azrxelsgirl

“ʜᴇ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ꜱᴡᴏʀɴ ᴀ ꜰᴀɪɴᴛ, ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪꜰᴜʟ ꜱɪɴɢɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʟʟᴏᴡᴇᴅ ʜɪᴍ. ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ꜱᴡᴏʀɴ ʜɪꜱ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡꜱ ꜱᴀɴɢ ɪɴ ᴀɴꜱᴡᴇʀ.” ✨

[starbender25]

AND god FORBID that instead of rooting for that same cliche hyper sexual pure soft kind girl x brooding demon dark emo man type ship i instead root for the pure soft kind woman with a pure soft kind man!

I'm sick of that wattpad dark romance trope

LET THE KIND GIRLS GET THE KIND MAN

[amandapearls]

@gwynrielweeksofficial

HAPPY EARLY GWYNRIEL WEEKS BABES 🩵🩵🩵🩵

I’m so excited for all the beautiful Gwynriel art!

Hope you guys enjoy this adorable Gwynriel art!

Commissioned by bookish_art_cat on IG and me

Artist is @/Henniemonclair on IG 🩵🩵

Characters belong to SJM

Amanda 🌷🦊 on Instagram: "𝑨𝒛𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒍 & 𝑮𝒘𝒚𝒏 🩵 Happy Early Gwynriel Weeks my loves !! Azriel being all flirty and sweet with Gwyn is our Roman Em

amandapearls_ on August 7, 2026: "𝑨𝒛𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒍 & 𝑮𝒘𝒚𝒏 🩵 Happy Early Gwynriel Weeks my loves !! Azriel being all flirty and sweet with Gwyn is our

[littlefireling]

For @elucienweekofficial Day 5 - Sunshine ☀️

Art by: inebyoonei (IG)

Commissioned by me: @littlefireling

I am obsessed! The colors are everything! Thank you so much for this beautiful artwork 🥹🧡

[marcylimmac]

You've got to be kidding me

[stephsarchives]

Me whenever I get a notification that BB posted something and it’s not the cover/title reveal:

[amandapearls]

SUNSHINE BABES 💛💛☀️☀️

I hope you guys enjoy this absolutely beautiful artwork!!

Artist is the very talented @redraccoonart

Link to Instagram post

Characters belong to SJM

[stephsarchives]

The valkyrie marketing is still going💅🏻

[hersinner-hissaint]

"nesta had found the priestess singing softly to herself." vs "she could hear azriel humming softly to himself."

[starborn-heir]

Exploring a concept of a free will?

(and what does that look like with a mating bond?)

Taken from the CHD podcast, this is what Sarah mentioned will be part of Elain's story.

To the surprise of... No one.

Elain's story is going to be about choice and agency. Not only in the context of the mating bond with Lucien, but with making her own choices instead of letting others decide for her. But obviously, the bond will be a big part of it.

What baffles me is that some people seem to think that the only way Elain can choose and exercise her agency is if she rejects the bond and ends up with Azriel.

In the course of the story about choice and agency, is it possible Elain could reject the bond and go with Azriel? Absolutely.

Is it also possible that Elain comes to realize that, regardless of the bond she didn't choose, she CAN choose to embrace Lucien and their bond? Absolutely.

Simply being mates is passive. But having a good relationship and working to maintain it is active. It is a choice.

Neither choice goes against those themes of choice and agency.

I've already seen people trying to discredit the potential of Elucien by saying things like "if Elain ends up with Lucien, it's only because she felt obligated" or "accepting the bond would force Elain to give up her agency".

If Elain chooses the bond and chooses Lucien, that is no less valid of a choice. No less valid an exercise of her agency.

Especially in a universe where we've watched Celaena struggle with her fate as Aelin, Bryce struggle with her fate as Theia's heir, Feyre struggle with her growing feelings for Rhys while she was still with Tamlin, and Nesta struggle with the reality of her own bond with Cassian.

Choosing to accept one's fate IS a choice. Not resigning oneself to it, but choosing to embrace it.

Elain will choose what is best for her.

But acting as if there's only one choice she can make... kinda defeats the purpose of choice.

That's the same as saying you can only be pro-choice IF you get an abortion should you have an unplanned pregnancy. Like if you choose to have a baby, you're somehow not exercising your agency and right to choose what's best for your life.

The agency does not lie exclusively in one decision or another. The agency lies in having the freedom and the knowledge to make an informed decision about what's right for YOU.

And that is what Elain will do, no matter who she ends up with.

[amandapearls]

💖🎶💖

Gwynriel is coming home soon

Commissioned by myself

Artist is @svanha 💖💖

Characters belong to SJM

[azrxelsgirl]

Rage baited my first elriel I’m so proud.

Genuinely where is the foreshadowing that Naula and Cerridwen are gonna be relevant to the plot? Because I’d love to see it. Other than them laughing and baking with Elain a couple of times, where are we getting the idea that they are going to contribute to the story??

The bonus chapter ending with Azriel’s chest sparking at the thought of Gwyn and calling the image of her ‘a thing of secret lovely beauty’ isn’t enough foreshadowing for you that something more is going on between them, but a couple of scenes that Elain has with Rhys’s EMPLOYEES who he PAYS to hang around the house is enough for you to be like “yep they’ll definitely be relevant in the future”. And you call ME illiterate? LOOL okay. I never said Elain won’t have friends, nor did I imply that I don’t like her. She will find her own found family, it’s just not likely to be with Naula and Cerridwen 💀

Comparing random employee side characters to mor/amren/gwyn/emerie is CRAZY work.

[azrxelsgirl]

Not the elriels SCRAMBLING to find musical imagery between elain and azriel 😭😭😭 This frying me 😭😭

[hersinner-hissaint]

it's so embarassing how they're trying to make 'a thing of secret ,lovely beauty' about someone else. stop ittt, i'm begging atp!

[azrxelsgirl]

Elriels want Nuala and Cerridwen to be relevant so badly 💀 They literally want valkeyrie girls 2.0 but with Elain self inserted. (Same people that mock the valkeyries and question Gwyn’s true intentions within the group btw)

[hauntedvulcan]

I think when Elain gets more character development and when we learn more about her, her so called "fans" will stop liking her because she's not this innocent, virginal character that they can project upon

[bluiela]

I really love how when Azriel was in such a bad mental state after leaving for rhys. He was dealing with all those insecurities, feeling envious of his brothers, getting questioned about mor, all of that and then he meets Gwyn and he instantly calms down. His mood shifts completely. He’s happier, lighter, more at ease.

And honestly, that is SUCH mate-coded language in maasverse and in general...literally Sarah was not being subtle at all.

[eluciey]

It's so funny to me anytime someone says Azriel is in love with Elain as if it's canon. Because WHERE