Under the ardent gaze of a man with his back adorned with black wings, a couple with pointed ears dances a waltz to the sound of cellos. Languid on a bed, a young woman turns her head toward a bare-chested Adonis kneeling in front of her. Equipped with an arch, a silhouette sneaks through a forest populated by magical creatures… From these sequences produced with artificial intelligence, a particular form of eroticism emerges, a kind of Fifty Shades of Gray in the land of the lord of the rings.
On TikTok, these short animated videos abound under the hashtag #acotar. For the fans, Acotar is the acronym for A court of roses and thornsseries in five volumes published in 2015 by L’Amérique Sarah J. Maas. Translated under the title A palace of thorns and roses (La Martinière jeunesse), the saga tells the story of Feyre, a young hunter kidnapped in Prythian, a fairy kingdom, where she will fall in love with a great lord.
resounding success of youth literature (by young adult“young adult”) Acotar It belongs to “romantic fantasy” or “romantasy”: a subgenre of fantasy, written mainly by women for women, that mixes fantasy, love and initiatory search. Since the late 2010s, this style has invaded bookstores, but especially networks. On TikTok we exchange tips for making shiny wings and filters to adorn our faces with angular features. In the r/acotar forum On Reddit or in the private Facebook group All Things Acotar, readers share fan art, analyze their favorite character’s arcs, and speculate on the release date of upcoming books. Sometimes one of them wonders: is it relevant to qualify? Acotar of “fairy porn” ?
fairy porn EITHER fairy blight (“fairy porn”) It is the affectionate nickname that romantic novel lovers give to the most “spicy” novels.. On TikTok, followers are reclaiming the label and showing their love for the genre. And there is something for all tastes, including romances. slow burning (“slow burn”) – an expression used to describe stories where the feelings and attraction between the characters build little by little – and those that are regularly marked by graphic scenes. hotlike him blood and ashes (De Saxus, 2021), by Jennifer L. Armentrout, or fourth wing (Hugo novel, 440 pages, 21.50 euros), by Rebecca Yarros.
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