#kingdom of ash spoiler

[foodmoneyandcats]

every now and then, I remember that Aelin has lost her scars. every. single. one. And it honestly makes me sick to my stomach because, while I have far fewer scars, they honestly mean a lot to me. physical proof that I've been hurt and lived, I healed and made it. it really makes me nauseous.

[ashuribbon]

Dirty Night Clowns

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[gracie-rosee]

Rhysand seeing Aelin fall through the sky as some sort of Bad Omen is hilarious to me. Aelin Galathynius would love to hear that she sent an entire continent into a panic. 😂

[shadowhandss60]

“And as Chaol Westfall dismounted and ran the last few feet toward Dorian, the King of Adarlan wept.

Chaol didn’t hide his tears, the shaking that overtook him as he collided with Dorian and embraced his king.”

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AC: @the_megabee33

[acourtofquestions]

Aelin.

He had no voice here, but he spoke her name. Threw it across the gulf between them.

Slowly, she turned to him.

It was her face—or it would be in a few years. When she Settled.

But it wasn't the slightly older features that knocked the breath from him.

It was the hand on her rounded belly.

She stared toward him, hair still flowing.

Behind her, four small figures emerged.

Rowan fell to his knees.

The tallest: a girl with golden hair and pine-green eyes, solemn-faced and as proud as her mother. The boy beside her, nearly her height, smiled at him, warm and bright, his Ashryver eyes near-glowing beneath his cap of silver hair.

The boy next to him, silver-haired and green-eyed, might as well have been Rowan's twin.

And the smallest girl, clinging to her mother's legs ... A fine-boned, silver-haired child, little more than a babe, her blue eyes harking back to a lineage he did not know.

Children. His children. Their children.

With another mere weeks from being born.

His family.

The family he might have, the future he might have. The most beautiful thing he'd ever seen.

Aelin.

[shitwillnotbegiven]

You gotta love the parallels between Elriel and Rowaelin 🥰

Aelin hoped Rowan would come for her even when she told him not to (Kingdom of Ash - Chapter 8) :

Rowan saving Aelin 🥹 (Kingdom of Ash - Chapter 35) :

Feyre seeing how the Cauldron beckoned Elain - Elain thought Graysen was coming for her (Acowar - Chapter 63) :

Elain realizing that Azriel was the one who came to save her 🥹 (Acowar - Chapter 65) :

[heroinetales]

Link is a short king and we love him for that

[maybeiwasjustjade]

Look, I don’t hate Aelin, and Chaol is nowhere near a fave character, but if you want to insist that Chaol—at any point in the series, but especially KOA—wanted Aelin dead, you better come with receipts.

I have seen way too many people, especially on tiktok aka the queen of misinformation if it were a website, claim that Chaol was the main perpetrator behind Aelin being chosen to die for the Lock in chapter 91. Yet not a single one of them were ever able to back it up with any proof.

Wanna know why? Because that was not at all what happened.

My plot-related issues with the Lock scene notwithstanding, Aelin was always going to end up being the one to forge it. Not Dorian. Her. It wouldn’t have mattered that he was ready and willing; she would never allow it to be him if she could be the one to die instead. No amount of arguing would have changed Aelin’s mind. The Lock voting scene was about when to do it, not who. It was a matter of when Aelin should die, not if Aelin will be the one.

Rowan couldn’t even get her to vote or change her mind. Dorian couldn’t get her to even reconsider who should pay the price. What made any of you think that Chaol would be able the to sway her?

Chaol never wanted her dead. In fact, he was the only person that made it clear he’d rather this didn’t happen at all, that his friends could both live without the weight of destiny. And even if he were to pick to sacrifice Aelin to spare Dorian: why is that such a crime? Dorian is his King; Chaol was the Hand of Dorian’s kingdom, his former Captain of the Guards, and childhood bestfriend. Dorian was probably the person Chaol loved most, up until Yrene.

It was only natural that he rejected for it to be Dorian, both as a best friend and subordinate. Even then, it was an impulsive interruption and nothing more. It was never meant as a slight against Aelin.

And if Chaol was wrong or a monster or an asshole for not choosing Aelin, have at least the same courtesy and energy for Fenrys and Rowan. Two characters who audibly made it clear they would sacrifice Dorian in a heartbeat to save their queen, when Chaol was the one who said he’d rather his friends didn’t have to die at all.

Yet you lot scream and rage at the only character that had the audacity to love Dorian as much as Aelin’s court love her. Why is Chaol punished for the act of loving Dorian above everything, even Aelin, but Rowan (and the rest of Terrasen’s court) praised to the high heavens for being the same for her? Why was it only acceptable to sacrifice Dorian, but not Aelin? Why make Chaol the asshole, instead of just lamenting that they have to this at all?

Not everything is a slight against Aelin. Get a fucking grip. You can be upset for her, but don’t make it everyone elses problem.

[pergaminaa]

What if—

The reason we got Glennis and Bronwen and them being Manon’s great grandmother and cousin respectively is because of what was going to happen at the end of the series?

I mean, without the Thirteen, she has no one left, no family to speak of. But having both Glennis and Bronwen is literally Manon NOT being all alone and that she has actual family still.

It’s not the same yes, and it will take her a long long time to get used to them but at least she isn’t all by herself. She has actual kin around and I feel that with them she will will be okay (eventually)

I also feel that Petrah is going to be someone that Manon trusts a lot and in my heart I feel that my girl is surrounded by people who genuinely love her and care for her.

[faetansy]

Aelin Ashryver Galathynius from the Throne of Glass series.

Artist: @jrtart_

[nesta-apologist]

I've been thinking about how much Nehemiah's calm levelheaded reason would have helped avoid so much conflict in this series

[ashuribbon]

No matter what you do, the ending stays the same.

[checkoutmybookshelf]

OH FOR PETE'S SAKE.

If even the book itself is calling out a writing decision as kinda unnecessary, then perhaps the author should listen to that subliminal voice and RETHINK THE THING.

I am on chapter 108 of Kingdom of Ash, and we did not just get a tearful battlefield reunion between Aedion and Gavriel only for Gavriel to walk a shield outside a gate that needs to be closed. And for Aedion to LITERALLY go, "Gavriel could have stayed. Could have stayed and pushed his shield back long enough for them to shut the gates. He could have remained here--" because, honestly? Aedion is CORRECT. That would have been reasonable and, by the magical laws of the world, entirely possible.

Someone check on Gavriel, because he just walked into a pack if enemy soldiers and FUCKING DIED for no good reason. Literally even the book didn't buy that decision.

[shadowhandss60]

“My boy,” his father whispered again.

And it was love—love and pride and sorrow that shone in his face.

His father who had been possessed as he had, who had tried to save them in his own way and failed. His father, who had everything taken from him, but had never bowed to Erawan—not entirely.

Art by @sassyhobbits

[acourtofquestions]

Lorcan didn't breathe as Elide gently reached out her hand. And interlaced their fingers. "I love you," she whispered. He was glad he was lying down. The words would have knocked him to his knees. Even now, he was half inclined to bow before her, the true owner of his ancient, wicked heart. "I have loved you," she went on, "from the moment you came to fight for me against Vernon and the ilken." The light in her eyes stole his breath. "And when I heard you were somewhere on that battlefield, the only thing I wanted was to be able to tell you that. It was the only thing that mattered." Once, he might have scoffed. Declared that far bigger things mattered, in this war especially. And yet the hand grasping his ... He'd never known anything more precious.

[shitwillnotbegiven]

WHAT ELAIN "NEEDED" WAS UNDERSTANDING, NOT SUNSHINE

In Chapter 32 of Acowar, we have the scene where Azriel finds out that Elain is a seer :

Lucien murmured to me, eye still fixed on Elain, “Should we—does she need …?”

“She doesn’t need anything,” Azriel answered without so much as looking at Lucien.

Elain was staring at the spymaster now—unblinkingly.

“We’re the ones who need …” Azriel trailed off. “A seer,” he said, more to himself than us. “The Cauldron made you a seer.”

Right after that, in chapter 33, Feyre notices that Elain sounds "normal" again because she finally understands what is happening to her :

Elain turned to Mor, who was now gaping at my sister from her spot beside her on the couch. “Is that what this is?”

And the words, the tone … they were so normal-sounding that my chest tightened.

Mor’s gaze darted across my sister’s face, as if weighing the words, the question, the truth or lie within.

Mor at last blinked, mouth parting. Like that magic of hers had at last solved some puzzle. Slowly, clearly, she nodded.

The clear explanation that what Elain needed was understanding :

“You stole from the Cauldron,” I said to Nesta, who seemed ready to jump between all of us and Elain. “But what if the Cauldron gave something to Elain?”

Nesta’s face drained of color. “What?”

Equally ashen, Lucien seemed inclined to echo Nesta’s hoarse question.

But Azriel nodded. “You knew,” he said to Elain. “About the young queen turning into a crone.”

Elain blinked and blinked, eyes clearing again. As if the understanding, our understanding … it freed her from whatever murky realm she’d been in.

A little bit later, in chapter 40, we see that Elain is getting better and that she started spending time with Nuala & Cerridwen in the kitchen :

Elain stood between Nuala and Cerridwen at the long worktable. All three of them covered in flour. Some sort of doughy mess on the surface before them.

The two handmaiden-spies instantly bowed to Rhys, and Elain—

There was a slight sparkle in her brown eyes.

As if she’d been enjoying herself with them.

Nuala swallowed hard. “The lady said she was hungry, so we went to make her something. But—she said she wanted to learn how, so …” Hands wreathed in shadows lifted in a helpless gesture, flour drifting off them like veils of snow. “We’re making bread.”

Elain was glancing between all of us, and as her eyes began to shutter, I gave her a broad smile and said, “I hope it’ll be done soon—I’m starved.”

Elain offered a faint smile in return and nodded.

She was hungry. She was … doing something. Learning something.

And then Rhys explains to Feyre that she is feeling the same way he felt when she was getting better in Acomaf :

I put a hand on my chest, leaning against the wood panels of the stair wall. Rhys’s hand covered my own a heartbeat later.

“That was what I felt,” he said, “when I saw you smile that night we dined along the Sidra.”

I leaned forward, resting my brow against his chest, right over his heart. “She still has a long way to go.”

“We all do.”

Bonus :

ELRIEL X ROWAELIN PARALLEL 🥰

Elriel 🥀🦇

It made sense, I supposed, that Azriel alone had listened to her. The male who heard things others could not … Perhaps he, too, had suffered as Elain had before he understood what gift he possessed.

Rowaelin 🦅❤️‍🔥

“The male I fell in love with was you. It was you, who knew pain as I did, and who walked with me through it, back to the light. Maeve didn’t understand that. That even if she could create that perfect world, it wouldn’t be you with me. And I’d never trade that, trade this. Not for anything.”

Rowaelin 🦅❤️‍🔥

Aelin, who had known suffering as he did. Who had been shown peaceful lives and still chosen him, exactly as he was, for what they had both endured.