I am just outside taking a little walk around my university. We have a garden area and they put these little signs around and this one just called out to being Elriel encoded to me!
To our flower girl always!
Why does my experiment mock me with the pink into golden yellow ugly ass ombre title cover!!
Why today 😂😂😂😅😅😅
So, I haven't been following SJM for long enough since this is the first few books ive had to wait for in the ACOTAR series so I am just wondering.
Has SJM always cleared her instagram when a new book launched or is this new? Its seems a bit outrageous that she just wiped everything in her instagram. Its not really a big deal its just a little...weird? Cause why?
First, if SJM wanted to signal Gwyn she could have used a 🩵 or even putting a music note next to the blue heart but she didn't do that. It was intentional.
Second, this quote is exactly why I feel Elriel is so strong. Azriel has not allowed the world to harden him even though he has a very tough job that he still does and the pain and suffering he endured. Wouldn't it be nice for him to come home to someone equally gentle? That equally understands the need to keep dreaming? Like, I can't see how no one can see this is whats good for him.
This is just...so cute, beautiful and also sad. But why are the colors the exact same ones used on SJMs status and how Elain and Azriels first conversation about flying....my heart can't take it!! 🩷💙
Edit: also im not crying....YOUR CRYING 🥹😭
As expected, this was the big reveal 😂😂
Posted 4 hrs ago 😂😂😂
Hello all!!
Ok, so I have always thought the imagery of Gwyn matched well with Summer, but, I was thinking...
Why does the made up illusioned Pegasus gravitate towards Gwyn?
Does anyone have any theories about this or thoughts about it? The Pegasus, if I remember correctly, Helion is the only one that has them right?
Hey guys! Just wanted to share this little article I read about the harmony of sun and moon!
Its very sweet and is also how I see the pairing of Elain and Azriel!
Am I literally meant to believe that SJM seriously used an oddly sus quote from Keates in Endymion and then just overlook the fact that she expressed her deep love for Sailor Moon on CHD and then theres these 2 that look a whole damn lot like Elain and Azriel and then they also are shown with light pink and blue as their signature colors AND why the hell does Queen Beryl look like fucking Gwyn? And the fact she is literally a priestess AND has the ability to enchant men AND she's working to bring back Queen Metalia which is literally a fucking black cloud like BRYAXIS!?
Yall, explain to me how the fuck this isn't the story!??
Ok, I am putting this here causeeeee its related but guys.....GUYSSSSSS
Ok, so I am obsessed with the flowers that were used in the vases for the new ACOTAR merch. I recalled a while ago that SJM was using flowers to think more on Elains character.
I am basically writing up a whole synopsis for the flowers advertised and Elriel because, they all point to that direction but what REALLY pulled my attention was this book called
"Language of Flowers" (you can actually get a free version by just typing "Language of Flowers free online book" and it comes up)
The first flag that I saw while reading was "A thing of beauty, and a joy forever." Thomas Miller
And I was like hmmmmmmmmmmmm thats weird....almost sounds a lot like the BC. So, I continued reading and I just started my investigating when I got to the roses segment of this book.
It kept mentioning a "nightingale" and I know its a type of bird but knew absolutely nothing else. So, I looked it up.
WELLLLLLLLLL
This bird is known for its loud, beautiful and complex melodies that are sang by MALES often heard LATE AT NIGHT and the name literally translates to "night-singer" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 like bro, how did I not even pick up on that. I swear 😂😂😂
Anywayssssssss I got too excited and wanted to share this with you before I finished my synopsis and seriously! Check out the book! There are some crazy weird coincidences with names!
EDIT: ALSO the reason I looked into it is because the statement says
"The love of the nightingale for the rose is continually mentioned by Eastern Bards"
Soooooooo yeahhhh LOVE NOT LUST PEOPLE lol
So, in the CHD interview SJM said she was listening to Kpop demon hunters alot and she didn't directly say she was using it for inspiration but, I cant get out of my head that song "free" because Elain and Azriel could sing this together and it would make so much sense. Anyway here are the lyrics!
Good for me
Why does it feel right every time I let you in?
Why does it feel like I can tell you anything?
All the secrets that keep me in chains, and
All the damage that might make me dangerous
You got a dark side, guess you're not the only one
What if we both tried fighting what we're running from?
We can't fix it if we never face it
What if we find a way to escape it?
We could be free, free
We can't fix it if we never face it
Let the past be the past 'til it's weightless
Time goes by, and I lose perspective
Yeah, hope only hurts, so I just forget it
But you're breaking through all the dark in me
When I thought that nobody could
And you're waking up all these parts of me
That I thought were buried for good
Between imposter and this monster, I've been lost inside my head
Ain't no choice when all these voices keep me pointing towards no end
It's just easy when I'm with you
No one sees me the way you do
I don't trust it, but I want to
I keep coming back to
Why does it feel right every time I let you in?
Why does it feel like I can tell you anything?
We can't fix it if we never face it
What if we find a way to escape it?
We could be free, free
We can't fix it if we never face it
Let the past be the past 'til it's weightless
Free, free
Free, free
Hello all!!
I just wanted to share my tin foil hat theory that has absolutely no basis in canon but just wanted to share some things that I think could be an interesting story if explored!!
Coming to the necklace she wore of Horuses eye, ive really been playing around with this thought and idea. Ive also been thinking about Lucien and Elains bond, being so different from the others and being tied to Elains rib.
So, first I want to go back to Jurians resurrection. As far as we know, its been believed that Jurians eye and finger bone was jewelry for Amarantha. But, whats interesting, is that Amarantha never admits to the eye being Jurians. They have just assumed it was since she took the eye but nothing was ever confirmed by Amarantha herself.
If we reference the first book, I find it interesting that the eye moves in the direction that Lucien is looking at Feyre during certain moments and I always had the distinct feeling that, in the first book, the eye was always Luciens and the finger bone was Jurians. An important note is that Lucien and Jurian, supposedly, have brown eyes.
In the second book, we discover that Hybern threw both the eye and the bone into the cauldron. Because Jurian was already dead, the cauldron was able to bring Jurian back but because Lucien was still alive, the cauldron kept his essence until the next being or Luciens death occurred.
The last person to come out or in of the cauldron was Jurian and so the next time someone goes in, its Elain. Because the essence of Lucien is still in the cauldron, it bonded to Elain in a sort of life bond (referenced from TOG) which would totally explain the bond placement of the rib.
The outcome? A life bond, possibly with Carranam but not a mating bond. However, in TOG we are told that these bonds feel almost exactly the same. So, it would not be shocking for Lucien to truly believe its his mate.
Now, lets fold in Horuses eye. Horuses eye possessed the ability to see everything in the material world and spiritual worlds. The texts describe Horuses right eye as the sun and his left eye as the moon.
His right eye is the missing one and so if his essence combined with Elains, it totally makes sense that she has the Seer abilities and beyond that is referenced to be so bright because she basically encompasses the sun. While Lucien on the other hand, encompasses all of the moon, associated with healing, protection and waxing and waning lunar cycles.
This makes sense for why SJM said that Lucien would be apart of Elains healing journey because they literally need each other to heal parts of themselves. But, its not romantic.
Anyway, this is just my little tin foil hate theory that I just wanted to throw out there! 😊
How dare bloomsbury mess with my midnight snooping session 😂😂
Do people really sit here and try to deny the Truth-Teller scene?
I was on the ACOTAR debate sub. I forget how I wound up there but anyway, someone was trying to discount the handing of Truth-Teller to Elain as well as going to save her.
For one, they completely misremembered both scenes.
For the first, they claimed that Azriel only ever gave Truth Teller to Elain so she would feel more comforted but we know thats not true because, before Azriel even extends Truth-Teller to her, Cassian had tried to hand her a sword causing her to shy away. So, it'd make no sense for Azriel to have extended it by seeing this exchange as to "make her more comfortable"
Furthermore, even if that were his reasoning, it still doesn't make sense because he could have offered her any other weapon that didn't mean much to him. But, he didn't, instead of doing that he extended Truth-Teller, a knife that he has NEVER let anyone touch and has NEVER loaned anyone but he does for Elain. She's the exception. That is incredibly significant! Even the coloring book for which SJM was a large part of, made it apart of the coloring book because it was so significant!
For the second, they claimed that Azriel never offered to get her and that he only volunteered to keep Feyre safe. Except, Azriel literally said he was going to go get her BEFORE Feyre said anything at all. Feyre only said she was coming AFTER Azriel did. So, the statement made was just plain incorrect.
The amount of people that upvoted that comment (24 people) really astounds me because they incorrectly recalled information from the book and was yet, incredibly supported by other people, without calling them out on it. Like, wtf even is that?
Don't even get me started on the ACOFAS where they try to deflect that interaction. Its just so infuriating that people really can't see whats plainly obvious.
Hey guys,
So, I am pretty fed up with the ACOTAR debate sub. One of the main issues I have with it is they allow debates to happen without actual evidence (chps, pg numbers etc) which only allows for more heated discussion because theres no proof needed.
I started my own debate page and it will be a requirement for having to post or comment is to have actual data.
I have never started a page before so if anyone has any experience with this please reach out!
This is the page and im still working on it lol!!
Just goodbye 👋
Tired of being attacked by many.
Tired of being judged by a handful of people that like to stalk these subs.
Tired of the bullies.
Tired of the lack of empathy (I am looking at the therapist out there in the wild).
Don't worry, ill delete this shortly after it gets posted because this fandom, loves to downvote anything and everything!
See you all in the next life!
Edit: NOT suicidal sorry. Just leaving this page 😂😂 have a good one!
I absolutely love Bluey!
I have no children and I originally turned it on for my dog who does also enjoy it!
But, I got so caught up into it! I really hope it continues to grow and I would love to see portions of these characters grow alongside the childrens group that grew up with them!!
I believe the show covers so many in depth topics that aren't just helpful for kids to understand but helps some of us to work through our own trauma as adults.
I just wanted to post here to show my love and appreciation for this show even as an adult without children!
Parents, would you also love to see Blue and Bingo age at the same rate as your children? Or would that be seen as odd to you? (Issues I can imagine happening are first crush relationships with Bluey to far more complicated subjects like becoming a teenager, puberty to even more complicated subjects like how to integrate into adulthood) I would assume that they would be broken into blocks with the original just being called "bluey" and then "high school bluey" "all grown up bluey" etc.
Rugrats had a similar thing for me growing up but they kind of jumped from baby to teenager so alot of milestones were missed i felt like 😅
So, supposedly, SJM worked really closely with these folks on the new collection. I would be fine with Tamlin having a part of this because he is involved but I didn't expect SO much merch with Tamlin on it.
Like, I get Luciens mask but then I see other things like the tumbler and its got luciens mask, Tamlins mask but also Feyres paint thing (whatever this is 🎨) and I just find it a little weird because Feyre is clearly keeping her distance from him and still very wounded about it and SJM spoke about how her friend and such was impacted by Tamlin but then on the merch you include Tamlins stuff with Feyres stuff on the same object?
Not sure how I feel about that. I am a little disappointed by the merch and how Spring court centered it is with the heavy addition of Tamlin. I would have expected more Lucien if they were going to include it. Idk, anyone else kinda put off by it?
Edit:ALSO why the fuck is luciens mask going from bronze and green accents to black with golden accents...possibly he goes evilllll?
So, I recently just saw the BAM (Books A Million) merch release from 3 hrs ago and I am actually so astonished that merch that is specific to Tamlin is actually featured. One of the pieces of merch is called "Tamlins manor" which is interesting.
So, now, I feel I need to ask.
How would you feel if Elain wound up with Tamlin at the Spring Court?
I am 30 (F) my husband is 31 (M) we have been together for 10 years, married for 4 of those years.
I have been feeling alone in most of our marriage. The first year of our marriage was ok but then things changed. At that time, I was taking care of the groceries, making dinner, coffee, doing laundry and on the weekends my husband and I would deep clean seperating the house chores. I think my husband went through a really hard time at work and we had a new puppy and I was being criticized constantly, being degraded, yelled at, etc.
It got to a point where I fully and emotionally detached. Nearing the second year of our marriage, I started filing for divorce after many discussions. When he asked me what I was doing, after having been detached for so long, I just flatly told him I was filing for divorce. He wanted to fix things and so I told him I didn't know if it could be saved but we could certainly try.
The following 6 months my husband was trying very hard and I fell back in love with him. We moved to a new place and somehow, our roles kind of switched up (It just kind of happened but I think the main reason was my husband was a work from home and I switched into a graduate program) I have appreciated my husband so much for all his efforts. Even buying him little gifts to tell him so.
But, because of all the stress I was going through in my new program, my sexual desire went down a bit and I was saying no alot (obviously my fault) but my husband would keep asking and eventually, I would just...comply.
This would happen for the next 6 months and I started to notice a shift in my feelings towards him. I obviously still love him but I didn't really want him to touch me and I was disgusted by his touch and being in his vicinity at all.
It finally occured to me, that my body was acting as if I was being sexually assaulted because I wasn't into the activity and I think the consequence of that was my body being repulsed anytime he touched me. Once I realized what was happening, I needed to get my thoughts together and so I started isolating myself in the living room for about a week.
All of this, was something I created for myself. I had no idea that my body was feeling this way and it wasn't something I knew how to communicate. I didn't know I was being assaulted until my body was reacting to him. Eventually, he came and asked me what was wrong. My husband is a good man in the sense that he mostly tries and I didn't want to. I was scared and doubtful he'd be able to actually handle it and maybe part of it was that if the role was reversed I had no idea how I'd handle it.
But, he convinced me I could tell him and so I just told him and it was a mistake. He, obviously, felt bad about it. He felt betrayed by me because in his mind, he thought it was something I knew about and just didn't say for the full time it was happening and he couldn't reason how I didn't know. To be honest, I still don't understand it myself.
Anyway, we talked about how to get back. I explained what I needed and things were ok...for a little while and then things reverted back this week and I think it was because he was playing with me and my brain knew that he would try to initiate which I didn't want and when I said no I asked if he could work on the fact that when he touches me or is sweet to me that it doesn't always have to lead to sex because it still does.
This resulted in me initiating this last week 4 different times and he declined each time. Its totally ok to decline and thats not what concerns me. It concerns me because its outside of who hes always been and when I asked why he'd rejected me so much he says hes just "reciprocating" idk what that meant so I asked him to explain and he said that if im allowed to say no so is he. Of course I said its totally reasonable and acceptable to say no! I just want to make sure you are ok. Its not hurting my feelings that you are rejecting me, rather I am worried about the stability of our relationship and everything else but he assures me that everything is ok.
Just need an outside POV. What would you do? Have you ever been in a situation like this before?
TL;DR-I felt like my husband was sexually assaulting me. I came clean about how I was feeling. He was making an attempt to connect and I was having fun but he made a move anyway though I just crave touch without having to be physically intimate and when I said no and asked that he work on just being physically intimate with me, pretty much everything has seized. No touch, no sex, no compliments. Just roommate behavior.