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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.
#acotar critical#acotar#acomaf#acowar#acosf#acofas#anti sjm#sjm critical#tamlin#tamlin week#pro tamlin#he deserves the world#tamlin my beloved#anti amren#anti rhysand#anti morrigan#anti ic#anti inner circle#anti feyre archeron#anti feyre#anti feysand#anti night court#pro spring court#anti cassian#pro lucien vanserra
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One of the things I dont get is how Feyre now is totally cool about having like three mansions and so many jewels that they could build a palace out of them when ACOTAR Feyre would be disgusted by all that when the Illyrians are basically living in poverty.
#anti acotar#anti feyre archeron#anti feyre#anti sjm#anti sarah j maas#anti night court#anti ic#anti inner circle#anti rhysand
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It seems like Illyrians are also in the habit of fucking their brothers, too.
No, but really. Cassian and Rhys are mates, and I stand by that
#anti cassian#anti inner circle#anti rhysand#These 2 deserve each other#pro nesta#nesta archeron#nesta deserves better#Eris should've been the spark of Nesta's heart#eris vanserra#anti night court#anti morrigan#anti amren#sjm#sjm critical
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eris vanserra is everything rhysand thinks he is and sjmess will just wASTE HIM i’m BITTER
#anti sjmaas#anti rhysand#anti inner circle#anti night court#do you have any idea how bad you have to fuck up#for ME to hate something to do with a NIGHT FAE COURT#eris vanserra#pro eris vanserra
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tonights acotar thoughts are with the Illyrian women and how rhysand has utterly failed them despite his supposed efforts
Hes ‘allowed’ them to become warriors if they wish. But thats not even the bare minimum. from my memory he acknowledges that he doesnt enforce the wing clipping laws (smooth move) so that’s basically useless and as to be expected of a man, he misses the point of feminism and equality laws. WHERE are the laws and protections for women in marriages?? if the illyrian are so ‘brutal’ and ‘backwards’ the assumption can be made that divorce isn’t a thing unless the man requests it. No women requested divorces and probably no such thing as no fault divorces. As well as forced marriages (which also brings up the consent age) Adding on, what about abortions and other pre natal and natal laws and protections? again, assuming women arent allowed to have abortions or simply any bodily autonomy, where are those decrees rhysand? Im not even getting into the potential of LGBTQ+ illyrians and their rights (Logically there are LGBTQ+ illyrians but ofc sjm wouldn’t mention them)
He makes such a fuss about it being a womans choice (a hypocrite as we see in acosf) yet unless a woman is able too or wants to fight he doesnt seem to care. Which is also a major flaw of sjms writing, women only gain their independence if they can kick ass and fuck as they want. Which is of course valid but thats a very shallow way to view feminism and equality. The whole point is that a woman can choose, wether its to be a warrior or a stay at home mother, but theres nothing done for those women who want that lifestyle.
This has influenced me in my fic writing a lot to where a this topic has become a major focal point in my fic somewhat by accident. I think that logically there would be a rebellion from mostly illyrian women against rhysand, hes promised them so much yet has delivered so little.
#acotar#a court of thorns and roses#anti rhysand#anti night court#anti inner circle#im not anti feyre but im disappointed in her character#sjm#sjm critical#an acotar thought exercise if you will#In my fic i have it planned that a prominent female illyrian revolts against rhysand lol#She along with her mates (yes mates) leads a large group of illyrian men women and lgbtq+ out to the spring court with tams help#Shes such a fun character to develop along with her mates and if i can work with my adhd i will hopefully be able to write about them in my#fic i ran out of characters fuck you tumblr let me yap#its late so forgive me for any grammer errors or mistagging#rhysand#this is also a genuine criticism guys i know how yall rhysie fans like to tussel
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Okay but for a change SJM knew what she was doing when she made Lucien and Eris have family beef.
Imagine if those two would get along? The combined hotness and sass? The snarky comments? The courtly arrogance? If Lucien and Eris would team up, everyone else would lose. In every term.
Those two are the culmination of hot. The Batman offcuts would look like an old pair of socks plus a third one that's already missing it's counterpart compared to the combined level of cunt-serving Vanserra charme.
One sassy redhead? I'm standing at the altar. Two sassy redheads? I have ascended to Heaven.
#lucien vanserra#eris vanserra#lucien acotar#eris acotar#pro lucien#pro eris#keeping up with the vanserras#anti rhysand#anti night court#anti azriel#anti cassian
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The NC is literally a dystopian hellscape.
The Capital, or Velaris, is the safe zone from where they watch the suffering of others (the CON and Illyrians). They srpead propaganda to hide the hellscape that they've turned the NC into, painting themselves as paragons for good, and like siding with them is the best and only option. The IC themselves are a form of walking propaganda, calling themselves "The Court of Dreams" and gas slighting the citizens of Velaris and other courts into thinking that they're in the right and are just misunderstood good guys all along.
They use the CON and Illyria as forms of propaganda, showing it off to others, and painting a tail of them doing their best, but that these places are just too far gone or stubborn or whatever, to paint themselves as the ones struggling as they try to offer them help.
They use force as a way to control the populous, instead of starting with negotiations, or enforcing laws. Instead, they put down rebellions and slaughter their own people, while leaving the females to suffer, and orphans to starve.
They use force in the Hewn city too, though at the wrong times. He used force to control them when Kier called Feyre names, but not when they needed to get control of the Darkbringers? Once instance seems a lot more important than the others.
They control the spread of information, even from their own "family" when they feel like it, as seen in ACOSF. When information leaks from the NC, rhys (or another nc damati), wipes their memories of it. This is seen in ACOWAR after Eris and his brothers found out about Feyre's powers, while his brothers had their memories wiped, he uses it as leverage.
There's also the fact that most people consider Illyrians uncivilised brutes and the denizens of the CON to be unpleasant at best, monsters at worst. People from outside the NC or from velaris, don't really have any way of knowing if it's true first hand. They have the accounts of the IC, but that's it. They just take their word for it. It's not like Feyre or anyone ever see any of the CON outside of that court, that's basically an elaborate masquerade for the sake of survival.
They deny free thought, since we all saw what happened to Nesta the moment she dared to disobey, have individual autonomy, free thought, and healthy boundaries. She was pretty much tortured, and denied information regarding her own body. Even in the HL meeting, anybody with an opposing view, like Tamlin, was quickly shut up, dismissed and/or kicked out.
There's also the fact that it's unlikely anyone from Velaris has ever left it. It's hidden, cut off from the rest of the world, and it's not like we're told of any other safe places in the NC. It's either Velaris, this perfect city, the hellscape that is the CON (supposedly), or the frozen wastelands of Illyria. On top of that, if they stay, they remain the IC's priority, since he did only act to protect Velaris during Amerantha's reign, and not any other location. Has anyone ever left, without getting their memories wiped? Are their methods of transportation for people to leave Velaris, or come to it, if that's what they wish? Unlikely.
The IC don't let anyone see any good in any part of the NC, aside from Velaris. They convince their citizens that they are the only good thing in the NC, putting them on a pedestal above the rest of the territory. Velaris is protrayed as this Utopia, with the rest of the NC being portrayed as the kind of places they tell kids about to make them behave.
#anti acosf#anti inner circle#pro nesta#anti rhysand#anti ic#anti mor#anti morrigan#anti rhys#sjm critical#Velaris is a dystopian nightmare#anti amren#anti night court#dystopian society
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There is no inequality in the Night Court
or poverty, or racism, or neglect, or shit leadership, or corrupt morals, or withholding of crucial medical information
#anti sjm#anti acotar#anti sarah j maas#anti rhysand#sjm critical#anti inner circle#anti ic#anti night court#anti rhys
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Remember that time in ACOWAR when Feyre and Rhys asked Drakon and Miryam to take the cauldron and hide it without consulting the other high lords? Why am I not surprised that the night court is hoarding weapons again? That is a weapon of mass destruction. It should have been a joint decision between all the leaders, regardless of how much arguing it would cause. It would've been cool if the leaders of each court/territory participated in a spell to seal it. And only the high lords, vassa/jurian and drakon/miryam know of its location. That way no one has the advantage.
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Out of all of the Inner Circle, Azriel is the one who could be cut from the story and the story would remain the exact same.
Although, I could say the same for the entire Inner Circle, because they all didn't exist before book 2.
The Inner Circle serve no purpose whatsoever. They aren't a good found family for Feyre, because they don't really care about her.
She's not on equal standing with any of them (despite what Rhysand's led her to believe). She's 21, and the IC are centuries old.
#toasty talks#anti inner circle#anti ic#pro feyre leaving the night court and being her own person#anti mor#anti cassian#anti azriel#anti amren#anti rhysand#anti night court
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yeah! let's condemn tamlin for...things that never happened. again. he had the desire to change things and he fucking acted on it, thus creating a well-functioning court.
say what you will about his leadership in the retcon stage but the majority of his court don't hate tamlin for the entirety of his reign - unlike rhysand. 'but those are evil people' okay? use the fucking mask you're so good at then? don't act worse than them to intimidate, pretend you're the same instead? pretend to have their interests in mind? trick those fuckers that are supposedly so stupid but somehow evade rhysand's measures against clipping their women? oh right there aren't any enforced measures actually, else a lot of the illyrians would be executed. and we can't have that - who will play fodder in his wars? there is only his desire to change things. for five hundred years.
'he'd built something'...if you mean a court on the brink of rebellion on two fronts, then yes, he built something. if you mean a reputation that actively hinders his dealings with potential allies at every turn that he insists is necessary still, then yes, he built something. but overall, 'built something' my ass.
please explain to me what makes rhysand the better high lord of the two, or a good one, even, because i don't see it.
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Illyrian Siphons - A Conspiracy Theory
Okay like I have a wild theory about these siphons that illyrians wear
So what if these siphons don’t actually harness the power, but limit the power.
That’s why the more powerful a person is the more you would need.
Don’t dismiss me yet and just hear me out okayyy😭💅
Like they have a history of oppressing these warrior tribes and what better way to oppress and control someone than in a way where the oppressed don’t even realise it.
The Night Court has never been kind to these so called faes who are not “high faes”
Why doesn’t rhysand need to wear these siphons???? I know some lukewarm explanation was given about how he’s only half Illyrian and half super powerful, the most greatest in the entire universe.
BUT I CALL BULL
I think Rhysand’s dad or dads dad or some ancestor realised that the best way to control these so-called wild tribes with these “heathens” would be with these stones which limited their powers
And I think our Rhysand is in on it.
It is so in line with his character ( ref: all acotar books especially silver flames )
( if you don’t agree with me, the other theory is that he’s just dumb and we know that he is the most smartest intelligent person in the entire)
(ref: (1) he “pretends” to be evil and kills innocent people, but no, he is a cinnamon role 🥐🧻
(2) He allows wing mutilations … of course he allows it because the most powerful high lord in the entire universe cannot not enforce the laws??? Are there even laws??? High lord of shitty administration if you ask me ( rip wednesbury principle)
(3) He is SAed Feyra
(4) Don’t even get me started on all the shit he did to Nesta just coz she was “mean”😢
(5) He stole from summer court
(6) And he was horrible to Tamlin after tamlin saved his life and his wife mind raped the soldiers to turn them against their high lord
High lord and high lady of war crimes
Etc…. Feel free to add)
But I digress
So they made it so that the men can’t control their own powers, and their powers suppressed, additionally the women’s wings are cut off. So there is no way that these people who have such internal conflicts among themselves, who are deemed as regressive and also poor would ever rebel.
[Side Note. How do you feel about Feyra having Illyrian wings when Illyrianwomen can’t have Illyrian wings?]
I know that Cassian and Azriel (Azreal?) are like super powerful because they’re in the “inner circle” so I just want to know the implications of them wearing the seven siphons?? I’m not a scientist so anyone with a brain please just let me know.
#Illyrian#acotar#this is my OPINION#rhysand#cassian#azreal#feyra#I’m sorry you had to read this#reading this is like taking twenty upturns ten rights forty lefts and parallel parking but never reaching your destination#you know what#anti rhysand#anti inner circle#anti night court
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Saw someone say on reddit that Velaris probably actually has shitty music, art, theatre, fashion and so on because they have been shut off for thousands of years.
It honestly would make so much sense.
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I read a Court of Silver Flames and I regret that dearly. I wish I'd never bought that book.
I managed to read until chapter sixty-something, but that chapter... I hated it and I still do.
It's the chapter Cassian throws a tantrum (like a four years old child), saying (loud enough for the entire world to hear him) that he is Nesta's mate. And a few pages later, Nesta says she isn't worthy of him.
If I wasn't in the park, I would have thrown that book straight out the window.
Nesta isn't worthy of him? More likely he isn't worthy of her, he shouldn't even be her mate( I hate this word). He's already emotionally abusing her. Like, in a few years, he would start physically abusing her.
I have no idea how that book ends, but as Nesta most likely ends up with Cassian, I'm not even going to keep reading.
No idea what to do with the book now. With the whole series actually. My biggest regret of this past month is buying that thing.
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I was looking around the acotar wiki for location names because Im working on a map for a rewrite type thing already and I found this on the night court page
"Though some citizens in the Night Court have to pay taxes, there is no equivalent to the Spring Court Tithe in the court."
Is it just me or does this sound incredibly strange? Like, its so vague WHO is paying taxes if only SOME citizens are I guess required to pay them? Im guessing that would be everyone outside velaris cuz theyre all horrible and deserve it even though Rhysands been in charge of them for 500 years and hasnt done fuck all but still
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