#sorry to my anti elriel followers

[bookishfeylin]

Ok so I've gotten a lot of new followers lately, so I want to clarify a few things:

If you're here for the Cleopatra post or my African kingdoms one, welcome! But I'm not a history blogger of any kind. I just like to research my niche interests and I sometimes blog about racism and/or black history. You're welcome to hang around, though! I just don't want you guys to be disappointed.

If you're here for my sjm critical posts: welcome! I'm just someone who reads critically and sees a lot of my abuser in Rhysand, so I often post critiques of this series through that lens. However, this blog was also created to celebrate my love for the no-no ship of ACOTAR. Yes, that no-no ship. Feylin. Block #feylin if you don't want to see me gush about them.

If you're one of the Feysands or Nessians or Gwynriels or Elriels I've seen lurking on my Feylin posts: welcome! I see you, and you are allowed. And yes, I will try to be better about tagging things "anti feysand" if you want to block that tag to curate your fandom experience. I've already gotten private asks/DMs and complaints about it. Sorry. In the meantime, block #rhysand's abuse, #anti rhysand, and #rhysand critical. No, I will not rat you out; you're safe here. No, you will not be blocked for being pro-feysand or anything as long as you're not toxic. Yes, I do not mind like spamming because I understand the flack you could get for reblogging pro-feylin posts. Yes, you are welcome to just lurk and quietly chill in the corner if you want. So long as I'm not harassed by your followers or anything you can stay.

Enjoy!

#bookish rambles

[bookofmirth]

Hi I am another Elriel shipper that genuinely loves reading you thoughts. While I don’t agree with everything you say I think they are very insightful and thought provoking and I enjoy them . Before I get to my point I just want to say that I am truly sorry on behalf of the Elriel fandom for all the negative that has been going down as of late. As someone who yearns for peace in the fandom and cannot tolerate seeing honest people being torn because of a ship.. seeing this shipwar pains me . I am fairly new to this fandom and I follow many Elriel blogs and pro Elaine and pro Lucien blogs. Some happen to be Elucien shippers too and I find myself gravitating towards them more as people rather than of my fellow Elriel shippers. Don’t get me wrong I still adore Elriel . But I just don’t want to surround myself with certain type of people no longer . My question is , Do you know of any blogs that lean more towards neutral shipping or don’t care about shipping at all?

Hello lovely person!

I'm glad you don't agree with everything I say - I'd assume you weren't really paying attention if you just nodded along like you had a blank smile on your face. I'm sorry the fandom isn't a great experience for you right now. I hope that it changes soon 🤞 In the meantime, ship whatever your heart desires!

These blogs do share similar ships with me, but I know that they either don't participate in the ship war and/or they just vibe. If anyone else wants to recommend their blog as well, feel free! I am not good at going through my dash and I talk so much with people in comments or on discord that I can't remember who is actually active on tumblr.

@cassianandfenrysaremyboyos Lisa and I have been mutuals forever and while we share ships, she's good at just ignoring the BS and doing her own thing

@aelin-godkiller Lou is also a long-time mutual and while she doesn't post quite as much anymore, when she does it's 🔥 she's so smart

@eyllweambassador Ezra is more into ToG, but is a devoted multi/rarepair shipper

@feysandfeels the Lady Lulu to my Lady Lele. She doesn't put up with any anti sjm BS and is a positive space.

@moononastring Yes Gigi is very much an elucien, but she tends to stay away from the drama

@writtenonreceipts lots of fanfic, no drama

@separatist-apologist MB just vibes with whatever she likes in the moment and I appreciate that about her

@gimme-mor is a multishipper - despite being critical of certain portions of the fandom in the past. Can you ask for more?

@ruhncervos Tati just vibes with what she likes

@elains makes lots of lovely aesthetic things

@sjmkinkmeme yes this is my side project with a couple other people, but we only post creative works - no ship war stuff allowed

@tangledraysofsunshine idek if Alex posts that much lol but she is probably the sweetest person you will ever meet in this fandom, and I've known her for a few years. I know. Trust me. The sweetest.

@rayonfrozenwings Renée is the original theory queen

@feyre-cursebreaker Carley always has interesting thoughts

@yazthebookish obviously Yaz has Gwynriel feelings but she has been doing a lot of great theory lately and making posts sorting out all the lore. And if y'all had any idea how much restraint she has shown with this ship war...

and some others for funsies: @darling-archeron @shyvioletcat @starseternalnighttriumphant

I know there are other people who are amazing humans and funny and smart and don't have time for this nonsense, but they may not post much so I might have forgotten to include them.

#blog recommendations #acotar fandom #ask #anon #I love my friends 😭😭😭

[acourtofthought]

I don’t think what went down with that e/lriel was fair. I think it was beneath you. I am also using my phone, so I apologise for any weird formatting.

Let me preface this by saying - You made valid points. I just don’t understand why you went to their post, and commented at all? To be honest, I don’t think you were in the right on that, and it makes us look bad. We’ve been accused of baiting in the past, and I’ve always scoffed at it..but you undeniably did go onto their post to seemingly start a fight. I also don’t think it’s a fair claim, that they could stop responding - when it was their post and blog to begin with, and not some random post that invited discussion. That is an unrealistic, and unfair expectation. I would tell someone who came into my space like that to “fuck off” too. That e/lriel you engaged with IS problematic, undeniably so. Everyone knows it. I just feel you gave them something valid to whine about this time. I am genuinely confused and frequently disgusted by our ACOTAR community as a whole. We call each other hypocrites, and yet do the very same thing we accuse our antis of. One of your reiterated points is “you hate when e/lriels say Eluciens lack reading comprehension” - a very fair gripe to be sure! However I’ve seen numerous posts from “our” side of the line, claiming that very thing of E/lriels..I’ve seen much worse claimed of them, by us..Truly, I wish you would have just vagued that E/lriel instead of engaging like that. It was disappointing, and I’m annoyed that today I actually feel bad for them.

I apologize that my responding to something in the Elain tag has upset you to the point that you felt the need to message me.

I LOVE a lot of the people that I've interacted with through Tumblr. I love reading their blogs, their ideas, their thoughts. And I love that there is a collective group who love Elucien like I do.

At the same time, I am still an independent thinker and operate based on my emotions and thoughts. If I feel angered over others being attacked then I'm not the kind of person who's going to sit back and do nothing. If something frustrates me and I feel driven to speak up, I'm going to do it.

Truly, I apologize if that somehow gives the collective Eluciens a bad name. But the Original Poster was ridiculing others under the Elain tag which leaves it open for anyone following the Elain tag to comment on.

I was presenting an opinion to her, in response to a post which I felt did not provide accurate information. If she did not like my reblog response, she could have ignored me. She could have blocked me. But she chose to respond and progressively got nastier. I don't think there is anything wrong with responding to an open blog that has the tag of Elain in it, regardless of whether or not that blog was created by her or not. She blogged something with a tag that would be seen by both Elucien and Elriels. That's like saying when an actor posts a promo for their movie, only people who agree with a certain group of critics should be allowed to comment. The Elain tag belongs to no one in particular which, in my opinion means it's open for discussion. When a neutral tag is used, people are going to speak up. I don't think that means anyone is giving their ship a bad name if it's done in a certain way. What gives certain sides of a fandom a "bad name" is not the back and forth discussion with someone. It's when name calling and belittling others happens. It's when people forget how to have any actual debate and resort to pettiness.

I'm not sure what more to say because while I'm sorry it bothered you to this extent, I'm not going to be the kind of person who doesn't speak out when I feel like it's in defense of others. I know I don't always succeed but for the most part, I try to discuss the book rather than turning into a personal attack. And while I don't enjoy having someone upset with me, I can't promise I won't speak out again in the future.

[separatist-apologist]

I have to say, I'm mostly an elriel, but I enjoy elucien too because I'm 100% an Elain stan and I'll take any content about her done by someone who loves her (like you and everyone making content for elucien week). It drives me kinda crazy to see other elriels say that people who ship elucien don't like elain, because I have honestly never ever seen that. (Feel free not to answer if you don't wanna get into a shipwar mess)

It's a bummer because I end up having to decide if I'm going to purge all e/riels following me or risk getting hate. And for a really, really long time if I put anything in the elain archeron tag, I'd get hate, too. I have like, 50 people blocked I've probably never interacted with (to my knowledge) so I can go back in her tag and I think thats absurd.

It's frustrating because before I had a lot of followers, I did have more multi-shippers following me and now that I'm over 1k, if I see e/riels following, I typically just block and assume bad intentions.

And what's WILD is that like, I would LOVE to tag-team against the anti's. Being a bitch online is like one of my top 10 hobbies. I see the most broke, stupid ass shit about Elain and I'm like, we could unite under this banner but too many have made liking Elain into a social justice cause instead of fighting our true enemy which is people who think Tamlin is her mate (SORRY IM SORRY BUT THAT THEORY IS MY VILLAIN ORIGIN STORY). I want what you want- Elain to be the protag and get the dicking down she deserves (and see Graysen die). Like the only thing we disagree on is who is doing the dicking.

I've got Nessians and Neris's in my fucking tags 24/7 but I can't have e/riels? BROKE.

#c'mon #we could take the evil that is reddit down #and all those STUPID FUCKING TIKTOKS #like whatever ship whatever you like #but the irrational anger i feel #is just #unmatched #anti e/riel. #but oh #imagine if it wasnt #ANYWAY #back to beast!lucien #for day 7

[shitwillnotbegiven]

“but... that person not only made somewhat toxic statements, she made xenophobic comments, denigrating and stigmatizing, not to mention the harassment that the Elriel accounts received, Hell, I myself was harassed by that person, I think that we can not always be politically correct in this this fandom, I love Elain and Feyre and I understand how the comment seemed questionable but the context of the situation is also important.” Yes she did and it’s obvious that A lot of us avoid her as feyre and feysand stans because of her extreme offenses toward others because we’re not all like that. You see her posts barely get any likes. That’s because we don’t agree with how she’s interacted with people and how she’s expressed herself at all, it made us look bad to people who would group us together with that. But we all have an aggressive user in our fanbases, it’s incredibly likely and unfortunate. But just because one person is a jerk that doesn’t just mean that it’s okay or cool for the person offended, shadowsandbloom in this case, to have generalized us in such a degrading way. When the only one’s standing up for elain are mostly elriel’s and feysand’s so why 💩 on the other side all over just one person?

As someone who’s followed her for a long time my feelings were just hurt that’s all. It was like so..because this feyre stan annoyed you you’re now claiming that all feysands are “obsessed” with feyre being better than her sisters? we have anti’s to deal with constantly.. before any acosf shipping drama that elriels have had to deal with, we’ve have to deal with annoying weird tamlin, nesta and lucien stan’s you name it during the entire series for years, we’re veterans with the petty hate. So maybe it’ll be easy to just understand that the last thing we needed..was for an elain stan who I’ve seen say they had our back all the time and then turn around and generalize us that way. I dont mean to sound dramatic or anything I’ve gotten over it and it’s not that deep..but it was just wrong to the rest of us stan’s who thought that user supposedly had our backs. it felt like a low blow when we already deal with enough and have been for a long time. Offend the user offending you is all I’d say, not the whole fanbase because you’re personally offended. That hurt my feelings that I wasn’t sure if I should still like that users stuff

Feyre’s on her own standard because of what she’s done during the course of the series regardless but let it be known that no, we’re not all just sitting here twiddling our thumbs focused on making sure others are putting her first above all, especially when the story’s narrative does some of that on it’s own, SJM knows she’s the rock and that isn’t meant to make anyone seem less than, it’s just how the story goes. No disrespect to that account I mentioned either!! the comment itself just offended some of us but she has an amazing blog and seems like a beautiful person. I just want you to understand what I meant shitwillnotbegiven 🤍 sorry if this is alot to read and if this is your mutual. when I saw nikestatue liked that post it made the disappointment even worse because i’m in love with her blog, but she liked the condescending claim so I don’t know how to feel. Sorry to name drop I love this blog so I just wanted to explain properly.

I will just say that i don't think it was shadowandblooms intention to generalize. A lot of us don't have English as their first language so sometimes things can come off as condescending when in reality it isn't.

Everyone's experience in here is different and this impacts who we see the fandom. Weirdly enough, shadowandblooms is often attacked and at some point it activates a fight or flight response.

I feel like this whole situation got way out of proportion.

#anon ask

[abruisedmuse]

Just went to the elriel tag to look at their art because I genuinely love them but now I feel somehow. I am fairly new to the fandom and don’t know how things work and that people go all out for shipwars I didn’t know if you don’t ship a certain ship you should stay away from their content they made me feel so icky for shipping elucien they didn’t use the exact words of calling him a creep but there was so many insinuations I legit saw one say that if you ship elain and lucien your weird because why would you ship people that are uncomfortable around each other. Neglecting the fact that there is a reason and deeper meaning to why they have this reaction towards each other and it’s not because elain thinks Lucien is a creep he is literally one of the most respectful males in this series , honestly I didn’t know the fandom was a cutthroat place like this and I do love the contents but it’s a lot for me. I didn’t know who to tell since your practically one of the first eluciens I followed and looking at your page it’s feels like safe space so hope this ask is okay.

First sorry I'm late to the response (my little one was sick and I've been offline 90% of the day). And this is always okay! Anything on your mind Fandom or not send me an ask. I'm happy you think of me as a safe space ❤ ❤

E/riels are a special brand of wild and moronic behavior. Not all but majority of them are some of the biggest immature cyberbullies I've ever witnessed. I'm so sorry you had the unfortunate pleasure of dealing with them.

Elucien is endgame. They can accept it and keep E/riel as fanon or leave the Fandom.

This is what I don't understand. Obviously not every ship in every book, movie, TV, etc will be Canon. We all have tropes we favor and characters we think would be good together. They won't be endgame. They might not even have a relationship. But that doesn't stop fanon. With fics, edits, art, head canons, whatever. Your ship can exist in Ganon. You can have this happy little slice of fanon heaven. I've done it time and time again.

You know what I didn't do? Change narratives in the Canon text to claim them for a fanon ship. I didn't provoke others online for shipping the Canon ship(now if they came for me or my friends it's on but I didn't go into random posts or ask boxes spewing negative. Calling them worthless or far worse because of it.) Anyway, I don't understand why E/riels can't just be satisfied in their own little fanon world. And leave everyone alone.

Lucien isn't a creep. He is kind and very respectful towards Elain. Three. He's given her three years and will continue to give her whatever time she needs to come to terms with bond. He'd never resort to some dumbass duel, cry like a selfish toddler that he's left out, or please himself to a fucking bottle of headache pills. Thats because he values. She means something to him. Even if they broke the bond, he would always be there for Elain. Unlike a certain bat boy who only wants her as a forbidden booty call.

Now that, that's out of the way. Let's talk about this Fandom. I'll be the first to say babes. Alot of this Fandom is toxic. And not just the E/riels. I've seen it from anti sjm, to anti/pro certain ships and characters. Tbh, if I wasn't apart of Star Wars or the HP Fandom. Shipping both Reylo and Dramione....I probably would have left this one.

I understand if you decide to leave this Fandom or take a step back (sometimes it's a good thing!).

However lovely anon. There's alot of us who do love acotar and although we know there's flaws in the characters and the books. We love it dearly. It's a special place in our hearts. You're Fandom experience is what you make of it. What I mean by that is simply if you wanna stay in the Fandom because the series itself do four things as often as you need too:

1. Block the tags

2. Block users

3. Unfollow those that make this experience negative.

4. Don't listen to E/riels (they've twisted so many narratives, have been consistently rude to artists and I believe well known bookstagram accounts too. Might add Vassa X Lucien shippers too. A few of them twist the narrative too in saying Lucien wants Vassa. When we were given those Jurian x Vassa moments. However, I've never had a bad experience with them personally)

Fandom should be fun, not stressful ❤

If you'd like a list of blogs in the Fandom who don't contribute to the negativity let me know. I'll try and get one for you. I hope if you choose to stay that your experience gets better. At the very least you'll have me ❤

#anti e/riel #Fandom wank #ask #answered #anon

[nikethestatue]

I have always loved theories (movies, books, tv shows—you name it). And I fell in love with many elriel accounts because of their theories and how they made me feel welcomed and appreciated. But lately, I just feel really tired. I kind of want to take a step back and not deal with the labels of the ship war, the “they’re the enemy” type of mentality, and just be simply a *reader* again.

Like, I just saw someone posting about another book series I really like under its tag, and when I visited that person’s page, I realized they were a pretty well-known Gw*nriel shipper who has more often than not been very snide and rude towards Elriels. And it made me really sad because obviously we enjoy a lot of the same books, but because of this stupid, absolutely crazy ship war, I have such a negative view of them and they probably do of me as well.

So then I decided to glance through the Gw*nriel tag just to see if I could feel more neutral about the whole thing, but I was met with fake acotar quotes that made me cringe and posts belittling Elriels. I scrolled for a good 10 min and other than harmless fanfics, everything else was completely unconvincing. The same ribbon/training scene was used exhaustively. You get my point.

So now I’m sitting here debating if I just want to delete this app because at this point I know who I ship and that’s not going to change, and I feel like the only thing I’m enjoying anymore is fanart and I can typically just find that on insta. I do still enjoy a lot of elriel pages (such as yours), but I find a lot of elriel pages also dive into the drama too much for me. Sometimes even purposely mistagging to spark drama, or making pretty snide posts of their own that I just don’t think help the situation. So many Elriels preach of being the bigger person, and while I think that’s mostly true at times, I still find many Elriels just as guilty of shameless behavior online.

I am so sorry I ended up kinda rambling and didn’t even really have a question in there. I think I just wanted to get that off my chest. I think it may be time I give tumblr a break until after the acotar 5 announcement comes out…

I always advise against deleting accounts, unless you leave the fandom entirely. I think some drama comes with the territory.

Also, while it's a bit more difficult, but you can try to separate the fandom allegiance from your interest in other books. So to give you an example--I follow some Nessian blogs, which are EXTREMELY anti IC and anti Elain, but they offer me interesting info, stuff that I want to read, and while i dont necessarily engage, I still enjoy what they put out. And stuff I dont enjoy, I just skip.

I think we are so programmed to be very black and white in our likes and dislikes that we leave no room for gray. I think in every fandom you have a 'hard no', but otherwise, as I always say, enjoy what you enjoy.

But, as I always say in these instances--you look out for Number One, which is you. If something is affecting you very negatively, don't force yourself to follow or engage. Your mental health is the #1 priority. Always.

#anon response

[elriel-oblivion]

Okay here's the thing.. I respect everyone's opinions and they can ship whoever they want but like... For Elucien and Gwynriel... I literally cannot even see how. I would gladly ship them if someone gave me a valid reason. Elain avoids talking or even being in the same room as Lucien, and Azriel had one polite conversation with Gwyn. Az is just nice to her. As nice as he would be to any female. Elriel has foreshadowing & chemistry- The roses painted on her drawer and the rose necklace...👀

Strongly agree with all of this!! My main problem with anything that's not elriel is that a lot of anti-elriel shippers completely ignore or erase Elain. With these ships, it's always what benefits Elain does or doesn't bring. It's so misogynistic, people just ignore everything she's mentioned about her own heart and how she doesn't want a mate or the bond, she doesn't care for it, but oh Lucien's had such a hard life, he deserves his mate!!!!!

😒😒😒

Surely he deserves someone who wants him as much as he wants them, no?

Non-elriel-endgame with the canon we currently have would mean Elain's choices are stripped once again since she'd have to give up/lose the love she actually wants in favour of one she doesn't want that's attached to some cultural concept that means zilch to her and her human heart. I mean, sure sjm could spin it so Elain catches feelings for Lucien and they end up happily mated. But then what is the point of having Elain constantly avoid him for three books? That's not even setting up for a good relationship bc every time they interact/meet, the communication just gets worse.

While I can honestly see the potential of gwynriel bc platonic interactions can later become romantic, I still don't ship it bc it doesn't feel right the way elriel does to me. I can def see gwynriel becoming a strong healthy friendship, but if it's endgame then Elain ends up with Lucien, whom she visibly shrinks from and has been avoiding since acowar. She doesn't feel seen by him at all - as much as I love Lucien and truly do want him to have his own HEA, we can't deny that he's really just pursuing (I use pursuing in the loosest way since he's very respectful about it 😅) Elain bc of the bond. If we take that away, there's nothing between them imo and he probably wouldn't give Elain more than a passing glance for her beauty and that's it bc she's not the type of girl he's into.

But people don't wanna think about how that makes Elain feel. This girl who previously felt seen by only one person - who then rejected her bc of that bond itself - and craves someone to see who she truly is, is being courted by someone who doesn't actually like her for her, but just the idea of what a relationship with her would entail. He's only trying bc of some divine belief she doesn't share. That must suck like hell. It's almost objectfying, the bond. And again, I don't blame Lucien at all, not even for trying bc it is something that's important to him and his culture, but it's not a mutual thing. If it were important to Elain too and she just wasn't cooperating bc of some stupid shallow reason, then I'd be angry at her. But that's not the case at all.

But with Azriel, the first person to see her since Graysen, there's so much potential for growth - for both of them. They make each other feel seen. And for all that antis say neither has grown in the time they've known each other, how did Az pluck up the courage to almost kiss Elain after having not done anything with Mor for five centuries? How did Elain initiate that kiss - ie have the courage to follow her heart again after having it torn and shredded by Graysen? And anyway, weve never seen into Elain's head so we don't know what she feels has changed within her; we can only detect subtle changes from other povs, but there might be some huge changes in her learnt from Azriel, maybe about her outlook on life/strength, that she's just keeping hidden for the time (or that no one has bothered to see bc Elain is invisible 😭). Same with Azriel. One little chapter isn't gonna tell us everything he's been thinking the past two years.

But either way, we know now that they both have feelings for each other. Why is a mutual healthy relationship shut down so quickly, one where both partners' choices are taken heed of? If Elain had said no in that moment, Azriel would've stepped back instantly, no questions asked. He probably would've have some huge internal conflict about his own self worth but he wouldn't have gone further without Elain's consent. He's already shown he respects her, he said they've been sharing looks and touches, and these are things fandom eat up, so I don't understand why it's suddenly wrong or unwanted just bc Elain makes up half the ship.

And there's so much foreshadowing/symbolism that antis seem oblivious to, which, fair enough, interpret the text how you want. But even if somebody doesn't see the spark or blooming feelings between the pair throughout the books (how do they explain away all the stiffness whenever one of them is mentioned or is in the same room or something though? Genuinely curious here), there's a lot of plot foreshadowing. The Blood Duel has now been mentioned twice, as has the idea of breaking the bond, maybe more. There's the issue with Koschei and Elain not being able to see things related to him past mist and shadow. There's all this potential conflict that could arise between the Courts if elriel pursue their love, and conflict is the driving force of any novel.

If gwynriel were an IRL couple, I wouldn't care if there were never any conflict, but if I'm reading their story, I want more than just them falling in love and having internal conflict about whether they should kiss the other or not. Especially if the backdrop is a fantasy world on the brink of war with many players. I saw a gwynriel post mentioning Merrill once and while I do think she has the potential to be a running antagonist, I don't see her as anything but a subplot/crony for/associate with another stronger villain. I don't think she could carry a whole novel at the moment. So Gwyn is tied to nothing in the overarching plot. Same with Az. Not to mention all the theories about the Koschei/Swan Lake/firebird folklore that is potentially inspiring this new series in the acotar world. Of course, this could all change as we get more info about the next book/s and all, but compared to elriel certainly, I don't think there's as much conflict with gwynriel.

Ultimately, I don't claim knowledge of the next books' content, so I don't really care what people ship, but the main thing I take issue with is how they treat Elain in the midst. A lot of gwynriel arguments I've seen portray certain acts in a romantic/positive light for Gwyn but either completely ignore or erase any semblance of romance for Elain or tear her down. Like, we shouldn't push the narrative that Gwyn as an SA survivor can't have healthy meaningful sex in the future (yeah, of course I agree), yet some of the same people who say that are also people who judge and make fun of Elain and call her too vanilla for Az without having a clue what her bedroom habits/preferences are 🤯 This is just one of many. There are so many double standards I've seen for gwynriel against elriel and I'm just tired of it. And even if they're not doing any of that, they simply hate Elain and don't want her to be with Az and so ship gwynriel as the next best alternative. Like, can they not push down Elain in favour of Gwyn, please? That's so misogynistic 🤮

For all that this fandom flaunts the series being feminist with strong female characters, they sure do a good job in tearing down females who don't fit their definition of strong, despite even Feyre stating and acknowledging multiple times that Elain has a different kind of strength 😒

Gahhhhhhh. *exhales deeeeeeeeply* Sorry this is so damn LONG!! 😅😅😅😅😅 I did not expect to write a whole bloody essay lol but I hope it was fun/comforting to read at least 😅😆 I know I fall back on elriel posts when the ship war gets too intense bc I actually enjoy shipping elriel. They've become my otp, and I absolutely adore both characters of the ship; I think most of us elriels do. I haven't really seen any elriel stans who dislike/don't care for Elain and her welfare so it's nice being in this corner of the fandom where we can appreciate both Az and Elain equally. And of course, the other characters with their due respect. I truly do want Lucien to finally get his good life, but I don't think that's with Elain 😕

#elain archeron #elriel #azriel acotar #elain x azriel #Acotar #Acosf spoilers

[dominiquewesson]

Hi Dominique, please don't remove elriel forever. I have followed you for a long time and I adore your art, I was very excited that one day you would draw them. Unfortunately the fandom is very aggressive now, please do not punish all the elriel stans, some of us respect opinions and we love to see your drawing

I want to post this to clarify the situation a bit more:

Answer: I'm sorry if you thought I meant all of elriel fans, maybe I didn't put it quite right. Some of them are my friends so obviously this hatred will never grow in me.

So thank you for your support, truly! :)

I want you to know that this isn't a punishment or revenge or some other stupid thing that abusers love to do. It was just a big anti inspiration for me and this piece and that's it. I'm not upset about this situation like the other artists who were attacked. Despite all the shit that's been thrown at me, I still think standing up for Alex was the right thing to do and it's worth it!

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Just in case for gwynrel fans: I decided to make this piece for fun and for mental relaxation, because I work very hard and sometimes I really need personal pieces. And not for some of you to make fun of elriel fans, if you think it's a good idea - it's not. feysand and their hatred of people who like or just fine with Tamlin too. Please don't act like those abusers, be above that.

Also, notice my artworks is not a battlefield, it's neutral zone, it’s all for fun, for a polite exchange of opinions, for make someone else's day better. So I respect all of you who take different sides, love different couples and characters, have different options, but only as long as you behave like grown-up civilized people. Thank you!

[bookofmirth]

Fandom! Just curious...like wouldn't SJM be aware of the fandom chaos? Even in some form? Maybe I'm just a bit anal and obsessive but when/if I publish a book I'd look into what my fans are thinking and if things got this bad release a statement or something. Am I just not that intune with what the publishing/author things are like? Or am I just more anti sjm than I originally thought I was. Because this is not okay and no one is holding these people, whatever ship they are, responsible.

No, I really doubt she knows. And personally, I don't think it's her responsibility. We built this mess, we are the ones behaving and reacting this way. It's ours to clean up.

Sorry, I get on my soapbox a bit here re: the acotar fandom.

From what I know, sjm intentionally keeps herself out of any sort of internet discussion. In one of her most recent events, she said that she doesn't even have any social media apps on her phone, and just uses it to play solitaire or something like that. And I think that Steph said she doesn't tell Sarah about any of it because of her mental health. There is 0 reason for her to need to know that people were joking about kidnapping her kid or her husband choking. The fandom is such a clusterfuck right now, that how would she be able to see through the noise to the actual, useful information, not to mention how could she engage with it?

I think there are some good reasons for this - I can't even imagine how I would react to seeing an entire anti community dedicated to me and my work. A lot of the criticism or discussion online is... suspect, at best. What good would it do her to read someone's headcanon? Or someone's completely subjective analysis of a scene? That's also tricky territory because authors aren't supposed to see any written fan work stuff, or they could be accused of taking ideas from people. I'd also rather she not know because I don't want fan service books. I want the organic story she wants to tell.

Also, fandom is a completely separate monster that the books, the publisher, and sjm did not create. Our behaviors are our responsibility. It's like the Wild West out here and some of us are taking full advantage to be assholes they always aspired to be. But there is no Fandom Police, which in cases like yesterday, kinda sucks.

I understand the desire to want sjm to make a statement. When Steph was getting a raft of shit for not shipping elriel anymore, I thought that surely Sarah would say something. I thought now this is personal, so she should get involved. But the thing is - and this is why I often choose not to reblog things with negative content - her response would also give that behavior a larger platform and more attention. And for someone with sjm's following? It would be 1000000% times worse.

And honestly? Even if she did say something, then people would just cry "death of the author" (inaccurately, might I add) and continue doing whatever they want to do. There is a fundamental lack of respect for other people that these behaviors indicate, and Mommy Sarah coming out and chiding everyone isn't going to make it better. People need to be held accountable, but it so quickly spirals into deflection, defensiveness, and then rerouting the conversation to insult OP, that what's the point? Sometimes I want to hold people accountable, but at the end of the day, that's not my job or responsibility, and all I can do is control my own actions.

My advice is to just be vigilant with who you do and don't follow, freely use the block button, and don't go into spaces that you know aren't safe. Right now, that's almost all of Twitter, and from what I hear, BookTok isn't that great either. I stick to tumblr, I have tags blocked, and I have about 40-50 fandom-related blogs blocked.

Unfortunately - and this is what makes all of this even worse - the fandom is proving itself to be very unsafe for people of color, and that's disgusting to me. It's disgusting and embarrassing and makes me want to peace out when people are just here trying to have fun, and a woman of color who rightfully calls out disgusting behavior is then subjected to something 1000% worse, essentially derailing the conversation away from the actual problem - racism, sexism, homophobia, and ableism in the fandom - and turning the discussion into tone policing.

And that is what happened yesterday. Instead of reflecting and saying "wow, this fandom is doing shitty, racist, ableist things", the discussion turned into "omg why is OP calling people out, OP thinks she's so smart, OP needs to say these things differently, OP should be nicer", etc. etc. But that means WE NEVER END UP ACTUALLY CRITIQUING THE ORIGINAL PROBLEM OF RACISM, SEXISM ETC. IN THE FANDOM. The entire discussion gets skewed elsewhere and we are right back where we started. With people being problematic assholes, and others being afraid to say anything about it.

(The way those phrases have been used as weapons in ship wars is a separate issue.)

I know I went way beyond your original question, but I think that as a fandom, we have way more responsibility for our own actions than Sarah does for calling them out. And I am putting this in all the tags because I think everyone needs to see it.

#sarah j maas #acotar #feysand #nessian #gwynriel #elucien #elriel #acotar fandom #fandom wank

[acourtofthought]

Heyyo, I’m the person that made the callout post towards Elriels and their beef with the color yellow that your most recent anon post was about. I just figured I stop by and clarify some things. Sorry in advance if this doesn’t make much sense, I’m super tired rn lol The post I was talking about/calling out was actually made a few days after your toga post, and basically the anti-toga blogger made a post that agreed w/ an anon saying that fan artists were responsible for Elain hate or some shit. If I’m remembering right, it implied that two artists were problematic because 1 said they associated Elain w/ the color yellow, and 1 didn’t want to make fanart of her for an acotar project they were doing. No artists were called out directly, and I haven’t been in the fandom long enough to know all of the big fan artists, but the post did use pretty specific examples of things certain Instagram artists did, so someone knowledgeable on the fandom might be able to deduce who they are. Normally I wouldn’t of had enough of an issue with that to feel the need to make a callout, but the blog ended up accepting another anon confession where someone called neutral elriel commission artists a “waste of money” and asked for a list of pro elriel artists to commission. Obviously people are allowed to have their preferences and whatever, but I am worried that the elriel community is jeopardizing commission artists by fostering an environment where artists will be under a lot of scrutiny. That’s why my petty little callout post was mostly me promising Eluciens that I’d make them some fanart, it was kind of a “fuck you elriels, artists don’t like you anyways” lol. Also, I pissed off one of my elucien muts by making a joke about how the real problem w/ Elain’s black dress was that it wasn’t slutty enough, and I wanted to make up my bad joke with some Elucien content (I’m only mentioning this because they follow this account) (shoutout to my girl, this fanart is for YOU bestie). TL;DR: No artists are being harassed yet, but Elriels are starting to create a worrying environment. I don’t think any of your posts are responsible directly, but I do think you advocating for toga fan art kinda pushed the anti-toga blogger to openly not like fanartists in general. I’m hoping that we’ll stop with the toga/suit/black/yellow debates because all of these debates are heavily linked to commission artists jobs, and I don’t think ships are worth jeopardizing someone’s financial stability/mental health

I am sorry that your original post went over my head because honestly I had no idea that was all going on. I've recently been blocking a lot of accounts I'm uncomfortable with because I've become a lot more Anti E/riel lately and I realize that's a bit of a change from when I first joined (when I was open minded to either ship). I didn't want to deal with stirring up E/riel supporters because that just leads to a lot of inbox hate messages.

I do apologize if a post I created somehow led to discontentment towards fanartists although I feel it has to be said, E/riels have already created a worrying environment that's been around for quite awhile. I'm a super small fish on Tumblr and don't have the following a lot of other bloggers have so I'm not sure that anything I've posted has the sort of major impact that would drastically spill over elsewhere.

Also, I wasn't necessarily advocating for Toga fanart. More acknowledging why artists who have already created Toga fanart should not be attacked for their work. There was already fanart shared during Elucien week that anti's were up in arms over and I felt their arguments were fairly baseless so I was addressing that more than saying Elain and Lucien should be in Togas all day, every day :D I just felt bad that someone's work was being attacked.

Unfortunately, I think Anti E/riels will find a way to rally against anyone they think might show loyalty to those that are Pro Elucien. That is extremely childish and I feel horrible that any artists would have to deal with that sort of behavior. And I think if that is the type of person they are, it doesn't really matter what we blog about because hardcore anti's will use literally anything we say to further their cause.

[elriell]

Hello 👋🏽 It’s me again. I’m here to rant because you give me life and your takes always make me smile. I just saw a video on TT from an Anti saying how pathetic/stupid Elriel shippers look after his chapter since it’s clear who SJM is going to put him with. The comments were worse! Most of them were the usual, she’s pathetic and not good enough to him blah blah. Some of them even said they hope she dies. I really don’t understand the nastiness tbh. I don’t ship Elucien, but I’m not hoping for his death. My favorite part of the video was when the creator said that it was obvious because his shadows dance around Gwyn, but physically recoil from Elain because they’re so disgusted by her 😂😂😂. Like girl, we’re not the ones clinging to a second hand gift and a couple of smiles. There is no purpose to this ask, I just wanted to vent and I’m sorry if I’m bugging you, I’m just super excited to interact with other Elriel shippers.

Hey!!! Go for it rant on I am ready *cracks back* You are never bothering me, I promise! ♥

This is why I am making a conscious effort to stick to my dash and avoid tags because I went in and did a 180 straight the fuck out lol Way to much toxic energy going around and I do not want it to interfere with my love for the characters or the series.

That is such a bizarre argument for me because Elain has literally done nothing wrong? She saved their lives, ruined hers because of the fae and after it all she is still a decent person. What exactly does he deserve? A nasty one?

I would never wish harm on anyone, that is sick and shows you their character from the start to be fair! That would be my sign to block and move on, because ew, I love Lucien so I wish him all the best I just do not think it is with her.

Listen heres the thing, I don’t even mind when they think it is cute because when my ship BREATHES around each other i am like *heart eye emoji* but using at a tool is very bizarre to me.

And I have avoided the necklace all together because as I have said it ain’t a pretty look for anyone at this point, it was super fucking sweet when he gave it her and then (imo) it kind of marred it. Do I think it is super deep nope but like I would not use it as a love symbol for her...

I feel like it is becoming very tit for tat at the moment... Listen my advice? Avoid that negative shit follow some awesome people who support what you love and stay in the peace bubble ♥

Come have a chat with me, or any of the lovely elriel fam members and sip our hot chocolate in peace and in the beauty of Elriel!

#m for ts #replies #acosf #acosf spoilers #elriel #anti gwynriel #just in case

[goldenruhn]

hi! what are your thoughts on Azriel's bonus chapter? the contrast between the first part (Elain + Rhys) and the second one (Gwyn + Clotho). Specially the contrast with the behavior of his shadows with Elain and than with Gwyn + the contrast in meaning of "a thing of secret, lovely beauty" (the necklace x the image of Gwyn). And the possible meaning of "something restless settling in him" + "something sparked in Azriel's chest".

Hi nonnie! The great thing about being in Australia is we don’t get the bonus chapters so once again I had to hunt it down. I would also like to highlight that I do not ship Elriel but will do my best to keep my personal bias out of this response! Also, no harassment/bullying, if I see any you will be reported to tumblr. I’m not 100% sure if this is anti azriel but if any of his fans find that so let me know and I’ll change his tag to the anti tag? 

Overall my thoughts are on this chapter is that it was nice to see the point of view of Azriel because he is character that’s often in the shadows (no pun intended) and I did like getting a bit more insight into him but it also left me feeling uncomfortable. This got incredibly long so I’m sorry to everyone who is planning on reading the mess of words below! Stay hydrated during this adventure!

What I find interesting at the point of Azriel and Elain running into each other is when Azriel receives the gift from Elain and mentions his own gift. 

It’s interesting that he says that, that in that moment he’s concerned about the mate bond between Lucien and Elain and almost worried to overstep some form of boundary but as we know that concern leaves just moments later after the gifting. Another important key is that his shadows skittered back at the sound of her of her soft breath, that they are prone to do that when she’s around. With that information I would have loved to get just bit more on why? Why do they skitter back when Elain is around? Is it because he’s shy? Is it because he has feelings for her? But then, why does that not happen around Mor considering that he’s been in love with her for 500 years. Do the shadows recognize the mate bond between Elain and Lucien and this is their way of telling Azriel to back down but he doesn’t listen to them? I hope that we’ll get more information on this in later books, especially after we see how his shadows react around Gwyn.

We see in the scene of him putting on the necklace around her neck that he knows it’s wrong. And all of a sudden he doesn’t care. During this point, I also think it’s safe to assume that Lucien can feeling something going on. I mean, he’s only a level away and the bond is right there. I refuse to believe that he didn’t feel/sense something was going on in those brief moments. 

Now, this is part where I start to get uncomfortable with this whole gift scene because they just shared a tender moment and all of sudden he’s thinking about her her breasts and sex, how is c**k strained against his pants. It’s just a jump that happens out of nowhere and is just such a book/movie scene that I can’t find it romantic? Also, for him to believe he could have just this moment is false as we’ve seen his history with Mor. He’s been in love with her for 500 years and for him to think just kissing Elain would somehow ease his urges is silly from my point of view.

Let’s now move to the interaction with Rhys. Like, this boy really tried to play off what could have just happened? Azriel ignores it and just states “what if the cauldron is wrong?”, also ignoring Rhys’ questioning of Mor (which is silly that Azriel would completely ignore that and not hint at anything). Next is another part I don’t like. Where he states the following:

Personally to me, it hints that he only has feelings for Elain because she was given to another, but also almost stating like she’s an object using the word ‘given’. Mates aren’t given, they are in my eyes blessed to be with eachother. And to also say that Lucien doesn’t deserve her? Give me one good reason Azriel why he doesn’t? What makes you so much better than Lucien? What makes you deserve her? Not to mention the idea of a blood duel, because that would get Elain falling right into your arms. Also, does Azriel really think Lucien is the kind of male that would ask for a blood duel? I think it shows how little both Rhys and Azriel know of his character if they think that. Let us not forget that he hasn’t thought about a future outside of just sleeping with Elain, and I’m sure the same goes for Elain on a future with Azriel. 

Gwyn/Azriel ft Clotho. 501 years later we have made it to the next part, Gwyn’s appearance in this scene and the reaction of Azriel. 

Gwyn’s scene is started by saying the shadows did not warn him. Now, if they warn him about others why did that not warn him about Gwyn being present? Next, we have his shadows peering over his shoulders to look at her. The shadows want to look at her, compared to them skittering away when Elain simply took a breath. Compare this also to when Gwyn breathes out, one of his shadows darted out to dance with it before twirling back to him. Like it heard some silent music. With this, someone could argue that the shadow mistake the visible breath as another shadow but then that mean’s his shadows would do this on a regular basis, yet this is the first time we have seen this. There is something about Gwyn that makes his shadows curious, that makes them want to dance. 

A moment to discuss the whole, “do you sing?” scene. If that doesn’t make you giggle a little you have an ice cold because that was kind of cute. 

We also have the cutting ribbon scene, where once again his shadows are calm, content just sitting on his shoulder and watching her. You can’t deny that this isn’t important. It is now the third time we have a mention of his shadows, and each mention has been positive, compared to the two negative times with Elain, the women he has feelings for. Oh but wait, as he’s leaving her he could have sworn his shadows sung in answer. Very interesting that his shadows are reacting like that to Gwyn, I don’t believe they’ve done that around Mor either so there is something there for sure. On a slightly darker note, I’m curious to know how his shadows reacted to him saving her if they are acting like this now? 

Now, this is the part that causes much controversy within fandom: Azriel giving the necklace to Clotho to pass onto Gwyn. I see many people saying that giving Gwyn a rejected gift is a low blow, and the fact that he thought he wouldn’t see her as more than friend could point not to nothing romantic. However, he also only thought of Elain as someone to sleep with and hadn’t thought about a future with her. A slight similarity in not seeing what the future holds with a potential friendship with Gwyn and a possible romance with Elain, which is interesting because is Azriel just not a guy that looks to the future? Though, with this we also see that something sparked in his chest upon hearing what Clotho said about the gift making Gwyn happy. I wish we had more of that, a little hint of what that spark could be. Though, we also get to know that he is picturing her wearing it, thinking about her how her eyes will light up at seeing the necklace. We cannot ignore also those last two lines. Buried the image deep down, where it glowed quietly. A thing of secret, lovely beauty. I think this hints at something, whether it be a possible friendship or romance, it hints at something.

I also find it interesting how in that moment of imagining Gwyn wearing the necklace he completely forgot about Elain wearing the necklace. The only thing in his mind we the look in her eyes, which bought a smile to his face. 

Azriel as a character is interesting, however, I wish his actions with Mor, Elain & Gwyn where perhaps better thought out. For him to be in love with Mor for 500 years and then suddenly move onto Elain and now the possibility of Gwyn? I just think SJM could have done so much more with these. Some form of acknowledgement of his feelings on Mor, even just a small glimpse during the bonus chapter would have also been wonderful because we don’t really hear it from him. I also believe that’s one the reasons why some people don’t like Azriel. Which is fully to blame on SJM and her shitty writing about these three different relationships he holds with each of them. 

 Once again, no bullying/harassments will be tolerated. 

#azriel #acosf #elain archeron #gwyn berdara #fey: rants

[azrielsbxtch]

Elriel is not going to happen...

I’m sorry to crush your dreams but I have a theory and I’m praying furiously for it to be true. Elriel is not going to happen. I’ve said countless times that Azriel and Elain have a best friend relationship. He’s there for her and vice versa. I have put down the following points to establish my theory. Anti-Elriel supporters...join me in hopeful prayer. Let’s begin.

“BUT SARAH FORESHADOWED ELRIEL”.

1. That was Feyre asking why the cauldron didn’t make Az and Elain mates and Rhys said Azriel has been in love with the same woman for 500 years. He’s not going to fall out of love with Mor because Elain arrived.The fact that Azriel gave her truth-teller,or that he helped her heal or whatever,or that she gave him a solstice gift.....personally I think there’s nothing romantic about all those acts. He’s still in love with Mor first of all. Secondly Azriel and Elain have such potential to become like the male/female best friends. Azriel doesn’t really have a female best friend. He’s in love with Mor. Amren is nobody’s besty. And feyre became his High Lady before they could become besties. But with Elain he can just chill and relax and be with a....and I cannot stress this enough.....FRIEND.

“BUT SARAH WROTE THOSE SCENES SO WE COULD START SHIPPING ELRIEL”

I agree. Maybe Sarah did write those scenes but I think it’s (A) To create drama with Lucien and Elain using Azriel. (B) She’s going to change it up. I mean..we thought feyre was going to end up with tamlin. And Nesta and Elain weren’t supposed to be main characters. Maybe Elriel was supposed to happen. But things change in the writing process and hopefully the whole idea of Elriel will be banished.

2. It’d be too cliche for all three bat boys to end up with all three sisters. We already know Feysand and Nessian are endgame. Elriel cannot happen. It’d be lazy writing and too predictable.

“BUT SARAH WANTS TO PORTRAY THAT MATES DONT HAVE TO BE TOGETHER SO IF SHE’S NOT WITH LUCIEN SHE’LL BE WITH AZRIEL”

3. No. Elain doesn’t need to be with Lucien. She won’t be with Azriel. She doesn’t need to be with a man. She can reject the mating bond and still live her best life without a romantic relationship with Azriel or Lucien. And you’re forgetting that Elucien is not totally impossible. There’s definitely a pull and a bond that will last even if she rejects the bond.

MY THEORY

4. I have this amazing theory that Azriel will meet a badass illyrian woman in ACOSF during the revolution of the illyrian women that will definitely happen. And she’ll be someone instrumental to his life because she’ll make him love his people and his culture again. Then together with Nessian and Feysand,they’ll start new and beautiful illyrian traditions.

5. And the “AZRIEL POV” at the end of ACOSF kinda solidified this. If it was a normal POV,it would be in the middle of the actual book. But the fact that it comes after ACOSF ends. That means that it’s teasing an Azriel book. And you might say,well elain could be the love interest right? No.

6. You see the POV is at the end of ACOSF because that’s where we meet this mysterious illyrian woman! And after she’s introduced in ACOSF then we’ll get the Azriel POV at the end.......teasing Azriels book....with her!!!!!!!I love this theory and nobody can change my mind

7. In conclusion....ELRIEL IS NOT ENDGAME!

[nomattertheoceans]

There have been so many new people following me this last month omg

Thank you so much to everybody, I’m so so happy you stumbled upon my blog and decided to stay!!!!!

Since I think most of you followed me for my Feysand fics, I thought I would make this post to let you know a few general things about me and my blog :)

I’m French, so my English isn’t always great. I’m 25, and I live in South America, so I’m not on the European time zone, I’m closer to the US time zone (GMT -5). You can always come talk to me, about anything, in my DM’s or in my ask box, anon is always on.

Things I blog about, mostly:

- Sarah J Maas, mainly her ACOTAR series. I ship Feysand (I think this is obvious from my fics hahaha), I do not ship either Elriel nor Elucien, and I don’t really have strong opinion on Nesian. I want Mor to find the love of her life really soon, and I want Azriel to stop feeling entitled to her affection. I also wish Nesta going to the Mountains won’t turn her into a warrior because I want her to read books and drink tea all day long. Although, I’m really critical of the sisters’ general behaviour so I’m not always positive about them.

- Leigh Bardugo, mainly the books from the Grishaverse. I would die for Kanej and Zoyalai. I have many, many feelings about them and can’t wait for King of Scars 2 because I can’t wait to have my heart destroyed. I think Alarkling is an abusive ship and I do blog about that, I also think the Darkling is just an entitled abuser and I hate him. So... yeah no Darkling love here ^^’

- Brooklyn 99, mostly Peraltiago but really the entire show is gold and I blog about it often. Often without tags so... sorry x) If you ask me to tag it I will try to be better :) 

- His Dark Materials, the show AND the books. If you haven’t read the books, but are watching the show, my blog isn’t safe because I am talking about the books a lot!!!!! BUT everything that relates to the books is tagged #hdm books so you can avoid spoilers in my blog if you filter this tag. ALSO these books are a personal obsession, and my favorite book series, since I was nine so I.... have a lot of feelings. About a lot of things.

- Harry Potter. I hate Snape with a passion, I can rage about him for hours on end, and I do share anti Snape stuff. I also hate Dumbledore for forcing Harry to leave with his abusive family for 17 years. I ship Hinny and Romione, I LOVE Ron and I will defend him from the haters always, I identify 2000% with Hermione, and Ginny is my favorite character. Harry is bisexual and no you cannot change my mind. I do not consider The-Play-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named to be canon, and I have very mixed feelings about the Fantastic Beasts series. I also have a very love/hate relationship with JK Rowling because I love what she created but she doesn’t seem to understand her characters, she doesn’t seem to care anymore, plus she’s a TERF and probably a homophobe so yeah... I hate her and I talk about it.

- Random stuff: A LOOOOOT of it!! Stupid jokes, cute photos of animal, art that I like, movies, books, TV series I like,..... Sorry my blog is not well maintained hahaha

- Other people’s fanfic: Okay so I have a job that takes up most of my time and energy. So I have very little spare time to read and write, and most of the time, I chose to write. Which means I am very bad at keeping track of what’s happening around me in the fanfic universe. BUT I am always willing to check out someone’s writing!!!! I might not do it right away because of lack of time but I would love it :) I’m really bad at recommendations though because I have so little time hahaha

The things I write

Here’s my masterlist :) You can also read all of it on AO3 !

- Original story: I don’t blog much about it, but I’m developping an original story that is basically sci-fi/apocalyptic. I looooove it and I am always open to answer things about it!!!! I might try to share more about it in the time to come ^^

- Non-Feysand fics. I don’t write a lot of these hahahaha but I do sometimes write some Peraltiago, some Kanej, and I have a few Jily/Wolfstar/Marauders projects, but I don’t think I will post them any time soon.

- Feysand fics. aka most of what I write hahahaha I love them and their relationship is an endless source of inspiration for me. Here are details of what’s happening right now, and what’s coming hopefully soon.

Current projects:

Feysand Holiday Fluff Fest: The reason I think most of you are following me ^^ A series of fluff prompts I’m writing for this month, it’s really fun for me because I have a tendency of writing very long stories and it’s a fresh feeling stopping at one-shots.

If you hold me close: It’s a modern fake dating AU, Feyre doesn’t want to go alone to her sister’s wedding and invites Rhys, but then they end up faking being in a relationship. I was thinking I would tag everyone who asked me to be in the tag list for the holiday fluff, but you can always ask me to untag you, I will not take it personnally I swear!!! Your personal experience is what matters :)

Staying Afloat: My baby, I love this fic so much it’s impossible to explain how much I do. I want everyone to love it and tell me what they think. This fic tackles some tough subjects though, mainly domestic abuse (Feyre is dating Tamlin for a good part of it). It’s also very angsty, and a very long slowburn hahahaha @tonystarksbish is my amazing beta reader and general main supporter, she’s honestly the reason I write that many things now. Go check her writing blog ( @somanyshipsss )

Future projects:

A Feysand college AU, mostly written from Rhysand’s point of view. I’m planning for it to be around 15 chapters, maybe? But it might get longer hahahaha

Some one-shots, some canon campliant, some in modern AUs, but all of them being published at an unknown date, depending on when inspiration strikes hahahaha

A project that is basically dumb and silly and that I started TODAY with @quakeriders (if you don’t know what she writes, go to her blog right now), we might post it and tell you more but basically Rhys is canon!Rhys and Feyre is a dumbass human from modern time who’s chilling around in a Stitch onesie. It’s really silly but we LOVE it!!!!! I can’t wait to share it with you guys it’s gonna be so fun ^^ (But not before the end of the month at least!)

Completed projects:

I made you a promise, it’s basically a mostly fluff modern AU, Feyre and Rhys meet at a bar and start dating! It’s been complete for a while now but sometimes I still post random headcanons or short or less short snippets of the story, generally according to request from people (well, from @quakeriders really hahaha) so you can send me requests if you want extensions or headcanons!!

I am ALWAYS open to prompts!!!!!!!! I love them and I will love you if you send me some. BUT I might not answer right away because inspiration is a bitch hahaha

Anyway, I think that’s it, I hope you all are having a great day, and I love you all so much for liking what I write, you bring me so much joy that I could hug all of you and it still wouldn’t be enough ^^

[rayonfrozenwings]

Hey mutuals, followers and p0rn bots, 

Its my blogs 3rd birthday! 

I’ve been lurking, posting, ranting in the SJM fandom on tumblr for three years and that’s kinda Crazy to me. 

So here are some fun Facts that kinda evolve into an appreciation post… and then an anecdotal history of this fandom I’ve been a part of. So thanks for hanging round and talking shit with me. :D

if ur tagged it’s just like a thanks or when I met you - lol you don’t have to read the whole thing... 

and the rest is under the cut.... 

I only liked posts for the First month, I never reblogged. It was my first time on tumblr.

I’ve had the same URL since the start

The first post I reblogged and commented on was @miladyaelin ‘s post about a Volcano in the Frozen Wastes - such a wasted opportunity for World destruction that was not used to full potential at all in KoA hahaha - maybe a spin off series? joke.

The first person to reply to one of my asks was abookandacoffee or @bookofmirth 3 months after I joined tumblr and that’s kinda scary because that means we have been speaking longer than we realised. 

@propshophannah​ thanks for letting me go nuts about theory with you!

The Big blogs in the SJM fandom change, and it's cool that being in the fandom for so long means that I get to talk with all these people and make some real friends.

I made read friends from reading books and talking about them - How Cool Is That!

I had fun making shit posts about Dorian’s couch, Rowan’s relationship status after EoS and seeing my friends come up with some pretty clever memes too. 

The Art is amazing, and actually getting to talk to artists about their art is something I didn't think would happen ever. So I’m so grateful to tumblr for that.

I want to tag a lot of people but - having been here so long means that urls change and I lose touch - plus I think I would go over the “50 tag limit” easily. 

The first kiwi blog who I talked to was @verifiefangirl and we bonded over the Old El Paso advert of “why not both”. 

I want to thank those who encouraged me to write my theories, and I did that for the first year on here. 

I want to say thank you to the people who told me “You know, you can write your theories as fic and people don't get as angry.” Because you were right! And so that started my writing of fan fic, and thank you to those people who wanted to be tagged and let me know what was up - sorry I haven’t written in a while. 

Thank You to @faenet and my Faenet Fam. I joined to share theories, switched it up to write fic, and then evolved into Edits. I was able to learn how discord works and be a part of a team and learn new photo editing skills - I knew nothing before I joined and it's so cool to have become a part of that community.

Thanks to my BookClub brotp - It’s been the best getting to know you all over the last year, discuss books and life. And just have fun. I honestly wouldn't have connected with you guys if we just relied on tumblr because it often requires me to say something first, and i'm not good at that. @theyretheirthere​ sorry I had to tag you twinnie. :P 

Some Fandom History for those who have been here a while ... (well for as long as I have been in the fandom, I know there was a time before this).

Phase One - POST EOS Theory and Beach Scene Debate, Elorcan exists now even tho People still HATE Lorcan (not me but lots of people did). ACOMAF love, nickname of Tam the tampon takes off. 

Phase Two - PRE ACOWAR, Moreil Hype, Fandom super excited, Acomaf love, Rhysand love.

Phase Three - ACOWAR IS AWFUL - Dumpsters on Fire, lots of fandom people left. The ones who stayed had discourse about Moriel, Mor’s sexuality, Nessian, the ending and how it was rushed, Azriel is a smol cinnamon roll who deserved better - lots of Az fics and the birth of Elriel started here. 

Phase Four - TOG FANDOM ARE MAD because Chaol’s novella turned into a Novel. Cyber bullying of Chaol lovers in fandom led to a lot of blogs leaving - just be kind to one another, you can talk about stuff without personal attacks.   

Phase Five - WE ARE ALL GOING STIR CRAZY, Someone released a TOD mock cover and there was a lot of ableist stuff going on. Bad time in fandom. 

Phase six - TOD Came out - Lots of people refused to read, other people felt vindicated about theories, other people were shocked about Maeve. Praise and Hate towards the book and for how SJM handled race and disability. Was she being sensitive or appropriating? Mixed Reviews, again fandom got a little smaller. Acotar Fandom was taking off in terms of fics. 

Phase Seven - Acotar Fandom PRE ACOFAS Fan Fic Mania. Most of us re-read acotar, acomaf, acowar and Fix-it fics, Nessian Fics, Feysand Fics, Lots of Fics. Lots of Art. I noticed the ACOTAR fandom kinda took off while the TOG one floundered.

Phase Eight - A New Novella for ACOTAR, ACOFAS - lots of hype. Lots of mixed reviews - “it had no plot” or “I love it” or “I don't like how the first pov changed depending on the character” or “Yay christmas!!!” or “boo wall scene” or “yay Wall scene!!” Again - more fics and art came from it. Snowball fight was a highlight, art was gorgeous, Amren as a snowball was also good. Fandom was flourishing again, yes we lost some people but we also had a resurgence in creative content.

Weird non-phase - Catwoman: Soul Stealer, was released but wasn't a “must read” for many people.

Phase Nine - Pre KoA, Fandom was Hyped! We were all doing our re-reads, theories came out again, discussions about favourite quotes of things we had forgotten were shared. Again - Some good ToG fic came out because people had it fresh in their minds again  - we were preparing. Edits were great, lots of Edits, Lots of Art. 

Phase Ten - KoA Came out and destroyed us. Fandom was relatively quiet while people abandoned tumblr to read it. Anti’s came out in force, they had more to say about it that the fans did. Fans didn't see this immediately because they weren't on tumblr. About a month after release, We got Meta and discourse on KoA and what it means and what Aelin’s story has meant to us personally. Edits started taking off again. This Phase is still ongoing even a year later. Personally I am in Awe of that book and what it managed to achieve, I wanted to re-read it straight away but it still has so many parts that HURT to read. 

New people slowly trickle into fandom, or pick up the books, its sweet, but as a veteran sometimes seeing the same arguments gets tiring and so I dont comment as much as I used to. I’m still here reading, but I don't really want to write another essay like the ones I've previously written to defend a point so i’m quiet. 

Where I think it will go next? 

Most of the people who remain in the fandom are good at looking at things with a critical eye but saying “I can still enjoy a book”, which I like. 

We will get hyped as a fandom for Crescent City which was pushed back to March 2020, even if we are unsure it’s what we want, I don't think we can help ourselves. 

ACOTAR 4 is in the works with no confirmed release date, just vague mention that it was being pushed back - twas supposed to be 2020 but I'm doubtful, especially if other titles are pushed back first like CC:HOEAB - it was by three months from Jan to March. 

WOTOG was also pushed back, first from release with EoS, then from release with ToD and now from release with KoA (those are all goodreads dates as I was waiting for it and keeping an eye out, but we also had novels added and other books like acofas - goodreads also isn't the best at staying on top of release dates)…. we have had mention of it that it will include art and is co-authored by Lynette Noni, so It is still being made at least - I mean I don't have to cry about it being cancelled just yet. And So I have to stay around for those. I became invested in the World building of TOG to not wait for WOTOG. 

So yeah, it’s been a wild 3 years. <3

#you dont need to read all this i just started writing and couldnt stop #obviously its my own experience as we all take highlights from things differently #renee rambles #renee rambles about her three years on tumblr #i might do another post for how im gonna celebrate but i need to organise it and i havent yet so something is kinda in the works #i only realised two days ago that i had been here so long #perks of not deleting my 52000 unread emails #so yea #i really want to tag everyone but wont #because if i miss someone ill be so sad #nice fandom is nice #sjm fandom #to scared to tag it with other fandom tags