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Cassian: Doesn’t count when you use your hands to do most of the work.

Nesta: I bet that isn’t what you’ve been telling yourself at night.

Cassian: Is that what those smutty books teach you? That it’s only at night? It could be anytime—dawn’s first light, or when I’m bathing, or even after a long, hard day of practice.

Nesta: Sounds like you have a lot of time on your hands, Cassian.

Azriel:

Cassian:

Nesta:

Amren:What?

Varian:Haven’t we talked about this? About … being nice?”

Amren:

Feyre became High Lady and partnered up with Rhysand while matching her powers to him.

Nesta became a Valkyrie and she’s on her path to become general one day of the female legion, matching Cassian powers and rank.

Elain will become a full Seer and she will match her powers with Azriel, making the best spy couple in history.

Cassian:

Nesta:

ACourt of Silver Flames without context:

Cassian: “Breathe”.

Rhysand:

My most controversial take regarding Acosf now that we’re starting a New Year:

I loved Nesta’s journey into accepting herself but we cannot deny that SJM writing has changed to serve the current market when it comes to have heavy smut on books. Nessian relationship could have been so so much better. I’ll never forgive her publishers and editors for it.

I would have preferred a thousand times to have a well developed romantic relationship with a sub-plot and only one sex scene… than having the shit that was ACOSF.

If CC2 is going to be ACOSF 2.0… Im giving up on her next books.

There’s something that people missed from Sjm interviews regarding Acosf timeline towards the rest of the books in the serie.

The reason we barely got any Elain, Azriel, Mor or even Lucien interactions or development in this book is because they’re meant to have their own stories which will be happening at the same time of the events that are happening in Acosf.

For example:

Mor spending huge amounts of time in the other continent, yet we dont get to know what she’s doing. That’s cause is left for her own part in the next books.

Lucien’s conversations with Feyre every time he visits Velaris and his shown annoyance at Julian and Vassa constantly fighting. We saw some glimpse from Cassian’s perspective but we’ll get full show once we get his side of the story. Same as how he really feel about Elain’s as his mate.

Elain and her secret rendezvous that she has going on…there’s loads of secrecy around her and we had loads of hints about her being stealthy.. could be that she’s secretly training with the twins.

Azriel and his job. Rhys and Feyre keep repeating that he has lots on his plate at the beginning of Acosf, so we should be able to get more insight into his missions and what’s really bothering him beyond his feelings for Elain.

We need to remember that from now on all acotar books will be stand alones that will cover one couple each.

My money is on:

Elain + Azriel

Lucien + Vassa

Mor + Emmerie

Eris + ??? (I honestly think Gwyn will have something to do with the Autumn Court)

The next books will either pick up where Acosf was left off and then fill the gaps with flashbacks or will explain from the start of Acosf.

Leaving aside ship wars for a second, has anyone noticed how silent SJM is lately?

Like we’re not even getting any type of news about CC2 and is coming out soon? This time last year we were at least starting to get snippets for Acosf, she engaged more on IG interviews, etc… but seems this year we’re not getting anything?

What’s going?

Too much silence is unnerving me for some reason

Yall are fighting for Elriel, Gwynriel or Elucien to show up next book and all I want is the three Archeron sisters working together on a mission or something.

It’s a shame we never got to see their true dynamic, but I keep hoping in Elain’s book, we got to see their relationship much better.

Feyre wont be pregnant anymore so she would be able to use her powers again. Nesta is finally embracing her fae side, and she still has her powers plus she’s on her way to become a Valkyrie. Also, her mental health is in a much better place.

Once we get to see Elain using her powers and getting out of her shell… it’s going to be incredibly seeing them working together.

I want a true Charmed moment, when the three sisters join their powers together to defeat evil.

Azriel walking in the House to get some dinner and sleep after a long day of spying:

Then hearing Nesta is about to start giving Cassian a BJ:

I know this snippet is not exactly new but now that SJM confirmed that Azriel sings… it made me think a lot about this theory:

So in ACOMAF when the inner circle gets hold of the second half of the Book of the Breathing, said book starts singing some curious things. If you dont know what I’m talking about, here’s the little snipet:

Each line, each description relates to a sister:

Life and death and rebirth. Feyre after she died and was reborn as a Fae.

Sun and moon and dark. Nesta and her death powers.

Rot and bloom and bones. Elain, and the bones most definitely represent the fourth trove that links it with Koschei.

• (“There was a fourth object in the vision, but it was in shadow—was there ever a fourth part of the Trove? All I could make out was a bit of ancient bone.”).

Lady of Night.Feyre

Princess of Decay.Nesta

Trembling Fawn. Elain

• Sweet Thing. Mor
• Fanged Beast. Rhysand

Love me. This represents Feysand. Rhysand’s biggest fear was that Feyre could never love him, and how they express their love but saying it to each other again and again because none of them ever thinks would be enough.

Touch me. This represents Nessian. They only managed to express their love through touching. Cassian and Nesta know how to express love through physical contact.

Sing me. This most definitely represents Elriel. We know now that Azriel sings. So what are the bets that it would link together at the end of their book? I mean.. is self explanatory at this point.

We know Elain will be linked to Koschei, I mean she was the one that found out about Vassa in the first place. We also saw how Azriel confronted Koschei.

How is it hard to believe that the next book wouldn’t be about Elriel!???!? Even if let’s say by some twist of the universe, SJM decides that they won’t end up as a couple, you cant deny they would be the main characters in the next book! Like come on now! All the clues are there!!

I gotta address this because some of yall are getting on my nerves lately.

Now I know the romantic side of Acosf let everyone down.. and YES EVERYONE because let’s face it, it was shit. There’s was like 1% of romance out of it? But that’s a story for another day..

So we desperately needed to hold to our next ship but the worst that came out of ACOSF is actually all of these fandom wars.

Elriel and Elucien have been minding their own business for the past four years.. we never had any major issue between us. We love Elain, we love Azriel and we love Lucien. It’s a fucked up situation because the three of them deserve better. But we got along, we have open debates, good comebacks, we respected each other so far.

Everyone is entitled to ship, love, hate, dismiss, or do whatever you want with your opinion when it comes to fictional characters. But some of yall are straight up bullies and frankly quite childish.

Gwynriel you guys showed up out of fucking nowhere and mostly because you hate with passion Elain. Admit it, is the only reason you like the ship. Because explain to me why out of one or two interaction you decide to ship them but never paid the same attention to Mor and Emerie?

In fact.. I dont see Emerie getting the same love and support as Gwyn does. Why is that? Is it because of Azriel? Or is it because she’s white? Or is it because she’s not into women? But I’ll leave this conversation for another day because it needs to be addressed too.

Elriel are acting up because you guys started in the first place. We’ve been listening to all of your “I hate Elain, she’s useless, she’s boring, all she does is cooking, she’s this, she’s that.. blah blah”.. and we let it go because, fine, you’re entitled to your opinion.

But when you straight up bully people, start making up fake canons to support your claims, literally stalk other people feeds to push your point, and get angry when people dont agree with you.. then that’s when we have a problem.

You think I hate Gwyn because of Gwynriel? You think the reason I dont ship her with Az is because I hate her?

FUCKING NOOOOOOOO!!!

I freaking love Gwyn, and Emerie but you guys are seriously making me hate her same as you made me hate Rhysand when all the anti-nestas where going around!!!

This pedestal that you keep on your back to hold your fictional characters needs to stop.

I will ship whoever the fuck I want. And you go ahead and ship whoever the fuck you want. But what I won’t do is purposely go into a tag with a ship that I have no business going to drag people down just because we dont have the same opinion. I said “drag people down” not debate different perspectives. They’re are two different things.

I already fought for two years for Nesta.. I’m tired, I just want to enjoy this shitty serie in peace. And if I want to write a whole essay on why Elriel is my favourite couple and deserve a happy ending then leave me be as I’ll leave you to do the same.

Now that has been months since the release of A Court of Silver Flames, I can safely put out my two cents that absolutely no one asked about.

I will start with things that I really enjoyed:

• Nesta’s journey into self-healing, and more into accepting herself and the past mistakes she has made. I think SJM did a great job into describing her mental health journey and I loved loved loved every single bit of it. Did I cry when she broke down in the mountains? Yes, but dont tell anyone.
• Nesta and Azriel friendship. That was something that I was manifesting into the universe and I was glad to see it become canon.
• Nesta’s new circle of friends. I loved how she was immediately accepted by Gwyn and Emerie, how the three of them complement each other.
• Nesta’s journey into becoming a Valkyrie and how she’s planning to one day lead a female unit.
• Nesta’s saving baby Nyx and Feyre. That was an emotional crazy scene and I loved it. (However, I wished we had a scene where she was holding baby Nyx).
• Eris. That’s it. I just love that he had a bigger role and I’m hoping to see more of him in the future.
• I loved seeing Elain stand for herself. And I’m here to see her journey. (Note aside: I loved those little crumbs we got from Elriel)
• The House of Wind.
• Helion.

Now let’s get into things that I found lacking or absolutely unnecessary or I just simply hated. And oh boy, it might be a big list:

• Cassian and Nesta’s relationship. Now, I shipped these two idiots since the moment Cassian showed up. I just vision them together (same with Elain and Azriel). I loved them in Acowar, and the bonus chapter but my god their relationship in Acosf was shit. The whole story. I hated every second of it. I’m gonna give Nesta a pass when it comes to her showing emotions because she’s a 24yrs woman who has been raised to be an Ice Queen, but Cassian!? A +500 warrior scared to ask if he can stay after sex to save his feelings? Naaaaaah that was pretty shit. And Nesta deserved more.

Dont get me wrong, I loved them training together, I loved them being protective over each other, I loved Cassian’s words in the mountains (on that punishing hike that I wont even comment)… but Cassian let me down in this book.

I was expecting a whole love speech coming out of his mouth that would make me cry for weeks. I was expecting him actually telling Nesta why he loves her, or at least a better mating revealing.

All we got was sex, sex, sex, sex, oh and did I mention sex already? It became so boring at one point that as soon as they went at it again, I just skipped the whole paragraph/chapter. (And yes, this is coming from a pretty dark romance reader).

• Rhysand and the inner circle are the perfect people who can never do any wrong. I hated that we never had a conversation between Nesta and Feyre where they fixed their issues, or Nesta and Rhysand, or Nesta and Mor? Or Nesta and Elain!???

Nesta took dancing lessons with Mor for a month and yet we never had a scene between the two of them at least bonding? Or letting some shit out? I mean, the same Mor who at the beginning was “toss her to the Night Court, we dont need her here”. Couldnt we just have a scene of Mor regretting saying that? No, we just had Nesta apologising to everything and everyone for what?

• Nesta’s and Amren relationship. What the fuck was that!? Nesta asking Amren for forgiveness on her knees. That rage me for days.
• Nesta asking Cassian to forgive her because of how she behaved last Solstice and Cassian was like “oh no worries, I already forgave you”. Dafuq!? Excuse me sir, shouldn’t you also ask Nesta to forgive you because of what you said to her that night too!?
• Nesta losing her powers. I get that she didnt want them, but considering she was in a journey to accept and love herself, I hated that she had to get rid of that part of her.
• The whole “Rhysand you should be High King”. That shit better never fucking happen. That’s the weakest plot ever.
• The Blood Rite was unnecessary. The stairs scenes were unnecessary.
• The Illyrian rebels plotline that was so important in Acofas but somehow got all washed away in Acosf as if it was a fever dream.
• We can all agree that sex was the main plot in this book and everything else was a background noise. Does anyone know anymore where the fuck is this serie going? Cause I dont. But will I still read the next books? Abso-fucking-lutely.
• The fandom wars. The Nessian story was so fucking bad in Acosf… everyone needed to jump to a next ship. And who we got? Elucien? Who can’t stand to be in the same room? Elriel? Who are not allowed to be in the same room? Or Gwynriel? Who only exists because people hate Elain and they finally have someone else than Mor or Emerie to ship with Az? (And yes, I said what I said and you know is true).
• Amren was a bitch in Acosf and I dont know why she keeps getting away with it. She has no powers now, someone better shut her up. Which is a shame cause I really liked her in Acowar.
• Tamlin storyline. Leave the man alone. You got your happy ending, no need to rub it on his face every damn second.
• Lucien and his band of exiles. Do we even know what the fuck is happening in that house they live?

In conclusion, Acosf was a 6/10. I think there were so so many opportunities to make those 800 pages memorable and all we got was sex, stairs, and more sex?

I get that the smutty scenes sell better, but not when the sex are just used as a refill. The reason why smutty scenes are so popular, is because they are the culmination of a well developed relationship. But if they’re starting as friends with benefits that turns into “ups, now we shackled together forever and I didnt even ask if that’s what you want but why dont you want it?”… you know it’s going to end up with a bad taste.

Anyway, as I said.. this is how I personally felt regarding Acosf. Everyone is entitled to their own feelings.

Cassian:“I see. I get a little too close and you shove me away again. Back to where it’s safe. Better to marry a viper like Eris than be with me.”

Nesta:“I am not with you, I am fuckingyou!”

Meanwhile outside the bedroom:

Every female main character in SJM series have ended up somehow with a tattoo on their back during their journeys.

Aelin Galathynius

✴️Bryce Quinlan ✴️

Feyre Archeron

⚔️Nesta Archeron ⚔️

Which makes me think, what type of tattoo will Elain get?

Wahey! I didn’t forget WIP Wednesday this time! Look at me go! My cousin is getting married this weekend, so I might not be able to update LOHLDOW until Sunday unless I’m magically able to finish writing before I need to leave for the wedding Friday. Sorry :( But I hope everyone enjoys this snippet! It’s more fluff :) 

Cassian has his whole heart all in this one bed. Sure, it’s a bit of a tight fit, Mellie’s knee dangerously close to his stomach and Cassian needing to hold his legs at an awkward angle so as to not accidentally kick Mr Tumnus, but he wouldn’t have it any other way. He’d happily take it every night for the rest of his life. And in this moment, Cassian wants to fully commit every second to memory, bury it close to his heart for safe keeping. 

“Go to sleep, you weirdo. I can feel you staring,” Nesta’s mumbled voice comes from the other side of the bed. 

Cassian snorts softly, but he shifts to lay more comfortably back against the pillow. He reaches across the bed so that his arm is resting across Mellie, his hand settling on Nesta’s hip. He lets his eyes fall shut, that exhaustion from earlier creeping back in, and when he finally gives in to sleep, it’s with a smile on his face.

ncssian:

i wrote another oneshot to avoid doing my homework these are kind of addictive lmao

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“and what do youdeserve?”

nessian modern au; 1,441 words

mostly fluff but also cassian being defensive of nesta and getting mad at the ic

Nesta had been asleep for so long that Cassian could no longer feel his legs. He refused to shift underneath her, scared of waking her up, and contented himself with running his fingers through her hair instead.

She’d come into the living room of their holiday cabin about an hour earlier and crawled atop him without any words, her only intention that of taking a nap. She was dressed in her lavender flannel nightgown, the one that made her look like a little girl again, claiming she couldn’t sleep without him.

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kimstclair:

One of my saddest ACOTAR headcanons is that Nesta and Cassian have difficulties in getting pregnant

• They start trying like four years post ACOSF
• And the years start to pass by and Cassian is like “That’s alright Nes, children are really rare between the fae”
• Although he said that to cheer himself up as much as Nesta
• But when Elain gets pregnant after only one year and a half with Lucien, Nesta gets mad
• She’s not mad at her sister. No. She’s mad at herself, at her body.
• Nesta starts to think she’s letting Cassian down. She believes she’s a disappointment to him.
• Soon the feeling that she’s unworthy of Cassian comes back, she’s into depression again
• Cassian doesn’t know what to do. He surely wants a baby, but above all he wants his mate to be happy
• Cassian tries to tell her that, but she just doesn’t believe him
• Now Nesta thinks the only way to make her mate happy is to give him a baby, she even try to get a surrogacy
• When Cassian discovers that he gets possessed. But he’s also really worried
• After that, Cassian calls Feyre and Elain for an intervention. For Nesta and himself.
• They both need to understand that they don’t need a baby to be happy. So their new healing journey starts.
• It’s been months since the intervention began, Nesta is almost over depression. They’ve past through this together.
• An year and a half since the intervention began and now they’re happy with their mate’s life again, they’re happy being wonderful uncle and aunt to their nephews
• Four months later Cassian and Nesta go to Illyria trying to get down a bloody riot
• The village is destroyed, houses burned and a lot of bodies lying dead at the streets. Cassian and Nesta stay there to help the survivors and to appease the remaining rebels
• At the end of the day Nesta is walking through the house’s wreckage and hear a little cry, she found two little girls under a piece of wood
• “Hi, I won’t hurt you” Nesta said softly “Do you two wanna get out of here?” She asked the older girl who couldn’t be older then eight by her appearance, the other one was a toddler
• The older girl nods quietly, Nesta carefully pulls the wood that covered them and throws it away. First she picked up the toddler, that was apparently not hurt.
• The older girl didn’t move, tears in her eyes “My wings” she whispered. Her left wing was twisted at an awkward angle, a big cut in the center and bloodied all over.
• Nesta’s heart stopped for a moment. She quickly helped the girl out of the wreckage and carried the injured Illyrian in her arms “Cassian! Cassian!” she screamed
• Soon Cassian was there and they took the girl to the improvised nursery
• Cassian didn’t leave the little girl’s side until her wing were properly taken care of and bandaged.
• Nesta stayed there too, the toddler in her lap.
• They soon discover that the girl’s both parents died in the riot.
• They stared at each other for several moments, no words spoken, but it was probably the most important conversation they’ve had in their entire lifes
• From that moments their life would change forever.
• Family. That single word flickered through the bond. They’ve found family.