Grace Blackthorn

Grace Blackthorn ✨

thomastair for @edwinspaynes <3 been meaning to draw them forEVER but 4 years later here they finally are 🙏 i knew i'd get to it eventually

my brother is creating characters for a roleplay and I got him to call the withdrawn bug obsessed guy Ty and the steampunk dude Branwell as a last name, I feel like I just won at a game or sth

The whitewashing of female characters is starting to annoy me. I think I was too dense to notice before or maybe it’s just happening more but it’s so frustrating to come across it in otherwise extremely enjoyable stories. it doesn’t even ruin the characters for me but it makes me stumble so hard and I just keep thinking that it could be done more subtly. I’m literally on my knees for feminist media, the feminist angle is not the problem. just feels like writers get too caught up in restricting narratives cause they’re trying to say something and be nice about it. I don’t want nor do I need nice.

do you ever think about how matthew fairchild was such a sunshine coded character—a golden boy, floated through school, charmed everyone with his infamous smile; a starry-eyed dreamer who had faith in most things that weren’t himself. and how because of one moment of naivety he lost years of his life to devastating self-sabotage, believing himself worth nothing, deserving of nothing, drinking day by day to numb out the pain—because he believed people could only ever like him when he wasn’t sober, when he wasn’t fully himself. and how despite visibly not being okay, nobody ever really said anything about it until he basically hit rock bottom. and do you ever think about how matthew would’ve given up his love for cordelia in a second if it meant james could be happy, when james wouldn’t do the same? you knew. i told you in the letter. and how he joked and deflected so much to hide how sad he really was, because he believed no one would care enough to see it. i did not know that i looked sad, to you. because i think about it a lot and it makes me very sad

grace blackthorn from the last hours by @cassandraclare (guest starring a wallpaper design i put too much effort into)