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Thinking about how the only times azriel struggles with words are when he’s talking either to or about elain
All I know is pain.
when father john misty said "when you're smiling and astride me, I can hardly believe I've found you and I'm terrified by that" and "it's not cheap but here I am giving it away" and "how many people rise and think 'oh good, the stranger's body's still here, our arrangement hasn't changed'" and "when I was young, I dreamt of a passionate obligation to a roommate. Is this the part where I get all I ever wanted?" and "no one ever really knows you and life is brief- so I've heard, but what's that gotta do with this black hole in me?"
This is just a massive appreciation post to all the artists out there who draw Elriel, you are such a blessing amongst the fandom and I wanted to put a bunch together to enjoy collectively. There are so many more out there that are phenomenal but I had to cap it somewhere and 94 ended up being the number ♥️
Thank you to everyone who has drawn or commissioned a piece for the Elriel family, you are rockstars. No amount of words could describe my love for ya’ll.
I put this together to remember some older pieces that were the foundation of Elriel alongside some newer ones that have been created, hopefully this spreads some love to them. As such, every single piece is linked below [to their corresponding number] with the artist and where they posted it (+if there was a commissioner, a link to their OG post.) PLEASE, go share their art and comment to spread the love.
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© #51-#94
#51 Artist— uurtemis
#52 Artist— josen101 & Commissioner— azriel_elain
#53 Artist— imjenndove & Commissioner— courtofelriel
#54 Artist— lunapiq & Commissioner— rhyssescups & courtofelriel
#55 Artist— elisiarin
#56 Artist— gokushairgel & Commissioner— elriell / pandoras_book
#57 Artist— elisiarin
#58 Artist— anastina_91
#59 Artist— curlycrab
#60 Artist— shirayukicat
#61 Artist— lilithsaur / #62 Artist— lilithsaur / #63 Artist— lilithsaur
#64 Artist— alsaces_art
#65 Artist— emsdrawsthings
#66 Artist— ellyness5 & Commissioner— twinklingminna
#67 Artist— te-a-latte
#68 Artist— flaviedub
#69 Artist— te-a-latte
#70 Artist— arospaintbrush
#71 Artist— arospaintbrush
#72 Artist— arospaintbrush
#73 Artist— pandyals_art & Commissioner— leiaamidala
#74 Artist— pandyals_art & Commissioner— leiaamidala
#75 Artist— pandyals_art & Commissioner—elriell / pandoras_book
#76 Artist— barb.arts & Commissioner— elrielnation
#77 Artist— sallteas
#78 Artist— te-a-latte
#79 Artist— notonurminds & Commissioner— leiaamidala
#80 Artist— siyana_art
#81 Artist— illustrationsbyale
#82 Artist— livlochan / #83 Artist— livlochan / #84 Artist— livlochan
#85 Artist— lllamasocks
#86 Artist— elisiarin
#87 Artist— artbyartemis & Commissioner— azriel_elain
#88 Artist— pandyals_art & Commissioner— forget-me-not-s
#89 Artist— jessdraw.s
#90 Artist— ellyness5 & Commissioner— elisa.victoria_
#91 Artist— livlochan & Commissioner— queenliamaria
#92 Artist— aroc.art & Commissioner— azriel_elain
#93 Artist— arti.ris & Commissioner— azriel_elain
#94 Artist— siyana_art & Commissioner— azriel_elain
THANK YOU EVERYONE!!!
Must adds!
The GRANDMUMMY of all Elriel art! @sncinder
This gorgeous piece! by xjuliart
and of course Xena Fay’s sexy Elriel
describing each corner of the acotar fandom (based on what i've seen)
feyre/feysand stans - "tim tam the tool" mostly stay out of elriel/gw--riel debates.
nesta stans - NESTA DESERVED BETTER. FUCK FEYRE. FUCK THE INNER CIRCLE. AND FUCK YOU.
elain stans - i just love my little baby i can't wait to see what her book has in store for her <3333
elriel stans - 84756878292 paragraph long essay on why elriel is endgame. the best fanart in the fandom
gw--nriel - FUCK ELAIN.
tamlin stans -
lucien stans - lucien deserves happiness and here are 4 paragraphs on why
el--ciens - she'll come around! right? RIGHT?
eris stans - i want to be fucked sunny side up by this man
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𝘌𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯’𝘴 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯-𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘈𝘻𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘭’𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘣𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘥. “𝘐𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦,” 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦. “𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦.” 𝘏𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵. “𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭.”
“𝘌𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘴 … 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘭𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦. 𝘊𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘨𝘢𝘸𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘻𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘭, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘻𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦— 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘙𝘩𝘺𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯. 𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘻𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘭𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦.”
“𝘌𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘵 𝘈𝘻𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘭, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘥𝘦. 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘥: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘢𝘸𝘯, 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘷𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩, 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘳. 𝘓𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘬, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘸𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 … 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘬𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘦
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This EPIC masterpiece was drawn by the talented @/clarywhy on Instagram, commissioned by me! Working with her has been my pleasure, she captured my vision perfectly.
This was inspired by the original Truth-Teller scene but with a twist! I am sure we haven’t seen all about Elain and her powers of seer are still a complete mystery. One of my theories is that Elain’s powers will be related with life, as Nesta as were with death! This idea was born between a canon scene and a future head canon of mine! In the final battle against Koshei, Elain has to use her life/seer powers again, Azriel gives her TT once more. They share a charged moment, an “I love you”. A moment of peace in the midst of the battle.
I also wanted Elain in a dress, to show that just because you wear a dress or you aren’t the typical warrior, it doesn’t mean you are week or are less of a fighter. Everything can be done while wearing a dress! And that strength can be found in all places.
This is for all my Elriels 🌸🦇
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Let tenderness be your strength.
The arguments I see against Elain in the current shipwar show one of the things that I constantly criticize about fantasy these days.
Many fans and authors have come to think that a woman being sassy here and there and being able to fight is personality. They’ve come to think that a woman training and kicking ass is the only kind of strength that exists.
And this is exactly why I like Elain. Yes, she is soft, she is a ‘flower’ etc. In ACOWAR she was a damsel in some ways. She is taken away and Azriel went to save her. Do you know when she snapped out of her fear? When Briar was in danger. When Azriel was being hurt. The girl had her hands and her legs ind bonds and she grabbed Briar and kicked the hounds bloody. And it’s not because she is a badass warrior queen. It was adrenaline. It was the drive to save those who needed saving.
Towards the end she didn’t even want to hold a knife to potentially defend herself. But when Nesta was in danger? She didn’t hesitate.
Many women find strength in being physically strong and in wielding weapons. In feeling that they can defend themselves. Elain wants peace, beauty, she wants to tend gardness, to travel at some point, she wants to love and to be loved, she wants to be seen, she wants to be the master of her fate. Overall, she wants all those things that make life beautiful.
Some of these things (being a pretty wife), was all she was being raised for and of course facing poverty, war and trauma or even finding her voice after being smothered all her life has been a proccess but her development is already apparent.
Another thing is that this is a woman who had visions and thought she was crazy. She was a prisoner in her own head. She thought her mind was the enemy. And yet once she was told that she is a seer she managed admirably to control her reactions to her visions and to stop sinking. And shall we remember that she is not having plesant visions? She was hearing Vassa screaming in her head. It’s implied that she had watched Cassian diying, or at the very least being close to death. Her mental strength is a thing to behold in my opinion.
It’s kind of discouraging, reading posts written by women that are exclusionary to different kinds of strength that women demonstrate.
By the way, I am not saying that there is anything wrong with a woman kicking ass. I am just saying we have come to focus on this kind of empowerment too much and reduce anything that reminds us of roles that were traditionally attributed to women. We reduce a woman who doesn’t like fighting, who tends gardens, who likes cooking… but there was never anything wrong with any of that. The only thing wrong was that they became stereotypes and women were not allowed to challange them.
But stereotyping ‘powerful women’ reversely is not any better and it’s nothing to be proud of.
Day 6 of Spreading Elain/Elriel Positivity
I want to try and spread as much positivity to the Elain stans and Elriel shippers as I possibly can
ACOWAR Chapter 24 “Elain sat silently at one of the wrought-iron tables, a cup of tea before her. Azriel was sprawled on the chaise longue across the gray stones, sunning his wings and reading what looked to be a stack of reports—likely information on the Autumn Court that he planned to present to Rhys once he’d sorted through it all. Already dressed for the Hewn City—the brutal, beautiful armor so at odds with the lovely garden. And my sister sitting within it.”
This whole scene is just lovely. Domestic Elriel is elite and I need to see more. They are soooooo cute!!
elriel is so good because direct quotes from the books are all we need :)
SJM really said that Mr. Brightside reminds her of Azriel, a song about a man who wants a woman who is with a another man. A song with lyrics like…
And then wrote THIS….
“Shadows darkened his eyes, full of enough pain that she couldn’t stop herself from touching his shoulder. Letting him see that she understood why he stood in the doorway, why he wouldn’t go near the fire.His secret to tell, never hers.”
AND THIS…
“Because 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 sight of their mating bond, and needed the option of leaving if it became too much.”
Sarah, you ain’t slick.
Yes! And it's in the text before ACOSF, too.
The first quote could obviously be referring to Graysen, but as others have mentioned in their own posts, it could potentially be foreshadowing for Azriel, too. SJM loves her double meanings.
Like solstice in ACOSF, the second passage also shows Azriel standing at the doorway, when Lucien was in the room with Elain and the rest of the IC. I think he's been avoiding seeing them together since Elain was Made, and Lucien came to Velaris.
I'm sure Az could smell the E/ucien bond even then - was confused by it - and I think that the "taking a single step over the threshold" line both demonstrates his discomfort and, potentially, marks the beginning of his coming to care for Elain as more than a friend.
Do you think there’s a chance that the next book will be about azriel realizing his obsession with elain was just that and he moves along to gwyn? Im scared because I can see gwynriel happening as well
Hello,
So I don't feel that he is 'obsessed' with her. I actually think that he is rather rational and controlled when it comes to Elain. An example of obsessed behavior is Tamlin towards Feyre. Azriel is aware of his feelings, and spent a YEAR trying to avoid her as much as he could, missing family gatherings and staying at HOW, in order not to create problematic situations for everyone. That's not an obsessed behavior--I feel that it's a person falling in love with someone, realizes that a relationship might be wrought with issues and is trying to fight it.
I think his behavior with Mor is much more obsessive (at least we are led to believe, because we don't have his POV on that), since he never acted on it. Here, with Elain, we have a situation where the opportunity presented itself and he went for it. I think the difference is that with Mor, he lived side by side, often in the same house for FIVE HUNDRED years and didn't avoid her and didn't make a move--could be that his feelings were not as strong for Mor, as Rhys, for example, thought, or that Azriel idolized her and accepted that nothing would happen. Or he knows her sexual preference and left her alone. With Elain, it's more real, because he feels like he'd have a harder time actually controlling himself, considering that there is also reciprocation from her.
With Gwyn--I mean, anything can happen, right? So yes, hypothetically, could it happen? Sure. I think it would be weird, if he goes from dreaming about going down on one woman and imagining himself inside of her, to swiftly moving onto a different woman. I think SJM would have do a lot of writing and explaining as to why Elriel are suddenly not into each other, when she just wrote that this longing/pining/offer/permission.
I also think that people always conveniently forget that interview when SJM was asked about who would be the MCs of the next book and LIs--and the confusion on her face was pretty telling, when she said 'I think it's obvious'. I think she was always intent on writing Elriel, and that's it.
Elain stepped out of a shadow behind him, and rammed Truth-Teller to the hilt through the back of the king’s neck as she snarled in his ear, “Don’t you touch my sister.”
The kingslayer, Elain Archeron ❤
Artist: itswibell_art
Commissioned by the amazing @/azriel_elain on instagram
Elain Positivity !! :)
NOTE: As some of you may know, there’s been a bunch of chaos in the fandom recently due to a buildup of different things, and I know that it’s been extremely taxing for some in the elriel fandom (and others as well, probably).
So, I thought that it’d be nice to brighten up some spirits + spread some love for my favorite girl (since she doesn’t get nearly enough love) !!
I’m going to keep it simple and just post some of my favorite quotes of Elain’s + my favorite ones discussing her character just to spread a little bit of love every now and then !! :)
With that being said, here’s the first quote that I’ll be posting:
“I gazed again at that sad, dark house—the place that had been a prison. Elain had said she missed it, and I wondered what she saw when she looked at the cottage. If she beheld not a prison but a shelter—a shelter from a world that had possessed so little good, but she tried to find it anyway, even if it had seemed foolish and useless to me. She had looked at that cottage with hope; I had looked at it with nothing but hatred. And I knew which one of us had been stronger.” (ACOTAR - Chapter 29)
Thanks for inspiring this you lovely human @queenringer !! 💜💜
yesterday was ... meh so here are elain and azriel being adorable to cheer y’all up✨
Beautiful art 🥰
Credit: lexi.heron on Instagram
I appreciate the fact that the archeron sister that is considered the prettiest is the one with the brown eyes 😌
Wow I haven’t posted art to tumblr in ages! Hello everyone :)!
Have some Nuala and Cerridwen - our two favourite twins/wraiths/spies/bakers/chefs and probably a hundred other qualities
Little headcanon: some of their adornments are gifts from Elain ☺️
I hope we get to see a lot more of them in the next books!
(Art by me. Kindly do not repost elsewhere.)