#it doesn't take a genius to understand Elain's character

[shitwillnotbegiven]

People really think Elain is leaving the Night court to go to the Spring court and that she is going end up with T*mlin 🤢 or with L*cien 😬.

You can really see they don't understand Elain's character or what she wants. They didn't pay attention to the books and now they resume Elain to flowers.

Isolating Elain in another court and putting her with her sister's abuser or with a man she doesn't like isn't SJM's plan. They don't care about Elain and it shows.

#elriel #elain archeron #azriel #acotar 5 #acotar reddit #it doesn't take a genius to understand Elain's character #we may not have her pov yet but you can clearly see what she wants if you pay attention to what she says #it's not that complicated #it's just a lot of wishful thinking because they don't want Elain to end up with Azriel #anti eluc*en #anti t*mlain

[bookofmirth]

what is your opinion on how sjm portrayed nesta and elain in that first chapter of acotar? obviously i understand feyre needed to have a tragic backstory with an evil family but sometimes i wish sjm fleshed it out a little more.

obviously feyre took on the most dangerous job and she was the youngest. but hunting isn’t enough to keep a household running. i wish sjm spoke more about who was doing the more lady like chores. like who was cleaning? because if feyre says she would spend all day out hunting and then painting or sleeping and their father wouldn’t move then i’d assume elain or nesta were doing it. if feyre says in acomaf that she can’t cook and elain learns to cook in acofas then i’d have to assume nesta was doing the cooking?

even nesta dating tomas who would take in her and elain and feed them should have been expanded on by sjm. since nesta tells feyre in that first chapter that she’ll marry him and she’ll no longer be a burden to feyre so she was doing something, even if it wasn’t the most useful but you can kind of see finding herself a husband is what she was taught as a girl.

i feel like sjm won’t expand much on their lives in the cottage other than feyre hunting in nesta’s and elains books because it takes away from feyre’s tragic childhood? does that make sense? anyway i always find it strange that we’re just supposed to accept than nesta and elain sat on a couch and stared at a wall for 5 years while feyre ran an entire household by hunting?

Ha, these are all very good points. I imagine Elain and Nesta whining and fighting and being petty for 15 hours a day, and then scheduling 1 hour a day to complain to Feyre about how they just don't feel like chopping wood, and maybe 6 hours for sleeping (it probably wasn't very comfy) and then the remaining 2 hours were spent with Nesta being mad that none of their society friends were talking to them anymore, while Elain tended her sad lil garden.

At least, that's how I think sjm would have us imagine them in acotar/acomaf.

I think a lot of this comes down to this series honestly, just not being that deep. She does random stuff because it seems neat at the moment. She doesn't plan. The way that people act like she's such a genius and doesn't ever do anything unintentionally 😅 are you kidding? She's just vibing. This whole series is just her vibing with some aesthetics while getting really into a couple of characters at a time.

I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't expand on the cabin time either. In Elain's book I assume that she'll talk more about the Archeron parents but... sjm is definitely focusing on characters and relationships above all else. If it's not a romantic relationship or a life-altering friendship, then it's a blip. Maybe that's why her villains are always so meh...

Their characterization does make sense with the fairy tale vibe that she had going in acotar that has since fallen by the wayside: for Elain to be the Nice but Clueless One, while Nesta is the Mean One. Which is another thing - the whole Beauty and the Beast thing was there as a starting point, for the vibes, and she has long since abandoned that foundation of fairy tale retellings because? She doesn't plan, maybe? Because she got bored with the idea? All it tells me is that tbh, I think the fandom thinks way harder about these things than she does, just in the sense that once the book has been written and published, she's on to the next shiny object.

#sjm critical #ask #anon #acotar #nesta #elain