The Descent is Easy: A Shadowhunters Podcast

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We are reading chapters 11 - 13 of City of Ashes, in which we learn things about werewolves and vampires which confuse us, things about the Clave that upset us, and things about Alec and Magnus that intrigue us.  We are both still ill, so please excuse the scratchy voices. 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We are reading chapters 8 - 10 of City of Ashes, in which we are witness to the most tedious game of spin the bottle EVER and discuss incest at great length. Join us! At an hour twenty, our tech skills once again failed us, so we apologise for those middle 30 minutes that sound like Michelle fell in a tin bucket. 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Things get more complicated for Clary; Alec snarks a lot; Jace totally has no emotions whatsoever at all; Simon is the sunniest sunshine boy in the world, and Isabelle likes him. We're revisiting season 1 episode 2, with our second commentary track. Join us for a rewatch as we #EnjoyShadowhunters!

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In this episode, rather than try and tell you what happened at MCM London Comic Con incorrectly, we let the cast of Shadowhunters speak for themselves. We hope you enjoy this recording of the Sunday Panel on the Main Stage! Please watch out for the drastic change in recording quality when we go into the live audio! Look after your ears!!    

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Ah the good old days, when Alec was invisible at grocery stands and Magnus owned a nightclub, when Clary thought her mother was the most normalest person to ever normal, and Simon witnessed the Great biscotti crisis of 2016... We're revisiting season 1 episode 1, with the first of our commentary tracks. Join us for a rewatch as we #EnjoyShadowhunters!  

Website - Tumblr - Twitter The second of our Monster & Lore mini series covers werewolves across a variety of TV shows, movies a books. Lunar cycle? silver? Teen wolf had were-pumas?? All this and more... Ah-wrooooo! The tumblr post Michelle mentions is here . Also our brand new Patreon page is here .   

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In this reading of chapter 4 -7 of City of Ashes Magnus Bane returns  and we rejoice! 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Bookclub is back! We are discussing Cassandra Clare's City of Ashes in 6 parts and hope that you will join us in this journey!

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We discuss the Parabatai relationship between Jace and Alec, helped along by some stunningly beautiful meta written by faejilly, which you can find here and here on tumblr (go read this immediately, it's gorgeous!) before expanding our discussion to other works of fiction (and one real life example) to see, what makes a pair of people Parabatai, and what speaks against i...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In the first of our Monster & Lore mini series we discuss the children of the night, and the different ways in which books, shows and movies have dealt with the rules surrounding vampires. 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In this episode we discuss the essence of our Shadowhunters characters using Colour, Element, Patroneous, Holiday Destination, Decade, Mundane Career, Mode of Transportation, Favourite Genre of Movie, Music & TV Show as well as Scent.  Join in! Tell us what you think Lydia smells like and where Simon is going on Holidays!

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We discuss the adaptive choices made to transform City of Bones, the book into The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, the movie and Shadowhunters, the TV show. 

We discuss the movie The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones and the various reasons for why portals might be soggy... Spoilers: We can't really think of any reasons and the movie isn't telling. 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter Due to heat exhaustion, we have delayed the end of Bookclub by a week and decided to throw in a Fanfic Recommendation episode! Please visit this page  on fascinationandfrustration.com to see all the links! There is a lot of them, so please let us know if we've messed up the html somewhere! 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We finish our first round of the tDiE Bookclub reading the third part of City of Bones and find ourselves in the rather unhappy position of agreeing with all of the villain, for almost all of the end of the book. Huh. That was unexpected!  Next week we will be discussing The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones, the film and the week after that we finally have our adaptatio...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We play Shag/Marry/Kill with the Shadowhunters characters. It's all in the title, really! 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We're continuing with our reading of The City of Bones, the first in The Mortal Instruments series with chapters 14 - 20. We spent half the podcast with mating seagulls outside our window, so we apologise for any... excited bird calls in the background. 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We're continuing with our reading of The City of Bones, the first in The Mortal Instruments series with chapters 10-13, in which we meet Magnus! (Apologies for previous misinformation re chapter 14 - these chapters were heftier than we'd thought! We'll kick off with chapter 14 next time). 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In this impromptu episode we drink along with Season 3 Episode 3, Stronger Than Heaven.  Also, it is London Pride tomorrow. Happy pride from us! The Rules we used for this game were: Flashback Blur Motion Simon kidnapped - SHOT "Parabatai" Abs on display Drink on Screen Rune activated Rune activated sexily - SHOT On camera death Training Malec Kiss Alec says something Ro...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In this hiatus episode we sort the Shadowhunters characters into Hogwarts Houses. Simple and straight forward. Or so you'd think! Wish to argue with our sorting? Please do! Come talk to us on the Website - Tumblr - Twitter  and give us your sorting choices! Let the blood bath begin!

Website - Tumblr - Twitter We're continuing with our reading of The City of Bones, the first in The Mortal Instruments series with chapters 6-9.  Note: We had a little sound trouble with this one - apologies for the fuzziness. 

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In this episode we kick of with chapters 1-5 of The City of Bones, the first in The Mortal Instruments series.   

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In light of recent news, we have decided to postpone bookclub for a week, because we don't feel that anyone is in the right head space at the moment. Instead we thought we would bring forward one of our hiatus episodes: 30 Questions! We answer difficult questions, while drinking alcohol, because hey, we're still on holiday! ( Have a read of Faejilly's meta twitter thread...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter To kick of the Shadowhunter Hiatus (WOE) we figured we would give you some suggestions on how to keep busy, during this difficult time. We discuss Black Sails (TV), The Dresden Files (Book), The Amulet of Samarkand (Book) and our overwhelming, and possibly unhealthy, love for Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) as well as talking about fandom and how we got into it. That shoul...

Website - Tumblr - Twitter In episode 41b of The Descent Is Easy we conclude our Season 31 Roundup discussion with our last, and biggest theme of the half season Love and Sacrifice. We also pick our favourite moment for all of our core characters, discuss your write ins in regards to best bits, best episode and MVP of the half season, before casting our own hats.