Ashes and Honey

Chapters: 40/40 Fandom: The Infernal Devices Series - Cassandra Clare Rating: Mature Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jem Carstairs/Will Herondale, Jem Carstairs/Tessa Gray, Jem Carstairs/Tessa Gray/Will Herondale Characters: Jem Carstairs, Tessa Gray, Will Herondale, Charlotte Branwell Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Hospital, Alternate Universe - War, Polyamory, Blood and Gore, (both medical procedure gore and demons have big claws kind of gore), Abusive Parents, (none of the terrible relatives actually appear in the fic but their impact is felt), Getting Back Together, Getting Together, Alternate Universe - Arranged Marriage, (in which Tessa is raised as a Starkweather), POV Jem Carstairs, OT3, Canon Era, Not Canon Compliant, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

In the summer of 1886, Jem Carstairs has completed five years of study as a medical student. It wasn't the future that he wanted and the aches linger: dead parents and a lost love and a failed career as a Shadowhunter warrior. He returns to Alicante, a city under siege as demons attempt to breach the Glass Towers. At a field hospital on the edge of the warzone, he meets a woman with a secret and a man he had never expected to see again.

I blast posted the entirety of the draft of this. It is not as perfect as I imagined but the romance arc is there and I am glad to have it out in the world. It’s back-dated to 2025 so if you weren’t subscribed, it won’t show up on the top of the tag lists but I hope it brings somebody a smile. 

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Don't worry! I'm not offended by the question.

I'm not going to say absolutely never but I don't feel any draw to return to the fandom right now.

There are reasons that I'm not feeling any draw to the Shadowhunters universe (characters are so young and that feels more prominent as I get older, everyone over 35 is married with kids, I don't care for the massive casts or the teen romance, so I have no interest in getting caught up) but it's not like it was a calculated decision to walk away.

The whims of the hyper fixation just change. I was deep in TID for a decade. I posted my first fic in 2014. I think my brain just wanted new sandboxes to play in.

I'm just having so much fun with the OC-creation machine and deep pool of lore and worldbuilding that is RPG gaming. Also characters who come out of the box already older than 35.

There's one thing I do want to return to and push out into the world but it's also now writing that is close to 5 years old and it feels awkward to read it because I'm out of the voice and my flow has changed.

But the vast majority of the unfinished fic won't get finished.

<3

Magic school story from the point of view of the kind of officious 38 year old head teacher. I am so amused.

The school politics. The possessed photocopier. Her have a whole ass gay moment about her coworker. One of the students helps banish a demon and she says “well done. Have a house point.”