Cassian Fan Art

I just finished this new Fan Art! A drawing of Cassian from the ACOTAR series by Sarah J. Maas.

After painting Rhys, I couldn’t resist to paint Cassian because I loved him so much in ACOWAR! And February it’s Cassian’s month, so… Hope you like it!

@my-name-is-fireheart you’ve basically said everything I’ve been thinking lately.

This fandom is filled with so many smart, critically thinking individuals and it breaks my heart to know that there are people out there that seek to attack this fandom by insulting their intelligence and just overall spreading negativity. There is literally no good reason to go out and hate on a book series and author you don’t like, especially in the ways that they’ve been doing. If you don’t like it, don’t read it or engage with it! If you do engage and actively hate, 1. it takes a lot more energy to spread that sort of negativity and 2. you’re clearly out to attack, not engage in discourse. Not to mention that I just don’t fully understand why you would waste your time attacking and insulting something that you hate, instead of engaging positively with something you love. 

Antis are too stuck on the bad decisions SJM’s made (which, sure she has, but hasn’t everyone? But her books are also filled with SO MUCH MORE). To reduce either ACOTAR or ToG to these slight moments is like taking a piece of literature and saying “yeah so this book is the worst and the author deserves to rot because he/she did this one bad thing.” 

I study English. I have to engage in texts and authors I’m not a fan of, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to sit there and make personal attacks towards the author or the people that enjoy it. There’s a very distinct difference between actual discourse and what these Antis are doing. They aren’t having a conversation. There’s an unwillingness to discuss anything but hatred and negativity and personal attacks on SJM. That isn’t discourse. That isn’t analysis, or close reading, or anything, really. It’s just being negative to be negative. 

Ultimately, though, that shouldn’t stop anyone from enjoying what they like to enjoy. Block the antis, follow some wonderful fandom blogs, and I bet your experience in the fandom will become more positive. I’m sorry this was your experience, though. You should be proud of what you read, and you deserve to enjoy it and to have a space where you can keep enjoying it.

Honestly?  Antis are some of the reason I am far less active in this fandom than I used to be.  And that sucks. 

I have gotten sucked into another fandom that is just a far more positive place to be, but that doesn’t mean I love SJM’s books any less.  Yes, they’re flawed; but so is literally all writing.  But I don’t have enough hours in the day to deal with the negativity anymore, so I lurk in this fandom now and am far more creative/expressive in my other fandom. 

I just want to go back to a simpler time. A time when I didn’t have to watch my fandom going up in flames because some moron thought it would be a good idea to put a soap dildo in a YA book subscription box.

|| Badly drawns Cassian and Azriel Translation: Neetha does loourve mee okay? She doesn’t know it yet

HAHAHAHAHAHAH 😂😂😂

Azriel’s face palm is everything

Azriel for #weareacotar March

Thanks for being patient with me everyone, hope ya’ll like it. I dunno whats happened over the past few months but I’m liking how my art is rn :)

@something-called-sno @pancakeollika @raconteurwitch @lyannablackbeak @urbisie @tntwme tagging cus I thought you’d like it <3 

@sncinder This is still so beautiful ❤️

@tntwme thankyou darlin! Its one my fav peices ive done lately 😙❤

Azriel Shadowsinger

Finally finished! I started this as a daily speed-painting practice… then I couldn’t stop painting. Oh well… I guess I can live with that ;)

…again scarred hands, cause this is impossible to ignore.

…and painting hands is fun :)

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W. o. w.

“Rhys still knelt, wings drooping across the white sheets, head bowed, his tattoos stark against his golden skin. A dark, fallen prince. The painting flashes into my mind. Flashed - and stayed there, glimmering, before it faded.”

I know I didn’t paint the tattoos, I’m sorry.

@sjmaas

this is stunning

Marked by the fire - Azriel’s hands (Sarah J. Maas, A Court of…)

I couldn’t get this out of my head. It was “paint or die” situation… so I painted.

I always try to look at characters in different way, and with Azriel my mind was haunted not by handsome face, but scars of the past he carries.

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*whispers* Holy shit

Fandom drama is annoying but then sometimes I think… well at least then people are participating and caring enough to argue? And now a lot of us are over here twiddling our thumbs.

So quick, someone say something controversial

ok for real here are some things I think that are unpopular opinions:

sjm’s writing style. Drives. Me. Nuts. Not so much the early books, but everything published EoS and later, holy cow. She has evolved, and not in a good way, imo. This is purely a writing style (e.g. syntax and word choice) thing, not a plot or character thing.

The only person Az should be with is Cassian.

I still cannot stand the fact that there are people who have stopped reading her books, who feel like they can weigh in on anything. At all. Ever. Just stfu and move on with your life. (this probably isn’t unpopular)

I actually want to hear more about Tamlin in the later books. I thought I was done with him after acowar, but then acofas showed that there is actually potential for growth and healing with him. Not with him and Feyre, but him and Rhys. Could be interesting.

If anyone else has some send them my way, I want to get some dang discourse started. I’m sick of my feed being all fan art, lovely as it is. I want more discussion.

booooi I can totally agree with the beef over sjms writing style. After reading so many other authors I’ve realised how frustrating and plain boring her style can be. This was soooo prominent for me in acofas. She is a victim of repetition and recycled sentences.

As much as I love her world and characters, I know imma find it frustrating to read any more of her work because it’s going to be so obvious to me now

#just#other works have made me realise how subpar sjms writing style is#totally true leslie#would also like to see more on tamlin#AND CAZRIEL#GAWD#biiiig opportunity missed with that blessed ship😭

You can’t just leave your gold in the tags all the time Sian. Namely your support of the Good Ship Cazriel.

But yeah it could be a matter of comparison, so reading people with other styles and then going back, you really get slapped in the face with how… it could be improved. I know you just read The Queen of the Tearling and Erika Johansen’s writing style is so different. It’s much denser, richer language. And Madeline Miller has a simpler, more easy-to-read style, but it’s a quiet sort of loveliness. Of course everyone has their own style but… some are just better.

And the funny thing is that it’s a thing that is happening with sjm’s later books. Not her first ones.

Like @fuzzballsheltiepants said on another post (sorry don’t wanna reblog all my bitching about writing style lol) she has pushed KoA back a couple of times and so maybe that is to improve quality. And ToD honestly was one of her best written, if not the best written book, just in terms of prose. And also we know that this was her first story, it’s really close to her heart, so I think she would want to do it justice. So…. *crosses fingers and grins*

but also, like you, I obviously still enjoy the stories and the characters and so much like I don’t need every book I read to have some mind-blowing effect on me, I also don’t need every book I read to sound like the author is also an award-winning poet.

I wonder if the perceived downward trajectory of her writing style has to do with creative burnout (not in coming up with stories, but rather finding the right words for those stories). I get the feeling she’s just overflowing with plot she needs to get out into books, but plot (and book publishers wanting to make $) can run roughshod over the often slower, contemplative needs of prose. 

I’ve found that in my own writing I will often have a passage recorded, but will think “this needs to be more”. And I’ll come back to it and massage it into something a little deeper, more meaningful, more beautiful.

SJM is capable of that sort of writing so I wonder if she just needs to slow down.

^^^ yes! I think the same. It’s not that she doesn’t have ideas, even great ideas, but like you said, perhaps the time isn’t being taken ensure that the story is being told in the best way possible. And I’ve wondered too if she feels that compulsion to write - one I’ve felt myself, that there are words coming out in a deluge and you can’t even stop them from happening. But that doesn’t mean that they are coming out the way they should. That could be part of the reason she is so prolific. And getting so much success could be incentive in its own way to keep going, quickly.

“ And I’ve wondered too if she feels that compulsion to write - one I’ve felt myself, that there are words coming out in a deluge and you can’t even stop them from happening. But that doesn’t mean that they are coming out the way they should.”

So, I think all writers know this feeling.  I consider it a weird sort of writer’s block, one I’ve been dealing with the past week.  I’m writing plenty, but when I get a little distance and go back and look at it, none of it is what it should be.  I cut 3k of the words I wrote since Thursday out of 2 different fics last night, and it 100% needed to be cut.  Not because the subject was unnecessary, but because the writing was sloppy.  And once I realized it, I couldn’t move past it to finish  the story; for my brain, I need to have a base I can work with before I can build on it, though I know a lot of people can just go back to it in edits.

I honestly thought her writing in ToG and CoM was far weaker than it has been since then, but the editing was better.  The writing and editing was on point in HoF, QoS, ACOTAR, and ACOMAF.  Then the editing failed in the past few books, except ToD which felt tighter again.  Is it her editing that’s failing, or her publisher’s?  Likely both, honestly.

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ok kind of ? a spoiler for the acofas sneak peek but Feyre not having any pictures of Nesta and not inviting her to things doesn’t make me mad? Feyre has tried to help her, not just after the war but their whole lives, in the cottage and after they were Made and Nesta only responds with anger and hostility, she never goes where they invite her so they eventually stop. I get Feyre, she’s High Lady, she has a million things on her mind and Nesta doesn’t make things easy at all. Obviously I feel bad for Nesta because of her depression and PTSD, but you also can’t expect the Inner Circle to keep taking her hostility. After Nesta hopefully recovers and stops treating Feyre like SHIT like she always has (also disregarding Feyre and saying she doesn’t understand when Feyre was dying inside like Nesta is not long ago), then I’ll be mad if Feyre pushes her out. Again, I loooove Nesta but I don’t bregrudge Feyre or Rhys for how they deal with her.

On point.

Same though. Like you can only take so much verbal abuse and shit from someone before you have to disengage. This is what Feyre did. What is she supposed to do? Single handily save Nesta from her depression and PTSD even though Nesta won’t even give an inch? It doesn’t work like that.

Feyre held on longer than most people would for someone who treats them like shit. She and Rhys even tried to give her different jobs or just give her the space to do what she needs to do to find a path while keeping their door open to her.

They even gave her a tour of their new home, probably to show Nesta there was plenty of space for her if she ever wants to come back. There was no abandoning Nesta, you just cannot help someone who viciously does not want to be helped.

(Also for people who bring it up- casually noticing a once sexually conservative person is suddenly super promiscuous isn’t slut shaming, Nesta calling Feyre a ‘rutting animal’ for having a friends-with-benefits arrangement with one guy is slut shaming. Nesta’s the one who tried in TAR and MAF to slut shame Feyre.)

There is a path back for Nesta, and I am sure there will be reconciliation between her and Feyre, but it is unfair to put the full weight of everything on Feyre or Rhys. With all they have done to try and help, her condition is on her at this point. She needs to let people help her, and until then she is lost.

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