (monog) girlfriends at once. but then they actually get all together at the end of the day and trade presents and funny cards both among their dates and metamours ("roses are red, violets are blue, you're my girlfriend's girlfriend, and i love you platonically"). usually ending up with them drunk and debating how exactly they got to this overly complicated arrangement and trying to figure out the best way to explain this to an outsider and trying to make, like, fluxograms that explain all of their different relationships visually and they all look so messy it just leaves them more confused lmao. so yeah it's fun

and i think that's all i've got? i say, as if this answer isn't longer than anyone will have the time to read and took me over 4 months to write. but anyway

a special thanks to "a group where non-jews can ask questions about judaism and jews can answer" on facebook and all my jewish friends for helping me write about the jewish holidays and customs. i also used the following sources: Rosh Hashanah (link), how to build the sukkah (link), more on the sukkah (link), how to celebrate purim (link), more on purim (link), how to celebrate passover (link), what is a passover seder like (link), laws of yom tov (link), yom kippur (link), what to eat before and after yom kippur (link), a classic yom kippur breakfast menu (link), menus for the pre yom kippur meal (link). if there's anything inaccurate or disrespectful, however, please let me know, and feel free to add more ideas as well if you're jewish :)

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bytheangell · 4 years

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Flufftober Day 10: Leaves (Read on AO3)

Central Park in the fall is gorgeous. Clary makes it a point to wander the paths there as often as she can get away with it between patrols and training. Today Isabelle and Maia decide to go with her - it’s a rare day when the three of them are all free of personal and Shadow World obligations, and Clary couldn’t imagine a better day. It means the world to her that they’d so readily offer to do the thing that Clary enjoys most right now, even if it’s something she’s done on her own about a million times lately.

“It is taking all of my self-control not to make a pile of leaves to jump in,” Clary says wistfully, walking so that she steps on as many of the dry, fallen leaves as possible to hear the constant ‘crunch’ under her boots.

“Why would you want to do that?” Isabelle asks, raising an eyebrow.

“Because it’s fun?” Clary replies. “Come on, you can’t tell me jumping into a pile of leaves isn’t fun, even if it is a little childish,” she says, turning to Maia for back-up.

“Don’t look at me,” Maia says. “We were never allowed to when I was a kid. We didn’t have any trees for it, and I wasn’t allowed to make a mess in the neighbor’s piles after they took so long to make them.”

“I never said it wasn’t fun,” Izzy defends. “I just wouldn’t know because I’ve never done it.”

“What?!” Clary knows that, in the grand scheme of things, this really isn’t as big of a deal as she’s making it in her head, but with so many of her favorite childhood memories revolving around fall and Luke’s farm and jumping in piles of leaves there, she can’t imagine not experiencing that joy at least once.

“What are the chances you two can clear your schedules for tomorrow?” Clary looks hopefully between them. Normally she wouldn’t even ask, but it’s been so long since they spent this sort of quality time together and ages since they’d left the city at all. This would be a nice little break for all of them, and they must feel the same (or her puppy dog eyes are particularly on point) because a moment later they’re both agreeing to shift some things around.

“Jace owes me a favor or two I could call in,” Izzy muses.

“I think the pack will survive without me for a day,” Maia adds. “Why, what are you thinking?”

“I’m thinking we should go on a little road trip,” Clary says, smiling wide. “Come on!”

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It’s easier to make an overnight trip out of it, since Luke’s farm is a couple of hours upstate, and Luke has no problem letting the three of them stay there overnight as long as they promise not to burn the place down. Clary dutifully recites all of the proper fireplace usage protocol before getting the keys to the house and Luke’s truck, and they’re on their way by mid-afternoon.

Once they get there Clary can’t keep the smile off her face. She shows Izzy and Maia to the bedroom, dropping their bags off and then immediately bounding outside to grab rakes.

“You know,” Izzy says. “I didn’t really think about the part where we have to do actual work first.”

“The piles aren’t going to make themselves,” Maia says, picking up a handful of leaves from her own and tossing them at Izzy, watching as a few pieces of brown and orange land in her dark air.

Izzy gasps in mock affront, moving as if she’s moving back towards her pile, only to expertly gather some leaves on her rake and spin back towards Maia, giving it an expert spin and a flick that sends a shower of leaves (and a bit of grass and dirt from Izzy’s haste) onto the werewolf.

Maia mutters something about Nephilim under her breath and Clary laughs at the two of them, which is a mistake. The moment their attention falls on her she can see the matching grins spread across their faces.

“Feeling left out, Fray?” Maia teases, and a moment later Clary finds herself unsuccessfully trying to duck away from the leaves coming at her from either side.

In the end, they decide to make one giant pile that they can all jump in together, and given the expanse of land around them they barely make a dent in the fallen leaves before they have a pile as tall as them. Clary practically bounces with excitement counting down once the rakes are set out of the way.

“Three, two, one, go!”

It’s quite a sight, Clary thinks, the three of them sprinting towards a pile of leaves. For a moment Clary closes her eyes and feels like that little girl with pigtails again, giggling as she tosses herself into the pile with reckless abandon.

Clary spots Isabelle and Maia emerging from the pile, huge smiles on both of their faces. Maia glances around them at the mess of leaves that puffed out when they jumped on them and huffs out a laugh.

“Yeah, okay, I can see why I wasn’t allowed to do that,” she admits.

“Well, you’re allowed now. In fact, you’re highly encouraged to do it again, if you want to,” Clary points out.

“Oh, I absolutely do,” Maia says.

“Izzy?” Clary asks.

“That is more fun than it has any right to be,” Izzy admits. “And we are absolutely doing it again.”

This time Clary hangs back, pulling out her phone just in time to snap a photo of Maia and Isabelle mid-leap, thankful for another perfect moment to remember for years to come.

#claiabelle #clary fray #maia roberts #isabelle lightwood #listen i just love jumping in piles of leaves okay #flufftober 2020 #elle writes a few deadbeat lines

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maiaphaelsource · 4 years

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Ah I’m just- this blog is so amazing. I love this ship bc they’re both so powerful/intimidating but also definitely softies, esp with each other/ppl they care about. And I LOVE the concept of them cooking together, teaching each other recipes, sharing food. Mb they give the rest of the Polycule cooking lessons (the true proof that they work as a couple was their ability to keep Izzy out of the kitchen).

thank you so much! YOU are amazing for sending this ask! I love everyone who interacts here

aaaah the idea of polycule cooking lessons is so gooD tho. Meliorn probably has never tried mundane food and we dont know if seelies even eat, or what and how. There's no way Simon used to cook before, or Clary for that matter. Izzy likes it but she's not particularly great. But if anyone can teach her, it's definitely them, because they have infinite patience and are actually good at teaching

("the problem is the way you're thinking," Maia says kindly. "You need to stop being such a shadowhunter," Raphael adds. "I was trying to be subtle about this." "Why?" "Good point")

It would be kinda awkward for Raphael to help Izzy better because you know..... Memories. So Maia handles it. She loves her gf anyway and it's cute how hard Izzy tries, how much she wants to do it right

Clary is kinda not too interested, so she's mostly stealing ingredients from Izzy and generally being a nuisance, but Izzy doesn't even mind because they're soft about everything. She just smiles at her antics

Teaching Simon and Meliorn is a damn blast. Simon has basically no previous experience but he's eager to learn, especially Mexican food, so he can make it for Raphael later (which was supposed to be a surprise but he ran his mouth immediately. Maia literally facepalmed but Simon earned a kiss in the cheek from the both of them for his efforts). He fumbles a bit at first and he has a bit of trouble remembering all the steps/not getting distracted and letting it burn, cuz you know, adhd. But Raphael knows a few techniques Magnus uses so this doesn't happen when he's brewing his potions, and he's all like "don't worry too much about how it's going to turn out. Just enjoy the process" and after that Simon takes to it pretty smoothly

Meliorn is extremely curious about the whole thing. They relate to the way both Maia and Raphael talk about the ingredients, treating them with respect and love. Just carefully, you know? That's important to them because all life is very important in seelie culture, but seelies also understand that life is not held in the being, but rather is a constant energy that pertains everything and can be traded, and changed. So, the idea that these dead plants can be used to sustain life- it's kind of fascinating, really

They're kind of horrified by the way Izzy chops the vegetables ("Isabelle, you're stabbing them, not cutting") but they also manage to give her helpful tips ("instead of acting like you're trying to murder it, you could perhaps approach this as if you were creating life out of it?"). They also take to cooking very easily. They are good and precise and can chop the vegetables quicker than everyone else combined (well. Simon and Raphael have vampire speed, but that's probably not going to end up well) and always nail the Exact Moment they should put things on the pan, etc. But they might be too precise and seasoning isn't really an exact science, so they struggle with that

Either way they all have fun and it's very messy (as it usually is with the polycule) but in a great way. Later Maia and Raphael kind of flop down on the couch, feeling that good kind of exhausted. Raphael is like "I'm glad we're still the best cooks out of us, though". Maia laughs and it's the best damn thing ever)

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maiaisbia · 4 years

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morning light

A little Maia/Izzy/Clary ficlet for the Femslash Feb day 3 prompt: Secret that I never posted here.

Teen | Words: 665 | ao3

Izzy and Maia were both still sound asleep, even with the warm morning sunlight pouring through the windows over them. Maia's bedroom was tall and airy, the large saltwater fish tank on a long low bookshelf filled the room with the soft sound of running water. The thin curtains were moved by the fan- fluttering beautifully and softening the light further.

Clary sat in the soft, old chair in the corner, dressing in Maia's shirt and what were probably Izzy's panties (they shared so much, it was hard to tell at this point). Her legs were drawn up so that she could balance her sketch pad on them. She had a good number of her pencils, leftover from all the different times she had stayed here before.

The moment was beautiful and she had known she needed to capture it as soon as she woke up. When she had been younger, she would have never been able to imagine this could be her life. She had never thought she would find her own strength, to realize the truth in her feelings. She had assumed for so long, because it was all she saw, that she would have to be with a man. Then came the shadow world and all-new complications.

But Izzy's smile, the sparing, sharing clothes... At a certain point, it clicked. She wanted to go out to dinner with Izzy, to spend their evenings talking or cuddling and did not have those feelings for Jace or Simon. The way Maia fit into all that was a surprise but also only felt right. Like a final puzzle piece fitting to reveal the full picture.

Maia's arm rested along Izzy's back, her cheek on Izzy's shoulder. Izzy's hair was spread across the pillows. Both their legs tangled in the sheets that rested low on their hips. Clary tried to capture it all. The feeling of home that settled all around her was hard to catch in lines and shading. She was comfortable here and wanted to catch some of that to always have with her. No matter what happened.

Clary had been working on shading the folds in the sheets, so focused on her paper and not her subjects that she didn't notice that Izzy had woken up. Izzy's head was resting on her arm, bright, wide smile on her face. She was beautiful, hair messy and no makeup, but Izzy was always beautiful.

Izzy reached out an arm, trying to summon Clary back to bed. "It's too early to be up," Izzy whispered.

"No it’s not, we just stay up too late," came a murmur from Maia, as she rolled off Izzy and onto her back. "Clary, is there coffee?"

Clary set her drawing aside, closing the book to hide what she was working on. There were more and more sketches in there of her girlfriends, a secret stash that maybe she would one day show them. But the drawings were really just for her, to try and get some of what was in her heart out onto the page because it felt that if it built up... she wasn’t sure what would happen.

"Of course there is coffee," Izzy said, pushing herself up, before shooting Clary a look. "Wait, there is coffee, right?"

"I'll go warm it back up," Clary answered, standing and stretching after being curled up in the chair, shirt riding up.

"Mm, I have a better idea," Maia reached over Izzy and caught Clary's hand when she moved past the bed to the door. Maia tugged gently until Clary sat on the edge. "Why don't you come back to bed, warm us up, then we all have coffee."

"Oh, I like that idea better," Izzy agreed, but that might just be because Maia's chest was right in her face. This could distract anyone from anything, including Izzy's need for shocking amounts of caffeine.

Clary laughed and let herself be pulled back in, content to be in their arms once more.

#maia roberts #clary fairchild #izzy lightwood #claiabelle #clary fray #my fic #femslash february

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half-bakedboy · 4 years

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Izzy/Lydia or Clary/Maia/Izzy 💙

“Maia, why must you always take up the entire couch!” Izzy whined as she pulled Maia’s legs off the couch with one hand, the other cradling a bowl of popcorn. Clary looked on, laughing at the no longer intimidating growl that left Maia’s lips. The woman in question shot a glare at her as she straightened to sit on the couch.

“If Clary would hurry up and sit down so I can put my legs on her lap like usual, I wouldn’t have to take up the entire couch,” Maia said pointedly. Clary rolled her eyes and grabbed the remotes on her way to the couch before sitting down on the other side of Maia. Maia grabbed the bowl of popcorn from Izzy as she placed her head in Izzy’s lap and threw her feet over Clary’s. She put the bowl on her stomach and seemed to purr in content.

“Werewolf, more like werecat,” Izzy muttered as she grabbed a handful of popcorn. Maia gaped at her so Izzy dropped a piece in her open mouth and Clary had to put her hand over her own mouth to keep in her laughter.

“You two are always teaming up against me!” Maia accused as she grabbed the remote from Clary’s hand and started searching through their Netflix. Clary let out a huff of laughter and rolled her eyes.

“Yeah, you’re the one who’s always being teamed up against,” Clary said in disbelief as she raised her eyebrows at the other two. They shrugged, Maia raising her hand above her head to high five Izzy. Clary stuck her tongue out at them and grabbed her own handful of popcorn to chuck in their direction. Maia flinched and the movement had the entire popcorn bowl spilling all over her chest. Izzy and Clary looked at each other with wide eyes before they both broke out into laughter.

“That’s it!” Maia yelled as her eyes lit up green. Clary and Izzy’s mouths shut in synchronicity and all laughter stopped. “We’re watching Hobbs and Shaw with no popcorn and no complaints!” Izzy and Clary both groaned but relaxed into their seats, Izzy petting at Maia’s hair while Clary ran a hand up and down her shin. The night was perfect and none of them would trade it for anything.

#claiabelle #clary fray #maia roberts #izzy lightwood #polyamory #this is so domestic #thank you for prompting!!!#femslash february #my writing #em's femslash february free for all

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shadowhunterspolycule · 3 years

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So like,,,, a cuddle pile. Who’s on the bottom? Who is on the top? Who is squished in the middle?why is it Raphael? I imagine them eating pizza and watching Netflix. Maybe there’s some like ✨shenanigans✨ happening under the covers and eventually rapha is just like “if you guys are gonna grope each other I’m gonna leave” and they’re like “we respect that but also no we want you to stay we’ll behave” and then they eat ice cream and maybe get in an ice cream food fight.

hhhhhhhh i love you more than anything

i like raphael in the middle but consider this: rapha at the bottom because the whole cuddle pile thing started because he as always was being a snob (probably over food because the rest of them were eating cheetos or something and he is like "all of you are terrible, taste-lacking heathens") but they all know REALLY he is a fucking softie so they start tackling him to make take him down a notch lmao

so maia is in the middle probably because she and simon are the most likely ones to have that brilliant idea, with like simon and meliorn under her and clary and izzy on top (also maia is the only one dating all of them so makes sense that she's at the middle. plus, maia squished in cuddles!). also no one has to worry about smothering rapha because he has superstrength and even if he didn't he doesn't really need to breathe

(fun fact: he wouldn't mind. he's hyposensitive to pressure and it feels Really Nice)

and maybe he's being smothered in cheek kisses from his partners too and everyone is giggling and they are extremely close to tipping over but it's sweet anyway

with that being said! maia being at the bottom of the cuddle pile also. because she is adorable and everyone loves her and they just all kind of orbit around her instinctively because she is the sun. brb crying

she's just showered in all this affection and again, Pressure Good and they are all very careful to make sure she can breathe and it's comfortable for her and there are probably like a million pillows under her also (did meliorn summon them? that's their sexy little secret ;). yeah they did) so she's also comfortable and stuff, you know? and again lots of kisses and she's giggling like crazy and maybe they even tickle her because they are in fact the worst. she has no complaints

or like not as much pile but a long cuddle wall or something and maia in the middle so everyone is kind of leaning on her chest in a way and they're also all over each other and she gets to hold them all at the same time? nice

also see: cuddle wall but maia is at the very end lying on someone else's chest and getting her hair played with carefully and lovingly until she dozes off and gets some forehead kisses and they take A Billion Pictures of her all cuddled up and cute

and yess watching a movie so they're all cuddled up in the couch in the weirdest least practical position ever. half of them are leaning on each other, at least one is lying on everyone else's lap at once, meliorn is Literally Under The Cover, they can't see the fucking movie but they refuse to get out. none of them are watching the movie anyway, they're just bantering with each other

ohhh and like. during sukkot they all help build simon's sukkah and he just straight up has a room where the floor is all made of pillows and blankets and shit and it's just The Cuddle Room. so they all get to just lie there at the same time, in different cuddling positions (either all together or like... separated groups/pairs but still Together you know?). and yeah some of them get nasty and rapha is like "hmm time to go back to the hotel methinks" and they're like "no! we're sorry, we'll behave" and raphael's chest blooms with warmth that you know, him being there is more important. and they do behave daiojsda

basically... cuddle squad... we love to see it

#sh #shadowhunters #sh polycule #maia roberts #raphael santiago #meliorn #simon lewis #izzy lightwood #clary fray #fluff #headcanon #q #ask #claiabelle

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normal-thoughts-official · 3 years

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I’m here to bully you for your Lightwood sibling takes first so that nobody else can. Call out post of Lêx, types too much and uses too much anecdotal evidence. 6/19 post: not actually about the Lightwood siblings at all

6/19

also i resent that. what other evidence am i even supposed to use for character analysis anyway. also whats it about then

bad callout, 2/10

#ask #claiabelle

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