#asterin

but then you pour your heart and soul into the most well-crafted, heart-wrenching oneshot and post it to a nicher fandom? It's gotten one kudo. ONE.

Asterflushed • Asterpale

Asterpitch • Asterashen

Terms for being Asterin while experiencing quadrant attractions. For when you are an alpha who experiences flushed/pale/pitch/ashen attraction to betas either exclusively or not.

What started as a prologue for the verse ended up taking up a whole ass document. Though High Lord meetings are fun to write ngl, even if it was originally meant to be a little tease before jumping back into the past.

Oh well, at least Tamlin and Asterin are cute together.

Little Sprout verse aka the Tamlin healing journey is set approximately eleven years after the events of HOFAS (bare knowledge needed of the book—I used Sparksnote), and mostly follows Tamlin and the rebuilding of Spring in the years after Koschei’s War.

There will be a few one-shots, I think, set in the decade leading up to and during the war that may focus on the journeys of other characters, but most will be about Tamlin. Because I’ve made it my mission to give Tamlin more friends. And a chance for petty revenge against the Night Court. And a pretty wife that isn’t a literal teenager, because we’re not doing that here. He can have a High Lady as a treat. And a Lucien, too.

"It was like dying a little every day. It was like being alive, too. It was joy so complete it was pain. It destroyed me and unmade me and forged me. I hated it, because I knew I couldn't escape it, and knew it would forever change me."

"About anything and everything. After that, it was all a joke, and a thrill, and nothing scared me."

That wildness, that untamed fierceness ...

So this goes hand in hand with the Rhys is part Valg theory. I always theorized about Rhys being part witch but when I heard this quote from Asterin on tiktok I was sure. Not 100% because not everything fits but look:

Asterin: "In the Wastes they made machines to break us apart. The fools never realized that all they needed to do to torture our kind, to make us beg, was to chain us. Keep us tied to the earth."

Rhys: "So they chained me up between two trees, beating me when they felt like it, trying to get me to tell them where the Night Court forces were, using my warriors— their deaths and pain— to break me. Only I didn’t break,” he said roughly, “and they were too dumb to know that I was an Illyrian, and all they had to do to get me to yield would have been to try to cut off my wings."

Both the tog witches and Rhys are breakable if you take away their freedom, keeping them tied to the earth. Both are meant to be in the sky

Then there is this part in acowar:

ACOWAR: Nesta drifted toward the desk, the maps atop it. “What is the difference,”she asked none of us in particular, “between a faerie and a witch?”

“Witches amass power beyond their natural reserve,” Mor answered with sudden seriousness.

(They continue to say that witches use spells and objects which Rhys obviously doesn't but except for that (also about that, Rhys's powers are used to fix the cauldron so that could be an object))

Rhys's powers: Rhysand has an extreme amount of power, that exceeds the amount of any of the seven high lords. He is the most powerful Fae in the history of Prythian,

Feyre about Rhys at the High Lords meeting: Brethren, and yet not. Tamlin was a High Lord, as powerful as any of them. Except for the one at my side. Rhys was as different from them as humans were to Fae. They forgot it, sometimes— how deep that well of power went. What manner of power Rhys bore. But as Rhysand ripped away Tamlin’s ability to speak, they remembered.

Throne of Glass Witches: Witches are a species of witch created by the mating of Valg and Fae (That's where the Rhys is part valg theory comes into play)

-Asterin 🪽

"I... Don't know, my dear."

He is quite confused too.

and kaya and thea; ghislaine, linnea (known to you and me and the rest of the world as “lin”); the demon twins: faline and fallon. the shadows: briar and edda. and imogen.

thinking about them

and their yielding

and their undying REAL love for manon

I am working my way through the TOG reread. I skipped over throne of glass and crown of midnight because i couldnt stomach one SECOND without rowan and aelin.

but

Im currently half way through empire of storms and IT IS SO GOOD. So good. Read the part where Rowan throws Rolfe against the wall after a particularly nasty comment made about Sam.

JUST READ THE BEACH SCENE. 🥵🥵

Rowan and Aelin love each other.

But.

I am genuinely terrified. HORRIFIED. Paralyzed. To come across that thirteen scene in KOA. It killed me the first time.

And now that I know it’s coming, now that I’ve had such a deeper, heartfelt appreciation for the thirteen. Now that I’ve paid such excruciating attention to them throughout this series *knowing* what their future would be.

I am sick and nauseated.

And I don’t know how I will read those pages without falling through the floor. Ow ow ow ow ow ow. My heart hurts for manon ughhhhh

And asterin

The world they ALL could have seen and enjoyed and loved

The world they ALL should have seen and felt and took pride in

The world they ALL helped assemble and piece back together

I am hurtingggggggggggggggggggg