Reading: The Bane Chronicles Vol. 6

✗ OTHER SHADOWHUNTER CHRONICLES LIVEREADS
{All}{The Mortal Instruments}{The Bane Chronicles}

It’s not easy being Magnus Bane. As a warlock, he’s often called upon to fix problems of others. His life has been long, and his loves have been many, and Magnus has a way of making sure he’s at the right place at the right—or perhaps wrong—time. The French Revolution, Prohibition, the first great battle between Valentine and the New York Institute… Magnus was there. But smuggling Marie Antoinette out of France is nothing compared to having a first date with Alec Lightwood.
Though Magnus’s tale is far from over, these stories shed a little light on his often inscrutable character. What happens when an immortal warlock goes mad? Are all Herondales as problematic as Will? (Answer: yes.) And why was Magnus banned from Peru?
Magnus will never be able to tell all of his tales. No one would believe him. But here are eleven stories that fill in some of the blanks—stories he probably wishes had never gotten out.

✗ OTHER BANE CHRONICLES LIVEREADS
{All}{The Rise of the Hotel Dumort Part I}

A Manhattan teen—Raphael Santiago—is missing, and Magnus Bane must track him down before it’s too late.
In 1950s New York City, a distraught mother hires Magnus Bane to find her missing son, Raphael. But even if he can be found, is Raphael beyond saving?

Warning, this one’s a long one, and there’s a bit of spoiler for COHF if you haven’t read it yet.

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LOTR Headcanon

Sent by fel-as-in-tumbld :

gimli legolas

After they go to the undying lands, and after they’ve lived several decades together and Gimli dies of old age, and long, long after everyone forgot about elves, Legolas decides to take a vacation near a lake in the North of Sweden, because it reminds him of home.

He’s indulging into a bit of tanning and soaking the summer light as much as he can when he hears someone say “I thought the part about elves being plants was a legend” and there Gimli stands, with even more beard than before, and taller than Legolas —which is surprisingly frustrating.

They take the time to get to know each other in this new setting —Gimli’s a glassblower now, with a successful business, and Legolas is mostly just working with various NGOs and travelling, because he can- and eventually, they get back into a relationship that’s both familiar and kinda new. New because they’re not exactly the same as the last time they saw each other, and familiar because there’s still the banter.

Except that’s sort of new, too, because Gimli keeps calling Legolas a ficcus, and instead of teasing Gimli because he’s short, Legolas can now joke about how often his head brushes the ceiling. And he likes those jokes —they’re satisfying. Taste like (good natured) compensation, almost.

That is, of course, until he makes one too many of them and Gimli storms out of their house only to come back two hours later, finds Legolas worrying in the garden and dumps a bag of fetilizer on his head.