aaronswarner

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well hey

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I’m sorry gwynriel stans have a lot of nerve acting like they didn’t start out as being misogynistic elain antis before gwyn existed who pushed around toxic bullshit on every platform for years and also spread around an insane amount of bullying lmao. like...yall realize toxicity breeds more toxicity, if you want to start holding someone accountable it’s time to start self reflecting a bit.

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elriel ALREADY has the forbidden secret love that could start a war if they got together plot which would be a huge conflict. on top of that we know elain is likely going to go evil/dark and azriels journey is likely to be coming more into the light.

if you really pushed gwynriel, their book would be...maybe a healing journey, gwyn training, and mates? that would be a more bland repeat of the last book. and some singing. for people who call elriel boring and vanilla you really do push for the most boring concept.

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so we're just going to not bring this line into a conversation about shadows?

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if you think azriels ONE pov is toxic/too sexual/obsessive then you'd have to be saying every sjm ship under the sun is toxic (which is fair, because most of them are) but I don't see any of y'all saying that. his thoughts are literally the same as every dude in this series, if not less extreme, and suddenly you're clutching your pearls?

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I quite honestly cant grasp how people are confident elriel is just a set up for azriels character development and gwyn is endgame when

- elain is almost definitely having the next book based off the two bonus chapters. so is azriel. and elriel being set up like this regardless if they're endgame or not solidifies their books are together considering Rhysand set up a whole plot on his own with them. SJM said before each book is about one couple getting together, she couldve not potentially meant to mean only one per book but as far as that goes, there's no room left for Gwyn/lucien in elriels story to have their own journeys and endgames. she's unlikely with what we know to be writing a book about BOTH couples getting together. not to mention it's just extremely unlikely elain is going to be used just as a plot point for azriel. We know she has her own story coming and I don't know why she'd be a big part of azriels book but not have a POV.

- rhysand set up a forbidden love trope and their kiss was interrupted/azriel had to force himself to say it was a mistake/elriel are in a bad spot right now, why would sjm put all that together if she wasn't setting up a slow burn journey. if she was setting up gwyn and elain not being what's best for azriel she wouldn't have made their relationship so complicated

- why would gwyn and azriel end up together when he regifted his present to elain to gwyn just because he was told to stay away from elain lmao that never in any storytelling suggests great things for the relationship

- why would sjm put so much long term thought into elriel to just let it go in 2 seconds over a character we JUST met and is unlikely to ever be a main character. they've been set up since acomaf and acowar and she went through all the effort with the longing breadcrumbs in acofas/acosf

- gwyn as a character doesn't really add up to main character material, she already went through her journey in nestas book and while she still has more to go through (as nesta does and everyone does) it would just be odd to give her a whole book when she's not an integral part of these books

- sjm has been setting up the mate bond being rejected for elucien for awhile, just as she's been setting up elriel for awhile. elriel came true (which btw, the people who are so confident elriel is dust were the same ones who were so confident elriel were like siblings so lmao why are we trusting their bad takes?) so the mate bond rejection is likely to also come true. The ONLY way gwynriel would be endgame is if she did something so corny and made them mates, so you really think almost every main character in these books are conveniently going to end up happy with their mate when 1. mates were supposed to be rare and 2. the emphasis the cauldron can get it wrong, it would be so dry and overdone to go through TWO more mate bond journeys would be so ridiculous. What we haven't seen now is the impact and consequence of a mate bond being rejected

- gwynriel doesn't have any obstacles against them and would be so easy to get together. You can maybe say azriels trauma/obsession with elain are their obstacles but that is soooo weak for a whole 700 paged book. SJM said her couples need something in their way (those aren't her exact words I can't remember what she said exactly but something like that). Elriel is the relationship that has the forbidden love component and if they got together a whole war could be started. even elucien doesn't have much against them except elains unwillingness to give it a try. I don't know how you would think a gwynriel book would at all be interesting for anyone to read about

- basing your elriel takes off this one part is so ridiculous, claiming azriel is only obsessed and sexually attracted to elain is an already debunked point when we have 3.5 other books to go off of with him risking his life to save her, giving her truth-teller, obviously always caring about her (solstice dinner, etc) yall are just intentionally obtuse with this one

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Now I know the elain antis aren't suddenly on a high horse over (seemingly no one) saying negative things about whoever that redhead is when y'all have been ruthlessly hating elain for no reason for years because she dares look at azriel a few times 😊 the same people that shipped azriel with a character that appeared once that he never interacted with have a lot of aggression today chillllll

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y’all are really out here shipping tella with the dude that was in love with her grandmother....the incest vibes jumped out anyway jacks/tella is superior and i’m okay with losing if it means i have taste

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I’ve developed a reputation as a cold, unfeeling monster who fears nothing and cares for less. But this is all very deceiving. Because the truth is, I am nothing but a coward.

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Seth protecting/defending Kate

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books read in 2018: restore me by tahereh mafi

“I cannot let the broken girl inside of me inhale all that I’ve become. I cannot revert back to another version of myself. I will not shatter, not again, in wake of an emotional earthquake.”

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endless list of book otps → juliette and warner (shatter me) “it’s the kind of kiss that inspires stars to climb into the sky and light up the world. the kind that takes forever and no time at all. his hands are holding my cheeks, and he pulls back to look me in the eye and his chest is heaving and he says, “i think,” he says, “my heart is going to explode.” and i wish, more than ever, that i knew how to capture moments like these and revisit them forever. because this. this is everything.”

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I flip it over. Aaron and Ella is all it says. I trip backward, stumbling, and collapse onto the floor. My whole body is seizing, shaking with terror, with confusion, with impossibility.

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And there’s something wild and beautiful in him today, something I can’t explain in the way he touches me—the way his fingers linger along my shoulder blades, down the curve of my back—like I might evaporate at any moment, like this might be the first and last time we’ll ever touch.

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She’s kissing me like she knew. Like she knows, knows how desperately I need this, need her, need this comfort and release.

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“And you will continue to surprise and confuse those who underestimate you.”

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“…I might, if pressed, be able to generate some degree of warmth, but you must know that i have no interest in treating anyone the way i treat you. This,” he says, touching the air between us. “Is an exception to a very hard rule.” His eyes are on my lips now; his hands has moved to my neck. “This,” he says softly, “is very, very unusual.”