the lovely fawn

IMG (sarah’s own company) deletes an article about elriel: cus the blurb isn’t even out, too soon folks

Galera deletes a post that included elucien that was TBT: because dummies took a dead ship as confirmation because of it

@elriel-month : 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕰𝖞𝖊𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕰𝖆𝖗𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙 𝕮𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖙

One of my favorite parts of canon is the dichotomy of Elain and Azriel as a spy duo. Elain is the quiet and observant one, a sweet, gentle face that eases a person in, while Azriel, Death himself, waits in the shadows. It’s part of why they work so well; two halves of one whole, teaming up against their enemies. I, like many other Elain stans, don’t want to see her be another prototypical romantasy female warrior; I want to see her use her softness to her advantage to get what is needed. Her scary dog privilege is just a bonus.

Giving ALLLLLLL of my love to Muni for this one, you were an absolute pleasure to work with and I can’t believe how much fun I had commissioning this with you! Getting to share with you my love of one of my favorite fictional couples was immeasurably joyful and I’m so glad I got to introduce you to Elriel. I absolutely cannot wait to work with you again 🫶

🎨 art by @/muni_luny

✨ commissioned by me

likes, comments and shares appreciated!

It’s giving cult. Wake the fuck up. Stop being a sheep that believes someone just because they have a large following.

Azriel beating Feyre, his High Lady, to wish Elain Archeron a Happy Solstice will forever be one of my favorite scenes. 😅🥹

First Elain, the baddie, “studying the darkness outside” I think we will see in her pov that she has more darkness to her than what we see on the surface now.

Azriels shadows trailing him and swirling like embers clearly shows that his shadows do not fear Elain…. They wouldn’t be putting on a show for her if that was the case.

“there was little sign of the warrior otherwise” Elain strips away that constant need for him to be the big scary spymaster warrior. 🥰

“as he gently said to my sister Happy Solstice” Az always being gentle and soft with Elain 😭

Elain’s little shy smile back to Azriel.

The vibes sjm has given us for Elriel are unmatched… we are always being fed 😮‍💨

like i said, you can’t claim innocence when you were actively helping her tear artists down, over and over and over again, so long as it furthered your own agenda. THAT’S why you wanted to “handle this privately,” not out of respect for artists, but because it makes YOU look bad because you were side by side with her this entire time.

Step 1: A gwynriel or Elucien does something shady towards an Elriel.

Step 2: An Elriel calls them out

Step 3: Gwynriels and Eluciens “OMG THE ELRIELS ARE HARASSING PEOPLE AGAIN”

This isn’t a "drag" post. This is a please think before you post kind of post. Some stuff has been going on in this fandom that really needs to be addressed — not to hate, but to reflect and do better.

1. A poll about college degrees was posted to "prove" which ship has the smartest fans. Yeah... that’s classist.

Asking which ship (Gwynriel, Elriel, Elucien) has more readers with degrees, especially in STEM, to basically say "our side is smarter." That’s not cute.

You can be smart without a degree.

You can love books without going to college.

You can be brilliant, analytical, and insightful even if life didn’t give you the same chances.

Being from a poor background doesn’t give you a free pass to use your education as a flex against others. It just ends up reinforcing the same classist mindset that holds people back in the first place.

2. A wlw fanart was posted and it got "sisters" "friends" comments. That is homophobic, even if you didn’t mean it that way.

This under a sapphic fanart even though the OP clearly intended it as romantic. When people (including the OP) spoke up, the response was “We ship Emorie, so we’re not homophobic.”

Here’s the thing:

Liking one queer ship doesn’t mean you can’t do something homophobic. "I am bisexual, I am not homophobic." Being bi doesn’t cancel out the harm caused by dismissing a queer romantic ship as "sisterly."

Nobody called you a homophobic person but your actions toward that fanart were absolutely homophobic.

Queer people have been seeing their relationships dismissed as "just close friends" or "sisters" for decades. So yes, that word carries weight. It’s not harmless.

If someone from the queer community says "Hey, that hurts" it’s not the time to say "But I ship this one gay couple." It’s the time to listen.

3. Stealing and editing Elriel fanart to turn it into Gwynriel? Also not okay.

Fanart theft is still theft. People put time, love, and effort into art. Editing their work without permission especially to erase the original ship is super disrespectful.

If you love your ship, commission art for it. Don’t just take someone else’s.

And here’s the frustrating part:

Every time this kind of behavior gets called out, the people doing it twist the narrative. They’ll say they’re being "bullied" or "attacked," and somehow turn themselves into the victim while taking zero accountability.

They’ve never been wrong, no matter how many times they’ve been called out.

Meanwhile, the people speaking up who are just trying to defend boundaries, respect art, or stand up for queer rep are the ones being labeled as "toxic." This is exactly how they keep getting away with it.

By refusing to reflect, by twisting the story, and by shutting down any chance for growth.

It’s not bullying to ask people to take responsibility. It’s not drama to want better from a fandom space. And it’s not wrong to call out harm especially when it keeps repeating.

Lastly, to everyone out there without a degree, still reading and loving stories, you matter. Your voice counts. You’re smart, creative, and valid.

To queer shippers, wlw fans, and the artists who bring those stories to life, thank you. Your work is powerful. Your ships are beautiful.

Let’s just… be better to each other. Fandom is supposed to be fun and safe and creative not a place for elitism, erasure, or stealing.

These people LOVE to pretend to be nice on their public IG accounts. It’s all “support artists” and “let’s empower other women” and “fandom should be fun” and various other performative platitudes.

They would never want to publicly get their hands dirty.

But you know why they loved Katie? Because she was willing to loudly and publicly go after Elriels in the nastiest possible terms, leaving them to sit quietly on the sidelines and enjoy watching Elriels get bullied, all the while still pretending to be nice people.

She did their dirty work for them and they loved it.