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The most disgustingly fluffy Elriel shit you’ve got
you got it WEDDING FOREHEAD TOUCHES
also heres a tiny crap process for the anon who asked
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Lmao, not fanfiction exclusive, even regular novels.
The only one I hate is "his release boiled over" 🤮
i love when fanfiction describes male orgasm simply as
“he exploded”
just like
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when he was turning into darkness,
he was saved by a woman with sunlight
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Elriel Month: Clandestine Meetings
Rhys growled, "Allow me to make one thing very clear. You are to stay away from her."
"You can't order me to do that."
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Art by lynx_illustration and commissioned by duskcowboy_ and myself!
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I’m so excited to share my first ever commission for Elriel month! In this piece, we wanted to show Elain and Azriel captured in a moment leading up to their first kiss (while hidden away from prying eyes). Huge thanks to lynx_illustration for beautifully bringing this to life! She captured the emotions perfectly and was such a joy to work with! 💜
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Please do not repost without permission.
@elriel-month @duskcowboy @little-lynx
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Elain, Azriel and Lucien
LoA, Helion and Lucien
First, let's recap the actual story of LoA because today, all the theories about her are based on headcanon, not on what is written in the book.
“She was still young—though she’d been married to
that delightful male for nearly two decades. Married too young, the marriage arranged when she was
twenty.”
"I heard
"her family wanted internal ties to power, and that they didn’t give her a choice before they sold her to
Beron.”
LoA had an arranged marriage with Beron, and apparently, she wasn't given a choice to reject it.
“Hybern attacked their estate. Her sisters bought her time to run. Not because
she was married to Beron, but because they loved each other. Fiercely. She tried to stay, but they
convinced her to go. So she did—she ran and ran, but Hybern’s beasts were still faster. Stronger.
They cornered her at a ravine, where she became trapped atop a ledge, the beasts snapping at her
feet.”
She was helped by her two sisters, who died during the war, to run away, but she was trapped by Hybern's beasts.
I said quietly, “You saved her. You found her, didn’t you?”
A coronet of light seemed to flicker over that thick black hair. “I did.”
There was enough weight, anger, and something else in those two words that I studied the High
Lord of Day.
“What happened?”
Helion didn’t break my stare. “I tore the beasts apart with my bare hands.”
Until Helion rescued her. (Sounds familiar, huh?)
“You had—an affair after you rescued her?”
“How long did the affair last?” I asked
Helion shrugged. “On and off for decades. Until Beron found out. They say the lady was all
brightness and smiles before that. And after Beron was through with her … You saw what she is.”
“What did he do to her?”
“The same things he does now.” Helion waved a hand. “Belittle her, leave bruises where no one
but him will see them.”
LoA had a forbidden love affair with Helion until Beron found out about it and abused her, which he still does to this day.
“If you were her lover, why didn’t you stop it?”
The wrong thing to say. Utterly wrong, by the dark fury that rippled across Helion’s face. “Beron
is a High Lord, and she is his wife, mother of his brood. She chose to stay. Chose. And with the
protocols and rules, Lady, you will find that most situations like the one you were in do not end well
for those who interfere.”
LoA chose to break up with Helion and not let him interfere because of societal pressure. As a High Lord's wife with children, choosing Helion would have caused a big scandal and potentially led to war. Therefore, preferring to stay with Beron wasn't a free, unconstrained decision, it was a result of social pressure. In canon, for them there isn't a mating bond rejection, which doesn't even align because leaving Helion wasn't a choice to begin with. If you think otherwise, then your definition of choice is biased.
Now, let's draw parallels between LoA and Elain based on canon texts:
*LoA's right of choosing her partner was stripped of her by an arranged marriage.
*Elain's right of choosing her partner was stripped of her by the Cauldron's mating bond.
*LoA had two sisters who loved her fiercely.
*Elain has two sisters who loves her fiercely.
*Helion rescued LoA from the KoH trap and tore the beasts apart with his bare hands.
*Azriel rescued Elain from Hybern, and she kicked the beasts with her bare feet to free Azriel.
*LoA and Helion had an affair after this event until it was discovered by Beron.
*Elain and Azriel were about to kiss while her mate was sleeping on a level above, but Rhys stopped it.
*Helion couldn't interfere even though he loved LoA because she decided to stay with Beron. As a High Lord's wife, she is pressured by rules and protocols that would lead to very bad consequences if she chose Helion.
*Rhys told Azriel to stay away from Elain because Lucien, as Beron's son, has the right to invoke the blood duel. Elain and Azriel's relationship could jeopardize the alliance with the Autumn Court and potentially lead to war, so their situation is also constrained by rules and protocols.
The difference between LoA and Elain will be that Elain will not submit to societal pressure. She will choose to be with Azriel and face the consequences of her free will choice. Unlike Helion, Azriel will not care about rules and protocols. Similarly, unlike Beron, Lucien will not force Elain to be with him, especially when he learns that his mother was forced to endure an abusive relationship and leave Helion, who is his father.
Elain will be an example for any female whose choice was stripped from her under the pretext of societal pressure. Hopefully, because of Elain, rules and protocols that treat females as property will change.
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I know we’ve dismantled the “Azriel only wants to fuck Elain” argument a million times, but I still want to remind everyone that Azriel was willing to go rescue Elain ALONE if Feyre hadn’t volunteered to go with him, he was willing to die ALONE if it meant rescuing Elain from Hybern.
Feyre mentions the rage in his gaze, in his tone, more than once. How can you for one second even doubt that he cares about Elain? How can you read that and then ship that man with someone else? How can you read that and ship Elain with someone else? If we hadn’t had the bonus to confirm that they also share sexual attraction some people would still be trying to push the “Azriel sees her like a sister” argument.
At some point you gotta sit down and admit that you’re wrong and in denial. Goodnight!
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On Elain, Gwyn and their apparent romantic worthiness.
TW: mentions of death, violent or sexual assault, infertility and pregnancy/childbirth related trauma. Please do not proceed if these topics bother you.
Disclaimer: please, please engage with this post with kindness. I promise I am not writing it to stir the pot, but because I - and many others - are fed up with seeing hurtful and harmful rhetoric spewed by the fandom, yet having no back up when dealing with it. Word vomit incoming, I'm sorry. This has been bothering me for a while.
My love to everyone who has been hurt by things they've read in this fandom. 💜
It's 2024 and I cannot believe we are still seeing posts, almost daily, about both of these women; all giving reasons why they cannot possibly be with Azriel. And I don't mean the debatable but utterly harmless discussions about Elain not looking good in black or Gwyn blabbing to Merrill when asked not to. Whatever, go nuts. I mean the truly horrific takes based around things these two women have had no control.
Now, my post history makes it very obvious where I stand in terms of ships, and yes, I'm well aware I've spoken before about the inherent power imbalance - that I perceive - which would exist if Azriel ever became involved with any of the priestesses in the women's shelter he is charged with protecting (to be clear, that's not me suggesting that Gwyn and her story isn't powerful, or powerful representation to those who see themselves in her, nor is it personal to Gwyn, or indicative of any of the sheltered priestesses and their ability to heal; it's purely a function of Azriel's position of authority over their sanctuary). I want to reiterate that my stating my feelings about this was never done with the intent to shame people who do ship them; we all ship who we like, and real world ethics should rarely come into it.
That being said, the following, in my opinion, is one of those times.
Firstly, I just want to say that lived experience informs how we interpret fiction, so please let me clarify something: the people who have said that they don't think Gwyn is ready for a relationship yet, and that NSFW fan art of her with anyone makes them uncomfortable, are not in any way in the wrong. They're simply the other side of the coin to those who find it empowering, and both are valid responses, often related to personal trauma. The problem lies with those very few who say that Gwyn could never have a romantic relationship, and call those who talk and/or post about it "gross." Some have called her "damaged goods." This is absolutely wrong and whoever is doing it needs to stop.
The entire fandom, even those who find romantic or NSFW content involving Gwyn uncomfortable to consume, frequently acknowledges that her trauma doesn't define her, and of course she should be able to enjoy love whenever she feels ready for it. Those who say otherwise are readily condemned from all corners. I've seen it happen and called the people out myself, as have many other Elriel shippers when necessary. However, Elriels are still very regularly and very publicly blamed for the actions of a few (some of whom I truly believe are burner accounts wanting to cause chaos, with their Elriel themed usernames and no post history), despite our largely collective action to call them out when we see it.
Could we do better? Absolutely, but so can you!
Because, on the other hand, I've noticed that, whenever I or others have tried to explain why the pliable bones "theory" - which attempts to reason that Elain could never be endgame with Azriel, as she and any baby would die during the course of pregnancy or childbirth - is equally as harmful, we are met with people publicly and wholeheartedly refusing to understand why (especially recently). Some horrific comments have been made to my friends, not to mention all of those I see well after the fact, which are never widely condemned by any but us. People will argue back that we're wrong, and have even suggested we're weaponising infertility! On Mothers' Day, of all the fucking painful days to say that.
Some of the push back I've seen recently includes:
"Nobody has said Elain is infertile."
No, nobody has, and that's not what we're saying or have ever said. We know you don't think this, as the Elucien fandom loves to write and draw Elain and Lucien's hypothetical future children (which is super understandable, as this is a romantasy fandom after all - no shame, enjoy your warm fuzzies).
What we are saying is that, if it's true that Elain's anatomy wasn't changed as Feyre and Nesta's was - and to be clear I cannot stand that entire plot, I wish SJM had chosen literally any other reason why Feyre's pregnancy was dangerous, as it is simultaneously degrading and doesn't fit with her previously established lore - then Elain and Azriel, together^, would be functionally infertile. Yet it's only ever framed as Elain's body not being able to work with Azriel's, never the other way around.*
^Why didn't the bat boys have to sacrifice their wings to keep their wives/mates safe? Why did the women have to change their anatomy? Because it would make it harder for them to be all powerful? Well Nesta sacrificed her powers! Why not just have Feyre be cursed by an enemy or something, and Nesta found a way to use the Dread Trove to save them all. Ugh. I love SJM's books, but this was such a miss.
*HOSAB/HOFAS SPOILER: funnily enough, this was never said about Ruhn and his eventual mate, even though he actually did think he may be unable to father children, thanks to the Oracle's prophecy. People shipped the hell out of him and a couple of different women throughout the CC series, despite the chance he could never get them pregnant.
"People haven't called Elain damaged goods, so it's not the same. We're allowed to not like her."
My faerie porn* lover in christ, what the fuck do you think the pliable bones "theory" is actually doing? It is suggesting that Elain's hypothetical inability to survive having children with Azriel, and for those children to also survive childbirth, is impaired. Ergo, she's damaged.
We don't care if you don't like Elain, we're allowed to have different preferences in characters and ships. That has never been the problem.
*I use this term with affection as a great lover of the genre.
But "damaged" vs a functionally "impaired" uterus? It's the same damn thing, and sorry, it's misogynistic af, not to mention ableist and homophobic at a minimum. In the same breath you are also reducing your favourite to her apparently functional uterus (even though the pliable bones argument is medically inaccurate, by the way - this is really damning of the state of health education across so many countries).
"Hahaha/lol."
Yes, I have seen people laugh and treat this as a joke. As recently as tonight, in fact. It's disgusting.
Regardless of your lived experiences and shipping preferences, both of these takes about Elain and Gwyn are equally degrading and horrific and need to stop, but if you're only calling out the comments that hurt you/your friends/your ship and not the others, then you should maybe attempt some basic self reflection and analyse those double standards you're carrying.
This entire fandom needs to do better. I'll say again, for the umpteenth time, to any of my fellow Elriels that if you think mocking Gwyn's past is funny, then you're not mature enough to read an adult series. But this works both ways, and if you think mocking infertility is funny/use it as a win, then you're just as immature. I would really and truly appreciate it if we were not left alone to argue over and over again why discriminating against someone who couldn't "have a man's children" is wrong, and why many, many people in this adult fandom - that is largely comprised of women! - might find such a theory, and the resulting discourse, incredibly upsetting.
Infertility hurts; not having a kid when you want one can be viscerally painful. Besides that, I know very few people who have given birth who don't carry around some sort of emotional or physical trauma from doing so. Treating a character's hypothetical infertility with one man as a joke is gross.
Please don't call Gwyn "damaged goods" or suggest that Azriel would choose somebody else over Elain because she couldn't have his kids.
They are the same thing.
It's not hard to be kind. Pain is not a competition.
We should all do better, and take care of each other.
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Pocket sized Elain !!! Our Fav Seer and Gardner
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“Azriel offered her a small smile that Elain quickly looked away from.”
added his face before I have to head to work.
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anatomy practice with az and I wanted to add Elain for size difference…
ugh I love her more every time I draw her.
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Elriel: Blooming in the Valley of Death
He looked like a god. He looked like the very picture of Death himself, and she would gladly let him drag her to the depthless pits of the underworld. She would bloom in the valley of darkness. For him.
-Golden Doe in a Valley of Shadow
Read here.
This is baby's first fanart! I actually didn't set out to make it fic related, but I realized their pose reminded me of the mirror scene in chapter 14, Ascalaphus Feather's (iykyk)
This is my first ever digital art piece, and outside of that I am truly a beginner artist. Elriel has pushed me to attempt to learn as best I can, and I hope to grow and get better and include art in my fandom contributions! I wish I could have finished it in time for @elriel-month but alas my skill level set the pace 🙈
Thank you to all the wonderful artists who have inspired me to pick up a digital brush and watch a million YouTube tutorials! I hope one day this piece will embarrass me. In a good way. Because I've gotten so much better 🤣
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Elain Archeron 🌸
photo ref used for the pose and dress, I think Elain in a wrap dress is my favorite thing ever.
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every time I read his face was “utterly neutral” and “something charged went between them.”
this is how I picture him 🌸 (I’d be simping over her too, bud)
#elriel#azriel#Still messing with this idiots look#Just doodling#Ignore the sad wings#He’s got a hood#Thinking of the black knife assassin fit from Elden ring#He’d look good in it#liquify is the mvp#procreate
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Never understood why 'Gwyn's story isn't finished yet!' takes precedence over 'Elain Archeron's story hasn't even started yet!'
Truthfully, whose story would you rather read?
That of a mysterious Seer, with full Cauldron powers, an unresolved mate bond, Shadowsinger's adoration, Cauldron's unhealthy interest, and a secret heir's dutiful obligation and a connection to 10 different storylines
or
Gwyn's?
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gentle reminder that elriel having mutual feelings for each other is canon
#elain archeron#azriel shadowsinger#elriel#acotar#The hottest confirmation and they didn’t even kiss yet
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