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I am very excited to see your upcoming acotar art, but may I recommend switching Elucien to July and Gwynriel to August? @elucienweekofficial is in July and @gwynrielweeksofficial is in August so those months may fit better for posting those artworks!

you don’t have to of course! I will happily eat up your fabulous art regardless, but I figured I would let you know that events for those ships are taking place in July and August!

Hello Anon!

I was aware of Elucien month in July but I wasn’t aware of Gwynriel week. I’m doing the drawings in order of my pole I originally posted. So I don’t think I’ll be switching which drawing I’m doing a month cause I don’t want to mess with that.

I also need to know what I’m doing in July since artfight starts then and I’d like to have it done before the month so I can focus on that.

But thank you for messaging! And I hope you like the arts when I eventually put them up!

In the comments someone was talking about how the Illyrians are written/talked about like colonialist stereotypes, which that is true. HOWEVER, this was meant to be a defence of Rhysand. (and again to the point that not liking him is based in racism.)

I’m sorry, the Illyrians…? You mean the SAME Illyrians that before we even meet them RHYSAND, CASSIAN AND AZRIEL make sure that Feyre and we the audience know are “backwards” - “uncivilized” and “brutish” and that the bat boys are “the good ones”. THOSE ILLYRIANS? Amren? And Mor? Who refer to the Illyrians and the bat boys themselves as brutes and bastards..?

Genuinely before we EVER even meet a single Illyrian character outside of the bat men, it’s RHYSAND himself and the inner circle who make the first comments about how “backwards” the Illyrians are. (If that is wrong plz let me know and tell me where any comments before those are thank you thank you!)

And she was just having a laughing fit over Feyre taking black diamonds from Tarquin as a thank you present, and Cressida saying it suits her.

For context my mother is really into gems and stones and in the gem world according to her black diamonds are basically worth nothing or at least comparatively MUCH less than everything else she was looking at.

Like they’re worth like 10$ a carat and rubies comparatively are worth like, 10,000$ a carat.

Vassian (1/5)

I’m actually really proud of this one given I had to improvise Vassa’s design on the fly. I really like their hair and eyes a lot. And I don’t draw animals very often so glad that came out decent.

For how much of the series takes place in Illyria, for how important Illyria is the the “bat boys” backstory, for how integral the abuse against Illyrian women is when depicting the place. It is genuinely criminal that the the first time we hear an Illyrian woman both have a name, and speaking lines…..is in Silver Flames.

It takes us until past the point where series was supposed to end, to get a female Illyrian character. The series was going to end originally, before we got a female Illyrian character.

Like because you like Elucien or Gwynriel it doesn’t mean you hate Elriel or even hate Elain herself and vice versa. It all comes down to a preference.

And even more, you can hate a character for reasons that aren’t even related to the ships, or hell even related to them as characters/people.(Like out of world stuff, or how you think they’re handled/written).

Preferring Elucien or Elriel doesn’t mean you hate Elain. Prefering Gywnriel doesn’t mean you hate Elain. Wanting two fictional characters to explore a possible relationship will never be the same as telling a real life woman to talk to a guy she doesn’t want to.

Art of my acotar oc Lavena. Based sorta on the Pool of Starlight in Spring. I lowkey gave up on the background but oh well this one’s been sitting in my W.I.Ps for too long.

My ACOTAR Lore:

Water Wraiths vs Water Nymphs vs Sirens:

Water Wraiths:

regular fae ears.

Typically slender. 

Sharp teeth.

Iridescent skin.

Webbed hands and feet.

One form.

Slits for noses.

Gills under ears.

Regular pointed ears.

Clawed nails and feet.

No scales but patterns

Tail but still has legs at the same time.

only females(????)

Still needs air every now and then, like a whale.

Live in colonies together.

Water Nymphs:

Hair that moves like water/ is water.

Blue/ blue-ish green skin tons.

Sea-shell looking ears.

One form.

No fins. 

No gills.

Normal teeth.

No scales

Water magic / hydrokanisis.

Cannot breath under water for long amounts of time.

Live like normal fae/humans, on land but have a connection to water.

(Think water genasi from DnD)

Sirens:

Coloured skin tons. (Red, blue, green ect).

Capable of shifting between a sea and land form.

Finned ears.

Webbed hands and feet.

Glowing eyes (when in sea form)

Can have facial crests.

Fangs.

Fins on back.

Iridescent skin.

Gills under ears and under breasts/pectoral muscles.

Sharp nails.

More human looking facial features.

Capable of illusion casting.

Can have things like angler fish lights.

Scales

Have eaten landfolk flesh/hearts.

Can breath and live fully underwater with no need for air.

Live solitarily.

Viewed the same way that ‘witches’ are on land.

But what’s wild is if THAT’s the standard that we’re meant to judge the canon/possibly canon couples, then WHAT IN HOT PIPING HAND OF GOD IS MOST OF SILVER FLAMES?? It’s so much of Cassian talking about how much he wants to fuck Nesta and lusting after her. (while she’s not eating, depressed, self destructive ect.) 😭

some sketchbook doodles of some of the acotar characters.

Emerie of Illyria

Honestly I really wanted to do something for Emerie Week this year but I ran out of time to do a tone…next year I shall be better prepared…..

But either way please enjoy these doodles of our lovely Illyrian lady!