I’m not going to link the post, but I will share this theory that an E/riel made (a while ago) about Azriel’s bonus chapter/Solstice/Rosehall.

Here’s what it said:

“So we know for sure last solstice Azriel went to Rosehall. He went to visit his mom apparently. Which makes me think this might be something he always does. After solstice he visits rosehall, visits her. What if that's what happened after solstice? What if after all that Az went to his mom and talked out everything, and maybe His mom said: go grab that damn necklace back, you acted foolishly. And that's why he was pissed three days later? Cause he knew he messed up trying to regift it? And one common thought the ACOTAR fandom has is that who lives in Rosehall could be Az mom. Rhys asks about Rosehall as if is something common, something that Azriel probably does every year maybe? some kind of tradition? What If in ACOSF, after solstice, he went to Rosehall, he visited her. What if after all that happened between him and Elain and Rhys and the necklace, Az went to his mom and she asked him why he was sad (just like Clotho did!) and he told her everything, and maybe his mom said: "you acted foolishly. Now go grab that damn necklace back." Text from Silver Flames : Three days passed with no word from Cassian. He'd been replaced in training by a stone-faced Azriel, who was more aloof than usual and wouldn't even give her a smile. “And that's why he was mad three days later? Cause he knew he messed up trying to regift it? Maybe the necklace is now in Az pocket, hidden this whole time?”

What are your thoughts on this? I hope k don’t come off as rude/disrespectful to the E/riel who came up with this, but this is a theory that I politely disagree with.

alright i'll be real with you, i totally forgot about rosehall and when i did remember it, i legit thought it was part of the spring court 💀

now for my actual opinion on the theory: i mean... sure? i guess i could see what they're going for here?? but it just seems like an awful lot of mental gymnastics to me. like... really? i highly doubt his mom gives one fuck about a necklace he gifted to a woman lol. and why would he try getting it back? he'd have to go to gwyn himself and he was quite adamant about not wanting her to know it came from him

overall y'all (e/riels mostly) need to let that damn necklace go. it was a clear metaphor for az's attentions shifting from one woman to another, like sjm spelled it out for you word for word. crack open some books outside of those dark romance booktok ones you love and actually analyze some text that isn't made for the sole reason of getting people off

a for effort though!

im gonna rant these in pro-feyre spaces because what is happening in the anti-feyres is pissing me off. we dont talk about enough how infantilized feyre was by nesta and tamlin stans. for tamlinists they love pointing out that rhysand manipulated her to believe they are mates or tricked her into thinking tamlin’s the bad guy. and the fact that THESE PEOPLE ARE BLAMING FEYRE FOR BEING ABUSED? because she apparently didn’t understand tamlin’s past? FUCK THEM! why does feyre have to be the one to carry that burden when she had done enough to keep tamlin satisfied but the moment she questions his decisions, she physically abused her! now these fucking tamtrums have the gall to blame her for not being submissive to these man’s wishes? akskdlfskl for people preaching about autonomy they fucking disregard the fact that feyre leaving her abusive relationship is through her own choice. why do they have to take these books beyond comprehension and just accept that their fave character was designed that way. not our fault we stan the main characters and they stanned the loser

for nesta stans they’re obsessed with thinking that rhys and feyre’s relationship will never be equal because rhys can manipulate feyre? did they fucking forget that feyre also has daemanti powers and is cauldron-blessed she can completely go inside rhys’s mind too and fuck with it if she likes. this is where stans slip in their jealousy because they point out that it’s because of the mAniPuLatioN, they’ll never be equal and then point out why nesta and rhys are? then proceeds to say that “friendship, equality and similarity is basis of love so that’s nes and rhysand” fucking unbelievable. I freaking cannot believe they continue to spread that kind of take that is FAR FROM CANON, it reeks so much jealousy and they pretend to be soooo concern for feyre when they just continued to treat her like a little girl compared to how mature and responsible feyre is in the books to make nesta look like the mature one so she can be at par with the night lord. they wanna replace her as mc so badly they have to steal everything that feyre has. the superiority they have just so they can elevate their faves is so forced and they want to trash canon and say that sjm is a bad author just because they have so many expectations and delusions implanted to their faves when the characters in the head didnt even fit them in canon. (im not even an author stan just tired of all these takes equating bad author = the character they love didnt fit the one inside their head)

if anything, they’re the ones acting like babies constantly whining these delusions they wanna force in the book and their petty ass wanna make it look like they have to be the correct ones. fucking hell actually.

I'm literally in love with you. I completely agree with everything you said and thank you so much for sharing your brilliant thoughts and opinions with me.

In regards to the Tamlin aspect: these people really don't have anything more than half baked, mediocre head canons and fics where they "fix" acomaf to support their bs opinions. Yk I love and can always appreciate having empathy for different characters, I think it's genuinely a gift and I'm always happy so see so many people in this fandom who commit themselves to understanding and empathizing with the characters, but I wish people would understand that just because you empathize with a character doesn't mean that characters actions are excusable. Yes, go ahead, put yourselves in Tamlin's shoes and talk about how poorly you imagine his mental state must've been and still is. But when you put yourselves in this characters shoes, you need to keep those shoes on when they do things that are morally apprehensible. If you're committed to empathizing with, and understanding a character, you need to stick with it, even when they do something bad. If you can't empathize with Tamlin while accepting and acknowledging his canonically abusive actions, then maybe you aren't actually trying to be an empathetic reader, you're just making excuses for an abuser and prioritizing man pain over a woman's trauma.

Now onto the Nesta part of your anon... I just have no words. I've seen those posts and don't know what to say or do about them. They give every negative part of Nesta's character to Feyre while claiming that Nesta has the character traits that Feyre already has and displays, then they say that they're better readers for seeing that this would be better for their characters. I don't even mind people trying to look for connections and parallels between Nesta and Rhysand, because I can admit that there are some there, but treating those things as the basis for a "superior" ship is fucking stupid. In all of these peoples fics Nesta is the mature, calm, warm, leader, while Feyre is bratty, petty, rude, and unwilling to be worked with, while in CANON it's the other way around. I'm completely on the same page as you, anon, I'm not this mega SJM defender but I'm not going to call her a trash author just because the books didn't go the way I think they should. I'm not such a pseudo intellectual "advanced" reader to go around making massive posts flipping every single aspect of the books to make my preferred characters seem like better people.

Anyways, thanks again for ranting with me! Don't let these people get to you or ruin your reading experience because regardless of their opinions or however many posts they make, SJM isn't going to change the series to make their faves seem better.

Feysand is canon. Rhysand loves Feyre and she loves him.

Tamlin had a mental breakdown, destroyed his house, and stopped maintaining or supporting the spring court at all.

Tamlin caused the wall to be taken down because he was so obsessed with Feyre, he felt he needed to go through extreme measures to get her back.

And before some Tamlin stan sees this and starts talking about how evil Tamlin believed Rhys was, let me just say this: if I were Tamlin I would've let Feyre fucking die rather than risk the genocide of her people and family (the humans). He is so stupid and narcissistic he couldn't get over his own feelings and instead sacrificed his court and thousands of human lives just to get Feyre back. I don't think that's cute, that's mental illness. His actions are his own and he is suffering the consequences of them. No one forced him to do anything, and being peer pressured by that stupid cunt Ianthe is not force, she's a stupid priestess and he is a High Lord, he did not have to listen to or obey her.