ohhhhh ohhhhhhhh okay listenhear me out though: body painting
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magnus paints tons of pictures of alec; beautiful profile portraits,
close up details of his hands and the runes inked into his skin, alec sleeping
with his face smushed into the pillow and his hair soft and unruly. if alec has
it, magnus has painted it
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and alec thinks this is wonderful, he thinks magnus is so talented but
also he’s a little embarrassed; he’s alec, he’s tall and awkward and
surely his eyes aren’t that bright, his cheekbones so sharp?
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and magnus is thinking about this, about alternative ways to bring his love of
art and his love of alec together and then he sees it, maybe clary is showing
him some photos of a college project she did where she coerced simon into
letting her paint flowers all along his arms and he’s like, this is it
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it actually works out pretty well for magnus that alec comes home exhausted and
sore from work, and alec looks so sleepily fond when magnus explains that he
has just the thing to relax alec – this usually means an intricately
scented bath or something else equally magnus, so alec tends to let it
happen
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alec doesn’t know what he’s expecting when magnus coaxes him into lying on his
front, head pillowed between his folded arms – a massage, maybe? but he’s
almost not surprised when the first cold lick of paint hits his shoulder blade
-alec
probably dozes off intermittently; magnus is such a warm, gentle weight on the
backs of his legs and the brush strokes are oddly relaxing, as is the soft
music that magnus occasionally hums along to
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magnus paints a sunset, okay, beautiful washes of peachy orange and sleepy red
and he sometimes paints over the runes on alec’s skin, sometimes incorporates
them like his own personal stars in the sky.
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also!! alec asking sleepy questions and magnus telling him, in a soft voice,
that he painted a sunset because the setting of the sun is the thing that never
changes, over the centuries, and is the only permanent thing in his life. but
the love he feels for alec is so permanent that it will be with him always, in
every single sunset and every star in the sky
“You’re a sexual harassment case waiting to happen, you know that don’t you?” Catarina says by way of greeting. Magnus tears his eyes away from the way the intern is licking powder sugar off his full lips.
Alec wakes up in an Institute infirmary, where people around find him as odd as he finds them. There is only one person he recognizes, but that person doesn’t recognize him – Alec had met him a while ago, he hasn’t met Alec yet.
Detective Alec Lightwood likes his job. He likes the order of it, likes helping people, likes that he gets to work with Jace and that Izzy is always right downstairs in the morgue too. He’s wanted to be a cop ever since he was a kid, just like his parents before him, and now he’s living that dream. His life should be perfect. There’s just one problem. Their precinct has just gotten a new forensic expert – Magnus Bane. And honestly, he’s so cute that Alec’s kind of losing his mind.
magnus bane appreciation meme ↳ a moment: magnus crashing the wedding, putting his heart on the line by walking into a room full of people that hate him due to their own prejudice towards him and hoping alec will take a chance on him, yet fully aware he will probably be crushed. magnus fighting for who he cares about, despite his fears and doubts, but still respecting alec by giving him a choice without pushing or forcing him. magnus making a choice for himself, that he doesn’t want to close himself off from emotions again, but embrace them, even if he ends up heartbroken for it.
Imagine Malec doing it so often on that one spot on a wall that some discoloration (and tiny cracks. they get rough sometimes, you can fight me on that) start appearing.
Magnus is the one who notices it first and laughs, but otherwise stays quiet. When Alec notices he might blush for a second before smirking.
and even though magnus could fix that spot with a flick of his fingers he leaves it. and he may try just a bit harder the next time to see how much more wrecked he can make the *ahem* wall
Eventually Jace notices it too but it doesn’t click at first, he can’t understand what he’s seeing… And when it dawns on him.. well.. He’s not sure what to think but you can bet he tells Izzy and the next time she’s visiting Alec she can’t stop grinning after seeing it too.
of course it’s simon that sees it and blurts out, “whoa. do we need to get you two helmets or something?” (because the crack has kind of snaked into epic proportions at this point.) izzy doesn’t even try to stifle her laugh. jace looks horrified. alec walks away muttering to himself. and clary high fives magnus–who may just look like the proudest man on earth as he holds back a very obvious innuendo about alec’s battering ram
↳ AU where you see the world in black and white until you kiss your soulmate. Magnus Bane had been waiting for centuries to see colors. He had almost resigned himself to an eternity of black and white until Alec Lightwood came crashing into his life.
I am so sorry, for some reason I seemed to have missed this????? Which is upsetting because I have things to say about Magnus, nonnie. I have so many things.
Because, Magnus is just a little vulnerable cupcake, okay? He puts up all these barriers and walls and underneath he just wants to be loved and cuddled. I mean, something I can’t stop thinking about with Magnus is how he loses everyone he loves and how much courage it must take for him to let himself give into the way he feels for Alec, knowing that – once again – he might lose him. (I say might because I refuse to believe something can’t be worked out.)
But, here is the thing. Here it is. That when Alec and Magnus are finally together, how clingy Magnus is. I need you to think about this with me. Magnus, who teases Alec, who is the experienced one, who has loved and lost and had lots and lots of sex, but at the end of the day, he is the vulnerable one. I need you to think abut Magnus who isn’t sure whether or not Alec will get fed up if he tries to hold his hand all the time or snuggle him all night. Magnus, who is unsure if Alec will be okay with clingy cuddling after sex or how much Magnus loves being in Alec’s space. He knows people need their space, everyone does, but Magnus…he has just never felt this way, this much before.
And of course he needs his alone time too. Some days he needs to be on his own, just the same as Alec sometimes needs to spend the day training and away from the rest of the world. But it scares Magnus how much he truly loves Alec, knowing this could all blow up in his face. That maybe in a couple of years, when Alec is older, he will grow bored, see Magnus as his first love and move on. But Magnus can’t not risk it, because Alec is the most important thing to him in the world, or is at least very much becoming the most important, and it’s scary and makes him even more vulnerable but…but it’s all worth it just for the moments where Alec holds him, squeezes his hand when Magnus takes it, how he seeks Magnus out to cuddle after sex, how he looks at Magnus from across a room like Magnus is somehow everything and kisses his forehead because he’s taller and he knows how much Magnus secretly loves forehead kisses.
Vulnerable Magnus getting all the love and care he deserves is so very important to me, nonnie. So very important.
ok, so, the first step towards an amazing coming out is establishing the element of surprise. to ensure said element, you need to acquire a seemingly heterosexual fake-partner to lull everyone else in your life into thinking you are the straightest heterostraight in the block.
then u need to marry them. i know, i know, it seems kind of dramatic but trust me, you need to marry your seemingly heterosexual fake-partner (or, should i say, your partner in crime). just trust me. start the process of marrying by performing a proposal.
then, you need to really make the actual coming out a surprise. establish the surprise by shocking your loved ones with your very heterosexual news. this is an ideal example situation:
ok, you’re halfway there. now you want to make sure your wedding is going to be amazing. the most important thing is to invite the highest ranking government officials of your country, all your family members and every single one of your friends. this part is vital. you have to make sure absolutely everyone comes. also, make the venue magnificent, because this is going to be one of the biggest days of your life (but not in the way everyone else thinks! [slow wink])
alright. your wedding is underway, but you don’t want to slam the big surprise to the table right away. let everyone think you’re actually going to do this.
ok, now it’s time. it’s gonna happen. this is what you’ve been building up to all this time. take some deep breaths. try to calm down. sing ‘ymca’ in your head or something. it’s time to dropthe bomb.
like you and your love interest planned, they are going to show up at this exact moment.
there they are! their face is so beautiful that you might go breathless (as demonstrated below) for a lil while but it’s ok.
you’re starting to get cold feet. your partner in crime notices this and will encourage you if needed.
YOU CAN DO THIS!!! SMOOCH!!! DO IT!!!
there you go!!!! you have officially come out of the closet!!
what i do is not up to you 