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Me reading Harry Potter for the first time at nearly 30 years old KNOWING why Snape kills Dumbledore but HATING HIM all the same for it.

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GwynWeek2025 | Day 1: Phoenix

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I have been broken once before

I survived it.

And I will not be broken again..

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- @gwynweekofficial

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Do you get it now? Without due process, everyone is at risk. How are you going to prove your citizenship otherwise?

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Raging flames kissed by shadows

A huge thank you to the wonderful @lucychanart I wanted Azriel to be portrayed as that big, powerful creature, Eris' attack dog, but the High Lord of Autumn doesn't really need a leash. It's a game between the two of them, a indulgence, but their relationship is much more than that.

Can you see all the details? I'm in love. Thank you so much again.

This piece accompanies a one-shot I wrote with that scene in mind, which you can read here.

Happy @azrisweek ❤️

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professors lovegood, longbottom and potter

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Around and around the darkness swirled, the beginning and end of the world. - ACOMAF, Chapter 38

Rhysand during his nightmare, half transformed into his beast form.

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I was lucky enough to discover the extremely unique and talented kat_kay_tee 💋🩵🖼 for this #gwynriel commission. Thank you so much for taking my fangirling and turning it into this 🗡

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Elain, the Seer 🌿🌸🌼

Elain is a character that carries so much mystery around her; why did she get seer powers? How is she going to develop in the next book? She seems calm and nice, but I can’t help but think that she hides incredible power. To be honest, I’m so excited to read more of her.

Done with Clip Studio Paint✏️

Art by me (don’t repost)

Character belongs to Sarah J. Maas

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““And you?” I made myself say. “Are you—all right?” Elain looked over a shoulder at me as we entered the foyer, then turned left— to the dining room. In the sitting room across the way, all conversation halted at the smell of food. “Why wouldn’t I be all right?” she asked, a smile lighting up her face. I'd seen those smiles before. On my own damn face.” (ACOFAS)

Just a small reminder that Elain isn’t “all right”. She is masking. She isn’t settled in the Night Court and thriving. She isn’t having a good time with her best friends.

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It’s honestly baffling how antis twist Azriel’s torment over the Elain-Lucien mating bond into a sign that he and Elain are meant to be.

In reality, it’s the complete opposite—and the text makes that clear if you’re actually paying attention.Azriel’s fixation on Elain isn’t born from love, emotional connection, or genuine chemistry.

It stems from symmetry. In his mind, it makes logical sense: three Archeron sisters, three Bat Boys. Rhys with Feyre, Cassian with Nesta… so naturally, shouldn’t Elain be his? That’s how he justifies his desire for her—because it would mean he finally gets a happy ending too. One that fits the pattern, one that makes him feel like he belongs and finally has love that he has been craving for centuries.

We were in Azriel’s head during the bonus chapter—and not once does he express true emotional depth toward Elain. There's no inner warmth, no soul-deep connection, no pull that mirrors what we’ve seen between established mates.

What we do see is a man desperately clinging to logic, trying to make sense of why he’s always left on the outside. It’s not love. It’s longing for belonging. It’s him projecting the idea of happiness onto someone who, by the laws of symmetry, should “complete” the trio.

But love doesn’t work like that.Love isn’t logical. Love doesn’t follow neat little patterns. And this is where Gwyn comes in. Even when Azriel is lost, heartbroken, emotionally guarded—he still begins to feel something real and warm toward her. Something organic.

His shadows, which are an extension of his subconscious, are drawn to her. That’s no accident.And if you compare it to how other mates in the series recognized their bonds—often when they were vulnerable, broken, or in pain—it fits the same emotional pattern. What Az feels around Gwyn is not a calculated idea of happiness; it’s instinctual, surprising, and emotionally driven.So no, his torment over Elain and Lucien’s bond isn’t some deep sign of a lost love. It’s a sign of dissonance.

He’s trying to force a connection where there isn’t one because he’s tired of being the odd one out. But with Gwyn, the connection is quietly building, even without a bond or symmetry to justify it.

That’s how real love works.

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the tragedy of Louella and LouLou

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He’s crying from all the neck pain at his old age :(

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Yall really be out here claiming Lucien Vanserra isn't going to be a romantic lead in a future book when Sarah J Maas literally wrote him to be the hardest romantic male in the entire series.

When she admitted to basing him off of one of the greatest and most beloved romantic leads in the past fifty(ish) years (and her own personal favorite romantic lead)- Jamie Fraiser

When she wrote him as being so devoted to a lesser fae lover that he-without hesitation-was going to throw away his position and privileges and any ambitions he may have had just to run away and be with her. When she wrote Lucien as thinking of Jesminda like he did literally centuries later.

When she wrote that he was a notorious rake but the moment his mate bond snapped with Elain he became capital D devoted to her and suddenly seemed to forget any other females even existed?

Yall really read all this and still think he's only gonna be a side character in someone else's story and/or is going to be the subject of a rejected mate bond story?

Clown behavior.

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“There you are, I’ve been looking for you.”

Rhysand & Feyre Archeron on Calamnai | A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

Illustration by AndieBurky on Instagram

*Do not steal/copy/print or reupload to any other platforms without permission. Reblogs appreciated!

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“Lucien laughed with Jurian about a rape joke made in Elains expense”.

My brother in Christ.

"I was fairly certain that only centuries of training kept Lucien from leaping over the table to rip out Jurian's throat." ACOWAR Ch. 2, Feyre's internal monologue observing Lucien directly after Jurian made the comment.

You couldn’t pay me to look this goofy.

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"Easy," Lucien said. Cassian snarled. "Easy," Lucien repeated, and flame sizzled in his russet eye. The flame, the surprising dominance within it, hit Cassian like a stone to the head, knocking him from his need to kill and kill and kill whatever might threaten-

Lucien Van fucking Serra showing the markers of a Highlord in the making!

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✨ 𝓔𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓘𝓵𝓵𝔂𝓻𝓲𝓪 ✨

Excited to share this beautiful piece by isnanaun for @emerieweekofficial ! I love the idea of each of the Valkyries getting their own Pegasus and this one chose Emerie. What do you think their name is?

No reposts without permission and do not use this art for anti content please.

Characters belong to SJM.

IG post can be found here.

Artist: Isnanaun

Commissioner: Misery.Reads