The valkyries winning the blood rite was the stupidest storyline sjm ever wrote. They trained for 5 months, had ZERO prior training and won something so difficult that only 12 illyrians in HISTORY ever won including az, cass and rhys aka the most powerful illyrians in history.
Gwyn is not important enough to get her own book for the love of god. Shes a side character in Nesta’s story. There are so many characters that need their story told before a side character. Theres a reason she never met Feyre or Elain, she has no story with them.
The Elriel fandom does not talk about the implication of this enough.
“It had never gone this far. They'd exchanged looks, the occasional brush of their fingers, but never this. Never blatant, unrestricted touching.”
This tells us Azriel and Elain have been flirting for a while
Rhys trains Feyre to be a High Lady, Cassian trains Nesta to be a Soldier, we all know Azriel is going to train Elain to be a Spy.
Elriel as a spy couple is every thing
ELAIN OWES LUCIEN NOTHING.
And i will die on this hill. Not her time, affection or attention. The mating bond doesn’t mean anything if Elain doesn’t want it.
I’m curious why people think Azriel and Gwyn have a mate connection (zero evidence of btw) when he, rhys and mor saved her but then he forgot she existed for 2 years??? Doesn’t sound mate like to me. I think people forget time lines in acotar. 😂
Am i the only one that thinks the majority of the acotar fandom views nuala & cerridwen as “the help” and not worth discussing?? The only people that bring up their names are elain stans. Are we just gonna forget that they are night court spies & have been there since the start
Azriel sitting and listening intently to Elain describing her gardening plans late into the night is such an important moment for Elriel. He was so in love with her even then. Theres a reason her kept her gift to him to stare at every night, & noticed she didn’t buy lucien a gift
Hold tight and don’t make a sound
A cute innocent version of that prompt for
#elrielmonth
Azriel and elain sneak a quiet moment in the garden
This stunning elriel piece is by 🎨Shinkxart on instagram and commissioned by me Greenleaf777
Do not repost
A Court if Frost and Starlight is basically an Elriel novella and there are still people denying them 😂
Exactly why gwynriel and elucien tell other people to skip acofas like Azriel & Elains build up will disappear if they do.
Like babies with object permanence
This art is 🥰
Ahhh Tony Viento did another spicy Elriel piece for elriel month. You can see the whole pic on their patreon and its perfection.
The way azriel and elain are looking at each other.
I’m gonna pass away now..
Pic from their instagram stories
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This artist is recreating all of feyres acotar painting ideas and just finished this elriel truth teller one.
Janeyrainbow_ on insta and tiktok
Go follow asap. They are so super talented
I’m sorry but the ACOTAR books are not that hard to follow. SJM is actually pretty clear in her writing. Coming up with ridiculous theories when the meaning is right in front of your face is weird af. Like az’s shadows being “scared” of elain? Wtf are you talking about, thats ….
Friendly reminder that Feyre questioning why Elriel aren’t mates and Feysand discussing the potential of rejecting the mating bond about Elain and also saying “love will trump even the mating bond” was not a necessary addition to the story.
It did not have to be included AT ALL.
I think Azriel and Elain do LOVE each other and I’m not afraid to say it. This fandom seems to tiptoe around that word. It’s a romance series. These two characters have been set up for 3 books and have built a relationship for 2 years in their timeline. Elriel love each other
Azriel and Elain are next. The fact that this is even a question blows my mind. The pattern(SJM) is directly in your face screeching at you.
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The Acotar fandom is like a bunch of highschool bullies fighting over boys. The male characters are absolutely infallible and the female characters are horrible, useless, nasty women. It’s a disgusting misogynistic fandom, and its majority women too which makes it even worse.
You can’t tell me he isn’t in love. Also how he is fully aware that Elain doesn’t buy her mate anything lol. He knows she feels the same why he does.
Keeping the gift she bought him to just stare at for a years is insane. No man does that unless they are down hard
I would bet money if you asked ANY casual reader of acotar who Azriel is going to end up with 90% would say ELAIN.
I’m talking people who don’t discuss acotar with anyone,people who have never been on acotar tumblr or fb pages. People who read the books and go on their merry way
Madja: If anyone can sense if something is amiss, its a mate.
Lucien: *not a damn clue*Sunlight?? 😂
Azriel: the Cauldron made you a seer
Elain: *instantly feels clarity*
And yall think Elriel aren’t true mates?? And that elucien isn’t just a spell?
Thats all I needed to see.
I have never seen a SINGLE elucien shipper mention Elain and her happiness or what she deserves beyond her being a prize for Lucien and his happiness. Not one single person.
The entire ship is based on Lucien stans treating the woman as nothing more than an object.
Is there any other Sarah J Maas couple thats taken 2 years to get to know each other before getting together??
Serious question cause i haven’t read TOG yet. Lol
Elriels doing it like no one else 😍
Azriel and Elain just get each other
Man I love that Gwynriel scene where Gwyn was kidnapped for the Blood Rite and Azriel raged “I’m getting her back.” And then someone was like “then you will die” the Azriel doubled down “I’M.GETTING.HER.BACK.”
Errrrrrrr whoops wait nevermind….
Elriel is the acotar elite ship
Friendly reminder that Feyre, the high lady herself, didn’t know the bond could be rejected until Rhys told her in ACOWAR.
I would be money Elain has no idea she can reject the bond.She hasn’t been told in the writing of the books.I’m gonna need Elain to go feral on a few people.
The people that use the “theory” that Elain can’t have Azriel’s kids are not only reducing ELAIN to her uterus but are also reducing Gwyn, their supposed fav, to her uterus and ability to birth some mans child 🤢 🤮 i have to defend even her from her “fans”.
It’s misogynistic AF
I have to laugh when certain shippers tell others not to read ACOFAS
The azriel and elain romantic build up won’t just ✨DISAPPEAR✨ if people don’t read the book 😂
Its like babies with object permanence but the object is a canon storyline
Elriel “I thought it was obvious”-SJM
@GlamLifeGuru
I have to say I’ve really missed your videos. I used to watch them daily and its been so long. I’ve been kver this ridiculous drama for way too long
Friendly reminder that Azriel’s shadow DO NOT leave in the presence of evil or threat. They vanish when he is content or happy like with elain. Around Koschei his shadows hide behind his wings. Imagine if his shadows said “See Ya! 👋 “ when azriel is in mortal danger 💀
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It’s crazy to me that people can read Madja say “If anyone can sense if somethings amiss(with Elain) its a mate.”
And have Azriel actually figure it out and there are still people who deny Elriel are true mates.
How much more clear can SJM get? What else do you need??
Friendly reminder that Gwynriel doesn’t actually exist in the books and have had the same level of interactions as Brycriel or Azris. Nothing romantic
The only canon Azriel relationship is elriel. The only person he has current real feelings towards is elain.
Hofas audiobook clip of silene telling bryce, nesta and az about how the daglan/asteri messed with the cauldron.
There is a reason azriel was there, a reason he said “what of the cauldron was wrong?” 1 book prior
Elriel is coming baby
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The fact that people started ACOTAR and didn’t automatically assume the brothers and sisters would end up together is so damn funny to me.
Why do you think there are 3 Bat Boys and 3 sisters??
They aren’t preexisting sentient beings the SJM is writing books about.
@GlamLifeGuru
Literally me today and pretty much everyday except not always full glam. This is one of my boys Finnigan. No garden yet though too cold here in canada. Horses give the best feelings in the world
Friendly reminder that Elain avoided Lucien all spring and summer as stated in ACOSF, and didn’t speak to or acknowledge him on solstice.
Elucien is quite the love story eh? LOL
People calling Elriel “too easy” or “too convenient” WTF does that even mean?
Do people know that there is an author writing it that way and foreshadowing it that way on purpose?? The words are in a book for a reason.
These characters are not sentient beings, sjm controls it
Friendly reminder that the way haters react in every SJM comment section trying to discredit Elain and Elriel tells you all you need to know about who the next book is about. Its basically confirmation. Cause its clear even to them what is coming and they are scrambling.
Ever think that Azriel’s headaches could be the result of his mating bond with Elain being messed with??!
I truly think Elriel has a mating bind even tho i don’t necessarily want them to. I think Elain will choose Azriel first then they’ll find out they were true mates all along.
I’ve been thinking that we know Az has a physical reaction to Elucien mating bond and I think that its because his bond with Elain is being messed with but what if Elain’s reactions to Lucien is the same thing?? Maybe she can feel her bond with Azriel being messed with??
You cannot tell me this imagery wasn’t on purpose for Elriel.
Azriel is literally carrying Elain over the threshold of the townhouse, where i think they will live together and where they planned their garden/yard that Solstice night too.
He could have put her down after landing
I still have to laugh at the people that shipped Bryce and Azriel like Bryce isn’t mated AND married to Hunt.
And yes they are married, Bryce even talks about how her & Hunt are husband/wife.
Brycriel was such a joke crackship and people took it so seriously lmaooo
Hofas cc3
Azriel Shadowsinger knew 1 thing with absolute certainty: he was irrevocably in love with Elain Archeron.
Can you imagine that line being his first in the elriel book? Lol
The fact that i have seen even once someone call Elain a cheater is too many times.
Elriel being together is not adultery
Elain has every right to pursue Azriel and vice versa as long as it’s consensual.
The Acotar fandom BS continues…….
Friendly reminder that if Elriel were not going to be together SJM would not have written their relationship at all.
She could have kept it like Elain & Cass, w/ minimal contact, she didn’t have to write them slowly falling in love over 4 books, we would have been non the wiser.
This is so funny! She literally forgot who gwyn was and the gwyn “fans” are losing their minds in the comments. Shes not the first one to forget gwyn, i like her but she IS just a side character in nestas arc
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#TikTok
Not to crap on other ship but I can’t believe there are people who watched
#macgyver
4x12 and still ship Mac with Desi....with the way she treated him?? I like my ships to come with love and implicit trust.
#macriley
Being new here I’ve noticed with Mac and Riley their interactions are pretty much always happy and comfortable. They never seem tense with each other, even in times of stress. Which I can say I’ve noticed the opposite from Mac and Desi for the most part.
#macriley
#macgyver
There are ZERO feelings in the Elucien bond at all. Elain doesn’t love Lucien, like him, or hate him.
Remember the opposite of love is indifference.
You didn’t get that with something like Nessian, even when nesta pushed Cassian away there was passion and intense emotion.
I just for fun calculated it and Elucien don’t directly speak to each other for 818 PAGES. THATS INSANE.
It’s almost as if they are not meant to have a love story at all and the bond exists solely to add angst to Elriel.
IF the necklace is brought up again(which I doubt) it will be because Clotho returns it to Azriel because she saw that he didn’t want to give it away, that the circumstances made him upset. He wanted Elain to keep it.
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Reposting cause I am in an elriel withdrawl after elriel month lol
Commission by me Greenleaf777
Art by the amazing Shinkxart on insta
Azriel and elain’s love WILL trump the mating bond. Trust
Acotar fanart
Do acotar shippers know that the majority of the readers are not in the online fandom?
They are just following the books as they are given to them.
I would bet real money from my bank account that most are expecting an Elain/Azriel book. I’m sure some think elucien but not most
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Hope the gwynriel’s are reading all my posts tonight LOLOLOL
This literally means the couples have to have been a thing during acowar(cough not acosf cough) and we all know how elucien ends up in acofas 😂
LMAO an elucien just told me that the rejected mating bond storyline is actually gonna be Nessian and they’ll break up…yes I’m sure its not gonna be the ONE SINGLE unaccepted mating bond we know of, it’ll be the 2 characters who are head over heels in love with an accepted bond
How could anyone read this and want azriel with anybody but elain and vice versa?
Elriel is coming
Stunning artwork(you can also buy as a print just fyi cause i’m gonna need one)
Atouchofmagicdesigns 🎨 carasalexandra
Just realized this but Azriels shadows NOT vanishing around Gwyn could actually mean that she IS dangerous or a threat. We know, despite what a certain side says, that his shadows vanish around his fam not just elain. Which means they leave when he is safe not in danger.
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The fancast the acotar fandom comes up with are so godawful. Friendly reminder that azriel and cassian are not white. You can’t find an extremely beautiful poc man anywhere to fancast? Hmmm
Especially the constant Matthew daddario azriel fancasts…? Really? Him? No one else?
I told a gwynriel to read the Koschei the deathless legend which involves 3 sisters marrying 3 winged “bird” men and she literally acted like sjm couldn’t have used that and it was a damn coincidence LOL
Ok whatever you say
I wish i could send them voice recording of me laughing
I need to follow more beautiful
#Lyatt
fam before the movie so all i see is lyatt all day every day. If you ship
#CaptainSwan
too thats even better. Like this and I’ll check you out.
#TimeIess
Why do people think Azriel’s mate(gwyn)would be introduced as a side character in book 5 where they have a total of 5 scenes together, none of which are inherently romantic.
No.. I’m gonna go with the obvious relationship he has with elain that spans 4 books
Elriel is endgame
Azriel just hiding in the doorway of his own family’s solstice celebration in pain & heartbreak on the verge of leaving actually makes me tear up. That poor guy needs some good in his life soon.
THEN rhys has az even worse to where he is sitting on a frozen lawn just numb
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I don’t get why people think SJM won’t announce it as Elain AND Azriels story.
#1
Azriel is a MASSIVE selling point
#2
The ship wars don’t actually exist for 80% of acotar readers and they’re expecting a couple announced. It would be weird for a romance series to avoid it
tbh it’s not even about just wanting a book announcement, this is literally terrible marketing. just because you have an established fan base doesn’t mean you should quit the promo. & “mystery” isn’t good when your fan base is so aggressively divided.
How many times has azriel talked about having a mate????
ONCE is the answer. And specifically about Elain being his mate.
These people act as if az daydreams about having a mating bond and brings it up at every opportunity.
Az would reject his mate to be with elain. Bet
as an english literature major, i don’t get how being an english literature major makes you qualified to prove azriel would choose his hypothetical mate over anyone 😭 you are not writing these books ma’am
I love how most of azriels story in acosf revolves around his feelings for elain.
Every single question posed about azriel in the book is answered in thine holy bonus chapter and every answer is ELAIN and people still can’t put two and two together.
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The ACOTAR fandom literally acts like a “mean girl” in high school and degrades the (fictional) female character so that the pretty faerie boy will choose them instead. Its so embarrassing.
Babes, he’s not real.
Azriel is not gonna choose you
Lucien will never choose you
Nesta comforting Azriel about his feelings for Elain & his pain was such an important moment even tho small. It shows her own character growth as well as how much it meant to him to have someone on his side.
Nesta will be Elriel’s biggest cheerleader and a big part of their book
You can’t tell me Madja saying that a mate can sense what is a miss and Azriel figuring it out isn’t sjm screaming Elriel are mates.
It’s right there clear as day.
Azriel and elain are true mates.
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A court of wings and ruin
Honestly I’m confused as to why ANY Lucien stan would even ship him with Elain. She clear doesn’t want him around and prefers Azriel. Don’t you want someone for Lucien that likes him?
Feyre literally calls that elain/lucien interaction as the most awkward time of her life 😂
Dear acotar fandom, i’m going to hold your hand when i am tell you this, fandom polls mean literally NOTHING. 2k votes is laughably small.
Do you have any idea how many polls of fandoms i’m not even a part if i have scrolled past and voted on? 🤣
Elriel is still happening
Why does Elriel getting married in secret make so much sense?
Maybe cause I truly believe Azriel & Elain already know they love each other, their book will be more about figuring out how to be together without the bond and less about accepting their feelings for each other.
Azriel is truly one of the good ones. I could write a whole ass essay on him.
The fact that he actively thinks this way, how he DOESN’T feel worthy to even touch Elain, and people clal him toxic?? yall want to fight me? Cause I will.
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I need Elriel bonding with Azriel’s mother stat
Big headcanon I have it that she is also a Seer and will help Elain with her powers
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Give me your thoughts on Rosehall..