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When you realise that the mirth stone does not inspire feelings, but takes away fear.
Jacks' behaviour towards Eva was real. Him asking her to stay the night and wanting to pretend that she was his for the night was real. He was acting on his true feelings. He really and truly loves her and is too scared to admit it. He's scared of loving Evangeline and hurting her and thought that the safer option, the better option, was with Tella.
Jacks' behaviour towards Evangeline was not artifical. It was REAL <3
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Evangeline: breathes
Jacks: so do you want to bite me or should I just bite you?
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Mor is literally a mirror to Nesta in terms of traumatic events they've gone through but SJM made one outwardly nice but internally mean and one outwardly mean but internally nice and y'all took it personally.
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The Inner Circle is nothing more than Nepotism.
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I’ve always been kind of put off by how, even in positions where they’re being oppressed, Feyre seems to expect other characters to go to the ends of the earth for her. It just always made me uncomfortable, especially since it makes it feel like the story is invalidating other characters’ struggles.
Like when Feyre and Rhysand said that Tamlin didn’t “crawl” for Feyre UTM (despite that it is explicitly said that he did) even though he was 1) being forced and coerced by Amarantha, 2) Feyre probably would’ve faced the consequences if he tried, and 3) in the literal terms of the words, he quite literally had a knife in his chest. It just feels like she expects so much from people when it’s not always fair?
I can kind of understand her disliking people who choose the cowardly or easy way out, but it always seem so black and white whenever I’m in her POV.
YESSSSSS
And it doesn’t just happen with Tamlin. It’s with everybody Feyre comes across, tbh. Like, Feyre begrudges the SC citizens because they want to rebuild their own houses. They’ve been trapped in concentration camps for fifty years, they’ve been driven mad, and the story kind of vilifies them bc how dare they not allow Feyre to help them. How dare they not try to get some normalcy back in their lives. They’re in the same position, if not worse, and they were tortured for much longer…and it’s nothing. Somehow, their inability to not center Feyre’s trauma makes them ‘preening.’ Feyre says that Lucien ‘didn’t do as much’ as Rhys even though Lucien was tangibly punished for helping Feyre like three times UTM and then more when they got back to Spring. Lucien was willing to die just so he wouldn’t give up her name. He came down and healed her, even after he’d just been whipped by his bestfriend, and his wounds were still healing. And it’s just….not enough for Feyre. And with Feyre’s stint UTM, she chose to go. Tamlin sat her down and honestly told her he would not be able to protect her UTM. He sent her home because he was cognizant of his abilities. That…was him fighting for her. That was him placing value in her life. And It’s not enough. Everybody has to cater to Feyre every time she ignores everyone’s warning and does something reckless….and someone like that is exhausting to be around (I am speaking in terms of TAR + the later half of WAR in this regard).
Or even that whole scene where Feyre compares her five years of hunting to the murder of Tarquin’s family, the destruction of his home, and the fact that his been UTM more than half of his life. And she’s like “he can’t understand the darkness” and I’m like….what??? Tarquin….who spent his entire life watching his people die, being trapped UTM, watching his home be destroyed, plotting rebellion without end….can’t understand Feyre’s five years of hunting?? Is is crack?
I think it’s fine for Feyre to feel that way any Tam once we get to the SC bc…Tam isn’t trying. But Feyre’s narration is always looking for someone to undermine to place her as top victim. And her narration thrives off of pretty much needing to center her trauma as THE trauma. There are more examples too: Feyre forcing Morrigan to come out, Feyre trying to force her recently traumatized sisters into an even more traumatic situation (the HL meeting), Feyre’s treatment of Tarquin following the battle of Aridriata. Like, all of these characters are in horrible situations and Feyre just…expects them to keep giving. To keep ‘atoning.’ In what world would it be logical to force your suicidal sister to face the same HL who debated cutting you open? It doesn’t make any sense.
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Sometimes I question whether sjm has actually had sex based on the smut scenes she writes
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I keep seeing people say that if Nesta had treated Emerie and Gwyn the way she treated the IC then they wouldn't have stuck around and had such a strong bond.
This is fundamentally a flawed argument because if the IC had treated Nesta the same way Emerie and Gwyn did then maybe she wouldn't have been mean to them.
The IC (excluding Azriel) hated Nesta before they even met her because she allowed Feyre to go hunting. Rather than giving a twenty-two year old woman the benefit of the doubt, these five hundred year olds hated her without even knowing her. While at the same time forgiving Papa Archeron for letting his youngest daughter go hunting because God forbid we hold parents accountable for their actions when we could hold a child accountable.
If the IC had given Nesta the benefit of the doubt and treated her with respect, she would have done the same. Az, Emerie, Gwyn, and the Priestesses are proof of that. They are the only people who never prematurely judged Nesta and they are the only people that she has treated with kindness and respect.
Yes, Nesta could have been nicer, but the IC could have given her a chance rather than blindly trusting Feyre's opinion.
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Honestly if the books didn't act like the IC were total Saints I don't think I would dislike them as much as I do
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When people think gwyn will be Rhys’ bestie after the shit he pulled on nesta
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Finding your blog was really lucky for me bc it showed me that there are more people who read critical and put it in respectful words
Anyway between al the things from aco/tar to acosf i had the feeling she forget her own plot, i mean in the first book all of prythian is enslaved under the rain of a high queen and suddenly in acosf, just 2 years after 50 years of terror it is suggested (from amren) that 4 of the 7 high lords would bow to another high lord, regardless of the fact that rhysand was also a part of the terror and they would just bow bc there friends (helion, kallias) or they have good alliances with the nc (tarquin, thesan). They are meanted to be equal to the story line?? And this super colonialism and makes no sense...
Your thoughts?
Hope it doesn't bother you and sry for any mistakes, it is not my mothertongue
Thank you!! Sorry for taking so long! No need to ever apologize!
Yes! There is the theme being presented that power equals worthiness. It's actually one that connects back to the beginning of MAF and I think that's at the heart of the problem with where this specific storyline is going.
It's the thinking that has fueled real-world colonization and imperialism, and is the fulcrum of many violent ideologies: the amount of power = qualified, equipped, worthy.
But despite it having ugly implications in the real world, let's look at how it fits quite horribly into this story.
R/hys has a lot of power -- and that's really his only qualification. A/marantha also had a lot of power, so did the King of Hybern, and they were both canonically bad leaders. But with R/hysand it's honestly quite worse, because of just a lot of reasons, but I'll break it down as best I can.
[1] R/hys as a Tyrant
Okay, R/hysand is already a tyrant in his own right. I'm not saying that because I dislike him, it's just true. He does not rule the entirety of his court, uses violence and fear to control his subjects, refuses to aid Illyria when there is rampant violence against female women, and does the same in CoN. These are the exact same methods A/marantha employed UTM. And R/hysand crucial in enforcing this behavior on her behalf. He is already like another A/marantha in his own court because honestly -- there are too many parallels. And before people come with the "how dare you to compare HIM to HER" --- well there are similarities. It doesn't take away from R/hys's trauma to acknowledge that there's not much difference between how they chose to run their court(s). R/hys being capable of compassion with his best friends and mates doesn't negate the fact he's a tyrant. A/mrantha loved her sister dearly and still was an ugly abuser who killed and enslaved. I mean, this is the guy who literally expects Illyria and the CoN to fight despite the fact he regularly uses physical and mental violence against them. The High Lord continues to trap a group of people Under a mountain because he just believes they're all bad. Who did nothing to help the people after he sent them off to war to die, who regularly makes racist comments towards them. A man willing to resort to s*xual, mental, and physical violence to get what he wants. I blame SJM for not seeing how similar the actions of R/hys and A/marantha are. Because ew. That's how sloppy her themes of s*xual violence and trauma are.
[2] R/hysand's handling of the war.
I talked about this in a post a long time ago, but... R/hysand has known war was coming since the end of TAR, yet he does not share this information with any of the High Lords until the near end of WAR. Altogether, that's almost a year he knew this vital information and he did nothing to stop it until it was way too late, until Hybern had already amassed an army. He's known since before A/marantha's reign that I/anthe was evil -- yet didn't share this information. He'd literally been A/marantha's right-hand man, with access to loads of information about H/ybern -- yet didn't share this information. At the meeting to address his behavior and align with the other HLs his court assaults two courts for even daring to dislike him (and to rightfully call out his bullshit).
[3] R/hys as a reminder of A/marantha
One of the biggest problems with the High King arc is the fact that R/hysand was A/marantha's most trusted lieutenant. He killed her enemies (which we can assume was a mix of good and bad people), tortured and pillaged on her behalf. He was her image. Her enforcer. There's no way people would accept him (logically bc we know SJM is gonna pull a "they saw...through the mask). You can try to justify his actions all we want but we can't erase what was literally put in canon (both in TAR and MAF). It's a fact that he was P/rythian's oppressor, that he willingly aided in that cause to protect one place.
[4] Selflessness
This is actually not a good trait for R/hys. Because time and time again, his need to sacrifice reveals an inability to actually work with other people.
R/hysand refuses to:
-Include his court, or the other High Lords, to take down A/marantha before UTM happens
- to rely information he gets when he becomes her right-hand man UTM
- to do anything with his mobility UTM
- to talk to the only person capable of breaking the curse.
-to tell the HL what he knows about Hybern following the end of the curse
-Again, refuses to talk with T/amlin about his borders.
-refuses to tell F/eyre she's his mate
-to ask T/arquin for the book
-to do anything about wing-clipping
-tell M/or about E/ris and B/eron
-to explain his actions UTM
-to AGAIN warn the High Lords about information he's privvy to.
-to tell F/eyre she will die.
-to tell the other High Lords about the queens and such
And his need to burden all of these responsibilities, even when it's not even necessary or logical makes this whole High King arc bullshit at its finest. Because R/hysand selflessness is his biggest flaws. Because it's not really selflessness, but a powertrip.
So, SJM wants us to believe that the man -- who just two years prior -- colluded with the last HIgh Queen, killed and oppressed on her behalf, deserves to be their leader. The man whose reputation is so bad even the humans know who he is? The man who was wiling to sacrifice his court for four people? Who withheld information and destroyed two courts [or at least encouraged it]? That the High Lords should bow to that??
Let him stay in his dusty, misogynistic court and let the other High Lords have some peace away from their abuser and oppressor.
Thanks, anon!
#anti sjm#anti rhysand#the nerve of sjm to think this was okay#anti acowar#anti acomaf#anti feyre#anti acosf#anon reply
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I haven't read CC but I saw the whole crossover thing and like what is the point of CC? I thought the first one was a murder mystery??? Is the second one also a mystery? Is S//JM going to make them go to war?? (girl can't write diversity even in her plots) I was just trying to understand how a murder mystery urban fantasy plot line for an undefined quantity of books connects with a fantasy romance expanded series and I can't.
Hi anon!
I just wish SJM would put the war/human/opression/tan-sprayed Fae down. I just wish anytime she types the words war and fae, someone would slap her hand away.
This is series three. And it's the same plot points over and over and over. And she's trying to stuff her measly bad-written high-fantasy series into her urban fantasy book that started as a true crime story. And like CC has the worst caricature of her characters yet. We got Bryce/Aelin, Lucien/Ruhn, Lidia/Rhys, Hunt/Cassian, Danika/Nehemia, Fury/Amren, etc. It's the same character templates/backstory over and over again.
I can already imagine the jokes in CC3: the frequent Tamlin jabs, Alphahole jokes, the MCU-esque banter, the-questions-no-one-asked for (like who gives af about TOILET paper, how about you give your main characters a LAST NAME, or learn the names of the countless killed off-nameless women, like your MC's mother and sister???). It's the constant sex jokes/ innuendos. The toes curling, swaggering ass-hole jokes. The "vulgar" gestures. Territorial bastard jokes. My eyes are bleeding already.
Then we gotta deal with the sjm-supreme-combo of tropes: the sacrificial asshole, the trauma-dumping to explain away the dumbest behavior. The endless discussions that are either (1) common sense (2) that lead to nowhere. We got the "special" object that has to be found, the multiple chosen ones; smut at the weirdest, inconvenient time. Torture with no aim but to traumatize the characters, and the monologuing villain .The CGI villain and his throw-away army. The war that will last three days. Political actions that are war crimes being passed off as diplomatic behavior. The swaggering know-it-all-female who figures out things that should have been common sense. The new worldbuilding introduced at the beginning of the book. The five-million plotlines that will be explained away in one chapter of infodumping. Rhysand winking out stars and moping around after he does the same abusive thing for the one-millionth time. I'm pretty sure Tamlin will probably die after being girlbossed by Bryce and overall shitted on by the story. It'll be a sacrifice and he'll probably proclaim that Rhys was the bestest man after all and does indeed have the biggest dick in all the land. Beron and Devlon will need to be there to provide the surface-level misogyny our main females have to snark at. The enemy be will be defeated after Bryce becomes High-Queen-Lady Princess and use her starlight and dust power to destroy the asteri after all. Or her five million i-o-u's (for doing mundane, regular things) will amass the biggest army Terrasen---I mean Lunathion---has ever seen. Or....Juniper will step out of a shadow, and kill the Asteri instead with no development other than the power of friendship. The story will end and Bryce will be Queen of Terrasen--op, I mean of the Autumn Queen.
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Gwyn: Which movie are you and Cassian going to see tonight?
Nesta: Oh, I always go to whichever movie he wants.
Gwyn: Which one does he want to see?
Nesta: I haven't decided yet.
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get in loser the new pride prejudice-esque hand flex just dropped
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okay y’all there was this great theory on how mama Archeron is still alive because the way she died doesn’t match up with her lifestyle. please for the love of god if any of you know where this is help me out and lemme know
repost to spread please
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y’all ever just want the inner circle to stfu
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lowkey feel like part of the reason people ship emerie and mor is because she hasn’t introduced other “main characters” who aren’t straight
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