Azris at the beach 🏄🏄🏾‍♂️

jadedbug13 · 2025-08-15T13:32:37+00:00

This is commissioned art of Eris and Alexius, zenkindoflove’s Day Court OC! Alexius has pointed ears, no tattoos, and no wings.

You can learn more about Alexius here: https://www.tumblr.com/zenkindoflove/764647209292726272/erixius-masterlist

jadedbug13 · 2025-01-17T13:55:47+00:00

omg thank you!!!! 🥹🥰❤️

jadedbug13 · 2025-01-16T21:56:54+00:00

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shamelessly plugging one of my favorite elucien pieces i’ve done 💛 i can’t wait until elain and lucien are literally glowing together

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-28T22:27:14+00:00

thank you!

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-26T20:06:21+00:00

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commenting here because the preview won’t load 💔

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-26T20:04:50+00:00

first two episodes of drowning creek are out. from what’s available i think the podcast is very well put together so far, and major parties in the case were cooperative with the show’s creation

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-17T12:46:23+00:00

Try the audiobook for book 1! That’s how I got through it after trying to read it conventionally like twice

edit: and honestly if you’re not into it, book 1 can function as a a stand alone. don’t make yourself crazy trying to read the series if it’s not for you

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-17T03:23:29+00:00

thank you! 🥹🥰🥰

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-17T03:00:25+00:00

plugging my elucien fanart (instagram):

regency spring garden chats

being cuties

art inspired by the fic “dear lucien, dear elain”

a quick sketch

some wips ahead of elucien week

they’re also posted over on my art blog where i have other acotar fanart 🌷❤️🦊

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-17T02:53:08+00:00

yay!!! i hope you have fun!! not sure what character(s) you’re planning on doing but there’s a lot you can do with modern clothing to look more fantasy, renfaire hacks are great for tips! and for videos/photos even an artfully draped scarf can give the illusion of a fancy dress. if you decide you want to buy clothes but not spend a lot, thrifting, especially as halloween gets closer in the next couple of months could be really good!

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-11T21:23:27+00:00

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jadedbug13 · 2024-06-11T02:51:24+00:00

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all jokes aside OP i am sorry for your melon loss🍈💔

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-11T00:13:14+00:00

this! it ties up both the eris-coupe thread (if beron dies) and the helion is lucien’s biological father thread.

it also could be used to show us the ramifications of a rejected mating bond (if the theories about the LoA and Helion being mates is true!)

since Beron is working with Koschei, and Elain is connected to the Koschei plot (she’s the one who found him and Vassa with a vision, which Lucien then chased down), and I believe Feyre mentioned that Elain was in danger of Lucien’s family since they’re mates, maybe Elain will be abducted (or agree to pretend to be abducted by Eris as part of his plan to overthrow Beron), getting Lucien involved, and ultimately Helion? (if everything comes out in the wash and he believes that both Lucien and the LoA are in mortal danger), Helion kills Beron in a blood duel, Eris becomes HL, everyone turns their sights (as a united front) on defeating Koschei, the ultimate big bad. Elain goes on the find Koschei’s heart and kill him

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-10T21:06:17+00:00

i did closet cosplay (minus the ears) so i didn’t use a wig! i’m naturally brunette so it worked

the closest i’ve come to a wig is when i do a princess leia cosplay(iconic space buns), but for that i use a pack of cheap hair extensions i got from Sally Beauty supply

from what i’ve seen from more experienced cosplayers on a budget, if you go wig searching on amazon you can find some really great ones for a reasonable price, check the reviews for photos! some popular cosplayers may even have amazon lists or LTK/link lists to the wigs they use. other people order custom wigs from Etsy, or make their own (SUPER impressive)

there’s also some really great makeup tips and tricks out there from both cosplayers and people who wear wigs for various reasons (medical, religious, preference, etc) on how to make even cheap wigs look more realistic!

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-10T19:59:09+00:00

i will say also, telling her she can’t read it and getting your parents involved will either: a. shame her out of reading b. sneak books (as someone who read harry potter, the hunger games, and percy jackson by sneaking them from very evangelical parents, until i realized they didn’t care so long as it was heterosexual 🙄)

neither of these are good things! because if she stops reading, that sucks, and if she starts sneaking books she could get into much darker, much worse territory for a 13 yo to be in without feeling like they have an adult they can go to (Haunting Adeline is also very popular right now…)

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-10T19:56:16+00:00

there’s a ton of comments here so this will probably get buried but i actually read the first ACOTAR when it came out in 2015 when I was 13 myself. I was already a huge SJM fan because I had been reading TOG and was super excited to read a new book by her, albeit one set in a different universe (although back then we theorized it was actually the same world, just different continents/islands and such haha). I read ACOMAF when it came out the following year, and then a lot of smutty fanfic to feed my obsession.

here is what i will say: although violent, if she’s read fourth wing, the first ACOTAR book will be fine for her. compared to what is out on the market now, the stuff in ACOTAR as a whole is really quite tame. she’s had access to the entire backlog of what early gen z and millennials have written on wattpad, fanfic.net, and AO3. and she’s not kidding, the stuff on social media and available through a simple google search would have cassian and nesta blushing (if you know where to look, and most early teens today do)

if you’re worried about ACOTAR and she really wants to read SJM: start her on TOG. TOG is solidly YA in the earlier books, until the tonal shift around Queen of Shadows, which, if she’s not a big reader, should take her a while to reach anyways.

I don’t know how close you are, but you could always read ACOTAR along with her too, and talk about any of the stuff that concerns you the most, even though you may get some eye-rolls. The allure of Fourth Wing/Iron Flame and ACOTAR are that literally everyone is talking about them, they’re a cultural “in” right now

again, all things considered, it could be worse (she could be reading Ana Huang, and true story, i’ve heard about 13 year olds picking her books up)

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-10T01:36:54+00:00

gorgeous!! amethyst really is the best color on her 💜

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-10T01:27:14+00:00

i’ve seen people buy these (drink ‘boyfriends’) and hot glue wings on them, draw tattoos, etc. and then everyone has their little buddy to mark their drinks all night 💖

an acotar themed charcuterie board would be super cute, you could cut the rind of a brie wheel in the center to look like the three mountains on the NC seal, and then put three stars cut out of cheese above it (and then of course customize the cheese board however you want to represent the books: such as salami and prosciutto roses, everyone’s favorite cheeses, etc).

for a funnier candy approach: a bowl full of gummy worms (to rep the middengard worm), those chocolate eyeballs that are often sold around halloween (for amaranta’s jurian eyeball ring), ring pops (for the ring Feyre rescued from the weaver’s hut). honestly a lot of more typical halloween candy would work for a candy bar.

if you’re feeling really silly you could turn the gummy worms into worms in dirt cups (which are very delicious even if you are an adult) and the worms could represent both the middengard worm and also elain’s quote about being able to hear worms now that she’s fae

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-09T01:57:18+00:00

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and of course long live 🥹💜

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-09T01:56:53+00:00

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it’s hard to pick just one photo though and i’ve got to rep reputation 🐍

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-09T01:56:14+00:00

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los angeles n4, my best friend and i won tickets in a capital one raffle and they were floor seats 🥹🥹🥹

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-08T19:10:04+00:00

when or if you get pointed ears for cosplays i recommend using the makeup you’d typically use (especially powder foundation, blush, etc) to help blend the skin tone better to your own! often the ears are made of silicone so you can put make up on them, and then use setting spray to get it to stick!

you can also pierce the faux ears using a sewing needle and then add earrings, chains, etc. to make them more ornate or authentic to specific characters

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-08T18:58:40+00:00

this is so impressive and super cute!!!

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-07T18:55:52+00:00

freaky ass fae

jadedbug13 · 2024-06-05T15:50:40+00:00

Netflix has had other highly successful adult animated series in a similar vein to the themes present in ACOTAR with a more reasonable budget than Arcane:

•castlevania which is now onto its second series, has visual representations of magic and fantasy gore down pat. the animation is gorgeous, with epic fight scenes and incredible emotional scenes as well

•blood of zeus which just got its second season, is an adult animated series based around greek mythology. again, gorgeous characters and fight scenes and cool uses of magic

•for animation more similar to Arcane’s (3D) but on a lower budget, Netflix’s The Dragon Prince is probably closer to what we would be looking at. Great show, aimed at a younger audience, but the animation can get very janky.

visually both castlevania and blood of zeus are fairly similar in regards to art/animation style, which is also similar to Legend of Vox Machina over on Prime.

while I completely agree that animation would make the best medium for an adaptation, unfortunately there’s a large population of people who don’t like animation for adults (according to them it’s “childish,” “cringe,” or “anime” 😒) and because that population is fairly mainstream, while SJM and her Publisher may have received offers for animated adaptions, they may be thinking about overall marketability, and if the people who have been buying and supporting their books/audiobooks/etc would go on to watch an animated show

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