Offer and permission.

pro Elain Archeron and Elriel “Light and dark, the space between their bodies a blend of the two.” 💙🩷

[sydneymack]

Nessian, Elriel and Feysand - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Artist: @/diielliee

[mortalfae7]

Considering that the new merch (dropped before covers) has details from the covers

I assume that the same merch also knows who the main cast of the books is 🤭

[bolinhoelriel]

My older brother is an artist, and I asked him to analyze the cover drawing. I think yall are going to like this:

The spider is hanging or suspended from above by the thread, like it's trapped. The spider's head has petal-like pattern, like roses, and its legs have thorns. The spider looks like it's made - its body is covered by thread too. The eight-pointed star symbolizes infinity, eternity, regeneration and connection between heaven and earth, and catches the eye of anyone looking at the drawing because of the position, the sharp form and the light color amidst the black. The spider has two eyes and also three eyes on its head - the third eye (divine perception, transcending ordinary vision, seeing beyond) The spider is unraveling the thread from the source (spool) like it's deciding its own fate. It looks like a black widow spider - the female black widow spider is known for killing her male partner after mating.

The symbolism of the spider: the weaving of destiny, feminine power and independence, patience and strategic intelligence, subconscious, secrets and hidden knowledge, sensitivity, perceptual awareness, observer, seeing what others don't notice, hidden behind shadows, resilience, renewal, rebirth.

ELAIN'S POV IS COMING

SHE IS THE SPIDER LET'S FUCKING GOOOO

[merymoonbeam]

Acotar coloring book - Covers

While looking at the coloring book I noticed something. These are papa Archeron's ships. Feyre Elain and Nesta. But look at the symbols.

Feyre = moon and stars

Nesta = sun

Elain = Eight pointed star

What's important is...those symbols are in the covers.

Acosf:

Acofm:

Is it just a coincidence? Or is there more?

Especially bc I theorized that archerons might come from the line of the female fae warrior who trapped koschei...and this coloring book page is papa archeron coming back from a bargain he made with koschei in order to release Vassa? Is it connected somehow? 👀👀👀

[acourtofquietdreamers]

SJM had Gwyn write a book about the Valkyries, is the first Valkyrie reborn, tell us “Our stories are worth telling” and now we have a trilogy about The Valkyrie Cycle

That is SJM telling us Gwyn and her story is next and there’s nothing Elriels can do about it besides bully SJM’s friend. Gwynriel is endgame. And BB just confirmed it 🎶🩵

Interesting because I don’t see Gwyn mentioned anywhere in the blurb.

Will the Valkyries play a role in this story? Absolutely! Will the Inner Circle as well? Obviously because the blurb says so clear as day.

The issue with Gwynriels is you see anything involving music and the Valkyries and think it confirms your ship when that isn’t the case at all. Gwyn is not guaranteed a POV or a romantic arc. If I had to guess, the Valkyrie’s journey will be told through Nesta’s POV. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens!

[cassianfanclub]

Funny how suddenly everyone is on board with the Valkyrie Cycle taking inspiration from Wagner’s Ring Cycle after shitting on Elriels about this for the past 72 hours….

If you didn’t have Elriel theories to poach, what would you talk about?

[shadowyfawn]

Feyre/Rhys mention in the French blurb! FEYSAND COME HOME

[ofduskcourts]

Lucien has to be the one to invoke the Blood Duel, as far as anything we know so far goes. It's not a Night Court tradition and, as far as we know, Elain isn't Azriel's mate, so he doesn't have a "right" to invoke it in the first place. IF the leaks/rumors are true, and we get at least one Lucien POV + conflict between Az and Lucien, it makes sense to me that that POV would be used to at least call the Blood Duel before the end of Book6. I'm torn on whether we actually see that in Book 6, or if we'll even see it in whole at all (I think there are several moving parts that could step in at more or less the last moment to call it off, whether that's a Helion-is-Lucien's-father reveal, a reveal that the mating bond is more complicated than they thought, or some other big event happening that pushes the duel itself off), but I do think we're going to see it in some form.

[acourtofquietdreamers]

Agree with this! I think it could more so be used as a threat that causes alliances to crumble even more. The IC will have external issues to deal with, but also issues between each other. The Nesta/Rhys drama from HOFAS already showed some divide and lines being drawn and this would just push everyone even more over the edge.

[shadowedpetals]

If the leaks are true and Azriel really will have a fight with Lucien, it means that:

1. When Azriel told Rhys he couldn’t order him to stay away from Elain, he wasn’t bluffing.

2. The talk about the Night Court’s recent betrayals and revealed truths suggests that something big happened... maybe someone invoked/will invoke the Blood Duel? 👀👀

3. Azriel defeating Lucien with "little effort" would completely tear apart any peace and alliances with the Autumn & Spring Courts + Jurian and Vassa:

4. Azriel indeed went panting after Elain again :

Which means that my babies have been misbehaving and "randomly started a war." But sure, their relationship doesn’t fall into the category of forbidden love. 🙂‍↔️

[cassianfanclub]

The new BB promo is giving “hope shining in the void” and “hope can be spun from the darkest of shadows” 🥹

[adifferentsortofstrength]

[merymoonbeam]

You know what’s funny?

Antis always talk about how Azriel feels entitled when the guy is just questioning why the female he has feelings for is mated to another...

And we have these in acowar and in the bonus..

This is from acowar. Feyre and Rhys are talking about Blood Duel.

Some believe they are entitled to the female

And in the bonus Rhys says this.

As he sees fit

I don’t know which way Sarah will go with this but it is implied in the text that Lucien could feel entitled to Elain... just saying.

And I don’t think it’s far off when we have this scene in acowar.

[merymoonbeam]

This became relevant again...

Also adding these

What you think you're owed

She is my mate

A mate already going wild to defend what was his

"Lucien doesnt feel entitled".... THE TEXT SAYS OTHERWISE GET OUT OF HERE. It even uses the word entitled....

These people read these books with their eyes closed.

[merymoonbeam]

LEMME REBLOG THIS BC HOLY HELL PEOPLE CANT READ

[pagemasters]

DID BLOOMSBURY JUST CONFIRMED THE OPERA THEORY?

So I’m scrolling on ig and a theory video pops up and I see someone I follow already liked it and my jaw dropped because what do you mean BLOOMSBURY LIKED A THEORY VIDEO?????

Since when does the official Bloomsbury account like theory videos???? Is this a normal thing they’ve done and I just missed it??? She’s a smaller creator with under 2k followers too so it’s unlikely it would’ve been put on their feed unless they went searching for it or maybe they were looking in the hashtags idk. There’s no mention of ships/acotar characters in it it’s a more neutral video but very cool and she’s very informative, I also I took a screen recording in case Bloomsbury removes their like

[thesunlovesthestar]

elain and azriel, forbidden lovers

[ofduskcourts]

ANON SAID: hey, I‘ve been an silent Elriel Follower here on Tumblr for a few years. I just wanted to ask if the names who are floating Right now are just inner Circle and not Valkyrie? I would also not be frightened if Elain POV isn’t in ACOTAR 6 but find it a little bit disheartening that we would have to wait until January but I still trust in SJM and in Elriel being endgame. 🫶

All Inner Circle! And one other, but not a Valkyrie 👀 .

Being disappointed/disheartened about potentially not getting an Elain POV right away is totally normal and understandable, and I feel that, too! I just think it actually logically lines up with where it seems the book is gonna start in the timeline, and that it may actually open up more of Book 7.

[mabevil]

every POV being directly connected to elain, i’m smiling 🫶

[tragiclore]

The fact that we see Azriel lose control for the very first time in that bonus chapter. Like he took so many precautions—dude stopped spying on her, going against his nature. Stopped going to family dinners. Stared at a piece of hers for a year to convince himself that was enough. Often frequented the training ring at night to get thoughts of her off his mind. So he could sleep. Goddamn jerked off to her memory if only he could flush her out of his system. Deliberately stood by the door on Solstice if it got too much. Moved literal HOUSES so he could maintain distance. Imperviousness. Control.

But it wasn’t enough.

He. Couldn’t. Stay. Away.

[elainsvisions]

Hey Gwynriels!

I’m currently blocked by this poster and honestly, I don’t care that they posted my description. What I do care about is the insinuation that I have ever doxxed/threatened to dox anyone or made claims about killing SJM's kids on Reddit.

I’m not attacking you for anything she has said, but if you can, I’d really appreciate it if you could set the record straight, I don’t think it’s fair for that implication to be left unchallenged. ❤️