The way the Archeron sisters all have badass nicknames. Cursebreaker. Kingslayer. Lady Death. Just step on me already
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rhysand holding feyre after she kills the attor and all the emotions of the attack finally comes down on her, and he just stays there and lets her cry while declaring her new title as “defender of the rainbow” has to be one of my all time favorite feysand scenes <3
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“we need more complex female characters” you can’t even handle rainbow dash and called her an asshole unworthy of applejack’s love 🙄
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You know something I don't think I've ever seen people talk about is how Freddie changed the lyrics for Big Spender.
Because in case you don't know, all original versions of the song are sung by women - and it is made very clear that they are singing to men:
The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction
A real big spender
[....]
So let me get right to the point:
I don't pop my cork for every man I see
Hey, big spender
Spend a little time with me
Probably not too surprising, then, that when Queen performed this song in 1974 Freddie had to do a bit of a gender-switch on it:
Though, it would probably be more accurate to say that Freddie made this song gender-neutral because he didn't change it to be about a woman. He eliminated the first use of "man" entirely and then sang "I don't pop my cork for everyone I see" (instead of "every man").
And honestly there's probably a whole dissertation you could write just about those changes alone, but what I really love is when Queen brought the song back in 1986 and Freddie changed the lyrics again:
Because yes he still dropped the first "man" but the "everyone" is changed and Freddie instead sang "every guy" with just the barest hint of a "-rl" sound at the end to give him plausible deniability if anyone asked about it.
So much of Freddie's music speaks to his experiences as a queer man but, because of the nature of the times in which he lived, he couldn't always be directly open about that fact. Most of his love songs are intentionally vague, and he sang about "somebody" or "you" to avoid having to use gendered terms as much as possible.
Freddie singing "I don't pop my cork for every GUYrl I see" wasn't just an adjustment to the original lyrics, it was a specific change from how Freddie had sang it before in order to make it more gay in a way that he could rarely be with his own music, and that is what I adore about this. It's such a little thing, but it gives such a unique insight into how Freddie balanced his sexuality and his stardom, and how the relationship between those two changed over the nearly 12 years between these performances.
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"Rhysand's mate"
"Nesta's sister"
Sjm disrespecting one of her most loved FMC .
Like , what were all the 4 books about then??
I don't wanna know what she'll do to Aelin at this point.
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Feyre is not only defender of the rainbow but also defender of adriata if I may remind you all
It was Feyre who said they need to help them when the city was attacked and she went with them to fight
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You're a marauders fan and then your favorite current ships are Wolfstar and Jegulus. I have a case that have a moon and stars as a design then I made my phone wallpaper and icons to have a sun so that I could have Remus, Regulus, Sirius, and James.
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when she went from “velaris isn't my home” to
“a female screamed inside the artists’ quarter. And I knew my path. I flipped my Illyrian blade in my hand and winnowed into the burning and bloody Rainbow. This was my home. These were my people. If I died defending them, defending that small place in the world where art thrived...then so be it."
✨character development ✨
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