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Think about how fucked up the mating bond is, people get bonded to whoever tf the magic chooses for them considering only how much powerful you are and that your kids will be powerful as fuck, and if you don't like them or some shit happened between you two earlier, sorry but the chances of you ending up with said person in a toxic relationship are still high, look at how many toxic bonds we saw:

we have tamlin's family, his father and brothers were worse than the vanserras and his mom and father were mated, so it didn't matter how much shit his father was, the mom just accepted that.

feysand's bond, fucked up as fuck. after all rhysand put feyre through during UTM, we get to acomaf (and there is also that stupid ring quest, imagine if she died..) where he gives her a long ass sad background story and she just accepted it.... yet if she wasn't his mate she would be pretty much death in book 1, and oh wait, let's not forget the fact he hid life threatening information about her pregnancy, and like, she is still with him as if nothing had happened.

nessian bond! also fucked up, we have cassian watching nesta fall the stairs and be like "haha i watched bc if get to the end, i would have to take you back upstairs, also you fell bc you didnt train so it is all YOUR fault", cassian telling her everybody hates her, cassian doesn't understand how her sisters love her, cassian taking her to a hike bc she (25 years old) was the only one between all those 500+ years old bitches who had balls to tell feyre she was gonna die before christmas, makes her carry a bag that is a third of her weight (lets say she is 1,75m and weights 60kg, she was carrying around 20kg and according to a search in google, a hiking backpack shouldn't weight more than 10 percent of the person's weight, which in this case Nesta should be carrying 6kg and not more than that...) during this hike. He has sex with her after she gets sexual assaulted by a mythical creature, he gets butthurt when she says a fact about riceman, gets angry when she gets uncomfortabled about the fact he wants everyone to know they share bed (and he literaly says exactly that), like, he even says that he didn't choice to be shackled to her, that means he wouldn't choice her => he wouldn't be with her if there wasn't a bond. During acosf we see that he knows shit about her and he doesnt even like her but he stilld wants her exclusively bc of the bond and nesta is molded and treated like shit until submission so she can fit him and his family. Let's not forget that whatever thing nesta disagres, cassian get like "is that because i am a bastard low born nobody and my ass is flat?". Also from a logic point of view (considering the power thing and that the cauldron chooses who you are mated with and it blessed elain with gifts and got angry at nesta bc she took its power) wouldn't make more sense if nesta ended up with a high lord/high lord heir or azriel? nesta is powerful as fuck, powerful to the point rhysand, a pOWErfuLl high lord (take his telepathy away and he is in the same level as the other high lords) struggles to contain her power, she is in the same level of a high lord, and i know cassian had 7 siphons but it is azriel who has not only 7 siphons but is also a shadowsinger, they are poweful but not in the same level as a high lord/nesta yet azriel at least has a special power, so between them two azriel is more logical, and in a general point of view, a high lord/heir... (i repeat, this bond was a curse threw at nesta)

drakon and miryam, too fucked up, she was a slave, that was given to him as gift from his bride/wife/girlfriend whatever. she was a slave, and half human, and during this time humans were all slaves. and drakon, prince, faerie... she was with jurian then somehow she fell in love with drakon(?) i don't remember their story properly, but i am pretty sure that if there wasn't a mating bond, they would not have any relationship. I honestly find this one too weird/absurd that I even have a theory that drakon is daemanti and manipulated miryam to ''love'' him (pretty much like rhysand seems to be doing/did to feyre... maybe that is why drakon and rhysand were friends or something, drakon taught him the telepathy things)

vs non-toxic:

Lucien and Elain, they aren't together, elain doesn't want to get close to lucien and he respects it, lucien doesn't force himself into her, keeps his distance s he is aware she is not comfortable, he let her know they are bonded from the beginning as opposite to some people up there...

Kallias and viviane - we didn't see much about them but considering they were friends since young age, so we are supposed to assume they are good...

Honestly if i was faerie i would be afraid of having a mate.

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Moonlight vs. Darkness

This INCREDIBLE art was created by @/tinagonewrong and commissioned by @/ofshadowsanddreams (both on Instagram)

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We aren't giving enough attention to Azriel's bonus chapter from Gwyn's POV

She was ALONE in the House grounds PASS MIDNIGHT training all by herself and when someone else arrived she wasn't scared, and when she realised it was Azriel she calmed herself even more and started chatting and teasing him as always.

Differently from chapters after, when she walked for a bit in Illyrian territory during evening and was scared and felt like she might puke, there, in that place and with that person despite it being late and dark she felt - she feels - safe

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Hey guys! This is my first ever commission and it was done with the wonderful @mikki_book.arts on Instagram. I wanted a piece of Gwyn and Azriel on the roof of the house of wind in the middle of the night to go with a scene in my Side by Side series (the chapter in question IS coming soon I promise) and she did such a beautiful job! Make sure you go show some love on her account on insta as well ❤️

Don’t repost without credit to me and the artist 💕💕💕

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OMG THIS THEORY

🖤🔥 BALTHAZAR X ERIS 🔥🖤

Sooooo this started as a crackship, but you know what? I can see those two getting together and I’m HOPING they will. Come on Sarah, make it happen. 👀

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With SJM's live being one week and a half away

Here is a teaser for what's coming in the next episode of the ACOTAR fandom drama:

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I'll continue shipping Gwynriel and people can keep on being mad about it 😌🤍

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PERIOD

Gwyn never talked deeply about her mother in Acosf because in the next book Gwyn will make Az talk about his mother after she opens up about her own mother

That's it

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One of my favs 🥺

Here's to Gwyn getting Azriel into Sellyn Drake's smutty novels 🤍 my latest *surprise* commission!

Artist credit: lucielart (link to art post here)

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There’s a tiny part of this fandom that can be really mean and it worries me. I love Gwyn in a way I can’t describe and what I’m going off here it’s not only because of that. I know she is just a character, after all, but the fact that people can’t empathize with her or show some respect for her backstory, refusing to try to understand what she had been through… it lets me down a little. Specifically because it may say a lot about the sorts of people that are part of this fandom (people without empathy, people who ignore trauma and spew hatred for no reason at all). I know we all read books for a millions different reasons, but what is the point of reading and not learning anything from that? ACOTAR taught us many lessons, some good, some not at all, but putting the good ones into practice could be a nice thing to do :)

When you think about it, with Gwyn growing up in such a remote temple, she probably never touched a male, nor was she probably touched by a male until the Hybern soldiers attacked Sangravah.

That would mean that in ACOSF Gwyn's only time being touched by a male was being forcibly held down on a table while she was being assaulted. And afterwards when Az tenderly wrapped her in his cloak.

And some people hate her either because of a stupid ship war or because she's best friends with Nesta.

This breaks my heart.

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There is Something about Mor that really did not click with me until acosf.

I probably should have guessed this when she was referred to as a "dreamer in a court of nightmares" but Mor is absolutely a "I'm not like other girls" type.

Like we always see her go one about the abuse in the court of nightmares to woman but we NEVER see her actually attempt to make policy changes to help the other girls who didn't get out.

It was Mors attitude with Nesta, a girl who was raised and indoctrinated in a similar environment, that I realized Mor doesn't really see herself as one of many girls victim to the courts sexism. She sees herself as special and different. Even though she was born there, even though she IS one of them, she "doesn't belong". She chooses to disassociate entirely with the other woman in the court of nightmares instead of seeing it as she is just the one who got away. Which is why it's so easy for her to antagonize Nesta instead of having empathy.

And the narrative fully supports this idea.

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https://www.instagram.com/p/CZABb79ITHs/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

This one is so so beautiful I’m breathless 😮‍💨🤎🤎 I love my bat girl

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A post shared by Sarah | Commissions open! ⇩ (@moonrosesxart)

all the credits on Instagram to @moonrosesxart

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The way most SJM readers are excited about House of Sky and Breath releasing and I don’t give a thing about it just because all I want and can think about is a Azriel book sooner makes me so pissed! I’m sorry Hunt, you’re not what I’m looking for right now 😭😭

p.s: I’m not bashing Crescent City series in any way. I really enjoyed the book, though.

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Cassian and Nesta - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Artist: @jbellartwork

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Time doesn’t feel the same anymore.

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ACOTAR Characters - Nesta Archeron

❝How the wind moans her name. Can you here it, too? Nesta, Nesta, Nesta. ❞

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Considering the theory about Gwyn’s construction as character be inspired by The Little Mermaid tale, this art reaches a new level of meaning. Delightful 💙

Gwynriel: Under the Sea 🌊

Starting the new year off with this lovely piece I commissioned by the talented Natalia Tezmoon. Click here for close ups. Natalia was truly a joy to work with. Her professionalism and special care/attention to details was everything I could hope for. She went above and beyond my expectations and I still can't get over this piece. 🤍🤍🤍

See below for shadows 👀