I am a god.

Mostly SJM, romance novels, other book thoughts. Mor Stan Blog.

[thombalan]

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[catcher-in-the-reeds]

The Judgment of Paris

by SanioDigitalArt

[acourtdelaluna]

Azriel went wholly still, as if he, too, had felt the shift. As if he, too, were aware that far larger forces peered into that training ring as Gwyn moved.” - Chapter 60, ACOSF

Gwyn cutting the ribbon is one of the defining moments of her journey. It represents perseverance, strength, and doing what once seemed impossible. And who witnesses that moment? FATE AND AZRIEL

Az has been there; helping her with the beam. Watching her become stronger. Watching her challenge herself. Watching her cut the ribbon with the same hands that once needed his help.

That is such an important distinction to me and how SJM writes her true endgame couples.

Azriel doesn’t remain Gwyn’s rescuer. He becomes someone who witnesses her becoming her own

And then Nesta calls him her next ribbon and Azriel’s shadows, the part of himself everyone else fears, distrusts, or wants gone; dance with Gwyn, answer her breath, and sing in response to her.

SJM could have removed Az from being present when Gwyn cut that ribbon. She could have used any joke to tease Azriel. She could have written Azriel’s shadows behaving around Gwyn exactly as they behave around everyone else. But SJM is always very obvious when she wants to be; on top of her talking about the bonus in excitement, sealed the deal for me (which has a call back to Azriel helping her learn how to cut the ribbon)

This is another art I’ve held onto for more than a year, but so excited to finally share it with you all today, knightfallart thank you for this stunning piece! I love everything about it!

Please do not repost, edit or feed to AI.

@gwynrielweeksofficial

[compassion4companions]

[knownqueerbaiter]

idk who needs to hear this but it’s healthier for you to just accept that you’re gonna be kinda fat than it is to live the rest of your life miserably trying to monitor yourself to maintain a skinny weight your body doesn’t want to hold onto

[knownqueerbaiter]

“nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” what feels even better is living a life where your self-worth isn’t entirely dependent on your thinness and you don’t constantly monitor and shame yourself. attaching the tweet that was worth at least five hours of therapy for me

[velidewrites]

Steps crunched on the grass behind us. Nesta whirled, but— Lucien. It was Lucien. Lucien, haggard and bloody, panting for breath. As if he’d run from the shore. — Chapter 78, ACOWAR

According to @moonpatroclus, @cauldronblssd and myself, there is nothing more gentlemanly than being sweaty and covered in blood. For Day 1: Gentleman of @lucienweekofficial, we’d reached out to @/paolapieretti.art to capture exactly that — and oh did she DELIVER. See how his Illyrian leathers tear exactly right to offer us a tasteful peek at the VanTits? See the smear of blood near his fangs? Very demure, very oh-wow-our-legs-just-magically-opened.

A massive thank you to @/paolapieretti.art for doing such a wonderful job on this piece (do you SEE the Night Court insignia on his shoulder plates??) and for being an absolute joy to work with. We hope you love Lucien (or, as we’ve dubbed him in our group chat, War Daddy) as much as we do!

Art by @/paolapieretti.art and commissioned by @moonpatroclus, @cauldronblssd, and @velidewrites. Reposts are not allowed!

[skelliefrankie]

[flawlesssbee]

GUYYYYYSS??? IM AT MY LIMITTTT

[murkyrealms]

I WILL START SCREAMING RNNRNNNRNRNRN

[myfriendscallmeraba]

Saw someone say, what if it’s an owl like Sarah’s new tattoo and I’m even more excited for it🥹

[aelin-godkiller]

i want it NOW though like COME ONNNNNNN ahhhhhh

[luna-azzurra]

The thing about a good character flaw is that it has to be the same thing as their greatest strength just turned up too high. the person who loves deeply and therefore controls. the person who sees everything and therefore trusts nothing. the person who is so loyal they lose themselves. there are no clean villains and no clean heroes and once you understand that in fiction you can't unsee it in people. everyone is just their best quality at the wrong volume.

[miseryreads]

𝐼𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈𝓃’𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓅𝑒𝑜𝓅𝓁𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒷𝓎 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝓅𝓇𝒾𝓈𝑒, 𝒷𝓊𝓉..

✨ Art by: etherealart008

✨ Commissioned by: @miseryreads

✨ Pose credit: @meabhd

[vehder]

i miss u so much (pre ai internet)

[plaidos]

it’s actually not misogynistic to say astrology is bogus, and it is indeed way way more misogynistic to believe that things that can’t be proven rationally through science are More Female.

[aelin-godkiller]

if you hate Feyre and Rhys so much and want the story to be about Tamlin instead, you're reading the wrong series!!! Sarah is never going to make them villains and they will always be really important to the story, so if you can't stand them, move on! Read something else.

And another thing!

I'm sick of the "Feyre and Rhys are awful to Tamlin" takes. Like that man abused her!!! give abuse survivors in fiction (and in real life) the space to feel whatever messy, vindictive, angry emotions they need to on the way to healing.

One of the reasons Feyre's story is so cathartic is because she gets revenge on her abuser. Idk why that is so difficult to understand?

[tlotrgifs]

The horn of Helm Hammerhand shall sound in the deep, one last time.

[emotargaryen]

one of the tweets of all time to me

[1794]

mustard snob canon

[lastoneout]

Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.

[rafalopesart]

“I would know him blind…

…by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth...

…I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”