"May" by Susan Seddon Boulet
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"May" by Susan Seddon Boulet
A magical moment with one of my favourite butterflies
Rhyzand and Feyre from ACOTAR
Perhaps my genuine biggest piece of socializing advice as someone who spent years of my life feeling wholly incapable of positively interacting with other people is to just ask the other person questions about themselves. Like that’s it. People love answering questions. They really love thoughtful follow-up questions. They love feeling like someone else is interested in them, their interests, their lives, their opinions. At some point in your questioning they will say something that reminds you of a funny / interesting story. Tell it. You will be remembered as the person who asks a lot of questions, makes people feel like they matter, and tells good stories. boom. done.
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Landscape with figures walking in a garden (French School, 18th Century)
Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post
Something I was thinking about with the whole “Feyre and Nesta had it easy” thing is that we are again failing to understand Elain as a character, as an individual, and for all the shit I’ve talked about sjm in the past few days, the one thing I count on her for is to really understand her characters’ internal lives. So here we go:
First off, SJM was listing off questions and objections from Elain’s pov. I think that’s pretty clear. She said that as a writer she wants to explore these things, and she does so using the characters as a vehicle.
So in regards to “Feyre and Nesta had it easy”, that is Elain’s perspective on things. Also, Feyre and Nesta got to naturally meet and get to know their mates, but Elain didn’t. That right there makes it harder. Elain wasn’t there for all the heartache and drama, to see how Feyre felt when she knew she’d been lied to and that Nesta was grieving the last shred of her humanity. Elain wasn’t there UtM, she doesn’t know what Nesta’s experience in the Cauldron was, she doesn’t understand Nesta much at all, honestly.
Of course to Elain it seems “easy” at this point, from her POV it seems like her sisters have everything - the high lord, the hot Illyrian dude, the houses, the friends, the mates who are right for them.
Meanwhile, Elain feels like she has lost all of that. And she’s had nothing to replace it. She had the house, the social status, the fiancé, the future. Now it’s all gone, but meanwhile her sisters seem to have found their new places and Elain is just… stuck.
So when sjm says “nature chose right”, that is again, Elain’s current thinking of the situation. She thinks that hey, my sisters were able to make this work, but I’m not like them at all and I’ve lost everything I worked for, so how can this possibly be right for me? Especially when everyone is shielding her from going out into the world and finding out for herself!!!
The way that sjm was talking about male characters, the main thing he needs to be is hot, and then he needs to treat his partner like an equal. Right now, Az is hot, but he is not treating Elain like an equal. Lucien is hot, and he is giving Elain space and not being a macho shithead about protecting her during the war.
Anyway this is just the beginning of my thoughts, because I think that exploring Elain’s perspective right now is actually the most interesting thing because she’s facing the mating bond in a way that no characters have had to before! It’s a new way of writing the same story that sjm loves - HEA, mates, and the journey is the exciting thing you get to figure out. The fact that that’s what she talked about - Elain’s current perspective, how she’s trying to navigate this situation - is really interesting to me. Because… this may be romantasy, but acotar has always been romance-forward, with mates. The question to me isn’t ever really, "will these mates end up together", it’s “how will these mates make it work?"
Also! Lucien is the only one of the males who told their mate about the bond right away. Lucien said "She's my mate" as SOON as he realized it. And obviously it came out at a time where Elain wasn't in a good place to hear it (I don't blame Lucien, it's nice that he didn't hide it from her and also I don't think he could keep it inside).
But it means that Elain is reacting against the bond being present and against Lucien. Feyre and Nesta both fell in love and then knew about the bond. The bond wasn't an obstacle to them falling in love, but it is for Elain. Because she's the only one who knows about it, for sure anyways, before falling for her mate.
I have to think that set up is intentional on SJM's part because it fits the arranged marriage trope so so well. At the very least, she's always wanted to explore a different type of mating story through Elucien.
𝑬𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝑨𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒏 💐
As my last contribution to @elainweekofficial I wanted to show Elain happy and enjoying her day out in nature 🌳 my girl just wants to enjoy the open air and sunshine!
@lavender_hag thank you for this absolutely lovely artwork of Elain! She looks so relaxed and happy 💛
@lavender_hag you’ve been so wonderful to work with! Thank you for all your kindness during this commission 💛
Commissioned by myself
Artist is @lavender_hag on IG
Link to Instagram post
Character belongs to Sarah J Maas
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i need to age regress to 18 and do a bachelors degree correctly this time and get a million dollar job the moment i graduate and make 2000 friends who all love and worship me and find the artifact and defeat the evil mastermind and slay the ape
You must know yourself outside of work outside of friends and outside of your romantic relationship you must be able to sit with yourself