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Part of the fandom is going to lose their minds over Elain and Rhys's friendship because they’ve spent the last 5 years convincing themselves that Rhys is a villain.

Now, he's going to be a friend and a brother figure in Elain's eyes. It’s just like the Feyre-Cassian and Nesta-Azriel dynamics.

mortalfae7

Just found out that the great artist Muni_Luny has passed away after the Earthquakes in Venezuela :(((

May she rest in peace!

elrieluniverse

Azriel strode to the lone window at the end of the room and peered into the garden below. “I’ve never stayed in this room.” His midnight voice filled the space.

babyazriel

they'all are freaking out over a TBT from a publisher that's known for baiting readers just to sell more books. This is the same publisher Sarah J. Maas herself called out for mistranslations, erasing Black and LGBTQ+ characters, and they're even out here shipping Elain and Tamlin..

Meanwhile, everyone's ignoring the actual author's own words.

Seriously, there's no reason to treat this like it's some huge deal, because it isn't. Galera Record has been a joke for years. They really thought a new dust jacket would boost sales, but Brazilian Elriels are already so done with them. Now they're just trying to bait a different part of the fandom into buying the books, because the people who are actually waiting for the next book can't stand this publisher anymore.

meglap15

So sparks are only a mating bond sign if it’s between a pairing that you ship?!? 😅

FEYRE AND TAMLIN

RHYS AND AMARANTHA

LUCIEN AND VASSA

CASSIAN AND NYX

“The taste of her—jasmine, lemon verbena, and crackling embers—filled his mouth. Filled his soul, as something burned and settled within him. An ember of warmth. Like a piece of that raging magic had come to rest inside his very soul. Swaying a bit, he let go of her arm. “Welcome to the court,” Aelin said. “Here’s your first and only order: protect Terrasen and its people.” The command settled in him, too, another little spark that glowed down deep.”

LORCAN AND AELIN

meglap15

This is from the podcast Steph used to do from 8/2021.

Now I don’t keep up on everything Sarah’s friends have said… to me that seems a little silly. BUT I have heard Steph was this big time gwynriel… so I went and listened to this entire hour + long podcast last year.

To me she did not seem that hardcore for Gwynriel like everyone makes all of Sarah’s friends out to be. I mean listen to this clip.😅

She was pretty adamant on wanting a good story for Azriel specifically. Steph also said she loves being a reader just like all of us and her and Sarah do not talk about the books because she does not want any spoilers.

She also said she finds the “womb theory” VERY HARMFUL.

I did actually enjoy the podcast though so I genuinely have nothing bad to say about her! I don’t think she has anymore info than we do.

**Editing to add something I just remembered about this podcast… sorry it’s been awhile since I listened. The other girl hosting alongside Steph really liked the idea of elucien. But feels like their ship sailed in ACOFAS, and she gave up on elucien then. 🙃😀**

mortalfae7

The desperation 😭😭😭😭😭 sockpuppeting lmaoooo

misanthropicreader

I need to talk about Azriel's bonus chapter for a minute.

First of all, this is peak yearning. My man is dying for Miss Elain Archeron.

"Too many razor-sharp thoughts sliced him anytime he grew still enough for them to strike. Too many wants and needs left his skin overheated and pulling taut across his bones. So he only slept when his body gave out, and even then only for a few hours."

This language is so intense. He's practically crawling out of his skin because of his desire for Elain. Imagine wanting someone so badly that the thought of them alone makes it feel like your skin is overheating, pulling tight against your bones, and being sliced with razors. He's in pain.

"Soft steps padded from under the stair archway, and there she was."

Not there Elain was. There SHE was. He's consumed with thoughts of Elain, and then she appears. There is only one SHE for Azriel, and it's Elain. She glows like the sun at dawn. Azriel is waxing poetic again, just like he did the first time he met Elain.

"She hadn't bought her mate a present. But she'd gotten Azriel one last year--a headache powder he kept on his nightstand at the House of Wind. Not to use, just to look at. Which he'd done every night he slept there. Or attempted to sleep there."

Elain isn't doing anything to encourage Lucien or his affection, but she is for Azriel.

The intimacy of putting something on your nightstand to look at...you see it before you close your eyes to sleep at night and you see it the moment you wake up. He's thinking about Elain at the most intimate times of the day, during the night when we are the most vulnerable, alone, and quiet. He's consumed with thoughts of Elain and her attention to him. The way that she notices him.

"He chuckled...he offered a smile back."

No one is eliciting joy this consistently out of Azriel except Elain. She has him laughing and smiling.

"Her mate had been in the family room and Azriel had needed to stay by the door the whole time because he couldn't stand the sight of it, the scent of their mating bond, and needed to have the option of leaving if it became too much."

He is so tormented by that mating bond that he can't stand to be in the same room, even as Elain shows zero interest in Lucien. He can't even stand the thought of something being between himself and Elain, and it hurts him so much that he needs to be able to flee the scene because it triggers such a visceral emotional reaction. Damn, baby.

"Put it on me?" His head went quiet.

What?? Mr. Razor-Sharp thoughts finally has a moment of peace in his restless, tortured brain? Because Elain is making her affection for him clear? You don't say.

He thinks at length about how wrong it is to touch her. While I think he respects mating bonds in general, most of his thoughts are about how he isn't worthy to touch her. He thinks about his own faults more than anything. This one kills me:

"Such terrible things that it was sacrilege for his fingers to touch her skin..."

Excuse me, sir? He thinks he would be desecrating something HOLY to touch her. This man is worshipping her. Forget the Cauldron and the Mother. Elain Archeron is his religion.

But he could have this. This one moment, and maybe a taste, and that would be it...Just this taste in the dead of the longest night of the year, where only the Mother might witness them."

HELP. In the quiet, cloaked in the stillness of night and darkness, he could have a taste of Elain. Finally, this woman he's been longing for, pining after, is offering herself to him. This is so tragic and devastating for someone who is the king of restraint, who works and trains until he collapses, to finally allow himself a taste of what Elain is offering him. Only on the longest night of the year, in secret, can he finally have what he wants.

"Elain's mouth parted slightly, her eyes scanning his before fluttering shut. Offer and permission."

SOS! HELPPPPP. It's mutual! She wants him as badly as he wants her. Under the veil of night they can finally show each other how they feel. 😭😭😭

So... obvious setup for Elain and Azriel's story. Here's what SJM is hinting at:

Sneaking around. They're going to do it under everyone's noses. They both knew who was in the house, and they knew they were in the hallway, not locked away in some room, in private. We are going to get scenes of those two risking it all. Risking getting caught because they need each other so badly. 🥵

Forces trying to keep them apart. Fae society. Politics. Their own flaws. Potentially nefarious outside sources.

Their love story is going to be so epic, fam. I can't wait for their books!

mandirox89

I need ppl to chill out with this “spark” crap already.

There is evidence across series that points to that “spark” , which is language Sarah uses between multiple characters, not leading to anything but platonic friendships.

It’s also the initial spark you need to pay attention to.

For example…

Rhys and feyre meeting at calamai.

The meeting between the 3 brothers and 3 sisters. The clear tension between cassian and Nesta? Azriel smiling at Elains fork grab and then having a whole conversation with homegirl?

Aelin and Rowan? The anger? The fighting? If you didn’t catch the romantic tension half way through that book idk what to tell you…

Lorcan and elide? Lil old elide convinced a centuries old half fae killer to play her husband while off on an adventure to find Aelin? And he just went along with it? When he could have just killed her and figured out what was off about her? Hmmmm sounds like end game shit to me.

Listen, you can tell when SJM is writing an end game couple. People have focused on her whole changing partners thing so much that they miss pretty obvious shit in her writing the points to non endgame couples. She did it with Dorian/Chaol/ tamlin . I knew none of those relationships were gonna happen after Rowan and Rhys were introduced.

I feel similar about the Lucien/Elain/Azriel/Gwyn thing.

Simply put Azriel is the one Elain has any real chemistry with. Period. The bonus chapter told us explicitly but the books have given us the foundation. Literally has 3 books worth of forshadowing telling us “hey! Those two? They got a vibe going, the vibes is hot and sweet! It’s giving husband energy” Most of us caught that when he figured out she was a Seer after being told only a mate could figure that out. If you didn’t smirk while reading that? You didn’t pay attention to the shit Sjm was putting down…

side bar- the rescues scene? That was peak protective husband energy.

Lucien, unfortunately, doesn’t stand a chance in hell. There’s no initial spark or spark at all in the series. It’s not believable if sjm suddenly brings those two together as a couple, mate bond or not. That’s whole thing sjm said 10 years ago on a face book post that elain and Lucien had healing to do together is a weak argument but you know what ? Maybe they will heal together.. by mutually rejecting the bond and going off with the ppl they actually vibe with. You know… azriel and vassa?

Did you know that vassa and Lucien have their couple name already? The lord of fire and the bird of flame? Oh you didn’t know? You should peep Acowar then… it’s there.. along with all the other couple names…. It’s almost like Sarah told us who the next set of books were going to be about a long ass time ago.. huh.. sooooo interestingggg

Gwyn? Ugh. I love her character and ppl in this fandom have ruined the shit out of her with their nonsense. The spark was Azriel feeling happy for the possibility of making someone happy when he was feeling miserable after effectively being told to back off from someone he did want (elain).

Lorcan felt a spark for Aelin when he took the blood oath - we know those two wanted to kill eachother on the regular. -

So like where is the disconnect?

mermaidsloveelriel92

Elain was wearing a cobalt blue dress. Azriel has cobalt blue siphons. We see both of things in Mist and Fury, long before we find out that the color is also applied to Graysen's family.

luvselen

"I want Elain to realize she doesn't need a man and leave the Night Court."

Uh, we are reading romantasy, did you guys know that?

lovemyromance

Hear me out...

JUST in ACOWAR, we see:

Rhysand sacrificing his life to save Feyre

Cassian willing to die for Nesta

And Azriel sacrificing his life to save Elain

Now everyone can argue circles around each other, but Azriel rescuing Elain was inherently romantic.

Not only does she reach for him, say "you came for me", but he's bleeding out, she's protecting him from the hounds, he's carrying her and refusing to let her go, demanding "get those chains off her", then she kisses his cheek -

This is a romantasy. And that is a romantic scene right there. It is also a rescue scene. A scene where Feyre is brave. It can be all of these things at once... they are not mutually exclusive. In fact, most good writing involves more than one goal per scene, btw.

Now let's think. Just one book earlier, SJM declared Elain & Lucien mates. Chronologically, less than a year has passed. He was with them mere weeks ago.

I've always wondered if SJM was going for an Elucien endgame, why would she write such a powerful romantic scene with Azriel, instead of Lucien?

And I know many antis will be like "hehehe dummy Lucien wasn't there how could he save her??"

THAT'S MY POINT. SJM could've easily had Lucien present for the battle, but she didn't. In fact, Azriel is literally the spymaster wouldn't it make more sense for him to hunt down this fire queen in her lake?

Also - this point of "oh Lucien wasn't there he couldn't save her" is such a fucking cop out. He's her MATE.

If Rhysand could save Feyre from the opposite end of the continent on her wedding day, then Lucien could've saved Elain.

"Oh but Lucien was too far away"

If Bryce could cross WORLDS, I'm sure Lucien could've paid the Prythian tolls to get to Elain .

It's just never made any sense to me why SJM has given all these romantic moments, even just MOMENTs with Elain to Azriel and not her mate.

Unless, of course, she's setting up for Elriel. Unless of course she's going on about nature chose wrong and rejected mating bonds and oh the cauldron was wrong....

luvselen

Imagine thinking a Seer isn't interesting, but a Priestess working in a library is... dynamic 🫪

mortalfae7

Whenever people say Acotar 6 is such a short book.. I want to point out that Sarah clarified this is only Part 1. If we look at the full page counts for each part in ACOSF, the breakdown is:

- Part 1: 268 pages

- Part 2: 242 pages

- Part 3: 138 pages

- Part 4: 107 pages

merymoonbeam

Another random post that is fun...

Elriel 🤝 jasper alice in breaking dawn

Elain in acowar:

Elain paused halfway up the stairs. Slowly, she turned to look back at him. “I saw young hands wither with age. I saw a box of black stone. I saw a feather of fire land on snow and melt it.”

Alice in breaking dawn:

That first gif with the plant...elain tending to her garden...oh no a vision....😱 Drops the plant.

Alice and Jasper = goes to find a solution to their problem to stop the "war" between Cullens and Volturi. Lets suspect Elain and Azriel will go... *somewhere* alone. Vallahan? Ramiel? The middle? 👀 Possibilites are endless

Alice sees a vision and Edward with his mind reading can see what Alice saw...

ELAIN 🤝 RHYS duo. Thank you very much.