#maas trash

[illyrianatheart]

Dear SJM,

Please tell me that this is all a trick and I don't have to wait a year for Nesta, my beloved queen, to get her moment to shine.

Sincerely, a fan who will cry until this next book comes

#acotar #maas trash #sarah j maas #nesta archeron #a court of wings and ruin #a court of nightmares #a court of dreams #a court of thorns and roses #a court of frost and starlight

[iam-caryn]

Something that I’ve grown to adore about Sarah J. Maas’s books is a common trait that her female main characters have. They are all lovers of the arts. Aelin loves music, Feyre loves painting, and now Bryce loves dancing. Characters loving the arts isn’t something I’ve often come across in books that I love, so I really appreciate that.

#world of sarah j maas #bloomsbury #sarah j maas #maas trash #athalan #house of earth and blood #crescent city #bryce quinlan #hunt athalar

[propshophannah]

Got my Coronavirus test back y’all....

#not meant to be offensive #manorian trash #maas trash #manorian #manon x dorian #manon blackbeak #dorian havilliard #no but for real stay inside!

[ravenlunarfeysand]

Dorian

Does anyone else want to make Throne of Glass jokes whenever they hear people talking about hurricane Dorian?.....and then feel terrible for wanting to make jokes about something so tragic 🤦‍♀️

#tog #sarah j maas #maas trash #long live King Dorian

[iam-caryn]

When I’m searching the Sarah J. Maas hashtag and I see the words “friendly reminder”...

#sarah j maas #baby yoda #maas trash #acotar #throne of glass #friendly reminder

[iam-caryn]

Anyone: *mentions anything to do with Sarah J. Maas books*

Me:

#baby yoda #sarah j maas #maas trash #friendly reminder

[iam-caryn]

This feels both accurate and utterly incorrect.

I survived, but I feel like I didn’t survive at all.

What am I supposed to do with my life now?

#kingdomofash #kingdom of ash #sarah j maas #maas trash #throne of glass

[propshophannah]

Are the ACOWAR spoilers out yet?

#ACOWAR #ACOWAR spoilers #Maas trash #nessian #Elriel #moriel #elucien #feysand #ammor #GIVE ME THE SPOILERS #DARK!Elain #Depressed!Cassian

[propshophannah]

Elide Lochan theory!

Okay. So I know I just posed about Elide being a Crochan. But today @mechanicalbookdummy messaged me and asked if I’d considered the fact that maybe Elide is a Demi-witch because her grandfather was a Crochan male? And I can tell you right now, if that thought has ever crossed my mind I do NOT remember it.

It would certainly explain her red blood.

Thoughts?

#elide lochan #elide x lorcan #tog 6 theory #Maas trash #lorcan salvaterre #crochans #ironteeth witches #crochan males #crochan princes

[propshophannah]

Elriel? Can you explain this to me because I think you are suggesting breaking up Lucien and Elain's mating bond and Mor and Azriel being whatever they will be once Cassian is out of the way with Nesta, to ship Elain and Azriel. Don't get me wrong I totally think they will be friends as they are both quiet and caring people, but really a ship????

Yes, really a ship. I doubt it will happen, unless Maas:

Wants to give us another example (other than Rhys’s parents) of why being someone’s mate does not equal automatic meaningful companionship/love

She wants to make a point about how, in the real world, when you sustain a crush on someone for a long time/you build that person up in your mind to the point that the idea of them will always be better than the reality of them

She wants to get at the idea of how a traumatic bond between two people can make them feel strongly for one another, but that doesn’t make it the kind of love that meaningful, healthy relationships are built on

It’s a loooong shot. Although, I can 100% make an argument as to lines that foreshadow the possibility of Elriel. I got on this ship because there was some significant foreshadowing for Mor’s death, and I’m the kind of person who will cry real tears/get actually real-world depressed when characters I care about die (MATTHIAS!). So I had to distance myself from Mor. JUST IN CASE. 

But the more I thought about Elain and Azriel, the more I realized that it his SEVERAL of my nerd-buttons. Mainly my “Hades and Persephone” nerd-button. A myth that I am mildly obsessed with. And the more I thought about Elain and Azriel and their character development/backstories, the more I shipped Elriel. They are VERY similar. 

Elain hides in her garden and in the sunshine, Azriel hides in his secrets and in his shadows. 

Elain can charm a room with a few smiles, Az can with his manners.

They’re both good at “keeping the peace.” 

Elain needs to nurture her plants because no one was there to nurture her, Azriel nurtures his secrets to feel in control and to self soothe because no one was there to nurture him (until Rhys’s mom is @sparkleywonderful is correct). 

Azriel had to learn to be free and to fly, and I’d argue that is a lesson Elain will have to learn in the next three books. 

Azriel is the spymaster, and Elain would make a great spy–she is the LAST person anyone would see coming.

I’m not holding my breath for it to happen, but think about it. When Lucien found out she was his mate, and she disappeared, he freaked out. Totally possessive and controlling. He has issues, I get that and it’s an window I’d use to examine Tamlin’s behavior as well–but that doesn’t make it okay. He’s too damaged right now NOT to suffocate her. 

And remember, she is in love and engaged to Graysen. She’d going to be confused and feel guilty because she loves Graysen, but suddenly has a deep connection with a complete and utter stranger who lives at a court her sister hates. With a man who abused her sister, and he did VERY VERY LITTLE to help Feyre. 

And let’s say Mor doesn’t die, but that Elain (like Feyre told us) clings to Azriel for quiet and calm… She’d tell him how she feels, and he would absolutely ask because he’s good at reading emotions (we got that in a few scenes with Az and Feyre). And she would explain to him that she loves Greysen and promised to spend her life with him. But suddenly she feels deeply for Lucien, a complete stranger. They’d talk, and I’m gonna be honest, it would be a perfect opportunity for Azriel to realize that if he hasn’t made a move on Mor in 500 years, maybe he still likes her for the wrong reasons.

Maybe they have a traumatic bond because she was the first girl he liked, and he thought she liked him, then after he sound her beaten and naked he saved her. A guy who lived in darkness got to be the hero and save the girl he liked. That’s enough to fuck anyone up. And she is grateful to him for finding her, and feels guilty for the pain she caused but they cling to this idea (along with Rhys) that it’s Cassian’s fault. And Cassian perpetuated that idea because he feels guilty too and like he deserves to be punished, so he creates and perpetuates that mask he wears to protect himself. And Azriel get’s stuck unable to stop being her hero, but too shy to make a move. He spends the next 500 years “crushing” on Mor because he never stopped being that young male who saved her. The young male who was not a bastard-born victim of horrible abuse–who waited and waited for his savior to come. He is the savior in this story. And he sees a bit of his traumatic past in Mor even though they’re not the same. He allows himself to think that she is like him, and that he saved her and that it means something. It connects them.

But then one day a broken and polite and terribly confused Elain comes along and she clings to him because he is quiet and similar and she can tell him how she feels. And while she tells him about how confused she is and how she doesn’t know what to feel he says, 

“Just because you feel a mating bond with someone does not mean you love them, or that you’re obligated to love them. We still get to choose, Elain. We get to choose who we love and how we let that person treat us.” 

AND BAMB! Azriel just summed up his not-a-relationship-relationship with Mor.

It’s a THIN argument/a ship riddled with holes. But stylistically, thematically, symbolically, metaphorically, (and to me as a writer and visual culture nerd) and blah blah blah it’s a wet dream.

Imagine. Azriel and Elain together. They’d be quiet kisses and shy glances. They’d share toothpaste kissed before bed and blush whenever they accidentally touched one another in public. They’d build a garden, and she’d pull him into the sunlight. She’d teach him about flowers and plants. And he’d teach her to go after what she wants and that she doesn’t always have to please everyone because it’s okay to say no and let people be mad at you. 

And by the end of their first summer together, they’d both have learned that sometimes the most beautiful flowers bloom in the shadows.

Aaaand I’m dead.

#Elriel #elain archeron #Azriel x Elain #ACOTAR #Maas trash #Azlain

[propshophannah]

Sometimes I wonder if the Internet ever sees the shit I post and thinks to itself, "You need a time-out."

#Maas trash #Abraxos trash #MANORIAN trash #elorcan trash #NESSIAN TRASH