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IT’S HAPPENING EVERYBODY STAY CALM STAY FUCKING CALM

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Elain in this scene:

Then she realized she was engaged and spent the next year and a half feeling guilty and trying to convince herself she didn't want to run right back to Lucien by ignoring his existence.

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Girls are like I need this and it’s just SJM announcing Elucien’s book

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Nesta Archeron by drawing.llamas [instagram] for @nestaarcheronweek

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on chapter 13 of great big beautiful life and I kinda don’t like hayden? 😐

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I can’t wait for all that 😩🫶

you know that scene when kate is staring at anthony with the craziest puppy eyes you’ve ever seen? that’s how I picture elain looking at lucien when she allows herself to ✨ realize things ✨

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you know that scene when kate is staring at anthony with the craziest puppy eyes you’ve ever seen? that’s how I picture elain looking at lucien when she allows herself to ✨ realize things ✨

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I'm not saying Sarah will go this route but the fact that it's valid to say Lucien could be a contender for the High King role based off his cunning, his ability to make friends wherever he goes, his desire to avoid violence and the way he's always focused on the good of the many rather than what's best for just those he's closest too along with it also being valid to say that Elain would make an equally excellent High Queen (based off her wisdom, her skill in talking to others and a desire to maintain the peace rather than wanting to get her way through force / manipulation) while it then also being valid to say Az would not make a good High King and would not be a contender for the position (truly no offense to Az but he has too much of a temper and has little desire to socialize with those outside the IC or engage in court politics), makes it all the more clear to me that E/riel was never going to be endgame. Sarah would not have written Elain to end up with someone who was also not capable of ruling by her side, whether it be as High Lady or something more especially when she already set up Elain's mate to be the heir of a High Lord and left clues that she could be the one to save the Spring Court.

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in the name of complete academic transparency i must transcribe the declaration of love and marriage proposal from the most beautiful man ive ever seen who just so happens to be a faerie king. for science

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Latest Sketch-a-Wish voted on by my lovely Patreon members for August! Inspired by Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands (Emily Wilde #2) by Heather Fawcett, featuring Emily and Wendell in some morning afterglow. I love how Emily is being indecisive about doing the traditional romantic things before Wendell wakes, but then he cuddles up with her anyway, deciding for her. Too cute. I kept his bedhead just for you, Em.

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your reminder that wendell had been in love with emily for ten years before he confessed his feelings. he falls first and harder EXCELLENCY. you may proceed with your day

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Going feral over this Elucien sketch by @kotikomori / kotikomori!

Go support the artist here!

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𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒆 ⚜️

This commission is so deeply close to our hearts. We wanted to show the threads of the mate bond between Elain and Lucien. Especially since Elain herself described the bond as a “thread tied to a rib” in ACOWAR.

jjflorentina did an excellent job at showing the threads of the mate bond connecting Elain and Lucien; and for creating this sweet embrace between them! Thank you so much jjflorentina It’s always an absolute pleasure to work with you. You’re so kind and talented. You truly created a spectacular piece! It’s so beautiful 💞💞

Commissioned by @amandapearls & @lulufoxlainfawn & @goghwilde Artist is jjflorentina on IG Characters belong to Sarah J Maas

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If you like feral mates:

Touch her, smell her, taste her—

Mine. You are mine, and I am yours. Mate.

But Lucien’s attention went right to the hallway toward the back, his nostrils flaring as he scented Elain’s direction. And who she’d gone with. A low snarl slipped out of him—

His russet eye flashed with simmering rage. An uncontrollable instinct—for a mate to eliminate any threat. But he remained sitting. Even as his fingers dug into the arms of his chair.

If you like protective mates:

Lucien breathed, “Where is he keeping her?” I knew who he meant. I shook my head. “I don’t know. Rhysand has a hundred places where they could be, but I doubt he’d use any of them to hide Elain, knowing that I’m aware of them.” “Tell me anyway. List all of them.” “You’ll die the moment you set foot in his territory.” “I survived well enough when I found you.”

“My mate is none of your concern.”

“She is my mate and in my enemy’s hands—”

If you like mates who believe in the FMC:

But Mor tried again. “There is a reason why Elain is seeing these things. She was right about the other queen turning old, about the Ravens’ attack—why is she being sent this image? Why is she hearing this queen? It must be vital. If we ignore it, perhaps we’ll deserve to fail.” Silence. I surveyed them all. Vital. Each of them was vital here. But me … I sucked in a breath. “I’ll go.” Lucien was staring at Elain as he spoke.

Elain fell into step beside me, peering at Lucien. He noticed it. “I heard you made the killing blow,” he said.

If you like mates who will fight their way across the world to find her:

“I’m going with you,” he said again, face splattered with blood as bright as his hair. “I’m getting my mate back.”

Lucien, haggard and bloody, panting for breath. As if he’d run from the shore. His gaze settled on Elain, and he sagged a little.

If you like concerned mates:

And from the devastation on his face, I knew he’d heard every word. Seen and heard and felt the hollowness and despair radiating from her.

Too thin. She must not be eating at all. How can she even stand?

“Let me do something. About Elain.

“Please tell me,” Lucien said when I crossed the threshold into the foyer. “What the healer says. And if—if you need me for anything.”

“Should we—does she need …?”

If you like loyal mates:

I asked Lucien to escort me, and he’d been more than happy to do so, given that his own status as a mated male made him uninterested in any sort of female company these days.

“I’m a mated male now.”

Lucien inclined his head in a bow, the movement hiding the gleam in his eye—the longing and sadness. Then almost two years later -> Cassian’s heart strained at the pain etching deep into Lucien’s face as he tried to hide his disappointment and longing.

If you like mates who are completely gone for her:

But he couldn’t breathe as she faced him fully. She was the most beautiful female he’d ever seen.

“No—I didn’t have time. I felt her, but …” A blush stained his cheek.

I hereby declare Lucien, King of All Mates

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I have been sooooo inconsistent when it comes to tumblr for about a year now, but a lot has been happening in my life 🥺 in my defense, I did not expect to wait this long for acotar 5 news either …

my plan is to reread fourth wing soon and then get into book 3

and I just finished emily wilde’s encyclopaedia of of faeries and guys — I loved it so much!!! I did not expect romance there at all, but wendell really won my heart over. already ordered book 2 and will likely start it next week 😁 do you guys like it?

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streets are saying onyx storm sucks???????? I just spent 23€ on it on saturday pls say sike 😭

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"You were either hurt by a Nesta or you were Nesta and that is how you perceive the book"

OR MAYBE YOU CAN SIMPLY EMPATHIZE WITH CHARACTERS AND SEE MULTIPLE POVs AS YOU READ, LIKE ANY NORMAL PERSON SHOULD BE ABLE TO!!

Seriously, have we reached a social media narcissism complex that is so bad that anything and everything needs to revert to us?? Have we, as a society, completely lost the ability of trying to understand different points of view and/or analyzing things from a detached view without having to self-insert 100% of the time. And ofc everything, including the characters you like, will always be biased. BUT it's just worrying when people are not able to perceive a story from any other angle that isn't an overly personal extension of themselves