#who asked for fem azris?

[that-girl-reading]

Fem Azris coming up?🤭🍁🖤

[separatist-apologist]

I was always neutral about Azris, like, I didn’t hate it but also it’s a crack ship for a reason. That was until I saw the art by @krem-does-stuff. Holy shit. Short king Eris who likes getting his hair pulled? The freckles? THE VEST? It is better than the Mona Lisa.

On another note: Eris would be such a bottom. That art gives me bottom Eris vibes. Mouthy in the streets, submissive in the sheets

Krem's art is gorgeous and I will die on that hill.

Can I ask why you chose to send me this? Submissive doesn't automatically equal bottom and I wish the ACOTAR fandom would learn that.

Maybe this is a moment to get on my soapbox about how heteronormative a lot of ya'll are when it comes to Azris. I find it, frankly, misogynistic that Eris (a character who, in canon, is as masculine presenting as Azriel) gets labeled "delicate" "feminine" "mouthy" and thus- penetrated. And Azriel is coded "masculine" so he does the penetrating.

I am curious WHY you think Eris would be "such a bottom"? When, personally, I think a man who has so little control in his real life might enjoy some control in the bedroom. And on the flipside, Azriel, a man who is constantly IN control to an obsessive degree, might enjoy relinquishing some of that control.

Regardless of headcanons, I would ask that people examine why they code fem traits the way the do and why ya'll are so in love with the binary to begin with.

As primarily cis women who enjoy this ship, we're not immune to misogyny or homophobia- even if we ourselves fall on the LGBTQ+ spectrum.

And finally- Azris is not a crackship, it's a rair pair. A crackship would be two characters who have never met and will never meet.

[ofduskanddreams]

This is my addition to @separatist-apologist 's response to an anon ask and @houseofhurricane 's reblog of said ask. I just didn't want to make the reblog chain super long. Here is the link to the post. (pls read for context before continuing)

They said it all already, but few other issues in this fandom get me this incensed, so I'm going to tack on a little more because I can :)

As an Azris writer who loves this corner of the fandom, I'm also (unfortunately) very familiar with the pattern of thought voiced by the anon who sent the ask. Allow me to reiterate a very crucial point made in the response: while there is nothing inherently wrong with any of the traits the anon mentioned (submissiveness, being a bottom,etc,) it is wrong to take those traits, as well as their subsequent misogynistic connotations, and use them as a safety blanket for your heteronormativity.

The lovely ladies above said it, and I'll say it again: canonically, Eris Vanserra is just as traditionally masculine as Azriel. Eris is "tall... toned and muscled... like warriors about to set foot on a battlefield" (ACOTAR p. 311), but Eris isn't any old warrior, no—he's the commander of Beron's forces, the Autumn Court's equivalent of Cassian (ACOSF p. 98). Like @houseofhurricane mentioned in her reblog, they are both Grade-A examples of the Alphahole-type SJM fills her books with, and it's one of the reasons I love this ship.

If you come across "Azris" where Eris is written in a way that codes him as the "bottom/sub/fem" to Azriel's "top/dom/masc" — THAT IS NOT AZRIS, that is taking a wrecking ball and pulverizing Eris's canon character until he "fits" the binary. It's not Azris; it's Azriel + a heaping dose of prejudice.