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Just in time for Elriel Month, the official Elriel Starter Pack has arrived! Each pack contains:

🌸 Prythian’s prettiest couple

🦇 A batch of Elain’s famous headache powder (guaranteed to make a taciturn Spymaster laugh more joyously than ever before)

💙 Truth-Teller, the weapon Azriel has *only* ever shared with Elain

💕 The garden plans Elain and Azriel stayed up all night working on

Make sure to get your pack before May! 😉

Credits:

🎨: artyventurer (IG) |comm @jasmineandshadows

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"How are you expecting the author to write a compelling rejection story for something that wasn't even explored much?"

You just answered your own question.

It not being explored IS what will make it interesting.

The tables will turn when it turns out to be Elriel as the unconvential ship and they’re the true crack ship. Sarah won’t write them because they won’t sell. It will be boring

A Mate Rejection wouldn't work out in standalone books (even if they're interconnected since each standalone promises the couple a HEA and each get one book as confirmed by Sarah in her interviews)

How are you expecting the author to write a compelling rejection story for something that wasn't even explored much? Just ask Elain to say the word "No" and that's it? It’s a waste of a storyline. It's not interesting. There are no stakes. Again, the book won’t sell. Sarah won’t write it

Elain and Lucien however offer an "arranged marriage" kind of dynamic since we never had a mated pair who knew they were mates before they were in love

They will have tension and the clash of desires and reluctance between them. Reluctant love can be so good. So what if they're at odds now, it's not like Sarah haven't wrote couples that didn't start on a great foot before (Rowaelin literally hated the sight of each other)

What’s unconventional about Elriel? SJM has been setting them up since ACOWAR, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she knew she wanted them together in the long run since ACOMAF. Time doesn’t think they’re unconventional. Today doesn’t think they’re unconventional. People Magazine doesn’t think they’re unconventional. E! News doesn’t think they’re unconventional. New York Magazine doesn’t think they’re unconventional.

As Sarah said, “I thought it was pretty obvious.”

I’m sorry, but the only thing boring here is your sad attempt to make excuses as to why Elriel “can’t” happen. A rejected mating bond can absolutely happen over the course of a stand along book. Want to know why? Bc SJM has been setting it up for 3 books. The rejection isn’t going to be some random, unexpected moment. Most logical readers understand it’s on the table.

The power in the rejected mates plot isn’t the rejection itself. It’s what it means for Elain. Her claiming what SHE wants. Who she wants. Her finally feeling confident enough to reject what’s expected of her. Elain rejecting the bond is about Elain. Not Elucien. Elucien is irrelevant at this point. It isn’t a thing. The only people who think it’s a thing are those clinging to some outdated FB comment Sarah left in 2016. Read the books, my god.

Elucien doesn’t have tension. They have awkwardness and indifference. The last time Lucien mentioned Elain, his words dripped with discomfort. He doesn’t want it either. So I genuinely don’t know why you guys ride so hard for the most boring, bland mating bond SJM has ever given us. Elain quite literally would rather wait for water to boil than be in the same room as him.

If you like Elucien and you want to make HCs about them and write and/or read fanfiction, commission or draw art. Great. Good for you. But let’s not sit here and act like SJM has in any capacity given Elucien a single iota of set up. She doesn’t care about them. She’s probably as bored of them as Elain and Lucien are of each other.

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Fellas won't even see it

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Writing Arthur Morgan fan fiction is mostly trying to find way 5,423,412 of describing his eyes.

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In the next ACOTAR book, I want to drown in the weight of Elain’s silence, the kind that doesn’t just mean a lack of words but feels like a slow suffocation, a lifetime of swallowing herself whole. I want to see how silence became her refuge and her prison, how years of carefully measured words and gentle smiles shaped her into someone who exists for others but never for herself.

I want to feel how that destruction shaped her, how it taught her that speaking up meant causing problems, that her needs were burdens, that being loved required erasing herself. How silence was never a choice but a survival mechanism.

And I want the breaking point. The moment she realizes that silence has not protected her, only imprisoned her. That she has spent a lifetime making herself small, and still, it has never been enough. That she was never chosen because she never let herself be seen. I want the book to show her learning that love should never require self-destruction.

I don’t just want Elain to find her voice—I want her to wield it. Not as a whisper, not as a plea, but as a reckoning. Because only when she finally claims herself will she be free.

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Crossover of my two favourite games I needed this

stupid thing i thought of and had to draw

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WHAT THE FUCK

Y'all, tell me why I just realized that the shirt Abigail gifts John in part 1 of the rdr2 epilogue in 1907 is the same shirt that John dies in

I'm gonna be sick

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love when fictional men are so devoted to their partner it makes them dangerous and insane. very slutty behavior keep it up king

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a little sketch of mary-beth my dearest..... she might be one of my fav characters to draw ngllllll.....

✦ my comms ✦ all my links ✦

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Modern Day Arthur Morgan Moodboard

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I've read the ones where Arthur has an identical twin brother, and they would go to town on reader together.

Incredible.

“You can’t ship Morston! They’re brothers!”

*looks inside*

*not even adopted or step brothers, never mind biological beothers*

(Not that it’d stop me from shipping them anyways lmao.)

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Oh Arthur

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a vampire stroking ur hair as they're fangs deep in ur neck. u agree

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like i'm sorry but we as a fandom have to stay firm on our anti-AI values. we cannot suddenly start giving AI a pass when it's something we "want to see" like destiel kisses. it's not suddenly fine. we're not going to start using AI to make fanfic scenes come to life or audio AI to make characters "say" stuff we want to hear. you have GOT to be firm on your anti-AI stance. if you start making exceptions then suddenly anything will fly. fandom is for real art and creations made by real people. no AI fanfics. no AI art. no AI rendered "bonus" scenes. no AI audio. none of it has a place here.

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i love reader. idc if she’s a bimbo or a crybaby or a little unhinged. good for her tbh. i love her in all shapes and forms. she is barbie. she is a doctor and a student and a barista and she can take five dicks at the same time. what a beautiful world we live in.

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Okay, so deductible must be like our excess for insurance. No copay here unless you go through private, but I'm guessing it called something else here.

That's awful! So sorry you had to go through that. I had my cervical screening (pap smear), done by a nurse at general doctors, recently and she referred me to gynaecology simply "to check specific thing out, might be nothing tho but worth a look". Had my appointment within a couple of weeks. In and out and a nurse made me a cup of tea as I felt a little nauseous afterwards.

Proudly pay my taxes so everyone can get that sort of treatment.

Wishing you the best and hope the cyst is causing any troubles for you!

Honestly my favorite part of this UHC shooter debacle is seeing people from Europe who have universal basic healthcare being really really fucking confused about everything and having to explain what private health insurance is and then seeing them become mortified.