Because that’s how I knew to BLOCK HER (and her friends!) before she started posting commissions because she was giggling with everyone how stupid elriel art/artists are. I wasn’t her friend but I saw it with my own eyes countless times.

I think if you spend any time around her you’d know how she felt. She was bold enough to tell an elriel commissioner elriel art sucks and her ideas would be better and fresh. TO AN ELRIEL COMMISSIONER IN HER DMS when she played at making friends with everyone.

Like we had no idea? Like we hadn’t seen how she behaved for months on TikTok? Like people don’t talk to each other??? So when she got smacked with the evidence for Elain week (WHICH SHE TRIED TO SABOTAGE and then control her own) she said “I’m so disturbed you know so much about me!” Well! Digital footprint. 🫠

So saying that you don’t know you don’t know, you couldn’t have seen it, save it. She and 100+ gwynriels had a real laugh on Twitter when I posted my art, my mentions were a MESS. You don’t respect artists unless they fit your agenda and I can say that’s a fandom wide problem.

But back to my art that got dragged to HELL. Katie then took the SAME theory regardless of how it was “nestas sword” and went to an elriel artist (who she’s claimed was unprofessional btw!) to have the very same idea done just by a bigger artist and make it gwynriel this time!

And in the caption she felt it was sooo original even though weeks prior she and others had a great big laugh over my art. I DO NOT feel SAFE or RESPECTED or SUPPORTED in this fandom as it is and I think that goes for a LOT of artists that dare touch it.

Even before I started posting I saw for MONTHS how antis talk about and treat elriels and their art. I couldn’t look up elriel without seeing it. I’ve seen my own friends stuff be reposted and made fun of countless times, people who aren’t involved in drama at all. ((In fact, I think that’s what radicalized me! Because I’m otherwise very openminded and interested in multiship. ))

And this isn’t to say elriels don’t do it I know they do and i’ve confronted people about it. I hate art bashing and I don’t understand how anybody imagines motivating art posting with that sort of environment. It’s not possible.

I lost all motivation and I’ve even had someone tell me to kill myself LMAO so! I don’t want to hijack this drama because it’s NOT about me but I’m infuriated with this honorable air of “we would never! We had no idea! We love artists!”

You don’t unless they work towards your agenda. And I’m saying that to ALL. I’m so fed up with this hostile environment that doesn’t let artists create or befriend unless it’s within the pre established boundaries. I’ve really had enough.

And to clear some things up:

Katie wasn’t bullied for her gwydion gwynriel art. People just pointed out the hypocrisy.

Katie never asked unii if she could 1:1 copy her art. She just didn’t. That’s why the DMs were shared. You can find threads on this.

But Katie (and others) went on about how unprofessional she was. Even though Katie went AFTER she saw that her copying wasn’t as subtle as she thought. Stealing from a small artist is not “respecting artists”. And “exposure” isn’t an apology.

If we heard those rumors, I guarantee ALL the big Gwynriel commissioners heard them too.

Yet they were silent until today. Not just silent; they were only too happy to defend her and to support her, so long as she was providing them a steady stream of Gwynriel/Elucien art.

All the sanctimonious posts they make about “supporting artists” and yet it was total crickets when one of their own was blatantly disrespectful to artists.

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Elain x Azriel 🩷💙

This could mean a lot of things. My interpretation is that in order to better set up Elain's story, the layout and presentation of information had to be switched around. I have seen several Elriel's theorize ACOTAR 6 will feature Azriel more prevalently and Elain will take the lead in ACOTAR 7. I partially agree with this. I think Azriel will play a larger role at the start, hence SJM's surprise. BUT I still stand firm this is Elain's book, Elain is the sun that Azriel orbits around, even if we are in Azriel's POV, Elain will be at the center of the story and everything he does.

The Crescent City crossover left a huge Elain sized hole in the narrative, and a lot of Azriel's behaviors in the crossover can be tied back to Elain. For example: bringing Bryce to the townhouse, looking at Truth Teller when Nesta spoke about killing Hybern, getting snippy when asked about his relationship status, paying special attention to Nesta's feelings about becoming Fae. That being said, Azriel's presence in Crescent City makes him a resource for information, plot points or concepts that might need to be introduced (CC3 isn’t required reading for ACOTAR 6/7 so any relevant information will need to be reintroduced). We also have not gotten info on what Azriel's personal arc will be, compared to what we got with Cassian in ACOFAS. So I could see SJM using the beginning of ACOTAR 6 to establish what we can expect to see from Azriel and connecting the crossover information.

The anticipation for Elain's story is immensely high, and I do think the Seer element of her character, combined with the people pleasing tendencies and her trauma around her humanity and her relationships will make Elain's POV to put it lightly - intense. For the sake of efficiency I could see SJM favoring Azriel's POV at the start, so that when we dive into Elain we can focus just on her, rather than all the world building. Still though this is Elain's story and I fully expect her POV to be equal to Azriel's in value, I just suspect we will have to wait several chapters before we get to Elain To be fair, Nesta wasn't the first POV in her book either so this isn't a huge leap.

Cassian 🤝 Elriel

Nesta 🤝 Vassien

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