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I have a few hundred edits from my acotar fic that i never finished and oh my god do i regret not having made notes about the story
#acotar#a court of thorns and roses#writing fanfiction and three books for a series#acotar fanfiction
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”Free will is a length of rope and God wants you to hang yourself with it” is such a RAW line for Cas to say like whoever wrote that sentence needs a Nobel prize for literature
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the age old question:
did sjm write acosf the way she did because she doesn't like nesta or because she cannot write a romance with a sexually conservative woman
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now that i am a real adult i am starting to realise. media lied to me about the availability of rooftops to go hang out on. every day i wish i could be hanging out on a rooftop somewhere looking cool as fuck
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does anyone else feel like the acotar series is lacking the FAE feeling? like. Book one has it a MILLION percent, yes. the Spring Court is RIFE with Fae Elements. The CoN does too in the dark elegant Fae Way but the rest? it really doesn't tbh. they all just Feel like Immortals, and I think that's such a vast difference between acotar and tog bec in tog they're so painfully FAE, right down to the pointy ears and canines and Not Human Morals
but hey maybe I'm just a Faerie Snob bec that's something I deeply, deeply enjoy in Holly Blacks books. They're SO undeniably fae but acotar just,,, isn't. idk
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The way people switched on Tamlin the moment Rhys was introduced is diabolical.
“Tamlin never really loved Feyre, it was all a trick from the start”: It is stated that Tamlin was disgusted by the idea of forcing someone to fall in love with him and considered it slavery, but ended up being so in love with her that he ultimately lets her go and choses her freedom and safety over that of his own people. Rhys confirms that Tamlin loved Feyre too much. And he loved her truly. Not because he had to. Tamlin treated Feyre with dignity when she was engaged to him. He introduced her as his lady, to be respected and cherished by all. And she really was loved his people, too. Rhysand uses her as his lap dog to scare Hewn City and parades her as his whore.
“Tamlin never did anything for Feyre, he just used her”: He improved her and her family’s life in every aspect and offered her everything he had.
“Tamlin had sex with someone else in Calanmai”: Out of duty and responsibility because he didn’t want to force Feyre, who still wasn’t sure about her feelings, into it. All of the High Lords perform the Calanmai. Lucien says so. How convenient that this is never brought up with Rhysand. He surely does perform it as well. All the theories in here, “Lucien doesn’t know what he’s talking about/ This is a SC ritual only/ He probably just passes the duty on to someone else” are just a way for people to villainise Tam and glorify Rhys again. All of them inaccurate. The Calanmai is canonically performed by every High Lord. There’s no evidence that proves otherwise. As the son of one High Lord and the ambassador of another, Lucien would know. He is 500 years old. It’s just more convenient for SJM to never bring this up again because it raises the question of “Who was Rhysand fucking all these years?” and it makes her favourite character look bad. And once he is engaged to her, Tamlin flat out refuses to do it. Let’s be real for a second.
“Tamlin didn’t help Feyre under the mountain”: He literally could not. He was bound by a curse. He was forced to be Amarantha’s consort and a consort cannot oppose you. His powers were bound. Alis warns Feyre that Tamlin will not be able to help her. Stop acting as if he didn’t want to help her. He decapitated Amarantha the moment he got his autonomy back. Claiming that there’s no proof that Tamlin was under the influence of a spell when he literally didn’t break the curse and Amarantha’s magic didn’t allow him to use his powers is crazy. And even if he tried, he could never provide actual help. We see this when he begs Amarantha for Feyre’s life. Him showing he cares about her would only make Amarantha more jealous and vicious towards Feyre.
“Tamlin made out with Feyre instead of helping her”: He couldn’t help her run away. No one could do that. She would never make it, Amarantha would find her. In fact, Tamlin specifically could not help her in any way. He could only assure her he still wants and loves her. And she wanted that just as much. Rhys abused her physically, mentally, verbally, drugged her and much worse. And he enjoyed all of it. If he didn’t want to raise suspicions, he wouldn’t have placed a bet in her favour. Rhys is a masochist, SJM just decided to mellow him down in the next book so that we’d all like him over Tamlin.
“Tamlin ignored Feyre’s wishes and only wanted her to be his bride, he didn’t let her be High Lady”: Both Tamlin and Feyre were bad communicators going though trauma and Tam had a whole court to care for. Tamlin was unaware of how Feyre felt because she barely spoke up once. Rhys knew because he literally lived inside her head and had all the time in the world to focus his attention on her since his court suffered zero consequences during Amarantha’s reign. And Tamlin simply told her the truth: there’s no such thing as High Lady. Even her current title is given to her by Rhys, the magic of Prythian has not actually chosen her to be High Lady. The title and its power are decorative. And she said she didn’t want that anyway.
“Tamlin locks Feyre up and uses his magic to harm her”: He locks her in his humongous palace to keep her safe, after she just came back from the dead and his worst enemy is kidnapping her every month, while he runs off to protect his borders. Rhysand lock Feyre in a fucking bubble. Tamlin loses control of his magic. He doesn’t want to harm her. That’s not abuse. Abuse is intentional. Feyre and Rhysand lock Lucien and Nesta up. They lock the people of the Hewn City up in a cave. Feyre loses control of her magic and harms Lucien’s mother. Double standards I guess.
“Tamlin is a bad and conservative ruler”: Tamlin is such a beloved ruler that his sentries literally begged to die for him. Feyre had to fuck with their minds to finally turn them against him. They were his friends. He was so progressive that the lords fled his court once he became their ruler because he wouldn’t put up with their bullshit like his father did. He loved all of his people. He is against slavery. The Tithe was just tax collection. Rhysand practically rules over just one city, while ignoring Hewn City and Illyria. He treats 2/3 of his realm like shit and everyone except the residents of Velaris hates him. He collects tax, too, but we conveniently never see this. He ranks the members of his inner circle (my 1st, my 2nd etc.) and reminds them every moment that they are his slaves first and anything else second, while Tamlin treats them equally and even gives Lucien an official title by naming him Ambassador.
“Tamlin conspired with Hybern”: He was a double agent and his short lived alliance, two weeks all in all, not only didn’t harm a single soul, but ultimately saved all of Prythian as he was the only one who brought valuable information to that meeting. He dragged Beron to battle. Rhysand’s alliance with Amarantha harmed thousands and only helped save one city, Velaris.
“Tamlin is responsible for turning Nesta and Elain into Fae”: No, that was Ianthe, who got the info from Feyre. Tamlin was fooled by her, just as Feyre obviously was, or she wouldn’t have trusted her. Tamlin was disgusted by that act.
“Tamlin is less powerful than Rhysand”: Rhysand himself says that a battle between them would turn mountains to dust. Tamlin killed Rhysand’s dad, the previous High Lord of the Night Court, in one blow. He is just as powerful as Rhysand. SJM again just wants us to believe otherwise. And he is smarter, too. He was the only one not to trust Amarantha. And he was a good spy for Prythian against Hybern.
All of these takes are cold as fuck. SJM was testing the waters with ACOTAR and she made sure the main love interest, Tamlin, was insanely likeable, so that the book could be a satisfactory standalone story in case she couldn’t land a trilogy deal. She didn’t know it would be such a big hit. But once she realised she could turn this into a franchise, she had to figure out a new story to tell. She may claim otherwise, but there’s just too many plothotes to convince me. And in order to make her new main love interest seem like the best choice, she had to character assassinate the old one. There was no other way. ACOTAR Rhys was too much of an evil monster to be loved by the majority of the audience. But Tamlin was introduced to us as such a heroic and passionate man that is literally impossible to turn him into someone despised by all. Feyre’s relationship with Rhysand reads too much like cheating on Tamlin. That’s why anyone with basic analytical skills is able to realise the flaws of the narration.
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Delving into the Ember and Nesta scene
Idk how this scene is supposed to read as anything other than Nesta re-assessing her life in the Night Court when a woman who has known her for 5 seconds can see how miserable her life is
Azriel, fuck off with your withering glare.
An emphasis on how powerful Rhys is... but still needs to intimidate women. Feminist king!
Amren, you will always be nothing. I love how Feyre is meant to be scarier than Rhys. Or she's basically Nesta's mother now. Wait until Feyre finds out how naughty you are! Imagine if Nesta didn't save them all. A life without rhysand 🪦
Cassian grow a spine challenge
Nesta vacating her body hmm almost like somebody who dissociates during abuse to protect themselves wow sjm thank u for writing this whilst also being like rhys is SO sexy for being an abusive piece of shit
Nesta still standing her ground whilst Cassian proves what a worthless mate he is. Eris wouldn’t stand for this shit.
Somebody appreciating nesta!!!! Recognising that she’s being treated like crap!!
Why is she always in trouble? Because she doesn’t want to drink with the ic? Because she doesn’t bow down at Rhys feet after saving their lives? Because she sat on a rock in Illyria?
Ember you are a real one!!! The only one who matters besides nesta!!!
Ember quinlan with the biggest balls in prythian
Straight men: I hate my wife
Nesta staring with longing at ember because she’s the mother she didn’t have! The one who will fight her battle no matter what 🥺💔 when Bryce is so quick to ignore her mother’s calls or argue against her protectiveness, nesta would lap that up!!!
Straight men: marriage is a jail I hate every moment with my wife
the only thing that gives hope that nesta will get out of there is this
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@theladyofbloodshed
That part in your ACOSF rewrite where Eris tells the IC to keep his wife’s name out their goddamn mouth and that Nesta may not be like them but he is far worse 🔥 🔥🔥🔥
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Critique is literally the life blood of art for the love of god, listen to me!!!!!
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It is very clear to me that sjm just took Tamlin's traits (Tamlin saying Feyre can wander anywhere, Tamlin making her try reading, Tamlin and his music, Tamlin being against slavery etc) and pushed it on Rhys who cannot carry it the way Tamlin did because Rhysand is, despite him trauma, evil at his core (First instinct on seeing Feyre is to grapple her mind, make Tamlin beg then went and told Amarantha anyway and got 'Clare' killed. Then later tortured and drugged Feyre, made her dance for him and forcibly kissed her.) as opposed to Tamlin who is worthy of the traits sjm gave him in the beginning because Tamlin is GOOD and Rhys just isn't.
ACOMAF is nothing but sjm working on this "transference" and people didn't have the critical thinking to see the obvious because the narrative is that biased. And the worst part it Rhysand only knows what Feyre is thinking and needing because he's forever voilating her head. That's literally so fucked up. Not to mention Tamlin has PTSD too in ACOMAF which Feyre never helped him with being his fiancee but he is somehow supposed to know and do everything right when the girl wont communicate?!
Im gonna reread ACOTAR at some point just to solidify how glorious Tamlin, Lucien and Feyre are and pretend it's a stand alone forever. I will not bother about the rest of the books at all.
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trying to write an acotar fic that is grounded in canon is such a sisyphean task because when you do a close reading of the text it kinda falls apart. like we talk about the major inconsistencies in characterization, plot, and worldbuilding a lot, but the details are also a mess. because why is it mentioned that feyre wears a crown to visit her sisters in acomaf and then never brought up again or explained. sorry but we actually do need to know WHY she is wearing a crown. like what’s the point of it here? to show off to elain and nesta of all people?? or did sjm just change the order of events in which feyre becomes high lady, and nobody in how many rounds of editing ever caught this?
anyway there’s some goofy nonsense like this almost every chapter
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i genuinely don’t think anyone in the ic would have bothered to help Nesta if she hadn’t been “embarrassing” them. like if she was drinking herself into oblivion alone in her apartment every night with the same amount of pain and trauma and they knew about it. they genuinely wouldn’t have cared.
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What if acotar antagonists got the same level of justification as our 'heroes' from the Night Court did?
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Poly+ ACOTAR Week - Day 3 Secrets (Feyre/Tamlin/Rhysand) @polyacotarweek
I'm weak for 'two enemies put aside their differences coz they love me more than they hate each other' trope and I was somewhat sad that's not where Feyre's love life went. Just think of the possibilities.
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i’m making an entire slideshow just to explain every oc i have and their love stories to a friend of mine
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i finished this fic last night and i’m still trying not to cry because of it 😭
When you just finished a fic that absolutely rearranged your soul and then you have to go out and interact with the general public?? Like your fine??
#the boy in the piano shop#ao3#ITS BEEN A WHILE SINCE I WAS THIS AFFECTED#SOLIBLOMST WHEN I CATCH YOU
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