#pro valkyries

[amandapearls]

My Valkyrie babies for @emerieweekofficial

I love celebrating my one of my favorite girls—Emerie!

And I love her friendship with my other favorite girls—Gwyn and Nesta 💛💛🫶🏻🫶🏻

Commissioned by myself

Artist is @samira.it.illustrations on IG

Characters belong to SJM

Link to Instagram post

Hope you guys love it 💛💛

[sodarlingfawn]

just wanted to come on here to remind everybody that the ONLY illyrian princess is my beautiful underrated and unproblematic queen Emerie of Illyria, and she does not need a white savior! <3

[miseryreads]

𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝔂 𝓘𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓪𝓵 𝓦𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓷’𝓼 𝓓𝓪𝔂!!

🩵✨ 𝐼 𝒶𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑜𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝒻 𝒸𝓇𝒶𝓈𝒽𝑒𝓈. 𝒩𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓂𝑒 ✨🩵

AC: katriona_artist; isnanaun; palsonart

[josiestime]

“I love the Valkyries!”

“So you hate the Archeron sisters.”

No bitch, that’s a whole new sentence.

[smaheshbookish]

I have been missing all the Valkyries off late so here is a gorgeous artwork I commissioned with the very talented @luciensdefenseattorney of them ❤️

Characters belong to Sarah J Maas

Our dear Em, Nesta and Gwyn having one of their book reading sessions !!!

[justwithlu]

I am tired of the arguments about how the Valkyrie shouldn’t have survived and won the blood rite. Like the sheer number of people I’ve seen say “oh gwyn doesn’t count as carynthian because Emerie had to carry her up the mountain” or “none of them should have survived this rite that kills so many warriors”

You’re missing the whole point.

Without Nesta, Emerie would have frozen to death in the river.

Without Gwyn, Nesta and Emerie wouldn’t have survived being discovered at Bellius’s camp.

Without Emerie, Gwyn wouldn’t have made it up the last stretch of the mountain.

They’re a team. They fought their way to each other so they could climb the mountain together and win. It’s expressed consistently in the books that so many people die because of outside feuds or believing body counts are glory. The Valkyrie don’t care about that. They’re just trying to protect each other, they’re proving something to themselves.

SJM very much shows us that Nesta’s stand at the Pass is a callback to Enalius doing the same—she’s retelling her own myth—but it’s also a retelling of the story of Cassian, Azriel, and Rhys. Not even a subtle one tbh.

Being hated and underestimated by Illyrian leaders? Check. Deliberately separated at the start? Check. Fought to find each other? Check. Took specifically the Breaking path up Ramiel? Check. One of them injured and needing to be hauled up the mountain by another? Check. One of them providing cover from behind? Check. Winning in spite of the illyrians? Check.

The parallels between the Valkyries winning the Rite and the bat boys winning it is not supposed to be lost on you. SJM absolutely gave us these details about the bat boys so that we could see the similarities at the end of ACOSF. Whenever any of the bat boys talk about the Rite, it’s about how “we” won it. They are all very aware that they won it together. Because they worked as a team.

“But Cass Az and Rhys were the most powerfu—“

The blood rite turns off magic. They didn’t have their all powerful magic. Just the training that they had received from Illyrians who hated them and actively wanted them to fail and die, and the power of friendship. They were not any more powerful than Nesta, Emerie, and Gwyn. They were likely physically stronger, but the girls didn’t use brute strength to win the Rite. They were mostly using big brain tactics.

“But they only trained for a few months! The bat boys trained for years!”

And? They all passed the qualifiers. They were ready and competent enough to participate. Cass and Azriel knew it, and the Illyrian generals that came and watched knew it. You not thinking it’s believable doesn’t actually matter. Canon says they were just as qualified as the bat boys and all the other Illyrian males to enter the rite. The qualifiers literally exist to see if a warrior is ready to participate in the rite. They all passed.

If you think the Valkyrie shouldn’t have won I just want to know: why are you so threatened by female characters being as strong and competent as their male counterparts? Why does that bother you so much? And why these females specifically, in a universe full of over powered female characters?

[parchmentflower]

Feyre, Mor and Amren 👯✨

🎨 by @ladybabilonya on Pinterest

Nesta, Gwyn, and Emerie 💞✨

🎨 by @/xo.hikka on IG

Elain, Nuala, and Cerridwen 🌚✨

🎨 by @elrielvault on X

[herrinarte]

The ACOTAR fandom is so weird because what do you mean Tamsand isn’t one of the most popular ships 🤨 Tamlin is literally on Rhysand’s mind 24/7, either this man is massively insecure, gay as fuck for Tamlin or massively insecure about the fact that Tamlin ain’t fuckin him right now and could be with someone else so he has the uncontrollable urge to tell his ex-boyfriend to kill himself. How are people not saying this is gay????

And then there’s whatever the hell is going on with the bat boys. Fucking in the same room? What you just gonna stare at each other? go one step further and just do it with each other. Stop being a coward bro 😤✋

And Azriel choking Eris, uh it’s just floor play. Don’t worry it’s cool, they have a list of dos and don’t that they made when they got married.

How can you look at Lucien ‘fire in his blood’ Vanserra and Tamlin ‘literally a big ass beast’ and go no I don’t think they have had nasty passionate sex under under a cherry blossom tree 🤓 like huh????? They’re literally roommates. Lucien lost an eye for Tamlin. Tamlin felt more betrayal over loosing Lucien than Feyre. YOUR HONOUR THEY ARE IN LOVE

Then the Valkyries…um gay too. Lesbian throuple. Come on people get creative. The girls are kissing and cuddling and having beautiful sex and you are all boring.

I have never seen a fandom go so feral for dry ass ships in my life. Literally no other fandom would ignore the plethora of gay ships.

This is your sign to stop caring about what is canon and start being fun, cool and interesting xxx