A Pocket in Space and Time

Romanticising till I drop dead

[blacktreacle22]

Just some thoughts of my own (prompted by reading much much better ones from beautiful individuals on this app✨❤️)

- to be understood as my own perception, interpretation and crazy thinking -

!!!Fic recommendations!!!

- Elain blooming after Az recognized that she is a seer✨

- Elriel design choices?! 🌹

- Nesta becoming Fae in the most badass way feat. Travis Scott 👽

- “Getting out of the house” debate🥴

[catchymemes]

[dear-ao3]

[ruinme-please]

iii giving ivy some sweet affection (x)

[ruinme-please]

Couple jamming and iii chasing himself a kiss (x)

[ruinme-please]

SPACE BUNS comeback with rolled sleeves (x)

[sleepanonymous]

Visit Original Link

Legend has it if you listen to this soundcheck on repeat it will clear your skin, water your crops, and cure your depression. I hope this heals all of you like it has healed me.

[simpleapparition]

he's busy

finally done this little sleep token comic!!!! took so long that there have been multiple mask and costume changes between me starting and finishing this

[kaddyssammlung]

Vessel and III in Philadelphia XD

[spillgays-deactivated20250901]

Vessel smiles 🫶🏻

[loveinthemindpalace]

Yeah, they were dancing and singing

And moving to the grooving

And just when it hit me

Somebody turned around and shouted

Play that funky music, white boy

Play that funky music right

Play that funky music, white boy!

Lay down the boogie and play that funky music 'til you die

I love the last gif so much I used it twice

[loveinthemindpalace]

Baby Girl IV compliation

because of recent photographs and because I've gone insane

And finally....

[loveinthemindpalace]

:::D

[loveinthemindpalace]

So we had baby girl IV

Now it's time for baby girl III!

[ninthcircleofprythian]

Just a random headcanon I have...

When Eris and Rhys make the deal for Eris to assure Beron's involvement in the war as long as Rhys helps when its time to kill his father -- a tattoo appears on them both.

Somehow they are able to influence the design/placement of each other's tattoos.

Rhys gives Eris mountains on his knees, a nod to Rhys' own tattoos showing that he will bow to no one but his court. The insinuation being that Eris will/should bow before Rhys and the Night Court.

Eris is less elegant, choosing instead to give Rhys a large orange Autumn Court pumpkin on his right ass cheek.

[kopfkino-o]

Ok so I don't know if I'll be able to describe this correctly. But let me at least take a crack at it.

I'm not pro-Elriel because the couple, per say, I'm pro-Elriel because the story we'd get from an Azriel x Elain pairing. Stay with me, this is pro-Elriel, I promise.

I just find an Elriel, and thus a rejected mates, storyline so damn compelling.

In a narrative world so shrouded in prophecy, fate, and destiny, I love the idea of exploring what happens when a character decides to defy said destiny. When they decide that the path they forge for themselves, and all the good and bad that might come with it, is the path they want to walk.

Exploring a love story where two people choose to defy Fate, to defy what is essentially their religion, and choose to be together is so fucking powerful.

And so far, Elain's character has been so wonderfully written for this sort of narrative. The passive, docile, people-pleaser standing against fate itself in the name of love, who finally finds her voice and decides what she wants for her damn self, even if it goes against everything she’s been taught to believe.

Elain, whose life has largely been decided for her, who is a people-pleaser and prone to putting the wants of others above her own self, being the one to break what's perceived as the biggest blessing in Fae culture for Azriel. Azriel who has never been chosen, who has never felt he's worthy of love or goodness.

Like, for me, if Elain were to accept the bond, it would feel like a regression in her character's growth. She'd be doing what the Cauldron essentially wanted. She'd be doing the "right" thing in the eyes of Fae society. She'd be giving in to the pressures that stem from her Court and the alliances she knows her mating bond is helping to maintain. Her accepting the bond wouldn't mean Elain is growing. In my mind, it would mean she's laying down and deciding that she, in fact, has no autonomy or desire to do anything but what's expected of her.

And I just don't think that's as compelling of a story! Not just because I want her with Azriel. If she came out of the Cauldron as Azriel's mate, but had chemistry and potential for an epic love with Lucien or another character she'd reject the bond for, then that's the ship I'd be down for!

It's the story I want more than the endgame couple. I want the drama that comes with a rejected mating bond. I want to explore the lore behind the bonds. I want to see a different type of love story. I want to explore what it means to defy fate and the Cauldron and societal expectations in the world of Prythian.

I want to see what it means to find a love that trumps even a mating bond.

[xadenviolct]

So, in regards to the post here that I just reblogged, I have some MORE thoughts:

Not only do I think the OP did a remarkable job explaining what has been my focus and my "reasons" for elriel since the beginning, but I just want to reiterate that.

There is conflict, there is world-building, there is epic love overcoming all else, there is (potentially?) political fall out...

There is so much STORY that can be done with this pairing.

If someone can please give me such story in any other ship, I'd be down for it.

Because where is the STORY in Elain with anyone else? (Because it's not going to be an Azriel-book. It's not going to be a Lucien-book. The one thing that we can pretty much BET on is that it'll be an Elain book, because the SISTERS have been the focus from the beginning. But I digress...)

So let's say it is definitely Elain's story. Feyre had hers in the first three; Nesta in Silver Flames; it'll be Elain's turn now. Seems fairly reasonable to make such a guess.

Tell me, honestly, what sort of story that would CENTER around ELAIN if the endgame pairing is Lucien? There is no conflict, there is no fall out, there is almost nothing for them to "overcome" in any way.

"Elain accepts the bond. The end." Very, very, VERY short tale.

But a story that would CENTER around ELAIN if the pairing is with Azriel? Boy oh boy do we have story!

Rejected bond and what happens because of it (DOES anything happen because of it?)

World-building and expansion of lore and whatnot (possibly tying in things we learned in other Maas-verse stories?)

A "love more epic than a mating bond" kind of pairing

The importance of one's choice, even in defiance of fate or gods or whatever other power

Political fallout from Elain and Azriel choosing each other--what does that mean with allies? What does it mean with Rhys? With Lucien? Does it affect the courts of Prythian in some way?

Etc. Etc.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again:

From a purely WRITING perspective, from a purely STORY-TELLING perspective, I cannot see it going any other way for Elain's story.