A quick doodle of human Nesta my beloved

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You know something that I’d like to see with the Illyrians? Clothes that actually fit the environment of the Illyrian Steppes. It’s described to be very cold, with brutal winds (duh it’s called Windhaven) but their battle armor just doesn’t really fit that? Even Nesta is like “yo I’m freezing where is the furs?” and Emerie is like “yeah it’s pretty expensive.” Yall, do you know how common hunting and furs would be? It would be a widely needed thing so maybe it’s more expensive if you’re not a hunter / you’re poor, but 1. They’re a warrior race in an isolated wilderness, they would for sure hunt, and 2. Clothes that fit the environment should be a pretty common thing instead of skin tight leathers. Skin tight leathers is crazyyyyyy when it’s that fucking cold. Like, yeah sure Cassian is like Illyrians are all about gritting your teeth and barring the cold, BUT I think your army dying of hypothermia might be important to avoid lmao. And when it comes to flying it can help, plus leather and furs is still light compared to other armor so I don’t think it would be too heavy for flying. They carry around a shit ton of metal weapons lmao.

And because I love visuals, I would love to see Illyrian leathers looking more like Mongol / Kazakhstan / Turkish, where weather is extreme and winters are very long and brutal.

AND. THERE. WILL. BE. EGGNOG. OR. ELSE.

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Nesta Week 2025 is officially one month away!

I need someone (who is not ablogofsapphicpanic or berd-nerd) to be honest with me: are narwhals real?

I did not know they were real until I was 25. Thought they were like unicorns of the ocean. Then I saw them in a nature documentary and went WHAT THE FUCK. So no you are not alone!

Azriel x Koschei

Part 2

CW Nudity and implied SA

So, for day 4: gender, I wanna yap. Meta is so fun, but i get into some pretty heavy stuff here, from time to time so check the warnings. anyway I wanna talk about gender non-conformity and gender expectations in Acotar and probably specifically in the Night Court since that’s where we get most exposure to the concepts, and also have some of our very few canonically queer characters. So obviously, when talking about the night court, we have four different groups to take into consideration that will have different attitudes and expectations for class and culture reasons. These are Hewn city, Velaris high fae, everyone else in Velaris, and the illyrian clans. The first three come as a set, essentially inter-weaving and influencing each other in a symbiotic relationship, while Illyria stands apart, both geographically, ethically, historically, and culturally distinct.

I want to be reading fanfic, not writing it. Unfortunately, I want to be reading very specific fanfic which I will in fact first have to write.

Help me prioritize for Nesta week because I once again have too many ideas and not enough time.

Most of these are one shots, and all of the angsty ones end fluffy!