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Notice how SJM's males are miserable assholes for centuries, but it's chalked up as them being traumatized and broody.

Meanwhile, Nesta's a miserable asshole for a handful of years, and it's chalked up as her being toxic and abusive.

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A Coiffure of Eris Vanserra

Give Eris Vanserra the hair of your wildest dreams!! Short hair! Long hair! Marilyn Monroe hair!! In advance of @erisweekofficial, YOU get to draw your favorite hairstyle on our favorite sassy heir with the Coiffure of Eris Vanserra template!!

You can download the template (plus a template with a hairline guide, or a blank template where you can draw your own Eris) here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/fc3zz7paloq8qolo1wvdi/AHBS4oFvZGy3e_HflUKG6rQ?rlkey=y5drb2eor9ejkgp11vldg0fwg&st=sdkgsyop&dl=0

Here's an example of what I drew on the template. I blame/credit @wrraccountant for the Klingon one (you know what you did you brilliant genius).

Let your (well-coifed) imagination go wild!!

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Thanks for the tag @makinglongwordsslutty darling xx

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Tomorrow Can Wait

pairing: Eris x Azriel | @erisweekofficial | day one; bonds

summary: being high lord is hard

authors note: this is my first character x character work so I chose to make it a drabble. Im not exactly sure this qualifies for bonds, but I thought it did. Happy eris week everyone!

C/w: pre-established relationship

Eris heard rustling from behind him as he read letters from his freshly displaced nobles, complaints about new living circumstances seemed incoherent and miniscule in his exhausted state.

In the middle of rereading this paragraph for the ninth time, two familiar and gentle hands rest on his shoulders. The deep, gravely voice of his mate perpetrated his mind; "Come to bed, my love."

Eris let out a grumble in protest to the request, "I need to finish reading and responding to these letters by tomorrow, this can't be set aside, Azriel."

He felt Azriel gently embrace him from behind, his breath tickling his ear as he felt the shimmering golden thread between them pulse with worry.

He silently stood up and intertwined his hand with Azriel's as his mate hauls him to bed, gently helping him lay down.

He groaned in relief at the feeling of being in his shared bed, his back popping with the kinks and coils of the day. He cuddled up to his mate, to tired for slinking away from vulnerability. So he pressed their foreheads together, breaths intermingled as he tugged on the bond.

Wordlessly assuring his mate, that tomorrow can wait.

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so i love nesta + eris, but how do you think nesta + lucien would have been as a couple ?? what are your thoughts?

I think they would have been a great couple. Like sure, SJM said that they'd 'tear each other apart and not in a good way' and im like... i don't actually care what SJM has to say on the matter when she paired Nesta with a man who's day got better watching her hurt herself. Like if Cassian is the better option? ....sure.

I think Lucien and Nesta would have been such a phenomenal couple. They can bond over reading and being the sassiest couple in the room and being the most hated people in the room. Like,,, the ic doesn't like either of them and i think they would understand each other so well

i think nesta really would have found her stride with lucien and the band of exiles- creating a space for humans and fae. Lucien could help nesta hold onto the piece of her that is human instead of trying to make her something she isnt.

I like to think about them taking walks and observing and judging other people quietly to themselves. Idk! idk! I just think they'd be so good together you know??

But also right now the bar is literally in hell with Cassian

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A little 4k-ish story for anyone interested— loosely following Shrike by Hozier. Soft Azris plagues my every waking moment, I’m sorry.

Summary:

Eris is hurt when Azriel will not defend him against the inner circle. Azriel realizes he's been a fool and wants to make things right.

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From The Collected Annals of Autumn Court Culture and History:

Fireworks are a long standing Autumn Court tradition. More commonly known as Sky Fire, gifted firelings can set them off through focused magic alone.

Others, like Autumn tinkerers, alchemists, and pyromancers, rub magicked powders into their hands and collectively release flames. The desired effect is a tableau of color and noise against a darkened horizon.

Sky Fire’s true origins are lost to history, but the accepted lore is that Autumn’s second High Lord had conjured it after entering a magical wager with a Spring princess. He promised her that Autumn possessed the “most exquisite blooms in all of Prythian—flowers that lit up the darkness.”

They were wed soon after.

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Fireworks differ in shape, size and trajectory. Some are named for Autumn Court fauna: Dahlia, Chrysanthemum and Willow. Other common shapes include Candles and Horsetails—

There are unsubstantiated rumors that the Lady of Autumn created a type of Sky Fire known as Lady’s Brocade. It can be identified by its absence of noise and lacy, floral pattern.

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Younglings train with rudimentary Sky Magic known as sparklers. Peeled twigs, willow withies, or reeds are dipped in white powders then wielded during celebrations and holidays.

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Over the years, fireworks have been weaponized. Weilded against or aimed at a threat, Sky Fire creates havoc on the battlefield. It can destabilize an entire army when used effectively.

Eris Vanserra is criticized by some (lauded by others) for his rare use of Sky Fire. It is the general’s stance that, “This magic represents Autumn’s beauty and should be used as a last resort: in defense of our Court and fae.”

The most recent (sanctioned) use of Sky Fire can be traced to the destruction of Hybern’s fae bane caches. This was during the final battle of the Second War on Hybern.

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Still on my Sam Reid rampage. White pastel pencil/conté on black paper. Which is always kind of a mindfuck when you're used to working black on white but that is probably good for you? Surely. So this drawing staved off mental decline. Thanks Sam! Although if you knew what I'm doing with my faculties you might regret having contributed to their preservation.

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Leviathan, Bound: Chapter 13

The next chapter's up on AO3.

Things are very confusing with their two individual missions and all this delicious forced proximity. Here, have a drawing to celebrate!

I'm fond of the black and white version too except I mucked up my layers and accidentally faintly colourised Azriel's hair. Curses! One day I will take off my Digital Training Wheels but that day has not yet come.

Anyway, enjoy the chapter, in which everybody's missions move ahead at pace, heh heh.

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red death🩸

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eris vanserra being young and small and wondering why his mother cannot quite bear to hold him. (he doesn’t know it yet, but he — more than being betrothed to beron, more than getting married, more than conception — has sealed her fate. the first born boy. the heir. she is now the mother of a baby beron will ruin, and she can never leave him, but she can never save him. the illusion of choice is taken from her in his first breath.) eris vanserra watching the same thing happen with every baby after him; kept at arm’s reach, left to governesses and wet nurses and tutors, chaste smoothing of hair and infrequent kisses to the crowns of heads but no more. (he was so excited for the first brother and incrementally less so with each subsequent. he knew what his father would turn them into; he knew that his mother would not be able to love them.) ((in this way, he is not so unlike his mother, even if he cannot understand her.)) eris vanserra having to mold himself in his father’s image to be able to protect his mother and thus incurring more of his mother’s disgust.

eris vanserra being an adult and watching his mother cradle the final brother, lucien, to her chest like he is something precious, like he is something sacred. eris vanserra still not understanding what made him different at birth than this brother, what made him unlovable. (he knows why she does not love him now, himself seeing only his father in the mirror anymore, but he still cannot quite figure out why she did not love him then.) ((even when he does find out, he will not understand, not fully. he did not choose his sire; she did. how is it his fault that he carries beron’s blood and lucien is fortunate enough not to?)) (((even so, he knows that lucien needs to be protected at all costs. he has never seen his mother so happy, and that is all he has ever wanted for her.)))

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Another Azris piece because...I wanted to ☝🏽😎

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Me: writes two mildly mediocre therapeutic poems about our absolute hurricane of the past year

My husband: “These are phenomenal you should publish them!”

An actual direct quote. Love him.

Adore my optimistic Samwise who thinks that almost everything I do it a stroke of genius painted in gold leaf.

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I cannot tell you how long this has been sitting in my drafts…

I’m obsessed with Nesta 😭😭

✧ Please do not repost or use with AI ✧

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For Cassian Appreciation week, a short treatise on my History of Drawing Cassian.

The first Cass I ever drew in a delightfully music-and-beer-fuelled nine hour drawing session that covered the entire table with pictures. Based on a random guy watching some sort of sports-ball game. I don't hate him but he's far too saintly looking. Someone called him Sexy Jesus. Fair. It's not Cass.

2. Same loud, beery drawing frenzy. Seven Lessons Baby Cass in Windhaven. Thank you Henry Cavill for your stupidly impressive bone structure, you are the Swiss Army Knife of drawing references (@mistandmemories I think you said that once and how right you were).

3. Did I even use a reference for this one? Can't remember. Anyway he's getting a bit of Cass's cheekiness so things are improving but the anatomy's off and it's always irritated me. Only time I bothered with even a nod to his tatts. Too much detail for lazy me.

4. Random fast scribble because I think about his arms way too much but this nose is allllll wrong and he's giving super redneck Caucasian vibes somehow. I like his right elbow though?

5. Clean shaven for a change. I like to think of this Cass as a post-Nova version trying to be all sharp and courtly for his new love but not quite managing it. Started out as a little exercise in drawing from a lower angle but oops, turned into a Cass. I do like this guy, he's still on my wall.

6. The one at the top of this post. Probably my favourite to date because he looks so full of affection and humour. Can Yaman as reference. Here's how he developed:

So basically he never looks the same twice but I do enjoy rolling him around in my imagination. Anyway, thanks Cass. I appreciate you. X

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Warm-up piece today is Azris because we're all unwell and NEED this to happen

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Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Dorothy Brett featured in The Letters & Journals of Katherine Mansfield