#shmb2021

Here, Next to My Heart by alistoney (@lightwormsiblings) and beta read by Mau (@ispeakmorelanguagesthanyou)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Isabelle Lightwood & Clary Fray (platonic) Summary: “What if I don’t want to share my soul with anybody?”

Alec tilts his head so it rests on top of Izzy’s, “That’s okay, there are lots of Shadowhunters without parabatai.”

Izzy nods to herself.

“Good.”

Izzy has never wanted nor needed a parabatai. That is, until she meets Clary Fray.

Or Izzy’s weird and confusing relationship with the idea of having a parabatai.

A Symbol to Last a Lifetime by hmweasley (@hmweasley) and beta read by MoonlightBreeze (@moonlight-breeze-44)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Leading up to their wedding, Magnus and Alec have to make a number of less-than-traditional decisions. One of those is how to symbolize their love when Magnus can't take any runes.

Differently Than Anyone I've Ever Known by lillytalons (@lillytalons) and beta read by MoonlightBreeze (@moonlight-breeze-44) 

Rating: General Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Alec gulped nervously and perched on the edge of the couch cushions. “You’re supposed to marry my sister, Isabelle Lightwood.”

“Yes, I am aware."

“What about me?” Alec offered.

“What about you?” An elegant eyebrow raised in question.

“Let me take her place. That would fulfill the oath right? If we got married.”

“Surely your Clave would not approve.”

“I’m not doing this for them. I’m doing it for Isabelle.”

-or Alec and Magnus get married to fulfill a magic oath and try to keep the Shadow World together as the Circle starts rising again, but of course Magnus hates and mistrusts all shadowhunters.

Kissing In The Rain by suchawannabe56 and beta read by SomeSleepySloth 

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Alec meets Magnus on a work trip to London. The two hit it off, but after spending time together, life gets in the way taking Alec back to New York, having forgotten to ask Magnus for his number. After months, Alec looks up and sees the last person he expected it see.

So Heavy I Fell Through the Earth by new_mexicunt and beta read by Kai (@kyaresrevala)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Set between season one and season two.

With Jace gone and Valentine's forces on the rise, Alec has been working nonstop. This means that he and Magnus haven't seen each other since the wedding. Finally, Magnus decides that, if they can't have their first date outside the Institute, he'll simply have to bring the date to Alec.

Featuring: picnics in the Ops Center, ignoring late-night surveillance cameras, and improvised stargazing.

Bloody Petals by Jevan and beta read by Echele78

Rating: General Pairing: Lorenzo Rey/Andrew Underhill, Mycroft Holmes/Greg Lestrade, Asmodeus/Greg Lestarde, Asmodeus/Jace Wayland Summary: Unusual demonic activity is causing such a stir on the streets of London that the London Shadowhunters ask their colleagues from New York for help. Jace Herondale and Andrew Underhill, along with warlock Lorenzo Rey, travel to the British capital to get to the bottom of the case with London police officer Greg Lestrade. And what does Mycroft Holmes have to do with the case?

The Double Date by skylar102 (@skylar102) and beta read by thatnerdemryn (@thatnerdemryn)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood and Original Female Characters Summary: "You are the one who planned this, Naomi," her girlfriend points out.

"Yeah well, my brain is now catching up to the fact that I asked my boss and his boyfriend, the High Warlock of Brooklyn, on a double date." To be honest, she didn't think that Alec would say yes to the idea. With everything going on in the world, the Head of the New York Institute and the High Warlock of Brooklyn have more important things to do than go on a double date.

Born of Ash by sivan325 (@sivan325) and beta read by myblackeyedboy (@myblackeyedboy) 

Born of Ash Art by Jax (@livinglifebehindthemask)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: The cult “Circle” brings chaos everywhere they go, the leader Valentine ruled them with hard discipline.

Then there was Alec, the boy who seemed an outcast, because he has crushes on other boys and he wants to save as many as possible the people that the cult wants to kill.

Magnus Bane and Catarina Loss will join the cult as married couple, will they succeed or they fall like the other undercover officers that were sent before them?

The odds for Alec to live, are not in his favor.

Match made in heaven by Astrollnut and beta read by JeanBoulet (@jeanboulet)

Match made in heaven Art by silver-lily-louise (@silver-lily-louise) 

Rating: Teen  Pairing: Simon Lewis/Jace Wayland Summary: The mundane life with Simon is nothing but hearty and soft. But there’s a gloomy cloud looming over the perfect domestic paradise. Could he find his happiness again, when everything fell apart, or it is his fate to be alone?

Never make a mess when a total catastrophe will do by Rhosyn_Du (@rhosyn-du) and beta read by all-thestories-aretrue (@all-thestories-aretrue)

Never make a mess when a total catastrophe will do Art #1 by Cor321 (@cor321)  Never make a mess when a total catastrophe will do Art #2 by Cor321 (@cor321) 

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Simon Lewis/Jace Wayland Summary: What do you do when you find out your sister is not only dating your ex and love-of-your-high-school-life but is also bringing her home for Christmas? Bring your annoying, hot, annoyingly-hot roommate as your fake boyfriend to show them you're totally fine with it, obviously! There's no possible way this could backfire.

Common Buffleheads by SchrodingersHalfling and beta read by Kai (@kyaresrevala) 

Common Buffleheads Art by lillytalons (@lillytalons)

Rating: General Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: “I hate all of it,” Max yells, red faced and crying in anger. “I hate being dragged from Institute to Institute behind mom and dad. Being forgotten until they decide to use me as a pawn in their arguments. I hate never being able to see you and Jace and Izzy; and now Jace is dead and Izzy’s gone and you’re leaving as well. I want to make friends I won’t have to leave behind in a month. I want to be able to read comics and learn things that aren’t fighting and politics. I don’t want to be a Shadowhunter. I wish I’d been born mundane.”

(In a world where Jace never comes back from the World Inverted, Izzy gets exiled. Alec gets himself deruned and Max throws himself along for the ride. A story of Alec stealing back the steering wheel of his life.)

A Losing Game by Noteventhat (@facialteeth) and beta read by T (@bamf-alec)

A Losing Game Art by Hika (@thelightofthebane) 

Rating: Mature Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Magnus and Alec fell in love far too young to really know that what they had was special, until they'd already lost it. Years later, Magnus finds himself raiding a building where his ex-boyfriend just happens to be working security. Not knowing what else to do, Magnus kidnaps him - putting he and Alec both in a very awkward situation.

Like a Lily In a Flood by Shergar (@vaguelyrotten) and beta read by Molly_Jae (@another-random-stranger) 

Like a Lily In a Flood Art by Myulalie (@myulalie)

Rating:  Mature Pairing:  Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary:  Alec returns home to find his town plagued by a mysterious illness. Unable to find a cure, he ventures into the woods to seek help from an unlikely source.

We must not look at goblin men...

All Things By A Law Divine by GideonGraystairs (@bamf-alec) and beta read by JeanBoulet (@jeanboulet)

All Things by A Law Divine Art by LadyKoalart

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Magnus had waited a long time for his soulmate to be born. Fate must have had a sick sense of humour, though, because after all these centuries, it had handed him a shadowhunter. Magnus didn’t know who this shadowhunter was, or how they could possibly be meant for each other, but he did know that this story wouldn't have a happy ending.

Alec also knew all about fate's sense of humour. He had known this his whole life. But the ground was coming up from under him and everything he knew was being turned on its head, systematically picked up and pulled apart and handed back to him looking nothing like it did before. Valentine was alive. His own parents had been members of the Circle. The Lightwoods’ grip on the Institute was slipping. And, through all this, his siblings had found their soulmates.

Alec had found Magnus. But that didn’t mean anything, did it?

You Can't Keep Safe What Wants to Break by ByTheAngell (@bytheangell)

You Can't Keep Safe What Wants to Break Art by Janusa (@janusa)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Clary Fray/Jace Wayland Summary: “I can’t lose her again.”

Jace doesn’t know what to do anymore.

No, that isn’t quite right.

He knows exactly what to do, except he isn’t sure he can do it. He isn’t sure he’s strong enough to be not just the person he wants to be for himself, but for Clary, too.

---Or, a post-finale canon continuation of Jace’s decision to leave the Shadow World to be with Clary.

(Call me Monster, Call me Fiend, but) Do Not Call Me Beloved by Miss_Shiva_Adler (@miss-shiva-adler) and beta read by Rhosyn_Du (@rhosyn-du)

(Call me Monster, Call me Fiend, but) Do Not Call Me Beloved Art by Better_t_Cocain

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Jonathan Morgenstern/Sebastian Verlac Summary: Jonathan Morgenstern is transferred to the Paris institute after rumours of Jocelyn Fairchild resurfacing. He gets more than what he ever bargains for when he meets Sebastian Verlac the scion of the Verlac family, the worst isn’t that they are now teammates, but that Jonathan doesn’t seem to be able to get Sebastian out of his head.

Fear Thou Not by SolarisRasa and beta read by alistoney (@lightwormsiblings)

Fear Thou Not Art by Hika (@thelightofthebane)

Rating: Mature Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Reverse!Verse Malec. High Warlock Alec Lightwood is being held by the New York Institute after his arrival to investigate the death of one of his mundane, younger half-brother (Max)'s descendants. Already chafing under the prejudice of the Clave and with help from his Parabatai and best friends, Magnus Bane breaks Lightwood out...and directly into the seelie realm. Queen Jocelyn agrees to help so long as they all stay in her realm for a time. With the glamour-stripping power of the realm, Magnus' terrible flirting, and the Reverse!Gang trying to get answers and help the Shadowhunters reveal a corruption in the Clave Alec finds himself gaining more than he ever bargained for.

Let Them See (Me) by Molly_Jae ( @another-random-stranger) and beta read by all-thestories-aretrue (@all-thestories-aretrue)

Let Them See (Me) Art by Echo_Bleu (@echo-bleu)

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Magnus leaves New York after being sent away from the Branwell-Lightwood wedding, only to return a week later with a dark-haired companion and plans to change the world as they know it.And Alec?Alec toes the line of helping that change without risking his new position as Head of the New York Institute.

i knew you before we met (and i don't even know you yet) by violetrenagade and beta read by Echele78

I knew you before we met (and i don’t even know you yet) Art by Kai (@kyaresrevala)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Soul creatures were old magic, and for all the years of study, still not well understood. They were reflections of souls cast across time and space, and the only thing everyone agreed on was that they protected their soulmate, keeping them safe until the two could meet.

Magnus had lived lifetimes watching the large black wolf come and go, holding his breath until the moment he could stay.

Alec can't remember life without the cat, his truest ally and his port in the storm through every hardship he'd weathered.

When they are both captured by Valentine's men, it feels like the end of everything, but it could be just the beginning.

love, i’ll find you by ColorfulWarlock (@thelightofthebane​) and beta read by Skylar102 (@skylar102​)

love, i’ll find you Art by silver-lily-louise (@silver-lily-louise​)

Rating: Mature Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Welcome to the other side – home of ghosts. It’s not Halloween yet, but like many things in the Shadow World, all the stories are true. Divided into two independent stories, you’re going to read two different tales having a ghost as the main theme.

1st story – Magnus Bane has dealt with many things in his life, but housing a ghost is a novelty. An amnesiac one to top. It should be amusing, and it is. Until he realizes he is falling in love with the dark, tall and handsome ghost.

2nd story – Magnus is determined to reform an old mansion for a charity purpose. Not all things go accordingly, especially when a group of troublemaker ghosts try to meddle with his work.

It’s a sad song (but we sing it anyway) by notquiteascrazy (@notquiteascrazy​) and beta read by Essie (@essyfangirl​) 

It’s a sad song (but we sing it anyway) Art by Killiarious (@killiarious​)

Rating: General Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: When Alec sacrifices himself to return Magnus’ magic to him, Magnus must go up against not only his Father’s cruelty but also his own self doubt.

One wrong move, and he loses Alexander forever.

Or does he?

A season 3 canon divergence: Shadowhunters meets the tale of Orpheus & Eurydice.

17 Suits by Myulalie (@myulalie​) and beta read by darknutmeg (@darknutmeg​)

17 Suits Art by Killiarious (@killiarious​)

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Magnus Bane, a sworn bachelor, receives his fair share of wedding invitations on a regular basis and makes sure his friends get through their weddings unscathed.

One dark, wounded and mysterious Alec Lightwood is not going to rain on Magnus’ parade as he celebrates the best day of his loved ones’ lives.

When his brother crashes at his place however, and starts dating the woman Magnus has been pining for since he graduated college; Magnus is faced with a choice: either he relies on others and accepts their help like never before, or he holds onto the past at the cost of his own happiness.

What will it be?

Revenant by bidness (@bidnezz​) and beta read by SchrodingersHalfling

Revenant Art by abby0007 (@abby0007​) 

Rating: Mature Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Alec has heard the legends of Magnus Bane. He knows all the tales and he’s read all the records of his downfall. The High Warlock of Brooklyn who became so hungry for power that he began to mistreat the very warlocks who sought his help. It’s been a hundred years since then, and when a sudden rift opening between realms brings an onslaught of lesser demons, so too does it bring Magnus Bane, insatiable and vengeful for the power and people that locked him away in Edom. As newly appointed Head of the New York Institute, it’s Alec’s job to protect the residents of New York from one of the greatest Demons he’s ever faced. Only, he has no idea how, and maybe things aren't what they seem.

The Road Not Taken (Looks Real Good Now) by notcrypticbutcoy (@notcrypticbutcoy) and beta read by Echele78

The Road Not Taken (Looks Real Good Now) Art by Myulalie (@myulalie​)

Rating: Mature Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Being recognised is the last thing Magnus wants when he returns to his small, beachy hometown, hoping to make peace with the past he's tried so hard to forget. The universe is clearly playing some kind of cosmic joke, he thinks, when he runs into an old flame working behind the same counter he did at age eighteen.

As Magnus tries to move on from his past, there's something that keeps tugging his gaze over his shoulder. What is Alec Lightwood doing stuck in the sluggish pace of small town life?

Or: in which Magnus despises small towns, everyone has a tragic backstory, and Magnus and Alec learn that choosing themselves brings good things.

everything that i want (but didn't think i'd find) by thatnerdemryn (@thatnerdemryn) and beta read by SolarisRasa

everything that i want (but didn't think i'd find) Art by AceOnIce (@aceon-ice)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Clary Fray/Isabelle Lightwood Summary: Combat medic, Izzy, worked side by side with her pilot brother, Alec, to ensure the safety of the country and the most important people in their lives; their family.

Alec was starting a family with Magnus—a man Izzy never imagined her brother ending up with—and when the opportunity for them to get married on short notice during Izzy and Alec's summer block leave, Izzy couldn't have been happier for them. Izzy and Alec would make their way home to celebrate the momentous occasion and Izzy could leave everything behind without a second thought like she had when she was eighteen.

Falling in love with Magnus' sister, Clary, was never part of her plan and that threw her off kilter.

Learning To Be by Teal_The_Baker (@teal-the-baker​) and beta read by Tinerrrr

Learning To Be Art by brightasstars (@brightasstars​)

Rating: Mature Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Clary took the moment between confessions to lean toward Magnus and whisper, “So how ‘bout it, Mags? Got any secrets you want to share with the world?”

Magnus knew Clary was joking, but as he watched Alec walk away from the microphone with his arm still around his sister’s shoulders, he had a brief moment of uncertainty that he might be hiding a secret even from himself.

Or the Human AU - A year in the life of one graduate student Magnus Bane as he learns new facets of himself when an undergraduate by the name of Alexander Lightwood is pulled into his orbit.

The Chosen by theweird1 and beta read by myblackeyedboy (@myblackeyedboy​)

The Chosen Art by Flynn (@flynnifox​)

Rating: Mature Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Based on the book The Selection by Kiera Cass.

In a land where your place in society was decided long before you are born, Alec Lightwood spends his day as a farm hand for a local family. His family is just above the poorest in the country. The most he can expect in life is to die early from stress like his grandfather before him.

But this year everything will change.

The only son of the King of Edom has come of age. There will soon be a lottery between the counties and twenty-three young women will be picked to try and win over the heart of the beloved prince. However, this year will be different, for the first time ever men are allowed to enter as well. Will Alec risk the shame of coming out for a chance to meet his childhood crush, that is if he is chosen.

Van Lyfe by Cor321 (@cor321​) and beta read by PassionObsessed

Van Lyfe Art by Molly_Jae (@another-random-stranger​)

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Simon Lewis/Jace Wayland Summary: When Jace tells Simon about his crazy idea of turning a sprinter van into his own custom RV, Simon has no idea what's in store. Simon's world comes crashing down when he realizes the depth of his feelings for his roommate and best friend just before he leaves on the adventure of a lifetime. Now he must juggle his feelings with working an office job, helping Jace and finding a new place to live.

Can Simon have it all?

Whilst My World's Crashing Down by magique_lightbane and beta read by MoonlightBreeze (@moonlight-breeze-44​)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: "I can't go against the deal, Alec. It was to finish my loose ends and return immediately." Five more minutes, bellowed the eerie voice he'd been well-acquainted with recently, more impatient than ever. "I knew I couldn't leave you, not again, but if it was between that or never seeing you again," He untwined one of his hands to cup Alec's cheek, the plush material of velvet meeting silky smooth skin. "You know what my choice will always be."

Losing one another had always been a caveat of their relationship, Alec just never expected he would be the one to bear the repercussions. Moving on was a 'never' option, but since Magnus took it upon himself to be his husband's wingman, could there be a new love in his horizon?

Or did Magnus underestimate Alec's love and the pain he would feel of seeing Alec with another?

Only The Wind Knows (Where It Will Carry Our Dandelion Souls) by AceOnIce (@aceon-ice​) and beta read by PassionObsessed

Only The Wind Knows (Where It Will Carry Our Dandelion Souls) Art by Kai (@kyaresrevala​)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood/Meliorn Summary: When Alec finds out Magnus Bane and Meliorn used to date, and one of their letters was intercepted by the Clave, he does his best to reunite them and return the letter. But setting them up turns to falling in love with them and Alec scrambles to deal with his, potentially requited, feelings. Can he have everything he's dreamed of? Or is this just another thing he'll have to give up to keep his life from falling apart?

A Desperate Proposal by PassionObsessed and beta read by AceOnIce (@aceon-ice​)

A Desperate Proposal Art by Skylar102 (@skylar102​)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Simon Lewis/Jace Wayland Summary: A threat has been brewing in the Shadow World: silent, insidious, deadly.

When the Shadowhunters and the Downworld finally acknowledge the danger their world is in, they come to a desperate arrangement, proposing a series of marriage alliances that will unify their peoples. The Downworld and the Shadowhunters must rely on each other to find and eliminate who, or what, is killing them before it is too late.

Jace Lightwood and Simon Lewis will be at the forefront of that battle, whether they like it or not.

Right Here All Along by brightasstars (@brightasstars​)

Right Here All Along Art by Nhixxie

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Alec and Baz have met at university and got married. Overall they have been together for 8 years so far and both work at a community center as psychotherapists. They live a happy life even if Alec sometimes wonders if there is something that he's missing. Until one day a man shows up at the center bringing a boy with him and asking for Baz's help. As soon as the door closes behind them Alec finds out that the man he has fallen in love with is actually someone else. A journey into trust and hurt, in the search of truth and identity, through silence and communication.

Fallen Angel by cuubism (@cuubism​)

Fallen Angel Art by darknutmeg (@darknutmeg​)

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: “What do you think you could do,” Alec says, “with angelic power?”

Alec and Asmodeus make a different deal.

(will you be) my beginning, my middle, my end by villiageidiot (@villiageidiot​) and beta read by notquiteascrazy (@notquiteascrazy​)

(will you be) my beginning, my middle, my end Art by Jax (@livinglifebehindthemask​)

Rating: Mature Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: “I. Alec Lightwood is a straight-laced Shadowhunter who falls in love with the kind-hearted High Warlock of Brooklyn.

II. Alec Lightwood is also a small-town bar owner who's still in love with his high school sweetheart.

III. Alec Lightwood is a surly monster hunter who is definitely, absolutely, most certainly not in love with his aggressively charismatic rival.

IV. And Alec Lightwood is also a confident event planner who falls in love with an enigmatic tarot card reader.

Every universe has an Alec Lightwood and a Magnus Bane, and they find their way to each other in each of them.

As Darkness Descends by NikiAlex03

As Darkness Descends Art by kuro​_thesoft

Rating: Explicit Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: Alec Lightwood, heir to the throne of Idris, has been taught his entire life to stay clear of Brocelind Woods. But he’s convinced that magic is nothing but the stuff of old legends, and he’s reluctant to give up his relationship with Magnus Bane -who is as enigmatic as he is beautiful- to adhere to such warnings.

Magnus Bane grew up under the tutelage of his estranged but powerful father. Magnus knows how Idris feels about the magic that runs through his veins, and when Asmodeus disappears without a trace and leaves Magnus to Idris' mercy in his place, the very last thing Magnus needs is to be faced with answering to their Prince, his lover, who has now become his greatest enemy.

Magnus knows that his father will not stop until he gets Magnus by his side and Magnus has more than enough reasons to go to him, but is he willing to pay the price his father demands?

And is the throne Alec has spent his life coveting, and the respect of his family and his kingdom, enough for him to sacrifice Magnus, who, despite his betrayal, Alec still feels an inexplicable draw towards?

From the Darkness by pinstripedJackalope (@a-ghost-named-k) and beta read by theprophetlemonade (@theprophetlemonade)

From the Darkness Art by LadyKoalart

Rating: Teen Pairing: Magnus Bane/Alexander Lightwood Summary: In 1723, a witch named Magnus casts a spell that accidentally traps him in the form of a fungus. Three hundred years later he is finally freed from his mycopial prison--and dropped into the modern world, where he must find his way, though with the guidance of one Alexander Lightwood.