THIS IS AMAZING

THIS IS AMAZING

queen Dominique blessed us 🙌🏼

if this isn't canon, I'll drop the ACOTAR series

this is how it goes down in a lot of fanfics im so here for this to be canon in az’s book😭😭😭

am I the only one in the ACOTAR fandom that doesn't want the thressome between Nesta, Cassian and Azriel?

don't get me wrong, I would love reading a smut scene with Nesta, Cassian and Azriel, but I think that would be a fucking serious problem when Azriel' LI come into view, because it would be awkward if Azriel ends with Elain, having had sex with Nesta, being Elain her sister, and it would be awkward as well if Azriel ends with Gwyn, because Gwyn is Nesta's best friend

sjm listen to my prayers and put this in ACOTAR 5

Azriel getting his first good nights sleep in a looooong time because Gwyn is there

I have no idea how long this is, but here you go! Some Gwynriel cuteness! Please like and reblog if you enjoy it ☺️☺️

The sound of a slippered foot whispering against the stone steps of the House of Wind woke Azriel with a start. Shadows spooled back to him on ribbons of translucent black, like the tide being called back to the horizon. If the oncoming footsteps hadn’t woken him, his shadows certainly would have, their chatter an insistent, excited hiss as they detailed exactly what they had saw.

The arched wooden door to his bedroom creaked open. Light spilled through the door—a wedge of blessed opportunity as Gwyn stepped over the threshold. She was dressed in a white long-sleeved nightgown that reached her ankles. The colour of the fabric made her hair appear more vibrant than ever—a brilliant, stunning copper that tumbled down past her shoulders.

Azriel’s shadows swarmed like bees, a buzzing excited mist that threw his face in and out of shadow but Gwyn didn’t turn and run—not yet, anyway.

Gwyn took a tentative step forward before she halted in her tracks, her eyes finally sweeping over the room to find him in bed and looking directly at her.

“I thought we weren’t training tonight?” Azriel asked. It was such a normal thing to ask—the only thing he could think of saying to stop her from bolting. Knew that it was not him that had scared her, but the setting.

“We aren’t,” Gwyn replied. Her eyes darted from their fixed location on the wall where faelight still flickered low, to the bed, where Azriel had propped himself up on an elbow, before they looked away again.

Gwyn flushed. Bit her lip. Barely noticed the way Azriel’s shadows began to reach towards her like vines, twining around her limbs, checking for injury, completely disregarding his silent barked order to remain by his side.

“Can’t sleep?” Azriel asked softly.

That beautiful chin lifted, and Gwyn’s teal eyes affixed Azriel with a sudden, determined stare. “No.”

“And you thought to come and tell me?”

“I—“ Gwyn started, but then her blush faded to make way for a small, surprised smile as she caught the faint, crooked upturn at one side of his mouth. “Well, yes.”

Another pause. Gwyn began to fiddle with the left sleeve of her gown. “Can I sleep here?”

It was the blunt, direct sort of question that Azriel was used to hearing from Nesta and it made him want to turn his ghost of a smile into something fuller and true. His brother’s mate was a good influence on Gwyn, pulling out a side of her that had always existed but had been squashed by trauma.

And whilst Azriel was sure—no, he damned well knew Priestesses weren’t supposed to share a bed with a lowly and scarred bastard like him—he couldn’t find it in himself to deny her. Found himself saying, of course, without a moments pause to what it might all mean the next morning.

There’d be no funny business, Azriel knew that, as he lay back down on the mattress, retracted his wings and stared at the ceiling. But Gwyn was a female who took on the challenge others set her. And if there wasn’t one to take on? Well, she assigned one to herself. This was clearly her latest challenge and he the chosen mark, and whilst the old Azriel would have denied Mor or Elain his bed, Gwyn was different. She had always been different, it had just taken him a long time to notice, and even longer to accept it.

Fabric swept across the red stones and then the mattress dipped, sheets moved. The distinct scent of water lilies wafted over to him and in his mind’s eye he saw a freshwater pond.

Azriel blinked the image away. Asked, “Warm enough?”

“I’m fine.”

He nodded. “Night then,” he said, and then with all the self-control he could muster, he turned over so she’d feel more at ease. Curved a wing over his body, shutting it all down before she moved out of her comfort zone.

Azriel didn’t expect to sleep at all, but he woke to brilliant winter sunshine filtering through the bedroom curtains. He’d moved in his sleep, rolling onto his other side, towards her. Only Gwyn was long gone, an indentation in the pillow and the cracked bedroom door the only indication she’d been there at all.

Later that morning, when he ascended the stairs onto the sparring plateau with a wide yawn, she was already there. Nesta was wrapping Gwyn’s hands ready for some hand-to-hand sparring, but Gwyn turned as if she’d sensed him coming. Smiled at him as she asked with a secretive gleam in her eye, “Had a good nights sleep, Shadowsinger?”

THIS IS AMAZING

Gwyn: Fight me!

Azriel, standing behind her and holding a knife: *mouths* Do not.

they understand that Gwyn is a SA? how they are fucking thinking SJM will put a villain as a SA? yes, SJM is not the best writer, but come on, she can't be that mean

Them: Gwyn is obviously a light singer and lured Azriel to the training ground in the bonus chapter. Ugh you guys clearly can’t read between the lines and have no reading comprehension.

Me: then why was he still thinking of her the next day and calling the glowing feeling in his chest at the thought of her smile “a thing of secret lovely beauty” even though Gwyn is not there, her singing isn’t heard, etc. It’s literally been a whole day, Azriel’s gone for the snowball fight, and now he’s entered the library and is feeling these things and Gwyn is nowhere to be found.

Them: How dare you be mean to me??? All I was doing was presenting a theory! You’re so rude and stupid, this is why we hate you guys!

Me: …

The Lightsinger theory is purely speculation and they're pushing it as canon because they know the other alternative is... not a good look for their ship and they know it.

Sarah set such a powerful contrast between his scene with Elain and his scene with Gwyn.

His interactions with Gwyn were positive. The training ring scene ended with him and his shadows feeling calmness. And then after giving Clotho the necklace, the image of her smile made him smile and he kept it in his chest.

Nothing in his bonus chapter hint at Gwyn's Lightsinger powers. The singing? Did they forget SJM calling the mating bond music between souls and the song of the soul?

She did say if a character doesn't like music they're likely to be villains😂

Why would she reveal Gwyn is a Lightsinger in his bonus chapter? They say they are not saying Gwyn is evil but how would Gwyn being a Lightsinger play out in an Elr*el book? They are treating her as an obstacle or a plot device to add angst to their ship. They don't care about Gwyn and what her turning evil could do to the Valkyrie dynamic.