you can be an elain stan while recognizing that she is in desperate need of growth and a healing arc and separation from the inner circle. her growth is hindered where she is and she lacks awareness and empathy. she needs to learn more and to grow. because right now, with the attitude that was displayed towards nesta in acosf (elain’s inability to understand her trauma), it’s clear that she would not be healthy for either lucien or azriel.

how many times I do need to tell y’all to tag your posts properly and to stop imposing your ugly, unwanted opinions in a tag that is pro said ship. why do I gotta tell y’all how to act on a site that has been around for years 😭😭😭😭 leave the elucien n gwynriel tag alone

_{thinking of parallels between suspected endgame ships:}

• _{nessian: cassian seemed to understand nesta’s grief regarding the death of her father because he lost his mother. the two share similar mannerisms as well in terms of coping. cassian knew that training was the outlet that quieted the world for him and it was how he was able to help nesta efficiently, to some extent. cassian is a warrior, and nesta ultimately became a valkyrie.}
• _{gwynriel: azriel was locked away and abused to a horrifying extent. gwyn was subject to what happened in sangravah before choosing to keep herself locked away into the library. azriel is in need of a journey that will allow him to fully look into his past, to embark on self-acceptance and self-love, and to fully close the chapter with morrigan. gwyneth needs to leave the library, and can only do so when she has the strength to fully face the past, and to allow herself to know that she is not to blame for what happened to her and her sister. both grapple with issues of worth, and both have been locked away.}
• _{elucien: elain seems to struggle most with being faemade, and one of her largest conflicts is the ended engagement with graysen. lucien’s biggest source of agony is jesminda. elain has often been kept protected and shielded, in a way keeping her from exploring her full potential, while lucien has never been able to truly heal and grow, let alone in knowledge of his full heritage. in a way he has been shielded from his full potential, the way the night court seems to insist on keeping elain from using her cauldron gifted powers (although she shows that she wants to begin using them). elain also seems to dislike anything that is not within her control, and lucien has never once been in control of his life.}

_{not here for y’all to argue w me, just here to point out some interesting parallels.}

_{eluciens aren’t being toxic, they’re finally speaking back after actual years of abuse, harassment, and even death threats. for those of you that have been in the fandom as long as i have (i personally have been around before ACOTAR was even released, back in the TOG days, just to make a point on how long i’ve been around), how many elucien fans were there in the beginning of the ship formation, post acomaf? how many were there until a acosf, and then the live? this isn’t a call out post to all elriels because i’ve met some that were kind, but the behavior from the elriel fandom has quite honestly been arguably some of the worst i’ve seen in my 22 years of existence lol, and quite literally, every single day there is a bullshit post on my tumblr calling out eluciens or gwynriels for toxic behavior that i absolutely have not seen. that majority i overlook because i am a grown adult and am not arguing with teenagers lol, but at some point y’all are going to have to recognize your fandom is the problem, and has been for quite some time.}

_{ask the eluciens that aren’t on twitter because of y’all, the eluciens that strictly maintain tiny blogs to avoid harassment, the artists that get death threats and hate for drawing elucien and gwynriel, and the teenage girl y’all sent a death threat to on twitter.} 

_{grow the fuck up, it’s ridiculous.}

azriel is getting his own book and elain is getting her own and when gwynriel happens i will revisit this post to brag to the elriels, the elucien agenda continues to thrive

_{“so I’m supposed to pretend I don’t care?” snarls Lucien, stalking away from her, as if the proximity between the two is too much, as if he cannot stand to be near the scent that threatens to overtake him completely. “that what happened earlier didn’t happen, to forget the press of your body against mine?”
there is silence in the clearing, and it’s as if the birds that had been singing have decided that their joyful melodies were no longer needed; not when the clearing seemed to be divided, with the air thick and heavy, and tainted with an old, powerful magic.
“you told me you loved me,” bites Lucien, the word as vicious as a pack of wolves tearing into a carcass. he’d intended to be kind; to say the words without bitterness, without a care for the wounds of the past, but it is the way she stares at him that threatens to undo him completely.
it is the understand. the regret. and the shared pain.
she had unknowingly done to him what had been done to her.
perhaps she was no better than Graysen, who she had grown to despise and view as a monster, as foreign to her as the creatures she had seen that one day on a blood-soaked plain.}

_{y’all ever start writing a fic n then hear a song and skip forward to halfway thru the fic bc u just got inspo , , , , ,}

Elucien, Gwynriel, Feysand, or another Nessian modern insta AU 🤯🤯 Which one do y’all want