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your honor, I love him. 🐉❤️

& what if I said I'm just the worried wife waiting for my husband (general jiyan) to come home so I can tend to his injuries and kiss his pretty, pretty face.

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I always rush the mines so I don't miss year one Flower Dance with Seb <3

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some characters are meant to be college boyfriends. some characters are meant to be husbands. some characters are meant to be strange men who you kiss in bars. some characters are meant to be rivals who you make out with after a fight. some characters are meant to be the guy you tell others not to worry about. some characters are meant to be pretty boys who are oblivious to your flirting. some characters are meant to be 250k slowburn childhood friends to lovers. some characters are just meant to be some guy.

A quiet mosque in Palestine, 1926.Photograph by Jules Gervais Courtellemont, National Geographic Creative

hey everyone my tummy hurts but please don't cry too hard for me. a few tears are fine though.

Ummmm sometimes you dread the weight of your life and other times it is an early morning in april and there are 5 species of birds singing and also the sun is shining through the baby leaves. Btw

pookie is tired n can't take it anymore </3

Guys...

"No shadows at his ear, no darkness ringing his fingers as he extended a hand."

For those who think Azriel's shadows dancing and appearing in his shoulders while he was with Gwyn meant a romantic scene or some signal.

Azriel's shadows disappear when he is at his most relaxed, comfortable and friendly state.

Elain is definitely the light in his life.

That's it. That's endgame.

There's so many ridiculous flaws to point out in the "BUT HIS SHADOWS DANCED FOR HER!!!!" Gw*nriel arguments, but the one I find the most interesting and the most overlooked is that they try to make it seem like Az's shadows ever and ONLY disappear around Elain, when A.) we've seen them disappear around other people he cares about, too, B.) Az's shadows are bending over backward for Elain? They're vanishing and leaving Azriel exposed for her to see, they're skittering, they're gathering for her protection like snakes preparing to strike, they're checking in on her, they're carrying things for her, the list goes on

Azriel and Elain - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Artist: @/mabon_art / @mabonart

Azriel when he’s not with Elain:

“Too many razor sharp thoughts sliced him any time he grew still long enough for them to strike.”

Azriel when he’s WITH Elain:

“His head went quiet.”

We treat Elain's rescue scene by Azriel and Feyre as romantic, because it was romantic. That's all.

Unlike the other two rescues--Mor's and Gwyn's. Which were never meant to be romantic. One of the major differences between the 3 is that Elain was not physically harmed, unlike Mor and Gwyn.

Rescuing Mor was Azriel's decision, supported by Rhys, but Mor was terribly harmed and the basis of the rescue was not inherently romantic. It was about saving her life, when she had actual nails nailed in her body, when she was shamed and discarded by both her family and the Vanserras, and left bleeding and wounded in Autumn.

Gwyn's rescue was an accident and she was violated. So much so, Azriel was only able to throw something on her to cover her and then immediately handed her off to Mor. (Of course the whole thing was retconned, but that's a different post). Nothing about that incident was remotely romantic. Or even planned. He happened to be there, he killed her attackers, he stopped the assault and then he handed her to Mor and left.

What's more, BOTH of these rescues are off page. Someone's memory. A 'bloody memory' in Gwyn's case. In Mor's, a violent and traumatic memory.

Elain's rescue was on page. And it was LONG. A long chapter. And it started with a declaration of 'I am getting her back'. Decisive and unwavering. What's more, it's just like Mor's rescue--Azriel's first love. He was getting her back as well.

However, the aftermath of the rescue is completely different. Mor --again, HARMED and wounded--walks away from Azriel. She isn't listening to his love confession. She closes the door on them, leaving him behind, never to reopen that door.

In Elain's case, what starts the same way, ends very very differently.

The entire verbal exchange between her and Azriel is romantically coded language.

"You came for me"

"Hold tight and don't make a sound"

Azriel was cradling Elain to his chest, unwilling to release her.

Elain is unharmed when he finds her, and therefore, she is an active participant in her own rescue. She helps him, she defends him, she clings to him, but she is determined to save him just as much as he is determined to save her and Feyre.

Unlike with Gwyn, Azriel is NOT handing Elain off to anyone. It's the opposite. He clutches her closer to him, and Rhys is basically forced to tear her out of his embrace, even though again, she isn't wounded, and Azriel is. But the only thing that matters to Azriel is Elain, and not his own injuries or his torn wings. Not even his High Lady. Elain is his concern. The first thing he says is that the chains should be removed from her, not that he needs a healer. The chains are annoying, but they are not hurting her. Yet, Azriel's only concern is for her and he needs her to be comfortable first.

And in the end, Elain--unlike Mor--doesn't walk away. She turns around and she kisses his cheek--in gratitude and with a silent promise.

And that is the difference between the three rescues.

And that's why it's been mentioned 14 times (as someone recently counted) throughout the books, as a reminder of what Azriel did for Elain and how it impacted him and her.

oh to be the girl who makes it til the end of a horror movie caked in blood