#feyre painter

[daughter-of-lethe]

Feyre Archeron would support all the human artists here.

She would hate AI generated media.

[feyrescourt]

I need more Feyre-painting-wherever-the-fuck-she-wants content. I need her painting on buildings, walls, and sidewalks. Need her painting all over the moon palace even idgaf. Just piss those losers off more for me, mama!! 🙏🙏🙏

[mycadences]

Edit: HOFAS spoilers ahead! Tread carefully!

Azriel has had two bonus chapters so far -- and what did they share in common?

HOFAS bonus chapter: "And with each mile onward, she could hear Azriel humming softly to himself. The rolling, wild melody of "Stone Mother" flowed off his lips, and she could have sworn even the shadows danced at the sound."

ACOSF bonus chapter: "Azriel entered the warmth of the stairwell, and as he descended, he could have sworn a faint, beautiful singing followed him. Could have sworn his shadows sang in answer."

Still don't see it? Then let me ask you:

Who is Gwyn?

"Across the hushed, cavernous space, it was easy to hear Gwyn’s soft singing as she flitted from table to table..."

"Gwyn turned from the desk where Nesta had found the priestess singing softly to herself..."

"Gwyn’s voice soared like a bird through the cavern as she started the third song with a solo..."

Yes, she is a priestess-Valkyrie who sings.

And now, who is Azriel?

"Do you sing?"

He blinked. It wasn't every day that people took him by surprise, but... "Why do you ask?"

"They call you shadowsinger. Is it because you sing?"

"I am a shadowsinger -- it's not a title that someone just made up."

She shrugged again, irreverently. Az narrowed his eyes, studying her. "Do you, though?" she pressed. "Sing?"

Azriel couldn't help his soft chuckle. "Yes."

He's a shadowsinger... who also sings (a bit of a "duh" moment but pardon me, it's meant to be dramatic lol).

With how intense the ship wars are, and based on SJM's interview lives, I'll say she has a strong inkling that readers would be analyzing HOFAS -- in particular the bonus chapter centering on Azriel -- for clues on the next ACOTAR couple

Notice that she chose, yes she CHOSE, to highlight Azriel singing when we all know how music is Gwyn/Gwynriel's thing.

Gwyn is literally associated with music/singing the way Nesta is with dancing, Feyre is with painting and Elain is with flowers.

And I don't see any flowers in this bonus chapter.

What I do see, however, is Azriel sharing the same hobby as Gwyn, something that was purposely emphasized in this scene, and with SJM having said that she looks at compatibility for her couples... Well, I'm feeling pretty hopeful. More than hopeful, actually.

(Also kindly remember that Gwyn is a Carynthian (one of the only two females in history), which makes her Azriel's equal.)

Another thing of interest is that both Az's bonus chapters referenced his mate, but that's a juicy tidbit for another day.

And that's what you missed on Glee! ;)

[acourtofquestions]

High lord & lady of the Night Court

credits: jessdraw.s (dress inspired by teutamatoshi)

[starsreminisce]

Can you imagine Feyre deciding to go through her backlog of things she wanted to paint since Nyx keeps her and Rhys up at night so they alternate sleep schedules, ensuring one person gets enough rest. So her spare time, she tries to remember all the things she wanted to paint, now that she is better skilled.

“Human fool,” he hissed. But his glamour had been ripped away. His auburn hair burned like hot metal, and his russet eye smoldered like a bottomless forge. That was what I would capture next. “I’m going to paint you,” I said, and giggled—actually giggled—as the words popped out. “Cauldron boil and fry me,” he muttered, and I laughed again.

"When was this?" Elain asked as she peered over her shoulder one evening, her eyes filled with curiosity as she examined the painting.

"Back when I was still human," Feyre explained, a nostalgic glint in her eyes. "Tamlin said he glamoured everyone in the Spring Court, but Lucien remained the same until one night when I was drunk on faerie wine and saw him without a glamour."

Elain's gaze remained fixed on the painting, her brow furrowing. "It doesn't look like him," she observed.

Feyre chuckled softly, the memory of that night coming back to her. "Maybe you should ask him about it next time," she suggested, a mischievous twinkle in her eye.

“He still dares to glamour in front on me?” Rhys seethed from behind them.

From the fury rippling from Cassian, the cold rage seeping from Azriel … I didn’t think so. Lucien, to his credit, didn’t back away a step. From Rhys, or me, or the Illyrians. The Clever Fox Stares Down Winged Death. The painting flashed into my mind.

"That's not Lucien," Elain stated with a furrowed brow. "Lucien would never pick a fight like that."

Feyre began to open her mouth to respond, but she was silenced by Rhys's amused chuckle. "He still does," he remarked with a knowing grin. "He's gotten bolder too."

Feyre leaned in, poking Rhys playfully. "You need to stop baiting him."

Rhys raised his hands in a placating gesture. "But it's so fun. Not fair you saw him without a glamour."

Elain continued staring at the painting, absorbing the revelations about Lucien's personality. From the way they were talking, it sounded like he did this quite frequently. She had never seen that side of him before and hadn't even considered it existed.

"When was this?" Elain inquired, her curiosity piqued.

Rhys and Feyre exchanged a meaningful glance before Feyre provided the answer. "The day Lucien and I returned from Spring Court."

[stargirlfeyre]

I remember when I said it’s weird to only hold Feyre’s hobbies to “realistic standards” and someone’s response was “well she’s the main character so of course people are going to be more critical of her” which is strange because I thought Nesta was the main character of this entire series? Didn’t y’all say that?

[divinemare]

so you mean to tell me that elain and nesta can be good at gardening and dancing but feyre can’t be good at painting…k…

[silverflameataraxia]

"Gwyn and Emerie have never been subjected to Nesta's verbal abuse!"

Nor have they been subjected to Cassian's harassment, verbal abuse, and temper tantrums. Nor have they been subjected to Amren's verbal abuse and racism. Nor have they been subjected to Feyre's bullying. Nor have they been subjected to Mor's insults. Nor do they live under the constant threat of physical violence and death by Rhysand.

If Nesta truly is this mean, hateful, abusive bitch that Feyre and the IC think she is than she wouldn't be constantly surrounded by friends before, during, and after the Archeron's poverty. It was Feyre - not Nesta - who was a loner in the human lands. Her only friend was Isaac Hale, who was more her fuckbuddy than her friend.

The narrative paints Feyre as this perfect, selfless, nice, easy-to-love person, but all her friends are her mate's friends. They accepted her with open arms because she was Rhysand's mate (or they suspected her to be). The only friends she's made on her own are Lucien and her painter friend. Meanwhile, Nesta's really only not friends with her mate's friends. She's out here making friends left and right on her own, apart from him.

Anyone who meets Nesta without Feyre's interference absolutely adores her. It's really just the IC that Nesta doesn't like, and it's really just the IC who don't like her.

[ladydeath-vanserra]

tbh thinking about feyre being a painter and then Rhys using paint to defile her body UtM. Imagine the thing that brings you the most joy used to make you horrified and miserable only for SJM to completely ignore it and then use that same paint to have Rhys paint on feyre the first time they have sex and Feyre NOT have a weird relationship with her craft as a painter

[knifedippedinichor]

Feyre as a bad painter version

A Court Of Thorns and Roses - Snowy Forest: "A hazy landscape of snow and skeletal trees and nothing else. It looked like...like nothing, I supposed, to anyone but me." - Feyre

- This is the beginning of a long journey to try and paint everything Feyre has mentioned in the books. I think it would be a nice challenge

[youareatragedy]

Feyre's stans get so angry and say, "People are such misogynists that they think Feyre becoming a mom made her useless." Well, what exactly makes them think she hasn't been useless ever since ACOFAS? No one actually cares about what she wants or tells them to do unless Rhys gives his approval too.

What exactly did she do in HOFAS that made her seem "not useless"? She stood there and delivered one or two lines that could have been said by anyone without changing the impact. When people said it was a mistake to make Feyre pregnant so quickly, it was because we already knew SJM wouldn't be capable of doing justice to a pregnant woman or a mother, whether as a main character or even as an important side character (except Yrene).

And you want to know why I at least, thought that? Because both SJM and the fandom have cared more about the Batboys ever since ACOMAF. Feyre is largely known for being Rhysand's mate or for being a painter. Not a warrior or a leader, except for her decorative "High Lady" title. I know this because I (and I'm sure many others) heard about Rhys and those bats before I even read ACOTAR. I only learned Feyre's name when I actually read the book.

What exactly did they think would happen to Feyre, who has contributed less and less ever since the war, when she's no longer the FMC? They want to cry "misogynist"? Direct that to SJM. We're not the misogynists. I and so many others said that it was a mistake to make Feyre pregnant this early.

She is a GODDAMN immortal, and she got pregnant at 22! Think about that. That's SJM's internalized misogyny showing. SJM could have made her an actual feminist icon. A person hungry to learn because now she has the money and resources to get smarter. She could have been a great and compassionate leader or an advocate for the oppressed females in her court. There were so many things she could have done. Instead, SJM made her open a painting studio in her elitist utopia and get pregnant as her "happy ending"? That's SJM's misogyny, not ours.

SJM made Feyre pregnant and focused on taking care of Nyx, causing her to miss out on so much in ACOSF and HOFAS. SJM made Feyre a mother and then made her invisible. That’s SJM's misogyny. Why blame the readers for pointing it out?

And they hate that Nesta became the "cool one" with a healthier, actual friendship with the Valkyries. They're jealous that Nesta has a friendship where they all genuinely respect one another, where Gwyn and Emerie would never let Cassian hide important health information about Nesta from her, unlike the IC with Feyre in that ridiculous pregnancy plot.

Oh, I know how jealous her "stans" and Nesta ant!s are. They're angry that Nesta is still integral even after her book and in another series. And yet somehow we’re the misogynists?

Lol cry harder. Hate on SJM for her inability to write a story where a woman can be a mother and still be a badass instead of sidelining her entirely. Hate her misogyny.

[hunnyy-bunnyyy]

The dissonance between era inspiration in ACoTaR is one of the more brushed over flaws in the book series. Looking at the Inner Circle's fashion alone, we jump between "literal scraps of fabric" (Under the Mountain, Court of Nightmares) to "orientalist painter's imaginings of the Ottoman Harem" (clothing described during Feyre's first few visits to the Night Court) to "modern 'corset' dress" (Feyre's Starfall dress, majority of Mor's clothing, most of the clothes drawn in fan art) to "modern -- almost sci-fi style -- skin-tight leather armor" to "sweater and leggings combo".

Then, between courts, we have Helion wearing Spirit Halloween's take on the ancient Grecian tunic; Feyre's Spring Court wedding dress looking like an 1830s fashion plate; and Dawn heavily implied to have traditional East Asain clothing (e.g. kimono, hanfu, hanbok).

On top of all of that, some of the Dawn Court's small cities ". . . specialized in tinkering and clockwork and clever things. . ." which -- combined with Lucien's metal eye and Nuan's mechanical hand -- implies a sort of post-industrial revolution time period. However, a decent chunk of the fandom says that ACoTaR is medieval; which, yeah, it's medieval themed in the first book -- sans the "dress" Rhysand forces Feyre to wear UTM.

The wild inconsistencies in ACoTaR's inspiration leads, not to a rich and diverse world, but a world that seems ramshackle and haphazard -- like it's creator simply threw together a board on Pinterest and called it a day. This is a major part of why the world building is so abysmal, it relies on convenience to the plot and whatever pleases the aesthetic whims of the author. Cultures deemed "pretty" or "badass" are thrown together, irregardless of how far apart they actually are. This is not only disrespectful to the narrative, but to the readers and the cultures used as inspiration.

All of this to say: Sarah J Maas is a bad author, not just because of the way she handles serious topics like power dynamics and abuse, but also because she cannot put together a world that is even the slightest bit cohesive.

[colorlesschristmastree]

One of the things I really love about Feyre’s character is that we aren’t just told she’s multifaceted with different sides to her. We are continuously and actively being shown these things. We see her as a painter, a mother, in the court of nightmares flaunting her sexuality, a huntress, a warrior, a high lady, a painter.

I really appreciate how page time is dedicated to all the different forms Feyre takes along her journey. Just makes her seem a lot more real. It gets tiring simply being told a character has a lot of different sides to them and then either not being shown or having something be haphazardly thrown together in a little blurb on the page just to remind readers of the characters humanity.

I just think Feyre is the absolute best.

[highlord-rizzand]

Feyre is a good painter. She has a studio where she teaches others how to paint.

She painted in a magical cabin which can clean itself, so if the cabin didn't like the painting it would have cleaned itself. Also people keep forgetting the fact that Mor also painted with Feyre. So the ic is not mad at her for painting because they know what it means to her, how her painting signifies that she is overcoming her trauma. Besides Rhys would give her a hundred more cabins for her to paint

[acourtofquestions]

I love how the Maasverse has so many artists in it & interwoven into the story of it:

The way art saves Feyre’s soul, holds her heart, helps her work through the horrors of her world; the way color (or lack thereof) is so heavily shown through her point of view & the way she describes scenes.🎨🥹🥰💘

Celaena’s love of music & connection to it in memory👌🥹😭👏 (the scene where the great “Assassin of Adarlan” is moved to tears by song & the first to standing ovation at the orchestra/opera).

Nesta showing emotion & a thousand words she cannot say through dancing; for once being visibly free & happy (so very powerful it becomes a key plot point💃🏼🤩👯‍♀️).

[highladyofterrasen7]

If feyre is a bad painter

Then aelin is a bad pianist

Bryce is a bad dancer

Why would sjm give something to a character that makes her so happy, just for her to be trash at it? Meanwhile no one is saying this about the other two

“Oh rowan cried at aelins piano playing”

Yes and cassian cried at the painting of him and rhys and azriel on ramiel

Fucking 👏 stop 👏