When I first saw efellana_illustrations beautiful, whimsical artwork, I knew I needed to see Elain in their style. They were so wonderful to work with, and I’m so happy with how this piece turned out💕 I think that this poem by Mary Oliver goes so well with this artwork, and Elain as a character in general, so I had to include it. Personally, I think Elain deserves to spend more time frolicking through the woods, getting up to all sorts of witchy business, talking with the birds, and gazing into mysterious golden orbs.
Art by efellana_illustrations on Instagram, commissioned by me 🫶🏻
There have been so many ACOTAR folks disrespecting artists lately, making fun and saying horrific things about art made from opposite ships. Sending disgusting anons to artists because they didn't draw something exactly how mary joe miserable pants thought it should be drawn. I follow both Elriel and Elucien tags because I enjoy writing for both ships, and see it on all sides, it's so disappointing.
I'm ashamed to be a part of this community most days NGL. It has festered to a point of no return.
I have such big feelings right now about how this fandom treats artists. This is the one hill I am willing to die on: all fandom artists deserve respect regardless of what ships they create art for.
Listen to me. Traditional fandom is dying. AI art is cropping up everywhere in fandom spaces, stealing work from real artists while getting twice as much recognition.
Meanwhile, the artists who are clawing and fighting to stay in these spaces are subject to constant criticism and harassment. They are taking hours to work on pieces that they share with us for free only to be bombarded with ungrateful comments. And on top of that, their work is constantly being stolen and reposted on other platforms without proper credit.
Fandom artists are fighting for their lives right now and the least that we can do is pay them the basic decency of shutting our mouths if we don't have anything nice to say.
If you are not paying the artist, then you are not entitled to art of your favorite ship.
If you are not paying the artist, then you are not entitled to art that fits into your specific interpretion of a ship.
If you want fandom artists to keep creating content that they share with us for free out of the kindness of their hearts, then you better learn to start supporting them.
Fandom artists are part of our community, and they SEE YOU making these negative comments. You may think that you're only putting down one specific artist, but they all see you. And they feel discouraged, and they feel angry, and they feel unwelcome, and many of them leave.
If you wonder why so many artists are putting their work behind patreon and withdrawing from fandom spaces, it's because of the way we treat them. Do better.
Elain is a goldmine for the evolved introverted peasants who understand how much one can truly say with very few words. And if ye don't understand her randomly satirically slightly subdued verdant soul, well...
Who really be the boring one? 💅
always perpetually annoyed about all the “elain has no personality” posts … did you guys read the same books i did? just because shes not a quippy sassy snarky girlboss like everyone else, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a personality???
Just saying that there are places in the world of ACOTAR where faeries ride polar bears, sparkly wisps float around magic springpools, eternal autumnal forests, cities with a thousand libraries and lands called Montesere, Vallahan, and Rask wtf what's even over there idk so if we spend the next book wallowing in the depressing grey foothills of illyrian war camps ima just .....
omg hi so WBITD has me in an absolute chokehold. i keep having to remind myself that i'm not reading acotar 6 because the story is so perfect. your writing is so beautiful and ethereal and this story is cannon in my mind until sjm says otherwise (and even then i might just stick with this one tbh).