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While reading the 3rd book, I noticed a detail. When Azriel gave Elain the Truth-teller, and even though Elain accepted the knife, Azriel did not remove his hand from Elain's hand.

oh no, he does not remove his hand from her...ever. If he can hold her hand forever, he would.

I wrote a long post a while back on how he constantly initiates contact with her in some way. In every scene.

Starts off with him talking and comforting her back in ACOMAF at their dinner, and then pretty much every subsequent scene has him reaching out for her in one way or another. He carries her, he takes her hand, he touches her, he watches her, he walks over to her, he asks about her, he worries over her.

If he is around her, he is with her.

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Antis:Azriels shadows skitter back from Elains breath like how do people not see this as a bad thing this is bad. His shadows don’t like elain…

SJM:

Readers: yeah I don’t think that means anything bad seeing as they skitter from his own breath…

Antis: well like even tho it’s the same word and means the same thing it says BACK w elain so his shadows skittering from her is different then them skittering from his own breath

Readers: uhhh doesn’t skittering /skittered mean the same thing regardless of context? It’s the same word..

Antis:No you have to look deeper! The same word means one thing here and something different there. Like honestly dO yOu EvEn HaVe ReAdInG cOmPrEhEnSiOn?!

Do they even like realize how they sound with this argument? 🤣The absolute hoops and reaches they go through to try and discredit elriel is so amusing.

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The way Elain rushed to make herself pretty when Azriel grabbed the potatoes.

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Honestly I have absolutely no qualms with this ship situation. Do I have a preference? Yes, as do most people. But Sarah Janet is going to do whatever she wants.

What I just don’t understand is why people so badly want a story that’s already been written! When we already have two storylines being built up that are so vastly different than anything SJM has ever given us. I’m talking about Elain and Vassa’s stories (since yes, acotar focuses on WOMEN.)

Elain is a seer, something we have never seen before. Her story could potentially explore what it means to break a mating bond, something we have never seen before.

Vassa’s story revolves around a curse and her romantic journey could be fire x fire which, you guys, is HOT AS HELL! (Plus, the curse is broken by true love in the story she is retelling with Vassa.)

I’m sorry but the stories they could have are so unique, and I fail to see how some of you guys don’t want that.

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I know this fandom is obsessed with thinking that Azriel’s shadows disappearing or skittering is a bad thing around Elain. But after reading the bc ten times, I though it was so cute when azriel’s shadows told him that Elain had gone upstairs. I think that is 100% proof that they do love her. Imagine having inanimate objects telling you that someone you love is safe/what they are doing. They love her more than lightsinger Gwyn. I am sorry, it’s priestess. The next time someone says it’s negative, I am just gonna drop that line from the bonus chapter. 🤣

Yeah, that's one of the more nonsensical takes that people have.

The shadows are a defense mechanism for him. THey came to him, to protect him, after severe trauma. They are there to allow him to disappear, shadow walk, hide him, and protect him. As he explained, they are very condensed magic.

So if they hate Elain and don't trust her, they surely wouldn't be leaving him in her company. Even if they had an inkling of danger. Not only that, they were the ones that became restless when she was kidnapped by the Cauldron, they were the ones to notify Azriel that Elain had gone up to her room, the ones who assisted him during the gift exchange.

What's a lot more curious is that he noticed that the shadows did not 'WARN' him that Gwyn was on the roof. It's an interesting word. WARN. You typically warn someone if they are in danger. He didn't say that the 'shadows didn't inform him that the ring was occupied' or that they 'told him'. They didn't 'warn' him.

And I am pretty sure that we are supposed to pay attention to that.

And why were the shadows 'restless' around Gwyn? only to settle down later...(as if in a trance).

I think the readers are fixating on the wrong thing here.

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Why are people reading ACOTAR if they think everyone is an unreliable narrator ...?

If an author is writing a story from one character's point of view, obviously there might be some things that each character would interpret differently over the course of the entire series, in comparison to other characters.

Ex: How Feyre views Rhys vs. how Nesta views Rhys

But to say that the character is an unreliable narrator just based off one interpretation is ridiculous. Because that implies that the entire story itself could be wrong? And these are fictional characters, mind you.

There is a difference between how each character interprets things. That does not make one characters POV "right" over another. It just means we are getting multiple perspectives.

There is no "right" or "wrong" interpretation, seeing as this is a fictional story and not reality. As a reader, we are expected to simply accept the events of the story unfold based on how the Character's POV we are reading from views it.

TLDR: Stop calling Feyre an unreliable narrator just because you don't like what SJM wrote

Feyre questioning the cauldron and asking why Azriel isn't Elain's mate does not make her an unreliable narrator.

Nesta viewing Rhys as way more cunning and cruel and annoying does not make her an unreliable narrator.

Cassian noticing how Elain shrinks away from Lucien does not make him an unreliable narrator.

Cassian noting Azriel is more focused on getting Eris back when Nesta & her friends are taken into the BR does not make him an unreliable narrator.

Because honestly, if you're out here calling everyone an unreliable narrator then WHY ARE YOU READING THESE BOOKS?

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Happened to bond over ACOTAR with another person I met at work recently. She finished the series a few weeks ago and we were discussing how excited we were that SJM was supposedly writing the next book.

And then, unprompted, this girl says how much she can't wait for Elain & Azriel's love story.

Isn't that crazy? How new readers automatically think Elriel is next?

And then - I got the dreaded question -

"Yeah, I fully expect Elriel to be next - but why are there TikTok's with Azriel & Gwyn together? Is there a book I missed?"

I informed my coworker that, no, actually. All those theories come from a bonus chapter.

She got excited there were bonus chapters and then she proceeded to read all of them that night.

The next day, I get the same question:

"I still don't get why Gwyn & Azriel would be a thing. Azriel was so down bad for Elain in that bonus chapter? Where did this other pairing come from?"

Idk girl. That's what we're all asking 🤷🏻‍♀️

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This is going to be SJM critical, but I think the biggest issue that I have with her writing lately--plot-wise--is that there are no stakes.

In TOG, she used to kill characters. She truly made them suffer. They went through something and we went with them. No matter how enormously powerful Aelin was, she could still be captured and entombed and tortured. And I get that in HOFAS SJM tried to do the same with Hunt and with Ruhn, but it fell flat.

Now, she's become predictably positive.

And I think you can write HEA, but it needs to be EARNED.

What did we get in ACOSF? Nesta climbed some mountain, passed the Blood Rite no problemo and killed a lame ass queen. All in a span of what? 4 days?

We meet a legit Asteri in HOFAS, and we kill it in what? 30 minutes?

It makes me wants to say--MAKE. THEM. SUFFER.

I am craving real angst. Frustration. Anger. Sadness. Trials and tribulations.

I don't need torture porn. It's not effective if there are no consequences. The stories that stay with you are the ones where you've gone through hell with the characters and came out on top.

I dont now if it's just me, but I dont feel any impact from any of her latest books. The last time I felt anything was when Lehabah......

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ELRIEL - Guilty as sin?

What if he's written 'mine' on my upper thigh

Only in my mind?

One slip and falling back into the hedge maze

Oh what a way to die

I keep recalling things we never did

Messy top lip kiss

How I long for our trysts

Without ever touching his skin

How can I be guilty as sin?

Art credits 🎨 : its.clausart

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Elorcan 🫶🏻

“I will marry you, Elide Lochan. And proudly call myself Lord Lorcan Lochan, even when the whole kingdom laughs to hear it.” He kissed her, gently and lovingly. “And when we are wed,” he whispered, “I will bind my life to yours. So we will never know a day apart. Never be alone, ever again.”

🎨 Art by @gessueter

✨ Commissioned by me (find it on IG here)

💙 Please do not repost. Reblogs are welcome! 

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Sooo who else would give their left tit for Elain Archeron to be their best friend?

Just me, Azriel, the twins and Sarah J Maas(she said it not me)??

My absolute favorite elain fanart by ehmandinah

Proof sjm said it

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Sometimes I remember how cold and harsh Azriel was, and then I remember how nervous he was when the topic of buying gifts for the sisters came up, and I remember the scene where he runs his hand through his hair like a high school kid and stumbles over his words as he speaks. and how sweet and in love he was with Elain all the time. I noticed.

Right? it's so cute. He comes off as so cool and confident and 'I don't need to spout poetry' and he is dropping advice on Nessian, but when it comes to Elain, he is suddenly 14, freaking out and thinking what gift he should get his girl and whether she is going to like it. I think it's adorable.

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✨Our prince and princess ✨

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“You ship Elriel because you want Elain to fix Azriel and just want to read Azriel smut” Girl imma need you to be serious for a second.

I know it’s a bit hard for you to grasp this fact, but we ship Elriel because they both want each other, they balance each other out, they look good af together, they have insane chemistry, their scenes are cute as hell, they have the best tropes so far, they can actually drive the plot forward and because they have been foreshadowed from the start.

If you prefer your headcanons that’s okay for me, but I’d rather have a good love story. Not smut and vibes.

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Do people realize how hot this is?

Maybe I’m just ✨ovulating✨ but if a man said this to me I would immediately start crushing on him. HARD.

There is no way you read this scene and don’t feel the pure masculine heat radiating off the page for Elain.

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The Cauldron CHOSE three sisters: Feyre, Nesta and Elain

(Not two sisters and one sister’s friend from gym class)

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Reminder that SJM said she would be best friends with Elain and that if she wasn’t a writer, she would like to work with flowers.