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Meanwhile in canon text:

“So I’m a quarter nymph, but it’s enough for this.” Gwyn gestured to her large eyes—blue so clear it could have been the shallow sea—and her lithe body. “My bones are slightly more pliant than ordinary High Fae’s, but who cares about that?” Perhaps that was why Gwyn was so good at the balancing and movement.”

Multiple differences were brought up about Gwyn but It is directly correlated with her training. Right there in canon it is explained why it is brought up. Yall twisted that to try and prove your ship. SJM did not connect that to azriel. You guys did.

Hands down Red Rising. As much as I love Acotar it’s not even in the same playing field as Red Rising. Red Rising is a literal masterpiece IMO.

I put red rising off for so long bc I didn’t think ide like it and it seemed blah to me but I was wrong. So wrong. I think everyone should read red rising. Pierce Browns female characters are FIERCE and while romance is a subplot the romances are sooooooooo good. It’s action packed and honestly has something for everyone.

In this fandom I see more theories based off of what people want to happen rather then what actually IS happening. They refuse to accept canon and they come up with all these elaborate theories to discredit in favor of whatever opinion/theory they have and then people get super disappointed when they don’t happen and say the books suck. We saw this happen already with Hofas. So I want to give my thoughts on things and I’ll use some of my own opinions/theories as a example.

We all know I’m a huge Tamlin fan. For the longest time I really thought we were going to get a Tamlin pov. I’ve said it in many videos. HOWEVER. On CHD while SJM did give us some nuance and background to Tamlins character I think it was pretty clear we are not getting a Tamlin pov lol. Do I think it’s possible we may get a arc for him as a small subplot in Lucien’s pov? Yes and I hope we do but I’m not holding my breath. It is what it is and sometimes this is how the cookie crumbles. The author is telling the story THEY want not the story we want for everyone .Does this ruin the entire series for me? No lol. There are many other characters I love.

Another point to drive this home… before HOFAS my most hated SJM ship ever and I mean ever was Ruhn and Day. I LOATHED that pairing. Didn’t even want to read her pov and was sooooo bummed for Ruhn BUT even though I hated the pairing I knew and saw that’s where the canon text was going. I knew they were going to be mates and I didn’t deny it. It didn’t stop me from reading HOFAS and I actually ended up loving HOFAS.(I will say though after reading HOFAS I ended up LOVING Ruhn and day and lidias character.)

We see this still happening in the fandom today. The books and the author has confirmed multiple times Bryce & Hunt, Cassian & Nesta are true mates. Bryce and hunt are mates, got married, ended hofas happily in love and talking about having children. Cassian & Nesta had their mating ceremony, they are in love, even in hofas they are still together and in love and yet people (an alarming amount of ppl) still think these couples are not endgame and SJM is lying about everything.

To this day in every single ship video I made I ALWAYS ALWAYS say while yes I believe Elriel/Vassien is endgame SJM is going to take it whatever way she wants. If by some chance Elriel doesn’t happen and Elucien does as much as I don’t ship them I am still going to read their book and go into it w a open mind because I love the characters individually. & I’ll tell ya this… if by the end of this four part multi book arc if elucien is endgame your not going to see me go around and say but wait! There is still a chance for elriel and SJM is lying. I will just accept my ship didn’t happen and move on lol.

I see so many people say if elriel happens they are done with the series and it’s terrible writing blah blah. They have so strongly believed their own theories that if it doesn’t happen the way they want it to even if Lucien still gets a true happy ending w Vassa they will hate on the book and say it’s bad writing. (to be fair we could say the same to some elriels who say they will stop the series if elucien ends up together but in all honesty tho it’s few and far inbetween who say this we see ALOT more gwynriels shippers say they will stop the series if it’s elriel).

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