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i smiled at the thought—at how handsome they would be together.

the lovely fawn, blooming spring vibrant behind her. standing before death, shadows and terrors lurking over his shoulder.

the night court celebrates the winter solstice when it is the longest ONE night of the year. but other than that, all of the courts have the same amount of sunlight, einstein..

“We’re one of the three Solar Courts,” he said, motioning for me to sit with a graceful twist of his wrist. “Our nights are far more beautiful, and our sunsets and dawns are exquisite, but we do adhere to the laws of nature.” ..

“The nature of the Seasonal Courts,” he said, “is linked to their High Lords, whose magic and will keeps them in eternal spring, or winter, or fall, or summer. It has always been like that—some sort of strange stagnation. But the Solar Courts—Day, Dawn, and Night—are of a more … symbolic nature. We might be powerful, but even we cannot alter the sun’s path or strength. Tea?” ->a court of mist and fury, ch. 5

-A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas

S: “That’s something I find to be very interesting,” she replies. “What if the forces that be put you with the wrong person? Or what if you just decide, eh, I’m not interested. … There’s a lot to explore within the concept of mates and your agency about it.” “I’m not going to say if I am exploring it in future books or not,” she continues, “but it definitely offers a wealth of things to explore with this concept of freewill and what is true love. Is it something that’s destined? Or is it something that you make? Is it both?” ->jenna bush hager ft. sarah j. maas on the TODAY show! january 30th, 2024

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A: “But the rejecting of mates.. Is Elain rejecting the bond with Lucien?”

S: “I think Elain’s got her own trauma and shit that she's going through right now. I mean, imagine being transformed into a whole new body, a whole new lifestyle. You are gone from—the human world there, like, what? 60 years is a good life? To suddenly, centuries. Like, a millennium. The world looks very different. And, “Surprise!” You’ve been forcibly essentially married to a stranger who also was like in bringing you into this world and betraying you and shoving you into the Cauldron. .. She's got a lot of shit that she's processing. And so exploring a concept of a free will, what does that look like with a mating bond? What does that mean? And does nature like get it wrong sometimes? Does it get it right? .. As a writer I have to be very—I like to find things that make me interested. .. And like, you don't want to be mated. I'm like, what—what do you do? You're stuck with this person. Like, what? Like, what do you do? But I mean, the guy's hot, but it's like, what if it's not? You don't know. It’s just—It’s something that I really like find to be an interesting concept versus Feyre and Nesta where it was so easy for them. Like, nature picked right.” ->Alex Cooper ft. Sarah J. Maas, Call Her Daddy Podcast, march 5th, 2026

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sarah didn’t foreshadow rejected mates in the books, spoke about it when asked and then 2 years later repeat a similar question’s answer, this time going more in depth, for shits and giggles..

elain played a huge part as well. did y’all read the books or not??

she opened the doors to her human home for feyre and the ic for meetings with the queens

she warned feyre when tamlin was about to grab her at the end of acomaf

she was the first to survive in the cauldron when it said only the strongest would

she told the ic about vassa and koschei

she helped the fae find sanctuary in the human lands during the war

she found the suriel for feyre

she kicked the hounds off azriel’s wings when he and feyre saved her from hybern’s camp

she killed the king of hybern with truth-teller saving nesta, cassian and everyone else’s ass

she understands velaris and its people’s traditions when celebrating the holidays

she helps the people of the city with their gardens and tends to her own at feyre’s residence

and despite being kidnapped by the cauldron, and her unresolved lingering trauma, she was still willing to risk tapping back into her power to help find the dread trove

she’s pretty badass without a book so far, if i do say so myself. you just ignore her character which proves she is overlooked and she’s gonna shut her haters up real quick!

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S: “I think Elain’s got her own trauma and shit that she's going through right now. I mean, imagine being transformed into a whole new body, a whole new lifestyle. Like, you are gone from the human world there, what? 60 years is a good life to suddenly, centuries. A millenium. The world looks very different. And, “Surprise!” You've been forcibly essentially married to a stranger who also was involved in bringing you into this world and betraying you and shoving you into the Cauldron. It's like she's processed—She's got a lot of shit that she's processing. And so exploring a concept of a free will, what does that look like with a mating bond? What—What does that mean? And does nature get it wrong sometimes? Does it get it right? .. As a writer I have to be like very—I like to like find things that make me interested. .. And like, you don't want to be mated. I'm like, What? What do you do? You're stuck with this person. What? What do you do? But like, I mean, the guy's like hot, but it's like, what if it's not? You don't know. It's just—It’s something that I really find to be an interesting concept versus like Feyre and Nesta where it was so easy for them. Like, nature picked right.”

*a little later*