Happy Halloween! Please consider: Clizzy as witches.

Please consider: Clizzy 1920s AU!!! Isabelle would be fabulous and fabulously rich and run a speakeasy with the notorious Magnus Bane. Clary would be the rebellious daughter of NYC’s infamous head policeman, who wanders in one night and keeps coming back. Really, I just want Clary and Izzy wearing flapper dresses, kissing in dark corners, and falling in love on the dance floor.

The ao3 tag generator on twitter came up with ‘now with more dream love story’ and of course my mind jumped to Clizzy, so have some AU idea rambling:

Clary can’t remember when she started seeing the raven-haired girl in her dreams, but it’s been so long that life without her is unimaginable. For years, she sees Isabelle every time she falls asleep, spends hours laughing & talking with her, hearing about tattooed warriors that sound right out of a novel, telling Izzy things she’s never told anyone, falling in love one night at a time. 

In the bright light of morning, Clary always convinces herself it's just a dream; she’s always had an overactive imagination, it’s what makes her such a good artist.  It may be weird to have an imaginary friend as a teen, but no less weird than knowing nothing about your family or having vague memories of cat eyes & blue sparks. And as far as pastimes go, this is a harmless & happy one. 

Until she sees Izzy dancing at Pandemonium. Until she sees Izzy cut someone open with a glowing blade. Until she sees the marks on her skin and the creatures in the shadows and realizes that the demons, the runes, the angelic warriors – they’re all real. Isabelle is real. 

But before Clary can call out to her, there's a man lunging toward her and a blade in her hand, and then she’s running home with her heart racing, and then her mother is yelling and nothing makes sense, and then Dot isn’t Dot, and then Isabelle is back and the world starts spinning and everything goes quiet. 

Clary wakes up slowly, and the first thing she sees is Isabelle sitting across from her. Clary is still afraid, stunned that the world she’s been hearing about for years actually exists, that her own mother is caught up in it, that the girl she’s been dreaming of is right in front of her. 

But if she knows nothing else right now, she knows Isabelle. So Clary smiles, sits up in bed, and asks what she’s wanted to know for so long. “Who are you?”

Please consider: s1 AU where Clary is falling for Isabelle and then gets permanently stuck in the World Inverted.

Her consciousness isn't absorbed, she doesn't become a different Clary, she remembers who she is and where she's from - but there's no way to leave. Magnus's magic didn't return and no matter how hard they both try, they can't find the Portal that's right under their noses.

(Jace and Meliorn were found and taken away from the Portal; the Seelies now guard it, but they won’t do anything about the demons that have already entered. So Magnus, with his soft sweaters and no magic, and scrappy runeless Clary form a ragtag demon hunting team)

Clary can’t help the bitterness in her gut every time she sees Valentine, even though rationally she knows he’s innocent. She hugs Jocelyn every morning and slowly gets used to the mixture of relief and love, and heartbreak when it reminds her of what her mother must be suffering.

She clings to Magnus, the only person who understands her loss – not just that it exists but how it feels. Gone are the powers & abilities she was just discovering, gone is her heritage and her species, gone are all the people she loved. Those are feelings he knows all too well.

She misses Izzy, even when she (always Isabelle to her, never Izzy) is right in front of her. She misses her confidence and ability to fight in heels, misses the Izzy who raged about the Clave and sliced demons in half with her whip and never seemed afraid. 

She lets Isabelle convince her to sign up for kickboxing class, half to assuage the concern in her eyes & half because it’s almost like the Shadowhunter training she now misses. Happy version: slowly, she starts to heal and as she does, starts to love this world, this Isabelle. 

Angstier version: When Isabelle is particularly fierce during a kickboxing match she almost looks like Izzy. When she’s rambling about 4D Internet she has the same spark in her eyes that Izzy did when she talked about forensic pathology. There are so many little tics that make Clary think Izzy immediately, before realization sinks in again, and the first few weeks around Isabelle are torture. 

 When they sleep together for the first time, it’s soft and gentle and playful. They’re both giddy, and Clary can’t stop smiling afterwards. And if she wonders what it would’ve felt like to kiss Izzy’s runes, what scars were on Izzy's body, what kind of things Izzy would’ve liked in bed – well, she’ll never know, so it doesn’t matter now. 

Clary learns everything about Isabelle in a way she never had the chance to learn about her Izzy. And she loves her, she truly does. But for as long as they’re together, she dreams of Izzy, she sees Izzy in a thousand things Isabelle does, and she can’t help but wonder - does she love Isabelle because of who she is, or because she is a constant reminder of someone else?

For day 6 of @dailyclizzysource​‘s Clizzy week: pirate au!

Clizzy AU where Clary and Izzy are actresses playing each other's love interests in their new movie. For day 6 of @dailyclizzysource‘s Clizzy Week.

Clizzy pining fic recs!

A few fics that involve Clary and Izzy pining, for day 5 of @dailyclizzysource‘s Clizzy Week. Not a comprehensive list, just a couple favorites :)

If You're On A Mission You Got My Permission - Sex pollen, so pining even while they’re banging. Fabulous and sexy and tender all at once.

Happily Ever After - Clary promised her firstborn to a witch (Izzy), the witch goes on an adventure with her, and their happily ever after is very different than what they imagined.

A Golden Kiss - Clary and Izzy accidentally get married. Funny and oh so adorable.

the wave crashes against the beach and i hear your name - A short best friends to lovers fic, centered around a beach, surfing, and seawater.

just look at me the same - Friends with benefits fic. Beautiful, sparse writing and it’s incredibly sweet. 

What The Water Gave Me - AU where they’re mermaids as well as demon-hunters. Cool worldbuilding, nice Clary/Izzy dynamic, and such a fun read!

crave you - An absolutely delightful roommates AU, based on the 'thought I was being homophobic but turns out I’m just jealous and gay’ tumblr post. 

no matter how they toss the dice - An Imagine Me & You AU where Isabelle and Clary meet at her wedding to Isabelle’s brother.

kiss me (like you mean it) - Adorable, tropey, s1-canon-divergent fake dating fic. 

Pinion - Clary grieves via art and demon-hunting, grows a very inconvenient crush, and finds a way under Isabelle's cool and collected facade. Or, a love story in charcoal and good intentions. (Set around s2. Gorgeous writing, gorgeous portrayals of Clary and Isabelle, and gorgeous pining <3)

say you'll fight for me, you'll try for me - AU where Isabelle followed Clary & Magnus into the basement in This World Inverted instead of Jace. (Has been one of my favorite Clizzy fics for years! I really like the character voices here and the concept is fantastic).

I almost forgot about day 3 of Clizzy week, but remembered just in time to ramble about my favorite Clizzy quotes!

(source) Obviously, the iconic ‘everything’s your color’! By this point Izzy already has like three lines saying things about Clary’s body and now we get a line making it clear Clary’s been admiring her too. And ‘everything’s your color’ is so godamn accurate when it comes to Isabelle Lightwood. 

They’ve known each other for about two days at this point but already look so besotted and I love it. One of the gayest Clizzy quotes out there. 

(source) This scene and especially this line are EVERYTHING. It showcases how well they work together - Clary improves her fighting and understands the message Izzy’s trying to give her - and their insane chemistry. And it is fantastic and flirty and brimming with sexual tension, and nobody can convince me Izzy doesn’t look both proud and turned on in this moment. 

Sparring, subterfuge, sexual tension, girlfriends vibes - what’s not to love here?

(source) Isabelle says “I hate to leave you” and Clary’s immediate response is “Then I guess I have to come with you” and I’m still a little !!! about it. It’s such a romantic line! It’s so sweet and loving! And Clary and Isabelle are always there for each other, always by each other’s sides through the personal and the professional, and this line & episode were beautiful examples of that. 

(source) This line reminds me of Alec saying “I always knew I couldn’t have what I wanted, until you came along” to Magnus. A) paralleling Malec is always a good thing and B) I have so many feelings about the Lightwoods and how they learn that love makes them stronger! Love gave Alec the courage to choose himself and his happiness, and love taught Isabelle she’s stronger when she leans on others - love, and (in part) Clary.

(source) SURPRISING, I’M SURE. This scene is intimate and beautiful and one of my favorite moments in the entire show. The way Isabelle looks at Clary makes it seem like she’s trying to compete with Alec for most heart-eyed Lightwood sibling, and this quote is so true to their relationship. 

Clary’s been thrown into a new world, and everything around her has changed - Jocelyn & Luke aren’t who she thought, Simon is a creature she can’t fully understand, and her relationship with Jace is tense and everchanging. But she has Isabelle. Planning to save their friends, going on missions, dressing for Downworlder raves, learning how to fight - no matter what it is, she has Isabelle. She has Isabelle, and that’s not going to change.