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It's really as simple as murder boi staying up till 3am to listen to gentle girl talk about something he gives 0 fucks about.

That's the nonsensical shit you do when hopelessly falling for someone who just naturally feels like home.

#elriel #azriel #i want what they have

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They are literally my Roman Empire

I’m sorry this is one of my Roman empires.

Can you imagine, sweet Elain, clutching her fork like a weapon when the massive Illyrian soldier Cassian sits beside her??

And Az noticing and smirking to himself like aw that’s cute 🫠🥺

Then Cassian’s glare as AZRIEL is the one to respond

And then Mr. Azriel Allen Poe

Like Elain isn’t stupid. She knows they can fly, like, they have wings duh. But it was to keep the conversation going. To learn more about him.

Notice how he isn’t quick to end the convo and turn to something else?

My Roman Empire 😭

#eriel

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Stars Eternal and Night Triumphant ✨🌌

Lady Death and the Lord of Bloodshed ⚔️🩸

The Lovely Fawn and Death 🌹🗡

Art by: @eospaint ❤️

#LOVE THIS #elriel

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I am 63% of the way through Part 1 of ACOSF on the graphic audio (it's 32% in the full ebook). I just got past the scene where Nesta snaps at Elain and says something along the lines of "You're finally becoming interesting." I don't know if I just don't remember this being mentioned before or if it has genuinely been glossed over in the fandom but... Elain offered to find the dread trove? She just came in and said she'd do it? There was no hesitation from her.

I don't recall hearing about this and I feel like this alone is so telling of her character and her future that surely someone would have pointed it out already. I mostly see people posting about her response to Nesta, calling her sister out, but not about the fact that she said she'd look for the dread trove. Actually, it seems like Elain was determined to track it down before Nesta even stepped into the meeting, based on Feyre's response.

Elain has grown so much since being made. How do people find her boring? She wants to be an active part of the Night Court and the world around her. Better yet, she is not backing down from Nesta's wrath, she is holding her ground. She is not weak just because she is soft. Her willingness to fight, in her own way, tells me of her strength, and of the potential for her to be a main character.

I am so excited for her book, I want to tear my skin off.

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Antis: “Elain and Azriel won’t end up together she can’t have his babies!!!! Nesta didn’t change her for a reason!”“SJM bRoUgHt Up GwYnS pLiAnT bOnEs To ShOw ShE CaN HaVe AzRiElS kIdS”GWYNRIEL COMFIRMED!!

✨Literally Sarah J Maas in Hofas: “You're chattel to them.To the Autumn King, to Morven, to your dad. Your only value comes from your breeding potential. They don't give a f**k if you're smart or brave or kind. They only want you for your uterus, and Luna spare you if you have any troubles with it. "And you're cool with it?" Bryce countered, unable to stop the sharpness in her voice. "You're cool with being used and treated like that? Like you're lesser than them?” Page 483✨

I love how she shuts misogynistic theories down. It’s almost like shes about empowering women and think they are worth so much more than just their breeding potential. ❤️

LIKE WE HAVE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG

#antigwynriels

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Elain is not leaving the night court. The answer is in HOFAS.

Big spoilers

Consider the infamous “the blackness seemed to diminish Elain” quote that everyone likes to use, per Cassians POV.

Now consider Elain’s association to the Mother, and how the Asteri poisoned certain landscapes with borderline vampiric “tools” to help feed them, and it’s POTENT in Hewn City. (Proof? Vesperus tells us that monsters converge on these Asteri hot spots and we know for a fact they’re swarming in Hewn City per Bryce’s experience in the torture dungeons)

What Bryce did in HOFAS to awaken Avallen, whose beating heart she could hear through the stones, is a potential parallel to what Elain can do for these poisoned Asteri pockets of land in the night court, to reawaken them and drive out the darkness.

#elriel #the prison

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Look, look at the build up, the crazy tension, we're just waiting for them to jump and kiss each other 😍:

“I want to see her. Just once. Just—to know.” “To know what?” He hitched my damp cloak higher around us. “If she is worth fighting for.”

But there she was. His mate. She was nothing like Jesminda..... She had chosen him. Elain had been … thrown at him.

Elain blinked slowly. “You were in Hybern.” “Yes.” It was all he could say. “You betrayed us.”

I nudged Elain, who blinked at me, then blurted, “You could come to Velaris.” He saw all of it, but nodded graciously. “It would be my pleasure.”

He hadn’t mentioned Elain, or his proximity to her. Elain had not asked him to stay, or to go. And whether she cared about the bruises on his face, she certainly hadn’t let on.

Elain, at least, would be too polite to send Lucien away when he wanted to help. She was too polite to send him away on a normal day. She just ignored him or barely spoke to him until he got the hint and left.

How Lucien withstood it, I didn’t know. Not that he’d shown any interest in bridging that gap between them.

“You’re welcome to stay for the night,” I said, since Elain certainly wasn’t going to. Lucien lowered his hands into his lap and leaned back in the armchair. “Thank you, but I have other plans.” I prayed he didn’t catch the slightly relieved glimmer on Elain’s face.

My sister rose to her feet. “I should get refreshments.” Lucien rose as well. “No need to trouble yourself. I’m—” But she was already out of the room.

Give her time to accept it.” “To accept a life shackled to me?” My nostrils flared. “That’s not what I meant.” “She wants nothing to do with me.” (hope antis would also get the hint lol)

“Spend time with her.”“I don’t think she’ll tolerate two minutes alone with me, so forget about two weeks.”

“He brought you a present.” Those doe-brown eyes turned toward me. Sharper than I’d ever seen them. "And that entitles him to my time, my affections?”.... “He cares for you.” “He doesn’t know me.” “You don’t give him the chance to even try to do so.” Her mouth tightened, the only sign of anger in her graceful countenance. “I don’t want a mate. I don’t want a male.”

Elain only shrank further into herself, no trace of that newfound boldness to be seen.

Her brown eyes were wary. Usually, that look was reserved for Lucien.

Elain, the wretch, had taken the seat between Feyre and Varian, about as far from Lucien as she could get.

It's crazy how antis try to twist things. If there is a couple who will look like two dolls forced to kiss, it's Elain and Lucien.

I don’t know why they act like they don't know it's Rhys who ordered Az to stop, that there was very high tension and chemistry between him and Elain, that she gave him 'Offer and permission.' Later on, he was questioning the pot from which the world was born. The next day, he was putting rocks in snowballs and throwing them at Rhys. At the training, he was aloof and didn't even smile at Nesta. This is the forbidden love, you can't have the kiss in a bonus chapter, we have to see the tension, the yearning, the charged glances and the brush of fingers that sjm talked about. Antis are just deluding themselves further and I fear the fall will be a bit hard.

#cries #elriel

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Azriel can’t sleep because he’s thinking about Elain .

Azriel trains at night because he can’t stop thinking about Elain .

Azriel doesn’t go to family dinners because of Elain .

Azriel doesn’t see his family anymore because Of Elain .

Azriel stays away from Elain because he feels too much for her and can’t stand the smell of her mating bond.

Azriel pleasures himself at night because he can’t stop thinking about Elain .

Azriel wants Elain so bad that his bones tighten.

Azriel was in pain on solstice at the sight of Elain and Lucien .

Azriel moved out of the river house because he was afraid that he was going to make a move or confess his feelings to Elain ( very similar to what cassian was about to do with Nesta ).

Azriel’s willing to do a blood dual for Elain and risk his life again for her .

Azriel’s razor sharp thoughts stop when he’s around Elain just like Nesta’s sharp thoughts stop around cassian.

Azriel questioned fate for Elain.

Azriel is insecure of his scars but when he touched Elain’s neck she leaned into him not being bothered by his scars .

Azriel wants Elain and he’s willing to go over Rhys’s head to be with her .

Azriel wants to be with Elain despite her having a mate .

Azriel was willing to kiss Elain even though he mate was upstairs.

Azriel is willing to risk everything for Elain.

Azriel stared at the headache power that Elain gave him for a whole year

How can you say he wants her for sex when he does all this. This man is in love with her and there’s no doubt about it , no one can tell me otherwise( it was dumb to expect a love confession in a bonus chapter).

If you don’t like Elriel please scroll, this is not for you .

#elriel #i love them #i miss them

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HOFAS spoiler*

Nesta finally getting the parental love she has longed for her entire life!!!!

I don’t care what you think about Nesta! Let her have this!!! 😭

#nesta #my baby girl

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Cutest Elriel commission I’ve seen in a while! 😭 Look at him playing with her hair!!!

Commissioned by: rizzo.reads88

#elriel #i miss them

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Interesting that Rowan doesn’t play the piano.

And Rhysand doesn’t paint.

And Cassian doesn’t read romance novels.

And Hunt doesn’t dance.

A character’s love interest does not need to share their hobbies to be compatible, but it is a big positive when they show interest in their partner’s hobbies. Kinda reminds me of when Azriel chose to stay up till 3am to listen to Elain’s gardening plans. How he willing took Feyre’s place and said he would help set Elain up in the garden. How he sits with Elain in comfortable quiet enjoying the sunshine within the garden.

But please, keep preaching about how two characters singing makes them endgame material.

#elriel #i miss them

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“Please,” Azriel said, his gaze now on her hands. On the Starsword—and on Truth-Teller. Something like panic filled his hazel eyes.

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reasons why Elriel is endgame because it’s so goddamn obvious

Elain starting a conversation with Azriel (because he seemed the most approachable to her) during their dinner at the Archeron Estate.

Elain wearing a cobalt blue dress (matching the color of Azriel’s siphons) when the mortal Queens came to visit.

Azriel sitting with Elain in the garden, arguably the one who spent the most time with her during a time she wasn’t speaking to anyone after turning Fae.

Azriel being the only one who figured there was something more to what Elain was saying in regards to her visions and then being the one to figure out she is a Seer.

Feyre asking Rhys why Azriel and Elain couldn’t be mates, wondering if Azriel is who she needs.

Azriel being the one to realize Elain was missing when Hybern kidnapped her, and him being dead set on rescuing her.

Elain saying “you came for me” when he and Feyre found her.

Elain being the only person Azriel allowed to use Truth-Teller in all of the centuries he has had it.

DEATH AND THE LOVELY FAWN!!!! DARK AND LIGHT!!! DEATH AND LIFE!!!

Azriel not wanting to keep tabs on Lucien because it would be an invasion of Elain’s privacy.

Azriel sitting with Elain late into the night, listening to her plans for the garden.

Elain buying presents for Azriel on Solstice, but never buying them for Lucien.

Azriel staying up at night, staring at the first gift Elain gave him.

Elain finds Azriel approachable, someone she can talk to (and obviously has feelings for), but shrinks into herself and becomes quiet whenever Lucien is around.

Azriel subtly defending Elain when Amren snapped at her during dinner in ACOFAS (“I’d feel bad for the mice).

Feyre noting multiple times that Elain moves quietly, is a good secret keeper (foreshadowing Elain becoming a spy)

Elain’s best friends are Nuala and Cerridwen aka the spies for the Night Court aka Azriel’s spies

Rhysand trained Feyre, Cassian trained Nesta. . . Azriel is going to train Elain.

Azriel following the sound of Elain’s laugh. Something charged passing through the air (Nesta notices) when their eyes meet.

THEIR ALMOST KISS???? HELLO???

Azriel being in a shitty mood after Solstice when Rhys forbade him from being near Elain

Azriel asking “what happened to Elain?” when Cassian mentions the argument between her and Nesta.

Azriel’s shadows being ready to strike at Nesta when she said to Elain “maybe you’ll become interesting after all.”

Nesta knowing why Azriel stayed far from Elain and Lucien during Solstice because he could smell their mating bond and it made him sick enough to stay far away.

Elain immediately wanting to wear the necklace Azriel got her, meanwhile she obviously rejects/dislikes the gifts Lucien has bought for her.

It’s 3 brothers (the bat boys) and 3 sisters (the Archerons). 3 mountain peaks. 3 items in the Trove. 3 is a big number for SJM. You don’t think that has any significance?? Think again!

The cauldron has been said to be corrupted. Mor has mentioned it, Azriel questioned if the cauldron was wrong, and (SPOILER) its corruption is noted in House of Flame and Shadow, too. There’s a chance it fucked up (or maliciously formed) the mating bond for Elain.

Whether or not Elain’s real mate is Azriel, her bond with Lucien brings up the idea of rejecting the mating bond. There’s a reason SJM had Feyre asking Rhys if mating bonds can be rejected. Elain’s choices have been stripped from her, time and time again. No control over her life since her family lost their fortune, turning Fae against her will, losing Grayson.

SJM has said her books are about the female protagonists finding their agency. Elain’s book is going to be about that, obviously, and rejecting the bond with Lucien and CHOOSING Azriel is no doubt going to be a part of that. Along with whatever SJM has in store for Elain.

Feysand are Night Triumphant and Stars Eternal. Nessian are Lord of Bloodshed and Lady Death. Elriel are Death and the Lovely Fawn. There’s a reason SJM has these titles. You gotta be blind not to see it.

anyways! if you can’t see how all of this is gonna lead to an Elriel endgame then i feel sorry for you

also back in 2021 when we were all in lockdown and i had nothing better to do (and because i am a writer and a little insane) i wrote a whole essay after ACOSF was published explaining why i think Elriel is endgame (i’m pretty sure i use all of the points here in the essay) and if you wanna read my musings that are all derived from fact you can read it here!!!!!

#hello??? #did not stutter once #elriel endgame #Elriel

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HOFAS WALMART BONUS CHAPTER

#hofas bonus chapter #hofas #hofas spoilers

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ANASTASIA (1997)

Dir. Don Bluth + Gary Goldman

#anastasia #♥️♥️♥️

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Why are Elriels ignoring this? I thought Lucien was never supposed to be w Elain and it always been Azriel. No?

LMAOOOO

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Elucien’s after today’s SJM interview