#acotar4

[aelingalathyniusrailme]

I want azriel saying he no longer sings

but doing so anyway because his mom asked him to sing for her

[hieragalbatorixdottir]

tysm for the tag, darkie. This is gonna be easy

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*That short story i posted on ao3 about everyone talking about azriel + eris vanserra being da best*

:)

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WIP Game

Thanks for tagging me @unanswered-stars <3

Rules: Make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it!

1- A Court of Song and Desolation

2- A Witch A Warrior And A Reckoning

3- How Nesta Archeron Learned To Trap A Beast

4- A Field Of Dahlias

5- The One True High Lord

6- A Court of Deceit and Decay

7- Naked Poetry

8- Prequel (A Court of Song and Desolation)

9- Aryan

10- The day I saw an Autumn leaf in a Spring Woods

11- Azris oneshot

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{acosf spoilers}

nesta stabbing a man in the balls for inconveniencing her is PEAK feminism I’m sorry I don’t make the rules

[raven05]

"A Court of Silver Flames" Since there's finally a title, here's Nesta Archeron in the Illyrian Mountains. I've seen a few headcanons about Nesta cutting her hair in the next book and I really like them so I decided to draw her with short hair.

[fangirlingdweeb]

Day... what day are we in now?

[ataraxianne]

Friendly reminder that Nesta kneed Cassian in his nuts

[nestaarc]

HOLY SHIT QKDJKQJSKQKA

[clolikescloquetas]

THINGS I HOPE TO SEE (OR NOT) IN ACOTAR4

Nesta NOT STAYING AT THE ILLYRIANS MOUNTAINS for long, and travelling to other courts or the continent instead so she sees the world just like she wanted to do before the war. I think sending her away to a cold mountain surrounded by misogynistic warriors who hate her and are scared of her was a stupid af decision. Especially when it's a war camp and war triggers her PTSD. Oh and let's not forget there's a revolution about to take place. I see it as a very forced way of the narrative to make cassian and nesta interact. I understand an unexpected turn of events was needed as a beginning for acotar4, but going to the mountains shouldn't be anything more than a beginning that quickly leads us to another location. We've been told many times that nesta is "illyrian at heart" but I don't buy it. She isn't such thing, and her character is way too complex and interesting and has too much potential to just make her fit into a culture she doesn't belong to and has nothing in common with (it's stupid to think a place that reveres war and bloodshed will help her heal).

Besides, after all the places the previous books introduced I think it would be boring to stick to the same court. I loved Velaris but now that Feyre's story has ended it's time to move on. Not to mention that the Night Court is the worst place for Nesta, it reminds her of all her trauma and its high lord is a male she despises. Nesta needs to go somewhere else where she can recover her spirit and independence, and be free of the commands of a male that gives her orders as if she were her subject (she is not).

Hopefully, knowing how much sjm loves plot twists and given how she's already told us where nesta is supposed to go, it won't stay like that for long.

NO TRAINING. Maybe learning self defense techniques but that's as far as I'll go. No training to turn her into an almighty warrior. Nesta has power from literally the mightiest magic device in the world, and you're telling me getting beat on a ring will empower her?? Even when she's previously stated her refusal to train and said fighting isn't the only thing that makes someone strong?? And we're talking about Nesta, whose powers make her lethal. Making Nesta train would butcher her character and istg if they pull the "fighting helps her go back to her old self and empowers her" I will lose it. Enough with making that troupe work for everyone. We've seen it before and it has worked out well for other character, but in this case it wouldn't feel right and would be boring af.

I've seen a few people say they want Nesta to command the Illyrians, and help with the whole misogynist issue they have, or that she should do the Blood Rite I don't know if the name is correct, I don't remember it to gain the respect of the warriors. How should I put this: NO. This is more of the "Nesta is Illyrian at heart" bullshit Rhysass likes to pull, when what he actually means is that she is proud and stubborn. She, and I can't stress this enough, is not Illyrian. She shouldn't be participating in traditions she doesn't understand and doesn't engage in (she doesn't want to learn how to fight for fuck's sake) and we certainly don't need nesta to pull a white saviour behavior. I don't want her to come and solve a centuries old problem of a culture she doesn't belong to. And I don't see how she could do that in a credible way either, given how they all are terrified and wary of her. This also applies to the rioting issue that is looming over the illyrian camps.

Nesta healing and improving her mental health with cassian at her side to support her, without making him the reason why she gets better. And showing the effects war has on a veteran as Cassian too.

Someone, preferably Nesta, calling out Feyre, Rhysass and the rest of the IC on their shitty behavior and actions, and the narrative finally acknowledging their mistakes and portraying them as the deeply flawed characters they are. Now that we don't have Feyre's POV anymore there are no excuses for condoning their shit.

Cassian realising he has judged, ignored and said cruel things (like he doesn't know why her sisters love her are u kidding me) to Nesta and how he hasn't stood up for her before his friends. Oh and how he ignores her when Mor is present. I'm a sucker for nessian, but before they are a thing, he should apologize. I don't like how he treats nesta poorly and then expects her to love him, when she doesn't owe him shit. It's selfish of him to expect her to fit into his family even when they all hate her. I hope acotar4 handles well these issues. And I can't wait too read Nesta's POV and know why she didn't want to be close to Cassian after the war.

Nesta making new friends on her own, people who respect her and love her. I love nessian but I don't want their relationship to be the only deep interaction and relationship Nesta has. I would LOVE to see her and lucien become best friends (they were supposed to be lovers after all, and although a romantic relationship has been dismissed I'm sure their friendship dynamic would be amazing), or get acquainted with Helion or even Azriel. She needs to meet new people, and preferably not from the night court.

We've read many times how Nesta's powers are described as great and terrible. The source of her power is the fucking cauldron, used to create the world. Even tho no one knows yet what those powers are exactly, she has used them to turn hundreds of soldiers to ashes and even the bone carver, a death GOD, has spoken of the way the earth trembled at her power when Nesta was made. I want these powers to be a huuge part of the plot in this book. I want Nesta to master them fully, and for us to see the process. I don't know if I'm the only one who thinks like this, but when Feyre discovered she had powers from all the high lords, it seemed to me that she mastered them too quickly. I was hoping to get more attention on that issue, but it got dismissed quite quickly. Now that it's Nesta's time, I want the book to fully focus on these powers. Oh, and what I want the most is my baby to become the most powerful creature in the continent. More mighty than Rhysass and the other high lords by far. You can't give us a whole book preaching how nesta is really powerful, and how she took something from the cauldron that made the earth tremble, and then turn her into a common witch or something similar. I mean you can't expect me to believe the high lords have more power than the cauldron.

Although I find that to be another plot hole, bc the cauldron was supposed to be almighty but then Rhys and Feyre restored it when it broke?? Does that mean they are more powerfull than the object that created their world?? If that is so, they why didn't they win against hybern sooner??

Anyways, I want Nesta to never have to bow to anyone. Ever.

Well that is what I'd like to see in the next book. Which, based on the information we have, is basically the opposite of what will happen. As far as we know, sjm said there would be a lot of training in this book (I assume she was talking about Nesta) so there goes the chance of her not been a warrior. We know she'll go to Illyria, and although it's my hope she leaves soon or that she never goes in the first place, I know that's not what's going to happen.

And then there's the sex. Sjm said she had to delete some of the sex scenes bc her editor said they were too much and unnecessary. Which means there are still plenty of sex scenes in the books, as sjm confirmed. Don't get me wrong, smut is fine if handled correctly. But I don't think it will he handled correctly.

In fact, I think acotar4 will be placed on illyria the whole book or at least a huge part of it, and that we'll have lots of unnecessary and meaningless sex scenes inside of Cassian's cabin in the mountains instead of a well written and interesting plot, a well developed and complex relationship between the characters and a well handled depiction of PTSD and trauma healing.

In my mind it'll go like this:

Nesta arrives in the mountains. She and cassian are mean to each other for a while and the sexual tension is pretty obvious between them. Nesta starts training. At the beginning she hates it but over time she ends up loving it and excelling. Sex. Nesta makes a few friends between the illyrian female warriors she trains with, whose characters are shallow and totally secondary. Sex. More sex. Maybe something about Nesta's powers. A scene where cassian and nesta have an openhearted conversation about their relationship. Cassian never acknowledges how he treated Nesta, but she will apologise to him for how she kept him away. This leads to more sex. Nesta makes up with feyre, and apologies to her for being mean or whatever sjm comes up with. Feyre doesn't apologize back, or it's a shitty apologize for sure. Sex. Nesta stablish a cordial although cold relationship with Rhysass and Mor bc apparently she and Az are not destined to interact (even tho Az would totally oppose Nesta's situation of being sent to the illyrian camps). Sex. Nesta does the Rite. Sex. Sex. Something about the illyrian rebels. Cassian gets hurt. Nesta goes feral and gets a hold on the illyrian people. They respect her and answer to her now. Sex.

Or something along these lines. Oh and I have the impression sjm loves her main characters too much to write any scene showing how the decisions, actions or behaviour regarding Nesta of Feyre and Rhys were wrong. Acknowledging this could make it seem like they are flawed people like the rest, and apparently that's not possible.

I pray to be proved wrong once the book is released. Only time will tell.

[amazingaa]

Header A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES (ACOTAR #4) by Sarah J Maas

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Credits to @/whodat_emmz on twitter

[realalice4646]

I realize just now that nestha is Ting Ting and Cassian is Ling...

and I love it.

[nessiancalore]

We're all here thinking that Cass will be the one who protects Nes in acotar4 but...

I think we are very wrong.

I mean

- Studding up for him in front of Beron

- Waiting for him after Adriata

- Covering his body// dragging Hybern away from him

- Healing his hand//paying attention enough to notice he was even hurt

(to mention a few...)

SHE'S the protective.

I'm just gonna LOVE to see protective Nes in front of Devlon (the guy who runs the Illyrian camps) or any of the people in there, bc they're all mad at him rn..

This shit is gonna goooooood

[faenet]

Sarah J. Maas and Bloomsbury announce title and release date of new acotar book, A Court of Silver Flames. 

“I'm so ridiculously excited to reveal the title of the next book in the Court of Thorns and Roses series!! Read Nesta and Cassian's story (at last!!!) in A COURT OF SILVER FLAMES, out globally in January 2021! It's already available for preorder!”

—Sarah J. Maas on Instagram

Preorder available here!

[sweet-bryaxis]

Well…that’s nice. Excuse me while I go cry in a corner… T-T

I really hope that this is not true and I won’t have to wait another damn year for this book… 

[ataraxianne]

guys but... if the announcement has these colours... does... does it mean...

the cover will be in the new edition, metallic grey + neon orange?

I'm gonna cry y'all

[nestaarc]

I CAN´T WAIT

[clolikescloquetas]

Lucien is one of my favourite characters from acotar because both his personality and behavior are flawed and complex, and not every action he does is justified so he can be portrayed like a "good boy" as it happens with the IC members. His whole story is tragic, from having his lover executed before his eyes and his own brothers trying to kill him to being manipulated by his very best friend for years and now being an exile without a place to call home. So that's why it made me so mad when Feyre, who not so long ago was in a similar situation herself, treated Lucien like a piece of shit in acofas, making fun of his new friends and situation.

But then I remember, if the whole "Lucien is Helion's son and only heir" turns out to be true, then he is a High Lord-to be. Which means that in time he will have the same rank and status as Feyre and neither her nor her friends from the IC will be in position to laugh at him again. Or at least they shouldn't, although knowing how they are, that won't stop them from being pricks.

Also consider this: Lucien getting really powerful, mastering both fire and light, and transforming into a mighty beast just like the rest of High Lords.