#gleeriel

[gwynrieldreams]

Things that I NEED like air to happen in Gwynriel's book:

Gwyn moving in with Nesta and getting out of the library

more late night run-ins with Azriel

falling asleep on his shoulder while researching

Gwyn buying dresses and wearing sth else other than her priestess robes or illyrian leathers

her singing in a beautiful gown and Azriel being utterly amazed

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flying in Azriel's arms

exploring Velaris together

night swimming

Gwyn lulling him to sleep

riding her white pegasus with Azriel flying beside her

saving him from drowning during a mission

the Valkyries getting ready together and having a girls' night out

Gwyn dancing with Azriel

[queenlachimolala]

When I'm sad because of some shipwars, I think about this:

Me to E/riels: Denial is a river in Egypt, Azriel's book is next.

And that's what you missed on Glee.

[azrielsfavoriteshadow]

Music Parallels between Feysand, Nessian, & Gwynriel

SJM has spoken about the significance of music in her personal life and the importance it holds in her books. We’ve seen it with Bryce in CC and Aelin in TOG. There was not as much of an emphasis on music in ACOTAR until Silver Flames with Nesta, but there is an important example with Feysand.

In ACOTAR, music has been used to share comfort and support from one partner to the other with both Nessian and Feysand. We got a hint of this in the BC with Gwynriel.

You can also listen to my tiktok on this here.

Feysand:

When Feyre is UTM, nearing her breaking point, she hears a faint music unlike anything she’s ever heard before. She states that she was sinking so far, it would take something extraordinary to pull her out.

Then she hears the music. She follows the music and it pulls her out of her cell and frees her in beautiful nature scenery.

It was music that filled the gaps of her soul and brought her to a place where there was no longer any pain.

This music warms her bones and bounces her away from her breaking point as she awaits the next trail. In ACOMAF, we learn that it is Rhysand who sent this music to her. She asks him why and he says it was to save her. To keep her from breaking.

Nessian:

Music is very significant in Nesta’s story. We know it is a reason why she sought out the taverns she went to. Elain tells us it is one of the only times we see the true Nesta. When she is dancing and when there is music playing.

Because of what music means to her, Cassian gifts Nesta a special orb which plays all her favorite music. He went to her favorite taverns and requested they play the music so that he could record it for her. He even got the musicians from the ball to replay the entire set so that he could save it in the orb for her.

This gift is so meaningful to Nesta that it brings her to tears. Music brings her joy and comfort and Cassian had found a way for her to have music always.

With Feysand, Rhysand sends Feyre music to rescue her from a low point.

With Nessian, Cassian gifts Nesta something that can bring her music whenever she needs since music is something she seeks out for comfort.

Gwynriel:

After Azriel’s interaction with Rhysand in the BC, Azriel is at a low. He takes himself outside into the cold so that he can feel nothing anymore. So that he can return to being nothing.

After this, we get his scene with Gwyn in which something restless begins to settle in him. On his way out of the training ring, he enters the warmth of the stairwell and he swears he can hear a faint, beautiful singing following. His shadows sang in answer.

The music is obviously indicated to have come from Gwyn. This is either literally or figuratively. Regardless, it is an exchange of music between Gwyn and Az in a time when he is in need of comfort. He goes from actively seeking out the cold to numb himself to feeling warmth as he leaves Gwyn.

E/riels use this as an example of Gwyn’s “lightsinger powers” manipulating Azriel in some capacity. But the exchange of music from one partner to another who is in need of support and comfort is a reoccurring action in ACOTAR as exemplified in this post with both Nessian and Feysand.

We also learn from his interaction with Gwyn that Azriel himself sings. This is not mentioned in 5 books, but SJM chose to make this reveal in the BC through Gwyn and Az’s interaction.

This is not just some throw away reveal. Singing is a very important part of Gwyn’s story as well and she is the one that gets Azriel to reveal this part of him to the readers. No one else has inquired about this part of him.

After this reveal, SJM gives us more of a peak at Azriel’s enjoyment of music in CC3. This is not coincidental. It is building on the reveal we got in his SF bonus chapter and the connection between him and Gwyn.

Gleeriel is coming home i fear 😌

[aelingalathyniusrailme]

gwynriel week day 3: confessions

gwyn and azriel singing from eden to each other

both

I think one of the biggest similarities between gwyn and azriel is that a lot of their trauma comes from loss of innocence and autonomy. There is something that enacts such a sense of loneliness in their respective abuses, that despite each of them having found friends and family, the people around them are just unable to understand that degree of self hatred, fear, and isolation. and I believe that this song should be how sjm writes them confessing to each other that they are still recovering but there is something inevitable and unyielding and healing about the way in which they need each other. Not to be a final piece to fix a broken heart but a tool to remold it into something new. Something eternal.

Babe

There's something tragic about you

Something so magic about you

Don't you agree?

Babe

There's something lonesome about you

Something so wholesome about you

Get closer to me

No tired sighs, no rolling eyes, no irony

No 'who cares', no vacant stares, no time for me

Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago

Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword

Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know

I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door

Babe

There's something wretched about this

Something so precious about this

Where to begin?

Babe

There's something broken about this

But I might be hoping about this

Oh, what a sin

To the strand a picnic plan for you and me

A rope in hand for your other man to hang from a tree

Honey, you're familiar like my mirror years ago

Idealism sits in prison, chivalry fell on its sword

Innocence died screaming, honey, ask me I should know

I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door

anyways that’s what you missed on gleeriel

[starlightjasminsblog]

I was gone for a while. I see some E/riels are so triggered by Gwyn that they started making theories about her and Az being siblings.

Gwyneth Berdara will always be famous 💅🏼

[areyoudreaminof]

if you know, you simply know

[stargirlie25]

guys now that Az expressed his sexual feelings for Elain i never want him to refer to her as a sister but before all that they gave such siblings vibes im so sorry. I mean not that it stopped sarah from making cass call mor his sister but im talking abt me lol 😭

Like when feyre said they were the only two civilized ones and Elain would cling to him? I thought it would be like the nice duo.

Like you know how you can call you and your friend or bestie ´´the chaotic duo´´

because when nessian first met they had same bark but elriel was more like

´´hey whats up im not ever going to be in a romantic relationship with you so we are going to be kind together so no one says we have chemistry´´ or Sarah just laid them out as words on paper together but with nessian they had potential from the start.

I never got couple vibes because they just never had potential. Sure right now elriel got the sexual vibes but elucien and gwynriel are the couples that have had potential from the very beginning.

Feysand and nessian did but obviously i didn't like the outcome but that's not my point!! My point is no couple in SJM history starts that boring. I'm sorry they just give nothing together. Every one of the couples has a story or a conflict to work through. There is no way a dumb necklace would be the conflict between elriel.

Elriel is one of those people who try to be a couple because they have the same circle and are pleasant to each other and have a mutual trust but then their relationship is much more meaningful as friends.

I fully believe they will laugh about the fact they wanted to kiss each other someday when they are situated with their redheads.

some people act like we eluciens and gwynriels never want them to interact again lolllll! They can be friends! Once Az sees past the stereotypes he placed on Elain!!!

I KNOW I KNOW i was being so mature in this post and i just had to add that comment jajajajajajajjaja but like i'm anti e/riel first then human so it's in my blood 😭

Please tell me you understand this post in the slightest way 😭😭😭

[rosenecklaces]

"Trying to find secret meanings in a dress colour (*the cobalt theories we have*) and in words like 'bread and roses' isn't a sign of endgame, reading between the lines is excessive"

First of all, very rich coming from someone believing the redheads have a chance with two people who don't give a fuck about them or had being interested to learn and have something personal with them at all

Second, I have to laugh, you're people have to made up elain liking yellow, pearls, sunflowers and she keeping the gloves as a "sign she would accept lulu" when yall know she didn't fucking liked them. The text told you that straight away in your dumb face and also? it had more parallels with az never using the daggers mor gave him that anything lucien related, is not hard math you dumbass

And let's get in the bread and roses thing because is hilarious that someone would call it "searching for something that isn't there" when it can't be more clear of who that line was referring to. Does feyre and nesta bake and spend time between roses? does mor? does emerie or the twins? does fucking gwyn? No, we all know no one does besides elain, that's one of her traits, is something she's related to time and time again in more than one book so why you acting so crazy talking about sjm don't being subtle on her writing, then turn around and spit about how two words who has always relate to one character for damn years now is "reaching"???

Your ass of a man hasn't even apologized not respected none of that girl boundaries until HE decided to give up on trying (and that's giving him too much he never really tried lol). The other carrot knows jack shit about azriel, she asking if he can sing is not trying to meet him is, quite frankly, an irrelevant question that even azriel found undeserving of depth when he proceeded of cutting her verbal vomit to come right away

But well, this is the same people thinking elain would fall and move out for a man she doesn't know at all and that gwyn didn't have lightsinger powers, that we can actually say affected azriel when he was returning the necklace (A + reading and gwynriel being called a conspiracy was out of SJM mouth this year go cry about it) and that also believe cassian opinions about fashion is way more important than elain's whole narrative and words.

So, oh, you want to play the stupid cunt? then so be it, but do it with actual receipts of canon romantic and sexually charged interactions between two characters. god damn

[gwynrieldreams]

Gwynriel duet dropped 💙

[queenlachimolala]

I just saw an Elriel fanart using this as inspiration:

They love calling us Gleeriel and making fun of us. But when you look at their fanarts and fics...

"Bunch of wannabes that wanna be me, me three if I was you." - Shut Down by Blackpink

They want Elain to be Gwyn. It's so funny.

[starlightjasminsblog]

Sarah confirmed Az will be singing. I'm sorry but there will be a glee moment. 😔

Maybe even a Gleeriel one.

[riafalcone1]

"Useless" Elain is not gonna be the next fmc - she hasn't been set up blah blah blah....funny how it's "usless" elain who had an entire personality to make it on a quiz...yet the ginger who's supposed to sing koschei to death with her Pegasus and friendship bracelets and her 500 acosf mentions along with her very "big bad" ribbon cutting and valkyrie girl boss show and her very important pliable bones and autumn court heritage- doesn't make it on an acotar quiz - how's that next fmc material??? I don't know maybe if sjms team used the glee personality found on a03 then perhaps she may have found her way to be present on a quiz.

If yall don't like what I've said abt glee ...pls note I'm merely throwing out all gleeriel theories that yall have been supplying the fandom for years ...yall seem to rely heavily on those for your ship to work

[yazthebookish]

In my Gleeriel feels these days 🎶

[elrieltwit]

Wow, that post says so much about the person from a psychoanalytical standpoint. I would not be surprised if they have a narcissistic personality disorder diagnosis 💀

1. You bring up the fact that you can afford an LV Neverfull MM bag to flex your wealth when nobody asked? Clearly your self-esteem/sense of self seems closely related to and inflated by your socioeconomic status.

2. Mama, a Neverfull bag isn’t even a flex like you’re paying for canvas coated in PVC…it’s not even made of leather, nor is it well-constructed. If you’re willing to pay for an overpriced plastic bag just because it has the LV monogram on it and proudly rep that you got scammed, that’s your prerogative I guess 🤷‍♀️

3. Asking for someone’s personal information and selecting “an IELTS examination at the date of my choosing and I shall publish their results on the social media platform of my choice with added comments from me…I will make it all nice and legal with a contract and things…Want to play” was definitely not a “joke” given how grandiose your sense of self is.

By listing each of your ridiculous requests in the hopes of doxxing someone, you clearly show us how enjoyable it would be for you to be able to exert that level of control over someone. I’m 1000% sure you felt a rush of adrenaline while typing out and imagining this hypothetical scenario where you would get to humiliate someone so publicly. I know me and my Elriel sisters would pass that reading comprehension test with flying colors but that’s neither here nor there. We get it, you would love nothing more than to feed and bolster your sense of superiority.

No one is buying that any of the weird shit you said is a “joke.” Even if it was, it’s quite long-winded and very unfunny, so you might want to work on your material babes. Doing all that over ship wars is fucking mental.

​Why can’t we just stick to calling each other dumb with direct quotes from the text to prove it, like why does someone always have to take things too far and escalate to doxxing/threatening to dox??? Now THAT’S a funny joke 🤭

I'm sorry...what?

How is this acceptable?

Regardless of what characters you like, or what ships you prefer, if you promote this kind of behavior - YOU are the problem.

We are talking about fictional characters and threatening to doxx people over them, bringing shipping (which should be harmless) into a situation where it has real-life implications.

You want to doxx someone for what? To see them get hurt? Harassed? And you're doing this in a fandom full of women - many of which have found solace and escapism in these books where a woman escapes her abuser.

You are promoting this behavior?

As a fandom, honestly do better. Don't encourage this. Don't encourage toxicity.

[rosenecklaces]

YOU! acotar blog, twitter, instagram, reddit user with a big following. are you normal about Elain Archeron?

[meldarkthrop]

"Gwyn is a lightsinger. The Valkyrie plot is so boring. It's unbelievable that they won haha! Gwyn being a singer and Azriel being a singer? Gleeriel! The shadows disappearing is actually good, their playfulness around Gwyn means nothing—"

Some E/riel theories:

Elain is actually a Singer. She is also a lightsinger, a life Singer, and her power complements Azriel. Elain shapeshifted and is actually one of the Valkyries. Elain is Balthazar, she was in the Blood Rite and she helped Nesta. The shadows actually love Elain—

For a group that claims to love Elain as she is, they sure do want her to be Gwyn.